InWin’s new luxury case goes on sale for over $7,100 — Infinite is an overly large and heavy case with an eye-watering price tag
Just-launched limited edition case already sold out in Europe, no word yet on U.S. availability.
InWin, known for its limited-edition artistic showcase PC chassis, just put its latest 11th-generation signature case, “Infinite.” InWin says this case uses a 180-degree curved glass, the first ever used on a desktop computer, that wraps around your components to deliver a unique viewing experience for your PC’s parts.
Aside from being a unique artistic expression, twisting the glass in opposite directions is a massive feat of engineering and craftsmanship. It required the company to go through multiple iterations, allowing InWin to go from a 75% failure rate to a 75% success rate when building a single piece of curved glass.
The curved glass is supported by a similarly curved gold and black aluminum shell. This anodized aluminum piece is sandblasted to deliver a brushed finish, with the I/O icons laser engraved directly on it, ensuring they will never fade. All these pieces stand on a sand-casted piece and hand-forged aluminum base, all connected to a motor that lets the case transform and reveal its internals.
Even though the case emphasizes form, it hasn’t forgotten its function. Its semi-open design and three large intake fans make cooling easier. The case can even accommodate 360 mm water cooling radiation up to 65mm thick. The case supports up to 25kg of parts, allowing you to install the heaviest, most powerful PC components with no issues.
Of course, given that the Infinite is a luxury case that comes at a premium, InWin made sure that it supports the latest technologies, like BTF motherboards with connections located at the back. It also has a magnetically attached back cover, making it easy to access its interior cables without having to fumble with tiny screws.
This isn’t the first InWin signature case that caught our eye, as its InWin Z-Tower was one of the coolest stuff we saw at Computex 2018. We even saw the Infinite prototype at Computex 2024 alongside a more vanilla PC case.
Since this case is marketed as an exclusive piece of kit, this will be pricey. The Infinite is already available on InWin’s Europe page for €6,776.00 or about $7,100. It’s currently marked as Sold Out, but you can click the Contact Us button on the page to contact the company for more details. Unfortunately, it’s not yet on the company’s U.S. site, so American enthusiasts with a lot of money would have to wait a bit longer to get this case (or they could fly to Europe on their private jet to get it when it finally gets back in stock).
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Jowi Morales is a tech enthusiast with years of experience working in the industry. He’s been writing with several tech publications since 2021, where he’s been interested in tech hardware and consumer electronics.
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FrozenGerbil A $7100 47-kg computer case, yet it can only hold a single 360 radiator. And if you use an AIO, the pump head is positioned in the WORST possible location high above the radiator, causing all air to be trapped inside the pump for terrible CPU cooling, extra pump noise, and premature pump failure LMFAOReply -
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Or look at it another way, who is going pay for one of these and, then just bung in an of-the-shelf AIO cooler?FrozenGerbil said:A $7100 47-kg computer case, yet it can only hold a single 360 radiator. And if you use an AIO, the pump head is positioned in the WORST possible location high above the radiator, causing all air to be trapped inside the pump for terrible CPU cooling, extra pump noise, and premature pump failure LMFAO -
FrozenGerbil Dementoss said:Or look at it another way, who is going pay for one of these and, then just bung in an of-the-shelf AIO cooler?
Actually, *PLENTY* of people have used AIOs and even air coolers inside a $1000 to $10K computer case.
It does not just have to be an AIO cooler that makes the absolute WORST layout terrible for water cooling! Go to their product page at:
https://www.in-win.com/en/gaming-chassis/infinite
Go ahead and tell me how a custom loop can be arranged inside that metal frame for optimum pump location relative to that single vertical 360 radiator. For extra credit, tell me how you would mod that case to add a 2nd 360/420 or 240/280 radiator for better cooling. Also notice that not a single one of InWin's marketing photos shows the fact that in actual use, you would have an ugly fountain of 4 to 12 USB, audio, and video cables coming out of the upward-facing rear I/O and GPU ports that are all 30 to 36 inches above the table, thus possibly needing extra-long video cables and USB extension cables. And then plugging cables into the front I/O ports that are also halfway up the case also results in more cable mess. It would have been very easy to design the layout with the rear I/O and GPU ports facing sideways at the rear or facing downward, but InWin has always been about exterior design and totally clueless with interior design and cable management.
Yes, it is possible to completely disassemble this case, make your own water-cooling brackets to position a pump down below that 360 radiator, and find a way to bung in a second radiator mount somewhere at the bottom of the black internal frame for a second bottom-mounted radiator. But a $7100 computer case is like a $1-million or $2-million Lamborghini. If you buy a $2-million Lamborghini Centenario, but then you realize that all its pipes and tubing are sticking up out of the engine and it lacks extra air intakes for better performance, you should not have to spend $2-million on the Lambo only to feel the necessity to disassemble the car, reposition the entire rear engine to hide an ugly clutter of tubing and wiring, and cut more air intakes into the metal and add more metal brackets to improve the Lambo's performance and usability.
My original comment still firmly stands: a $7100 47-kg computer case should already have ready-to-use options for a custom loop using 2 - not just 1 - 360 or 480 radiators. And the mobo tray should not be hoisted high up above the radiator position because even making a 1-rad custom loop would require modding to nestle the pump/reservoir down low into the bowels of that black internal frame to prevent pump burn-out and poor water cooling performance.
TLDR: Someone who spends $7100 on a computer case may or may not use an AIO, but they also should not be required to cut and bend metal to mod the case for better cooling and functionality. Like a $2-million Lambo, InWin's terribly misguided Infinite should be ready-to-use as-is. You can buy a case for less than $100 that offers dual radiator support, optimum placements of both radiators, and space for custom loops. -
halfcharlie This is a practically terrible, and also ugly case. Do better InWIn. For that price it should be so beautiful it takes the breath away, barely even looks like a computer case but more a work of sculptural art, and be completely practical with ahead of their time flagship innovative features, like concept vehicles.Reply -
FrozenGerbil subspruce said:This is not a case, this is modern art.
Naww, it is an overpriced train wreck. However, it may be of use for someone who mods the case to look like a beige winter boot wearing a snowshoe:
https://i0.wp.com/farm6.static.flickr.com/5201/5305174780_3a7e6faef9_z.jpg
Literally ANYTHING can be called "modern art" these days, including the famous ordinary real banana duct-taped to a wall at Art Basel Miami Beach by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan that he called "Comedian". Cattelan purchased the banana from a Miami grocery store for about 30 cents. Just like InWin touting their "Infinite" being limited edition and frequently calling it "ultra-rare" , Cattelan supposedly made 3 copies of 3 ordinary bananas duct-taped to a wall, the second of which was purchased by a China millionaire with money to waste for $6.2 million in November 2024, who then ate the banana at a publicity stunt press conference 9 days later. Really anything, from a badly design computer case to a duct-taped 30-cent banana, is "ultra-rare limited edition" if it has an outrageous price.
Like the quote that is often attributed to P.T. Barnum: "There's a sucker born every minute"