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Hardline liquid cooling elevates the most elite gaming desktops above the rest. Not to be confused with sealed all in one -style liquid-cooling solutions, it requires custom engineering and skillful hand assembly. Towers we ve reviewed with it routinely cost more than $5,000, which is why iBuyPower s $1,999 Element CL Pro mid-tower seems like a dream come true. (Or perhaps too good to be true iBuyPower told us that the pricing could change after its initial launch, depending on ongoing component costs.)
Whatever the ultimate price down the road, you get a hardline-liquid-cooled Intel Core i7 Rocket Lake processor and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card in a prebuilt, ready-to-ship configuration. Good looks, quiet operation, and excellent gaming performance make it a compelling high-end buy. Nevertheless, our top recommendation in this class remains another Rocket Lake-based desktop, the MSI Aegis RS. Though the MSI model lacks hardline liquid cooling, it too offe