Gadgetory

gigabytes flex display technology automatically detects and connects up to four displays for the best gaming experience in multi display Ultra HD click the link in the description to find out more hey what's going on guys Jays $0.02 here bringing you one of those traditional gameplay commentaries if you have no idea why you're looking at some gameplay on the screen and you're hearing me talk well this was actually the way I started my channel way back in the day where I used to play some games yeah believe it or not I used to play some games and then we would just talk about a fun topic that was interesting educational and maybe you got something out of it and it was more fun to watch gameplay than it is to look at my ugly mug on the screen so I'm gonna go ahead and spare you guys the pain of taking a look at me and we are gonna watch some battlefield 4 zaba 311 gameplay here not too bad it was a decent gameplay plane as an engineer what else very exciting well the most exciting thing that's happened to me today anyway was having a decent game here in battlefield and it didn't crash but anyway let's go ahead and talk about talk about today's topic which is how to maintain your water cooling loop there's a lot of information out there when it comes to how to maintain your custom loop and there's actually good information and there's bad information and I've actually got some pictures I'm gonna show you today that is gonna be both educational and maybe a little bit i opening and at the same time a little bit controversial and we like controversy around here keeps things exciting keeps you on your toes at least it keeps me on my toes or you guys do something like that when it comes to custom water loops you guys you know the easy part is actually picking the parts and putting it together the part that people tend to get really hung up on is how often do you have to flush it do you have to flush out the rads before you put it together if you just don't know what to do and we're gonna simplify that for you today now when it comes to putting together new parts typically the blocks and things are pretty well fleshed out nice and clean the radiators there's a lot of different brands out there and everybody treats their radiator manufacturing process a little different now radiators are soldered together and with that solder there's what's called flux and that flux basically is kind of a byproduct of the soldering process and it can get kind of dirty and flaky and bits of it can break off and start floating around your loop now when it comes to building my systems I tend to just use hot water with some and some vinegar swash it around and then keep replacing the hot water and keep doing it quite a few times until you get as much a junk out as he possibly can now why do you want to keep replacing the hot water well guess what as you swish that radiator around and you're putting that hot water through those fins and through those rows it's actually cooling it yeah so anyway I do recommend just a vinegar flush when it comes to your brand new radiators it's not gonna hurt anything most of the time you'll be just fine but why take a chance you don't want a little piece of that breaking off and killing your brand-new pump that would that would be a terrible terrible day now when it comes to the fluids the other thing people get very very hung up on is how often do you need to flush your system now flushing means taking out all the old fluid cleaning out the system and replacing it with brand new fluid now fluids have changed over the years in fact fluid has changed much more dynamically than the parts have the way a radiator works in the way a heat sink or copper block works really basic it's a piece of metal it's got lots of fins on it to give it a larger surface area and as the fluid runs over the block it cools the part that it's touching and as the fluid goes through the radiator the air moving through it removed the heat very simple the way the heat exchanger works just like it works on a car but when it comes to the fluids it's actually quite a different story you've got nanofluids out there you've got old-school fluids like fluid XP you've got two still water and you hear everybody swearing that they're distilled water or their fluid or their deionized water is better than the competitor and it probably is the most confusing part to buy is the fluid well for the most part guys how often you need to change that fluid depends on what kind of fluid you're using now in skunkworks I am using a nano fluid I'm actually using a Mayhem's pastel which is a basically a smaller nano fluid inside of a distilled water mix you mix it yourself you put it in it's actually got a shelf life of two years and it's equally as good in your system for two years now when it comes to distilled water that's something you tend to want to flush out a bit more often my recommendation is six months every six months you should be emptying out your loop completely be running brand new distilled water through it and some anti microbial like a biocide or a what's called a PT Nuuk a couple of drops of that just two or three drops you put too many drops of that in there you're gonna coat your system a nice aqua shade of blue which is terrible yeah it looks awful I've done it before now the other thing that people ask when it comes to maintenance is their tubes they've got they've got clear tubing and they're wondering why the heck their tubes are turning cloudy well here's the reason that happens rubber tubing has what's called a plasticizer in it but basically the plasticizer will start to leech out of your soft tubing and it will start to coat the inside of the tube which gives it a very cloudy look sometimes people mistake this cloud for being a fault of the fluid and that's not the case in fact nanofluids will never do that to your tubing but distilled water based non nanofluids will tend to do that because they have anti corrosive compounds in there which tend