Hyte Thicc Q60

Almost more mobile phone than CPU cooler

- JACOB RIDLEY

TAKE A LOOK at the Hyte Thicc Q60, and you might come to the conclusion that this is an all-in-one liquid cooler that pushes appearance over performance. That’s not strictly true, however. Yes, the Q60 is adorned with a 5-inch screen, a litany of RGB LEDs, and some tidy cabling, but there’s also a chunky CPU cooler beneath it all.

The Q60 is a big beast. It comes with a radiator double as thick as some, coming in at 52mm. That’s reportedly to use space that’s not often utilized to its fullest in modern PC cases, according to Hyte— it’s opting for a thicker radiator in the place of a longer one.

The Q60 is billed as a 240mm radiator on account of the two 120mm Thicc FP12 fans included, but it’s actually 288mm from top to bottom. The remaining space is taken up by the pump, which takes residence on the radiator rather than in the more traditional spot behind the cold plate. The benefit of this, for the Q60 at least, is more room for the enormous screen above the CPU.