Mineral Oil Submerged PC Build Log Part 3 - Pouring the Oil
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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3,164 words · ~15 min read
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Alright guys, welcome to oil part three. We're finally, it's been a little bit, finally, finally doing it.
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Sorry this took so long, but we're pretty excited.
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So today, we are going to actually pour mineral oil into the computer.
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This is not how it's done.
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Imagine the cap just flew off.
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No, you have to actually be like fairly careful about it, but we'll get to that part.
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So, I guess we have to figure out this.
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We have to figure out the fan cable management at the back.
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We have to figure out the rocks.
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And we have to do the plant stuff.
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You have to look down to see my rocks.
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He's looking down at your rocks.
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Yeah?
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It's okay.
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Are they big?
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They're actually pretty small.
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But there's lots of them.
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There's a really abnormally large amount of them.
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So, basically, this needs to plug in like kind of there-ish, right?
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Ish.
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It'll be lower than that, but yeah.
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And then we can bury it under the rocks as far as we can, correct?
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Yeah.
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And then we want like a nice straight run coming out.
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Oh, boy.
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I remember this being a bit of a challenge.
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I remember...
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We should probably do it with the bench laying on its back.
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I remember thinking we should only do this once.
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We should mount it from the top.
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I can do it.
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I can do it.
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I can do it.
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I can do it, dog.
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Here we go.
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That was a good start.
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Snap.
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Yes, it was.
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Yes.
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This is reattached.
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Graphics card is back in.
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This is cable managed.
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Look at that.
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Probably off.
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Oh, well.
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Wall.
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You know what I mean?
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You need clearance with the fans?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Unless the double-sided tape makes it tall enough that it doesn't matter.
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No, it's not that thick.
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Okay.
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Yeah, let's just go...
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We'll go on the other side.
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So, about how long do they need to be?
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About like that?
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Yeah.
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Okay, I'll just give you a script.
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Here.
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Sure.
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One.
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We'll make our own fan controller.
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A double-sided tape and scissors.
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Yeah.
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And an SSD.
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And blackjack.
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And blackjack.
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With a knife?
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Oh, my goodness.
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There's snips here.
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There was scissors around not that long ago, and he's still going.
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Fans don't plug in that way.
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Oh, yeah.
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Power and data don't plug in this way.
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So, we need it like...
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No, because that has to go flush against it, doesn't it?
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And there we thought we had such a great idea.
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How many fans do we have?
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Four.
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Damn it.
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Okay.
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Does it look...
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Does it look good?
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Does it look ghetto, or does it look cool?
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Sometimes it's a fine line.
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Ghetto.
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All right.
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All right.
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Here we go.
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Moment of truth time.
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We've had a lot of moments of truth.
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That's what makes a good billboard.
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Wow.
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Yeah, it bends to hell, but I might be willing to make that sacrifice.
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Oh, this is like the most awful thing that I've done to a piece of hardware in quite
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some time.
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This is awful.
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This isn't ghettoing it.
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This is just poor planning.
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So, you know how people were kind of complaining?
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They were complaining about the blue zip tie here?
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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So, I figured out how we can balance that out.
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Are we going to put it...
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Oh, no way.
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Awesome.
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Yeah.
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Nice.
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Now it's like light blue, dark blue, pink, and red, and black.
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And silver.
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And silver.
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And your face.
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And these Antec fans are some color.
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I got to warn you in advance.
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I had like some wicked gas.
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Oh.
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So, I'm going to have to choose between...
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I thought there was like some legitimate, like there's some crippling issue with the
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build or something.
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No.
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Well, that is kind of a crippling issue.
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Yeah.
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The build is fine.
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Well, it's not crippling yet.
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Nothing's happened.
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Nothing's happened yet.
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But if I have to choose between mild stomach discomfort for me...
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Or like horrible...
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Oh, okay.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So, just be prepared.
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Be prepared because I won't be sparing you.
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Did you purposely twist this?
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Yeah.
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Nice.
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I like it.
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Okay.
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So, what do we get to do?
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We got to...
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We got to kill magic.
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This is the back of this.
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Okay.
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And then...
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Why don't you start on that?
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And we're getting pretty close.
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This is what happens when you send Nick to buy anything.
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I said I needed some cotton balls.
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I meant like three.
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600.
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It depends who buys three balls.
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But who buys 600?
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Yes.
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And yes.
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Oh, I guess it's...
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Oh, no.
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That's terrible.
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Are they exactly the same length?
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No.
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Oh, not quite.
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The new one's shorter.
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Oh, oh.
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We're losing like...
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Not much.
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Yeah, I think that's like a quarter of an inch.
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All right.
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That's not too bad.
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Yeah.
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This is my dreams.
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They're broken.
