I love my PC60. It's pure quality. I've not seen a case rival any of them since Coolermaster's glory days. I'd like to see you make anything close to the quality of a Lian Li with $30. Removable motherboard trays, aluminium, anodised brushed finish, light as a feather, a well designed layout, thumb screws on almost everything. Not every modded Lian Li is a window mod. The Clear-Li was a great mod that was truly unique but still had the Lian Li quality inside. Or Deviates work of art on the window in his case.
i know, but i am after originality as well. no matter how much you mod em', or how good/cool the look, they are still from a factory. Look at any major mod project on this site, practicaly none started with a case, or ended up looking like one. the H2, Ammobox, Blackmessaia is acrylic, but changed a lot, and others.
But I never think of my case as being "modded" I bought my Lian Li because it's a nice case. As for your $30 case being as good.... dream on. As for mods only being good if built from the ground up: Is Orac crap? That uses a widly available acrylic case as it' s base. Is Blackmesa crap? That uses a commercially avialable case as it's base... in fact, I have no idea where you get that idea from: Most mods, good or bad, use a commercially available chassis for a base. You would not ever get the qiality of engineering from a £30 case, and no matter how good your mod was, it would be based on a crappy £30 case that's badly engineered from poor materials. Not everyone is modding on a budget you know. Some people appreciate quality materials and don't mind paying for it, even if they do only to hack it to pieces and build their own out of it.
umm have you realized how expensive most of the really good modded cases cost, thats not even including the cost of the tools used Simply put Ive never seen a higher quality case than the lian li cases ( i have a pc-65b)
I have to disagree here. I've owned a Lian-Li, Coolermaster and Suntek Steel case. I would not say that the Suntek was poorly made in comparison to the Lian-Li, as was very well thought out - It most certainly wasn't badly engineered from poor materials. Just because a case is made from steel doesn't mean it's crap quality. You are somewhat contradicting yourself in your post. The Blackmesa mod was based on a cheap-ass steel case, but you're saying the end result doesn't have the quality of engineering a standard aluminium case has
No.. I bet Blackmesa doesn't have the same quality of engineering as a Lian Li. That doesn't detract from it in anyway, and certainly doesn't mean it's a bad mod. In my opinion it's the best mod ever. I just bet the screws holding the PCI blanking plates are cheap; the edges of the interior are crudely cut, and not nicely rolled.. things like that. It doesn't matter any more with something like Blackmesa I suppose: You can mod anything to become anything. I just happen to have the same opinion to modding PCs as I do to cars: You want to make a nice car, then start out with a nice car. Having said that, my next mod is going to be based on a cheap case... but that's not my choice, as it's not my PC. I never suggested steel was inferior to alloy either. My point is that most cheap cases use cheap materials, and the attention to detail is not there. On a Lian Li, even the parts that you can't see are nicely anodised, or polished. High quality knurled thumbscrews are used throughout, even the MoBo mounting hardware supplied is of the highest quality. Things that are not so clearly defined make a difference too: The way the side panels fit... the SOUND they make when they slide into place... all spells quality. The tolerances in the engineering are way higher. It's like a poorly made car will always seem so, no matter how cool it looks.. just by the noise it makes by slamming the door. Either you're bothered about these things, or you're not I suppose.
deffo agree there, the quality levels are so much higher with lian-li imho, and how shiny are the pci-plates??? like omg *bling*!. But the point of if this even bothers u reminds me of that advert for the vw passat with some random german scientist opening and closing the door so it sounded perfect . If little things like that don't bother u then i suppose it's a waste of money buying an aluminium case. The little things matter to me tho
