Razer’s Tomahawk modular gaming PC is finally a real product

Razer has been talking about modular gaming PCs with simplified interchangeable parts for years. Now, after various concepts, CES reveals, and standard PC cases with an associated brand, the company is actually selling a pre-built desktop PC for the first time.

The Tomahawk is the final version of what we saw at CES 2020 in January. It’s a simple case design with two PCIe slots: one for a full-size GPU and one for an Intel NUC Element board that packs the processor, RAM, storage, and basically everything you need for a working PC. .

The NUC module includes a 45W Core i9-9980HK Coffee Lake processor, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 512GB NVMe SSD, and 2TB hard drive. Memory and storage are scalable, but the processor is not. – unless Intel releases another compatible NUC card that you can swap directly into the Tomahawk. This Coffee Lake processor is the kind of part you might find in a high-end gaming laptop, so while it’s fast today, you might want to upgrade it later.

The Tomahawk has room for a full-size GPU up to 320 x 140mm and it can be ordered with a pre-installed Nvidia GTX 3080 Founders Edition. The 210mm x 365mm x 150mm metal chassis has a capacity of 10L, comes with a 750W power supply, and uses active cooling. There are 4 USB-A 3.2 and 2 Thunderbolt 3 ports, as well as Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0 on board, according to Razer the small size is designed to be taken to tournaments and LAN parties or simply to free up office space.

You will have to really value these attributes for the Tomahawk to be worth it, because unsurprisingly, it doesn’t come cheap. Razer priced it at $ 2,400 for the base model without a discrete GPU or $ 3,200 with a GTX 3080; preorders have opened in the US, but it’s currently listed as out of stock.