The TechPowerUp team was invited up to Bitspower's Las Vegas suite earlier today. An overwhelming number of collaborative custom PC builds were on display, but two rows of new case designs occupied a corner of the Taiwanese brand's presentation space. Immediately, the manufacturer's GX chassis serie...
  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I am a Fractal Design person when it comes to cases, but these look really nice.

    It’s too bad it will be impossible to build an new PC in the next 24-36 months.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Fractal Design makes nicer, more-expensive PC cases. That is kinda a good point — if you make PC components that don’t involve upgrading an existing system — and few people are going to move the guts out of an existing system into a new one — 2026 is gonna be a bad time.

      I kind of wonder if there’s a market for premium drive array enclosures. Like, for people who want to store a ton of drives, but not in a rack. Fans, air filter, USB interface, temperature sensor, settable power-on-after-power-loss switch. I’d think that that’d kinda be up a PC case manufacturer’s alley, something that they could do with slack time — hell, they could do matching PC/drive array cases.