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so the main difference between today's video and some of the bizarro random cooling experiments that Alex and I have done over the last several months is that this time we're not in the boardroom we're in the kitchen because today's video is going to be completely nuts now I showed you guys sub-zero cooling on thread Ripper Gen 1 with my own DIY water chiller but believe it or not there's actually a commercially available all in one nice tidy little package version of that so we're going to be taking this water chiller from active aqua and we're going to be hooking it up just the red Ripper to 32 cores of Sub Zero have they gone mad have we no it seems fine seems perfectly fine origin pcs evil 15s is under an inch thick and features a smooth 144 Hertz 1080p display with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 max Q graphics card check it and their latest feels out by clicking the link below okay so first order of business is make sure all of our hardware actually works yeah okay so do I get to unbox the chiller sure yeah go one tenth of a horsepower I could get into that that seems like a good thing I guess so whoa what the what you said I could unbox it and then you literally moved immediately to the scissors and immediately started unboxing it without me all your waste a lot of time reading what I get to unbox the tubing yeah you know what I'm not gonna do that then you do it yourself there you go here's Alex's first unboxing I'm not even helping him all right so we've got some fittings here they look boring oh that's heavy well that's more that you need to know so power cord it's a heavy power cord and we've got the chiller here which normally you'd flip around but you can't flip her own chillers so we've got your back to the audience you're failing right now you're failing okay so hold on this has a compressor in it right so you don't want to tip it over that's what I just saying oh well it wasn't clear do you want to grab it in okay wow that is a lot more compact than the one that I made out of a window mounted a/c unit recommended water reservoir size 13 250 gallons okay and what is this for it's for chilling aquariums oh okay so it's designed for a continuous load so that's good we considered in advance that these are fittings that we probably don't have already right right where did that come in the box you thought of nothing no I looked at the thing well maybe the audience would know about all the things that are on the box if maybe you told them during the unboxing experience terracing that I said was there our feelings just to set the right size for this yes all right fine yeah and I figure that this can go between this and the pump and then we can put it into good stuff between here did we buy a pump yes you know we have lots of pumps right yep but this one has more gallons per hour or whatever the measurement is really than the little giants well I'm getting a little answer but you don't know what the little giants are uh hold on can we still return this is this still in like new condition yeah I'm gonna go get a little giant trust me you'll like my little giant see that is a real man's pump it'll give you lots of head pressure yeah think zip ties are nothing good enough yep Tyson okay I can do that if you want to get the next rendering so further was reservoir I was kind of thinking instead of bothering with doing a whole lot we could just stick the tubes right into here and duct-tape it on okay I mean the most important thing when you're going sub-zero with some kind of alcohol-based coolant is making sure that any plastics that you're using are not going to get destroyed by it any seals and gaskets this is that new MSI board the creation do we want to use this one or the zenith that already has all the residue and crap all over it apparently the VRMs on that one are better for spread Ripper to dial all this is just the first test so well it's just gonna see what happens to go from there cool I kind of have some fittings for the block here thanks we can probably just like goatse stretch of 3/8 inch over there yeah yep you got it oh it doesn't have to go on up we're never gonna get that off well I guess did we just turn the pump on now and make sure or hope that nothing leaks that's kind of what I was planning to do all right to those watching at home the worst part of all of this is that this loop will perform significantly better than yours okay I'll try not to drink windshield de-icer here okay the pump is primed cool this thing broken your little Giants really impressing me fortunately I have enough I could have had this running by now this one's even bigger oh great yeah this is the big giant no now I wish we'd left a little more slack on the lines let's do a quick tubing swap here okay perfect dang it Alex how do I avoid drinking windshield ice right now oh man yeah that's that's what I told you yeah okay so hold on so write this okay perfect then we're not gonna put that on so tight this time okay good to go ha ha let's hope powered on haha success TM seems to be working okay so now what I guess we should just fire up the bench boom let's do it oh and it turned off that's okay it's probably just the classic double post so our systems already not posting that's a good sign you know what I'm gonna start unwrapping the zenith alright I don't actually know that that's the problem it's probably not but go ahead and cut hey it boot it up on like the fourth attempt oh good good job alright I'm trying the other board oh wow that is a lot of I might have overdone the thermal compound a little bit that it's just like Vaseline kicked around the RAM very poor quality Vaseline by the way if you've never installed a thread Ripper CPU before it's like nerve-racking actually the way you got a go at it if it didn't have a little torque stop I don't think I'd put it that tight you see that flicker on the RGB lighting I don't think it is the GPU we just lost a twenty nine ninety