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[Draugoth]

PC case maker Hyte is halting some product shipments to the US, citing unsustainable import costs related to steep tariffs on Chinese imports, Product Director Rob Teller confirmed in a Friday "Ask Me Anything" session on Reddit.

"We are still bringing in all products that...have open preorders from customers,"

he said in an answer to PCMag.

"Everything else has been paused or being diverted to other regions," save for limited collaborations.

Article:

PC Case Maker Hyte Halts Shipments to US Due to Trump's Tariffs

Source: https://www.pcmag.com/news/pc-case-maker-hyte-halts-shipments-to-us-due-to-trumps-tariffs

 

[Crayon]

I'm starting to contemplate a full new build because there's no telling when this will stop getting worse let alone end. If I keep the old box intact, it might be worth an inflated price in not so long. I should actually get a new case to help sell that because it looks like shit lol.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Hyte was there in that Jesus Nexus video showing lots of numbers in how they handle financing for cases. Interesting stuff.

 

[Crayon]

Hyte was there in that Jesus Nexus video showing lots of numbers in how they handle financing for cases. Interesting stuff.

I wish there was an abridged version of the video so more people would watch it.

 

[RoboFu]

you should be buying corsair cases anyway.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

Well that sucks for people that want them. I took a quick Look at their site and I can't stand these ugly ass fish tank cases full of ugly ass RGB.

I would say modern pc gaming is hideous but I was around for the early 2000s when everybody was building in acrylic cases.

you should be buying Fractal Design cases anyway.

Fixed that for you there bud.

 

[RoboFu]

Well that sucks for people that want them. I took a quick Look at their site and I can't stand these ugly ass fish tank cases full of ugly ass RGB.

I would say modern pc gaming is hideous but I was around for the early 2000s when everybody was building in acrylic cases.


Fixed that for you there bud.

eww no.

 

[kiphalfton]

Well that sucks for people that want them. I took a quick Look at their site and I can't stand these ugly ass fish tank cases full of ugly ass RGB.

I would say modern pc gaming is hideous but I was around for the early 2000s when everybody was building in acrylic cases.


Fixed that for you there bud.

Corsair is definitely better. Fractal is overrated.

The Corsair 4000D case is low key the value king, and beats out stuff like the Fractal Meshify.

The premium fractal charges just isn't worth it.

 

[ReyBrujo]

I wish there was an abridged version of the video so more people would watch it.

E column is up to March 4, F column is up to April 8, G until May 3 and H is after May 3. Landed cost is what it costs them to produce, MSRP is what they are selling them for, so they could be losing 91 bucks selling them at 140 bucks.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

eww no.

Corsair is definitely better. Fractal is overrated.

The Corsair 4000D case is low key the value king, and beats out stuff like the Fractal Meshify.

The premium fractal charges just isn't worth it.

You guys can keep your ugly tempered glass and RGB.

I'll stay part of the Fractal Terra master race.

 

[GHG]

I wish there was an abridged version of the video so more people would watch it.

Nah, I think everyone ought to watch it in its entirety to grasp the realities of this situation.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

We should prolly start putting these all into one thread rather than a dozen threads of "X company stops selling in US due to tariffs". It's clearly going to be a thing

 

[Crayon]

We should prolly start putting these all into one thread rather than a dozen threads of "X company stops selling in US due to tariffs". It's clearly going to be a thing

There's going to be calls for either banning discussion or containment but there's no way to keep this many heads that deep in the sand.

 

[kiphalfton]

We should prolly start putting these all into one thread rather than a dozen threads of "X company stops selling in US due to tariffs". It's clearly going to be a thing

It's a very real issue and needs to have more exposure.

 

[ReBurn]

I'm not going to actually read the article to find out, but I wonder how ibuypower prebuilts will be impacted since so many of their builds are in Hyte cases.

My current case is a Hyte Y60 and I really like it, but if I ever upgrade my GPU I'll probably need a different case since anything over 2.5 slot height will be too close to the glass.

 

[Hohenheim]

Well that sucks for people that want them. I took a quick Look at their site and I can't stand these ugly ass fish tank cases full of ugly ass RGB.

I would say modern pc gaming is hideous but I was around for the early 2000s when everybody was building in acrylic cases.


Fixed that for you there bud.

Can also highly recommend the Antec Flux Pro if you want something that looks great, don't have the horrible rgb and also have amazing air flow. It's also a joy to build in.

 

[Radical_3d]

You're overblowning this whole tariff stuff. South America has been putting tariffs to technology for ages and now you can go there and buy a 1.500€ PS5 or a locally made Mega Drive. See? They just work. You just have to give your local industry time to step up!

