Buying a case is a bit like buying a power supply: you don't necessarily want to spend that much on it, as the difference in your experience with your new PC will be negligible, but just like when that cheap PSU blows six months down the line, that case is going to irk you if you don't at least buy something moderately attractive.
However cases like every other aspect of enthusiast PC construction run the gamut from cheap and cheerful, to affordable and versatile to the ridiculously expensive. Take the Xforma MBX MKII chassis that if you were to buy just the base version of, would cost you a whopping $1250.
Why so expensive? Because the MBX MKII is one of the most over engineered chassis ever created. It features a barebones design, whereby only the structural frame itself can't be taken apart. Everything else, from the side panels, to the motherboard tray to the ODD and HDD enclosures can be stripped out and moved around if you wish.
Motherboard spacers are blind-threaded so won't go through the tray and there are liquid cooling mounts everywhere, as well as a whole secondary section around the base of the case for a large collection of silent cooling fans.
To make storage as simple as possible, the HDD/SSD mounts feature in-built, custom printed circuit boards that have all of the power and data connectors already in place, so you only need to attach cables to the board itself, rather than to the individual drivers.
As you might expect too, there's a tonne of cable management options, with cable routes, pins and clamps to keep it all tidied away. Additional extras include mounting options for various sizes of water cooling radiators, an illuminated panel and even a cross fan for use in one of the ODD slots - should you happen to have not quite enough airflow; which seems unlikely.
Only 250 of these cases will be made and if you ordered it with all of the extras, you could probably spend over $2,000 without much difficulty.
Anyone tempted?
