WEBVTT 00:00:00.199 --> 00:00:06.040 motherboards these days can have so many expansion slots for adding new 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:12.400 functionality that most people don't even know what to do with them all at 00:00:08.840 --> 00:00:15.120 least in theory because thanks to Modern 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:19.920 graphics cards ballooning thermal output almost none of them are available with 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:23.359 single slot coolers meaning that if you want to run a single graphics card you 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:28.199 take up two of your expansion slots you want to run two boom you just took up 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:32.040 four of your expansion slots now the solution to this used to be very simple 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:37.120 you take your graphics card you rip that cooler off of it and then you go ahead and you put a water block on it so that 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:41.760 you can actually install something in the slot right next to it without 00:00:38.920 --> 00:00:46.960 compromising the cooling well not if NVIDIA or AMD have anything to say about 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:51.600 that check this out here's a couple of modern cards you see the problem they 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:56.160 have connectors in the next slot over so we're going to show you guys how to take 00:00:53.480 --> 00:00:58.920 care of that and uh single slot ay a modern 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:06.159 GPU 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:11.560 tunnel bear is the easy to use VPN service that lets you browse the web as 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:15.320 if you're in one of 20 different countries check out the link in the 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:19.320 video description to learn more so I'm actually going to start with a A 00:01:17.600 --> 00:01:24.240 pre-water cooled card the purpose of this video is not to be a comprehensive 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:27.520 guide on how to water cool your graphics card because we've actually done that 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:34.159 before you can check out that video right around here no this one is just 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:36.640 intended to address the difficulties 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:41.040 associated with water cooling a card that has IO that's in the slot next to 00:01:39.079 --> 00:01:45.320 it you know whether you're trying to just increase the number of slots that 00:01:42.880 --> 00:01:51.079 you have access to or whether say for example there's a particular type of 00:01:48.320 --> 00:01:54.600 slot that's being covered that you need well this should help you and then again 00:01:53.320 --> 00:01:59.119 last thing to be clear I'm not necessarily recommending that you do 00:01:56.920 --> 00:02:02.320 this because while we will be taking what I believe will be the appropriate 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:06.600 precautions to ensure that our card still works at the end of this your 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:10.360 mileage may vary considerably and this is not the kind of guide that you will 00:02:08.440 --> 00:02:13.560 find anywhere on you know I don't know AMD or NVIDIA's 00:02:14.239 --> 00:02:20.879 website so the first step is to find yourself the appropriate cutting wheel 00:02:19.239 --> 00:02:27.560 so we're just going to be using one of the standard cutting discs and not or 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:33.120 reinforced cutting discs rather and not the uh nubbing of a one that was on 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:36.959 there four step number two is to remove 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:40.159 the rear IO plate from the card this 00:02:36.959 --> 00:02:41.040 will subject the card itself to less 00:02:40.159 --> 00:02:47.040 metal shortage uh all over the place than if I 00:02:44.440 --> 00:02:52.360 were to try and cut this while it was attached there we 00:02:49.200 --> 00:02:57.040 go but before doing that we are going to 00:02:52.360 --> 00:03:01.000 mask off any exposed PCB parts of the 00:02:57.040 --> 00:03:05.319 card as well as we possibly can can to 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:07.560 avoid any metal splinters or shards um 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:13.720 causing shorts on the board by just getting lodged into places and bridging 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:17.680 contacts so I have this handy dandy bag that's exactly the size of a video card 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:21.560 that I'm going to try and use for that with a water block on it a video card is 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:25.879 no longer exactly the size of a video card that's okay we'll just take it 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:33.640 together mask off the 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:38.640 Bo okay so the last thing to consider before the point of no return which we 00:03:35.720 --> 00:03:44.640 are about to Embark upon is whether or not you need this connector so this is a 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:46.760 DVI D whereas this is a dvii so that 00:03:44.640 --> 00:03:49.720 actually leaves us with DVI VGA though not at the same time although I think 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:54.400 there are split I'm not actually sure don't quote me on that one DVI or VGA 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:58.239 HDMI and DisplayPort on this particular card so as long as we don't need dual 00:03:55.680 --> 00:04:03.360 DVI then we should be pretty much good to go now in theory this should work 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:06.720 because a disconnected connection is still a disconnected connection whether 00:04:04.840 --> 00:04:10.560 it's here at the connector or whether it's here at the well we sought it off 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:17.639 there so um I guess without any further stalling 