- YouTube TrashBench tested an extreme cooling solution
- Installed a custom ice maker on your Nvidia GPU
- The cooling solution worked, but only to a point
If summer is approaching in your part of the world and temperatures are rising, you might be looking for more creative ways to keep you and your PC kit cool: like a custom graphics card cooler based on a custom ice maker.
This is the work of YouTuber TrashBench (via XDA Developers) who ran water from an ice maker through his Nvidia RTX 3060 GPU using a water pump. From the beginning, we should emphasize that you should not try this at home; This is potentially very dangerous, as the YouTuber himself admits in the video.
Several modding hacks were required to get this even close to working. The ice maker had to be taken apart and hooked up to a thermostat to make sure it always stayed on and continued to cool the water, instead of taking breaks while ice formed and was pushed into the ice maker’s bucket.
More DIY solutions were required for further cooling and drainage, but TrashBench was finally able to get its rather crazy setup up and running, at least for 10 minutes until it announced “everything is covered in water.”
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Condensation from the cooled water was collecting around the custom system’s pipes and forming on the GPU cooler itself. Obviously, water and electronic devices don’t mix very well, so additional protective measures were necessary.
With some final adjustments, TrashBench was able to adequately cool the water in its ice maker and even managed to play a little Cyberpunk 2077. The graphics card ran at around 60°C with the default air cooling system, but stayed below 23°C while gaming. cyberpunk with the ice cooler.
At the RTX 3060’s hottest point, the temperature dropped from 75°C to 34°C, tests showed. However, as the temperature of the water in the ice cube continues to rise, it is unclear how long the experiment lasted; As the YouTuber himself acknowledges, you should not try to cool your GPU with an ice machine.
“This is not a tutorial. I’m not an electrician. Everything here is stupid,” TrashBench says in its video description, so be warned that this “damned little GPU cooler” is nothing more than an entertaining and temporary distraction.
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