I was checking out Paul's Hardware video showing EVGA upcoming products, looks like EVGA wants some feedback on it's upcoming DG-7 Mid Tower Case.
 

 
Dear EVGA, the 5.25 bay is not dead. You limited the number of potential customers by not having any 5.25 bay slots. Take a page out of Lian-Li and Corsair book, don't put the company name all over the case or the model #, that just looks tacky. 

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5 1/4 bay is not dead but its definitely in hospice.
 
I wouldnt mind a removable 5 1/4 bay but personally I dont buy cases that have them.
 
What do you use your optical bay's for primarily? 

My current system i have a optical drive (bluray burner) and a fan controller. 5.25 bays are far from being in hospice, all the top case mfg continue to make cases with them. If there wasn't a demand, mfg wouldn't be making products with it.

It's a midtower case dude. Most midtowers now  do not have 5 1/4 bays    you want 5 1/4 bays get something else or get a bigger case       thing is every case has a purpose   every case has  specifics to certain consumers     there are A LOT     LOT   LOT  more consumers looking for cases without 5 1/4 bays      then the number of consumers who are.  My z170 deluxe has 7 pwm fan headers    i use software (speedfan)  for my fans       some nzxt and fractal cases come with pwm splitters     these asus z270 boards are coming with massive amounts of pwm  headers    ppl dont need fan controllers anymore       if you need a case that supports it    either A: your system is downright OLD and doesnt need a case of this caliber to make it look better     nothing will help    or B: you need a different case    optical drives are   very clode to dead and they have externals  and again    like i said before    more ppl r looking for something like this than optical support    this case simply is not aimed toward those consumers     find one that is    saying they are narrowing their market by not adding features 1 in every 1,000 ppl are looking for is flat out ignorant.

Evga     I think the case is downright sick    I personally do not like glass on more side than one     i also am not the biggest fan of tempered glass because a lot of time it is dark    the glass you have here is dark   i personally think  yoi should sell it with options   if someone orders directly from your website they should get the option of how dark or light the glass will be    some tempered glass is awesome    i also think you should put in a pwm splitter    and    i really think you should do what some ppl are doing and make the side behind the motherboard WIDE ENOUGH TO MOUNT 3.5  IN HDD'S     I HAVE A 3 AND A 4 TB HDD    I DON'T LIKE HAVING TO PUT THEM IN MY CASE WHERE WATER COOLING THINGS GO      MAKE IT WIDE ENOUGH TO MOUNT THEM THE SAME WAY SSD'S ARE BEING  MOUNTED NOW    PLEASE     I WANT THIS CASE     WITH LIGHTER  EASIER TO SEE THRU GLASS    AND SUPPORT FOR 3.5 IN DRIVES TO BE MOUNTED VERTICALLY BEHIND THE MOTHERBOARD/RIGHT HAND SIDE 

Ya those cases are pretty much designed for front mounted radiators. Not front intake fans. And when you have a front mounted rad in a case like that with no front ventilation you have the rad fans on the inside of the rad not the outside and you have them pushing air into the rad not attempting to pull air when there is no ventilation       you have them set up in a push config  drawing air that is actually coming into the case from the top and being pushed into the radiator mounted on the inside of it. Then you use your rear exhaust and your top fans as intake

