You want to show off your gaming PC. The new Hyte Y60 case does just that. With wraparound tempered glass and a graphics card positioned front and center to highlight the high-cost components, the Hyte Y60 is a great way to show off your gaming PC.

Hyte is a sister company to iBuyPower, a PC building company, and this new case can be purchased in its purest empty state or wrapped around the latest gaming components ready to play right out of the box.

The bright red version of the Hyte Y60 has been in the office for a while now and is a lovely case to assemble. I've been messing around with Steam Deck for the past month or so, and it's been a really nice dive into building a classic PC. Cramming a fresh Alder Lake system into this case didn't cut too much skin off my fingers. [It's a ROG Strix B660-I Gaming Wi-Fi and a huge ROG Ryujin II 360 cooler. Slip a Core i5 12400 CPU under that pump, stuff in a Corsair DDR5 and a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition, and my project was complete.

I must say, it was amazingly speedy.

Removing the front and back panels gives me a lot of free space to work with and allows me to mount a 360mm chip chiller radiator on the roof of the case, which gives me a lot of free space.

The Y60 also makes vertical mounting of graphics cards easy, with robust riser cables attached to the case at two points to stabilize the graphics card and GPU.

And it looks great, albeit with a certain aquarium/terrarium vibe. Still, I don't hate it, but actually shoving lizards, much less fish, into a case is not going to be good for the animals or the silicon. I once saw Gigabyte make an aquarium PC, but that was way more trouble than it was worth. At least the fish were alive. Well, while I was there anyway.

But the Y60 has its problems. It has only two drive bays, which is nice for both 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch drives, but it was constrained by the lack of room for a fan controller when installing Asus' large chip chiller. As a result, I, being a cable organizer, was forced to leave the box hanging on the back of the case.

Fortunately, however, the nature of the compartment design hides any cable sins behind the motherboard back plate. Incidentally, there is a huge cutout that allows you to fiddle with the cooling mounts without having to remove the board from the case. This is very much appreciated.

Also, the distance between the motherboard and the vertical mounting point for the 240mm radiator on the back of the case seems unreasonable for many AIO coolers. Tubes will be pulled tight when trying to plumb them to the bottom of the radiator.

The HyteY60 clearly feels similar to Corsair's premium cases. However, with a price tag of $200, one might find it "ouch, that's expensive."

Not only is this product focused on aesthetics, it is also focused on general cooling and is designed to provide continuous airflow around the case. If a standard air cooler is used, two more intake fans must be installed. There are already several exhaust fans at the bottom of the case to suck air over the mounted graphics cards.

Alternatively, the case can be semi-naked and the tempered glass panel completely removed to make it a completely open-air case. How very continental.

I think the Hyte Y60 is a great PC case. I like the terrarium aesthetic and the space for the most rugged components. However, the $200 price tag is high, and with only two hard drive bays and no other mounting points, it seems a bit restrictive for such a luxury-oriented chassis.