Lian Li PC-Q17WX

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One that really stands out, despite the stiff competition however is the PC-Q17WX, which began life as a Kickstarter project from RoG fans and engineers. It’s a design that breaks down very easily and is a much loved piece of kit for system builders. While many manufacturers competed to make the design, Lian Li won out by delivering it within six months, over a year before other case makers were ready to produce it.
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http://www.kitguru.net/components/cases/jon-martindale/heres-all-of-lian-lis-computex-cases/

Anyone know any details of this? First I've ever heard of it.

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http://www.cowcotland.com/news/47915/computex-2015-pc-q17-lian-li-asus-rog-boitier-mini-itx.html

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/45636/make-yourself-complete-asus-rog-themed-custom-build/index.html

Seems like the general layout is based on the M1.
 
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This seems like a horrible scientific experiment that's gone wrong on an Ncase M1.
#pass
 
I don't know, it's basically an M1 without the ability to mount fans on the side and greater height to fit more ATX PSUs. I guess having the PSU intake from the front is a nice idea, but I don't see the particular appeal of this case, except for maybe the shroud to hide the PSU and the window.

But hey, it's still a rather small tower style case, I hope it opens up the market for SFF a bit more. I think at this point, I'm happy about anything that really is SFF, so under 20L of volume, and not some sick joke like the prodigy or the Core V1.
 
Well, this is new to me. We had nothing to do with it, unlike what PCGamer implies, or the "Kickstarter project from ROG fans" (is there another one I'm not aware of?). There are some obvious similarities to the M1, of course, but no one ever consulted with us about it.

Personally I think it looks like an incoherent knockoff, but I'm not going to cry about it. It's par for the course in this industry. I suppose it's nice that we've spurred some interest and development in the SFF niche, even if it is a bit me-too at times.
 
Necere said:
Well, this is new to me. We had nothing to do with it, unlike what PCGamer implies, or the "Kickstarter project from ROG fans" (is there another one I'm not aware of?). There are some obvious similarities to the M1, of course, but no one ever consulted with us about it.

Personally I think it looks like an incoherent knockoff, but I'm not going to cry about it. It's par for the course in this industry. I suppose it's nice that we've spurred some interest and development in the SFF niche, even if it is a bit me-too at times.
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Be happy that it's an incoherent knockoff, if somebody produced exactly like the M1 with the manufacturing techniques available to high-quantity manufacturing, you'd be having a bad time.

To be honest, if enough cases under 20L are made and shown, the interest of the consumer may go towards that, which is the most important thing IMHO.
 
It's a surprise that it took this long to even knock off the internal layout, with all the me-tooing going on in the case industry (e.g. the latest furore over Thermaltake's carbon copies) . The M1 started shipping a year and a half ago, and the design has been publicly visible long before then with Lian Li themselves having access to the actual production drawings.
 
'Everything is a copy of a copy'. They flipped the PSU orientation <wham!> totaly diferent case. Necere, its like in the first pages of M1 thread. You were trying to make a case 'similiar' to ITX FT03.
 
huguberhart said:
'Everything is a copy of a copy'. They flipped the PSU orientation <wham!> totaly diferent case. Necere, its like in the first pages of M1 thread. You were trying to make a case 'similiar' to ITX FT03.
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That's true. And actually, there are some significant differences in this design compared to the M1. It's clearly designed to support an external, top-mounted radiator, which isn't the kind of watercooling support most people are going to go for. It's mainly the size and some of the lesser elements that are similar to the M1 (e.g., top ODD slot, lower front I/O).

I'm not so much bothered by the M1 influences as I am by the insinuation that we had anything to do with it. Unless there's actually something to this story about a "Kickstarter project from RoG fans and engineers." But if there is, I haven't seen it. So it sure feels like they're trying to drum up some interest by implying (false) association with us.
 
Maybe you should let your legal department force some loyalties out of this, since they indeed seem to be leaning into Ncase's success story ;)
 
I thought the bit about the "RoG fans" (lol) kickstarter was a pretty shameless attempt to create an imaginary association with the M1 campaign, although I wonder if there was some other kickstarter campaign/contest they are referring to due to this line in the kitguru article: "While many manufacturers competed to make the design, Lian Li won out by delivering it within six months, over a year before other case makers were ready to produce it."
 
illram said:
"While many manufacturers competed to make the design, Lian Li won out by delivering it within six months, over a year before other case makers were ready to produce it."
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A reality TV show about manufacturers competing to make cases would be nice.
 
cowsgomoo said:
A reality TV show about manufacturers competing to make cases would be nice.
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And a guy saying: "it looks amazing, but it's a piece of garbage inside. Please leave." BOOM !

That guy should be Jony Ive, he has that typical dead stare that these show-stars need.
 
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