oh God it's leaking I had an accident origin sent over this beautiful
Millennium PC for a sponsored video of our choosing which is risky and
unfortunately for them it happened to arrive at exactly the same time as this
bin of the most random water cooling stuff that Alex could find on eBay Alex
permitted me to open one in the intro I'm gonna go with the big heavy one
wait is this our radiator it's handmade
and passive without further Ado then let's see who did it better this random
collection of handmade and vintage water cooling crap from the internet's garage
sale or origin PC
I really hope origin PC wins because if they don't it's going to be pretty
embarrassing
it's like scratched up oh Brandon it's good so the scratches give you more
surface area for this to enough let's get the b-roll oh my God all the clips
holding it together are falling out all over the place I assume we've taken some
baseline measurements of how the system performs with the stock water cooling oh
yeah it's great like actual Ray tracing on 4K still hits 130 FPS it's fantastic
why don't we go ahead and have a look at some of the other things we got this
is an old Alpha cool Reservoir designed
for an aquarium pump an advantage to this approach is that you don't have to
have a lot of fluid in your system because a lot of your Reservoir space is
taken up by pump oh wait this is actually what it's supposed to be I thought this was like a random aquarium
pump no this is definitely a thing using aquarium pumps for water cooling is what
we did before there were purpose-built water cooling pumps so wait is this
AC oh it is 12 volts yay right that
makes sense this is an alpha cool product this is a PC water cooling
Reservoir and so they would have found an aquarium pump that runs you know
easily off of BC power supply and designed it around it
um this has got to be a really old product though oh yeah oh my God this
o-ring more like oh ring
because we wanted to see what kind of water cooling stuff you can get on eBay and it wasn't enough for us to just see
in the picture that this thing is Grody we needed to hold it and lick it
oh no
no no no no oh I don't want to use these fittings oh
wow yeah those look terrible not good
those look much better in the post what even is this how's that even a piece of
a fitting you know when you can tell just from the color of the Plastics that
something is really old oh that's a hard
line it was em Technic no it's not hard line it is Hardline well but the fitting
you can just tell from the quality of the molding these are ancient oh like
early 90s late 80s age like these are really old dude
that's what the picture looked like this is just wrong did we just get scammed
this is not even close expectations
versus reality here I was going to say like I don't remember it being this I I
thought it was all just going to work I I Now understand why I thought it was
going to work wait wait wait no there's
something else in here fishing lures what wait why is this ship to address
someone in Latvia are you messing with
me right now
oh my God what is that well they aren't fishing lures but they sure as hell
aren't the things in Alex's picture either
they at least appear to be G1 quarter these are by far the jankiest fittings I
have ever seen apologies to Inta if we got your random crappy fittings slash
fishing lures if you reach out if this was actually your package let us know
and we'll send you a really nice set of EK fittings free of charge the plastic
fittings I'm hoping we can use because if we're going to do Hardline with this
tubing or something like it our only chance of bending it is going to be to
use right angle fittings not to bend the tubing itself and these metal ones while
they are right angle are threaded on
damn it cannot afford to break one of these we
have only eight fittings total threaded on one side so they're not going to help
us mid-run we need these for that
I think we got scammed pretty hard yeah oh my week just got so much more
difficult but more fun yeah it's gonna be an upgrade this system isn't Hardline
water cooled please tell me this is not the CPU block
this is so freaking heavy is that the reservoir
this is freaking old school man this is
a solid freaking kill the man chunk of machined aluminum that's then screwed
onto like a face mounting plate and then you were intended I think these are for
like um like rack mount cases oh yeah like
you would bolt them into the front so you could monitor coolant levels in the
front of the case it says it's 59.95 on
here we got an absolute deal on this
you only pay 48 bucks for it oh good this was also addressed to Inta do we
have someone else's shipment so some of this is supposed to come from Latvia and
we're supposed to get this but this says to Inta it is confusing also it's
