What a chassis – the Lian Li memorial chassis, that is
Posted by Kathleen Maher on February 28th 2006 | Discuss
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Figure 1. Lian Li's memorial chassis. (Source: Lian Li) |
We recently stumbled across the Lian Li 20th anniversary memorial chassis and thought it was exactly how a Crossfire or SLI chassis should look, like a giant exhaust fan. Further investigation, however, revealed it also to be very cleverly designed, and strikingly interesting looking, as well as totally unique, cabinet (see Figure 1).
A little more investigation led us to Hardware Logic's page, where they took the cabinet and built a PC using it (Figure 2).
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Figure 2. Lian Li 20th anniversary memorial cabinet loaded and exposed. (Source: Hardwarelogic.com) |
You can see a rather complete report on this clever box at Hardware Logic's site (http://hardwarelogic.com/news/63/ARTICLE/1113/1/2006-02-23.html).
Well, naturally we suddenly needed one of these for our next bring-up,
so we went shopping for one and found it at Newegg (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811112213)
for—are you sitting down?—$299.99 (plus $25 shipping). That
seems a bit much, even for an objet d'art with a clever circular cooling
system. But someone's birthday is coming up, and who knows what the
birthday bunny might bring ... 
