Let's cut this PC in half. But first, let me tell you why it's gonna suck so much. Our first idea,
which would make this pretty easy actually, would be to toss this into our bandsaw.
Unfortunately, our bandsaw isn't tall enough. A couple of other things. You don't have a CPU for one.
We'll fix that problem. I also don't see a cooler. What are we using for a cooler on this?
Did we drain it yet? No. Is it that?
Well, this will be fun.
First up, first, let's get all the water out of this thing, because I do not want it spraying all over the bandsaw.
Eric, oh, that's nice and yellow.
Yucky. Yummy. How much do you drink it?
No. Absolutely not. Don't drink your water cooling water.
Alright, let's rip this thing apart first, because it'll be probably the easiest and the most entertaining.
We're cutting this in half for a meme, as it seems like I cut everything around here in half for a meme.
Destroying dead hardware. Good times. First thing up, AIO. I have a feeling this is still gonna throw some water around. Hopefully it's not too, too much.
Ooh, yummy.
Whoa.
Well, I went right down one of the vents, so that's fun.
Oh, gross. Okay. That's making a mess for myself later.
Alright, next up, removing the other half of it. In case this wasn't obvious, don't try this at home.
Oh, it stinks. Oh, my God.
Yep, that's not the most pleasant smelling thing ever.
Oh, my God, what is that? It's just getting warm.
Oh, God. Oh, okay. It's not getting inside, okay.
No. Is that toxic? It's probably not great to breathe in a ton of, but it's just gonna be warm plastic.
Woo. Success.
Ooh, that looks fun. Also, it looks really gross.
Dude, oh, my God. Is that residue from the cooling?
It's gonna be a mix of a bunch of plastic, a bunch of copper.
You can see a whole bunch of copper-shaped things got caught inside it.
Yeah, it's kind of just a whole mix of stuff.
Tried cleaning it off a little, see if it looks a little bit less gross, but my hopes aren't that high.
All right, four bucks for like that. No, absolutely not.
Fun realization, I thought this was a whole bunch of copper from the base plate,
but no, this is a motor, this is part of the pump.
So I just straight up cut the motor in half.
Good times. I'm not gonna clean this up anymore.
That's good enough. Oh, gross.
Yeah, that nice dust is probably either part of the core or part of the rotor.
So typically magnetic-ish, or at least can be magnetized,
and when you cut some of those materials, they turn into a nice gross powder.
I think I just want to do the whole motherboard in one go. So just like take the motherboard out and then angle grind the case in half after.
Probably make my life a lot, well, make my life marginally less painful.
I'll do my best to line it up so the cut line on the AIO block is the same as the cut line across here,
but it's gonna be close-ish.
As anyone who's super keen-eyed can notice, the mounting locations are absolutely nowhere near the mounting locations for the AIO.
So super glue it is.
This might get a little spicy. They also have a very tall RAM and a very short rest of the board.
We could cut anything out of the RAM. Nah.
I mean, this actually fits. Oh, yeah.
And it's probably fine.
Oh, this would not be the reason I died too early.
Many people have seen me do much stupider things on camera.
No. So that's something where your intuition is very, very wrong.
On a machine like this, if you're wearing gloves and it gets caught, your hand goes in.
So for something like this, do not wear gloves, period.
Unless the thing you're trying to cut is more dangerous than having your hand sucked into the blade.
Tying in safety tips. People trust me when I say safety things,
because they know I've probably done the unsafe thing at some point.
Oh, that's a gigantic inductor.
Cutting through, that's gonna suck. Like, is it explode bad or what?
No. It's just gonna be really time consuming and just not fun.
I am aiming to line up right between this capacitor and this inductor.
So I want to cut right in the middle there.
Oh. Nailed it.
All right. Oh, this is gonna...
I might regret this decision actually.
I'm hitting something else again.
Now I get to figure out what.
Nope, nope. Just the backside of the other RAM.
All right, pass down. That sounds good.
Damn it.
Almost. Getting through the inductors is just not gonna happen.
Not with this bandsaw and this blade.
All right. And she gone.