 

[StereoVsn]

I wish there was an abridged version of the video so more people would watch it.

That's what Google Gemini/ChatGPT are for.

Edit: Just picked up Fractal Pop XL Air case from Microcenter a few days back. Needed a case with 5.25" external slots for my new Windows XP build and it's quite nice for the $$

 

[Astray]

I wonder how other case manufacturers will deal with this. Namely NZXT, Corsair etc.

 

[MSduderino]

 

[StereoVsn]

I wonder how other case manufacturers will deal with this. Namely NZXT, Corsair etc.

Not well. See Tech Jesus' video.

 

[Zacfoldor]

I think what people need to understand here is that the application of these tariffs is not by necessity but by strategy.

You are use to framing things in the way of a covid type disaster where shortages can't be helped.

In this case, one person could change the whole field overnight by changing their minds or being forced to do so by political pressure.

This isn't covid shortages guys, it's a trade war. If it gets to bad one side will back down and this would be over tomorrow.

We can agree on one thing. This will end eventually. When that day comes, please think back to this post and ponder, was that guy right or was I right to think we are doomed? There is a tendency to over-react and a media that stimulates that so I'm not asking you to do anything until this is all over and behind us and we are all safe. Once that has happened, think back. Was the worry worth it?

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

It's a very real issue and needs to have more exposure.

It's a common practice to reduce dozens of threads about the same topic. It's just standard operating procedure. Got nothing to do with any perceived "exposure".

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

There's going to be calls for either banning discussion or containment but there's no way to keep this many heads that deep in the sand.

If mods made a rule about it they would

I can see this shit getting annoying real quick if every other thread is some other company who's also stopping shipments. Would also make it hard to keep track of them all. It would resolve both issues.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

Can also highly recommend the Antec Flux Pro if you want something that looks great, don't have the horrible rgb and also have amazing air flow. It's also a joy to build in.

I'm an ITX man and I think I'd rather stop pc gaming then go back

 

[Crayon]

If mods made a rule about it they would

I can see this shit getting annoying real quick if every other thread is some other company who's also stopping shipments. Would also make it hard to keep track of them all. It would resolve both issues.

You could make a bot that instantly deleted the threads but the reality is still up in everyone's face. You'll still be wishing everyone would shut up about it complaining in every thread that mentions the price of something. You're not going to get everyone to blind-eye the emperor's new clothes until you can turn the whole place into a reality distortion field somewhat like era.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Windows XP build

Go on….

 

[StereoVsn]

Go on….

I decided to "go back" so to speak and build up a Windows XP PC … well actually two! One for early to mid 2000s games and one that is amped up to the Max for XP (without messing around with custom GPU drivers too much).

What brought that on was that a)I didn't manage to get Switch 2 pre-order in and b) I was watching some retro PC YouTubers and couple of them had videos from a year or two/three ago talking about XP builds. And I thought to myself that this is something which could be fun considering number of games I have on GoG, physical PC games I have been picking up on the cheap (surprisingly mint 2000s full game cases of great games go for barely anything) and abandonware.

So I started to dig through my bins with old hardware and found bunch of motherboards, RAM, smaller / older SSDs and HDs, fans, CPU coolers and so on. I also had some cases but didn't really like most of them so picked up that Fractal case from Microcenter. And I did dig up my old Boston Acoustics Speaker/Sub set as well.

I still needed a CPU for my "mid-2000s" XP, with Intel Core 2 Quad QX9650 being the best bang for $ (~$50), as well as a bit beefier GPU in 8800GTX (also around $50, still pondering if I want SLI) as I couldn't find my old 8800GT that I used to have... or my core 2 quad that I also used to have, . I am going to throw 2 x 2GB of RAM into this, couple older 60GB SSDs in RAID-1 for OS and a 500GB SATA SSD for game drive.

And for my "super" XP computer I needed a proper GPU. I am going to use i7-3770K, board and 8GB of RAM .. but I picked up OG Nvidia Titan 6GB as that can run on XP ($65 or so) and XFS Radeon HD 6970 ($40 or so) as it does better with some of resolution scaling with AMD drivers vs Nvidia. And finally I got three different monitors for all of this. One older Dell 24" 1920 x 1200 60hz monitor (found locally for about $40ish) and couple 1280 x 1024 monitors (Acer and Viewsonic with 75hz refresh, about $30-40 each). I had couple SSDs and a 4TB HD to use for this one as well. And its going into the Fractal case.

