Hi all,

We have just published an early look at *Cooler Master's Sniper chassis*
- if you could post a link on your site that would be very much appreciated.

*Link:*
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/08/29/early-look-cooler-master-sniper/1


*Picture:*
http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/08/early-look-cooler-master-sniper/fp_img.jpg


*Quote:
*/"Cooler Master popped into the bit-tech offices the other day and was
keen to let us in on its new brand - *Cooler Master Storm.* Cooler
Master explained it was diversifying - no longer can you make one case
series to suit all, and in that regard //Storm will become its brand
with a focus on features for gamers.

So is this another company jumping on the "gamer" bandwagon then? Hmm,
to some degree, yes, but it's more of a long consultation and careful
consideration rather than knee jerk reaction - the product developers
told us that the first three cases that will launch this coming winter
(likely December) could have been launched three times already. It seems
odd that more many case manufacturers are just now designing "gaming"
cases, especially as Antec and Thermaltake have come to dominate this
market segment in the past two years.

Cooler Master are hoping this isn't the case though (sorry, bad pun),
and it has done yet another tour of Europe in order to get more opinions
about the design and feature set to get it right from the outset - it's
taking the Storm brand very seriously. The hint was that we'll likely
see PSUs and all number of Cooler Master products under the / /Storm
brand, although if they'll all be specifically tailered to work together
in style/design or hardware features, we're not yet sure.

The / /Sniper case brought in was *very early sample* built around the
Cosmos chassis, although the features built into it are Storm-grade.
This case is the *smallest*
/that will be available, with two others increasing in height that'll
rival somewhere in the region of the Lian Li X2000, apparently. To
counterbalance the loss of stability, Cooler Master said the tallest
will also have a fatter bottom too, although we find it hard to imagine
what this will look like."*
*Cheers guys!

Tim Smalley
www.bit-tech.net