we are going to liquid cool all five of
our editing workstations together so those are like core i76 cores and gtx
titans then we're gonna take that water we're gonna take it out of the building
and then we're gonna put that on a massive radiator so we're actually
taking all that heat and dissipating it outside causing not only our systems to
run cooler but also our room in which we
do our work to be cooler well the whole actual goal of the whole
room water cooling project was to cool down the room
where you could have done a much cheaper and easy solution of actually installing a
like ac unit but instead we've decided to go along with this how effective will
it actually be not hugely
but hopefully it'll help a little bit and be really cool at the same time
one system in particular was the main inspiration for this project and that's
edsel's machine which had a couple of problems number one is that the system
itself was always overheating because he always had his six core processor pinned
at 100 so they were kicking out a bunch of heat into his
quite inadequate CPU cooler which was then not keeping his CPU cool enough so
problem number one was that his system was actually overheating so much like 80
90 sometimes even above 90 degrees that it was thermal throttling and he wasn't
even getting all the performance out of it and then problem number two was that
the person sitting in front of it was constantly complaining about the heat in
the room so with the whole room water cooling setup
we can cool the system make it more powerful because we got a 12 core xeon
for it and make that person complain less by making the room cooler nope
originally i hadn't planned to paint the room the project was going to be much
smaller scale and it was going to be just about liquid cooling the machines
but i realized that if we're going to take the room apart
clean it up presumably and pull all the systems out of it well this is a great
opportunity to take it from a place where we all sit at our computers and
work and turn that into like a really cool
workspace that really feels like Linus
tech tips make it feel like like home and like a place that's really cool to
be in and work on our craft for some reason
i got the drop sheets in the heart
oh my god it fell off that's why what
look it detached on the side yeah
unfortunately
really turn oh my god yeah this is terrible
so i drew upon my experience painting houses and training painters to
get that done in kind of the Linus tech tips gray and then as much as i've got a
fair bit of painting experience i'm a little bit rusty and i have some
experience training people who've never painted before but nick has really never
painted before keeping the quality level up was a bit
of a challenge as well nick did his best though and between the two of us we
managed to get the whole job done although
by the second coat i did pretty much most of it myself since it was uh you
know the second coat is when you clean up the mistakes from the first coat a
lot of the time
finishing the first coat of paint was really nice i was able to put down the roller and kind of step back and go yeah
this is starting to look really cool and i wanted to kind of turn to my sides and
say hey guys don't you think this is great but i realized everyone was gone
so i wandered downstairs and found out that while i was painting instead of
everyone else kind of proactively figuring out how we can move the project
forward they were doing arts and crafts and making a shield for luke and pinning
buttons to turn his shirt into like Intel button armor
all that might have been okay if at least they had done a decent job of
making body armor it's terrible what
in battle i am cloning over everyone's old drives so that when they get their
new computers it'll be like using the same drive so
brandon can have his viruses which he refused to take care of terry can have
all his slow unoptimized drives and everything and we don't have to
reinstall anything or waste any time freaking terran this whole time has been
telling me that he has an SSD in his system and that his slow boot is
unrelated that's terence drive
i wonder what the slowness of his computer has been about
gamma tune
having a pile of like cases and graphics
cards and i mean even the water cooling gear alone was a pile like having this
mountain of hardware that was actually like as tall as me
was uh really made me better understand
the scope of what we were undertaking
so apparently the project was pushed up a day i actually had no idea was not
told by anyone but that seems to kind of be a Linus media group thing there's
like you have to do this at some point in time somehow no one
knows no one's gonna be helping you and we're not really sure when but you won't
have enough time so just make sure you do it really quickly like thankfully
this actually gets finished before we move on to something else
well it turned out Linus didn't actually check the specs for the radiators before
he bought them so when i tried to mount it on the top there's fittings that
would normally be on the bottom of it that then pressed against the top of the
case so i put it up on an angle and you couldn't actually get screws all the way
through the fan the top of the case past the fitting and into the radiator so i
had to drill holes in the top which was fantastic thank you thank you Linus
so luke actually ended up having to drill
holes for each of the radiators before we could even start assembling the
systems that took up a ton of his time
that otherwise he would have been able to spend helping me build systems it got
to the point where we actually had to recruit edsel to help us build computers
even though his system building experience is not really that much
hey this is pretty nice to me
glittery nice that one was mostly painless the
next one should be the second easiest of all of them so
all right and then it was pretty much time to
water cool the systems something that i ended up doing the vast majority of
myself so that's getting the tubing on the fittings for the CPU and GPU block
running it outside of the case and then at that point i handed them off to ed
who was the one who actually figured out how the fittings worked for the quick
disconnects to install the uh the quick disconnects at the back on both the top
radiator as well as the tubing coming out of the inside of the case
installing everything in the systems was a monumental task and everyone had to
chip in in ways that they haven't really done before i even had edzel helping me
assemble GPU water blocks onto the titan
cards because that can be very time consuming and i needed to move on to the
next thing that i could do and luke was drilling holes in cases so
we had to parallelize the workflow a lot
just to account for how time-consuming everything was going to be
well because i'm a plumber i deal with this sort of sort of situation of
soldering copper together and dealing with pex lines and
different fittings for myself i would say maybe a two
the typical homeowner or
a person that would try to tackle this on themselves would probably be closer
to eight or nine maybe even a tick higher it all depends
on your skill levels this project
after i understood what they were wanting i thought it was a very
interesting project
these are all what you call a dry fit
just to see if everything fits in the right places
and then we'll hold it up like that solder it and then these are all three inches
apart three inches apart nice and neat
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uh so we got the vinyl decals in and
they're actually pretty huge almost life
size for Linus it is life-size we had to
pay some guy in the parking lot sure oh uh radiators
yeah i was just doing the exiting for the camera oh i was next
okay
i think a little bit of confusion was bound to happen and i think overall um
we're a little confused