I'm about to water cool a computer but with a catch the writer who prepped the
system for me has never water cooled a PC before he sought help from one of our
Engineers who has never water cooled a PC before and we are going to be using
an utterly unique one-of-a-kind water block that is intended to cool both the
CPU and the graphics card as one the
cost for this madness 800 US Dollars and by the time we're
done possibly my sanity based on how things went last time we built a
computer that is a lot of things not a
sorry not a oops my bad I don't want to lie to you this doesn't make any sense
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and upgrade your infrastructure today meet the monoblock from Billet Labs the
company was founded by two blokes in the UK one of whom is a professional
machinist obviously and the other of which designs puzzles and luxury doodads
and boy have they ever designed a puzzle for me today I mean what was the point
of this I'm not trying to be a hater or anything
but honestly is this really saving that
much space compared to this but this is
also a little bit misleading you see some of the inspiration for this clearly
came from the 2013 Mac Pro which used a
single heatsink with multiple heat generating components attached to its
various sides and in much the same way we have a single water block see that
right in the middle here that is going to be responsible for cooling both the
GPU with this cold plate and the CPU
with this one over here and while this
obviously actually takes up a little bit less space unless I get special blocks
that have the fittings coming out the side it would not actually be possible
to build something quite as low profile
although it should be noted that such blocks do in fact exist do they call it
Billet Labs because you're going to get a big bill in the mail
bill it I get it I'm just not laughing no that's not why they call it that it's
because it's manufactured out of copper Billet and not just any copper the
entire thing even the parts that aren't responsible for cooling like this back
plate are made out of c101 the purest
copper they could get their hands on in theory this gives an advantage in terms
of thermal conductivity in practice though they've been making water blocks
out of even more exotic materials like pure silver for many years and it
doesn't really do much using pure copper
like this comes with some disadvantages you might have noticed that the surface
is quite marred and covered in blemishes
and even what appear to be etched in fingerprints that's pretty normal for
raw copper and is one of the reasons that nickel plated blocks look so nice
are they trying to use as much copper as possible why don't they use like a
regular size black plate that's a really good question and yes that does appear
to be the goal in the words of the founder for whom this is kind of a side
project we're never going to be able to go Toe to Toe with the likes of EK water
blocks in terms of being economical and
making any sense so we might as well go
as hard as we can the other way and hope to pick up a handful of Boutique buyers
apparently basically the entire inside is also machined with veins so to
improve heat exchange around the whole block because this is all thermal Mass
little buddy boy oh okay
those are some pretty finely machined little fins I mean it's no skived copper
heatsink like Swift Tech's been doing for the last five years or whatever but
very fine work but that is an unusual
Choice indeed instead of using a rubber o-ring they're
using some kind of gasket material that I have not seen before I don't trust it
that is paper thin and not only relies
on the gasket material not failing but also seems to rely on the Machining of
the copper being absolutely perfect this
is a really cool internal flow pattern though and I've
got to say I wow the Machining of this Central block
piece this piece is an insert it's just
so perfectly fitted it seems to be just
action fitted that I couldn't immediately tell
the water comes in here okay it goes into a cavity in the middle
that is sealed off with this pressure fitted slit here that's an accelerator
plate that's going to blast High Velocity water onto the cold plate for
the CPU okay it runs through these fins
it gets collected in these two bigger cavities which run all the way through
to the other side going into the accelerator plate for the GPU the Water
Runs Out cools this larger plate that is
going to handle cooling for anything that this other plate is connected to
like RAM or vrms and then is gathered
here where it goes oh this one so the whole thing is in cereal whereas
I thought maybe it would be in parallel in order to reduce restriction but this
is going to be a very restrictive block is that is that bad
it's bad if you have a bunch of other components in your Loop that rely on a
high flow rate for their own cooling but in this case it's the only cooling
engine in the entire thing so maybe maybe it's one of those products
where you go wow how did you engineer this why did you
engineer this we're going to build this whole system onto that piece of acrylic
because this doesn't fit into any sort of case and then we're gonna see how it
