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You can cool a computer with hot air. And heat from a computer in a small

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confined space equals well, a whole lot

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of swath. Fortunately, I have a solution. By encasing my computer in

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this here grow tent, I want to be cool as a cucumber.

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subscription with code zesk50 at the link down below. To start, I'd like to

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thank the mining community for the glut of cheap GPUs that they just flooded the

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market with and also the idea to enase your computer in a wood grow tent. Now,

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with gaming computers just drawing so many watts these days, it might make

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sense to do this with a single gaming computer instead of a whole mining rack.

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Before we get to it, though, I want to just describe why this idea actually

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isn't all that dumb. There are a number of ways to try and cool down in the

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summer. You could just point a fan at your face, but that doesn't fix the fact

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that your room is still super hot. Cracking a window can also work when

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it's cool outside, but on the days when you need it the most, the air from the

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outside's probably hotter than the air inside your house. Another option would

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be to install an air conditioner, but that comes with its own whole set of

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problems. If you only have a single circuit in your room, there's a good

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chance that running an air conditioner and a gaming PC at the same time will

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result in tripping a breaker. Second cost. Our grow tent cost us only $65,

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while an okayish air conditioner starts at 10 times that. Also, I'm sure your

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friends on Discord won't be super stoked when you're running a compressor right

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next to your mic, and it doesn't get to the root problem that we have. You're

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creating a bunch of heat in a small little room. I have air conditioning

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that's in my apartment, but that does not help me when I'm sealed in this room

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just poaching in my own sweat. Which brings us to the final option. Just open

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the door, maybe. Well, if you live alone, then sure. But yelling at your

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useless teammate in Rocket League can be rather disturbing for the others in your

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house. And unfortunately, the doors here have to stay closed. So, all right then.

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Grow tent it is. Let's go and build it. All right. Let's see what we're working

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with here. I got this grow tent from Amazon for $65. The reviews for it were

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fine, but at the same time, no one was using it to cool a PC. So, I also saw

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this one's 2 ft x 2 ft. But some reviews of grow tents, not this one

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specifically, they were like, "Oh, it says it was 2 ft x 2 ft, but it was

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actually more like 1 and 1/2." If that's the case, we're screwed. Oh my god,

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that's a that's green right there. I can already tell this is not going to be a

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girlfriend approved setup. But

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there it is. Look at the instructions. Step one,

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frame. Step two, put the thing on. They're not wrong, but that's not the

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most helpful.

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In fairness to Vio Sun, this seems pretty self-explanatory. I don't think

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we're going to have any trouble putting this together. One slightly unfortunate thing about

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doing it this way is that this is a lot bigger than my computer. In one

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direction, 2T is about perfect to fit a normal desktop. Problem is, uh, my

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desktop's definitely not 2 ft wide, and it's [music] definitely definitely not

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36 in tall. This is going to be way bigger than it needs to be, but at the

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same time, it's the smallest one I could get. Wait, David.

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Yep. What do you think these are for? Horizontal reinforcement.

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Did not improve the structural rigidity at all. We can worry about those later.

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Yeah. Why is this what's holding it together? [laughter] It's

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Okay, feels not too bad now. I can dig this. I am slightly confused about all

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the other stuff we have. I wonder if we'd get better performance with or

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without the intakes [music] covered. We'll find that out later. Oh dear. It's

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one of those things where they said that it was adjustable, but never mentioned

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how adjustable it was or like what the sizes were or anything like that. I

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don't know if our tubing's going to fit in there.

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Okay. Okay. Well, this is pretty unfortunate. I asked for insulated

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tubing specifically because it was black on the outside. Um, we did not get the

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right one. This is so weird. Okay. Is it going to

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work though? Can we just chuck it in like that? Duct tape it up and call it a

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day. It'll need some work, but that's going to be just fine. Here's the basic

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plan. I have terrible, terrible, awful casement Windows. need to make a big old

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adapter for it. That's what this is going to be. So, we have this right

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here, hose adapter. Also, a big acrylic pane. So, hopefully I don't block too

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much light. My favorite thing about this design, though, is that I had Sarah go

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ahead and [music] draw me an elephant. This right here, when the hose comes

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out, it should look like the elephant's trunk. I'm very stoked. Okay, let's do

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it. Before we try cutting the big elephant, which is going to take about

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half an hour, I want to just try etching a couple small ones, get the settings

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dialed in, and then we can do the full thing and know that it's going to turn

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out great. I'm super glad we tested out the etching of the elephant first, cuz

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we had a little bit of a problem. The laser, you know, it travels fast, but

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when it has to do a tight corner, it slows down and then accelerates back up.