See a nice profile of the RAM. Yeah, I just want to make sure that I, like, have it the right orientation.
Oh, it's right the first time.
Yep. And you never trust that you're right the first time.
All right, there's my approximate cut line. We'll see how good of a job I do.
I need to move the guard up a bit. Whoops.
Oh, and by that I mean I should have tightened the guard.
There we go. Success.
We did it. Round two.
All right, let's see how not close I was. Nope, that's the wrong half.
Oh yeah, that's not bad. I'll take that.
Yay. Great success. You know what, let's finish up with the bandsaw first.
Let's see how interesting this is going to be.
Yeah, I think most of the time it's silicon, but that's effectively glass.
It depends on the type. Some of them are, some of them aren't.
I'm not going to die. I have a feeling our bandsaw blade is going to die though.
I don't want to risk any hard work for it.
Oh, okay. Yeah, my next thought was going to be use our circular saw, but yeah.
I mean, we've killed that blade with many other things.
I want this to work so bad, but I know it will not.
It's so much easier than the alternative.
All right, time for the case. This is the one that I really wish would fit in the bandsaw,
but since it doesn't, angle grinder it is.
Let's go.
That's fun. Oh yeah. You know it.
You good? Oh, that's not great.
Here you go. Wow, my very own.
For now, while you're in the shop, I'm good at painting within the lines, I swear.
Yeah.
Yep. The metal, the metal gets real hot.
Yeah. The fun part and it's also blind.
Oh, it's actually not that blind.
All right. There's my cut line. Let's see if I can follow it.
A tiny bit at the bottom.
That little tiny piece.
Wobble and she's gone.
All right. Tell me in the comments how not straight my line is.
It fits. Hey, nice. It does fit.
Let's see how straight it is. Like, that's actually surprisingly, like surprisingly not bad.
Yeah. If you're eyeing it first. Okay.
Well. Okay, ignore this.
Yeah. That's going to get, that's going to get split.
You like almost can't tell. That's like, it's actually not bad.
Oh, I was going to say what? All right.
Focusing on not having any sharp things. All right.
Time to watch me put this thing back together again. Or at least, you know, try to super gluing it.
Super gluing what?
Screwing it on is going to be better.
Like you're not wrong, but also it's better.
Yep. Oh, I was going to say this holds it together kind of.
That holds it together. Kind of, kind of.
Wow. It actually kind of does work. Oh, popped off.
Uh-oh. That's fine. All right.
Time. Initially, we were planning on trying to super glue this thing on, but there's nowhere near enough area to actually attach it.
All of this, this tiny little lip here is all that super glue would stick to all of the pins and everything else.
It just wouldn't do anything. So I'm going to try slapping a bunch of EHB on it and fingers crossed it.
Hold it on properly. Sorry.
Good to watch me put on a glove with one finger.
Yeah, but I think if you move it around, it's going to fall off.
I mean, it looks pretty lined up.
What, the yellow? Oh, that's actually not terrible, but yeah, that's going to come off too easily.
Okay. I'm going to do the horrible thing and smush all the pins.
No, no, no. Oh, those pins are actually, wait, what?
Oh, this isn't overboard. Hmm. These pins are actually hard to smush.
Plan number two, sealing tape for vacuum bags.
This stuff is very sticky and also very thick.
Did not think about the logistics of trying to attach a cooler to a socket.
Would not recommend, maybe.
Oh, that might have actually done the thing.
That would be awesome. Okay.
Now mounting the radiator in the definitely cut in the correct direction orientation.
I just don't look too close. Wow.
Hang on. Does it work? I do something.
Oh, maybe I can do something done with one of the cable managers.
I want to try to orient it like this, but I don't want the tube to disconnect itself.
Crap. I want to do like that, except it's not going to work because the tube is in the way.
Yeah. I mean, that'll also be a lot easier to actually, whoop.
Yes, let's go. I'm going to try one smaller one just to see if it works better.
I'm going to clean up the edges of this.
So our nice social team does not slice their hand open and then you'll get to see whatever
kind of content they make out of it.