How to clean clogged GPU and CPU blocks 

I like how Phil still snuck in a small explosion when Jay's hand hit the table

One of the downsides of being a responsible adult: Having to clean up the mess you made when you were having fun.

Jay constantly bringing up his iFixit tool because his wife bought him for his father's day everytime ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Fun fact: your iFixit ads are the only time an ad ever swayed my decision on making a purchase. I was like this guy knows his stuff and liked this brand enough to make his own crazy ads for it, so I went with theirs when I was looking for an anti static mat

Jay: "No iFixit explosions today!" Phil: ᵗᶦⁿʸ ᵉˣᵖˡᵒˢᶦᵒⁿ

Jay: No explosions today Taps on table: EXPLOSION I laughed hard. I would definitely buy an iFixit.

21:27 As Louis Rossman says "don't put the long screw in the short hole."

You forgot the interesting part. Cleaning the radiator of all that gunk.

Me; Christ - what did they do? Put chocolate milk in it, or something?! Previous video: yes.

That little explosion when he hit the table just cracked me up. Nice one Phil!

"we dump all this junk in accordance with regulations" Shuts off camera and immediately dumps it in the toilet.

8:55 - You can also put the parts in a ziplock bag with the alcohol in it, then seal the bag and put it in an ultrasonic cleaner and add water to cover the bag. Just make sure the bag is sealed to fully contain the alcohol.

A chemist here, the term Jay is looking for at 15:43 is an aziotrope. It has a different boiling point compared to the components

Jay is quite calm and pleasant to listen to when he's doing an instructable like this.

We actually use iFixit kits at my workplace for our service technicians. I personally would also buy one if I didn't already have another screwdriver kit.

Jay I recently took on doing a custom water cooling loop for my system. It was a lot of fun learning how to do it and putting it together. I am an avid flight simmer and custom water cooling produced amazing results , wish I had this years ago. You were my inspiration and I really appreciate your videos on the subject . Thank you so much and your maintenance videos I find extremely helpful!

When he put the alcohol in to clean the milk I thought, "well anyone who's ever put milk in lemon tea knows where this is going."

You're quite fortunate that you didn't let it sit. I made cheese and what you ended up doing was mixing the milk with a coagulant that created the curding process. fortunately you didn't let it sit for long. If you did your loop would have turned into a giant thing of cheese; which is a pain to clean. Also if I recall correctly the basic properties of milk cause it to stick to metal surfaces and will persist to where you have to devote some major elbow grease to get rid of it(this is why companies use really strong chemicals like caustic and nitric acid).

Kind of looks like Jay needs a ModMat from GamersNexus to keep his screws together when doing the tear down.

Just happy to see him still doing the watercooling, he was the first channel i was looking for while installing my own watercooling :3

10:10 You want to use just plain water, and add a bit of dawn dishwasher detergent. Put your parts in there, tubing, etc and move them. Instead of a toothbrush, use an electronics cleaning brush, the strands are thinner and brush them under the water as Jay did. After that rinse them under running water, but shake them or use canned air to blow any excess water quickly to avoid stains, or residue, or calcium build up, then put them on shop towels to let them dry fully. If you have a small fan to blow air over them on the towels it would be better.

The pump still works is a miracle on its own

this kind of vid always makes me happy since i learn more and more about each part and how to do it, sadly i'm still not that big into the tech side of it and dont want to end up ruining my pc

Jay I love these tear down videos. Reminds me of the early days. Wish you would have more of these.

Two things I have learned from this: *how to clean your loop *never use a loop, use air coolers.

Clearly you didn’t have cruel friends on your 21st birthday giving you a cement mixer

I use any ultrasonic bath as the final cleaning step on loop parts. Makes them come out beautiful

Now all we need is to see how Jay cleans the radiator!

I've always been a bit scared to go full custom water cooling because I never really knew if it was going to be a pain to clean or not but it's not to hard if you can empty it safely! I guess I might try to do this for my next build.

"You can get it replaced if not for free then for a very small fee." "Hey Phanteks wanna send me new parts because the old ones are ruined?" "How did the damage happen?" "I cooled my CPU with vodka and choccy milk!"

Loved the flame when Jay hit the table :-P I got myself an Ifixit pro tech toolkit this week, couldn't be happier!

Love this kind of "maintenance vlogs" and all the odd videos that lead to it. It is very fun to watch.

You can tell they've never tried drinking chocolate milk while drinking alcohol. It's even worse coming up, out of your stomach. Lol

Mrs. Jay: "Honey, have you seen my tooth brush"?

absolutely loved the educational part of this video, I feel more comfortable to try upgrading my pc to a water loop.

