A man puts his $5000 PC in a pond – And it still works
Crafty YouTuber DIY Perks is well known for his amazon craft skills, but this is something else.
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A fantastically intelligent and incredibly crafty YouTuber by the name of DIY Perks has built a submersible PC. Using Copper piping and a water-tight acrylic tube, DIY Perks manages to use the surrounding water to dissipate heat away from the PC, the results are impressive. In short: A man puts his $5000 PC in a pond – And it still works
YouTuber DIY Perks builds a submersible PC
DIY Perks is an absolute mad lad when it comes to concocting elaborate DIY projects, from DIY salt lamps to submarines, DIY Perks has you covered. He has amassed over 4 million subscribers with his creations, and rightly so.
Onto the PC, DIY Perks constructs a compact system on a custom frame built onto the 1000W Seasonic Prime PSU. He mentions a few parts that will be comprising his system including the Zotac 4090, and the 13900K, with the addition of the Asrock Z790 PC-ITX TB4 motherboard upon which the rest of the components will be built.
This is a fantastically powerful system, capable of drawing more than 800W from the wall, and as you can imagine, this creates a lot of heat, especially in a confined space. Upon testing, DIY Perks states that the CPU reaches its throttling temperature. So how does DIY Perks solve this issue?
That’s right, dump it in his garden pond, with all his fish.
Allow us to elaborate (if you haven’t already watched the video) – The system that DIY Perks has built sits upon a completely custom frame made of copper pipes.
These pipes attach to the internal water cooling components supplied by EK, cooling the system internally. This hot water fresh from the scorching components, then travel through the external copper pipes, transferring heat into the pond.
One important question, why?
It’s simple. Heat. Heat has been the enemy of electrical components since their inception. Now imagine taking what DIY Perks has and scaling it up to data center-level sizes. If one unit produces 800W then 10 can produce 8,000W, 100 can produce 80,000W, and so on.
Companies have already experimented with underwater data center solutions and deemed them very viable, however, we’re not sure dumping your PC in a pond is the best thing for your PC, no matter how good your DIY skills are.
This was an incredible thing to witness and stands to cement DIY Perks’ genius and ability to push the boundaries of everyday items. He is definitely worth a subscription. Now you know why A man put his $5000 PC in a pond – And it still worked
