1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:06,480 Intel reached out to sponsor a video where we water cool one of their wicked 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:10,320 fast Raptor Lake HX gaming laptops and Alex had lots of wild 3 00:00:12,040 --> 00:00:17,600 ideas and you chose the worst one hey I 4 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:23,320 mean for one thing this was your idea in the first place and for another unlike 5 00:00:21,039 --> 00:00:29,320 what we usually do this is something you may actually want to replicate at home 6 00:00:26,080 --> 00:00:32,200 if all goes according to plan this $30 7 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:36,239 laptop water cooling kit from AliExpress should take about an hour to install 8 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:41,039 should boost performance when it's hooked up to water and it should allow 9 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:47,039 our machine to operate normally when it's not filled with water though not 10 00:00:44,399 --> 00:00:50,879 going to lie I kind of expected more what are you talking about we've got so 11 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:55,719 many things in here we have pump we have plastic tubes we have these cool little 12 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:59,920 copper tubes and even a free gift wow we're going to be voiding our 13 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:04,479 warranty aren't we oh yeah every time and we're going to tell you about our sponsor wait our sponsor is Intel why 14 00:01:02,879 --> 00:01:08,159 did we put a sponsor Segway in here hi Intel as much as we meme on AliExpress 15 00:01:06,479 --> 00:01:12,840 for all the silly things that you can get there it can be a legitimate way to 16 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:16,759 get electronics and other goods for relatively cheap and we found it to be 17 00:01:14,799 --> 00:01:21,799 much more reliable than competitors like wish and teamu so let's have a look at 18 00:01:19,119 --> 00:01:26,200 what we got this time this is a 5.5 to 12vt submersible pump based on the 19 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:30,759 suction cups probably intended for aquarium use at some point but should 20 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:35,920 serve our purposes very nicely this is some inexpensive flexible tubing 21 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:40,799 and this is the star of the show what appears to be a couple of flattened heat 22 00:01:38,399 --> 00:01:45,479 pipes or other copper tubes that have had the ends hacked off and then 23 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:51,240 replaced with what appears to be threaded inserts for woodworking wait 24 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:53,320 what look oh my God they are well 25 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:57,280 they're plastic inserts overall the Kit's a little on the improvised side 26 00:01:55,680 --> 00:02:01,880 there's no instructions just a bunch of zip ties but our plan is pretty simple 27 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:06,880 simple for a change we just need to somehow attach this flat copper tube to 28 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:12,000 the existing heat pipes in the underside of this laptop get the threaded inserts 29 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:15,920 to the outside somehow then run some water through it cooling the 30 00:02:13,319 --> 00:02:20,840 aforementioned heat pipes this is not going to work as well as directly water 31 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:25,239 cooling the CPU and the GPU but believe it or not we've seen commercial 32 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:31,640 Solutions not dissimilar to this from companies like xpg and electronics and 33 00:02:28,599 --> 00:02:34,040 they work surprising ly well now let's 34 00:02:31,640 --> 00:02:39,720 take a closer look at our test subject it's the ASUS Rog strict scar featuring 35 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:41,280 an RTX 49 Mobile with 16 gigs of GDDR 6X 36 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:47,720 memory and a 175 wat tgp this is effectively as fast 37 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:52,800 as a laptop gets in the GPU department and honestly we're not expecting our 38 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:57,760 water cooling to help it go any faster because NVIDIA limits how much power 39 00:02:55,360 --> 00:03:05,760 laptop makers are allowed to give to the GPU not so for the CPU at the heart of 40 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:10,000 this machine is Intel's core I9 13980 HX 41 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:14,599 I'm talking 24 cores 8 performance 16 42 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:16,560 efficiency a maximum turbo of 5.6 GHz 43 00:03:14,599 --> 00:03:22,040 this is effectively the same as a desktop core I9 13900 K but with a 44 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:27,680 tweaked version of the Intel 7 process that's tuned for lower power which makes 45 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:32,480 sense given it has a 65 wat TDP in this 46 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:35,560 chassis and a maximum power of 157 WTS 47 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:37,840 and it's unlocked meaning we should have 48 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:42,480 some room to overclock it's also got a 240 HZ 1000 nit mini LED display that 49 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:46,519 runs at 1600p it's got RGB all over the place thing looks awesome enough about 50 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:51,360 that though let's get this cooler ripped off is this a chassis intrusion thing 51 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:56,959 dang it ASUS I think it's at least easy to fool no really oh that blows wow 52 00:03:55,400 --> 00:04:01,560 they've given a lot of thought to airflow Management in here look at all 53 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:05,480 these little foamy bits they are making sure that when these fans draw an air 54 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:10,439 they're pulling fresh air from the outside only fresh air actually not 55 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:16,560 quite only fresh air it'll pull a little bit from over here drawing it across the 56 00:04:12,239 --> 00:04:18,280 RAM uh the SSD other more different