Bolt Gaming PC: 3.6 Inches Wide

Digital Storm Unveils Bolt – The World’s Thinnest, Most Powerful & Future-proof Gaming PC

Custom designed chassis provides thin form factor and future upgradability; while a 4.6GHz overclocked CPU delivers furious performance




Fremont, Calif. - (October 23, 2012) – Digital Storm, the predominant name in computer system integration and engineering, proudly introduces its slimmest custom designed gaming computer ever - Bolt. With Bolt, Digital Storm gives gamers exactly what they’ve craved: a powerful and affordable gaming PC without the need of a bulky desktop tower.

When conceptualizing the Bolt, Digital Storm engineers found no chassis on the market that met their design criteria, so they designed their own brand new chassis from the ground up. Every aspect of the Bolt from: cooling, performance, and upgradability were ingeniously designed to the highest possible standards. The Bolt boasts a slim yet aggressive profile that is only 3.6” wide and 14” tall. The Bolt’s thin chassis is designed to effectively dissipate heat allowing it to house the latest and fastest components on the market, bucking the trend of sacrificing performance for a smaller footprint.

No other thin form factor tower houses as much power as Bolt because no other system can handle the type of bleeding edge hardware and overclocking that Bolt does. Bolt’s high performance CPU cooling solution, with five copper heat pipes, unlocks even more gaming performance with processor overclocks of up to 4.6 GHz with Intel’s i7 3770K CPU. Bolt also supports up to 3 hard drives: 2 SSDs and 1 mechanical for incredible storage flexibility.

“Gaming PCs have always been housed in massive towers, but we’ve seen that more and more consumers are moving towards smaller and more efficient machines,” said Rajeev Kuruppu, Digital Storm’s Director of Product Development. “We wanted to develop a slim affordable gaming PC that could play the latest titles, while still being a powerful desktop PC that kept future upgradability in mind.”

Prior to shipping to the customer, each Digital Storm system undergoes a rigorous 72-Hour Stress-Test. Digital Storm technicians stress-test and benchmark the system via industry standard testing software coupled with a proprietary testing process that detects components which can be prone to future failure.

To view a video of Digital Storm’s Bolt and product landing page, click here: http://www.digitalstormonline.com/bolt.asp

I wanted to update you all on what Rajeev Kuruppu, our Product Development Lead just said about the Bolt launch:

Digital Storm has been extremely pleased by the positive reaction and helpful feedback from reviewers for the Bolt. The process to bring the thinnest and most powerful gaming PC in it's class to market has been an extremely rewarding and challenging project for our engineering team. With all of this feedback, we're making immediate changes to the Bolt’s configuration and design to make it an even better product. Any customer whom purchases the Bolt since launch will receive these changes on the unit that ships to them: (1) All Bolt configurations will now feature: •     Much quieter operation due to a new power supply, which is a more power and heat efficient 500W Gold Plus rated unit versus the previous Bronze model. •     A less glossy and improved external finish to prevent fingerprints and dust from reflecting off the surface of the Bolt. (2) In addition, the Bolt Level 3 configuration will also have the following changes while maintaining the same $1,599 price point: •     Faster storage performance with an upgraded SSD from a 60GB cache drive to a dedicated 120GB SSD. •     Better CPU benchmark performance with an upgraded CPU from the Intel i5 3570K to an i7 3770K with Intel HyperThreading support. •     Storage drive changed from a 1TB to a 500GB to help maintain $1,599 price point.

Yes, the configuration is upgradeable on the configurator.

The system has large vents and fans all around the PC.

There are large vents on the right side for the CPU fan processor.

There are large vents on the left side and top for the graphics card to pull in cool air.

The bottom of the chassis also has vents and the PSU also has fans to help cool itself.

Until Alex comes by, all the Bolt's have HDMI on the mobo for integrated gpu and the Bolt 1 gtx650 has a mini hdmi.  The Bolt 2-4 video cards have full size HDMI on the cards i believe.

Edited by bprat22 - 28 Oct 2012 at 6:53am

Everyone has given great responses. In regards to HDMI, a majority of the graphic cards now do support it. Let us know which specific configuration you wish and we can double check for you.

Post in Config Discusion.  We'd love to see what you're getting. 

Hi amoe....  I'm not Alex but I did check the config for ya  and Win7 Pro is listed as an option.  Hit Edit and I didn't have to but hit Expert Mode if it doesn't show.

Hello! i am new to the Forums and was wondering if you could give the the rundown on two gaming computers. The Bolt Level 2 VS the Marauder level 3 or 4. Could you tell me how differently they run and if they could max out on games like BF3(multiplayer), Black Ops 2, Borderlands 2, and other games i randomly buy during the Steam sale. I like the cost on both of the systems, but i would like to get more bang for the buck.

Thanks everyone for helping to answer the questions.

Originally posted by Baby Huey I was contemplating ordering the bolt, but while at home would want to game on 3 monitors. Is the 4gig version of the 680 GTX too big to fit in the bolt? Or can I speak with DS and have it upgraded through comments?

Do we even know the specs on the power supply other than the voltage listings?

The standard 2gb GTX 680 card uses 2-6pin power connectors.  The next step up in performance uses 1-6pin and 1-8pin connector.  The 4gb versions use 2-8pin connectors.  From the picture, I can't tell anything at all if there are any spare molex to convert power to a 6 or 8 pin.



I wonder if you could somehow rig up an external power supply just for the video card? hmmmm

Scratch that idea.  What the Bolt needs is a power supply with 2-6+2pin connectors !





Edited by JerryW - 12 Nov 2012 at 5:41pm

I know it says you can run 4 monitors and play games on 3 of those, but the additional Vram will make it a more pleasant experience from what I have researched. Was hoping Alex would let us know if the 4gb version of the 680 GTX is possible or if it would not fit or if the power supply is not enough to push it. My next desktop ideally will be able to push 3 monitors at good resolutions for gameplay. If it cannot be equipped with it then I may go with a different model even though the form factor for my travels with work would love the Bolt.

Wow will the 690 fit? That sounds really interesting. Would be like a superbolt or somethin.

Kk. I can appreciate that. There should be no thermal issues with the 4gb 680 right? If not, I may be placing an order soon.

We just launched a new and improved version of the Bolt today: http://www.digitalstormonline.com/forums/digital-storm-bolt-now-better-than-ever-tidf19398-pnf1/