okay so i'm wandering around the warehouse looking for something um right
yeah it was uh mounting brackets for these uh
didn't find them not the point point is i found this
a rubbermaid bin in gray
oh that's not what's important what's important is what's inside this is the
original motherboard and graphics card
from the mineral oil cooled pc
out of their oil and oh my gosh absolutely disgusting let's
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so the dealio here is that we actually refurbished this machine around the time
of ltx last year with the intention of
showing it off there so we pulled off some of the stickers that were kind of
peeling off replace the motherboard
replace the graphics card with something more modern so it's got a 1070 in there
now and then never actually successfully
repaired the tank we think it might be
working now but the previous attempts we've made have just resulted in it
cracking again almost immediately and to replace this thing look there's a ted
fly in it that's disgusting uh to replace this thing would have cost like
a thousand dollars from a custom acrylic shop
so that stuff's all gonna stay there because ideally i really would like to
fix it at some point but in the meantime i totally forgot
about the motherboard and graphics card i want to know if they still work so
let's grab some test bench hardware here
our options are 5960x or 5930k i guess
that's the least valuable thing that we might wreck
so let's grab that okay so my options are use my crappier
test bench but then i have to put a power supply in it or use my better one
but then i'm gonna get mineral oil on it and lazy
so i guess we're using this one
this stuff is just nasty and it like spreads everywhere
it's basically like glitter except it doesn't even look sparkly and fun
so there are a couple of things to contend with when it comes to mineral
oil now the main thing is the like mineral oil all over the place but the
big problem is that mineral oil has a nasty habit of degrading plastics and
rubbers and really a lot of things that it comes in contact
with so one of the things that's going to be a
challenge here as you can see this memory slot
just snapped off when we went to open it up and at least
one of the pins is actually bent
inside the slot there so what we're going to try and do is lift that
back up and see if we can get a stick
working in there you know it's actually not in
terrible shape all things considered i mean it's like
furry because it's been sitting out in the warehouse during the renovation
and it's been covered in mineral oil the theory the theory if you talk to the
mineral oil enthusiast they'll be like oh yeah you just leave it out drip dry
for a few weeks no problem
you want to touch it so let's just
let's isolate our variables here let's try just the motherboard first
then we'll try it with the graphics card that was soaked in oil
oh i am excited right about now
i mean if this thing works
but like max's pc is that what you were going to say
no you don't want the mineral oil cooled okay so the reason we want to try
just the motherboard without this card first is because we've got two
potentially like jank ass components here so if it
doesn't work we want to know that it's down to
one of them so we want to make sure the motherboard works first so we can
troubleshoot anything there then we'll try the graphics card because
if we just put the graphics card and the motherboard on and it didn't boot up we
wouldn't know what the actual issue was look i even went and got paper towel and
why am i still wiping this on my pants you know what screw it let's
get this show on the road people paid good money to be here ow
watch this video damn that hurt okay hey we've got postcodes like that's
a good sign check this out 32 4f 79.
look at this it's got like a big long hair on it it's gross
hey look at that
no problem let's see how much RAM we've got
detected here 12 gigs shoot that doesn't seem like an insurmountable
problem okay oh wow this memory is like
it's wet contrary to what people might think i don't actually want to go out of my way
to destroy hardware just kind of happens you know
so one of them is just not making contact at all right now
and then there's another four here that are all just exposed they're no
longer supported okay i'm not going to put in that last stick
this time but if we see 12 gigs this time oh it's
seeping all over the corn it's not an esd safe cleaning method
but it's better than having mineral oil all over it let's throw the last stick in i want to
see 16 gigs because it could still actually be
something in the CPU socket that was damaged and then that would be another
reason why we would have one of the dims not showing up in fact it might have
been not that stick all this time i actually don't know
got it mangled RAM slot repaired
no idea how stable it'll be but that's the problem for another day
damn i'm good sometimes
some people get excited by no like
i don't know naked people this gets me excited
look at this here we are
on the desktop let's just run a quick stress test i guess
okay so we didn't run the full 15 minutes or anything like that what are we sitting at eight minutes but
at this point it did not immediately
let's go ahead and shut this down then
and find out if the graphics card works so looking at this you can see actually
there's not a lot of external damage to
it so these stickers all faded you can see the text
will just wipe off so not bad so whether they intended to or not evga made a
pretty much mineral oil proof
graphics card so if i'm turned on by hardware
seeing it suffer like this is that like a weird thing
if you're not comfortable having the door closed right now we can open it
says alex's drive not mine okay so the driver install was a little
bit weird um see if we can run us some 4k rise of the
tomb raider bam i don't even know if this card's capable of that 780 this is even pre-780
ti we did this build a long time ago wow
i'm getting old i mean one thing i was concerned about
was whether it would still stay adequately
cool i mean it has the benefit of having one of the best
graphics card coolers available i mean how many heat pipes does this
thing have i don't think anyone has a lot invested in whether i've got this right or not
what you guys hear that
you guys hear that short so that's not posting something i had
forgotten about is this motherboard actually got three caps soldered back
onto it once it came out of the oil they were just like loose so it's possible
that there's been damage to the graphics card
oh it's dead
damn you know i thought i thought we had
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