Gadgetory

so I had this really useful video planned for today where I messed up one of my laptop's by trying to overclock it and I brick didn't could get to boot I wouldn't post or anything like that and I disassembled it to you know reset it all that and I thought this would make a very useful video I'm sure there's someone out there that has a laptop that's not turning on because something got messed up in the BIOS but instead of making that super useful video that actually serves a purpose somebody sent me a video a while back showing me where someone had actually water-cooled an air cooler on a CPU and I thought that's stupid what why why would you do that and then it dawned on me we do stupid things so why not double down on the stupid and Ellen to cool our heat sink rule the games from the Seven Kingdoms with your iron claw Mouse from your Iron Throne it has a scroll wheel that looks like a off-road tire and buttons on the side and top to do stuff don't lose grip while doing stuff with the textured sides and do it in style with the odd GP learn more Corsair com so here's our setup right here it's a AMD 1800 X hooked up to a an Asus x-37b yeah something like that well x3 7d I I think I TX bored reason why it's ITX skills you'll see in a minute the graphics card it's just a cheap 1050 without supplemental power or any PCIe power because we want to be able to keep it out of the way yeah and then we have a 850 watt power supply X we're not really trying to see what happens with the overclock we're trying to see what whether or not this proof-of-concept would even work before we can determine if it works we have to first see what our baseline is so we've actually had our test running here for a while we're currently at 59 C this will warm up to approximately 63 64 C at its hottest as is the latest BIOS so this isn't showing us the offset this is the actual physical temperature number but as you can see it is slowly climbing and it will max out right around 63 C so that's gonna be our baseline we are not going to be doing like I said doing any overclocking a tempering that that in fact the fact that I even bought 10 liters of liquid nitrogen without the purpose of continuing our rip Steve because we still have to do that at some point but there Bauer came in and said rip the world which happens and that kind of takes some of the wind out of your sails and some of the liquid nitrogen out of your pots rips your sails and then you have no sales and you can't go forward I don't know somehow we're gonna take this and the liquid nitrogen that and that the thing and go when we were doing our latest rip GN which was several months ago now we had the pot with a lot of that the the vapors overflowing because the liquid nitrogen gas is heavier than air so it settles and it falls down and it was falling on to our EVGA motherboards like heatsink fans for the vrm and then we started hearing this really like crazy kind of a motor noise like I it was like a grinding sound and we realized we were freezing the fan the fan bearings and like the fluid in there because there's a fluid bearing with freezing until we would like take a fan and have it blow up and pull the vapors away then it would thaw out and it ran perfectly fine so I thought to myself the VRMs were being dreamily cooled as well as the RAM just the vapors was making it so touching the RAM was extremely chilly so I got me thinking what happens if we use vapor to cool the heatsink now Phil and I actually have two very different hypothesis on what's gonna happen here he thinks it's not gonna cool any better than when I pointed the air-conditioner at an air cooled heatsink we did that once before we plumbed it in the front of a case it was all the standard air cooler and stuff and then it ran fairly cool but we found that there was obviously an inefficient contact and conductive or conduction the movement of hate between the high HS and an air cooler versus like a water block or whatever what's making more direct contact with the metal that's touching the thing it's cooling this has to go through the pipes and all that so Phil thinks it's gonna work about as good as blowing an air conditioner at a heat sink I think it's gonna work a little better I think it's gonna actually cool the heat sink enough to where it's gonna get so far below ambient that it's gonna actually have a slight chilling effect but no better than water so I'm expecting it to be probably in the 40 degree range ish at load there's a 50 I'll say 45 40 43 49 now although our tables kind of scratched and beat up it has paint and stuff on it I don't want to damage our table so I'm only gonna only gonna use something I'm willing to get rid of that doesn't have any serious value around here that being of course the gamers Nexus mod Matt that's flashing back at me so this is the scary part you don't want to use gloves because the if it gets poured on the gloves that it will burn you more than if it hit your hand because of the lady frost effects but if I pour it in this this is just gonna freeze and you don't want to touch this without gloves I'm going to pour the bare hand to handle this with the rubber glove so that's rubber this is what we use we'll like technically this comes with a tube bending kit for when you touch the hot tubes but I touch those with my bare hands too so it still says fan that's called okay I just touched it with my finger essentially what we've done here is a super ghetto swamp cooler all right so here's vv2 of the crap lnto air-cooled setup as you can see it's chambered and funneled I'm a Phil can get down in there to show you but it's sort funnelled and it's gonna have no choice but to go down through there and yeah so we're trying to catch all the vapors and pull it in it's at 12:10 C 8 7 5 are you ready to start this test oh I need more ln 2 that's the problem there we go now it's not blowing into the system its current certain to creating vapor well 38-7 bill i win my science teacher gave me an F you believe that you're like yeah this is this is phase two yeah start it well the tubes are freezing if that 21c under load so far well it's still climbing like I don't think this is working like we want it to it's not working look how frozen the cooler is though you think so look at that okay let's stop it cuz that didn't work at all whoa that's the mad scientist right there well on paper it seemed like a good idea we're not done yet we can pour it through I know I'm just seeing what happens it's not really working I'm gonna get Asus a lot of credit for their build quality like that heatsink I think like you said it's toast all right so here's what we learned lnto is cold and things that touches it makes equally as cold and apparently vapor chambers don't like being really cold because dipping it in the ln2 didn't work which makes me kind of want to retry this test with like just one of these chunks of aluminum but then it's like then we have to insulate the board and all that sort of stuff so yeah this was a this was like kind of a fun one in my opinion I was bored today like I said I could have made a super helpful video about how to bring your laptop back from the dead if you have a brick bios maybe we'll just do that later but anyway this was fun I had fun making it so there's that alright guys thanks for watching and hopefully you guys didn't hate this video too much because we are doing what a lot of people would call as parts abuse but anything that doesn't surprise anyone so we've still got a few litres of ln2 now we're just gonna kind of play with it off cameras are freezing things so I'll see you guys in the next one well if I let's restate this ridiculous rig this ridiculous day see and people think Nvidia and AMD can't work together this is what we were using to hold up the box see they're compatible that was a rubber glow that's crazy like you can see when Isis it looks like