- Today we are putting TikTok Tech Hacks to the test.
That's a lot of Ts. (bell dings)
(men laugh)
TikTok Tech Hacks squad, let's assemble.
So because we're boomers,
can someone please load up our TikToks on the TV?
- [Automated Voice] Y'all like my new PC?
(Ken laughs)
- Yes!
- No, it's so disgust, ah.
It's gonna get so slimy.
- It's gonna smell good though.
- [Automated Voice] Bye, bye, cables.
- [Austin] Oh. I mean, this is just an ad.
- That's not a tech hack.
That's literally just a charger, but it's a cool charger.
- [Man] Now type this number in exactly.
Once you type it in,
you get to the testing screen for the phone.
This is where you can test all your sensors,
screen, pretty much everything on your phone,
and make sure everything's working correctly.
- I've never done that before.
Let me go.
- So this is a number that you dial
when you drop your phone into the pool
for a little too long and it's working a little sketch.
- Star, pound, zero, star, pound.
Oh, there we go. Look at that.
- [Ken] Ooh, nice.
- [Austin] Okay, so red.
Ooh, so it's like a screen test.
- [Ken] Again, this is diagnostics. So again-
- [Austin] Yeah.
- [Ken] If something happens to your phone
and you wanna test a particular thing, it'll-
- It's blue.
- Thank you.
Your phone can show blue colors.
That's it exactly. - Wait, black.
- Here, look at black.
- Or off.
- And touch.
Oh, so it's like a little like calibration tool.
I've never seen any of this before.
- If you're iFixit, you probably have that on
whenever you put a phone back together, right?
- Yeah.
- Just to make sure that it's all functioning.
- Jared, hit us with a hot TikTok.
- [Man] What happens if you use deodorant
instead of thermal paste in your PC?
- Yo. We gotta do this.
Wait, wait, stop, stop, stop, stop watching.
I don't wanna see. I don't wanna see.
We've done a lot of stupid things with PCs in the past.
We tried to cook on a PC,
we've used different various bad ideas as thermal paste.
Deodorant is gonna smell delicious.
I mean, delightful.
(Ken laughs)
Delightful.
- Are you gonna eat it, dude?
- Delightful is the word I meant.
Delightful.
Ken, I have a need, a need for speed.
- Well, thank God we have Speed Stick.
- The sponsor of today's video. Just kidding.
So, for this one, it should be really straightforward.
We've built a very scientific test bench of a board
with a Core i3-8100.
So not exactly the most powerful CPU in the world.
You just disconnected something.
- [Jared] What did you do?
- I heard the Windows disconnecting.
- I moved it because it was on the edge of the desk.
- So we should be able to do this pretty simply.
So we're gonna start out by running Cinebench.
And then we're gonna take a look at to see exactly
how hot it gets, if there's any throttling.
Five, four, three, two, one, and complete.
So after five minutes, the fan ramped up to 1300 RPM,
we had no throttling, and the hottest CPU core
touched 62 degrees.
So that is our benchmark.
- [Jared] That it pretty cool.
- That is incredibly cool.
This is a older, lower powered processor.
So if the deodorant's gonna work with anything,
this is like the best case scenario.
For reference, that's what the thermal paste
is supposed to look like on our actual CPU cooler.
And you can see
that it's actually a pretty good application here.
It was pretty smooth, pretty even.
So let's wipe this off and put deodorant on it.
- [Ken] I don't think that that's the best way to do that.
- Okay, what do you think we should do?
- I think you should cut it in chunks and then flat.
- No!
What kinda psychopath...
This is deodorant.
It is meant to be applied on even strokes.
You're not gonna like...
What? No.
- [Ken] But you're not gonna get enough of it on there.
- Oh, watch me. - [Jared] I think he will.
- Watch me.
All right, we'll start with the CPU.
- [Jared] Ow.
- [Ken] Yeah, I think cutting it's the best idea.
- [Jared] I think he's just gotta put
a little more TLC in there.
- [Ken] It smells really good.
- [Jared] And then if we put some on top of the cooler?
- Yeah, yeah.
- [Jared] I mean, you don't want that much.
- You want a lot, actually.
- [Jared] No, you don't want-
- The more the better.
So that's a healthy dose on our CPU cooler
and a generous helping on our CPU,
which looks a little sus, a little crusty.
- Looks like you got more of it on the heat sink
than you did the actual-
- I'm gonna just touch it up a little bit
with a couple extra little dips and dabs.
