My computer just died. I was using it and then it died. I pressed the button
and it did. I unplugged, I replugged,
still dead. The bad news then is my computer's dead. The good news is I get
to make a video fixing it. And the even better news is I get to tell you about
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Jake told me he did confirm that it was actually broken though. I was not
expecting this to turn on. I told you not to fix it. I didn't fix it.
You did? You told me you were tinkering around with it and you figured out what was wrong. What does that mean? That
means you fixed it. But then I put it back.
Yesterday, like last night when I undid
the thing that I fixed, it still did not turn on. I turned I
would turn the power switch on, press the button, it would light up for like half a second and shut off. You know,
like that when your motherboard's dead kind of like I told him not to touch it.
It didn't work when I was using it yesterday.
The bad news is we don't get to troubleshoot the computer together. What
we do get to do is figure out where Oh, I found it. I've been looking for the
leak in my computer for ages now. You can totally see it. There's like a
poo smear. Okay, computer works perfectly. The good
news is that no, my computer actually doesn't work perfectly. There are a
couple of issues that I've had with it for months now. One is that my RGB
strips are not compatible with the headers on my motherboard, and I just haven't gotten around to getting an
adapter. That's no problem. We're going to fix that in about 2 seconds. The
other one is that there is a slow leak in my radiator that has been rapidly
accelerating from, hm, that's weird. Why
do I need to top this thing up every 3 to 6 months to I need to top this thing
up every 2 weeks or my pump is running dry. And finally, it's gotten so bad
that I can actually see finally where it's coming out. Did this just turn off?
The fact that the system's having troubles again now means that there is no obvious step one because I would have
said step one's to drain the system. But if I drain the system and then do all
the water cooling and refill it only to find out that I have to replace a
motherboard or something like that, I'm going to have to redo all of that work.
Jake's theory is that it was the power supply because he swapped it and then it
worked. But then we put the original one back in and then it worked and then it
didn't work. Let's try the power supply swap. This is one of the benefits of a
modular power supply that people don't really talk about. If you got to swap it
out for troubleshooting, as long as the replacement is the same model and
sometimes even just the same manufacturer, you just put it in, plug
in your old cables, and you're done. No cable management. It's just set and
forget. She powers up.
Will she stay like that? Who knows?
Come on, baby. Okay, seems fixed. I'm going to assume
that the power supply fixes all we need. And it's time to move on to
the [snorts] leak, which is a much bigger problem than it at first appears
to be. You see, my case wasn't designed by a case designer. It was designed by
me and then modeled with some help from the one and only Taran Van Heert, which
means that it's super cool, but um has
some problems. For one thing, while the
two radiators fit, there's no easy way to install them. This appears to just be
a spontaneous leak, and it's not even right at the surface. It's not even
crushed or anything. So, it's got to be somewhere deeper inside the rad. I think
realistically, this thing's coming out. We're going full on working on the car
technique here. Ah, got to get drain
that oil pan there. Okay, this is either going to go really great or really bad.
And either way, it'll be kind of funny. Ah,
I'm having flashbacks to this build now. Getting all these fans and the radiator
in place was a pain in the butt. Now I remember why it was such a pain because
this bracket hooks into the bottom of the case and
there's no room with the front USB up here to slide it
off the hook. [snorts]
And people asked why we didn't release the plans for this case. It's because it
sucks. There we go. All right.
And go. WHAT? OH. OH, OKAY. THERE IT IS.
First step, let's get some new fittings on this radiator. I think we're going to
have to get a little bit creative today. There we go. That'll do it. That gives
us a ton of flexibility to line this bad
boy up. Okay, time to get out the saw.
I need to take off an ever so tiny
amount of this. Okay, on the plus side, brand new saw, sharp.
That is a really wide saw blade guide. And that is a very crooked cut. Oo, it's
going to be really tight. Okay, perfectly straight cut this time. Here
we go.
It's the saw because I cut at an angle
and it's straight. Okay. How we feeling
about that? That looks good. The second radiator is officially
bypassed, but we're far from done because nothing we've done so far helps
me cool this with the pool. I think I have a plan. I'm going to take out this
bent tube here that goes between the CPU block and the reservoir. We go from here
into here. And then we go from here to the back panel of the case. And look at
this. I can even use my old 90° bend for this. All I got to do is shorten it a
little bit. Okay, I may have not anticipated
something here. This height is not right.
