Oh, ho ho you guys are in for a treat today oh
This right here is a relic
A PC cooling solution that I haven't used since the last time that
AMD had a relevant high-end desktop
Processor and so what better way to celebrate
AMD's revival as a bonafide
high-end option, thanks to the thread Ripper
1950 X then by resurrecting
what I call
The Chiller!
A sub-zero liquid cooling device that might not look like much, but like the
Uhhh
Thousand-year bird-of-prey, I don't want to get in trouble with Disney hmmm has got it where it counts
[Intro song]: Lazlo Supernova
Okay, so step number the first and I have already done this before but it never hurts to do a sanity check when you're gonna
Do something INSANEEEE
is
To make sure that what used to be a window mounted
Air-conditioning unit is still fully functional, so here's your hot side
This is called the condenser
So this is where your phase change coolant comes to have the fans blow through it and change it from a gas to a liquid
This is our compressor, which compresses that fluid and then right over here
This is our evaporator
So this is where the compressed fluid goes to be exposed to something hot in our case
it'll be our CPUs heat
And
Evaporate, then it gets moved back around to the condenser
full load and aida64
About 73 degrees on the cpu okay. Cool. Now, We know that.
Let's see how much of a difference we can make
There's that hand mark beautiful
While that's running we're gonna need a few supplies
First up is a care package from none other than the legendary. ??
Funny story like two months before I decided to resurrect that thing [Speech fades out]
So since the last time I went sub-zero for like a 24/7 system
There have been some changes to the conventional wisdom so it used to be
That we used
dielectric grease in anywhere where there were pins around the socket and
Kneaded eraser was the most popular thing for filling in the bigger gaps around the socket
Not so anymore nowadays apparently we're just using Vaseline anywhere where there are contacts, and then we're using this stuff
Paint it on to the board because it comes off really easily
liquid tape
We're not as concerned about condensation as guys that are doing like crazyyyy
You know liquid nitrogen overclocking or anything like that
Because we are not going that low and it should be noted that we don't have to put this on too heavy
Because we're not trying to thermally insulating or anything like that
We're just trying to keep moisture out of everywhere that the brush touches
Oh, you know what I can probably just use the big brush for this whoa
Here we go
Daffu Duck Ensue's
Technically removing things like stickers would probably be a pretty good idea
So again, I'm just really not that concerned about it.
Oh look at that, ohhh
Abuse, hardware abuse!
Yeah, I don't think ASUS is gonna want this board back the other important thing here
is that we've gone with a metal top one so this is a
Nickel topped version of the block and the reason that's important is that if we were running oh shoot these
These Barb's aren't gonna fit. I'm gonna have to go get different ones whoops
Okay, then so if we were running a different version of the block this plexi here could crack and over the long term it would
Be degraded by the kind of coolant. We're using is that my Vaseline I hear
Yeah dog
okay, I'm just gonna jam that in there and
Vaseline it up
I mean the Vaseline is supposed to make it go in easier, but so normally you would really you know cut around
Capacitors, and you would do a super amazing job of getting it all nice and tight
But the idea is that this is the actual thermal insulation
Now the key to any good
Insulation application is no air gaps
This is literally the worst insulation of all time not every thermal compound is suitable for
Sub-zero cooling some of them actually perform worse if you go, too low so this one is
WOOOAHAHAH???? SHOOT
That was not what I meant to do stop it. Oh, this is goopy thermal compound
We also actually have to insulate our block and the reason for that is that if think about it. Metal is quite thermally conductive, right?
so if we have
below ambient
coolant
Running through it
This block is actually going to sweat
And it's going to drip on to the other components of our system if we let it oh
One thing we're going to need to do before we do that though is get our tubing attached
So there are better tubing's you know what I'm just not even gonna say what I'm using because there are definitely better tubing's for subzero
Applications, but one thing that we are doing that's a little bit unusual is I'm using 3/8 inch tubing over a half inch barb
And this is kind of a classic
Aka old people water cooling technique
I would actually expect this to do a reasonably good job
like I'm gonna leave this running while I go down and do WAN Show later and
I do not expect there to be any condensation on here
So that right there
Is the CPU area and then next up
you really want some of this stuff, so this is another arm of Flex product, and it's just
uhh uhh
An insulation to thing that you can that you can throw on to the tubing oh, okay, this is legitimately kind of a problem
Maybe with like, a stick.
Do a couple layers of this guy followed by another thing that will be different from this guy
Is he really putting that graphics card in there again you knowing what he knows from last time
Yes, yes he is
This is there's nothing about this project that I recommend trying at home
Okay, literally
Literally dangerous, yeah like how was there enough room for oh?
This has been moved
like oh look at this
That's been shifted
Why did I do this? Why am I showing other people this? Like where's this screw from?
