Intel Extreme Upgrade Titan. Day one, I guess.
Day one-ish. Yeah, sort of day one. It's going in the middle of the video, but whatever.
Who needs order? So in theory, this should melt steel.
It could.
The best start. God, this thing's actually terrifying. Like, it takes quite a bit for me now.
I see why they chose me for this one.
Right. So, wait. This whole run...
Wait, this whole thing runs off of a 500-Watt Corsair power supply?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's just for the controls.
Oh, okay, so Corsair power supply runs these boards here.
Don't touch those. Those also are pretty murdery.
Yes. How murdered are you if you touch those capacitors when they're charged?
They have about the same amount of energy as, like, an MLB baseball pitcher hitting you in the chest.
Okay, so don't. No. So how does this work? We have AC coming in here.
16 amp breaker. Yep.
Which we might need to... Replace or remove.
We shall see. I was being cautious.
That's 16 amps. And then it goes into a three-phase rectifier that is normally used for welders.
Fun. And then that goes into the workhorse, which essentially alternates it really, really quickly to drive the main loop that will hopefully melt things.
There's a lot going on. Well, let's just start assembling things.
Oh, yeah, that works. So, we need this to go in there.
What does this do? It's rated for 750 volts at 800 amps.
Oh!
So that's, like, considerably more than, like, the transformer we have for this entire building.
Oh, yeah, 100%. Oh. 100%.
Yeah, this is a beef cake. And the thing that gets me about these guys is they sell banks of them to people.
Oh. It's great. But yeah, this was the, like, most reasonable one that I could justify getting.
And it's still way over anything I'll ever need. And this is what's handling all of the, well, this coupled with this, is what handles all of the melting of things.
That's pretty scary. Yes. Do not touch when it's running.
So don't touch this. Do not touch this.
Do not touch any of this while it's running.
Okay. This can potentially peak up to several hundred volts, like, seven, eight hundred volts, depending on how it's all set up and running when it's actually going.
That is terrifying. So how does this get fed?
Like, how do we not just blow up our panel?
You're on high enough voltage.
You'll blow up the panel. It's coupled to this.
So this is essentially just a piece of steel or piece of ferrite to be more specific.
It goes around this and it acts in a very similar way as the coil to the steel.
It pushes electrons through this circuit.
And this gets powered from the next piece in the chain.
Should we put scary boy in there? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That one, like, it can handle a lot of power, but it's not something that I'm quite as afraid of.
Because it doesn't have a ton of capacity, but it can handle a lot of flow through, if that makes sense.
This thing is not designed for as high a speed, but has a lot of capacity.
So yeah, this is plopped down there.
And then I have a nice, definitely not sketchy and super janky 3D printed holder.
That's a fine holder. Yeah, it can't be metal.
That was pretty much the requirement.
It's metal. That's going to be a very bad time.
And this is a tube because you need to run water through it, or this would also become liquid.
Yeah, I didn't run it with cooling.
It smoked within like 10 seconds. I imagine so.
It gets very hot very fast. I have plans to upgrade this and make it more usable down the road, but this is the current implementation.
I've made myself a hobby.
Is your hobby making swords, or is it making things to make swords?
Why not both?
This is where the high voltage, high frequency switches are sent in to the system.
So Intel are tools, yeah?
They don't know. I didn't say that Intel is suggested that I do this.
I'm doing it because I can, and because I'm only slightly insane.
Thank you!
Powering your dreams. And some people's nightmares.
These two parts right here are what actually create the main chops.
These get bricked onto these two, and essentially what these are doing is it's switching high to low, low to high, and then back.
And it just does that repetitively. Very fast.
Not CPU fast, but fast for this much power.
Yeah. If you put, whatever, just 400 volts through your CPU, it'll not be happy.
Yeah, it's going to have a bad time. Although I am a fan of overclocking, I would not blame Intel for avoiding your warranty if you did that.
If they didn't, I would give them a medal.
We gave you a CPU, and now we have glass.
These are made by, of all people, Mitsubishi.
Because they just make literally everything.
Fun fact, okay. Tangent, that's kind of funny.
This cap from CLAM, I was working on it, and one thing I didn't quite read in their instructions right off the bat,
is it will naturally leak oil.
Oh. Which you don't, is not something you want to see in a high voltage circuit, is just a wet spot underneath your very expensive capacitor.
I ended up looking into it, it's totally fine, but definitely scared the crap out of me.
These are some beefcake bus bars, better known as just blocks of copper,
to try to minimize how much resistance is in between each of these capacitors and these ports.
All of the bits in here, you made this on the tormach, right?
