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it's the drag race of the century on the left we've got the apple mac studio and

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on the right the apple mac studio but

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with a sick custom water cooling setup like other modern chips apple silicon

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processors will dynamically scale their clock speeds depending on how much or

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how little cooling you throw at them so did apple compromise on horsepower for

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looks again or does the mac studio already unlock the full potential of

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their fastest socs just how much performance can we squeeze out of

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normally the problem that you run into when you try and water cool something

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that isn't supposed to be water cooled is simply space for all of your water

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cooling bits in the mac studio that's actually not the issue their heatsink

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assembly is just friggin massive we can very easily fit one of these alpha cool

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radiators in there not a problem what is a problem though is apple's random

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proprietary bolt so as you can see these fans right here have a little ribbon

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cable with six pins on it i don't know what those

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six pins do but with any luck as long as we can just disconnect these then we can

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hook up our water cooling everything will be cool it is very fortunate that

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we have two of the exact same mac studio we did that so that we could swap the

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ssds and well we didn't swap the ssds because again apple propriety

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but it does allow us to very easily you know drag race them later one fan lead

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two fan leads this turns on i will be very happy oh yay okay it works fine we

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can just disconnect the fans and it does not care at all that's actually kind of

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concerning i thought there would be a fan error that would come up and be like

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your fans don't work like literally every other computer that checks if your

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fans are working but uh it doesn't do that which is great for us but also what

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the this is the main board for the mac studio and the primary thing that we

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have to be concerned about is cooling this apple logo right here there are

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memory chips on either side of it but those i'm a bit less concerned about

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they don't use excellent like thermal paste on it in the stock configuration i

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imagine it's fine the main reason we don't want to have a whole lot of stuff

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over top of these guys because it's going to interfere with our radiator the

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radiator is going to be in here something like this our fans that will

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be attached there and we will have several

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millimeters between these fans and these

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memory chips right here so our actual water cooling bit needs to go over top

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of it and then you know there'll just be a little bit of copper here it's gonna

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get nice and cool anyways it'll be totally fine now instead of just totally

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reinvent the wheel we're going to be using this m.2 heatsink from bear well

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we won't actually be using it this bottom bit is going to get just put in

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the trash but this piece of acrylic will make our lives way easier and we don't

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have to worry about you know making our own acrylic piece instead this can

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attach to a piece of copper that we machine that will fit here and mount to

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those holes it goes over it something like that to make our lives even more

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easier what we might do this is extra dirty this is our heatsink and it

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already has the proper mounting holes and depth for everything in it maybe we

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can just get rid of this completely eliminate these fins get rid of these

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heat pipes face this off on the tormach and then our lives are a lot easier and

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we don't have to worry about you know custom making this piece that apple

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already kindly made for us or maybe we'll just completely screw this up and

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have to do the whole thing ourselves here's plan number one take a heat gun

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point it towards the heatsink and hopefully we can just chisel off all of

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these fins failing that uh we have a backup plan

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we're gonna wait until it's around like 220 250 something like that and then we

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might actually be able to get this off i don't think this is gonna work but if it

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does that would be fantastic yeah i'm just mangling the fins well

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plan b we say this every time we've cut aluminum but i'm just gonna go over it

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again the dust is very bad to breathe in so make sure you have a mask a good face

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shield in case something explodes no you don't want that going in your face also

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make sure that you have an aluminum cutting disc it has lubricating stuff in

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here to help prevent the gumming up and exploding but not entirely yeah it just

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uh kind of sucks to do

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and definitely hearing protection

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this is pretty brutal the angle grinding was just making a mess so instead we're

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just gonna simply get it off exactly like that

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i'm pretty sure tynan just sharpened this chisel

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my sincerest apologies tim cook next thing we have to do these copper heat

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pipes that are right here they are very soldered down they are not coming off

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instead we're going to go over to the tormach and just face off this area

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right here so we're able to attach a water block to it there's almost definitely a better way to do this but

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uh i'm youtuber not a machinist so this is what i've come up with we have this

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nice little plate from saunders machine works that has a bunch of stuff clamped

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down to it this is going to go into our vise because there's not enough space

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anywhere for this just mount to our table and this is going to be kind of

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scary although it should be totally fine

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if the tool just decides to do anything that it shouldn't it's going to hit

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something all right i have checked and double

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checked everything i believe we are good to go

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as long as this doesn't decide to do something random

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our part on the tormach turned out great although we've actually totally changed

