The Open Bench table project is the brain-child of several conversations with Streacom dating back to Computex 2015. Overclocking is a community driven hobby and sport where overclockers are willing to traverse the globe to get benching with like-minded people. Initially the project arose out of a desire to develop a bench table that would be suited to the needs of an overclocker who tends to travel.

Thanks to the hard work and dedication of Streacom, the current prototype, the Special HWBOT World Tour Edition is a solid proof of concept. Remember that the retail models from Streacom will be branded as the BC1 bench table. Measuring 36 cm x 27cm and with a thickness of only 8mm, the Streacom BC1 is made from a single piece of milled aluminum, making it light (only 2.5kg), portable yet rugged and ideal for carrying on the road. Despite its sleek light design the Open Bench table is in fact extremely solid and designed to offer overclockers support for a full subzero cooled rig, including a CPU pot plus four LN2 cooled VGA cards. Like mentioned before it is build to last.

Our prototype was from the European stop at Gamers Assembly at the end of March. A few weeks later at LAN ETS in Canada the only addition to the project were the rubber feet for the table legs. I'm already looking forward to the Asian stop at Computex end of this month to see what the new evolution will be, if there will be any as the current package is already pretty spot on.

What I would like to see for the upcoming versions:

• Maybe some more cutouts to lower the overall weight even more
• A 3rd SSD slot for extra storage
• Instead of using three small stand-offs, why not use one long PCIe GPU support stand-off
• Some sort of flexible fan support for the Dry Ice/LN2 vapors
• More durable screws to replace the plastic ones

Perhaps the most crucial aspect of the Open Bench table project is that its design is open to third party developers of additional accessories. Started by HWBOT and OverClocking-TV and later joined by Streacom, the project will allow full access to the blueprints files of the final product revision allowing third party developers to build accessories for these Open Bench table products, modify and share their design improvements and more.

Ultimately, community enthusiasts will be able to share their own unique accessory designs via 3D files on the Open Bench table site for others to use.

There you have our first glance at this enthusiast Bench Table. It not only looks very professional, it fully delivers the goods for those that are looking for an easy transportable and quick usable bench table, no matter the location. The cooperation between OverClocking.TV, HWBOT and Streacom has really paid off. We don't have any idea yet about the estimated retail price as some material choices are still not fully defined, but it should be competitively priced.

We will report back from Computex Taiwan for any update or evolution on this cool project.

Leeghoofd logging off

Thanks to Overclocking.TV  and HWBOT for the provision of one of the prototypes.