All right.
Well, immediately I'll say this is not good,
'cause we've not even gotten into the benchmark
and we're at 78 degrees.
I gonna take a guess,
we're currently at 97, 98, 99, 100, 100, 100 degrees.
- Don't worry guys, I got this, I got this.
- What's happening right now
is it is overheating dramatically.
So 100 degrees, fan at max
and then we have throttled down from 3.6
to about 3 gigahertz.
- But, but we have a Glade plug-in.
Smell it.
- It does smell delightful.
Does anyone want to take a bet
as what this thing looks like?
- I think it'll look fresh and clean and masculine.
- Burnt.
- And confident.
- Burnt.
- Oh it, look it's, oh my God it dried.
- [Jared] It melted.
- Wait, wait, wait, no, no, look at this.
- Oh wait, no.
- It's not antiperspirant, it's perspirant.
- At 100 degrees celsius it melted.
Just look at little like drops of like liquid
on the CPU.
And look, there's a bunch more on here as well.
It's like completely melted.
- [Jared] So,
do you think this is still usable as deodorant?
- I'm not gonna put a hundred degree melted deodorant
on my armpits.
- I think you're just afraid.
- Oh, it smells so good though, yo.
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- [Man] Here's another iPhone trick
I guarantee you didn't know about.
Scroll down and find hearing
then add it to the control center.
Click on it and turn live listening on.
You can now listen to what's being said in any room
where you leave your phone through your AirPods.
- Wait, really?
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
So with that,
your AirPods can hear what your iPhone's doing.
So if you put your iPhone on another room,
as long as you're within Bluetooth range,
you can hear what's going on in your AirPods?
- Well, let's test it out.
- Can you hear me right now? Can you hear me?
- Yes.
- So we obviously can't hear any of this in the video.
So you're hearing me on the iPhone right now?
- Yes.
- Okay. So I'm gonna walk in the back.
Hello, Ken. How's it going?
I'm gonna walk and keep walking.
Can you hear me?
- [Ken] Yes, very well.
- [Austin] I'm gonna whisper. I'm gonna whisper.
Can you hear me now?
- Yes, you're whispering.
So this is more or less just a wireless hearing aid.
Also I'm hearing myself talk and it's messing with me-
- [Jared] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Because it's slightly delayed.
But this is a very good to hearing aid though.
Like imagine if...
Either he's demonstrating something
or he's stealing my phone.
- [Austin] Test, test one two.
So this is a chest to see-
- He said test wrong. He absolutely said test wrong.
- [Austin] Ken, if you can hear me right now, nod your head.
- Wait, what?
- [Austin] Okay, I don't actually know how I'm testing this
'cause I can't see or hear Ken in any way.
(Ken laughs)
- He's so dumb. Oh my God.
- [Man] What happens if you run your computer
inside of your freezer?
- Oh, it's going to die because of condensation, right?
Okay, thoughts on this one?
If you put your PC in a freezer, it will overheat,
because even though a freezer
is like meant to cool things off-
- [Ken] There's no air circulation.
- Well, there's also way more heat
that's being released by your PC
than the freezer could take care of.
I feel like it's gonna turn into an oven
at a certain point.
That would not work.
- Hello and welcome.
I am Austin Evans and today we are a fridge PC.
(upbeat music)
All right.
So we just put the computer in there,
we're gonna let it sit for a minute
and let all the parts cool down
since they're all still at that room temperature,
which is well above freezing.
Okay, so we're gonna go ahead and run the benchmark now.
And we only really have one shot at this
because once it's warmed up in there,
we have a long wait time before it cools back down,
takes some time.
We gotta be patient.
You don't do this if you're in a rush.
Well, don't do this at all, but if you're gonna do it,
make sure you give yourself some time.
- What are you doing with a PC on the floor?
You guys shooting a video without me right now?
- No, 'cause you're here right now.
It's not without you.
- Why is there a bag of ice behind you?
- Well, I mean,
we didn't have any room in the freezer, so.
- [Austin] Oh my gosh.
- It's extra performance.
And we just got our numbers in.
Do you want to know how much better it is?
- Like, is it even cool in here?
- [Jared] Yeah, no, it's cool.
- Actually, it is kind of cool in here.
- See? We think with our heads sometimes.
- Okay. Does this actually work?
What are you guys doing?
- So we just pulled the scores up.
