Gadgetory

when I did my travel PC a few weeks back I made a mistaken that I busted the he punch when I was soaring that cooler to fit in my SD 13 B Silverstone Mini ITX case though it brought about a lingering question can you fix heat pipes on a budget if not then what else can you do to fix this problem let's take a look when I bought the cheapest gtx 1070 i could find I ran into one problem the cooler wasn't clear in the front of the case and instead of hacking up the case which wasn't an option since I had to clear customs of further four times with it I decided to make the cooler fit instead since it overextended the stock gtx 1070 PCB size though after i did this the card was thermal throttling and this was a problem since you won't be getting the performance you paid for especially on a gtx 1070 however now that I'm back with my tools and the like I decided to fill the heat pipes with initially hydro carbon and then quickly seal it this initial experiment failed and the card was still hitting the thermal throttle limit quite quickly I did a second round but this time oil in the pipes same result the two heat pipes on this card were just not coming back to life not to worry though no harm was done to the PCB which is the most important part of a graphics card and seriously never attempt to model PCB unless you know what you're doing and have experience with doing such things so he pipes they can't be fixed with your typical ghetto hack methods though let's try putting a five-dollar sif cool that I found in a junk bin in Japan over six months ago on this little bad boy Oh Oh Oh so there we have it six dollars in total for this solution it also happens to fit in my Mini ITX rig when I put it in the Mini ITX rig de temps were a bit higher though even with overclocking I was hitting around max 70 degrees and on that note this was the best overclocks I've seen on a gtx 1070 on air thus far so it speaks lengths for how good some of these aftermarket cooling solutions are especially when you compare it to a gigabyte cooler with only two heat pipes on there or two busted heat pipes though I know what you're thinking not everyone has access to the five dollar coolers in a junk bin for some fatigue store in Japan so for this other solution I am going to mount an arctic s1 + goofy style on this graphics card and also use there's old fans from that gigabyte heatsink and then throw it in the bin and see what we can do Oh Oh so after putting this arctic cooler through its paces it did go over sixty degrees there so performing a little bit worse than the South cooler and also being a lot larger so with that note I decided to stick with the Seth cooler and then put on some vrm and MOSFET heat sinks so it's going to be a permanent solution in the Mini ITX rig so there we have it if you brake heat pipes there's generally no coming back from it that is the cooler is screwed unless you have some really specialized gear which is beyond the scope of this channel and myself it is also generally why older laptops have lots of problems because they work predominantly off heat pipes and if those hit bikes even have a miniscule amount of degradation then the cooling will be severely affected in my case the card was only thermal throttling and in easy to play games like dota 2 it was having no problems whatsoever nothing to really worry about because this was only a band-aid solution until I got back here so on that note of modding and heat pipes the only time you really have to worry as if your card is thermal tripping if this happens you have to double check everything to make sure your cooler is working properly for example the fans are working the case is not suffocated and the cooler is making proper contact with the graphics card or CPU as that is what can cause permanent damage to your gear and lastly I'm also sorry if I offended anyone on the PC master-race forum the last thing I'd want to do is rub fellow PC gamers up the wrong way and there's also a lot of good people on there who are very knowledgeable so I'm again I'm sorry about the mistakes that I made also learned in the process to that heat pipes differ greatly depending on the company apparently having a stone pressurized in the pipes is best for thermal conductivity on PC parts interesting perhaps it explains why Arctic's bigger coolers are so damn good anyways I hope you enjoyed this video if you did then hit that like button and let me know in the comment section below have you done any crazy experiments on CPUs or GPUs before we'd love to hear your comment as always and I'll catch you in the next tag video very soon he's out for now bye nothing much mate just busting some 8 pipes where's-where's to me before um city