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the time is now one hour ago and all I
know is that Alex informs me we're about to cool a CPU with a Vortex cooler and I
haven't even opened the box on this thing yet so what the hell am I looking
at we got a piece of metal so that's the silencer
shot ah this is an actual silencer shut up silencer yeah that's what oh my God
it is a silencer our cooler needs to silence her how
awesome is this we got a piece of cheap tubing I don't know what that's worth
some hose barb fittings
and this what is this it's a Vortex cooler we'll
explain exactly how it works later Alex that's not information I didn't already
have true yeah Vortex cooling but what is it it uses some thermodynamic quirks
and magic and probably a deal with the devil to make hot air come out this side
cold air at that side apparently 90 PSI
means the hot air is at 200 degrees Celsius and the cold air is at negative
50. wait what yeah okay you still haven't explained to me how it works
where's your damn white boy I have a whiteboard I have expectations Alex we
have standards around here the compressed air goes in the hot air
because it's denser or something goes to
the outside and dumps kinetic energy or
something it stagnates here the molecules lose energy coming back
through the hot air and then the cold air shoots out there here there's a
control valve which does what changes how much hot air comes out or
you just have question marks on here yeah the question profit I watched like
five videos I read a bunch of stuff none of it makes sense it all is just kind of
like a thing happens here cold air yay so
unless we have a PhD in thermodynamics we're not going to understand it but we
can play with it we can definitely play with it
oh I got a laughing master car I just searched up Electronics cooler and it
came up it was 550 shut up for this piece of metal yeah why is it so
expensive from what I've heard it's because of the deal with the devil but
it might just be because it's industrial only and you can use it for like 20
years and never do anything like maintenance wise the PSI doesn't matter
too much where we're going to be putting like 110 through it just because that's
what our shop is at it's more so the airflow and you can change that using
the little nozzles there 10 CFM is the lowest that's 190 watts of cooling I can
go all the way to 40 CFM which is 820 watts of cooling at minus 50 this could
be dangerous oh yeah like really dangerous well we can't really do the 40
CFM so our air compressor which is quite
a good air compressor by the way it's good for about 19 CFM at 175 PSI
so we can probably do the 25 CFM one we
can maybe use the 40 for a short amount of time okay
this is our control system oh is this part of the like 500 I spent no you
spent this a while ago when we did the potato cannon that planted trees I'm
finally getting another use out of it yeah hey why don't we explain what it is
this is a solenoid very simply you
switch the solenoid with this button right here uh it's not plugged in right
now but it will go click when you click that that allows us to not just use it 100 of
the time we can turn it off with this it's way easier than like using the ball valve up there this is so stupid
you're not wrong I know
Alex you've got kind of a thing going on here I'm pretty sure that when we
complete this video all of the ideas that I had on my resume we will have
done really yeah wow and it only took five and a half years
no
excuse me oh there goes my lunch
geez careful with the laptop there oh
man is this the the CFM like bit thing
yes I got 15r uh 15 is a good one to
start at that's the one we'll probably be using we could also start with either
the smallest one a 10. let's start with the smallest one which wait which one's
the cold end again would you say 200 degrees Yeah
so you want it more open more closed
what am I what am I working with here I don't know just open it a tiny tiny bit
and we'll see what happens okay only there's no way with our temperature
range options in the FLIR it's always going to be at least one of them is out
of range but whatever I know the answer to this but just for the people we are
using filtered oil-free air right yeah we are yes we are oh yeah
oh yeah I even say that the the vortex in here is over a million RPM well that
explains where the Heat's coming from
oh it's cold it's definitely sold and that is
definitely one what I'm doing right now is I'm putting electrical tape on the
device to make it easier for us to
uh get a measurement of it with the Fleer because when you try to get a
thermal reading off of something that is reflective what you're actually getting
is the thermal reading of whatever is reflecting off of it
the plastic nozzles that like minus 30 minus 40.
