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ISTR seeing they did 4U with 120mm instead of dual 80 too. That always looked compelling, because I figured a 4U rackmount would make a neat desktop-style case, but I could never justify the price.

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I make my desktops out of 4u chassis. Mainly because they have good airflow. But it does bring one glaring design issue to light. consumer grade mother boards are schizophrenic about their airflow. the cpu and ram are orientated to flow left to right and the expansion cards expect the flow to go front to back. Server grade mother boards have coherent airflow however I have found server boards are less than optimal for a desktop application. they boot slow, are picky about components, and the cpus tend to be slow and wide. So I tend to alternate, one generation I get fed up with consumer grade bullshit and buy a server grade board, the next I get fed up with server grade bullshit and buy a consumer board.

My favorite chassis so far has been this generic one, the fans suck(just buy a new set of good fans right away) and supplied drive bays suck. but look at all them 5 1/4 bays, bays for days. You can put every stupid hotswap bay, fan controller and drink holder gimmick you want in there. and still have room for more.

https://www.newegg.com/rosewill-rsv-l4500u-black/p/N82E16811...

AsRock X570D4i-2t because https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/comments/lymbka/asrock_rack_x...

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