labeled hair clips that's one hell of a hair clip oh is
that supposed to be our CPU blocks that would be really bad I really hope not
that's a 13 900k or something isn't it yeah I think you goofed does this even
have any fins in it we don't even have any way of opening it to see what kind
of design is inside I suspect it's just a flat piece of copper what you see
there's more in here no no it's a CPU
and a VGA cooler
what the hell were you thinking
In fairness I sent you the links to all
of this I didn't look at that
you approved it I can't be expected to read everything I
approve this thing's gonna look like a piece of crap oh this is good news oh
there's another block at least it's bigger okay that's what I was expecting
for the CPU oh another Reservoir
this is kind of cute Alpha cool yeah no
stop fittings I'm confused though I don't think I ordered that you also
didn't order this origin Millennium that
they sent over because if you had it wouldn't be this good everything in here
is top of the line we've got an I9 3900k an RTX 49d 32 gigs of ddr5 running at 6
000 Mega transfers per second and four terabytes of SSD storage because why not
it's not just water cooled we took advantage of origin's custom laser
etching for the side panel and UV printing for the other more different
side panel that looks amazing I can't believe we're about to ruin this think
about how great this is going to look with that massive passive radiator just
strapped to it do you know what this is probably a vrm coolers from other boards
yeah they used to do kits of these I was thinking these might be legitimately
useful just for cooling like GPU memory because
that's a problem that I've had in the past where we're making some sort of janky die cooler but we don't have good
stuff for the memory yeah actually these could work we're
gonna have to get really creative about which blocks are connected to which
other blocks because not all of our fittings are the same diameter
so like we might have to take one of these off and put one of these on
depending on what size tubing is going oh yeah
yeah fun you know from hearing that that if this guy ever invites you over for
fun it's not going to be fun don't go my
parties are excellent do you have a total bill here yeah I'm gonna open up
this lap what it's a Molex to why would it need all of
this on it wait maybe it isn't this well we have that now you basically bought
garbage yes Brandon yes thank you that's very helpful and
how much did I um pay for the garbage 465 Which is less than it costs to get
the water cooling upgrade in this so we're saving money what's your favorite time and the fact
that you need like a whole Workshop to make this work most likely
I've got a meeting okay
all right let's see how good of a job Origins done with their Cable Management
in here oh it's fantastic Brandon I hate
this not only am I going to be ruining
their wonderful Cable Management what's going to be extremely hard to get all of
the stuff that I need out before we start draining I'm just going to hold
the power button for a second make sure all the capacitors are nice and drained
because things are about to get rather wet what I'm thinking might be the best
course of action is to remove this fitting then we have the tube
stick this little stopper in there as quick as we can
hopefully it's all fine there we go
yeah that was
about it smells a lot like alcohol which is good you don't want stuff just
growing inside of your Loop if it's just water
last time this GP was happy
poor guy I've got almost everything out but I just want to shout out whoever
cable managed this because it is actually the best cable management that
I've ever seen like not just the stuff that you see is cable managed but
everything underneath it was cable managed as well and what really got me
was this right here this right here's the fan controller so six fans go into
this one controller and they wired it so they would have had to take the whole
controller off plug in everything and wrote the cables
down behind it and up and around just to
make it that little bit extra clean and now I need to undo all of it I have not
seen a reference 40 90 PCB yet oh wow
this is something there is no RAM on the
back it's all vrms and we don't even have full coverage with these vrm
coolers well I guess my question is do we need to oh just use the stock back
plate no but like this wasn't doing anything oh that doesn't necessarily
mean that we don't need to cool them though it's probable that that wasn't
doing anything because the front side was carrying all the heat away from the
board which is copper right is it cheating if we
is it cheating if we use thick thermal pads is it cheating if we just cover it
in K5 Pro oh my God we are not doing
