Summary
The customPCbuilders at Billet Labs have created a gaming rig that looks suspiciously like a toaster. Putting together a computer that’s both powerful and stylish can be challenging enough on its own, but some people aim higher. Thisgaming PCfrom Billet Labs is not just impressive in terms of its specs, but because it’s compact enough to look like a kitchen gadget.
Themed builds aren’t unusual among PC enthusiasts. Fans haveput together officially brandedStarfieldPCsandLast of Usrigs within the past few months alone, but appliance-based themes are a little more unusual. Strange as it may be, though, it’s hard to argue with the skill it takes to fit all the high-end components the Toaster boasts in just a 13-liter case.
Billet Labsrevealed the appropriately named Toaster on Redditafter documenting the process of building it on YouTube. Despite its looks, the PC can’t actually make toast. In fact, it may not even get hot enough to keep pizza warm,like Pizza Hut’s PIZZAWRMR PS5 attachment does, thanks to a custom water-cooling system. What it can do is run games better than a lot of computers that don’t look like toasters because, on top of being compact, it houses a 4090.
The Toaster PC Specs
The Toaster’s specs include:
According to the Reddit thread, it took Billet Labs 150 hours of work and over $5,000 in parts to put the Toaster together. That’s a lot of time and money, but it’s not surprising, considering all that went into it. TheRTX 4090 costs $1,899on its own, and that’s for the base model. Those two massive solid-state drives and the 14900K CPU are worth a pretty penny, too. Billet Labs said the lucky customer who received the PC got it for a good deal, thanks to it driving a lot of YouTube content, but something like this would likely fetch a hefty price tag outside promotional offers.
Keeping all those powerful components cool in such a small package is no easy task, and Billet Labs managed it by custom-building its water-cooling pipes. All that extra work would quickly run up the price for an ordinary bespoke PC build. Costs and effort aside, though, maintaining low temperatures despite such high performance and little room is an engineering marvel, even if it doesn’t prepare toast on the side. Anyone hoping to have an actual PC-kitchen appliance combo should’ve grabbedthe chicken-warming KFC gaming consolewhen they had the chance.
