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Intel reached out to sponsor a video where we water cool one of their wicked

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fast Raptor Lake HX gaming laptops and Alex had lots of wild

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ideas and you chose the worst one hey I

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mean for one thing this was your idea in the first place and for another unlike

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what we usually do this is something you may actually want to replicate at home

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if all goes according to plan this $30

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laptop water cooling kit from AliExpress should take about an hour to install

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should boost performance when it's hooked up to water and it should allow

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our machine to operate normally when it's not filled with water though not

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going to lie I kind of expected more what are you talking about we've got so

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many things in here we have pump we have plastic tubes we have these cool little

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copper tubes and even a free gift wow we're going to be voiding our

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warranty aren't we oh yeah every time and we're going to tell you about our sponsor wait our sponsor is Intel why

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did we put a sponsor Segway in here hi Intel as much as we meme on AliExpress

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for all the silly things that you can get there it can be a legitimate way to

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get electronics and other goods for relatively cheap and we found it to be

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much more reliable than competitors like wish and teamu so let's have a look at

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what we got this time this is a 5.5 to 12vt submersible pump based on the

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suction cups probably intended for aquarium use at some point but should

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serve our purposes very nicely this is some inexpensive flexible tubing

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and this is the star of the show what appears to be a couple of flattened heat

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pipes or other copper tubes that have had the ends hacked off and then

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replaced with what appears to be threaded inserts for woodworking wait

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what look oh my God they are well

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they're plastic inserts overall the Kit's a little on the improvised side

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there's no instructions just a bunch of zip ties but our plan is pretty simple

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simple for a change we just need to somehow attach this flat copper tube to

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the existing heat pipes in the underside of this laptop get the threaded inserts

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to the outside somehow then run some water through it cooling the

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aforementioned heat pipes this is not going to work as well as directly water

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cooling the CPU and the GPU but believe it or not we've seen commercial

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Solutions not dissimilar to this from companies like xpg and electronics and

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they work surprising ly well now let's

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take a closer look at our test subject it's the ASUS Rog strict scar featuring

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an RTX 49 Mobile with 16 gigs of GDDR 6X

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memory and a 175 wat tgp this is effectively as fast

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as a laptop gets in the GPU department and honestly we're not expecting our

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water cooling to help it go any faster because NVIDIA limits how much power

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laptop makers are allowed to give to the GPU not so for the CPU at the heart of

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this machine is Intel's core I9 13980 HX

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I'm talking 24 cores 8 performance 16

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efficiency a maximum turbo of 5.6 GHz

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this is effectively the same as a desktop core I9 13900 K but with a

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tweaked version of the Intel 7 process that's tuned for lower power which makes

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sense given it has a 65 wat TDP in this

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chassis and a maximum power of 157 WTS

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and it's unlocked meaning we should have

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some room to overclock it's also got a 240 HZ 1000 nit mini LED display that

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runs at 1600p it's got RGB all over the place thing looks awesome enough about

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that though let's get this cooler ripped off is this a chassis intrusion thing

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dang it ASUS I think it's at least easy to fool no really oh that blows wow

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they've given a lot of thought to airflow Management in here look at all

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these little foamy bits they are making sure that when these fans draw an air

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they're pulling fresh air from the outside only fresh air actually not

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quite only fresh air it'll pull a little bit from over here drawing it across the

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RAM uh the SSD other more different SSD

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and then this guy right here is really cool that's drawing fresh air in and

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then blowing it across the vrms here what a cool design and we're going to

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rip it all out maybe before we do that we plant out the heat pipes and bend

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them now tell me what you're thinking in one side out the other we go kind of

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swamp like that or are you going to try and just run this across here and reach

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the outside right next to each other I was thinking that we would do one for

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CPU one for GPU have them coming out

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each side seriously yeah about little y

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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

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are these things well they're quite

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flexible they're quite flexible until you Flex them they work Harden and then

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they become brittle got it I was also imagining this kind of sticking out like

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that much what well like we can try and oh Alex but also like realistically we

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have to just gouge this whole thing so

