this will be my next PC build case.

[rapid]

Guys this case was designed by BMW costs around £550 or $850

 

Click here

[Kuky]

very interesting design, but this case is not good for high performance PC, especially ones with overclocking in mind... you can't add any aftermarket cooling and you can forget about water cooling... it does look nice because it looks very different from anything that's out there but price tag is little over the top I think :)

[Chibawang]

very interesting design, but this case is not good for high performance PC, especially ones with overclocking in mind... you can't add any aftermarket cooling and you can forget about water cooling... it does look nice because it looks very different from anything that's out there but price tag is little over the top I think :)

 

That's a pretty hasty assumption... It's a Thermaltake case, and like all of their products performance/cooling is central to the design. If you continue reading the article it provides mounting options and photos of the reviewer installing an H50 water cooling system. The price is a bit high, but it's clearly being sold as a luxury item, so it's to be expected.

Edited December 18, 2009 by Chibawang

[rapid]

roger that i didnt want to point that out about the water cooling becasue he did mention it.

[Kuky]

Fair enough, I didn't read the whole article at first... he did install water cooler on the CPU but it's just a mini water cooling so to speak and isn't that great. Price yes is high because it's luxury looking but I still don't think the price tag does it justice.

[RvEYoda]

Do you remember a while back Zalman released this all passively cooled case?

 

It basically had heatpipes going to every component to shuffle away

the heat, and it was good enough to run medium to high end systems

Zero fans ( not even in PSU ).

 

If I'd had the money back then that would be my first choice.

That, and an SSD drive. completely silent PC :)

( Except for electronics noise )

[Chibawang]

Wow! I definately didn't see that one, Yoda. Was it a limited production type thing?

[Made.In.China.00]

I think this is the case Yoda's talking about:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/noiseless-computing,741.html

 

I think it never actually entered production.

And here's a fun quote from the review:

Estimated Cost Less Than $1400.00 US - Final Pricing Not Set

[rapid]

Now that is a vile looking case.

[GaryIKILLYOU]

I'm not gonna lie but the case from Thermaltake kinda looks like the bigger PS2... Kinda. :D

[PoleCat]

The case looks highly functional and really great if you are going to go with the liquid cooling system shown but IMHO it is an ugly looking thing with lots of fiddly little bits that you may lose and never get replaced.

 

So I think it is cool, functional, and butt ugly.;)

 

Out

[emenance]

Thanks for the post, I have been waiting for someone to make something interesting and easy to work with. I can see manufactureing going to the lowest labor country iin the world with this. I would buy this think for the ease of working with harddrives and everything else. They did say it was quiet too so its a great design then. Not in my budget but who knows maybe someday.

Edited December 31, 2009 by emenance