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so you got this computer that you got to cool this looks like a fairly simple

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problem to solve right I mean Intel doesn't even include copper slugs in the

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middle of their hunk of aluminum heat sinks anymore so why is it then that we

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pay actual money to cool our processors

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I mean in the case of the stock one I guess you don't really pay for it it

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comes in the Box for nothing but maybe you broke it or something so today's

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mission is to build our own cooling heat

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sink I by power and MSI's new lineup of

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gaming laptops feature Intel's 7th generation core i7 processors check them

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out at the link below so with the

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mission of creating our very own lonus Tech tips heatsink I set off for a disc

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discussion with the lonus Media Group engineering and stuffed animal Taxidermy

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division they went away for a couple of days and then returned proudly producing

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a hacksaw a block of aluminum and a

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stack of papers full of pictures of Elon Musk

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over which in crayon it said just raw

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Dogg it at which point I really began to wonder what exactly it is that I paid

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these people for and got to work I

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guess so the basic principle of an aluminum heat sink is actually pretty

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straightforward you've got this little heat generating doodad right here and

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you need to take that heat and you've got to spread it out then you've got to

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dissipate it to the air so what you need is a thermally conductive material so

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the engineering department did manage to get that far we've got a hunk of

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aluminum which has excellent thermal conductivity and then what you need is

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you have to increase its surface area so if all we did was take this and stick it

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on top of a CPU what we'd effectively do is we would

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spread the heat but we would spread it throughout this block without actually

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achieving any of our cooling goals so

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once we've got this spreading the heat we've got to increase the surface area

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and the way that apparently they intend for me to do that I mean at least they

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have the decency to get a fresh blade for the hacksaw is to throw the Block in the

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Vie and just start sawing out fins I've

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been informed that this is the good one whatever that means so we're going to do

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a practice cut on this other hunk of aluminum see just how accurate we can

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get here the more fins and the thinner

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the

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better okay unless we have all the time

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in the world and we assign absolutely zero value to

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it that's clearly not a way to go about it so back to the engineering

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department they brainstormed and came up with a new solution let's ARM lonus with

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power tools so I've never used a reciprocating

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saw boom and it's plugged in but it

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looks really fun so

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uh Safety First kids exciting WD40 on here

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wow we made as much progress in like 4

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seconds as we did

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before okay that's not so hard let's do

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the real thing see here's my like 10 minutes of hack sawing there's my like

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10 seconds of uh reciprocal sawing okay

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screw it yeah

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okay how many blades did you say we

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have unplugged to change the

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blade have a lot more respect for what Cooler Master

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does I think that what we really need is like a constant flow of WD40

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almost we are definitely making faster

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progress now so not having not trying to cut the entire thing at once keeps the

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blade from uh getting so gunked up with

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metal got to be really careful we only have one blade

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left almost there just got to finish up one last one so we found that this stuff

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uh fluid film actually does a better job

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of lubricating the blade which would have been great to know cuz it's just

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generally a lot less nasty than

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WD40 that's the stuff that smells by the way

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almost

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there holy crap I think the only thing

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more epic than the DIY heat sink we've

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created is the mess that we've created I

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mean this is like I don't know if it's

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like a pound of aluminum but boy howdy is it ever a lot of aluminum I guess we

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better clean this up look at this oh there's WD40 all over it this stuff is

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hard to pick up okay we are actually getting pretty

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close to being ready to try out mounting

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this baby after a little bit of washing

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and a little bit of filing just to take some of the really rough edges off of it

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so we don't hurt ourselves while we're working on it we are going to devise

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some kind of mounting system now that's the kind of of thing that you're

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probably thinking to yourself ginus surely you guys thought of that before

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you started to which I would

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reply it can't be that bad right yes my

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friends it's zip tie time again so we're

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going to throw on our usual icy Diamond thermal

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compound we are going to plunk that bad boy down on there and we are going to

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figure out how to zip tie it on you know

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what let's get some hot glue going on here too a Linus Tech tips project is

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truly not complete without hot

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glue so in terms of mounting for this

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puppy we're just going to kind of just going to kind of YOLO it I mean were you

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really expecting anything

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else there we go

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okay so the hot glue fan is on if we ran

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through the holes on the fan it was Albert Einstein who said that there's a

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fine line between idiot and

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genius comments are going to be full of he said no such

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thing what the

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crap what kind of cheap ass zip tie

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breaks just like that where do we get these oh they're generic so this is it

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Moment of Truth time well posts that's a

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good sign CPU temperature sitting at 25

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degrees we've got idol loaded up let's get our sensors going here idle

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temperature not bad and it's not like

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the fan is working really hard either check this out check this

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out it's just barely spinning see that

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so let's go ahead and hit it with a

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stress test CPU package is sitting at 74°

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but I think we've leveled off

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success for $3 worth of

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aluminum and a fan that we found some

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old 80mm Silverstone fan we were able

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to okay hold on a minute so it's been running for about 8 minutes now and the

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Victory is less complete than we at

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first thought so there's some good stuff to take away here we're still running

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above the base speed of the i76700 K but

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we are not turbo boosting to the max anymore so you can see we're actually

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getting some CPU throttling and overheating detected here our CPU

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package is up around 98° C and uh if you

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put your hands on the heat sink it is pretty toasty but the

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computer doesn't turn off it does

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run so there you we have it we did what we set out to do we made our own heat

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sink is it as good as the one that Intel puts in the Box no but Intel doesn't put

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a heat sink in the Box for their unlocked K series processors anymore so

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this if you have an unlimited amount of time and enough money to buy literally a

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power tool just to make it but for some reason not enough money to just buy a

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heat sink okay we don't know what the point of it was but it was fun wasn't it

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