MonsterLabo has launched an updated version of its signature case, The Beast. bit-tech reported on a quite recent iteration of The Beast, back in March, when it was kitted out with an AMD Ryzen 3800X and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 and demonstrated running the demanding Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. With passive cooling only, playing the game at 1440p on an UW display, the weighty system kept the CPU at a stable 75°C, and GPU at a stable 65°C.
Now MonsterLabo has launched an “updated design,” which is said to accommodate an extended range of graphics cards, and provides further Indiegogo exclusive customisation options, as well as pre-built machines. Just like the previous version of The Beast, the new model relies on The Heart (actually, now it is The Heart2) for its passive magic. This passive cooling mass takes up about half of the chassis space and is split between a front section and a back, – one looks after the CPU, the other the GPU.
I’ve checked the specs of The Heart2, and it appears to be the same in terms of subcomponents and cooling capabilities, so am not sure of the changes that earn it the second gen designation. Specs can be found below:
- 2x giant heatsinks (3 kg each) passively cooling the electronics,
- 20x 6mm heat pipes, 10x for each chip. Hell yeah, we know, not bad for a PC!
- 6x copper thermal drains connecting the heatsinks to the