Whoa - you cannot be serious

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury) 04/11/2018 at 23:00 • Filed to: None

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I’ve got one of these cases sitting around in my dining room, and thought I’d check on the current market price. A couple of years ago when I got it the eBay ads were around $800-900, and I thought that was a little high. OK, mine isn’t in the original box and doesn’t include a bunch of Razer crap, but seriously - does anyone actually pay these kinds of prices for these cases? Maybe someone will trade a 980 Ti straight across for this thing...

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/11/2018 at 23:14

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Why stop at a 980Ti? If that’s actually what people are selling these for you should be able to get a 1080Ti for it.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 04/11/2018 at 23:32

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You are correct, but I don’t want to be greedy; I only spent $0.50 on the case, so I guess anything is technically a good return on investment, even a Snickers bar. If I do go for a 1080 Ti I’ll have to upgrade my OS, but I guess that’s a small price to pay for some kick-ass performance.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/11/2018 at 23:48

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Why in the world is that case so expensive

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 04/11/2018 at 23:59

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I haven’t a clue. It’s a nice piece, liquid cooled and all, and was part of a high-end gaming machine a decade ago. It’s very solid, huge and heavy, but it’s just a computer case.

Personally I like my computers to be as innocuous as possible, with no fancy lights or panels or gadgets. I don’t want to see or hear it, or really have to interact with it at all. Give me a good monitor or three, decent mouse and a solid keyboard and I’m happy.

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/12/2018 at 00:29

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To be fair, it has that late 2000s “professional” aesthetic mixed with the “gamer” look.

Probably doesn’t have modern amenities but damn does it look nice.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/12/2018 at 00:40

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The design of the case is why people like it. It is a ridiculous amount of overkill from the internal skunkworks of HP before they bought OMEN. It has historical significance while also being a pretty awesome case and it’s also a stunningly goodl ooking case without being over the top. It has a unique design and it pretty much hasn’t had a follow up in the years that followed. My advice would be to trade for a gaming PC, full stop. Or sell it for the ridiculous price people want to pay for it. don’t overinflate, but don’t undersell yourself either. You never know when something could happen to it and you end up with a worthless pile of scrap.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/12/2018 at 01:06

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That asking price is pure crack pipe

cbell04 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/12/2018 at 01:07

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The ultimate price check - Tales from the Blackbird

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > cbell04 04/12/2018 at 01:32

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Brilliant!

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 04/12/2018 at 01:35

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Hopefully I can find a smoker to take it off my hands. Where’s Rob Ford when you need him? (Dead, yes, but you know what I meant...)

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/12/2018 at 01:47

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Maybe Nibby would buy it from you. Does it run DOS?

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/12/2018 at 02:01

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DOS? You mean the dark place? We can do that. I think it might be too new for Nibby being only about a decade old. It might be worth a try, though. I could slap the guts of my kick-ass Windoze 98 box in there for the full retro crash-o-matic experience.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/12/2018 at 02:15

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Windows 3.1

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/12/2018 at 02:38

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That’s PTSD-inducing for me. Way back in the ‘90s, in my first IT job, I was the only one in the department that knew how to troubleshoot and repair 3.1. Torture, pure torture, month after agonizing month until we phased out those dinosaurs. NT 4.0 on EVERYTHING! Then I became the Novell and cc:Mail admin - kind of a lateral move, and equally archaic today...

cbell04 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/12/2018 at 08:41

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I was a novell guy too. Did you guys use Groupwise Heat for logging/tracking/asset management? I actually enjoyed it at the time.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > cbell04 04/12/2018 at 13:32

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We actually created our own tracking tool in Notes, the same software we used for project management. When I was at Hughes I worked in SGS (satellite ground systems), but the main project I worked on for a few years was a billing system for DirecTV Internaitonal (Galaxy Latin America and DirecTV Japan). Good times, great company. I miss that place.