Asus has shown off its new ROG G100 prebuilt gaming PC at CES 2026, and there are a lot of impressive things to like about it. It has three dedicated cooling zones, it has a massive AIO cooler in it, and it can house up to an RTX 5090 and AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D. But nevermind any of that, because this best gaming PC contender has holographic fans.
Asus claims this is the world's first prebuilt gaming PC to have a holographic fan system. We first started seeing holographic fans around a year ago, with options like the Coolify HoloFan showing the world that RGB doesn't have to be your only aesthetic choice for your PC's airflow. But to my knowledge, no prebuilt PC has thrown fans like these in one of its systems before. Let's face it, if any brand was going to, it'd be the one that's previously put decorative screens on laptop lids and controller faces.
For those who aren't sure what a holographic fan actually is, it's essentially a fan that creates a hologram using clever lights and projections while the fan is running. Using software, you could then program it to display images, videos, GIFs, logos, or whatever your heart desires. It's kind of the same idea as an AIO cooler that has an LCD display on the pump head, but this could mean big things for the front of your PC.
Asus calls this Holographic system the AniMe: Holo, and to my knowledge, the tech doesn't appear in any of the brand's other cooling components, unless it's been shown at CES to be coming in the next year's worth of separately sold fans. Either way, it looks as though you get two larger fans on the front of the PC, with one larger one on the transparent window that'll let you adorn the side of your PC with whatever design you like too.
Elsewhere in innovative cooling, Asus has also squeezed what it's again calling the "world's first" 420mm ROG AIO cooler inside this prebuilt machine. There appears to be plenty of RGB logo work up at the top of the build as well, so on the whole the rig is taking a customizable and busy aesthetic approach to cooling.
Similar to the Corsair Air 5400 which was announced back in October, the new Asus ROG G1000 has three dedicated cooling zones within its chassis. One for cooling the CPU, one for the GPU and other motherboard components, and one for the PSU. Despite my reservations about this type of case from a building perspective, I do think it would suit a prebuilt machine that isn't intended to be tinkered with as often. These cases are slightly unconventional, and while upgradability is important in a prebuilt machine, a tri-zone chassis isn't going to be half as confusing to work with as if you were to start from scratch in one. Quirky designs can work well in prebuilt PCs, like with the Acer Predator Orion X.
It feels slightly silly to be talking about such novel design points in a PC that can be powered by up to an overclocked RTX 5090. No doubt, configurations of the G1000 with that GPU will cost a pretty penny, but it's worth noting that this PC does seem to be tilted toward the most power-hungry users.
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