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My dreams of the correct length of bubble machine.
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This might take a while.
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I feel like I'm playing Excavator.
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And I'm like nine.
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It's like we didn't want impacts when we're both like dropping from the top.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So...
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I give up.
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Okay.
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So this is just a lower down test fit, right?
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Yeah.
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It's for the reds.
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Yeah.
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It's like, I'm good.
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Okay.
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So it's still up on things.
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Okay.
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So reds are there.
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Reds are also there.
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Oh, that graphics card.
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Is this all the way down?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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So to add some positives and negatives with this one, the grate is right at the top, essentially.
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Like there's a little bit of a lip, but not much.
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Yeah.
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And there's a possibility of going inside where you...
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You can't plug your ATX power.
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Right.
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This one you're pouring into the case and then it deals with it.
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Right.
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So if you want to not get oil on you, actually, we should probably put some stuff down.
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I'm not even kidding.
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Do you have a, do we have garbage bags here?
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We have newspaper.
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We have copious amounts of newspaper.
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It's like not going to care about your newspaper.
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Not ideal solution.
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Welcome to Linus Media Group, where ideal solutions are not solutions.
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Because they're suspensions.
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You're suspended.
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I'm not going to fire you anymore.
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Just suspended you.
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All's well.
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Everything is okay.
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Oh my God.
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Wouldn't that have been a conclusion?
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So we broke both the rads and the back of the computer.
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So this is it.
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Moment of truth.
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You want to make sure you don't miss, but then also make sure they don't go too quickly.
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There you go.
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Do you want to see if it's disrupting the rocks?
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I don't think it is.
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Don't get in the way of the camera.
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I won't.
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No, it's fine.
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It would probably kill you if you could see it, but it's fine.
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Yeah, I'm missing everything.
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Yep.
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This is a harder shot.
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He goes in for the three points.
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Well, he, yep, he's fine.
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I've poured water before, so that helps.
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Ah, I splashed.
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No, it's okay. I got this.
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There's something to this.
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It's not.
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Do we need to snip those things then?
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Maybe.
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Holy crap.
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Oh my goodness.
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And then.
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Then that's it.
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And then that pulls out.
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You pull this out.
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All right.
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Yep.
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Nope.
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Nope.
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I'm good.
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I'm good.
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I got it.
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Splashed my face.
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It's okay.
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A little mineral oil is good for the complexion.
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I wonder actually.
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Probably not.
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You were so close.
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Oh, terrible.
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Okay.
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Well.
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Okay.
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Dang it.
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I'm going in.
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Just don't drop the paper down.
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Just, GG.
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A piece of it went in.
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Oh my gosh.
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Oh my gosh.
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Oh my gosh.
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Oh my gosh.
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Oh my gosh.
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Oh my gosh.
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Oh my gosh.
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A piece of it went in.
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Hold on.
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I wonder if we can retrieve it.
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You need like a stick or something.
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Tell me if I'm near it.
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You're way off.
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Hold on.
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Oh God.
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You don't want to.
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Yeah.
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I got it.
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Nope.
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Shoot.
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Okay.
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That's one.
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Okay.
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Now backtrack.
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I got to pull this one out.
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There.
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Home free.
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I think.
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Nice.
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I got that.
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Okay.
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Captured you, you bastard.
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You bastard.
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Got it?
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All right.
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Probably okay there.
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I got you a little bit of the fill line because we're still leaning forward a little bit.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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So hold on a second.
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So the fan on the power supply is like right at the top.
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Yeah.
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And then this one's about the same.
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And then this one's about the same.
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Like it's just barely coming out.
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So are they going to like whip it around?
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I don't think it's going to throw it, but you'll have a little bit of like turbulent
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pick up.
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That should be okay.
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It should be.
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Depending on how fast the fan spins.
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I didn't have fans that were that close, but the only experience I have with this is
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I could turn my pump off externally.
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So when I flip mine up, I would have my pump off.
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So it would go through fans and when it first touches them, it just throws it all freaking
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over the place.
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But I've never had it like really permanently where it's right near the edge.
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So we'll see.
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You'll probably be fine though.
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You should see how the bubble maker works though.
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Yeah.
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Because if we need to eject the bubble maker.
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Well, we can, because we can turn the fans off on the graphics card using custom curves
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afterburner.
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Yes.
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Or turn them very low.
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We won't be able to do that this second.
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Right.
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Because we have to get everything working.
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The power supply we can turn off immediately.
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It has a switch on the back for the hybrid mode.
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Eco mode or whatever.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Well, let's see the bubbles first, I guess.
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Okay.
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Oh, we're going to see the bubbles without the lights.
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I guess.
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Well, okay.
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We'll add lights later.
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Okay.
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I want a good angle at this.
