Digital Storm Announces the Bolt Gaming PC

Cristian_25H · Oct 23, 2012

Fremont-based company Digital Storm has today introduced its newest gaming system, a slim and sleek desktop called Bolt. Featuring a chassis just 3.6 inches wide, Digital Storm's latest creation can be equipped with a 3rd generation Intel Core processor, up to 16 GB of RAM, an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600 Series graphics card (up to a GTX 680), a 1 TB hard drive and, optionally, a 60/120 GB SSD, a DVD writer, and a 500 W power supply.

The Bolt comes with Windows 7 Home Premium pre-installed and it starts at $999.

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qwerty_lesh · Oct 23, 2012

yeah cos us consumers, we love paying through the teeth for toasty low cfm rigs with pissy nonstandard power supplies, yeah :slap:

Hillbilly · Oct 23, 2012

Could use a slot load optical drive. Reminds me of Falcon Northwest's tiki.

jeffrelw · Oct 23, 2012

I hear screams "hot!!!!" from the soul of the Bolt

btarunr · Oct 23, 2012

PCIe is a sensitive bus, risers are not recommended for such high-bandwidth devices as GTX 680 (or any GPU in its category).

Random Murderer · Oct 23, 2012

Cristian_25H said:
The Bolt comes with Windows 7 Home Premium pre-installed and it starts at $999.

Yeah, starts at $999 for an i3 2100, 8GB RAM, and a GTX650Ti.
Really, $1k for a PC that runs a freaking i3 2100?! Shame on them!

Also, this:

btarunr said:
PCIe is a sensitive bus, risers are not recommended for such high-bandwidth devices as GTX 680 (or any GPU in its category).

GSquadron · Oct 23, 2012

The design seems unique

Supercrit · Oct 23, 2012

Aleksander Dishnica said:
The design seems unique

Just an uglier Tiki

badtaylorx · Oct 23, 2012

i really wish steam would put out somthing along the lines of this, but put it out at cost. make the money off of the games.....

[H]@RD5TUFF · Oct 23, 2012

I'll keep my mini itx system thanks, I can see this getting crazy hot as well as having artifacting issues thanks to the PCIe header.

NO THANKS :nutkick:

camoxiong · Oct 23, 2012

pretty nice for a small form factor pc.

dwade · Oct 23, 2012

This is like a DIY Alienware x51, or just a poorly built x51.

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