ImmerPC was founded in 2022 by an enthusiast who fell in love with the immersion cooling and, after noticing the market was dry, decided to develop an immersion cooling computer case. After weekly design pivots, licensing hurdles, chemical compatibility issues, logistical headaches, and language barriers the design for a working and manufacturable immersion cooling computer case is complete and entering production late 2024.
Pulling heat off immersed electrical computer components is no new concept; in the 1960s, Cray Computers and IBM both released immersion cooled supercomputers. Before supercomputers, in the early 1900s, immersion cooling was used to cool high-power industrial electrical transformers (using various formulations of mineral oil). In the last few decades, spectacular technological development has led to soaring electronic density and heat dissipation requirements (e.g. RTX5090 and Threadripper).
A number of companies have developed dielectric fluids, in which electronics can be submerged without worry of shorting or damage. Due to density differences (specific heat capacity), liquids can absorb heat significantly faster (>1000x) from heatsinks than air. This translates to immediate gains in performance (higher overclocking) and wear (lower operating temperatures). Lately, immersion cooling has been garnering a lot of attention in cryptocurrency farms and high density data centers due to their immense heat outputs.
The latest generations of GPUs and CPUs are spitting out record amounts of heat. Their gigantic heat sinks (especially video cards) can easily be miniaturized by incorporating the next technological leap of cooling technology: Immersion Cooling. The only widely available way to control component temperatures has been water-cooling, and the market is more than saturated with different options. We find immersion cooling to be exciting and novel and believe it has a place in today's custom PC market. We hope to share our passion with others and help other people take the plunge into immersion cooling.