Gadgetory

hardware canucks CES coverage is made possible by our partner Nvidia it is also made possible thanks to Corsair fantex and NCIX without them we wouldn't be here companies are realizing that 4k gaming fourth living room is a hot market one that comes with plenty of challenges to build a perfect and silent 4k companion back at Computex we took a look at Corsairs bulldog which has now been refined and ready for retail this would be a totally new category for Corsair and could prove risky the DIY version of the Bulldog costs four hundred dollars and for that you get the chassis itself a 600 watt SFX power supply a Hydra series h5 small 4 factor liquid CPU cooler which is an attractive and very slim solution that we hope will be integrated into more slim tower like cases the last piece of the kit is a z170 mini ITX motherboard so the user will be left to populate the rest of the hardware and as mentioned earlier combining a liquid-cooled CPU and GPU inside the Bulldog will contribute to good temperatures but more importantly delivers quite acoustics as well the shape of the case is an unusual choice because even though it's targeted for gamers it'll be on display in your living room so we would have preferred something less edgy but perhaps this is one of the strategies in attracting the right target audience to complement the Bulldog Corsair has also announced a lab dog which is a keyboard dock and a 7 by 11 inch mouse mat which has plenty of surface area for a comfortable movement the memory form underneath is very comfortable and it would last you well enough for longer gaming sessions the standalone station is set to be priced at $90 and the complete set with the keyboard with money around $200 the only weird thing of this combination is needing to keep the lap dog balanced flat as otherwise any angle would tip the mouse and you'll have to hold a mouse in place instead of resting it in place the Bulldog and the lap dog are in their final stages and we think it would complement the shift towards living room gaming but we would love a more elegant and sleek exterior shell for the Bulldog to appeal to a different demographic