Well I'm not gonna argue with you dude. But no, not over 70 percent of midtower cases put out in the last year or even two have 5.25 bays. I have the Corsair Carbide 400c. No 5.25 bays. Especially Lian LI bro. In the last year or two far less than half of Corsair and Lian Li Midtowers have 5.25 bays. The same point you just made could be made for the other side. Guess what, no one is forced to buy it if they don't want to. Raidiator/water cooling support has far superceded  5.25 inch bay support. Period. Why don't you try going to these company's websites dude before you argue something you are clearly behind the times about? I'm telling you bro  2016/2017    far less than 70 percent, far less than half of company's like Lian LI, Corsair, Phanteks have strayed away from 5.25.  Even Fractal Design at least their Define series has stopped 5.25 inch bay drives in place of front rad support. Dude seriously idk what you are talking about Full Tower cases right now are the main places you see that still. Do some homework, then read my other post about how well over 70 percent of modern Enthusiasts and Pc builders alike prefer rad/water cooling support over 5.25 bays. That is not am estimate that is fact. Just do some quick searches and try and come up with some rough percentages of people who have bought all in one water cooling loops in the last 13-19 months compared to air coolers and you will see just from that alone that the water cooling movement along with support for it has rendered the 5.25 bay in mid tower cases damn near obsolete. That and the number of pwm fan headers on current motherboards are in vast numbers. Every motherboard company now provides software suites that have fan controlling/tuning software in their suites. Every all in one liquid cooler has software to control their rad fans as well. People don't need that stuff anymore and yes absolutely 100 percent IT IS MUCH MUCH MORE WIDELY AVAILABLE ON FULL TOWER CASES THAN MID TOWER CASES NOW. Evga is not stupid. They make high end enthusiast products. Even they now are making full liquid cooling loops for gpus and cpus. Even quick release ones. This is what the majority of people are looking for now. Period. I don't know whether to offer you a tissue or a book. Get some knowledge, do some homework, and get an idea of the things you're talking about. I'm not writing a publicized article, I shouldn't have to incorporate full and proper punctuation and grammer for an adult to understand what is being said. What I said is you are flat out wrong. No company is making a mistake getting rid of 5.25 inch bays in their mid tower case. Everyone is doing it and the percentage of people who are actually looking for 5.25 inch bays in mid tower cases in well under ten. I really hope you don't let (edit by Mod - TOS issue).

rain2o
Well I'm not gonna argue with you dude. But no, not over 70 percent of midtower cases put out in the last year or even two have 5.25 bays. I have the Corsair Carbide 400c. No 5.25 bays. Especially Lian LI bro. In the last year or two far less than half of Corsair and Lian Li Midtowers have 5.25 bays. The same point you just made could be made for the other side. Guess what, no one is forced to buy it if they don't want to. Raidiator/water cooling support has far superceded  5.25 inch bay support. Period. Why don't you try going to these company's websites dude before you argue something you are clearly behind the times about? I'm telling you bro  2016/2017    far less than 70 percent, far less than half of company's like Lian LI, Corsair, Phanteks have strayed away from 5.25.  Even Fractal Design at least their Define series has stopped 5.25 inch bay drives in place of front rad support. Dude seriously idk what you are talking about Full Tower cases right now are the main places you see that still. Do some homework, then read my other post about how well over 70 percent of modern Enthusiasts and Pc builders alike prefer rad/water cooling support over 5.25 bays. That is not am estimate that is fact. Just do some quick searches and try and come up with some rough percentages of people who have bought all in one water cooling loops in the last 13-19 months compared to air coolers and you will see just from that alone that the water cooling movement along with support for it has rendered the 5.25 bay in mid tower cases damn near obsolete. That and the number of pwm fan headers on current motherboards are in vast numbers. Every motherboard company now provides software suites that have fan controlling/tuning software in their suites. Every all in one liquid cooler has software to control their rad fans as well. People don't need that stuff anymore and yes absolutely 100 percent IT IS MUCH MUCH MORE WIDELY AVAILABLE ON FULL TOWER CASES THAN MID TOWER CASES NOW. Evga is not stupid. They make high end enthusiast products. Even they now are making full liquid cooling loops for gpus and cpus. Even quick release ones. This is what the majority of people are looking for now. Period. I don't know whether to offer you a tissue or a book. Get some knowledge, do some homework, and get an idea of the things you're talking about. I'm not writing a publicized article, I shouldn't have to incorporate full and proper punctuation and grammer for an adult to understand what is being said. What I said is you are flat out wrong. No company is making a mistake getting rid of 5.25 inch bays in their mid tower case. Everyone is doing it and the percentage of people who are actually looking for 5.25 inch bays in mid tower cases in well under ten. I really hope you don't let (edit by Mod - TOS issue).

Holy wall of text. Do you not know how to use the ENTER key once in awhile to break up that wall of text. Makes it a pain for people to read it. 
 
You talk about some knowledge yet you failed to go look at Corsair Obsidian Series or Graphite Series cases. ALL of them have 5.25 bays and are very popular cases. Cooler master and Lian Li have all kinds of cases with 5.25bays too. The industry for 5.25bay accessories is still very strong. People still like easy to use card readers, internal optical drive, digital fan controllers etc. Not everyone can afford custom water cooling setup or wants the hassle of one. 
 
My feedback was to let evga know lots of people still use 5.25 bay. 
 