runs they've sent me numbers and we're going to see if we get them they say
that they can beat EK EK has their competitive advantages but they don't
actually make the highest performing blocks on the market so beating EK is not the um yeah it's
worth a thousand dollars massive W that you might think it is and realistically
a lot of water block performance these days now that it's kind of a
solved problem is down to optimizing for
the latest generation of CPUs making sure that the cooling patch covers you
know the large die of a threadripper for example it's not necessarily about
engineering a better copper base anymore so depending on the CPU we install this
on it could win or it could get absolutely curb stomped is this our test
platform yes okay we had a different
motherboard maybe we killed it oh really you guys how bad is it where is it oh
I've seen worse yeah so what happened was that we had the gloves on because we
were handling it Rocky I told him that that's why I said
Sebastian you should have known I don't believe you I don't know what
you guys mean oh the gloves the fibers if you get near
the pins it'll catch on them and pull them out they're so they're so tiny and
they're so kind of sharp we've apparently gone with a last generation
12 900 KS this should serve us very well
as a heat load yeah they claim 650 watts
is what this monoblock can handle okay what are you doing
what you're just going in there yeah what
would you expect me to do I don't know whatever the next step is I don't think
it's that you got a threat you want to thread things you need to no no
don't do this stop it we need to have spacers here there's washers and it's
okay well then why haven't you put the spacers on yet I thought you're supposed to be helping you've done nothing so far
I'm gonna play what are you doing I'm just trying to get no it's still no what
are you talking about the washers have to go on what washers these or the nuts
the nuts which nuts these nuts
hey these are not really these nuts I
set you up like that and you can't knock it down wait we don't have to take them
off what did Sebastian do I have too much faith in other people what are you
doing hey that's a really old shirt
thanks you look nice today too um why don't you just sign for me like
you always do I'll go away we're frauding
just kidding just kidding I'm kidding I'm kidding this is very interesting
look at this you thread on these standoffs see
kind of wild hey is that a setup for another joke or
no no you just you put on these standoffs it's kind of wild yeah
huh
what Wild Kratts you don't have children
um crap which way did you say these uh
tubes went again that's the way they're supposed to go
you've got to be kidding me please don't tell me the other motherboard had
clearance there and you guys designed it for the other motherboard and now we're
just boned we did do it on the other board on the other motherboard it did
fit and the replacement motherboard it doesn't fit
put Sebastian's here to help
so we're gonna go machine this down so we're gonna what oh no no
oh what a mess
you can spray it off
what is the tormac juice
fluid and don't forget about the metal shards though that's how I want to go out drink
a bunch of tarmac juice and then put me in the MRI
to our credit it does look pretty clean
liness how did you end up doing this I don't know he pulled an ester
let's see there's multiple Esters in your life polyester
okay that's good more of a cotton collie
blend guy myself but I still like it LTT Store.com by the way
it's on there and it seemed like pretty
good mounting pressure as I was tightening it down it's a hard Mount so
they better get the tolerances exactly right but hey there's a lot of that
going around with this product oh crap
it's so close let's put the RAM in the tormach it's not
it's just like when your kid learns one word and then they're just looking for
excuses to use it tomorrow
no Adam no no not tormach not now why
not torment now tormach later no
oh
you got it crap do you put it backward
get a shot of that look at that
all of the components here are meant to mount into a frame like on a computer
case wait a second I'm not the dummy
this is ddr4 this is a ddr5 board ah the other board
was 10 year four okay
I even checked why don't you tell me what you've done over here basically we
wanted to put it all in this piece of Plexi but
these mount in a case right
so well brackets L brackets we have a bunch of these brackets so that we can
put 240 millimeter rods flanking either side have our all of our
stuff mounted all taking up only marginally less space
than if we had put this in a normal case with normal water we had an afternoon
and that's kind of one of the issues with this product is that
while it itself is very small it doesn't
really work with other things it doesn't really shrink any of the other stuff
that takes up a lot of space yeah like they have pictures on their Instagram of
like the motherboard and the block and then a pump and you're like wow that's
really cool where's your power supply where's that where's all your cables but
yeah this is not tight at all whoa okay guys Boys Boys Boys Boys okay who's been
tightening these fittings these are not tight enough okay okay
