1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,480 Intel's x86 architecture was made so popular by the original IBM PC that 40 years later, 2 00:00:07,780 --> 00:00:14,880 40 years after the original 8086 CPU, we are still using it. So it's pretty important. But 3 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:21,780 when Team Blue decided to celebrate that anniversary with what basically amounted to 4 00:00:21,780 --> 00:00:29,680 an upclocked and upmarket Core i7-8700K, we were a little underwhelmed. I mean, 5 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:37,280 I have been asking Intel for years to do something truly special with their really high-end stuff. 6 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:43,300 And like, look at this. It's got the same cores, the same IHS, the same green substrate, 7 00:00:43,300 --> 00:00:50,300 the same non-soldered thermal interface material. So we figured if Intel's not going to do it, 8 00:00:50,620 --> 00:00:56,800 then we're going to do it. We're going to build the 8086K that should have been, 9 00:00:57,340 --> 00:00:59,980 and we're going to do it in style. 10 00:01:08,540 --> 00:01:14,140 Before we could do anything, we needed to make sure that our CPU was performing the way that we would expect, 11 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:18,920 because we'll be comparing our end results later on to make sure that we didn't make it worse. 12 00:01:19,220 --> 00:01:24,920 With that out of the way, it's time to shut it all down, pull the CPU, and delit it. We've delitted 13 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:31,120 plenty of processors before, but this time will be slightly different, because now we need to lap it, 14 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:37,220 which for the uninitiated means removing the upper layer of nickel plating and leaving behind a smooth, 15 00:01:37,660 --> 00:01:37,760 flat, and smooth CPU. 16 00:01:37,780 --> 00:01:40,260 It's a flat copper finish for us to play with. 17 00:01:40,260 --> 00:01:46,320 Two hours, and two bloodied thumbs later, Anthony eased off the manual work to finalize 18 00:01:46,320 --> 00:01:50,560 the design that we'll be etching into the top of the IHS. We weren't sure at this stage 19 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:56,960 whether or not the resolution would be too fine to etch into the size of a CPU, but once 20 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:01,160 we finished with the design, we decided it was time to practice our gold plating with 21 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:05,120 a dead CPU. Extra hours of lapping not shown. 22 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:06,540 So this is our lapped heat spreader. 23 00:02:06,540 --> 00:02:07,820 Got this in there. 24 00:02:07,820 --> 00:02:09,920 Got that exposed copper going on there. 25 00:02:09,920 --> 00:02:15,260 I guess the smoother this is to start with, the less gold we would have to waste applying 26 00:02:15,260 --> 00:02:16,980 it thicker and then polishing it down, right? 27 00:02:16,980 --> 00:02:17,980 Right. 28 00:02:17,980 --> 00:02:18,980 Okay. 29 00:02:18,980 --> 00:02:22,780 What we need to do is we need to wrap this around like this, so that there's no metal 30 00:02:22,780 --> 00:02:23,780 actually showing. 31 00:02:23,780 --> 00:02:25,620 Okay, so what is this? 32 00:02:25,620 --> 00:02:27,350 That's to absorb the liquid. 33 00:02:27,350 --> 00:02:29,830 Okay, and none can be exposed at all? 34 00:02:29,830 --> 00:02:34,900 It can be exposed, but don't do it too tightly, because the fluid needs to be able to flow 35 00:02:34,900 --> 00:02:35,900 with the electricity. 36 00:02:35,900 --> 00:02:39,140 Okay, so this hook is just going to hold our... 37 00:02:39,140 --> 00:02:40,460 Our piece then? 38 00:02:40,460 --> 00:02:41,460 No. 39 00:02:41,460 --> 00:02:42,460 Oh. 40 00:02:42,460 --> 00:02:43,460 We're going to brush it on. 41 00:02:43,460 --> 00:02:44,460 We brush it on? 42 00:02:44,460 --> 00:02:45,460 Yeah. 43 00:02:45,460 --> 00:02:48,960 So our gold solution is actually clear. 44 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:50,480 Dip that in there. 45 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:54,260 That gauze will actually clear up, and once it's fully soaked... 46 00:02:54,260 --> 00:02:55,960 You just brush the gold on. 47 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:58,500 Yep. 48 00:02:58,500 --> 00:03:01,740 They say to do it as if you're petting a cat. 49 00:03:01,740 --> 00:03:03,920 After a while, we should start to see some yellowing. 50 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:06,540 So it paints on a pretty thin layer, eh? 51 00:03:06,540 --> 00:03:08,540 Yeah, it's basically microscopic. 