Okay, I do know that that headline isn’t the traditional PCWorld fodder, however hear me out. I’m not the goal marketplace for the new Sakura RTX 4070 Super and Sugar RTX 4080 Super GPUs, simply revealed by Chinese producer Yeston. And I’m actually not suggesting that everybody’s PC components should be coated in cartoon pinups. But I do, unironically, love Yeston’s GPU designs, and I want that extra firms would take discover.

The final fifteen years or so of PC designs, a minimum of those who get probably the most consideration and press ink (good God, “ink,” I really feel outdated), are usually dominated by the likes of Razer, Alienware, and Corsair. That is to say, modern black plastic and a few brushed steel, festooned with sufficient RGB LEDs to make a carnival employee blink. Yeston makes graphics playing cards and some different components that enchantment to the type of people that use the phrase “tsundere” in on a regular basis dialog. They’ve obtained a small, targeted market that they serve, and serve very properly. And that’s one thing I can respect, even when I’ve by no means argued on-line about which anime character would make the very best theoretical life companion.

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To reduce to the purpose, Yeston makes components that match an aesthetic, and so they do it very well. The Sakura RTX 4070 graphics card (“cherry blossom” in Japanese, although it has female overtones because it’s additionally a given identify — the English equal can be “Violet” or “Rose”) has a shroud that’s simply plain beautiful. There are blossom petals inlaid within the plastic, and even within the middle of the cooling followers, full with a terrific combination of soppy pastel blue and purple. This can be a nice accent to any white-themed construct, anime or in any other case. The latest updates had been noticed by WCCFTech.

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Yeston’s catalog is stuffed with these distinctive designs, plus cooling followers to increase them to your construct at massive. This pink-on-blue RTX 4060Ti is formed like a freakin’ cat — it might be excellent for a D.Va-themed Overwatch construct. There’s a extra refined variation of an older card with a trendy purple curve accenting a typical black shroud. Check out this 360mm AIO cooler covered in glitter — I do know youngsters who’d like to throw that into any construct. If the pastel-on-white isn’t your fashion, right here’s one with some nice yellow accents that looks like Caterpillar designed a CPU cooler.

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And most of those Yeston merchandise depend on materials coloration and punctiliously chosen accents to make their visible affect, doing so with minimal lighting or generally none in any respect. That’s the form of considerate, interesting design that I’d prefer to see prolonged to the gaming desktop market as a complete. The closest factor I’ve seen to one thing that truly matches my private fashion is Fractal Design’s North and Terra cases, and people are simply two examples in over a decade of protecting shopper tech merchandise.

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We’re seeing a little bit of change right here, albeit sluggish and seemingly in just one path. Asus has been making components themed on widespread robot-themed anime like Evangelion and Gundam for just a few years. And you’ll find customized keyboards and keycaps to swimsuit nearly any style, from Star Trek to Lord of the Rings to issues that aren’t ridiculously big media properties, and just look good. I’m ready for that form of flexibility and intentional design sense to return to the within of my pc, and never simply the stuff I plug into it.

So convey on the “waifu” graphics playing cards. And convey on something that will get PC design out of its “stealth fighter covered in Christmas lights” rut. I’ll stan for you, anime weirdos — simply please let me purchase extra PC components that seem like they had been designed, and never simply manufactured.