The little blast on jay touching the ifixit kit absolutely killed me. Thx Phil 😆😆

You should have tried milk system cleaner for coffee makers. Readily available and dissolves coagulated milk very good (that's what it's designed for). Maybe an idea for another video just for the vast amount of users, running milk (chocolate or other) in their loop :D

"Let's do shots!" PC: "I want an Irish car bomb."

Jay Jay Jay, Thank you for CC!!! as watched it approx. 30 min after it was released. Again thank you !!!

Great to be back, almost 2 years I haven't watched a computer talk (or whatever you want to call it) video

Try pouring some Baileys (coffee-alcohol liquor) and tonic, from gin-tonic, in a glass and see what happens, trust me ;)

Curdle, that's the word you're looking for Jay. That's what happens when alcohol touches milk

I really appreciate the understated 💥 when Jay hit the table during his plug for iFixit.

I would’ve loved to seen how you clean the Reservoir and pump as well. Great video, thanks for the video!

I hope that EVGA card isn't part of the global giveaway 😂

Can you make a liquidmetal loop? It will be interesting to see the temperatures with Liquidmetal and I have not seen anyone do it.

Well, got that kit, it's real good. The magnetic lid with the ridges inside. Just great for breakdown placement if you lack a modmat. One of the good ones where ad matches the spot.

Jay I run distilled water with a tea spoon of iodine in it and haven't had to clean it for 4 yrs, But the color of iodine doesn't mix well with liquid cool colors for sure so I tried a drop of magenta ink for printer cartridge's and couldn't believe it worked so happy I never ever had to clean it again.

California: Pooping on the sidewalk: ok, pouring alcohol in the drains: not ok. 🤔

Jayz OK, now let's get the cheese off the loop

That's great! I would love to see a coolant competition using real coolants folks can use to get more performance out of their current GPUs. Like Silicate-ester (i.e. Coolanol 25R)

Thanks for the tiny explosion Phil, you guys make my day on many days :)

Wonder how's the custom engine pc doing?

why not used a watered down KP thermal paste as loop fluid?

Love that tiny explosion edit after saying it was gonna be more serious. Perfect xD

I like how you have a whole collection of ifixits

IFIXIT! yeah got 2 of them and they really help me with the pc, my scooter, smartphones, even my watches and glases so really a fan of them bdw just a question, does the alchohol breaks the tubes or something? like breaks the chemical compositition of any parts? thanks.

Yes plain old soap just works.

Pro-tip from a heavy use restaurant kitchen dishwasher: Dawn Dish Soap will eat through almost anything stuck on metal or dish type materials almost immediately if you scrub it in with warm water (unless its literally baked on then you need dawn and steel wool)

For the copper block one of those cheap ultrassonic cleaners with dH2O + bit of neutral detergent could be handy when there are more sticky pieces of dirt.

Jay mention his wife's IFixIt present!, have not head that one for some time now :P

This makes me feel way less gross about my pc. Thanks LOL

I’ve asked for an ifixit tool kit for my birthday 😎 can’t wait to take everything apart!

I bought one of those ifixit sets because of seeing your Ad..... Great bits of kit! Thanks.

Have these guys never tried an Irish Car Bomb drink? Come on.

I LOVE IT !! NOW CLEAN THAT MESS :V

we need a jay vs linus competition

I've had great luck with distilled white (clear) vinegar. I put it in about 5 parts distilled water to 1 part vinegar and run the loop for several hours. Then I run several gallons of distilled water, both directions, through the loop under pressure to get all the loose gunk out (I use a hand water pump, the kind used to transfer gas between containers). I keep cycling until I see no more gunk. Works a charm. Never had to deal with curdled milk though...

What about the radiator? That must've been nasty to clean

Love this doctor j. Sounds like the top gear presenters.. sorry I have to do stuff j..bye..

I did this a few days ago to an acrylic distribution plate. I couldn't for the life of me get some of the more caked on stuff off the plate, so I resorted to using isopropyl alcohol. Not only did it not etch the acrylic, it seems to have gotten rid of any clouding that I would have expected to naturally occur. I was, needless to say, pleasantly surprised. It's worth noting that I applied the alcohol to a shop towel and then used that to scrub off the residue, so it may be that I simply just didn't have enough alcohol contact for enough time to really damage the acrylic, or it may be that the scrubbing action just left a nice even surface rather than allowing the plastic to "melt" naturally as it did here.

