Gadgetory

you know one of the things you have to keep in mind with water-cooled rigs is regular maintenance or in my case completely neglected for two years this coolant has been sitting in this rigs at September of 2016 we are almost in September which means this fluid has definitely surpassed the typical annual flush and fill that I'll do fill huh fill camera guy even so the goal of today is to completely drain this system take a look at the block see how they fared did it gunk it all did it did any of that white powdery stuff buildup because remember this is a pastel fluid for Mayhem's which in the past had some problems with with the yellow and the orange but the blue and the green so far in both systems I've had them running in has been extremely solid so we're gonna drain it take a look at it and kind of prepare for an upgrade that's coming to skunk works in the very near future but I just wanted to kind of make a video today to see what happens when you leave a fluid in a system for two years now this is gonna be pretty easy today because when I set this up it's almost like I knew what I was doing I've got ez drain ports I've got fill ports I've got to fill as a cameraman that joke is never gonna get old to me so the bottom is actually prepped now for me to drain but I've got two loops in this remember so I'm gonna save that one for last because the GPU loop which is the bottom one down there it's kind of a pain to get all the fluid out of because I have this part right here which sort of just dangles there but the CPU loop is you can see it's all contained right here goes in the reservoir out to the pump into the CPU block through the rad back the red and into the reservoir the drain is down here at the lowest point so this is extremely easy for me to get most of the fluid out of we did have what looks like and the camera is probably not going to pick this up but the GPU loop which is the hotter loop has definitely gone about I already think Phil maybe a half shade darker can you see that now if we put up this side-by-side compared to the old videos the yellow turned straight up puke brown or diarrhea brown and the orange turned a disgusting nasty color as well but the Green has not done that but both the yellow and the orange did it in only a few months this is turn just such a slightly darker green in two years so I'd say this fluid is holding up pretty well now I've done this a million times I've showed this in my previous videos but inevitably I'm always asked a bunch of times how I drain my systems so I'm gonna go ahead and show you right now of course I've got this drain valve you can thread on a barb in this case I have a alpha cool compression fitting and you can just push on your fitting and then stick the other end and sort of some sort of a catch can can or container I've had this hose pop out and spray everywhere but because of the diameter tube that I use I can actually shove it right there in the handle now if I open up this valve or this plug on the top right here air can get into the loop which means as soon as I drain or turn this valve physics takes over right now what I'm gonna be doing is if this if the blocks check out and there's no powdery residue oxidation or any of the nickel being eaten away then I'm gonna mix both of these fluids together so that they're the same color and then what we'll do is we'll mix them together and put it back in sometimes when you start dealing with the powder build-up you'll see it forming on the o-rings but this o-ring is perfectly clean I've taken these o-rings off before on the fluids that have started to change color on me and have them be nothing but a big powdery mess and I showed those of some of the previous videos so make sure you guys check those out but what I'm about to do right now it's kind of gross don't recommend it so I'm will even say you're blowing bacteria in there but you got to kind of blow your system to help push out some little now the reason why I do this and I'm not concerned about blowing in there is these fluids are also growth inhibitors so that you don't get things like algae and bacteria and other things sort of growing in the loop I was planning on taking the block off and looking at it up close but fail gets in here you can see that block is extremely clean so you can see there's no real discoloration there's no powder buildup it's maybe slightly yellowed but that's normal when nickel has fluid running over it actually looks really really good but if there's any sort of sediment building up it would probably end up being on the GPU rig because temperature can really break down a fluid quickly and the GPU loop gets significantly hotter than my CPU loop so that's the one that we definitely want to look at closely so the same thing we're just gonna open up one of these fittings on the top of the reservoir air can't get in then fluid can't get out or it just dribbles really badly like you know like a bed.but bad pee I don't know I don't know I was trying to say all right so we turn this knob here same thing I love physics it makes my job so much easier physics are great physics don't lie physics or physics to get a good look at the GPU I'm gonna take the top one out but look at that that is really clean that little buildup of whatever this gunk is right here is in both blocks in the exact same spot and it was there when I filled the loop so it didn't happen with this fluid that could have been something left over from previous fluid what I want to reiterate is in the flow plate right here there's no buildup there's no powder you