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the desk pc's desperate need for maintenance has been

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kind of easy to ignore because all i had to do to not be able to see come check this

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out colored foam at the top of the water in

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the reservoirs and the disgusting amount of dust on the

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motherboard was to just cover it with hoodies and

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galaxy s9s and that sort of thing

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but it's gone to the point where it's actually loud like listen to this

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that's because of all the air in the loop so by popular demand

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welcome to desk pc water cooling maintenance

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a video that is going to be absolute

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hell brought to you by thermaltake their p90

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core tempered glass case features five millimeter thick glass and angled open

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because this thing is so large and heavy during the construction project of the

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wallpaper tv window we actually didn't

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take it out of the room so even though i did eventually get my filters installed

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here look at this look at this if i touch this filter

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see that dust there was so much dust in this room

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that i mean even

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what did get through the filter has made it just grody this one's the worst

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although what's cool is that for the doubters out there who thought that the

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airflow scheme for this thing wasn't gonna work yeah you're wrong

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oh

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it's inching over

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oh there we go and for those of you who figure i'm probably just whining look how thick

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that sucker is

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look at this oh lordy oh that is gross

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i need my dyson let's just make this video not about the desk at all let's

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just make it about a vacuum again you guys you guys like that i'm just kidding

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but i do need a vacuum hi

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i legitimately hadn't really given a lot of thought to where to start with this

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so one thing i did think of was that

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it would be good to be able to pull these up to drain the loop

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i don't know if i ended up actually leaving enough slack

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i take kind of a yolo approach to water cooling maintenance

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so you might as well get as much adrenaline pumping during that time as

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you can alright so this is a little bit tricky

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because what we don't want is any water on our mdf desk it is

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painted and that does help us out a fair bit but it is still sub-optimal

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to get water on it it'll swell up and basically get

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immediately ruined

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all right now this is a bit of a hack

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now normally i wouldn't recommend blowing into a water cooling loop

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because you introduce all kinds of you know microorganisms and stuff in

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your breath um but the reason that we don't care

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here is that we are about to clean everything anyway so it's not a big deal

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how would you if you were to blow into it um you would just have to open up

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somewhere open up the highest point of the loop and then drain at the lowest

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point in the loop and then the whole thing should just kind of drain on its own but you'd have to kind of carefully

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plan your loop in order for that kind of a strategy to work and we didn't

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because this loop was more planned for looks and less planned for

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so that we can maintain it properly all right so the adventure just got a little

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bit more interesting here this pump that i'm pulling out right now

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this one's fine but if you have a look at the inlet of the other one

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there's actually a bunch of micro cracks

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where the fitting goes in check this out this is very

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disappointing because it's clearly not leaking now it looks like we might have

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to replace this pump

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holy crap this might be a problem i can't even

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i can't even take apart the first thing that i'm pulling out of here

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oh good all right one down

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there's a reason that most water cooling manufacturers use delrin or acetal

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anywhere where you're going to thread in a fitting rather than plexi like this and the

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reason that it is more prone to cracking and additionally

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plexi is kind of sucky to clean because you can't

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really use um solvents like isopropyl alcohol on it

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you got to be very careful

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so the fittings we can just go at with some rubbing alcohol and an old

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toothbrush and then one of these

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handy dandy pipe cleaners

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and for this guy we just want to use

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we'll start with just our scrap water just to get some of the gunk off of it

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so for my next trick i'm going to be replacing the pwm

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versions of this pump that i have in there these are great

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if you don't cut off the pwm lead

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like we did when we were installing it and i'm going to replace them with the

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older regular dc control with a little

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knob on the back so i'm actually ending up with a double whammy of work here

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because i got to clean this before i put it away

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and i definitely have to clean this

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before i use it that is supposed to look like that

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okay alcohol seems to be working a little bit better i don't mind if the

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metal is stained but i do need to get the bulk of the

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actual sediment that's built up on it off

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uh this is going to be a bit more challenging

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oh crap i think i just ruined this

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it's an impeller it's a magnet i just touched steel wool on it it's all over

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it i am going to pull the one from the other pump

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got two pumps and one reservoir done

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the reservoirs are permanently stained from having an air bubble

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get me to eat it no you had a moment where you thought i

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might actually do it

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yeah i should try and get this off reservoir is done

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let's go find out if we have any tubing

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oh this is not a good sign not if i want to maintain the

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white and black color scheme anyway i just need a really long

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stiff object sorry i had something caught in my eye

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there on unfortunately no not a meter stick this time it has to be thinner for

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optimal penetration of the tubing Jake

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god get your mind out of the gutter look at that get that right in the tubing

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let's actually get the pumps back into place

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so while you guys were gone i got these pumps all swapped around so they are now

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d5 varios and

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these are really tight fit and they're all cleaned up now

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you put your cleaning stick in you take your cleaning stick out pick up this jug

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and try and wash it down

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that's what it's all about

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okay let's just spit on it to lube it up spit really is nature's lube

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i mean not like for this but bam

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nope you missed it already it's up it's done there was no fundamental problem

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here just needed more lube also this hole was a bit looser

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none of the bolts for these pumps were tight anymore

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once i took them off they all vibrated themselves loose

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all of a sudden you're having a heck of a time

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before and after baby ah okay uh there is definitely some

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trash in there though

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oh that's so dirty

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that's actually not as bad as it looked i've got a little bit of yellow gunk

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so there's definitely cleaning to be oh right

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okay so that's worse it's scrubbing time

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you know i don't know how clean this is gonna come

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like i could pull out the scouring pad but but then i've got metal shards all

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over the place and making matters worse i'm gonna end up with an uneven finish

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because i'm only gonna be able to scour some parts of it there may just not be

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anything we can do about this because part of the problem here

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is just that the nickel plating is being worn away to expose the copper over time

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i mean it's the funny thing about water like

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i'm not blaming the manufacturers here water erodes it's like

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what it does so we've got some erosion not corrosion

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in our block and i think we're just gonna kind of have to live with it

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so i did more closely inspect this pump top and yes it does have some

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like spider web cracks around it but it seems okay i think it'll hold up for

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quite some time um but that's actually

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why it used to be that the threads were directly in the acrylic on GPU blocks as

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well but that's i think why a lot of manufacturers started putting these on

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that and it gives them compatibility with those multi-block manifolds

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something to note is that most water block manufacturers void your warranty

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if you open up the blocks wow

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that is a very very poor thermal paste application there

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oh it smells

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you want to smell it no look at that it kind of looked like an

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oil of some sort like i wonder if whatever i'm touching is like some kind

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of microbe like can you imagine that on my tombstone here lies Linus

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tech tips sebastian died of

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weird alien organism growing in his water cooling loop that's embarrassing

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all right so we're going to do a slightly better job of this this time around okay

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just a little bit more tubing and then we're good to go i'm not going

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to watch Linus tech tips videos that guy has no idea what he's doing

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awesome all right

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well let's finish getting this thing filled up

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ah okay oh what the hell

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oh crap oh crap oh this is really bad i'm gonna keep throwing paper towels

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okay i think that's enough paper towel thank you i can't even see what i'm doing

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okay all right all right all right geez

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um it happened because i opened up the other side as well

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and beca i can't remember which order they're in in the loop but i guess not

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the one that i hoped for and so

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it basically didn't go very well made this one start

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spilling this is og pt nuke

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from petra's tech shop

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okay just a few drops of that should keep anything nasty from growing in the loop

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there's a bubble i see it i see ya there it is

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yep that's better finally done

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it to a water cooling novice anyone who couldn't build it themselves

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