Now you can water-cool your PS5, too

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A wide, window-top computer case filed with silver-white parts, fans, and tubing containing glowing blue liquid.
A PS5’s internals, inside a QuantumX waterblock, inside a Raijintek case, with custom water cooling and bracket. | Image: EK Water Blocks

Changing the look of your PS5? Easy — the slightest amount of elbow grease will let you pop on new plates. But if you want to seriously mod that sucker for bragging rights, you can now preorder a $450 monoblock that lets you liquid-cool every single component on both sides of Sony’s board.

It’s called the QuantumX, and it’s by EK Water Blocks, a company that sells all kinds of gear for DIYers to build their own custom loop water cooling for high-end PCs.

Image: EK Water Blocks
A closer look at the waterblock, mounted inside a case.

And let’s be clear: you will need all kinds of custom liquid cooling gear if you go down this road. The company isn’t selling an entire DIY kit, just the cooling block. Your $450...

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source https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/29/23895967/water-cooled-ps5-ek-water-blocks-quantum-x

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