(image courtesy of Maximum PC)

I never thought I’d see the day, but it’s finally here – forget huge, quiet air cooling, or super-DIY liquid cooling systems; the way to keep your rig nice and chilly is through oil immersion cooling! That’s right – fill up your case with oil, make sure it’s liquid-tight, and drop your components in!

Hardcore PC’s new system, the Reactor (shown above), is one of the first oil immersion cooled systems on the market – you’ll notice when browsing the photos that in order to access any of the components, you have to lift the motherboard and all of the components out of the oil in which the entire system is bathed; everything from RAM to hard drives. The case had to be custom designed in order to allow you to get at certain components easily, and since you can’t just crack open the case to do things like reset the CMOS battery, compartments for it had to be made where they’re easily accessible.

Check out the photos – this system is wild. Don’t get out your wallets just yet though – the system isn’t available for purchase yet, but when it does, I’m sure it’ll be ridiculously expensive.

[ Maximum PC :: Exclusive: Oil Immersion Cooling Goes Mainstream with Hardcore PC’s Reactor ]