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Pretty expensive looking

TAIWAN’S LIAN-LI has unveiled what appears to be its sexiest HTPC/Gaming Chassis to date with the Tyr X2000.

Apparently designed to allow its owners to get at their optical drives and hard drives from the side panels themselves, the Tyr X2000 is also built to look sleek, shiny and make minimal noise. Like the ideal girlfriend.

The six hot-swappable RAID SATA bays mean there’s also plenty of room to store films, with the company boasting capacity for “terabytes of multimedia”.

The enclosure doesn’t lack multimedia ports either, coming complete with four USB 2.0 ports, a Firewire (IEEE1394), an E-SATA, and a HD AC97 Audio port. The motherboard tray is purportedly removable and ‘holey’ to allow for CPU cooling.

With a Micro-ATX motherboard, enough space for no less than eight PCI cards, two 80 mm exhaust fans and water cooling, we’re beginning to understand why Lian Li didn’t include a price listing in the press release.