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with 600 watts of chilling goodness according to the seller this thing

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should be able to take even a top-of-the-line gaming PC to Heights

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never before imagined but then given that the seller didn't even manage to

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include an essential control board in our order I have some strong doubts

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about our chances here so then why are we doing this for years we used City

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skylines as a CPU Benchmark because its complex simulations could bring even the

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stoutest of processors to a boil and today City skylines 2o will carry on

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that proud tradition in a big way taking advantage of and this is a direct quote

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all the available processing power of the multicore CPUs that's right

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developer colossal order has created a simulation engine that is so detailed

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and nuanced that it raises the question are we living in it so when the

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publisher Paradox reached out asking to sponsor a video showing off their new

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hotness we knew what we had to do build the absolute fastest computer we could

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and then put their scaling claims to the test by making it even faster with this

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incredibly sketchy Chiller from AliExpress now that we're all caught up

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let's get into

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it the inspiration or blame depending on

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your point of view for this idea belongs to user tap tap tap tap on on the LTD

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forum who linked us to this Chiller on AliExpress but as it turns out that was

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just the tip of the cooling Iceberg and there's a whole company called FS Thermo

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that sells MINI chillers like this for all kinds of applications including CPU

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cooling and after looking at some of the options we went with a chiller that is

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for spot cooling because it looked like it would be easier to integrate into a

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computer cooling Loop and has a tasty

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600 watts of cooling potential on tap

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the only problem is that the seller FS Thermo only has a

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66.7% positive rating on AliExpress and

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our chiller arrived looking sorry one second like this which is fine I mean

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the chiller itself seems wholly undamaged but there was almost zero

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documentation other than what we could find online and even there the

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specifications are basically non-existent other than they did clarify

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that the certification for this is none

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so I guess it's up to us to explain what you're looking at here on your left is

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our compressor which takes Vapor refrigerant in this case R134a and well

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compresses it from there it travels through this tube to our condenser where

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the refrigerant turns from a gas into a liquid with that change of phase dumping

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a bunch of thermal energy from our system into the air using this big fan

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and the attached radiator from there the

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liquid refrigerant travels to the sensing bulb which lets the correct

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amount of refrigerant through this tiny capillary coil here until it hits the

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expansion valve where the pressure drops and the refrigerant begins to turn back

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into vapor this liquid Vapor mixture

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then enters our heat exchanger where the vapor gets super heated by the water

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that is Flowing to our CPU and presumably our GPU nope just a CPU just

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a CPU oh okay this is going to be fun

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then that superheated Vapor gets sent back to the compressor and the cycle

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continues at least that's how it should work in theory but as I alluded to

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before the chiller arrived at our offices missing two key Parts the first

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of which was a power supply but that one was easy enough we bought this 24volt DC

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meanwell power supply off Mouser Electronics and we should have been good

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to go except we were also missing a

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control board which we discovered the hard way when we spent several hours

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trying to figure out well if we have all the pieces why the heck can't we figure

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out how to turn this thing on we'll have a cutdown version of that misadventure

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at LMG Dogg flat plane but long story

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short as it turns out this board here only does compressor power fan power

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dual temperature readings AKA literally

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everything you need to have a functioning Chiller except the ability

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to turn it on which requires a art command to be sent to this header right

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here so if you happen to be watching this FS Thermo first of all thank you

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for the excellent customer service taking my call at 7:00 in the morning

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and getting us this main board within a week but secondly can you please just

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let customers know what they need in advance so that they don't have to call

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you in the first place of course all of that's in the past and now that we have

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everything we need we should be good to go to do a test run right oh yeah which is great why is it that when he tells me

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something's not going to work I'm afraid it's not going to work and when he tells

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me something is going to work I'm even more afraid it's not going to work it's

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going to work it's 100% going to work let's go pump how's our temperature

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looking brilliant probably tap water temperature so about 21° cool now

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theoretically if we fire up the chiller

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do I just do it yeah oh yeah got this

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this is so much more promising it made noises and stuff this time then it says

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cop I don't know what that stands for but if you press up poo a bunch of times

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yeah it it gets more cooler okay

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theoretically because we have no heat load going into this whatsoever this

