when I was a kid this is all it took to cool a computer then came this this and
finally oh my goodness Intel succumbed
to Madness and gave us the 13900 k a CPU that cannot be tamed by
any cooler challenge accepted While most
people would think it's pretty stupid to spend more on your cooling system than
you did on your computer most people are not these guys between the two of us
we've built not one not two but four separate water chillers and this one is
bigger than all of them combined meet
the chill apocalypse a 5,000 watt Beast
that was designed to cool industrial lasers this is one of our rare
opportunities to use purpose-built equipment instead of just janking it
with stuff that we get from Princess Auto so we are going to be getting into
the meat of how this thing works and of course we'll be hooking it up to Intel's
latest compact furnace unit to see if even this is enough we'll laugh we'll
cry we might even uh leak some coolant on the floor if you know what I mean and
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gaming rig today while I could have paid
$15,000 to an industrial equipment supplier for this thermoflex 5000 the
story of how we got our hands on this Chiller is actually a lot more
interesting than that it comes from John an integration engineer and absolute
Legend who works in a large industrial plant this Chiller actually spent
several years cooling a 5,000 WT fiber laser until recently it started throwing
up errors except that after they replaced it with a new one a kink was
found in the hose meaning this one was actually totally fine the whole time but
it was cheaper to just leave the new one in service and scrap this boy so our
hero John took it home to use on a CNC machine except the plan didn't work out
so he gave it to us so we could torture some computers huge thanks John because
there's absolutely no way we would have bought one of these things new let's
take a closer look at this baby and talk about some speeds and feeds shall we
W look at that that's
fun first up it runs on 208 volt power
so we need Alex's sketchy cord no not
the sketchy cord fine bring the sketchy cord and while there are multiple ways
to chill water below ambient temperature we've used evaporative cooling pelta
Cooling in the past the most efficient is of course phase change so down here
we find a large compressor as well as a condenser unit with a fan on it yeah I
know right look at the size of this condenser um and then for the cold side
I guess the evaporator is over here
embedded in the water tank that is a smaller water tank than I expected yeah
there's a lot of not much in here yeah I
sort of thought like they boast temperature control of just .1 de
Celsius which is super important for lasers where a two degree difference can
cause visible banding during an etch but in order to achieve that I kind of
thought that they would have a very large Reservoir so that they wouldn't
have to cycle the compressor all that often but if this had a 5,000 watt load
in it with just that much water I kind of feel like it would be oh you know
what I bet it's one of those more efficient variable compressors like you
find on Modern AC units at the cost of course that would make sense this is not
okay I can't believe you still have this he just made a completely non-regulation
cord that goes from this to this and
just has this tape on it and then we're just using a standard PC power short I
hate everything about this however they do it it seems to be taken care of by
the controller Hardware in here where we also find power distribution everything
we've seen so far is pretty similar to other chillers we've set up in the past
what isn't is the pump now most pumps
that you encounter in everyday life are centrifugal pumps meaning that the water
gets sucked into the middle and then an impeller accelerates the fluid toward
the outside where it is kind of collected and channeled into an outlet
and it works great in most situations the problem is that as either the
pressure of the system or the viscosity of the fluid increases the flow rate of
a centrifugal pump decreases while a normal D5 computer pump can push about
1,500 L of water in hour once you get up
to about 5 PSI nothing is happening the
positive displacement turbine pump we have in here though looks a bit more
like this no matter what you do it's going to give you 1,080 L per hour are
you serious okay no but how does it how does it wake it looks like a centrifugal
pump oh so it just goes at a fixed speed so
if this motor is not completely overwhelmed by whatever it's pumping it
just goes yeah period these are
considered fixed flow rate pumps for the
most part until you hit like you know horsepower and break it or half
horsepower wow what's one of these boys worth 700
$69 I can see why companies who make equipment like this are so protective of
their Trade Secrets because it's a simple as opening one up and you're like
yeah with some sheet metal fabrication and a trip to Home Depot I could pretty
much put this together yeah this came with an anti-corrosive thing in it it's
mostly been drained out but there might still be some and I looked it up and it
will absolutely destroy water blocks okay yeah we just flush it out we should
be good do not operate Chiller unless fluid diffuser is installed it's in
there what the devil's a fluid diffuser uh you know like the little sponge that
you put in EK pump yeah it's basically that so it's just to keep air bubbles
from getting drawn back into the pump well and more so for just like vortexes
and ah do oh ew that
stinks is that the nalcool why are you
doing that you're not even wafting I wanted to see how it
smelled oh do you smell this H this right here smells pretty bad it's like
ooh oh oh I'm going to go clean this off camera
Alex described the smell as spoiled
Vaseline yeah is this uh paint brush in here for like scrubbing things or what
now it is what are you working on um I took a little trip to the plumbing
supply store to adapt this which came on it with this down to like some computer
tubing but these look like gas fittings and in fact they're colorcoded for gas I
don't know that's what was on there if it can hold gas it can hold liquid right
pretty much um you put a lot of Teflon tape on here Alex and I don't know if
you wrapped it the right way yeah that one's the wrong way this one's the right way though okay well what what are you
doing right now well it's just not working cuz I'm on camera
and doing things on cameras hard is this
correct no righty TIY oh yeah it isn't
damn
it Here's my thought tube into distilled
water wait you haven't checked the manual like you have no idea how to do
this do you even know how to prime the pump we could definitely look at the
manual n
n well it holds more water than I thought Alex based on the size of that
Reservoir there goes a gallon oh oh no it's not level the bubbles on
the one side we got to tip her no I'm kidding I'm kidding I'm kidding you
can't do that cuz there's compressor do you know what's fantastic Lin is we
cannot kill ourselves with this oh that's mostly which way do these twist
