We continue our search for the best combination of quality, finish and features with three more cases. Do any meet our Elite criterion?
We can’t remember the last time we’ve issued an “Elite” award to a case, and there are reasons for that. Elite means “best”. An Elite case should have the best features, the best performance, the best build quality, and the best materials. Yet every single case we had recently tested had been nothing more than a bundle of compromises. Looking to avoid those issues, we began our search by setting an around £150 price baseline, and expected everyone to deliver something that was both costlier and worth the extra cost. Some companies still managed to shove mid-market parts into our roundup, as if anyone wanted to pay more than £150 for a mid-market product.
We trudged on into Part 2, and found two examples of the upper limits of mainstream product. The mainstream’s “raged edge” if you will. And while those two examples might have been worth more than £150, any level of mainstream isn’t going to live up to our “Elite” expectations. Today we take our third swing at this beyond-value curveball: Do Elite cases even exist, or will we strike out of this game?
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Mountain Mods produces custom cases, and the supplied configuration includes half-windows that are only available using its flash configurator. The price shown includes an assembly fee, which advanced users won’t likely need. The case we received can be configured as a double-wide tower or a double-high desktop, as shown.
Zalman’s H1 is facing limited distribution in the United States. After it disappeared from that site, we re-confirmed price consistency at European venders.
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- Zalman H1
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- Building With The H1
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My current full tower is a Kandalf LCD and those wheels would get crushes as soon as you catch a bump anywhere (like in between doors). That cube has even more potential to get heavy stuff in, so Id be really afraid of breaking them.
Seems to have a decent selection of 'elite features'...
The Silverstone TJ07 is an elite case. It is still the benchmark of the ultimate thing of beauty, adaptability and modders canvas, even given its advanced age.