huge thanks to flexi spot for sponsoring this video they're the ones that provided the desk portion of the desk
you've seen desks made out of wood plastic metal and glass but have you
ever seen one made out of Radiators I've got a 560 mm radiators here that are
going to give us so much cooling even an Intel processor is not going to run
hot jeez
if the weight's any measure of quality that's a good desk this video was first
pitched by depressed zip file on our Discord server like almost a year ago
and I'm so glad we're finally able to do it now there's a couple reasons this
isn't a totally stupid idea we're constantly chasing cooler and cooler
builds while also trying to make them quieter and quieter and this might allow
us to run what like an RTX 390 and a 12900 K just completely past mely we got
so many radiators David the first step of making a desk made of Radiators is
going and modeling it in solid works now I made like a pretty crappy model it
wasn't too bad because Alpha cool does give you the 3D models so that's just
awesome it allows you to do everything CAD know that it all fit but then after
I convinced Alpha cool and protoc case to join us lab's employee number one
who's a real actual mechanical engineer took it and did just a fantastic job
designing the top of this the way that these radiators mount to the desk is
super simple originally I had some ideas where like it's a big piece of metal
that goes up and around and has glass on top and stuff we decided against that
this is much more elegant and much more likely to work just some very simple
little brackets these were laser cut out by protocase then bent on a hydraulic
press and finally powder coated I think they look awesome and it's really simple
they just get bolted on there and then this screws into the desk we de Ed
against having glass on the top though because this is the desk made of
Radiators not a desk that happens to have a bunch of Radiators in it I
haven't opened this up yet I'm so excited to see it Proto cakes cut this
on a massive CNC router that they have it's very similar to one that we have we
technically could have done this here but they just do so much better of a job
that like it's going to be well worth it
look at that I just want to briefly shout out
protocase designer 6 here we didn't use it for the final design of this just
because we have solid works and are very efficient in using it but if you don't
have solid works and want a custom case built it's a really easy way to just go
about doing that now protoc case agreed to do this for us on one condition we
tell you not to buy from them apparently a bunch of hobbyists will call them
after our videos and be like hey uh can you make this super complicated one-off
case for $110 and they're like uh no if you're a
large business though or have a budget they do an exceptional job this is this
is not a $50 part as you can tell now I
guess we just do a bunch of
screwing it's a little bit floppy but that's fine all the supports on the
bottom anyway one thing that seems to be missing though is a reservoir support So
the plan is to have the PC here monitor
the res like right here or something and it looks like there's just nothing for
mounting the res yeah for the reservoir we're doing the ice ball it looks cool
it should be pretty neat just sitting right here we do need to figure out how
it's going to attach though one thing you probably would assume that we had
figured out by the time that we started building the desk made of Radiators is
what PC we will use unfortunately we have not I was originally going to use
this oh this PC the vf1 from Vel PC
unfortunately it only supports sfx power supplies and we need an sfx L yeah maybe
this thing from case Labs will be good in the Box
yep hey that looks pretty nice it's very
nice but it might be too big I think this is from the fatherdaughter build
the one where lioness's 3-year-old
daughter went to build a PC with him and I ended up building a PC while he played
with his daughter that's most of your desk space the desk space Oh that's way
better it is way better yeah I'll see what I can pull out for the reservoir
mounting I had a couple of different ideas so they include like this fan
Mount that would require us drilling a hole there not very difficult but then
we need to drill a bunch more holes ah it's just kind of a pain like metal on
metal might be kind of loud what they also have interestingly is this little
plate now I think this is supposed to be mounted using these little holes to
some sort of pump mount or whatever what I think is going to work really well is
we just use counter sunk screws attach it like that then double-sided tape it
to the desk now we are doing this not because we're lazy but for sound
isolation having some nice 3M you know VHB tape on the bottom is going to be an
excellent damper and allow us to be nice and Silent oh that is pretty good it's
even got holes for water cooling oh wow yeah this is perfect it's literally
perfect you still have loads of space it
fits the build in black but it's very sterile oh Racing Stripes would be sick
all right purple Racing Stripes hell yeah I like that this is
the beautiful thing about designing all of your stuff in solid works at first
you can make decisions months ago completely forget what you decided and
then come back and look at it so I did not remember how the tubing and
everything was going to flow how it was all going to work there it is great we
did it don't have have to think about
it all of our fittings are on the desk now I'm going to do up the tubes we
don't have the PC built yet but I want to just make sure that the pump has no
problem pushing a bunch of water through this cuz there is eight radiators worth
of restriction here I also just want to make sure that the soft tubing looks
