Gadgetory

so here we are now back at square one you've bought some PC pots they're filthy or they're just a little bit dirty in your OCD you want your used products to look like brand new well if that's you you've come to the right place because I have the obscure the different the yes-man way of cleaning things to show you guys here today we are indeed using carp rocks we have brake cleaner now brake cleaner one of those things that I've heard from people some people don't like it I've been using this stuff for years now and I haven't had one component died because of it besides that is a thing known as wd-40 or just simply degreaser I use the cheapest stuff on the shelves because I think it's all the same you're gonna save some money now the good thing about this is this finishes the product makes it look really mint it also in my opinion can help protect components the only component I've had died in recent times is this cougar power supply here and that was a new product but rumor has it with this cougar power supply right here ok well there's something fell out of it that had I'd sprayed wd-40 on this thing it would still be alive today true fact but unfortunately it died so we don't need it anymore and we've got a power supply here that actually does work a nice and tech 650 watt power supply now we're gonna be hosing this down we're gonna be hosing this down here at motherboard we're gonna be hosing this gtx 960 down and i'm gonna be going through each and every one of these products how i use them why and what goes through the process of getting abused product from trash to treasure in the 2018 tech yes use parts restore or guide will get that bone click out of the way welcome back to tech yes city this Brian coming to you guys today with that cleaning guide and we've got the data vac this is first up on the bench here this is like your initial sort of preliminary phase one that cleaning product that you use when you just want to give it a generic clean and sometimes this thing will even do a good job all on its own this is sometimes all you will have to use but of course the first thing before we clean up any of these components however is we're gonna take them all apart now you notice there is a power supply here so one thing with power supplies do make sure they are completely discharged before you start touching them if you're unsure whether they're discharged one thing you can do just to save your life would be to hose it down and break clean up before you even take it apart that way if there's any electrical charge in there it'll short itself out and you've saved yourself your life and also if you're wondering how to discharge these things you can just plug it up to a motherboard with an LED light on it or a power button and if that LED has gone out then you'll know that the power supply is now discharged so now we just pulled the graphics card apart we can see here the thermal paste is really crummy and dry it actually does kind of need a thermal paste reapply really quickly so that's a good thing we actually pulled this thing apart and the thermal pads here on these two chips here are actually really bad they're shot but surprisingly the thermal pad on the VR himself that's really good condition so we'll avoid cleaning that because we don't want to destroy that however you can get a thermal pad replacement off eBay or I'll Express these things are like a dollar I'll put a link in the description below just the generic ones keep in mind though sometimes you will need a very specific size on these thermal pads otherwise you could have cooling contact problems so make sure if you're pulling one off and it does look like it's very close to this die here make sure you get the right height so they come from like 0.3 I think to 0.5 to 1 mil so there's different size variations so do be careful that but initially how we're gonna clean this up is we're gonna use an alcohol wipe first and they call it this is actually in Japanese it's called it I'll go to wet the tissue for some reason they don't sell these in Australia I mean you could use another product especially since we're gonna be brake cleaning and after that but this will enable us to get off all this grime here and also just give it a generic clean as well as miss these thermal pads because we're not going to be using brake cleaner on the actual heatsink itself since it does have this thermal pad on it we're actually going to be using this here the data vac blower to clean up the actual heatsink but with that said let's clean up this here without whole wipes and then we'll put the brake cleaner on clean up this fan and then we'll put it back together with new thermal paste here and then we'll put the finishing touches with wd-40 on so here we are now we've finished the first stage and we've just got to put these thermal pads now on these two V RAM chips here and then after that we will then put the thermal paste on and put the card back together but of course before we do that we'll quickly data back down the fan and get all the dust off that AB another thing is about this card too is it's got the power delivery here coming from the PCIe port yet they've got two 6-pin connectors on it so very odd configuration on this gravity Scott itself and one of those weird things so now we've got the graphics card complete that is all ready now to go in a build and the good thing about that is not only do we make it look good we've got the performance now of something that we can be