WEBVTT 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:08.840 maybe you missed it but several months ago ASUS released the best RTX 490 ever 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:12.559 the Rog Matrix this represents the Pinnacle of ASUS's manufacturing 00:00:10.559 --> 00:00:17.760 capabilities with higher clock speeds than any other 490 liquid metal on the 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:24.880 GPU Die For maximum cooling performance and a 360 mm radiator all-in-one water 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:27.480 cooler built right in the only problem 00:00:24.880 --> 00:00:33.440 it costs $3,200 that is twice the price of the 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:39.840 founders Edition card Republic of Gamers more like Republic of out of touch I bet 00:00:37.040 --> 00:00:43.879 you could take that $1600 premium and put it towards building your own custom 00:00:41.680 --> 00:00:48.160 loop I mean you could probably even pay yourself a fair wage for the research 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:56.559 and building the darn thing oh you're talking to me yeah I bet 00:00:52.800 --> 00:00:58.960 you could buy a regular RTX 490 and all 00:00:56.559 --> 00:01:05.440 of that stuff and still have cash to spare uh okay but um where will I get 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:05.440 the money well 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:13.840 here life can suck sometimes but with the right attitude and tools you can fix 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:18.000 it I'm talking about this poor laptop fix what you can this back to school 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:22.840 season with our sponsor iFixit you may fail your tests but don't fail your 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:28.000 laptop on sale now at ifixit.com let's lay out some ground rules Adam's budget 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:32.799 has to go towards a 4090 of his choosing planning and purchasing all components 00:01:30.320 --> 00:01:36.920 for a water cooling Loop and paying himself to assemble it he's going to be 00:01:34.880 --> 00:01:40.280 paid the median wage of a Geek Squad repair agent which according to glass 00:01:38.759 --> 00:01:46.799 door is $21.63 per hour ready go I quickly got 00:01:44.920 --> 00:01:50.360 to researching using resources from J2 cents and Reddit and I figured I have 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:54.520 enough budget that I can Splurge big time so not only am I going to cool my 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:58.280 GPU I'm also going to cool my CPU and get an Ultra Premium Water block for 00:01:56.719 --> 00:02:02.920 both of them and to deal with all that heat I'm hoping a thick 400 0 mm rad 00:02:01.119 --> 00:02:07.119 will do the trick I spent 90 minutes and a lot of money during my shopping spree 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:12.680 and I think I did a pretty good job but let's see what lonus thinks all right 00:02:09.640 --> 00:02:15.000 let me see there's definitely some stuff 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:18.640 that stands out immediately as not a great value 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:24.160 however when you look at what we're comparing it to I guess I can forgive it 00:02:22.360 --> 00:02:27.480 before we get into those details though I want to see if he outright missed 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:32.720 anything that's going to cost him a penalty once he's assembling the system 00:02:29.920 --> 00:02:37.360 cooling blocks for a CPU and GPU check check a pump and Reservoir to make it 00:02:35.239 --> 00:02:41.000 simpler to fill the loop and move fluid around a big radiator with some fans to 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:46.040 go on it I don't know if these are the ones I would have chosen but hey at least he's got them along with a high 00:02:44.440 --> 00:02:50.879 performance phase change thermal pad from LTT Store and some tubing and some 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:55.120 fittings both of which raise a couple of questions about his research for me for 00:02:53.080 --> 00:03:01.159 starters this is his case and while the fantex nv7 is both reasonably priced and 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:04.799 attractive what it isn't is is small and 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:07.120 Adam has only purchased 9.8 ft of this 00:03:04.799 --> 00:03:11.360 XT softline mesh sleeved tubing from Corsair it should cover the distance 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:16.560 between all of his plummed up components but when you go with a thin walled 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:19.680 tubing like this one the loop layout 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:21.560 matters a lot if you want to avoid Kinks 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:25.599 and this length doesn't leave him a ton of room for error as for his fittings 00:03:23.959 --> 00:03:29.400 it's never a bad idea to buy ones that are explicitly compatible with the 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:33.439 tubing that you bought from the exact