The GeForce RTX 4090, a flagship GPU for gamers, creators, and developers based on the “Ada” architecture that NVIDIA launched for $1,599 in October 2022, can be cooled rather effectively with a household air conditioner, according to a new video shared by a Chinese content creator that remains available to watch on China’s Bilibili platform.
“The video creator, oddly named ‘Electrolytic sodium carbonate’ (ESC), showcases a rather normal-looking PC tower – but next to it, there is a 12,000 BTU air conditioning unit to supercharge cooling,” one outlet has wrote of the experiment, which involved a PC with a GeForce RTX 4090 and a Core i9-13900K, one of Intel’s flagship “Raptor Lake” CPUs. “The result is that the GPU runs at just 20 degrees Celsius under stress testing.”
A separate project—a “whole house” liquid cooling system that appears to have five loops, as well as a Xiaomi KFR-35GW air conditioner that offers 12,000 BTU cooling power in a 765 x 268 x 550 mm size, arealso shown off in the video, a few screenshots of which can be found below:
“Genius, this is the ultimate solution for computer cooling. After all, the cooling efficiency of air cooling and water cooling will eventually be limited by the room temperature,” reads a positive response from one viewer. “If there is such a product in the future, I will definitely install one.”
“I recommend using this, it works great,” responded another before posting a photo of a jet engine.