Anyone considered Producing Gaming cases?

N00bie · 23 Jul 2011 at 14:26

As said anyone ever thought about building cases and selling onto companies like OCUK ?

How hard could this be ? and i guess if you gave models away for review and it got a good write up you would be laughing.

Evoss · 23 Jul 2011 at 14:33

Yes, however, making profits you will have to go large scale and for that you need mass production machines or hire a factory to do so. Start up costs will be expensive.

joxang · 23 Jul 2011 at 14:46

LittleDevil (not sure if he has an account on here, probably not) makes his own cases and they're pretty popular. Designed for massive watercooling and phase-cooling + SR2 motherboards. He sells them via an eBay shop I think.

There's other small start-up companies on some of the other big forums that sell their own (very well made) cases through the forum community.

CivilDrone · 23 Jul 2011 at 19:22

Have nothing against people making amazing quality cases for someone/sale. Time, effort, energy that goes into it, is just not worth it i recon, unless its priced in some silly way that only people who buy 6990's can afford it. Having said that, one of the projects where case been custom built outa metal is amazing, and i want one

Wepohn · 24 Jul 2011 at 16:03

Little Devil cases are cool and all but I think I prefer the Case Labs case.

Marvin · 25 Jul 2011 at 02:58

I think Evoss hit the nail on the head - you won't be able to compete with the big manufacturers, though will still need access to decent tools - a machine shop really. Then the case will have to fit a niche - like the LittleDevil cases (one of the only cases designed from the outset for phase change cooling) - and the niche has to have been avoided by the larger manufacturers.

Basically, this leaves two major options at each end of the scale (literally). Very small powerhouse cases, and at the other end, water/extreme cooling ready cases. Another start up manufacturer that's hit into the small end is Lan Gear, whose cases offer a very focussed set of features (large coolers, GPUs, small case, not much room for WC, or HDDs) that will appeal to a group small enough that the major manufacturers aren't interested/worried about that market.