SSD 57 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:22,960 and then this guy right here is really cool that's drawing fresh air in and 58 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:27,759 then blowing it across the vrms here what a cool design and we're going to 59 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:32,199 rip it all out maybe before we do that we plant out the heat pipes and bend 60 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:36,400 them now tell me what you're thinking in one side out the other we go kind of 61 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:41,199 swamp like that or are you going to try and just run this across here and reach 62 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:47,199 the outside right next to each other I was thinking that we would do one for 63 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:50,360 CPU one for GPU have them coming out 64 00:04:47,199 --> 00:04:52,039 each side seriously yeah about little y 65 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:59,160 Splitters so we can run them in parallel I mean it's not the dumbest thing we've ever done how far from it how flexible 66 00:04:55,960 --> 00:05:00,880 are these things well they're quite 67 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:05,800 flexible they're quite flexible until you Flex them they work Harden and then 68 00:05:03,199 --> 00:05:10,840 they become brittle got it I was also imagining this kind of sticking out like 69 00:05:07,919 --> 00:05:18,000 that much what well like we can try and oh Alex but also like realistically we 70 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:20,600 have to just gouge this whole thing so 71 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:27,000 the exact Z placement doesn't really matter okay this I got this i got 72 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:30,039 this it's actually really easy to bend so yeah no no this is fine do you want 73 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:35,360 to start working on the other side I think I I think I can do this and then I feel like this is something that's going 74 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:38,840 to end up kind of montaged SL kind of fast 75 00:05:36,639 --> 00:05:43,160 forwarded it occurs to me that your devious plan of using both of them 76 00:05:41,319 --> 00:05:46,440 leaves us with no backup plan if one of them fails do you have another one of 77 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:53,960 these kits on him n we just cannot screw this up oh joy what are you doing just 78 00:05:50,319 --> 00:05:57,319 hold on okay like why is it crisscrossed 79 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:59,160 it's applesauce okay yeah this is very 80 00:05:57,319 --> 00:06:03,120 much not applesauce this is copper that's work hardening that we only have 81 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:08,160 one of I'm an applesauce Enthusiast you put applesauce in oats and leave them 82 00:06:04,919 --> 00:06:08,160 overnight it tastes really good in the 83 00:06:09,039 --> 00:06:17,800 morning Alex food tips I think I've got 84 00:06:13,639 --> 00:06:21,440 it it's a duck no it's a dinosaur it is 85 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:21,440 a dinosaur what is 86 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:29,599 mine wait your plan is to solder this to 87 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:31,319 the heat pipes out of the laptop y and 88 00:06:29,599 --> 00:06:35,240 then just hope to God the whole thing fits back in it's going to be easy we 89 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:40,000 just need to solder them to this we know where these need to be cuz it just lines 90 00:06:37,639 --> 00:06:44,280 up with this little heat sink it's going to be 91 00:06:41,479 --> 00:06:49,840 fine problem is we need to remove the paint off this to solder oh I'm crying 92 00:06:47,639 --> 00:06:53,319 out loud Alex I'm super stressed this is not as easy as you made 93 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:58,800 it out to be an hour he said yeah an hour if 94 00:06:56,199 --> 00:07:02,199 you're using thermal epoxy ah why are we soldering again 95 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:06,879 uh cuz you said that you really wanted to solder that's what the people came 96 00:07:04,039 --> 00:07:10,360 here to see us soldering to heat pipes and them hopefully not blowing up things 97 00:07:08,599 --> 00:07:17,560 are about to get a little messy now because ASUS uses liquid metal on the CP 98 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:21,680 oh crap on both of them really guess so 99 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:25,479 oh wow okay 100 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:28,440 interesting it's like a cover that looks 101 00:07:25,479 --> 00:07:33,599 sort of like Captain tape that keeps the liquid metal when it inevitably does 102 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:37,879 leak from shorting anything on the package for these chips then they've got 103 00:07:36,199 --> 00:07:43,039 these little barriers that keep the liquid metal from getting out of their 104 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:49,080 little cavities that looks an awful lot like K5 Pro it really does I still hate 105 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:54,639 it it's great stuff fantastic stuff how did you want to strip the P off this 106 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:58,440 bench grinder oh no do you want me to do 107 00:07:54,639 --> 00:08:00,479 it yeah what about you do it what why 108 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:04,360 would you even offer if you're just I thought you were going to say no sorry 109 00:08:02,319 --> 00:08:07,440 I'm using this yeah do it somewhere that it doesn't really matter like over here 110 00:08:05,639 --> 00:08:11,560 that'll be nice and easy and you can just see it'll just be like and then the 111 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:11,560 weo 112 00:08:19,319 --> 00:08:24,319 paint okay all right it's not that 113 00:08:24,639 --> 00:08:32,479 bad okay can I see it I want to like get home on time this evening 114 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:36,640 what about the foam and stuff it's leaving well wait we can't have the foam 115 00:08:34,399 --> 00:08:40,800 leave it's got the airflow paths yeah but we have more foam I bought more foam 116 00:08:38,399 --> 00:08:44,080 oh god well he doesn't tell me these things I'm sitting here being careful 117 00:08:42,279 --> 00:08:50,640 not to damage the