More like graphics SCARED

Horror games, you say?

Feh, hardware can be scary too.

One time I turned on a power supply and it literally went up in a cloud of smoke.

a composite image of, left to right, a PC fan, a PC tower with a rainbow skull light on it, and a graphics card

Last year I cut my hand on a CPU cooler radiator.

And did you seehow dusty my PC was before I cleaned it?

Thats basically body horror.

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Youve probably seen these already:keyboardsnamed after swords, laptops christened as mythical animals and the like.

But some go full spooky, consulting the Halloween kids costume pantheon of creatures and creepers.

AMD Wraith coolers

Ghost and ghost-adjacent names are usually pretty good matches forCPU coolers.

A CG render of an AMD Wraith Spire cooler with shining RGB lighting.

However, Wraith specifically?

To conclude: scary, but not for the right reasons.

3dfx Voodoo Banshee AGP

This is more like it.

The PowerColor Red Devil RX 6950 XT graphics card over a plain black background.

As an example of Halloween-worthy branding, however, the Voodoo Banshee remains one of the industrys better attempts.

Not even cool, fictional ones either think real-life bastards like snakes, sharks, and insects.

More so than a scorpion, anyway.

The 3dfx Voodoo Banshee AGP graphics card against an orange background.

Intel NUC Beast Canyon

Okay, forget the name for a sec.

If it is, I only just got it.

Dont laugh at me.

The Razer BlackWidow V3 keyboard against a dark sci-fi background.

What kind of beasts are we talking?

How wide is the canyon?

Are there hiding places?

Front and rear views of the Intel NUC Beast Canton barebones PC.

Sounds rough, Im out.