52 00:03:08,540 --> 00:03:10,540 Oh, it is starting to yellow a little bit. 53 00:03:10,540 --> 00:03:12,950 It's really subtle. 54 00:03:12,950 --> 00:03:15,270 Wow, it's hard to... 55 00:03:15,270 --> 00:03:18,790 It's hard to tell, because it happens so slowly. 56 00:03:18,790 --> 00:03:24,630 Brush plating really wasn't what I was expecting when I had said, hey guys, let's make a gold-plated 57 00:03:24,630 --> 00:03:31,250 CPU, largely because I had actually never heard of it, but it ended up working out great. 58 00:03:31,250 --> 00:03:35,160 Check out the difference from the start. 59 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:40,400 Now applying conformal coating to the PCB or substrate that's going to be nearby anywhere 60 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:41,820 you're going to be using liquid metals. 61 00:03:41,820 --> 00:03:43,520 Pretty standard operating procedure. 62 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:48,900 So we've already done that all over the green part here, but the unusual thing we're doing 63 00:03:48,900 --> 00:03:52,380 today is we're going to plasti-dip a CPU. 64 00:03:52,380 --> 00:03:57,120 So we're going to go ahead and cover up the dye, and that's just for thermal performance 65 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:58,120 reasons. 66 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:00,120 We wouldn't actually be harming it by plasti-dipping it. 67 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,880 Then we're going to go ham. 68 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:09,510 Oh, Lordy, I put that on a little thick. 69 00:04:09,510 --> 00:04:13,950 Oh, boy, oh, boy. 70 00:04:13,950 --> 00:04:15,850 The adhesion to the conformal coating is not ideal. 71 00:04:15,850 --> 00:04:22,940 And I wish I'd gone on a little lighter, but what's done is done now. 72 00:04:22,940 --> 00:04:27,860 So now that we've got a smooth, gold-plated IHS, you're probably thinking to yourself, 73 00:04:27,860 --> 00:04:29,960 well, hey, almost home free, right? 74 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:33,900 Throw it in your guys' laser cutting slash engraving machine. 75 00:04:33,900 --> 00:04:38,900 I mean, wow, those test runs of the pattern look great. 76 00:04:38,900 --> 00:04:40,580 And boom, it's off to the races. 77 00:04:40,580 --> 00:04:44,260 But unfortunately, because we don't have like a solid state laser or what's it called? 78 00:04:44,260 --> 00:04:45,260 I don't know. 79 00:04:45,260 --> 00:04:46,020 I don't know. 80 00:04:46,140 --> 00:04:47,140 What's the other one? 81 00:04:47,140 --> 00:04:48,140 Fiber optic. 82 00:04:48,140 --> 00:04:49,140 Fiber optic laser. 83 00:04:49,140 --> 00:04:54,660 And for that matter, like almost no one around here does because they're really expensive. 84 00:04:54,660 --> 00:04:57,340 We're going to need a different plan. 85 00:04:57,340 --> 00:04:59,780 So we're going to do it the old fashioned way. 86 00:04:59,780 --> 00:05:01,820 It's off to the jewelry store. 87 00:05:01,820 --> 00:05:02,820 We're going to engrave it. 88 00:05:02,820 --> 00:05:03,820 That sounds like a plan. 89 00:05:03,820 --> 00:05:05,260 Anthony's going to engrave it. 90 00:05:05,260 --> 00:05:06,260 I'll find someone. 91 00:05:06,260 --> 00:05:08,410 I heard he knows a guy. 92 00:05:08,410 --> 00:05:12,210 While Anthony gets our practice piece over to the engraver, it's time to gold plate our 93 00:05:12,210 --> 00:05:13,870 real IHS. 94 00:05:13,870 --> 00:05:16,290 So he took a turn with the electroplating kit. 95 00:05:16,290 --> 00:05:20,670 Anthony got back after a bit of polish and some touch ups here and there and a second 96 00:05:20,670 --> 00:05:21,670 trip to the jeweler. 97 00:05:21,670 --> 00:05:24,890 I think the end result speaks for itself. 98 00:05:24,890 --> 00:05:30,100 So something we didn't account for in the original plan was the extra thickness that 99 00:05:30,100 --> 00:05:32,240 would be added by the plasti dip. 100 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:37,960 So a quick extra step we had to add was just sanding down the bottom of the IHS a little 101 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:42,200 bit to account for that clearance because it's the glue that we're going to apply around 102 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,080 the edges when we relit it, that's going to hold it on. 103 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:46,280 So that's sort of important. 104 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:53,900 So now all that's left is to peel this off, exposing our die. 105 00:05:53,900 --> 00:05:54,900 Liquid metal the die. 106 00:05:54,900 --> 00:06:00,060 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 107 00:06:00,060 --> 00:06:01,060 And that's more like it. 108 00:06:01,060 --> 00:06:05,680 It's so chilly in here that it's not staying very liquidy. 