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I've said it before, I'll say it again: Linus and Alex doing jank water cooling is ALWAYS a great video. And this one actually performed pretty ok for parts that are almost all terrible on their own and not meant to be used together in the slightest. Alex is a master of just making it work. And I always get a kick out of how disappointed Linus is that the grand idea ended up being nothing but duct tape and cable ties. Adding some Jake to the mix just made it even funnier how bad it all came out, while still kind of doing the job.
Proof that Alex is a fantastic engineer. Taking random garbage from the mid-2000s and making a functional water-cooling system (mostly) capable of handling a 13900K and an RTX 4090 is actually pretty fricking incredible. 😂
@@Malicious2013 I would say it was capable. I don't recall it thermal throttling, which is insane. Sure, it wasn't as great as custom built gear, but the fact it did as well as it did is a testament to his skill. Same with the Engineers he consulted. How do we cool this mighty system? Zip ties. Classic engineers.
Poor Jake just wanted to drill a big hole 🤣 What a turnaround from that video where Linus bores a hole into the front of a PC case and Jake is attacked by said PC case/bore drill into slo-mo "how did my life decisions lead me here" face montage 😅🤣😭😅🫠
With Latvian mail you have to describe what the package contains on the label and it's usually easier to put some random stuff on there so they don't bother to check it. Source: Lived in Latvia for multiple years
Have a feeling those envelopes were intentionally labeled as fishing lures and hair clips to deal with import/export customs since some countries may have more strict limits on what kind of IT equipment can be imported/exported.
This was amazing. Back in the late 90's early 2000's we used to watercool like this. I helped a friend build a geothermic radiator, that ran a copper pipe 15' under his back lawn; 30' into his yard and back again to his house, through fitting in the side of his house (all copper piping mind you) back to the office, where he had quick connect fittings custom built to run copper piping up to his computer, which was on a rudimentary test bench, and to hand made copper sinks. This took me way back to those days. I'm surprised no one mentions the galvanic corrosion issues caused by an aluminum sink and copper blocks... still that was entertaining!
@@NeXtarProducts it still works. he has his modern gaming rig on it now. changed the fittings so normal water cooling piping can connect to the copper pipes. the water is like 40F year round, he has a pretty heavy duty pump in a separate room so the whole thing is pretty much dead silent; and he lives in an area the ground freezes. part of why we buried the pipes down to 15 feet was because the ground doesn't freeze that deeply, and the temps are maintained at a pretty regular 40F or so year round (we consulted a guy about this when we were planning it). I remember when we built it we were joking about how much overkill it was for a 45W cpu being overclocked, and that it might be able to cool a cpu running 200W through it. Didn't realize that he could easily run a 1000W system on it. still can't warm the water, and he's got a 3090 and threadripper on it.
I remember reading a post where a guy was burying pipes to cool his PC outside his window in 1999, back when over clocking required soldering wires to increase power to the chip, nothing was easy like today.
Those EM-technik fittings are actually pretty expensive (if they are not knock-off of course), they are resistant to a lot of chemicals and used a lot in laboratory / pharmaceutical and foodprocessing applications. Used these things a lot at work.
Yep and the color is normal too. The new ones made out of PP have the same coloring. Just the press ring design changed a bit. But these fittings are actually pretty reliable.
"16K Gaming" didn't use SLI, it used Nvidia Mosaic, a Quadro-exclusive feature that requires special hardware. Also, SLI isn't fully dead if you're willing to tweak compatibility bits in Nvidia Inspector.
@@Incommensurabilities I don't fully understand it myself, and it varies by graphics API, but generally SLI is implemented at the _engine_ level, and then optimized on a game-by-game basis, so the SLI profile/settings for one game will be [at least partially] compatible with other games that use the same engine.
Alphacool may have sold them as computer parts, but they are CLEARLY repurposed industrial cooling devices strapped together. They look like they're originally for condensing a gas into a liquid, like for an HVAC refrigerant condenser loop.
For anyone wondering, the radiator used is a 6 column Alphacool Cape Cora from 2006, they were actually really good for the day but were designed for silently cooling a Core2 Duo era CPU (so up to 65w TDP). The team would have known from the beginning that it had zero chance of handling the heat load they were going to throw at it, made for a funny video though :)
Tbh, I'd love to get a dual pump setup and try to liquid cool a system using 12 columns of the cape coral system. Maybe more if needed. See what the minimum is for, say, a 5960X or whatever the more modern R7 chip is. Or hell, try cooling the most power hungry CPU available. Would be an interesting thought experiment. Trying mid 2000s water-cooling tech on modern hardware
It’s so funny seeing Linus as the boss saying “I shouldn’t be expected to read everything I approve!” It reminds me of my boss at work like yeah that’s the point of you approving it haha
The good part could be that we all watched that nice assembling so the one who did it now knows his work has been recognized, otherwise it would be just sitting there on Linus' labs.
I mean, it’s that person’s job, they probably don’t really care. They get paid anyway, they don’t have to fix it again and they probably do this every day.
And I don't. He got all the credit he deserved. IMO that controller fans cables could be plugged better. I prefer solid connection (NV 12 pin power :D ) over slightly better aesthetics :)
Those don't look like ancient fittings, it's just a standard color for PPh material. Commonly used when you are transferring various chemicals. Source: I use them in my line of work constantly (em-technik being high shelf for this type of connectors made of special plastics)
He got a good deal on the “fishing lures” as well, those are nickel plated or stainless steel push-to-connect tube fittings. “Real” ones are usually over $10 apiece.
@@solarcheese those 'fishing lures' fittings are used in industrial applications all the time and they work just fine. And usually they aren't even made of metal, but plastic. But the thing is: they're meant to be used with tubing with calibrated outer diameter.
