iBuyPower Trace X Review: The Fishbowl Gaming PC You Want to Swim In

A river of RGB light runs through the iBuyPower Trace X case, piercing up from the bottom of the gamer PC tower’s side panel through the top exhaust vents. Through the looking glass, shrouded in glow, this jumble of glass, aluminum, and silicon is like a fish tank swimming with light. This variety of elegant “fishbowl” PC cases has become popular these past few years. The Trace X, in particular, is the kind that would make the preteen version of me swoon. Then, you open up the side panel, expose the RGB light strips underneath, and find it nearly impossible to access the power supply cables underneath. That’s not to knock iBuyPower’s latest tower too hard. It’s likely the most appealing of its 2026 Gen 10 prebuilt gaming desktops and a solid PC in its own right. It’s just a reminder that the Trace X is made to be ogled first and fiddled with second. This prebuilt PC may not be as easy as other pre-configured desktops, but its certainly more beautiful because of it. With the supplied components, including a top-end AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D gaming CPU, 32GB of RAM, and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 GPU, the iBuyPower Trace X (RGB R01) would cost $3,450 as of early May 2026. Who knows if the

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