MonsterLabo Announces The Beast

[AleksandarK]

MonsterLabo, a maker of fanless PC cases, today announced its latest creation - The Beast. Featuring a design made from glass and 6 mm thick aluminium, the ATX case is resembling a design we usually could see only from the folks like InWin. The whole chassis is actually made up of two 3 KG aluminium heatsinks that feature ten 6 mm copper heat pipes each. All of this is used for heat dissipation and the case can accommodate up to 400 W of TDP in passive mode. When two 140 mm fans, running at 500 rpm, are added the case can cool more than 500 W of TDP. The Beast measures at 450 mm (L) x 380 mm (W) x 210 mm (H), making it for one large and heavy case. It supports graphics cards up to 290 mm in PCB length and is fully capable of supporting the latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series "Ampere" graphics cards. Pre-orders for The Beast are starting on October 9th, with an unknown pricing. You can expect it to be a high premium over 349 EUR price of The First case. Pre-orders will be shipping in Q1 2021.


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[Vya Domus]

It supports graphics cards up to 290 mm in length and is fully capable of supporting the latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series "Ampere" graphics cards.

Yeah, it may fit but that's about it.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

fugly

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

need more pics for this PR

 

[Anymal]

fugly

Hence the beast.

 

[Chrispy_]

Haha, I've seen it all now!

The tempered glass blight has now infected radiators.

Glass is one of the best insulators there is, and it's now being used for passive cooling LOL.

 

[nikoya]

Haha, I've seen it all now!

The tempered glass blight has now infected radiators.

Glass is one of the best insulators there is, and it's now being used for passive cooling LOL.

huge holes bottom and top. natural air flow.

Nice case I like it

 

[maxitaxi96]

I get the apeal but the last case from them had a problem with overheating vrms and memory on graphics cards.... I mean the RTX 3080 already has a hard time to keept the memory in check, so how will this overcome this problem? Do they offer any pcb-component-cooling?

Glass is one of the best insulators there is, and it's now being used for passive cooling LOL.

^And This

 

[Deleted member 24505]

I get the apeal but the last case from them had a problem with overheating vrms and memory on graphics cards.... I mean the RTX 3080 already has a hard time to keept the memory in check, so how will this overcome this problem? Do they offer any pcb-component-cooling?


^And This

The new 3 series Nvidia card need a custom loop, full block on for sure.

 

[Caring1]

Might be a good case with a few fans thrown in

 

[chris.london]

It’s only 36l and that is pretty much as small as it gets for ATX cases, so even though it is pretty heavy, I would definitely not call it large.
Aesthetics aside this is an interesting case. The location of processor sockets and graphics chips tend to change from board to board - I wonder how MonsterLabo dealt with that. A full review with lots of pictures would be nice.

 

[TheDeeGee]

Oh man, and they got the placement of the USB Ports right! That deserves a 11/10 alone.

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

This is such a strange coincidence, yesterday at work I was thinking about the prototype they made a little while back and wondered what they were up to.... Guess I have psychic powers.

 

[AsRock]

Might be a good case with a few fans thrown in

Yeah and not glass lmao.

 

[Tardian]

With a PC case like this one having easily accessible dust filters is critical. I see no mention in the MonsterLabo site or this article.

 

[Kohl Baas]

Glass is one of the best insulators there is

WRONG! Glass has a better thermal conductivity than water. Air is one of the best insulators, that's why you use trapped air and other gasses between sheets of glass as insulation in windows.

 

[rtwjunkie]

I don’t understand. For heatsinks composed of heatpipes to work, they have to be drawing heat from one end. What are they going to attach to? That isn’t clear and is the one picture they should have supplied.

EDIT: I went to their site and the situation wasn’t any clearer.

 

[Kohl Baas]

I don’t understand. For heatsinks composed of heatpipes to work, they have to be drawing heat from one end.

No, they don't. Most of the modern CPU coolers has U-shaped heatpipes drawing heat from the middle of the pipes uner or in the base.

EDIT: I'm not entirely sure what do you mean BTW. The case has 2 heatsinks both has the pipes' one end in the base and the other end in the heatsink. Not even a U-shaped configuration.

