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Cougar Debuts New Omnyx & Airface Cases at CES 2025

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The TechPowerUp team was invited up to Cougar's Las Vegas suite where two new PC cases sat alongside a familiar product. A brand rep started proceedings by introducing the white Omnyx RGB case—featuring a symmetric design with two tempered glass panels (one on top and another across the front face). Cougar's engineering team has implemented a novel modular I/O system—users can reposition this panel around the enclosure's base. The Omnyx's lower chamber provides a convenient hideaway space for a power supply, while the spacious upper section is dedicated to displaying visually striking components.

Cougar's Omnyx RGB case is supplied with four pre-installed 160 mm RGB cooling fans—an additional three can be added aftermarket. The enclosure's cable management compartment resides behind the motherboard tray, thus keeping clutter away from the main interior chamber. The Omnyx is ready to support motherboards with back connectors—convenient timing, since hardware manufacturers are sending more of these products to market.




The new Airface 2 RGB case is placed below the already released Airface RGB Eco in Cougar's model chassis hierarchy—this lower budget/affordable alternative is smaller but still manages to cram in two front-mounted 180 mm PWM RGB fans. It shares the Omnyx's ability to support motherboards with back connectors. ATX and CEB board form factors are listed on its product placard. This model's name is marked down as being a working title.



Cougar first exhibited its Airface RGB Eco case (black and white variants) at Computex 2024, and another showroom example has made the journey to Las Vegas. Cougar expects to bring this model to market in Q1 2025. A special front panel was designed with unique coned vents in order to maximize airflow—two 180 mm PWM RGB fans do the hard work here.



Cougar presented two PSU models alongside their latest PC cases—product placards listed ATX 3.1 and PCIe 5.1 standards, as well as various Cybernetic efficiency and noise level certifications. The GLE series was represented by a 1200 W unit—buyers can choose between that one or a 1000 W alternative.



The other power supply demo model was a GEX PRO 850 W unit. Cougar's product placard states that 750 W and 650 W variants also exist.

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That Omnyx case is quite interesting with Cougar taking page of MiniITX cases in terms of rotation of layout(though it should be good for the PCIe slot with all the stupidly large GPUs inbound).
 
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i think the white case looks vugly, but the first black one aint bad.
 
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Cougar's Omnyx RGB may be one of the ugliest computer cases at the show.

MSI's Project Zero X shows a much better execution of that idea. Granted this is concept versus Cougar's retail release.

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Link below is walkaround:
 
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Why facing down? Like why? To discourage you from plugging/unplugging any stuff from your motherboard? Also, imagine you DO get a blower style card, it will be pushing the hot air down, because reasons......
 
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Tilting your case cause you want to attach a cable is just bad design.
 
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