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it's come to my attention that Linus and his minion Alex who personally declares that he is only great ish on Twitter recently posted a 3dmark score that surpassed our own so we're gonna fix that featuring the hashtag rip LTT waterblock a Titan V and a 79 ad XE that we've pushed significantly further than our last overclocking attempt this video is brought to you by the gamers Nexus anti-static mod mat our mod mat uses a high-quality anti-static surface with a rubberized finish we also have a custom paint job on it which includes reference points and cheat sheets for PCIe eps 12 volt and other power cables along with quick reference throne taste application guides a screw sorter for your video card tear downs and it includes a common ground point and a grounding strap to help protect the products you are working on from electrostatic discharge order your mat now at the link in the description below so breaking down the basics really quickly first of all we're gonna have a live stream on this right now we're doing is we're building up the Titan V and a custom loop to prepare it for this test and secondary that what we doing is a live stream showing the overclocking process as we try to overtake lioness tek-tips score on the 3d mark charts will also submit it to Hardware bot because we know how to do that unlike some people so it should be pretty fun it's just kind of a media rivalry thing and I really I line us and crew I strongly encourage you to just try and counter me try and come at me after this because uh we'll see if you can see you may have all the money in the world I guess that's really all you need but we'll try anyway so okay what we've got is an ek water blocks block for the Titan V it's as far as I'm aware the first of its kind officially we did a hybrid modest Lea this will be much better because it is full coverage it will contact all the BRM components and everything HBM GPU vrm all the stuff will be good to go and then gonna stick a 360 on it and we're considering the option of chilling the radiator in ice water or dry ice or something like that but we might not even need to because frankly Linus's score doesn't impress me that much so we'll save that for perhaps the retaliation in the future as far as the scoring for anyone who saw were followed up on our previous live stream with a Titan V and the 79 80 XC we placed about top 10 now that was largely because you could buy your way to the top these days but we did also do some actually pretty good overclocking on Titan V what we didn't do is have all four channels on the X 299 motherboard we only use two sticks of memory this time we've got four and we've done some work with build Zoid tuning everything so I think we'll all be pretty impressed to the results but we'll save all that for the live stream today let's start out with putting this block on the Titan V I've already pre stripped down gotten rid of the old air cooler that was on there and then I think we just need to cut the loop to size and get it on the bench and we'll be good to go the CPU will not be part of this loop we're gonna isolate them so that the the the thermal capacity of each loop is sort of fully contained within itself one 360 for each and that should take care of everything very nicely Pascal and Volta in this case both are extremely sensitive to temperature every five degree reduction or there abouts will get you notable gains in frequency and when we're talking about fighting over single to double digit points and fire striking times by that'll matter so that's the plan we're gonna mostly be competed in times by extreme let's get on with the build process okay so we need to start with thermal pads I have a lot of thermal pads and although unnecessary we're gonna use some of the really good stuff as soon as I find it we're gonna put quite a bit of money worth of probably the Fuji poly pads on here and we need one millimeter and those will go on the vrm components how big is this all right so we've got some ultra extreme one millimeter pads that we're gonna put on there and then I'm going to use some cry or not we we've done a lot of thermal compound testing lately and although often within margin of error cryo not tends to come out on top or close to it so we're gonna use cryo not on the middle and then fuji poly for the pads and we might not have enough here for all of it but we'll see how far we can get just scrape off some of the old ones first nice brand new if they're all pad ok so there's are some really expensive thermal pads I just put on there and they are suspect they're the right size and everything now we're gonna do a bunch of thermal paste we should be good yeah that's not great coverage should be mostly good on pads somebody's do thermal paste and for this part you can manually spread it on this GPU and I've done it but first of all cryo not spreads out a lot it's non conductive and when I say spreads out a lot I mean it's very liquidy the fact that it's non conductive means we don't have to worry about SMDs on the sides of the substrate outside of the inner poser area so we're going to do is just an X pattern within some spot-check dots where they are really needed hpm is on the corners as always and the GP itself of course the larger die in the middle people in the comments are going to say things about either being too much too little thermal paste they are complaining about things that don't actually matter don't listen to them they're incorrect so with GPUs there is zero tolerance if you miss a corner of the GPU with paste depend on what's in that corner you you could end up killing it from heat they seriously have no tolerance for over temperature for spot temperatures so this has worked very well for ours and we're just gonna do more of it okay so next step we're gonna start installing the block and this will just sock it down very easily it's gonna be a much better cooling solution than our previous one although our previous one was very good the custom-made hybrid that we did the back plate here I think technically is optional it's gonna mount on just like that and we do it looks pretty nice actually that brushed look we do need to get some throwing pads on there and we also need a couple of mounting screws in there to secure us to start with and then we can do the rest so six screws will be omitted to add the mount of the back plate all right cool so we have all the men that we need we need to put six more screws in those are not going to go in until this plate is on so this is the next step and I need to put on the some thermal pads before this as well okay so we took a pause to go publish some content on CTS labs which you should definitely watch or read but we're back now so the next step is to drop one of these thermal pads we're just going to use the included ones for this because it's not really that important we're gonna drop this right here between the two screw points and the other one