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    AlexTheGreatish got a reaction from 05032-Mendicant-Bias in Apple Vision Pro - A PC Guy’s Perspective   
    The Apple Vision Pro promises to be the next revolution in tech.. but if you're not immersed in the Apple ecosystem does it still make any sense?
     
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    AlexTheGreatish got a reaction from Bitter in Water Cooling a Laptop for $30   
    We used these: https://www.mcmaster.com/2340N362/
     
    That said you can definitely get them for way cheaper from AliExpress, we jest realized we needed them quickly so went with McMaster.
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    AlexTheGreatish got a reaction from idmb in I Don't Care if This Makes Sense - Chilling Threadripper Pro 7000   
    We could properly review Threadripper Pro 7000, but since none of you will be purchasing one anyway we figured having a bit of fun with it was in order.
     
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    AlexTheGreatish got a reaction from Meet The Pyro in Question about Washing Different Products   
    My general rules for washing:
     
    Always use cold water Separating by colour isn't really necessary when using cold water. Instead sort by roughness. I.e. have your socks, plaid shirts and towels in one load, underwear and LTT t-shirts in another. If it is stretchy don't use high heat in the dryer.  Go low heat for longer. Ideally air dry. Mousepads you can just huck in the clothes washer, hang dry.  
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    AlexTheGreatish got a reaction from Needfuldoer in Question about Washing Different Products   
    My general rules for washing:
     
    Always use cold water Separating by colour isn't really necessary when using cold water. Instead sort by roughness. I.e. have your socks, plaid shirts and towels in one load, underwear and LTT t-shirts in another. If it is stretchy don't use high heat in the dryer.  Go low heat for longer. Ideally air dry. Mousepads you can just huck in the clothes washer, hang dry.  
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    AlexTheGreatish got a reaction from FFLORO in Question about Washing Different Products   
    My general rules for washing:
     
    Always use cold water Separating by colour isn't really necessary when using cold water. Instead sort by roughness. I.e. have your socks, plaid shirts and towels in one load, underwear and LTT t-shirts in another. If it is stretchy don't use high heat in the dryer.  Go low heat for longer. Ideally air dry. Mousepads you can just huck in the clothes washer, hang dry.  
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    AlexTheGreatish got a reaction from gadgetboyj in Question about Washing Different Products   
    My general rules for washing:
     
    Always use cold water Separating by colour isn't really necessary when using cold water. Instead sort by roughness. I.e. have your socks, plaid shirts and towels in one load, underwear and LTT t-shirts in another. If it is stretchy don't use high heat in the dryer.  Go low heat for longer. Ideally air dry. Mousepads you can just huck in the clothes washer, hang dry.  
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    AlexTheGreatish reacted to wONKEyeYEs in Question about Washing Different Products   
    You can use buttons sarcastically?!
     
     
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    AlexTheGreatish got a reaction from Levent in Question about Washing Different Products   
    My general rules for washing:
     
    Always use cold water Separating by colour isn't really necessary when using cold water. Instead sort by roughness. I.e. have your socks, plaid shirts and towels in one load, underwear and LTT t-shirts in another. If it is stretchy don't use high heat in the dryer.  Go low heat for longer. Ideally air dry. Mousepads you can just huck in the clothes washer, hang dry.  
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    AlexTheGreatish got a reaction from Orion_ in Water Cooling a Laptop for $30   
    I've used this stuff from MG Chemicals, it only has a thermal conductivity of 1.4W/mK but when assembling a heatsink the thermal conductivity of your adhesive is likely not going to be the bottleneck, tho solder is of course a lot better.
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    AlexTheGreatish reacted to Orion_ in Water Cooled MSI GP66 inspired by goofy LTT videos   
    Water Cooled Laptop, MSI GP66
    This linked video is a bit of a TLDR and shows the most current setup of the laptop and radiator stand. There are some gameplay clips at the end and all games are on ultra with RTX on and DLSS on quality in 1080p because that is what my monitor is. The end shows pictures of the cooler in it's different configurations over time.
     
    Towards the end of last year I found myself trying to cut up my IETS GT500 cooling pad to replace the fan and make it more quiet. While doing this I came across a series of water cooled laptop videos from LTT and a few others. After finding out about the XMG laptops and their Oasis cooler shortly after, I knew I needed to give it a shot. Cost wise the XMG laptops weren't it for me, I thought I could out do them with a better preforming laptop and a DIY water loop and radiator setup while keeping it as practical if not more. From here, I settled on an MSI GP66 11UH, the most powerful gaming laptop in it's class holding the record of (at the time) 14,057 and a BeQuiet Pure Loop to keep on the idea of keeping things as quiet as possible. 
     
