Forget S'mores, Camping Accessory Gets A GeForce RTX 5050 Cooking At 3.5GHz

The entry-level NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 is underpowered compared to its bigger siblings, but such compromises have never stopped modders before. Undertaking the sacred duty of squeezing as much performance out of underpowered silicon as possible, hardware modders TrashBench and Clock Bench challenged each other to take the same GeForce RTX 5050 GPU and find a way to custom liquid cool it to its fullest potential. To achieve this end, TrashBench hooked up the tiny desktop GPU to a massive camping freezer with a fully-custom liquid cooling loop setup, completely forgoing all practicality to secure a truly wild 23% performance boost over stock, handily defeating Clock Bench in its modding contest.

Some readers may be wondering why he did this, but the truth among enthusiasts at this level is that "why" is a secondary question, if it's being asked at all. The more pertinent question is always "how" it ...