most seriously did they ever try this
thing in the old days we could cram top of the line components into the tiniest
of cases and still managed to cool them but sadly
that is no longer the case because the PC industry has gone utterly Bonkers to
the point where you simply cannot fit a new GPU into a small form factor chassis
let alone cool it that is until now
hailing from Japan this is the big ski
1080 external cooler an absolutely
massive radiator that goes beside your
computer not inside it and Dick ski says
that it can cool 2 000 Watts worth of computer which here here there we go
you know that we are going to be testing
just like we're going to test your patience for my terrible Segways to our
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hard work check them out at the link down below I'm not sure where I got the
idea but I thought it would be smaller while I've never seen one like this
though the idea of an external water
cooling system is nothing new and in fact back in the early 2000s external
water coolers were more common than sticking radiators inside your case and
most cases that had a water cooling capable sticker on the box simply had a
couple of holes punched in the back with grommets that you could run tubes
through by contrast modern cases are designed so that pretty much anywhere
they leave space for a fan they also try to leave space for a radiator because
well what else were they going to take up that room with three and a half inch
hard drives so then you're probably asking yourself why in the modern era
are we looking at an external water cooler and the answer is since NVIDIA's
3000 Series we haven't really been able to pack the same tier of Hardware into
our small form factor PCS that amount of
heat just I mean even if we could stick it in there isn't practical because even
if we can keep temperatures on under control it's going to be super loud like
sure the water block on this RTX 4090
does make it a lot smaller than it was out of the box but these things are so
darn tall that in a lot of smaller cases it ends up interfering with the fans and
I mean that's before we even stick a radiator on the things meaning it's
basically impossible till you have one of these by using an
external cooler we can still have a nice compact PC sitting on our desk while the
Heat and noise get chucked somewhere else so let's take a closer look at it
bigski is one of those brands that I've heard of before but only in the context
of super Cheapo budget stuff on AliExpress so I've never really had a
reason or an opportunity to look more closely at their products overall though
I gotta say my first impressions are pretty good it's using what appears to
be anodized aluminum pretty much anywhere it's got a very kind of
industrial vibe to it but I like that function over form kind of design right
like this Grille is going to keep your fingers out sure
but it is not going to interfere with airflow around front I've got what seems
to be some kind of integrated flow distribution thing
though it doesn't distribute water anywhere The Fill line in out and I
guess this is presumably fill now you
were saying you wanted to do a leak test on it before we take it open
I don't think that sounds very exciting but I can also see where you're coming
from so why don't we do that real quick
for the uninitiated we are pressurizing
the system because if air can get out then probably water can also get out
this looks really expensive
uh
this has a very hand-built vibe to it doesn't it on the one hand obviously
these are all mass-produced parts I think I'm looking at a DDC pump over
here with a custom top that's integrated into this distribution plate we've got
what appear to be just off the shelf vix key RGB controllers these are clearly
fans that are generally available outside of this system but the actual
integration of all of these components looks very hand done and all of the
individual parts of the enclosure are just either sheet aluminum or Extrusion
meaning that it's probably a pretty low volume product it goes in here
pumps out to here the bottom of the
radiator right that makes sense for bleeding the air bubbles out you want to
push the water into the bottom so that the air comes out the top that goes way
down to here and then up here and then
out I feel like there could have been a more elegant way to do that
me too one thing I really like about the design is that this radiator is designed
with an extremely low density fin
structure what that means is that it should perform very well with low RPM
fans meaning I expect this to be extremely quiet we've got a simple
adapter from 12 and 5 volt Molex so it
appears they expect you to Simply run this inside your computer somehow to
this four pin bad boy right here that
screws on a little something like that it's great that they have this high
security can't be accidentally unplugged connector here but if you were to trip
over the cord nothing would prevent this from a pulling out and B yanking your
computer off the desk my enthusiasm is a little dampened but
if the performance is outstanding then I think I can get over it let's move on
nice now let's take a look at the challenges we ran into trying to build a
small form factor system with Modern Hardware will the 4090 fit this way
no not only can we not fit a radiator up
in the top we can't even fit fans and if
we took the fans out of here and we just put fans on a radiator on the bottom
there is absolutely no way that that would handle the heat load of a 4090 and
our CPU which I'm assuming is crap I
don't actually know I think there's a spec list on here wait also on the
prompter bixke only accepts defects
within 10 days of delivery yep that's
cool a 10-day warranty anywho it's an I9
13900k in here with a strix z690i motherboard an 8 terabyte sabric rocket
PCIe Gen 4 Drive EK velocity 2 CPU and
GPU blocks and an 850 watt Silverstone
modular power supply this is a top of the line rig and we're going to have
links to all of these parts down below um Alex I guess we're good I guess we're
gonna have to just remove these fans then yeah they cannot live okay see you
later fans GPU what the heck
I think how is it even gonna close with the fans removed Alex
it's very close I see the power switch
has not really been working so we want to plug that in okay so first of all the
motherboard things come on little uh little daughter Riser things so we're
looking at that you know the external water cooling Paradigm might feel
inelegant compared to what people do these days but it's actually kind of
smart like yeah you have to pay extra for the chassis for it but that's a
one-time thing and it's the sort of thing that no matter how many times you
change your CPU or GPU or your blocks here or even your case you can continue
to use I can't say this makes me very comfortable do you see the angle this
GPU is sitting at right now you can see the whole back of the chassis move oh
wow we're just taking all that Flex from the back and putting it on the bottom
uh okay you said we could put fans in there but uh I want art I see
what really it'll look yeah I don't want
to be responsible for this David what no hold on wait what are you doing you're
just gonna oh my God
thank you so much for allowing that pleasure
