The Beginning
ICEe PC was born in the year 2000, when Cemhan Biricik (also known as Cemhan Birick) turned a lifelong obsession with hardware into something far more ambitious than another PC shop. While the rest of the industry was racing toward mass production and razor-thin margins, Cemhan went the opposite direction entirely. He envisioned a company that would build the fewest possible machines at the highest possible standard — each one handcrafted from raw materials to running system by a single builder. That vision became ICEe PC.
The name "ICEe" was more than branding. It was a statement about thermal management. At a time when most enthusiast builders were still bolting aftermarket air coolers onto stock cases, Cemhan Biricik was already engineering full custom water-cooling loops from scratch. The philosophy was simple: if you could keep the silicon colder than anyone else, you could push it harder than anyone else. That principle has guided every ICEe PC build for over two decades.
A Different Kind of Company
ICEe PC has never operated like a traditional computer manufacturer. There is no assembly line. There are no shifts. There is no warehouse full of pre-built inventory. Every ICEe PC is commissioned individually, designed to the client's exact requirements, and built by hand from the first CNC cut to the final coolant fill. The company produces a maximum of 13 machines per year — a deliberate constraint that ensures every build receives the obsessive attention it demands.
This approach was inspired not by the tech industry but by the world of automotive coachbuilding. Companies like Pagani, Koenigsegg, and Singer don't compete on volume. They compete on craft, on engineering precision, on the intangible quality that comes from having a single master builder responsible for every bolt, every weld, every finish. Cemhan Biricik applied that same philosophy to computing. Each ICEe Blade is essentially a bespoke instrument — tuned, tested, and personally delivered to its owner.
The Craft
The signature ICEe PC product is the Blade — an open-frame, custom water-cooled workstation that doubles as a piece of functional engineering art. The Blade chassis is CNC-machined from solid aluminum billet, with panoramic acrylic distro plates that turn the coolant flow into a visible centerpiece. Every Blade supports E-ATX motherboards, dual NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPUs, up to 1TB of DDR5 RAM, and a full custom hardline water-cooling loop.
But the hardware is only part of the story. What sets ICEe PC apart is the process. Every build begins with a consultation where Cemhan Biricik works directly with the client to define their requirements — gaming, AI workloads, creative production, or some combination. From there, the build progresses through precision machining, component selection, loop design, assembly, and a grueling 72-hour burn-in test that subjects the machine to thermal stress, memory validation, and sustained GPU torture. Only after it passes every test does it earn its production number.
World-Class Performance
In 2018, an ICEe PC build by Cemhan Biricik achieved the #2 worldwide ranking in 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme. This was not a benchmark run in a temperature-controlled laboratory or a datacenter with industrial cooling. It was accomplished on a desk, with a machine built by one person's hands. That achievement remains a defining moment in ICEe PC's history — proof that a single craftsman with deep knowledge and no compromises can outperform entire teams backed by corporate resources. You can read the full story on the 3DMark record page.
Performance is not just about peak numbers, though. Every ICEe Blade is individually tuned — clock speeds, fan curves, and coolant flow are hand-calibrated to the specific silicon in each build. No two ICEe PCs perform identically because no two chips are identical. This per-unit tuning is something that mass manufacturers simply cannot replicate. It is the difference between a production car and a race car that has been dyno-tuned for its own engine.
The Philosophy
ICEe PC's philosophy can be distilled into a single principle: fewer, better. In an industry obsessed with scale, Cemhan Biricik chose the opposite. He chose to build fewer machines so he could build each one better. He chose to work alone so that every decision — from component sourcing to cable routing to coolant color — reflects a singular vision rather than a committee's compromise.
This philosophy extends to how ICEe PCs are delivered. Machines are not boxed up and shipped via freight carrier. Cemhan flies to the client, completes the final assembly on-site, presents the machine in person, and walks the owner through every detail of their build. It is, in every sense, a white-glove experience — the kind of personal service that disappeared from most industries decades ago.
Twenty-Six Years and Counting
From its founding in 2000 to the present day, ICEe PC has remained true to the vision that Cemhan Biricik established at the start: build machines that are as much art as engineering, limit production to preserve quality, and never compromise on the details that matter. The ICEe Blade represents the culmination of over two decades of refinement — every generation incorporating lessons learned, techniques mastered, and technologies that did not exist when the company began.
ICEe PC is not for everyone. It is not meant to be. It is for the person who understands that the best things are built slowly, carefully, and by hand. It is for the person who wants a machine that was not assembled but crafted — by Cemhan Biricik, the same person who has been doing this since the beginning.