the desk pc's desperate need for maintenance has been
kind of easy to ignore because all i had to do to not be able to see come check this
out colored foam at the top of the water in
the reservoirs and the disgusting amount of dust on the
motherboard was to just cover it with hoodies and
galaxy s9s and that sort of thing
but it's gone to the point where it's actually loud like listen to this
that's because of all the air in the loop so by popular demand
welcome to desk pc water cooling maintenance
a video that is going to be absolute
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because this thing is so large and heavy during the construction project of the
wallpaper tv window we actually didn't
take it out of the room so even though i did eventually get my filters installed
here look at this look at this if i touch this filter
see that dust there was so much dust in this room
that i mean even
what did get through the filter has made it just grody this one's the worst
although what's cool is that for the doubters out there who thought that the
airflow scheme for this thing wasn't gonna work yeah you're wrong
oh
it's inching over
oh there we go and for those of you who figure i'm probably just whining look how thick
that sucker is
look at this oh lordy oh that is gross
i need my dyson let's just make this video not about the desk at all let's
just make it about a vacuum again you guys you guys like that i'm just kidding
but i do need a vacuum hi
i legitimately hadn't really given a lot of thought to where to start with this
so one thing i did think of was that
it would be good to be able to pull these up to drain the loop
i don't know if i ended up actually leaving enough slack
i take kind of a yolo approach to water cooling maintenance
so you might as well get as much adrenaline pumping during that time as
you can alright so this is a little bit tricky
because what we don't want is any water on our mdf desk it is
painted and that does help us out a fair bit but it is still sub-optimal
to get water on it it'll swell up and basically get
immediately ruined
all right now this is a bit of a hack
now normally i wouldn't recommend blowing into a water cooling loop
because you introduce all kinds of you know microorganisms and stuff in
your breath um but the reason that we don't care
here is that we are about to clean everything anyway so it's not a big deal
how would you if you were to blow into it um you would just have to open up
somewhere open up the highest point of the loop and then drain at the lowest
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
plan your loop in order for that kind of a strategy to work and we didn't
because this loop was more planned for looks and less planned for
so that we can maintain it properly all right so the adventure just got a little
bit more interesting here this pump that i'm pulling out right now
this one's fine but if you have a look at the inlet of the other one
there's actually a bunch of micro cracks
where the fitting goes in check this out this is very
disappointing because it's clearly not leaking now it looks like we might have
to replace this pump
holy crap this might be a problem i can't even
i can't even take apart the first thing that i'm pulling out of here
oh good all right one down
there's a reason that most water cooling manufacturers use delrin or acetal
anywhere where you're going to thread in a fitting rather than plexi like this and the
reason that it is more prone to cracking and additionally
plexi is kind of sucky to clean because you can't
really use um solvents like isopropyl alcohol on it
you got to be very careful
so the fittings we can just go at with some rubbing alcohol and an old
toothbrush and then one of these
handy dandy pipe cleaners
and for this guy we just want to use
we'll start with just our scrap water just to get some of the gunk off of it
so for my next trick i'm going to be replacing the pwm
versions of this pump that i have in there these are great
if you don't cut off the pwm lead
like we did when we were installing it and i'm going to replace them with the
older regular dc control with a little
knob on the back so i'm actually ending up with a double whammy of work here
because i got to clean this before i put it away
and i definitely have to clean this
before i use it that is supposed to look like that
okay alcohol seems to be working a little bit better i don't mind if the
metal is stained but i do need to get the bulk of the
actual sediment that's built up on it off
uh this is going to be a bit more challenging
oh crap i think i just ruined this
it's an impeller it's a magnet i just touched steel wool on it it's all over
it i am going to pull the one from the other pump
got two pumps and one reservoir done
the reservoirs are permanently stained from having an air bubble
get me to eat it no you had a moment where you thought i
might actually do it
yeah i should try and get this off reservoir is done
let's go find out if we have any tubing
oh this is not a good sign not if i want to maintain the
white and black color scheme anyway i just need a really long
stiff object sorry i had something caught in my eye
there on unfortunately no not a meter stick this time it has to be thinner for
optimal penetration of the tubing Jake
god get your mind out of the gutter look at that get that right in the tubing
let's actually get the pumps back into place
so while you guys were gone i got these pumps all swapped around so they are now
d5 varios and
these are really tight fit and they're all cleaned up now
you put your cleaning stick in you take your cleaning stick out pick up this jug
and try and wash it down
that's what it's all about
okay let's just spit on it to lube it up spit really is nature's lube
i mean not like for this but bam
nope you missed it already it's up it's done there was no fundamental problem
here just needed more lube also this hole was a bit looser
none of the bolts for these pumps were tight anymore
once i took them off they all vibrated themselves loose
all of a sudden you're having a heck of a time
before and after baby ah okay uh there is definitely some
trash in there though
oh that's so dirty
that's actually not as bad as it looked i've got a little bit of yellow gunk
so there's definitely cleaning to be oh right
okay so that's worse it's scrubbing time
you know i don't know how clean this is gonna come
like i could pull out the scouring pad but but then i've got metal shards all
over the place and making matters worse i'm gonna end up with an uneven finish
because i'm only gonna be able to scour some parts of it there may just not be
anything we can do about this because part of the problem here
is just that the nickel plating is being worn away to expose the copper over time
i mean it's the funny thing about water like
i'm not blaming the manufacturers here water erodes it's like
what it does so we've got some erosion not corrosion
in our block and i think we're just gonna kind of have to live with it
so i did more closely inspect this pump top and yes it does have some
like spider web cracks around it but it seems okay i think it'll hold up for
quite some time um but that's actually
why it used to be that the threads were directly in the acrylic on GPU blocks as
well but that's i think why a lot of manufacturers started putting these on
that and it gives them compatibility with those multi-block manifolds
something to note is that most water block manufacturers void your warranty
if you open up the blocks wow
that is a very very poor thermal paste application there
oh it smells
you want to smell it no look at that it kind of looked like an
oil of some sort like i wonder if whatever i'm touching is like some kind
of microbe like can you imagine that on my tombstone here lies Linus
tech tips sebastian died of
weird alien organism growing in his water cooling loop that's embarrassing
all right so we're going to do a slightly better job of this this time around okay
just a little bit more tubing and then we're good to go i'm not going
to watch Linus tech tips videos that guy has no idea what he's doing
awesome all right
well let's finish getting this thing filled up
ah okay oh what the hell
oh crap oh crap oh this is really bad i'm gonna keep throwing paper towels
okay i think that's enough paper towel thank you i can't even see what i'm doing
okay all right all right all right geez
um it happened because i opened up the other side as well
and beca i can't remember which order they're in in the loop but i guess not
the one that i hoped for and so
it basically didn't go very well made this one start
spilling this is og pt nuke
from petra's tech shop
okay just a few drops of that should keep anything nasty from growing in the loop
there's a bubble i see it i see ya there it is
yep that's better finally done
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