WTF?! It's long been said that custom PC mods are limited only by their builders' imaginations. In the case of the one built by Bro Cooling, finances also play a big part. Looking like a giant Palantir (the LOTR crystal ball, not the company), it's packed with $60,000 worth of hardware.
The popular Chinese-language Bro Cooling YouTube channel set out to make one of the best looking and most expensive PCs we've seen in a long time.
The case alone illustrates the sort of high-end, expensive tech going into this build. InWin's Winbot Limited Edition golden sphere looks like something a wizard would stare into with a concerned look on his face.
Measuring 27 inches wide and 27.5 inches tall, this 57-pound case, which has a built-in facial detection camera, the standard version is almost $5,000.
Only the most powerful and expensive hardware will do for a case of this caliber. Fitting that bill perfectly is the beastly, 96-core, 192-thread Threadripper Pro 9995WX. AMD's chip, which we recently saw keeping cool at 5.3 GHz using an industrial cooling setup, is priced around $12,000.
The YouTubers also included an Asus Pro WS WRX90E Sage SE motherboard, priced around $1,291, an 8 TB Samsung 9100 Pro that costs $1,698, and a pair of 4 TB Samsung 990 Pros that will set you back $599 each.
One might imagine that the memory crisis would mean this build opted for a more conservative amount of DRAM, but no – it's packed with 256 GB of DDR5-6400 in four RDIMMs. Today, that's worth around $7,600.
The obvious choice for a graphics card in this PC would be an RTX 5090. But Nvidia's consumer flagship – now selling for around $3,500 – isn't enough. Instead, Bro Cooling used an Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition that makes the RTX 5090 look cheap, Featuring 96GB of GDDR7, it costs $8,446.
Making up the rest of that $60,000 total are an Asus Pro WS 3000W Platinum power supply, 12 Lian Li fans, and the many expensive custom watercooling components. Customizing that InWin Winbot case couldn't have been cheap, either.
The end result is undeniably spectacular, a PC that wouldn't look out of place in an art gallery. With the RTX Pro 6000 offering around 10 to 15% more gaming performance at 4K than the RTX 5090, the system will likely be a benchmark monster, too.