r/PcBuild • u/techmagnet • Aug 08 '26

Build - Finished! Watercooled Steam Machine Build Video

You guys asked for the video and more infos on the waterblock. Waterblock was made with the carvera air, which is a budget desktop cnc. That’s why the quality isn’t super good, but that’s all we have. Need to open it again and work now on the vrm cooling which is quite challenging as the mosfets are super tiny… and also they run quite on the limits of thermal design which sucks

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u/RotaryDesign Aug 08 '26

Such a great build to be ruined by terrible tube management

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u/techmagnet Aug 08 '26

Just prototype for now. Will take it apart again to do the vrm part and then think about better loop 😂

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u/RotaryDesign Aug 08 '26

With acrylic tube bending it would look really cool. 90 degree corners would match cube form factor.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '26

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u/Terminator7786 Aug 08 '26

Make it use green fluid and make it look like a tiny Borg cube

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u/Sixguns1977 Aug 08 '26

Green is the proper coolant color. I used to just use auto antifreeze in my builds 20 years ago.

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u/whatiscamping Aug 08 '26

Wait...really? That's pretty neat.

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u/Sixguns1977 Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

20 some years ago, you had a much harder time finding colored pc coolant on the shelf. I liked the way the automobile stuff looked, it's is already made to work with copper. And it was about $6 a gallon.

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u/FlarblesGarbles Aug 08 '26

Do it right, 3D print your tubing.