those are tight enough I am deeply worried about this whole
thing oh my God this radiator doesn't even have the piece here
you have to put the battery before the motherboard that's the only one the battery the battery the battery do I
have to explain that water cooling systems don't need batteries the power
supply man this is a cool power supply
11 hundo Watts
in the palm of your hand I never did power
this video is definitely going to have some stuff that doesn't make it into the
YouTube cut subscribe to flowplane for the uh Cutting Room floor cut
for all the meming and setbacks this is actually starting to come together here
though lower our motherboard into place we've achieved a contrived reason to use
this product
all right let's get this done this is bad no we had it it was working and
everyone said it was good yeah but everyone was YouTube no I also
all the tubes yeah the tubes that's what I'm talking about the two you'll be
mounted the wrong way you have it mounted there I'm just going the
sideways
all right how
okay let me show you guys something Amateur hour here literally though how
do you put a piece of tubing there how
are you gonna run how are you gonna tube that oh more more fittings no
made surrounding the asylum okay where do you want these to go I
have no idea this is interesting they gave us pre-cut
thermal pads and I thought they would just give us strips but like
I'm basically just gonna lay this on here did we bring over any other water
cooling fittings or just what you guys are things in this in this bin okay show
me what you got we have more fittings than this but
ad102 is that 40 90 what yeah they told
me this was a 3090 TI if this wasn't a 390 TI then we don't have another 39 DTR
that we can take apart how the hell did we not know what GPU this thing was I
thought it was a 3090 ti so we just casually had a 40 90 sitting on the
shelf clearly labeled foreign
and nobody knew what it was
which Tweedle are you and which Tweedle are you
Tweedle one or two yeah twiddle a and Tweedle one yeah
to be very clear I have my moments but you guys are making me look pretty good
today it's actually going on
um well it's trying
do you want to check my work in a moment I would love to get your work one thing
that's weirding me out a little bit though is that
these are cooled on the Corsair design
and not on this one I hate to do this but I would put some thermal compound on
them GPU time but
okay um be more careful yeah
um really you got thermal compound all over sorry Adam oh it's me
it's both of us no
wait that fit before pump fit before
what did we do I mean how important is this bit
you know what's really funny is I think you're actually right I think we could
just Lop off this little bit of the PCB there's nothing there should we risk it
for the biscuit oh my God
save this project L brackets
see how they have two mounting points
I'm gonna slide it back okay so we're gonna try and line it up again here
the thermal pad is supposed to go on the back of the GPU and hold the washers
into place yeah the way that the holes line up that's
how okay try the top left one there
okay don't go too far
okay I think we got this huh
okay it's kind of a cool computer
I kind of want to just plug it in and see if it posts before we fill it with
water oh my God we don't have a power button
long metal stick let's go long metal stick power activate nope
warm up long metal stick yes
hey yeah
okay A little bit of water is cycling in now okay CCP attempts GPU attempts CPU
attempts uh core temp 30 core die 83. is
it possible that the reason it's so slow is the restricted flow of the block uh
it's possible that's part of it but it's also pwm controlled so I can't just tell
the pump Go full let's go new idea we're
going to turn up the fans by running cinebench
it's sucking the bubbles right back in you
stupid thing okay you just gotta angle it a bit
let the bubbles get past it you guys mounted this 90 degrees off of where
it's supposed to be yeah it's it's pumping now at least
like it's it's circulating now but it's not in necessarily a good way
it's just tearing up the water
interesting though our GPU temps while we're doing nothing is a 70. uh because
our CPU is just cranking out Heat that
actually doesn't account for that no pretty bad yeah it might be a
mounting issue he's probably a mounting issue if this is what the mount looks
like for us don't kid yourself unless you are some kind of Epic master builder
it's not going to be okay here's here's the thing though they sent us a 30 90 TI
kit they said it would work with a 40 90 but
they didn't know how well okay well
yeah did some research for you Billet
Labs it doesn't work that great the best case scenario for this thing is the
temps are slightly better but the experience of building with it is a
nightmare and the advantages over literally any other solution are
negligible it's a cool concept but unfortunately I think that there are
very few buyers for it with that said you know if it tickles your fancy but
you're thinking yeah cool idea but maybe if it was a little more like this I
wouldn't be surprised if these guys could basically make just about anything
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