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Back in February, Leo and I went to Brussels to visit Calyos and take a look at their completely-passive NSG S0 chassis prototype. Today, Calyos has announced that the finished product will be launching on Kickstarter tomorrow, March 29.
According to our information, the early-bird price will be just 479 Euros – I say ‘just' 479 Euros, as we were actually told the final price could be up to 600 Euros, so Calyos have done a good job bringing the price down a bit. That 479 Euros will buy you the chassis and the phase-change cooling solution on its own, though Calyos have said that should the Kickstarter go well, they may be offering pre-built systems which use the NSG S0, configurable up to an i7-7700K and GTX 1080 Ti.
Aside from the cheaper-than-anticipated price, the NSG S0 has also had a complete makeover, thanks to French modders Watermod. The prototype we got a look at in February was perhaps not the best-looking piece of tech on the market, and Calyos were very happy to admit that at the time. They did tell us they would be working hard to revamp the aesthetic side of things, and I certainly think the finished product looks great.
Other than that, it is a very exciting time for the PC industry. Never before have we seen a 100% silent chassis capable of housing the latest-and-greatest hardware, and I am sure many of you will be checking your bank accounts, eager to get hands-on with the NSG S0.
KitGuru says: It was great to visit Calyos back in February and having seen the finished product, the NSG S0 looks really good. Will any of you guys be backing the campaign? Stay tuned for the Kickstarter launch tomorrow.
I said it at the time I just don’t get why you are so invested in this? It’s massively over engineering a problem that barely exists with today’s hardware. If your web browsing or word processing most PC’s switch off or near enough stop fans on GPU’s, processors and cases automatically. As for the PSU do Calyos recommend a passive PSU capable of powering the system if not it defeats the purpose.
Any processor is just fine with a huge £50 heatsink and a couple of slow moving fans. You only notice the fans on your GPU tests because you tend to manually set them to 60-70% which makes you aware of them, leave them on manual and most GPU’s like the MSI twin frozr are whisper quiet especially in something like a Be Quiet! Case. If that’s not enough put the pc under your desk. The point I’m trying to make is there probably is a market for this it’s just not the high end gaming market, my fishtank and ticking wall clock annoy me more than my PC?.
I think it is a shame they changed the design so much from the prototype. It looks like it is a bit cheaper to manufacture. But in that price range, who really cares.
Plus. The biggest sales point is that it is fan-less. But then they made 5 fan mounts to add extra cooling. That doens¨t instill much trust, that it will cool high end systems without the fans present and this is after all made for very high-end systems.
Furthermore they try to sell it on the fact that since there is no fans, no dust will be blow in to the system. making it dust free.. But it is a completely open case… it is going to be covered in dust…