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hey everyone I'm Jeff Bakalar and today I'm checking out something I'm positive you've never ever seen before because I'm debuting it to the world right now allow me to introduce the a/v a direct Avalanche say hello it's a super high-end PC gaming machine that is completely top-to-bottom water-cooled and as you can see it's kind of a work of art water cooling instead of air or fan cooling is growing in popularity because when you do that you let chips run a faster and cooler which is very important for a long-lasting computer when you introduce water cooling to the GPUs and that's the graphic cards graphics cards inside the machine you can get a system that runs very quietly and most importantly very cool so the way this works water coolant is stored in a reservoir tank that's mounted on the top front of the machine where water is pumped through the system and it touches the CPU the graphics cards and then back around again the loop keeps water moving and allows heat to dissipate quickly and efficiently the end result is not only what's clearly a gorgeous looking machine but one that allows for impressive overclocking not just with the processor but with the dual graphics cards as well it gives us high benchmarking scores that are beating every other system with comparable components that we have in our labs it's pretty impressive so let's say you don't like the white design well how do you fix that you can use this included remote control that actually changes the color of the LED RGB lights that are included with the machine now the Avalanche maxed out nearly every single game I threw at it in 1440p and it even handled 4k games with ease okay so what are we talking about in terms of price right this thing can't be cheap well it's not the configuration we have here now that's the 4790k the - 980 s it's got 16 gigs of ram a terabyte SSD the three terabytes of storage drives the custom tubing the overclocking the water calling all of that will run you 59 dollars yes you are paying a premium for the custom loop installation but you are getting some of the best components around that are available on the market now I've got a much deeper dive on the Avalanche in the review below so be sure to read that and if you have any specific questions be it about the Avalanche or water cooling in general be sure to follow me on twitter and reach out there this has been a look at the brand new avalanche from av a direct if you want to check one of these out in price one yourself head over to AV a direct comm I'm Jeff Bakalar for cnet.com