Oh boy, if you only knew all the pricing talk I have had with Bitspower to date involving this and the Premium Summit M blocks. To begin with, both were priced at $150, which made the latter seem worse since this block offered more, but both were also quite expensive compared to just about everything else from other companies. Bitspower did concede to an extent, said they would lower the cost of the Premium Summit M to $120 before changing it to $130 and forcing me to change that review multiple times. The Summit M with OLED, however, has remained stuck at $150, with the company saying that the included features justify the price point. Admittedly, the two bundled fittings are ~$20 of this number if purchased separately, but I would much rather this block not include them and cost $130-$135 instead.

Regardless, this block does do more for the money than the Premium Summit M when it comes to features beyond build quality. In 2020, a full metal top is more a statement than tangible when it comes to any performance increases, especially when it adds a whopping half a degree centigrade in my actively ventilated hotbox that will not be seen in a typical PC case. The OLED display is more useful to me, and I imagine most readers here too, and Bitspower has done a good job of styling this separately from the Premium Summit M for an identity of its own without feeling inferior at all. The integrated RGB lighting and Intel + AMD socket support are also good things here compared to blocks that make you buy socket installation hardware separately if you were to switch teams. Perhaps this is just because it is only my second CPU block with an integrated display, but having a single cable for RGB lighting and the temperature sensing on the OLED screen was nifty to me. There is enough here to interest people, but I look forward to seeing what people think about whether the bundle is worth $150 to them.