109 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:08,740 I'm going to wipe some up. 110 00:06:08,740 --> 00:06:15,840 I just want to err on the side of a lighter rather than a heavier application here. 111 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:22,300 I think that's pretty close actually. 112 00:06:22,300 --> 00:06:27,430 Let's put our CPU back together. 113 00:06:27,430 --> 00:06:28,780 Oh. 114 00:06:28,780 --> 00:06:29,780 That was spot on. 115 00:06:29,780 --> 00:06:30,780 Nailed it. 116 00:06:30,780 --> 00:06:31,970 What? 117 00:06:31,970 --> 00:06:32,970 That should be tight enough. 118 00:06:32,970 --> 00:06:36,120 Okay. 119 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:37,120 Now we leave that for about an hour. 120 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:38,120 All right. 121 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:39,120 We'll be back. 122 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:40,560 This is it. 123 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:53,340 This is we think the limited edition CPU Intel should have made. 124 00:06:53,340 --> 00:06:58,240 Black PCB, gold spreader, custom engraving. 125 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:00,300 And should we make sure it still works? 126 00:07:00,300 --> 00:07:01,300 Probably a good idea. 127 00:07:01,300 --> 00:07:03,980 That is so cool. 128 00:07:03,980 --> 00:07:04,980 If you're into that sort of thing anyway. 129 00:07:04,980 --> 00:07:06,850 So we want to enable XMP and disable multi-core enhancement. 130 00:07:06,850 --> 00:07:07,850 Oh, it looks like... 131 00:07:07,850 --> 00:07:08,850 Yeah. 132 00:07:08,850 --> 00:07:09,850 So just F10. 133 00:07:09,850 --> 00:07:10,980 Cool. 134 00:07:10,980 --> 00:07:11,980 27 degrees. 135 00:07:11,980 --> 00:07:12,980 Looks good. 136 00:07:12,980 --> 00:07:14,390 Oh, cool. 137 00:07:14,390 --> 00:07:15,390 So the IHS is lapped. 138 00:07:15,390 --> 00:07:16,390 We've got liquid metal on it. 139 00:07:16,390 --> 00:07:17,390 Theoretically, it should be better than before in terms of its temperatures, but we also 140 00:07:17,390 --> 00:07:18,390 engraved it. 141 00:07:18,390 --> 00:07:19,460 And we don't know if that's going to cause micro ridges around the engraving or anything 142 00:07:19,460 --> 00:07:20,460 like that. 143 00:07:20,460 --> 00:07:21,460 There's a very good chance it could. 144 00:07:21,460 --> 00:07:22,460 And we don't know if that's going to cause micro ridges around the engraving or anything 145 00:07:22,460 --> 00:07:23,460 like that. 146 00:07:23,460 --> 00:07:24,460 There's a very good chance it could. 147 00:07:24,460 --> 00:07:25,460 And we don't know if that's going to cause micro ridges around the engraving or anything 148 00:07:25,460 --> 00:07:26,460 like that. 149 00:07:26,460 --> 00:07:35,460 There's a very good chance it could. 150 00:07:35,460 --> 00:07:40,480 And we applied a new layer of metal on top of it that obviously wasn't lapped. 151 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:43,820 So we don't know exactly how flat it is. 152 00:07:43,820 --> 00:07:47,940 So we're hoping for the best, but we won't know for sure until we actually test it. 153 00:07:47,940 --> 00:07:51,940 We're using an air cooler, so we don't have to wait around for the coolant to reach equilibrium. 154 00:07:51,940 --> 00:07:52,940 Max. 155 00:07:52,940 --> 00:07:56,600 So 64 to 75 degrees. 156 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,980 67 to 71. 157 00:07:59,980 --> 00:08:00,980 Does that sound reasonable? 158 00:08:00,980 --> 00:08:01,980 Yes. 159 00:08:01,980 --> 00:08:03,780 Look at that. 160 00:08:03,780 --> 00:08:05,520 We had a spike and then it settled in. 161 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:07,740 Yeah, because that was in turbo. 162 00:08:07,740 --> 00:08:08,740 Now it's no longer turboing. 163 00:08:08,740 --> 00:08:09,740 If we look up here. 164 00:08:09,740 --> 00:08:10,740 Oh, okay. 165 00:08:10,740 --> 00:08:13,060 But was that the same way you tested it last time? 166 00:08:13,060 --> 00:08:16,640 Did you take your temps with turbo or without? 167 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:17,640 Without. 168 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:18,640 Without? 169 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:19,640 So sustained. 170 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:20,640 Oh, so then we're killing it. 171 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:21,640 Oh. 172 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:22,640 Yeah. 173 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:23,640 We're at like 62 degrees. 