will go somewhere in this area we'll find out in a second though once I can line it up so first of all so let's look it's a little bit of transfer to the backplate I'm actually going to add a thermal pad that they don't specify and stick one on the back of the GPU now this won't do a lot for us but any amount of additional transfer when we're overclocking and kind of pushing it and we should use a square one but I'll just put a couple of these any kind of high-end overclocking like this every fraction of a degree is going to help so in this instance we can conduct stuff from into the back plate and then just hit it with a fan and dissipate that that energy all right that's looking pretty good okay all right last couple screws it should be six here and this will secure the backplate we're gonna have a minimal amount of dissipation this is really primarily if it looks as we've demonstrated in the past however again any small amount of help we can get will take at this point for this endeavor so then we get to flip it over see how it looks add all the fittings to everything and from there we'll just have to fill the loop get the pump situated which we have a pretty nice pump to go with our 360 so the GP will be completely isolated in its own loop and probably won't be using the bars that come with this they're very good fans for noise normalized performance however we want absolute performance they're probably gonna you soon on maglevs or which is the supplier for the corsair maglev fans or something to that effect maybe corsair maglevs although we have those on our cpu already so might go with soon on for the others what's that supposed to come off okay why you do this okay don't worry the thing to prevent finger prints cause them alright forgot that i wrote that down there so there's the rip LTT titan v looking pretty damn good let's take a closer look at this so you have an okay shot micro fins or of the text is really what I'm asking so this is really just my way of taking more time to get this in the shot you can see the micro fins over the GPU so this central block right there covers the GPU die the hpm is really low heat flux HP m2 is low heat flux it's not as much of a concern at all for cooling but cooling it will certainly help the GPU does respond much more significantly though to the reductions so we'll have liquid you come in through one side go out the other it's gonna go through these microf in channels and whisk away or wick away rather the heat through the fins and then it'll just be dissipated once it gets into the radiator and the fans blow through the the Illume the copper fins in the case of this particular cooling unit so that's the primary set up we have really damn good thermal pads on there they are in fact making contact and just looking down the card right now double check that so they are making contact on both sides it would appear yes great so we've got really good contact the pads give excellent top-class they're all pasted on there with cryo knot and now we just need to prepare the loop which is something we'll do off camera because that'll have to run a leak test for 24 hours yeah that screws not in there but uh that's okay we're having a leak test for about 24 hours before turning the card on the system on and the next step is basically what we're gonna do is set up pump this is gonna go on the bench so this will be done just before the stream when we do get around the streaming you've got your in and outlets on it and we'll just connect some fittings on there which ek was kind enough to when I told them I wanted to take Linus down support in any way they could find possible so they sent us some pretty nice fittings for that we'll install those and not like that though install those and then we also have some coolant they sent which uses their cryo fuel branded it's just it's it's just basically a mixture of distilled water and some other maybe propylene glycol or whatever they I don't know their exact composition chemical composition but we've got some of that it is blue colored so thank you ek for looking out for the GaN colors and reppin you know maybe if Linus starts begging as well something he certainly is more skilled at you could use orange for him that would just be my recommendation and and he probably will come and beg for some help at some point because he'll need it so that's the that's a pump we've got the radiator - 360 as stated we'll use some really nice fans on it and buy really nice I mean 3000 rpm and then see where it goes from there it's gonna be super loud very cool and efficient our limitation is actually going to be ambient temperature so perhaps if it if it snows again set up outside otherwise there's always the option of running the cart off of a riser for a negligible invisible performance hit and then running the the radiator in a tank now unfortunately out how to take the cart apart wrap it in shop towel for condensation control oh you know what we should let's see hmm I just remembered something we haven't messed with the Titan in a little while I have a secret weapon that we're going to add the last content piece we did on this thing was shorting shunts and it got us about three percent more performance and there was a-there worse it did pretty well overall so I think what I'm gonna do off-camera is potentially dismantle this and it's not that hard to put back together it'll take 10 minutes and then throw some liquid metal on there shots short them out and we'll get another couple percent out of the thing or I could save it because I don't think I'll need that much health so that's it for this one thank you for watching check back soon for the live stream I do not have a date yet but we will definitely be announcing it via Twitter and we're trying to give everyone a heads up it's going to depend on production timelines and things like that I think we're trying to sync up with Linus's video they're posting some kind of OC video with the Titan V where they they took a time to spy extreme top 10 spot so they've been posting that soon be sure to watch it because we're gonna respond to that with a live stream and try and beat their score by try I mean beat their score and then we'll see if they respond to that for a bit of fun between media outlets so that's the that's a plan to catch the up dates again twitter.com slash gamers Nexus if you're a patreon backer on patreon.com slash gamers Nexus you can join our discord where I will announce it to all of you directly and personally and otherwise we'll try and mention it in other videos but it'll be a lot of fun make sure you don't miss it do a lot of overclocking I've got some help from build Zoid in the prep work so that's for this one thank you for watching go to store that gamers Nexus dotnet to pick up a mod mat like the one I was operating on today our next round comes in end of month and it will ship and a month very early April we completely sold 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