Parts from the Oil-cooled PC - Do they still work???
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,664 words · ~8 min read
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okay so i'm wandering around the warehouse looking for something um right
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yeah it was uh mounting brackets for these uh
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didn't find them not the point point is i found this
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a rubbermaid bin in gray
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oh that's not what's important what's important is what's inside this is the
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original motherboard and graphics card
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from the mineral oil cooled pc
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out of their oil and oh my gosh absolutely disgusting let's
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find out if they still work after i tell you about ek's phoenix
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lineup of modular water cooling systems
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it's their next generation modular aio and you can check them out now at the
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link in the video description
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so the dealio here is that we actually refurbished this machine around the time
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of ltx last year with the intention of
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showing it off there so we pulled off some of the stickers that were kind of
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peeling off replace the motherboard
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replace the graphics card with something more modern so it's got a 1070 in there
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now and then never actually successfully
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repaired the tank we think it might be
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working now but the previous attempts we've made have just resulted in it
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cracking again almost immediately and to replace this thing look there's a ted
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fly in it that's disgusting uh to replace this thing would have cost like
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a thousand dollars from a custom acrylic shop
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so that stuff's all gonna stay there because ideally i really would like to
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fix it at some point but in the meantime i totally forgot
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about the motherboard and graphics card i want to know if they still work so
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let's grab some test bench hardware here
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our options are 5960x or 5930k i guess
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that's the least valuable thing that we might wreck
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so let's grab that okay so my options are use my crappier
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test bench but then i have to put a power supply in it or use my better one
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but then i'm gonna get mineral oil on it and lazy
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so i guess we're using this one
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this stuff is just nasty and it like spreads everywhere
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it's basically like glitter except it doesn't even look sparkly and fun
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so there are a couple of things to contend with when it comes to mineral
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oil now the main thing is the like mineral oil all over the place but the
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big problem is that mineral oil has a nasty habit of degrading plastics and
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rubbers and really a lot of things that it comes in contact
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with so one of the things that's going to be a
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challenge here as you can see this memory slot
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just snapped off when we went to open it up and at least
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one of the pins is actually bent
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inside the slot there so what we're going to try and do is lift that
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back up and see if we can get a stick
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working in there you know it's actually not in
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terrible shape all things considered i mean it's like
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furry because it's been sitting out in the warehouse during the renovation
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and it's been covered in mineral oil the theory the theory if you talk to the
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mineral oil enthusiast they'll be like oh yeah you just leave it out drip dry
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for a few weeks no problem
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you want to touch it so let's just
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let's isolate our variables here let's try just the motherboard first
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then we'll try it with the graphics card that was soaked in oil
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oh i am excited right about now
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i mean if this thing works
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but like max's pc is that what you were going to say
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no you don't want the mineral oil cooled okay so the reason we want to try
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just the motherboard without this card first is because we've got two
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potentially like jank ass components here so if it
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doesn't work we want to know that it's down to
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one of them so we want to make sure the motherboard works first so we can
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troubleshoot anything there then we'll try the graphics card because
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if we just put the graphics card and the motherboard on and it didn't boot up we
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wouldn't know what the actual issue was look i even went and got paper towel and
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why am i still wiping this on my pants you know what screw it let's
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get this show on the road people paid good money to be here ow
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watch this video damn that hurt okay hey we've got postcodes like that's
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a good sign check this out 32 4f 79.
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look at this it's got like a big long hair on it it's gross
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hey look at that
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no problem let's see how much RAM we've got
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detected here 12 gigs shoot that doesn't seem like an insurmountable
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problem okay oh wow this memory is like
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it's wet contrary to what people might think i don't actually want to go out of my way
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to destroy hardware just kind of happens you know
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so one of them is just not making contact at all right now
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and then there's another four here that are all just exposed they're no
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longer supported okay i'm not going to put in that last stick
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this time but if we see 12 gigs this time oh it's
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seeping all over the corn it's not an esd safe cleaning method
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but it's better than having mineral oil all over it let's throw the last stick in i want to
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see 16 gigs because it could still actually be
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something in the CPU socket that was damaged and then that would be another
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reason why we would have one of the dims not showing up in fact it might have
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been not that stick all this time i actually don't know
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got it mangled RAM slot repaired
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no idea how stable it'll be but that's the problem for another day
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damn i'm good sometimes
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some people get excited by no like
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i don't know naked people this gets me excited
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look at this here we are
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on the desktop let's just run a quick stress test i guess
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okay so we didn't run the full 15 minutes or anything like that what are we sitting at eight minutes but
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at this point it did not immediately
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let's go ahead and shut this down then
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and find out if the graphics card works so looking at this you can see actually
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there's not a lot of external damage to
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it so these stickers all faded you can see the text
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will just wipe off so not bad so whether they intended to or not evga made a
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pretty much mineral oil proof
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graphics card so if i'm turned on by hardware
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seeing it suffer like this is that like a weird thing
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if you're not comfortable having the door closed right now we can open it
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says alex's drive not mine okay so the driver install was a little
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bit weird um see if we can run us some 4k rise of the
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tomb raider bam i don't even know if this card's capable of that 780 this is even pre-780
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ti we did this build a long time ago wow
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i'm getting old i mean one thing i was concerned about
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was whether it would still stay adequately
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cool i mean it has the benefit of having one of the best
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graphics card coolers available i mean how many heat pipes does this
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thing have i don't think anyone has a lot invested in whether i've got this right or not
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what you guys hear that
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you guys hear that short so that's not posting something i had
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forgotten about is this motherboard actually got three caps soldered back
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onto it once it came out of the oil they were just like loose so it's possible
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that there's been damage to the graphics card
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oh it's dead
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