I overshot it a little.
One more time. Okay. I'm going to nail it.
Oh, I overshot it. Okay. Ready?
And three, two, one.
This used to be the domain of only the boldest modders and tinkerers, but now anyone can
pick up a kit from UK's web shot and go, web shot?
I like that. What is that?
It's supposed to be like a wafer.
Yeah, that's a really cool idea that I did not think of.
EK clearly knows me far too well. Number 69 of 100 and a hand sign note.
You always do the craziest shit. We have no doubt you will put it to good use.
Absolutely. Man, this thing is gorgeous. Let's give it a little.
Come on, you. Come on, you. Come on.
Okay. Now, let's just give it a man, she's a pretty boy.
Where is our CPU? It's in the computer. Oh, so we need to get it out now.
Ah, yes. Well, before we do that, or while you do that, why don't I show you some of the accessories,
along with the direct dye cooler with included RGB, of course, you get this Der Bauer D-Lidding
tool. This is specific to the Core i9 13, no, this is 13th gen, right?
Oh, no, this says 12th gen.
Oh, but to use M3 screws. Now, hold on a second.
What does, does it have anything else in terms of accessories? Oh, yes, it does.
Okay, so. Okay, so does it say 12th gen on it? Yes.
Because they made the 12th gen one, and then they found out that it doesn't really work
for 12th gen because it can remove some caps.
It says M3 screws must be used for 12th gen.
So I'm guessing there's just something you have to change a little bit to use it with
12th gen. Before we can do that, I need to pull it out of our system.
This 1300K was just tested against a completely overkill water cooling system to see.
This thing really works. Oh, yeah, let's, let's open it.
Sure. Okay, let me know when you're ready.
Okay, let's do a, hey, there it is.
Look at that. 1300K. It's time for your surgery, buddy.
If you want, I've printed off all the directions.
Really? What is it with you guys in printing things lately?
Do you think I'm some kind of boomer? It's nice for props.
I did it once, and you were like, you should do that more. So I did. Oh my gosh, that's fair.
Jake was, Jake kept doing it for a bit. I was like, are you mocking me?
Okay, I've already found one small flaw.
Where's the allen key for the deleting tool? Is there a ground here?
Yeah, I think it's right here. Oh.
Is this it? Is this ground? Yes.
Thank you. No, that's not it. That's not it.
No, it's not. I mean, no. That might actually be a problem.
No, we'll find one. The allen key situation here is pretty dire. It's got to be metric.
I wouldn't even say we're key holders. This is all we have. What's the point of, this is all we have?
What's the point of these allen key holders if nobody puts anything back in them?
That's a fantastic question. I just got my own, but they're in the other building because you moved us.
I didn't move us. Circumstances moved us.
I was open to better ideas.
Geez. Everyone's a critic.
Okay, 12th gen. Okay.
Does it specify which side you put it in?
It says M3 screws must be used for 12th gen. That's the thing, right?
From one generation to the next, even if they're socket compatible, there can be ever so slight
differences from one CPU to the next. Wait.
Okay. We ready? Sure.
Now all we need to do is, this always makes me extremely uncomfortable.
Yeah. I don't love this step. You don't heat it up or anything?
Oh yeah. Do you? No?
Are you sure? What are you? What?
I mean, I am potentially one of the people in the world that's deleted the most CPUs.
Oh, that sounded good. Did it? Yeah.
That did not sound that good. No, that's fine. Now probably we'll just go real easy.
Nope. Oh. No, no.
This is making me extremely uncomfortable. Huh. This is a lot of pressure.
This is more pressure than I'm used to. How sure are you? What's that little thing on the table that's still off?
I think it might be dead. There's not a thing on the table.
I don't believe you. It definitely shifted.
Buddy? Yeah. So just keep on doing it.
I do not like this. I don't like this, Alex.
I think this is wrong.
Also, it says M3 screws must be used for 12th gen.
Does it mean these M3 screws? Does that mean you need to take them out for 13th gen?
Oh, no. Maybe. Oh, there's additional.
Yeah. A little. You can pull it with those.