clockwise counterclockwise hold on give me a
sec oh no it just doesn't twist that much okay fine hello 16.9 de C nice uh
what is happening whatever it is seems really bad yeah that seemed really
bad whoa she's
going all right kill it oh I can't you have it yeah all right it works works
great oh my Alex what you know that
momentum of water will cause that to like go erect right yes clearly you hav
it peed and let it get away from you all right okay all right all right get it so
what's your plan once you squeegee it I was going to squeegee it out the door
but um okay I'm just going to spread it out yeah I mean that's basically what
mopping does anyway now instead of having a small very slippery spot we
have a large somewhat slippery spot I understand how the reservoir
figured into all this but what I don't understand is why it didn't oh wait no I
do understand that it did suck a bit and then it went back in what do we do now
what even is this video we have two options depending on what we want to do
I kind of want to see what happens if we just attach it to like a block like this
but also like we just saw what happens when the pump gets run when the things
are closed it's only half horsepower it's not as much as I thought oh okay
the original plan was for us to Kink one of these tubes and like blow up the
block with the pressure or something like that we don't really think that's going to happen but we're going to do
this anyway because it gives an opportunity to make sure the system
works as we expect and maybe filter out
some additional Gunk before we hook it up to the Corsair Loop over there not
that that's a particularly smart way to do that Alex it's more fun
though wow holy crap she rips dog yeah
and immediately everything is purged of all possible air bubbles because she
rips did I mention she rips I feel like
this is going to work yeah I think it's going to work really well yeah is there
a minimum specified load on this thing like air conditioner units for example
are expected to have a certain duty cycle they're expected to turn on once
in a while or like a car that sits in storage for 10 years for example just
cuz it has zero miles on it that's not a good thing no goes down to zero it's
fine like zero load yeah okay uh why don't we turn it down she's going going
it's going she's going you know what I think it just took us second for the
compressor to kick in she's going fast
now this volume of water 0. one of a
deg she's going now I can feel the
change now look at this thing go wow
this is unbelievable it's working now
that's for sure this is getting hard to hold my hand on now this is getting
cold we are below five uh not a thing I
was expecting to happen 3° oh low temperature it goes down to
three and then it gets mad and then it turns off yeah there's a low temperature
warning on it it says in the manual uh so it doesn't chill things more yeah but
I said it to five enter see it's going down more oh
yeah why is it going down more you think it would just
stop oh good oh I'm spilling
water oh that's a really bad idea no no I got this hold on what boom
here we go oh jeez Alex I mean that computer doesn't need coolant does it
there's a lot of copper in these blocks right can just absorb the heat we're
going into Windows now yeah all right so you I I I want to I want to see the
temps in Windows the fans are getting mad spinning up the fans okay I just I
want to see these temps go down CPU temperature CPU package 100° here we
go yep that's a pretty good
grab see you later heat I actually want to use this in some projects just to get
the arrow just see you later air done I
think I know the answer to this question then can it tame the 13900 k gpus at
10° nice yep so what we're looking for
is to beat 366 80° was also the maximum
recorded temperature before mhm I I don't think we're going to get to wow
we're still at 63 it's the IHS yeah
there's only so much you can do if the bottleneck is the actual die
transferring heat through the copper IHS
wow that's a substantial Improvement and
that's over a water cooling system that has 320 mm fans on it and literally
exactly the same block 620 mm fans and
was that even a pre-warmed loop nope
wow there's two ways to look at this then one is Intel is actually shipping a
CPU that nobody can run at its full
potential or two Intel shipping a CPU
that you know has so much for you to unlock yeah that's another angle I'm
just not used to seeing graphs like that up flat down no other cooling system
we've used behaves like this they ramp up and they ramp down this has a ton of
potential applications for us like imagine we were trying to test something
like a water block for example instead of sitting around and waiting for the
system to reach equilibrium we could just run a load immediately collect the
data because we have a fixed coolant temperature so we can calculate the
Delta and that's it move on to the next thing now obviously out of the box that
wouldn't be applicable to PC water cooling because the pumps we use are
much weaker but what we could do is we could create a reservoir that has two
inlets and two outlets so it's kind of like a water mixer and then we could run
a regular pc cooling pump on the one side taking this temperature controlled
water and this could just circulate water in there anyway what I want to do
is cool the whole Lounge you want to cool 12 computers with it yes 5,000
watts of cooling I mean I guess you could so cin bench ah these can probably
do like five ah let's try 58 wait so
what what on Earth are you doing are you you're setting our best cor is to 6
GHz oh my God
Alex she crashed Alex oh this has 6,000
megga transfer per second RAM in it I believe memory controllers and
overclocking on 13th gen bad time yeah let's try 56 all right 014 here we go
Some More Voltage let's just do a quick run huh this might be a really bad CPU
let's try just not as aggressive again
apply who okay we're at 100° Alex
38,000 points that's not bad so it's
drawing 380 Watts so that would be why
we're uh thermal throttling this CPU is
literally uncool we got 39 though 39,000 points I
like this thing yeah this is a good Chiller especially relative to our
previous attempts
39,18125
man now I want to put one of these in my basement just chill the entire rack I
think I might be in love yes thank you John we don't we're
not sending this back no this is just ours thanks John okay shout out John's
side hustle with the light box things have you seen that yeah it's really cool
yeah it's pretty cool stop no no no no
trust your first instinct no no okay
okay no I don't want it to crash again
let's give her more juice I think I know how to use this
now oh he broke 40K really yeah hey can we run a GPU
load real quick here I want to see what the GP run it is this Forza Horizon 5
running at 130 frames per at 4K
absolutely cranked yes with r tracing 18° on the GPU which is turboing
to
2.73 and to be clear 409s pretty much
universally have way over speced coolers
this is without us even adjusting anything which is Wild Well we gained 4
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