YouTuber’s Wild Experiment: Using Dry Ice to Cool Your Gaming Rig!

Hey there, fellow gamers! It’s your pal mryeester back at it again with a wild new experiment that’s sure to spark some curiosity. We’ve seen this creative YouTuber tackle some pretty out-there projects before, like trying to create an infinite ice-based CPU cooler and even edible thermal paste. But this time, they’ve cranked things up by attempting to cool a CPU with dry ice—yep, the cooler cousin of regular ice!

Now, before you rush to throw dry ice on your setup, hold on! Mryeester discovered that simply plopping dry ice on top of a top-mounted AIO cooler can lead to some disastrous results. It can melt and leak into your precious components, which is definitely not what you want for your rig. Luckily for him, he’s been working with an HP Omen Max 45L, which features a unique “Cryo Chamber” cooling system that’s designed for this kind of madness.

This nifty setup keeps the AIO radiator and fans separate from the rest of the PC components, with proper ventilation and a big gap beneath it. So, you can see where this is heading, right?

In the video, mryeester dives into the features of the HP machine, and let’s just say it’s quite the showcase. But what we’re really interested in is the dry ice experiment. When he placed the dry ice directly on top of the AIO, it created some cool visual effects. The fans, set to exhaust air upwards, produced some spooky vapor trails. As for temperatures, the CPU dropped to a chilly 37 °C, which is on par with using regular ice. However, that’s an improvement over the previous idle temperature of 43 °C.

The real magic happened when he put the dry ice in the Cryo Chamber. With this setup, the AIO was able to pull in super cold air, dropping the CPU temperature to an impressive 34 °C at idle. This beat the regular ice cooling score by a couple of degrees! But the big question is: does this mean gaming performance skyrockets thanks to this quirky cooling method? Not exactly.

Mryeester ran benchmarks on Cyberpunk 2077, recording a 157 fps at stock settings, and a mere 159 fps with the dry ice setup. As he humorously points out, that’s essentially just a rounding error. A slight drop in temperature isn’t going to revolutionize your gaming performance unless your CPU was already on the edge of thermal throttling.

So, while this experiment provided some fun and showcased HP’s Cryo Chamber in a rather unique light, it’s clear that cooling your CPU with dry ice might not be the ultimate gamer’s hack we were hoping for. And hey, as a friendly reminder, don’t mess around with dry ice unless you know what you’re doing—leave that to the pros like mryeester, who clearly has the right gear to handle it!