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Old 01-12-09   #1 (permalink)
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UK Price (as reviewed): £120 MSRP (inc. VAT)
US Price (as reviewed): $180 MSRP (ex. Tax)

Cooler Master had an excellent 2008 by all accounts, tweaking modders favourite: the Cosmos, to produce the Cosmos S. Later it followed up with the excellent (but slightly flawed and very ugly) HAF 932, finally capping the year with the release of our Case of the Year 2008, the superb ATCS 840.

It’s certainly refreshing to see so many new and for the most part high quality chassis from a single manufacturer, especially when other companies opted to simply tweak existing designs rather than risk producing entirely new products.

It doesn’t look like Cooler Master has any intention of stopping this trend of new releases either, with today’s chassis, the Sniper, set to be the first in Cooler Master’s ongoing “CM:Storm” range and a smaller version of the ATCS 840 also on the way.

With the CM:Storm range aimed squarely at the lucrative “PC gamer” market, Cooler Master has gone to a lot of trouble to include some unique features to elevate it above the competition, working in co-operation with professional gaming teams to include the features they’d find the most beneficial. There certainly seem to have been some interesting additions that we’ve not seen before, so let’s take a closer look.
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Thanks for the review. WOW at those CPU and GPU temps, the HAF has every single case in that list beaten pretty badly, considering the cheaper price and cooler hardware with the HAF i would pick it instead of the sniper.

EDIT: looked at idle but the HAF had the sniper beaten still.
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Ugly and *** 180 bucks. A HAF is waht 160 and it's a better, larger case
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Why do they say the HAF is very ugly? I think its an awesome looking case.
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... and a smaller version of the ATCS 840 also on the way.
Sounds like my brother and a few friends may have a new interesting choice...

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wow, its test results are fail
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Look at the Delta CPU temp... It did just as good as the HAF, how is it fail?
The delta is like what the same as the HAF (high speed one)...

Only the GPU temp is fail....

The sniper appears to be a bit smaller and holy more portable then the HAF, so in this respect, it did pretty good. I would like to see them test it with the top fan as an intact, that to me would seem to make more sense then as an exhaust.
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Pity it's so ugly...
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man that's an ugly case, rather get a HAF then this

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A smaller acts 840? That would be really nice.
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