It's going great. Thanks for asking. You know what you should do here
[snorts] is just use a female to female and just extend the dupe. [laughter]
That's actually what I'm doing. So this goes here into there and then
this goes to a pass through at the back. Oh, that's not even that bad. So it can either run standalone or as
part of whole pool water cooling. M sick, right?
Yeah. Then I have one of these on the one that goes into the GPU. And so all I have to
do is if I ever want to make sure that
it's only running internally. Oh, I see it's going to go into that.
Gotcha. And then it won't go anywhere. I like our only concern is that if we're
running in pool mode, we're not splitting our flow and unnecessarily
just running water through this part of the loop for no reason. So, all we've
got to do is use one of these ball valves anywhere outside of just the CPU
and GPU portion of the loop. So, it could either go in here, which is a
pretty tight fit by the time we put fittings on here, or it could just go in
here, which means that all the work I just [music] put into painstakingly
getting this exactly the right length, I'm now going to have to redo. You know what? This one's ever so slightly too
long, so I might just put it here. What about the uh the pump? Are you
worried about just running the pump into nothing? It will get quite warm. H
I mean, realistically, are you ever going to be like in a situation where
you're doing this regularly? No, it's like a once in a while thing. Yes.
So, if you have to just unplug the Molex, like whatever, right?
Honestly, I think so. And if it ever does become a problem, we could always
just wire a switch up to the back of the case right where the quick disconnects
are and then run the pump through that. And then we could do that right now even like
Nope. No. Okay. No. Today's a busy day.
I took out the tube that was here, grabbed two scrap pieces of tubing, and
you wouldn't even believe it. They are exactly the right length with the inline
ball valve. This approach does require a
lot of fittings though. Feel like this is kind of like that main gear cube
system we checked out ages ago. One concern is that these are not quite
aligned and there's no way to have it perfectly aligned because this one
either needs to be level with this or level with the back.
Or you can probably just uh selfing the
last bit. You know what? That's actually
a pretty good idea because this is going to be really tight anyway, right? We've
got to have this pass through fitting here, right? Like that. And it's going
to be like, so unless they're lined up perfectly, it's going to kind of suck.
Let's have a look at how it looks. This is not my cleverest idea, but it's far
from my worst. We need to drill holes in the back of the case for our passroughs.
And uh drilling metal next to a computer, not the best thing. But what
we can do is we can just tape this bag
on the inside so that all the metal bits will get caught in this bag.
No regrets. No regrets.
No. Perfect.
Beautiful. That does look beautiful.
Freaking awesome. We're good. Yeah. All right. Thanks, Antoine.
You're welcome. Keep keep labbing.
All right. Those are on there. Are we
ready to fill this? Oh, yeah. I think so.
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soon. Moment of truth. Oh, there's definitely action. Oh, no. Uh but oh no,
I don't have a keyboard plugged in. I actually did design some parts of this
system pretty cleverly. There's a fill port here. Don't worry though, there's
nothing to spill water on over here. It's just cables. It doesn't matter.
There's a whole thing to make sure that the system was really, really easy to
fill. So the pump sits right under the reservoir and then the radiator is
oriented so that the fittings are at the top so that all the air should bleed out of it extremely quickly. Yet another
flaw that prevented us from releasing the plans for the case, though, is that
this fill port isn't accessible once the server rails are on. So, it's
really not that convenient. Oh, balls. That's why the pump's having
trouble. What happens here now is that water
comes through here into the GPU block. It doesn't go through here because this
is a quick connect. So, the water can only pass through if if that gets opened
up, right? So it goes through the block out here into the CPU block out here. It
doesn't go here because again this needs to be depressed in order for any water
to flow through and then it just follows the regular loop path. If I wanted to
run it externally with an external pump, I would just hit this valve, go in here,
it would go into the GPU [music] block, CPU block, and out and out here.
I don't know if the power supply was the issue. This power supply is powered on
and there isn't a single LED illuminated on this board. I think it's the board.
