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Der8auer converts $7,000 RTX 5090 Lightning Z to custom water cooling, drops temps by 11°C

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Enthusiast zone: Famed hardware overclocker Roman "der8auer" Hartung has modified an RTX 5090 Lightning graphics card with a custom watercooling setup, swapping the original AIO for a stainless-steel fitted waterblock. The conversion kit reportedly lowered operating temperatures by around 11 degrees Celsius at 800W under full load.

The modified waterblock, once hooked up to the PC's custom water-cooling loop, brought the operating temperature of the MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z down from 64 degrees to around 53 degrees. That result was measured at 800W under full load, though der8auer believes it would hold up similarly even in the card's 1000W Extreme Performance mode.

The modification went smoothly for the most part, but the team still ran into a few unwanted surprises, including an aluminum plate coated with electroless nickel inside the original AIO....

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Garmin’s Screenless Cirqa Health Tracker Will Be Available This Week

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NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Sent Back Some Awesome Photos of Mars

A common road trip activity is stopping at a roadside attraction to see something really cool. It turns out that NASA spacecraft do this from time to time as well. The Psyche spacecraft, on its way to the asteroid belt to study its namesake asteroid, made a stop by Mars

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