{"video_id":"eL85cdRMJ60","title":"Diagnosing the Problem with my Water Cooling Loop - Might've Been Corrosion - Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2012-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":378,"segments":[{"start_s":7.319,"end_s":14.44,"text":"so my original hypothesis about my water cooling Loop was that it had gotten all","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.16,"end_s":19.48,"text":"gunked up due to microbial growth in spite of the fact that I am using","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.96,"end_s":21.359,"text":"primochill LRT that is oh I can't even","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.48,"end_s":26.519,"text":"remember what it stands for","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":24.24,"end_s":30.279,"text":"um huh well there you go whatever the primochill antimicrobial tubing I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":28.599,"end_s":33.239,"text":"thought it was cuz I reused some of the segments of tubing so they didn't have","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":31.84,"end_s":36.68,"text":"the coating enough of a coating left anymore or whatever else but I'm","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":35.0,"end_s":41.399,"text":"starting to think it was to do with this block and not anything else because you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":38.559,"end_s":45.48,"text":"can see there's weird text on the other side of the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":42.559,"end_s":50.32,"text":"block see that there's like graphic design going on and it's not on the side","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":48.039,"end_s":55.039,"text":"see here you can see under my finger it's on the other side of the Plexi and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":53.0,"end_s":60.64,"text":"this looks like some kind of a corrosion or something see that's not a normal","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":57.16,"end_s":62.399,"text":"nickel color so I'm going to be opening","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":60.64,"end_s":68.159,"text":"up this block and seeing if I can even clean it off and let's try and find out","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":65.08,"end_s":69.479,"text":"what the heck is going on here so my my","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":68.159,"end_s":74.72,"text":"new Loop is going to be using a swifttech block so one way or another um","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":72.88,"end_s":79.2,"text":"whatever kind of issue I know EK had some nickel plating issues in the past","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":76.92,"end_s":82.84,"text":"but I didn't think the GTX 480 blocks were offend were affected so I guess","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":81.04,"end_s":88.32,"text":"we're uh we're about to find out all right so the cover has been removed and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":86.0,"end_s":93.56,"text":"it's interesting cuz I can uh I can read the text now so something about Quinn","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":91.439,"end_s":98.799,"text":"plastics.com and uh format something these are","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":97.159,"end_s":102.399,"text":"another languages but","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":102.799,"end_s":108.36,"text":"um that's hilarious so this is just yeah","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":106.079,"end_s":113.439,"text":"it's just Gunk see so I can scratch it right off but I guess it was probably","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":111.399,"end_s":120.439,"text":"from the protective layer that was over the Plexi before it was applied and that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":117.0,"end_s":124.64,"text":"somehow left um","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":120.439,"end_s":126.479,"text":"like a slight residue in the shape of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":124.64,"end_s":133.72,"text":"the text so here there's a phone number so plus 44 028 6774","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":131.52,"end_s":138.2,"text":"886 and then I wonder if there's something after that doesn't look like","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":135.4,"end_s":143.36,"text":"it so yeah there you go so you can reach Quinn Plastics and ask them about it if","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":139.84,"end_s":145.64,"text":"you really want to I suppose um now","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":143.36,"end_s":151.28,"text":"let's have a look at the Block itself so this is where we start getting into","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":147.8,"end_s":156.44,"text":"whether or not this block is correct","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":151.28,"end_s":156.44,"text":"roing I mean that looks an awful lot","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":157.0,"end_s":163.56,"text":"like metal discoloration to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":160.959,"end_s":169.239,"text":"me but until I pick away at it a little 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imperfections in the nickel plating here going to try and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":195.959,"end_s":200.84,"text":"clean it off completely now and see what happens going to have to remove the block from the card in order to do that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":200.08,"end_s":208.12,"text":"as well so I'm in the bathroom","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":204.0,"end_s":210.159,"text":"now got my uh got my block here got an","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":208.12,"end_s":217.76,"text":"old toothbrush that's got some alcohol on it so that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":212.76,"end_s":220.76,"text":"uh might at least help me clear away","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":217.76,"end_s":223.959,"text":"some of this Gunk which it doesn't seem","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":220.76,"end_s":227.84,"text":"to be doing this is uh this is some","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":223.959,"end_s":231.04,"text":"pretty robust Gunk we got going on","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":227.84,"end_s":233.36,"text":"here huh it's funny cuz","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":231.04,"end_s":237.079,"text":"it oh no that doesn't come off that easily does","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":234.56,"end_s":240.36,"text":"it so I was having some success with it before I hope you guys can see what I'm","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":238.4,"end_s":245.239,"text":"doing yeah not really okay okay I'll move it a little closer there we go","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":242.56,"end_s":245.239,"text":"we'll call that good","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":246.0,"end_s":254.84,"text":"enough yeah no that's not coming off at all but if I try with like a little bit","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":251.799,"end_s":254.84,"text":"more 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well thank you for checking out this","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":294.919,"end_s":302.44,"text":"little Discovery episode of my video blog don't forget to subscribe to L","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":300.36,"end_s":304.88,"text":"techtips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos it looks like","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":303.68,"end_s":310.68,"text":"there's