Liquid-cooled desk contains full-fledged PC, won't be sold at Ikea
By Darren Murph 
posted May 24th 2009 12:02PM
posted May 24th 2009 12:02PM
[Thanks, Jay]
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this will be EPIC WIN if it's installed with WINDOWS.
Even more win if it's Ubuntu!
Yeah, WIN is Ubuntu's middle name...
Even more if no OS is installed in the first place, so people can decide which OS they want to use depending on their needs.
WIN-dows.
It's amazing how few people understood your joke.
Are u Gadget from PS3...? LOL its GLOCK....
@ josephmohmed
If you still want to do this the frame is made from 8020 extrusion from what I can tell
http://www.8020.net
if its liquid cooled, y dose it need 7 fans?
i thought liquid cooled dosnt need fans
bcoz,
WIN + 7 fan = WIN 7 IS EPIC WIN!!!
get it?
Thank you! Now I know exactly what I want for my next desk. It's awesome!
I didn't know neon was one of the elements of feng shui.
Pretty cool, but you think the gurus at popular mechanics would make a "cooler" desk than this. I am not a fan of the basic rectangle desk, but the computer inside is pretty cool!
Look again. The desk is curved.
You used the words "fan" and "cooler" in your post, yet neither were in reference to lowering the computer temperature.
Ha.
EPIC WIN
You'd be pissed if a component failed :P
As opposed to how good you usually feel when components fail in a regular desktop?
har har
Not really. With the exception of the touchpad, these are all standardized parts. A failure in any part is much easier to service and replace than, say, a mostly proprietary solution from a large company such as Dell, Falcon, Alienware, etc. The removable acrylic top makes it especially easy to access components and fix issues. All in all, this is a much more easily maintained computer than a pre-fab one.
I love how everyone is sorta making jokes, then you have that one "really serious guy" that types up a whole paragraph.
That was exactly my first thought. I was also wondering, what if you have a cold drink or something on the table... Would there be a condensation issue on the other side of the table top???
Quinn Shay
www.station112.com
I do believe this is THE coolest/most awesome case mod I've ever seen. I so want to try to make it myself, to bad I don't have mad skills like that.
hear that, case modders? It's taken years, but we've finally reached the apex of case mods with... the desk!
Yeah - This is one of the first mods that's actually appeales to me. If I had some extra cash, I would definitely try building one.
Common Man it wouldn't be hard to replicate / improve this design at all.
- The materials are extremely basic; you could design them in any CAD program in a pretty short amount of time.
- Once you know the bolt patters for everything you can do the hole lay out in the acrylic and have it water jetted. Also adding an opening in the top acrylic for a small USB farm would be sweet.
Plus adding some hinges so you can can open the front or rear panel would add functionality
it will sure have tremendous amount of WIN if it's time for...
...RECESSION ANTIDOTE!!!
This is really starting to get just as annoying as all the other memes that thankfully died out over time...
Can it play Pong?
@jperry
"Recession Antidote" isn't a meme. It's an imaginary contest for the sole purpose of boosting replies thereby padding subscriber numbers to show advertisers.
@ sweet greggo I actually won a Joby Gorillapod from Recession Antidote.
@greggo
You've almost got it right. It's a REAL contest for the sole purpose of boosting replies thereby padding subscriber numbers to show advertisers. Coincidentally, this article's sole purpose is also to pad subscriber number to show advertisers. In fact, EVERY post has that purpose. Weird, it's almost as if... it's their BUSINESS MODEL to boost subscribers and sell advertising.
Boo!
@Tonicboy,
Bravo!
Talk about space saving
Correction: "Packed within is a ... a Sony Bag-of-Hurt™."
remember this is a desk computer, not to be confused with a desktop computer.
wow, that's an awesome idea
Didn't this already get posted a week or so ago??
Yes on Gizmodo
Awesome idea, i'll have to try that one day!!!
Seven fans?
yea this sounds great for libraries and quiet rooms
You mean where they do things like reading articles?
Those kinds of places?
When is this gonna be the reccesion antidote ?
Neat.
sweet!
petite!
