Zotac's trippy, fractal-like PC case has been making me think about life, the universe, and the meaning of PC gaming

A Zotac custom PC case at Computex 2025 that's very hard to describe — (Image credit: Future)

What does it mean to be a PC gamer? What place do we hold in the universe, those of us that spend so much time in realities that are not our own? Oh, sorry. I've been staring too long into the infinite void of Zotac's custom PC case, and I believe it may be expanding the borders of my consciousness at an alarming rate.

Either that, or my coffee this morning wasn't entirely regular. Anyway, the custom case stands in Zotac's booth at Computex 2025, drawing in unwary tech journalists like moths to a flame. There I was looking at some perfectly respectable graphics cards, and then boom, my third eye was irreparably squeegee-d. I can now taste colours, and my playlist is full of The Grateful Dead.

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A Zotac custom PC case at Computex 2025 — (Image credit: Future)

Dragging myself back to reality for a second, most of the internals of this particular build are hidden in the bottom of that mirrored, seemingly-ever-repeating frame, and they're pretty beefy. A Zotac Gaming RTX 5080 AMP Extreme Infinity takes center stage (or should that be, infinite stages), while an Intel Core Ultra 7 265K handles the processing duties.

64 GB of DDR5-6000 and 4 TB of Corsair MP600 Elite Gen 4 NVMe storage rounds out the package. Oh, and it's water-cooled, which shouldn't be surprising and yet somehow is.

Surely this PC should cool itself by transferring its heat into the great beyond? I half expect it to have disappeared when I return to the halls tomorrow, a small black hole left standing in its place.

"What happened to the custom fractal PC case?", I shall ask. "Nobody knows", I expect will be the reply.

"We never brought it with us in the first place."

Andy built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 12, when IDE cables were a thing and high resolution wasn't—and he hasn't stopped since. Now working as a hardware writer for PC Gamer, Andy spends his time jumping around the world attending product launches and trade shows, all the while reviewing every bit of PC gaming hardware he can get his hands on. You name it, if it's interesting hardware he'll write words about it, with opinions and everything.

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