Comdex 2002 - New Meaning To The 'Cold Show'

Enermax & Lian Li

We spent two days browsing the Enermax/Max Point booth while at Comdex. Like ThermalTake, Enermax had a fairly large booth with a wide assortment of different aftermarket products. The product that seemed to impress the audience the most was their new case, the CS-5190AL. In direct Lian Li fashion, this case comes in all aluminum with an acrylic bezel, but slants the top portion of the face inward. Also provided is an LCD readout of case and CPU temperature. We will be reviewing one of these cases in the next few weeks, so time will tell if this new, unusual looking case can compete with what else is on the market.

We were able to take a quick look at some of their other new products, which include 120mm LED fans, LCD controls (similar to the Vantec Nexus), and half a dozen new power supplies.

Lian Li’s booth was situated directly across from Cooler Master, so the tension between the two aluminum giants was definitely intense. Lian Li took the time to show us their new products, including two new small form factor cases. The case in the center, the PC-9300 has already been available for a while, and we will be posting a review of it soon.

Lian Li also showed us two huge aluminum cases which they did not have specifications for. Both of these giants have the trademark Lian Li carbon fiber along the external corners. From our observations, it looked like the larger of these two cases was significantly bigger than that of a Chenming tower. Hopefully, we will be able to obtain a sample of these two behemoths in upcoming months.