Insane water cooling desktop platform uses 69 heads Story-level

Most water-cooled desktops have a system that cools the CPU and perhaps the GPU if it’s fancier. But that wasn’t good enough for an intrepid user on the /r/watercooling subreddit. They spent months in possibly the most elaborate water-cooled desktop ever, cooling what seems to be every internal component and then some. It’s all topped off with fluorescent coolant and enough LEDs to make you glow like a Terminator in an EDM rave.

According to user psicoOC (appropriated and spotted by PCGamer), the desktop project uses a total of 69 individual water blocks, six 360mm and one 240mm radiators mounted externally to the computer desktop, six coolant pumps running at 100 percent capacity, two full gallons of coolant connected to massive reservoirs, and over 100 feet of tubing. The system uses two loops: four radiators for the CPU (Ryzen 7 7700X) and GPU (Radeon RX 7900 XTX), another two to cool various parts of the motherboard, RAM, and lighting. Oh, and there are four orange vintage fans from 2004, which the builder is especially proud of.

Reddit user psicoOC

And what did all that work accomplish? According to the poster, the system operates at just 26 degrees Celsius under load (78.8 Fahrenheit, just a few degrees above ambient temperature). For the sake of comparison, a normal load temperature for the GPU can exceed 100 degrees Celsius. There is only one word that can adequately describe the setup: nice.