Hyte’s Y70 Touch Infinite PC case makes it easy to build a stunning DIY PC with a built-in, customizable corner display and a vertical-mount graphics card.
We reviewed the original Hyte Y70 Touch back in late 2023, and were dazzled by its corner-mounted, vertical touch screen. So, too, were PC DIY types: Soon after, it was hard to find a Y70 to buy anywhere. Hyte’s given its update to the Y70 Touch, now dubbed the Y70 Touch Infinite ($399.99), a new screen for its second birthday. Now, it displays a full 2,560 pixels vertically (on a narrow 682-pixel-wide panel) at up to 500 nits and with a 1,000:1 contrast ratio. The screen continues to be the star of this show. What hasn’t improved is its lack of factory fans, which probably won’t be much of a problem for its spec-your-own target market but might present additional testing challenges for us, given that most of its competitors have at least a couple of fans pre-installed.
We’ll keep that in mind, along with all of the Y70’s fan-mounting space, as we approach our final analysis, but TLDR: This case remains one of a kind. If you really want that panel (and we bet you do, if you’re here), you’ll find a way to cool the Y70 Touch Infinite adequately. It’s our Editors’ Choice in the small but growing category of PC cases with built-in displays.Design: An Air Guide for Side-Mounted Fans
The Y70 Touch Infinite is available in four colors: white or red (each with a contrasting black interior), Snow White (a pure “whiteout” case), or straight black. We received a sample of the white with a black interior. Note: That’s a sticker over the corner screen.
Hyte’s Y60 was one of the early case pioneers to provide an angled corner for mounting a radiator or fans, but modders almost immediately noticed that such a narrow corner in a prominent spot made a good place to display other things instead. By the time it was ready to launch its second-generation of slanted-corner cases, the company had developed a touch-screen display for that corner, and it was a natural fit. Today’s Y70 Touch Infinite version focuses on delivering a bigger, bolder image with reduced system overhead.
System overhead, you ask? While the viewable area increases from 14.2 inches (on the original Touch) to 14.9 inches (on the Touch Infinite) and the rated peak screen brightness goes from 300 to 500 nits, the panel’s resolution goes down, from 1,100 by 3,840 pixels (Touch) to 682 by 2,560 pixels (Touch Infinite). Hyte touts the pixel reduction as a benefit to users, as it requires less from the graphics card. Now granted, we did think the original panel’s 1,100 by 3,840 was ridiculously high for what the screen is, but we won’t accept the reduction in pure marketing terms. We’ll just say that for a panel this small, we think 682 by 2,560 pixels could have sufficed from the outset.
Unchanged from the earlier review, the Y70’s port lineup features a headset combo jack, a lighted power button with a nice tactile snap, two USB 3.x Type-A ports, and a USB 3.2 Type-C. The audio combo jack features the common four-pole plug that provides monaural microphone input in addition to stereo headphone output; the power button lights up to indicate the PC is running; and the Type-C USB port connects to the motherboard via a Gen 2×2 cable. (Most people don’t know that the motherboard’s Gen 2×2 header is called Type-E, but now you do. Pass it on.)
Two removable drive trays, a power supply bay, a 140mm/120mm fan mount, and seven half-height slots are all found on the back panel, along with a four-position full-height slot bracket that matches the factory-included riser cable. Note that the included riser (seldom bundled in most cases like this) matches the color motif of the model you buy. When vertical mounting your GPU and using the riser assembly, the case can hold only one full-height PCI Express expansion card, but that card’s cooling solution can be up to four slots thick.