Yeah, okay.
This is a lot more force than I'm used to giving it.
There you go. Did it yield? Yeah, I think so.
Something yielded. I don't know if it's the right thing or not.
That's fine.
Really?
No dude, just keep on going, just a little bit.
Well I can't, it bottomed out. Oh. Yeah, the screws are in the way.
Yeah, maybe we need to get rid of these screws. No, I can get it off. I can get it off.
Where's my prying tool? Okay, what about you don't do that? What about you don't do that?
He's not. As I was saying before, I'm pretty sure that I'm one of the people in the world that has
deleted the most CPUs. Is that LTX I did?
Hundreds. Oh yeah, speaking of which, we are going to have a CPU deleting booth at LTX again
this year, so make sure if you want to try it first hand before, so make sure if you
want to come in a little closer.
So if you want to try it on a dummy CPU before doing it on your own, it's the perfect place
to do it. See you there. Well, or just do it on your CPU there, like that's what a lot of people did.
That's what I recommend. Under supervision, but then what's our liability like if they ruin it while we're there?
None, they take no responsibility. Yeah, they sign a waiver, that is.
Cool. Did anyone actually kill a chip last time?
I don't think so. I talked to some people in the forums that had them not work, but then I was able to
talk to them and get it to work after. All right, nice.
We're not promising that Alex will personally help you get your CPU working after the fact,
by the way. Yeah. That was very nice of him to do that, but no.
I ended up just talking to fans and signing things and this poor guy, I forget his name,
but he was a volunteer that learned how to do it that morning and taught probably 150
people how to do it throughout the day.
Oh my God, why will this not come on?
That looks like it should. It's way off.
It's hanging off the edge and it won't detach.
I've never seen this before.
I have. I wouldn't recommend it, but how I've solved it in the past is you just put it in the other
way and then push it back. Just be really careful not to go too far.
No liability. Oh my God, I do not like that.
That's fine. I don't like it. Just hearing.
I don't know what it is. I don't like it. I can't even get it to thread.
It's pushed so far off the edge. I can't even get this in there.
It won't grab. It won't grab.
I wonder what that is. We have bolts. No.
Maybe don't do that.
Percussive maintenance. It's fine.
Hold on. Let's go now. We have bolts.
We have a lot of bolts. There's one thing we have here is bolts.
Ah! No. No.
Hey, where'd my bolt go?
I took your bolt. I want to get a close-up.
I'm going to need wrench for these nuts.
That's a bolt.
Male heck sockets. Here we go. You might want to come over here.
Oh. You sure? I've got a six here.
No. Six is not M6.
Hold on. No. No.
I got this. I got this. Oh, wait.
What? Oh, no. This isn't right.
Hold on. No. No.
No. I got it. I got it.
I got it. Oh, these are all square.
Oh, wait. Wait. Hold on.
Hold on. Hold on. No.
No. I got this. I got this.
Dang it. It's what, like an M10? Something like that?
Hold on. No. I got this.
I got this. Hold on. No.
No. Dang it. Fine.
It might be M12. I'm not sure. M10?
All right. We're pulling her back. Oh, jeez.
Okay. Yeah, I'm not liking this at all.
I think that's a key experience of delidding.
If you like it, you're doing something wrong. No.
This is awful. I, this is so stupid.
I pulled it back in it. This is ridiculous though.
Look, it's flush with the top now. I pulled it back a significant amount.
Would heat not solve this? Yeah.
Would heat not solve this? We can heat it up if you want. I mean.
We're getting there. Yeah.
What's the worst that could happen? The worst that could happen is I lose $600 in the next couple of minutes here.
Yeah, it'll be real inconvenient going back to the building.
The money, Alex.
Intel doesn't send us just like a bunch of these so that we can work around with them.
We're not Roman. Oh, Origen sunk that one.
Did they? Thank you guys. Oh, all right.
Thanks, Origen.
What the heck?
Yeah, let's get some heat going in here.
Enough. We're bringing out the big guns, the heat guns.
Okay, I keep moving it so you're pointing down the hole and you keep moving the gun
so it's pointed at my hand. What are you trying to do?
