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Reddit modder vents PC heat outdoors with automated split water-cooling loop

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.

Der8auer's two-year test finds liquid metal TIM solidifies, doesn't dry out

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.