What a chassis—the Lian Li memorial chassis, that is

Figure 1. Lian Li's memorial chassis. (Source: Lian Li)

We recently stumbled across the Lian Li 20th anniversary memorial chassis and thought it was exactly how a Crossfire or SLI chassis should look, like a giant exhaust fan. Further investigation, however, revealed it also to be very cleverly designed, and strikingly interesting looking, as well as totally unique, cabinet (see Figure 1).

A little more investigation led us to Hardware Logic's page, where they took the cabinet and built a PC using it (Figure 2).

Figure 2. Lian Li 20th anniversary memorial cabinet loaded and exposed. (Source: Hardwarelogic.com)

You can see a rather complete report on this clever box at Hardware Logic's site (http://hardwarelogic.com/news/63/ARTICLE/1113/1/2006-02-23.html).

Well, naturally we suddenly needed one of these for our next bring-up, so we went shopping for one and found it at Newegg (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811112213) for—are you sitting down?—$299.99 (plus $25 shipping). That seems a bit much, even for an objet d'art with a clever circular cooling system. But someone's birthday is coming up, and who knows what the birthday bunny might bring ...