Now you can water-cool your PS5, too

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EK Water Blocks is now selling a $450 block for the PlayStation 5.

By Sean Hollister, a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget.

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A wide, window-top computer case filed with silver-white parts, fans, and tubing containing glowing blue liquid.

A PS5’s internals, inside a QuantumX waterblock, inside a Raijintek case, with custom water cooling and bracket.
Image: EK Water Blocks

Changing the look of your PS5? Easy — the slightest amount of elbow grease will let you pop on new plates. But if you want to seriously 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’s board.

It’s called the QuantumX, and it’s 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.

A closer look at the waterblock, mounted inside a case.

A closer look at the waterblock, mounted inside a case.
A closer look at the waterblock, mounted inside a case.
Image: EK Water Blocks

And let’s be clear: you will need all kinds of custom liquid cooling gear if you go down this road. The company isn’t selling an entire DIY kit, just the cooling block. Your $450 buys you a sandwich of nickel-plated electrolytic copper for your PS5’s components, a transparent acrylic window, an integrated strip of 24 addressable RGB LEDs, and two G1/4 ports for your cooling pipes — that’s it, as far as I can tell.

This is the actual product, the block itself — not the PS5 in a PC case the company’s using to demonstrate.

This is the actual product, the block itself — not the PS5 in a PC case the company’s using to demonstrate.
This is the actual product, the block itself — not the PS5 in a PC case the company’s using to demonstrate.
Image: EK Water Blocks

“It 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,” writes EK Water Blocks.

So you’ll need your own radiator, pump, fans, tubes, interconnects, reservoir, power supply, and micro-ATX case, unless you’ve got one sitting around — the roughly $200 Raijintek Pan Slim you see here isn’t included, nor the perfect-fit metal bracket you see in EK’s photos and videos.

Oh, and you’ll need to disassemble literally your entire PS5, of course. Here’s the instruction video:

And it doesn’t work with every PS5, the company warns. There’s a list of compatible models on the company’s 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.

If I haven’t 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’d love to see one in an open-air build where, say, the liquid cooling pipes themselves act as the “frame.”

An example of the water block in a different kind of PC case.

An example of the water block in a different kind of PC case.
An example of the water block in a different kind of PC case.
Image: EK Water Blocks

Preorders are expected to start shipping in late October; the buy page currently suggests they’ll be delivered as soon as November 3rd, 2023.

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