Case Transplants
LENGTH OF TIME: 2-3 HOURS
LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY: FRUSTRATING
THE CONCEPT
IF YOU HAVEN’T read our review of the Tomahawk ITX chassis just yet, you’re in for one hell of a treat. This thing is a seriously slick box. For its first consumer case (or one of two, I should say), Razer has really managed to hit the nail on the head. The design elements are there, the lighting is sophisticated and sleek, and the quality-of-life stuff is included too. For an ITX case (which have always been a notorious pain in the butt to deal with) it’s pretty damn good.
It’s not flawless—there’s some minor missteps here and there that need addressing in iteration 2.0—but they’re just small frustrations rather than larger oversights, and things that you can work around easily enough. Needless to say, if you like Razer’s products, and you’re after an ITX chassis, you’re going to love this.
So, the concept for this build, what is it? Well, this is actually going to be a transplant build. There’s no better way of testing and reviewing a chassis than living with it day to day. To give you a little insight into how we do things here at Maximum PC, we have two rigs that we use on a daily basis “in the office” (read: “home working”). One is a Windows machine, where we do the majority of our testing, gaming, benchmarking, and writing. The other is a company-issued MacBook, where we manage our content on the internal servers, and use our bespoke pagination software to make sure everyone on the team knows what state each page of the mag is in. That being the case, typically we have a Windows machine at work,
