I still keep my actual ancient 5.25" floppy drive from my first 286 DOS box installed in a spare bay in my current PC tower. The drive hasn't worked in ages, but as a chunk of my first PC is still part of my current one it means that, in a Ship of Theseus sense, I've been using the same computer for 30 years.

Oh man, Noctua fans fit perfectly with this ironic high performance/vintage garbage dynamic! Good call.

I love that. I still have the very first computer I ever bought, a Power Mac G4
I keep saying that some day I'll modify the case to house my current PC.

My favorite feature of that case was the latch you can see on the side, you pull the latch and the entire side opens downward, no screws. .

You could swap one screw from that case into your current one. It wouldn't be obvious to anyone else, but you'd know it was there!

I still remember having to flip down the latch on the 5.25 drive as a kid trying to play some sesame street game.

But they won't be as colourful and fun, which sucks.

I'm actually kind of surprised you can't get transparent IEX compatible PC cases. No glass panel just all transparent acrylic.

I kinda prefer 2010s cases before they all just turned into squares

That would be pretty cool. But I'm sure there's either a good reason or a good excuse for it.

I would hate that case.