Fish Tank PC Case Tops Your Computer With 13.5 Liters of Water

The twenty first century equal of the souped-up sizzling rod, a modded PC packed to the gills with glowing LEDs and different over-the-top adornments is usually a distinctive technique to exhibit your wild persona, or now even your Zen-like temperament, with a new PC case featuring a tank on top you may flip right into a fully-functional and relaxing aquarium full of fish.

Chinese PC case maker SteelFish has not too long ago added the Y2 Fish Tank Chassis to its lineup, which will get straight to the purpose in the case of the case’s most marketable characteristic. Tom’s Hardware crunched the numbers on the case’s dimensions, which put its measurement at about 27 liters in whole, though it seems as if the higher aquarium portion occupies about half of that, and if you happen to go the fish route, you gained’t be sticking any parts in that 13.5 liter tank.

The Micro-ATX Y2 Fish Tank Chassis can accommodate a Micro-ATX or Mini-ITX motherboard inside its 1.5mm thick aluminum physique, in addition to a single 2.5-inch drive, a pair of 90mm followers, a graphics card as much as 22cm in size (though a 20cm possibility is as a substitute beneficial), a 90mm tall CPU cooler, and a 1U or Flex ATX energy provide. It additionally options color-adjustable LED lighting contained in the case, managed by an included distant.

The aquarium up high is made out of 5mm thick glass panels, with a 3mm thick panel of acrylic on the underside preserving all of the water and wildlife separate from the PC parts under. A strip of LED lights arching over the aquarium’s open high offers daylight-simulating illumination, whereas an included pump and filtration system attracts energy from the PC case under utilizing a USB connection.

The most blatant query that involves thoughts with a creation like that is whether or not or not the surplus warmth from the PC can be utilized to maintain the aquarium water heat, and, in flip, if the water within the aquarium can be utilized to assist maintain the PC operating cooler. But with a price ticket of round simply $75 for the Y2 Fish Tank Chassis in China, it doesn’t seem to be SteelFish has gone the additional engineering mile to create a mutually helpful symbiont relationship between the PC parts and the aquarium. It’s simply an over-the-top PC design that’s all however not possible to maneuver or reposition as soon as the fish transfer in.