Tuesday, February 2nd 2021
AZZA Introduces CAST Mid-Tower ATX PC Case with Removable Outer Shell and Independent Frame
AZZA, a leading brand of computer cases and accessories, introduces the CAST ATX PC case that re-imagines the design of a traditional mid-tower. The CAST has a removable outer shell that gives full access to the interior for effortless installation. When fully built, the unique wing design can be completely extended, requiring zero tools to access the interior, or flexed for better airflow. The CAST can even be flipped to a 90-degree orientation.
The CAST design consists of an independent frame and an outer shell with two hinged panels that provides full access to the hardware for maintenance and cleaning, and an easy to latch on/off front panel. When building the system, the entire shell can be easily removed to prevent accidental damages. This also means the shell can be worked on independently for customization purposes.
Unique Wing Design for Easy Access
The unique shell features hinged top and bottom panels, creating wings that wrap around the frame to form the left side panel. In a closed position, the CAST offers a minimalistic look with a cutout window emphasizing the graphics card. When open, it provides access to the inside and also gives an open-air option for improved internal airflow, which can be further enhanced with an included AZZA Hurricane III 120 mm ARGB fan at the back, and optional cooling for 2x 240/ 3x 120 mm fans or up to a 280/360 radiator at the front.
90-Degree Orientation
Another advantage to the hinged panel is for the case to be turned 90 degrees, standing with the rear panel facing down, giving the CAST an entirely new look to display the hardware installed inside. With enough room at the rear panel and an opening on the right-side panel to run the cables, it is easy to achieve a clean setup while breaking the traditional tower position.
The MSRP of the CAST black or white is US $209.99. For more information, visit the product page.
The CAST design consists of an independent frame and an outer shell with two hinged panels that provides full access to the hardware for maintenance and cleaning, and an easy to latch on/off front panel. When building the system, the entire shell can be easily removed to prevent accidental damages. This also means the shell can be worked on independently for customization purposes.
The unique shell features hinged top and bottom panels, creating wings that wrap around the frame to form the left side panel. In a closed position, the CAST offers a minimalistic look with a cutout window emphasizing the graphics card. When open, it provides access to the inside and also gives an open-air option for improved internal airflow, which can be further enhanced with an included AZZA Hurricane III 120 mm ARGB fan at the back, and optional cooling for 2x 240/ 3x 120 mm fans or up to a 280/360 radiator at the front.
90-Degree Orientation
Another advantage to the hinged panel is for the case to be turned 90 degrees, standing with the rear panel facing down, giving the CAST an entirely new look to display the hardware installed inside. With enough room at the rear panel and an opening on the right-side panel to run the cables, it is easy to achieve a clean setup while breaking the traditional tower position.
29 Comments on AZZA Introduces CAST Mid-Tower ATX PC Case with Removable Outer Shell and Independent Frame
Its an ALU box with a hole in it. Let's just be honest here - it won't help airflow thus kills efficiency of fans doing work = not optimal. Server racks are optimal. And certainly, I won't buy it - but I can still laugh at the utterly ridiculous things marketing figures out when they get these designs in front of them... and the absolutely silly defenses that get propped up to somehow make it sound true.
'Enthusiasts' are mostly hobbyists pissing away money. They're not smarter than the average guy spending 50 on a normal case that performs just as fine. They pay premium because they want to, not because its somehow sensible. Of course you can find arguments to get whatever product, but do you need to? If you love it, by all means, why would it have to provide optimal performance, and why would we delude ourselves into thinking it does? To tell others you made sense? That's literally copying the marketing oneliners and passing them off as truths - people buying and telling stories, nothing else.
That is probably the most admirable quality of the RGB fanatic crowd - at least they're somewhat honest about the basis for their appreciation of the things they buy, and to some extent bypass the often-elitist macho nonsense of "look how functional and rational and intelligent and [insert traditionally western masculine virtue] the thing I bought is (and please ignore how me saying this and showing this off is exactly the same as what I'm implicitly criticizing, as functionalist aesthetics is still aesthetics)". We experience the world through our senses first, and thus the threshold for surrounding ourselves with things that don't stimulate those senses in some positive way is - quite rationally, really! - very high. Different people value different aspects, but the amount of PC enthusiasts who actually don't care about these things (and is thus willing to surround themselves with things they find actively ugly or unpleasing) at all is very, very low.
I mean, even my own objections to open-frame, unfiltered cases above partly do this - while I'm pretty open that my desire for keeping my PC clean goes far beyond any functional value, I still mostly present it as a practical, functional argument rather than one of aesthetics and taste. Just goes to show how one gets caught up in particular ways of talking about things in particular contexts.