1 Year Airflow Experiment - The Stunning Conclusion 

guess what???? It is

This guy tracks time...

Bringing the heat

make your own video to see if the exp reply or its diferent

It only feels like 23 months for me

Apk Heaven you can say its the linus-level of crazy

should have used mining rigs...at least they would have served a purpose other than eating electricity and dust. Or folding at home, or Seti@home, etc...

Fishmonger ! No cuz then ppl would nag that the results are not based on real world results... Because I haven't seen any modern PC that runs 4 gpus pinned at 100% 24/7, thus ramping up the fans

One... more... year!

I haven't seen any modern PC's sit for a while in a construction zone either. Fact remains, everyone's house where their PC is will be different, so everyone's results will vary. The most important thing is how each case compares to each other - so it doesn't really matter what they were doing compared to what you do, just that what they do compare to each other equally.

@@b6.b1zz Thank you for the positivity, but some of us would like to learn how to do things the right way.

@@b6.b1zz relax.

@@b6.b1zz actually you need to make sure you're in an open area preferably not in the same room your PC is going to be in. Also using alcohol wipes can decay some of the plastic in the PC. Dry electronic wipes are a better option. There are so many small things he may not know too like not letting the compressed air blow your fans so you should hold them still. Etc etc.

@@b6.b1zz right, but you may know that but not everyone does. Some people like to be careful and safe with their PCs so this man just wanted to know something he didn't know.

@@DevilMayCare4 Knowledge is power, glad you helped this guy out and didn't be an arse about it, glad there is still some decent people in these comment sections.

this video is 2 years old? he dosent work there anymore

doran idk he came back

Carl Loreto floatplane is a lmg company

I see him in the background from time to time. I hear he's on some kind of floaty plane.

I Hope he Comes back

Diego2112Gaming so

@@acehilm7470 yeah, still haven't done it. Turns out working 12-15 hours 5-6 days a week, you really just don't care, ya know? Lol

Diego2112Gaming ah I see you get that money my friend keep me updated when you do clean it lmao

@@diego2112gaming Order a can of compressed air. That way when it arrives, it'll give you an incentive to go do it. Keep us updated.

@@diego2112gaming working that much, you may as well just buy a new computer. why maintain when you can just buy new....lol

he was having way too much fun with that

shh dont tell the sponsors we all laugh at them xD

Me living in africa: 😳

herkenbaar

DARUDE anyone ?

@@DaBuddyComToX Do dododododo dodododo dodododo do dododododod do dododododod do dododododododododo dodododoo

It also helps that all intakes are filtered, unlike the other two systems.

you might be better off mining bitcoins

why not both ?

I'd like to see what I could do to murder a machine but within strict guidelines of not just booting the thing around. All tech based and reasonable options to threaten and kill it so it would have to be a planned and structured way of punishing, abusing and compromising a CPU or GPU and just throw everything at it to kill it.

Drag your feet on the rug and tease you'll touch it!

Why

What are you doing here?

Eat me Obviously also watching the same YT video you are...

just wanted to typ the same reaction untill i saw this one

Notice me fashion senpai

I'm shocked this isn't really talked about here. Living environments have dust is as you say, plus a tonne of fabrics (carpet, clothes, curtains, bedding) all giving off micro fibres they're used, plus normal house activity bringing in all kinds of particles that are quite different to 'construction' particles which are more like fine dirt, not oily skin and fabric particles.

Not to mention a lot of people have pets, which would make the situation a lot different lol

I was eating... *Was*

All of that is in the warehouse and offices too...maybe minus kitchen grease but with added construction mess. That's why they mostly looked whiteish...drywall takes over everything.

@@yourhandlehere1 this. I know it has been 5 months but this is the most important factor. Cooking vapors, be it water or general grease, makes all the dust already accumulated in your computer to "glue" together, forming that THICC mesh of dust, like a fabric really. In the office, you get a nice air conditioning (mostly filtered, dry air), closed doors etc, way different environments. Dude, sometimes I'm cooking and can even feel on my skin the fat/water accumulated after a while, imagine what your pc feels after a few months.

i bought a gpu from someone that smoked, forgot people still did that in their houses. it smelled for like a month.

Yep, can confirm. Worked as a bench tech for a couple years and smoker-owned machines ranged from "meh" to "HOLY SHIT". Little brown ghost turds that smell like straight death. That shit is nasty.

Yea if you're smoking in the same room with your computer all day long you aren't doing it any favors.

