the early 2000s was a crazy time nickelback was still cool along with wet
look hair gel and all-in-one water cooling like this
looked like this yes my friends from one of our
loyal viewers we got our hands on an og
Gigabyte 3d galaxy 2 water cooling
system to show you guys just how easy it
is to liquid cool your CPU
2005 style guys this is gonna be a lot
of fun that is the original coolant in there it's still sealed it's still
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it brings back so many memories Jake like
look at this the uv sensitive back in
the early to mid 2000s uv sensitive was
like a cool feature because you were gonna put black lights in your freaking
computer oh you had to get those tubes yeah that's right you'd put like cathode
tubes in there and like this day the leds still suck so like blue led wait
wait hold on that's a feature what does the lifting weights have to do with high
performance on a pc you haven't even asked me about this color scheme
what do you mean the orange this was gigabytes branding back oh yeah i know
orange and blue it's disgusting
i think it was you know similar kind of coloring everything about enthusiast
marketing at this time was full level
cringe i mean what is with the name of this product 3d galaxy 2. it sounds like a GPU or
something there was a case that went with this liquid cooling system yes
there was it was hideous okay but hold on look at this nano scale coolant
what does that even mean world's first patent-pending by the way
the thing they're talking about is literally a distribution manifold do
you think they ever got the patent i don't know can i look that up hold on i
want to see if i want to see if that's a thing the product page still exists
transparent led tank for refill visuals so the tubing is clear
but it's got blue coolant i guess yeah that doesn't look like
blue no that's definitely photoshop oh my god it's already a disaster okay
check out this radiator okay for one thing guys radiators they used to go on
the back of the case because internally
cases weren't designed for the additional space that the tanks at the
top and the bottom took up so you would actually mount your radiator either
coolants had a system where you would kind of mount it to the top and there
were certain supported cases that you could like cut holes out of the top of
it or whatever but most of them would go on the back on the outside hanging off
like a big caboose wart thing like that and then
you'd have to run your long freaking fan cable inside but
that's not the worst thing about this look at the color
that ain't silver paint ladies and gentlemen we've got ourselves an
aluminum radiator with a copper block and hole
wow Gigabyte did not have a lot of
experience making CPU coolers and it shows
this thing is barely even flat
look at i mean what are these marks even what kind of manufacturing process do
they have that leaves it looks kind of crap all over it cast almost it does
look cast is it polished on the other side like do those look clean like cnc'd
are they also cast no that looks cnc'd there we go here's a
much better look at the block
super basic pin style block
inlet doesn't even come down over the hot spot in the middle of the CPU
outlet is directly across from it so there's pretty much no reason for the
water to flow anywhere other than straight across here like you're basically not utilized like if they had
even done any kind of thermodynamic modeling
on this they would know that there's pretty much no purpose to having these
pins whatsoever this thing is freaking
awesome now i mentioned that aluminum and copper don't go together but i
didn't mention why it's because of a process called galvanic corrosion that
essentially means that if there's copper in a loop with aluminum the copper ions
that inevitably get drawn up into the water will eat away at the aluminum
corroding it which is really really bad for fairly obvious
reasons now to get around this it looks like Gigabyte provided their own
presumably corrosion inhibiting coolant that has
all kinds of important notes on it it's designed exclusively for this system is
to say nano on there too it does have anti-corrosive
and water quality stabilization and anti-freezing characteristics it hasn't
separated which is interesting step one shut down the computer remove the power
code of the hd first and stop its operation temporarily if the computer
shut down why does that matter open the water filler point on top of
the water container the water filler point oh Gigabyte
okay well that seal didn't really quite hold the 3d galaxy system will begin to
operate to evacuate the air within the system
oh they're trying to instruct you to bleed the air from the loop
before powering on your hard drive for
some reason maybe because you need to borrow the power connector from i don't
i don't know i don't know what the value how are they going to mount this
okay well let's see what they had in mind and we'll go from there Jake i
think the real question is how are we going to mount this fan
to the CPU block well that's what it's for to cool your
vrm i know right it's actually you know kind of smart it's kind of smart and
look at this well it even has blue leds
that's right that's how they used to put leds on fence so this thing's got a
couple cool features i think that's the water level sensor right there oh that's
cool so yeah there's a little float on there and it's supposed to tell you if
anything goes wrong well hold on i want to see the patent-pending water valves
first okay Jake they wanted to patent a rubber stopper and a freaking like float
control ball valve come on oh it doesn't smell very good
oh it's like fishy
maybe we should wash these out that's not the 2005 experience Jake the idea
here was actually pretty clever okay so you run your your main line through here
and through here that goes to your CPU and then if you ever wanted to add a GPU
