A YouTuber experiments with an unconventional cooling setup by modifying a countertop ice machine to cool an Nvidia RTX 3060. In the demonstration, the creator uses the ice machine as a custom cooling solution for the GPU and tests it during gameplay in Cyberpunk 2077. According to one outlet, the experiment produces a notable temperature reduction during the test, with GPU temperatures reportedly falling from roughly 60°C to about 22–23°C. Another outlet takes a more skeptical view, stating that cooling a GPU with an ice machine is not a practical approach and characterizes the results as not aligning with expectations. Both sources focus on the same basic concept: repurposing an ice machine for GPU cooling and observing performance and temperature behavior during gaming. While the outlets differ in how they frame the success of the mod, they agree it is an improvised, DIY attempt and that it involves direct cooling of a specific Nvidia RTX 3060 system during a real game workload.
YouTuber modifies an ice machine to cool an Nvidia RTX 3060 GPU
A YouTuber experiments with an unconventional cooling setup by modifying a countertop ice machine to cool an Nvidia RTX 3060. In the demonstration, the creator uses the ice machine as a custom cooling...
- A YouTuber modifies a countertop ice machine for GPU cooling.
- The setup targets an Nvidia RTX 3060 graphics card.
- The test includes running Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay.
- Reported GPU temperatures drop to around 22–23°C in one account.
- Another outlet describes the approach as not really working as expected.
Cooling a GPU with a modified ice machine doesn't sound like a great idea on paper, and it didn't really work out all that well either.
6 hours agoA YouTuber turned a countertop ice machine into a custom cooler for an Nvidia RTX 3060, dropping Cyberpunk 2077 temperatures from around 60 degrees to 22 to 23 degrees Celsius.
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