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hey everyone today we're doing a video looking at some new tools that we got in these are silk screens we have a couple different ones different generations of liquid coolers and the idea here is we'll use these in the future to reapply if they're on pace to the cold plate of a liquid cooler and the point of that rather than just using one of these or something and kind of putting it on the surface and tightening the the device down the idea is that it will allow us to do more like for like testing with cooling to make sure that the thermal paste application is not an interfering factor in our test methodology talk about that more in a second before getting to the content this is brought to you by iBUYPOWER and their new element in gaming PC which has the arc LED fans under glow lighting and large tempered glass windows okay so the point of this is to improve our thermal testing methodology it's already pretty good we've done videos on in the past if you haven't seen it but this specifically will allow us to for example test one of these out of the box when we first get it and then maybe a year from now we want to do regression testing which would be basically pulling all the components out retesting them for various reasons one can be has liquid permeated is there a loss of liquid whatever or maybe we just changed test platforms and we need to retest CPU aging all that kind of stuff so in such test environments one concern would be the thermal paste because when we apply its stock from the factory that's obviously the most representative of real-world user scenario but when we go apply it later for regression testing different application methods might have a half a degree to one degree Celsius swing if I apply it myself first as easy as the factory did even my own application methods could vary a little bit from test to test and it's not a huge difference in general as long as you kind of have a routine that you do when you apply their own compound but it's enough where we want to just eliminate that variance from testing so I have not used these yet and we're gonna try this out today this is a silkscreen this is what a Sutekh uses in their factory for applying compound to their CLC cold blades and basically this is this is an EVGA one specifically which I just chose to be use it for the 1060 recently and I took it off so you can see here that kind of cut out in the surface and that matches the drill pad the screw pattern for the underside near the cold plate so we can put these together and that's just a silkscreen like you'd use for a shirt they go together let's see if I can show that on camera go together just like this pretty much a perfect fits got four spots for the mounting holes in the corners and then you end up with that on the surface so then we can put the pace down apply it with one of these which is just like an acrylic scoop that happens to be the same size as that and I don't I don't know why I guess they just had extra metal and acrylic lying around because it does seem a bit overkill for this this purpose but that's what we got so that's one option we have these these are Gen 5 so these are for Gen 5 liquid coolers from ASA Tech these are for Janet for liquid coolers and the ACE the EVGA one is sort of a four point five something like that it's a little bit different so we've got these NZXT ones Corsair coolers the H 100 I some of those coolers use use stuff that we could actually use these on for reapply and thermal paste so a pretty good range of coolers we can use this on so let's try it out do not try to yet so we'll see if it works this by the way just in further effort of keeping very consistent test methodology that is actually the same compound that's used on these coolers so that too is the same so at this point we're basically applying the same compound in the same fashion that ASA tech would do for Corsair NZXT liquid coolers so we should have a pretty good means of representing those products as they arrive from the factory let's see how this goes not super green oh there it goes sweet that's a lot of excess I feel like I'm gonna make my own spreader or something this seems terribly inefficient but it's clearly working it's going through the screen see if we can do this a little better so there's a lot of compound loss here so I'm gonna try and fix that in our own updated version of this but for a baseline it's not bad I really do do it just with plastic utensils more or less sweet that's looking pretty good so cool thing about this I'm not sure how well it shows up on camera but we've got a pretty even spread of this stuff across the service and it's not coming up when I run the thing back across it so there's no issue we're doing this is picking back up the compound that's already been spread and that's just because it's pushed through the screen already so we're not touching it so let's let's separate these carefully and see how well it works not bad you could certainly do a little bit better right there but I mean really if you've seen a lot of these things like we have I've shown a lot of them certainly the spread pattern other than the there's a little bit of imperfection out at the edges a little bit of imperfection there's the first time using it but the spread pattern if you look at the compound itself is the same as what we get from the factory and what I mean by that is you can see the little dots in it there's little dots or just from the silkscreen so that's pretty sweet it actually works and I think I've even cut I threw it on the ground so I've even got these I haven't thrown them all away so I we could basically put compound bow to come on when we're done testing we're doing a hybrid build and reseal it like that and it's basically a brand new unit so that's pretty damn cool I'm excited about that that's good for storage too because now I can keep them all in the same place and I won't be sorting through which ones have been used and which haven't so I think that pretty much takes care of that again could certainly spread it a little more evenly but you get the idea we can use this for our upcoming liquid cooler roundup as well where we're gonna be showing some of the old stuff retested yeah not bad so what I just did there has resolved some of the issues down the corner I'm happy with that just a special custom-made tool that we're gonna be using for future content you're probably not gonna see a lot of it in the a role in the future but this will show you how it works so if you ever curious why we're able to reuse the same cooler and have it looking exactly like it does from the factory rather than putting it blob down which is certainly fine but for testing that's going to be more accurate to what we get unday one now you'll know how that happens so as always thank you for watching patreon link the booth show video on how was that directly subscribed for more content part three of the the hybrid builders titan x is either online already when you see this or will be coming very soon so check for that I'll see you all next time