I'm actually a heavy smoker, and while I completely agree that bezels and such get absolutely WRECKED by cigarette smoke... as long as you service your PC regularly, it isn't THAT bad. It'll give off a stink, though - that's for sure. We smokers can't smell it - other people tell us when it's bad. ;-) Then again, I have plenty of airflow and an open design, so it would never be much worse than my house already is.

@@EgonFreeman Yeah, I can tell you most people have the simplest, smallest old pc's with basically no airflow...I wish we could upload attachments to comments, I would have put it, like a thick crust of god knows what substance built up between the heatsink and the fan, fucking grooossss. Left it running overnight, came back to the shop in the morning, the whole place smelled of death lmao

Kensworth yes

That's what skadoodle said

NickyV!

It's a shame they couldn't do it on the kitchen set. But it was cool for Linus to fly them all out to Floatplane HQ.

The old crew

K0ncursus Famous actor James Allen McCune? Of sugar pine 7 fame?

Hahahahah best comment by far

His full name is actually Famous Actor James Allen McCune

@@ethan5356 sp7 is the greatest thing to ever happen to this planet

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In my experience, its from people with no clue about computers + let us be honest, most average pc users dont have full dust filter setup. Opening my sisters pc after at least 5 years without cleaning or dust filters (she is that kinda person that doesnt even know you could open a pc case) i was in more than a shock. We're talking partially almost an inch of dust buildup, a family of over 10 spiders living in it etc etc.. I really would have wanted to see the video, but with dust filter-less PC.

Its not just smoke but that is bad on them. Pet hair and thick carpeting will make a mess too. Even the area you live in and how well the air quality in your house is. Mold is another big one. Also most really dirty computers didn't get that way in a year. They were used for years and years and never cleaned or taken apart. That being said I have seen computers six months old with a smoker look worse than those.

Wtf

Well it doesn't surprise me, it's like the average office except 10x more dusty

Well, you were literally in Satan's armpit. All that's needed to cure this is a dunk in the Tigris (or Euphrates), a box of grid squares, and an exorcism.

Thank you for your service. God bless.

Any clue of fans direction and filters?

Luckily there is a tutorial for this highly reasonable plan on the channel.

Christian Stout they make hepa cases that you put your computer case in and they pull large amounts of air through an AC grade filter Ive seen them used more and more in shops and factories with the rise of graphically intensive equipment like optical measurement systems

I have had a silverstone ft02b since 2009 and only clean the filters a few times a year. The inside is still pretty clean and the only hardware I have changed since 2011 is my graphics card. Best case ever IMO. 3 180mm fans on the bottom blowing straight up (filtered) and the power supply blowing straight up (filtered). Positive air pressure, so there is nothing getting sucked in the drive spaces, etc. No idea what I would replace this case with.

@@AsbestosMuffins r/whoooooosh

Christian Stout i

I'm in the positive pressure camp myself for the reasons you explained, but I only have two sys_fan headers on my cheap little B450M and I wouldn't mind getting your opinion on something. Case came with two 120mm fans, one filtered intake in the center of the front panel and one exhaust on the top of the rear side. Wanted to get another intake for the 120mm mount under the front intake, but the cooling has actually been fine, I don't do any OCing on my 3600 other than XMP. I still plan to study up on fan splitters and will probably get a second intake at some point, but in the meantime, I've been using curves to run the intake a little harder (in DC mode; case fans are only 3-pin sadly) to account for the intake filter and hopefully at least get some slightly-positive pressure. I had the intake fan set to +0.6v higher than the exhaust, this past week I've widened that gap to 1.2v. So at, say, 40c, the intake is running on 7.2v and the exhaust is on 6.0v. Dumb idea, or good enough as a short-term solution until I decide on a fan splitter? FWIW this seems to give me a pretty consistent extra ~120 RPM on the intake compared to the exhaust according to hwinfo, but I dunno to what degree that extra pressure is offset by the filter. It's tricky to find info on setting intake/exhausts to different voltages/speeds, Google usually just gives me a ton of articles explaining the difference between PWM and DC 🤦‍♂

Did you use a mop?

I guess it's time for your 2nd cleaning?

Enrique Davila that's what I thought they would do as well... Kind of sucked that this video was kind of forgotten about over the year.

He mentioned at the start, which one is still working... Then didn't say if one broke or not. Guessing that means they all work, so temps would have been good. I feel they phoned this one in.

Those were just qualitative tests, they can't give any accurate answers. Quantitative tests like Temperature would give us real results. I wonder why they didn't do it. They always show this kind of results in the benchmark videos.