good enough hard tubing is just a pain in the ass this will be a whole day
longer if I decide to go with that and I don't really want to for cutting soft
tubing you don't need to use the castrator 9000 if you got it you might
as well use it it does cut very clean what do we
think of that David doesn't seem too bad no that looks okay yeah we're just soft
tubing the whole thing it's going to be great progress has been going really well so whole Loop is like plumbed up we
also have the PC it's built unfortunately the RTX 390 in here had to
be stolen from the Hot Wheels PC this RTX 390 that's trun modded just would
not fit in anything like as you can see this is where like the PCIe normally
stops that's where gpus normally also stop this goes like a good inch past
that plus the fittings it just does not fit in any small form factor PC that
exists so we've got I9 12900 KS here
it's the one with the copper IHS on it you also have a th000 WT
know we're going to need to drain it so that we can attach it to an actual desk
but at the same time I really want to make sure that everything works no leaks
and most importantly that this PC right here if we find out on Friday that it
doesn't work then that sucks and we don't get a video done Alpha cool logo
is upside down you want to get this
Mark that's the alpha cool logo problem
solved wow we sure flipped those radi
fast we're finally getting to the sponsor of the video flexi spot they
make standing desks that I think are pretty good I don't know we're putting
it together right now we'll find out soon so the first bit of assembling your
flexi spot desk is to get this part
which is not from flexi spot but it is a lot easier to bolt onto our desk here
let's see like right about
there made it through this one no problem got to the flexi spot and they
not exactly sharp drill bit couldn't do
it well this is a pretty good product demo to show how good their steel is wow
these instructions are incredible it says uh right here on page two that if
you're modifying it to use with a desk made of Radiators you should first try L
brackets uh M8 bolts and then when you realize that the flexi spot steel is too
good you should use 9/16 lag bolts straight through some steel
oh well uh the lag bolts aren't going to
work and I'm about at the it we're just
doing it the easy way stage of doing this Automotive
grade this is how we're doing it
when you're not trying to modify it though this is a pretty easy desk to put
together and just for you flexy spot all be nice and use all four screws on the
bottom on second thought we're doing it the right way I made these little steel
brackets they're preloaded holds the whole thing together and it's real nice
and sturdy this thing yeah is not going anywhere much better solution than zi
ties anyway let's fill the loop the leak tester didn't even budge all of last
night so it's finally time to fill this thing up I really hope this little PC
works because Nicholas went ahead and made us some racing stripes for it it
would be real Sin if we had to change it out this is actually going to take
forever little East ball here is not the best to fill up I don't know how many
liters of water goes into all of these radiators but we're going to be here for
a while my hand was getting tired from all the squeezing work smarter not
harder when this starts to overflow I'm just going to hit the pump and we're
going to hope for the best there we go
come on kick on kick on kick on there we go ah that wasn't too bad bad we might
have done it probably once the bubbles come out that was about 3 and 1/2 L of
water in this water loop HDMI 1 is plugged into HDMI 2 whoever did
that is an
idiot well we'll be back in a bit the computer is like dead dead CPU fan
doesn't turn on sounds like something shorted on the back of the board dead I
don't know what's going wrong but uh Nicholas is going to figure it out in
the meantime I need to attach this desk made of Radiators to a desk is why you
guys need to help we need to be very careful yeah yes
as as you see okay I see yeah watch The
Box yep uh have to watch thingies
okay well that was fun okay we did it okay thank you goodbye good
Lu um why is it coming out of the quick disconnect
I don't know it it should not do that
nope this is all sorts of not good all
right now it's bracket time yeah I was thinking oh I need to like lay on my
back to get this desk but no flexi spot has standing desks
haa attaching the table to the desk is pretty simple we have these brackets
right here it's going to go onto the
radiator just like that so two screws into the fan holes and then to attach it
to the actual desk we are just using some simple metal self tappers that'll
go right in be
great so much better now I just need to do that for 16
clamps that was really painless actually screwing all of that stuff in with the
drill took less time it did to fill the loop and I think it's all lined up these
brackets worked out really well again thank you protoc case thank you um LT
Labs engineer designer a good job think
we're good to start screwing it
in and
this there we go balls this drill bit seems duller
than our self tappers
uh hello there's light haa there it is
we did it yes okay oh we're actually into the bi oh thank God
okay figured out the problem turns out the power supply that we had died
swapped it out she works great but anyway it works let's just make sure
that our temperatures are good here 23°
on the CPU that's exactly what we want to see and 21° on the GPU hell H
yeah I can't believe how well this came together holy what the hell are we
cooling that is a lot of heat there is
well you don't think so oh yeah that is a lot of heat are the fans even on right
now yeah they're on yeah yeah oh yeah they're on they're barely spinning yeah
I have it set up so they don't come on until it's 80° on the processor what is
