Shawn Knigh

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In brief: Cooler Master is launching a pre-built PC unlike anything currently on the market. The new Shark X, which has been several years in the making, is now available to order but you'll need lots of bait to haul one home.

Under the hood – err, dorsal fin – is an Intel Core i7-14700F CPU mated to a B760I WiFi mini-ITX motherboard that is paired with 64 GB of DDR5 6,000 MHz memory, a GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super 16G GPU, and a 2 TB M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe solid-state drive. A Cooler Master V850 SFX Gold power supply is also included, as is a Cooler Master MasterLiquid 120 Atmos AIO cooler for the CPU, Cooler Master Sickleflow 120 mm fan(s), and a PCIe 4.0 x16 riser cable, presumably for the video card.

The Shark X is filled with ARGB lighting from tail to nose, and the fully backlit fin doubles as a Wi-Fi antenna. It will ship running Windows 11 Home, Cooler Master noted. The specs aren't remotely in line with the eye-watering $6,999 price tag, but nobody is going to buy the Shark X for the internals. No, it's all about the case.

Shark X is the brainchild of Thailand-based modder Inony, and is several years in the making. The chassis measures 89.4 cm x 79 cm x 90.8 cm (35.2 in x 31.1 in x 35.7 in) and as Cooler Master CEO Jimmy Sha notes, it's not just a high-performance PC but a "masterpiece" that brings technology and art together.

It's neat to see companies like Cooler Master try new things, even if they know full well that it won't be a huge seller. If the design sticks around, we'd prefer to see it offered as a barebones system that would allow buyers to mix and match their own hardware instead of having to pay extra for components they may not want or need.

Interested parties can reel in the Shark X now over on Cooler Master's website.

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Cooler Master's Shark X gaming PC surfaces for $7K, value hits the lifeboat

 
That thing doesn't worth 7000$...

 
It's like a kebab made of gaming PC components.
 
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BS marketing.
 
Let's see how many will chum the water for this catch.
 
Don't get me wrong it definitely has that wow factor but it's not worth $7,000. You'll have people spending the $7,000 so they can brag about it on social media.
 
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I love CoolerMaster as a company, but THIS is too much. It's hideous! Who would buy this monstrosity?
 
There are enough people out there that would earn $7000+/hr that would buy one of these just to impress some house guests. That is their target market, even if they don’t sell too many.

I’ll admit it’s kind of cool in an aesthetic sort of way to completely redefine what a pc should like, even though specs aren’t great .. I’d buy one.. soon as I earn $7000 an hour.. any .. day.. now.
 
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Form over function at an absurd markup. The cooling support is subpar for even midrange cpus. The aesthetic is subjective, but it just looks silly to me and at that price it just makes the buyer look like an a-hole tbh.
 
Lmfao For $7K on an all-plastic exterior shell, I expect an i9-14900K (not i7-14700F), a Z board (not B board), and a 4090 (not a 4070 Ti). Using a little 120mm AIO is already insufficient for the i7-14700F. And that motherboard is mounted nearly UPSIDE DOWN, which is The Worst Orientation for ANY kind of water cooling, both AIOs and custom loops, because air bubbles and the trapped air that is inside all AIOs can collect up against the cold plate, resulting in improper cooling since the cold plate needs to always be fully immersed under water passing through the water block. If the AIO's radiator is above the mobo, that can reduce the air pressing against the cold plate, But it looks like the 120mm AIO radiator is about level with the pump head, so you will get more and more air loitering around the cold plate, reducing CPU cooling, and the situation becomes worse as the AIO ages and less fluid remains inside the AIO. The modder Inony originally mounted the mobo upside down, but Cooler Master should have known better and redesigned the mobo mount so the mobo faces upward. Both Cooler Master and InWin make their own AIOs, but they both do not understand how AIOs work since both companies have promoted the mounting of upside-down mobos positioned above radiators, which is the absolute worst way to mount an AIO!
 
They are selling an Intel crash master PC for $7000, PT Barnum was correct.
 
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