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By: Thomas Gribble - Published September 12, 2006 at 1:15 PM EDT - Writer Archive
The Force from Vigor Gaming is a big heavy case that is very easy to use and designed for gamers. It sure looks cool, but is it really.


Category: Cases/Enclosures
Manufacturer: Vigor Gaming
Product: Force
Gallery: Click Here
Price: $185.95

At Gotfrag Hardware, the vast majority of products we have reviewed have been from companies that you had more likely than not heard of before. Massive corporations like Intel, Microsoft and ASUS, as well as niche companies like SteelSeries and Razer. These companies have comprised the bulk of our reviews. Still, there have been several products under the microscope from relatively unknown companies such as CoolIT, AGEIA, and Wolf King. It is our pleasure to be adding another name to the short list of virtual unknowns, and that name is Vigor Gaming Computer.

Vigor Gaming Computer is a system integrator based in Fullerton, California; that provides a wide range of components and systems targeted at the hardcore gaming crowd. They work closely with a company called MACS Technology, Inc., a manufacturer of ultra-high-end PC enclosures and thermal cooling solutions.

It was by chance and good fortune that we met the guys from Vigor Gaming at the KODE5 USA Finals at the G4 studios in West Lost Angeles. They had supplied the four massively powerful Quake 4 tournament machines, which we were infatuated with. Surely the most impressive thing we noticed about these PCs was the sub-ambient CPU temperature that seemed to be attained on air cooling. Beyond that, there were some very cool-looking, unique chassis housing two of the machines. These were aggressively styled and performance tuned parts that we knew we had to take a closer look at. Today, we will be reviewing the Vigor Force™ Screw-Less Gaming Case.

Force
The Vigor Force™ Screw-Less Gaming Case is an enormous super tower PC enclosure that offers an unusually high degree of ventilation, lots of landscape that aids in cable management, and an overall aggressive look that complements the hardcore gaming scene. Here are the specifications and features of the case, as listed on the Vigor Gaming website.


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i don't like it...too expensive, and unattractive
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looks good but the price is a little steep :|
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Great grammar on the article.
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For $185 id buy a liah li. 8.3 still seems a little high to me considering the price and most people on this site lan. But i didn't read the whole article either only the pros and cons so i may have missed something
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Well, I have a system from Vigor and I can tell you that it is a good case, as long as you won,t move it around. It is very durable and the ventilation is great for overclocker. I also have their Monsoon II TEC cooler and they work great together. All I can say is that it is a quality product and it definitely worth every penny I paid for.

This comment was edited at 09/13/2006 3:29 AM
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cooler ... $185.95!!! god!
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Nice case, but my lian li + CoolIT is better :)
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Looks like a modded stacker.
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looks okay, but the price is pretty high for the average gamer(with that i mean hardcore gamer that hasnt got much money), newest coolermaster (534) would get you pretty far into the good direction too.

Other than that, if i needed a case, id buy this one
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its nice looking
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pretty hott
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190$ wow.. not good for ppl who lan cuz this thing is heavy

This comment was edited at 09/14/2006 5:19 PM
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very sexy case
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I do believe on Page 7 it should be enthalpy, not entropy? Entropy describes chaos or disorder in both chemistry and physics. Generally, enthalpy impies heat, not entropy...
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how do you justify paying that much for a case that weighs a million pounds and has annoying blinking fan leds
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#14, sorry, I was tired ;]. The idea behind that was the air flow through the case gets disturbed by obstructions around the fan. This would increase the entropy of the air flow would it not? Furthermore, would such a disturbed air flow not be less effective than steady, uniform flow?

I could definitely be wrong, but that was my logic.
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If you wish to talk about thermodynamics (air flow, etc.), entropy would measure the amount of energy in a system that can not do physical or mechanical work. In layman terms, it measures the amount of heat given off to the external surroundings due to the energy usage. Hahaha, well I guess that isn't really any easier to understand... but to keep things more simple, you still misused the term in context.

Your sentence says, "The three fans within the case keep air moving directly through the case, minimizing entropy and maximizing efficiency."

Increasing the airflow will not reduce the amount of heat given off. It will only transfer the heat more efficiently from inside the case to outside the case. The amount of heat or energy generated by the computer still remains the same.

Entropy is the measurement of this energy, which remains constant no matter how efficient your airflow is because it still gives off the same amount fo energy.
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Both terms are wrong for this context (enthalpy and entropy).
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Yeah, I guess I should have just said photosynthesis instead.

This comment was edited at 09/15/2006 5:54 PM
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Looks huge
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#18/19 Actually, enthalpy in context, would mean the heat content of a physical system, in this case the computer.
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Not bad looking.
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