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the exact Z placement doesn't really matter okay this I got this i got

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this it's actually really easy to bend so yeah no no this is fine do you want

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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

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to end up kind of montaged SL kind of fast

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forwarded it occurs to me that your devious plan of using both of them

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leaves us with no backup plan if one of them fails do you have another one of

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these kits on him n we just cannot screw this up oh joy what are you doing just

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hold on okay like why is it crisscrossed

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it's applesauce okay yeah this is very

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much not applesauce this is copper that's work hardening that we only have

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one of I'm an applesauce Enthusiast you put applesauce in oats and leave them

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overnight it tastes really good in the

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morning Alex food tips I think I've got

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it it's a duck no it's a dinosaur it is

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a dinosaur what is

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mine wait your plan is to solder this to

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the heat pipes out of the laptop y and

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then just hope to God the whole thing fits back in it's going to be easy we

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just need to solder them to this we know where these need to be cuz it just lines

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up with this little heat sink it's going to be

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fine problem is we need to remove the paint off this to solder oh I'm crying

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out loud Alex I'm super stressed this is not as easy as you made

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it out to be an hour he said yeah an hour if

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you're using thermal epoxy ah why are we soldering again

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uh cuz you said that you really wanted to solder that's what the people came

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here to see us soldering to heat pipes and them hopefully not blowing up things

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are about to get a little messy now because ASUS uses liquid metal on the CP

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oh crap on both of them really guess so

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oh wow okay

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interesting it's like a cover that looks

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sort of like Captain tape that keeps the liquid metal when it inevitably does

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leak from shorting anything on the package for these chips then they've got

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these little barriers that keep the liquid metal from getting out of their

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little cavities that looks an awful lot like K5 Pro it really does I still hate

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it it's great stuff fantastic stuff how did you want to strip the P off this

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bench grinder oh no do you want me to do

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it yeah what about you do it what why

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would you even offer if you're just I thought you were going to say no sorry

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I'm using this yeah do it somewhere that it doesn't really matter like over here

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that'll be nice and easy and you can just see it'll just be like and then the

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weo

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paint okay all right it's not that

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bad okay can I see it I want to like get home on time this evening

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what about the foam and stuff it's leaving well wait we can't have the foam

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leave it's got the airflow paths yeah but we have more foam I bought more foam

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oh god well he doesn't tell me these things I'm sitting here being careful

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not to damage the foam and he's like oh you're taking too long there you go wow

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that looks awesome yeah fantastic oh

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dang it w we didn't even smoo up the bottom that badly yeah and like if we

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did it's just copper it'll make it more conductive no that's not how that works

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well sure why not also electrically conductive which isn't fantastic

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but we did a sanity check because we're careful like that made our marks and now

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it is time to get fancy meet Nate from

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Creator Warehouse hello I don't think he's been on video before but he's going

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to show us how to solder to heat pipes

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this is not how you solder to a heat pipe but it's a way to do it thanks Nate

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yeah you're welcome step one clamp the heat pipe with non- meltable clamps

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that's that's important uh but not too hard we don't want to w w hold on hold

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on you got to uh check the other side of what's business is going on I got some

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tech tips too liquid metal huh that looks pretty good before we go any

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further what am I looking at here this is a rework station commonly used in

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reworking electronics it allows you to heat up the board to an ideal

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temperature for soldering so just shy of just shy of the melting point of the so

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you can very precisely remove components quickly you said this is glass so is it

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like in infrared heat y infrared heat we have a bunch of coils under there o um

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very cool or

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hot I'm proud of that I'm proud of you lus and we will of course monitor the

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bottom of this even though this is far overkill for the circuitry we're working

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on or the lack of circuitry this really is making that

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thermal epoxy option sound pretty good Alex it sounded good the whole time

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whose idea was this uh this is me how was you yeah well Alex always told me

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it's really hard to solder to heat pipes and every time I've been like oh but you

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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

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well we didn't do it in the play button PC I know that much remember we didn't

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no we did we've argued about this before we didn't I disassembled it after to fix

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the thermal issues it was epoxy actually no it was just thermal paste we didn't