to also exacerbate funny word exacerbated it will tend to exacerbate the leaching effect of the plasticizer so that's why I tend to not use clear tubing when I can avoid it because clear tube tubing no matter the brand tigon or you know other types of plastic I don't pretend to be an expert on plastics will always eventually show that leaching that nasty how deenis there's nothing you can really do about it now when it comes to acrylic tubing there's really not a whole lot you got to worry about it's a hard tubing it's non-porous and nothing is gonna ever leach out of it because there's nothing in it it's just solid acrylic or whatever that other material is forget again if it's a rigid tubing you not to worry about anything leaching out of that I'm going to show you a couple of pictures here this is actually a system that I ran for five almost six years without ever bleeding the system and that system as you can see that tubing used to be clear and it turned a lovely shade of peach very golden girls ish 1990s looking thing I have no idea why it turned peach if you guys look the actual coolant is green this was a fluid XP fluid which was one of the very first aftermarket fluids you could buy in the mid 2000s early 2000s I have no idea why it turned peach but as you can see the coolant stayed nice and green now if you look here when I drain the fluid we got a bunch of little debris down in there I wasn't too sure where that came from so I decided well this particular system since it's not going back together let's go ahead and cut this sumbitch open and let's see exactly where that was coming from well as you can see here this is a coolant solid copper water block and it tarnished bad really really bad in fact all of those little brown flakes came out of this water block I have no idea why but it did now when it comes to the GPU block it's an old-school ek block I mean look at that logo that's you can't tell that it's just really old I mean it actually looks very very retro if you asked me I things have changed quite a bit for ek but you can see the passages and everything inside the blocker just as clean as the date was put together this is exactly the way it came apart after being ran for five years no tarnishing of the copper everything looks fantastic now if we look inside the radiator this is a black ice GT radiator it was a different story you can see there's a lot of dunking going on on one side of the radiator and the other side is actually fairly clean now the dunking was actually building up on the inlet side and that's where all of the fluid was having to kind of swirl around in there and make its way in the row and then the exit side of the radiator because it was smoothly flowing out of the rad was not having that gunky buildup so that gunky buildup as you can see was it's kind of gross and you know you know what that floating around in your system but all in all it actually was very very clean I mean the pump itself also had some gunky buildup in there but this wasn't really a problem for the parts of the time now this system was actually built in 2006 now as you can tell parts have changed quite a bit now this system was able to run five years without any major issues because if you look closely both the CPU block and the GPU block have very large passages today they cut these passages very very fine and that gunk enos would have over time clogged up these blocks at least the way the blocks are built today and you would have ended up having a terrible time of keeping your system cool you would have over exerted your pump and you would have eventually experienced a failure now I don't recommend running your system for five years simply because I did what I wanted to show was how far we've actually come in the last five years when it comes to the technologies in these blocks in the way that they're made so I would highly recommend flushing your system at least once a year even if you have a nano fluid once a year is definitely recommended now you're gonna be doing a custom water cooling loop and you don't want to pay 30 40 even 50 bucks for your fluid once a year well then maybe you shouldn't get into custom water cooling loops because with them comes a bit of maintenance now you don't have to worry about the tubes cracking or coming apart or leaking or any of that for the most part as long as you have a nice solid connection at your fittings you're never really gonna develop any sort of leak as you can see these blocks and things are held together with a rings and really that's not change you're not gonna have any sort of leak issues coming about of these these products but once a year fluid flush is really all you need if you're running a distilled water like I said two or three drops at max of PT Nucor antimicrobial or a biocide you don't want algae building up in your loop that is kind of the worst case scenario is having algae buildup in your loop and if you can keep the algae at bay corrosion isn't really an issue anymore even distilled water tends to not really pick up too much of the ugly ions that are in the metals and I found that basically conductivity is not an issue as long as you continue to keep your system nice and clean and change out that fluid at least once a year so guys it's been Jase two cents talking about how to keep your custom loops maintained it's really not that hard you built your system you can maintain it drain it just run some distilled water through it drain it again refill it that's it guys very very simple and I hope you enjoyed those pictures that I showed because they're actually a little bit educational not many people are willing to cut open their radiators but I did it for the sake of science alright guys as always we will see you in the next month kind of normal for all of the classified GPU that's the 980 but the 780 and the 680 they were all taller defused because they're sitting and awful locks on to the CCB yeah we'll talk about the back in a minute don't worry we'll get there