Whole Room Water Cooling Part 5b - Some Issues, More Solutions...
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,948 words · ~9 min read
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all right so on Friday while we were shooting Channel Super Fun um there was
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a bit of a disaster and all the computers needed to be Rec combobulated
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on their own Loops instead of flushing so we're going to do some diagnosis
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here this is the whole room water cooling
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project detec this is
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crazy um I think one thing that we need
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to do is get that second pump in here
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because I'm having trouble bleeding all the
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systems so here's our big boy second
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pump and uh I have some tubing scraps so
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we're just going to hook this baby
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up um okay where's my thing we're going
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from this Outlet to this Inlet to the rest of the room I got to
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go I got to go hook up a system before we start this though otherwise it's just
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going to go no
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so we're going to put you back on the whole room Loop then we're going to go
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turn on the pumps for the whole room
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Loop wow your system runs toasty when it's just got to dual rad too many
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bubbles though so first the first pump because we don't want either of them to
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run
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dry boom then the second pump
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all right let's see if we're getting better flow rates with all that extra
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pressure actually that does look quite a bit
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better ah I'm watering the bathtub yeah
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not bad pressure o looks like we're actually
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getting more Gunk cut of your system that's
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interesting so let's go have a look maybe it's uh
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that not I did not expect that we already flushed the systems how are
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temps they're okay not great well right
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now your system has a 5x quad
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radiator just for itself so it makes
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sense that it's doing all right that's weird turning off your pump
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made absolutely zero
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difference to the sound in this computer
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what is making so much noise wait what did I just un
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plug oh wasn't your pump what was it I
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don't know let's just not worry too much about that okay oh no there it goes dead
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silent now okay so this one's
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purged hold on a second
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though oh that's a
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problem bad bad bad
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oh we ran dry absolutely terrible worst thing
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ever oh boy that was not not what we were trying
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to do
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okay that might explain why it was so
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quiet now aside from needing to replace
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the pump I also need to replace the power supply for the fans on the roof
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because we were so close to the 2 amp limit of the power supply we were using
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originally that the fans just don't start up unless I start half of them and
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even then sometimes not but first see
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the these marks right at the tip of my finger those are growth how about the
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down here oh those might be growth too I didn't see those probably bubbles though
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uh that means that block performance is definitely affected by the growth in our
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Loop even on the furthest system from the pumps but since we haven't seen
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block performance affected negatively yet um what I'm hoping is we can at
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least run it until we move and uh once
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we've added some some kind of a biocal agent like iodine to the loop um we
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should hopefully kill that stuff and inhibit the rest of its growth so do we
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have to clean those blocks the blocks will need to be disassembled for
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cleaning what about the RADS do they have to be replaced um right now it
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looks like that would be our best bet yes or we could just irresponsibly not
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do it and uh put in a biocal agent put
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an inline filter in and just kind of go yep good enough and not clean anything
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that is another option everything's fine out here I wonder if the fans are still
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running cannot tell from here but what I
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can tell from here is that I have the uh
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I have the soldering gear that I need to make my new power supply so I guess why
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don't we do
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that so I have never used this soldering kit
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before this is a new one
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oh terrible terrible
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news I forgot my wire strippers I guess I'll have to use my
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teeth or a knife probably teeth it's a
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nice Smartwatch you have there oh thank you uh it was recommended by uh guy that
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I know he sounds like a dick I think this is supposed to go in
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here here but I'm going to go see if I have wire
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strippers I definitely don't have flux
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though I'm here I found one in the uh in
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the closet it's from one of the power supplies for one of these systems so
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it's all sort of part of the same inventory for this project
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okay so that's on wait a minute I not
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only have no flux I I have no solder I I do have to go to Home Depot D so my
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computer just started making you know a bit of an awful noise uh it sounded like
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the screams of a thousand dying babies and here it comes
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again I don't know you don't know what dying babies sound like especially not a
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thousand we need to get everyone's but
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bural system off the whole room Loop you
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just put mine on the loop and now you're putting it off well it's a diagnostic
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process why not M again because we want
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all the pressure going to your Loop to force bubbles out of it cuz you're uh
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you're at the very end so you're you kind of got the Loop
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spot all of this seems like an excellent
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idea I'm trying to loosen bubbles I'm
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not going to tip it planting you probably will okay I'm going to tip it
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if I get hit in the head with a hard drive I'll be upset not as upset as the
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hard drive but okay I'll put it on the ground you shouldn't drop hard drives
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like that said the guy who tipped the system and dropped the hard drive before
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okay well the bad news is that two pumps is still not enough to bleed all the
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systems at once but is definitely enough to properly bleed one system at once
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when before with only one pump it was like barely enough enough
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cool okay so I've got everything I need here for soldering I've got my soldering
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station I've got my soldering iron I've
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got my sponge I've got my solder I've
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got my flux pen um cuz I couldn't find
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my other thing of flux so I'll just use a pen whatever okay right and I have my
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sacrificial Molex connector that I'll be using to put onto the end of this and
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then some electrical tape to go ahead and seal the whole thing up oh and turns
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out I do have wire strippers here at the office so I I guess let's get started so
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first thing we'll need to do is cut this connector
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off and Boop you're done so let's find
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out if this
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works I don't have much hope actually it'll be fine okay
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and bippity B 14 volts all
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right
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12 okay I you worried that the rain's
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going to get to that
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thing there's no explanation quick go before he realizes
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that I'm back okay up we
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go oh it's okay that seems
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good oh it's raining right now
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actually okay uh you may have to go up there now
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I kind of have to pee Oh nobody's
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watching um no hold on oh oh
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what okay we have one of these powered
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over over
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SATA oh in fact there are three leads
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for the three Splitters which means we need to split
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this to two Mox and then split it again
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to oh I could have just see I could have
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just soldered it to that entire harness but instead I just left one connector I
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thought that was all we needed wait you're leaving that there
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seems safe oh okay I guess I could take it out of the
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r there
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what are you looking for nothing I hate
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you do we have any Molex y
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Splitters probably yeah that's what I
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thought why you no
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reason cuz I soldered the wrong connector to the end of shut up
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so the proper solution would have definitely been to resolder this especially cuz I did such a poor job of
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soldering it in the first place but this is what we'll be
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doing Molex to SATA to quad
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SATA okay so we wire these
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up Bippity bity Boop
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no fans are
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spinning it's all good um hm let's try
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one oh there's s so we have
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oh we only did up one of the grounds and
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it's the wrong one back down we
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go oh I can't even
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a yeah I'll meet you back at the soldering
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iron if you could grab a Seda harness from the closet in front of burl or
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behind him or whatever they're in a bag on the shelf right inside the door all
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right should just pretend none of that ever
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happened got it on the first try yeah
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right now because we have SATA connectors on the uh fan power Splitters
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up there we'll be using a SATA modular
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power supply harness as our sacrificial lamb today and we will be attaching
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pretty much the entirety of it giving us a total of four connectors cuz if we had
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just done one connector of completely the wrong type that would have been
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silly if you have any tips for soldering don't be afraid to let us know in the
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comments no
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trolling just kidding don't do that that's for 9 volts not soldering
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line is trying to create this adapter let's put that is a long
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wire it's about one line is height in
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height
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Boop a I still haven't gone PE it
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definitely doesn't go
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away okay take that
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suckers nope
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nope just come back out
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what did I have this clip to must have been
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tubing there we go okay that's pretty much it all fans
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except one spinning why is there one not spinning what is going on here what is
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this what is this what are
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okay next time on West Coast hle room
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okay so I ordered a couple of filters and hopefully these
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will filter what whatever's going on in our system oh my God it's moving