So in summary, I spent $115 for a case, $50 for a CPU, $160 for 3 GPUs and $130 for the monitors. ~$450 for everything which is the same price as Switch 2! Going to play through GTA IV, Fear 1&2, Crysis, bunch of Star Wars games, Need for Speed 2, Outrun and more as it was meant to be.

The only thing I am still considering is getting a CRT, but its too much of a pain to maintain and finding a good condition nice CRT monitor of say 20-21" is not a trivial task.

Edit: I might redo the older PC into Win98/ME build at some point, but Win98 was a bit of a pain, lol.

 

[BennyBlanco]

I decided to "go back" so to speak and build up a Windows XP PC … well actually two! One for early to mid 2000s games and one that is amped up to the Max for XP (without messing around with custom GPU drivers too much).

What brought that on was that a)I didn't manage to get Switch 2 pre-order in and b) I was watching some retro PC YouTubers and couple of them had videos from a year or two/three ago talking about XP builds. And I thought to myself that this is something which could be fun considering number of games I have on GoG, physical PC games I have been picking up on the cheap (surprisingly mint 2000s full game cases of great games go for barely anything) and abandonware.

So I started to dig through my bins with old hardware and found bunch of motherboards, RAM, smaller / older SSDs and HDs, fans, CPU coolers and so on. I also had some cases but didn't really like most of them so picked up that Fractal case from Microcenter. And I did dig up my old Boston Acoustics Speaker/Sub set as well.

I still needed a CPU for my "mid-2000s" XP, with Intel Core 2 Quad QX9650 being the best bang for $ (~$50), as well as a bit beefier GPU in 8800GTX (also around $50, still pondering if I want SLI) as I couldn't find my old 8800GT that I used to have... or my core 2 quad that I also used to have, . I am going to throw 2 x 2GB of RAM into this, couple older 60GB SSDs in RAID-1 for OS and a 500GB SATA SSD for game drive.

And for my "super" XP computer I needed a proper GPU. I am going to use i7-3770K, board and 8GB of RAM .. but I picked up OG Nvidia Titan 6GB as that can run on XP ($65 or so) and XFS Radeon HD 6970 ($40 or so) as it does better with some of resolution scaling with AMD drivers vs Nvidia. And finally I got three different monitors for all of this. One older Dell 24" 1920 x 1200 60hz monitor (found locally for about $40ish) and couple 1280 x 1024 monitors (Acer and Viewsonic with 75hz refresh, about $30-40 each). I had couple SSDs and a 4TB HD to use for this one as well. And its going into the Fractal case.

So in summary, I spent $115 for a case, $50 for a CPU, $160 for 3 GPUs and $130 for the monitors. ~$450 for everything which is the same price as Switch 2! Going to play through GTA IV, Fear 1&2, Crysis, bunch of Star Wars games, Need for Speed 2, Outrun and more as it was meant to be.

The only thing I am still considering is getting a CRT, but its too much of a pain to maintain and finding a good condition nice CRT monitor of say 20-21" is not a trivial task.

Edit: I might redo the older PC into Win98/ME build at some point, but Win98 was a bit of a pain, lol.

Damn, that is so fucking cool. Sounds more fun than a Switch 2 to me.

 

[CLW]

 

[StereoVsn]

Damn, that is so fucking cool. Sounds more fun than a Switch 2 to me.

That's what I figured! And really, you don't need the "mid-2000s" PC for the most part, just need another GPU with 1GB or less VRAM as some games from the earlier XP days have issues with that. So you could just build up "super XP" PC with older parts (generally they are very cheap, and you don't need Titan either, something like GTX 700 series would be fine) and have an extra GPU to swap in for older games. Oh and you would want some sort of Soundblaster with EAX support for those full "XP" feels!

So if you already have some older hardware, this is pretty cheap to put together and there are ton of amazing games that came out for XP (and a lot of 98 games will run as well with some tweaks).

 

[Hohenheim]

I'm an ITX man and I think I'd rather stop pc gaming then go back

Ah, I see. I've never built a ITX build. I have a full tower (Antec Flux Pro) in my gaming room, and a MicroATX build (Lian Li Dan A3) connected to the TV in the living room.

 

[StereoVsn]

Ah, I see. I've never built a ITX build. I have a full tower (Antec Flux Pro) in my gaming room, and a MicroATX build (Lian Li Dan A3) connected to the TV in the living room.

Yeah, I am not a fan of super small cases as I hate working in them. I have a Micro ATX case for living room and a full tower Lian Li in the office.