The Riotoro Prism CR1280

The PRISM CR1280 is the first enclosure from RIOTORO we've looked at, and it is impressively built. The appearance won't appeal to everyone, and at this point there might be some RGB lighting fatigue in the PC enthusiast community. The fact that...

Starting a new company is no easy task, and releasing a series of new products in a market that is already flooded makes it that much more difficult. After all, there are a ton of case manufacturers out there, and for the most part, every niche is...

The Prism CR1280 is not meant to be subtle, with Riotoro trying to make the CR1280 as attractive as possible without making it kitschy. Still, the CR1280 is clearly designed with home users or, more specifically, gamers in mind. It could also appear to...

In summary, the Prism CR1280 is a product of fine quality, very spacious for powerful systems and with good expandability options. It is not a subtle product, clearly designed to attract attention, unsuitable for spaces (and users) that dictate understated designs. The MSRP price of $140 is reasonable and we expect the retail price to be lower than that, making it an appealing option to advanced home users and gamers that want a spacious, high performance case, especially if they have RGB peripherals to match.

The Prism CR1280 offers Riotoro-exclusive 256-color RGB lighting plus room for large motherboards and four double-slot graphics cards at a mid-market $140...

Testing will be conducted with an AMD FX 8320 CPU on the ASUS M5A99FX motherboard, and set to run at a CPU Turbo mode speed of 4.0 GHz. Each case will be tested by turning on the system, waiting one hour for the temperatures to stabilize. Once...

RIOTORO is a brand new company, looking to penetrate a pretty saturated market of PC components. Comprised of few former Corsair and Nvidia employees, RIOTORO will likely succeed in the genre that they're in currently and likely if they decide to expand...