block or a chipset block without redoing anything you'd be able to just
flip flip these valves pull off these kind of
silicone plugs and boom you could you could run them without having to redo
any of your existing loop yeah and they said you don't have to drain it either
but if you wanted to swap said new blocks you would definitely still have
to drain something yes oh holy look at
that we can see how it's supposed to set up
man they literally meant for the valve to just sit there no no no look it has
uh it has threaded holes but is that threaded into something look at that's
definitely just sitting there okay one of the things we ran into the industry a
lot before was a manufacturer's not bothering to do proper showcase
photography of their products and b in a lot of cases not even
bothering to compatibility validate them half inch special uv tubing material
allows for extreme angling and flexing
and they give you coils too it's okay that's not bad for 2005. this is
actually pretty cool it has a pass-through for the power switch so it
will actually turn off your computer in
the event that there is an overheating or a um
or like a pump failure yeah because it says there's over temp protection okay
man this is more featured than modern pumps in some ways yeah like they don't
do floats for low coolant level they don't
do temp protection no i mean the system itself does temp protection you don't
have a dial for the back of your computer to turn the system up and down
everything used to be PCIe mounted something to note is that this was not a
cheap product now it's time to meet our victim
are you ready to upgrade this computer this is jeff gutierrez's workstation
and it's a perfect candidate for what we're
doing because it's modern enough that we're going to be able to actually like
you know run Windows 10 and modern games and stuff on it but
it's got an old enough case that it still has these ridiculous grommet
pass-through things that
early water cooling units used so this the Corsair i think it was
called the nautilus nautilus 500 that's what it was okay we're gonna have to
clean this up a little bit though oh stepping away
ugh
oh okay you guys should step back step back this is disgusting how what did you
do i just accidentally spun the fan with this and it shredded my finger trying
not to eat any chunks hey it looks great now okay let's get this
air cooling trash off here is that an ltstore.com screwdriver of course it is
my ltgstore.com water bottle is that an lteststore.com lanyard of course it is
ltts.com shirt yes it is is that an ltd store.com beanie bloody hell Jake
actually we can't know if our upgrade is worth it unless we do a before test
upgrade is a strong work well it might be
Jake it is possible
that no this is not going to outperform it but i want to give it a shot so we're
maxing out at 60 to 63 degrees running an fpu stress
test in ida 64. okay well that tells us what we need to know
shut her down did you want to read the note of the dude that sent it oh i'd love to it's
quite the note i love this story i
disassembled my family's computer without permission buddy diys fangirls
see look fangirls oh cool yeah it looks great sakurai armory where we design and
create custom computer fan girls full time
that is so cool isn't the internet a hell of a thing let's do this thing Jake
how the devil are we going to mount this sucker oh i thought you were figuring
that one out hold on i'm doing very important things just give me a minute here it's infinitely adjustable look at
that they now show the camera okay be careful with those
adjustable one way i don't think there's any shame in
frankensteining the mount a little bit here i don't think there's going to be any
alternative i bet we could find an 1175 compatible backplate with the same
threading it's so close though i know but it won't work all right that's okay
i've got an idea i will be right back we can do this
oh this will work this is what i was looking for great
what were you working on well the knock tool backplate is long enough i just
would have needed to extend it by about a millimeter on either side oh you'll probably still need to do that because i
only have a back plate uh you know we have power tools right
oh there we go it's on uh yeah but now we don't have um oh i
guess we do have nuts i want to use the original Gigabyte hold down if we can
now obviously we wouldn't be having the 2005 experience unless we used our
thermal compound from 2005. should we use like some regular stuff
you know for science reasons oh it's coming out oh geez it looks like
toothpaste separated a little bit we'll mix up the liquidy parts with the more
solid-y parts here we go oh you're in my hole okay
enough of what wait is it working oh
yeah all four of them are in what about the RAM though yeah what is up with
these stupid barb spots i don't get it what were they thinking we could rotate
it yeah we could but then it would be sticking out into the graphics card i
think we just two sticks go two sticks we can do one stick let's just do one
stick very 2005. we had dual channel memory it was totally a thing we
Linus the representative of 2005 water coolers yes can you pass me the cables
for this i would love nothing more where the heck are we going to mount
that stupid thing oh i mean you can kind of sit on top of the SSD it's enormous
oh we didn't even need this case you wonder what those holes are on the PCIe
slot so you can compress the tubing cram
it in there and get it out that way
oh my god what are these even supposed to attach to
this product assumes that your power supply is mounted at the top of the
chassis this is spaced for a power supply
so it doesn't connect to your rear fan it connects to
your power supply mounting holes
this might be the nicest cable management i've ever done look at this cocked you're the you're the tuck king
Jake i'm gonna zip to oh they came with zip ties
