Monday, March 16th 2015
COUGAR Releases QBX, the Most Advanced Compact Gaming Case
COUGAR, leading brand in the gaming hardware market, announces today the arrival of COUGAR QBX, the most advanced compact gaming case on the market. This Mini-ITX case stands above the crowd for three reasons: its compact dimensions, its expandability and the best cooling on the market for a case of its size.
The first of QBX's virtues is self-evident. Its 178 x 260 x 368 mm make QBX a highly compact case. With it, gamers no longer need enormous desks with lots of space to install high-end gaming components in order to enjoy new generation games. Whether on a desk or near the TV, QBX will fit in any gamer's room and leave them space for a bigger screen or whatever they want to do with it.
The second of QBX's distinguishing features is what makes it a gaming case. A compact case with very good cooling is great, but virtually all of those are limited to smaller components with limited capabilities, which makes it impossible to enjoy the most demanding games. QBX shatters that limitation, allowing the user to enjoy high end graphics cards (up to 350mm long), up to five hard disks (both HDD and SSD), Slim ODD for different media formats, USB 3.0 and much more. All this is well powered, since QBX supports PS2-ATX PSUs (up to 140mm long), which can fuel even the most demanding system and can also be easily found anywhere, in contrast with the special PSUs required by other compact cases. In short, QBX allows gamers to fully enjoy the latest generation of games without worrying about hardware limitations.
Last but not least, all this power needs to be well cooled or all those components in a small space would simply burn themselves. QBX solves this problem with what is the best cooling on the market for a case of its class. Up to 7 fans with possibility of installing water cooling (up to 240mm long) will provide all the required airflow, including a dedicated independent PSU airflow that prevents the air from that particularly hot part of the computer to get to the rest of the components. The QBX's pro-cooling design guarantees that this airflow gets to the right places through the right ways, optimizing cooling even further.
This revolutionary gaming case will be available starting in late April.
The first of QBX's virtues is self-evident. Its 178 x 260 x 368 mm make QBX a highly compact case. With it, gamers no longer need enormous desks with lots of space to install high-end gaming components in order to enjoy new generation games. Whether on a desk or near the TV, QBX will fit in any gamer's room and leave them space for a bigger screen or whatever they want to do with it.
Last but not least, all this power needs to be well cooled or all those components in a small space would simply burn themselves. QBX solves this problem with what is the best cooling on the market for a case of its class. Up to 7 fans with possibility of installing water cooling (up to 240mm long) will provide all the required airflow, including a dedicated independent PSU airflow that prevents the air from that particularly hot part of the computer to get to the rest of the components. The QBX's pro-cooling design guarantees that this airflow gets to the right places through the right ways, optimizing cooling even further.
This revolutionary gaming case will be available starting in late April.
14 Comments on COUGAR Releases QBX, the Most Advanced Compact Gaming Case
If that PSU is exhausting directly to the CPU, how is that helping with heat? Also how are they solving the power cable and power button for the PSU? I see what looks like an opening where a cord+button could be attached but that still doesn't show or say how it would all hook up. For all we know there could be a cable running across the board up to that outlet.
Then there is the matter of power cables/etc going to devices and the board. Is this coming with custom short length cables? If it is exhausting to the board then cables would be squished into the front. If its exhausting to front then cables would be overflowing all over the board. Modular PSUs with detachable cables would be a must.
It looks nice and all but there needs to be a more in depth look at how the PSU hooks up in all that.
The power socket on the rear was removed, I assume it routes along the case edges to the front of the case and down to the bottom edge of the PSU.
With that massive dual chip GPU it leaves little room for cable management, there are more appropriate GPU's for iTX cases that are noticeably shorter.
I'm not sure where a 240mm Radiator would fit though once the PSU is installed, I can only see space for a 120mm above the CPU on the top panel.
Below the GPU is too narrow to include fans as well as the Radiator.
Ehh, looks nice but all the routing would be a pain.