Cooler Master Presents New Brand Focusing on Pro Gaming

[sswilson]

Originally Posted by Alwaysrun

Case in point SKYMTL. $250 for a $20 Nic card and most professional gamers don't play ranked cash prize matches online, its over a closed network and often they travel 1,000 of miles and have their computers supplied by the sponsors at the event. The only thing I ever brought with me was my worn out mouse and broken headset which my cat chewed off the ear spongies. Then again I never played against Koreans at SC with the ability to click 26.2 clicks per second. Maybe for that one thing I'd want a "designed for gamers" approved part. lol

But back on point. WTH does a case have to do with gaming performance. shesh

Good cooling could have a huge effect on the ability to overclock your vid card, but again, that's more "enthusiast" than it is "gamer".

[Alwaysrun]

Haha don't try reaching so far sswilson you'll dislocate your shoulder. Cooler Master's advertising team is already filled an entire hospital ward of spaghetti armed victims with their latest advertising. But I do see your underlying point and I jest in fun.

[Thund3rball]

At least Coolermaster believes PC gaming is worth pumping lots of marketing dollars into. Not that I'd buy that case lol.

[sswilson]

Originally Posted by Alwaysrun

Haha don't try reaching so far sswilson you'll dislocate your shoulder. Cooler Master's advertising team is already filled an entire hospital ward of spaghetti armed victims with their latest advertising. But I do see your underlying point and I jest in fun.

Heh.... I don't think it's that big of a stretch..... the $250 nic card on the other hand.....

[chrisk]

I agree with sswilson's point on the enthusiast market. If that case enaberif linked to has excellent cooling and solid wire management I will take a look at it as long that I don't have to pay for the 'gaming' promo that goes along with it. The fact that it has leds and such does not appeal to me, but I do appreciate the ability to turn off the leds.

On the notion of cooling, this entire case is meshed...not counting dust issues which I can deal with, will the cooling be much better? I always thought that proper airflow was the most important part of case cooling, and would the mesh actually impact proper airflow? Just wondering

[miggs78]

Originally Posted by sswilson

Not really through the enthusiast market though. They sold those mainly through strong computer magazine advertising.

It looks great (considered one myself when they first came out) but a quick search through any of the enthusiast websites will garner full pages of comments like "it looks great, but OMG the wire management sucks......" :)

Leaving the marketing hype aside though, it looks like coolermaster is one of the companies who are willing to listen to constructive critisism. A quick look at the evolution of the cosmos series and the more bargain minded HAF seems to indicate that they are trying to incorporate the things enthusiasts are asking for.

I have to agree with Steve for what he has to say for CM. They DO care for enthusiasts. Starting from the CM Stacker series, man o man, did they build it on it, now to the HAF 932, honestly they might be very minimal flaws to it, it's a very well built case, why because they looked back on their previous chassis to where to messed up the designs, and had a look at comments from different customers.

[bojangles]

That looks extremely massive for a LAN case...I don't think I'd ever buy that to haul around for LANs. I'm actually considering selling my P182 for a smaller case, since I don't need all the features it has, yet I do have some hardware that gets fairly hot. I think the minimalist approach with some lighting (what gamers want, I guess, not me), and a cooling solution like the 900 or HAF is where it's at. All this hype is killing me.

My general rule of thumb that I go by is KISS. I'm sure all of you know what that means...

[chrisk]

Originally Posted by bojangles

My general rule of thumb that I go by is KISS. I'm sure all of you know what that means...

In NF it means Keep Ingesting Strong Shooters

[bojangles]

Originally Posted by chriskwarren

In NF it means Keep Ingesting Strong Shooters

Haha well then I guess I would never belong in NF because I'm a very light drinker...

[chrisk]

You would be surprised what the extra oxygen in the air being at sea level will do for your drinking abilities....