Car Wheel Computer Case Review: Barrow Speed from AliExpress
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Date: 2020-05-06
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Comments and reviews: 10
Joseph
Five hundred and sixty dollars for a cheap Chinese car wheel, a chunk of glass, and a chunk of sheet metal? That looks like an absolute nightmare to assemble and maintain/clean. I mean, if you're a car guy like me, I can see the appeal, but ultimately, it's just overpriced garbage. If I were to do it, I would've used all itx parts mounted to the back side of a fake brake rotor so it all faced the back side of the wheel. That way it would be more open to air flow and easier to clean/maintain, and from the front, it just looked like a wheel. Also, for 500, they should've used a power button that looks like a valve stem and put it in the valve stem hole.
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Five hundred and sixty dollars for a cheap Chinese car wheel, a chunk of glass, and a chunk of sheet metal? That looks like an absolute nightmare to assemble and maintain/clean. I mean, if you're a car guy like me, I can see the appeal, but ultimately, it's just overpriced garbage. If I were to do it, I would've used all itx parts mounted to the back side of a fake brake rotor so it all faced the back side of the wheel. That way it would be more open to air flow and easier to clean/maintain, and from the front, it just looked like a wheel. Also, for 500, they should've used a power button that looks like a valve stem and put it in the valve stem hole.
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Zimmerman
I don't remember the names of your staff, but I think that is Patrick working on the case. I felt bad for him watching him struggle with that case, knowing there was at least 1 other pair of hands nearby that could be helping him out. I'm sure he has plenty of experience working on cases and builds, and him struggling that much is clear proof to me that this case is one of the worst ideas ever put together. Add to that a 560 price tag. Then again, if you're an auto shop with money to spare, this case would be an amusing piece of eye candy for the customers to look at, as you ring up their bill. Wouldn't be much more useful than that.
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I don't remember the names of your staff, but I think that is Patrick working on the case. I felt bad for him watching him struggle with that case, knowing there was at least 1 other pair of hands nearby that could be helping him out. I'm sure he has plenty of experience working on cases and builds, and him struggling that much is clear proof to me that this case is one of the worst ideas ever put together. Add to that a 560 price tag. Then again, if you're an auto shop with money to spare, this case would be an amusing piece of eye candy for the customers to look at, as you ring up their bill. Wouldn't be much more useful than that.
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Melody
for builds like that, its best to use micro ATX or even ITX motherboards, any motherboard thats not full sized xD. ive made a few of those, and ive gotten perfect airflow with just fans. and the front of the wheels lug holes, i used actual lugnuts to hold in the acrylic. it takes about like 1 or 2 weeks to make one start to finish for me since i dont have some crazy good tools, but it does take a lot of effort to make one, and the best part is lowes and homedepot sell aluminum sheets you can use.
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for builds like that, its best to use micro ATX or even ITX motherboards, any motherboard thats not full sized xD. ive made a few of those, and ive gotten perfect airflow with just fans. and the front of the wheels lug holes, i used actual lugnuts to hold in the acrylic. it takes about like 1 or 2 weeks to make one start to finish for me since i dont have some crazy good tools, but it does take a lot of effort to make one, and the best part is lowes and homedepot sell aluminum sheets you can use.
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BewareOf
I like cars and computers; so I'm going to get it for my next build. Don't give a shit how awful it is to work with haha. Sucks that this case is almost as much as one of my Volk's though. Edit: I just realized that this wheel is a Vorsteiner VFF-107. Actually have this same wheel on my SRT6 lol. Makes me want it even more.
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I like cars and computers; so I'm going to get it for my next build. Don't give a shit how awful it is to work with haha. Sucks that this case is almost as much as one of my Volk's though. Edit: I just realized that this wheel is a Vorsteiner VFF-107. Actually have this same wheel on my SRT6 lol. Makes me want it even more.
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PERSPECKTiVE
Stick it in your spare tire bay and you got a gaming pc/htpc (imagine a movie with your system in your car)/cad workstation pc with horrible thermals built into your car! .just need to route all those usb extensions. Then we can control the lights of the car with aura sync or mystic light.
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Stick it in your spare tire bay and you got a gaming pc/htpc (imagine a movie with your system in your car)/cad workstation pc with horrible thermals built into your car! .just need to route all those usb extensions. Then we can control the lights of the car with aura sync or mystic light.
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Sam
I have those same wheels (Sparco Assetto Gara 17 ) on my car right now (but I have matte grey) and they are very nice indeed. Good choice OCN user. I'm curious as to what color Steve originally wanted to order that they were out of. Was there a pink wheel initially?
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I have those same wheels (Sparco Assetto Gara 17 ) on my car right now (but I have matte grey) and they are very nice indeed. Good choice OCN user. I'm curious as to what color Steve originally wanted to order that they were out of. Was there a pink wheel initially?
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whoopdeedoo
Building in this case must drive you crazy. Makes my head spin trying to imagine what they were thinking. Really grinds my gears when companies make something this gimmicky. Hopefully anyone case shopping rolls past this lemon.
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Building in this case must drive you crazy. Makes my head spin trying to imagine what they were thinking. Really grinds my gears when companies make something this gimmicky. Hopefully anyone case shopping rolls past this lemon.
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Warumato
Barrow's logic > Get a cooling-wise perfectly fine front cover straight from the car dealer > Slap a huge pane of glass right behind the grill so that you can fry an egg on the graphics card if you're lucky
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Barrow's logic > Get a cooling-wise perfectly fine front cover straight from the car dealer > Slap a huge pane of glass right behind the grill so that you can fry an egg on the graphics card if you're lucky
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Dalton
The car enthusiast in me really wants this wheel while the PC enthusiast in me is super disappointed Also, why not put the power button in the valve stem! Remove the glass and let those parts breath.
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The car enthusiast in me really wants this wheel while the PC enthusiast in me is super disappointed Also, why not put the power button in the valve stem! Remove the glass and let those parts breath.
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ian
I love cars, I really really love cars, but I would pass hard on this case. I don't need a wheel sitting on my desk. Now if they made an itx case out of a S500 turbo then I would be giving up my money
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I love cars, I really really love cars, but I would pass hard on this case. I don't need a wheel sitting on my desk. Now if they made an itx case out of a S500 turbo then I would be giving up my money
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