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we're going back in time ladies and gentlemen

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that's right i just bought out the remaining inventory of xpc a long dead

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pc store that hasn't even had a website for the last eight years so all of this

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stuff in here has been sitting around collecting dust in a warehouse for

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nearly a decade probably longer judging on the state of some of the packaging do

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there's four boxes yeah this whole skid is all stuff oh so

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we actually bought the entire like remaining stock

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this is a GPU water cooler but it's unlike anything you would find on the

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market today oh this is gonna be fun

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you knew some of the wildest stuff had to be from thermal tape right like what

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do these guys not make oh my gosh

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remember laptop expansion cards ladies and gentlemen you could add a whopping

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four usb 2 ports to your laptop nicole

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actually still has a laptop that takes card desk whoa

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this one's got usb 2 and firewire you want to ingest some footage mark

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at real time speed what is this pill

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this is a pill from buffalo you know the external hard drive guys okay i must

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know what the pill is 9.50 this is the medicine that your

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keyboard needs it's got a twist top fetch me a laptop

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ah yes now for a product demonstration

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yeah i don't think i'd pay 9.50 for this

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i got to do this thing thermaltake for the price of just 14.99 you could

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get the cyclo cooling memo oh

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cyclone cooling for

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oh man let me show you guys how we cooled our

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memory 2000 style these look like led fans i

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bet you a hundred dollars that they're blue they're so weak yeah the RGB memory

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under it makes these uh little pinner leds look super unimpressive

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surprisingly quiet for having been sitting for over a decade

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these guys i never understood it as an enthusiast i was like

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why do they exist why do you get to charge 12 for the world's most basic 80

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millimeter fan even back then did i say 80 i meant 70 and that's the answer

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because star tech has one of basically everything

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hold on a second i recognize this packaging this was

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exactly the same color scheme and packaging that ncix used for its house

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brand n gear products these were the shiz though taking your floppy drive

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because like who needed one of those and turning it into a card reader get that

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sd mmc compact flash

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smart media memory stick man do you guys remember

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when sony had so much proprietary bullcrap me too because it was yesterday

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and also 20 years ago

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when tank series usb port equipment plug-and-play

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what even is it a usb to parallel cable so you can plug in your old printer oh i

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legitimately might need that for my lathe you need this

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take it removable fram for three and a half inch and two and a half inch HDD

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this is before my time holy crap you

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would use a five and a quarter inch bay so that's your optical drive bay you'd

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plug this chungus bad boy into it i mean that's

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why we had full towers that were this freaking big boy have we ever come a

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long way on these got your usbc

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two and a half inch drives got these little tiny mobile ssds you just

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off to the races but no this

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this is technology but at least you had security you know you got the lock on

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the front okay now we're getting into the real good stuff

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zalman has tried just about everything i

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think and this is their 5.1 channel headphone

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amplifier colin how much you want to bet that this still

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works 20 bucks okay that's too much too rich

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for my blood hold on a second

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this thing is crazy what

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no colin it is not in fact usb

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volume control interface between 5.1

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channel headphones you can plug two users into it so you

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got your front rear and center slash subwoofer channels for both

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separate volume knobs who would have bought this

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and then you've got whatever your sources front left front right

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you know what colin i was wrong this would totally work not that you'd

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want to because it's really really stupid

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thanks digital surround look at this flow meter

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you want to know how fast your water's going

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what about this it stinks

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that's weird

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bye tv capture i remember tv tuner cards i

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really wish that this had been more of a thing it was because of resistance from

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the cable codes you guys know that right they wanted you to sit and watch the

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freaking ads ah

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these were fun okay so we've got both an ati silencer

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and an nv silencer for it and as you guys can probably guess these were for

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ati and NVIDIA cards respectively and these were freaking awesome arctic

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cooling man they were the shiz back in

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the day and this is not nearly old enough colin if this was your intention

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most graphics card back in the day were single slot and they would have these

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wimpy little coolers in fact in a lot of cases they wouldn't even be configured

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like this one where they're blowing air toward the back of the case they would

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just be sitting on the card right here chilling just blowing air around into

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your computer case and what that obviously affected was your CPU temps

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your motherboard temps everything else because even back then your GPU is one

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of the hottest running components in the system arctic cooling allowed you to put

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what is actually by modern standards a pretty

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decent looking cooler on your GPU after

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the fact that had multiple benefits

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better performance quieter

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and they had the added benefit of kicking all the heat out of your system

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so check this out you got your copper cold plate you've got cooling for your

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memory chips then you had your cooler this guy right here would go like this

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blowing air through these fins and then you can see it's actually kind of ducted

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here in its shape so you have your stock pci cover right here and then they would

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give you a second vented one to install next to it effectively turning your GPU

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into a modern style dual slot card so it

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would expel all the heat from your case through the back io panel and then this

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is the best part check this out okay we've seen coolers for the backs of

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graphics cards in fact a lot of coolers come with a backplate these days even

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this one comes with a back plate but this was back when they cared about

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freaking cooling on the back plate your card would be this thick oh no

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i love this this is amazing i remember these Jake

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you want to make the server go faster boys