174 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:24,640 Yeah. 175 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:26,280 We're not finished our before and after testing yet though. 176 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:30,680 Now this CPU's thermals were not good enough before we liquid metalled it to really do 177 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:32,180 any overclocking. 178 00:08:32,180 --> 00:08:37,460 So all we could do was turn on multi-core enhancement and then, where's this guy? 179 00:08:37,460 --> 00:08:39,820 And then max out these power limits here. 180 00:08:39,820 --> 00:08:46,080 So 4095 here, 127 here, and 4095 here. 181 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:51,770 So now we can have a look at what kind of a performance improvement we can get now that 182 00:08:51,770 --> 00:08:55,850 our true limited edition, very limited edition, one of a kind. 183 00:08:55,850 --> 00:09:00,440 And CPU can be fully unfettered. 184 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:01,440 So let's hit it again. 185 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:10,030 We're running at 4.3 right now, 4.3, 68 degrees on the hottest core. 186 00:09:10,030 --> 00:09:12,240 Wow. 187 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:15,630 Dang. 188 00:09:15,630 --> 00:09:16,990 That max turbo though. 189 00:09:16,990 --> 00:09:18,950 We could just run that all day. 190 00:09:18,950 --> 00:09:24,390 As it turned out, we didn't gain much in gaming, but when it came to blender, we saw a tangible 191 00:09:24,390 --> 00:09:28,510 improvement in performance thanks to our better thermals, which were much better than stock. 192 00:09:28,510 --> 00:09:29,470 When we removed the turbo, we got a much better performance. 193 00:09:29,470 --> 00:09:35,170 When we removed the power limit, we hit the same temperature, but our gold plated CPU 194 00:09:35,170 --> 00:09:40,850 remained at five gigahertz on all cores with a Noctua NHU 12S. 195 00:09:40,850 --> 00:09:45,130 With a beefier cooler, we could do five gigahertz all day long. 196 00:09:45,130 --> 00:09:48,990 So even after running for 10 minutes, our thermal results are still looking great, which 197 00:09:48,990 --> 00:09:52,990 means the last before and after is a good old fashioned Cinebench run while we wait 198 00:09:52,990 --> 00:09:54,350 for that to go. 199 00:09:54,350 --> 00:09:59,410 I should probably say like, in fairness to Intel, there's a lot of stuff that you don't 200 00:09:59,410 --> 00:10:04,250 have to change in the manufacturing pipeline in order to do something like gold plated heat 201 00:10:04,250 --> 00:10:05,250 spreader. 202 00:10:05,250 --> 00:10:07,090 Like the kind of validation a company like this does. 203 00:10:07,090 --> 00:10:12,150 I mean, let alone turning the substrate black, they'd have to do all kinds of materials testing 204 00:10:12,150 --> 00:10:14,130 and science and stuff in order to do that. 205 00:10:14,130 --> 00:10:19,410 So I'm not giving them too hard of a time, but I also do think they could do better. 206 00:10:19,410 --> 00:10:23,510 And that's the purpose of this video is, hey, come on guys. 207 00:10:23,510 --> 00:10:28,250 If we can do it, then I think a multi-billion dollar company can probably do it too. 208 00:10:28,250 --> 00:10:29,290 So our final result is... 209 00:10:29,290 --> 00:10:30,290 1390. 210 00:10:30,290 --> 00:10:31,290 1386. 211 00:10:31,290 --> 00:10:32,480 1386. 212 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:37,040 So we have lost no performance. 213 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:41,000 We have better thermal results and presumably we'd be able to overclock this damn thing 214 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:42,000 now. 215 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:43,000 Probably at this point. 216 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:44,000 Freaking A. 217 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:45,080 So thanks for watching guys. 218 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:47,160 If you liked this video, you can hit that button. 219 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:49,720 I mean, if you disliked it, I guess there's the other one too. 220 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:52,960 If you really liked it though, get subscribed or check out where to buy the stuff that we 221 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:56,100 featured at the link in the video description. 222 00:10:56,100 --> 00:10:58,980 Also in the video description is our merch store, which has cool shirts like this one, 223 00:10:58,980 --> 00:10:59,320 and our community. 224 00:10:59,320 --> 00:10:59,820 I'll see you in the next video. 225 00:10:59,820 --> 00:11:00,320 Bye.