I'm trying to heat up the CPU and burn you a bit. That would be like kind of nice as well.
Not so much that we need to fill out the first tape paper work though.
That would be a pain. Yeah, see that's really inconvenient. Yeah.
We're already time limited today.
I don't know if I can fill those out anymore either. Really?
Oh yeah, you're not on the first aid committee anymore, are you?
Or like the whatever, safety committee.
Do we need breakfast? No.
I think he just hasn't renewed his thing.
Okay. So I gave her a little tidy titan.
Come on.
What the heck?
It does not want to come off. This is scary.
Fetch me a hammer.
Don't do it. We're about there.
I'm not 100% sure if I was serious about that, but he's bringing one.
You're good with the little one. Okay.
What were you?
Okay, yeah.
See, you can use me in this aid.
This is better than crying?
You're debatable.
I can't get it off, Alex.
Okay, give me heat first. Ouch.
Here we go. Here we go. We got this.
We're on full bore. Give me that heat.
Let's melt that solder.
I can smell the smell of roast CPU in the morning.
That's probably really hot. Okay.
I can feel it, too.
You stubborn piece of crap.
Back the other way? Yeah.
Ah!
Come on.
Seriously? Ow.
Come on!
What the hell?
Okay, we're going back the other way.
In one easy to use kit, blah, blah, blah, blah.
You're never going to listen to the tech tips guy again. I can't get it.
It's not long. I have to use the other stupid screw.
This screw sucks. I have to use the wrench for this screw. God, it's hot.
Are you setting me up? No.
Are you plotting on me, boy? I watched the video where Roman just took this.
He did the thing.
No, not yet. Let's do heat when we're going the right way.
I almost went too far. It's like right back in the original position right now.
You'd never know. I'm going to close it up.
It's the master of these. Yeah.
Here, I got a pointy tool.
It was very close.
Yeah. That's kind of good.
Yeah, it's a...
Alright, hit it.
Do you ever feel for the poor engineers at Intel watching us do this for their products?
I think a lot of them are probably like fairly into it.
Like product managers, like the sales people and stuff.
They're probably not as happy. Engineers though, they love this sort of stuff.
That looks quite hot. Yeah. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
Geez.
Yeah, I guess for the engineers watching you is kind of like watching themselves if they were accountable to nobody.
I wonder what would happen if.
Okay.
Ow, ow.
Frickin' serious right now.
No, it's not off yet. How is this even possible?
How eat, how eat?
How? Why is it still on?
Give it more heat, I think.
No, I have one really bad idea. Oh, God.
Do you want to give it a smack? Oh!
Not really. Camera right there, let me see it.
You should turn it around so they can at least see the carnage.
Just so the words are camera. Yeah.
Can I have a glove? Ready?
Yeah.
I don't love this.
Did it get in there? No. Let me see.
How is that even possible? There's totally a gap there.
Oh, yeah. No, no, I got it. I got it.
Oh, no.
Oh, yeah. Hold on. Wait.
Okay. Let's just give her a little love tap on the other side.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. We got this.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Okay, wait. Wow, we're really selling this. Oh, that seems pretty bad.
Wow. Okay, let's give her a heat again and then see if it just pops off with enough heat.
Okay. Oh, yeah. Oh, this is plastic.
It's not, but at the same time, it probably will melt after that adhesive.
Oh, God, this CPU is not flat anymore, Alex.
Fortunately, it comes with a direct contact frame that goes around it.
I'm not going to make this better right now. I'm making it worse, but I need a metal pry tool.
No, no, no. You sure?
No. Let's not do that. I think it's probably okay.
I don't think it's okay. I want a razor blade.
Razor blade. Razor blade.
Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
You really want to melt this all over it?
I didn't think so. Not particularly. Okay.
Razor blade. One more idea. One more idea.
Oh, God.
Can we stick a guitar pick in it? Yeah, yeah.
Guitar pick. Well, that's plastic too, Alex. Do you have a metal guitar pick?
No, but like it's larger. Like you might be able to get it in there without bending the CPU as much.
