MikeBGeyer

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MikeBGeyer
Not every one is moving to a smaller case. This thing has plenty of room for storage and cable management and a big plus for custom water loops and a lot of people are still sticking with 3 and 4 way SLI. Why this thing even has room to custom mod a 5.25 inch bay in it. Who really wants to have a library of optical disks taking up space when you can just download anything from the net. Must be the same people who have a large collection of 8 tracks, records and VHS tapes laying around. Pack Rats.

Some of us have Blu rays that we watch on our PCs, simple as that really. Good thing I have the case I do (900D), don't really foresee my self ever HAVING to upgrade. Would of been nice to get this case as it is nice though.

I understand. Along with your 8 tracks and VHS you have a blue ray collection too. I watch every thing online in HD or 4K and don't have a thousand disks and 8 tracks and tapes laying around.The 900D is a nice case and was in consideration but I wanted another EVGA logo. My DG 86 is on its way and hope I don't have to upgrade for a long long time as well.

I understand that some people are ok with the lower quality and compression of streaming services, but others like having the higher quality picture/sound that you get from Blu-ray.  Has nothing to do with being a "pack rat"

Hey all I bought this caze and I want to have a Bleu Ray Rewritable in it think about and give me some options other Im gonna get Medevil on the Case with a pair plyer and a Dremil

I just bought a portable one

I'm in the unique position of getting a DG-85 case for free.
 
I won the case in a competition I didn't even know I entered. And although it's bigger than the case I was going to buy for my new PC, I wasn't going to complain because hey, free case!
 
However when I was trying to install my blu-ray player, I got really confused. The manual indicates that there are "screws for an optical disk", and those screws come with the case. However I couldn't figure out where to mount the drive. And it turns out, I can't. There is no 5.25 inch bay anywhere.
 
What's really disappointing is that because the case is so big, you would expect there to be at least ONE 5.25 inch bay. And there are multiple places in the case which would be perfect for the bay to be located, if only the design had widened a gap by a few millimeters, etc.
 
If I hadn't won this for free, I wouldn't have bought one. As it is, I am seriously considering giving the case to my brother as a present, and going back to my Corsair case. The only problem is, he'll complain about the lack of a blue ray/DVD as well. So I might end up giving it to my parents....

Id like to see you squeeze 45 watts, or more, outta your mobo fan controller, lol.   Even my case came with a fan controller built into it on the back but it cant come anywhere close to that type of power.
http://www.lamptron.com/product/controllers/fc2/ 

...having the blu-ray inside the case means you don't need to worry about external wires...
 
Each to their own I suppose, but having the option is good. I mean, you don't have to use a bay if it's there.

JDAM
EVGA you made a really bad decision to not include 5.25" drive bays.
This will be a show stopper for a lot for a lot of builders.  

Nope. No obsolete 5.25" bays? Thank you! 
I don't see this as a show stopper, it's actually becoming the trend lately and is long over due, IMO. More and more water cooling of some sort, AIO or custom, is being used in builds these days and with the exception of business PCs there's really no need for the bays any longer. 

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JDAM
EVGA you made a really bad decision to not include 5.25" drive bays.
This will be a show stopper for a lot for a lot of builders.  

Nope. No obsolete 5.25" bays? Thank you! 
I don't see this as a show stopper, it's actually becoming the trend lately and is long over due, IMO. More and more water cooling of some sort, AIO or custom, is being used in builds these days and with the exception of business PCs there's really no need for the bays any longer. 

It's a huge case, they could of went with a modular design to give customers the option to add 5.25 bay if they wanted. You claim no reason for 5.25 bay any longer?  Lots of people still like using internal optical drive, some like adding 5.25 fan controller. Having the optical drive inside the case is the best place to protect it. External one you need to find some place to sit i,t that doesn't get in the way or knocked over.
 
I would have no problems paying $20-40 extra, if it gave me the option to add 5.25 bay to any case i buy.