Yeah, I took bars of copper and then machined stuff in with the tormach.
So almost all of the copper plate, or lack of a better description in here, was machined out on the tormach and made on that.
Which was extremely convenient to have.
Otherwise this would have been a lot more of a pain in my butt.
Getting this all hooked up was, is, is an adventure.
And not, not the most fun thing on the planet, I will be the first to admit.
I didn't exactly give myself a lot of space. So this is one of those very, very rare times where I'm sure I'm going to get called out on saying this anyway.
Loop order kind of matters a little.
I have enough water and thermal mass in the loop that I'm not worried about it capping out really, really quickly.
But this capacitor needs to be cooled, or it will overheat, and that will be very bad for me.
Because it's expensive. That's cooled just by this soldered on piece of copper tube?
Currently, yes. I have hopes to make that better in the future, but it should, that is acting as both the thermal connection and the electrical connection.
Fingers crossed! Yeah, I just really like to start and not stop before.
Ah, I see.
Okay.
Oh, you just went for it. Yeah.
There it goes.
Somewhere. It's a big loop, even though it doesn't look like it.
Oh, I guess that rad is probably where most of this water is going.
Yeah, there's also just a lot of tubing.
This clear tube right here terrified me when I saw water just start popping.
As much as it doesn't look like it, there was actually a lot of thought that had to go into where all of the tubing went.
Because there's not a lot of space, and minimum bend radiuses on these tubes are not small.
They are bad, yeah. Alright, am I dripping?
Yes, classic. Did not tighten that enough.
That sounds nice. It's fine.
I wonder if using a lot of things that are definitely not designed for what you're using them for?
It's good fun. That's fine.
Just an average day at LTT.
How tested is this? Have you tried this before?
Yes, and also no.
I have done a fair bit of testing at a relatively low level,
and I got this hot enough to discolor it like nobody's freaking business and glow.
That was fun. But all of that was using this chunky boy over here.
Legitimately very heavy.
Variable transformer. Essentially my way of being like, I don't want to accidentally blow something up too early.
How it works is it just takes whatever the voltage out of your wall is,
and either reduces it or increases it.
So let me kind of get this thing to stretch its legs without the concern of blowing breakers instantly.
Because I did that.
So did Intel give you a variable transformer?
Yes, they paid for it.
It has purchased many interesting things for this endeavor.
Thank you, Intel. Someone this is on if you touch this really bad time.
It's complicated. I wouldn't recommend it.
It will be my initial stance. If you touch one part of it, it's not good.
If you touch two parts of it, it's really bad.
That? Not good. This?
Extremely bad. Extremely bad, yes.
I did coat this so it's not as much of an immediate concern.
But yeah, don't touch. Just don't. It's not worth it.
Running it, it's kind of... Nothing happens.
It's fun and very anticlimactic.
And then you look at this and you're like, ah, right.
That's drawing like 70 watts.
Most of that energy is going into heat that's dissipated away for the most part.
So you want us to have eye protection and you just grab the face shield.
Why? I don't know what's going to happen.
I grab this because I don't know what's going to happen. And I'm going to be like...
But what can happen where you need a face shield? Like I can see lots of reasons why you need other sorts of protection.
Part of it is just if this works way better than I think it's going to.
And the steel just gets ridiculously hot really quickly.
I just don't want to risk it. Though I am insane.
Generally speaking, I know when to put on more PPE than I need.
I say in a tank top. Yeah, okay, okay.
Face? Face? Face important. Arms? Nah.
Okay, we have a solution.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fire rated. Fire rated?
It's good with flames.
And hot things.
Oh, that's a lot. Oh yeah, that's working pretty well. Oh my lord, it's already smoking.
Yep, so we're at 130 degrees now.
180? 200? Wow, that's going up fast.
How many amps are we pulling? It is drawing 11 amps.
11 amps, not bad. At 200 volts?
How many wadi watts is that? This has a watt sensor, but it doesn't freaking work.
We're at 400 degrees now.
400 degrees Celsius, by the way. We're not using stupid American units.
Okay, face shield is very much unnecessary.
Yeah, we're going to be glowing here soon.
Should be glowing great about now.
We're at 514 degrees.
Oh, it's toasty. Oh, I just saw, oh, 560.
Ah, yes, it is starting to glow.
Heck yeah, bud. Oh yeah, it is. Very faintly.
I'm going to go from this angle. I'm also going to just have a little gander at the inside here.
Yeah, please. What's that Mr. Fairight saying?
Oh my god, the toroid is smoking.
I'm just going to turn that off. Yeah, so it's at 180 degrees right now.
