*EDIT* please read the update at the bottom!
My case and top hats arrived. Various qc all over the place but none of them look disastrous aside from the height of the PCIE slot for the GPU potentiallying being too high, but I won't be able to tell until I get a bigger GPU. HOWEVER, the milling on the small tophat where each side locks into place is off and can be tough to put together.
*Edit* PSA for those w/imperfect side panels for tophats.
If you have imperfections all along the ends of the long side panels that prevent tophats and such from lining up and coming together easily, don’t give up. Try multiple orientations like switching which side panel piece your putting into which front/back of the top hat. Then try tightening them at different amounts in different orders. I suggest that after the tophats kind of get a good fit, putting the tophats on the ghost without screwing them down. Then loosening and tightening until you get the right fit that is clean and solid. Everything on my build now as far as tophats, completely fits.
Not only that but for my medium top hat the factory shipped me
only HALF of a medium top hat. I have the long side panels for the top hat and no front or back side to connect them. Plus Patrick has been silent and the Slack is even more of a shit show than before. I'm really concerned with the integrity of Loque as business/company since they already started taking orders for second batch before even getting all the current cases out the door on top of all these issues being reported. In particular the PCIE height which is higher than advertised and now that I have my cases, needless high. They could have moved the cut outs down as well as the GPU mount down by a significant (as far as sff pc's go) amount and still have cards high enough for the fans to be behind the holes in the side panel..
Hopefully they're figuring everything out. Everything I said might wind up being alleviated with one post or email. (and I will update this post if that happens of course
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*UPDATE*
Okay. While I have voiced my concerns and issues, I’ve done Patrik and the LOUQE team a disservice. I forgot to talk about the good. Look, and I didn’t receive half of a top hat I ordered (more factory’s fault than there’s). My case isn’t perfect and after all this waiting I was extremely upset to know that’s the case. Overall, despite the imperfections, the case looks great and feels amazing. Period. I HAVE to commend them on that. I think the turmoil and the Slack channel freakouts made me react in away to this team that, they may not deserve from me specifically. The radio silence is annoying at the moment but they’re hopefully just assessing the situation. Ultimately they made me a solid product, and while it isn’t perfect, it’s pretty close. I apoligize if I made it seem like literally everything is going to hell. The delays are awful, yes, but eventually... once everyone gets their case, I think the majority will be happy. If you’re in for batch 2 or waiting for yours right now, I think you will be too more likely than not.
