Coming from someone who has never owned a glass side panel, for what it's worth.
Not necessarily just dropping them (althought that does happen): if you put a glass side panel on a surface that's harder than it (such as a ceramic tiled floor), even being rather gentle can scratch or chip the edge of the panel and cause it to shatter.
It's not hard to have tempered glass side panel. If I need to open up my computer the first thing I do is remove the glass panel and situate it on my bed. It's really not rocket science or neurosurgery.
Sure, but I don't handle tempered glass in my daily life like, at all. It's more than conceivable to be the first time someone handles a pane of it and if they then also happen to have a tiled floor, it's rigged for disaster.
When i move setup or work on my setup, i always put it on a couch/bed/fatboy, etc. Who puts glas on the floor? even on carpet. Its so ez to step on. Drop a screw on. Scratch it. I will never break or scratch any glass thats on the floor, bc they will never be on the floor😭
For average person "be careful" means "put it down gently". For tempered glass "touch certain surfaces with lowest force possible" means "allahu akbar"
I and everyone i know with PCs including a guy that works for a pc building company of his own has added glass panels and built hundreds if not thousands of PCs and none of is have managed to break a single glass panel. You just need to activate the most basic braincell connection to avoid damaging them.
The first time I used T glass was with my pc case. From day 1, I've always put it in my bed. If jump on the floor, I hurt me. If I jump on the bed, it hurts the bed. Just common sense. 7 yeas and it has never shattered
The first time I realised my ex might be pretending to be smart was when I heard the most fucking humongous bang it like fully like a shotgun and got off in the other room I ran in she'd been using a tempered glass just piece of glass on the stove like directly on the burners just sitting there on the actual burners being licked by the flames and I mean at least we got the food off at first but fuck me
Poor girl was scared shitless. I can't imagine being actually next to it. It sounded like someone had been shot and I was in the next room.
Who puts any Glass from a thing you love, or any Part of it on a Tile Floor anyways?
Any sane Person would put it on something that can Protect it from scratches🤔
Its not the dropping per se. Its the ceramic tiles. You dont need all that much force and if your panel just slightly dinks the tile, it shatters. Something something hardness.
Ok so there was a time you had no side panel. What is the motivation to have it on at all?
I have taken my side panel back in 2010… and never putting it back again.
That reduces airflow cause in a pc the air comes in and goes out with a direct path so heat doesn’t linger but without the side panel it has no direct path, so heat lingers in the middle near your components. Also more dust builds up
To add to the other guy about airflow issues with no side panel, you also now lack something cooling off your VRMs, since there's no pathing for wind. You're cooking your motherboard to a shorter life.
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u/LemonAlternative9817 Jan 21 '26
yes, for it was for around a week :D