CyberPower serves up water-cooled LAN Mini H2o SFF rig

If you're looking for an ultra compact, ultra quiet new machine to act as your resident HTPC, CyberPower might just have an option worth eying. The all new LAN Mini H2o is said to be one of the planet's tiniest water-cooled desktop gaming rigs, and while it's equipped with Intel Core 2 Duo / Core 2 Quad CPUs, NVIDIA or ATI graphics and more hard drive space than you'll initially know what to do with, there's absolutely nothing stopping you from repurposing this is a media center PC. The box checks in at 11.25- x 8.75- x 7-inches and weighs just ten pounds, and there's even room for a WiFi adapter, Blu-ray drive and HDMI socket. Feel free to customize yours now, with the Core 2 Quad Q9550-equipped base rig starting at $965.

Update: Well, wouldn't you know it? Seems these guys got the idea from Vigor Gaming [.doc file].

[milkman Posted Sep 3rd 2009 10:40PM]

it was leaked that it also serves up urine that is luke warm.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 3rd 2009 10:55PM]

that sounds delicious :D

[HotDog Posted Sep 3rd 2009 11:19PM]

You mean lemonade, don't you?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 3rd 2009 10:54PM]

I think it's great how neither Engadget, nor the linked HotHardware have links to the actual product anywhere, just links to their own tagged entries of CyberPower. Awesome.

[HaZaRd Posted Sep 3rd 2009 10:57PM]

Not really that hard, man... http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/LAN_Mini-H2O/

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2009 4:12AM]

Thanks for the link.

[HaZaRd Posted Sep 3rd 2009 10:57PM]

Looks like quite the nice system, and it probably works very well for an HTPC. If only they'd ship to Canada. Sigh.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 3rd 2009 11:16PM]

Looks very nice;)

[fischju Posted Sep 3rd 2009 11:16PM]

I honestly wouldn't trust CyberPower to build a water cooling system. The prices aren't bad, I ordered a PC from them a couple years ago, but I could swear the thing was wired by monkeys.

[MJGAMER 1991 XBL Posted Sep 4th 2009 11:22AM]

I just looked through all the options, and for $19 they'll have a pro wire it for you! lol

[JustinM Posted Sep 9th 2009 12:18PM]

I have a watercooled system from them, and it's been solid as a rock for over a year now.

[Jeff Kibuule Posted Sep 3rd 2009 11:31PM]

Core i5 is a few days away. Who is gonna buy this? O_o

[Hydra Posted Sep 3rd 2009 11:35PM]

Doesn't seem like a bad price at all

[drumwiz86 Posted Sep 3rd 2009 11:42PM]

HTPCs seem kinda pointless now that cable providers are switching to digital signals and the only tuner out there that can tune digital cable is $230 and requires a hack to make it work

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 3rd 2009 11:46PM]

I just built a new computer recently with similar parts... Personally I like mine more. :)

52" Sony XBR6
Lian Li PC-V351B
ASUS RAMPAGE-II-GENE
INTEL BOX CORE I7 920 2.66GHZ D0 Stepping
OCZ 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-16000 Platinum Series Low-Voltage Triple Buffer
2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 - RAID1
LG GH22NS50 SATA 22X/22XDVD-RW
SAPPHIRE VAPOR-X HD 4870 1G DDR5
Antec TruePower 750W

The TV I already had.. Wanted the HDMI for audio and video over the same cable..
Go with an i7 I say.. the extra threads make it a better choice in my opinion..

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2009 12:45AM]

Yea thats a great thing to start , "no one's system is better than mine" contest. But nice specs i guess.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2009 1:00AM]

@ Sean: Well, he failed at that already. His specs are nice, just not nice enough to win the "Largest E-Penis Award" he wants.

[jsmrekar Posted Sep 4th 2009 2:30AM]

pretty nice, but i prefer the system i just built

53" Sony XBR7
Lian Li PC-V352C
ASUS RAMPAGE-III-GENE
INTEL BOX CORE I7 921 2.7GHZ D1 Leaping
OCZ 9GB (3x3GB) DDR4 PC4-21000 Platinum Series Low-Voltage Quadruple Buffer
4x Seagate Barracuda 7200.13 - RAID6
LG GH22NS51 SATA 23X/23XDVD-RW
SAPPHIRE VAPOR-X HD 4875 2G DDR6
Antec TruePower 751W

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2009 12:07AM]

God engadget, I hate that you never link directly to what your talking about. If you say something is up for preorder on Amazon, and the word amazon is a link, I'll click that thinking I'll go to the preorder page. If you have links in your article about a crummy watercooled pc for sale, I want to go to the product page when I click on the link. I hate cliking on a link expecting to go somewhere useful and relevant to the site, and instead get sent to a page listing every time Engadget has posted an article that has something to do with MID (for example)

So freaking frustrating to have to google everything I read about here.

[AbeFroman Posted Sep 4th 2009 12:30AM]

Its all about the page hits man. More page hits = charging more for banner ad space. The bills gotta get paid somehow.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2009 2:40AM]

seems like only cpu is water cooled

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2009 3:58AM]

This is a modified Silverstone SG-05 mini-ITX case, with an extra fan in front...
http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_contents.php?pno=sg05&area=usa

[crescentdavid Posted Sep 4th 2009 4:18AM]

It's pretty ridiculous to watercool the cpu and get rid of a fairly quiet fan (and even quieter, after-market fans) and stick with the stock video cards with their obscenely loud fans. Where's the logic?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2009 6:18AM]

It comes with a Mamba?

[acme64 Posted Sep 4th 2009 9:18AM]

wow that thing is small, is the water cooled system one of them 25c bottles?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2009 10:04AM]

It's water cooled using this: http://www.awd-it.co.uk/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=6469

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2009 10:01AM]

wow...literally a computer made with parts you could newegg for $100 less...and I love how they decided to bolt a fan onto the front in order to make the asustek LC fit inside....Why not...I don't know...actually customize the computer by putting the fan and radiator (and I'm just spitballing here) say....on the back of the case and have dual 120mm fans? or you could use 2 slim 120 fans...I think this company called Silverstone makes them...and use them in a push pull configuration on the inside of the front panel and get better cooling than you do with that ugly ass thing on the front. Oh, I'm sure with the fan in the front it will also be reeaaalllly quiet. Almost like a computer that has fewer fans than a non-liquid cooled computer...oh wait...it doesnt...cus there's 3 fans in the case...

[artshark Posted Sep 4th 2009 10:50AM]

i have the grandfather to this, the lan party special from 07, and i have to say, oh how their micro-atx formfactor machines hath evolved

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2009 8:35PM]

Ummmm. Ugly much?