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you got to put one of these on your hard drive oh i know what that is actually oh

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can i have one of the new server ones thanks Jake i can't promise i won't put

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thermal paste on it it actually served multiple purposes these things were kind

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of cool if you had like a a 10 000 RPM wd raptor drive or

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something like that basically you pop off the top and then you can see

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the inside is both heat synced and yet

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insulated why would that be you might ask they served two purposes one was

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anti-vibration so the only drives that needed a cooling enclosure like this

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were ones that spun at higher rpms high performance drives and they tend to

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vibrate more so you've got this thick foam padding right here that

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theoretically will make it vibrate less i guess oh my gosh this thing feels so

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chungus in here it totally doesn't fit and you know what

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maybe i have to drive in upside down hold on hold on

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yeah ide interfaces were at the bottom oh my god it still works tell me this

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doesn't feel like performance hard drive you can't

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it feels terrible shut up it does not i want a second

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opinion call in come touch my hard drive all right let's toss it in the pot just

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kidding just kidding just kidding just kidding should have seen the look on Jake's face

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here you go oh i forgot about this one

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oh my gosh okay so this is thermaltake doing what thermaltake does best ripping

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off someone else's product so you can see it's basically that arctic cooling

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cooler right except thermaltake added their own

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bizarro land spin to it and added water cooling to it so it

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actually does both it's like a hybrid

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air slash water cooler and there were a handful of these back in the day i

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actually reviewed one back when i was ghost writing for hardware canucks you

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managed to bring me every 8 800 card except the one that this fits this only

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goes on the gtx it's okay it's okay

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these coolers were actually kind of neat because they used air cooling for your

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memory and your vrms and all that good stuff and then they used water for the

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GPU itself do we have a screwdriver do you have a knife fix it kit handy the

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main benefit of this approach is that it allowed you to focus all of your

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radiator power right so all of your cooling capacity on the gp was what

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which is what really mattered for overclocking and it kept all of this

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heat from your your dram and your vrm's

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and all that good stuff out of your water so you can just dump that out of

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the system with air cooling and then use all of your radiator capacity to get the

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lowest possible temps on your GPU the only issue with that theory is that you

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bought a thermaltake water block so let's go ahead and open this up

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and we're gonna find what i'm expecting to be a very rudimentary block design

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holy is this just sealed we would have to cut it open

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what were these screws even oh they attached it to the

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heatsink how hard is it for us to cut open a

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copper thing like this just saw it in half

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the the bandsaw is pretty dead right now bandsaw is dead can we throw it in the

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middle and just uh sure awesome thanks colin while

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colin's working on getting us a look at that thermaltake block i want to show

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you guys something really special this is not actually from xpc this is from

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the electrician he dug it up somewhere i have no idea if CPU fan stops working

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CPU may become too hot

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new CPU fan must be installed if CPU fan is not working look the red

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light is on but but listen

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the alarm is heard the green light is on when CPU guard is

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on duty you guys ready for this

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whoa this thing is older than i thought i

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thought the pcb was black which

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would be an indicator of the age not only is it green

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it's this kind of green and as far as i can tell this board was

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manually assembled it was quite common for molex powered peripherals to have a

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y-splitter in the package and the idea was that a lot of power supplies didn't

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have extra molex connectors so if you wanted to plug in your CPU guard

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it's a little crusty you'd need another cable coming off of

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it so that you could plug in your optical drive or whatever else it was

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that was plugged into it originally the green light is on when CPU guard is on

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duty

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the system just shut down

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all i did was power this board am i gonna

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oh my god this is not turning on

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i don't know if we're gonna be taking another crack at CPU guard i was so

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excited to hear it look at the size of the speaker on it

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like this thing was gonna freaking go oh you know what

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i think there's a manufacturing defect there's a ball of solder

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in between these pins here hold on i bet if i pick that out it'll work

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it works okay it's really annoying one moment

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please

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okay okay i need a i need a crappy fan to absolutely destroy wire strippers and

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a sacrificial molex stay in there this is such a cheap

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housing it just falls right out okay

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where's that damn zellman fan then

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oh yeah oh yeah okay you guys ready you get oh

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it's sparking it was completely not

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grounded in any way even though

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there's a ground pin running right through it to the power supply

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how is that even possible okay look i'm

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not saying the CPU guard is the best product in the world i'm just saying

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that when your CPU fan stops

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red light CPU fan is not working

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oh it works i love it it's sort of

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the last thing i wanted to look at the inside of this thermaltake water

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block yes my friends that is

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basically a heatsink style like northbridge

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heatsink um style of fin construction this would be

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so restrictive because your flow comes in this side and

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then they don't even have like a a channel at the back like an open channel

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at the back for it to flow through and come out the other one it's not just

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cheap it's stupid how is how could you possibly design

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something this bad is there a flow through like that i'm not seeing here

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there isn't there's no path for the water to make

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its way to the other side this is just a solid wall of fin

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it would stop your water flow dead basically oh you know what it's probably

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the domed top yeah there's definitely an aircraft yeah but there were barely any

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places for the water to come out into the thing and that's why it had bad

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