Pros & Cons
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- Bigger, brighter built-in touch-panel display
- Integrated screen is easy to set up
- Supports dual 360mm-format radiators
- Vertical-GPU riser assembly comes bundled, and matches the case color
- Includes top, bottom, and side air filters
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- Pricey
- Requires careful consideration of fan placement
HYTE Y70 Touch Infinite Dual Chamber ATX Mid Tower Modern Aesthetic Case with Integrated 2.5K LCD Touchscreen - Snow Whi Specs
| 120mm or 140mm Fan Positions | 10 |
| Dimensions (HWD) | 19.3 by 12.6 by 18.7 inches |
| Front Panel Ports | HD Audio |
| Front Panel Ports | USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A (2) |
| Front Panel Ports | USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C |
| Included Fan Lighting Color | None |
| Internal 2.5-Inch Bays | 4 |
| Internal 3.5-Inch Bays | 2 |
| Internal Chassis Lighting Color | None |
| Maximum CPU Cooler Height | 180 |
| Maximum GPU Length | 422 |
| Motherboard Form Factors Supported | ATX |
| Motherboard Form Factors Supported | MicroATX |
| Motherboard Form Factors Supported | Mini-ITX |
| PCI Expansion Slot Positions | 7 |
| Power Supply Form Factor Supported | ATX |
| Power Supply Maximum Length | 235 |
| Power Supply Mounting Location | Side |
| Side Window(s)? | Yes (Tempered Glass) |
| Weight | 24.7 |
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.
(Credit: Thomas Soderstrom)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 2x2 cable. (Most people don’t know that the motherboard’s Gen 2x2 header is called Type-E, but now you do. Pass it on.)
(Credit: Thomas Soderstrom)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. (Big GeForce RTX 5090s, welcome.)
(Credit: Thomas Soderstrom)The lowest slot cover has a DisplayPort connector on it, which is the video input for the Y70 Touch Infinite’s front-corner display. (You loop a DisplayPort cable from your GPU to this port.) Since the input port is mounted to a removable slot panel, those who’d like to put an actual expansion card in their motherboard’s lowest slot can reposition this connector to a different empty slot.
(Credit: Thomas Soderstrom)A removable fan bracket on the Y70 Touch Infinite’s bottom panel is capped with a removable dust filter. The dust filter lifts off after flexing two tabs, and the fan bracket it’s attached to lifts off after removing three knurled screws.
(Credit: Thomas Soderstrom)An approximate 30mm gap between the Y70 Touch Infinite’s interior floor and exterior bottom panel is designed to hold up to three 120mm or two 140mm fans at the most common 1-inch (around 25mm) thickness.
(Credit: Thomas Soderstrom)Secured by six snaps, the removable top panel features nylon mesh on its underside to provide similar dust protection to the bottom filter. The top filter isn’t easily removable for cleaning, but it can still be cleaned with a vacuum cleaner or compressed air as required. (Using the top as an exhaust should reduce dust accumulation here.)
(Credit: Thomas Soderstrom)Pulling away the top cover gets you access to the top panel’s removable fan mount. Designed to hold a radiator in either the 360mm (triple 120mm) or 280mm (twin 140mm) formats, the top panel offers 100mm of cooling space above the motherboard’s top edge.
(Credit: Thomas Soderstrom)You’ll find enough space inside the motherboard compartment to hold a mainboard of nearly any practical size (within Extended ATX limits), but the standard ATX scale of the motherboard tray imparts a practical limit to how far we’d let a board stick out past its front edge. Most enthusiast-class parts that carry the “EATX” label are only around an inch deeper than standard ATX, which to us seems acceptable here.
(Credit: Thomas Soderstrom)The oddity seen in most photos to this point is Hyte’s riser cable assembly, which is secured at the top via a half-height slot bracket and to the bottom via a couple additional screws. (The white plastic cover on its card edge and a sticker over its slot interface keep these parts clean prior to assembly.)
From this angle, we can also get a good indication of the side radiator mount’s relative position, which is 3 inches behind the motherboard tray and 12.25 inches ahead of the rear panel.
(Credit: Thomas Soderstrom)A separate chamber behind the side fan mount and the motherboard tray holds the power supply and two drive trays. Each tray is capable of holding either one 3.5-inch or two 2.5-inch drives, and one of those trays is factory-filled with the case’s hardware pack. In a nice, convenient touch, the drive trays insert from the back of the case.