I'm going motherboard shopping. The bad news is that there are no local stores
with this particular motherboard in stock, which means we have to swap the
motherboard. The good news is we have a
motherboard that is compatible and has all the right features and slots. What
I'm hoping is that the CPU socket is in the same
spot. You know what, Jake? Holy crap. I think they are. I think these are based
on the same basic board design. Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. You're
squirting. Now
the board should be able to just come completely clear without the water
cooling interfering with it. Cool. And as long as that CPU socket is in
exactly the same place, this won't be a problem at all.
It's a good thing I didn't fix it yesterday.
Oh no. Yeah. This is the one I sheared off.
Hopefully that was tight enough. That will have to be drilled out.
The Oh, mother. Where's the drill? Can't
believe I'm doing this.
Hey, I've got the motherboard out, the block off, the CPU out, the uh NVMe SSD taken
out, all the RAM. There's no super
obvious place that it looks damaged or
burnt. We do not have another of the same block, but what we do have is
another AM5. This is like a mono block technically, sort of. You can see the
spot where it would touch the BRM. Um, but obviously not for this board, but it
does use the same standoffs. So, in theory, I can take both of these
apart, steal the one extra standoff to replace the damaged one, and then put
this block on the new board, and then we
just have this brand new mono block that is not really useful anymore. That's it.
That's all I have to do. Steal that little thing.
Ew. Ew. This is kind of crusty. Oh,
there's a bunch of gunk in there. Jesus, Linus. I'm just cleaning the gunk out of
this. Ew. It's like hairy.
Jake, that power supply dead. What? I was running it. Yeah, like just like
100 watts and it died. It just dies multiple times.
Well, the motherboard is We tried a different power supply and it was stopped working again. Maybe the power
supply killed the motherboard. Finally got everything to line up. Put the block
back together and we can put the computer back together. [sighs] Hey.
I swear at this point I've rebuilt Linus' computer more times than I've
rebuilt my own computer. This looks like it's going well. I
couldn't help noticing the power supply is not in the chassis anymore.
Would you like the good news or the bad news? Oh, well, actually, I don't know if I really had that much. Well, the
good news is like we're getting there. We're getting close now. [laughter]
Well, the block is on. The CPU is in. I just got to put the M.2. We're like
pretty much there. The bad news Yeah. or interesting news I'll do first.
Uh that power supply, the first one is dead. Oh,
it failed at like 100 watts after like 3 minutes.
I'm just getting him to test this one just in case. Okay.
Cuz he said I'll just put it on for like 10 minutes at 100 watts and see.
Are you impressed by the new wiring setup?
Yes. Nice. Good job. Thank you.
Anyh who, uh the real reason I'm here is I
wanted to know what the dillio is with my power supply. It just died.
Yeah, it's able to reach the like all the voltages and live for a bit, but
then under like a 100 watt load, it just dies after a couple minutes.
The ROG one seems fine. Yeah, it's running right now. It's under about 100 watts and living. It's a low
bar, but all right, I think we're good. I think
it's in the same spot. You like my Sharpie stoppers? One time I did that
and I left the Sharpie in there for like a month and came back to it and it would
not come out. I actually had to cut it. Holy crap. The CPU sockets in exactly
the same place. Everything's going back in. While I'm putting this on, do you
want to recut this tube to be like Man, that's really bad. That much longer.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I got you. Yeah. Wait, you know what? I wonder if I didn't get it all the way into the
fitting again. That's it. Okay. This is definitely perfect now.
Like, is it the right length though? I don't
know. We'll find that out. Give it a twist. There you go. Hey, that
actually looks like it's probably very close and the exact same size as
the one you had before. No, it's definitely longer. It's a bit longer. Okay.
It's still a bit short. I'm over it. I mean, this is passable now. Before it
was pretty rough. Yep. Realistically, plugging this into a
PCIe by one slot, I'm not going to get the full 10 gig. What happened to the
other card? What other card? What happened to the one by card? Oh, I was having problems with it.
Oh, does this work in a one by slot?
Yeah. Really? Yeah, of course. PCIe is up and down
slot length compatible. It'll just limit the bandwidth. Some cards will work.
