Modded cases galore at Cooler Master

Author: Brett Thomas
Published: 10th January 2007
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Modded cases galore at Cooler Master

The Battlefield case is decked out in desert camo.

We spent a minute with part of the team at CoolerMaster on Tuesday to take a look at what the company is introducing for the beginning of 2007. The answer is "not much," but what is new is pretty cool.

The company is largely looking forward to the continued success of its "Stacker" line, but that doesn't mean it's just resting. New in '07 is an 850W PSU designed for high power SLI rigs, a media centre case, and a couple slick modified Stackers. There are also a couple new coolers - a huge dual 120mm heatpipe solution and a slight revamp of the AquaGate line of water cooling kits.

The dual-120mm CPU heatsink is incredibly weird, but apart from the massive size of the dual heatpipe (to the point of questionable fit and usefulness), there's not much revolutionary.

The media case fares a bit better with us. It's very roomy, and the bays can be rotated so that it can be in a multitude of configurations as either a desktop or tower. It also sports an optional media bay featuring a 2-line LCD and a MCE-compatible IR receiver (and included remote). We can expect pricing of roughly $100 USD for the base model and an extra $60 for the MCE piece.

The real show stoppers of the line-up are the two new limited edition Stacker looks. The one is a diamond-plate and airbrushed 830 that looks pretty sweet. It will also cost a pretty penny at $899 USD. Second is a Mystique with a nice airbrush job which comes in at $599. Bonkers!

For us, the best case on show was a green beauty decked out exclusively for (and available exclusively at) NVIDIA. Price for this model is unknown at the moment, as is the available stock of either edition. But heck, it's a slick little case.

Also on display at CM was a 'Battlefield' styled mod. Whilst not quite up to the standard of bit-tech's Mod of the Year contestant Butterkneter, it's not a bad hack job.

What do you think? Let us know over in the forums.


Airbrushed Mystique.


Metallic stacker mod.


Battlefield iTower mod.


NVIDIA case.


Dual 120mm heatpipe CPU cooler and media centre case.
Quote DougEdey 10th January 2007, 16:02
That coolermaster case is fugly IMO
Quote PA!N 10th January 2007, 16:05
I love the look of that airbrushed mystique and that nvidia themed stacker is pretty cool, too.
Quote Snafu-X- 10th January 2007, 16:07
Uhh, which one? There are 5 different cases there. The only one that gets my attention is the mystique, that's a really fantastic paintjob. The nvidia box looks lame, and the military equipment theme is officially a dead horse. The diamond plate and skulls looks like something you'd expect from a crappy pre mod company, and is the desktop case modded at all?
Quote Mankz 10th January 2007, 16:13
gotta love the dual 120mm fan goodness of the Coolermaster Fujin...
Quote DXR_13KE 10th January 2007, 23:23
the cooler is huge. the mystique is pimp, the stacker with the skulls is nice, the battlefield tower is kind of sucky, the nvidia case is...... it could be better, the heat pipe cooler is huge and the MC case..... is just another MC case.
Quote sui_winbolo 16th January 2007, 22:16
The Nvidia Stacker is just a premod, that's why there isn't much done with it.
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