CES 2025: iBuyPower and Hyte booth visit

To kick off CES 2025 for me, I visited the booth of iBuyPower and Hyte. Makers of prebuilt systems and some popular cases, their booth located in the Venetian had a showcase of some of their latest cases, peripherals, and a pretty beefy cooler as well.

iBuyPower announced the Element 9 line up of cases and they were on display at the booth. If you want a clear view of the inside of your case, this is one to get. The tempered glass offers a nice view inside from three sides with the Element 9 SE case being a more of a starter type of case with no bells or whistles.

Going to the Element 9 Pro, you can see the top has a hybrid glass and mesh design so if you want to stick your radiator and fans at top you can. The other Element 9 cases have a solid top.

The regular Element 9 case has a nice RGB accent strip that runs along the bottom of the inside of the case. For those who want to style their case more with lights, this is for you.

All of the Element 9 cases have a grill at the bottom to accommodate air flow. With the enclosed glass design, iBuyPower created openings under it so air has some place to get into the case where it can then be expelled near the back, side, or top if you have a Pro case.

The last case iBuyPower had on display was the Slate 9 Mesh ARGB case. A follow up to the Slate 8 from last year, this year’s model it’s a glass and mesh case. As with the Element 9, there’s an RGB accent lighting strip at the bottom of the inside. There’s also included RGB fans to round out the color changing aspect of the case.

Partnering with Red Dragon, iBuyPower will also be putting out keyboards. The MK9 line comes in both a Pro and a regular variant. They are 96% keyboards so slightly smaller than a full size keyboard, but they still retain the number pad area if you want that.

The regular version features tactile brown switches and each key has an addressable RGB. The side has a removable cable for easier transport and it comes in both black and white.

For the pro version, you can swap out the linear switches should you desire. And it adds a nice volume dial on top, which is something I do use a lot on my other keyboards. The PCB is also gasket mounted on this one version versus the regular version.

Something that might help some case builders is iBuyPower’s powered USB hub. Attaching inside to a case magnetically, this hub will expand a single internal USB connection to four giving you plenty of ports to plug in items and have it placed anywhere you that is metal inside the case.

Hyte showed off new colors of their Y70 cases earlier with various milk variations. You had strawberry milk, blueberry milk, and tarot milk. If you wanted that corner display, you only had a choice of black and white before. Well now, they have the display in the corresponding colors so those that want to match the aesthetic of their case color can now purchase display upgrades in those milk colors as well.

If you want a lightstrip at the bottom, Hyte’s got a diffused ARGB light strip that can connect to their Thicc Q80 cooler and you can sync the color with the system. The Noodle LN60 and LN70 come in black or white, but offer a nice splash of color once powered up to the inside of your system.

Finally, if you want a big cooler, Hyte’s got the Thicc Q80 Trio which is a 360mm version of their previous Thicc Q60. The Thicc Q80 is a pretty big cooler and it’s taller than one of the computer cases that it was sitting next to at the booth, which you can see below. The copper plate is also larger on the Thicc Q80 Trio so it’s expanded in size almost everywhere.

A nice feature of the Nexus 2.0 software that controls the RGB of the system is that they are integrating with Open RGB. Now, users can have more choices in terms of syncing their RGB so if you do have components that light up from many different manufactures, there’s a possibility you can just use one program to control it all.

So, some nice little cases and upgrades for PC builders at the iBuyPower booth. Many of these items are available for order or pre-order with the iBuyPower cases and keyboards launching a little bit later this year.