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so all this work we've been doing on scrapyard Wars 3 which is started by the

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way definitely you want to check that out up there it's awesome has gotten me

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thinking about previous scrapyard Wars that we did in scrapyard Wars 2 the

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Highlight for me was constructing my own water block with the help of my neighbor

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who has a CNC and I realized that while we did

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Benchmark the actual cooling performance of my system we never determined if it

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was cooled so poorly because of the copper coil that I was using to

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dissipate the Heat or because of the neighbor natator 5000 CPU water block so

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today I going to be doing a review of my

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own water block that I built well with a lot of help in scrapyard Wars 2 so come

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along for the ride let's find out just how practical building your own water

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block can be compared to a pre-done solution

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the Logitech g33 features a lightweight design an advanced Optical sensor with

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Delta zero technology for precise tracking and RGB lighting check out the

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link in the video description to learn more so I guess this is how reviews

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usually start right is taking a look at the product now if you watch scrapyard

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Wars 2 you'll already know a lot about the construction of this block but if

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you haven't then I'll give you guys a quick run down it was cut on a customade

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CNC that my neighbor actually uses for his uh solar powered scoreboards

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business that he runs out of his garage and is constructed out of two pieces of

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metal so there's an aluminum plate at the bottom I had originally intended to

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use copper so that we wouldn't be mixing Metals but due to the ease of working

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with aluminum we opted for aluminum so there's an aluminum block on the bottom

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that actually has a cutout for some capacitors that would otherwise

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interfere with it specifically on this motherboard so these are these are a

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match made to go together then there's a

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copper plate on the top and copper was chosen in this case because soldering on

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copper Barb fittings was going to be a lot easier than tapping out threads for

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normal barbs so yes we're mixing Metals

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no that's not recommended for the long term even if you have an anti-corrosive

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additive even though that that will help quite a bit uh but it was more about the

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temporary operation of the thing than anything else anyway so on the inside which I

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unfortunately can't show you but we should have some footage to pop up here

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there are actually uh fins or channels cut into the copper now there's a lot of

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engineering that goes into the optimal thickness of the base plate compared to

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where the channels start the optimal thickness of the fins themselves and the

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direction of the water flow inside we didn't do any of that but what I want to

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know is how much that actually affects the end result so for comparison we are

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going to be using an EK Supremacy MX the

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included water Block in their Predator all-in-one liquid cooler so we'll also

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be using the rest of the Predator so that's a DDC plus I believe pump as well

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as a dual 120 mm radiator and a couple Noctua n12 fans to get the best Apples

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to Apples comparison that we can on our core i7 930 CPU so without further Ado

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let's get this party started assembling the test was pretty straightforward

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we're using a classic style bolt through mounting system um then just a couple of

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thumb nuts over the top to hold it on tight the only real key thing here is

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don't go too tight because you can actually crack or at least flex your

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motherboard and also make sure you're using some kind of insulating cover on

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the heads of the screws that come up through the back of the board we're not

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using any clamps on the hoses not because I wouldn't recommend doing this

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in a permanent install but just because we're only testing very temporarily on a

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test bench one thing I didn't foresee is that I'm going to have to refill the EK

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Predator oops but that shouldn't be too big of a deal because there is a fill

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Port right up here on the top okay hold on a second we interrupt this compelling

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footage of me installing a water block to bring you this breaking

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update this just arrived at the door and

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actually has some relevance to the project we're working

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on okay this my

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friends is our first samples of the

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lonus tech tips special edition

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n12 and nf14 fans from

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Noctua yes my friends they are here all

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black plastic and orange accents I'm going to install them on the radiator uh

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they'll be available for purchase soon I don't know exactly when and we have

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retailers lined up in the United States

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Australia uh uk/ Germany and Canada so

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uh yeah going to be awesome so we got

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our water cooler installed we got our block installed we got our sexy new fans

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installed all that's left is to boot this poppy up and make sure that we're

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able to get into Windows where we can do our comparative temperature

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testing okay so we're back with some results and I I think it's fairly safe

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to say that the bottleneck was either my

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copper cooling coil or I had a bad Mount

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last time because this is not bad I'm sitting anywhere from 29 to 33°

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generally speaking I take the second hottest core when I read Via Real temp

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so we'll call it 30° idle on the CPU not

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too shabby but that doesn't really tell us anything about its performance when

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the going gets tough so we're going to start up our Ida 64 stress test and find

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out what happens to our CPU temps then now we have to give it about 10 to 15

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minutes to reach equilibrium and then we'll come back and Report our load

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temperatures with our custom block all

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right so we've got our load temperatures as usual they're bouncing around a fair

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bit but I think it's safe to say somewhere in the 55 let's call it

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56° territory is going to be our load temperature not bad that's actually

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going to be pretty uh pretty challenging

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for our commercial block to beat by a significant margin so let's go ahead and

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change out the block and see how it does installation of the second block

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was fairly straightforward I just had to pop off my homemade one SWA the other

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block onto it just using a bucket to catch some water that spilled then I had

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to go find a back plate since out of the box this block is not compatible with

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LGA 1366 and from there I was able to

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use the stock thumb screws and bolts and screw into the back plate and it was

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pretty much Off to the Races after topping up my

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radiator okay so I think we're there

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idle temperatures very close but we expected that when the Chip's not

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kicking out a ton of heat you can't really expect there to be a massive

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difference from one cooler to another this is the case for water coolers air

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coolers whatever so we're looking at about 29° on our second hottest core for our

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chip now let's turn up the heat and see

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how our commercial block compares to our

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DIY one all right so we've got our final

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results and they're actually looking not

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too bad we only managed to beat our

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homemade block by about 6° with a

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commercial block now with that said the

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Gap will continue to widen as the heat output of the processor Rises so as you

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overclock the homemade block will lag behind

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significantly not to mention that it's got a bunch of other problems as well so

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overall the conclusion of my review is this A+ for effort but it's ugly as Sin

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difficult to mount it's going to corrode eventually and when you factor in all

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the time that I spent building it as much fun as that was it's just not worth

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it compared to buying a commercial block but that shouldn't surprise anyone since

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the whole DIY CPU block thing has gone pretty much completely out of fashion

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over the last 5 to8 years

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