Renato Avilez seems like they started this experiment and got everyone hyped and then just didn't wanna bother with it after that

They didn't show the GPU fans/heatsinks but I don't think there was enough dust buildup on the CPUs or mobo's to affect temps at all.

also if they kept them in places where people are and not in hidden room they would probadly have much more dust

They had a purpose now. Clean the air

They had purpose this video

Onat KIRA QUEEN BITE ZA DUSTO

no result for one year, tired two or three years. how about with pets too?

Onat hey man, I have a passion for tech and enjoy making quality videos but need a larger audience. Would you mind checking out my channel?

Hey disappoint nice to meet you

message taran on some social media about it lol

I'm living under a rock, what happened to luke?

@@DFlover123 R.I.P.

Cont3mplation like what glados says

ZeuxDar I also miss that part

Without temps people are like oh all out is great. But it isn't, it is maybe good for dust but not for your temps

Its kinda hard to say if all out or all in is better without doing a real test. With all out, it would almost be like a passively cooled case, which those tend to perform fairly well. But on the other hand I think theoretically all in would do better... Most of that air being brought in is going to just circle around trapped and turn into warm air, but theres still a constant cool air intake to keep it from getting hot.

You should get more likes! This is probably the best insight I've read here. Thx!

Last words gave me a smile:) Maybe that's why a lot of IT services don't bother about dust collection-dust cleaning revenue

Thats why you need to put your guys on a monthly fee. But yeah, IT for 8 years, I noticed same thing. He puts the computer on the desk or else he gets the hose again. air hose

Alright, I've got it. Lie to the customer.

I work in the agricultural industry and dust or dirt is what we work in and is also what we have to keep out. Yes elevation works. the larger particles get kicked up easier but don't float as high. The best solution is positive filtered case pressure. More filtered air going in than unfiltered exiting. This will put a positive case pressure keeping out unfiltered air out. This even will account for seems in the case. Take those filters out every now and then to clean or replace. This will make a huge difference.

Douglas m you’re either joking or have not been watching ltt for long

r/woooosh

Yeah that was weird, but it's nice when there's crossovers

This video was sponsored by Floatplane.

Leo Skingsley *wooooooosh*

ok yall are fucking trolling, is this a meme? I just saw Luke on wan show 2 weeks ago!

@@icedcoffee8561 he left and came back

@@icedcoffee8561 lol he never "left". he works for floatplane.. which is LTT's company

@@tedubadu2536 floatplane media is a seperate company, it's to prevent conflict of interest

@@unoriginalenby4311 yeah. he works in the LTT offices 🤷‍♂. I'm sure they're financially intertwined in some way though

Luke's awkward laugh when Linus launched into his sponsor spiel

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BlueRanger731 rip my eyes

@@tyta4977 lmfaooooo

Thats due to being around a human, unlike these computer off behind a wall where nothings around to generate dust.

Think about breathing that stuff. Air purifiers in every room make a big difference in quality of life trust me.

Do you have a model to recommend?

DaDopeMasta or Ting

Tunnelbear. We we say FUCK YOU AJIT

Guess Who That Is yeah. I was using avast VPN before tunnel bear

thinking: "I didn't miss this"

appollo 13 reference?

Those mesh filters dont filter anything if you want to keep all dust out of a pc buy the filters that go on ac units the black stuff that looks like foam I use that on my pc and a year later just a small layer of dust and that is with all the fans at full speed all the time

This is truth. also WAY cheaper than "PC" case filters.

sounds weird choice to produce those units with dark color. are you sure that those are air filters and not the ones that are used to remove odors with active carbon?

Clean the dust filters every few months. Vacuum is okay, wash and scrub is better if an option.

the cases aren't expensive the one that is sponsored, and actually has fancy shit is only 80$

I have a fancy case, but it still collect a ton of dust in a matter of a month. That's because it's situated on the first floor near a window and my building is near a road. I'm probably dying right now from the amount of dust I have in my room, lol.

"Fancy case", my $25 case from 2013 has two dust filters. It's a standard feature, only prebuilt computers cheap out that much.

true my default computer case that came with the set up when I bought my computer 4k computer by the way 10 years ago came with no filters and only a single exhaust fan.

@@lobsterbark my cheap case doesnt have a filter and i got it last year😐

He's so pretty

weak! 1st world countries.

forgotn1 I have my pc in my bedroom (on carpet) soooo... What they have dust wise is like 3 or 4 month for me xD

Warehouses with lots of people produce more dust than a bedroom. We have to brush our warehouse out weekly to keep it clean from mud and general debris from dozens of people walking through it. Remember carpets aren't dusty they simply hold dust. So wash your carpet and it won't be a problem for a while.