WX I'm gonna be pretty choked yeah that would suck because that how it's supposed to go let's just let's just go for it again maybe it's the RAM some days I feel really bad for the viewers at home it's like they're watching a horror movie no don't go into that closet why would you do that everyone else who went in there died boom okay so it's just a bad man oh good let's see if we get a post here Oh code right here detects memory all right don't maybe grab some other stuff yeah I figured out the problem what was it old BIOS this red ripper one we need to USB Drive can we just use the other board at this point I think it's faster to flash the BIOS okay I'm sorry all right well there's a bunch of RAM yeah thanks so for an hour in and we have not yet booted thread Ripper - to verify that our system does in fact work but we have the latest BIOS on our board now theoretically this is it um wait for it they don't put postcodes in the manual anymore I have confidence that this time we will post haha I mean we've achieved nothing because we still can't boot okay do you want to run and grab the drive off my bench all right okay that's a good sign actually okay and that noise is driving me nuts right now all right so change graph to logical processors lol so many CPUs so I'm just gonna put some GPU drivers on here still we've got rising master software and alex has pulled out the thermal camera so right now our CPU sitting at about 45 degrees because it's had a considerable amount of time to warm up like these tubes are warm to the touch so I think now is the time for us to turn this thing on yeah I guess so okay well this is somewhat anticlimactic where's it even taking the temperature for us oh that's it something thirty-nine that's the limit or Celsius against LCS so howhow do we want to use this do we want to use it in a way that's practical to just chill water down to a little above the dew point and say okay this is the best-case scenario for you know normal water cooling performance or do we want it like like chilled I think we should do chilled okay like we've already screwed up that motherboard so what do we have to lose besides CPU we have another one the wraps we have more we've never recommend that anyone run below ambient or below the dew point on an ongoing basis without protection but I mean we're just doing a thread refer to overclocking experiments so where's that shop towel stuff you had we'll just put some of this around the socket this is a really nice yeah seem like a pro insulation job oh boy ah even with all this airflow over the CPU socket area and the VRMs our block is still that's it's pretty wet sweating but on the plus side our CPU is idling at what five degrees seven yeah seven why does this just say overload Watts oh here we go okay I'll go ahead and hit it oh I just did oh you did is it done yeah what the hell yeah it was pretty low score to 48 64 so we're at about a hundred watts at idle can you hit it again I want to see what we peek at sure whoa 335 watts while Cinebench a okay so we got just over 5,000 Cinebench which is about what we expect so that means our CPU is doing 250 Watts already we haven't even overclocked it it hit a maximum of 24 degrees so way come on 40 yes 40 no no that's changing a lot of variables at once so we're at wool we're idling at 140 watts now all right I'm gonna hit it now Oh 45 80 give me crash no 6220 $0.09 avenge that was too easy the CPU is sucking over 500 watts what the hell who does in do you think they are Intel maximum of 39 degrees well should we try and go faster I guess so so I tried to launch Adobe Premiere and it just turned off yeah I don't know if we're stable there's a lot of water on there should we cut the power to this let's do that it's possible if there's water on the underside hard to say yeah we could we could pull that up and have a look at it actually no bone-dry it's really wet in there so we might have killed our chip if we don't manage to revive it then this is the end of the video and we're back to life how long how many hours did we leave it for it was fine after like three yourself yeah okay fantastic so we're not gonna go quite so low again we're at 59 freedom units whatever that is and there's there's good news though what do we got so it's currently at 4.1 didn't change the voltage I guess it's just fine maybe we're at 19 degrees idle now which is a lot more reasonable at this room temperature and have we done a stress test yet no okay start with Cinebench sure over 6000 she would try for 4.2 update and restart oh there are updates okay well why don't we do that first oh this might be a while oh it seems like a lot of the issue was just that your crappy SSD died it might have not even been the condensation oh I mean honestly I don't think we really need to run anymore benchmarks to determine that this works really well yeah so the main takeaways here are that this is really compact cools really well and I'm gonna turn off the stupid pump without the noise from the pump and that industrial fan well it's not on right now but we can get it to kick on though here you want to just yeah set it at least 4 degrees lower and then it should kick in that's actually not too bad yeah it's really not loud so let us know in the comments would you like to see this cannibalized and integrate it into a system that's a really loaded question I sure would are you on my team now let's go back in time and hear from our sponsor fresh books fresh books is the small business accounting software that's custom-built for how you want to work if you're a freelancer or you run your own business it's the simple way to be more productive we're organized and to get paid faster you can create and send professional-looking invoices in less than 30 seconds you can set up online payments with just a couple of clicks to get paid up to four days faster you can see when your client is seen your invoice to put an end to the guessing games and 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