Chilling Threadripper 2!!!

so the main difference between today's video and some of the bizarro random cooling experiments that alex and i have done over the last several months is that this time we're not in the boardroom we're in the kitchen because today's video is going to be completely nuts now i showed you guys sub-zero cooling on thread ripper gen 1 with my own diy water chiller but believe it or not there's actually a commercially available all-in-one nice tidy little package version of that so we're going to be taking this water chiller from active aqua and we're going to be hooking it up to the red ripper 2. 32 cores of sub-zero have they gone mad have we no that seems fine seems perfectly fine [Music] origin pc's evo 15s is under an inch thick and features a smooth 144hz 1080p display with an nvidia geforce gtx 1070 max-q graphics card check it and their latest deals out by clicking the link below okay so uh first order of business is make sure all of our hardware actually works yeah okay so do i get to unbox the chiller sure yeah go for it one tenth of a horsepower i could get into that that seems like a good thing i guess so whoa what the what you said i could unbox it and then you literally moved immediately to the scissors and immediately started unboxing it without me well you're wasting a lot of time right here would i get to unbox the tubing okay so yeah you know what i'm not gonna do that then you do it yourself there you go here's alex's first unboxing i'm not even helping him all right so we've got some fittings here they look foreign for wow damn it that's heavy well that's more that you need to know so power court it's a heavy power cord and we've got the chiller here which normally you'd flip around but you can't flip around chillers so you've got your back to the audience you're failing right now you're failing okay so hold on this has a compressor in it right so you don't want to tip it over that's what i was just saying oh well it wasn't clear um do you want to grab an end okay wow that is a lot more compact than the one that i made out of a window mounted ac unit recommended water reservoir size 13 to 50 gallons okay and what is this for it's for chilling aquariums whoa okay so it's designed for a continuous load so that's good we consider considered in advance that these are fittings that we probably don't have already right right oh good work or did that come in the box yeah you thought of nothing no i looked at the thing and well maybe the audience would know about all the things that are on the box if maybe you told them during the unboxing i experienced it the first thing that i said was there are fittings yes is that the right size for this no yes all right fine yeah and i figure that this can go between this and the pump and then we can put it into okay good stuff between here and did we buy a pump yes you know we have lots of pumps right yep but this one has more gallons per hour or whatever the measurement is really than the little giants well i don't know what the little giants are but you don't know what the little giants are yeah uh hold on can we still return this is this still in like new condition yeah i'm gonna go get a little giant trust me you'll like my little giant see that is a real man's pump it'll give you lots of head pressure guessing zip ties aren't good enough yeah zip ties fine okay here i can do that if you want to get the next run going so for the reservoir i was kind of thinking instead of bothering with doing a whole lot we could just stick the tubes right into here and duct tape it on okay i mean the most important thing when you're going sub-zero with some kind of alcohol-based coolant is making sure that any plastics that you're using are not going to get destroyed by it any seals or gaskets this is that new msi board the creation um do we want to use this one or the zenith that already has all the residue and crap all over it apparently the vrm's on that one are better for thread ripper too ah well this is just the first test so let's just kind of see what happens and go from there cool sure that was nothing ah can i have some fittings for the block here thanks we can probably just like goatsy stretch a three-eighths inch over there yeah that's what i was thinking yep you got it oh it doesn't have to go on up we're never gonna get that off well i guess do we just turn the pump on now and make sure or hope that nothing leaks that's kind of what i was planning to do all right to those watching at home the worst part of all of this is that this loop will perform significantly better than yours okay i'll try not to drink windshield de-icer here okay the pump is now primed cool is this thing broken your little giant's really impressing me fortunately i have another one we could have had this running by now this one's even bigger oh great yeah this is the big giant now i wish we'd left a little more slack on the lines let's do a quick tubing swap here okay perfect dang it alex how do i avoid drinking windshield de-ice right now oh man yeah that's that's what i told you yeah okay so hold on so write this okay perfect should be fine and we're not gonna put that on so tight this time okay good to go let's hope power it on aha success tm seems to be working okay so now what i guess we should just fire up the bench boom let's do it oh and it turned off that's okay it's probably just the classic double post so our system's already not posting that's a good sign you know what i'm going to start unwrapping the zenith all right i don't actually know that that's the problem it's probably not but oh i'm gonna go get some water because i'm thirsty go ahead and cut hey booted up on like the fourth attempt oh good job all right i'm i'm trying the other board oh wow that is a lot of i might have overdone the thermal compound a little bit there it's just like vaseline kicked around the ram very poor quality vaseline by the way if you've never installed a threadripper cpu before it's like nerve-wracking actually the way you gotta go at it like if it didn't have a little torque stop i don't think i put it that tight see