Take a look at this liquid-cooled PC with 69 water blocks and 100 feet of tubing

[midian182]

In brief: Custom liquid-cooled PCs usually look fantastic, but they can be a lot of work, expensive, and introduce potential problems, such as leaks. Imagine, then, the amount of effort and money that went into a system with 69 water blocks, 100 feet of tubing, and two gallons of liquid.

PC Gamer reported on the PC, built by Redditor psychoOC who posted images of it on the /r/watercooling subreddit. Unlike the majority of custom water setups that cool the CPU and sometimes the GPU as well, this one is connected to virtually every component in the PC, including the motherboard chipset, RAM, and even the UV light bars. In the case of the latter, the creator says the lighting runs at 10W and is cooled to increase its lifespan.

The system even extends outside of the PC case. There are six 360mm GTR radiators mounted to the underside of the computer desk and one 240mm rad on the wall. Six coolant pumps that are operating at 100% speed sit near the PC. And two massive reservoirs filled with the two gallons of fluorescent coolant are also attached to the wall.

As for the hardware itself, this all-AMD PC packs a Radeon RX 7900 XTX, which has a mini water block installed on each memory chip and MOSFET, and a Ryzen 7 7700X. It also features four liquid-cooled RAM sticks running at 6000MT/s and an Asus ROG Strix B650E-E motherboard. psychoOC added four Cooler Master vintage UV orange fans from 2004, too. The builder said they will be upgrading to the just-released Ryzen 9 7950X3D. Read our review of the CPU here.

Not surprisingly, this build took two months of working every evening to complete. As for how much this whole project cost, psychoOC gave a ballpark figure of around $7,500.

It certainly looks the part, but how well does the system cool everything? Very well, apparently. During a run of Time Spy Extreme, the GPU temps hit a maximum of just 26 degrees centigrade (78.8 Fahrenheit), and the CPU temperature was 40.5 centigrade (104.9 Fahrenheit).

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[DSirius]

This reminds me of the former Rig of the month from Guru3d website.

 

[Inthenstus]

Dumbest PC ever.. wow.. what a waste lol

 

[Thannos]

Maintenance on this thing would be an absolute nightmare. Can you even imagine the amount of time to flush and change out the coolant, let alone cleaning the tubing after a few years of running? Might as well jus throw it all out and buy new. What a waste.

 

[madboyv1]

This thing is so ridiculously convoluted... and I'm all for it, what an insane amount of work getting it all to function properly.

 

[wiyosaya]

Rube Goldberg would be proud!

 

[Phatta]

What I like most about this rig is the can of GOYA beans! Yey!

 

[Vanderlinde]

The cooling performance is actually Superb.

 

[OniKyanAE86]

First thing that came to mind was, wow that's at least 138+ failure points for the cooling system to leak out from.

 

[BigRedPDX]

A lot of work for a little bit of cooling. I think refrigerant would work well for an external cooling system like this. That's a project I might try down the road.

 

[CrisisDog]

Overkill...

 

[mcclurken]

So impractical and over the top yet I find it mesmerizing. They certainly got a cool affect. But if you're going to all that effort why not put your radiators outside. Maybe they couldn't figure out how to make that glow in the dark.

 

[mbk34]

Covid and self isolation has a lot to answer for.

 

[Uncle Al]

I like my neighbor's approach better. He took a very small room A/C, extended the T-stat to inside his computer case and blower to inside the computer with a large hose. He tells me it cuts on every 5 min or so then cuts back off once the T-stat is satisfied. He routes the hose through one of the fan ports so no mods there and it cost him all of $50 (The A/C was used) and $40 was for beer during the mod .......

 

[Hotlynx16]

I guess some people have plenty of time and money on their hands! That is a lot of work for a little bit of cooling. Just think what would happen if it leaks! I am old school and think water and electronics don't mix!

 

[Marco Mint]

I'm not sure what the point of this was. It looks like he has had an idea then tripled the amount of everything needed for some reason. Two of them rads would probably be more than enough to cool the entire system.
I started building custom watercooling pc's since around 2006 onwards and my last one was in 2019. There's not much benefit, if any, with cooling the cpu over a good air cooler nowadays, unless you de-lid it first. I was running a highly overclocked 4790K and two overclocked radeon R9 290 X's in crossfire and the 290X's would not exceed 3 to 5 degrees over room temp in any punishing benchmark, pounding them hard. I was using one fat 360 rad and one slimmer 240 rad in this setup. It just didn't need any more rads.
The tubing looks like it's been done by a mad man. I'm guessing if the guy modded a car it would have 21" wheels and rubber bands for tyres, just for the weird none functional looks. It's very strange and a bit of a joke tbh.

 

[Hotlynx16]

I'm not sure what the point of this was. It looks like he has had an idea then tripled the amount of everything needed for some reason. Two of them rads would probably be more than enough to cool the entire system.
I started building custom watercooling pc's since around 2006 onwards and my last one was in 2019. There's not much benefit, if any, with cooling the cpu over a good air cooler nowadays, unless you de-lid it first. I was running a highly overclocked 4790K and two overclocked radeon R9 290 X's in crossfire and the 290X's would not exceed 3 to 5 degrees over room temp in any punishing benchmark, pounding them hard. I was using one fat 360 rad and one slimmer 240 rad in this setup. It just didn't need any more rads.
The tubing looks like it's been done by a mad man. I'm guessing if the guy modded a car it would have 21" wheels and rubber bands for tyres, just for the weird none functional looks. It's very strange and a bit of a joke tbh.

Yes, there are some cars around town that have spokes that stick out 2 feet!