same vender and these XF series 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:38.000 compressions look pretty nice with recessed O-rings and a pretty pleasing 00:03:35.959 --> 00:03:41.920 overall finish the only thing I'd critique here is that he could have 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:46.959 saved probably 20 or $30 by going with fittings from someone like bixy he also 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:51.080 paid a butt ton of money for this 4090 water block probably about double what I 00:03:49.239 --> 00:04:00.000 would have spent but who knows maybe it's oh okay it's very very pretty and In 00:03:57.519 --> 00:04:05.200 fairness to Adam even these exess purchases above and beyond buying an RTX 00:04:02.439 --> 00:04:10.920 490 have put him nowhere near the cost of the Rog Matrix Platinum I mean he's 00:04:07.560 --> 00:04:13.360 still got 7 hours of budget left to pay 00:04:10.920 --> 00:04:18.560 himself to build it maybe he shouldn't have sprung for a 00:04:14.760 --> 00:04:20.199 $200 CPU block overall though not 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:24.840 exactly how I would have done it these Quantum surface radiators from Ek have a 00:04:22.440 --> 00:04:28.840 very dense fin Arrangement and I see nothing to indicate that these thermal 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:32.440 take fans have particularly High static pressure to take advantage vage of that 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:37.800 but it should still offer good performance for both his GPU and his CPU 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:41.800 and I don't see any other things here that promised to be a major showstopper 00:04:40.440 --> 00:04:46.320 and he passed one of the biggest stumbling blocks when he bought a block 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:49.160 that was explicitly compatible with his exact model of 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:55.479 GPU okay go go go go go 00:04:55.840 --> 00:05:02.600 go so now we're going to mount our water block I got this cool water block from 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:05.440 Ek uh I bought it cuz it looked cool I could have gotten something that was 00:05:03.320 --> 00:05:08.800 like literally half the price and still would have been a great performant water 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:13.759 block but I was so confident about my budget that I felt that we could do this 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:17.400 anyways we got our PTM 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:21.199 7950 you know there is a video on LTT 00:05:17.400 --> 00:05:24.319 store.com of the best way to put this 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:27.680 stuff on and I have not watched it a 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:31.440 water block on um so here is our tough 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:33.840 gaming 4090 while the Rog Matrix 00:05:31.440 --> 00:05:39.800 Platinum is based on the stricks platform by ASUS I figure that if it 00:05:36.840 --> 00:05:44.120 only gets like an extra 6% performance I might be able to squeeze an extra 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:49.280 performance out of their tough series if I get lucky but now I have to take off 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:52.000 all of this cooler to put it into this 00:05:49.280 --> 00:05:57.080 the Optimus water cooling I don't know what the exact model is but holy cow 00:05:54.840 --> 00:06:01.039 it's heavy these guys are from like Chicago or something they're a pretty 00:05:58.280 --> 00:06:03.400 small company and and apparently this is one of the best water blocks on the 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:08.000 market do you know how I do you know how I know that I Googled best 490 water 00:06:06.080 --> 00:06:10.840 block and everyone said it was this I was just thinking wow I wish I had a way 00:06:09.479 --> 00:06:15.759 to organize my screws but then I remembered that we have these handy 00:06:12.880 --> 00:06:21.199 dandy mod mats that are going to be coming soon to LTT Store.com that are 00:06:18.880 --> 00:06:24.520 the perfect thing for what I am doing this is not going to wors my budget okay 00:06:23.080 --> 00:06:29.960 I know I might look like the kind of guy you could take home to your mama but I'm 00:06:26.479 --> 00:06:31.560 a bad boy I avoid the warranty fun fact 00:06:29.960 --> 00:06:34.759 about these stickers manufacturers put them on devices to intimidate you and 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:38.880 make you feel like you're not allowed to Tinker with devices you own but these 00:06:36.759 --> 00:06:43.520 warranty void stickers are not enforcable by law anywhere in America so 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:49.000 if a company's refusing to give you service you can always you know complain 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:51.080 to the FTC about it because it's 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:56.199 complete BS you bought the thing you should be allowed to service 00:06:53.280 --> 00:07:03.039 it for the case we got this big old fantex nv7 it's massive it's Shen it's 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:06.240 