Computex is once again upon us, and, as is the norm, we have already seen some pretty sweet cases this year. However, darkFlash and its Floatron F1 ATX case is among the most confusing to me, as I think it's sort of ugly but also sort of neat.
The Floatron F1 ATX that our Jacob got to see on the show floor has a largely grey body, with accents and highlights which are white, black, orange and red. It is loaded with buttons, although I'm not too sure how many of them are ornamental. The top right of the case comes with both a dial and a big orange cylinder that reminds me of an alarm light. It's the kind of thing I could imagine buzzing and whirring, with steam shooting out of the side, and that's a testament to its unusual design.
The Floatron F1 ATX case is pretty weird even when not customised. All the variants come with a "floating base", with a mini shelf at the bottom (so you can display your anime figurines or model cars). This means the bottom sort of looks like a pillar, followed by a chunk taken out of the PC, and then the rest sits 'floating' above it.
The shelf does come with ARGB light strips, though, so it could look pretty sweet in the right environment. You will likely want to situate it on your desk, as the buttons are at the very bottom of the tower. Unfortunately, it's hard to know how that shelf would look on a traditional gaming desk, as the image on the site appears to be AI-generated (based on the 'REFORLE OF GAMERS' written on the GPU)
The case allows you to mount your graphics cards both vertically and horizontally, and also offers support for up to 10 fans plus an up to 360 mm AIO. It can also fit a GPU up to 415 mm. We don't yet have a price point or release date, though the M-ATX version fetches around $120 at Newegg.
darkFlash has a few neat cases at this year's show. We saw some sweet F1 ATX and F1 M-ATX custom builds, as well as the suspiciously bin-shaped W1 case, and we even got our eyes on its Hello Kitty-themed D2950V PC case.
These are only a few of the interesting cases I've spotted among Computex attendees today alone. Corsair has just announced the Warthog, which is a military-themed PC case with flight control-like buttons that looks like it was ripped straight out of Halo.
And with the week only just starting, we can expect even more PC cases soon. The memory crisis might be in full swing, sucking out some of the joy of new PCs and handhelds, but PC cases will always be a little fun, even if the gear to go in them feels increasingly less so.
