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...I have an old Antec P-193 also with a large filtered intake fan on the left panel. Billed as a "mid tower", but it's closer in size to a full tower. The massive Noctua D15S CPU cooler I have on order will even fit inside.
Who needs water cooling with that beast anyway? Besides, don't want to give up the two top exhaust fans for a closed loop radiator.
Never much cared for glass side panels anyway. I don't have any crazy interior lighting, that's what the 3' aluminium Yule tree on with the colour changing light on corner side table is for.
I agree about the glass side panels, but it's what the manufacturers are doing now. Looks like that Antec of yours has a lot of fan action. Good! CM Storm Sniper (correct name!) has 3x 200mm + 1x120mm and more mesh for air flow. I'm eventually going to build something new in it. Only thing is, no USB-C in front. I went with Lian Li Lancool 2 performance model - RGB controller is replaced with a fan controller, comes with 2x140mm fans front, 1x120mm rear. I was wooed by overall design, USB-C port in front, and reviews highlighting excellent thermal performance. That case breathes! Only thing is, it's nowhere near as tough as the CM case or your Antec. Glass doors and the front mesh panel seems especially vulnerable. It's mesh and hard plastic held on with plastic pins. Not impressed with that!
...sadly the P-193 is no longer made, hence, getting parts is extremely difficult (it has a special "tool less" system for adding drives). . Just not impressed with the offerings today, some look like they'd transform into a killer robot when your back was turned.
True, although, I've found a workaround for some issues. When I want to assure that the computers on my LAN (all using Win10) all see and share files with each other, After all the needed sharing settings have been configured I have to "Reset Network" on each of them and let them boot again. Then re-enable "Private Network" setting on each of them (if you had executed from an unprivileged account). Then they'll stay in contact (except when asleep or hibernating) until rebooted again. I did succeed once in getting Win7 to share files with Win10, but it is a pain having to check Registry settings and status of background daemons and enabling obsolete or deprecated protocol services.
Robots in disguise!
I don't think that one would cool that well. On the bright side, I found out the hard way that my doors will lift off. No need to unscrew hinges. But also, be careful turning that upside down... 
Nothing broken. I unscrewed one and the hinges dropped out when I lifted the door off. I screwed the hinges back in and lifted the door.
The biggest problem I've had with my local network is figuring out Microsoft's nomenclature changes on every bloody OS change. Right now I have a Win10 pro laptop providing multiple shares and connecting to a Win7 pro share. There are two Win7 pro systems connected to shares on the laptop and one of the Win7 systems also connects to shares on the other Win7 system. All shares survive reboots and the laptop hibernation. It took me about 4 hours to move from Win 8.1 to 10 o the laptop and get evverything tied in again, but it's been solid and stable for over six months.
I completed building my new computer. No name yet. It works! It looks pretty good, too. It has some LED lighting on the mobo and GC. It's a 12600k on a B660M mobo with wifi. I have a 1TB NVME SSD and a 4TB HDD. By default, the board bios uses Intel Rapid Storage. That put both the SSD and HDD into a RAID array and made them unavailable for use as boot drives. Turning off the rapid storage feature freed the drives. I say that now. I had no idea what was wrong and the various internet articles I read never mentioned that as an issue. Nothing I tried was working. It took a while to figure it out. And once I got it, I was golden.
Kyoto Kid and I had been talking about the new requirement for an MS account with Windows. I downloaded W10 Home from MS onto a USB drive. I installed without internet. It let me set up a local account. I have not yet connected the computer to the internet. When I do, I expect windows will want me to make an MS account, but maybe not? We shall see.
...yeah to save myself from that trouble would not only mean a second copy of W11 Pro (so I don't have to log into an MS account every time) but also having to upgrade that system as well at pretty much an additional blow to my limited budget. Wouldn't be as expensive as I could get by with 32 GB of memory on that machine and maybe only a 6 core i7, but still more expense than I care to deal with on my income.
@ Torquinox .
...not bothering with W10,
In W11 for Home Edition users are now required to have an MS account for setup. With Pro I can setup without a Net connation and as I will be doing a clean install as it not an update from 10 but a bootable DVD I'm purchasing. This way I can do a bit of "preventive maintenance" to rid myself of all the fluff I don't need at the outset before I get back to normal business.
If Daz Studio is your primary program and you are GPU rendering, then RAM speed makes no difference. All that matters is that you have enough of RAM. And you would know if you didn't, you would crash. RAM speed only matters at specific things, if you are a total masochist and hate yourself and want to CPU render, then RAM speed factors in a lot more. But then you are CPU rendering...there is no need to subject yourself to that kind of pain if you have a 3060.
It certainly is possible to use more than 32GB of RAM with a 12GB GPU. I could crank out over 50GB of RAM just using a 1080ti which only has 11GB of VRAM. So yeah, it is possible. But it all depends on what you are making with Daz Studio, and what is adding the memory up in your scenes. Texture data is actually compressed by Iray for VRAM, which is why there is such a difference between RAM and VRAM when rendering. To play around with this, just mess around with the Advanced Iray Settings. One of the settings is for compression. The default values are surprisingly low, at 512 for 'medium' and 1024 for 'high'. What this means is that textures over 512 pixels are compressed some, and textures over 1024 are compressed more. Well...a lot of textures these days are 4096 pixels in size. So by default Iray is doing quite a lot of compression on textures. You can increase the values of these 2 settings and watch your VRAM sky rocket. However, your overall RAM use will not change because those textures are not compressed in RAM.
I hear you! For my part, I'm hoping to skip Win 11 or at least give them 3 years to make it right.
...I also work with 3DL and Carrara. 3200 MHz is sort of the average thee days. particularly with DDR5 having just been released. I'm coming from DDR3 1333 so 3200 DDR4 will feel like a major improvement.
2D programmes also take advantage of memory speed to run certain processes.
....I look at it as having only one OS learning curve to deal with as I'm coming directly from W7.
MS needs to go back to their original model (at least for us serious users) as they had with W7 and stop with foisting this feature bloated "OS as a service rubbish" on everyone.
Yes.
No argument from me, MS has its own plan.