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Coolermaster MasterCase Series MidTowers (with 5.25 bays)

 
MasterBox 5 Series Midtowers (modular case design, customers can purchase 5.25 bay if they wish)
 

 
Other Midtowers cases by CoolerMaster that have 5.25 bays and even a NEW one

 
 
 
 
 
 

Then buy one of those. Seriously. For one, the Obisian and graphite series are an older line of cases. These are not new. I specifically said within the last 13-19 months meaning the second half of 2015 and forward. Which is pretty much Skylake and forward. For two, looks to me like Cooler Master is all you came up with for new. For 3, the big thing you did not mention in order to try and make yourself look smart or ahead in this debate is the cm 590 III   is version 3. "A new take on an old favorite" is exactly what it says. And then three different color schemes of the same model case above that.
 
And no your feedback to Evga was they were limiting the number of customers who would buy them if they didn't put 5.25 bays in there. This is what their forth case?  They are not Cooler Master or Corsair. Then you said all the top manufacturers still make blah blah blah. No dude not so much. These case series you are bringing up are old lines of cases. And companies who make several different cases. Some lines aimed towards certain people. other lines aimed towards other people. Evga aims their products towards a certain group of people. Their own Tech replied to you and said certainly in hospice. What does that mean to you? I have actually given you a number of factual reasons why a HIGHER PERCENTAGE of people do not care about 5.25 inch bays then the percentage who do. That is fact. No it's not dead. But a very SMALL percentage of people are looking for MID tower cases with 5.25 bay support. Period. That is what I am saying to you, that is what I said from the start.
 
No one can limit the number of people who will buy their product when they make their product for a certain set of people. That makes no sense. Okay yes, absolutely they are limiting the number of potential people who would maybe possibly spend 150 plus on a Mid Tower case with a full windowed side panel (that most and again I said MOST not all people do not want a 5.25 inch bay showing in their window) by not making removable 5.25 inch bays. But to refresh on your comment earlier anout all top manufacturers making cases with 5.25 inch bays. Then clearly proving for me that even those companies make lines without that support as well, this company is no different. Get the Hadron cases if you want that.
 
Plain and simple fact, the demand for 5,25 inch bays in Mid Tower or any tower for that matter is diminishing. Period. There is no argument. Less and less people are populating 5.25 inch bays. Sorry you're upset the world does not revolve around you. And sorry you can't afford Premium products but cry somewhere else because you can not and will not prove otherwise. Just disc alone are almost obsolete. They don't sell for nothing, so have a nice night there isn't one thing you've said that has any validity behind it.   The DG line isn't aimed toward 5.25 bay support. Every company you have listed makes various lines of products. Some with 5.25 support, some without. This is no different. DG isn't 5.25. So really what you're saying makes no sense.

rain2o
Then buy one of those. Seriously. For one, the Obisian and graphite series are an older line of cases. These are not new. I specifically said within the last 13-19 months meaning the second half of 2015 and forward. Which is pretty much Skylake and forward. For two, looks to me like Cooler Master is all you came up with for new. For 3, the big thing you did not mention in order to try and make yourself look smart or ahead in this debate is the cm 590 III   is version 3. "A new take on an old favorite" is exactly what it says. And then three different color schemes of the same model case above that.
 
And no your feedback to Evga was they were limiting the number of customers who would buy them if they didn't put 5.25 bays in there. This is what their forth case?  They are not Cooler Master or Corsair. Then you said all the top manufacturers still make blah blah blah. No dude not so much. These case series you are bringing up are old lines of cases. And companies who make several different cases. Some lines aimed towards certain people. other lines aimed towards other people. Evga aims their products towards a certain group of people. Their own Tech replied to you and said certainly in hospice. What does that mean to you? I have actually given you a number of factual reasons why a HIGHER PERCENTAGE of people do not care about 5.25 inch bays then the percentage who do. That is fact. No it's not dead. But a very SMALL percentage of people are looking for MID tower cases with  5.25 bay support. Period. That is what I am saying to you, that is what I said from the start.
 
No one can limit the number of people who will buy their product when they make their product for a certain set of people. That makes no sense. Okay yes, absolutely they are limiting the number of potential people who would maybe possibly spend 150 plus on a Mid Tower case with a full windowed side panel (that most and again I said MOST not all people do not want a 5.25 inch bay showing in their window) by not making removable 5.25 inch bays. But to refresh on your comment earlier anout all top manufacturers making cases with 5.25 inch bays. Then clearly proving for me that even those companies make lines without that support as well, this company is no different. Get the Hadron cases if you want that.
 
