CHILLBLAST FUSION KRYPTON

£869 inc VAT • chillblast.com

Chillblast’s Fusion Krypton system certainly stands out from the crowd. Housed in the company’s own small form factor ‘Kube’ case, the PC sits lower on the desktop, taking up less space than a full-sized alternative. The case is finished in a matt black softcoat, with what Chillblast describes as a “touchy-feely” surface, lending the whole system are rather expensive-looking finish, despite it being one of the least expensive PCs of its kind.

Inside the case, the PC is lit with deep blue LEDs, which glow through the mesh front and illuminate the internal components through tinted windows on either side of the system.

Components can be accessed from either side of the case or my removing the top panel to look down on the motherboard from above. Inside, the motherboard tray and drive bays are coloured blue, to match the internal light show.

Like all of the PCs in this group test, the Fusion Krypton is powered by an Intel Core i5-6600K ‘Skylake’ processor. In this case, it has been overclocked from 3.5GHz to a respectable 4.4GHz, and installed in an Asus Z170M-Plus mATX form factor motherboard.

The smaller-sized motherboard is necessary to fit in to the Kube case, and size constraints force the removal of a couple of PCI slots found on full-size versions, such as the Asus Z170-P found in The Eclipse SuperNova i566n9700C. The Chillblast, PC is nonetheless packed with features, including support for USB 3.1 Type C, fanless heatsink design, individual fan controls and M.2 support with SATA Express. It also offers excellent overclocking support, should you wish to tweak the performance beyond what Chillblast provides as standard.

Graphics performance comes from an MSI-branded nVidia GeForce GTX970, which delivers excellent performance for the