A showpiece system
Digital Storm gave us a glimpse of its liquid cooled Aventum 3 PC back at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this year. It was then we knew the company had something special on its hands, and now eight months later, it's finally available to purchase.
The Aventum 3 isn't just another liquid cooled system, of which there are many out there. What makes this one different is how it's configured. Digital Storm went out of its way to ensure that buyers can service the machine with little fuss, should they ever need to.
To do that, the Aventum 3 uses fixed inlet and outlet ports located on the motherboard. This gives users the the ability to quickly and easily disconnect liquid cooled hardware without having to tear down the entire cooling system, which is especially helpful for people who aren't experienced with liquid cooling and/or system building in general.
There's also a distribution block that routes fluid throughout the system. No modifications are necessary when swapping out and upgrading the liquid cooled hardware.
Rounding out the liquid cooling scheme is a custom proprietary water block designed by Digital Storm's engineering team and produced by EKWB.
Digital Storm also made it easy to upgrade the graphics hardware without having to rewire things each time. That's because of a modular power panel integrated into the chassis itself with plug-and-play power connectors.
It looks like an excellent design, though it's not cheap -- you can configure and purchase an Aventum 3 today starting at $4,930. For that price, you get an Intel Core i7 6700K CPU, 16GB of DDR4-2666 RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics card with 6GB of GDDR5 memory, 1TB Samsung 850 Pro SSD, 2TB HDD (7,200 RPM), 850W EVGA SuperNova PSU, and Windows 10.
That's the base "Level 1 - Good" base configuration. There are three more levels to start from (Better, Best, and Ultimate) ranging in price from $5,996 to $10,496. At the top end, a baseline Level 4 - Ultimate setup consists of an Intel Core i7 5960X processor, 32GB of DDR-2666 RAM, t hree Nvidia Titan X graphics cards (12GB) configured in SLI, 1TB Samsung 850 Evo SSD, 2TB HDD (7,200 RPM), 1,200W Corsair AX PSU, and Windows 10.
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