It's smoking. Yeah, oh wow, yeah.
It's like actually smoking. And this is very hot.
I'm not going to touch it. And here I also have a discharge resistor.
So if I turn this on, the fuse blows.
That's fun. Why did that happen?
What?
Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. Okay, here we go.
This works. That's the voltage across the capacitors.
It's not connected anymore. Oh!
Notice how slow it's going down.
That's why people say do not open up power supplies.
Because a lot of them will actually have voltages
close to this high in them. It's higher on consumer power supplies.
Yeah, like the capacitors are nowhere near as large.
But they do run at like 400 volts.
This will take probably 10 minutes to discharge
to a level where it's safe to touch. So don't do it.
It's not worth it. Learning over.
And it stays hot for so long because it's just a piece of freaking steel.
Okay, fair right. Similar but technically not the same.
Yeah, it still is at 120 degrees.
Speaking of things that you don't want to touch
for a long period of time.
Yeah, that fan will injure you pretty good too.
I don't know what I would want to touch less in here.
I would touch the fan. Yeah, that's fair.
Yeah, that's fair. This is a very rare situation where I touch a Delta server fan.
Yeah. Spicy with the help of blowing matron.
That's very current limited. Oh my God.
It's dropping but it's not dropping fast.
It's currently at 95 degrees or so.
Somewhere on there. I can feel the vibration through the case.
Honestly, I was hoping that it would cool it down a little bit better than that
but I think we should still run it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh yeah, let's do the dumb thing.
It is the way. So wait, what are you doing right now?
Live wiring with me. If you want more live wiring with me.
Well, not live but you know. Flow plane exclusive.
There's probably way too much of it. All right, let's fan.
Love it. All right, and on.
And it's not drawing anything. Hang on.
Oh, my dumb. I forgot to turn on the power supply.
That would do it. On the bright side, it's a very convenient safety so I can't run this without the pump running.
Okay, we're probably good now. So close. Try again.
Oh, yep, that gets off pretty fast. We already knew that but like, wow.
Oh, God, that smells terrible. Okay, I'm going to open a door.
Yeah, I think unless there's anything else we want to do today, we're good.
Oh, wow, yeah, it smells real bad. So this is horrifying.
This is one of the sketchiest things I have seen a long time.
I was hoping we'd like belt some steel but you have your work cut out for you.
That comes later. Hopefully, maybe.
Anyway, back to the apartment. Tynan, one of our creative warehouse engineers, built a freaking forge.
And also, we need to hardline water-cool a PC with cover.
It's going to take forever. I see why they didn't want Linus to do this.
Something like that. What happens when you give an engineer $5,000 to upgrade their technology?
Well, a normal one you'd think would...
Okay, we need to divide and conquer it. I know how to build a computer.
I've water-cooled many a computer before. So once you have the basic layout in here, I can probably take it from there.
What I don't want to do is drill holes in your wall because you bought this beautiful sound bar from Sony,
which, as you can probably tell by how I lifted this, is not in the box
because Tynan has already been using it right here.
I have a couple of questions for one.
Are you just drilling holes in your wall? Yes.
Okay, cool. Also, subwoofer, is that around here?
I don't see one. No, it's not.
It's just the bar. It does a great job.
And it's also less to manage. But you don't have a subwoofer.
No, it's fine.
It's fine. I'll just break Alex.
You could have bought a much less expensive sound bar,
added a subwoofer, added the other two speakers
that are supposed to also be in the 7.1.2.
That's now just a 7. But Intel paid for it.
Yes, Intel could have paid for a subwoofer with a subwoofer.
That's fine.
Dang it. Logic will not be in this argument.
How much is this? I actually don't remember.
Most of you guys probably already know this, but make sure when you install your RAM,
that you put it in the second and fourth slots. That's because the way that the traces are set up,
it's daisy chain through these two right here.
So if you put them in like the first slot
and the third slot, you get reflections of the signals going to the other RAM slot,
where there is nothing, and that can make your speeds be lower.
It's just way better if you put in these two. How much did you spend on fittings for this?
A not small amount, but also thank you, UK.
What are we talking? Like three, four hundred bucks?
I think all of the water cooling stuff is like a grand and a half?
Ah. It's quite a bit.
UK has such a fun combination of incredibly well thought out easy things
and incredibly difficult, very high-skill things.
For storage, Tynan went with a 980.
That one, she goes!
The Linus cameo is real.
Alright, we'll try that again.
There's something about Starbucks coffee that always makes me shaky.
No, but some coffees are worse than others.
Yeah, fittings. They're already like preassembled and everything,
so you just like put it where you need to put it.
