Mineral Oil Submerged PC Build Log Part 1 - Puget Systems Kit Case Assembly
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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more so the first step would be to
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wash your rocks then i guess that's kind of always the first
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step isn't it yup we both have to wash our rocks you cannot continue with this
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without washing the rocks or else someone's going to complain and it's
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just going to be bad yeah yeah here so are we sharing rocks
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well in this situation where there's like two males and one computer i guess
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we'll be sharing rocks so these are the rocks that we're
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talking about of course it's good to rinse them because if you don't then you
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might end up with some gunk in your mineral oil machine
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spread that apart just stick two fingers in each side four
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fingers
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that's really hot water so
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hot water on cold rocks is the way i like it
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okay so now we're going to take the freshly cleaned rocks
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and uh go ahead and put them outside to dry so
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uh
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wow it was it was sunny literally
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an hour ago not even an hour ago like 15 minutes
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yeah it's totally definitely not sunny vancouver
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so we don't want to re-contaminate the rocks so we're just uh
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that would suck washing out these bins well to be honest we are covering the
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bottles with the beans and paper towel yeah but even then i don't want it
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sorry but it's not gonna be that huge
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how hundred percent dry do they need to be mr mineral oil cooled pcs well the
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more water content in your computer the higher chance that there's going to be a problem but the thing is
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already even just now it would probably be fine
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normally you could just leave these out to dry for you know a couple days and it
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would be fine but we're in a bit of a hurry
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what i did um when i did mine was i just used a strainer so they were done drying
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like almost immediately right and there's no real wait time but we don't
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have a strainer at the office because why would we have a strainer at the office
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i never know when you're gonna need your strainer son
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so when i was doing mine um i cleaned all of my components with a mineral oil
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bath it was in a container similar to this but much shorter and my reason for
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that was all of my components were in a air-cooled system before they went into
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a mineral cool system so they're all dusty and gross so one thing like this
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cooler is we're gonna make sure we clean this now i'm not super worried about having it go through a mineral oil bath
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the only reason why i did that for all my components was i was making sure that what they were going through wasn't
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conductive as i was putting them in the system almost immediately afterwards so
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we can clean this with water alcohol whatever as long as we make sure that
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it's clean and dry before it goes in and then everything else is pretty much new isn't
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it everything else is pretty much new but these these little fish things it
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might not be a bad idea to clean them because they've been sitting on a shelf open right um for a really long time but
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like these closed components are probably fine i don't think those would
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be a big deal okay so tanks washed peg is washed these
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i don't know there's so many little pieces and stuff i don't know what goes
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in i know from looking at the picture that the big one will be above the
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mineral oil yes the the backing some of
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it will be submerged definitely the uh the support braces
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these guys so those will definitely be okay well the first thing we need to do though is peel all the paper off these
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and then assemble this bad boy because and then we can wash it after assembly
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right yeah that should be fine okay the motherboard i o plate is actually
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pretty nice got that brushed finished there the inside's nothing special but you
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won't see that so yeah
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kit's looking pretty good so far not sure what's up with
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these there's more acrylic inside a bag inside a bag inside of a bag but
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figure that out later oh dear so i realized looking at all these
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pieces i don't know how they all go together and they went right
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manual we haven't looked at it yet other than the front cover
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so uh assembly instructions ooh
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let's dust your hardware before something something
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eck that none of the not allow the oil in everything okay
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we're gonna have to open this dootang i think but um there we go wow there's a whole like
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list of all the stuff that you get
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including a thermal display oh yeah top out oh this is looking good okay this
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shouldn't be too bad all right i guess we better get started then as there are
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actually some very very important things no rubber so no wires that use rubber
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insulation don't let the oil get above 50 degrees clean everything we did
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manage to figure that out don't power the pump if it's running dry don't
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overfill it don't over tighten screws use wireless devices when possible this
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is really important oil will wick along cables that it comes into contact with
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so that's that's pretty key and choose the correct type of CPU cooler we
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actually haven't checked this but having it aligned vertically will help the oil
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circulate through natural convection also there are evidently some things
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that we will need so uh screwdriver got
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it scissors got it wrench
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got it okay so it starts with the
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rear i o everything is handily color coordinated
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in the instructions it's important not to over tighten the screws into the
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acrylic because it will crack 100 so
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this next step's a little bit funny because there's an unlabeled bag of
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screws and then there's a an unlabeled
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screw in the key everything else has little colored dots so so those do
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correspond to each other so just put all four of these pieces
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into place and then loosely attach them from the other side we're just showing
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you where they go obviously when luke lifts this up
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they're all gonna fall off thank you
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you're welcome that's fantastic so brandon won't let us use our camera
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anymore and insists on shooting everything in 4k so that's why the
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sudden change in in quality for the better and no more of this no
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more of this selfie nonsense so so here we go next step is to attach the
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evidently wire handles wire handles these are some
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are pretty intense wires they got some wire that's some wire right there got
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going on okay so brown screws yep
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i mean what what does this mean to you
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put it into the brown put the yeah put the screws in the brown spot like it
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makes sense
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oh whoa hold on a second these aren't the same i didn't even realize that huh
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okay we did a lot of uh extensive research
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before undertaking this project yeah luke
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luke hasn't built an oil cooled machine in years and has definitely never used
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this kit and i've never done either of those things i haven't built a mineral
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machine in like eight years
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you got that i think so
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assume the position oh i think i got it keep going
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wow that sound oh geez that's how you know it's working
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okay we're good so this is probably where the wrench comes in so this is oh
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hello this is not what they had in mind i don't think but
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our wrench is so big that we can actually clear the entire thing going
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this way
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so we need to clean the tubing that came with it because we left it out for a
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long time and it got kind of gross and the idea was using a rod from one of the
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soft boxes that we gonna use a rod but it's
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but it's the the rod that we decided to
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use was not long enough really are you sure yeah see i stuffed it in all the
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way in color it still doesn't know that it's black right yeah so it's thick
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enough so we're probably not going to have any other options
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so our problem is we don't have a long enough rod we already tried the black one and then there's no other options
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all right we've hit our first that's it that's it yeah so it's a different low
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two different no label ones okay we should roll that so guys you want
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the fine threaded one for your SSD
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not the coarse threaded no label one for your SSD
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this not this okay
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do
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so we're done part one at least we've constructed the case and Linus now has
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mineral oil fever i think he now understands what it's like it's this is
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really cool this kit's really cool uh the hardware we're using is really cool
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we're going balls to the wall x99 1200
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watt power supply gtx 780
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we planned this a little while yeah evga provided us with the graphics card
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before there were certain other graphics cards available but
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yeah anyway uh so guys uh stay tuned for
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