oh they're like even yellow too i'm all wired up dude you're slacking
what do you mean i'm slacking i had to go get washers and everything get this
all mounted look at this it looks so amazing it looks mint now this was
another problem with systems like this back in the day that i had kind of forgotten about
they interfere a little bit with your GPU um connectors can we still get
something we can still get the ones we need but back when dvi was this big the
odds of installing one of these and having it just outright make it impossible to connect your monitor was
not zero this barb design though it's just
like basically a straight cut pipe with like
a thick part on it do you want some lube
no come on oh that's your cut finger oh that is the
cut oh god you should watch that out
oh jesus cool on apply directly to the
bloodstream yeah it's on there okay cool oh it doesn't sound happy it's on does
that barb do anything i i'm not convinced that clamp does anything yeah
i need i need lube okay i just need to use a different thing
or something wd-40 we're not putting wd-40 in a
cooling loop why not because we're not why not because we're not going to okay
but like why not i don't think we're gonna be able to close the side panel like that
Jake oh ye of little faith
i believe here how about Jake give up oh my god how about that
how about those apples oh we should just take the top off and then just
i hate this maybe with the coils we can actually make that turn here what do you
think i think we got this oh buddy oh it's just hitting the oh
see it's good wow that is uh it's good
no you you know usually i say mint but uh
i'm gonna go with decent on this one decent
yeah we can just pop this off to fill
oh okay that actually is kind of genius
what if this leaks it's good it won't leak it's Gigabyte quality
i can't wait for this to perform worse can you imagine paying 200
and then your computer looks like this this is pretty good looking for you know
the time okay are you ready to fill it okay um
okay you ready david he's got small hands yeah
okay oh the blue goo do you want to power it on i mean you're
dripping on the SSD so oh yes yes oh god
what is that nothing it's all good everything's fine okay is this pump
gonna go if the pump didn't work that would suck if we waited all this time if
we waited 15 years to find out that it's got a bad pump
it looks like it's going up yeah oh it did oh it's doing this i was sucking on
it oh i'll do that again trying to get uh again
you're a good sucker uh yeah keep going no
because i'll be drinking coolant at that point i just
Jake claims that we can actually see the pump impeller
through here and spin it do you think that's spinning anything i
don't know i can't really tell i think we should drain the coolant ah i don't i
wish this just worked this would be so much easier yeah it really would
oh hey high five baby nice high five baby oh
there we go okay
it rips that is a strong bump it literally has enough pressure to do this
stupid loop no problem oh yeah for sure that's awesome
it sounds like a modem some some like product executive project
manager dude from like 2005 is like really stoked watching this video yeah
for sure okay let's see if the system safely
shuts down okay here we go here we go you ready oh wow it rips oh
wow it's off did it turn it off
nice the system push up
better to lose your work than to lose your whole damn system right yeah well
was there really no temp protection back then um on high-end stuff like modern
stuff there would have been like core 2 duo had it f164 had it but if you were
still running like a pentium 4 or something then it is possible you wouldn't have it
oh no i forgot one of the clamps i was so on top of it oh and then i finally
you're gonna have to fix that now where are the zip ties it came with oh man
it's good enough definitely matches the theme what do you think the idle temperature is uh
i'm gonna say 30.
23. 23. not bad i do that's never the
measure of a cooler yeah they're kind of all over the place the average is 23.
all right hit it with the load oh it definitely uh
does not perform as well as the knockout
it like straight up went to 60 degrees the coolant yeah is cold is it this
temperature right now which is like maybe seven heat i already feel it
actually it's official it's worse what
it peaked at 70. it's at like 66 67
right now oh yeah and the worst part is that the Noctua
cooler had the fan like barely going
this thing's going full more
jeff we really hope you appreciate your upgraded pc um
thanks for freeing up a decent cooler for us to put on our test benches yeah
it really gives me like um Linus vibes
thank you time to bring jeff's computer back
with the half the RAM and worse cooling and half of the uh
display connections and accessible all right jeff we uh upgraded your
computer wow looks good you're now water cooled oh wow officially
looks fast got a little yeah it's not any faster
actually we had to remove half of the RAM oh sick very nice yeah thank you so
much um as an added bonus it's 10 degrees hotter yeah it actually performs
worse than the air cooler that was in here before hold up here so i get it and i hope you're not using HDMI because
your port isn't accessible i don't need it i'll use vga
okay well no you got displayport okay okay you got two displayports that i
think you might even be able to get at this one but your HDMI is definitely
quite covered okay i have your RAM thank you there you
go yeah it won't fit back in though this is a future review make sure you're
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oh and jeff it's also less reliable because there's sort of more points of
failure yeah if it makes you feel any better when we turned it on the pump
didn't work until we stuck a screwdriver in it
and the coolant's 15 years old that's amazing thank you congratulations on
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