Der8auer has been shattering glass water block windows for testing purposes, and also because it's really fun

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Important work.Both acrylic and glass windowed blocks were placed inside a grey plastic crate, submerged in water, and then pumped to within an inch of their lives to see what sort of internal pressure they could withstand before cracking into pretty (but useless) patterns. Related articles ‘Probably the worst build of my entire life’: This YouTuber spent two months building a gaming PC with titanium liquid cooling, galvanic corrosion be damned A top overclocker has managed to destroy a $5,000 MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z with the fury of a thousand suns. Well, the default voltage of a 2,500 W extreme overclocking BIOS RAM prices might be sucking all the joy out of building PCs but four-screen AIO coolers go a little way to bringing a smile back on my face Der8auer explains that the test could also be performed in the open air, but risks an explosion of glass/acrylic that would be… well, bad news for everyone involved.First up was a traditional GPU water block with a PMMA (acrylic) window. Attached to a pump mechanism and submerged safely below the surface, the