The First package features the case with its integrated passive and dual cooling solution, aesthetical skins (standard colours), front & back panels, metallic mesh for the top of the case, mounting kits, thermal grease, HDD anti-vibrations washes and tools. White First come with a white cooling. Black & Anodised First come with a black cooling. Apwal is the same product than The First with same accessories and without aesthetic skins.

The First weights 7 kilograms (± 250 oz or ± 15 lbs).

The First has the following dimensions: 215 mm (length), 205 mm (depth) and 430 mm (height) for a total volume of 19 litres.

For configurations up to i5 8500k and GTX 1080/RTX 2070, The First is cooled passively without any fan. For higher configurations, The First is cooled silently with a low speed 120 mm or 140 mm fan installed inside the chassis. In this case, the fan is only activated during short period of time in the event of intense computing (benchmark, software calculation, AAA Games, etc.). From an electronics perspective, some electronics components may intrinsically produce “coil whine”. This electrical noise is independent of the cooling solution and can be avoided by selecting premium brands.

Special colours can be asked at info@monsterlabo.com

The First is a 100% dismountable case. Tutorial videos are available on our Youtube Channel to help you with the assembly of your components into the case, as well as an assembly guide.

When an order is placed, each client receive an automatic email confirming the order and asking which motherboard and graphic card they plan to mount into their First. By answering this email, the team will be able to add the right fixtures into the package. Each fixture will be also available for free online for next upgrades of components [Update 23/04/19]

Partners and/or MonsterLabo can assemble The First for you. Feel free to have a look here and see if your country is covered by one of our partners. If not, feel free to contact us and we will discuss about your needs.

The Beast is compatible mini-ITX > ATX. We didn’t notice any issue with specific motherboards so far. The compatibility list is updated regularly.

The Beast is compatible with most of the graphics cards up to 290 mm PCB length. Have a look at our compatible list. This section is updated regularly.

A graphics card is composed of a PCB with a housing (heatsink and fan) mounted onto it. The assembled graphics card can be longer than the PCB itself. The effective length to take in consideration for The Beast is the PCB length. This explain why some graphics cards are compatible although being longer than 290 mm, housing included.

To mount the graphic card onto The Beast heatsink, you will have to remove the HSF (heatsink and fan). This step is mandatory to have a passive computer. Each graphic card manufacturer has its own warranty policy regarding the disassembly of the HSF. Please refer to your card specification. Disassembling a card is a quite mainstream process in all high-end cooling solutions, liquid cooling being the most common example.

The full covering spreaders was designed for cards with a TDP higher than 220W. For the other cards, a machined heatsink for the VRMs and heatsinks for memories are enough to keep the board cooled. We also designed a special solution for some boards (RTX 3070 mainly) made of a spreader for memories, combined with a machined heatsink for VRMs.

ATX motherboard do not get their weight allocated equally. That means a loud part of the board can not be connected to the cooler block. To avoid any issue, special brackets are designed to fix the motherboard to the structure. Formats smaller than ATX are not concerned by this potential issue.

Many references have been added into our “compatibility” section but not all of them at listed. For graphics cards, most of the time this is due to the lack of pictures available online. Feel free to contact us if you need us to check a specific reference.

The First is compatible with SFX, SFX-L and ATX full length power supplies.

The Beast allows the mounting of 4 HDDs 3.5’’ or 8 SSDs 2.5’’. Please note we do not recommend the installation of HDDs that can be very loud, especially into a fanless case (=0dB).

The Beast is not compatible with 200mm fans for now. A solution is currently studying to allow the mounting of 200mm fans at the bottom of the case.

The Beast is compatible with PCI card. With mini-ITX motherboard, it can be connected directly onto the board. With other formats, you can use one of the two back panel slots with a dedicated 3D printing part, or you can use the HDDs slots that are compatible but will require the using of a riser.

We offer a 2-years guarantee in the European Union, 1-year elsewhere for the mechanical and cooling parts.

Power max CPU: 300W Power max GPU: 320W

In full fanless mode: CPU: 150W GPU: 250W In silent mode (2x 140mm at 500RPM): CPU: 250W GPU: 320W

Cables management is a critical aspect for 2 main reasons: (1) it has an impact on the interior aestheticism of the case and most important, (2) it can impede air flow and reduce passive cooling efficiency if not properly done. Although cables management of The Beast can be done quite easily with standards length cables, we will propose custom cables options with specialized partners. Additional cables are already included with The Beast. Their length optimizes the cable management and air flow into The Beast. We also designed special parts for cable routing available at the bottom of the case.

The Beast will be available for delivery in March 2022. Configurations will be available starting December 2021.

The Beast is available for shipping to these countries: - Australia - Austria - Belgium - Bulgaria - Canada - China - Croatia - Czech Republic - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Greenland - Hong Kong - Hungary - Iceland - Irland - Israel - Italy - Japan - Latvia - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - New Zeland - Norway - Philippines - Poland - Portugal - Qatar - Romania - Russia - Singapor - Slovakia - Slovenia - South of Korea - Spain - Sweden - Switzerland - The Netherlands - Taiwan - Thailand - Turkey - Ukraine - United Arab Emirates - United Kingdom - United States of America - Vatican City

You can contact the team at info@monsterlabo.com and suggest your country. We will check the price of shipping and will let you know if it's possible to ship our products to your country.

MonsterLabo is a small company and a small team. We can't provide the working capital without pre-orders.

You have 2 options: You can either chose among our customizations You can either customize your First. We shared our drawings so that markers and modders can produce their own skins, shapes, front panel, etc. The First is 100% dismountable, you can remove any parts, upgrade and change them. The First is Yours.

No risk, no fun, no RGB. Our goal is not to propose, like (almost) everyone else onto this market, RGB options. But at some point, we might get bored and work on it. In the meantime, if you’re fond of Spacecraft or Unicorn rig, you can try to integrate them.

MonsterLabo has been created by a team of 4 long-term bad gamers but pc builder enthusiasts. Leveraging nearly 10 years of experience in the fields of cooling engineering, the team’s ambition is to provide the PC hardware community with a new generation of powerful but passive computer cases. The team is composed of: Elisa: focused on press, media, web marketing, community management and online sales Nicolas: focused on thermal design, R&D, IP, prototyping and product strategy Clément: focused on mechanical design and productizing Maxime: focused on strategy, finance and advertising + Quentin, as our previous mechanical designer

MonsterLabo members are available via email at info@monsterlabo.com, online via our tchat and also present on a dedicated topic on SFF forum. Feel free to join us there!