here at the lonus tech technical institute of forc induction and funky lettuce we've been working tirelessly on
a problem that has stumped computer Engineers for decades you see the turbo
button turbo boost and Turbo S have one
thing in common they have no freaking turbo but our best and brightest Alex
here has found the solution Alex it came
to me in a dream this turbo this
laptop behold the world's first
turbocharged
laptop brought to you by red
magic
woo this right here is a conventional turbocharger for a car specifically the
Volkswagen Golf R the exhaust gases blow into this side right here spinning this
little turbine right here then there's a shaft going through the middle that
connects to this compressor which in turn compresses air that is blown into
your engine right up here more air plus
more fuel equals more power excellent
but also problematic you see our red
magic Titan 16 Pro powerful machine
though it is does not produce exhaust gases so to make Alex's dream of reality
we need an electric turbo now terrible
electric turbos are plentiful on eBay AliExpress and wish.com but we wanted an
electric turbo that legitimately works so we got this meet the torque amp a 6.7
horsepower electric turbo that blows enough air to substantially increase a
car's horsepower this says Alex to write disclaimer about turbo versus
supercharger oh yeah technically this could be considered a supercharger
because it is driven by this and not exhaust gases but they say turbo on the
website so we're going with turbo whatever you want to call it this
thing is absolutely flipping wild I mean look at the geometry on these fan blades
I have never seen that each blade is two
blades I guess to increase pressure probably something to do with compressor
efficiency I I don't really know then there's the motor which maybe I'm just
out of the loop but I thought would be a lot bigger given that it's 5,000
wants and there's the super lightweight construction because we only need the
one side it can be made out of cast aluminum instead of also having to have
Steel in it with that said it's going to
cost you elsewhere because you've got to power the thing and that's where the
rest of this kit comes in what's the whole thing Ren you both
$2,978 oh my God this power box though
keep 2 cm free for cooling do not block
the holes this is going to be fun this looks
fairly self-explanatory colorcoded 48 Vols out I assume yep harness goes into
the turbo or supercharger whatever you
want to call it okay yes our motor controller right here so we get our DC
AC 48 volts okay and I assume this needs
to plug into some kind of control thing this is a temperature sensor actually
so if this starts getting too hot the motor controller will be like we're
stopping by that's something that's important to note because this is
designed for use in a vehicle only when you're accelerating hard it's only rated
for 1 second of boost for 10 seconds of
recharge so using it to cool a laptop
continuously well it's not going to be continuous continuous but you know we'll
see how it goes yeah uh make sure the red dots are lined up it says explicitly
in the instruction manual to make sure that they're lined up they're lined also
torque amp excellent instruction manual like I don't say that very often but it
was actually very informative dude I am jazzed like I am legit extremely excited
about this this may not be the dumbest thing we've ever done but it's up there
it might be the dumbest you think so well we haven't had other things
spoilers that actively heat themselves up that we've tried to cool a computer
with before but anyway we'll wor with that later for now here's a 1200 W DC
power supply plugged into the power input side here is that enough to wait
but I thought this is a 5,000 W Motor so what they do is you have your 12 volts
well actually like 14 volts from your car that goes into this charges this up
and then the lithium battery that's in here is what powers your turbo got it so
that's why it can't run continuously it actually has a battery in here yeah and
you also don't want to be drawing 5,000 WS from your car because you will drain
your battery and your alternator will probably not be happy at all right you
have experience with that I
do do you want to know how this is supposed to work is this something to do
with the accelerator yeah you literally just put this under your gas pedal when
you go all the way down she click and it
goes there are much better ways to do it like you can have full ECU configuration
using this guy right here but if you just want to do it for
dirty and I guess that's how we're doing it yeah neat one final thing before you
power it on oh yes oh we want to filter the air going into it yes that makes
sense it's both to make sure that no dust and crap gets in there hurts the
turbine also to protect us cuz like you don't want like your Willie get sucked
in there real bad time
or a really good time for a really short period of time really
bad that's on its own circuit that's on
