A YouTuber tried using an ice machine to cool down his Nvidia RTX 3060 rig —and it went about as well as you might…
- YouTube TrashBench tried an extreme cooling solution
- He rigged up a custom ice machine to his Nvidia GPU
- The cooling solution worked — but only up to a point
If your part of the world is heading into summer and temperatures are soaring, you might be on the look-out for more creative ways to keep you and your PC kit cool: such as a custom graphics card chiller based around a customized ice machine.
This is the work of YouTuber TrashBench (via XDA Developers) who ran water from an ice machine past his Nvidia RTX 3060 GPU using a water pump. Right from the off, we should emphasize that you shouldn't try this at home — this is potentially very unsafe, as the YouTuber himself admits in the video.
A number of modification hacks were required to get this even close to working. The ice machine had to...
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