bit-tech News: Early Look: Cooler Master's Sniper chassis

news · August 29, 2008

Hi all,

We have just published an early look at *Cooler Master's Sniper chassis*

- if you could post a link on your site that would be very much appreciated.

*Link:*

*Picture:*

*Quote:

*/"Cooler Master popped into the bit-tech offices the other day and was

keen to let us in on its new brand - *Cooler Master Storm.* Cooler

Master explained it was diversifying - no longer can you make one case

series to suit all, and in that regard //Storm will become its brand

with a focus on features for gamers.

So is this another company jumping on the "gamer" bandwagon then? Hmm,

to some degree, yes, but it's more of a long consultation and careful

consideration rather than knee jerk reaction - the product developers

told us that the first three cases that will launch this coming winter

(likely December) could have been launched three times already. It seems

odd that more many case manufacturers are just now designing "gaming"

cases, especially as Antec and Thermaltake have come to dominate this

market segment in the past two years.

Cooler Master are hoping this isn't the case though (sorry, bad pun),

and it has done yet another tour of Europe in order to get more opinions

about the design and feature set to get it right from the outset - it's

taking the Storm brand very seriously. The hint was that we'll likely

see PSUs and all number of Cooler Master products under the / /Storm

brand, although if they'll all be specifically tailered to work together

in style/design or hardware features, we're not yet sure.

The / /Sniper case brought in was *very early sample* built around the

Cosmos chassis, although the features built into it are Storm-grade.

This case is the *smallest*

/that will be available, with two others increasing in height that'll

rival somewhere in the region of the Lian Li X2000, apparently. To

counterbalance the loss of stability, Cooler Master said the tallest

will also have a fatter bottom too, although we find it hard to imagine

what this will look like."*

*Cheers guys!

Tim Smalley

www.bit-tech.net

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