“This is truly the most beautiful setup I’ve ever seen”: From design to function, this wooden PC could be the most elegant gaming rig ever created, with a surprising hidden trick
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- ‘Heartwood’ is a wood-based gaming PC that took seven years to build
- It’s surprisingly stylish and the hidden trick is that it routes cooling cables and other cables away from the PC.
- Those tubes and cables run under the desk, into which the PC is effectively integrated, and down to the basement below, where the entire cooling system resides.
Fancy, custom PC versions come out with some regularity, but every once in a while something really unusual comes along, and I’d rate this as the smartest, most elegant desktop computer I’ve ever seen.
The platform in question was spotted by Wccftech, which was posted on the PC build subreddit by Mithiral67. The gaming PC is called ‘Heartwood’ and took a pretty incredible seven years to build.
It is based on an Inwin 909 case (which looks impressive in itself in brushed aluminum) that uses a semi-open concept, with the motherboard located in an empty space (there is no rear panel with the structure here, as you can see in the YouTube video below showing this PC).
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This desktop computer looks incredibly clean and sleek, done up in wood and aluminum, with the nifty lighting also on the top of the case, but where’s the cooling and other cables? That’s when the full scope of this build becomes clear, because it also includes the desk under the PC.
What the manufacturer has done is run the power and liquid cooling cables down through the bottom of the case and the desk, past the bottom of the desk, and then down one leg to the floor, into the basement of the house, where all the water cooling gubbins are located (built around a Mora 400).
This build was not only a time-consuming labor of love, but it was also very expensive. Another Redditor asks about the price of the materials and according to Mithiral67, the wood itself was around $4,000 and they said they didn’t even want to get into the cost of the woodworking tools.
As for components, the PC is built with a Ryzen 9800X3D processor plus an Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU.
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So this was an expensive and complex build, but even then, seven years seems like a long time to put the PC together; It means that Mithiral67 started his project before the pandemic.
Is left over? Well, as they explain: “For those who asked, 7 years was mostly waiting for a GPU at MSRP, it literally took 4 generations to get lucky at Micro Center.”
There you have it. Those hoping to include an RTX 5090 in their custom version are paying an absolute fortune right now, of course, and getting Nvidia’s flagship at the list price now seems like a feat almost as miraculous as the construction and careful craftsmanship witnessed with this PC.
Mind you, even then Mithiral67 had to buy the RTX 5090 as part of a complete PC to get it for the equivalent of the sticker price (which worked out well, as it meant they could use that other PC to play games while they painstakingly finished the masterpiece that is ‘Heartwood’).
As one admiring Redditor summed it up nicely: “This is truly the most beautiful setup I’ve ever seen, in every aspect from wood choice, color, design, and function.”
There is no shortage of commenters approving the build, or even those pointing out that Sam Altman no doubt also disapproves of the amount of RAM used in this desktop. Don’t you know it’s a memory that could have powered another AI agent from a data center somewhere?
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