Gaming PC & Pizza Warming Platform Prototype Construction
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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2,060 words · ~10 min read
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Welcome to the prototype build of the pizza heater computer. What the hell is
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a pizza heater computer? Well, I'm going to be building a cardboard prototype of
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it. So, I've got this test bench here. As you guys can see, I'm going to build
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a computer onto this in actually this configuration. There will be cardboard
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surrounding this on all sides and on the bottom, which will be duct taped
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together so that hopefully no heat can really escape that way. And then, where
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did it go? This guy right here, case side panel, will go on the top. I'm
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going to chop it up a little bit, maybe get some holes in there and stuff so that it can vent heat out. And then the
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idea is you put a slice of pizza on here
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and your computer keeps your pizza warm.
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Yeah, this is probably the most intelligent video I've ever made on
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Linus Tech Tips. I don't see anything wrong with this computer or anything
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wrong with this idea. So come along with me and let us build our pizza heater
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prototype.
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link in the video description to learn more. First things first, I have to
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build the computer, which is going to be a little bit interesting because I'm
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going to use this test bench here, but the test bench doesn't really hold it
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in. Like, there's no way to actually screw the board in. So, I'm probably
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going to duct tape this part of this shroud thing here to the actual bench
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itself. I've got a 6700 K in here. I'm just going to cool it with a stock
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cooler. So, next up, we've got the graphics card. These are two 980 Ti.
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They should have a pretty good amount of thermal output. Going to throw on an SLI
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bridge here. Boom. Good to go. So, for
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now, everything's actually going to be rather standard except for, you know,
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like the cardboard case and stuff. Okay.
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So, I need to align this power supply
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this way cuz I want its thermal output
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going up. Got my SSD. Unfortunately, I
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can't just have horrible cable management and have that heat up my
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computer naturally because as we saw in
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this video, um, that's apparently not enough.
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Okay, so that's actually kind of the system built right there, but there's
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still a lot more work to do. Okay, so the graphics cards are too
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tall, which is not good. Now, I wanted
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to use nanos and Lionus was like, "Well, the NIS will
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have more thermal output." And he's right. What do I do? More cardboard.
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Okay. So, I'm going to try to chop this
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stuff up cuz this is actually pretty strong cardboard. It came from super
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expensive glass stuff that Brandon
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ensures me will make things look very pretty.
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There we go. That worked better. Stupid crappy scissors. So hopefully with this
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I can just build an extension which will be tall enough that my
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graphics cards don't hit the ground.
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I just cut a hole in your tablecloth. I'm sorry, Brandon. So this is the
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beginnings of my test bench extension.
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These four little boards will hopefully enable me to make a box
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to make this thing a little bit taller.
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Are they strong enough? I don't know. Whatever, man. We'll figure it out.
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Okay.
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Uh maybe not the most stable thing ever. So, I'm just trying to make sure that
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this uh duct tape is closing off any
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gaps that there could be potentially
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someone that like actually makes things out of cardboard is going to see this
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and just cry. All right, here we go.
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That actually might have worked. Or also not.
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That's also a possibility. Or it did. Yeah. Yeah. Just barely, but it did. The
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bench was kind of teetering on the box. So, I cut up some more cardboard, folded
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it up, and then duct taped it into the side there so it has more of something
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to rest on. I also did that over here in
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the exact same way so that each side has more to rest on. And then the back I
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spin it around here for you. I anchored down with some duct tape so that it
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should hold where it is. So this so far
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is the system. I'm going to put this over the uh
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video outs because I have two graphics cards so I probably won't need those.
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I'm just cleaning up this cardboard. It's like when you uh say back in the
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old days when we were all hunters and gatherers and you had to like uh clean
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your catch. That's basically what's going on. Feel pretty pretty Game of of
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Thronesy. So, this is some gradea cardboard right
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here. We only use AAA prime cut
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cardboard here at Linus Media Group.
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See how nice that cut comes out? That's how you know it's good cardboard, boys.