foam and he's like oh you're taking too long there you go wow 118 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:52,399 that looks awesome yeah fantastic oh 119 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:56,040 dang it w we didn't even smoo up the bottom that badly yeah and like if we 120 00:08:54,240 --> 00:09:00,240 did it's just copper it'll make it more conductive no that's not how that works 121 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:06,120 well sure why not also electrically conductive which isn't fantastic 122 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:11,440 but we did a sanity check because we're careful like that made our marks and now 123 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:12,959 it is time to get fancy meet Nate from 124 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:17,640 Creator Warehouse hello I don't think he's been on video before but he's going 125 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:19,079 to show us how to solder to heat pipes 126 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:23,800 this is not how you solder to a heat pipe but it's a way to do it thanks Nate 127 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:28,160 yeah you're welcome step one clamp the heat pipe with non- meltable clamps 128 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:32,279 that's that's important uh but not too hard we don't want to w w hold on hold 129 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:37,399 on you got to uh check the other side of what's business is going on I got some 130 00:09:34,519 --> 00:09:42,079 tech tips too liquid metal huh that looks pretty good before we go any 131 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:46,040 further what am I looking at here this is a rework station commonly used in 132 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:50,920 reworking electronics it allows you to heat up the board to an ideal 133 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:56,440 temperature for soldering so just shy of just shy of the melting point of the so 134 00:09:54,200 --> 00:10:01,360 you can very precisely remove components quickly you said this is glass so is it 135 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:07,959 like in infrared heat y infrared heat we have a bunch of coils under there o um 136 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:07,959 very cool or 137 00:10:08,680 --> 00:10:15,800 hot I'm proud of that I'm proud of you lus and we will of course monitor the 138 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:21,120 bottom of this even though this is far overkill for the circuitry we're working 139 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:25,120 on or the lack of circuitry this really is making that 140 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:29,320 thermal epoxy option sound pretty good Alex it sounded good the whole time 141 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:32,959 whose idea was this uh this is me how was you yeah well Alex always told me 142 00:10:31,399 --> 00:10:36,000 it's really hard to solder to heat pipes and every time I've been like oh but you 143 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:40,079 know we should figure out how to do it at some point because that would be done it when did we do it we did it before 144 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:44,440 well we didn't do it in the play button PC I know that much remember we didn't 145 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:49,360 no we did we've argued about this before we didn't I disassembled it after to fix 146 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:54,120 the thermal issues it was epoxy actually no it was just thermal paste we didn't 147 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:58,320 even put epoxy in it no there was a combo while these two figure that out 148 00:10:55,880 --> 00:11:03,279 I'm going to start the element heating up how we doing in here 80° oh wow 149 00:11:01,399 --> 00:11:08,839 that's heating up real fast so I should touch it then right radiative heat 150 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:11,000 transfer is cool I mean hot but yeah 151 00:11:08,839 --> 00:11:15,320 he's rubbing off on me I'm getting bored that's not a board that's a heat 152 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:20,079 gun as you probably can guess this cooler is pretty good at cooling so uh 153 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:24,560 I'm going to just throw some Rags on it and hope that the rag doesn't light on 154 00:11:21,639 --> 00:11:30,000 fire this is bored 155 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:35,639 you 100° C I should touch it with my finger now no I'm only half kidding this 156 00:11:33,560 --> 00:11:40,240 is taking a very long time here you hold this oh wait it's 100° I can do that I 157 00:11:38,279 --> 00:11:45,160 told lus to do something it was great what temperature are we aiming for here 158 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:47,839 in the 130 140 range oh okay with with 159 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:53,000 this um once we do that I'll apply the thermal paste and uh we'll see how it 160 00:11:50,519 --> 00:11:59,839 how it flows by thermal paste he means paste form solder yeah thermal paste not 161 00:11:56,440 --> 00:12:02,639 thermal paste oh sorry 162 00:11:59,839 --> 00:12:07,920 you're right if you're wondering Tessa tape starts melting at around 200° C 163 00:12:06,399 --> 00:12:14,480 okay I mean we're at 130 that's what you said we were doing right let's let's try it I'm going to squeeze that 164 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:21,639 in right okay maybe just a little to 165 00:12:17,839 --> 00:12:24,279 start we want it to flow yeah I mean if 166 00:12:21,639 --> 00:12:29,760 she's flowing there you go oh it's doing it it's doing the thing we're going to 167 00:12:26,199 --> 00:12:34,720 use the whole heck yeah oh what just 168 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:34,720 happened she did a thing I don't know 169 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:42,399 crap I think she detached from the bottom one that's fine that's not fine 170 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:46,880 oh wait it detached from like yeah it did oh I think they used the same solder 171 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:53,399 we used H that's not good so I say we heat it up 172 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:57,199 and we take the clamp and we clamp it back together the whole thing yeah U 173 00:12:54,880 --> 00:13:01,720 