Modder cools RTX 3060 with countertop ice machine, slashing gaming temps by up to 62%
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In a nutshell: YouTuber TrashBench has once again shown off an unconventional cooling system for your PC hardware. On this occasion, he used an ice machine to cool an RTX 3060 – and it worked remarkably well. In Cyberpunk 2077 alone, the system dropped GPU temps by around 38°C.
The experiment was inspired by MrYeester, another YouTuber who recently built a CPU cooling loop around a hacked ice maker that constantly replenished its ice.
TrashBench's idea was slightly different. Instead of using ice as the coolant, he wanted the machine's refrigeration hardware to cool the water in a GPU loop.
The starting point was an RTX 3060 running on its stock air cooler, sitting around 60°C under load, with the hotspot at about 75°C. TrashBench removed the cooler, fitted a liquid-cooling setup to...
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