Gammitin (Ben) 💾SilverStone has officially announced another retro design PC case: the FLP02 mid-tower:
https://www.gdm.or.jp/pressrelease/2025/0919/604937
https://www.gdm.or.jp/pressrelease/2025/0919/604937
Baa 🐑@Gammitin it's beautiful
Hakan Bayındır@Gammitin More importantly, the lock disables power switch, Turbo makes fans go brr and LCD shows fan speed in percent.
That thing is genuinely useful.
If I have seen correctly, the dummy 5.25" covers are removed by flicking the "disk lock" lever.
Tofu 
@Gammitin kind of weird that they don't mention max GPU size in this case, which is like, pretty much THE thing for anyone building a PC with one, same goes for max cooler height
@bayindirh I guess the translation I used was trash then.
@tofu I don't know, honestly. I used Firefox's integrated local translation feature.
@bayindirh huh, I used it too and didn't notice these when going over the article, only the dimensions of the case itself.
Fritz leck Eier 🎗️@Gammitin Die Produktseite in lesbar:
https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/computer-chassis/flp02/
Und für die Heidelberger: Arlt vertreibt die Marke auch.
Tim 🎮@Gammitin I don't think I understand the point of this case. IMHO nostalgia points at specific things at a specific place and time in our lives, and this is just... someone else's old 90s PC clone.
It's not the old PC I played Wolfenstein 3D on as a kid, it's not an actual thing any of us ever saw in the home office at any point. It's just a fake retro facade, with early 2000s style fake drive bay covers for some reason. What part of this am I supposed to connect with?
I, for one, see a useful, nice looking PC case when I remove the fake bay covers and replace them with optical drives and other 5.25" goodies like drive cages.
prokyonid@timixretroplays @Gammitin early 2000s?
@prokyonid @Gammitin that's about when they started putting fake drive bits on cases and I associate things like that with that period. Moulded 3.5" floppy slots, bay covers that look like actual drives, things that flipped down to let you get to your CD drive but mostly just got in the way.
It's just a design choice that particularly fails to resonate with me.
Martin Rundkvist@Gammitin
This is how a standard computer still looks in my head.
This is how a standard computer still looks in my head.
WooShell@Gammitin I think I need one of those..
Growlph Ibex@Gammitin Okay but please tell me the clock speed 7-segment display is I2C addressable...
JacobRPG (becoming a ratboy)
yetzt@Gammitin with fake triple 5¼″ floppy drives
Jackie@Gammitin she’s gorgeous
Eirik Myhr 🎶 Composer@Gammitin "Three 5,25" floppy drives should be enough for anybody" –Bill Gates, probably
zaria 💿@[email protected] oh my god so gorgeous ....
Oneironaut@Gammitin completely anachronistic. The vast majority of x86 systems were limited to 2 floppy drives.
Dudula the Dud@Gammitin I think I still have my old Overclockers case from 2001 somewhere.
Nick@Gammitin cool! I love how it looks
Fernando M. S. 🇵🇸
Isadora@fmors que lindooooo
JennyFluff 
💾@Gammitin boo, more fake floppy drives
voipmeister@Gammitin Very nice case indeed, quite expensive though!
thorsummoner@Gammitin I'm assuming the lock is wired to a gpio pin, do we have a USB breaker to properly disconnect the input devices when that switch flips