Oh, I see what you mean. So just try to slice the, uh, well I don't think it's this stuff.
That's the problem. Yeah. It's, it's definitely the thermal junk.
Ha-ha! Frickin' finally!
It totally was the silicone adhesive.
Okay. Roman, if you're watching, you might want to give her a little more pull distance on this
one. Just a touch more.
Geez. Because you never know what your idiot users might do and then blame you for.
Yeah, let me get some close-ups.
Yeah. So that doesn't work at all.
Oh my God. It does actually touch the, uh, hmm, it does actually touch the substrate, surprisingly.
Huh. I find that quite surprising indeed.
What are you doing? Well, I'm just playing with it.
Okay, I just, I want to put it in. Well, it feels like a lot of pressure.
Okay. Yeah, it's probably fine. Look, the point is I want to show the people that this isn't going to touch it.
This is all for the people, Alex. Yeah.
Well, here, you can imagine it. So this will go on here.
This will go on here. See? And it didn't touch it.
See? It can't touch it. It can't reach.
There's the other problem of if it did touch it, it would also touch all of these capacitors.
Yeah. Bad time. Bad time.
See, look. Yeah. Nah, it's fine.
We got this. So a couple things. First of all, they have that thingy, uh, the, the, the no spill liquid metal.
Oh, shoot. I slipped. We should, we should probably put that on there.
Okay. Quick, quick, Alex. I thought you had the thing.
Okay. There you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We got this. We got this. We got this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I love guards.
This guard isn't just to protect your components, but also the frame that we have around there
is made out of aluminum. It is anodized. It is anodized.
So it should be fine. But if any of, you know, the gallium gets on the aluminum that's been scratched.
It'll eat it. Yeah.
Um, can I have a little bit of heat, please? Heat.
Yeah. Why heat? Because the liquid metal is quite cold and it's not spreading.
Oh. No, sorry. I'll get out of the way.
I'm only sort of out of the way. I want to see, I guess I'll watch the video after or I'll be in the comments.
Oh, this is so bad.
Doing things such that the camera can see it is so much harder than doing things such that
I know, right? You like actually do it the way you want to.
Oh dear. Do you guys drain the loop?
I mean, a little.
You're just going to, you're just going to, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah,
I mean this basically. Okay.
How, how are we going to, ah, huh?
Okay. What about we drain out some of the water?
I mean, we could do that. Well, but the problem is I really don't want to, while we're attaching this spill water
on a 49, you have to wait for that to be dry.
Mm-hmm. That's a. I got this.
I got this. No, you can get the thing. I got it.
I got it. Alex, Alex, let go. Let go.
I got it. I got it. Okay.
Yeah. Okay. Do you mind moving the prompter remote though?
Oh yeah. It's probably smart. Okay, we ready?
Yeah. Hey, not bad.
That's great. I mean, it's a kind of great.
Okay, just a sec, just a sec.
You know what we could also do?
Mm-hmm. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, no, no, no, don't do that.
No, what I was thinking. Never surprise a man with a quick disconnect.
But like that would solve some of our problems. No, no, no, no, it's fine.
It's fine. It's fine. It's fine.
It's fine. You don't have to. I'll wait and go.
You spilled water on the 4090. Oh yeah. Don't worry, it's a place that doesn't matter.
Yeah. All right. Success.
What's the style?
I'm sure you can make that work. Can't you just skip a little bit?
I mean, yeah. Okay. We're going back to get some.
Yeah, we're about to get some more water on the back of the 4090.
Okay, there we go. Okay. Yeah, everything's fine.
Okay. Do we have scissors? All right.
I just got a new bug.
Yeah. We have scissors right here.
Oh, all right. Do you think this is my first rodeo?
Oh my God. I will admit the comedic timing there was unparalleled.
Tell me a little bit of water.
All right. That's a little tight.
Where's your other EK thing?
Did you only bring one? No, I got it.
Going straight. I don't know if we're getting any water there.
What do you take me for? Some kind of fool?
Oh, wait, I didn't tighten this on.
That's necessary.