uh got support for a 480 mm rad because that's what I went with cuz it seemed 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:09.520 like it was the best way to get a lot of radiator for a little bit of budget as 00:07:08.400 --> 00:07:14.440 well as it lowered the amount of fittings I needed which at fittings my 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:23.319 God they eat into your budget but I am a little worried cuz it looks like my 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:25.840 motherboard might not fit yeah 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:30.319 so eatx motherboard is a problem let's see if we 00:07:28.440 --> 00:07:35.639 can take this little thing out and maybe we will be saved so 00:07:33.400 --> 00:07:41.160 while this computer has this really cool set of LEDs that are actually totally 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:44.000 cableless that line the motherboard tray 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:51.080 um we might not be able to use at least one of them but the good news is that I 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:54.240 think that means our motherboard fits in 00:07:51.080 --> 00:07:57.199 hey look at that however we do need to 00:07:54.240 --> 00:08:02.199 consider that our radiator is going here I think hm 00:08:00.159 --> 00:08:10.039 or does this go along the top nope one of these things is not like 00:08:05.440 --> 00:08:10.039 the other one of these things is a lot 00:08:15.039 --> 00:08:21.759 bigger it's so close if it's if if we 00:08:18.840 --> 00:08:27.680 mounted it here it fits we doed an hour and change to compensate for the $15 00:08:24.599 --> 00:08:30.800 extra dollar for the two radiators and 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:32.120 for the um Tri to the store and now it 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:37.839 went from being like yeah we got enough time to being like okay this is going to be kind of tight let's figure out our 00:08:34.560 --> 00:08:42.240 pump mount we got the xd5 RGB Elite LCD 00:08:37.839 --> 00:08:46.160 from Corsair it's a pump res 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:47.440 combo and uh that's just that was just 00:08:46.160 --> 00:08:52.440 to simplify the number of components it's also got a cool scream but right now it kind of looks like it's 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:57.640 screaming I probably won't be spending a ton of time doing any cable management 00:08:54.560 --> 00:09:00.800 because uh boy howdy I don't have a ton 00:08:57.640 --> 00:09:00.800 of time 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:05.920 yeah it's tubing time we got both of our 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:10.200 radiators mounted one at the top one at the bottom and I think we are going to 00:09:07.680 --> 00:09:13.320 be just peachy I use soft tubing cuz I don't hate myself and I didn't want to 00:09:11.760 --> 00:09:18.519 do hard tubing and I needed this to be possible also the Rog Matrix it doesn't 00:09:15.760 --> 00:09:20.519 use hard tubing it uses soft tubing so yeah I'm pretty sure you just kind of 00:09:19.399 --> 00:09:27.360 like shove it on there and then these are compression fittings so what they do is that uh when you screw them on they 00:09:25.640 --> 00:09:32.120 tighten the edge of they they have these little prongs and then they tighten 00:09:29.680 --> 00:09:37.360 around that and then that gets your tube nice and tight and sealed and then it 00:09:34.480 --> 00:09:42.640 don't leak hopefully so that going to be too tight of a bend for this tubing I 00:09:40.920 --> 00:09:47.839 guess I can go to the top one and then that can go up and that prevents the 00:09:45.560 --> 00:09:50.000 fear of kinking though I have no fears of 00:09:50.880 --> 00:09:58.079 Kinks my phone number is 60 this isn't exactly a precise way of measuring 00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:59.640 things but I figure it's is good enough 00:09:58.079 --> 00:10:05.240 right this got to go a little bit longer than 00:10:02.200 --> 00:10:05.240 that so I'm going to go 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:10.720 here and that goes goes on right 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:16.800 there maybe it won't matter when I fill it with 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:24.800 water I don't know man damn look at this 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:27.839 beauty what the heck is this tube did he 00:10:24.800 --> 00:10:31.160 decide to buy this Oh I thought this was 00:10:27.839 --> 00:10:33.440 like sleeving oh oh God this is terrible 00:10:31.160 --> 00:10:37.480 dude look feel this oh yeah it's actually awful like but like put your 00:10:34.839 --> 00:10:41.200 hand right here like she's done but yeah that's just not going to work yeah yeah 00:10:38.839 --> 00:10:45.399 it's also an interesting mix and match of Brands here we got some EK we got 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:51.279 some Corsair we got some Optimus these blocks are super nice that's a really 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:55.399 expensive pump that's the fanciest pump I've ever seen But then why this tuing 00:10:53.880 --> 00:11:01.000 is this Corsair these are Corsair