Can we please have more jank-genering with Alex. The overall glibness of these videos is superb, and the high end MacGyver solutions are highly relatable. Next up can Alex super-cool a gaming laptop so you can devistate at the cafe!
were made by AquaComputer in Germany and aret meant to be mounted in the top of the case, not on their side like that. mine has served me well for almost 2 decades now
"Alex goes full on mad scientist and applies crude, intustrial solutions to PC building" has gotta be my favourite genre of LTT videos We may not get any more Sketchy Heatsinks, but this is even better
The eBay pump works fine. It just needs 12 volts ac. It is actually a small induction motor with a magnetically coupled impeller. The magnet on the impeller shaft magnet works as a stator.
Where would you have 12AV around a normal computer though? Surely no one back then would've slapped a whole DC to AC converter in so the only option would be a step down transformer from 110/220V?
@Resneptacle Wall power bricks with 12VAC output were a thing. If you wanted to get fancy, you could've used a relay for turning the pump on with the computer. 220v pump were also not uncommon in watercooling.
The rando PCB they pull out at the end is the driver for it, it connects external or internal 12DC to 12 AC, and the pump connects to the green terminal blocks on the board.
I really _really_ want to see "sketchy CPU cooler part 3" - your workshop came a long way since the last "attempt" so did the craftsmanship of the team. Pleeeeease! The other two videos were so funny.
Alex making Jake laugh over the "garbage fabrications" are the best thing ever. i would watch an entire video of Alex telling stand up with Jake as the audience laughing.
Gotta get it and say i got the 70 $ full ghetto(less price conscious) experience with 2 fans radiator and 2 plates , all i had to get was the tubing . it still works , needs cleaning every 6 months. love seeing the old jank better in a way
TBH I loved the design on that front mounted reservoir, very industrial looking! The passive radiador isn't bad either, it looks like it can be expanded, adding 2-3 modules to that radiator should make it work a lot better!
i think what happened with the packaging was you bought your parts from a seller called inta and they used their old boxes as packaging for your product
More like Inta lists a bunch of stuff on Ebay that they don't really have, when someone places an order Inta buys the stuff from China, and then when it arrives they just dumped the envelopes from China into the box for LTT without bothering to check what they actually got from China.
@@coreymorse1347 Exactly. He does drop shipping 100%, and the weird item names on the packaging are for avoiding customs fees - I may or may not do that sometimes, if you ask the seller to put a low price on the packaging or list a different item, the customs officers won't check what's in the box, because the price is too low, and you don't pay tax on your packege - here's an unethical life hack for you'll
i actually really like the Front mounted reservoir ! it looks a bit oldschool... but pretty cool design. i can remember that in the beginning of watercooling things like those reservoirs or the t-virus styled ones for example were a cool thing ... today i think most res' look boring .
It was sent to Latvia because that's where they consolidate packages. If you order like 5 things they would be sent to same address and they would package it into another box and ship that box to save shipping cost. It's normal.
Bro, they probably bought from privates.... What most likely happened is that the dude, Inda, is drop shipping. He ordered a bunch of crap from china, and then simply dropped all the packages in a bigger box without checking if he got what he ordered, and in some cases he clearly didn't xD
LTT shows time after time again on how to do a sponsored Video! This is soooo good! I love OriginPC for allowing this to happen. Jank Builds with Alex are my favourite LTT Videos
I'm sure Inta just order cheap stuff from AliExpress and selling it a bit more expensive on ebay. Don't even bother re-pack it, just sends it in the AliExpress packaging with his details on it.
@@XzXmullvadXzX That wouldn't make sense, especially when you can't even find half the stuff on ali. Not to mention that the packaging mentions completely different items. And if you know Latvians, they rarely try to sell stuff online in such markets.
@@raremc1620 alot of stuff on Ali is blocked for different regions in the world. Searching on Ali with VPN in different countries will give you a lot of different stuff with the same search terms. And regarding the description on the packages, from the hundreds of packages I have been sent from Ali, none of them have been accurate. It can be marked as mountain bike accessories, RC toy repair parts, all kind of non describing words. At least for EU packages it might be like that.
24:53 I know there wasn't really anything you could do about this, but I think that radiator would work a bit better if the heat exchangers were plumbed in series instead of parallel.
The hydrodynamic resistance would be horrible. But feeding the array from the top might help a bit. It works like that in ordinary home radiators at least.
I feel sorry for the cable managing artist at Origin that had their work turn into this. Also as someone that could never have a computer this good it hurts to see that done to it.
Jake wanting to drill a hole in the case is totally giving me vibes of working on a project with your dad and he says that we might need to drill a hole so get ready to drill the hole and then he figures out a solution without needing to drill a hole and you get all disappointed.
This is truly the definition of you bought a pre built but you ran out of money to have it water cooled by the manufacturer so you water cooled it yourself to do it as cheap as possible
Those fittings in the possible mis-directed package are for plastic semi-flexible hard line that is normally use in semi-trucks for there air lines. They are good connectors, but only for high pressure system due to press to fit. The pressure tries to push the line back out, creating a seal by the design that requires the line to by push into the connector and the plastic ring must be held into the connector at the same to remove the connector.
If you think that’s the best cable management you’ve ever seen then you’ve never looked inside a Mac Pro Tower. Leaving aside issues of whether it’s as fast, or whether you like the OS, the cable management in a pro Mac tower is another level.
3:50 those are fitting we used for air .. they easily hold 10 bar pf pressure or 145 psi and they work with any kind of tubes aslong as they are the right size
I love the new production quality. You should call these shows, “The Scrapyard” because I think this is the closest we are going to get to scrapyard wars