    Way too many attempts at bending 1/4" copper pipe to match the stock heatsink, 2 broken stock heatsinks, and more SnBi solder than Id like to admit, I had my first iteration of the water cooled GP66 together. The first version used a remote radiator connected by amazon QDC which were soon replaced by Koolance QDC which are nothing short of amazing. I kept with BeQuiet fans and experimented with a few fan variations. Starting with 2 Pure Wings fans and then 4 in a push pull setup I stuck with 4 for a time mainly because the fans helped keep the radiator from getting dinged up in a backpack (did I mention I was taking this with me to work?). Eventually I dialed this in to just 2 Silent Wings 3 fans with higher static pressure. With the water cooling set up, games ran at 15-18* less with no sound from the fans whatsoever. Cinebench gained about 3000 points from air cooling, air cooling still worked perfectly, and I set the now world record score of 14,091 on Time Spy for the 11800h/3080 combo!
     

     

     

    Time went on and I was hit with a realization, this all started because I wanted a more quiet cooling pad, so why haven't I made this radiator into a cooling pad yet? I ran  to MicroCenter and grabbed something I thought would work. Let me take a second to say, the MicroCenter guys in Tustin are troopers; dudes did what they could to help with this madness and not one cracked a laugh when I said I was water cooling a laptop. With some minor modification I rigged up the radiator, reservoir, and voltage regulator to the stand. It still worked, but it degraded the cooling significantly. because there was no bottom if I used the laptop in bed a blanket would block any and all airflow. Regardless of placement, the grating on the top further suffocated the fans trying to blow through them. This reduced the cooling gains from -18* to -10* at best.
     

     

     
    After giving it some time I flushed the Go Chiller coolant I was trying out (didn't even give it a week and it was causing more liquid to come out of the QDC because of gunking them up) and 'borrowed' my wife's old stand she had for a chrome book. Using zip ties at first it was obvious this stand would be the way to go. The top was unobstructive and the bottom kept the intake fans from being blocked. These two benefits weren't the only things, the cooling actually improved compared to the remote radiator. Keeping about 10mm for the fans to have good airflow, the cool air from the fans (cooler than the laptop at least) was blowing into the intakes of the laptop and helped take off another 2* from when the radiator was remote. This wasn't enough for a substantial boost in benchmarks, but it was enough to keep Cinebench from breaking 92* at the same overclock which had previously been (very slightly) throttling. The final tweak that was made to reduce the profile of the stand was to replace the 4 Pure Wings fans (Burnt out the Silent Wings turning the voltage controller too high on accident) with the Phanteks T30 fans. These beastly fans push more air than the push pull BeQuiet fans and are still unbelievably quiet. Lastly, I also 3d printed a bracket for the Koolance fittings, because they are actually bulkhead fittings because they just weren't amazing enough to begin with. With this setup most games will never break 60*. The only game I have that gets anywhere near 70* is the Dead Space remake. Doom Eternal plays at 60* GPU and 61*CPU (73* 81* on air); Metro Exodus (Enhanced Ed) plays at 59* GPU and 54* CPU (79* 75* on air); and Dead Space plays at 55* GPU 65* CPU (64* 87* on air). On all games the overclock and undervolt need to be dialed back on the CPU to prevent crashing when it gets too hot.
     

     

     

     
     

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    AlexTheGreatish got a reaction from Needfuldoer in Using velcro in my gaming pc to hold up an ssd a safety/fire hazard?   
    I'm going to recommend zipties over VHB in this situation, although both is the most correctist solution. 
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    AlexTheGreatish got a reaction from swimtome in Apple please watch this.   
    We've made the MacBook Air cooler many times, but with the help of Frore Systems this time Apple should pay attention.
     
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    AlexTheGreatish got a reaction from NinjaD123 in This PC took 600 HOURS to Build! (SPONSORED)   
    We have the jigs but in my experience the results turn out worse (i.e. a 90deg bend will become a bit less than 90deg after cooling).  If I was doing a production run tho I'd definitely use the router to create a jig like Bob and Rod.
     
