Mini PCs and casings of that range seem to be all the rage right now, so needless to say, casings and chassis manufacturers like Kubb are going to milk the action for what it’s worth while it’s still in vogue. Recently, one of the company’s customers ordered one of its fanless systems with just one small markup: make it out of pure gold.
And make it out of pure gold, Kubb did. It took one of its self-named Kubb Fanless PCs and made the chassis entirely out of pure 24-karat gold.
Now, this is clearly not a typical request from a company like Kubb, so needless to say, there are a couple of trade-offs to doing this, which we are going to point out. As a baseline, a “normal” Kubb Fanless PC measures 120 x 120 x 120mm, is usually made out of aluminium, and weighs 2.1kg at most. Oh, and if its name wasn’t a sign, the entire system has no fans and is passively cooled.
With this all-gold model, this 12 cubic centimetre chassis weighs 13kg — the weight of an average, non-mini gaming PC, more or less — and retails for a cheap US$1.7 million (~RM6.95 million), versus the standard starting price of €1,595 (~RM6,516). Using gold as a medium isn’t all just for show either; compared to aluminium, gold dissipates heat between 30% and 50% more efficiently, given how much more conductive it is. Of course, this request was made more from a vanity standpoint than one of practicality.
That’s just the price of the chassis alone. There’s also the internal specifications of the Kubb Fanless. The company offers a choice between an Intel Core Ultra 5 225H, Core Ultra X7 358H, or an AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 processor. For memory and storage, the company offers up to 128GB DDR5 RAM and a starting capacity of 1TB.
At this point, a more pressing question would be the security of this all-gold Kubb mini PC for its new owner. After all, we’re living in a time when thieves are hijacking trailers of sand, thinking that they contain AI-related hardware.
(Source: FanlessTech, Kubb)