Plain and simple fact, the demand for 5,25 inch bays in Mid Tower or any tower for that matter is diminishing. Period. There is no argument. Less and less people are populating 5.25 inch bays. Sorry you're upset the world does not revolve around you. And sorry you can't afford Premium products but cry somewhere else because you can not and will not prove otherwise. Just disc alone are almost obsolete. They don't sell for  so have a nice night there isn't one thing you've said that has any validity behind it.   The DG line isn't aimed toward 5.25 bay support. Every company you have listed makes various lines of products. Some with 5.25 support, some without. This is no different. DG isn't 5.25. So really what you're saying makes no sense.

 
The Hadron doesn't have a 5.25 bay, plus i don't consider it to be a premium case. I didn't claim all the top case mfg don't make cases without a 5.25 bay, that was YOU. If only a small percentage of people were looking for mid/full tower cases with 5.25 bays, we wouldn't see so many of them still on the market. Corsair and CoolerMaster not in the business of making products that don't sell.
 
EVGA DG-7 is still being designed. Giving evga feedback that people still like to use 5.25 bay, they might do like CoolerMaster, design the case in a way that allows the option for one.  It's possible to do it without compromising the look of the case. 
 
Funny that you think i can't afford a "premium" $150ish case. 

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I was checking out Paul's Hardware video showing EVGA upcoming products, looks like EVGA wants some feedback on it's upcoming DG-7 Mid Tower Case.
 
Dear EVGA, the 5.25 bay is not dead. You limited the number of potential customers by not having any 5.25 bay slots. Take a page out of Lian-Li and Corsair book, don't put the company name all over the case or the model #, that just looks tacky. 

I'm and EVGA Fanboy! LOL and I love the EVGA logo on the front. I think it's bad A$$. I was happy when I bought my 1080 FTW Hybrid with RGB+ color EVGA HYBRID led! I'm proud of my EVGA badges I've gotten with my builds over the years and every one get's put on my case. I still have to put the 1080 FTW badge in place.
 
     I hardly use DVD anymore but I have an external USB drive DVD/BlueRay. I've moved a lot of my older CD Rom games to thumb drive so I can install them anywhere anytime and most of my new games are on Origin, Steam, Uplay, etc. I do have an FX LED fan controller that I like but it's very shallow and goes back about 1" so I can be creative and make it fit anywhere. I have no problem making modifications that includes drilling out rivets and fabricating parts.
     I have the DG 87 in sight. I've been looking at it for a while. I have watched many reviews and I see where you would need extenders for the power supply. I also have a plan to hide the power cord by making some modifications. I really like the way the case orientation has changed to present your build in front of you. I have a build up behind my monitors so it will sit up high. With all my LED's, I can see my rig inside in all it's glory!  Ok, I'm excited about getting a new case, sorry to be long winded but EVGA has been good to me.
 

I really dig the new case design, I've had a Coolermaster Elite 430, Corsair obsidan 800D, 350D and a 750D.
 
But this is by far the best looking case in my opinion, all though if could make some changes then it would be along the lines of this
The intake seems to be too restrictive from what I can see, maybe do something like corsair and fractal did,

That would mean that the side panel will have to be shortened a bit
 
when it comes to cases, for me it has to be good looking yet easy to maintain and clean from dust. Which leads me to the top, it looks very good but is gonna be a pain in the A** to clean.
how about a kind of mesh as corsair makes? fine or course, doesn't matter it will also prevent dust from landing on the top and falling down into the case when not in use, like this 
 
I really like that who ever designed this case (DG-7) also thought about putting a 120mm fan mount in the bottom of the case, very good decision, but it has to have a dust filter (that is also easy removable)
It would be really nice to see a hinged or other kind of tempered glass side panel just for the ease of upgrades/building and cleaning, kinda like the one on the DG-87, but more user friendly. more along the lines of what corsair has done with their Carbide 400C and Phanteks's Enthoo Evolv ATX. (Also get rid of that tint, it looks ridiculous! I WANT to see my components, why else even bother with a see through side panel???) 


 
 
last but not least, make sure that there is atleast support for dual 240's maybe even a 360mm on top, 240mm/360mm in front and 120mm bottom (also SSD mounts behind motherboard tray)
 
Thank you for reading this long post, sorry