Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Do You Really Need A PC Case?”.
You’Re trying to save a few bucks on your computer build, but instead of skimping on your gpu, your ram or your storage. What, if you just didn’t, bother buying a case think about it? It doesn’t really do anything for you in terms of performance. So is it really that bad just to leave your parts out in the open or just stick them into a cardboard box instead of shelling out for a fancy case with tempered glass and rgb? Well, it could be that bad cases do a lot for you other than just enclose your parts and look nice, and some of those things may not be super obvious. Let’S first talk about physical protection and, while you probably don’t need me to explain that cases block your components from liquids and pets and hammers, they also keep your components from being damaged by static. It’S pretty easy to short out an exposed motherboard just by touching it. If a static discharge occurs, especially if you live in a dry environment, but if you happen to zap just the outside of your case, the excess electricity should just harmlessly find a ground instead of frying. Your expensive parts and a case is cheaper than hiring a dedicated security guard to slap the hands at anybody who wants to poke it.
A good case will also keep dust away from components which is important as dust buildup can cause overheating by insulating your components and impeding airflow running your computer without a case can cause significantly more dust buildup, and it isn’t just because you don’t have a big side Panel blocking it out, if you’re not using a case, you probably have your motherboard lying flat, meaning it’ll, naturally collect more dust and that dust could potentially settle into your pci express slots, but possibly even worse, any components that have a fan on them, such as a Graphics card or cpu, coolers or psu will collect a lot more dust when exposed than they would if they were nestled inside a case. Although case fans can obviously get choked up with dust as well, it’s better to have these act as a line of defense against dust instead of having the dust directly attacking your power supply and even better, if you have your case, fans configured properly, they’ll create a Positive pressure in your case that’ll keep even more dust out, meaning you could go a long time without needing to clean inside your computer, so you get it by now. Cases keep the bad stuff out, but let’s say you never touch the inside of your pc. While it’s on and you vacuum so compulsively that your house has less dust than an intel fab, is it still worth using a case? It turns out that cases actually protect you from something even more dangerous than dust or static, and we’ll tell you what that is right after we thank brilliant for sponsoring today’s video brilliant is a visually stimulating website designed to make learning stem topics. Fun trade boring long lectures for problem solving and interactive visuals. There’S over 60 courses to choose from including their pre-algebra course start your algebra journey in a low pressure environment with puzzles letting intuition guide you along the way join the community of 11 million learners and educators.
Today, the first 200 people who head to brilliant.org techwiki, will get 20 off an annual premium subscription, while it might seem like just putting your motherboard on a flat surface and plugging things into it is pretty safe. Many pcs have heavy components that could easily damage the whole system if they’re jostled just a little bit. The most obvious one is the graphics card as higher end models are often beefy enough to completely rip out a pci express slot if it topples over and if you just leave the card unsupported without screwing it into something like a test bench you’re, probably going to At least see it wobble precariously all-in-one, coolers and power supplies can also tip over the hole works if not properly secured.
So at the very least, don’t put your setup near the edge of a table, but beyond safety cases offer other benefits. They reduce noise, especially if you opt for a model that features acoustic dampening instead of a side panel window. They also make your system a heck of a lot more portable and give you extra connections on the front panel, but is there ever a good reason not to use a case well as long as you have a proper test bench or other open-air setup? That correctly secures heavy components going.
Caseless can be a good idea if you do a lot of parts testing or if you need to connect, lots more storage, then your case will support or if you have a specialized use case like running a bunch of mining gpus. But for most of us just pony up and get a cheap case, the messy hacker’s den look is only cool until you’ve lost a week’s worth of coding because of a mishap involving late night pizza delivery and an exposed cpu socket dangerously cheesy. So thanks for watching guys, if you liked this video hit like hit, subscribe and hit us up in the comments section with your suggestions for topics that we should cover in the future. .