Mini gaming PCs just keep getting smaller and smaller, but this one liter AMD Ryzen powered gaming PC might be one of the smallest I've ever seen. The Thermalright Frozen Creator is a water-cooled mini PC that is a manufacturing marvel, with an open frame design that incorporates AIO water cooling and a built-in screen.
The mini PC market is booming and we have chipmakers like AMD to thank for it. The reduced power demands of modern Us has made it functionally possible to create the Thermalright one to flourish, leaving enough power in this build for 1080p gaming without burning out.
Shared in recent videos from YouTube channels ShortCircuit (part of the same group as LinusTechTips) and Hardware Canucks, the unusual mini PC was unveiled by PC cooling and case specialist, Thermalright, at the Computex 2025 trade show last week. The design immediately brings to mind the many open air test bench frame cases that you can buy, but on an absolutely minute scale – this PC has a volume of just one liter.
Despite its tiny size, the Thermalright Frozen Creator manages to provide space for a (quite large, given the size limitations) copper radiator, water cooling pump, fan, and motherboard.
According to both Hardware Canucks and Linus Tech Tips, this unusual mini PC will come in several different configurations, including a barebones model, but will ship with an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 at launch. This AMD chip is a powerful APU with a 12-core U that can boost to a clock speed of up to 5.1GHz and a built-in AMD Radeon 980M GPU.
The latter uses the company's RDNA 3.5 architecture and has 16 compute cores – that's far more than in a Steam Deck OLED, for instance. On paper, that leaves more than enough power for 1080p gameplay on low to mid-tier graphics presets, if not higher, depending on the game.
Performance like that, on a build this small, is impressive, but it also explains the water cooling design. The radiator draws the heat from the APU to a distribution plate on the bottom, with the pump pushing water through the copper radiator and a slim fan at the top blowing the hot air away.
Luckily, this mini PC isn't going to cost the earth, either. Hardware Canucks are reporting that the base model will ship for $499, while the barebones model (likely missing storage) will be even cheaper. The design may change slightly before release, however, with Linus Tech Tips' reporting that the red design in this prototype will make way for a slightly more gold in the final release.
An easily upgradable, accessible mini gaming PC design like this one proves that the Geekom A6, although we'd need to see how well that AIO cooling handles real world gaming to see how far it can be pushed. I'll be eager to get my hands on this Thermalright design to test it out for myself, although a release date hasn't been announced yet.
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