okay now power buttons here
uhhuh okay do you want to hit the thing I do okay so how long is like safe
to hit it for oh I don't know you can just hammer it if you
want should we have earring protection in probably right well we can hit didn't
see
okay yes
holy
bananas that is crazy that's through the
filter yeah well I mean it would add restriction not very
much
some let's get earplugs I know I shouldn't be that surprised because
that's kind of the benefit of an electric motor is that you've got
that immediate torque and immediate ramp to full power but holy crap it does blow
it it does force the induction that was
crazy you should hit it again I I mean I will I will I will hold on I want to put
I want to put something on the end so we can kind of see what's what's shaking
here hold on just give me give me a second give me a second I got I got a
concept I got I've got a concept if
you're wondering ing yes that technique is why I have three
kids okay okay I got to feel it I got to feel
it the Air's not hot but it sure as heck
isn't cool do you want to explain to the people why that would be before we do
that I want to play with these but before we play with those we need to go
and have a little listen to some turbo sound so you know what's good and what's
bad right now everything in the engine is as it should be so we'll just have a
little listen to what the turbo would sound like so you
hear okay that's fine you know you just
hear that P that you're hearing that is
the diverter valve this little guy's job is that when your throttle body closes
while you're making boost it just diverts all that boost somewhere else
and makes that fun sh noise on other cars you might have a blowoff valve
instead but let's just come in here take this plug oh there we go this is almost
definitely going to give me a check engine light but my warranty is already
very void as you can probably tell so
we're not too concerned about that I'll just clear it later just so I'm clear
what you've done is you've made it so the valve won't open correct huh yeah
probably don't do this cool unless you want fun noise and turbo
damage you can't have a warant warning that includes unless you want fun well
that's not a good warning okay you'll hear it in a second and you will agree that it's very fun don't blow up your
car I'm not going to I'm not going to go full Boost but now if we listen we
get oh so that's compressor surge that
is when the air that you've been compressing blows back through the turbo
so it's very fun right very very fun probably pretty
hard on it though it's not ideal it's not so bad in this situation where we're
not at full Boost and you know you're not making power once that throttle
body's closed but with an electric turbo like the one that we have back there
you're going to generate power yeah if there is a restriction and it starts
blowing back through you have an electric motor that is not going to stop
so it will just kill itself so if we start
hearing that kind of a noise we stop we stop
and now I have an engine code to clear if those nozzles or that laptop turn out
to be too restrictive I made this it is
two ball valves JB welded into some 3D
printed stuff please tell me you at least used like a high strength filament
or something no but like you it's pretty
good these days I did a lot of infill
okay I got these off of Amazon they're very very cheap intercooler tubing cool
then you just throw a worm Drive clamp on there and that's not going anywhere
this is even cured like if there's actual pressure in here these fittings
are going to go flying off like a
bullet that looks dangerous now it
really does doesn't it it was already dangerous now it just looks the part
here's a pair of safety glasses instead of putting them on my face uh Alex go
ahead and hit it
oh they're over here buddy they done got Yol across the room what are you using
that for what are you doing what
please okay do it why because I want to be more
portable yes
nice oh that's the good stuff yep okay
throw this one on the the arm that's going
to no it'll be fine it'll be
fine do do it you cowards we go I'll be
fine I've done worse for my craft red
magic Titan 16 Pro features a full metal CNC chassis an Intel core9 14900 HX plus
an RTX 460 it's got dual fans plus highs
speec quad copper heat pipes and phase change silicone grease a 1080p cam
camera with Windows hello dtsx Ultra audio 16 gigs of 5600 megat transfer
pers second high frequency memory plus a 1 TB PCIe Gen 4 SSD it's got a 2 and
1/2k screen with 100% dcip 3 color gamut
coverage and the cooling is basically
good than we need but that doesn't mean it can't be gooder so we're going to
attach this to in a minute but first let's have some fun what do you think
can I close the lid of this laptop with this probably okay okay let's
try
yep oh look we got pom poms
dude this is like the most Juiced up leaf blower ever watch this watch
this and they're gone dude dude this
more like a rock
blower and the best part is we have haven't even tried the tight nozzle yet