maybe with a little bit of this in between yeah it makes a ton a sense they 174 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:05,279 would be using the same solder we are I don't know I thought that it made a lot 175 00:13:03,079 --> 00:13:09,560 more sense that they would be using higher temperature 176 00:13:06,639 --> 00:13:13,560 stuff needle noose Vice GPS I know I can get precise with this and what I just 177 00:13:11,639 --> 00:13:16,680 melted again yeah I'm a little worried about giving her too much beans here 178 00:13:15,199 --> 00:13:21,000 because then we might start detaching other things from other things so maybe 179 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:25,760 we just continue on yeah I think we just do some of that there we go I saw it 180 00:13:23,639 --> 00:13:29,560 attached to the bottom can we get like a bunch raid in here cuz that's I think 181 00:13:27,839 --> 00:13:34,480 like a really key okay hold on hold on hold on let me H you're good no no no no 182 00:13:31,639 --> 00:13:39,480 that's already Lots it's on or I mean like right in here yeah guys I really 183 00:13:37,680 --> 00:13:45,160 don't think we need that much once it's soldered it's soldered it's not thermal 184 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:47,240 contact area lus thermal contact 185 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:55,360 area I'm just really worried this thing is going to come apart again probably 186 00:13:49,639 --> 00:13:58,519 will well yep y jeez guys why did we 187 00:13:55,360 --> 00:14:00,839 okay are we calling that good yeah 188 00:13:58,519 --> 00:14:06,920 that's let's cool it down oh Lordy looks 189 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:08,720 good great even great it's a super 190 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:12,240 strong word to describe this but I think we might have done it question for you 191 00:14:10,519 --> 00:14:19,079 this is all fine and good but do we have fittings for the ends of these yeah oh 192 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:21,360 can I see them they're so cute look at 193 00:14:19,079 --> 00:14:28,800 the little ler siiz one oh are these compressions too yep no way wow so 194 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:33,120 secure won't even leak fresh strategy this time instead of using the heat gun 195 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:40,360 to melt the solder we are going to use H soldering iron this is more how uh this 196 00:14:36,199 --> 00:14:40,360 tool is meant to be used I'm putting on 197 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:45,920 less I'm putting on less murders the 198 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:50,160 whole thing with oh that that's how he did 199 00:14:46,959 --> 00:14:53,320 it ooh well this works great w yeah that 200 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:56,040 was so much better I breathe that I'm 201 00:14:53,320 --> 00:15:00,000 right in WoW yep hell of a drug someone's going to have hallucinations 202 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:04,360 this evening oh yeah that's way better yeah I'd let it cool off a little bit no 203 00:15:02,519 --> 00:15:10,800 well you're going to risk delaminating cuz the this temp over here is up to 130 204 00:15:07,279 --> 00:15:14,360 mhm no no I got this damn it it totally 205 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:16,120 did it didn't it yeah ah crap wait I 206 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:21,360 can't be adding that much heat with this thing can I it's at 380° C something 207 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:26,360 just really moved yeah it's it's not happy at all we need more 208 00:15:23,199 --> 00:15:31,800 clamps this heat pipe fell 209 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:33,880 off okay ah so can we take this we need 210 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:36,880 the long boy we do need the long or I could just use this oh God I don't know 211 00:15:36,079 --> 00:15:43,199 about that oh God that just moved oh crap oh 212 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:48,480 that's gone yeah okay this might actually be bad now what about this one 213 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:51,839 we can't oh this this one isn't oh God I 214 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:54,360 think that's the GG boys okay this is 215 00:15:51,839 --> 00:15:59,440 detached yeah I think GPU and CPU are fine yeah actually they they do look 216 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:04,399 fine this one's not looking too good well no yeah thanks for that everything 217 00:16:01,759 --> 00:16:08,240 else here looks not bad yeah it's it's salvageable I think turning a perfectly 218 00:16:06,399 --> 00:16:12,920 good laptop into salvageable 219 00:16:09,959 --> 00:16:18,839 is nothing to be proud of but if only there was another way we could have done 220 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:23,759 this why did I say I wanted to use the solder one to two more degrees of 221 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:30,519 cooling no so there would be learning outcomes for the video okay yeah did we 222 00:16:27,319 --> 00:16:30,519 learn yeah 223 00:16:30,639 --> 00:16:37,240 F all right day two here's the plan we have our environmental chamber and we 224 00:16:35,319 --> 00:16:44,279 have gotten rid of the safety limits and it is now at 180° C we have our heat 225 00:16:41,079 --> 00:16:46,120 sink here which has been clamped a whole 226 00:16:44,279 --> 00:16:50,639 bunch I did a little Home Depot run and bought 10 of them today and we should be 227 00:16:48,399 --> 00:16:54,480 able to just Huck it in there and hopefully it's all fine I guess that one 228 00:16:52,279 --> 00:16:58,519 need to be a bit tighter now ideally for this solder that we have here you would 229 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:02,959 have a curve that looks something like like this to melt it unfortunately uh we 230 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:06,079 we can't do that this thing's way too big to do that rapid of heating so we're 231 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:14,799 just going to Chuck it in there and hope for the best and you 232 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:17,120 go there oh I bent that heat pipe so bad 233 00:17:14,799 --> 00:17:21,000 okay that's a Burnie boy yeah that's really hot I imagine we have our thermal 234 00:17:18,919 --> 00:17:26,280 probe attached so we know how hot it is and once it gets to around 160° we 235 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:30,039 