PC Case Sizes as Fast As Possible

What's a mid tower? What's a full tower? What's a cube case? All these questions answered and more in only a few minutes!

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[mbordiermontes]

Quick, simple, and accurate. You get to the point and explain things flawlessly. Man, I love your videos keep up the great work

[vwestlife]

Linus used to yell at the script writer... now he yells at his own chyrons!

[ThatYellowPokemon]

Im requesting "Butt-tons" to be an official measurement.

[EsOfficial]

at first I thought the "Desktop case" was a VHS player lol

[epicenter]

My favorite is Micro ATX Mini Tower. They're generally not much bigger than an mATX board, not much wasted space, no extra expansion slot covers.

[aurozz]

I just so happen to use a cooler master case on my build and it's very well made. It fits everything inside it nicely (even though it's just a mini tower) and looks good while it does it. Also, nice sponsor integration Linus!

[Mega_Arrow]

You should do an episode on fan bearings: like sleeve, ball/double ball, fluid dynamic, and magnetic. And how orientations for some can be detrimental to the lifespan.

[lpwnage]

One thing I have noticed is cases have gotten wider to hide wires under the motherboard and fit giant cooling towers and they've gotten longer for front fans and I think also due to the bottom mounted power supplies & HDD bays.  It used to be if you had a giant graphics card, it could run almost the full length of the case, but now the graphics cards are more toward the middle of the case and can run into the 5 1/4 bays.

Having said that, the options are much greater now and some of the SFF cases + that ridiculously small ITX form factor allow you to make a hella small powerhouse of a PC.

[JosefTD]

Who noticed all the images were cases made by cooler master?

[ZaneErickson]

I've got a CoolerMaster StormTrooper which is a full tower case. And I love it. Gives me lots if room for cable management and to fit my massive Noctua NH-D14 heatsink.

[kairuihuang]

Uh Linus I still don't understand the cube cases...are they really cube-shaped?

[petrkisselev]

In my opinion, the following criteria are the ones that matter when classifying a case:
1. Compatible motherboard size(s): this is the most important one, since this is the one that consumers are the most concerned about (will my E-ATX motherboard fit in this case?).
2. Motherboard orientation: will the motherboard be lying horizontally, or will it be standing vertically? This is the most important factor when it comes to a case's general aspect (towers versus cubes/htpcs).
(3. One can also argue that some htpc cases and other small form factor cases use an external power supply and this can be a pretty big deal breaker for some people.)

While everything else is mostly a feature, these can be very important for consumers. For example,
- Does the case have separate compartments for the motherboard and power supply (plus other stuff)? Are these compartments side-by-side or one one top of the other?
- What fan or radiator size and number can fit on each panel (top, front, left and right sides, back and bottom)?
- What GPU size can it fit (and without getting in the way of cable management)?
- What radiator-plus-fan (air cooling solution) size can fit on the CPU (and without forcing you to remove a side or top fan or generally blocking air flow in the case)?
- And many other questions...

The general lack of standards when it comes to cases can be attributed, I think, to a (partial) lack of transparency. If you browse through a few case manufacturer websites, you'll notice that some information is often omitted (like the internal dimensions of a case, which is important in order to figure out what cooling solution can fit in it) in favor of more flashy features like "RGB!!!". While I like the customization that those features can bring, in my experience, manufacturers often use them to mask flaws or a general lack of build quality.

P.S. English is not my first language, so forgive me if something is not appropriately worded.

[OnePieceevr]

2:12 finger cracked, no clue why i focus on these things

[nebi]

i actually have that mid tower from cooler master that you used as an example it looks like a beast and is always cool i love it

[BadWordHater]

Do a fast as possible on the different graphical outputs, so VGA, HDMI, the various types of DVI, and the fourth that isn't an ancroynm. Just talk about the pros and cons of each and how they all differ from one another.

[junior]

Full towers are great and they usually have 200mm size fans or larger so more airflow with less noise than smaller fans.

[antenna_prolly]

"Look! They're shaped like cubes!"
Nintendo, after seeing the mysteriously low GameCube sales: "Perhaps they thought it looked a little bit like a lunchbox."

[TylerSteven]

Got a mid-tower here. My favourite - good compromise between space to fit stuff inside and not being too big.

[KevinTwiner]

Thanks man an great breakdown of the computer sizes!

[thelol]

I like how you kept the sponsor plug relevant this time. I know its hard to do but it means that I actually watch the entire video instead of just clicking away once its over.