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(Credit: Thomas Soderstrom)A recess within the top of the flat panel frame has the display’s power and data connectors. The USB-C connector doesn’t lead to a USB connector at the other end but to SATA power and USB 2.0 data instead, the latter connecting to a single motherboard port header (using four of an internal USB header’s nine pins) to take the signal from the panel’s touch-control sensors. Meanwhile, the mini DisplayPort cable does exactly what it was designed to do: feed data from a graphics device to the display.
(Credit: Thomas Soderstrom)Building With the Hyte Y70 Infinite
In addition to a folded copy of its installation guide printed on a giant single sheet of paper, the Y70 Touch Infinite includes five hook-and-loop cable straps, five power-supply mounting screws, nine #6-32 screws for 3.5-inch drives, and 22 M3 screws for mounting 2.5-inch drives and/or securing the motherboard to standoffs. You also get 10 zip-style cable ties, two replacement snaps for panel securement, a #2 Phillips adapter socket for relocating the factory-installed (hexagonal) motherboard standoffs, an audio-jack splitter (four-pole combo jack to headphone/microphone), and a non-latching DisplayPort link cable. The last is the loopback cable for connecting your graphics device to the port that feeds the front-corner display.
(Credit: Thomas Soderstrom)The Y70 Touch Infinite’s power button and indicator LED connect through a now-standard 9-pin connector. While the HD Audio and USB 2.0 interfaces are also 9-pin, all three are keyed differently to fit their specific headers to the exclusion of others. The Type-E (Gen 2x2) cable connects the front-panel’s Type-C port, the 19-pin cable connects its two USB 3.x Type-A ports, the USB 2.0 cable connects its touch panel, and the SATA-style power connector powers the panel’s display functions.
(Credit: Thomas Soderstrom)Hyte says that the Y70 Touch Infinite will accept graphics cards up to 390mm long, but the angled face actually means that it will fit slim cards up to 450mm in length and four-slot cards up to 360mm in length, by our measurements. Regardless, our 12-inch-long triple-slot card fits with whole inches to spare.
(Credit: Thomas Soderstrom)Shooting a lighted display requires either extremely good ambient lighting or photo editing tricks. No matter which method we used, we couldn’t do justice to the image quality we’ve experienced for the angled panel. But trust us: It looks great.
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(Credit: Thomas Soderstrom)The Hyte Nexus Software
To control a screen like the one in this case requires special software to make the most of it. After all, the narrow resolution is very non-standard.
To that end, Hyte’s Nexus software provides a bunch of system monitoring applets as well as panel image customization and RGB control. We spun up v2.7.0-beta without suffering any of the consequences that are often associated with the word “beta” (meaning that the software revision is not yet final). Here’s a gallery of screens from the software to give you an idea of what you can tweak and display on narrow panel.
(Credit: Hyte)You have a host of gauges to choose from that can show off system vitals like CPU and GPU stats...
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(Credit: Hyte)As noted, system and peripheral RGB lighting is also controlled from Nexus...
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(Credit: Hyte)Screen widgets (“Faces”) are handled from screens like this one...
(Credit: Hyte)We eventually replaced the Hyte goldfish with an expanded version of the instrument cluster before moving on to simply pick “block game” from the touch screen and play a de-branded version of Tetris via the touch panel.
Testing the Hyte Y70 Touch Infinite
Here's a summary of the standard ATX test parts we use for our PC case builds...
The Y70 Touch Infinite really needs some fans added to perform adequately, but the only ones it had in our test, out of the box, were those of our CPU and graphics card cooler. It lagged several degrees behind the already-warm Cougar FV270, and its losses mounted when we looked at GPU thermal data. In this test set, the Corsair 3500X ARGB prevailed; the Montech King 65 Pro also did well. Both had three preinstalled fans, though.
The Y70 being the hottest case, we weren’t surprised to see that the Y70 Touch Infinite was also the quietest. The second-hottest compared here was also the second-quietest, as one might expect if the cooling and noise differences were merely a matter of fans.
The Y70 Touch Infinite’s thermal defeat caused us to question the best way to retest the case with additional fans, only to circle back to the matter of fairness. (Some of the other cases had the cost of fans included in their prices.) After studying the problem further, we thought that the top panel’s filter sheet might be blocking the exit of our CPU cooler’s exhaust heat and tried removing it.
We’re looking at around a 4-to-5-degree reduction in component temperatures simply by letting our cooler breathe, and we’re sure that we could have accomplished a similar goal simply by adding enough intake fans to its side and bottom mounts to transform our Y70 Touch Infinite build into a positive-pressure system. Since most Y70 Touch Infinite builders would have already done that without our prompting, we’ll consider its thermal design adequate, so long as you, the buyer, are willing to put in the work (and the cost of a few fans) to get it up to snuff.