confident in because we've changed that thermal paste but change those pads we know this thing's gonna be running a hundred percent now so that is the graphics card finished let's move over now to the big prize here the motherboard and this one's pretty much a similar deal though there are some different things to look out for so let's start pulling this thing apart so here it is now the motherboard is pulled apart and we have the vrm heat sink thermal pads these are actually in really good condition still so also we have to do what this heatsink is give it a quick alcohol wipe over and with this Southbridge heatsink however the thermal paste here has hardened up so we're gonna have to scrape that off since it does get really hard I just tend to fast track it and use a screwdriver because it's not that of an important chip to cool down especially when we're just overclocking on air anyway so I usually skip the chase screwdriver down you can use some really hard plastic if you don't wanna do any scratching at all but make sure you don't scratch this at all so that's actually the die there so we only want to scratch it off this side and thankfully the thermal paste is only hardened up on this side and then of course we're gonna go brake cleaner on this whole vrm here there is dirt in really weird places sort of in real finicky places so the brake cleaner does do an excellent job of cleaning that all out as well as getting into these DDR Ram slots I have found that after I've sprayed brake cleaner in Ram slots they have started working properly again as well so that was a really cool thing so let's get on with this cleaning and also don't forget to take your CMOS battery out and also leave your cpu in there until you are ready to break clean the CPU socket down so this will be taken out after we've done the rest so the break clean is complete and in the time we're waiting for that to dry off and evaporate we clean down this heatsink here and got that ready as well as this heatsink here so you will want to let the brake cleaner evaporate completely this can take anywhere between usually 20 minutes to an hour if you want to fast-track the process then you can put a hairdryer on it that will definitely speed up the evaporating process however one thing to keep in mind is you will want to make sure that it's all evaporated if you're spraying down the socket especially in this part here if it's still moist in there and you go to turn your CPU on you may find that your computer won't boot at all so I have done this once in the past that's how I know so yeah make sure it evaporates completely usually if you're doing this one time I just recommend cleaning all your products leaving them to air overnight and then working on them in the morning to put them all back together so here we are now we have finished cleaning this motherboard put it all back together given at that final wd-40 new look shine and it is looking so damn schmick at the moment so what we've got here now ultimately is just something you can put into a build and it will sell the bill when something looks this good it'll just sell the build on its own that's one thing about PC parts in general especially with used builds presentations everything and it always has been if we zoom in close here we can see that those little bits of dust now are all gone so as before it was kind of it was just dust in there it was even some hair I believe was stuck in there so that's the motherboard now done so we've got the graphics card and the motherboard done and I think it's time to move on to the power supply so now we've just pulled this power supply apart and it's actually a good thing because I got to see now that I am definitely not going to be using this power play in a build at all that will cause problems and it can be anything from shorting things out to just randomly having the computer restart as I believe I have tested this power supply in the past and it has worked I've just never pulled it apart before so what we're gonna do here is instead of wasting precious brake cleaner on this power supply we might try and find another power supply to pull apart instead so now we've just finished hosing this down with brake cleaner and really for power supplies that's all you really have to do is just a good cleansing with brake clean and it'll get all that dust in all the hair out in the past I have had much dirtier power supplies that I've cleaned down and the results have been phenomenal this one was pretty clean from the get-go anyway however the last thing you can do of course is to give it a nice polishing off with wd-40 that will just protect the components as well I mean how'd that an tech pals play like all jokes aside had that had a good wd-40 protection layer and it might have been a different story it might have not fried the way it did so who knows but anyway let's give that the final shine put it back together and then we got one more piece to do so here it is now the final component this is the case and really when it comes down to a case it's probably the easiest out of all these components I've shown here today maybe because it's just a rag and usually wd-40 of course if it is dirty enough it will need the data back as well so usually two tools they use on a case is wd-40 and the data vac however I would not recommend using brake cleaner on the actual case itself sometimes there is a lot of plastic and brake cleaner is known to sometimes eat away at plastics so yeah that's my recommendations