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thing should get cold pretty flipping fast then yeah I'm just going to

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increase the cop until uh okay well we

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already dropped a degree so 650 is as high as it goes now we know that fan

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appears to rip yeah there's no uh fan control it

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just it goes uh are we going to freeze this water or is it moving fast enough

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we're not worried about that uh we're a bit worried about that I say we try well

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interesting is we are below 0° and I mean we're still liquid it's

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moving fast enough super cooled liquid I bet it would taste delicious I've never

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had a drink that's below zero you can have all of the nice fibers from the

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factory in China that made that heat exchanger I mean it's probably good for

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you doesn't taste that much colder in L spr plasticy I wonder why it turned to

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ice it's all ice now it's time to build the computer and we definitely have some

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challenges we grabbed this out of inventory thinking it was a CPU block

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what it actually is is a CPU block Reservoir pump combo this would not be

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ideal for this it might be cuz I don't know where we're going to put the pump

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yet it's not ideal it's too much to insulate I forget okay but but just look

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at this though that is not in any way

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that EK tries okay they do really well at a lot of things that picture is not

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one of them this will be a little bit easier to handle but truth

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not by much I have my work cut out for me insulating this motherboard did you

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at any point give thought to my idea of reusing the block from the EK cryo

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cooler thing I did yes and that's just not going to work at all it cools the

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tech not the CPU bummer wait where the hell did we get a 14900 K Intel this is

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out yet yeah as of the video coming out it will be though oh sick well we've got

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the 14900 K yeah you've already said that in this video you didn't like clock

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that was 14th gen not all all of us can run over 6 GHz okay well that can't

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either it runs six you absolutely cannot break it Gary will kill us they need to

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redo some of the testing cuz BIOS changes it runs way better now you know

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that kind of stuff and we only have one y only one what could go wrong well I

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just works on that I'm going to figure out how the heck we're going to mount this Chiller to our case yeah I thought

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we were putting it inside the case no it doesn't fit I thought we have cases

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it'll fit well only the case lab seven Gamers one CPU tower 900 okay forget it

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I potentially ruin it there's a few cool things about the motherboard we're using

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this is the z790 taichi light from ASRock it has all the goodness of the

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regular z790 taiichi it's wicked fast this is the same board we used to get to

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6.9 GHz but they removed all the RGB and

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extraneous crap that you don't need so it costs over $100 less which means that

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if I do ruin it I will feel slightly less bad this is all the artist eraser I

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have that is not even close to enough what happened to all of our artist

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eraser I don't know why are you looking at me cuz you're the one who always uses

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it yeah we've also got nail polish and

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conformal coating I want to BL with nail polish and

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conformal I do need dialectric grease I hate this so much speaking of things

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that you potentially hate what do you think of this pump radiator layout looks

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good to me all

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right I don't think we need the farting sound effects Alex they were implied for

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those of you wonder wondering the point of what I'm doing is to prevent any

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condensation that forms on the CPU from shorting it out and that condensation is

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very likely because it's going to be so cold that any moisture in the air is

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going to turn to liquid as soon as it touches it any air pocket is a risk

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which makes these LGA sockets extremely Troublesome to insulate I mean

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realistically this is more for if you're going to daily Drive Subzero and we

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could suicide run this without putting a bunch of grease in the socket but it's

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right in the name suicide run Gary wants it to not be broken so all right fine

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Gary she swosy my apology is fantex I

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don't think this is what you expected when you sent this case over but uh here

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we go shoot Alex this block will not work

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at all why not this uses their exact Mount I have no room for the foam

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insulated back plate do we need

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this I'll make it work we just slather

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that in grease put that down there and cold today this is looking a lot more

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like a suicide run with every passing moment tasty yeah this is not what comes

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to mind when I think tasty PC to get the water from the outside of the case to

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the inside of the case we're using these nice little pass through thingies and in

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order to install these we need to drill some more

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holes you're shaking my workspace over

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here nice for a quick run I'm calling

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this good enough cryon not more like

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cryo yes all right how does this look

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probably bad what this is the best looking thing I've ever seen on a

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computer looks like performance I'll give you that now I just need to install

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the power supply I made these nice little L brackets here out of a couple L

