looking at the link, it is neither 9 kg or 40lb... kind of bizarre reporting it has to be said. It says 13.5kg or 30lb (us).

Dont mind the knobs Paul, hardware roundup 'wibble' has improved no end since Theos never ending power supply reviews.

If you check the review, the case itself is 13.5kg, add 3.5kg for a good PSU, and it's now pretty close to 40lbs. Load it up with a pair of drives, a pair of GPU's, and a big cooler for the CPU, it'll be getting close to 50lbs.

While that's certainly a big PC, it's nothing compared to the 25lb Compaq Portable 386 my dad was using 20 years ago. It's strange to me that for most of that time, the desire was for ever smaller portables, yet we now have a couple of "laptops" that weigh nearly as much as that old dinosaur.

... maybe thats the point. Try to write nonsense before you fall in love again.

*with everything installed, the case tipped the scales at just over 40 lbs*

Cheers

I got my Spire Pninfarina ONE YEAR AGO back in my *cof* third world country *cof*. And i even could chose which color i want: Blue, red or the silver one (which i got).

Glad to see my one-year-old case is still being reviewed as a new stylish product here in the civilized countries.

In fact, case does not only looks awesome, it is very sleek and clean to get all cabling mess organized and, to complement their review, i do not find it heavy. Do not try, however, to put a 14Kg monster under a thin glass surface.

my thermaltake armour weighed 16kg on delivery. load it with drives & fans it hits 20Kg easily.

admittedly, the armour I have is the rolled steel, not aluminium version.

I bought the black version of that case last year. No mention of the two negatives I ran into, so wonder if they fixed them.

1. front door post & hole hinge method. corner was squared so door would only open 2". I took a file to the squared corner and all was well.

2. usb/audio/firewire front panel poorly mounted. it's held in place with plastic clips and can be pushed into the case somewhat easily. some superglue fixed that one.

Cheer,
John

I hope you enjoyed your beer, because that Spire case doesn't weigh 40 pounds or just over 9 kilos.

Either you got the kilos wrong, or the pounds. I'm pretty sure you got the pounds wrong - haven't really seen any popular consumer cases weighing in past 20 kilos.

Try using 2.2 to convert kilos to pounds once you sober up. :)

Nothing personal - I love my beer too.