actually a few of these there's one here yeah there you go you can see","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":306.72,"end_s":313.08,"text":"that there's a couple places here here","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":310.68,"end_s":320.039,"text":"and here where it seems like there's very very small imperfections that then","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":315.199,"end_s":320.039,"text":"just from the water flow carried","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":320.68,"end_s":325.6,"text":"um carried away some metal particles","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":324.039,"end_s":331.479,"text":"that deposited themselves onto the nickel looks like up here was kind of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":328.759,"end_s":331.479,"text":"bad","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":332.16,"end_s":336.68,"text":"and uh look there's a couple more marks","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":335.199,"end_s":340.639,"text":"in there if anyone knows more about Metal than I do feel free to chime in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":339.039,"end_s":345.479,"text":"and suggest how this might have happened remember this is nickel plated","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":342.6,"end_s":349.639,"text":"copper and I think we're done here actually one more thing guys I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":347.759,"end_s":353.88,"text":"should note that it's been quite a while since EK has had these problems with","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":351.6,"end_s":359.56,"text":"their blocks so this video was just more for um the sake of that I was working on","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":357.68,"end_s":363.6,"text":"it anyway so I figured I might as well shot a video about it it's not a warning","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":361.6,"end_s":366.84,"text":"about EK products they've uh they've tightened up the quality control on","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":365.24,"end_s":370.72,"text":"their nickel plating processes so any recent blocks should be fine however if","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":368.8,"end_s":373.759,"text":"you do have a 480 or a 470 block something from this generation of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":371.96,"end_s":376.88,"text":"products might be worthwhile to have a look in your Loop and if your case is","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":375.319,"end_s":379.88,"text":"closed make sure that you don't have any gunk","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"so my original hypothesis about my water cooling Loop was that it had gotten all gunked up due to microbial growth in spite of the fact that I am using primochill LRT that is oh I can't even remember what it stands for um huh well there you go whatever the primochill antimicrobial tubing I thought it was cuz I reused some of the segments of tubing so they didn't have the coating enough of a coating left anymore or whatever else but I'm starting to think it was to do with this block and not anything else because you can see there's weird text on the other side of the block see that there's like graphic design going on and it's not on the side see here you can see under my finger it's on the other side of the Plexi and this looks like some kind of a corrosion or something see that's not a normal nickel color so I'm going to be opening up this block and seeing if I can even clean it off and let's try and find out what the heck is going on here so my my new Loop is going to be using a swifttech block so one way or another um whatever kind of issue I know EK had some nickel plating issues in the past but I didn't think the GTX 480 blocks were offend were affected so I guess we're uh we're about to find out all right so the cover has been removed and it's interesting cuz I can uh I can read the text now so something about Quinn plastics.com and uh format something these are another languages but um that's hilarious so this is just yeah it's just Gunk see so I can scratch it right off but I guess it was probably from the protective layer that was over the Plexi before it was applied and that somehow left um like a slight residue in the shape of the text so here there's a phone number so plus 44 028 6774 886 and then I wonder if there's something after that doesn't look like it so yeah there you go so you can reach Quinn Plastics and ask them about it if you really want to I suppose um now let's have a look at the Block itself so this is where we start getting into whether or not this block is correct roing I mean that looks an awful lot like metal discoloration to me but until I pick away at it a little bit here I'm not going to know for sure everywhere else kind of looks okay oh hold on what's that that one's not coming off here hope you guys can see this I wonder if I can switch to macro mode in the middle of filming I don't think I can here I'm going to switch to macro mode okay we're in macro mode now so uh haven't really tried to clean it off yet but there's that one and then here's the one over here right there that doesn't seem to be coming off so I wonder if there were some imperfections in the nickel plating here going to try and clean it off completely now and see what happens going to have to remove the block from the card in order to do that as well so I'm in the bathroom now got my uh got my block here got an old toothbrush that's got some alcohol on it so that uh might at least help me clear away some of this Gunk which it doesn't seem to be doing this is uh this is some pretty robust Gunk we got going on here huh it's funny cuz it oh no that doesn't come off that easily does it so I was having some success with it before I hope you guys can see what I'm doing yeah not really okay okay I'll move it a little closer there we go we'll call that good enough yeah no that's not coming off at all but if I try with like a little bit more scrubbing power no that is a pretty stained block yeah you can see I've got actually yeah that that takes off the top layer of it so let's just do this one bar bar wave I don't know whatever you want to call it there we go so you can see that the metal itself is uh is discolored there so there you go I will not be reusing this particular block um under any circumstances and uh yeah that's a that's a shame well thank you for checking out this little Discovery episode of my video blog don't forget to subscribe to L techtips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos it looks like there's actually a few of these there's one here yeah there you go you can see that there's a couple places here here and here where it seems like there's very very small imperfections that then just from the water flow carried um carried away some metal particles that deposited themselves onto the nickel looks like up here was kind of bad and uh look there's a couple more marks in there if anyone knows more about Metal than I do feel free to chime in and suggest how this might have happened remember this is nickel plated copper and I think we're done here actually one more thing guys I should note that it's been quite a while since EK has had these problems with their blocks so this video was just more for um the sake of that I was working on it anyway so I figured I might as well shot a video about it it's not a warning about EK products they've uh they've tightened up the quality control on their nickel plating processes so any recent blocks should be fine however if you do have a 480 or a 470 block something from this generation of products might be worthwhile to have a look in your Loop and if your case is closed make sure that you don't have any gunk"}