First Peek: Hyte's Bonkers THICC Q60 CPU Cooler Has a Phone-Size Screen
When in doubt, make everything bigger? Case maker Hyte (the lifestyle brand of PC maker iBuypower), known for its Hyte Y40 and Y60 chassis that we have reviewed, brought its creative A-game to Computex 2023 with the THICC Q60, an XXL-size all-in-one liquid cooler that brings two big innovations in one. The first is a giant, smartphone-size screen that hovers over your pump unit. The second is a nifty connection scheme that lets you attach other gear, including fans and RGB strips, in series.
The THICC Q60 is the company's first liquid cooler. As you can see, it has an IPS screen suspended on an arm above the CPU socket and cooling block...
This is a 5-inch panel with a 720-by-1,280 resolution, and you can tilt it for ideal viewability. (The screen proper is actually sourced from an Android smartphone screen maker, according to the company's reps.) The body of the screen has some RGB "underglow" backlighting to set off the screen from the rest of the case.
You control the THICC's screen, and its underglow, from software on the PC side, which Hyte dubs Nexus. On the panel, you can change backgrounds, show different feeds of information such as reminders, monitor system vitals, or even just display the time.
As for the cheeky name of the product, it's embracing the girth of its radiator and fans. A Hyte rep noted that the 240mm-class cooler should deliver cooling performance comparable to that of some 360mm AIO models. Clearly, the funky screen may be cool, but not that kind of cool; looking at the radiator and fans, you can see the extra thickness of both...
That means more airflow pushed through (from the fan point of view), and more surface area to be cooled (from the radiator point of view). The radiator is 52mm thick,
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