This is our-
- That's the same. That's the same
Having two scores that are the same I guess.
- So we can see that we have increased our score
by a solid 80 points.
- To really do this test and to see the most benefit,
you need to be overclocking
and pushing this where you actually need the cooling.
- Exactly.
Dude, you didn't even mention the fact that
now my gaming setup-
- Yeah.
- Has a built-in drinks dispenser.
(both laugh)
- Only if it's Mountain Dew in there.
- Oh, that's-
- [Austin] There's no Mountain Dew in there.
- We got, oh, oh, oh.
- I need to get back to actual work.
Can you please clean this up?
(Jared laughs)
Jesus.
Oh, okay. I like this.
- [Man] What happens if you daisy chain multiple PCI risers
and plug in a graphics card?
- We use these all the time
for all like vertical, like GPU mounts.
So he was only able to get it to run through one riser
before it failed.
I think if we get actual full 16x risers,
which can do full bandwidth for your graphics card,
we can get three, four of those things.
We can get a bunch of them
that are all gonna be daisy chained together.
So for this one, it's going to be interesting.
I've seen a couple of videos
on people trying to do this in the past,
but what you need to understand about PCI risers...
What are you doing?
- It's the edge of the table.
- No, it needs to be on the edge,
'cause it literally will pull out of the slot.
Generally speaking, use one of these.
And using it to like vertically mount your GPU.
If you use multiple, you're not really supposed to,
but I guess if we're building like a desk PC
where you want to have like the GPU on one side of the desk
and like your motherboard on the other, it could be useful.
- [Ken] You have five PCI risers.
- Yup.
- But no power button.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- What's the issue?
- You spent $115 per riser,
but couldn't buy a $2 power button?
- No.
- Wait, wait, wait, wait, to be fair,
the Corsair ones are least 60.
- Guys, wait. But, what's the-
- Yeah, actually why is this one so much more expensive?
- Actually, that's a great question.
- You bought these.
- I grabbed all Corsair
and you specifically sent me back.
- No, no, no, no, no, no.
- Look at the difference in the flexibility.
Look, see the Thermaltake one is way wimpier.
- [Jared] Wait, no, but that's,
you want it to be flexible.
- No, I want it to be-
- [Ken] No, no, no, no.
- [Jared] Go ahead and say it.
Say it out loud, Austin.
- You versus the guy she tells you not to worry about.
- No. No, no, no.
This is plenty of flexibility.
(Ken laughs)
So we've got five feet of risers.
- Yeah, I think we might need to go farther than that.
- I am installed here.
Is this a handheld GPU,
'cause I don't know if that's necessarily a great idea.
Let's start running it this way.
So if the PC's here, we're gonna run it across the table.
There we go.
So we're three feet away. GPU's spinning.
- All right.
- It's a good sign.
- It's a very good sign.
- So far it works.
Updating? Oh God.
Windows just wants to update right now.
- [Jared] Wait, already?
- [Ken] Yeah.
- [Jared] We just updated it earlier.
- It's updating your system.
All right, let's add two more risers.
- All right.
- It's gonna get really annoying really fast.
- There we are. It is on.
- I mean, that's a good first sign.
- [Ken] Yeah.
- Let's see if it actually wants to post.
Oh, well actually, hang on.
- Well, it's also updating right now,
so that might not be happening.
- No, I don't-
- I think it's spinning-
- Nothing's coming up on the display though.
So is five too many?
Five might be too many right now.
Let's go ahead and pull out the fifth riser.
So let's try it with four first.
- [Jared] Okay.
- So will four risers work?
Well, I mean GPU immediately spins up,
which is a good sign.
And monitor comes up.
- Oh, there we go.
Oh.
- What the? Oh!
- Oh, honey.
- Whoa!
- That's a chungus right there.
So now we're running with one, two, three,
four 300 mil risers and one meter riser.
- [Jared] Yes.
- Ooh. Oh!
Oh!
- Whoa!
- So that's it. So how far are we away right now?
- No way.
So we're 1200 plus, so we're 2200 right now.
- 2200 millimeters away from our motherboard
and the GPU is spinning.
I think this is a success. And that's pretty far away.
- It is 86 inches long, which is just over seven feet.
So it is-
- That's like-
- [Jared] It's taller than Master Chief is.
- Our riser's taller than Master Chief.
- [Jared] Yes.
- That's a great frame of reference that everyone knows.
- [Jared] Yeah.