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:19.040 it's dremeling time let's get our vacuum 00:04:17.639 --> 00:04:22.840 cleaner in position you know it's called a vacuum 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:28.479 cleaner but you would never use it to clean a vacuum I mean by this logic a 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:33.280 car wash should use a car to wash something be up to the editor whether 00:04:30.440 --> 00:04:33.280 that gets left in or 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:45.919 not wow that's 00:04:46.280 --> 00:04:52.639 uh that's a little uh that's yeah that's steel that's a little tougher than I was 00:04:51.080 --> 00:04:55.240 hoping I think we're going to bring out the big guns 00:04:56.800 --> 00:05:03.560 here a crap 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:03.560 I cut my damn 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:12.800 vacuum now I didn't cut it much I only cut it a 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:18.600 little cool oh 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:27.880 wow so there you have it our DV D 00:05:24.199 --> 00:05:29.919 connector has been cleanly sheared off I 00:05:27.880 --> 00:05:34.520 don't know exactly what difference this will make 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:37.120 but my sort of Common Sense would 00:05:34.520 --> 00:05:41.680 dictate that you want to take these uh these connector wires here and separate 00:05:39.639 --> 00:05:47.880 them so none of them are contacting each other what's left now is to do our PCI 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:52.800 back plate now with many cards in the past it was possible to buy these single 00:05:50.880 --> 00:05:57.120 slot back plates that just had the io cutouts on the one side and and nothing 00:05:54.960 --> 00:06:01.440 no ventilation slots on the other side but nowadays because there's IO here no 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:05.600 one really sells those anymore so we're just going to have to uh we're just 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:09.680 going to have to make do and just kind of eyeball it here it's really not as 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:12.319 tight as I'd normally like something like this to be 00:06:21.400 --> 00:06:27.400 held okay in theory a single 00:06:25.520 --> 00:06:32.039 slot bracket I need a file though the are 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:32.039 really 00:06:34.759 --> 00:06:41.560 sharp ow okay so now all that's left then is 00:06:40.520 --> 00:06:49.360 to reassemble our GTX Titan oh you can see 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:51.919 it is a really good thing that we masked 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:56.360 off our video card there you can see those metal shards that were're flying 00:06:54.160 --> 00:07:00.800 around also we're going to be careful now then to keep this video card 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:06.120 oriented this this way so that those don't fall out towards the car so we're 00:07:04.479 --> 00:07:12.759 going to use a little technique that I call alcohol bath washes away our 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:19.080 problems all right so now we can put our freshly modded back plate on there ah 00:07:16.039 --> 00:07:24.400 there we go a 00:07:19.080 --> 00:07:24.400 yes oh no I dropped all the 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:38.840 screws there you go look at that it almost looks natural if you ignore 00:07:34.479 --> 00:07:41.840 this the last thing left now is to make 00:07:38.840 --> 00:07:46.930 sure that our card still 00:07:41.840 --> 00:07:49.080 works boom let's go get some 00:07:49.080 --> 00:07:56.000 water okay Moment of Truth time let's find out if the sucker Works post code 00:07:54.080 --> 00:08:00.440 55 what does that mean oh I don't have time for this right 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:08.440 now these fans are not plugged in okay let's try 00:08:04.159 --> 00:08:11.840 it again postcode 55 what are you so it 00:08:08.440 --> 00:08:13.319 seems like it may be RAM related so I'm 00:08:11.840 --> 00:08:19.360 going to go ahead and pop one of these sticks out come on video card yeah woo I 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:25.440 mean there's no real reason this shouldn't have worked I shouldn't be that excited but there you go it works I 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:30.360 mean oh I guess what I haven't shown yet is installing a card next to it let's 00:08:28.080 --> 00:08:36.279 say we wanted a PCI press SSD oh what the heck it's PCI 00:08:33.839 --> 00:08:41.000 e2x okay I need a 1x card where am I going to get a 1x card okay so let's say 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:44.640 you needed a TV tuner look I don't have to have a good 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:52.360 reason for doing these things sometimes it's just because I 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:54.320 can boom TV tuner installed let's get it 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:59.320 uh booted up into an operating system now 00:08:56.040 --> 00:09:01.200 cool well I'm kind of stoked on this if 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:04.000 no one else cares I mean what's the point of these fancy motherboards with 00:09:02.560 --> 00:09:08.000 all these slots if you can only use half of them right so I think that pretty 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:13.040 much wraps it up then guys thank you for watching if you disliked this video then 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:17.880 hit that dislike button post it on r/ teex support Gore do whatever it else 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:22.880 slash cringe wherever it is that you want to talk about what an idiot I am 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:24.920 but the reality of it of it is that it 00:09:22.880 --> 00:09:28.600 worked so there's that if you guys liked it hit that like button get subscribed 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:31.720 to lus Tech tips the little check mark and maybe even consider supporting us 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:36.440 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