 

[rtwjunkie]

No, they don't. Most of the modern CPU coolers has U-shaped heatpipes drawing heat from the middle of the pipes uner or in the base.

EDIT: I'm not entirely sure what do you mean BTW. The case has 2 heatsinks both has the pipes' one end in the base and the other end in the heatsink. Not even a U-shaped configuration.

LOL, yes they DO. CPU heatsink is drawing heat from the base which is in contact with the source of heat. All heatsinks operate by drawing heat from one area into their array and then dispersing it. These case heatsinks are connected to nothing. The website is not even clear what they WOULD connect to.

A heatsink sitting in the open connected to nothing does nothing.

 

[claes]

The two heatsinks mount to a CPU and GPU... I think the website is pretty clear about that (and thermal capacity).

 

[rtwjunkie]

The two heatsinks mount to a CPU and GPU... I think the website is pretty clear about that (and thermal capacity).

thank you, but obviously it’s not if I couldn’t find it.

 

[Chrispy_]

WRONG! Glass has a better thermal conductivity than water. Air is one of the best insulators, that's why you use trapped air and other gasses between sheets of glass as insulation in windows.

Yeah, good luck building a PC case out of liquid or gas. I'm obviously talking about solids....

huge holes bottom and top. natural air flow.

Nice case I like it

It's obviously a chimney design; that's not in question - the chimney design of this case would work no matter what the side panels were made of so that has no impact on the material choice.

I'm criticising the huge lost in conductive, heat-radiating surface area that the side panels normally perform. That's a non-trivial cooling mechanism being ignored in an era where 95W TDP actually means 200W and graphics cards are consuming 375W.

 

[Tardian]

Yeah, good luck building a PC case out of liquid or gas. I'm obviously talking about solids....


It's obviously a chimney design; that's not in question - the chimney design of this case would work no matter what the side panels were made of so that has no impact on the material choice.

I'm criticising the huge lost in conductive, heat-radiating surface area that the side panels normally perform. That's a non-trivial cooling mechanism being ignored in an era where 95W TDP actually means 200W and graphics cards are consuming 375W.

When I heard the best was heavy I assumed the sides would be made out of finned aluminum. The use of glass is a fashion thing and for people who like LED lighting. Those who want a high performance but quiet/silent case should choose other materials.

 

[Chrispy_]

When I heard the best was heavy I assumed the sides would be made out of finned aluminum. The use of glass is a fashion thing and for people who like LED lighting. Those who want a high performance but quiet/silent case should choose other materials.

Oh yeah, it actually looks nice, with the glass to see the radiator, I'm just mocking how they advertise it specifically as cooling 30-series Nvidia cards, and leave an additional 150-200W of cooling potential on the table by going with glass vanity panels instead of additional finned alu side panels.

Maybe I'm not understanding the product here, but the 400W passive rating seems split equally between two separate fin stacks that connect via pipes to a plate - one for the CPU and one for the GPU. That means that this can handle a 200W CPU and a 200W GPU, passively, or "over 500W" which translates to "over 250W" for a GPU using a fan. How exactly is it going to cool a 3090, or even a 3080 for that matter, with only a 200W passive or 250W+ heatsink for the 375W card? They're short on cooling for the cards they claim, and they've hobbled the amount of heat the case can dissipate because of the glass.

If there's an asterisk next to the 30-series support that means it can fit a 3090 card in it, but can't cool a 3090 card using the case's own GPU heatpipes - then that's false advertising by my reckoning, and how they plan to passively cool the VRMs of a 3090 is something I'm looking forward to seeing tested. Additionally, if the card is permanently throttled by temperatures to, say, 300W instead of the 375W that the 3090 is tested as drawing, what's the point of even buying a 3090 in the first place, it's being crippled by the lack of cooling.

Don't get me wrong, I like MonsterLabo and think they make some of the nicest passive cases ever put to market, period. This, in my estimate, is pushing things a bit too far and glass is 100% not helping their cause here.

 

[claes]

The Beast | MonsterLabo

The most powerful fanless PC. No compromise between performance and silence.

www.monsterlabo.com

Fanless configuration - Recommended Power

CPU: 150W GPU: 250W

Active configuration - Recommended Power (2x 140mm < 500 RPM)

CPU: 250W GPU: 320W