Mark Pearce Don't most big warehouses have air filtering? (Filtering dust out of the air)

Get a metal frame that holds your PC off the ground a little bit. Most cases come with them, or you can just prop it up a little bit with a couple pieces of wood or something, and make sure your power supply fan is exhausting. You for sure don't wanna have it directly on carpet.

Yup, I had an old PC before that I kept about 2 inches above the carpet and man, it got almost as bad as these PCs in the span of 6 months. Also the case kind of sucked so that could've contributed. Now I have a new improved rig on top of a glass desk 3" ft high with tile flooring...and the difference is remarkable. After 4 months the dust is about a fifth of what it used to be compared to my old pc.

wow

Please leave...

On the Corey Cole pun scale, this gets a 5/9 out of 9 for the most bad pun.

Awdhoot Kanawade i hate you so much for that,dammit. good job

I still don’t get why you would call an exhaust fan an “outtake” fan, yet here we are. :D

@@retr0_amp that's extremely racist

If I may answer a bit, fans aren't '100% just pushing out air all over' at any time [well, a basic PC case fan anyway] - where the blades are moving are obviously pushing air out, but all around the area of the moving blades, air can get sucked into the case (along with other areas like cracks and openings in the case, etc). The filters of a fan basically serve to help filter dust all around the fan, which does a double-duty of push/pull (but of course mostly push in the direction of facing, especially at the blade movement areas). This also reduces the amount of dust that is ‘going out and just getting sucked back in nearby’. Also, if it is the top exhaust (either blowhole or multiple fan setup), it can help stop dust from settling easily in the fan casing area (along with getting sucked into the case, as mentioned above). Overall, dust still comes in and out in the area of a fan, so a filter could be used if reducing overall dust placement/retention/capture is desired. Remember that air that wants to flow will flow, it doesn't really matter how much 'airflow is restricted' [in PC case application anyway - see the video on airflow restriction, heh]. HTH

@@artiscool6873 whether it's racist is extremely unimportant.

@@Mbeluba that's what an extremely racist nigga would say.

Yeah, something more than just : "Oh look they're all dusty..." No shit Sherlock. How about some actual effort and some usable values. Could have done much more.

nappydrew they made a big deal about how much work it was going to be to make a video about it, and delayed the results. This seems like it took 15 minutes not including editing, so I think they could have managed 3 months ago.

Temps would have been exactly the same, you can test that on your own system

I'm sure they would have been the same but still would have been nice to see the info, plus there is always the possibility they wouldn't have been the same but now we will never know.

No they wouldn't I took an engineers computer where i work and cleaned it out cuz the cpu was throttling hard. It went from easily hitting 70C to barely hitting 63C on a stress test

A. Random Tastes like time.

Hybby z tastes umami

But the parts are really old and might not be stable to run windows on them.

@@wadez1000 one year, they better be still capable of running windows

@@wadez1000 wow my dude lol... I had a 10 year old PC that still ran windows 7 and played video games like The Witcher 3.. come on lol

@@lorenzomoretti1403 those where not new parts even then. Just look at the motherboard color 😂

​@@wadez1000 lmfao. for real tho computers shouldn't "die" if treated properly and are quality products. this mentality is kind of detrimental as people think old technology is useless when in fact its still very much useful. We need to change this way of thinking or E-waste will continue to increase and technology will become the new gas in terms of global warming.

I always press L when he starts the ad

thats the good thing about his ads 1 or 2 taps on the right arrow key and you skip the ad but not the content

Wow I got 206 likes what I just commented some shitty joke

NoBrainer it's not a joke, it's a reality

Another Glitch last time I checked nobody likes reality lol

stludachris Arizona boiii

I have a german shepherd and burn wood in the winter in a wet climate and you should see how bad mine gets and it's not on the floor.

Get an mini/smaller-than-ITX then for lower dust impact.

Wellbeserious.......you still have all the same components that are affected by dust like the cpu, graphics card and power supply. Dust doesn't affect the board that much. From this I can see that a case with great filters would work best.

Many completely/mostly closed micro/whatever form factors are more resilient than most form factors, but lower performance.

mbsnyderc have you tried living in a house?

I hardly need to clean my PC even though the pollution of my country is pretty bad because I have positive air pressure (most of the fans blowing inside the case with filters outside). I actually have not cleaned my PC at all for 6 years. I only need to replace the 3M filters (for air conditioner).