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putting out. Problem is, we're already pretty much as low as our laser will go.

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defocused it. So, you know, we have a nice large beam. It disperses way more

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heat and hopefully we won't just have an [music] elephant fall out of our piece

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at the end. As a bonus with these settings, it's only going to take like 10 minutes to attach a big sheet of

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acrylic to the window. I'm going to make a bunch of little clamps out of HDPE.

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The material is a little bit overkill, but it also is the absolute perfect

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piece of material for the job. And I had a big piece of it laying around. It

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actually made this right here. The little extractor thingy. What the is

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this called, David? I don't know. Dust collector. There we go. Got it.

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I love this. We have such high utilization of the shop right now. We're

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going to be doing this at the same time the laser's cutting our stuff out. And

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if you come over here, our 3D prints have just started. This is going to take

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us 14 hours. I really wish we had the Pantheon at this point in time, but uh

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we don't. So, we're running two of them because if one of them fails, we are

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completely screwed when we arrive here tomorrow to cut our HDP. We're using

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this absolutely beautiful single flute. We can send it through this stuff at

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like 160 in per minute. Freaking crazy.

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Actually, it's going to take half a while cuz I need to swap out the tools

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for every single one. I'm trying some new scoloping stuff. Should have just

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set it up on the Tormach, but whatever. It looks like our elephant's done. I am

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excited. Let's see here. Oops. Look at

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that. We need to take the backing off, but heck yeah. All right, first clamp.

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We need to get a tool changer for this thing. Avid CNC, make one. I would love

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it. Everyone would love it.

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Okay, I do need to slow it down a little bit. Got kind of wavy there on the side,

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but overall parts good. Just need to make seven more of them. and I'll see

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you tomorrow when that's done. Instead of yesterday taking the time to make all

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of them, I took the time to optimize the G-code for it. So, no more tool change.

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Look at that, David. That's looking pretty good. And it was all done with this flat

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endmill. One of these only takes 1 minute and 30 seconds now. It's

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wonderful. We'll have a bunch of them just [music] in case something goes wrong. Anyway, let's go over here. I

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don't know why I was ever concerned that these might fail. Both of them turned

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out perfectly. Only problem is that uh it's blue. It's very blue. So, while the

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router makes us a couple more of those parts, I'm going to paint this black.

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Unfortunately, Nicholas, who actually knows how to paint things, is way too

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busy today. So, I had to do it. Just don't look too closely at it. David, pretty please. A wonderful thing though,

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this shop jacket. We're finally releasing it. Holy frig. Come on over

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here. So, as you've probably seen in a bunch of our videos, I have absolutely

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tortured this poor prototype and uh it's held up very well. We took a lot of

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inspiration from Savage Apron. If you're doing things like grinding, welding,

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that sort of crap, this will keep you nice and safe. Go and grab it. You can

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put uh pens here. I was slightly

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concerned about the acrylic. It's just kind of a brittle material. So, if we're

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getting halfway through the day and it explodes, we're just completely screwed.

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So, I made this one right here out of wood as well. It is going to block the light coming through the window, but at

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the same time, I know it's not going to explode. Now, we do have a little bit of

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a problem. It got a little bit burned and I'm having trouble cleaning it off.

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Instead of screwing around getting all the charcoal off for a while, I think

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I'm [snorts] just going to give it a little bit of a burn and then it'll look consistent hopefully. All right, I think

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it's about time to pack her up and take it all to my house and we can see if

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this actually works. What you want to do first, David? In case the computer or

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figure out the window? Figure out the window. Figure out the window. Yeah, I was thinking that, too. All right, let's do

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I think the easiest way to go about this is to just remove this whole desk. It's

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going to be a pain. Thank you.

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Nice. You could also just go kind of over.

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Yeah. Over. Now, I did do the math. It

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should take only about 2 and 1/2 minutes to heat that room up by 5° using my

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computer. IRL, there's so many more factors like how warm your walls are.

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They're going to suck in a bunch of heat. How much heat's coming in or

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leaving through your Windows. like how where the sun is is going to make a huge

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difference depending on if it's coming in through the window. So calculating is a bit difficult. We did run a test

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though in 45 minutes that room increased in temperature by 3° which is a lot when

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you think about it. Difference between 25 and 28° is the difference between me

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personally being comfortable and not. Not to mention that typically we'll have

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a gaming session that lasts for longer than 45 minutes. And you can see why it

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ends up pretty unpleasant after a little while.