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even put epoxy in it no there was a combo while these two figure that out

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I'm going to start the element heating up how we doing in here 80° oh wow

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that's heating up real fast so I should touch it then right radiative heat

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transfer is cool I mean hot but yeah

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he's rubbing off on me I'm getting bored that's not a board that's a heat

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gun as you probably can guess this cooler is pretty good at cooling so uh

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I'm going to just throw some Rags on it and hope that the rag doesn't light on

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fire this is bored

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you 100° C I should touch it with my finger now no I'm only half kidding this

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is taking a very long time here you hold this oh wait it's 100° I can do that I

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told lus to do something it was great what temperature are we aiming for here

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in the 130 140 range oh okay with with

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this um once we do that I'll apply the thermal paste and uh we'll see how it

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how it flows by thermal paste he means paste form solder yeah thermal paste not

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thermal paste oh sorry

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you're right if you're wondering Tessa tape starts melting at around 200° C

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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

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in right okay maybe just a little to

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start we want it to flow yeah I mean if

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she's flowing there you go oh it's doing it it's doing the thing we're going to

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use the whole heck yeah oh what just

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happened she did a thing I don't know

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crap I think she detached from the bottom one that's fine that's not fine

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oh wait it detached from like yeah it did oh I think they used the same solder

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we used H that's not good so I say we heat it up

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and we take the clamp and we clamp it back together the whole thing yeah U

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maybe with a little bit of this in between yeah it makes a ton a sense they

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would be using the same solder we are I don't know I thought that it made a lot

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more sense that they would be using higher temperature

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stuff needle noose Vice GPS I know I can get precise with this and what I just

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melted again yeah I'm a little worried about giving her too much beans here

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because then we might start detaching other things from other things so maybe

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we just continue on yeah I think we just do some of that there we go I saw it

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attached to the bottom can we get like a bunch raid in here cuz that's I think

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like a really key okay hold on hold on hold on let me H you're good no no no no

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that's already Lots it's on or I mean like right in here yeah guys I really

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don't think we need that much once it's soldered it's soldered it's not thermal

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contact area lus thermal contact

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area I'm just really worried this thing is going to come apart again probably

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will well yep y jeez guys why did we

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okay are we calling that good yeah

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that's let's cool it down oh Lordy looks

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good great even great it's a super

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strong word to describe this but I think we might have done it question for you

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this is all fine and good but do we have fittings for the ends of these yeah oh

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can I see them they're so cute look at

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the little ler siiz one oh are these compressions too yep no way wow so

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secure won't even leak fresh strategy this time instead of using the heat gun

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to melt the solder we are going to use H soldering iron this is more how uh this

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tool is meant to be used I'm putting on

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less I'm putting on less murders the

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whole thing with oh that that's how he did

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it ooh well this works great w yeah that

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was so much better I breathe that I'm

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right in WoW yep hell of a drug someone's going to have hallucinations

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this evening oh yeah that's way better yeah I'd let it cool off a little bit no

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well you're going to risk delaminating cuz the this temp over here is up to 130

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mhm no no I got this damn it it totally

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did it didn't it yeah ah crap wait I

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can't be adding that much heat with this thing can I it's at 380° C something

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just really moved yeah it's it's not happy at all we need more

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clamps this heat pipe fell

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off okay ah so can we take this we need

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the long boy we do need the long or I could just use this oh God I don't know

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about that oh God that just moved oh crap oh

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that's gone yeah okay this might actually be bad now what about this one

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we can't oh this this one isn't oh God I

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think that's the GG boys okay this is

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detached yeah I think GPU and CPU are fine yeah actually they they do look

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fine this one's not looking too good well no yeah thanks for that everything

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else here looks not bad yeah it's it's salvageable I think turning a perfectly

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good laptop into salvageable

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is nothing to be proud of but if only there was another way we could have done

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this why did I say I wanted to use the solder one to two more degrees of

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cooling no so there would be learning outcomes for the video okay yeah did we

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learn yeah

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F all right day two here's the plan we have our environmental chamber and we

