It's just me in the office today. Normally that's fine. I don't mind the quiet, and I can be as messy as I like without Jacob tutting at me. Today is different. Today that comes with a healthy dose of fear. Fear because I have to lift the MSI Maestro 900R case up onto the test bench desk, and I don't think Paul, the oddball security guard way downstairs at the front desk, will hear me if I scream because my spine has snapped. It's a two person job and I'm very much a one-person team in PC Gamer towers today. I have managed to get it situated on the desk, but I can certainly feel it in my near fifty-year-old back muscles. *Spasm*. And when you need another human on hand every time you want to shift your gaming PC about, I think that says a lot about both this MSI case and who it's aimed at.

In short, I think you need to be someone who has their own staff.

That's partly a dig at its sheer scale—this thing is chomk with a capital CHOMK—but also at the fact only the very wealthy are going to consider this chassis a worthwhile casing for their gaming PC. This is a $700 (£800) PC case and that feels, on one hand, par for the course in these days of hyper-expensive everything, but also faintly anachronistic.

As always with the case reviewing process, I built a new PC inside it, and it only felt right to be doing so with high-end gear.

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