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Ended up getting great. Yes.

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Oh yeah. The best parts Trey.

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In hindsight, this is a bit overkill. eight quarter20 bolts like these,

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especially high strength ones. Probably good for most deep sea pressure vessels.

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Uh, definitely going to hold this together, though. I don't know if this

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is going to work. The curve of the laser was a little bit too much, and it means

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that some of our holes aren't quite large enough. Now, I did try drilling it

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out, but it's it's just going to blow it right up. Like,

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also tried the deburring tool. It's not working. I think we need to swap for the

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wood. We're going to want to protect it a little bit. Just got some simple

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mineral oil here. It's not perfect for this situation, but it's way better than

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nothing. Okay, this is working. I do think I will

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swap to the acrylic later because uh this side plus a grow tent neighbors

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might not be too happy. Oh, pretty

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please. Oh, we did it. [laughter] Ha. Where did my

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hammer go? You got [music] fist, bro.

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Oh, he's taking me out of 105 for just a little bit. It's suddenly William Osman

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vibes all over the place. I haven't I fix the kit and multiple sets of hex

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keys. Guess which size I don't have.

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Oh yeah, this is really solid. I'll put the CAD files down below. So, if you

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guys want to, you know, do something like this with your casement Windows, you can. To move the air from our grow

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tent out the window, we are going to be using this Rock 6-in fan.

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[laughter] Does that show it off at all, David? Okay, perfect. The good news is also it

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has a low setting if you don't want to have it be quite that loud.

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Oops. Where do you think we want this fan, David? Maybe just down here on the

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floor. That seems like [music] a not too bad spot. Okay, cool.

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Fiberglass [music] desk. Don't breathe this.

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One thing that's very unfortunate about this is that the uh tent is pretty

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freaking big. So, this monitor, I feel like it's just going to have to go.

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Funny story, by the way. I got this as an upgrade for my uh main monitor. It is

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in every single way a better monitor, except the OSD is so bad that I don't

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use it. Okay, what's the best way to do this? I guess if we go like that, all

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the cords can come up in over there, and this goes out this way. Oh, I really

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wish they had a smaller one. Yeah, I guess it's going to have to be how it

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goes. Yeah, there's all the cords. I was

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excited for like a little bit there when I was like, "Oh, this is probably

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actually going to work." No, I'm not. What do you think? Out the side or out

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the top? He goes out the top, right? Yeah, out the top.

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This is one of those rare times that duct tape is actually getting used for

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its intended purpose.

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I washed a bunch of Red Green last night. Can you tell?

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Should we dry run it? See how she goes? Heck yeah.

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That was kind of underwhelming if I'm honest. Like, it is working really well.

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It's sucking lots of air. This isn't the best zipper in the world. Might have to

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crack this. Seems to work though. Way quieter than I expected.

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There's so much air flow coming in under this door. All right, let's put a PC in

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there. Plugging in peripherals is not the easiest. Um,

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have to remember to turn on the PC before we uh close her up. There we go.

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All of our air is going to be int right beside where our computer is bringing in

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air and then hopefully all of it just gets yeetated out.

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Oh, this isn't great.

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It's a bit intrusive. It's a You mean I can't even see it? Uh, maybe up on the desk. That's good.

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I'm sure the MS will really like that this is her uh office space. Now, in

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fairness, the MS does way more work here

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than I ever do at mine. So, this will probably get way more use now. I think

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we've done it. Let's turn it on. Barely can hear it. Bar. Okay, I can I can hear

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it. [laughter] The temperature of this room has started dropping. It's just

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pulling in air from the rest of the apartment that is a little bit cooler right now. Moment of truth. Oh, Prime 95

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Vermark. It's currently 26.6 degrees in

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here. So if it's what 30.6 when we come back, we failed. In the last 45 minutes,

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we have dropped 4° in this room. 3 right

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now, actually. So it does look like our CPU got 3° hotter than original run. But

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that said, if we just simply played games for another 45 minutes with it

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before, the ambient air would be hotter, the CPU would be hotter. You know, the

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speeds are exactly the same. It got a tiny bit hotter in here, but this room

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is absolute night and day. And what's extra impressive, by this time,

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normally, even without a computer on, this room is getting pretty hot. And now

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it it's so cold. This was a huge win, David. Yeah, I I love it. Grow tent.

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Stick your PC in one in the summer. Works great. Just like this sponsor.

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Like this video. Maybe check out uh my Intel Extreme upgrade. bit more of an

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overhaul than we had today, but I'm still impressed with our results