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the plan having everything internal was going to technically work in order to

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have these fans clear the water block that was going to be on here it would

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have to be smaller than the one that i put in the red camera i was just very

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concerned that it would not cool as well as the excellent solution that apple has

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from the factory so we have completely redone our plan this is what's going to

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happen see this wonderful Corsair block right here bam turns out Threadripper

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mounting holes almost line up perfectly with the ones that apple has from the

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factory so a CPU taken care of now you might be thinking with this big old CPU

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block where's all your stuff going to go right on the top radiator pump amazing

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it is going to be without a doubt the coolest mac studio in existence now one

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of our biggest problems was RGB and fans

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12 volts we can very easily get from right here off the power supply all

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other voltages not so simple now it is

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very crucial on something like this to have just a bunch of RGB because i want

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to just annoy apple people as much as possible which means loads of RGB and

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that is quite difficult so we went with Corsair stuff because they are the only

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ones that have RGB software for macOS

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this controller is going to work really really well because i'm able to have it

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in hardware mode so it just runs all of our RGB off of it and we have a

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temperature probe in our loop that goes into our controller here that controls

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our fan and pump speeds so we don't have to worry about you know grabbing it off

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of this and then hopefully everything just works really really well one more

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thing though uh this is gonna be pretty stupid for five volts we will be using

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this buck converter 12 volts in right here adjust this potentiometer until 5

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volts comes out of there we are happy yeah i guess at this point we have uh

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not many hours to get this done let's do it

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there we go there's your cold plate

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and now we're left with this which will hold our main board to well it'll just

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hold it getting this thing in here was not very simple we are about two and a

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half millimeters away from the full travel of the y-axis of this machine

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it's really close but we should be able to do it

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look at that so precise everything's roughly in place at the

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moment including our nice tubes so the main board can go in and out we don't

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have though is power going to our RGB and fan controller we know that we're

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going to be getting it off of the power supply right here we do not know which

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way this voltage goes fortunately apple doesn't tell us the polarity of this

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power supply so i have attached some leads now it's either going to just say

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plus 12 volts or minus 12 volts on here and then we know which way to wire all

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of our stuff yeah don't do this at home please just don't so not only does this

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tell us that we have minus 12 volts right now also lets us know that we have

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12 volts always on a lot of power supplies you need to like press the

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power button on the motherboard before it starts giving you 12 volts this one

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just gives it to you right away for some reason oh wait it's dropping maybe that

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was just it gave 12 volts while it was charging um i don't know doesn't matter

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that is good to know though because i was kind of concerned about the mac being off and our fans and pumps still

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just running indefinitely getting everything to fit in this mac studio has

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been quite a challenge by getting everything to fit inside of it i mean on

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top even our Corsair controller it would not fit inside it technically could it

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was going to be very difficult so instead we have denuded it it's going on

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the top we've redone our radiator mount it's this nice black 3d printed piece

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now that has space for our RGB hub down below because the spirit of this is

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really you know pcifying the mac pro i have used juego lever nuts to add

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expandability to this loop in the future and as you can see our buck converters

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right down in there attach it to a power supply it now spits out five volts one

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more thing if you look really closely in here we have two 40 millimeter Noctua

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fans and the rest of the holes all blocked off this is for the power supply

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actually so it draws air in from the bottom shoots it at the back and

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hopefully your power supply does not overheat probably be fine without it but

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this is just some good insurance i've added a little bit of vhb tape to the

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bottom of the pump this isn't to hold it down the screws are going to do that just fine is to try and stop vibrations

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going from the pump onto this top plate here and just turning into a little drum

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one thing i feel is under utilized in pc making is hot glue we have a connector

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right here for our Noctua fans that just keeps on wanting to come off it's gonna

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stay on now as you can see Corsair clearly knows this they have a bunch of

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hot glue on here from the factory for string relief here's the power for our

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fan hub and RGB controller just simply probed it while it was connected into

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one of these figured out what's 5 volt ground

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you get it needs to go in which means this molex connector needs to leave

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getting a radiator mount on with the Corsair controller underneath it is not

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very simple we've pulled all of the excess wires up through the top so we

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can hopefully get it down we'll get it bolted on and then we can stuff all of

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this back down in and hopefully it'll be fine there we go we've got our little

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fan shroud piece that's just printing this easier and way faster on the inside

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we're using alphacool's server grade fittings and tubing it's just way better

