This “Nuclear Football” Luggable Computer Is Water-Cooled

The “nuclear football” is a briefcase that can be used by the President of the United States to authorize the launch of nuclear weapons if they’re away from dedicated command centers. It is, of course, an immensely important piece of luggage — one that, quite literally, contains the potential to end the world. As such, it has become a popular part of pop culture, and the name can describe anything important that fits into a portable package. That includes this fantastic luggable computer that is water-cooled and has VR support.

This project was uploaded by Redditor Thegarbz, and they definitely deserve some kudos for this build, which is basically the holy grail of LAN party culture. The exact specifications aren’t provided, but this “nuclear football” almost certainly puts even the most expensive Alienware gaming laptop to shame. It’s a “luggable” computer, because it’s essentially a desktop computer that has been made roughly as portable as a checked bag full of bricks. In this case, all of the computer components are housed within a hard case that is intended for delicate equipment and is often referred to by a certain sea bird-themed brand name.

This has a serious water-cooling setup, and nobody is water-cooling a Celeron processor. All of the plumbing helps keep cool an AMD Ryzen 5 2600 processor and an NVIDIA 2070 Super FE graphics card. Those are attached to a Gigabyte B450-i Aorus Pro WiFi motherboard along with 16GB of 3200MHz RAM and a 256GB Western Digital NVMe SSD. The water-cooling components are all manufactured by Alphacool, and manage to look really cool in addition to actually being cool. A 23" Dell LCD is built into the lid of the case, and there are connections available for the virtual reality headset and controllers. Not only is this a very impressive build that can be lugged around for gaming while traveling, it also looks amazing.