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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