A Reddit user known as Motor_Attention1865 built a PC water cooling system that routes coolant to an external 240mm radiator outside in winter, keeping excess heat from warming their heated-floor room. An Arduino Mega with temperature probes and a Python script controls a three-way valve, opening it to send coolant outdoors only when needed and keeping the coolant above the dew point to avoid condensation. The heavily watercooled PC itself includes a delidded Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, an RTX 4070 Ti Super, and watercooled RAM, alongside internal 120mm and 360mm radiators fed by an EK Kinetic D5 pump.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-11-11
YouTuber and Thermal Grizzly founder der8auer examined a two-year-old liquid metal thermal paste application under an electron microscope and found it hadn't dried out as commonly assumed. Instead, the gallium reacts with copper surfaces to form a solid compound, with crystals visible by the two-month mark and no further change after two years. He also showed the same gallium-based alloy corrodes and weakens aluminum within minutes by traveling along grain boundaries.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-16
Thermal Grizzly has partnered with Noctua to launch a Noctua Edition of its WireView Pro II, a device that monitors current on individual 12V-2x6 connector pins to catch dangerous imbalances before they damage GPUs. The new version swaps in a Noctua NF-A4x10 fan, redesigned grille and larger CNC-machined aluminum housing to cut fan noise, running semi-passively and staying silent even under a 300W load in warm conditions.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-28
A Reddit user reported that the 8-pin connectors on their Thermal Grizzly WireView power-monitoring adapter overheated and melted while connected to a Radeon RX 7900 XTX, after experiencing repeated freezes and black screens. The user says the connectors were fully seated, and Thermal Grizzly has reached out to investigate the cause, which remains unconfirmed.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-14
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