You can pick it up by the handle and go wherever, whenever

Jan 14, 2014 09:30 GMT  ·  By

High-end gaming rigs often look like large, solid, hulking brutes, albeit with some angular, elegant lines, but CyberPowerPC decided to flush that design convention down the drain when it made the Fang Battle Box.

The name is really misleading actually, since the word “box” would fit those desktops I have mentioned more than it does this new invention.

Still, that is what CyberPowerPC decided the product should be called, so that's what it went ahead and named it.

“Fang” is there because it's already got a certain brand strength on the gaming industry, even if the system looks nothing like a sharp tooth.

But this egress has gone on long enough, so now we may as well examine the product itself, and for once, we'll start with the outside instead of the core hardware.

CyberPowerPC designed the Fang Battle Box as a portable mini desktop. Not laptop-portable, but portable in the sense that it has a handle you can pick it up by.

But here people will say that hey, there are lots of cases with handles, and they would be right. But CyberPowerPC didn't stop there. It also shaped the case as a briefcase.

A rather thick briefcase, to be sure, but a briefcase nonetheless. Good for you if you attend LAN parties with your friends, family and poisonous reptiles (though those last ones should probably be sealed in glass terrariums for everyone's safety and peace of mind).

The specs of the Fang Battle Box are thus: an Intel Core i7 4770K quad-core high-end central processing unit (CPU), an HDD of 1 TB, an SSD of 120 GB, 16 GB of G.Skill DDR3 RAM, an all-in-one water cooler, a GeForce GTX 780 Ti graphics card and, holding everything together, a mini ITX motherboard. A Corsair CX500 power supply powers everything.

The price hasn't been mentioned, but availability is set for this quarter (1Q14).