rying to shove a full-blown gaming PC into a console-sized case always turns into a brutal fight for every single millimeter of space. Primax, a company better known for its VR headsets, has decided to crash the compact desktop party with its very first PC, the Spation. Comparing its footprint to an Xbox Series X sounds mighty tempting if you are sick of keeping a giant tower heater under your desk, but physics refuses to be negotiated with. The hardware inside is aggressively adult, but whether the engineers actually managed to vent the heat out of that cramped box is an open question — and the most critical one for your wallet.
What the compact case hides
On paper, the mechanics look straightforward, but a closer look at the components raises immediate red flags. At the core sits a Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor, backed by either a Radeon RX 9070 XT or a GeForce RTX 5070 Ti for graphics. Toss in 32 GB of RAM, a 1 TB solid-state drive, and a hefty 1000 W SFX power supply [4, 5]. Networking specs are surprisingly modern too, boasting Wi-Fi 7, six USB-A ports, and a single high-speed USB4 port. The sheer amount of connectivity packed into such a modest chassis is genuinely impressive.
«The images show that the system features a proprietary cooling design. It is so unusual that looking at a single photo makes it hard to figure out what goes where»
The company claims it will sell the case separately as well, though given the bizarre cooling layout, it is anyone's guess how universal it will be or how painful a DIY build inside it will actually turn out to be. Making high-end parts play nice in a confined volume is notoriously difficult, and custom airflow paths can either save the system or become a builder's worst nightmare. To top it off, Primax refuses to publish the exact dimensions of the case, asking buyers to simply trust the marketing department blindly.
The price tag and real risks
There is zero pricing data available right now, and that single detail makes it impossible to take this machine seriously. Dropping cash on a pig in a poke with an untested cooling setup and a hidden price tag is a fool's errand, no matter how shiny the components are. They promised a compact chassis with Xbox-level muscle, but what we are actually looking at is a vague box with missing dimensions, an unknown price, and a massive 1000 W power supply just waiting to cook your gear.