there but let's give this thing a nice before and after so there it is guys this is a wrapping up the tutorial on how to clean your PC parts and conquer the universe in 2018 though quickly do a recap on what we've got here on the desk the data vac that's probably the biggest difference between the last time I did this garden this time this thing will save you time it's also great if you just want to do a quick cleanse on your main rig get all the dust out especially hard-to-reach places this thing will do a great general generic clean of course it is a little bit expensive comes in around about things 70 USD so if you're not building computers that much or if you only want to build one computer like once every two years there's probably gonna be a waste of money but if you're like me and you're building computers constantly changing things up this thing is really good great product next up here we've got here wd-40 aka water dispersant this stuff will do a fantastic job of giving you that final look shine but also protecting the components after the fact now the one here I've got here is not called wd-40 it's called multi-purpose spray it's essentially like a copy of wd-40 so in your country you might have different brands in Australia this is the cheapest I could find on the shelves save myself some money does the exact same job in my opinion in Japan there was CRC I think it was 2 3 2 or something like that and the thing about this is a lot of people say oh well this short things out no I've sprayed this on live electronics in Japan I even just yesterday sprayed it on a live computer and it was absolutely no problems great product next up here we've got alcohol wipes now this is one of the hardest things to find anywhere in the world in Australia I think they've government office works they're like $5 for 70 of them in Japan these things were like a hundred and fifty for a dollar 50 extremely cheap and they're probably if I had to pick one product out of here that I would use the most it would be alcohol wipes they're just a godsend literally they these things save time they just clean up GPU dies if you need them to clean up thermal pastes anything I even use them around the office just to clean up just do it and monitors even glass doors around here they just saves so much time fantastic I'm actually running out of stock so I'll get even a friend in Japan to send them over more of these if you're in the US I'm not sure what they are when I was over there I tried these ones that had detergent in them and since they had detergent in them they started foaming up and it was actually a bit of a problem I wouldn't recommend getting those make sure you get the pure alcohol ones next up here we've got the most controversial one here today this is brake cleaner now some people will say go out and get EC see an AC C stands for electrical contact cleaner now if you are really worried about your components especially if they're like brand-new components like a z3 70 80 700 K for example or a new verizon system then you may wish to go out and get some ECC it's about 20 bucks a bottle this stuff I've been using this for years I haven't had one problem with it it's fantastic it's about five dollars a bottle in Japan I think it was like two dollars a bottle it's so cheap so powerful it will get into those really hard to reach places it'll just clean out that dirt and leave it looking brand new especially after you use the wd-40 so usually I use this first and then I'll use this after and also before I get on out here we'll actually two more things before I get on out of here the reason for cleaning up your parts is also twofold we do want them looking really good because the final product will sell better when it looks really good but also we saw as with that power supply we had a broken bounce place so I'm pretty much chucking that in the bin now so that was a good thing that would have just caused me headaches and problems if I had put that in a build because I actually have tried that power supply before and it still does work but I wouldn't put that anywhere near a client's build so I was glad I discovered that and yeah that's actually one thing that was good they came out of today's tutorial the GPU as well saw the thermal paste that was shot all hardened up so glad we gave that a new coat and also before I get on out here discharging your power supplies to big thing make sure there's no power left in these things before you take them apart as you saw without a Zeus motherboard I had plugged it up made sure that LED light was not on that means the power supply is discharged and we're good to go also with your motherboard CMOS battery make sure that's out and the cpu I generally leave that in there until I'm cleaning the pins that's just so I don't accidentally grab the socket and bend the pins which has the potential to break the whole motherboard itself anyway guys I hope you enjoyed today's tutorial if you did then be sure to hit that like button and let me know in the comment section below which product do you think came up the best here today also if you have any tips and tricks of your own or any products that you use then be sure to drop a comma in the comment section below and I'll catch you guys in another tech video better peace out for now bye and that's pretty much the main weapon tree there all right papa Giuseppe or sometimes even better than brand-new so strap on in grab yourself a yes 'mobile if you haven't got one already oh