Posted 07/16/08 at 08:24:20 PM by David Murphy

In Win can’t resist building gimmicks into its chassis. We first encountered the company’s design oddities with its F430 case (reviewed July 2008), which emits the superloud sound of a car engine when you hit the power button. The company’s B2 chassis isn’t quite as ostentatious—unless you think the motorized front panel that conceals the drive bays is over the top.

So what's to like (or hate) about the B2? Find out after the jump.

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Posted 07/01/08 at 07:48:43 PM by David Murphy

Vroom. Vroom vroom. The unholy sound of this case will haunt you in your nightmares.

We don’t just want to give a 1 verdict to the person responsible for the power-on mechanism in this Ferrari-themed case. We want to strap him to a jet engine. Harsh words, but you too will be driven to undertake such bold action once you hear the ear-splitting rev of a car engine after you hit the F430’s power button. You can disable this “feature” by pulling the plug on the front panel, but hearing this noise even once is too much.

Fortunately, that's by far the worst thing about it. Hit the jump to discover a few things we did like.

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