I favor a PC case that appears like a tiny fridge — depart off the RGB, please. However even when there’s no accounting for style, I’ve to confess that the huge builds that beg you to take a look at all of the costly components inside have a voyeuristic enchantment. A number of firms have been making this greater and greater recently, and the newest one is Asus.

The Asus TUF Gaming GT502 Horizon follows the sample: a dual-chamber design with all of the enjoyable stuff on the appropriate facet and uncovered to your peepers through tempered glass, with the facility provide and the overwhelming majority of cable routing on the again.

All of that makes this case shorter and wider than a typical ATX PC case, and it offers Asus room for that TUF branding proper on the steel of the outside body. (No shade right here. I exploit a TUF motherboard myself, albeit in a extra toned-down Fractal North enclosure.)

The GT502 Horizon case has room for 360mm of followers or radiators on each the highest and the entrance/facet — notice that they’re really mounted subsequent to that 90mm-wide rear chamber — with 13 whole followers supported by the built-in PWM hub. An add-on lighting equipment enables you to bling issues out with magnetic LEDs on the highest and backside of that major chamber, naturally appropriate with the Aura lighting system.

I used to be intrigued by the declare that the case can “comfortably stand up to as much as 30kg of weight from above.” (For these of us cursed with an American schooling, that’s about 66 kilos.) Sometimes, you’re not supposed to place heavy stuff in your pc, particularly if it’s intaking air from the highest as within the instance construct. Perhaps somebody’s planning to place a monster Gundam construct up there? Asus additionally says the “sturdy material handles are completely able to serving to customers modify the place of their PC.”

Apparently, the press launch has no point out of compatibility with rear-mount motherboards. I used to be on the lookout for it since Asus has been taking part within the “Struggle on Cables” with its motherboard and case designs, however then once more TUF is nominally Asus’ funds model (beneath the “Republic of Avid gamers” ROG line for pricing).

Sadly, the GT502 Horizon doesn’t have a retail value as of but, although it’s deliberate for launch within the fourth quarter of this 12 months (i.e., as quickly as October). The earlier mannequin retails for about $160.