If there's anything you can count on at the Computex trade show, it's custom-built desktop PCs that look like they landed from another planet…or at least beamed in from 10 years in the future. The PC DIY community could well consider the history of this seminal trade show their origin story. The basis of these many, many builds is, of course, the humble PC case—but the models on show at Computex are, very often, anything but humble.
PCMag was on site to meet with PC vendors and industry executives up and down the spectrum. But one of our favorite side quests in Taipei is checking out all the new gear that PC builders will be lusting after, and scheming to build with, in the coming year. We could fill endless pages with the cool designs and the creative mods at the show, not to mention the masses of commodity gear that manufacturers are hawking and deal-making around on the fringes of the halls. But given we spent the better part of three days traversing the endless corridors and aisles of Taipei's Nangang Exhibition Center, we think we have a pretty good handle on what's new…and what rocks. These were the 10 PC cases that caught our eyes, and kept them the longest.
The O11 Vision was the winner of our overall “best in show” for PC cases. We see a lot of PC cases at Computex, and we've seen plenty of winners from Lian Li over the years. But none has been more eye-catching or jaw-dropping than the Vision, with three tempered-glass windows that all join together seamlessly to create a cool "glass box" effect. This gives you a large section that lets you see straight through into the case and all of the components mounted in it. Plus, the top glass is mirrored on the inside, but transparent viewed through the top, creating
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