can see on the nickel there's no corrosion there's no nickel flaking off this looks like a new block that I just poured fluid in important remember though sometimes people see a little bit of bleed in the area in the middle of the block like where the fluid will kind of pass over it slightly the only oring in here is on the perimeter there's nothing sealing off the inside other than the pressure of the acrylic pushing down so you're gonna see some fluid kind of make its way on top of the metal in between the acrylic level of you know layer so don't freak out if you see that what we care about obviously is what it looks like here and if we look at this block head-on there is absolutely no corrosion of any kind no discoloration I've even rinsed this this is just the way it it poured out so this looks damn good now let's talk about skunk works here for a minute because a lot of you guys were really kind of sad that the system was missing from the channel for the last couple almost couple of years while I've been in the studio now over a year and a half and so a lot of folks were just really missing skunk works because this was always the centerpiece of my channel this build was intended to be completely impractical expensive unnecessary you know kinda like me big I'm practical unnecessary I want to bring this back to the channel so I'm going to be tearing apart my system that I have upstairs currently because you know Phil does 99% of our editing now and so we're gonna be doing some more stuff for a system for him but I want to bring this system back to the forefront of the channel so I'm gonna start integrating this system more in some videos it's gonna be my desk rig upstairs in our little editing den which means an upgrade is necessary now let's talk about this upgrade real quick I think it's actually it's not necessary that was a wrong word it's it's just wanted which is why anyone would have something on this nobody needs this item I'm sure people already like freaking out like are txj is doing r-tx it's obvious Jays doing r-tx it's obvious I'm gonna be doing r-tx reviews and I kind of feel like if this system is gonna maintain its status as being just an over the top completely impractical build then r-tx might make the perfect choice for that but we haven't gotten any finalized plans yet for any of that so I just wanted to kind of talk about that but I do know for a fact I'm going to be upgrading the system and I'm kind of thinking about doing like maybe the 16 core 79 60 X it's upstairs in here or the motherboard update maybe changing out the fans redoing the lighting but I dunno I kind of want to revamp the system in his set neglected in my home office for a long time by neglected I mean I played games on it periodically at best for maybe 45 minutes at a time but that's why I thought that this was a very good video today to show how the fluid has kind of held up because there are times I walked away from the system playing a game wife calls me you know calls me downstairs hey dinner's ready and then proceeded to forget about it for a month running non-stop in a room that's not air-conditioned because they closed off the vent that way the rest of the house can get AC I think this has gone through kind of want some of the worst scenario that you possibly could so I just kind of want to talk about skunk works a little mano a mano or mono Fe mano a mano we can do that you want to do that we can do that all right that's back together you know what it's time for Phil doing the filling montage alright she's back together cleaned up Dee dusta fied the fluid has been inspected looks great blocks as you guys saw absolutely fantastic highly impressed with how the green pastel actually held up over over the last two years absolutely fantastic so obviously they were with the Reds and the oranges and the yellows and issues that were happening in the past hour definitely die slash color dependent so yeah I'm happy with this now like I started to say future upgrades gonna probably bring this up to X 299 will more than likely put our TX cards in here just because this system as I said has always been the centerpiece of the channel and grows with the channel and the ground that the channel has grown a lot since this PC was worked on last two years ago I think two years ago sitting there like five hundred thousand subs last time I did anything with this we've gained over 1.1 million since then so if you guys have any suggestions on what we should do with this I'm kind of debating a color change I'm digging maybe blue I know gunmetal and blue I also think because this case is no longer available because since we've last touched this system case lapse is unfortunately closed up shop I kind of feel like doing a case mod or something to this as some sort of a tribute slash homage to case labs something that a lot of people have been doing so I figure why the heck not so a hell little lawnmower just drive by okay whatever you probably came in here I probably seem like a crazy guy that's okay guys we're gonna go thanks for watching this video I've never let fluid go this long in a system since doing YouTube anyway I did have one system that ran for like seven years before but that was that was back when we were talking like early 2000s when we didn't know what we were doing we were just hooking up pond pumps and Quarian stuff and calling it water-cooled obviously things are coming a long way since then alright guys thanks for watching it as always we'll see you in the next one where my HOS there bitch H OS e na h o es I need be filming that