Hardcore Computer Inc. is a computer manufacturing company located in Rochester, Minnesota, USAwhich was founded in 2006. The company custom designs and manufactures liquid blade servers, professional workstations and desktop computers with liquid submersion cooling.

 

The Technology

The company has six patents in the U.S. and one in Japan for its “Liquid submersion cooling system.”

 

The company launched in 2008 with the Reactor desktop, the world’s first commercially available high-performance PC with total liquid submersion cooling technology. Hardcore Computer, Inc. submerged all of the heat-producing components — the CPU, motherboard, video card, memory and power supplies — in a custom dielectric fluid they have named Core Coolant™, eliminating heat-related computing limitations. Reactor™ incorporates the benefits of liquid submersion cooling with twin additive and redundant server-class 650Watt power supplies; audiophile-quality Creative Labs X-Fi, EAX, 7.1-channel Dolby® digital surround sound embedded on the motherboard; three on-board SATA solid-state drives configured in an ultra-fast RAID 0 array; and two truly hot-swappable external hard drives.

In 2010, the company added the Liquid Blade line, the First Total Liquid Submersion server.

 

Also, in 2010 the company launched its Detonator™ Workstation using the company's patent cooling system.

 

The company was founded by two computer enthusiasts Daren Klum and Chad Attlesey that developed the technology. The tandem brought in technology veteran Al Berning as CEO who was responsible for growing his last company Pemstar from start-up to a billion dollar global contract manufacturing enterprise. The company continues to grow and has a large manufacturing presence next to IBM in Rochester, MN. The home of Blue Jean the worlds largest computer and home of the IBM iSeries Servers.

In July of 2012 Hardcore Computer was renamed to Liquid Cool Solutions.

 

Competitors

Hardcore Computer Inc. originally competed with the luxury PC gaming niche companies such as Alienware, Falcon Northwest and MAINGEAR. However, with the launch of their Liquid Blade and Detonator line, the company is poised to compete with the big OEMs such as Dell, HP, Acer Inc. and Apple Inc.