Gadgetory

what's up guys welcome back to the channel today is pretty interesting because I'm going to be running an experiment that I have honestly no clue how it's going to turn out it could be a success or failure or I could end up frying my entire computer here what I'm essentially going to do so this is the the go anywhere do anything PC that I built a few weeks back strictly for the purpose of on location events this is a portable system as you can see and the one gripe I had with it was that there's really limited space in the node 202 this case for a substantial cooler and I have a 6700 K in here but as you can see I've got this little dinky knock to a fan well it's really quiet doesn't really have the thermal capacity to actually do any overclocking on that chip so it's kind of a waste to have a case cube processor in there however that brings us to today's experiment which is can you fit a 120 millimeter liquid AIO inside of a node - OH - I have no idea I looked it up online I didn't really find much of anything I saw some people installing radiators in the node 202 but not like a full loop I'm sure there's someone out there who's done it and I probably just missed it as far as I know I don't know if it's possible I haven't seen the proof for myself so this is a new adventure for me but I'm feeling pretty optimistic I have kind of tried to like Mach fit the the radiator here so if you can see here I actually removed the be quiet fan that used to be here I had it mounted as an intake right there so I popped that out to make room for this hero radiator and by the way the cooler that I'm going to try to be fitting in here today is the Zalman lq 310 and it's not really a popular cooler I don't even know if it's in production anymore probably not this is a pretty old cooler um however I just had it lying around and it's got a really thin relatively thin radiator I think it's only like it's probably 25 millimetres 27 millimeters thick so runs on the thin side and the the tubing seems flexible enough to possibly work work around the edges of this case but we'll see we'll see so as you can see here the radiator fits fine the issue that that I'm having right now is trying to fit the tubing through through this little opening it's kind of hard to see but in the note 202 there's really this tiny opening that the waterblock will not fit through that this cutout is really just for routing cables anything thicker than a few cables is not going to fit through here and this I don't want to like cut into this steel technically I could just cut this steel out if I really wanted to but that might ruin the structural integrity of the case a little bit I should also mention I should have probably pointed this out from the get-go but you might notice you might have noticed that the little SSD cage has been completely removed now I had the SSD that's still mounted in here and I'm going to need to find another place to mount that because this isn't going to work the only reason this radiator can fit here at all is because I've removed this SSD cage so I'm going to just need to find another place where this SSD I'm thinking just right next to the power supply I mean I could just velcro it down it doesn't really matter I'm not too concerned about the SSD here it's going to be fine there's no moving parts so I'm not worried about that so yeah that's going to have to go I'm either going to have to cut this piece of metal out here so I can have some room for the tubing or the other option guys the other option here and this is probably what I'm going to try to do is take apart the water block of this AIO and remove the hoses just disconnect the tubes just so I can route them through this little square here and then reconnect everything on the other side so that I can then proceed to mounting the water block and voila hopefully everything will go smoothly but that's going to be our first step guys is to crack this thing open hopefully not damage it in the process and try to get these tubes removed so why don't we go to a place that the bathroom let's go to the bathroom we're ready to do this we're ready to do this there's the power button it has a power button okay ready I love you if anything happens to you just know that oh oh geez is it even working I don't think it's working guys guys I don't hear a pump I don't hear water yet oh boy okay so it looks like I'm gonna have to crack this thing open again and take a look at the pump this time it's got to do the pump okay I'm going to power this down we're going to take this back in crack it back open and then with a try to mess around some stuff and I don't know it's not looking that great at this point guys but hopefully our look and turn around somehow well we'll figure it out or not alright guys so it's been about 10-15 minutes and it looks like there is not a single drop of any kind of fluid on this paper towel here so that means our leak test at least for now has tentatively passed and now we can go ahead and move on to installing this thing proper and as far as like fan choice I mean I don't know if I can get away with a 25 millimeter just a standard fan I might I'm gonna try I'm going to try to with the I think this is a coolermaster came from a neptune 120 XL but that radiator was too fat to fit in here if that doesn't work I do have a slim side slipstream fan that's a 15 millimeters thick this guy right here which obviously is not going to perform quite as well as a full full-size 120 fan but it's better than nothing if if it gets the job done so let's let's go ahead and do this alright y'all here she is look at that actually a beauty so yeah I got the CPU block on there alright you can see I kind of tied down one of the tubes here kept it from sticking up too far the radiator or I'm sorry the fan that I went with ended up being that Coolermaster one anyway the one from the Neptune 120 XL it is a regular full-size 25 millimeter thick fan you can see I just barely made clearance with the PCI Express cable probably like a millimeter it's actually pushing it up but it's not quite enough to cause any kind of torsion on the PCIe slot so that's good the radiator as well I don't know if I had already mentioned that but the radiator just fits so perfectly but I'm just barely made it of course I did have to as I mentioned had to remove the the entire little drive cage here in order to fit the rest of the radiator so you can see I've got the my SSD I have a second SSD in the system but it's m2 it's in the back of the motherboard so this is my only real two and a half inch drive here thank God for that and honestly it looks kind of shitty right here just because it's sticking up or whatever but it is it's it's not going anywhere let's let's go ahead and see what happens when we power this guy on oh I'll buy here noises I here's a pump I hate it as a pump äj-- it sounds pretty normal and we have a boot we have a boot there's a closer look at the pump doing its thing it actually sounds perfectly healthy and we need to check temps we need to check temps because that's this is all for nothing if the thermals aren't there all right max temp on the 700 K we got 68 degrees Celsius alright well below 70 now that's that's very nice because uh this is overclocked again 240 400 megahertz and if you guys remember from the last video or the testing video where I tested this with the Noctua air cooler I don't know why I'm turning this down the temperatures were actually in like the high or like the mid 80s I was getting like 83 degrees Elsie's with the 6700 K the same chip with turbo boost disables oh no overclock and we disabled turbo boost and we were still getting 83 degrees Celsius and now here we are at 4,400 megahertz chillin at 68 degrees so that is quite an improvement overall I would call this project a success this experiment has passed guys guys guys guys guys guys girls I have just made a very unfortunate discovery after we ran our little test there I power the system off and just for shits and giggles s ting and we got air bubbles turns out I didn't fill the loop all the way 100% with water and that's just by design like I said these aerial coolers are not meant to be opened or refilled in any way that's just not how they're that's not how they work and unfortunately I was unable to to refill it properly so I was getting some really bad you know whining noise from the pump just running dry essentially booted up a hardware monitor and yeah the temps were skyrocketing like in the mid 90s to like the high 90s almost hit a hundred degrees Celsius on one of the cores and I eventually just powered the system off and this is a very mixed bag of feelings for me right now because in one regard I'm very very excited that we actually got to run some tests that showed good performance really solid performance with an AO cooler in the node 202 at the same time did we build a fully functional system that works 100% of the time with an AO cooler with an AO cooler inside of it no we did not we fell bare just barely short of that so I'm very disappointed in that regard however I will not let this get me down while this is really all the time I have to spend I've already consumed all my time trying to get this one solution to work you can bet your bottom dollar that there will be a part two to this video where I give this another go okay know what screw that I know I said I was just gonna save the rest of this project for a part Tube video but I honestly this has been keeping me up all night and I'm not going to be able to sleep until it's done so this is 24 hours later after the last clip that you saw and since then some things have happened so after realizing that there was no way to recover this pump or to fix it I pretty much just snipped it use some some wire cutters or whatever and snipped off the the tubing clean as you can see it's never going to work again anyway so now it's definitely not working maybe I can RMA it or something and then I'm also getting I bought this h 550 liquid cooler from Corsair again another 120 millimeter radiator which is pretty much the exact same like OAM and dimensions as this cooler it even has like the same mounting bracket and everything for the water block so I just wanted to keep it really consistent I will be ditching the Corsair fan that comes with this unit stock because it's a pretty noisy from what I hear online so I'm just going to be using the that cooler master from our Neptune 120 XL also you can see here I've already made the incision that I was talking about earlier into the the metal cross bar here that goes between the case and that's again just to allow for the tubing to pass through so I don't have to disconnect the entire water block and risk not being able to refill it again it does affect some of the rigidity of the case you can see it's a it's fairly it's got some some wobble some flex to it however I have tested it with the the rest of the case all enclosed and bolted down and it's perfectly fine you wouldn't even notice the difference I also want to mention that I did file down the edges of the incision that I made just so I don't cut myself accidentally or even worse cut into the tubing of this cooler and potentially caused a leak all over hardware alright installation complete everybody this was so much easier with this cut out that I that I made here just being able to just drop the tubes in there without having to even crack open the the water block there was so nice I don't know why I didn't just do that in the first place I don't know I was I was in over my head apparently but this was super easy to install I would highly recommend anyone try this just as long as you have the right tools and stuff and you know what you're doing don't hurt yourself Mike I don't see why this is not a good solution if you're going to do some overclocking in the No - OH - that being said you can see I've got the the hoses kind of zip tight here so they don't fray around and get too loose and wild you can also see that there's really no kinkajou I was worried a little bit for at first that maybe there would be some kinkajou at the original Zalman cooler there I don't think I mentioned that before there is no kinkajou specially with with this metal bar cutout it gives just a little bit more breathing room for the tubes to kind of extend they don't have to turn so it's such a harsh angle and this case is going to fall over alright y'all so I just got done hooking this bad boy up ran the same Metro last light benchmark that I ran for the Zalman Gilman dizzy Amon Kula and was very happy to see max temps of 68 degrees Celsius on our hottest core that's that's freaking awesome for an overclocked core i7 chip in a case like this but isn't even supposed to really feature liquid cooling in the first place just the fact that you know it's it's this size it's it's super small form-factor and you know doesn't have much air flow going through it but those temps are awesome so I'm very happy about that idle temps are you know hovering around the low 30s but also spiked up occasionally to the the mid 40s you know low 50s things like that but all together pretty solid acoustics is on point as well the pump makes virtually no noise that I can hear over the fans that are going on in the case that's pretty much it though guys thank you so much for watching if you happen to enjoy this kind of experimental type of video go ahead and leave me some love in the comments and let me know also toss me a like on it if you just enjoyed it and you have nothing to say other than that and that's it subscribe to the channel if you haven't already check the description the link below check the link in the description below switch that for awesomesauce shirts as well bookmark my Amazon affiliate link if you haven't already and until next time y'all I'll see you guys in the next video