should be about good we have solder drops on the bottom of the thing ah nice 236 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:36,000 all right so we're liquid then we're nearly at 165° when we hit that we're 237 00:17:32,799 --> 00:17:36,960 going to kill the chamber yep turn on 238 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:41,520 the fan and with any luck we can cool it 239 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:45,440 down half fast probably don't bre wow that's a lot of heat it's dropping fast 240 00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:49,400 dropping fast okay yep whole thing hasn't exploded yet so that's nice my 241 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:53,960 first impressions just looking at it are not good oh you want to do it yeah why 242 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:57,039 not sure that way it can be my fault if it all goes wrong 243 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:03,799 yep what level of monstrosity have you 244 00:18:01,559 --> 00:18:08,039 unleash on the world it's got more clamps than a tsy and Aura character has 245 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:13,400 buckles the vrm heat pipe looks like it's come off but the rest might be fine 246 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:13,400 let's have a look without 247 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:20,320 clamps yeah it looks like it might just be that one vrm heat sink yeah I'm a 248 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:26,799 little bit concerned about how flat some of these heat pipes are but overall that 249 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:28,760 was pretty darn good the vrm heat pipe 250 00:18:26,799 --> 00:18:33,240 right here has come off a bit but that's not super important so I think that we 251 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:38,080 can just maybe reattach that with some thermal adhesive well maybe it worked I 252 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:43,559 guess we put it back in the laptop now this is not going to work because these 253 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:45,799 are bare dyes Y and these need to be 254 00:18:43,559 --> 00:18:51,600 perfectly flat in order to cool them I'm not the most hopeful I've ever 255 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:54,600 been my thought is we just goop thermal 256 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:56,200 paste in there K5 Pro K5 Pro works too 257 00:18:54,600 --> 00:19:01,799 oh he already had it ready for the uninitiated K5 Pro is essentially a 258 00:18:58,919 --> 00:19:07,840 liquid thermal pad oh I didn't mean in there oh you said VMS yeah do you see 259 00:19:05,159 --> 00:19:12,240 the bit where the vrm pad is detached from the heat pipe oh like in there yeah 260 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:16,480 in there oh that'll be fine it'll act as a heat spreader anyway it's attached on 261 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:20,600 this side I'm not worried about that feels like cake decorating except 262 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:25,559 grosser is this Intel's laptop uh I think it's ASUS's laptop 263 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:31,840 that they gave us because Intel asked them to a sorry ASUS 264 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:35,480 um you guys have definitely screwed some stuff up over the last little bit but 265 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:40,799 you didn't do anything to deserve this you ready Moment of 266 00:19:38,799 --> 00:19:46,720 Truth oh it seems like it really wants to go in there uh no no that's not how I 267 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:47,880 would describe it you know what I think 268 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:52,400 we're well clear and then are we just going to do 269 00:19:49,799 --> 00:19:55,320 the rotary tool just making it happen method I think 270 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:00,760 so 271 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:07,320 that's some pretty robust plastic they got there you saw how it flies out last 272 00:20:05,159 --> 00:20:12,120 time right can't hear of the sound of my excellent totally um approved hearing 273 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:18,559 protection I think it goes Alex oh yeah 274 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:24,600 not bad okay cool yeah all right I think it's time to 275 00:20:23,159 --> 00:20:31,360 screw this down and see if it actually goes yeah oh this is 276 00:20:28,799 --> 00:20:36,159 messed up dude shoot did I just cross thread that too adding insult to injury 277 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:40,200 are you sure that's the right screw Noe what are the odds this powers on at all 278 00:20:38,919 --> 00:20:46,200 oh I think it's going to power on I don't know with all the strain we're putting on the 279 00:20:43,159 --> 00:20:48,200 board I've seen it not work yeah true I 280 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:52,960 have too that's normally when there's like an actual socket okay I think that 281 00:20:50,120 --> 00:20:57,000 screw is free spinning now so that's good oh that just popped out of the 282 00:20:54,600 --> 00:21:02,200 board yep popped right out of the standoff that's a that's a a really bad 283 00:20:59,360 --> 00:21:06,559 sign that's really really bad there is no obvious way to put that back in at 284 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:11,240 this time I told you about the chassis intrusion thing so we can't even just 285 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:16,320 boot this up without it all closed up yeah yeah now for this I'm thinking we 286 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:20,240 put a piece of rubber between the bottom of the chassis and this spot right here 287 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:26,279 just to push down on it I don't have any better ideas where is this have to 288 00:21:23,559 --> 00:21:30,120 uh balls oh balls balls balls balls balls B you know why that GPU was so 289 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:34,559 hard to put in oh balls balls balls balls balls balls the fan connector is 290 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:37,080 in there ah yes oh crap it just pulled up that stand 291 00:21:40,159 --> 00:21:45,919 off okay I really wish we had 292 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:50,320 spares we do have a spare we have a spare laptop