on multiple occasions we have tried liquid cooling a computer with the
cheapest parts we could find be they from ebay or the local hardware store
but the problem always comes back to this building a loop with parts designed for
something else like say using an aquarium pump is pretty jank
so we endeavored to track down some parts that are actually designed
for cooling pcs but are as inexpensive as the
non-purpose-built stuff and thanks to the power of aliexpress
they are finally here and a total mess
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step on our journey was of course to source the parts
and because of that the surprises actually started early on i mean little
did i know that there is a massive
market of off-brand water cooling gear
like brands i've never heard of like cis cooling and uh
barrow and my two fang
and some of it surprisingly like actually looks pretty legit
so naturally we did what any sane person would do and ordered a freaking
whack ton of it like a whole bunch of them including a few parts that i would
describe as decent looking and a few that were
not so much just sort of like a like a auto shoddy approach
you know fire at the wall and see what sticks so once we had everything on order
i figured yeah okay probably like a month for free delivery on a boat from
china right wrong so we actually ordered most of the
parts back in september of 2017
and the last one arrived in january of this year
so needless to say that was quite the setback
while we waited we also ended up buying a couple more odds and ends like uh
which radiators are you talking about these radiators
like these radiators and a couple of pumps so that's why it has taken us
until july almost an entire year
to actually make this video so like
yay free international shipping you get
what you pay for and what exactly is it that we did get
Jake like do i why do i just like go through this stuff yeah go for it holy
crap look at this thing so this is just a copper plate
a piece of plexi uh a gasket that doesn't even seem to be
made of like any kind of malleable like soft material this is
hard plastic and it's just a straight up like flat piece of copper on the bottom
this one is based on a very similar
design if you can call a flat piece of proper
design this one's almost the same
this is the same thing this is the same thing with a different
bracket this bracket is stupider so i guess
these guys are the the engineers of the
dumps class okay but then these look all right
the postings on the internet they don't give you that great description of what
you're getting these guys went to school
uh and this one actually looks not bad too so these are both kind of pin array
style blocks that again are based on very similar
designs so they are direction agnostic they just go in pass through some fins
and then come out so is that all the CPU blocks oh yeah okay let's kind of this one looks ballin
how much was this i think it's like 15 bucks 15 bucks it's cheap wow i mean and
not including these ek of course right but like that's not a performance nickel
plated these pumps look pretty freaking sketch
though like look at this thing
it's got some weight to it so i will give it that it's got some weight too
it's not just a fragile little piece of trash but i don't know that that's
necessarily meaningful so like these two are basically the same just a different
top you see this a lot when you order stuff from china where this is the same
company it's like designs that are clearly you know
borrowing from each other or straight up produced at the same factory and then
just rebranded with like
chinese companies rebranding chinese products in the same way that like
international companies just rebrand chinese products
so it turns out these radios are actually aluminum
okay so heads up for you guys you don't want to mix metals aluminum plus copper
equals corrosion but the good news is that we did follow
up the aluminum radiator orders like sometimes when you're ordering stuff from china you don't even know exactly
what it is like one of the uh one thing we thought was a block
is just an led to go in a block
so you can get copper and brass radiators with just aluminum fins that
don't touch the water for like five bucks more even if you're going the
aliexpress water cooling route spend the extra five bucks now one thing you might
notice that we didn't order any of is fittings and reservoirs and the reason
for that is that while there are some really cheap options out there
they don't affect performance so using them in this kind of a test where we're
evaluating the performance serves no purpose other than to have more
potential points of failure where we can
leak water onto our hardware so we just stuck with the stuff that really affects
performance like this led but how much did we pay for this
it was like five bucks five bucks but then given that we probably paid about
five bucks for this it's into one of these oh really uh
oh it's the nice one so you can actually stick so this is just leds for this for
blocks for blockers yeah okay of course no i've seen this kind of thing before
probably worth the five bucks yeah it's not bad and not fun and haul videos for
now though we need to actually test these things but before we can do that
we need something to compare our numbers again some kind of standard luckily Jake
keeps his test bench water cooled for some reason
so we can just use that this is actually
a pretty standard setup from one of the best in the biz ek water blocks so to
cool the four gigahertz 5960x we've got ek supremacy evo mated to a 360
millimeter pe series radiator and a d5 pwm pump and we're gonna crank that pump
to a hundred percent for the purposes of this test
now with the baseline test out of the way
it's time to take some of our aliexpress wonders for a spin
now we're gonna assume that if you're buying some parts super cheap from
aliexpress you're probably buying most of them
there so because of that we're gonna build the whole loop out of these parts
the only ek stuff we're using again reminder is the reservoir and the
fittings so what do you want to start with you know i was thinking i really want to
try one of these just like gross flat blocks sure but
are we gonna save that for the climax yeah okay i think we should get like a
proper do we want to do like the really legit looking yeah we can do like a
baseline of our aliexpress stuff like sure like that's what you would actually
buy yeah okay i don't think you should probably buy this but you can this is
actually like have you taken this apart and put it back together or something
because this is like not an amazing design actually from everything that i
know about water yeah and it needs like a jet plate while Jake builds up our
first aliexpress loop let's talk pricing
that ek config that we showed first with everything included would cost you a
whopping 380 dollars i know that sounds
like a lot but for custom water cooling that's not actually that outlandish now
with that said what Jake's building right now is around 90 dollars including
everything that you need about a quarter as much
okay so this is it we're on the
full aliexpress loop the the express
loop it sounds like a train or something thanks for the aliexpress loop uh with
the cis cooling scp-67f
which Jake found was pretty much the best bang for the buck and we've had ida
64's fpu test running for about 20
minutes to give it a chance to reach equilibrium and we're sitting at about
65 degrees on average pretty darn impressive for the price
really honestly not that far off our ek
setup okay now i want to see the worst case
scenario what happens when we throw this gutter trash that one's not going to fit
this okay it's the same thing this gutter trash yeah all right try find out
my favorite type of trash so it's done
loop number two is set up using one of those completely flat blocks now our
expectations for this thing
pretty freaking low most water blocks have channels cut or like
machined or something into the base to
increase their surface area because more surface area
means more heat transfer so we would
think something with negligible surface area by comparison
would perform very poorly and
now that it's been running for about 20 minutes on a 5960x
it's actually doing okay like
way way better than i expected so conclusion
time then custom water cooling has really evolved
from the days of like basement scientists with their aquarium pumps and
like you know weird hunks of metal that they got from like some one that one guy
in australia that makes them and ships them around the world or whatever to
having tons of options i mean everything from you know super high-end stuff that
would scare away most newcomers just due to the sheer cost
all the way down to thanks to the power of chinese
manufacturing and free international shipping
low end options where you can actually get
reasonable performance and that coolness
factor for about what you would pay
for an aio from a name brand
with that said the performance of your aio that would come with a warranty or
even a high-end knock to air cooler that would also come with a warranty
would also be pretty good so doing a
build like this super cool was definitely fun to experiment i'm just
not sure if we're gonna put the Linus tech tips seal of approval
especially on the pumps please don't cheap out on your pump
not recommended it's not that bad i don't recommend it
okay never recommend it well this thing would buy d5
nothing else what about ddc nothing else is acceptable no i've seen so many ddc's
failed where's my d5 what about this thing didn't someone give this to you
maybe i think so i don't know there's someone at ltx last year tx is like
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