Introduction

Comino launched in 2017 and has since sold over 2000 workstations with the common theme of liquid cooling as a focus, and its own custom cooling controllers help run these systems. We first had a look at the brand at Computex 2019 with the unique Comino Otto SFF chassis and Comino-designed CPU and GPU water blocks manufactured with space and cooling efficiency in mind. A fully built Otto system also impressed us with its innovative cooling, which combined the best of aftermarket heat dissipation from Hardware Labs with custom cold plates to make for lots of gaming and compute power packed into a small 13 L form factor. But the Otto is just one of many Comino ventures, with its bread and butter from the workstation and server world. Take the GRANDO Forensic series, for example, which is custom built with data decryption and password recovery in mind. This leads us to the more general use case of customizable hardware for heavy prosumer and professional user loads, and we take a look at Comino's GRANDO RM line today.


While the Otto is intended for home users and the GRANDO Forensic for data recovery, the Comino GRANDO RM line does not discriminate given the highly customizable nature of the lineup. There are at this time two platforms, the GRANDO RM V2-L and RM V2-S, where the L and S stand for Long and Short, and I will just refer to them as the GRANDO RM-L and RM-S for convenience. The RM-L allows for more cooling and supports more hardware too, with the appeal targeting data scientists, graphics developers, game rendering, or simply servers. The common theme remains liquid cooling, which is why you are seeing me cover the system. The GRANDO RM-S we will be taking a look at today is inherently limited by physical space but still manages to pack a big punch to challenge even some compute clusters, as I found out. Comino loaned TechPowerUp a custom-built version of the GRANDO RM-S that goes beyond the usual offerings with an AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3995WX processor and four NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPUs, which is easily the most powerful system I have ever laid my hands on, too. Thanks to Comino for providing TechPowerUp this opportunity!