Quad-Core, Liquid-Cooled Computer Inside Desk, Next… Your Children

by Josh on May 25, 2009 · Comments

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Oh, It starts innocent enough. First, it’s, “Let’s turn this desk into liquid-cooled, quad crankin’ beast!,” then suddenly it’s, “Papa, can I replace my spleen with hybridized nitrogen cooling units?”

Nonetheless, we’ll gladly accept this experiment into liquid-cooled awesomeness from the guys at Popular Mechanics. Yes, choke another one up to excess, the elimination of cord clutter and check out this extremely cool workspaces.

It’s comes standard with 4 GB of DDR3 RAM, a 3.0-GHz Intel Core 2 Quad processor, two 300-GB 10,000-rpm drives and a GeForce GTX 280 GPU. Bit it gets better. There’s also a Synaptic’s flush-mounted Touchpad, a Sony Blu-Ray drive and 13 blue neon lights running on a kilowatt power supply – all of it hooked together and pumpin’ a half gallon of Glycol through 15 feet of glowing tubes and water blocks. Simply glorious.

Popular Mechanics Via Engadget

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Tagged as: desk mod, liquid-cooling, quad-core

Rube Goldberg

I can dig it!

Hey honey, come here, look what I want to build :-0

Couple of pieces of 80/20, two sheets of Lucite, a handful of screws.......

Devon

ckeen

I stumbled this earlier. If this rig had a real video card and a wacom tablet surface mounted I would be in love.

BRS

Me too! that or a touch screen?

Josh M

OOOOoooo, you're not kidding. That card is pretty beefy (for gaming) but yeah, we could go for one of those 4GB Quadros. It does have a touchpad, but a Wacom would rock, or even having one of those Wacom Cintiq 21 instead of the monitor. man would that be cool.

ckeen

Yeah. The thought of a Cintiq gives me heart palpation. Needs more Tesla.

Rod_Uding

Sweet fricking setup. It screams industrial, 80/20 framing with the polycarbonate top + glycol cooling. Must have one for the homestead.

Josh M

yeah, I can imagine booting this up in the evenings for a little gaming action... and then just surfing the web in the glowing blue ambiance. who needs a fireplace and a good book anymore? :)

Marijn

Can you put goldfishes in it? That would be awesome!

Josh M

well, apparently it does incorporate a glycol waterfall, so, yeah, a goldfish tank could probably be added to or maybe integrated vertically, kind of wrapping around yourself... let's not get carried away now ;)