Last yr we reviewed exciting reckoner cases including the In Win Tòu, Silverstone Raven Z RVZ01, NZXT H440, Corsair Obsidian 450D and Xigmatek Nebula, all of which had designs that set them autonomously from most other cases.

Creating something so unique in such a flooded market is no like shooting fish in a barrel task and yet at that place were many examples last year. Lian Li'due south wall-mountable PC-O5S was practically a piece of art, being constructed from aluminum and a large tempered glass panel to bear witness off the hardware inside.

This case was of excellent build quality and pattern within and out. The PC-O5S'due south just downside was its asking cost of nigh $300, which is toward the upper cease of what most are willing to spend on a chassis, fifty-fifty if it'due south non a bad value.

If you lot honey the thought of a wall-mountable PC only don't want to spend more on your case than any other part, possibly Thermaltake'south latest cosmos is for you.

Priced at just $150, the new Thermaltake Core P5 seems affordable for what it is. Information technology's more than comparable to the Lian Li PC-O7S in terms of its size equally the PC-O7S measures 514 x 585mm and the Core P5 is 608 10 570mm. However, the Core P5 is twice every bit thick, which makes it more similar hanging a traditional reckoner instance on the wall.

Unlike Lian Li's wall-mountable range, the Core P5 is intended to exist used with custom liquid-cooling systems and its modular pattern affords the flexibility of building horizontal or vertical.

Unfortunately, a large part of cost cut has resulted in an acrylic window rather than ane of tempered glass. The example has also been constructed from steel rather than aluminum which has blown the weight out to 12.2kg (26.8lbs) empty, making the PC-O7S almost 20% lighter despite featuring a massive drinking glass panel.

The Core P5 is as well an open up-air chassis whereas the PC-O7S isn't. Lian Li had initially intended to make the PC-OxS series open up-air, but in the end decided confronting it and instead included grit filters and example fans. The Core P5 does feature a dust filter on the rear side which seems a little pointless to us, in that location are no fans included out of the box.

Therefore, we won't exist testing the Cadre P5 how we normally examination computer cases and instead volition exist installing a custom Thermaltake liquid-cooling system to accept full advantage of the Core P5'due south unique design.