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nearly two years ago we asked if there was a place in the

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market for pre-built compact gaming pcs

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like the digital storm bolt 3 and i guess given the rise of machines like

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the Corsair 1 and MSI's trident well

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it's safe to say that yes yes there is so when digital storm

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called us up and offered to ship us their new bolt x for an exclusive early

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look how could we say no

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cooler masters 25th anniversary edition

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cosmos 2 features a unique dual curved tempered glass side panel

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check it out now at the link below

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from the outside the bolt x is pretty similar to the bolt 3 we reviewed back

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in 2015. it retains the clear edge to

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edge acrylic side panel the strange placement of ventilation holes on the

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other side panel and the separate upper panel where the 240 millimeter cooling

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radiator hides like the bolt 3 the bolt x is available

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in both the brushed aluminum fingerprint magnet finish of our older unit and the

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shiny exotic paint finish of our bolt x

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digital storm also lifted up the base of the case providing a little bit more

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clearance for air intake on the bottom

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one odd thing that you might have noticed by now is that there is no front

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i o not even a power switch to accompany the

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RGB front logo no digital storm instead

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opted to put it on the side aesthetically this clean look works

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really well for us but the option for our front optical

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drive is also gone and whether cables

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sticking out the front or out the side is best really depends on your desk

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layout but enough boring stuff let's get inside it's impossible to miss the

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immaculately run custom sleeved power cables and all hardline water cooling

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setup with red dyed liquid to match the exterior

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our unit has both the GPU and video card

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water cooled which ended up giving us a bit of a surprise when we fired up our

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benchmarks more on that later but it's also available in a less expensive CPU

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only config there is no question that hardline looks

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great mwah but as a tinkerer if i was buying a bolt

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x i might not configure it this way for

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a couple of reasons flexible tubing doesn't look as good i know but it gives

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you quick and easy access for troubleshooting or upgrades while

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hardline requires you to dismantle the whole loop in order to get at virtually

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anything other than the RAM and drives

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one saving grace with this particular machine though is that as long as you're

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careful about it you actually could probably pull the whole assembly out

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through the top panel so unlike the main gear omen x with hardline you could swap

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a failed component like a motherboard without a plumbing certificate from the

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local community college but we still think that the happy medium

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is hardline for the CPU only

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for easy graphics card upgrades in the future or soft tubing all around if you

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want the extra performance and on that subject there's plenty of

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that our ASUS rog strix z270i gaming is

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equipped with an Intel core i7 7700k

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and 32 gigs of ddr4 3000 RAM and as for

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the GPU well that my friends is what a

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water-cooled GeForce gtx 1080 ti looks

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like and the whole thing is running off

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a lienly 750 watt 80 plus platinum

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modular power supply so then it should come as no surprise that even without

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the five gigahertz factory overclock option our both x killed our 1080p

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gaming test suite but what might be surprising is just how

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well it killed it we gathered all of these results

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at stock speeds for both the CPU and GPU

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meaning that the performance difference over our test bench here was purely

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driven by the efficiency of digital storms hydrolux water cooling loop

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no part of our system ever dropped from max turbo which was

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totally what i should have named my son

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max turbo anyway sorry

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even synthetic tests including a combined load of fermark and ida 64

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didn't manage to make it throttle which is great results in a doomsday scenario

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for any unified cooler and it doesn't really get terribly loud

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while gaming either with the fan spinning up to a light whoosh under

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normal loads and only really ramping up higher when under those synthetic loads

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i mentioned before we wanted to give you accurate numbers

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for the noise levels but unfortunately the studio is presently a construction

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zone so yeah that's that's not happening

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but bottom line is it worth the price tag well it's tough to say not because

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we don't have the results or because we're

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waffling on making a recommendation it's actually because we don't have a price

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tag yet digital storm won't be releasing the bolt x to the public for another

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couple of months and while the preliminary pricing that they've given

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us says it will be starting at 1 500 us

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dollars their starting configuration for the bolt 3 at that price suggests that a

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bolt x as shown here will cost a pretty

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penny more than that but maybe that's the point

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what you'll be getting with the bolt x is a machine that absolutely crushes it

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in terms of performance and with headroom for some overclocking thanks to

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its excellent cooling setup it is far from the smallest gaming rig

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we've ever seen it's even bigger than the last generation bolt but it's still

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not unreasonable so if you've got the cash and you want a water cooled gaming

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rig done right i think the bolt x has got you covered

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