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at not coming out and we really given how much this is going to be stuffed

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inside do not want a tube popping off the tubing runs for this are a bit on

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the unfortunate side if we were smart we would have taken our time and planned it

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out so that this hole was directly underneath this and you could just have

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a little tube there or a little run we didn't do that because we were rushing

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instead we have a run that goes like that another one that goes back and

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around and the most biggest dumbest of all look at how close these are there's

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no way to get a tube in here so the solution the big ol loop-de-loop it's

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kind of gross i don't love it but at the same time it's gonna be able to show off our nice fire orange well this is why

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you leak test i figured it was fine but if we have a look at the needle it's

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dropping quite rapidly i really hope that the leak is somewhere up here

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because if it's on the inside putting in a bunch of the io down here huge pain in

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the air and uh looks like i might need to do it all over again found where it's

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leaking seems like it's the other side of this right here the through holes are

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honestly pretty trash so i'm not super surprised you do things out of order for

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filming sake i'm blaming this on you brandon for the record it's not my fault

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so i'm going to use the good old soapy water trick i think this might be our

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spot i just have soaked water all over the place problem is just this

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connection right here look at that not moving at all leak tested working great

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gotta stitch it all back together and we should be good to go we're doing it

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smarter this time i want to make sure that everything up here works before we

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stitch it all back together and i have to take it all back apart again because

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that would just be terrible we have mr nick heavy he's going to fill it up i

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have a bench power supply that's going to the leads that will be attached to

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the mac studio's power supply and this is going to be beautiful this is not

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sketchy at all

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how did that happen the tube screwed us oh no

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we're professionals here i spilled water before

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oh oh that looks good that RGB is working

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this RGB is working pump's working van's running are these fans we have RGB

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internally

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thank you that's what i was going for

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let's stitch it back together i think we've done it she's absolutely stogged

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like you can see right here that doesn't want to go all the way in because the

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power leads the whole thing he just kind of was like

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get it back but it's so stupid i absolutely love it i really hope it

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works oh i really don't want to take this thing apart again but it's kind of

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looking like i might it's below 60 degrees and it's very similar to the

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air-cooled version which is not what i was hoping for but i was just kind of

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like ah maybe they have a bad ihs

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spreader or something like that and that's the bottleneck but no we put the

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dye in there and it just very slowly meanders way through there's definitely

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a kink in there so now i get to just to spend the next hour taking it apart and

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reassembling it the benefit of this is that uh the fire orange looks more like

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tang so i think we're just gonna get rid of that otherwise hopefully it all works

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45 minutes later whole thing's been disassembled and reassembled that might

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be a record i don't know if anyone's ever done it that fast before for the

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coolant we're going to go with the go chiller premix has a bunch of carbon

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particles in it apparently it reduces your temps a bit mostly it just looks

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really freaking cool so we're going to use that instead of the tang juice oh

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there we go it looks freaking sick

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let's start here cinebench we're looking for it to be

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under 60 degrees that's about as hot as the other one gets looking at what 55

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54. yeah the hottest that i'm seeing is 55 degrees

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seems like we're not getting as good of cooling performance as i would have

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liked kind of like guess before it probably has to do with apple's ihs just

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not being able to get the heat away fast enough but at the same time this thing's

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really well cooled so glad i bought two of these yeah otherwise how would we do

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an apples to apples comparison ah you guys did a surprisingly professional

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job of this is this our new standard of quality now i guess so there's a whole

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uh Corsair RGB and fan hub in here that's controlling everything based off

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of like the temperature of the water uh

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hello okay we're good

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yeah i'm sorry holy crap we dropped the temps by 30

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degrees not only is it 30 degrees lower

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but this fan is barely spinning i mean i guess that's what happens when you put a

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giant water cooling radiator on like how many watts is this chip even like 45

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watts and it's near silent okay here we go

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let's go let's go water cooled back come on i don't want it to do better that's

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fair 12056 12016

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40 points did we think there was going to be a performance uplift i mean it's

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not exactly a macbook air it's not known to thermal throttle right apparently the

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m1's like turbo boost is really terrible oh but also it doesn't matter because

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they sip power and are well cooled we did a thing you have to admit it looks

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great no one else has a mac studio that looks like this this is hot rotted out i

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love it it's 20 degrees cooler and it looks like that i think we can call it a

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win here we go 12 104

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i got another 48 points 12 0 28 so both times the water water-cooled

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one was technically faster the best kind

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