Kubb Launches the Spectre: Watercooling, AMD Ryzen X3D and RTX in 18 cm — What Shouldn’t Exist, Does.

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Kubb®, French manufacturer of premium compact computers, announces the immediate availability of the Kubb® Spectre, a machine that redefines the boundaries of technological density. In a 180 × 180 × 180 mm aluminum enclosure, the Spectre concentrates a professional workstation architecture, a custom-integrated liquid cooling system, and the latest generation processors and graphics cards available on the market. What the industry considered impossible in this form factor, Kubb® has made real.

KUBB®’S DNA: REFUSE THE OBVIOUS, BUILD THE EXCEPTION

Since its inception, Kubb® has always operated against convention. Where the industry optimizes existing molds, Kubb® starts from the constraint and turns it into an advantage.

The Kubb® Spectre is the most complete expression of this philosophy: not an improved mini PC, not a miniaturized workstation, but an entirely new category. The Spectre is built for those who refuse to choose between power and space, between performance and silence, between aesthetics and capability.

Crafted in aluminum, available in four finishes — Graphite, Source, Bronze and 12 (Blue) — it fits as naturally into a creative studio as onto a researcher’s desk or inside an audiovisual production suite. It is an object built to last, designed to integrate, destined to stand out.

A MARKET POSITION WITH NO EQUIVALENT

The compact high-performance market is dominated by two approaches: consumer mini PCs, thermally and graphically limited, and traditional workstations, powerful but bulky. Between the two, a gap. That gap is precisely where the Kubb® Spectre operates. No player in the industry currently offers a fully integrated watercooling system in an 18 cm form factor, paired with RTX™ 50-series GPUs and AMD Ryzen™ X3D processors. The Spectre does not compete — it creates its own category. Starting at €2,955, it targets professionals who have until now been forced to trade performance for space constraints. That trade-off no longer exists.

INTEGRATED WATERCOOLING: A THERMAL BREAKTHROUGH

Fitting a liquid cooling system into 180 mm on each side is not an optimization — it is a complete reinvention of the internal architecture. Every component, every residual airflow path, every millimeter is engineered so that the watercooling operates autonomously, silently and efficiently, with no external radiator required. The result is tangible: stable temperatures under sustained load, significantly reduced noise compared to equivalent aircooling solutions, and consistent performance over time — no throttling, no degradation. For intensive professional workloads — 3D rendering, AI inference, simulation, highresolution video editing — this thermal stability is not a comfort. It is a requirement.

„Integrating a custom watercooling system into 18 centimeters is the challenge nobody wanted to take on — because everyone assumed it was impossible. With the Spectre and the AMD Ryzen™ X3D, we proved you could sustain workstation-level performance under prolonged load, in near silence, in a volume that competitors still reserve for basic airflow. This is not an evolution of the mini PC. This is a disruption.“ — Jean-Christophe AGOBERT, CEO & Founder of Kubb®

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

The Kubb® Spectre is configurable across three processor tiers: Intel® Core™ i7-14700KF, AMD Ryzen™ 7 7800X3D or AMD Ryzen™ 9 9800X3D. The NVIDIA RTX™ 5060 8 GB (MXM) graphics card provides GPU acceleration with the latest generation Tensor and CUDA cores for local AI inference, real-time 3D creation and video production. RTX™ 5080 and RTX™ Pro configurations are also available. DDR5 memory starts at 32 GB, expandable up to 96 GB, paired with a 1 TB M.2 NVMe Gen4 SSD with optional second M.2 slot.

Connectivity includes USB4 Type-C, USB 3.2, HDMI™, DisplayPort 1.4, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth® 5.2 and dual 2.5 GbE RJ45. The Spectre ships with Windows 11 Pro and a 3-year manufacturer warranty, extendable.

TARGET USE CASES

The Kubb® Spectre addresses professionals for whom computing power is a production tool: creativestudios and agencies for real-time 3D rendering and 4K/8K video production; AI researchers running local LLM and diffusion model inference without cloud dependency; R&D teams requiring complex simulation and scientific computing; audiovisual producers handling multi-stream editing and GPU-accelerated encoding; architects and engineers working with BIM, CAD and high-resolution visualization.

PRICING AND AVAILABILITY

The Kubb® Spectre is available now at kubb.eu, starting at €2,955. Graphite, Source, Bronze and 12 (Blue) finishes are available immediately upon order.