The latest Hardcore PC offering is attempting to push oil immersion cooling on the great unwashed.

The Reactor dunks the motherboard, CPU, GPUs, SSDs, PSU in oil and sticks it inside a bullet resistant tank. Hardcore even allowed the removal of a plug that adds more gurgle, so people know its full of oil.

Hardcore has US. Patent No. 7,403,392 for “Liquid submersion cooling system” so it has been expected to release something for a while. With the oil that Hardcore uses, the company figures it’s about 10 times more effective than simple air cooling.

A pump circulates the liquid through a custom radiator to keep the temps down and custom blocks are fitted to the CPU and GPU to increase surface area and increase the flow of liquid over the hottest components.

Hardcore is planning to release its lowest configured machine in the US$4K range. This is expensive, but not for the hardcore gaming computers that this one aims to be.

Check it out here.