The 20 Wildest PC Mods of Computex 2023

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Computex is the unofficial World Series of PC modding. The PC mega-convention doesn't host an overall competition for “best in show,” but you can sense a vibe of vendors trying to one-up the rest with sponsored mods that show off their hardware at the center. Some of the planet's most accomplished modders, backed by the leading lights in PC components, use the massive trade show to parade their best work.

You can't help but be inspired, amazed, and sometimes befuddled by the artwork on display. And make no mistake: Modding is an art form, requiring equal parts technical ability, imagination, hobbyist craft, and persistence. You'll see plenty of evidence below of all three, in the 20 top mods we saw at the show. Let's dig in!

We saw this mod teased at CES 2023, but here it was, in all its chondrichthyian glory(Opens in a new window) and mounted on a base comprising the Cooler Master logo ringed with RGB. The more-than-2-foot-tall Shark X was built on an ASRock mini-ITX Phantom Gaming motherboard, Kingston Fury memory, and Cooler Master water cooling. The last, because of course it was. How else would you cool a shark?

The company also displayed the mod alongside a summary of its corporate efforts to support ocean preservation. The original inspiration for Shark X stemmed from a design called "Leviathan(Opens in a new window)" by modder Inony in a past Cooler Master Case Mod World Series. More than just a mod, though, Shark X should become a commercially available product at CMODX(Opens in a new window); there was a placeholder for it as we wrote this.

Got $6,000 to burn on a PC, sneakerhead? Lace up! Cooler Master recently announced that approximate price for its Sneaker X prebuilt PCs, housed in the company’s unique red