That list changed significantly year to year back then. Now it's Phanteks who brings a case of the year award home from Computex (since 2013) almost every year and others that seem to come out with a great design every now and then.
That list not changed but accepted rather poorly influence by a new Asian clan of makers, which them promote eye-candy PC for display at the living room of the rich ones.
The idea of PC computing this is you to get able to use the CPU cycles in a productive way this helping you back at financial, or education, or social or in all sectors together.
The verification of well AIR cooled PC this can last few weeks up to few months, but at some people this become a permanent illness.
PC this is sum of electronics components them working happily at 90 Celsius , capacitors they working happily at 105 Celsius, CPU this has thermal throttling at 70 Celsius.
Water-cooling this is an invention of stealing people money, as is the eight fans PC towers.
Nothing of all that fake PC case fanciness, will either help in gaming and at high scores, gaming performance this relying at the player skills and brain cells and quality of perception, at dealing with unexpected situations.
And this human performance has a peak the age of 45 years old and then degrades.
And at first person shooters, you own life experiences they do make the difference.
Its not a miracle that all those playing flying combat simulators they are all true combat pilots, from all over the world.
And no kid has a chance to compete with them, no matter of how many RGB fans and of latest VGA monster card he has purchage.
Best and wise path this is not following blindly any fashion but rather to leave outside of your head any influences coming from the industry of eye-candy PC, and to focus at making your own life better. Get better cloths, make a gift to a worthy friend, enjoy food with good friends instead.