As intended from EK.
I guess this works. That's one way to have all your runs be straight.
It's a very expensive way to do that. This is probably a subwoofer's worth of fittings right here.
I'm not going to disagree, but I will die on this health.
Like, did these just... Yep.
Okay. Not necessarily those particular ones,
but yeah, they just like slap on there and then two of the other ones slap on the GPU.
It's very nice. While you figure out how to do this crew,
I'm going to have a look at your GPU here.
There's a surprise in that box for you. Is there no GPU in it?
Well, kind of.
Is there just an air cooler with nothing attached to it?
Maybe. EVGA.
I'm sorry you don't make graphics cards anymore because you did make good stuff.
All of my graphics cards have been EVGA and I'm sad.
Same actually. Yeah. Well, no, I did have a power color one,
but that was not a good experience.
Well, we're getting left to. This is where the jank really begins.
Okay. Yeah, this box is heavy.
Here's the actual GPU.
Oh, you didn't go for acrylic. You went for the pure acetyl.
Or I have a fun story about that.
I was going to do the acrylic, but EK didn't have them in stock.
So I went with this one instead.
It's not that fun. It's still going to look really good though. Oh, yeah.
It looks sick. Also blocking this thing was a nightmare.
These GPUs go really fast too
when you water cool them. You don't even have to overclock it or anything.
It just sees the thermal headroom and just fricking goes.
I need Linus's small hands. This isn't even tight.
I have a fun note here.
I have cable mug cables. Oh, okay.
I should have been paying closer attention.
Another slightly fun part. I didn't know how long to get them.
So I got them long.
Wish we might regret later.
And by later, I mean right now. Well, it's going to be fine.
The only thing that's going to happen is we're going to put your back panel on it.
It's going to be like... That's fine.
I don't care.
Oh my God. Is that like a meter? Yes.
I didn't know how long to go. The standard for cases
is about like 450 millimeters or something.
I have made a mistake.
Jeez. We're going to have a lot of bulge
and not where you want it.
These ones are for the GPU too.
Okay. So let's just...
I'll just think logically about this for a second.
Does it need to be this long? The answer is no.
But at the time, I didn't know.
How far does this have to go?
Your first problem was assuming that I was logical about any part of this build.
Because I most certainly was not.
I got the most number of cable combs I could on all of them too.
Which at least makes sense. Because really long cable, but...
That can make stuffing them in difficult though.
Because you only need like probably two or three out front. And then in the back, it will just be like
still really bulky instead of being able to like zip tie it down.
Don't make the same mistakes as me.
This is a learning adventure for everyone. Mostly me.
I'd say measure cables, but like you don't even need to. Just like think about it for a second.
Sarah definitely killed that. It looks really really good.
I've discovered some interesting methods of making things look cool as of late.
Mostly using our laser and or fun and weird chemicals.
We'll just leave it at that.
Unless you want to watch the flow plane exclusive where I go into it in far more detail.
So one thing you have to remember about hard line tubing is that it's hard.
And so it can be a bit of a problem where if you have you know a run that's straight like this.
This one right here we can move the fitting out of the way so it fits over it.
A lot of these you just cannot do that.
An easy way to get around that is to have 90 degree bends
in your tubes and you can just kind of plop it in.
But Titan didn't do that. It seems like it's easier if you just have straight runs.
In fact it's not.
So some of these are polished better than others.
This one's one of the ones that is kind of me. But it still looks shiny.
It's good enough. Where does this one go?
I can't remember. The other CPU pipe is just so gloriously a mess.
I don't know. I think that one looks nice. I was debating replacing this with straight runs.
But it has character now.
And it's 45 ish.
Heavy on the ish. Sometimes I just enjoy doing things that are hard
because they're hard. Where the damn hell?
I suspect that you will say that until in a year when you need to service this
and it is the absolute worst. That is most likely true.
There is a drain valve that will hopefully make my life a lot easier.
But yeah, I'm sure I'll be kicking myself later.
And I'm also using clear cooling stuff
because I don't want to deal with stuff settling.
I was seriously debating using a blue die
with a very specific reason because copper and solution is blue
and it looks really cool, but I decided against it.
That sounded like a pondering.
I am having trouble getting this one.
I never said it was easy.
Actually, I think on this one you actually have to take it out.
That would do it. It's been a minute.
Actually, I think you might have to take it out. You definitely do and it just sucks.
It's just not fun. I can do that.
You have to take that one off and then just be sad.
As with most of these runs it's designed to theoretically be simple.
It's not simple.
It's way more work. But it looks simpler.