Digital Storm Finally Releases The Aventum 3, Starts At $4,930
At CES earlier this year, Digital Storm showed off a new build that Seth Colaner, our News Director, described as "a thing of beauty" and a "spaceship:" the Aventum 3. At the time, we were told that it would come out sometime in the spring, and the starting price would be around the $3,000 mark. Now, on its September 22 release date, the Aventum 3 is ready for consumers at a slightly higher starting price tag of $4,930.
At the heart of the Aventum 3 is its custom-built water cooling system. Potential owners can easily locate the inlet and outlet ports of the loop on the motherboard, which makes both installation and removal of additional hardware easy, without having to dismantle the entire cooling system altogether.
The model shown at Las Vegas in January used BitsPower water blocks, pumps, fittings and radiators, but some of those parts might have changed brands in the past nine months. One change for certain was the water block, with Digital Storm creating the design, and final production by EKWB.
In keeping with its ease of use design is a new power system for multiple GPUs. A series of connectors — four eight-pin PCIe connectors and four six-pin PCIe connectors — are located above the motherboard, another way of making the process of adding or disconnecting GPUs an easy swap for the user.
Based on the video provided by Digital Storm, the motherboard used for the Aventum 3 is Asus' X99-E WS/USB 3.1 model. The company has yet to unveil the full options and specs for the build, but chances are this behemoth of a beautiful spaceship is out of most consumers' price range, leaving many to wonder how many units of the Digital Storm's latest creation will actually find a home.
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graphicsboy ReplyThey should provide financing options.
They do, see here: https://www.digitalstorm.com/financing.asp
In after somebody defends a $5k gaming computer.
It is very much justified, I've seen youtubers give personal testamonies in the comment section and it's well worth over 5 years of future proofing. You'll be throwing any and everything at these machines without so much as a micro stutter!
That is to say, at consitently high frame rates, no matter the demand of new games within that period, this machine is already miles ahead of any bottleneck possible. -
JackNaylorPE The PCI-E connectors - Good idea, poor execution. Cable routing kills aesthetics.Reply
Not so good an idea to have MoBo debug LED upside down
Aesthetics seem more geared to younger folks who likely can't afford it.
Priorities off .... MoBo water cooling cooling but no GFX ?
Too many ports on MoBo block
For that price, ya wud expect rigid tubing -
graphicsboy Reply16667366 said:The PCI-E connectors - Good idea, poor execution. Cable routing kills aesthetics.
Not so good an idea to have MoBo debug LED upside down
Aesthetics seem more geared to younger folks who likely can't afford it.
Priorities off .... MoBo water cooling cooling but no GFX ?
Too many ports on MoBo block
For that price, ya wud expect rigid tubing
You can add exclusive instructions before checkout as to how you'd like your personal rig setup, also, there is a financing solution to those who may not afford it immediately: https://www.digitalstorm.com/financing.asp
Note: This is only possible when customization is selected below default builds. ;)
(Your personal requests before checkout that is.) =P
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brandonclone1 In before rich kid ruins it with "minecraft mods" and asks the community for helpReply -
Kenneth Barker ReplyThey should provide financing options.
They do, see here: https://www.digitalstorm.com/financing.asp
In after somebody defends a $5k gaming computer.
It is very much justified, I've seen youtubers give personal testamonies in the comment section and it's well worth over 5 years of future proofing. You'll be throwing any and everything at these machines without so much as a micro stutter!
That is to say, at consitently high frame rates, no matter the demand of new games within that period, this machine is already miles ahead of any bottleneck possible.
I am afraid not mate. This is hardly better than my $2800 OCed 5930K and dual 980Ti's system. That is of course it is using a 5980X and 3 way 980Tis (which it probably isn't at the $5k price point.
To make matters worse, is what Pascal will do to this machine. Future proof this is not. Considering the rate at which 4K gaming is eating up VRAM and graphics power. This thing is just enough to game today's 4k games. It will struggle with the futures 4K games. Pascal will see a potential jump of 2-5Xs the Graphics performance than the current generation of cards. Making a single high end Pascal card potentially embarrassing this $5K machine in less than a years time.