should we try adjusting this a bit see what happens okay what yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah
there's a lot of moisture here oh yeah like my hands are wet that makes sense
yeah the 15 should be good for about 300
watts of cooling theoretically that's getting dangerously close to CPU cooling
capacity yeah the Debbie Downer kylas this is like the coolest thing ever
it doesn't matter cool
cool well Brandon you can see the Benchmark part but um we're going to need the
thermal camera to see the heating up part wow this is going up like a degree
every few seconds here I just want to show it a Fleer for sending us this
camera this thing's like thirty thousand dollars it's wicked yeah and it's
enabled us to make better content for you guys so yeah clear hey how you guys
doing currently at 37 degrees
now it's sub ambient four
oh come on Sub-Zero Sub-Zero there we go
Sub-Zero phone cooling baby holy crap that's chilly wait your score
is better than 87 scores for the Samsung Galaxy Z fold three
well we should cool it the whole time and do another run and see if we can
like oh yeah okay oh wow why don't you move off of it you can imagine
yeah yeah there it is what did we have last
time 57-58 okay well we've got another 25
points oh the silencer you undo this
thing and put it on there oh we got some Frost this time boys oh
we did we did but like I said remember how I was like oh it's so weird the
condensation's only on the outside of the nozzle
all the frost is only on the outside of
the nozzle yeah what kind of black magic is that
that way it can never get jammed but how did they do that while we're at it you
want to switch to the big dick nozzle yeah I was thinking just go all the way
to the big one right we can only run that momentarily
yeah until our tank is gone got it the silencer though
so do we Teflon tape that and then what
this goes I don't under I actually do not understand how this is supposed it
goes in same spot as before Oh and the silencers on the other side of it yeah
got it look at this guy okay is there anything that looks cooler
than someone wearing sunglasses through a thermal camera
I can definitely see the soc it's hitting about 20 degrees
that is definitely colder can confirm I
feel like it worked better before without the silencer
let's take the silencer off yeah okay hey get back here
oh yeah that's cold
I don't think our compressor can keep up though no okay let's dial it back to
what our compressor can handle then and I think it's time to cool the CPU I
think cinebench is gonna be the most fun okay cinebench thermals for 100 degrees
what is this is it 12 900k yeah KS KS oh
okay and how much wattage can we do with
this nozzle 450 that one's 300 300 what
that's it that's it okay well good luck everybody I'm taking this fan off boys
all right send a bench run yeah I'm ready for it
slower
yeah of course I guess the problem is I just I can't
apply all of this cooling directly to
the CPU should we just aim it like directly at the CPU I could try that but
the problem is that we don't have any surface area there we might as well just aim it directly at the die at that point
can we try that okay ready
three two one go
get closer
this poor CPU yes uh it's pretty hot right now
oh yeah it's going real slow
yes
how's the CPU temps doing uh 93 degrees okay I'm on it so our CPU
it's currently at 40 degrees
at idle could I try and run Cinnabon okay
okay it's immediately thermal throttling it's going real slow
okay
let's talk about what happened there I don't know if it'll work I think the
12900 KS is just
too much too much heat and too small a
spot I'm really surprised blowing it on this didn't work
me too especially with how cold these heat pipes felt to the hand yeah like
they were chilly heat pipes let's talk about what these are actually used for
then shall we there's for loads of things most of it's
in industrial applications like large plants so if you have like a gas tank
for a car that you just welded it needs to cool down and maybe it would take
three minutes if it's just in the air stick one of these on now it's a minute
and a half and you can make heaps more of them or you can put this on like the
end of a welding torch to cool that down oh that makes a ton of sense now there
are other ways to turn power into cooling and heating for example Peltier
modules come fundamentally do the same thing you add power not to compress air
but rather just you power the thing and you get hot out one side and cold out
the other but those consume a ton of
power compared to this and it's not as
easy to direct that Cooling and direct that heat on whatever part it is that
you want to cool or heat another thing these are great for is electronics
cooling but when it has to be away from a bunch of things like completely sealed
off so this way you can have compressed air in hot air goes out electronic is
cooled very precisely in a completely
isolated area got it so not for this basically no I'm kind of
sad that it didn't work yeah I kind of thought it would do more than it did yeah at least
we need a better air compressor we do yeah and we can put the big nozzle on
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