Antec’s Torque is an open-air, transformer-like ATX case

If you like your lines angular, your frames far from uniform, and your components to be open to the air, Antec’s Torque chassis will be right up your street. The new design looks like a transformer caught mid-way through switching into a car, but promises to show off your system’s internal components like never before.

Made from 14-pieces of aluminum panels and a pair of ultra-clear tempered glass that’s 4mm thick, the case allows for easy airflow over your graphics card, CPU, memory, and PSU, giving you a striking case to look at and one that performs its functions well. Just be careful dropping it if you’re taking it to a LAN party, as it doesn’t look anywhere near as protective as more traditionally enclosed cases.

It ships with a single exhaust fan, but you’ll be able to upgrade that to as many as three 120mm fans in the front and three in the top. There’s space for a 360mm watercooling radiator in both spaces too, so whether you want to air or watercool your system, there are options.

Measurements for the case are 621 x 285 x 644 mm and it supports ATX, micro-ATX and mini-ITX boards, though those with larger EATX motherboards will need to look elsewhere.

There’s enough space to support a single 2.5-inch and single 3.5-inch drive, with seven expansion slots for additional drives if needed. The front panel, as per WCCFTech, has a single USB-C 3.1 port, as well as two USB-A 3.1 ports, and headphone and microphone jacks.

All of this does come at a price though. All of that aluminum, glass, and clever manufacturing means that the Torque will cost as much as $430 when it ships out in the next couple of months.