that never again especially when you don't
know what size thermal pads you didn't clean it yeah because I didn't need to no let's
just go back to the basics here so GPU die that's solved
it's right here boom that's done what about the mosfets uh half and half
half and half so you're gonna go like that and put a thick thermal pad on it
yeah and this one probably can go right there and then finally for those
memories are you kidding me that
it's pretty terrible let's move on this with a bracket yep easy okay sold now
things get more interesting we have three reservoirs so this goes in
the bottom what about second Reservoir
up here yeah up there front and center okay
third Reservoir we go out from here
into here we use all three of these as
Outlets to feed our GPU because we could go into
the GPU do you guys have that guy you
know like in your friend's Circle or at work where you say something stupid half
joking and they not only take what you said at face value but continue to run
with it no but we could go through the GPU die with one so that's
like in series yes then we split it
using this into three yeah to cover this
garbage yeah then we recombine it in that like you said yes you eat it into
the CPU sure and the plan was to just strap this to the side panel
yeah just zip tie it on the back it's probably fine as long as we go in
the top and out the bottom oh I was gonna say the other way in the bottom
out the top so we can bleed it that would be better for bleeding I just
don't know if our pump can do it I think we're gonna have to try otherwise how on Earth are we going to get the air out of
this thing okay is that everything because at this point I just do it
we have a lot to do Jake I've been doing a lot of stuff but I've been mostly just
turning garbage into bits of water cooling so like in order to attach these
yeah I machined out some copper for the memory yeah oh aluminum for the mosfets
those are just to space it up oh now I consulted multiple Engineers three of
them do you want to know what they decided for attaching these to this zip
ties zip ties piece of Steel
continuing with the theme of just using garbage that I found around here I
didn't want to you know this is garbage that I see and see machined kind of
feels like cheating so for the CPU I TIG welded some steel
it looks very Square did you try it yet oh yeah it works oh great Wow since it's
easier do you want to take over CPU mounting yeah it looks very easy man
this must have been so nicely cable managed before oh yeah look at all those
zip ties I had to take yeah another one
and another one this is somebody's hard work I love how how not straight the
holes are it was like pretty close but she got a little bit warpy in welding
and the nice thing is you just have these giant holes so you know I got that
much wiggle room in each yeah oh I dropped it again I gotta stop doing
that wow that actually took a good joke
yeah oh oh Jesus why so much I don't
really know how the contact's gonna be
and also it sort of just splured it out I love that these which were probably
made in like 2006 or something still have all the plastic on them
meaning that nobody bought them
can you believe nobody wanted this David Wow have we leak tested this yet we have
not maybe you can do that right now well it doesn't really help that I got the
thing all wet first seems okay
it's external anyway so like it can leak yeah oh look at that beauty oh yeah
that's pretty yeah it's like just the tiniest bit still tacky Ah that's fine I
don't know how even this contact is going to be so
there's kind of like a flat spot so I need to have it a bit offset wonderful
mounting plate
copper and pink it's new the new style copper and pink
is such a wonderful color scheme I don't I don't actually know how tight these
screws should be we don't have Springs like a usual CP block so I'm just
getting them tight well that's actually like not that Jank you got Springs in
there and everything yeah I added the springs and then forgot that I kind of
built this to work as a spring yeah but it's a spring on a spring it's fine it's
a lot of spring the Spring's fully compressed so it's not a spring anymore the eagle-eyed among you might have
noticed that not all of these have the brackets left on them that's because our
Reservoir needed a mounting bracket and I figured you know reuse recycle this is
good for the environment I feel like I need to attach tubes to this first or
I'm concerned we won't be able to attach to the GPU block probably a good call
yeah once it's all zip tied in not going to be easy again I consulted three
Engineers to come up with the solution I
suppose now we should find out if this pump actually works lttstore.com I'm
going to use this piece of solder to jump the power supply
it worked I want to see it shoot a bit
