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Changing the look of your PS5? Easy \u2014 the slightest amount of elbow grease will let you pop<\/a> on<\/a> new<\/a> plates<\/a>. But if you want to seriously<\/em> mod that sucker for bragging rights, you can now preorder a $450 monoblock that lets you liquid-cool every single component on both sides of Sony\u2019s board. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n It\u2019s called the QuantumX<\/a>, and it\u2019s by EK Water Blocks, a company that sells all kinds of gear for DIYers to build their own custom loop water cooling for high-end PCs. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n And let\u2019s be clear: you will need <\/em>all kinds of custom liquid cooling gear if you go down this road. The company isn\u2019t selling an entire DIY kit, just the cooling block. Your $450 buys you a sandwich of nickel-plated electrolytic copper for your PS5\u2019s components, a transparent acrylic window, an integrated strip of 24 addressable RGB LEDs, and two G1\/4 ports for your cooling pipes \u2014 that\u2019s it, as far as I can tell. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cIt is important to note that this monoblock requires the rest of the custom water-cooling loop to function, an ATX-standard Power Supply for power delivery, and an external RGB controller for the optional RGB LED effect,\u201d writes EK Water Blocks. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n So you\u2019ll need your own radiator, pump, fans, tubes, interconnects, reservoir, power supply, and micro-ATX case, unless you\u2019ve got one sitting around \u2014 the roughly $200 Raijintek Pan Slim<\/a> you see here isn\u2019t included, nor the perfect-fit metal bracket you see in EK\u2019s photos and videos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Oh, and you\u2019ll need to disassemble literally your entire PS5, of course. Here\u2019s the instruction video:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n And it doesn\u2019t work with every PS5, the company warns. There\u2019s a list of compatible models on the company\u2019s website. EK Water Blocks also recommends digital instead of disc PS5s since disc ones apparently require you to connect the disc drive every time you want to update the console.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n If I haven\u2019t scared you away yet… good? This sounds like a pretty cool (if really expensive) product that could let you create a particularly droolworthy PS5 in the right computer case. I\u2019d love to see one in an open-air build where, say, the liquid cooling pipes themselves act as the \u201cframe.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Preorders are expected to start shipping in late October; the buy page<\/a> currently suggests they\u2019ll be delivered as soon as November 3rd, 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n