Thursday, September 3rd 2015
Crono Labs Designs Case Transforming Monitors into Monster Gaming AIOs
Crono Labs is a new crowd-funded startup that's on a mission to turn monitors with VESA mounts into AIO-looking, gaming monstrosities. Their contraption is a lightweight micro-ATX chassis that mounts on to the back of your monitor over standard VESA mounts, and houses a micro-ATX or mini-ITX motherboard, a standard ATX PSU (with reasonable length restrictions), two each of 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch drive bays, and a 2-slot graphics card bay that's arranged along the plane of the motherboard, rather than perpendicular to it, using a PCIe riser. It has room for graphics cards as long as 10.5 inches (26.67 cm).
It comes with its own sturdy stand, so you needn't worry about a >10 lbs object (the case and your build) weighing in on your monitor's frail stand. The case is airy along its sides and is topped off with a groovy brushed-aluminium panel. Then there are nifty bits like the handle. Crono Labs is seeking as little as $2,000 to get build prototypes, on its Indiegogo campaign, it's already halfway through that goal, but your coins could help. Check them out here.
It comes with its own sturdy stand, so you needn't worry about a >10 lbs object (the case and your build) weighing in on your monitor's frail stand. The case is airy along its sides and is topped off with a groovy brushed-aluminium panel. Then there are nifty bits like the handle. Crono Labs is seeking as little as $2,000 to get build prototypes, on its Indiegogo campaign, it's already halfway through that goal, but your coins could help. Check them out here.
20 Comments on Crono Labs Designs Case Transforming Monitors into Monster Gaming AIOs
i spend most of my time on my computer with 6 fan at 100% (4 SP120/1 AF120/1 AF140)on my desk and not further than that box would be (oh well 7 fan and 2 pump ... i forgot the ram cooler, wait 9 ... if i count the Poseidon, tho they are silent... 10 if i count the PSU )
just noticed that the 100$ backer is enough to get one case ... not a bad price, depending the finished product quality
and i think maybe they could move their idea to small compact case than placing it behing monitor, what about the weight? with full size components you need a solid and wide monitor feet except you gonna see its easy to fall
it's the monitor that you attach to the case not the opposite ;)
still look heavy. donno about how much weight a monitor can hold.
I think my benq can hold alot but that would be limit to hold up all those big part.
i prefer little comp like lenovo tiny:
i mean, concept is good but physically hard to achieve.
if they can do it that would be nice! :toast:
Sure hope these come with a locking system, because if it can "easily" be carried off, Generally some A-Hole will do it.
@awesomesauce Re-read the post, the case has the stand built to it, which means you use the VESA mount on the screen to attach to the case, not the other way around. :toast:
On a serious note, that stand is way too small.
They definitely need to work on a *really* good support system as mentioned above...
i prefer old school way
I can see this with mATX motherboard and AMD Fury because they are not too big. But otherwise this mix between AIO and desktop case is not exactly practical if you are going to have a bigger motherboard and bigger/more components. In the end that stand has to support all the weight which can be very hard.
[INDENT]"It comes with its own sturdy stand, so you needn't worry about a >10 lbs object (the case and your build) weighing in on your monitor's frail stand."[/INDENT]
You attach your monitor to the case's stand, not the other way around.