I have the same iFixit kit, bought it during black friday for 25€. Seriously, one of my better purchases. I use it for small allen key tasks, phone/laptop/tablet assembly & disassembly and generally any task that doesn't require a lot of force/torque. Recommended!

The only thing that got me really anxious was the use of so many papel towels :( and going to the trash with little use

Did he disconnected PSU cables from gpu and motherboard without turn off the system? 👀

Jay, you can use an ultrasonic parts cleaner to clean the spots that are very difficult to reach. Just be sure to put a plastic basket inside the metal basket to avoid and scratching where the pars contact the basket. Ones with a heater work best but inspect your parts after 20-30 minutes especially around the heat pipes/fins contact points and any solder joints. Be sure to check the largest parts measurements to make sure you get one large enough so the part will lay flat.

Thank you for making this video, this is something I've needed to do for a long time now, but never did, cause I didn't know what to do.

Who else feels like their day is incomplete without watching his videos💕

Looks to me like an awesome air cooler commercial :)

Perfect timing, I have a phanteks wb for my 1080ti and it's about the time i need to change The fluid in my loop.

20 minutes Jayz Cleaning ASMR

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I saw a sick clean-job on reddit and the guy showed a tube of what he used, a product called “Autosol” meant for cars. He said you use just one drop! Very strong stuff.

Jay I’m loving what you do with that cylinder

It was actually satisfying to watch you clean that

This video reminds me of the day after a frat party....all the cleaning up and regret of the last night! :D Have you thought about using an ultrasonic cleaner (like the ones designed for jewellery) with distilled water for block cleaning?

When putting in multiple screws, remember the saying, "Start them all before you tighten any." I learned this with a fairing that had 19 screws. If you didn't leave them all partially loose to start, the thin fiberglass fairing would move enough that you'd never get the last couple of screws in without going back and loosening the others anyway.

The graphic card watercooling part remind me when i cleaned an EVGA 980 Ti i bought on ebay with a waterblock almost completely clogged and which looked rusted. I think the guy had sell it at low price because he didn't knew it was possible to clean it. But after using soap and toothbrush long enough, i got it almost like new. Now this card is even better than my Asus 980 Ti Poseidon and she's the primary card in my SLI. :)

Lol. Still dead from the last "how many calories is your loop"

Dawn dish soap and water is what I use, then a good rinse with distilled. And the nickel can be polished with elbow grease and cotton cloths.

fun fact milk pretty much curdles when mixed with anything, it even starts to curdle in your stomach.

Power sprayer on the metals (15 degree?) followed by alcohol. Alcohol is fine on plastic as long as it's not prolonged exposure. As Jay did, alcohol on anything water hit. As long as it's dry afterwards it's fine. DON'T use alcohol on o-rings. It will dry them out too much. You nailed it. Waiting an extra day for everything to dry is always a good idea. It'll never look brand new again but cars don't either when exposed to the elements. You either see scratches or you're taking off material. Main thing is avoiding oxidation on the metals as that drastically reduces cooling ability. And who cares about the plastic. If it gets brittle and starts breaking buy a new one.

You can use a torch to flame kiss the surface of the etched acrylic to get some/most of it back to clear again. Obviously be careful not to melt or deform anything, and avoid fit edges where an o-ring sits. Butane torch just barely touching the surface should melt and resettle the outer layer just right so its see-through again.

My wife to be got me an ifixit kit for father's Day this year, can't wait for it now! Just wish I could have used your link but I don't live in America so... Great videos btw, live the content!

You should buy some 3m novec and play around with cooling the die directly with the liquid. No copper cold plate connected to micro fins connected to a water block. Just liquid on silicon. Would love to see that stuff!

@JayzTwoCents i just use glass cleaner and that is aggressive enough to break down the gunk but harmless enough to not damage the metal. same on plastics. and you get a beautiful shine and clarity.

Saltwater has a faster heat absorption rate than pure water, so it may work better than distilled. No idea what damage it would do to the loop though over time.

I'm lucky in the fact I'm always upgrading parts so I'm constantly needing to drain and clean my loop multiple times a year,, but if you have good fluid I typically reccomend changing fluids yearly. Can you go longer? With appropriate fluid sure but better safe than sorry. Distilled water with a biocide ftw! It's cheap and super effective!

the magnetic IfixIt mat is also pretty nice to keep Track of the Screws

Ever since I first saw Jay use that Blowy Thingy (CompuCleaner) I made a point of Buying one for myself. IT IS EXCELLENT!!!! BUY ONE!!!!

I'm not even interested in water cooling a system, but thumbs-upped because that was just interesting and satisfying to watch.