     
    Tbh just googled LTT Background, here is a link
    Lol the whole point of the essay is that every time Nerdforge do something "Cyberpunk" people get really mad in the comments thinking it is about the game and only the game.
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    AlexTheGreatish got a reaction from brianfrein in Don't Waste your Money - $30 vs $10,000 Racing Setup   
    You'll first have to combine all of your displays into one output in the Nvidia control panel.  Depending on what GPU you have it might be called something different but I used Mosaic, likely will have to make the middle one 1080P for it to work.  After that just chuck the resolution of all 3 combined into that file and turn on Windowed Borderless, should be good to go
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    AlexTheGreatish reacted to michelhadid in AliExpress Wouldn't Lie... Right?   
    Hey, guys. For anyone that is still interested, i've been playing with the computer some more  . Modded and flashed a custom BIOS where i enabled a bunch of stuff including overclocking menus, turbo mode, memory profiles, etc. Turbo mode is now active, memory speed is set to 2666Mhz instead of the stock 2400Mhz, undervolting enabled, etc.   Still working on the VRM cooling solution, should be done this weekend, using a custom made copper spacer/heatsink and turning the whole back cover (small one) into a heatsink. Attached are a few pictures of some BIOS settings i activated aswell as the cpu and memory frequencies in Task Manager 
     
    @t-rucker @BluJ


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    AlexTheGreatish reacted to oglore in Thread for Linus Tech Tips Video Suggestions   
    I would love to see a revisit on that sketchy aliexpress chiller! You guys got so close! However I do have a little bit of useful information on how to control that chiller with the equipment you already have.
     
    The chiller/control board is designed to work off of pressure readings and not temperature readings, the COP you guys set at max refers to cut out pressure, this means you guys created a setpoint that would never satisfy the controller, leaving the chiller to run indefinitely and not modulate temperature.
     
    To fix this I would set the COP at 40 and then hold both buttons down to switch to CIP(cut in pressure) and set that at 58-60. This will keep your heat exchanger between 45F and 60F. Looking up a PT chart for R134a will give you the corresponding pressures to the temperature parameters you guys want to use. CIP is going to be the higher number since you want your compressor to start when the refrigerant gets too pressurized/hot and you want it to cutout before it hits the freezing point of water at that specific pressure.
     
    Additionally the bigger range you can have between COP and CIP will reduce stress on your chiller from short cycling and inrush currents. From there it is just finding a volume flow rate that will give you the biggest heat exchange from the water to the refrigerant as moving water through the exchanger too fast will be inefficient and too slow will not transfer enough heat.
     
    Hope this helps!!
     
    Im hopefully looking forward to a followup video!!
     
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    AlexTheGreatish reacted to sebastianratcliff in Thread for Linus Tech Tips Video Suggestions   
    *VIDEO IDEA*
    on eBay, you can buy a brand new replacement motherboard for a gaming laptop for cheap. I was thinking, what is stopping you from buying one of these guys and slapping a desktop CPU and GPU cooler, and getting desktop performance for 1/4 of the price? I know you guys sub-zeroed that one Alienware laptop, but that wasn't really sustainable. this could be an option to give new pc gamers an entry point that gives them pretty decent performance. the listing I attached is an 11th gen i7 and a 3070 for $370. 
    Thanks for reading!

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    AlexTheGreatish got a reaction from Seb_1 in My pool leaked and killed my computer   
    We have absolutely no idea why it blew up.  Checked the power cord with a multimeter and it was fine.  Replaced the switch and all has been good.
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    AlexTheGreatish got a reaction from Westingham in My pool leaked and killed my computer   
    We have absolutely no idea why it blew up.  Checked the power cord with a multimeter and it was fine.  Replaced the switch and all has been good.
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    AlexTheGreatish got a reaction from kaiosz in My pool leaked and killed my computer   
    We have absolutely no idea why it blew up.  Checked the power cord with a multimeter and it was fine.  Replaced the switch and all has been good.
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    AlexTheGreatish got a reaction from BiotechBen in My pool leaked and killed my computer   
    We have absolutely no idea why it blew up.  Checked the power cord with a multimeter and it was fine.  Replaced the switch and all has been good.
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    AlexTheGreatish got a reaction from KentIsHere in My pool leaked and killed my computer   
    We have absolutely no idea why it blew up.  Checked the power cord with a multimeter and it was fine.  Replaced the switch and all has been good.
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    AlexTheGreatish got a reaction from Dethspyder420 in My pool leaked and killed my computer   
    We have absolutely no idea why it blew up.  Checked the power cord with a multimeter and it was fine.  Replaced the switch and all has been good.
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    AlexTheGreatish got a reaction from Dethspyder420 in My pool leaked and killed my computer   
    After the Sonos upgrade video Linus' computer leaked and sadly is dead... but we've got a whole host of upgrades to the pool cooling loop to make sure it doesn't happen again.
     
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