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have gotten rid of the safety limits and it is now at 180° C we have our heat

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sink here which has been clamped a whole

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bunch I did a little Home Depot run and bought 10 of them today and we should be

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able to just Huck it in there and hopefully it's all fine I guess that one

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need to be a bit tighter now ideally for this solder that we have here you would

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have a curve that looks something like like this to melt it unfortunately uh we

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we can't do that this thing's way too big to do that rapid of heating so we're

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just going to Chuck it in there and hope for the best and you

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go there oh I bent that heat pipe so bad

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okay that's a Burnie boy yeah that's really hot I imagine we have our thermal

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probe attached so we know how hot it is and once it gets to around 160° we

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should be about good we have solder drops on the bottom of the thing ah nice

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all right so we're liquid then we're nearly at 165° when we hit that we're

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going to kill the chamber yep turn on

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the fan and with any luck we can cool it

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down half fast probably don't bre wow that's a lot of heat it's dropping fast

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dropping fast okay yep whole thing hasn't exploded yet so that's nice my

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first impressions just looking at it are not good oh you want to do it yeah why

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not sure that way it can be my fault if it all goes wrong

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yep what level of monstrosity have you

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unleash on the world it's got more clamps than a tsy and Aura character has

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buckles the vrm heat pipe looks like it's come off but the rest might be fine

00:18:10.360 --> 00:18:13.400
let's have a look without

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clamps yeah it looks like it might just be that one vrm heat sink yeah I'm a

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little bit concerned about how flat some of these heat pipes are but overall that

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was pretty darn good the vrm heat pipe

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

00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:38.080
can just maybe reattach that with some thermal adhesive well maybe it worked I

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

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are bare dyes Y and these need to be

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perfectly flat in order to cool them I'm not the most hopeful I've ever

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been my thought is we just goop thermal

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paste in there K5 Pro K5 Pro works too

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oh he already had it ready for the uninitiated K5 Pro is essentially a

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liquid thermal pad oh I didn't mean in there oh you said VMS yeah do you see

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

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

00:19:13.960 --> 00:19:20.600
this side I'm not worried about that feels like cake decorating except

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grosser is this Intel's laptop uh I think it's ASUS's laptop

00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:31.840
that they gave us because Intel asked them to a sorry ASUS

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um you guys have definitely screwed some stuff up over the last little bit but

00:19:33.280 --> 00:19:40.799
you didn't do anything to deserve this you ready Moment of

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Truth oh it seems like it really wants to go in there uh no no that's not how I

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would describe it you know what I think

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we're well clear and then are we just going to do

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the rotary tool just making it happen method I think

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so

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that's some pretty robust plastic they got there you saw how it flies out last

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time right can't hear of the sound of my excellent totally um approved hearing

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protection I think it goes Alex oh yeah

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not bad okay cool yeah all right I think it's time to

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screw this down and see if it actually goes yeah oh this is

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messed up dude shoot did I just cross thread that too adding insult to injury

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

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

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board I've seen it not work yeah true I

00:20:46.200 --> 00:20:52.960
have too that's normally when there's like an actual socket okay I think that

00:20:50.120 --> 00:20:57.000
screw is free spinning now so that's good oh that just popped out of the

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

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

00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:11.240
this time I told you about the chassis intrusion thing so we can't even just

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

00:21:13.760 --> 00:21:20.240
put a piece of rubber between the bottom of the chassis and this spot right here

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

00:21:23.559 --> 00:21:30.120
uh balls oh balls balls balls balls balls B you know why that GPU was so

00:21:27.840 --> 00:21:34.559
hard to put in oh balls balls balls balls balls balls the fan connector is

00:21:32.320 --> 00:21:37.080
in there ah yes oh crap it just pulled up that stand

00:21:40.159 --> 00:21:45.919
off okay I really wish we had

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

00:21:47.640 --> 00:21:55.400
tubes a oh no so we would have to salvage them off

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of here let's do whatever it takes to not go down that path this is literally

00:21:57.720 --> 00:22:03.520
Des disastrous yeah my hopes are not

00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:06.799
high not high at all I'm getting this thing closed I was looking maybe a