I think it's time let's see what she can do to this duct tape roll think I can
get in that garbage can
w d perfect got
nothing you know I think she's actually
more restricted huh I think she's less
powerful this way well that's a Downer but it allows
us to direct it a bit more for example we could spin the turbine in
here wo look at it Go and
this the bottom line is it moves a lot of
air let's cool a PC you're going so slow Alex you're
killing me here
a jeez we obviously can't fit this inside
the machine well I've made the world's first ever turbo manifold for a laptop
so you've just taken the entire air intake at the bottom and made this it
looks like a freaking vacuum cleaner head Alex it really does I am a little
worried about bolting this on though like does this have enough structural rigidity for that oh well there plates
right there ah oh there we go so that goes on the inside all of those are
threaded holes boom make sure that you line up the broken tap with the spot
that doesn't have a hole drilled just like
so sure and then in terms of the seal
are we just going to allow for some leakage here now we've got an O-ring 330
second it goes on the other side in all seriousness making your own o-ring is
not as weird as you'd think all you need is par o-ring handbook you just go in
there they tell you how big to make this little hole right here a little Groove
Chuck it in you're done nice easy oh
nice okay I got this one that helps a lot that's an important one right there
okay we got the two on the ends oh yeah oh bud no we're good I'm good with this
question for you y um now there are spikes going into our motherboard yep no
do you want both colors or an angle grinder angle grinder all right
so this one's still intact I guess we have a sacrificial lamb somewhere oh I
was going to swap the bottoms on that one oh perfect yeah are they all the
same y nice thank you red magic for that
just use all the same screws love to see it also very nice in
here they have upgradeable RAM there's a free SSD slot right there over top of
your other SSD oh damn some chunky heat pipes that's about all that you can
expect these days really do we unplug the fans cuz we can't run this
continuously so when we're not running it having fans would be pretty nice but
we also do risk way over spinning these
and blowing something up didn't you test that though in the dark fantasies video
yeah I did also test it and I blew a bunch of compressed air into it and was totally fine if we kill it do we just
swap them and not tell
anyone yeah okay okay so we leave them in so that's
it then this just goes on here now yeah it might have some clearance
problems nothing that can't be overcome by forcing screws it's funny because
there is a very real benefit to the metal chassis if we were trying to do
this with a plastic bottom we'd risk cracking it yeah red magic thought of
this this exactly what their Engineers
imagined do we have like a like a stand
or do we have any kind of concept there
uh I did bring over some feet that I was going to attach to the bottom and then I
forgot about that until right now cool so then you do or don't have
them uh let's see um you know what
though Alex it may end up that the turbo just kind of supports
it oh I was going to have it piped over like here somewhere oh we have a whole
box of intercooler piping Wick at smart there you go oh dude oh dude that's sick
okay theoretically we haven't really changed much here so so I'm going to
boot it up the fans didn't collide with all the stuff that we just put in there
so that's nice perfect let's pop out CPU
core temperatures GPU temperature is there
any other temp sensor we could maybe I mean we could sure we could grab our SSD
temperature why not right yeah I'm sure there'll be air flow over that there
there's going to be air everywhere okay let's fire up fur mark this is going to
get our GPU a little toasty so here's our GPU temperature she's Rising
it's also still 44 degrees that's pretty good yeah give her a sec give her a sec
she's going to she's going to go up oh dude GPU is um kind of running too cool
I guess the 4060 is pretty efficient we might have to hit the CPU if we want to
see something actually run at a high temperature but what we can do still is
we can see if more air flow will help this GPU
oh my god did it get hotter or colder I
couldn't even tell it went down oh wow oh yeah I do wonder if we may have
unseated something our temps are higher than they were before we ever turned on
the turbo though yeah they are I wonder why let's watch GPU temps here I'm just
I'm going to hold it down this time okay GPU temps hot spot 55.2 here we go
it's going
down now Alex has explained this before
there is a limit when you're designing a heat sink to how much benefit there is
from additional air flow is that what we're up against or is it because the
air is so warm it's probably a bit of
both there is a problem where turbos create a lot of heat for one it's
