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• RaistlinZ - Saturday, February 24, 2018 - link

  That actually looks really cool.

• Makaveli - Saturday, February 24, 2018 - link

  Agreed I like it.

• qlum - Saturday, February 24, 2018 - link

  It would have been much better however with a 8700k instead of 7700k as that is a pretty decent bump up in performance.

• jtd871 - Saturday, February 24, 2018 - link

  And a pretty decent bump up in effective power draw and dissipation requirements under full multicore. That's why no 8700k.

• mukiex - Monday, February 26, 2018 - link

  That does seem a bit odd, though, given that their current Airtop2, which features a smaller cooling unit, handles an i7 7700 just fine. It doesn't appear that the GPU and CPU cooling assemblies share any thermal load.
  
  You would think that the bump up in passive cooling that upgrades them from a GTX 1060 to a 1080 on the GPU side would be more than enough to upgrade them to an 8700 class chip on the CPU side. Maybe they assume that the extra work needed to add Kaby Lake support (which isn't trivial, mind you) would mostly be made up for by someone just overclocking their 7700? (the Airtop 2 is a non-K model)

• stanleyipkiss - Saturday, February 24, 2018 - link

  I would absolutely buy it if it were available in the EU right now.

• Lolimaster - Saturday, February 24, 2018 - link

  Using an obsolete CPU.
  
  Would be better with a soldered Ryzen 5 1600X + 1080.

• lazarpandar - Saturday, February 24, 2018 - link

  obsolete is a bit harsh.. it's not the best but it's a fine proc

• mobutu - Saturday, February 24, 2018 - link

  superb

• darkswordsman17 - Saturday, February 24, 2018 - link

  That's a very appealing system and impressive at offering such cooling capability passively.
  
  I'm not crazy about the looks. On the workstation version a lot of people seemed to like them a lot, although it seems more people just wanting to complain about the excessive RGB lighting that is permeating so many computer products. Its not even that it looks bad to me, but feel like a simple more unified design would look a bit better (the black fin pieces over top of the red ones for instance. Maybe some other color options.
  
  I'd also kinda like an actively cooled version, with fan(s) integrated into the base (maybe a single large one, or maybe 3 120mm fans, well integrated so they wouldn't be visible, and would be nearly inaudible. It'd give just a bit more headroom.
  
  Maybe offer some extra services, like binning (in this case I'd say it'd focus more on undervolting performance, maybe have them work on optimal clockspeeds/voltage) and delidding. Another would be for them to build the system so they could use liquid metal TIM which could be very helpful for heat transfer off the chip. LTT had a video about that in a laptop and the results were impressive, and it'd be a lot easier if the system was built with it in mind for protection (like a protective shim/coating). Extra work/cost, but they could likely get people to pay for it depending on the results and actual cost.

• Compulab - Saturday, February 24, 2018 - link

  Thanks for the thoughtful feedback.
  User can rig a fan if he likes, laptop cooler should work. I don't think we will do it...
  
  Liquid metal and delidding - we experimented with both. Currently no-delidding and AS5 appear to be good enough.

• blackmagnum - Sunday, February 25, 2018 - link

  An answer to a question most gamers would not have asked.

• Icehawk - Sunday, February 25, 2018 - link

  Answers mine - dead silent, small, portable. Would be nice if they can beef it up enough to support 8th gen+ and O/C. I’m sure the price will be extremely high which would keep it from being a real consideration for me.

• Dragonstongue - Monday, February 26, 2018 - link

  DDR4 2400 (I seriously wish any maker of boutique style computers such as this gave the user option of 2133 up to say 3200 class) only using Intel and Nvidia...hard pass from me...though looks cool enough