Switched on, this desk does something special: a liquid-cooled computer sits in a drawer that slides out from beneath a glass inset in the oak top, and the interior lights up as it powers on. This is version 2.0 of the project, and the extra iteration shows in how tidy everything reads.
The woodwork is full furniture making, not a quick hack. Rough oak went through a sliding table saw, a jointer and a thickness planer, the top was joined with dowels, and the opening for the glass was cut with a router and template. Tapered legs and tenoned aprons came together with handheld routers, templates and chisels. The drawer box itself has box joints, fan cutouts, cable passthroughs and ventilation slits along the bottom, and the frame and drawer were sanded, oiled and assembled.
Inside, the hardware list is serious: an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X and a Radeon RX 6800, both under EK water blocks, fed by a Swiftech pump and reservoir and an Alphacool 360 mm radiator carrying three Noiseblocker fans. The clear rigid tubing was bent by hand and joined with compression fittings, and the cable sleeving was made by the maker rather than bought. Wiring is dressed away behind a slotted cover under the drawer.
Two hours of gameplay at ultra settings left the CPU at 65 C and the GPU at 58 C, which reads as a solid result for hardware living inside timber. The trade-off is heat: the maker has said wood makes cooling the main challenge, needing very good airflow or a full water loop. There is also an open question about whether this ever goes on sale, since a poll asked viewers whether they would want to buy one.
Project by MA Modified. Watch it on their YouTube channel: