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hey everyone welcome back to part 2 of the Titan X hybrid build we tore it down in the last video so we took the whole thing apart that's the PCB talked about that a bit in the last video talk about the cooling solution a little bit - it's a vapor chamber block with aluminum fins somewhat standard no heat pipes in there but that's because it's using vapor chambers instead that of course mounts to the PCB and then we've got this part the base plate with the vrm blower fan or just blower fan in general cools bit of everything and that goes of course under everything but on top of the GPU and the PCB ideally we save this piece for the build but before getting to the build up process this content is brought to you by iBUYPOWER and their new elements gaming pc which comes with arc LED fans red LED under glow and a tempered glass side panel so in this video we're gonna build the thin backup hopefully the hybrid cooler that I had with the liquid cooler I have for the hybrid build this one here will fit on the base plate we've had issues with in the past particularly with the gtx 960 which required filing down the base plate and it was a lot of work hopefully this goes smoother it's basically a 1080 kind of mounting system 1082 everything screws there's I wrote it down how many screws are there about 63 53 about 53 or 63 screws something like that and so this thing's got the copper protrusion and the cold plate you've all heard it by now that extrudes out like that or protrudes out and from there you can just watch our teardown of this particular cooler to learn more about how the impellers are set up and how it works and all of that drain liquid and all that in the previous video on liquid cooler teardown stuff so let's build this thing now starting with the PCB we got to we got to go backwards a bit from what was done in the previous video okay so we got to go backwards a little bit and rebuild part of the card but that should be fine so this mounts here pretty straightforward we're gonna need that cable to be connected to the hybrid so that's a bit of a pain because we're gonna be tethered to the hybrid really early in this process but that cable you can see these have is kind of a splitter connects into here and once it's once the blower fan is connected to the pump we can pretty easily connect both units to the cards the card can PWM control its fan as needed and the pump will just blast as as it normally would okay so this needs to come in through up here cool there's about a million screws to do in the back before we do that should probably see if this will fit what the contact is all that stuff how do we want it to this let's get a couple screws on here and then do the rest after the concept is proven okay alright so that should be enough to support this thing for now let's see this will fit so can always be applied I'm going to just I want to route these out at the top because this is a card that will hopefully be actually used after our mod the guy who loaned it to us Sam is planning on using it in its liquid state not its original state let's see if there's contact there okay you can see that there is actually an imprint so that imprints what we're looking for there's at least partial contact right now the contact should be pretty full once it's actually screwed down and then tensioned okay so the base plate is a little bit taller than the silicon but this copper protrudes down into the plate anyway so I think we'll be okay probably let me try that again just to make sure yeah I mean we're sliding around on top of the silicon so that looks like it's applying to use that shim if the temperatures are high then we'll know it's not full contact we'll use a shim to fill out the rest that's the thing to look out for when doing this stuff making sure the PCB is straight if it's got actually gonna stay like that for a while we don't really care when it's just being built for testing and taking apart but this will be actually used in theory so it looks good gotta get the back plate on this I guess isn't the ideal order we can look at some of the other stuff first to make sure when I can have to take it all apart again so now obviously for this fan to really do something you want it to have a have this bit on it so that the airflow is kind of guided so I think we can get that on there well maybe we might have to do some modifications but I think we can maybe get that on there that would certainly be ideal this other part it is not is not gonna happen without making some cuts now for our own project I would route the the tubes at the back of the card because it just sits in an open-air bench so what does it really matter are they going out the back now in a case you obviously can't do that because there's nowhere for it to go and as I said this is being given back to someone for use later so we have to build with that in mind assuming it works well that is otherwise it's going back the way it was Oh Dan nice obviously hitting the table I think this will actually fit I don't think that there's any way to get this to fit reasonably without tearing things apart looks like it would be hitting kind of the height limit anyway with this even if we took the pump cap off I think we'd still well it might work with a pump cap off but regardless you'd have to cut holes in here for these to go through I don't really want to commit to that I want to keep this mod as as simple as possible I don't want to actually modify the original card the warranty purposes it's not my card things like that so we're just gonna keep it like this for now and I think this thing can get on there there so let's let's get this part of the shroud on there this is the LED cable again that will get plugged in topside now I will just show it to the camera to straight down on that that white piece there so that plugs in there okay can you grab me the electrical tape Oh sweet so next is these screws that's just not gonna work no matter how we I mean now we can't we could we could route the obviously take this off and run that through here or through there even before installing it and kind of slot that down and put that on the same time to that for 1060 but the problem is again we'd have to be cutting metal here certainly doable but let's say that for another time so for now we'll leave like this not a hundred percent ideal but it will work pretty damn well regardless we're still pulling up all of the heat away through the pump through the cold plate and this will do a little bit of coil and it's not going to be as effective because well first of all few things this is a non there anymore this is what sinks the heat from the vram and air from the GPU itself and from the vram surrounding components the base plate sinks the heat for the BRM which this will cool and is cooling so that takes care of the BRM this takes care of the GPU the only thing not directly cooled anymore by air is the vram modules which line this area and those are still being cooled by the plate gddr5 X runs really low voltage compared to some other types of memory that we've seen in the past and that will help reduce thermals if the memory is not being supremely overclocked I think we're going to be in good shape talk to a few board partners about this as well they've generally not been concerned about it so I think we're okay there really it should be fine especially with the case fans and the directional directional cooling within the case so what do we have to do now well I guess we can put the backplate on there if you can call it that a piece of plastic I feel like that's where's the expansion thing there it is this goes in there first you're getting better than at this if you seed so the the first ones these were I mean they were a real learning process having never really have done liquid mods like that before so 1080 was a big thing to learn Han would that work if we took this off I think I think we were to actually be clear we definitely be clear without that on it so then this would go under like that she was a draft three we'd have to just cut like I don't think we'd have to cut this lower one I think we can just cut like right right there up to here leave the top one uncut and cut the bottom one I live I have tools to do that I'm gonna have a hacksaw I guess that would work he kind of dremel I try calling Bob Stewart okay well unless Bob calls me back we will just go back to doing this for now it needs to be like irrigation channels to get them out if you drop one these are those little ones that snap in half if he's tighten it any like at all as the instant it stops turning from whatever force you're naturally applying that's what it's time to stop there's no it's not like it's really doing a lot structurally it's just to hold the thin on and not have any vibration oh I should have done the other one first but see if it matters doesn't matter okay cool but they will snap out of shot and then the head gets stuck in the top part the rest of the screech gets stuck in the there's a little tiny heck or I'm hex keys so you just have to be careful with these okay cool magnet says I'm just so great how does it work okay that's mostly everything except for the little these things which don't really do anything yeah I really have to put those on me for the top thing okay well well test it first see how it performs make sure there's contact between the cold plate and the GPU once that's known I'll add these things back honey that's certainly doesn't really need to be on camera so those will go on in a bit yeah hahaha there's extra screws obviously as you can see it's not because it's IKEA furniture and they've spent spares by which I mean you forgot to put stuff is and it's because we took us left off so that's no longer on there that may be added if we can figure out a good solution one thought was that it mr. Andrew had behind the camera was to take our 1080 one of these cut a hole out here and then we don't have to damage the Titan x1 in case for some reason it would be ideal to leave that in an unmodified shape or warranty or whatever so that would certainly allow that but well we'll figure out if there's a good way to cut it and if it makes sense and if it'll fit and all that stuff later for now this is the Titan X hybrid so it is built in theory there is good contact we'll find out pretty immediately if there's not if not then it gets shut down we'll take it off and put a put a shim in there did that for the 10 16 it worked actually really well still way better than air like miles better than air so we'll test this thing again recapping stuff we've got the EVGA hybrid cooler on here this is just we have a lot of these so they work pretty well for GPUs the best ones I've used for GPUs then we're testing the Seahawk aka hydrographics right now from MSI and Corsair that uses an H 55 so I'm curious to see how that prophet but that's another story that's on their pumps or tubes rather go to the radiator tang of course and that works as the radiator would work got the blower fan still there dissipates heat off the base plate which is just where all the vram he gets synced right here almost immediately under the blower fan so that's good that works this stuff won't get much air flow from the blower fan it's fine I'll put a case fan on it but I from talking to manufacturers from our own testing it doesn't really matter anyway memory doesn't get that hot at the GD or 5x especially and it's still under a base plate and I've still got some kind of dissipation going on so we're gonna test this thing now come back for part three to see how it performs thermally will do the overclocking stuff overclocking gameplay performance clock rate stability over time versus temperature fan RPMs all that stuff should be pretty fun test and we'll have that for you shortly so thank you for watching as always Kate traveling is a postural video to help was that directly links to description below for more information subscribe as always and I'll see you all next time you