fittings too these are 00:10:57.560 --> 00:11:03.800 ugly like I these everything about this 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:09.880 build looks great except these fittings in tubes does he have any 90° oh there's 00:11:07.800 --> 00:11:14.360 there's not a chance that this fitting right 00:11:11.160 --> 00:11:16.880 here is going to work out in any way 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:23.560 yeah like he could make this CPU to GPU Line work it's just too long right now 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:30.040 but you know you go like 00:11:23.560 --> 00:11:30.040 that and you're done this box cost $40 00:11:31.959 --> 00:11:38.920 and it's the worst tubing I've ever seen all I got to say is good luck man 00:11:37.760 --> 00:11:44.160 because I don't have a lot of extra tubing I need to make sure that every 00:11:41.040 --> 00:11:45.480 time I make a cut I can only go this cut 00:11:44.160 --> 00:11:50.440 only needs to be shortened so I always want to have a little bit extra because if I screw up a if I screw up a cut and 00:11:48.880 --> 00:11:55.839 it's too short I lose like this whole length it's supposed to like maybe losing like centimeter or half an inch 00:11:54.120 --> 00:12:00.920 or something you know oh I need to change this so This top thing this needs 00:11:58.560 --> 00:12:06.160 to go here this is the outlet Port this needs to go to the 00:12:02.160 --> 00:12:06.160 inlet one tiny little 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:12.959 cut holy crap I think we're done okay 00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:17.800 now we just got to turn it on make sure everything's working and then we're going to start 00:12:15.839 --> 00:12:24.320 filling with water this is amazing an hour and 15 minutes to go little did 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:26.560 Adam know his journey was far from over 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:32.040 I think we're screwed boys turns out that this pump doesn't just use you USB 00:12:29.560 --> 00:12:38.320 power it also requires to be connected to a Corsair IQ Link Box that of course 00:12:36.040 --> 00:12:41.240 they don't include which means I have to make a trip to the store if I want this 00:12:39.839 --> 00:12:46.199 pump to work it doesn't matter if you don't care about any of the smart features you can't just run the pump off 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:51.440 of the USB header you have to connect it to a Corsair IQ link I should have 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:55.920 expected Corsair to pull this kind of in my defense Corsair does a 00:12:54.000 --> 00:13:00.079 great job of not telling you anywhere on the main page on their website you 00:12:57.440 --> 00:13:04.839 actually have to go into the text specs I believe and then go no nothing here 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:09.480 that says it's required um if I go to guides maybe so 00:13:08.120 --> 00:13:13.040 I'd have to look at I'd have to review the manual they also do a great job of 00:13:11.560 --> 00:13:22.279 not showing it to you on the box except for this tiny little thing that says that IQ link is required it costs 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:22.279 $60 are you kidding 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:31.480 me and it's not even like we can return something like we did with the radiator 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:35.399 I just have to spend $60 more this is how much time I got 00:13:43.839 --> 00:13:49.519 left it's now counting upwards to demonstrate how much time I'm wasting 00:13:47.839 --> 00:13:53.519 and how much in debt I will be at the end of this okay we have our funnel and 00:13:51.759 --> 00:13:59.600 our distilled water and this is going to be a pain in the to pour isn't it this 00:13:57.120 --> 00:14:04.320 is kind of terrifying do you see any drips anywhere so what's wrong here like 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:08.759 why isn't basically what's happening is that 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:12.480 there's air in the tubes already and that would be preventing the water from 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:14.720 going so maybe if I give it a little bit of a 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:24.440 tip it's flowing in a circle you can see it coming down the inlet yeah you see 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:30.079 that no drips no drips let's do this we're finally up and 00:14:27.639 --> 00:14:35.360 running and I'm running combuster and cinn bench at the same time and I am 00:14:33.040 --> 00:14:40.800 actually blown away I was expecting temperatures to not be as good as they 00:14:37.680 --> 00:14:44.279 are but running cinebench 2024 we're at 00:14:40.800 --> 00:14:46.720 like 70° on the CPU 80° on the hottest 00:14:44.279 --> 00:14:55.399 core and then on the GPU we're running combuster at 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:57.079 4K 50° C we have so much room to crank 00:14:55.399 --> 00:15:00.360 this thing up another notch I really excited I didn't think it would go this 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:05.279 well we also haven't even done our Heating and Cooling Cycles which 00:15:01.920 --> 00:15:06.759 benefits PTM 7950 so it could get even 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:11.440 better we could get even cooler than what we have right now you know what I 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:18.759 kind of get it I kind of get why people water cool this is so cool seeing people 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:20.639 get it it's so not worth the money so 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:24.880 not worth the money and this look on his face right now it goes the other way 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:29.880 when it leaks and you might look at the timer back there and you'll notice that 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:32.839 it's counting uh up we went over budget 00:15:29.880 --> 00:15:38.880 oh no but we were really really close and I'm mostly blaming Corsair 00:15:36.399 --> 00:15:43.759 tell me about that so you buy their pump right you do a nice do yeah I mean I 00:15:41.560 --> 00:15:50.120 bought their pump pretty expensive pump it's very fancy um it doesn't run at all 00:15:47.480 --> 00:15:55.240 without also buying a sold separately IQ link Hub I also I saw the braided 00:15:53.560 --> 00:15:59.199 exterior tubing that you bought and I was like that seems like it'd be a 00:15:57.160 --> 00:16:03.319 really cool look but I have concern about cutting it cleanly and then it's 00:16:01.639 --> 00:16:08.600 still looking good where you tighten the collars on the compress yeah it looks 00:16:05.160 --> 00:16:10.000 like is when you go here looks great but 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:14.000 when you get right up to the compression fittings you can see like this one I had 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:18.839 to do a few times I can see that and it's it's already worn the reason why 00:16:16.639 --> 00:16:23.319 these aren't on all these fans connect to these Pogo pins and this fitting 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:26.759 right here interferes with this getting a proper 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:30.199 contact to actually send the signal they should all run I just have to flip I 00:16:29.040 --> 00:16:38.319 just have turned them all the way over here yeah why did you choose thermal take fans um because I wanted RGB okay 00:16:35.920 --> 00:16:43.680 and I I didn't want to spend too much money on RGB I see I got six of these 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:47.680 for half the price of three course air fans yep that's fair enough yeah if you 00:16:46.040 --> 00:16:50.440 had both of these RADS actually running you'd have plenty of radiator right now 00:16:49.480 --> 00:16:57.120 and you would be getting better temperatures you can really tell whether your bottleneck is the thermal transfer 00:16:54.560 --> 00:17:01.720 between the CPU and the block or whether your bottleneck is the dissipation of 00:16:59.199 --> 00:17:06.360 the heat to the surrounding air by just touching the side of your 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:10.199 radiator or just here touch the fins oh yeah that's warm you got to throw some 00:17:07.799 --> 00:17:14.160 more heat into the air here yeah even your Reservoir feels hot uh-oh what's 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:16.559 the coolant temp at we can see 43 oh that's getting up there yeah So 00:17:15.679 --> 00:17:23.319 eventually we're going to be getting saturated right and then it just keeps freezing or what happens is the bigger 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:27.919 the Delta the bigger the difference in temperature between the surrounding air 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:33.760 and the coolant the more efficient the thermal transfer so you reach a point of 00:17:30.360 --> 00:17:35.520 equilibrium where as the liquid heats up 00:17:33.760 --> 00:17:41.320 the difference from the ambient air gets greater and the heat transfer gets 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:44.360 greater so it flattens out the jibu is 00:17:41.320 --> 00:17:47.520 still so far below its thermal limits 00:17:44.360 --> 00:17:50.840 okay I can explain that the regular form 00:17:47.520 --> 00:17:53.320 factor for gpus is really not conducive 00:17:50.840 --> 00:17:58.320 to carrying heat away from them having a a fan blowing down onto a heat sink this 00:17:56.080 --> 00:18:03.159 thick with these super skinny low static pressure fans FS sucks we've done 00:18:01.559 --> 00:18:08.320 experiments in the past where we put a tower cooler onto a GPU and they run 00:18:05.919 --> 00:18:13.200 flipping cool even though the cooler itself weighs less than the gigantic 00:18:10.760 --> 00:18:18.919 coolers that we put on gpus these days gpus are actually much easier to cool 00:18:16.520 --> 00:18:25.840 even though they're 400 watts compared to you know 200 to 300 for a CPU because 00:18:22.520 --> 00:18:28.280 the dyes are so big you have so much 00:18:25.840 --> 00:18:33.039 surface area to carry that heat away compared to a CPU like especially on 00:18:30.039 --> 00:18:37.440 Intel where the die is this big and it's 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:41.120 250 to 300 watts GPU you know 400 watts 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:43.080 that