But yeah, if it works, that's great. And thoughtfully, ASRock included
openbacked slots on this motherboard. That makes a huge difference because
otherwise you have to do what I did in a video like 9 years ago and take a hot
knife or a Dremel or something. Well, Dremel's risky because it's rotary, but
you take a hot knife and you just kind of melt the back and then you kind of pick it off with the nail. You can kind
of Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to need some water. I already got that earlier.
Nice. It's fancy water. It's actually a little easier to pour
from the LT bottle once. Yeah. Just add all the bacteria
yourself. DIY yuck. Did it turn button? Front button. Quick, quick,
quick, quick, quick.
Maybe give her the old power cycle again. Okay, hit it again.
Is it even getting to the RAM? Oh, there we go. Yeah, I'll just take the PWM control
off. Oh, okay. Oh, the pump was just like running really slow.
Yeah. Oh, DisplayPort.
Jake, what? Oh, sorry. I was just the bubbles
[snorts] was in my own world.
It's truly amazing trying to run a company where the entire staff is just
like, "Ooh, bubbles. [laughter] Drama is flashing."
Just give it a sec. It's memory training. Just give it a sec. The fact that it's cycling through them
is a good sign. There you go, buddy. Easy. Yeah, it's not up yet.
Easy. It just cycled the display. It should be on.
Hey, that's what it was. That was definitely that. You know,
you were right. Just had to have faith. I hate that
though. It's awful. It's very stressful,
especially for like a new PC builder. How many people have posted in AMD
Reddit and been like, I just built a computer and it's not turning on. Ah,
and then edit. Just kidding. It's fine.
This is going to come down. Where's it come down? Oh, that was almost bad.
It's a controlled drop. Oh. Oh, did you break it? Inaccessible boot device. Uh, you put
the SSD in, right? Yeah. Uh, RAID mode. You have to turn on RAID drivers.
PBS. Uh, no. Yes, there it is. There we go. And
then you have to reboot again. Here we go. Preparing. Automatic repair.
You better repair here. Look. Look at this crazy strategy. Wow. You can stick
it in upside down. No way.
Hey. Hey. Hey. Is it in an OS?
Yes. So close. Now, don't forget to plug the RGB in. Eh,
this is the Everything is going great song.
Everything's going great.
That's so much better. I haven't had working lights in here forever.
Those look sick. These are really nice RGB strips. You should have had them in the other
orientation. No, I like it on the side. It's just that the power supply is super
lit. Oh, that's okay. Maybe I like my power supply lit. Maybe that's what happened
to my old one. To be fair, I think the one that I put in your computer was just like a random
one on the shelf, so it could have been through some. To be fair, that's the first CIC power
supply that has failed since we started working with them years ago. Die
averages at 80, though. Look at the core temps. So, the core temps are 60.
No, this is not the result I expected. No, that's pretty bad, actually. What's
going on there? It's vibing at 5.4 GHz.
Okay, that's a touch on the high side.
The water is freaking hot. Oh, yeah. I feel it's light at
temperature. You're not getting the hot air out of here fast enough. The extra
filters and stuff is pretty restrictive. Yeah, I [snorts] can take the filter
out. It feels less bad now. Yeah, it's probably this filter works really well,
but is Oh, you can't even see through it. Crazy restrictive. So,
is there more than one or is just the one? No, it's just one. It is 10° cooler.
Yeah. All right. Well, there's your problem. Also, I'm going to hook it up to the
pool anyway. This is going It's going to be very cold when it's on the [laughter] pool.
Yeah. Oh, it's amazing. And I had people concerned about the winter and the due
point and all that. Don't worry about it because we plan to maintain the pool at
just like a low but reasonable temperature.
People here generally don't drain their pools in the winter. So, we'll just have
it at like the coldest it gets here is like - 10 on
like the worst day. Don't unplug it. It's updating the BIOS now.
Anyway, but
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that's left is a BIOS update. Take this baby home. If you guys enjoyed this
video, hey, why don't you check out part two of whole pool water cooling where
you're going to see the system that I'm going to hook this up to where I'm uh
not going to have to worry about my insufficient fans. and