Introduction
When you’re a member of the Overclocking.com editorial team, you always try to remain impartial. For this article, that’s going to be tough, as I’ve been hired by Cooler Master, for a few month now, where I’m in charge of developing the simulation project: the Dyn X. So I thought it would be interesting for once to show what goes on behind the scenes, the challenges and so on.
Being a car enthusiast and collector, but also having worked in video games/hardware, I’ve always had a steering wheel and pedals close to my PC. In 2014, I built my first real simulator to play iRacing. At the time I was working for Millenium with Djey, and as we weren’t super satisfied with what was on the market, we had in mind to develop a cockpit. With the buyout of Millenium by Webedia in 2015, projects quickly changed and we had no time to develop a simulator. A few months ago, some friends at Cooler Master told me they were looking for someone with my profile to develop the IMX projects (immersion) I had to jump on the opportunity.
History of Cooler Master
Cooler Master has had a simulator chassis called DynX for over a year now. But why has Cooler Master ventured into a sector that is far removed from its core business, cooling? You might think that it’s because this market has been booming since Covid, and with the component market stagnating, it’s time to diversify. If we listen to the marketing team, we’ll learn that the Taiwanese brand likes atypical projects, and immersion (IMX) is their favorite word at the moment. There’s certainly truth in that, but the real reason is that Cooler Master is an R&D machine.
We all know the brand for its cases, cooling and power supplies, but did you know that this part of Cooler Master is actually quite small compared to its industrial part? The brand is actually behind the cooling systems of many other brands that I can’t name… but let’s just say that smartphones, consoles, graphics cards, servers, electric cars, 5G antennas… all the biggest brands call on CM for cooling. So the case, cooling and power supply part is really just the “fun” part of the package. And so, the immersion part is the “super fun” part.