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brackets but when I designed it I was

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thinking that this right here was like in a 5000d where you can take out this

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piece for the fans but you can't so you either get to choose between putting

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these screws in or or these screws in so we're not going to put these screws in

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they are now zip ties never mind I use my teeth yeah that's about the vibe of

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this project there that should help a lot now all I need to do is stick these

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four posts through the holes that I can no longer see and hope that this makes

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contact I have have to poke these holes

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better now I can even see where the holes are ha you're making that look way

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too easy I am it's not easy I need this

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last one to catch I got three of them actually come on hey I got it my torque

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test for the hold Downs is going to be whether it slips in my greasy fingers or

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not I'm going to go as far as I can I'm not entirely sure why but fantex put the

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power supply in this case on a bit of an

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angle it's strange and makes me feel uncomfortable but it's also exactly

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perfect for this cuz I put a little grommet here and my other c-13 can just

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go straight through there do the other powers apply very nice a quick note in a

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perfect world we wouldn't be using an acrylic or Plexi topped block for

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Sub-Zero coola in the short term like what we're doing it's okay but if you

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ever wanted to go chilled liquid for a long-term build you would want to get

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something that is all delin or acetel on the top are you ready for the board sure

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let's hope it fits I left the top of the block uninsulated so we can watch the

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ice form uhoh that CPU socket doesn't quite line up with the CPU

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cutout uh you know what I think it's fine it might actually still

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work no hurry but this is requiring a fair amount of force to hold in place

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okay and then in terms of other ones I don't know maybe it doesn't look super

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happy when you push it like that well don't maybe don't push it like that then

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pretty D happy here let's do this one to make sure that we're nice and

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safe and don't have just exposed 12 120 volt in our case we're using hwk glue it

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might seem kind of sketchy but this is actually a pretty good way to do it what I want to know is if this thing still

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works at all if this fires up that tells us two things one whether the

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motherboard still works at all and two whe whether our CPU block is actually

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mounted correctly or not cuz if the CPU instantly hits 100° it means I probably

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don't have a good Mount and I have to pull the whole thing apart it's not posting and I have a pretty good guess

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of why oh no RAM oh got ahead of myself

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a little bit there for RAM we've made a very odd Choice we've gone with these

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non-s spreaded crucial sticks that are ddr5 4800 but 32 gigs each okay so we

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wanted 128 gigs of RAM is RAM a thing for City skylines 2o yeah so I played

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the first one a lot and the only time that I ever ran out of RAM with 64 GB

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was playing the first one modded what about second attempt did it do a thing

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oh ha it lives yes you wouldn't really

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expect a GPU bottleneck to be a potential thing for a citybuilding game

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so what's with the overkill RTX 490 well

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this is a new citybuilding game it can stress the crap out of your CPU and your

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GPU oh yeah oh yeah now we shall see I

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don't think it's going to fit oh yeah oh wow oh she fits sick not even a

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millimeter oh fancy I know right new

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retro colorway you can sign up for a notification LTT Store.com for these

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fittings that we're using they're for servers so we're supposed to be using

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these clamp tummies that go on and when

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they're attached they just do not come off but uh they're kind of a pain to use

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so inste just using zip ties ideally to control this Chiller we would have

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thermal probes that would be connected right there and right there those would

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give us our water temperature and the exhaust temperature of the condenser and

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that way we' be able to properly have this control everything we don't have

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those thermal probes though so we're going to be doing all of it manually and

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just using the fluke for that I put a tiny little hole in this stop fitting

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I'm going to Chuck a thermal probe into to try and prevent too much condensation

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buildup on our lines here we have we are insulating them using this

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stuff all right I'm going to finish chopping up the loop you got the RAM I

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only put in half the RAM just to make sure that it would work before we tried to load it up with

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128 gigs this is really not ideal for overclocking Alex Noe okay at least he

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knows all right you want to hit the button uh oh I turned it off

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oh want to try again uh-oh there we go oh jeez woo top number

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is the temperature of our water bottom number is the temperature of the exhaust

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oh okay and all I do is mash the far

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left button far right button so that's on up okay hey now it should turn on and

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more up is more better yes in that case I'll have all the up thank you that is

