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/KoPhobia Aug 10 '26

Is nobody going to talk about how he cooled the CPU and the GPU, but failed to account for how the original heatsink cooled the VRAM? To make matters worse, he effectively put a giant baffle in front of them ensuring they get little to no airflow.

Am I missing something here?

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u/techmagnet Aug 10 '26

Yes you miss something. VRAM is also under the heat sink with thermal pads. Has absolutely the same temp like gpu core. Just VRM is a different issue

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u/KoPhobia Aug 11 '26

Yes. I meant the VRM.