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That way I can remember when I'm looking
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at the outside of the box,
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that's how everything's lined up there. Then when I do this side, I can draw it
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differently. When I do this side, I can draw it differently. Again,
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it's basically like having window panels around the entire thing, but I would
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probably say better. Okay, so our our
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front is on. Now, I'm going to install the back, which has been labeled with a
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please handle with care fragile thank you sign. So, that's pretty good. So,
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that's one side completed.
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And moving on, it's important to try to cover up any
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possible air leaks we can cuz we want
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cuz we want all of the hot air
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going up. Our computer box
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has been completed as you can see. What
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we need to move on to now is I need to
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cut the holes through this so that the pizza can actually get some warmth. So,
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Dremel time.
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If you can't tell, I'm kind of rushing all of a sudden. It is currently the
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19th, which is a Friday, and the WAN
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show was supposed to start like a while ago, right there, and is being held up
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by a few things. One of them being this
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build. This build is extremely important. As you guys know, this is
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probably one of the most
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important things that I've done in a while.
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Um, so
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it needs to get done. This is going to be where I'm going to run all of my cables.
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Okay. So now I've just got to reach down in
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there, turn it on.
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That didn't turn it on.
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Is that power cable not plugged in or something?
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Yes. Okay, now I turn it on.
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Okay, that took a really long time, but we are booted, which is good.
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So, I just need to get this going, get a benchmark running on it. Then we'll get
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our heated pizza up on here and a control
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going and then let them sit for a while and see what happens. Okay, so now,
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well, I guess we need pizza to heat with the computer. So, let's order some
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pizza. What can I for?
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Uh, just a large simply cheese. And which type of crust did you want?
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Uh, probably original hand toss. I think that'll be best for thermals.
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Yeah, we'll see you in approximately 35
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minutes. Okay, great. One thing, but do you know the thermal properties of your crust by
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any chance? The thermal properties? Yeah.
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Um, I'm not sure. Sorry.
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Okay, no worries. Thanks. Great. Thank you.
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Bye. Okay, so pizza's on the way. He was
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not very helpful in terms of how well this is going to work, but like
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whatever. I guess you can't get good customer service everywhere. Let's do
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this. All right. So, we have our hopefully thermally good pizza with
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original hand toss crust, which should go nicely against the metal sheet. And
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it's just cheese, so there isn't any weird toppings on the top that we might have to heat up. So, now what I'm going
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to do is I've got these two cooking thermometers. I'm going to put one in
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each pizza, one slice of pizza. I tried to get ones that were pretty similar. I
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think these guys are pretty similar. I'm going to take this one and put it up on
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top of the computer and leave that sit. And then this one is
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just going to sit on the edge of the table over here far enough away that it
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shouldn't be affected. So this slice is running at about 16.4°
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C. They're both about 16.4 degrees. And
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then we'll see if we can get the temperature to increase by running some
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benchmarks here. Okay, so IDA 64 is
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running on the CPU. Think I just heard the CPU fan kick up a
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little bit. That's good. Yeah, I can feel more air coming out of there. Now
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I'm going to run Heaven full screen.
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There we go. So, we will check back in a
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little while, probably after the WAN Show, and see how hot these pizza slices
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are.
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This is the coolest thing ever. Next, you should try some eggs.
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Okay, I don't think it's hot enough for that yet. But yeah, so just as an
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update, guys, that pizza down there, the control pizza, is currently at 16° C.
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And this one up here is at a solid 26.
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So basically, the concept will work.
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It's already gone up 2° while I've been standing here talking, and it's going to
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keep on rising. So basically, it's going to work. Now I need to just make it not
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look like literally one of the ugliest computers of all time. And hopefully
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that'll be better. Now it's at 26.4, so it's still definitely climbing.
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Anyways guys, thanks for watching. Hopefully you guys liked seeing the
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prototypness of this build. There will be a cleaner one later. Like I just
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you want to see another crazy build of mine, click up here to see part one of
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the Fallout 4 bomb build. Also, I just want to say it's already at 26.8° C, so
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this pizza is Yeah, it's getting warm.