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an annoying high-pitched wine that I didn't hear last time we just matched

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ambient temperature for our coolant which is the lowest you can

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phase change cooler uhuh we're at 13° so we do need to actually move pretty

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quickly here uh you could just like reduce the power on the thing nope

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that's not really an option for me oh I love these panels we used the same

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artwork as the cityscape designer mouse pad from LTX this looks flipping amazing

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oh I get it cuz City skylines it's a city skyline

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yes it's very literal also we're at 7.5

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de now this is when like condensation is really an issue I know I'm trying to get

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this on one second does this controller support hooking up a temp probe and

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saying hey I have a Target temperature I mean it has the inputs for it we just

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didn't do that we don't have them now but we do have control over the power of

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the chiller we're just choosing not to turn it down yes okay I'm firing up

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Hardware info holy crap our core temperatures are 8 flipping degrees oh

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yeah we're getting condensation on resir oh my God we're at 1.8 we're

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getting condensation on the front of the CPU block hit it hit it with a

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load all right there it goes 66° 71

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72 okay hold on but is our water temperature going to go up pumping 300

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watts of heat into this thing not in this amount of time I don't think no no

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give it we're up to 3.5 3.6 our block

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4.2 our block is definitely spitting hotter water back into the reservoir 4.7

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we are going to need to run a longer test here all right let's uh okay no I

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do need I do need a load no no one one second we have I need a load oh right

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City skylines too that makes sense yes the whole point of the video hi Paradox

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I'm amazed how well that's working yeah the heat is rising right off the back of

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the GPU and preventing any condensation

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from forming on the CPU block even on the fittings like they're cold to the

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touch but they're not sweaty see credit

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to lonus Y no cold points in there other

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than where we intentionally left it so that you could see the cool acrylic block y we should check the back of the

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board though how bad is it it's fine it's all room temp nice this is great

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because it means we're not going to be stuck with some short wimpy oh no I'm

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afraid I'm going to kill it Benchmark session we're going to be able to overclock this thing and really see how

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far we can push it with chilled liquid we might want to

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insulate the uh Reservoir though I a

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true sweaty gamer I mean it's not going to drip on anything important yeah true

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should be fine should be fine also with

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cin bench running our coolant up to 10° now oh nice so it's not going to stay

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like that for long and I'll be interested to see where this stops because if we land somewhere in the 10

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15° range honestly this thing's kind of looking pretty awesome tell me about the

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situation with this game we got everything cranked obviously right or do

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we have it set to CPU burn preference here we go s simulation

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nice wait is this running at 20 frames

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per second I have cine bench running in the background C bench would do it yeah

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when you have an all core load running in the background that uh is suboptimal

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holy crap it's still running at

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but I haven't actually obviously seen the game running yet what the actual is

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going on here look at the level of

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detail I wouldn't even be surprised to find people in the buildings these are

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all individual people yeah where's uh this person going home poorly educated

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oh lonus I don't live on Victoria Street

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so you live in this building this is

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amazing well we're up to 40 FPS now yeah you zoomed in a little bit though yeah

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when we go to the full 100,000 City she she chugs wow but wait what's the

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bottleneck here we are still sitting at 40° on our CPU the GPU is what's

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struggling right now interesting okay well why don't we turn down our GPU

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details a little bit level of detail if you drop that I guess that will kill

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motion Blair too while we're at it oh yeah motion blur hey there we go oh but

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now I can't see all the little people from way out here okay well I mean we

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can zoom in and see it I guess oh uh did we mention this is an early build of the

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game oh did those Shadows fix themselves yeah oh no they're still a little bit

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glitchy they get a bit strange did we just not notice it before we might not

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noticed it we might have just been marveling at the level of detail and not

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worrying about it I've got to admit I've never gotten into City skylines but I am

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a fan of the genre and I got to say this looks really enticing okay hold on we

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got to we got to alleviate some of our GPU bottleneck here still though we are

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at 96% maybe just turn it all the medium or medium cat oh Dynamic resolution turn

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that off CPU usage just jumped to

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40% and we are still at 35°

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uh-oh our coolant at 5 Alex we need more

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load turn the details down go go go go go we need more people in our city oh