There we go now you might be wondering if this is actually enough airflow
And the answer is yes, so the whole cooling system actually requires three plugs
one for the compressor
One for the pump and one for the cooling fins now what we're going to do is fire it up for real
Kate why aren't those cooling fans spinning play on hey there they go, okay?
Dang it Jake this is what happens when you put Jake in charge of zip tying the stupid fans before you start
Okay, so now we need to figure out our tubing runs
We're gonna go from the outlet of the block and we're gonna give ourselves a little bit of slack
and then we're gonna come through this cable management hole here, and then we're gonna go underneath the
evaporator, and we're gonna let that kind of pin it down so that the
Warm liquid is as far away from here
We go the outlet of our reservoir as possible so that it has to travel across
the evaporator
Before it can be sucked into the pump so right now. It's at 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26.6 C*). Whatever the hell. That is I don't know Fahrenheit
Anyone's wondering no this is not to code and also no it will not be staying running for very long
There's so many things that can go wrong here
So many things to go wrong and what can go right, a cold CPU, is this really worth it
*Linus hit his hand on the fan and the camera dude who changed genders twice is laughing*
That's dang it oh, I think we're ready. I hope I have enough
I sincerely hope this is enough and
Here we go again
And now we don't actually want to run a sub-zero cooling system without the system running
Because then it gets too cold you get condensation for sure
We need some heat to offset it
So let's see if the system fires up here CPU initialization is going
This thing better fire up why is CPU initialization still going
System's up cpu fan speed error. That's fine
Like I had said before having some airflow around the socket is definitely a good idea
Some air flow around the RAM sticks is good as well
let's have a look at our initial temps, hey!
We haven't even had the chiller running for very long, but I'm expecting them to be pretty good
What 52 degrees how doesn't make sense
Got water flow right
52 degrees I'm finding that very confusing
The only thing I can think of is if it's grabbing the temperature off of an external sensor and then just using an offset
Because the CPU is probably not that cold like that coolant is still close to room temperature
Okay, so for our next trick. I'm dropping a thermal probe into the liquid and
Finding out how cold it is that we're running so far so, but we're at about nine point two degrees Celsius
and let's see what aida(64) has to say about our temps here ah
Ah, that's more like it
So yes that CPU temperature was reporting with some sort of offset near the socket, which as you guys might remember?
We insulated
so the CPU diode
at somewhere between 10 and 20 degrees
That actually makes sense because you should be a little bit over the temperature of the coolant while you're at idle
Okay, WAN show's over and whoa it's working
Fantastic!
HOHOHOHO
There we go
Minus 20 degrees on the coolant
minus 17 degrees on the CPU freakin
Fantastic
We're looking at CPU diode temps that are under the ambient temperature of this room
by
seven degrees
Seven degrees less than the ambient in this room freakin unreal
So, it's frosted over
Anywhere where the evaporator is expose to the air which makes perfect sense you?
Guys can actually get a pretty good look at what our uninsulated tubing would look like
Check that out remember this tubing is black you guys remember that black tubing
It's just completely snowy, and then this stuff insulates better than that stuff for sure
But you see the pump would also have to be insulated here check that out
cool, right
Okay, so by this point you guys are probably wondering
Why?
well believe it or not this was at one point in time anyway a
fairly popular way to get sub-zero temperatures
Relatively speaking and the reason for that is that compared to direct
Dye cooling with an evaporator this doesn't have to be custom done. So you don't need any HVAC certifications
You just go buy a window AC unit strip it down and do this
compared to that it's much cheaper
and
Obviously compared to regular water cooling you are able to get
Much much better result so even now that it's been running for about five minutes
We are still sitting at less than thirty degrees on the diode something that is going to get us significantly
Better temperatures, which could lead to better overclocking
Now as for the disadvantages those. I hope are fairly obvious
disadvantage number one is that to do this properly is extremely time consuming
And... Ummm
Yeah very few people end up doing that everyone kind of does it pretty Janky. disadvantage number two is it's extraordinarily difficult to relocate your
PC because this thing is
Exactly as heavy as it looks
Disadvantage number three it's loud like check this out
Putting my mic into the thing here super loud and disadvantaged number four is it can in some cases
Result in dead hardware if you're not careful about your insulation now for my part
I'm actually expecting like as quickly as I did that I'm expecting my insulation job to have held up just fine
I'm gonna shut this baby down, and we'll take look at it here though, so yeah, we're doing just fine here
This is barely even cold to the touch out to the very edges of our
insulation here the problem is just that it's easy to make a mistake
And
Anything worth sub-zero cooling is probably expensive and high-end so unless you can afford to lose that stuff
You might not want to take the risk and the last
Drawbacks a lot of drawbacks taken a long time is power consumption and heat so in addition to your system
You have to run an air conditioner that not only
Doesn't cool down your room it actually spits massive amounts of heat into your room so you can
Air-conditioned your air conditioner, so you can air-conditioned while you air-conditioned
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