00:22:05.400 --> 00:22:11.480
little bit of this stuff right here to try and push that GPU down yeah that

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

00:22:13.760 --> 00:22:21.919
but we might want to go with slightly smaller pieces more like right on the

00:22:19.360 --> 00:22:24.679
the pressure points cuz putting it all across this is just going to put a ton

00:22:23.480 --> 00:22:28.520
of the pressure here yeah but we kind of need the

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

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

00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:41.880
remove some okay I have two screws

00:22:40.039 --> 00:22:47.240
though left over we're very confident that this laptop's going to

00:22:43.720 --> 00:22:49.880
work did that catch yep it's not even

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that bulged it's here it's raw did you plug in the battery

00:22:56.960 --> 00:22:59.960
truth

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well that's a plus yeah super easy to take apart now bottom cover just pops

00:23:06.320 --> 00:23:13.760
right off there it is okay Moment of Truth

00:23:10.919 --> 00:23:13.760
attempt number the

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

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

00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:32.760
one thing it didn't shut down immediately

00:23:26.919 --> 00:23:32.760
which does make oh my God what

00:23:33.400 --> 00:23:39.400
no no way after all that time are you

00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:43.960
kidding me I was sitting here thinking why don't we try an external display

00:23:41.080 --> 00:23:48.679
maybe we messed up the ribbon cable look at this

00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:53.840
keyboard don't talk about the keyboard like that okay it's Thanksgiving you had

00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:58.600
some dinner full of turkey well there were turkeys involved let's have a looky

00:23:56.039 --> 00:24:06.120
Boo Here shall we here's where we're at CPU 70° H

00:24:02.320 --> 00:24:08.120
GPU zero zero well that's an improvement

00:24:06.120 --> 00:24:13.600
I don't make the rules does it actually exist ice manager display adapters I

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

00:24:16.480 --> 00:24:22.320
comes to life oh hey it did who 50° okay

00:24:20.840 --> 00:24:27.919
those fans are going they're going but you know what's

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

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

00:24:37.080 --> 00:24:45.080
crap 170 FPS it's actually not bad the

00:24:40.960 --> 00:24:46.600
1% lows they dip I think that may be

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

00:24:49.760 --> 00:24:55.840
and our CPU is at almost 4 GHz

00:24:53.440 --> 00:24:59.039
74° that's actually really impressive should we grab the other one to see how

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

00:25:02.200 --> 00:25:07.720
something uh I was kind of thinking that we would just throw like the smallest

00:25:06.279 --> 00:25:11.760
amount of Teflon tape on there or something like that this isn't as far

00:25:09.720 --> 00:25:18.000
off as I was expecting really wait what so are GPU is at about

00:25:14.840 --> 00:25:20.559
1600 MHz on this one and it's at about

00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:26.399
1600 it's actually did it survive Alex tell me it

00:25:24.080 --> 00:25:32.399
survived it's doing a lot better than I ever would have expected survived it's

00:25:28.159 --> 00:25:34.919
really looking like it survived yeah woo

00:25:32.399 --> 00:25:38.480
oh that's so exciting we should try something a little bit more comparable I

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

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

00:25:47.039 --> 00:25:52.360
this one has extra heat pipes let's go

00:25:50.200 --> 00:25:56.960
okay this only at 3.8 now it seems to be a little all over the

00:25:54.440 --> 00:25:59.679
place cuz this one's at 4 this one's at 4.4

00:25:59.880 --> 00:26:06.840
interesting 155 average versus 170 but

00:26:04.240 --> 00:26:10.840
kind of expected that GPU Telemetry is not working for some reason but it's

00:26:08.440 --> 00:26:15.640
clearly running faster but we can fix that wait this is our water cooling

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

00:26:17.919 --> 00:26:24.360
ever seen for real though guys if it hadn't been for the disastrous outcome

00:26:22.080 --> 00:26:28.000
from heating up the heat pipe assembly this wouldn't be that bad I mean it

