Best case for the AmigaOne?

[Strangedisk]

Well, I've got my XE-800 on pre-order so now I want to buy a case with beauty and elegance so the outsides match the insides.

I am currently looking at www.extremeamiga.com and will probably order through them, so they can help me out with any Amiga specific issues, but I'm sure they'd order me a case from anywhere.  Any ideas?  For me the ideal case would be as much like the Amiga 3000's case as possible, except possibly black or silver.  Small is important, but I suppose there's a limit on how small it can be and still stuff an AmigaOne board in there.  Metal is good (plastic is bad).  Needs to fit motherboard, video card, harddrive, and optical drive, but I'm willing to for example go with a 2.5" harddrive for example, or a thin optical drive.

Any ideas? :-?  :-?  :-?

[Marky_D_Sahd]

Not an answer but a second question.  Can I build this board into a laptop?

[KapitanKlystron]

You could take a look at the Cooler Master ATC-600-VX2. It is expensive but nice looking. I saw it at www.newegg.com. My A1 Is going to go into an Antec 1080AMG case.  Failing that try www.directron.com as they have good selection of cases.

[legion]

http://www.colorcases.com

Good selection.  I'm not sure what I'm getting yet, but I know it will be aluminum with a plexiglass window for decals and case lights.  I'm also going with a Raidmax aluminum supply.

My project for this box is to make a flat, makeshift lava lamp behind the plexiglass.  If I can get it working the way I want, I'll post the directions.  :rtfm:

[Marky_D_Sahd]

@ Legion

re: Lava lamps:

OWCH! those things are HOT!  What do you plan to do about the heat!

[legion]

OWCH! those things are HOT!  What do you plan to do about the heat!

in a word:  convection.  Many of those cases have top vents or ports, so a clear plexiglass guide behind the lava fixture's heat source will direct it up towards the top of the case, then out.  

I'm also going to (try to) engineer a tube system to blow a directed stream of air directly onto the G4 chip so I can keep it pretty and not have to put a heat sink on it.  :-D

[AmigaMac]

here's a case for ya:

ATECHFLASH STK-6551G GREY-CLEAR MID CASE

[jumpship]

I wanna desktop case, just like all the big box Amiga's before!


Dabs.com (Viper ATX Desktop)


Scan.co.uk (Chieftec TE10 W Desktop Case)

The Chieftec one reminds me more of an Amiga desktop case. Maybe do a bit of spray painting on them give them a bit of colour!

[Ami603]

I`m are ready to go and buy one Black/server type tower with a nice sidewindow,A power supply without fan :roll: (they cost about 90Euro)and maybe some colour light,U/V probably :roflmao:  :flame:  :destroy:
And of course the better quality components to my ordered XE G4: Fast,huge and quiet HD, 512Mb of Registered RAM,Sb Live! with DS 4.1 if possible
and maybe Radeon 8500,(i have also Voodoo 5 5500 from my previous mediator system,so i`ll keep until supported hw come to public) :ranting:

[CodeSmith]

I've already ordered mine - a beige YY-0221 mini-cube.  Looks great, it's also got lots of internal space.



It should be arriving in a week or so (it's heavy and the motherboard's going to take a couple of weeks anyway, so I chose ground shipping).  I'm looking forward to seeing it close up  :-)

[Ami603]

@CodeSmith:

Sure!!! how you can think that those truck tower can be
named "Mini-cube" :-o :-o :-o.

Now you can flame me if i say that my idea of an
AmigaOne are a little more "sophisticated"
:flame::boohoo::destroy:

[Jose]

This topic keeps poping again and again.
I still think it would be smart if Eyetech came out with some AmigaOne case(s) that would make people recognize the thing as an Amiga.
With AMIGA on case, since they're targeting old Amiga users.

Take a look at the recommendations at Tweaktowns buyers guide.

[zErec]

Hi, have a look at this site:

.http://www.xoxide.com/modifiedcases.html

My favorite one is the Acryl Towercase for AONE




The best thing ->its really cheap (200$)
in comparsion with the originally announced NAYA
Towercase Design "Christo" for about 600 Euro.
For me it is to much money anyway. I´m going to build
my own Acryl Tower

[The_Editor]

Yeah.. But...


I hope you live in a completely dust free environment !!

I was gonna buy one of those but ..........................

The amount of shyte that builds up in my present tower was enough to put me off a completely see through case ...

I bought the Xaser 5000 with a window in the side.