we don't have spare copper 293 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:55,400 tubes a oh no so we would have to salvage them off 294 00:21:53,080 --> 00:22:00,880 of here let's do whatever it takes to not go down that path this is literally 295 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:03,520 Des disastrous yeah my hopes are not 296 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:06,799 high not high at all I'm getting this thing closed I was looking maybe a 297 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:11,480 little bit of this stuff right here to try and push that GPU down yeah that 298 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:16,640 seems pretty good to me that is really thick yeah I don't know if it'll work 299 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:21,919 but we might want to go with slightly smaller pieces more like right on the 300 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:24,679 the pressure points cuz putting it all across this is just going to put a ton 301 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:28,520 of the pressure here yeah but we kind of need the 302 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:34,159 pressure like right here the most part don't we I mean yeah I say we just see 303 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:40,039 what happens like that and if it feels like it's not going to work we can 304 00:22:36,559 --> 00:22:41,880 remove some okay I have two screws 305 00:22:40,039 --> 00:22:47,240 though left over we're very confident that this laptop's going to 306 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:49,880 work did that catch yep it's not even 307 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:52,760 that bulged it's here it's raw did you plug in the battery 308 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,960 truth 309 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:07,840 well that's a plus yeah super easy to take apart now bottom cover just pops 310 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:13,760 right off there it is okay Moment of Truth 311 00:23:10,919 --> 00:23:13,760 attempt number the 312 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:20,400 second I've never wanted to hear that stupid swing so much in my life I don't 313 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:23,760 think she's swinging it's really not looking good is it no I think it's dead 314 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:32,760 one thing it didn't shut down immediately 315 00:23:26,919 --> 00:23:32,760 which does make oh my God what 316 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:39,400 no no way after all that time are you 317 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:43,960 kidding me I was sitting here thinking why don't we try an external display 318 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:48,679 maybe we messed up the ribbon cable look at this 319 00:23:46,559 --> 00:23:53,840 keyboard don't talk about the keyboard like that okay it's Thanksgiving you had 320 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:58,600 some dinner full of turkey well there were turkeys involved let's have a looky 321 00:23:56,039 --> 00:24:06,120 Boo Here shall we here's where we're at CPU 70° H 322 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:08,120 GPU zero zero well that's an improvement 323 00:24:06,120 --> 00:24:13,600 I don't make the rules does it actually exist ice manager display adapters I 324 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:20,840 mean it's in there do we try and run a game valheim I want to see if this GPU 325 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:22,320 comes to life oh hey it did who 50° okay 326 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:27,919 those fans are going they're going but you know what's 327 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:33,320 kind of wild CPU package power is up to 40 Watts we're at 86° it actually seems 328 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:40,960 to have it under control GPU temps are 75 holy sh I think it still works holy 329 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:45,080 crap 170 FPS it's actually not bad the 330 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:46,600 1% lows they dip I think that may be 331 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:53,440 something to do with the cooling being kind of messed up but our GPU is at 78 332 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:55,840 and our CPU is at almost 4 GHz 333 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:59,039 74° that's actually really impressive should we grab the other one to see how 334 00:24:57,120 --> 00:25:03,919 we're actually doing fine did we have a plan to seal these threads or O-rings or 335 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:07,720 something uh I was kind of thinking that we would just throw like the smallest 336 00:25:06,279 --> 00:25:11,760 amount of Teflon tape on there or something like that this isn't as far 337 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:18,000 off as I was expecting really wait what so are GPU is at about 338 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:20,559 1600 MHz on this one and it's at about 339 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:26,399 1600 it's actually did it survive Alex tell me it 340 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:32,399 survived it's doing a lot better than I ever would have expected survived it's 341 00:25:28,159 --> 00:25:34,919 really looking like it survived yeah woo 342 00:25:32,399 --> 00:25:38,480 oh that's so exciting we should try something a little bit more comparable I 343 00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:41,799 don't know why the GPU toemon Tre is broken on that one oh wo wo wo wo check 344 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:50,200 this out check this out no no Glenn check this out check this out the CPU is turboing to 5.15 almost 5.2 it's cuz 345 00:25:47,039 --> 00:25:52,360 this one has extra heat pipes let's go 346 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:56,960 okay this only at 3.8 now it seems to be a little all over the 347 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:59,679 place cuz this one's at 4 this one's at 4.4 348 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:06,840 interesting 155 average versus 170 but 349 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:10,840 kind of expected that GPU Telemetry is not working for some reason but it's 350 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:15,640 clearly running faster