I bloody love the Phanteks XT V3. There’s just something about it that resonates with me. Small form factor cases are massively underrated. They really are. The very concept of them channels this essence of what technological advancement should be about. They’re arguably some of the best PC cases out there, on a purely philosophical basis, and I will die, on, that, hill.
Processing should shrink year-on-year (whether or not we’re reaching the limits of Moore’s law besides). You should be able to do more with less. More performance, less energy. More efficiency, less space. The idea that we need these massive goliath full-tower PCs, brimming with slots and cables and fans to deliver the performance we need, is just nonsensical, particularly when you could theoretically get to the moon these days with nothing more than the processing power of a Raspberry Pi.
