Gadgetory

we are going to liquid cool all five of our editing workstations together so those are like core i7 six cores and GTX Titans then we're gonna take that water we're gonna dig it out of the building and then we're gonna put that on a massive radiator so we're actually taking all that heat and dissipating it outside causing not only our systems to run cooler but also our room in which we do our work to be cooler well the whole actual goal of the whole room water cooling project was to cool down the room where you could have done a much cheaper and easy solution of actually installing a like a seat unit but instead we've decided to go along with this how effective will it actually be not hugely but hopefully it'll help a little bit and be really clean santé one system in particular was the main inspiration for this project and that's ed Zoe's machine which had a couple of problems number one is that the system itself was always overheating because he always had his six core processor pinned at a hundred percent so they were kicking out a bunch of heat into his quite inadequate CPU cooler which was then not keeping his CPU cool enough so problem number one was that his system was actually overheating so much like 8090 sometimes even above 90 degrees but it was thermal throttling and he wasn't even getting all the performance out of it and then problem number two was that the person sitting in front of it was constantly complaining about the heat in the room so with the whole room water cooling setup we can cool a system make it more powerful because we got a 12 core Xeon for it and make that person complain less by making the room cooler you know originally I hadn't planned to paint the room the project is gonna be much smaller scale and I was gonna be just about liquid cooling the machines but I realized that if we're gonna take the room apart clean it up presumably and pull all the systems out of it well this is a great opportunity to take it from a place where we all sit at our computers and work and turn that into like a really cool workspace that really feels like - tech tips make it feel like like home and like place that's really cool to be and work on our craft in the hot it's a lot that's why what look at that's on the side yeah fortunately really oh my god yeah this is terrible so I drew upon my experience painting houses and training painters to get that done in kind of a Linus tech tips gray and then as much as I've got a fair bit of painting experience I'm a little bit rusty and I have some experience training people who have never painted before but Nick has really never painted before keeping the quality level up was a bit of a challenge as well Nick did his best though and between the two of us we managed to get the whole job done although by the second coat I did pretty much most of it myself since it was you know the second coat is when you clean up the mistakes from the first coat a lot of the time finishing the first coat of paint was really nice I was able to put down the roller and kind of step back and go yeah this is starting to look really cool and I wanted to kind of turn to my sides and say hey guys don't you think this is great but I realized everyone was gone so I wandered downstairs and found out that while I was painting instead of everyone else kind of proactively figuring out how we can move the project forward they were doing arts and crafts and making a shield for Luke and pinning buttons to turn his shirt into like Impala button and armor all that might have been okay at least they had done a decent job of thinking I am cleaning over everyone's old drives so that when they get their new computers it'll be like using the same drive so Brandon can have his viruses which he refused to take care of Terry can have all his slow unoptimized drives and everything and we don't have to reinstall anything or waste any time freaking Taryn this whole time has been telling me that system and that his slow boot is unrelated that's Terrans Drive I wonder what the slowness of his computer's been about dammit I'm having a pile of like cases and graphics cards and I mean even the water cooling gear alone was a pile like having this mountain of a hardware that was actually at like as tall as me was really made me better understand the scope of what we were undertaking so apparently the project was pushed up a day I actually had no idea was not told by anyone but that seems to kind of be a lioness Media Group thing there's like you have to do this at some point in time somehow no one knows no one's gonna be helping you and we're not really sure when but you won't have enough time so just make sure you do it really quickly like this actually gets finished before we move on to something else well it turned out Linus didn't actually check the specs for the radiators before he bought them so when I tried to mount it on the top there's fittings that would be on the bottom of it that then pressed against the top of the case so I put it up on an angle and you couldn't actually get screws all the way through the fan the top of this case and past the fitting and into the radiator so I had to drill holes in the top which was fantastic thank you thank you please so Luke actually ended up having to drill holes for each of the radiators before we could even start assembling the systems that took up a ton of his time that otherwise he would have been able to spend helping me build systems it got to the point where we actually had to recruit Ezell to help us build computers even though his system building experience is not really that much hey it was pretty nice to me thanks no one was mostly painless the next one should be the second involvement all right and then it was pretty much time to water cool the systems something that I ended up doing the vast majority of myself so that's getting the tubing on the fittings for the CPU and GPU block running it outside of the case and then at that point I handed them off to Ed who was the one who actually figured out how the fittings worked for the pic disconnects to install the the quick disconnects at the back on both the top radiator as well as the tubing coming out of the inside of the case installing everything in the systems was a monumental task and everyone had to chip in in ways that they haven't really done before I even had Edsel helping me assemble GPU water blocks onto the Titan cards because that can be very time-consuming and I needed to move on to the next thing that I could do when Luke was drilling holes in cases so we had to parallelize the workflow a lot just to account for how time-consuming everything was going to be well because I'm the plumber I deal with this sort of situation of soldering copper together and dealing with PEX lines and different fittings for myself I would say maybe a to the typical homeowner or person that would try to tackle this on themselves would probably be closer to eight or nine maybe even a Titch higher it all depends on your skill levels this project after I understood what they were wanting I thought it was a very interesting project these are all what you called dry fat just to see if everything fits in the right places well and we'll hold it up like that solder it then these are all three inches apart three inches apart nice and neat from December 13th to 20th 2014 you can save on select until CPU Schnucks and SSDs with special holiday rebates from select retailers click now to learn more so we got the vinyl decals in and they're actually pretty big huge almost life-size for Linus it is life-size we had to pay some guy in the parking lot Oh three years yeah I was just doing the exiting I think a little bit of confusion was bound to happen and I think overall we're a little confused