but we can fix that wait this is our water cooling 351 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:20,080 Reservoir yeah really that's what you've got those are the cutest y fittings I've 352 00:26:17,919 --> 00:26:24,360 ever seen for real though guys if it hadn't been for the disastrous outcome 353 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:28,000 from heating up the heat pipe assembly this wouldn't be that bad I mean it 354 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:33,120 doesn't look Factory by any of the imagination but I don't know it's pretty 355 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:39,120 clean huh what what that's not too bad yeah I 356 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:44,320 know this isn't the world's most perfect Benchmark but we've got frame view 357 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:47,159 running right now we are rendering the 358 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:53,159 menu in this game if we pump water through it and FPS go up or attempts go 359 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:55,679 down we did good yeah okay this is it 360 00:26:53,159 --> 00:27:02,080 Moment of Truth guys watch this water watch wo wo she's full w oh she's 361 00:26:58,159 --> 00:27:04,640 chilling okay okay how's our FPS doing 362 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:07,159 how's our wait I forgot is this CP or GP it's leaking what do you mean leaking 363 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:13,520 you pulled the tube out no I don't I don't know what you're talking about is this the CPU side because our CPU is at 364 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:16,640 70° now oh wow it was at 80 before it 365 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:19,039 actually working oh our FPS it was a CPU 366 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:27,200 of cooling issue we're up to the exact same FPS let's go yeah 367 00:27:23,159 --> 00:27:28,799 W water cooling to the rescue I mean it 368 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:35,080 only solved the problem that we ourselves created but we are 10° cooler 369 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:40,039 than the air cooled laptop even after we mangled it that is flipping crazy it's 370 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:45,440 not even leaking I honestly cannot believe it 371 00:27:43,559 --> 00:27:54,039 things were looking desperate a couple minutes ago wow we are 15° clear of this one as 372 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:55,399 they're both heating up here almost 20 373 00:27:54,039 --> 00:27:59,559 we're not going to be able to compare our GPU temps cuz this one's being a 374 00:27:57,519 --> 00:28:04,480 butt head but what we will be able to measure is FPS and I think we're going 375 00:28:02,279 --> 00:28:08,399 to beat the air cooled laptop okay what's the best way to do this should we 376 00:28:06,039 --> 00:28:13,080 just turn off the pump temporarily yeah I just did Plum this up to the other 377 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:14,960 side and then we'll just go in cereal oh 378 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:20,640 I don't want to do cereal cuz this looks really restrictive the Y adapters yes 379 00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:22,200 the Y adapters nice feel this tell me 380 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:26,120 which side is the cold side and which side is the warm side this is the warm 381 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:29,120 side oh yeah it's very noticeable you're right then there's no way that we can go 382 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:33,960 cereal we don't want to be feeding that hot water to our GPU under normal 383 00:28:31,679 --> 00:28:39,240 circumstances in a water cooling Loop the order of the components doesn't 384 00:28:35,799 --> 00:28:42,039 matter at all but this is such a tiny 385 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:46,440 tiny volume of water and the amount of heat that we're pumping into it is so 386 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:51,559 much that it does make a difference it's kind of like being peed on what I was a 387 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:54,120 bed weather till I was like 15 I know it's not weird just give her the old 388 00:28:52,919 --> 00:28:58,240 snip there's not that much water in these tubes so doesn't really matter if 389 00:28:56,120 --> 00:29:03,840 it leaks a little I'm having a lot more fun now than I was half an hour ago I'm 390 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:05,440 sure you're on the same page there too 391 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:11,039 oh my goodness what a roller coaster this has 392 00:29:08,159 --> 00:29:15,640 been now I suspect the supplier of this kit intends for you to use just one of 393 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:20,440 those tubes probably and then it's the other one is just because you'll 394 00:29:17,039 --> 00:29:23,120 probably screw up the first one but I 395 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:28,440 think our solution with the Y Splitters cooling the CPU and GPU on 396 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:33,000 Independent loops is going to perform better you can see in our screen 397 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:36,559 recordings that our FPS in the menu here has dropped on the water cooled machine 398 00:29:35,039 --> 00:29:41,559 and that's just because we screwed up the cooler earlier but Alex if you turn 399 00:29:39,519 --> 00:29:48,200 on the water cooler I think we are about to see some spectacular results our GPU 400 00:29:44,679 --> 00:29:49,720 is at around, 1600 MHz right now it's on 401 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:53,720 which she's getting water now GPU is down 10° already 402 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:59,320 68 19 2,000 MHz 403 00:30:00,159 --> 00:30:08,120 s oh this is very 404 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:12,240 interesting we just dropped over 10° on 405 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:15,279 our GPU we just boosted another 400 2.3 406 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:17,799 it popped up to 2.3 for a second there 407 00:30:15,279 --> 00:30:22,600 drag race time bear in mind we have screen cap running this time we didn't 408 00:30:19,799 --> 00:30:27,919 last time so this is not meant to be comparable to our first results this is 409 00:30:24,799 --> 00:30:30,600 meant