Take that computer.
How dare you defy me?
Okay. Hey, are we ready?
Yeah. Are we flipping ready?
I'll put the back thing out first.
Okay. And you're kind of feeling this vibe over here in terms of test cart location?
Yeah. Okay. Perfect.
But it can be like wherever you want. No, no, this seems great. Oh, yeah, we're good.
We're good. Wait, where is this going?
What is this? Stream cart. Oh, okay.
So there's also, there's another one here. Okay.
I think this one, maybe this one. I don't actually know what kind we got.
So this one. I don't know what this is.
This one doesn't matter. Well, these are USB 2. That's all I know.
There we go. Do we have network?
You might want to roll on this, Sergeant.
Oh, crap. Oh, did you plug the power in?
Yeah, this helps. Yeah. All right, hit it.
Okay. You push the button.
Okay. Look at that.
Sky. Sky. What a guy.
Is anything leaking? Which probably seems fine. Don't put some water.
I mean, I installed the thing. It should be okay. I know what I'm doing.
Whatever, David.
We got it.
New CPU installed. F1 to run set up.
Let's go. Okay.
It's at 85 degrees, which is better.
Okay. Okay. It's at 85 degrees, which is 64.
Huh. That's not good. The power first.
Sure. You want to support the block? The block needs support.
There you go. All right. Here we go.
Let's put on some more. Oh, God. That's a lot.
Oh, shoot. I'm going to try and suck some of that back up.
I want to go around like there, maybe, David.
I sucked up too much crap.
Crap balls. Okay.
That's pretty good. Can I have that thing and move over?
If this doesn't work, I am 100% bailing on the liquid metal.
I don't care.
I'm just kind of over this whole liquid metal fat at this point.
It is not worth the hassle.
Boom. Absolutely immolated.
Before you hit that, I'm going to redo the quick disconnect.
Oh, cool. Okay. You can hit it now.
Let's go.
I've got high hopes. I was waiting.
I wanted to say he's got high hopes.
High apple pie in the sky.
I hope so when you're tired of feeling bad.
I get mad. Just remember that.
Is that raffy? That's raffy, right?
Where I was doing it from is from Kuki Movie.
Oh. I'm sure it's from something else before.
Yes, it definitely is.
High hopes. Song original.
Shut up. Frank Sinatra?
I can see it, yeah. No way. But I don't know if I would describe this as lower enough.
We're going to find out. We'll pop into Windows and see.
I cranked those down by the way.
They're all tightened to the end. Oh yeah.
At the back. Same. Okay.
All right.
Like 16-bit style RPGs that I want to check out on Steam and stuff right now.
Honestly, my backlog is bigger than it's ever been.
Oh yeah. Well, it's bad. We don't have output.
Touched it. Did you try replugging?
Yeah, there we go. Okay.
One sec. One sec. One sec.
Start recording. It's synced. Oh wait.
This is more consistent now.
Multi-core and hello.
Okay. There we go. That's more like it.
This is quite consistent. That's what we want to see.
Also, that's really chilly.
60, what? 68 degrees.
69 degrees on the core.
Maximum. Nice. But for real though.
Nice. Sorry.
No water movement. This CPU is going to be getting-
Yeah, especially since there's air in there right now. Pretty toasty.
Oh, she's actually doing okay. She's at 45.
35. We got time, Alex. Okay.
We need our sketchy 240 volt cable.
No. That never existed.
You never saw that. It's been in zero videos.
Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
Okay, plugged in. Okay, I'm working on it. I'm working on it.
Okay. Do I need to hit the main switch back?
Nope. Okay. Hold on.
Hold on. I'm going to start a load.
Smart. Okay. Okay.
Do we have screen cap working?
Okay, because we're going to see this temp go up.
Is it up? What happened to it? Oh, God.
It's on 100. Oh, it started. Hold on.
Hold on. I'm working on it. Start it.
It's not turning on, Alex. Stop it. Oh, my God.
Why is it not- The switch wasn't on. Wait.
There we go. Okay. Yo.
It's- Oh. Oh, my God. Hello?
