What do you think of my "water cooling" case design?

[Mick64]

I wanted to mention again that your patience and wisdom in this project has been amazing. True, your sparkling eye for design has contributed greatly to the success and brilliance of your chassis—but making changes based on the input of potential (and educated) users is what makes this chassis, dare I say, epic.

Now I have my two cents to throw in. If you are indeed having your chassis manufactured (good for you—and us) then perhaps I can suggest that you offer a bare metal version. I’m not sure if you decided against steel, but I am sure than many of your potential customers, including me, all have different thoughts on color schemes.

If it’s aluminum, I would like to splash anodize it myself, and if its steel—well, then hundreds of power coat combinations await…

I’m sure there are a few people willing to pay the price (let’s be realistic, I have had custom cases built by Lian Li before—it’s going to be expensive) who would leave the chassis untouched, but I am willing to bet that those coughing up the serious cash for this amazing chassis are going to want to personalize it with a different paintjob (or metal surfacing) anyways…

Just something to think about that could lower the price of production and play to your market a lil’

Thank you again for your amazing work. Good luck, and I hope you turn a tidy profit. You deserve it—you listened to your target market.

NFC: one unpainted (read: cheaper) case might be good idea, but imho base model should be pre-powder-coated in some popular color (probably black), as another characteristic of this case is - finally one which you don't need to mod at all to fit lot of LC components in it. So part of buyers might be just that - ones not wanting to mod/paint/do something extra.

Thanks for your kind words NFC!

I think we will be going with aluminium, but steel may be an option. As for finish, I think this will probably be something you can stipulate when ordering. I can't promise anything, as I am not the manufacturer, but if it's bare metal you want, painted or powder coated, I'm sure some arrangement can be made....