picking the top five gaming desktops at a show like CES is not an easy task
there are so many and the definition of desktop has become more and more Broad
in recent years but we're going to kick things off with the MSI 27xt all-in-one
what makes this one special is the fact that it is an all-in-one that features a
full-size graphics card mesh enclosure on the back of the unit that connects
via a ribbon cable to a normal PCI Express 16x slot there is no multi- card
support but when you compare this to something like a completely enclosed
non- upgradable all-in-one from the likes of someone like apple it is pretty
impressive especially for gamers and that's not the only feature that might
matter to Gamers the monitor that's included with it is a 144hz panel now it
is a TN panel but it's got a 5 millisecond response time and it will
definitely be an improvement for gaming over the type of panel you'd normally
find in an all in one storage is handled by an m.2 NVMe SSD 08 two of them in
raid zero and the processor is a COR i7
nonk 6700 it's got a USB type-c connector and
an SDXC card reader and starts at $1700 not including the graphics card
you'll have to swap that one in on your own next up we've actually got another
Allin one from cyber this is a division of cyber power PC although the cybers
are actually spelled differently this puppy is in a 34in 3440 by1 1440
ultrawide curved IPS monitor enclosure
it's full of desktop parts and this is cool there's nothing proprietary so it's
actually very customizable and it's
water cooled it's got an all-in-one liquid cooler from acitech for the CPU
that fits a 240 mm radiator and it can
also fit a custom Loop if you want something a little bit more exotic it
fits one full-size graphics card it can hold two 2 and 1/2 in drives for ssds or
hard drives although there is no 3 and 1/2 in drive support and has a small
enough form factor that even though it's got a power supply inside it actually
doesn't look that unreasonably thick so
the core i5 gtx960 config starts at $900
but obviously the sky is pretty much the limit when we're talking nonproprietary
parts next up we've got the Digital Storm aventum 3 now although the aventum
3 has been out for a little while this new version will have a new cooling
system and before we get inside though we need to take a look at the custom
hand painted chassis this thing is massive at over 2 feet deep and over 2
feet tall and can fit all standard motherboard sizes as well as large dual
CPU workstation boards much like the one that we used in our seven Gamers 1 CPU
project but of course you got to keep all that stuff cool somehow and the
aventum 3 features this completely integrated cool cooling system that is
absolutely fantastic looking what's new here is the angled fittings to reduce
the cracking that can sometimes occur with acrylic blocks the case features
support for three radiators a 480 mm and a 240 mm included that are all on the
same Loop and has this amazing looking Clear Water distribution block behind
the motherboard tray to cool all your components Digital Storm partnered with
EK for the cooling so it's done by a company that really knows what they're
doing and they even take requests for things like custom chipset coolers and
will install custom design Parts within reason you can also even ask for a
specific coolant color it comes with cable covers and a power supply bridge
on the back of the motherboard tray to keep everything tidy looking and like
most cases where you have power supply cables kind of crammed into a corner
somewhere and it features RGB lighting for the interior exterior and the
cooling the front IO includes two USB 3.1 ports and a slim optical drive
and of course there's a gotcha it starts at
$5,800 with a CPU only water cooling loop with flexible tubing instead of the
now more premium seeming rigid solution
that I personally don't do because it's a lot of work which is also why it's
expensive because it's a lot of work the new cooling system is expected to be
coming on January 27th which brings us to the ASUS Rog
gt51 it supports Rog band and NFC
wristband which you can touch to the case to do two different things you can
activate Shadow Drive a hidden partition for stuff you need to keep private or
you can automatically overclock setting up a profile that the band will
automatically activate to crank up your CPU for gaming and turn it back down to
stock if you're just doing something like web browsing it's actually got more
functionality coming later like Auto Windows login there's a GPU air tunnel
that works with a shunt from the bottom front fan to direct air over the GPU and
the front fan has a cool turbines design for the Shroud it features 8 million
colors of RGB customization a USB 3.1 type-c front connector pretty cool
mostly that scene in the back and it's got an amplified front audio jack for a
little bit of extra punch for your headphones it's available in mid to late
q1 and starting at $1800 which finally leads us to the iby
power Revolt 2 this guy has a really
unique chassis design it's kind of like this weird but surprisingly cool
trapezoid thing there's a tinted cover over the entirety of the top and half of
the front that shows off your GPU on the very top and up to two ssds in the front
and the sides can be removed to reveal a
very interesting internal layout that crams in a surprising amount of
nonproprietary Hardware so you could put in pretty much any ITX case full-size
ATX power supply 3 and 1/2 in drive and
GPU that that you could want including liquid cooling all without having to
deal with any sort of thermal throttling that bottom can actually support up to a
dual 120 mm radiator or a single 120 and
a single 140 if you wanted to water cool both the CPU and the GPU it's expected
to be available sometime later this month so thanks for checking out our top
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