SilverStone’s beige PC tower case is blatant nostalgia bait, and I like it
My dad was a pc community engineer within the 90s. His job was to construct pc labs—that’s what they known as server rooms again then—and by extension he additionally constructed one in our eating room, so my home was stuffed with the hum and whirr of beige bins. Containers that regarded an entire lot like Silverstone’s latest throwback PC case, which PCWorld’s Adam Patrick Murray acquired to hug on the Computex present flooring.
The brand new FLP-02 design is much like the horizontal retro case SilverStone launched final yr, a former April Idiot’s joke made actual. However that one was for the 80s children, whereas this new beige tower is for these of us who know Kevin Conroy will at all times be the very best Batman. It’s a completely normal ATX case even when it seems prefer it fell out of a time machine, and it’s the primary one I’ve seen in a very long time that has actual 5.25-inch exterior drive bays. These fake floppy spacers don’t do something, however they positive promote the impact.
Simply beneath them is a customized 5.25-inch management panel. You get a bodily energy change, a lock (that works!), and a gen-you-ine “Turbo” button with LED show the place truly urgent that button will alter your fan velocity with the inner supervisor. Ending exterior touches embrace a magnetic cowl for the fashionable USB ports and a period-accurate “puffy” sticker for the SilverStone brand. On the within, you get just about every thing you’ll want to construct a full-sized gaming machine, together with assist for 360mm coolers, vertical-mounted GPUs, and all that jazz.
SilverStone says it’s going to carry this to market, however no particular date or worth introduced but. Adam says the worst-case state of affairs is about $220. For extra on the most recent PC {hardware} from Computex, you’ll want to subscribe to PCWorld on YouTube and take a look at The Full Nerd podcast.
