Many brands tend to have one out-of-this-world case design that has nothing to do with sensibility or affordability to show off design ideas with no or very few practical limitations in place. This certainly holds true for the Sharkoon Elite Shark CA700 with its massive box and nice unboxing experience to start and continues with the high part count and attention to detail.

While those are all traits of framed, open-air cases, the Sharkoon Elite Shark CA700 does strive for balance with a very good set of functionality and a useful building experience. The five ARGB fans on their own will cost you €50 if you were to buy them separately, and the PCIe ribbon is valued at around €30, conservatively speaking. All this adds functional value to your build. The fans are quiet and look good. However, the individual ARGB LEDs are a bit too visible at times. They also aid in cooling things down a bit even for an open-air frame chassis. Then there is that nice and long PCIe cable to still use the remaining slots of your motherboard without issue. Add that the Sharkoon Elite Shark CA700 can easily hold long PSUs, GPUs, and even up to two 360 mm radiators—one in the ceiling and one on the side—and you may think I am speaking about a classic, yet capable ATX tower case instead.

However, all of that doesn't make the Sharkoon Elite Shark CA700 a sensible case at its €400 price tag, but it is not meant to be. What it does allow you to do is stuff it full of costly, deserving high-end no-limits hardware, ideally with your own custom liquid cooling and lots of ARGB, thus giving you quite the menacing, sturdy, and sleek way to show it all off with the aim of being vastly different and unique first and foremost.