They went to all that trouble and then added cheap ass speakers with the cables trailing, Well Done!
You beat me to it. Honestly the speakers make it look like a completely amateur job. Not to mention the fact that there's a lot of wasted space inside the desk and the wiring/tubing job isn't exactly professional. Having those cathode lights just out in the open like that is so ugly.
I hate to sound like such a downer, but I've seen this thing posted on twenty different sites now and I don't understand all the love. Head over to any modding community (like the HardOCP forums) and you'll see dozens of Joe Schmoes with much better mods with much better execution.
DO WANT!!!!
me too.
I came.
stupid and ugly
Thanks for sharing. I can recommend a good cognitive therapist, and a plastic surgeon.
Someone really hasn't heard of an all-in-one PC.
With all those fans, it most be super load
Also why didn't they sink all the heat to the aluminum frame of the desk?
Build your own:
1. Buy a glass table
2. Buy an iMac
3. Eliminate cable clutter.
4. Save money
Yeah, but can you see the innards of your computer working just by looking down?
Granted, an iMac would suffice, but some people do things not because it's practical, but because they can.
lol only an apple fool would think buying an iMac is building anything. Saving and money and mac only belong together in a Mcdonalds commercial.
Save money and iMac together?
I lol'ed!
YES is exactly the same why this *idiot* when to all this trouble ??? Because an iMac has a 280GTX, RAID velociraptors, Blu-ray drive, DDR3 RAM and a 3GHz Core 2 Quad processor....
/sarcasm
*sigh*
better idea. Buy laptop. Done
5. ???
6. Debt.
7) PROFIT!!!
Yea, it's time all desks had a flip top to build pc's etc into :).
this will be pretty bad for your eyes and tell me one veteran gamer who does not wear glasses or contacts.
just buy an Iphone. Did I mention the Iphone rules because it's GSM.
CDMA sucks
you suck.
Wow.. a complete shitfest for fingerprints.. I can't get down.
But will it blend?
lol, i have exactly the same pc (except the hdd and the 3GB ram - i've got 4GB of it)
but, in my pc case :D
yeah so do they... 4GB of RAM.
This is so dope.
Well, fire is one of the elements, and neon is an gas electrified in order to make it emit photons; some early developers described it as "liquid fire", so it might pass...
You've got the water in the liquid cooling system, and metal in the aluminum structure. So it needs something to represent wood and earth - maybe a little bonsai tree?
Win.
yep, nice job..
Not very difficult to do tho.. don't know why its on engadget.
I've always wanted to build a computer into a desk, good to see somebody doing it. Of course, my idea was a little less refined (Step one: find a desk with big enough drawers to screw a motherboard into, step two: do it).
I suppose this is getting closer to the unavoidable truth that your future computer is going to be a huge ass table.
Good luck carrying this to a LAN party... Or anywhere, should you need to move out or flee from your home for some reason.
Oh no Sir, you are mistaken. When your rig looks like that, the LAN Party comes to you.
Or carry it up the stars out of your mom's basement......
Damn it!! That was supposed to be stairs.... It's not as funny now... :(
Fuck Ubuntu, no one would buy a GTX 280 for Ubuntu. There is no reason to.
Wow - a computer the size of a desk... this is amazing!
I think I'd like it better if the desktop was frosted.
Neat! Seems like something so obvious, why haven't I seen this before?
Cause you don't read Gizmodo?
look at that! I did have it bookmarked though...
A curse on both your houses.
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HOLYSHIT!! This is a genius idea. I think I might invest some time into making one myself.
Wait, it's next to impossible to keep clean?
Gets so hot you can make your own popcorn.
Awesome. Just plain awesome.
This would do well with my refrigerator case I made for my dual core Atom mobo....
lololololololol. Surface.
The next case mod will be to turn your living room into a PC! And they'll call it... iCray!
Wait a minute... are computers going backwards?!
mf! i thought i have the coolest desk .. but i don't think i can have it for personal use anyway, could be for work
anyway... this is the one i have ... still the coolest overall
http://biomorphdesk.com/1-888-302-DESK/maxo/maxo_installed.html