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hey they're simple and advanced what's Advanced

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whoa okay Fidelity effects this is

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awesome proper anti-aliasing controls I

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don't remember the last time I saw a details configuration menu that was this

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deep in the past for City skyline

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we would Benchmark it by just going to a really busy Junction kind of like this

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one right here Y and we just look at it

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oh wow yeah you can really see the CPU usage Spike yeah cuz it'll become GPU

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bound when you're looking at like the whole city like this I don't think we're

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going to be able to push it that hard Alex what is this who W go go go go go

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look at that it's supposed to be a muscle C it's missing assets still did

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we mention this is an early build of the game I think if we want it to go faster

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mhm our GPU needs to go faster I don't think that's going to help us enough cuz

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that's not going to change the simulation load much yeah no we need a

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larger map yeah I don't think we're going to get above 35% CPU usage oh oh I

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got 45 there for a sec I love that we have a 14900 K running at 35% usage at

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38° our coolant temps are 7° we finally

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tamed it Alex Intel's high end defeated

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by AliExpress oh God that's sweating a lot now hold on a second boom boom pathf

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finding I just hit 43% CPU usage huh

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what if I just change a bunch of stuff just plunk them down everywhere I mean

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that's a valid city building strategy right who boom roundabout boom

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roundabout okay so like I don't know like some overclocking later wow did you

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ever spend a lot of money no wait made a lot of money yes things are working

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quite well so first of all you know how we were having that weird shimmering on

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all of the oh that's all fixed shadows and stuff yeah so if you turn on t TAA

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it's fine for whatever reason you can only see TAA in advanced but at least

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Advanced is there Advanced is there and you can do a lot with it also I saw CPU

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usage is quite a bit higher we're at about 40% sometimes yeah upping the

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simulation speed really UPS the amount that the CPU needs to do also over the

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weekend it turns out Gary's a really big fan of this game so he was like I need

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to babysit the contractors and stuff and I can see if we can get it up to where

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it'll fully stress this oh fantastic but maybe we'll see we'll see okay there was

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a particular citizen that I wanted to check in on I've only followed one

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citizen you can see who you followed over

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here he's happy in going home he's poorly educated what what is he walking

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home from school why is he at school at

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4:30 in the morning and do you see how there's a load of people here uh yeah

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you know how you added the uh the bunch of skyscrapers over in that area yeah

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yeah I did do that yeah it completely ruined all of the traffic

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oh uh so I fixed it mostly by just adding in skywalks here so everyone can

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get to the subway cool but there's a lot of people going to the subway I see yeah

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no I don't know how to play this game it looks so amazing though oh speaking of

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looks amazing I brought Andy over here because the camera controls in this are

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insane like if you come down here yeah

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sensor size what why do you have a 65 mm

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Alexa and so you need to go to focal length to actually have that like change

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stuff but then you can just like drag it and make it kind of whatever you want

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lens shift it gets pretty funky when you get really wide but you can D in the

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sensor side in that's hilarious oh my god when yeting Bloom like motion blur

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depth of fil oh my God color adjustment

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wi balance brightness all right why can't our camera have those all right

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all right get okay all right oh yeah and you can also do uh What's this called

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you can key frame animations oh so you

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can set up like a drone shot yeah

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overclocking not very successful yeah I kind of imagine that would be the issue

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I mean this chip is already overclocked it's basically a 13900 K which was

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already impossible to overclock in spite of the temperatures being well under

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control yeah I did manage getting the temperatures better so stock it was

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hitting like 380 Watts or so wow and I was able to

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bring that down to about 330 with a bit more performance

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okay turns out to undervolt you need to unlock it in the

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BIOS but you can so whatever I was able to get a 5% increase mostly on eor okay

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oh cool but hey at least the game really impressed us yeah I like the chiller I

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love this computer I actually am super happy with the chiller too after we got

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everything sorted out CPU is pretty dumb though you notice we didn't even bother

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doing a full review of it but you know what we did bother to do oh right we

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don't have a segue to our sponsor it's parad

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uh City skylines 2 go check it out available now on Steam if you enjoyed

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this video you might enjoy the last time Alex and I went Subzero with something

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which was in a bed oh God it was