now I know what you're thinking a custom liquid cooling Loop for less than an AO
cooler clickbait clickbait not true but
wait no it's true for
$522 with prime shipping on
amazon.com I obtained everything I will need to build a custom water cooling
Loop for my CPU now what kind of Hardware did he find for that kind of a
price that's a great question and I'm going to show you this is going to be a
good
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we got here now I'm going to tell you guys right off the Hop that shopping for
these was not particularly easy the AGP
Tech 12 pipe aluminum heat exchanger radiator for PC for example did not even
include the specs of what size the barbs
are and actually looking at the picture
telling the difference between qu in and 38 inch barbs is not that easy but uh
Hey for $16.99 I'm feeling pretty good about
this purchase all right next up is the pump
this is not what was in the picture so
if this works then great it's rated at
240 lers per hour flow with three meters of Max Head theoretically plenty no
connector or anything but we'll we'll solve that problem later and finally the
centerpiece of my water cooling Loop this thing same thing man Amazon needs
like a like a like a scale next to
pictures on their site because look at this look at this product page looks
pretty big right in person the length pure red
copper water cooling block for CPU Graphics radiator heat sink 40x40
millimet which I guess should have tipped me off is this dinky little thing
before we get started there are a few more things that we need so first of all
I scrunched up some tubing a mixture of 1/4 in and 38 this can be obtained very
cheaply so it doesn't affect the price of our setup much and a couple of 38 to4
in reducers as well as a 3/8 in Te
because we don't want to waste money on a budget project like this on a
dedicated Reservoir we'll show you how to use that later next up we'll need our
soldering iron why is the sponge missing for this why why we will need our drill
we'll need a sacrificial Molex connector a sacrificial case side panel and we'll
need some screws along with anything else that I realize that I've forgotten
along the way is there any PC that's not totally miss the wano
PC I'll use my Franken cooling Solution
on the wancho PC so in order to do that
we will need a baseline reading for the temperatures with the Noctua NH
something D9 L that's in there right now NH D9 whatever the cooler that's in
there right now to compare against our custom liquid cooler so check this
out 61° on the CPU let's see if we can beat that shall
we I'm back one step and a half more
every time I'm outside your front
door our $25 special does not come with
any mounting hardware whatsoever we're going to need a hold down plate it's
going to be the ghetto sort in case any of you were wondering we're going to Center this baby by eyeball we're going
to find a bit let big enough for these babies to come
through oh oh the eyeball in it system
works again I mean it's like if uh it's
like if art was more
beautiful where my screws
go 832 832
832 washers or
or stick with me here a zillion washer
one zillion washers now presumably you could find like some plastic junk or you
could use a proper length screw and that would solve this problem for you
but I am nothing if not willing to do things entirely the wrong way for
the sake of finishing this video right now that was probably a lot of thermal
compound oh yeah 20 washers right there
20 Ro washers is a magic number arguably
this is a bit of a hack for me to say the cost is $52 and and whatever because
I did not factor in the cost of a fan for the radiator but I also don't think
it's an entirely unfair assumption that if you have a computer it probably has a
120 mm fan in it somewhere so we're
going to repurpose the one that's in the case I don't even think the product page
specified that this was a 120 mm
radiator but it would appear as though the spacing is
correct nice that looks legit right so when
you're using a crappy pump it's more
important to uh carefully plan out the
position of everything within the loop so that you're able to bleed the air
bubbles out because a super powerful pump will just blow them through um but
a crappy one will not be able to do that
now the reason I chose this pump had
everything to do with placement and size
nothing to do with cost which if you remember from the intro of this video is
an outright lie let's keep it really simple not drill any more holes and
let's mount it on the bottom right here so next order of business is we need
some kind of PC compatible connector on our pump cuz it just straight up doesn't
come with one because whatever right only all kinds of stripping were this
easy I wouldn't have to make YouTube videos that's the key to good stripping
use your
teeth okay couple minutes later boom Molex
connector there we go pump's powered the radiator is 3/8 in
so that's where I need to use wait a
minute oh well
I was just saying we needed a snag it is not 38
in it's like a really ginormous quarter
inch which is actually terrible because
my 1/ quter inch tubing is super old and
was not particularly pliable in the first place okay
fortunately I have this norprene tubing
that I ripped off of some Swift Tech thing a long time
ago sh so positioning of the tline very
important because when we fill it we want it to go straight down to the inlet
of the pump and when there are air bubbles we want them to make their way
out so it has to be at the highest point is in the loop actually up here might
have been a little bit better but we're not going to stress about these minor Minor Details keep in mind that normally
would put zip ties on these barbs but this is a very
shortterm solution so I'm not going to bother I would also normally cut this
tubing to a reasonable length but this is expensive tubing and so I'm going to
save it so let's go ahead and
uh let some of that water work its way into the system here so I think I'm
about to have a bit of a bit of a witness me moment here
um because this is quite possibly the jankiest thing I have ever done on
lineus Tech tips what you guys are about to
see I need a faster way to do this not a recommended way a faster
way so we are going
to put this computer on or do something
like this and actually this was a
mistake I me everything about this was a mistake but this in particular filling
the glass that was a mistake oh that's why I wanted the glass
full now I remember thinking thinking it doesn't look like
I'm thinking but I assure you I am oh no
no no no no no okay okay we're good
theoretically it is now full it's loud as all hell but uh I realized why we
probably have a post code there's no graphics card in there so like we could
still get away with this we're going to have to give it some
time but this is looking very promising
it might be loud it might be janky and
it might be ugly but damn it it
outperforms a decent aftermarket cooler coming in a whopping 5° cooler after an
extended stress FPU load in Ida 64 so
thank you guys for coming along for the ride whether you believed in me from the
start or whether you are a hater a
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