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

00:26:31.760 --> 00:26:39.120
clean huh what what that's not too bad yeah I

00:26:37.240 --> 00:26:44.320
know this isn't the world's most perfect Benchmark but we've got frame view

00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:47.159
running right now we are rendering the

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

00:26:49.840 --> 00:26:55.679
down we did good yeah okay this is it

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

00:26:58.159 --> 00:27:04.640
chilling okay okay how's our FPS doing

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

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

00:27:10.240 --> 00:27:16.640
70° now oh wow it was at 80 before it

00:27:13.520 --> 00:27:19.039
actually working oh our FPS it was a CPU

00:27:16.640 --> 00:27:27.200
of cooling issue we're up to the exact same FPS let's go yeah

00:27:23.159 --> 00:27:28.799
W water cooling to the rescue I mean it

00:27:27.200 --> 00:27:35.080
only solved the problem that we ourselves created but we are 10° cooler

00:27:32.320 --> 00:27:40.039
than the air cooled laptop even after we mangled it that is flipping crazy it's

00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:45.440
not even leaking I honestly cannot believe it

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

00:27:50.600 --> 00:27:55.399
they're both heating up here almost 20

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

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

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

00:28:06.039 --> 00:28:13.080
just turn off the pump temporarily yeah I just did Plum this up to the other

00:28:10.080 --> 00:28:14.960
side and then we'll just go in cereal oh

00:28:13.080 --> 00:28:20.640
I don't want to do cereal cuz this looks really restrictive the Y adapters yes

00:28:17.360 --> 00:28:22.200
the Y adapters nice feel this tell me

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

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

00:28:27.760 --> 00:28:33.960
cereal we don't want to be feeding that hot water to our GPU under normal

00:28:31.679 --> 00:28:39.240
circumstances in a water cooling Loop the order of the components doesn't

00:28:35.799 --> 00:28:42.039
matter at all but this is such a tiny

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

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

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

00:28:52.919 --> 00:28:58.240
snip there's not that much water in these tubes so doesn't really matter if

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

00:29:00.840 --> 00:29:05.440
sure you're on the same page there too

00:29:03.840 --> 00:29:11.039
oh my goodness what a roller coaster this has

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

00:29:13.200 --> 00:29:20.440
those tubes probably and then it's the other one is just because you'll

00:29:17.039 --> 00:29:23.120
probably screw up the first one but I

00:29:20.440 --> 00:29:28.440
think our solution with the Y Splitters cooling the CPU and GPU on

00:29:26.120 --> 00:29:33.000
Independent loops is going to perform better you can see in our screen

00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:36.559
recordings that our FPS in the menu here has dropped on the water cooled machine

00:29:35.039 --> 00:29:41.559
and that's just because we screwed up the cooler earlier but Alex if you turn

00:29:39.519 --> 00:29:48.200
on the water cooler I think we are about to see some spectacular results our GPU

00:29:44.679 --> 00:29:49.720
is at around, 1600 MHz right now it's on

00:29:48.200 --> 00:29:53.720
which she's getting water now GPU is down 10° already

00:29:54.240 --> 00:29:59.320
68 19 2,000 MHz

00:30:00.159 --> 00:30:08.120
s oh this is very

00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:12.240
interesting we just dropped over 10° on

00:30:08.120 --> 00:30:15.279
our GPU we just boosted another 400 2.3

00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:17.799
it popped up to 2.3 for a second there

00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:22.600
drag race time bear in mind we have screen cap running this time we didn't

00:30:19.799 --> 00:30:27.919
last time so this is not meant to be comparable to our first results this is

00:30:24.799 --> 00:30:30.600
meant to be comparable to each other

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

00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:41.720
temps on this one unfortunately but our CPU is at 82° we are beating that by

00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:45.640
over 10° on our water cooled laptop that

00:30:41.720 --> 00:30:48.960
CPU is at 5 4 GHz oh

00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:50.679
yeah oh yeah I'm honestly really

00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:54.440
impressed with ASUS and how much power they just will give you when you have

00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:59.159
the cooling I'm so excited to have the same performance as the air cooled one

