Here at Linus Tech Tips, we know that water cooling needs the cleanest water.
We even installed a reverse osmosis filter in our shop to ensure that we'd
have it. So, when we learned that there are more than 4 billion people around
the world without access to safely managed drinking water at home, we
realized we needed to be part of something bigger. That is why we're
joining forces with Team Water to help them blow past their goal of raising $40
million in just 30 days to provide clean
drinking water to millions of people for decades to come. Which got us thinking,
how dirty is unfiltered water? Do we even really need clean water for cooling
computers? I asked our team to design a bit of a science fair project to find
out if water cleanliness really matters when cooling your PC. And right under
here are the satisfying results,
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>> I'm ODO. >> Yeah. So,
I haven't seen this yet, so this is a big moment,
huh? at first glance. Anyway, I got to be honest with you guys, I can't really
tell the difference, which is pretty
surprising given that this one here was filtered through a LifeStraw, which is
supposed to knock out like 99.99 something% of the junk water. And this
one came straight from this bucket of pond water. I um I'm not 100% sure what
I expected to see, but with warm temperatures from the heat of the
components plus sunlight, I don't know,
tadpole algae, something. Did you guys do it right?
>> Pretty sure we sent David and Justin to the pond and they got some water that
looked terrible. There were ducks swimming all over the place.
Then we were working on putting these two pretty much identical systems together.
got interrupted by the ice cream van. I got a mango bar. I >> I didn't ask.
>> Fair enough. Anyway, we're kind of as surprised as you at the result here. We
even, you know, used transparent tubes. Everything we could have done has been
done. >> And yet, life didn't find a way.
Apparently not. >> No. Wait, hold on. >> No. I was looking at it with the wrong
color in the background. If we get it just right, it has a tint to it.
>> A little bit of yellow. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Grab that paper. >> Yeah. Okay. Hold on. Wait. This is
sitting right here. You knew. >> Maybe. >> Oh, that makes sense. Okay. So, uh here.
Here. Do you want to hold the one? >> Yeah. >> This one crystal clear. This one crystal
with some inclusions. >> Yellow crystal. >> It is. I've never been this excited to
find dirty water. The question is, how
dirty is it? >> Well, to find out, we got these petri
dishes and did a swab test. That's the life. >> Oh my god.
>> That's the pond water. That's disgusting. >> It really stinks.
>> I mean, yeah, >> I might have the plague. Now,
>> one quick note, by the way, the tests that you're watching were performed by
professional idiots and should not be replicated at home. Growing bacteria,
especially if you don't know what it is, for any reason, can be extremely
dangerous to the health of you, your family, and your pets. Stay safe. These
have been sitting in a very makeshift incubator that we built in the writer's
room for the last few days. So, as it turns out, looks relatively clean and
drinkable is still full of microbes and
potentially harmful contaminants that if left unchecked in an environment like
say your body or even this water cooling
loop for long enough will grow and can
cause serious health issues for both people and for gaming rigs.
>> I've got more tests to run, too. >> Oh, sick. But before we do those, we
should talk about Team Water. Working with the nonprofit Water Aid, who's been
around for as long as Jordan and have a platinum seal of transparency from
Guidear, Team Water is aiming to raise $40 million in just 31 days. So, they're
going to need all the help they can get to raise more than $1 million a day. Go
to teamwater.org to donate or to get more information. All right, where were
we? >> You're going to want those. >> Oh, okay. Hey, I thought you were going
somewhere entirely different with this. >> Not on camera.
>> Speaking of, these are tests for fecal caulifform bacteria.
>> Well, first, why don't we show them the water test that we got? >> Fair enough. We got this wellwater test
kit from Canadian Tire. Dead simple. We just dip these test strips into our
reservoirs. It'll change color depending on what's in the water. We match it up
to the colors. >> Oh, cool. Okay. So, should I give it a shot? >> Give it a go.
>> Okay. This is LifeStraw. 1,00 2 1 and
total hardness a little hard. Got some hard water. No chlorine. That's good. No
iron, I guess. Copper content, acceptable. Nitrate, none. Nitrite,
none. Nice. We're a little bit on the harder side, which is something that you
can be concerned about when you're taking water from a well. But everything
else seems to be well within the safe range. You know, there's no chlorine in
our water supply, for instance. Okay, I'm going to fold it this way this time.
And one, two, boop. Total hardness,
reasonable. Chlorine, iron, fine.
Copper, fine. Nitrates and nitrites are fine. Fine, fine, fine, fine, and fine.
And as expected, bacterial growth is not going to affect any of these elements.
So if we were to sterilize this water, it should probably be pretty safe for
drinking. And the sterilization is key.
>> They thought of that. The kit also included this test for bacteria. And we
bought a second one so we could do both systems. These will test for fecal
cullififor bacteria. >> That sounds like a bad bacteria. >> You don't want to have it. Basically, if
they turn green or bluish tint, that's positive test.
>> Okay. >> So, here you go. >> So, you're telling me, wait a second. You're telling me this is the healthy
one? >> That's the good one. >> I mean, I guess it doesn't really look
like it came from a water that I would want to drink. It looks like uh we might
have got it from uh >> Lar Reese.
>> I mean, is this how I find out that we're doing employee drug testing?
>> They don't tell you everything anymore. >> Anywh who, uh we took these samples
about 30 hours ago. And while this one might look like the more appetizing one,
that's bad. That's poop. >> That's poop.
>> Poop bacteria. >> Yeah. Don't drink that. I mean, I wouldn't drink that either personally,
but >> that's fair. Of course, we haven't proven that duck will affect gaming
performance yet.
Of course, none of this proves that duck will impact our FPS. So, to follow
through with our experiment, we are going to now game on our two systems to
see if they perform the same. All right, Jordan. Truthfully, I'm not expecting a
difference in the actual performance of these machines. If we were going to see
any kind of difference, it would be in the temperatures. Because while the
water is still relatively clear, that
doesn't tell us what our blocks are going to look like. The insides of our
blocks could easily end up gked up because they tend to have really, really
tight fins in them that can actually kind of filter out some of the microbes
that are floating around in the loop. That doesn't mean the loop is clean. It
just means that the water might look relatively clear even though there's a
lot of gunk that grew in it and it's gumming up the blocks. So, I'm at about
just over 30° on my CPU. Where are you
at? >> I got uh yeah, just under 30, over 30 now. Hovering right around there. Uh 27
on my GPU and I'm dead. >> Yeah, I'm about the same. My GPU is a
little over 30°, but the mounting for
GPU water blocks is so inconsistent that I really wouldn't read that much into
that. Yeah, we're close enough that this really doesn't matter. >> But it's worth noting that even at two
months long, this is still a relatively short-term test. And I strongly believe
based on what we've seen today, that if you were to leave a dirty water loop
like this running over an extended period of time, let's say 6 months to a
couple of years, it would absolutely gunk up, become contaminated, and
ultimately cost you a lot of time and or money to go in and clean or replace your
parts. So, in conclusion, let's go team water. Check out the link in the video
description so you guys can help contribute to this amazing initiative to
get millions of people clean drinking water and let's get millions of people
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