When you’ve been in a business of manufacturing computer chassis for as long as InWin has, 40 years to be exact, I imagine it’s difficult to shake the feeling that you’re deserving of an award to mark the occasion. That’s the only explanation I can reasonably think of for the creation of the ChronoMancy, an enormous trophy-like case that serves as a statement piece as much as it provides a PC with a home. Having seen it in the flesh during Computex 2025, I can easily describe it as one of the most impressive showings from the exhibition.
ChronoMancy demands your attention from its enormity alone. It’s more than meter tall and half as deep and wide, its cylindrical body standing atop five thick aluminium legs connected to a circular base. This is an exceptionally large chassis but one whose size doesn’t diminish its elegance.
Grey aluminium makes up the majority of materials here, but InWin creates some stark contrast via a large blue crown at the of the case. One side is also metal but the more-eye catching half is semi-transparent glass. As light passes through it from the internal components’ RGB LEDs, designs of cases from InWin’s past pop out in all their splendour.
In case this nod to its heritage wasn’t already obvious, you can find a classy golden ’40’ resting underneath one of the etchings. While I haven’t been building PCs for 40 years, let alone existed on this planet, it does make me nostalgic seeing representations of cases from yesteryear. Anyone else still miss the sound of a disk drive opening and closing?
Further adding to the extravagance of Chronomancy are its mechanical side panels. There are no clips or screws to fiddle with here to access any innards, as the sides of the case instead rotate around the chassis at the press of a button.
Opening up the case reveals that the power supply lives in the rear chamber, while the rest of the internals call the side of the semi-transparent glass home. Whoever built the demo unit I saw did an expert job at routing and manging cables, but I’m unsure how easily a I could replicate this despite my experience. Regardless, the finish is nothing short of epic.
To give you some idea of ChronoMancy’s scale, InWin vertically mounted an Asus ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card into this case and it still had ample room to breathe. Several large fans spread across the case bring air into the system, working with a water-cooled system to create airflow. Because, of course, being showy only matters if your components run as good as they look.
InWin hasn’t made a final decision on its commercial strategy for ChronoMancy, if it plans to have one at all. The PR representatives I spoke to discussed the possibility of selling it as a barebones kit, which seems the most sensible option to me. I know I’d rather have a Socket AM5 motherboard complete with a Ryzen 9 9950X3D in this case in place of the LGA1851 board that’s in this unit.
For those that haven’t clocked (pun intended) the meaning behind the choice of name for this case, Chronomancy literally means ‘time divination.’ It’s an impressive design that makes you reflect on cases past, as well as muse what may come after. Besides, it just looks plain awesome in a room that can accommodate it. I wonder if InWin is already drawing up plans for its 50th anniversary project. Time to source myself a DeLorean, get my Doc Brown on, and find out.
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