Fry the CPU. No, I don't want to fry the CPU.
Alex. Why is it not turning on?
Buddy. I'm going to have to stop the load.
Oh, the load is over. What's happening?
There we go. Oh, shoot.
Those fittings are not made for that. Oh, my God.
There's water everywhere, David. Okay.
We need to- Hold on. I'm going to turn it off.
So that was fine with the pressure of a D5 pump.
No, that's not so fine there.
Okay. So- We need to do a bit of a fitting swap.
Yeah. We need a coupler of some sort.
Geez. Okay, do we have a coupler?
A coupler. Yeah. We do, in fact.
We've got a coupler. We might not even have to turn off the system.
The good news is that so much of the water drained out of the block that it's empty.
Okay. Next time, use the colder fittings, hey?
These are- Yeah, they're not quite the right size, but-
Oh, I see. But what we can do?
Okay. You got- what on earth are you doing?
Well, these are here. They feel really bad to put in and take out until you'll lube them and then you do and
it feels great. What is it? It's just a quick disconnect.
It's a quick disconnect. Yeah.
Wait, what? So this goes in there. What?
No, no, but the problem was the quick disconnect leaked. No, the problem was the fitting leaked.
Oh! So we've got a new fitting.
Oh, God. So we need to do that here, too.
Okay. We don't have much time.
We're at 56 degrees on that CPU.
Oh, my God. These are way too big.
It is a freaking miracle. Ew, that's all over me.
That this did not spray all over the inside of the computer.
Oh, I was afraid that this might happen and made sure the fittings would not do that.
This isn't done yet.
Let's do this the easy way. Yeah, because the easy way has worked out great for us so far.
Okay, where's my other fitting? This one right here? Yeah.
There's only shop styles we need. No, don't worry about it. Okay.
Yeah, I'm only a bit wet.
It's okay. Yeah.
All right. Try again? Yeah.
Okay, you ready? Yeah.
Okay. Oh, yeah. CPU is only at 60 degrees.
That's actually really impressive.
Okay. We good? Why is it making so much noise?
Do you have a question?
I don't like... I guess maybe there's a lot of turbulence in here.
Is this CPU? Is the system locked up?
What's our... Why is our... Oh, there it goes.
Oh, there it goes. She dropped. Okay.
All right. What are we set to here?
Jeez. Okay, we're set to five, but we should go a little higher.
Maybe 10? I think five's fine. You think five's fine?
Let's try 6.9. Oh my God.
No, you don't want setup. You want set point.
Not as long as you need it left.
Why is it set to 42 degrees? Is it going up?
Did you change it to the units?
No. No, that's the high...
So you're in the settings right now. So this is the high temperature warning.
Mm-hmm. I don't know how to get out of the settings.
Me neither. Maybe power? What?
Yeah, that's all. Sometimes power goes back. Oh no, it's turning off.
Crap. Yeah, that's fine. What if I tell it, no.
Okay.
That's clearly working though. Yeah. All right.
And it's on.
Okay, that does not sound good. Is it?
Wait. Holy crap. I think it's out of coolant.
Alex. Did someone take the coolant out?
Don't plug it. Quick. Oh wait, no, there's water in there.
Maybe we just don't know how to use this.
It worked fine last time. It did.
Well, it's just a... Oh my god.
All right.
Okay, no, that sounds really bad. That's really, really bad. That sounds like the pump's running dry.
It does. Why is the pump running dry? This is totally full.
There's lots of water. Let's just add more water.
No, it's full, Alex.
It's almost at the max level. Huh.
It's at the max level. Huh.
Okay. I'm kind of scared. Yeah, I think you have to press enter.
Yeah, now it's going.
That made me very uncomfortable. Yeah, same.
But it is working.
Okay.
This chills fast. We're down to 11 degrees right now.
Do you want to just run a Cinebench and see how hot it gets?
Sure.
Multi-core, let's go. Uh, is my tummy recording again?
Cool. Oh, no.
Mr. Slate. Mr. Slate, man.
All right.
Direct eye cooling day two. Matt!
Okay.