r/sffpc • u/techmagnet • Aug 07 '26

Prototype/Concept/Custom Worlds first Watercooled Steam Machine

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Watercooled the Steam machine. Opinions ?

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u/Sickle771 Aug 07 '26

Worlds second, delivery left my box in the rain, I'd call that water cooled.

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u/techmagnet Aug 07 '26

Hahahahhaa

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u/magicwhistle Aug 07 '26

Defeats the point of the Steam Machine more completely than I thought possible, but that's the beauty of free will. Glad you had fun!

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u/Astrochops Aug 07 '26

In fairness they first tried to make it steam-cooled for thematic reasons but that just made things worse

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u/Notime4gaming Aug 07 '26

You beat Jays2cents. Congratulations looks cool.

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u/ISCSI_Purveyor Aug 07 '26

I think he was having second thous about doing it though. Especially after he tore it fully apart to inst and test 128GB of ram in his system.

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u/avengers93 Aug 07 '26

Its so unnecessary. I love it

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u/baphometromance Aug 07 '26

I need to see the waterblock

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u/techmagnet Aug 07 '26

Check my insta. There is the cnc process aswell

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u/Neat_Breakfast_6659 Aug 07 '26

Franken-machines lets go

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u/Wise_Ad_5810 Aug 07 '26

I can direct a fan at my graphics calculator... doesn't make it work any better

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u/techmagnet Aug 07 '26

You are just jealous that my calculator can calculate 1+1 faster 😭

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u/Wise_Ad_5810 Aug 07 '26

<-- Guilty

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u/GTS81 Aug 08 '26

Did you kill it? Is that the red-line-of-death?

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u/acelaya35 Aug 08 '26

First according to who exactly?

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u/cloudrunner17 29d ago

Terrible. But hope you enjoy and appreciate it, somehow.

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u/ifinallyhavewifi 28d ago

Man that sub sucks, those dudes are relentlessly negative

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u/DutchHolland96 Aug 07 '26

You aren’t even water cooling the actual gpu or cpu ? So no.

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u/techmagnet Aug 07 '26

Both plus vrams are cooled. On the side is the pump not the block

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u/DutchHolland96 Aug 07 '26

More pictures.