Alright, I currently own one of the "rare" core X9 cases, and well...

I have found that it is actually somehow choking my aorus master 5090 (360 mm length so...) as it is actually getting heat issues with the side panels on...

not entirely sure if it just needs some additional top fans to exhaust heat more, or if crimson desert with everything turned on just is too much for the thing... but opening the side panels solved heat issues and brings down the GPU to lower than 80C. the thing is, the thing works fine with CP2077 and other games, just CD with RR and all that is maybe pushing this thing to the absolute max and maybe it isn't the most stable thing, but opening the side panels helped.

either way, I am now looking for a new case, and one of the things I loved about this thing is that it has 4 USB A on the front, and 5.25 bay where I stuck another USBC / 4 USBA drive bay on top.

but it seems that even very big cases like the fractal meshify 3 xl only have 2 USB A and 1 USB C front panels, and not really easily usable 5.25 drive bays to stick expansion bays without removing fans (the core x9 can accommodate 5.25 far more easily, being from that era).

are all modern cases 2 + 1? it seems to be a standard now, and 5.25 bays is well mostly either blocking fans or just good luck with that.

are there any good modern cases with either more front panel, or 5.25 accessibility while still have the 3 front fans?

or is it well time to dongle the front...