to be comparable to each other 410 00:30:27,919 --> 00:30:34,440 neck and neck but what's not neck and neck is the temps we don't have GPU 411 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:41,720 temps on this one unfortunately but our CPU is at 82° we are beating that by 412 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:45,640 over 10° on our water cooled laptop that 413 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:48,960 CPU is at 5 4 GHz oh 414 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:50,679 yeah oh yeah I'm honestly really 415 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:54,440 impressed with ASUS and how much power they just will give you when you have 416 00:30:52,279 --> 00:30:59,159 the cooling I'm so excited to have the same performance as the air cooled one 417 00:30:56,159 --> 00:31:01,720 you know what though is it at least 418 00:30:59,159 --> 00:31:06,679 quieter no not really is okay is it 419 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:13,919 cooler yes Alex dude this one is too oh wow it 420 00:31:11,679 --> 00:31:17,880 is wow good job Aus yeah they they have a thing that like takes a bit of the fan 421 00:31:16,679 --> 00:31:23,480 and blows it through the keyboard to keep it cool oh what's that 422 00:31:21,279 --> 00:31:32,399 24° on Supply 30 30 like 31 30 2 on return wow 423 00:31:29,639 --> 00:31:35,840 that's crazy it's got to be the same on the other side this is the GPU side I 424 00:31:34,039 --> 00:31:40,799 bet this one's even going to be more this one's considerably cooler on the 425 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:44,120 inlet I told you with that with that exhaust here I think it's actually 426 00:31:42,519 --> 00:31:49,159 heating it up significant okay okay results time we 427 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:51,760 won yeah let's 428 00:31:49,159 --> 00:31:56,600 go I honestly can't believe it and now we overclock so we can win more yeah I 429 00:31:54,639 --> 00:32:01,200 spent the last couple hours overclocking these and out to the gate they freaking 430 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:06,200 rip with just the Windows default power plant and on the air cooled laptop I was 431 00:32:03,519 --> 00:32:12,000 able to immediately get 27,32 points in cinebench R23 for 432 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:17,399 comparison that is higher than the score we got with the I9 12900 K when we first 433 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:22,240 reviewed it and we haven't even tried to make it faster yet next easiest thing to 434 00:32:19,399 --> 00:32:27,240 do is go into ASUS's Armory crate right here and just simply whack the power 435 00:32:24,399 --> 00:32:31,760 limits to the max getting us a tasty 17 5 wats on the CPU and heading us an 436 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:38,600 incredible 30,37 points in cin bench damn although 437 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:44,639 it was clear by the end of the run that ASUS's thermal solution was becoming the 438 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:46,399 bottleneck not the CPU itself and like 439 00:32:44,639 --> 00:32:53,000 we just spend a whole video water cooling laptop so let's send it and it 440 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:56,039 is so good we were able to just look at 441 00:32:53,000 --> 00:33:00,039 175 watts and managed a 442 00:32:56,039 --> 00:33:02,799 31,48 18 on our first run with it not 443 00:33:00,039 --> 00:33:07,519 bad at all although after that things started getting difficult even though 444 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:12,360 the thermals were in check the current limits on the vrms were just immediately 445 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:17,639 getting hit which is where the true hero of laptop overclocking comes in 446 00:33:14,919 --> 00:33:23,159 undervolting on a desktop and XTU you can play with all the stuff in here uh 447 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:27,480 on a laptop core voltage offset just make it lower and it will go faster 448 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:30,799 basically what we're doing is the CPU will consume less power for the same 449 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:35,799 clock speed making it more power efficient allowing us to get more out of 450 00:33:32,799 --> 00:33:37,360 those 175 Watts that are available to us 451 00:33:35,799 --> 00:33:43,200 the fastest run I managed was a blustering 452 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:46,480 32,4 in cin bench with a minus 453 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:47,639 0125 volt offset curiously I slapped a 454 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:53,480 minus 0.135 volt offset on the aircool laptop 455 00:33:50,519 --> 00:33:58,600 and broke 32,000 points as well meaning that uh you can just render videos super 456 00:33:56,440 --> 00:34:04,399 fast with this thing even without the water cooling although uh I did prop it 457 00:34:01,279 --> 00:34:06,159 up with the power brick the best part 458 00:34:04,399 --> 00:34:10,520 about undervolting your CPU is that it will also make your laptop faster in 459 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:15,440 games the largest obstacle in games is just the total power of the laptop in 460 00:34:12,679 --> 00:34:19,960 this case 230 wats and by allowing the CPU to run more efficiently the GPU can 461 00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:27,760 then gobble up more power and Ne more frames at your face our Hots spot at the 462 00:34:22,359 --> 00:34:31,320 top of the keyboard here is 46 47 let's 463 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:34,280 say 48 48 on this 464 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:42,159 one 53 oh wow yeah that's 465 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:44,320 meaningful it no it is just like this 466 00:34:42,159 --> 00:34:48,119 meaningful Segway to wait no Intel sponsored this video If you guys liked 467 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:52,280 the vibe of this video I have plenty of other options for places to send you but 468 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:56,560 I think the best one is probably that AliExpress cooler we bought to replace 469 00:34:54,480 --> 00:35:02,520 the cooler in an Alienware that was like a pre-done version of this except it 470 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:05,040 made it barely even work on air cooling 471 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:07,680 that thing was a disaster we somehow did better