more than that okay here all right hit it again yep
what I was really hoping that that would just shoot water across but it's really
not since our eBay pump wasn't working we went and grabbed the worst looking
pump in inventory what's the what's the head pressure of this do you think Jake
I don't know is it not level with that it might be pushing the water the wrong
way I don't think it really matters though yeah it has maybe half an inch of
head pressure it's a legitimately the worst pump I've
ever seen and I've seen dead pumps so we're using this one this other
AliExpress one hey oh it actually does stuff this one
rips heck yeah yeah Point her straight up let's see what the head pressure is on
this one I've had enough of getting sprayed in the face with stuff while
working on projects with you frankly but Linus wanted to do oh God let's go
radiator CPU GPU die
into this monstrosity of a reservoir
break it into three why yeah that's a really good question we
could just know it sounds like a lot of work I think we should just use this one these fittings that we randomly got are
designed for 10 millimeter hard tubing now sadly 10 millimeter hard tubing just
isn't really a thing for us to get it in time for this video it was going to be
230 dollars it is a very special thing
so instead I bought this very cheap 3 8 tube and we're just gonna shove it in
here and hopefully the shark bite of it's all fine I really dig this very
much ilm prop this right here could be on the set of alien and it would be
totally fine let's chuck her in you're such a nerd
huh that works okay so we need to we
need cooling on this anyway there's not a single problem with mounting a GPU
like that oh dude that's beautiful yeah it'll even like hold the tubes in we're doing pretty good yeah
got some things there's probably some other things on here that aren't really on the list but beautiful
there's some what look to be screw holes I was kind of thinking if I just made a
couple more threaded them and then just like actually drilled it into the back
panel that would work yeah root it to the back panel what do you think the chances are if this thing just leaks
terribly David parasite zero airtight all right perfect
oh God it's leaking oh wow it is leaking just a little bit too tight of a Bend
yeah I think so it does appear we have no more leaks in
our GPU oh God don't do any more notches
than that that's that's the notches oh that's too many notches
oh dear drill some holes in the side panel drilled some holes in this thing
now I'm just tapping them so theoretically once this is done we just
line this up with the side and run some screws and that holds it up oh wow look
I even put spacers that I found in the drawer oh it's not a very like solid
piece so it's touching in the middle but if you just pull it
and that's why I'm pushing in the middle anymore honestly much better job than I
was expecting that's mint look at that it's beautiful how do you think we
should bring the tube back in we got one here and one down here I think this one should go through the PCIe slot yeah
that one can go through PCIe easy I can just drill a big hole like right through
that's exactly what I was going to say wait a second Jake did you put this on
the wrong way what why well so we want to fill it from the
bottom to the top so that the air bubbles leave otherwise they probably
won't which means we need to go from the pumping here out around to this one then
out here actually we can just go down through the top to the CPU yeah I'm not
it's not changing so yeah where am I drilling the hole don't uh yeah I don't
think we need to drill a hole I want to drill a hole because look oh we just
don't add the thing this right here goes on there and we just sneak it in there
yeah we just snake her in so much less cool than drilling a hole
you don't need to drill a fine you ready
Alex you should probably make sure it doesn't like leak or whatever heck yeah
now I want to watch this there's a lot of water around the pump right now I had
that accident it's working yeah it sounds awful but it's working
honestly water's a lot cleaner than I expected yeah Fair
I'm amazed that this thing doesn't leak at all
like what the hell yeah like this is the only part of the
tube that we can see that came with it and like look at this
it's so orange this is soft tubing it's hard now we should bring Linus here and
then turn it on okay um
here's the thing Alex I couldn't help noticing that
wow while the system does appear to be
complete a few steps appear to have been missed
ah that was just Jake was the one I was supposed to be checking these off
good supervising chick yeah you're welcome he wasn't supervising he was
helping yeah okay all right clearly it works well no
clearly together I shouldn't say it works wait what
