Now this is a computer case!

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paratwa

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Now here is a case I could love. It's more a piece of furniture. I think ones like this are the future of computing, not those flashy lit up ones. This was featured in the CPU magazine as a mad reader mod. Simply beautiful!


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VERY KOOL, I cant believe noone has thought of it before!!! it's this type of thinking that could keep the desktop going strong for a long time to come yet! or like you said, become part of the furniture! we have seen it happen with tvs/monitors etc, why not the most important part - (that always seems to be hidden away!) where do I get my hands on one of them!!!
 
And a serious lack of air flow obviously. You wouldn't want to use that for any serious gaming and/or ocing without water cooling since it sadly lacks anything to see good intake to keep the newer higher end hardwares cooled off.

The one thing more important on the Antec 900 used here over the blue led lit case and cpu cooler's fans is the great intake seen in the front with a pair of 120mm fans seen. The top has a large 200mm fan that lets all hot air out instead of trapped in by the optical drives. And the average 120 for exhaust resulting in low temps overall.

The rear of the case there looks like a single 80mm exhaust fan uncer where the supply sits providing the only real cooling for what would otherwise be a great looking case. The designer forgot to take a few things into account there.
 
yeah I think this case is more important as a "showcase design" for what can be achieved (in terms of looks) in the future. I'm sure a great looking case like this can be built whith the consideration of the air flow and cooling dynamics that required in todays systems.
 
The styling seen there is more of a contemporary not gaming or custom style. As far as a front fan already being present the view is blocked by what looks like a front panel that swings open for the drive bays as well as the power and reset buttons there. The styling would have to be altered a good deal to show what a gaming version of the case would look like.
 
There are all kinds of case modding as well as custom cases made from different materials. The key is to make sure that there is also propering grounding inplace as well as working by atx standards for drives as well as mounting the board and hardwares installed.
 
dakaptin said:
yeah I think this case is more important as a "showcase design" for what can be achieved (in terms of looks) in the future. I'm sure a great looking case like this can be built whith the consideration of the air flow and cooling dynamics that required in todays systems.
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Heres is the article for that case from www.pcpoweruser.com

As you can see it has watercooling and everything you could want to keep your system cool.

And the specs are first rate on everything else.


While many modders blend form and function when building their PCs, Nick “Green Sabbath” Falzone also strove for another combination of disparate concepts. “I felt this case to be the ultimate fusion of technology and tradition,” says Falzone. Thus was born the Yuugou, a Japanese name that translates to “fusion.”

To that end, Falzone relied on a mix of traditional and high-tech tools and chose both wood and aluminum for the Yuugou’s frame. When working with the system’s Koa and maple portions, Falzone shied away from newer equipment and techniques. “There is absolutely no glue in any of the wood pieces, and I can take every part of the wood apart if I wanted to,” Falzone tells us. “Everything is held in with custom-designed joints that I cut out using my Japanese hand tools.”

Falzone swapped his traditional tools with an end mill when he began work on Yuugou’s metal parts, which include the interior panels. He opted for 3/16-inch aluminum alloy 5052, which is a tough, corrosion-resistant aluminum that often appears in equipment for marine use. After milling the panels and other parts, Falzone had the fans, panels, and several pieces of metal mesh powder-coated.

The Yuugou includes several fans, as well as a watercooling system that handles the graphics card and the CPU. Falzone built the large, Hardware Labs Black Ice GT Xtreme 360 Radiator, which uses three 120mm fans, into the bottom of the case.

A case of this caliber ought to house a decent PC, so Falzone stocked the Yuugou with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 CPU, an Asus P5N32-E SLI 680i motherboard, 4GB of Corsair Dominator DDR2-1066 memory, a BFG 8800 GTX watercooled video card, and a BFG PhysX card. The Yuugou represents the end of an era in Falzone’s modding career, he tells us. “My next case will be more of a sculptural work of art that I hope will be the next level for me.”
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I don't like the red case, its not attractive to me at all, but that Japanese case looks pretty original. What I'm worried about is the fact that it is made of wood and temperatures can get quite high in a high performance system. Apart from that, it looks pretty cool.
Yeah, maybe "wood work" is the brand. :P
 
That type of case wouldn't be one you would recommend for any high end gaming system unless it has adequate room inside for water cooling. A case like that is more of a show piece for modding art seen there. For gaming cases you would start by looking at the wide selection of premade models rather then custom mods. The two links here show a large variety of the premanufacturered custom styles while not being original.

http://www.atxcases.com/atx-cases.asp
http://www.xoxide.com/pccases.html

Anyone for a custom modding contest? http://www.extremetech.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=&p=1&s=26633&a=130781&po=1&i=1,00.asp
 
There are a good number of clear style acrylic cases to look over for the premade type. What I look at here is adequate airflow as well as funtionality for the type of build here. That was satified with a very familiar premade model.



For having something someone else "doesn't have" on the other hand people will go the length of custom manufacturering their own style case by working by hand to machine and assemble their own out of raw materials.
 
I'm sorry, but those last 2 cases where just plain ugly to me.

As far as the case I posted, it runs plenty cool, Plenty of fans and water cooled besides.

I just do not like the looks of the ones being sold on the mass market. I hate all the lights and side windows.

If I could build one inside my desk where I never even had to see it, that would rock for me.

A computer is just a machine, metal and plastic. I would rather look at something beautiful. Pretty lights? Sorry, I don't get it.
 
That's where you and I differ. I look inside my Antec 900, and I see the Zalman 9700 I installed myself, the AMD X64 FX62 I delicately dropped in, the Asus motherboard I painstakingly screwed into tiny brass standoffs, the wires I painstakingly tucked out of view...

...and I think, My God, I build that thing in there, with my own two hands.
 
I don't find the inside of a computer attractive. That all clear case is not a very good one to me. That black on however looks very stylish. I would love to have that black case. :D
 
dave_w said:
That's where you and I differ. I look inside my Antec 900, and I see the Zalman 9700 I installed myself, the AMD X64 FX62 I delicately dropped in, the Asus motherboard I painstakingly screwed into tiny brass standoffs, the wires I painstakingly tucked out of view...

...and I think, My God, I build that thing in there, with my own two hands.
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I differ there! I have a Zalman 9700 on an Asus board inside an Antec 900 slid into the cabinet of the pc desk used here. My concern was keeping temps low in a tight space where the additional 120 in the front and large 200mm fan at the top are a plus along with a good cpu cooler.

The old 939 build upgraded an old Socket case where there was two 80mm fans one rear one top and high board temps. The AeroCool model seen here first saw a large improvement with the 140 on the front plus two 120s added on the side cover. I kept one of those for the side on the 900. http://www.xoxide.com/aerocool-aeroengine-2-black.html
 
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