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  1. My Linux machine is back up! Finally have my private PC up and running again after finishing my custom loop… and suddenly realising the GPU is dying. (RIP RX 7800xt) I’ve only had the card for a year so luckily I received a full refund… and was able to replace it with a 9070xt just before the prices shot up. I had to buy a new waterblock though and adjust my hard tubing … again.
    It was a stressful bunch of weeks but I’m happy with the result. Here’s to hoping no more components fail, especially the spicy DDR5 RAM…

    Parts list:

    GPU: 9070 XT (Steel Legend #monsterhunter Edition… doesn’t matter cause the cooler came off lol)
    CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700x
    RAM: 32GB DDR5 (Corsair Vengeance)
    PSU: Corsair RM850x
    Case: Fractal Design Define 7 Compact

    Watercooling:
    GPU: Alphacool Core
    Pump/Res: EKWB FLT80 (don’t buy from EK they suck.)
    CPU: Corsair xc7
    Radiator: Corsair 360mm
    Fans: Fractal Design Momentum (3x) Aspect (2x)

    #linux_gaming #watercooling #pc #pcgaming #linuxgaming #diy #fractaldesign #magicalgirl

  2. #PhotoJanuary2026 combo jour 30 (en retard) et jour 31, thèmes : loisir + prise en janvier 2026 (aujourd'hui en fait).

    Informatique !

    Voici les entrailles de mon PC avec refroidissement à eau, dont je complète le niveau ce matin.

    #PhotoJanvier2026 #WaterCooling

  3. Second-time-lucky for a crowdfunding open-hardware watercooling loop controller next, as Nikolai Danylchyk's WaKu-ctl relaunches on Kickstarter. It's a neat project, and hopefully the feedback from the first campaign will mean success this time around!

    hackster.io/news/nikolai-danyl

    #Technology #Watercooling #OpenHardware #Microcontroller #News #Hackster

  4. REDMAGIC 11 Pro could be the first liquid-cooled smartphone you can actually buy

    Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor is expected to be one of the fastest chips available for smartphones. But as with any processor, you can eke even better sustained performance out of it if you use enhanced cooling to keep the chip from throttling as it gets warm.

    And the upcoming REDMAGIC 11 Pro aims to prove that with the kind of cooling you’d normally find in a PC. The […]

    #activeCooling #gamingPhone #liquidCooled #liquidCooledPhone #liquidCooling #redmagic #redmagic11Pro #smartphone #waterCooling

    Read more: liliputing.com/redmagic-11-pro

  5. So #Google is revolutionizing the world by... *drum roll*... reinventing the century-old concept of water cooling! 🌊 Because nothing says "cutting-edge innovation" like borrowing from your granddad's PC rig. 😅 #WelcomeToTheFuture
    chipsandcheese.com/p/googles-l #Innovation #WaterCooling #TechRevolution #RetroRevival #FutureTech #HackerNews #ngated

  6. I've got a tad bigger :kekw:

    There are some very own 3d modeled and then cnc cut parts inside.

    #custompc #watercooling

  7. Searching for some fans to test fit, I found a spare 240 #AIO. It fits rather well though the drive bay... water cooling this 2U, mad max style, totally plausible. So tempted.

    Instead though, going with a pair of 40x10 and a pair of 40x20 fans across the top. Sealed off some of the grill to cut recirculation while it's apart.

    [ #CowServer #WaterCooling ]

  8. I've always thought those computers submerged in mineral oil for cooling are pretty neat, but obviously there are some huge practical problems. I wonder, though: could you achieve a similar result by water-cooling all the key components and submerging the radiator in a large tank? You'd still have a massive heat sink, but no electronics would have to go in the liquid. As an added bonus, I imagine evaporation would cool the tank somewhat.
    #computer #computers #PC #watercooling #PCbuilding

  9. 👾 SiH²O, TECs, AMD, PPC 👾

    Have you ever used a 'thermo-electric cooler' (aka Peltier device)? Have you used one on an AMD Socket AM5, and not burned down the system or frozen cooling lines? If so, I'd love to hear experiences!

    I'm considering the above on a hypothesis/PoC sorta basic, insofar as exploring the options for a potential application during restoration of my watercooled PowerMac G5 (4C PPC-970MP).

    The last time I looked into TECs was at the start of the water-cooling wars in 1999... assumptions assume that the landscape is more efficient and less slap-together.

    #cooling #watercooling #engineering #amd #6ghz #epyc #mac #powermac #homelab #nerdery

  10. So, after few attempts my first ever water cooling loop is up and running without leaks!

    It took just three attemps to fit all the tubes and one attempt to unscrew the flow sensor that I tighten with a bit of “Liquid Teflon”, which is so good, that it basically glues threads together and they are impossibly to unscrew. It took A LOT of brute force to detach it from tank cap, with a bit of cosmetic damage. So much for “easy disassembly” that label advertises.

    Surprisingly loop does it job very well and even under quite a high load GPU’s stay in 25-30°C range. Next week I’ll try to crunch some numbers and we’ll see how it well it can keep temp down under long sustained load.

    2 things left: write esp32 firmware to spit flow and water temp readings to usb serial and find a way to control fans pwm, to adjust only pump and radiator fans speed.

    First one is trivial, but pwm stuff is not. I have backup option of managing fan profile using Redfish HTTP API abusing Fan Profiles. But I rather find a way to read and write actual pwm duty values, if it’s even possible.

    #custombuild #watercooling #diy #homeserver #selfhosting

  11. Another step is working around my fiasco with metrics vs imperial threads. I was planning to mount two DS18B20 temperature probes to measure water temperature before and after GPU’s, but thread on supposedly M10 a sensor thermowell is a bit bigger that on M10 → 1/4” adapter, because fuck you that’s why.

    But I have two another sensors in steel tubes, so I just mounted it using epoxy in barb connector. Epoxy is always messy and this particular one is awful: you have 5 min before it becomes firm and because I’m lucky the foil under the cap on resin tube was so thick I couldn’t break it with with a needle on a cup. So I missed deadline and managed to glue only one sensor. I’ll do another one tomorrow and I hope that’s the last thing that keeps me from assembling this loop.

    #custombuild #watercooling #diy #homeserver #selfhosting

  12. Another round of brute force and here we are. This cheapo screwdriver truly paid off. 40 grit cylindrical bore cost just 1e and it took like 5 minutes to file off this pin from both backplates. Yay!

    #custombuild #watercooling #diy #homeserver