MGE Titanium ATX Case

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Saturday, 26 February 2005

Page 1 of 8 I recently went looking for a new case to replace my custom-built plexiglass case that holds my gaming rig/home workstation. I wanted to find something that was unique & had all of the functionality I was looking for. I wasn't looking to join the ranks of those with Antec knockoffs or Lian-Li's. Don't get me wrong, here, though; my server at home's in an Antec case, & Lian-Li's are without a doubt some of the finest enclosures on the market. I just wanted something different. I mean, hey, I'm coming from a custom plexiglass, right? The MGE Titanium The reason's I needed to move on from my plexiglass case were twofold. The first issue was space: the placement of the hard drives in the case was such that the ATX connector was directly beneath them, with very little clearance, & there was only room enough to mount two 3.5" drives & two 5.25" bays. The second issue was that my Vantec rheobus had up & died on me, & all of my fans were then blowing on full speed, making a horrendous racket. The rheobus was obviously the straw that broke the camel's back, so I started looking for a new one. While looking for a rheobus, I began thinking that I'd like some more functionality in my next one. I needed a fan controller, sure, but I was also liking the idea of front panel audio, USB, & firewire connections & a temperature monitor. My search was leading me in the direction of such panels as the Aerocool CoolPanel, which currently retail for around fifty bucks. At this point, I thought to myself, why not just spend another $50 while I'm at it, & solve my space issues as well? Furthermore, panels with extra functionality such as the CoolPanel that also control more than three fans were few & far between. Looking for a case with more than three fan controllers, a temperature monitor, & front panel audio, USB, & firewire connectors all rolled into one package really narrows down the search quite a bit. I also had plenty of PSU's laying about, so I didn't need a case that came with one included. When I saw the MGE Titanium at Newegg, I knew I was sold right away. Interestingly enough, however, you won't find the Titanium case on MGE's website. Not only that, but they've got links to another website, XGBox.com, that includes photos of another case, manufactured by XG, that looks strikingly similar to the Titanium, but in black, & named the "Quantum." I looked around the web some, & discovered that there were plenty of reviews of the XG Quantum, but very few, (read: one) of the MGE Titanium. The Case with boxsimilarities between the two cases are way more than similarities. They're the exact same case in different colors. A quick email to MGE inquiring about the two cases, & the apparent lack of the Titanium on MGE's website fetched a reply from the marketing manager of MGE himself, Arthur Marquez. Arthur explained to me that the Titanium was the original design of the Quantum case, & that MGE had originally created the Titanium as an office-use case. Someone somewhere in MGE decided that this thing was obviously bad-ass enough to market to gamers, so they painted it black & called it the Quantum. Throw in the fact that XG, or Xtreme Gamer, is a subsidiary of MGE, & everything starts to fall into place. Not only that, but Arthur noted my attention to the lack of information regarding the Titanium on MGE's website, & now the XG Quantum's product page refers to it as both the Quantum and the Titanium. (The whole "lighter gamers" bit I don't quite get, but that's another story ;-) ) << Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next > End >>

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