KFC releases it's own Gaming Console, possibly faster than XBox or Playstation... oh and it warms Chicken

[rcmaehl]

Summary

KFC has released the KFConsole, A custom Intel Extreme NUC for gaming that also keeps your Chicken warm while gaming.

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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... 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. 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,”... “The cylindrical bucket design and the chicken bay [are] two separate features that by themselves [are] challenging to work with. 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 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. 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”

 

My thoughts
This is spicier than KFC's Spicy Chicken sandwich. It's likely going to be a small promotional run and will be probably the price of a regular Intel 9 Extreme NUC ($1400 USD or so), however. Regardless, it definitely sounds extremely well spec'd... the wife is due for an upgrade and it'd be stupidly hilarious to grab this. Would you buy this for a gaming PC and if so, for what price? 

 

Sources

Tech Radar

WCCF Tech

Cooler Master (Product Page)

Tom's Hardware (Quote Source)

Edited December 23, 2020 by rcmaehl
Fixed project page

[DildorTheDecent]

Imagine the smell.

[zombienerd]

I was just coming to post this.  I hope LTT can get one for review, lol..

[Kilrah]

But... April 1st is still quite a while away 

[zombienerd]

1 minute ago, Kilrah said:

But... April 1st is still quite a while away 

It's actually really real.   Check the sources on the OP.

[Kilrah]

7 minutes ago, zombienerd said:

It's actually really real.   Check the sources on the OP.

I know... still WTF enough regardless.

[rcmaehl]

5 minutes ago, yaboistar said:

so we can safely say you need a lobotomy on your resume before going to work for KFC corpo

I mean it isn't the first time KFC has done crazy partnerships. Their Japan/China counterparts are especially crazy

https://dronedj.com/2019/09/07/kfc-drones-deliver-chicken-china/

 

https://www.cnet.com/news/kfc-fried-chicken-keyboard-its-finger-clicking-good/

 

https://www.cnet.com/news/so-kfc-japan-has-a-fried-chicken-iphone-case-too/

 

[Murasaki]

[Moonzy]

best part about it is it's actually a mini PC

so it will probably run cyberpunk better than actual consoles

[rcmaehl]

Just now, Moonzy said:

best part about it is it's actually a mini PC

so it will probably run cyberpunk better than actual consoles

It'll also warm your burritos

[thechinchinsong]

Console wars are finally over.

[StDragon]

Fowl play!

[soldier_ph]

WTF this thing actually exists now...

[Velcade]

46 minutes ago, DildorTheDecent said:

Imagine the smell.

I'll take two!

[Sauron]

so literally just a KFC branded NUC?

[Slottr]

4 minutes ago, Sauron said:

so literally just a KFC branded NUC?

Ya but this NUC is finger lickin' good

[WillOfTheLand]

https://landing.coolermaster.com/kfconsole/

 

So this is a thing. If it was april fools I would think it's a joke, but it's not.

 

 

From WCCF Tech

 

[MarvintheParrot]

1 minute ago, WillOfTheLand said:

https://landing.coolermaster.com/kfconsole/

 

So this is a thing. If it was april fools I would think it's a joke, but it's not.

lol. Thats not fake at all....

[WillOfTheLand]

3 minutes ago, MarvintheParrot said:

lol. Thats not fake at all....

Yeah I had the same thoughts, then I thought to google it.

 

https://wccftech.com/kfc-kfconsole-gaming-launch/

 

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/kfcs-kfconsole-is-real-secret-ingredient-is-intel-silicon

 

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/76893/kfcs-new-chicken-bucket-console-pc-takes-on-ps5-xbox-series/index.html

 

[MarvintheParrot]

5 minutes ago, WillOfTheLand said:

Yeah I had the same thoughts, then I thought to google it.

 

https://wccftech.com/kfc-kfconsole-gaming-launch/

 

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/kfcs-kfconsole-is-real-secret-ingredient-is-intel-silicon

 

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/76893/kfcs-new-chicken-bucket-console-pc-takes-on-ps5-xbox-series/index.html

I guarantee that its fake. delete the "landing" from the cookies. or try to click on the cooler master logo at the top.

When you delete the "landing" part of the cookies it brings you to cooler masters 404 page. Or when you click on the coolermaster logo it just brings you to the KFC page. Its a joke.

 

EDIT:

 

It says with a 2070 SUPER, and it also claims 240FPS at 4k. IDK about you, but to me, that sounds like a bit of baloney.

Edited December 22, 2020 by MarvintheParrot

[GreatnessRD]

I can't breathe. As the guy on the wccftech review, this is most definitely peak 2020, lmao

[PlayStation 2]

kfc gaming

[TetraSky]

Ew, keep that chicken away from my PC. Last thing I'd want is grease stains on my Keyboard and mouse.

[unsorted]

2 hours ago, rcmaehl said:

Would you buy this for a gaming PC and if so, for what price? 

I wouldn't go near a KFC, let alone buy this. Cooler Master shoud be ashamed of themselves for partnering with such filth.

 

https://landing.coolermaster.com/kfconsole/

Spec-wise, their website writes:

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Never run out of space for games

Unleashing the performance of PCIe NVMe speeds that are 6× faster. Booting games up in seconds and instantly access data while loading games. We’ve taken your data to the next level of performance, reliability, and efficiency with two Seagate® BarraCuda® 1TB SSD.

====

2TB. Hah! Their video plays like a parody, and their website reads like one.

 

[Red :)]

I have several questions.

1. What the fuck?

2. What the fuck?

3. Why?

4. What the fuck?

5. Does anyone actually care for this?

6. What the fuck?

7. What kind of paint glue mixture did they sniff when they thought of this?

8. What the fuck?

 

I must be forgetting one.

Oh,

9. What the fuck?