inwin at computex

[barnsley]

Seeing as I own one of their more unique cases I felt I should talk about their recent developments at computex. This year appears to be a focus around increasing their more unique cases.

First case up is a baby version of their D frame, the suprisingly named D Frame mini. At time of writing the suggested retail price $349.99 (~£210,~257euros). It supports an itx motherboard and various HDDs.

Their other major announcement was the very odd S-Frame. Retailing at $799 this isn't a cheap case. For starters its made from one piece of Aluminium folded 15 times. It is going to be a limited run of 500 . Unlike most of the x-frames this is designed with watercooling in mind(ish) and supports a 360mm radiator at the bottom. its a start I guess.

Both of these cases use Tempered glass side panels. What do you lot think?
Images from Hexus and cowcotland.

 

[MadShadow]

The S-Frame looks absolutely horrid. I like seeing innovation, but that is just... The mini D-Frame is nice though.

 

[WYP]

S-Frame? What were they smoking when they came up with that?

 

[barnsley]

S-Frame? What were they smoking when they came up with that?

Obviously they bent an aluminum panel a bit too much when they were making another case and hey, waste not want not .

Honestly they just need to make a H-frame with decent WC support.

 

[Wraith]

I saw this this morning and my jaw hit the floor at the $800 price tag, have they been sniffing the same glue as nVidia???

I watched the sneak peek In Win Video and the rep said that the S-Frame is limited at the moment to 500 units but depending on the interest it will go into production but rather than Aluminium future units would be Acrylic.

 

[barnsley]

I saw this this morning and my jaw hit the floor at the $800 price tag, have they been sniffing the same glue as nVidia???

I watched the sneak peek In Win Video and the rep said that the S-Frame is limited at the moment to 500 units but depending on the interest it will go into production but rather than Aluminium future units would be Acrylic.

Its not as expensive as their equally limited H frame King. £1k a piece.

 

[SnowmanFromHell]

Hmm, the S-Frame looks interesting... quite different, but not necessarily bad. I still wouldn't get one (even if it was priced reasonably) simply because I'd be annoyed by all the dust that gets in.

 

[The_Governour]

I could see a client or 2 ordering that for their living room - but then they know nothing of PC´s but they all have super modern houses and that would fit right in there.