This fluorescent gaming PC has 69 water blocks to keep it frosty
Here's a water-cooled gaming PC that will make you go «Ohh, wait, what? No way!» There's no denying that this gaming PC aglow in fluorescent UV light is absolutely gorgeous, but look closer and you'll notice almost every component—be it RAM stick, GDDR6 chip, motherboard chipset, VRM, and more—has its very own water block.
It's a build by Reddit user psychoOC(opens in new tab), and it reportedly took two months of continuous work to put it all together. No doubt it's absolutely paid off. I see a lot of fancy gaming PCs in this line of work, but this one made me stop scrolling and gawk for a while.
The rig itself is an all-AMD machine with an AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX(opens in new tab) and AMD Ryzen 7 7700X(opens in new tab). There are four liquid-cooled RAM sticks running at 6000MT/s, and that's all plugged into an Asus ROG Strix B650E-E motherboard.
From earlier photos of the build in process, you can see just how much goes into cooling each discrete component. Take the GPU, an AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX. Each memory chip and MOSFET has its own mini water block installed on it(opens in new tab) with an inlet and outlet tube to carry the cooling liquid over the component, which all terminate in the larger block over the GPU proper.
That larger block is actually an Optimus Intel CPU water block(opens in new tab), modded to fit.
«I chose to go this route for max heat transfer as modern full cover GPU blocks do not use real micro fins, thick and spread out fins, which works, but modern hardware needs modern micro fins,» psychoOC tells me. «Which is why I went with Optimus CPU water block, Intel mounting, which took a lot of dremeling to make it fit but the fin density is 5 times more dense than any full cover GPU block.»
That CPU
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