Thermaltake has launched five AI workstations and gaming PCs, led by the A1500 Dual: two independent workstations in one chassis with six GPUs and 384GB of VRAM on the AI side. Here's the whole lineup, plus the CAPO X dual-system case you can build into yourself.
Every PC builder has had the thought: what if I just had two? Thermaltake has taken it literally, and then some. Off the back of the AI boom, it has launched a range of AI workstations and gaming PCs built around one idea: two complete, independent PCs in one case. The headline act is the A1500 Dual, a filing cabinet on wheels with six graphics cards in it.
There are five systems. Thermaltake hasn’t announced prices or release dates for any of them yet.
You don’t have to buy a pre-built. The case behind the CAPO X Dual AI Gaming PC has been on sale on its own since July.
Dual-system cases aren’t new. Phanteks and Lian Li have both done variations for years, and streamers have run two-PC setups forever. What’s changed is the reason to want one. Local AI, whether that’s running your own models, AI agents, image generation or game modding tools, chews through VRAM and hammers a system in a way that doesn’t sit nicely alongside a game. Thermaltake is betting that people will want a second, always-on box for that, and that they’d rather it lived in the same case. Expect more cases, boards and pre-builts designed around “one for play, one for AI” over the next couple of years.
The A1500 Dual is gloriously unhinged: 384GB of VRAM on one side and two 5090s on the other, in a box on wheels. Nobody reading this is buying one, but it shows exactly where the money in PC hardware is heading. AI is now the reason to make big, expensive, multi-GPU machines.
For the rest of us, the CAPO X is the interesting one. A US$160 to US$190 case that holds two full rigs is honestly reasonable, and gaming on one side while the other renders, encodes or runs a local model is genuinely useful. The catches: it’s enormous, two systems mean double the heat in one box with the top one breathing the bottom one’s warm air, and Micro-ATX limits your board choice. The pre-built CAPO X Dual, with an RTX 5090 and an RTX 5070, is going to cost a fortune once it lands in NZ. As a case to build into yourself, though? We want one. One for the frames, one for the bots.
Which one would you have: the A1500 money pit, the CAPO X, or a sensible View 380 XL? And what would you run on the second PC? Tell us in the comments, or show off your rig in the GetRekt Discord.
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