magnetic or like what even is this no it was you know there's water on the bottom
of the camera and there's tape on oh there's tape but the water makes it so the tape doesn't work yeah we fixed that
problem but really it's still wet do tell oh my God
you didn't follow the plan Alex there's no fans on the radiator well we're gonna
see how it works see if it runs passively when it doesn't we can add
fans I see that graphics card is so
sketchy dude like that you really did it the way we talked about yeah I mean I
thought the plan might get a little better oh my God you're so this is
holding the card up yep thank goodness we're not trying to ship
this to a customer do you like the pink uh yes that's a
nice accent it's got like a melty aesthetic so it makes sense that it
would match our melty pink monitor okay what are the odds this thing is just
gonna immediately post she's totally good just everything's good
shut up now she lives she's fine uh-huh thriving
even it is what like 300 cheaper than
what origen did and we're about to find out that it's
way better too no we're not
what happened to our three-way tubing splitter uh me and Jake thought it was
really dumb well yeah I know you can even see it on here decide if a
three-way split is dumb and we said yes and cross it off that's fair I mean
those idle temps are looking pretty cool what is it 34 degrees she's jumping a
little bit hit 50 degrees just launching a program and so the before and Center
bench was 36 634. oh oh my goodness
we're already at 83 degrees 91 degrees 93 degrees no how fast is it running
Ox degrees no thermal throttling yet 97 degrees
hold on wait for it we might make it 98 Degrees
35 988 haha that's margin of error for
sure margin of error slower mind you but yes
if we did a long blender render it is
possible we would overwhelm that weak radiator but we hit 36 000 points CPU
performance just as good
it's not even warm moving on to Fort sir things are about to get even more
interesting while I'm pretty sure that the GPU itself will probably run at a
reasonable temperature I have serious concerns about the memory we're looking
for 128 average oh boy memory Junction
temperature managed to hit 78 already it's not great
oh my God even in gamer CPU hit 93
degrees that's with only a couple cores active
and it's loud it's really loud this is a much better
gaming experience than the vast majority of systems on the market like this is
like oh my God easy 98 you're not wrong but that's really not the point oh she
seems fine you're actually honest that I see 66 67 that's fine anything bad under
here I mean that's going to be hard to spot but uh
it looks like the end of the scale is like 56. yeah
doing great with that said the worst Parts could be totally covered by blocks
right because if we have poor contact between our block and the like mountain
of thermal pad and then the heat generating components they could be just
sitting insulated under there and we'd have no way of knowing our water is
apparently 33 degrees right now not great oh wow yeah you can really see
which ones are working which ones aren't so this is at like 42 degrees right now
yeah it can still get hotter it's not going to get a chance our CPU is already
at 100 degrees cert our GPU has already reached 75 degrees on air cooling that
would be fine just fine on water that's
a big boatload of suck yeah and I tested
multiple runs last time 128 every single
time I don't think I've seen it hit 120 oh
that's lower I think the biggest surprise for me is that if it did have a
proper radiator right like you can see these temps creeping up over time that's
because the water's heating if it had a proper radiator
might actually work um
I'm suspicious oh wait 124 again it's
not getting worse I think that the blocks are a much larger issue on the
CPU yes but it we would get away with it if the water was cooler we'd get away
with it but the thing is that even with a high Performance Radiator you can
expect your coolant temperature to rise and so the worst performing your block
is the more of a problem that becomes should we stick a fan by it and see if
it helps sure oh my God that's the fan
what a good fan oh it's quiet too oh
sort of a radiator had gotten up to 50
degrees it looks like it's lowering now which is
good this is just about the best sales pitch I've ever seen for a commercial
water cooling solution only we could make custom water cooling look this easy
fast and affordable by comparison just one thing left ah yes
and big thanks to origin PC for helping us do it if you enjoyed this video you
must be a sucker for punishment so maybe check out the one where we put that uh
Radiator on top of the beautiful thing it's an awful video it's painful to
watch people said it's like watching a
submarine sink