For those unfamiliar, this is the NVIDIA edition CM-830 Stacker from Cooler Master.
As long as the GPU and PSU fit, I don’t see why you couldn’t use it!
Yeah, I’m not sure what would make a case obsolete other than not physically fitting your hardware. I’m using a janky mid-2000s Antec case to hold my i7-9700k / RTX 2070 build with no problems (although I fully expect to need a bigger case for any future GPU upgrades).
My hot take is that this is practically irrelevant for the vast majority of desktop users, even hobbyists. Unless you have an absolute rats’ nest of cables inside the case or you are overclocking the chip close to its thermal limits, your chip should run just fine with a small form factor heatsink/fan, which an older, non-enthusiast case should have no problem fitting. As one data point, I’m cooling my CPU with a Noctua NH-D15 inside my Antec Three Hundred. A somewhat tight fit? Maybe, but certainly no performance issues.
ATX is ATX. The spec is remarkably stable. You’ll miss front-panel USB-C, though, if you put a newer motherboard in it.
Now I wonder if the front ports should have been made to fit in the drive bays. That would have motivated keeping at least one front drive bay slot and allowed old cases to be entirely modernized.
Edit: what I described does exist. Although the pricing is high enough that you’d have to really want to keep using the old case.
Does it fit todays gpus? You might have to cut up the drive cage
Didn’t think about that. After 2010, I’ve been using laptops more so I am a bit out of the loop.
There is no pc case that an angle grinder and some basic tools can’t fix. Im doing custom watercooling in a mid tower from 2010 because fuck the rules. My next build will be in a beige AT because why not.
Well Gigabyte do a Slim 8gb 4060 if those side fans will be a clearance issue, and if thats not an issue but the drive cages are several companies make a “shorty” 4060 and 4070.
Thats before you start playing around with riser cables and so on. You can almost certainly make a build work in this case but maybe not the build you want.