These are some of the nicer ones we saw during the show. Note that these aren’t custom or handmade ones; they’re all commercial units that were for sale. Oh, except the bike.
These are some of the nicer ones we saw during the show. Note that these aren’t custom or handmade ones; they’re all commercial units that were for sale. Oh, except the bike.
Chazz
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 8:40 AMWoot. NZXT Phantom. Didn’t know they had a white one with red striping coming out though.
Chazz
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 10:41 AMJust read the article and the second one is a customised Xigmatek Elysium, it may have been for sale at Gamescom but it’s not a commercial catalogue product.
Pioneer
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 11:37 AMI’ve got the white Phantom at the moment and it’s one of the better ones I’ve owned. Roomy, cool and easy to clean.
Chazz
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 12:12 PMYeah I’m in the middle of doing up the black phantom. I’ve got the fan grills and black striping painted red now. Just gotta order a bunch of red led’s for the fan controller and power/reset buttons and do a bit of trimming with the dremmel then get the rest of the internals happening.
Pioneer
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 2:16 PMI ordered the second 200mm fan when it was still new, and just after they released the one with blue LEDs. -_- fml
Chazz
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 3:26 PMIt could be worse, you could’ve ordered fans made by another company only to find out that NZXT didn’t use the standard hole placement for them. Or a fan for the front of the case only to find NZXT drilled the holes for their thin screws instead of the standard fan screws that have been an industry standard since forever. :P
Luke
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 8:44 AM3rd one down is the BitFenix Colossus.
Ah few of these are available on pccasegear.
Luke
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 11:46 AMWhat is the second one down? Any ideas?
Chazz
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 11:54 AMXigmatek Elysium with a custom paintjob.
Achenar
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 9:25 AMHooray, another batch of cases in hideously angular shapes.
I understand we all want to feel like we’re superior to those Apple guys, but would it kill us to have cases in shapes that DON’T look like they still have half the packing material attached?
Chazz
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 9:49 AMThere are plenty of options on the market like that…Antec, Corsair, Fractal Design, NZXT, Silverstone and quite a few others have plain simple cases.
Stefan
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 11:36 AMabsoloutley right, Achenar obviously doesn’t understand the target market of gamescon or the current pc case selection.
Achenar
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 11:44 AMYou’re right, I obviously don’t! It’s a good thing I haven’t recently bought a case for a new gaming PC…oh wait.
There are a couple of options out there (I’ve got a Fractal Design Define R3) but not all that many that are also serious cases. The industry seems to have decided that big, blocky, and angular is the way to go – and sucks to be anyone whose tastes run otherwise but also wants a case with clip-in drive bays, etc.
The Gamescon market is no-where near as monolithic and hive-minded as you seem to think…
Chazz
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 12:02 PMNZXT Whisper
Antec P193 V3
Antec P183 V3
Antec Atlas 550
Antec Sonata
Pretty much the entire Lian Li catalogue
Corsair Obsidian or Graphite range
Silverstone TJ07
Silverstone Fortress range
Fractal Design range.
Each and every one are serious cases, all with simple straightforward designs…
Ted
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 1:24 PM+1
I play games and like a high spec machine, but I also do a lot of recording and audio work and would just feel like a douche if someone came over to do some work with me and I had any of those cases! 600T for me next, please.
chazz
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 7:01 PMSomething about photos of a lot of gaming cases makes them look cheap and tacky but in person most of these cases look quite nice and aren’t as “out there” as they may appear. The exceptions being the BitFenix (photo 3) and the yellow/black InWin (photo 4)
Deka
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 10:28 AMThese have nothing on the quakecon casemods
Chazz
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 10:34 AMThat’s because most of them are stock cases not modded. :P
Mr Von-tanamous
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 10:44 AMall the good ones are already avaliable through PCCG. Most of these are crap :P
Yi
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 2:58 PMAll of them look like turd. I will take my Lian-Li kthx.
Vik
Monday, August 22, 2011 at 1:33 AMAnyone know what model the last case is? Looks interesting!
Yew
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 1:26 PMwhats the model of the last case? i think it looks cool. ;D