Have you ever seen a water-cooled copper gaming PC before? If not, you're in for a treat as an absolute beauty named "the boiler" has just been shown off by builder h25 com สล็อต and retailer Billet Labs. And it's for a good cause as its auction proceeds will be going to charity once it is sold.
In the showing it all off, the machine had not yet actually been turned on, as the team still had to fill it with water. The presenter says it "looks like a H25 สล็อต steam engine" and I don't think I could come up with a more apt description, other than it could be strapped to the waist of a steampunk cosplayer at Comic-Con.
Billet Labs has a now sold-out which is compatible with 3090 Ti FEs and 4090 FEs and cools both the CPU and GPU, which originally got eyes on the company due to a in 2023. However, also sells pipes, pump tops, and fittings to start building your own water-cooled copper rigs.
If you don't fancy taking part in the auction, Billet Labs does take commissions for PCs. Just last year, it unveiled a , which took £5k / $6.2k in parts alone, plus over 150 hours worth of work to build.
Both the steam machine build and toaster build are very small in form factor, which seems to be something the copper water-cooling is uniquely good for. Putting parts close together can make cooling less efficient and copper being particularly efficient with cooling can counteract that. We don't yet have word on an build or how compatible these machines are with upgrades (I'd think the specificity of the build would suggest not very) but I personally can't wait to see what they look like when that copper oxidizes. It's like a mini PC that just keeps on giving.
I certainly don't need one but I do want one.