In my case* with a balanced setup using an H440, I need to clean every 3 months...clogs to that extent happen around the 5th month

mbsnyderc that would be amazing

3 years without cleaning and my PC looks the same WITHOUT the dust filter.

Story of every "what's better" video on this channel.

Because it all depends! PC enthusiasts love to constantly fight over what's better with anything PC related, while at the end of the day it always depends. That's kind of the point of this video series, lmao.

LRM12o8 The custom PC world is so vast that there can’t be one single right answer

Kids are starving for computers in Africa!

😩😭😔✊

dude flexing on these kiddz

Those are core 2 or even older pcs, pretty useless for gaming.

Yukimi Kazari I did exactly the same thing.

I did the exact same thing ☺

Yaa boiiiii

This explains why I don't get a lot of dust in my computers as I run them 24/7.

@@michelleroberts1370 You make me proud

Should always leave your PC on anyways; it reduces thermal fatigue which prolongs component life. So two reasons now.

@@whipivy How about the bills???

So what you're saying is that we gamers are more responsible and care for it by using it...Wish I knew this 10 years ago when I was a teen!

A shorter temperature test, for a few hours, should be enough to compare the systems' cooling performances. IIRC Luke made a video comparing airflow setups in 2015.

Too expensive freaking bitcoins

How about for your current build. Need more fans!!!!!

Drekex Not true. You don’t mine Bitcoins with GPUs unless you are dumb. GPUs are only used to mine other coins like Monero, Zcash and UBIQ etc.

I think he was just using a general term for all them digital currencies

jared varner It’s cryptocurrency. Nobody should generalise crypto as btc as they are majorly different. If you are complaining about something, at least know the facts

MakRude G like hungry 10 yr old

Some people say they don't, some people say they both count as engagement. Who knows? At this point all we know is that youtube is a big black box, a big shamelessly lying black box.

I'll like the _video._ Not your spam comment.

I was referring to the video, hehe :) I only realized it could be interpreted as an attention grabbing comment after I refreshed and it had a ton of likes. Anyway, the important part is to like Luke.

yeah nd the likes incourages the creator to make more and better content, that's the important part! That will have a positive outcome in the long run cuz people will like and subscribe and the channel will keep growing and from there their vids will probably pop up one day on new strangers and they will watch the video and like it.

Smoker here, can confirm. Nicotine sticks to everything and makes everything sticky with a thin yellow layer of nicotine (including your white ceilings and walls, which won't be white for long). Not good.

its the tar, not the nicotine

Is tar yellow?

Confirmed, my mom is a 40 year smoker, and has wood heat. I have to go clean her PC at least once every 3 months, it's awful :( Good news she is moving and will be quitting smoking, and no more wood heat! Yay!

wait till u get a vapers pc :) its a little sticky also

Aviv Gannon It believe thermal grizzly because it is literally some metal

Aviv Gannon Tunnel Grizzly

BearGrizzly

Linus dosent like linux so it wont happen

Let me guess, it'll crash

Just drop it.

Lol sorry I dont want ad popup spam like its the mid 2000s.

Linus and Linus should make Linus OS together!

Thanks.

u r a HERO

youre a saint

I see them after a week, my house is REALLY dusty, have to clean my desk and pc filters atleast once a week. Help me.

Same mine looked like a fucking dryer filter after like one or two uses and that was less than a month.

Unless you have heavy-duty airfilters running in multiple rooms of your house, they're always going to be dust. Your skin and hair, dust brought in from outside, dust from breakdown of materials like carpet and clothing and books... there's just too much going on to keep a house free of dust unless you've go some serious filtration going on.

saniopurulent I’m pretty sure that’s just an old wives tale.

zeemonkeyman1 No, he’s correct about skin being one of the largest components of dust. Kinda gross to think we all breathe in each others dead skin particles all the time lol.

Yeah, I wished they would have done thermals and benchmarks to see how the performance of the machines were altered by the dust and potential heat issues.

Stay tuned for part 2! Brought to you by TunnelBear

TunnelBear, the easy to use temperature reading soft.. ..oh wait :)

Yeah I thought this was gonna be the main thing. I don't care about the dust, I clean it anyway. I do care about temps.

If you look at the cable management video, the tiny restriction on airflow the dust provides wouldn't have made and real difference

Rob The Squire no because Linus is cheap and just won't have him on anymore

How about no because Luke is now an employee of Floatplane which is owned by Linus Media Group so he is still Linus' employee.

yep hes still linus' s employee