When it comes to gaming PCs, size is, of course, everything. Weight too. You just know you're going to get a better experience from something you can barely lift, and which takes up as much space as a small refrigerator or drinks cabinet, than you are from something more slender and—dare I say it—portable.
There's a bit of truth to this, as a larger case has more room for airflow, and a bigger PC can simply take larger components (and the top end of the graphics card hierarchy can get surprisingly big) but as anyone who's used the Acer Predator Helios 18 knows, size isn't everything.
All of which is a roundabout way of saying that the Starforge Voyager Pro is a bit large. You're also not going to want to be carrying it around much. It's not just that the Lian Li O11D Evo RGB is tall—I'm used to tower PC cases coming up to my knee—but it's wide too. It's the sort of thing that might be called a workstation, if it didn't have two glass panels and a rim of RGB lighting around it. That does make it look rather like someone's corner office in a corporate tower block, lit up for the holidays.
Oh, and the bathroom scales show it as weighing almost 23 kg, or just over 50 lbs, though it honestly feels heavier when you're trying to carry it up the stairs and I wouldn't be surprised if the scales are lying to me again. There's a graphic behind the motherboard that shows Saturn—or some other ringed planet—and which certainly doesn't belong on the PC of an architect or engineer. There are a number of caseprints available from Starforge, tying in to games or just looking cool, along with platelights, wall art, and desk mats to match.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
GPU: Nvidia RTX 4080 Super 16 GB (new model with RTX 5080 coming)
RAM: Teamgroup Delta RGB 32 GB DDR5 6000 CL38
Storage: 2 TB PCIe 4.0 NVME (three spare M.2 slots)
Networking: Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, 2.5Gbps Ethernet
Front panel: 2x USB 2.0, 1x USB Type-C
Rear I/O: 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 10 Gbps (Type-A), 4x USB 3.2 Gen 2 5 Gbps
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