compressing the gas so PV equals nrt
pressure goes up a bunch so does your temperature same thing as like
compressed air can but in Reverse you know how this get super duper cold but
also just simply like there will be friction against the turbine housing
against all the little fins and stuff like that that also adds in Heat against
the hosing this tube is at 36° it was at
ambient a second ago yeah so do we have
a solution for that oh we do we most
certainly do we not only have the
world's first turbocharged laptop but also the world's first front mount
intercooler laptop this thing was sent over by CTS there are local guys here in
Langley and it just so happens that this one fits a Mark 7 and a half GTI I don't
know how that happened really what what's happening to
it after we're done this project we'll see I don't
know did you explain this to them
it's a fan why don't I try then this
intercooler is basically an air-to-air heat exchanger so we're going to take
the hot air that's coming out of our turbo and we are going to cool that hot
air as it goes through here into our laptop and we're going to cool that air
using ambient temperature air using this fan I was thinking that
we put it on this side because if you remember this video These fans are very
very dangerous mhm these are the guys that the carrots right across the room
oh yeah yeah that's
good that what are you doing what do you mean what am I doing what are you
doing you need room for second metal fan
oh okay I like how we are going to have
so much more power going towards cooling
this laptop than the laptop will ever even think about drawing each one of
these is 2 10 wats this thing's
5,000 the back of this setup is going to be extremely dangerous once we turn this
on we do not want to be hanging around back here if anything gets in these fans
it will get cut off I'm talking fingers
Willies you name it I think she's on For
Better or For Worse Alex it's working yeah they're not
pulling much at the top but that kind of makes sense and it looks like they're
not suck the duct tape in so okay we
don't go back there anymore that's it that's the whole thing now that we're
switched over to gaming mode and we're hitting our CPU you can see temperatures
are ramping up pretty fast with the stock fans it is drawing 100 WTS on the CPU
that's pretty good let's see if we can do anything about that you ready
yeah W there we go let's go he's droing
so oh my
god oh damn gee Works CTS knows what they're
doing that is the best example of like
an aircooler I've ever seen we went straight back to the office mode
temperatures like straight back oh oh
man this pipe is hot right here well yeah I bet so that's 40° okay this one
on the other side 23 dude it works great
it works really good so we were probably just completely counteracting any
benefit we were getting from the airflow by blowing such hot
air dude this works it works good want
another hit oh yeah I can give you another hit I'm afraid to put my face
near this keyboard the key might take my eye out here we go
oh we overpower protection our poor
power supply which actually makes sense because we have so much restriction on
the outlet now now what I'd actually like to see is if our CPU package power
is willing to go a little higher if we throw this much cooling at it but it
probably won't cuz we're already well under control but let's see let's see
oh that is so cool to show you guys how
much air is being pushed through this laptop I have an idea ah ah okay I'm
going to put this one next to the left exhaust and we're going to put these
ones above the keyboard
oh the track pad the poor track pad oh
my God okay we have to game on it right yeah we have to game on it we obviously
have to game on it I'm really impressed at how well this removes heat from the
air I don't know why but I just I thought that wouldn't be able to do much
to that volume of air oh no that that's
what it's made for that's a it's a sick intercooler that thing's good for 450
horsepower apparently now it's time to actually game on this thing I'm sitting
at around oh wow 35° on the GPU 73 on
the CPU well we don't really need it
but hit me hit
it we're down to 60 on the CPU oh yeah
that's crazy we blew off one of the pom
poms very practical
very oh she's hot dude oh that's fine 70° yeah okay that's
on the outside of the motor housing Lord only knows what's going on inside and it
was pretty cool of red magic to be Bros
and just sponsor this video sight unseen
and let us do this to their poor machine yeah I've definitely seen
happier laptops than this one when you go
but it held up and look the trackpad still works it works yeah you can do
horrible things to the chassis of this and it's
fine you can check it out at the link down
below and if you guys enjoyed this video maybe you can check out the one where
Alex and I hooked up the biggest fan
we've ever seen to a PC or those other big fans that put a bunch of carrot in
them don't forget about the other other big fans when it blew the panel off oh
yeah