Yup, I have to agree here,   As stated before, I select the best components my budget allows and choose an appropriate case to house them.  If that case happens to have a bit of bling, all well and good, but first and foremost it has to be functional and have plenty of ventilation and room for expansion. 

There's nothing worse than acluttered case that's difficult to work in.  Well there is, but that's another story....

Uvah, you're starting to worry me, fantasising about computer cases and bits.  Me, I like to fantasise about 'other' bits. 

Yup, white wine night and Paul's pissed.

For some!  I'm currently without a partner and would never consider a LAN party as a means of.... er, a suitable replacement.

However, I might consider a blow-up doll... so there's somebody across the table at meal times... somebody to say "did you see that" when watching my fave TV show... somebody to bitch at when things don't work properly, such as the common PC fech up.... and somebody to blame for those middle of the night dutch ovens.

The video is great. And I also recommend to download the Alienware Area 51 drivers from here: https://www.driverdr.com/dell-drivers/dell-alienware-area-51-drivers-free-download

My Case is better.. and far more configurable.. 

https://www.originpc.com/workstation/desktops/genesis-pro/

This is exactly how mine looks..

Had it about 3 weeks... its one badass machine..

BMW Design did mine...for Thermaltake.  It's a work of art...

Hey John, nice case. with some impressive specs.   Your case is similar to mine, configuration-wise... with similar interior designs and the extra storage space below.  I have the CoolerMaster Cosmos II and it too is quite a nice piece of hardware with some great specs and masses of room for expansion.  It is one heavy beast as well, weighing in at 22kg empty and nearing 80kg fully loaded... has 13 x 3 TB HDDS; 1 x 256gb M.2 SSD; 2 x 512 SSDs; a dual GTX680; a SoundBlaster ZxR; ASUS Maximus Hero VII; 32gb DDR3' Corsair H110 liquid cooling and an i7 4790K.  Certainly not the best specs one could get, but still pretty badass just the same.

I was going to use the case to build a machine with similar specs to Jafo's Thermaltake beastie link, but other priorities required the cash, so I swapped the above hardware [the mobo was new, however] into the new Coolermaster case.

Anyway, John, congrats on the new rig, it looks fantastic. 

BTW, it's good to see you back on the forums again.

cool-master all the way.

Nice one McStarkers, Jafo....

Very happy with what I have now, VERY happy.... 3K later.. but.. very happy.

vStyler

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Nice one McStarkers, Jafo....

 

Very happy with what I have now, VERY happy.... 3K later.. but.. very happy.

 

I'm pleased that you're pleased.... mind you, it is a very, very nice rig.  I read up on the specs and was suitably impressed with the hardware within.  You'll have more than enough power, graphics ability and memory to do just about anything your heart desires with it

Though I'm happy with my beast, I originally wanted the same case a Jafo, but in black.  Trouble is, you just can't buy them anywhere, and his was a limited edition that sold out very quickly... like before I could get a look in.  I also wanted to upgrade my hardware with an i7 5960X CPU and ASUS Rampage v Extreme mobo with DDR4 RAM, but health considerations came first and I used the money there instead. 

However, Intel has released the Skylake range and I may look at upgrading to something similar in 2016 instead.  Having said that, I am happy with the performance of my current rig... and the case is simply outstanding.  I thought my Thermaltake Level 10 GT had plenty of internal space... this thing, heavy as it is, has enough room to hold a ballroom dance, a wedding reception and tech convention all at once.

  Maybe not, but it is huge.  In fact, I'm considering putting it on casters, given its size AND weight.

The black one was the original, released in 2009...and thus unavailable.  Mine was a new Limited Edition [500] released in 2014... in any colour as long as it was Ti ...

http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/thermaltakes-brain-melting-level-10-pc-chassis-gets-real-unbox/

There's the one you wanted...

Strangely enough, I was told that a seller at a local weekend market had a second-hand original for sale for $150 couple of weeks back... not that I stood a chance of getting it.  Before my mate could ring to tell me about it, some bloke snapped it up. 

Drats, drats and double drats. [e digicons]:'([/e]

I dream about this stuff.

You mean like the used car yards that had a Phase 3 HO for a grand....but when you get there there's just these here lemons....

BTW....whilst trolling for the pic I posted I found ads for my ver for sale.... 2.5 grand....

Imagine seeing all those weird lookin' machines, yellow and bulbous with wheels attached to them. Chugging right along.  

Nah, I didn't even get there.  Old mate didn't bother calling me once it had been sold.  Apparently it was still in good nick and had some hardware installed... HDDs and ROM drive, etc.  Had he been a few minutes earlier I could have gotten him to grab it for me.  Oh well, maybe another time.

Jafo

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BTW....whilst trolling for the pic I posted I found ads for my ver for sale.... 2.5 grand....

Hmmm, now that's interesting.  Given they were all supposedly sold out and no more were manufactured, I wonder if the ads were just to attract potential customers; or perhaps private sales?...  or that some retailer kept some aside to sell later at a huge profit.   2.5 grand!  Not fechen likely!

Well, it's only serious purpose is as a collectors item.

Any mediocre performance case for a hundred bucks will match or beat it's cooling capabilities, and you can spank it big time with something like a Nanoxia DS6, which has sound dampening and support for truly epic cooling setups inside a case with enough room to make performance motherboards weep at their inability to fill the 19 drive bays.

I have a plain looking NZXT. It's under the desk out of the way. It... just... works...

They would have been all sold to retailers, with no more manufactured, however it's all about whether any retailer/s retained stock for 'later'.

The 2.5k one was from the US via ebay ...and likely the greater cost was 'postage' cos 50lbs of case in a box the size of a small car ain't gonna be cheap...

psychoak ...when a case is manufactured from 3mm thick metal it is its own passive cooling and sound proofing....and the modular isolation of the components means there's no transference of heat from one component to another.

Meanwhile ....Thermaltake has another 'interesting' creature on the go...