00:30:56.159 --> 00:31:01.720
you know what though is it at least

00:30:59.159 --> 00:31:06.679
quieter no not really is okay is it

00:31:04.880 --> 00:31:13.919
cooler yes Alex dude this one is too oh wow it

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

00:31:16.679 --> 00:31:23.480
and blows it through the keyboard to keep it cool oh what's that

00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:32.399
24° on Supply 30 30 like 31 30 2 on return wow

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

00:31:34.039 --> 00:31:40.799
bet this one's even going to be more this one's considerably cooler on the

00:31:38.200 --> 00:31:44.120
inlet I told you with that with that exhaust here I think it's actually

00:31:42.519 --> 00:31:49.159
heating it up significant okay okay results time we

00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:51.760
won yeah let's

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

00:31:54.639 --> 00:32:01.200
spent the last couple hours overclocking these and out to the gate they freaking

00:31:58.480 --> 00:32:06.200
rip with just the Windows default power plant and on the air cooled laptop I was

00:32:03.519 --> 00:32:12.000
able to immediately get 27,32 points in cinebench R23 for

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

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

00:32:19.399 --> 00:32:27.240
do is go into ASUS's Armory crate right here and just simply whack the power

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

00:32:29.840 --> 00:32:38.600
incredible 30,37 points in cin bench damn although

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

00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:46.399
bottleneck not the CPU itself and like

00:32:44.639 --> 00:32:53.000
we just spend a whole video water cooling laptop so let's send it and it

00:32:49.480 --> 00:32:56.039
is so good we were able to just look at

00:32:53.000 --> 00:33:00.039
175 watts and managed a

00:32:56.039 --> 00:33:02.799
31,48 18 on our first run with it not

00:33:00.039 --> 00:33:07.519
bad at all although after that things started getting difficult even though

00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:12.360
the thermals were in check the current limits on the vrms were just immediately

00:33:10.080 --> 00:33:17.639
getting hit which is where the true hero of laptop overclocking comes in

00:33:14.919 --> 00:33:23.159
undervolting on a desktop and XTU you can play with all the stuff in here uh

00:33:20.200 --> 00:33:27.480
on a laptop core voltage offset just make it lower and it will go faster

00:33:25.840 --> 00:33:30.799
basically what we're doing is the CPU will consume less power for the same

00:33:29.080 --> 00:33:35.799
clock speed making it more power efficient allowing us to get more out of

00:33:32.799 --> 00:33:37.360
those 175 Watts that are available to us

00:33:35.799 --> 00:33:43.200
the fastest run I managed was a blustering

00:33:39.480 --> 00:33:46.480
32,4 in cin bench with a minus

00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:47.639
0125 volt offset curiously I slapped a

00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:53.480
minus 0.135 volt offset on the aircool laptop

00:33:50.519 --> 00:33:58.600
and broke 32,000 points as well meaning that uh you can just render videos super

00:33:56.440 --> 00:34:04.399
fast with this thing even without the water cooling although uh I did prop it

00:34:01.279 --> 00:34:06.159
up with the power brick the best part

00:34:04.399 --> 00:34:10.520
about undervolting your CPU is that it will also make your laptop faster in

00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:15.440
games the largest obstacle in games is just the total power of the laptop in

00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:19.960
this case 230 wats and by allowing the CPU to run more efficiently the GPU can

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

00:34:22.359 --> 00:34:31.320
top of the keyboard here is 46 47 let's

00:34:27.760 --> 00:34:34.280
say 48 48 on this

00:34:31.320 --> 00:34:42.159
one 53 oh wow yeah that's

00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:44.320
meaningful it no it is just like this

00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:48.119
meaningful Segway to wait no Intel sponsored this video If you guys liked

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

00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:56.560
I think the best one is probably that AliExpress cooler we bought to replace

00:34:54.480 --> 00:35:02.520
the cooler in an Alienware that was like a pre-done version of this except it

00:34:59.480 --> 00:35:05.040
made it barely even work on air cooling

00:35:02.520 --> 00:35:07.680
that thing was a disaster we somehow did better