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I poured the mineral oil, so I didn't get to see any of it.
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I'm going to have to watch my own video.
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There's a screw hanging out of the pump.
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Oh no, no.
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It's okay.
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Oh my goodness.
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It is amazing.
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Look how clear the acrylic gets.
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I was like, one of the screws holding the top on is hanging out.
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That's what I was telling Nick Burkle is that everything looks extremely clean.
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Wow.
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It looks super clean.
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Look at the metal on the graphics card.
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It looks perfect.
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Wow.
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It's because it is constantly oiled.
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It's like you oiled up something so it would look cool and then left it that way forever.
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All right.
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Fine.
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Carry on.
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Oh my goodness.
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I freaked right out.
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The bubbles are awesome.
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So our pump's a little bit on the OP side, I think.
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We got like the one for circulating the water in the aquarium, you know?
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Yeah.
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Which is probably good because circulating mineral will help, but it's a little bit overpowering,
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so either we move that back a lot and that's going to be a huge process or we buy a different
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pump.
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Yeah, because we tried kinking it, and if you kink it like hardcore, then it's probably
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reasonable.
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Yeah.
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Do you want to power up the actual computer?
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Yeah.
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Let's do this.
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Okay.
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It came with a right angle power cable, so we need to find that because that's going
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to be...
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He says that as if it's his idea.
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He was like, do you have a right angle power cable, and I'm like, yeah, let me go grab
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it.
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It came with one, and then Brandon's like, oh, I'm not filming yet.
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So I just want to set the record straight about how that happened.
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That adds a lot of good quality content to the video, Linus.
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I'm happy that you took the viewer's time explaining that.
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Okay.
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So this is it.
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If it doesn't post now, then I might as well just...
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Yeah.
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I might as well just end it all.
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Shut down Linus Media Group, go into hiding in the mountains.
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Just completely quit.
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I kind of hope it doesn't.
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No.
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Seriously, though.
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No.
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That would make a really interesting next video.
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No.
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We'd have to garbage bag off this whole area.
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Oh.
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We'd have to get giant rubber gloves.
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We'd probably have to wear garbage bags over our legs and tape them to our legs.
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Oh my goodness.
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Okay.
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And then we'd haul it out, put it in its own bag.
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Do you want to do the honors?
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No, man.
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This is on you.
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No, no, no.
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You don't mind.
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Okay.
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Here we go.
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Okay.
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The pump's sucking up the oil.
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Still not out of here.
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Is it going across here?
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Yep.
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It's still flowing.
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There we go.
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Postcodes are still going.
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We're out the other side in case of oil now.
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Yep.
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Yep.
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Postcode 95, 62.
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So those fans look fine.
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9C A2.
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I think A2 is a good sign.
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Is this monitor on?
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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There it is.
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Oh.
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There's the oil part, whatever the part that was going to be the cleaning up part
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to the mineral oil series.
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We might have to move the air thing.
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Which one now?
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Remember?
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You said moving the ...
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Oh, moving the bubble maker?
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Yeah, we're not going to do that.
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If the bubble maker doesn't please me, then I will turn it off.
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We'll see in a couple months.
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I'll try to convince him if you guys want to.
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I want another one.
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All those bubbles are hiding under the power supply.
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That looks funny.
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Just chilling down here.
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I'll try to convince him if you guys want to.
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I want another one.
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Just chilling down there.
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It looks like a beta egg farm.
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26 degrees Celsius.
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All right, man.
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Happy?
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Yeah, this is pretty great actually.
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Wait, the grid works.
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Hey, are they all running?
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Yeah, yeah, all the fans are running.
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Completely forgot about that.
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Yeah.
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Oh yeah, the SSD will be fine.
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No, I think he meant the one we split in half.
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That was a dummy driver.
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So we have officially built and posted
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the oil-cooled machine.
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It's kind of freaking awesome.
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It brings a tear to my eye.
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You didn't want to do it for a super long time.
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And he was super like not okay with it
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when he first started pouring oil.
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But after a while, yeah.
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Yeah, pour that oil.
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Speaking of pouring oil,
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It is nothing like mineral oil for your phone.
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I guess all that's left is
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More teasers more teasers more teasers because we are going to do an episode four of mineral oil
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We'll try not to have it take as long, but the machine is built. This is it
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It's done, but what we still need to do is overclock this puppy
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Because that actually is a much different conversation than an air-cooled computer because instead of figuring out
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You know
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Your average idle temperatures in like ten minutes. It's going to take a long time because you have to let all the oil hit
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A mean temperature yeah, we'll have to figure out the temperatures under load. Yeah, blah blah blah yeah
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There's a bunch of science that'll be done so pretty pretty excited
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And of course we need to do some more glam footage of the finished machine just to show it off in all of its glory
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