Digital Storm Unveils Bolt a thin and sexy PC
Digital Storm introduces its slimmest custom designed gaming computer ever - Bolt. With Bolt, Digital Storm gives gamers exactly what they’ve craved: a powerful and affordable gaming PC without the need of a bulky desktop tower. When conceptualizing the Bolt, Digital Storm engineers found no chassis on the market that met their design criteria, so they designed their own brand new chassis from the ground up.
Every aspect of the Bolt from: cooling, performance, and upgradability were ingeniously designed to the highest possible standards. The Bolt boasts a slim yet aggressive profile that is only 3.6” wide and 14” tall. The Bolt’s thin chassis is designed to effectively dissipate heat allowing it to house the latest and fastest components on the market, bucking the trend of sacrificing performance for a smaller footprint.
No other thin form factor tower houses as much power as Bolt because no other system can handle the type of bleeding edge hardware and overclocking that Bolt does. Bolt’s high performance CPU cooling solution, with five copper heat pipes, unlocks even more gaming performance with processor overclocks of up to 4.6 GHz with Intel’s i7 3770K CPU. Bolt also supports up to 3 hard drives: 2 SSDs and 1 mechanical for incredible storage flexibility.
“Gaming PCs have always been housed in massive towers, but we’ve seen that more and more consumers are moving towards smaller and more efficient machines,” said Rajeev Kuruppu, Digital Storm’s Director of Product Development. “We wanted to develop a slim affordable gaming PC that could play the latest titles, while still being a powerful desktop PC that kept future upgradability in mind.”
Prior to shipping to the customer, each Digital Storm system undergoes a rigorous 72-Hour Stress-Test. Digital Storm technicians stress-test and benchmark the system via industry standard testing software coupled with a proprietary testing process that detects components which can be prone to future failure.
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I'll pass. I'm happier with a BIGGER case, the bigger the better.
On the bright side, more room for customizing, adding, removing & hiding cables!
And what about air flow/temps? Surely on a much larger case temps will be noticably better since there is more room as well as more space to add extra fans...
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I;m sure we gurus could design an awesome case between us.
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Hmm...Guru3D Computer Case

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I've tried very small cases for medium powered systems and they overheat too easily unless you have fans running loud.
You have to be pretty anal about keeping fans and meshes clean otherwise they become unstable.
I gave up building small case systems a while back due to excessive problems.
Perhaps this has a small enough power footprint to not be so bad, as long as it routes hot air from the CPU straight out of the case.
But I cant see it if it can use power gfx cards even if they feed hot air out of the case.
The heat from the back of the card can be enough to cause issues - unless noisy cooling is employed.
I'll keep my eye open for opinions from users.
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Well they certainly made good use of the space. I wonder what temps are like after a few hours of gaming?