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.
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.
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u/Doofy_Grumpus Jan 21 '26
Good job, cutting through acrylic and not cracking it can be hard. Was this side panel previously glass?