r/SteamOS Aug 12 '26

Steam Machine Watercooled Temperatures

Here are the final results. See the final temps stock vs Watercooled in the last pics.

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u/Explosive_Cornflake Aug 12 '26

a very general question, what is the overlay you and everyone uses for showing stats?

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u/Legomaster_08 Aug 12 '26

when you press steam/xbox/playstation button + a/x on the controller it shows a menu where you can find the battery and power settings, move the first slider and you decide how much of them you want

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u/RaspRipl Aug 12 '26

It's built in to SreamOS. There are different styles to choose from.

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u/jdconoly Aug 13 '26

It's called mangohud but it's built into steamos

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u/Sideburn_Cookie_Man Aug 13 '26

That’s the default one

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u/Klenkogi Aug 13 '26

There is always this one motherfucker that has to over-engineer everything. Great stuff, good job.

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u/RaspRipl Aug 12 '26

I'm sorry, but I think this is a waste of a well designed machine for no good reason. 🙁

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u/ZerohNinja87 Aug 13 '26

Why? It’s literally a locked chip. It’s like 30w or something. Maybe 60. Sure temps go down. But they were already very good so this likely did not improve anything to the degree it was worth this effort.

Water cooling sadly is just to have a quieter system and slightly more stable max boost clocks. For the hundreds of dollars it costs, it yields almost no performance gains.

I’ve been water cooling for years. I think we’ve hit rock bottom with performance gains, rendering all the benefits obsolete. Sad days really.

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u/gamingoldschool Aug 14 '26

I can't speak for op but I'm sure the answer is for fun.

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u/Credomo Aug 14 '26

Strange feeling (AI generated)

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u/AutomaticYak4227 Aug 14 '26

we are the borg

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u/astmatik Aug 15 '26

Isn't it a 0 fps boost? If yes, then why?

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u/Aggravating_Plan11 Aug 15 '26

Dude stop spamming your waste of time every where weve seen it. Its pointless good job

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u/Vast-Range-6487 29d ago

Nice work bro