

KFC’s. said the console’s cooling system was built to “extract system heat through around the outside of the chicken chamber, ensuring that the hardware is kept at a regular core temperature while simultaneously delivering a piping-hot meal.” When asked if the KFConsole is viewed as a rival to Sony and Microsoft's next-gen consoles, the exec said, "We like to think we’ve built a competitive system with the specs we have in it." Cooler Master community and event manager Ann Ann Kao told us the partnership made sense to the vendor due to its connection with the PC modding community, which also includes the Cooler Master Case Mod World Series. “These guys can recreate cars, superheroes, sharks, tanks into PCs, so a bucket was definitely doable” The Intel NUC 9 Extreme Compute Element we tested was specced with an Intel Core i9-9980HK CPU, but we haven’t gotten confirmation. Heat from the computer's components is transported to the chicken chamber, helping to keep your hardware cool and chicken warm. And then combined with a high-performance PC, well, I had to spend days creating the 3D model for it.” When we asked Cooler Master for the KFConsole’s full recipe, a rep would only tell us that it’s an “Intel NUC 9 Extreme Element at its core with a modified Cooler Master MasterCase NC100,” as well an Asus RTX graphics card and 1TB of Seagate NVME SSD storage. “The cylindrical bucket design and the chicken bay two separate features that by themselves challenging to work with.

Today, KFC announced that it indeed created a KFConsole by tagging in Cooler Master to help create a bucket-shaped PC capable of playing games. That bucket is actually an Intel NUC mini PC modded to look like and actually serve as fried chicken storage by pro modder and Cooler Master CMODX team member Tim “Timpelay” Malmborg. “The hardest part was definitely figuring out the entire internal layout to get it as compact as possible and still have sufficient cooling for the hardware,”.

claimed to be prepping its first gaming console just as gamers were getting ready for the release of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. Originally, KFC promised a November 12 release date, but that was pushed back. Teased this summer with more details being served up today, the KFConsole is a real-life gaming system built from an Intel NUC. It was easy to write the KFConsole off as a joke in June, when KFC posted. on its KFC Gaming Twitter account showing off what appeared to be a bucket-shaped PC. “equipped with a chicken chamber.” The restaurant.