making all of that noise it's the vrm fan shut up oh that's painful so if we
had water cooled the vrms on this board it would be completely silent with a
12900 k and a 3090 this is kind of
Genius cuz you consider how much people spend on a nice tabletop in my humble
opinion this looks amazing like it's industrial Chic and you compare that to
like people will often spend 5600 even
$1,000 on a tabletop and like yeah it's made of Radiators that's expensive but
like it's within the realm are you one two yeah they're quadruple they're
quadruple quadruple 140 mil each one's 150 bucks 150 bucks okay 300 600 900
1,200 okay H it's really expensive but it's really
cool this desk uses carbon steel yeah
instead of you know the normal stuff oh so like good steel yeah it was really
hard to drill through it was a huge pain we ruined so many drill
bits that's amazing I mean you can't
fault the quality of the product um good job flexi spot
but a little less modifiable it seems
Alex like you're telling me that a really good feature is a bug and then
it's exactly what he did yep I officially love this maybe it wouldn't
make sense to do with PC radiators just because uh it was really expensive but
if you were to do something wow listen those fans go at full boore boy does
this ever have some cooling potential but if you were to do something like
this with salvaged heater cores or salvaged radiators from you know cars or
you were to just grab like an old condenser off of like a refrigerator or
something like that man you could totally make a build like this make
sense I love this thing this turned out
like actually I was going to say exactly like I envisioned it but it's not it's
better I had actually envisioned it with like a glass top originally and then
there was going to be like a spacer so it was going to be super thick but this is just normal desk thickness it's
actually amazing what is this blue piece of masking tape that says Alpha cool oh
it's upside down oh no
Alex okay that's fixed you can barely hear it oh yeah that's a D5 in there
yeah no d5s are the best they last
freaking forever they're silent and they move a ton of water by the way this
looks really clean at the back I don't remember if this is what we had originally discussed but this looks
outstanding I didn't think of this though for sure this is awesome the case
came with those oh the end case oh yeah that's awesome flexi spot does have a
cable management spot in their desk and I filled it with
fans I actually kind of love that it ends up being like a hand warmer you
will never get cold in the winter gaming on a setup like this I would hate it for
the summer for the summer you can turn the fans around turn on the fans no no
turn them around so they suck ambient air and blow the hot air away so it's
actually like cooling your hands I think that if you just had the fans going kind
of fast it would be enough cooling that your hands would get cooled even though
the desk is kind of hot let us know in the comments I strongly disagree this is
Antoine he's off his probation by the time you guys see this video he works
for Labs and uh he really still up
helping us get this catted out when Alex was super busy with well
everything okay this is a 1440p Ultra
nightmare with rage tracing on and we're doing like 200 whatever the freck FPS
and the best part CPU's freaking peaked
it really 82 on the hottest Peak core
okay this is a this is 12900 KS In fairness it's the one with the copper
IHS and the liquid metals so we did hack s this one a little bit but still that's
amazing the fans are not even spinning
right now and then what's our GPU at I think the GPU is really good GPU
temperature peaked at
53° basically completely silent that 80
mil is spinning but like come on it's not to it's not that bad so you get a
full coverage block for the motherboard and then you don't even need a fan in
the chassis at all as The Man Behind case made radiators how do you feel
about desk made of
Radiators well it's uh it looks a little
more premium I would say holy crap it's
so OD oh my God there's fans under it what they kick on when the CPU is at 80°
oh maybe you should have them turn a little bit earlier oh man this is
awful my wrists are sweating already the
warmest forbidden Pokeball
it looks cool though
holy the mouse pad's moving up oh wow
it's immediately like way more
comfortable this is this is nice it's like uh it's like ventilated seats in a
car dude are these 3,000 RPM Industrials
oh yeah Jesus Oh I shouldn't stick my hands under there no yeah that'll hurt
that was that was close too bad I think I have to give this a 10 of out of 10
perfect 11 11 out of 10 you know it's actually you know it's quite a bit
better now that the fans are running if I just put my hands here I think I think
if you set them to like the minimum RPM it actually would be kind of a nice
experience luxury they're pretty freaking sturdy I
me this desk is solid metal yes yeah
well come stick your hand over here look the mouse pad is floating oh my god oh
this is actually the perfect gamer setup for sweaty moments oh yeah that it's
blowing heat that's pretty cool well just give it a sec give it a sec if you
were in like a a closed room this would
be not be ideal all right now that I've I've turned on the fans I'm going to
have to give this like a 30 out of 10 it's so cool you're doing God's work out
here Alex thanks to flexi spot for sponsoring
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this is amazing big shout out flexispot for sponsoring this video big shout out
you for watching it if you enjoyed this video maybe go check out uh oh why don't
you go check out the ultimate fin desk PC that was a good one too or case made
of Radiators or case made of Radiators yeah that was pretty funny as well