Gigabyte’s Brix brand has been around for a while, and now the company is launching another member of the Brix series, the BRIX-GZ1DTi7. And with the strange green mesh, oval cross section, and glowing LED lights, it’s another gaming PC that has me wondering why we can’t simply make powerful computers that don’t look embarrassing to own.

As Guru3D.com reports, the new compact desktop actually has some serious firepower. The GZ1DTi7 offers a sixth-generation Intel Core i7 processor, either an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 or GTX 1080 GPU, 16GB of RAM, and both a 240GB M.2 SSD as well as a 1TB HDD for storage. Meanwhile, the unique design is partly explained by the cooling mechanism, which draws air from the bottom of the PC and vents it out…

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