this is optional but I would strongly recommend using quick disconnects with
any kind of external water cooling system just because it means that moving
the system around is going to be a lot easier
and you do it
oh what seriously if we just Power It Up that might do it
we're just going to power it on and power pour the worst part is I was about
to suggest that too so oh no
oh and if the power button works now that would be cool
you closed up the side panels without testing it yeah bad GBS
okay how much you want to bet I can plug in that thing behind the GPU
I made the problem worse just just pull it out just pull it out I
think I pulled the daughter board out oh geez
this is going to be very difficult yeah I think we might have to pull the GPS no
no I got it I've got it oh it's probably turn on the power supply are you you're
kidding me Alex okay oh oh geez okay oh shoot here
you go just never turn it off again why is it
still spewing uh well remember how I was saying I didn't
really understand their Reservoir design yeah
I still don't this is very wet I have no water in the
system sir what no water
that pump sounds so unhappy I'm sorry pumpy I'm I'm trying
we are not getting any water to the system yet yeah this thing's bone dry
right now I'm working on it I can feel water on my sandals toe we're
gonna try something bold we're gonna Crack A fitting
oh there we go whoa whoa hey oh how you
doing hey your computer might get water soon okay so there's water making to the
computer now I don't see any yet uh
for how much they're charging for this thing I can't say I'm especially
impressed oh the computer set off excellent
oh crap uh
okay the power button works uh
okay I'm going I'm going
it's for testing come on come on come on do we have water
yeah water's in the GPU oh heck yeah yeah
it was going to be so much happier now Jacob needs more water look David I am
working on the additional water oh it posted yes yeah yes we
successfully computer build uh okay uh power down this actually seems to be
pretty effective
where's all the water going
where is all the water going David okay
all right wait okay hit it again never mind
did I lose more than I actually put in that time absolutely
What on earth oh the babies
oh seriously ah
all that progress unprogressed
I'm legitimately concerned we're going to kill this with how much water is
going out of this and into all of the electronics it had it coming Alex
you know it is a question that we used to find ourselves asking more than we do
now but it still comes up did they ever
try this thing and like your fill indicator will always be full
because the pumps pumping the water through it and out
thumb to kind of control the
acid reflux this poor computer is suffering from
this deserve some babies too I'm changing the description of our channel
to we build bad computers so you don't have to wait are you stuffing babies in
there why are you doing that
I want to get one in the fan no or I can
just oh no you can't do that okay recently I
said there's no such thing as a bad product just a bad price
I attend entirely corrected
oh okay stop putting babies in the computer
okay we've got a bubble here but the trick is that we need to fill it
like it's pretty clear that this is a do not buy big ski you aren't making a
great first impression here I gotta say okay good now lower that and I'll get
this above you
come on bubbles
that's working the issue that is that moving the
bubbles around doesn't help us we have to get them replaced with water
and we can't put more water into the system because there's no way to fill
the reservoir directly this would take hours and hours and hours to fill a
system fail big ski it's so freaking Loud
meaning I expect this to be extremely quiet I am outraged that I spent this
much money on this thing from a Content point of view I'm fine with it because
this is hilarious but if I bought this thing what is it 700 US dollars
690. oh no I bet Alex and I could design
a better this in like an afternoon yeah
we would try it once and be like wow that was the worst water cooling
experience we've had in uh weeks at least we wouldn't need to because we put
a Reservoir in the bloody thing so let's have a look at the flow path in here and
figure out why this isn't working so
here's where we're filling this goes into the reservoir right but you can see
see this this gluganation effect here I
think the issue is that there's just there's not enough room for the air to
travel up this if this was like a big fat like three quarter inch tube or
something like that it might be all right but this right angle fitting here
is absolutely killing it you can see
here that even though the reservoir theoretically keeps bubbles from getting
to the inlet of the pump right they should all rise to the top and then be
replaced by this this fill here theoretically
I see what's going on but in practice
it's not able to clear the bubbles from the impeller
so it's creating this like pressure on
the other side of the pump that then shoots this water back up the fill port
also the inlet for the reservoir is so close to the inlet for the pump that it
actually sucks the bubbles even though they should float yeah should we try to
fix their design yeah Alex got any stop fittings uh yes what's up time hi
don't worry what we're doing is fine I've seen worse although the babies are
marginally concerning uh where does this go it goes where tynan's finger is
because there's nothing going to be in there yeah okay
so you cut it like I'm thinking like
here okay don't cut my finger and then I'm
gonna get in there immediately okay
um
this plate goes back there okay how's our CPU attempts doing Alex 79 degrees
79 degrees okay wait for it I can fix that
watch out for the baby no I'm not watching out for the baby they didn't
even put any Loctite on these stupid pass-throughs
so they just spin freely as you're trying to tighten things okay I'm
powering up the pump okay so now
our bubbles go to the filter go to the
fill Port you're welcome big ski the fact that
that's what it took to fix their design that's not on us that's on them the
reason I could think that they would use that is because I don't know if we're
going to be able to close this panel now that we've moved it to the right spot
that's a really tight run there oh yeah we can't yeah oh yeah how are we how are
we doing does it work 31 degrees right now nice nice
also Alex your concerns about not having fan control
very valid these are spinning at like 3
000 RPM maybe more
it looks like something we would have made no you take that back we would have
made it better than this we're able to dispel
313 Watts cool you can do that with a
360 rad yeah almost 40K in cinemas it's pretty good
yeah I mean it's gonna keep your water temps down near ambient once once you
fill it it should work you just can't ever put
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to throw to I want a third of the fastest Xbox a small form factor build
that was actually good and self-contained yes all right sure they
can watch that but also watch the car radiator one that has the same chaotic
energy this is great this is all the additional
equipment Alex was expecting to use while we tested the 2000 watt capacity
claims won't be needing that I wouldn't hook
that thing up to anything