that flicker on the rgb lighting i don't think it is the gpu if we just lost a 2990 wx i'm gonna be pretty choked yeah that would suck is that how it's supposed to go let's just let's just go for it again maybe it's the ram some days i feel really bad for the viewers at home it's like they're watching a horror movie no don't go into that closet why would you do that everyone else who went in there died oh okay so it's just a bad mount all good let's see if we get a post here oh code right here um detect memory all right do you want me to grab some other stuff yeah i figured out the problem what was it old bios uh you need a threadripper one you need a usb drive uh can we just use the other board at this point i think it's faster to flash the bios uh okay i'm sorry all right well there's a bunch of ram yeah thanks so we're an hour in and we have not yet booted threadripper 2 to verify that our system does in fact work but we have the latest bios on our board now theoretically this is it um wait for it they don't put postcodes in the manual anymore i have confidence that this time we will post aha i mean we've achieved nothing because we still can't boot okay do you want to run and grab the drive off my bench all right okay that's a good sign actually okay and that noise is driving me knocking thoughts right now all right so change graph to logical processors lol so many cpus so i've just got to put some gpu drivers on here still we've got ryzen master software and alex has pulled out the thermal camera so right now our cpu is sitting at about 45 degrees because it's had a considerable amount of time to warm up like these tubes are warm to the touch so i think now is the time for us to turn this thing on yeah i guess so okay well this is somewhat anticlimactic where is it even taking the temperature from oh i did something 39 that's the limit for celsius more celsius so how how do we want to use this do we want to use it in a way that's practical to just chill water down to a little above the dew point and say okay this is the best case scenario for you know normal water cooling performance or do we want it like like chilled i think we should do chilled okay like we've already screwed up that motherboard so what do we have to lose besides the cpu we have another one the ram we have more we'd never recommend that anyone run below ambient or below the dew point on an ongoing basis without protection but uh i mean we're just doing a threadripper two overclocking experiments so where's that shop towel stuff you had we'll just put some of this around the socket this is a really bad idea seemed like a pro insulation job oh boy uh even with all this airflow over the cpu socket area and the vrm's our block is still that's that's pretty wet sweating but on the plus side our cpu is idling at what five degrees seven uh yeah seven why does this just say overload watts okay here we go okay uh go ahead and hit it oh i just did oh you did is it done yeah what the hell yeah that was a pretty low score too 48 64. so we're at about 100 watts at idle can you hit it again i want to see what we peak at sure whoa 335 watts while cinebenching okay so we got just over five thousands in a bench which is about what we expect so that means our cpu is doing 250 watts already we haven't even overclocked it it hit a maximum of 24 degrees so what 140 yeah let's just go for 40. there i was changing a lot of variables at once so we're at wool we're idling at 140 watts now all right i'm gonna hit it now five forty five eighty oh did we crash no six thousand two hundred and twenty nine cinebench that was too easy this cpu is sucking over 500 watts what the hell who does amd think they are intel maximum of 39 degrees well should we try and go faster i guess so so i tried to launch adobe premiere and it just turned off yeah i don't know if we're stable there is a lot of water on there should we cut the power to this let's let's do that it's possible that there's water on the underside hard to say yeah we could we could pull that up and have a look at it actually no it's bone dry it's really wet in there so we might have killed our chip if we don't manage to revive it then this is the end of the video and we're back to life how long how many hours did we leave it for it was fine after like three or so yeah okay fantastic so we're not gonna go quite so low again we're at 59 freedom units whatever that is and uh there's there's good news though what do we got so it's currently at 4.1 didn't change the voltage i guess it's just fine maybe uh we're at 19 degrees idle now which is a lot more reasonable at this room temperature and have we done a stress test yet uh no okay start with cinebench sure over six thousand should we try for 4.2 update and restart oh there are updates okay well why don't we do that first oh this might be a while oh it seems like a lot of the issue was just that your crappy ssd died it might have not even been the condensation oh i mean honestly i don't think we really need to run any more benchmarks to determine that this works really well yeah so the main takeaways here are that this is really compact cools really well and i'm gonna turn off this stupid pump without the noise from the pump and that industrial fan well it's not on right now but we can get it to kick on though here you want to just yeah set it at least four degrees lower and then it should kick in that's actually not too bad yeah it's really not loud so let us know in the comments would you like to see this cannibalized and integrated into a system that's a really loaded question i sure would are you on my team now let's go back in time and hear from our sponsor freshbooks freshbooks is the small business accounting software that's custom built for how you want to work if you're a 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Channel: Linus Tech Tips

Views: 3,693,718

Keywords: Threadripper, Threadripper 2, AMD, Chilling, Cooling, Extreme cooling, janky cooling, condensation, Hydroponic Cooler, CPU Cooler

Id: HMtvEbD2MQo

Length: 17min 1sec (1021 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 29 2018