Quote Originally Posted by massman View Post
Just like any overclocker will say using a case to maximize performance is ridiculous. Casemodding and overclocking are, in essense, two different things. Don't try to compare things that are very hard to compare. At best, you could say both emerged from the early gaming community
I have had this debate in the modding community as well with a similar pushback when I suggest case modders should try to include a reasonable level of performance in their builds (at least be able to play a current game at reasonable settings) instead of using insanely out-dated hardware. All my builds are liquid-cooled. If you look at some of the changes in computers you will see overlaps of performance and aesthetics (wire management for one). Clean wire management even back in the days of IDE ribbon cables served the dual purpose of looking cleaner but also improving air flow. Now look at the evolution of watter-cooling from the days of veterans like Cathar where they made their own blocks out of chunks of copper to today where we have commercially-made works of beauty (or lack thereof). My very first case modification was drilling holes in a case to add air flow then adding a ton of fans as well (zip ties and hot glue). That was back in a rig with a sweet AMD Thunderbird pushing a 3dFX graphics accelerator.