big no big deal you spent so much 00:18:41.120 --> 00:18:47.320 money on your block I had so much money to spend well you could have made up for 00:18:44.919 --> 00:18:51.000 the budget overrun on that IQ controller and your time overrun if you had just 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:54.000 gotten a reasonably priced block that's true but I think it's pretty realistic 00:18:52.600 --> 00:18:59.520 like when you did your first water cooling did you get every single part correct well maybe you did no I think 00:18:57.520 --> 00:19:04.080 that assumption is why people can feel afraid to try new things no I absolutely 00:19:01.799 --> 00:19:11.120 screwed up my first water cooling setup was a thermal take big water SE it was a 00:19:07.840 --> 00:19:13.200 piece of sh complete waste of money I 00:19:11.120 --> 00:19:18.360 thought that what I was buying was an all-in-one setup that could be expanded 00:19:15.280 --> 00:19:20.200 in the future to you know Go full custom 00:19:18.360 --> 00:19:24.799 I didn't realize that everything about it was complete garbage and I will say 00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:29.640 that the information that's out there to help people start water cooling is so 00:19:27.280 --> 00:19:34.200 much better it's it's a lot better really great like uh I was referring to 00:19:31.559 --> 00:19:37.480 a lot of jay2 sense guides because his water cooling guides were awesome it 00:19:36.200 --> 00:19:41.760 helps it they were great for somebody like me but also had depth that I wasn't even bothering to go into like he's like 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:48.440 here's how to Hardline and I was like I'm not not today clearly not so what 00:19:44.760 --> 00:19:53.520 you want is one of these oh so this is a 00:19:48.440 --> 00:19:58.080 38 in ID 5/8 in od what you have is a 00:19:53.520 --> 00:20:00.280 3/8 in id/ in od so you can see how much 00:19:58.080 --> 00:20:04.200 skinnier than that wall is so you want thick wall tubing yeah this is the 00:20:02.280 --> 00:20:09.919 optimal size but now we need to answer the question does this beat the Rog 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:16.080 Matrix I don't think we can answer that question until we answer did you have 00:20:12.360 --> 00:20:19.080 fun you know since it wasn't any of my 00:20:16.080 --> 00:20:21.559 own money I had a grand old 00:20:19.080 --> 00:20:26.799 time but how does my system compare to the incredible power of the Rog Matrix 00:20:24.440 --> 00:20:30.440 it comes close but not as close as I thought across the games I tested I 00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:35.240 found the tough gaming GPU lagged behind about 5 to 10% not being satisfied I 00:20:33.520 --> 00:20:40.480 decided to put on a quick and dirty overclock I found that I was able to 00:20:37.280 --> 00:20:41.679 pretty much match the Rog Matrix not bad 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:46.720 back to spending the money though I think it doesn't really matter whose money it was because that wasn't the 00:20:44.360 --> 00:20:54.679 point the point was we're going to spend this money do we spend it on a matrix 00:20:49.960 --> 00:20:57.679 Rog 49g or do we spend it on ourselves 00:20:54.679 --> 00:20:59.320 do we spend it on learning something and 00:20:57.679 --> 00:21:04.200 uh water cooling components that we can carry forward to Future builds and the 00:21:01.559 --> 00:21:09.200 experience of diying something so with that in mind who do you think won you 00:21:06.919 --> 00:21:14.039 know I think it was a lot more fun to water cool and the idea that the Rog 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:17.720 Matrix could just crap out and then I'm in the same spot I am now with a GPU 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:20.880 that I would have to take apart and water cool anyways I feel like I'm 00:21:19.880 --> 00:21:25.760 better yes there's going to be maintenance that I have to do I'm going to have to like make sure that my Loop 00:21:23.840 --> 00:21:31.240 doesn't get clogged and there's a whole like maybe in the long run if I keep 00:21:28.080 --> 00:21:33.520 paying my myself at $21 an hour the Rog 00:21:31.240 --> 00:21:37.919 Matrix might come out on top but this is way more fun way cooler and I can also 00:21:35.760 --> 00:21:43.080 sell these if I go oh I don't want to water cool anymore I 00:21:40.520 --> 00:21:48.480 can anything but the radiator pump and Reservoir is not worth much okay you 00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:50.840 can't sell tubing blocks hold 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:55.200 like a quarter of their value if you're lucky on a CPU and basically nothing for 00:21:53.039 --> 00:21:58.480 GPU with all that in mind then would you do it again 00:21:59.520 --> 00:22:05.760 yeah it sounds about right but would you tell the people 00:22:03.320 --> 00:22:09.480 about our sponsor I fix it back to school is coming and instead of buying a 00:22:07.360 --> 00:22:13.240 new laptop repair and upgrade your old one with I fix it their high quality 00:22:11.360 --> 00:22:19.279 drivers are assembled with the tinkerer in mind and right now you can get 15% 00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:21.400 off their Manta 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