In Win Mod Free Takes Case Modularity to the Nth Level

[btarunr]

Over the past decade, PC cases have grown increasingly compartmentalized, but rarely modular. A case could be partitioned horizontally, or vertically to accommodate the various purpose-built chambers, but why should you stick to a particular pre-set arrangement of the compartments? In Win has an answer to this question with Mod Free. This case can either be a tall full-tower, or a horizontal stack of compartments, depending on how you want it. You can reconfigure the case as many times are you like, to grow with your hardware upgrades. The detachable modules can even hold secondary ITX-based machines, entire DIY liquid-cooling setups, large arrays of storage devices, or dedicated to graphics cards. Reconfigure and reshape the case as you like.



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[Chaitanya]

Cooler Master had some modular cases(HAF stacker) few years back similar to this, quite impractical solution based on few cases like these that have existed before.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

All I want is in win to refresh their old BP 655 case so it has 2 expansion slots instead of 1.

 

[MDWiley]

Yesssssssss more modular cases! I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to find a case with all the compatibility you need, especially with custom loops

 

[bonehead123]

Frankencase anyone

And yes, other mfgr's have done this before, although I am not sure how successful they were with the concept...

But to me, this is nothing moar than just flipping a couple of framed boxen parts around to suit your build arrangements.... NOT really all that innovative IMHO....

 

[natr0n]

this is it in action... very excite

 

[Chrispy_]

These designs live or die depending on how good availability of the various modular parts is.

Great idea, but so often completely ruined by lack of available parts.

 

[trsttte]

These designs live or die depending on how good availability of the various modular parts is.

Great idea, but so often completely ruined by lack of available parts.

Or too expensive

I feel a concept like this needs a good online configurator, and they need the parts to be cheap enough to be worthwhile, like if a fully built out piece similar to an O11 Evo or something is more expensive than a regular O11 Evo it makes little sense, or if a basic configuration is more expensive than a regular popular case like a Corsair 4000D or an Nzxt again makes little sense.

Trying to sell the "upgrade path" is the usual strategy for these things but in my opinion it simply doesn't and won't work. Modularity and customizability is awesome but it needs to be price competitive otherwise what's the point

 

[micropage7]

if you ever playing lego, you will feel it's much easier

 

[Waldorf]

@trsttte
many dont put apriority on price/cost, if its exactly what they want.
while a lambo (or equivalent) costs multiple times more than a "normal" sports car,
its not multiple times faster (eg top speed), yet ppl buy them.

the same way my sony UHD tv wont have "3x the picture quality",
even that it costs 3x times more than most other brands, especially lower tier.

ignoring for a moment that with +7B ppl on the planet, there will be more than enough ppl that are interested,
the same way most girls want a pink bike, even if priced higher than other colors...

 

[trsttte]

@trsttte
many dont put apriority on price/cost, if its exactly what they want.
while a lambo (or equivalent) costs multiple times more than a "normal" sports car,
its not multiple times faster (eg top speed), yet ppl buy them.

the same way my sony UHD tv wont have "3x the picture quality",
even that it costs 3x times more than most other brands, especially lower tier.

ignoring for a moment that with +7B ppl on the planet, there will be more than enough ppl that are interested,
the same way most girls want a pink bike, even if priced higher than other colors...

We all know what happened with the likes of Case Labs and how every boutique niche manufacturer struggles to survive. There's obviously a lot of people that will pay whatever the price is but I don't see this surviving as a product class if it's limited to that.

I'd like to see this appeal to a mass market but InWin is known for some pretty outlandish and limited designs so what do I know, maybe it works for them.

 

[TechLurker]

We all know what happened with the likes of Case Labs and how every boutique niche manufacturer struggles to survive. There's obviously a lot of people that will pay whatever the price is but I don't see this surviving as a product class if it's limited to that.

I'd like to see this appeal to a mass market but InWin is known for some pretty outlandish and limited designs so what do I know, maybe it works for them.

For what it's worth, CaseLabs is tentatively back, although their original designs could do with a refresh allowing for a bit more modularity here and there.

On the other hand, Thermaltake has discontinued their modular P100/200 and W100/200 "modular" cases that could technically stack on each other (provided you had the right connection bits to theoretically stack two cases atop one another instead of just the pedestals on top and bottom of the core case).

 

[Totally]

The lazy in me would just buy the ITX modules and stack them as needed.

Cooler Master had some modular cases(HAF stacker) few years back similar to this, quite impractical solution based on few cases like these that have existed before.

The problem with the stacker was expensive for what the buyer getting, there were a lot of compromises, and it was a bit ugly. So not many, if any bought it.

 

[A Computer Guy]

Yesssssssss more modular cases! I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to find a case with all the compatibility you need, especially with custom loops

I still have dreams of making my own case design with T Slot Rails.

 

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

LTT's "Short Circuit" channel covered this yesterday.

 

[Marucins]

Yesssssssss more modular cases! I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to find a case with all the compatibility you need, especially with custom loops

True.
You want to do something more, add something else, and it turns out there is no room.