Our best effort still SUCKS - Sketchy Heatsinks 3

it's been over a year since the last episode of sketchy heatsinks this project was actually probably alex's worst at the company it was over time over budget and the end result was absolutely abominable so i told him we're not doing sketchy heat sinks again unless you can do a better job than this which you might think is a reasonably low bar but then it took an entire year to bring another concept to the table so you're already over time and over budget but to your credit this does look a lot more promising [Music] private internet access encrypts your internet traffic and uses a safe protected ip check it out today through the link below that was just not fair at all but not fair at all what part of it was not fair first of all this is amazing it cooled the processor great but anyway what was not fair about that is that i just did not have the tools that i needed to properly do it you had a blank check to buy the tools you needed that's not an excuse okay okay let's just yeah let's yeah let's just get to let's put the past in the past all right so the plan for this one is we're actually going to put heat pipes into aluminum and then have actual aluminum fins so we're going to try to make a hyper 212 basically yeah pretty much exactly it's like largely ripped off of them if you look at the design here basically we're going to do is take one of these guys drill six holes directly down in then we're going to stick the heat pipes in bend them at 90 degrees and they'll go up through the fins which will have also six holes in them and are you gonna solder the heat pipes to the aluminum or um they're going to be thermal epoxied on you can't solder them because like pipes will explode if you eat them the only part that really sketches me out is bending the heat pipe which hopefully will be done with this but i don't know if we'll get a full 90 degrees on it so if that doesn't work it's gonna have to sort of come out at two angles like a v8 or a v6 i guess that's going to make the holes through the fins a complete nightmare oh we'll have like fins on either side we'll like cut them in half and they'll like come out like this the first order of business was to see how far we could bend the tubes we ordered 10 heat pipes so we only have four chances to figure this out oh man this is this is such a terrible bender oh my god authority just stuck on itself oh this is about to get gross out of the box the guide on the bender wasn't correctly aligned how is this thing so balls so we needed to make up some of the slop to get consistent bends so the working idea to make this which goes the wrong way compared to the tubing sizes line up correctly is to just give her with the gaff tape hopefully it'll work i guess what you get for buying like a 20 thing [Music] i think that'll work will it fit so we've got the clearance there uh looks good yeah that one didn't quite work out oh that one did not work out either those are both totally mangled this one right here this one worked out so we're going 45 degrees with the heat pipe angles decided it was time to move on to creating the base that would sit on top of the cpu out of aluminum stock we have a guide for the cpu block what we really needed was a three and a half by three and a half inch square but it was cheaper to buy four inch stock so the first order of business was to cut it down then with our square cut down to the correct size we needed to drill the holes for the heat pipes to go in huh it's basically a milling machine ah that's not gonna work problem solved perfect could not have been better well it definitely could have been better but is this even going to hold this in place oh yeah it should be fine i didn't want to like take the time to measure all the holes so i just laser cut them captain should be fine everyone this this one is fine that one this is gonna go through there yep i don't think you have a plan i i was just gonna eyeball it sweet about thera look good no this way but that way that too hey look it's got a laser yeah it doesn't work well if only we had a rubber mallet prepare for some lube to go everywhere well i'm pretty sure you're not supposed to apply that while it's spinning if only we had brushes here you know i approve everything you want to buy all you have to do is order it well we also literally have brushes so i want to try it i mean you wanted something to go wrong so now we can both get our wish yeah that's lots [Music] oh yeah you want that [Music] this actually isn't as far off as i was expecting why are you expecting it to be off gee i i don't know wow these don't fit that tightly they fit tightly enough some of them are tighter than others this one's pretty loose how are you gonna get all that oil out of there i was planning on just kind of cramming it full of thermal paste and uh you can't just slap a block of aluminum on the cpu though since it will interfere with the capacitors around the socket so this side with the holes i don't want to destroy them so that's why i'm using the hacksaw for this i can see this really quickly just turning into my angle grinding [Music] [Music] with capacitor clearance cut and sharp edges removed with the sander and file the block was looking like it might work it's drill pressing time again well i'll have to let you do that yourself i have other pressing matters to attend to all right bye no satisfaction it's excellent time no no i'm still satisfied i don't need you to get off to be satisfied oh it's so much more on the edge i love it with more lube perfect i love how proud you are such a great fit cool with our plan fully worked out it was time to bend the rest of the heat pipes all right now we need to do six of these and i can make two errors during that and i don't know if i'm capable of that really these are kind of finicky and this tool sucks and i say that but i just made it look easy so we have one left over we can tell linus to do the last one and tell them that it actually matters and see what happens nice well that was easy enough the problem that we have to go over now we have all of these sheets of aluminum yeah and they need to go on these yes so we need to drill these holes in these and we need to figure out a good way to hold these got the clamps yeah we seem to be on the same page here so do we want to do half of them like that i don't know you're you claim to be the expert that moved a fair bit while you were putting it on i don't even know how much that's going to affect the bit wandering oh that moved so much okay uh oh wow how are we gonna do this professional this is where we find out if this project's gonna be on time or not yeah it cuts through these like butter not bad they are mostly in a straight line-ish yeah i think so just some cleaning and prep was left until it was time to do a test fit and make sure it would all go together all those clear that awesome come on okay so about there the fit surprisingly was pretty good although a couple needed to be trimmed down so that we could get the maximum number of fins onto the heatsink oh nice so we got this thermally conductive adhesive from mg chemicals which hopefully when put between the fins and the heat pipes will conduct most of the heat i don't know the thermal conductivity on it isn't great but it's the best that we've got or that exists really this kind of looks like candy tuna i don't think i'd recommend putting this on your sushi sushi sushi oh man that smells like tuna too our choice of medium cure time epoxy means we'd have about 45 minutes to work with it before it cures first the heat pipe holes in the block were filled with nth-1 thermal compound and then the thermal epoxy was put on the end to hold them in place suppose it's done i guess oh my god these are like almost gone from here the heat pipes were covered in thermal epoxy and the plan anyway was to just jam the fins on i guess before i put the epoxy on i should have made sure that all six heat pipes will go into this all right to keep the fins from sticking together we resorted to some good old-fashioned canadian engineering using pieces of a cut up tim hortons box to space them out we repeated this process until we were out of fins so while you're off spending company money on lunch actually that was personal lunch with personal money same thing so i basically finished it oh finished is a word so don't move it too much it's still setting but i noticed that something i hadn't really thought of until now uh all the heat pipes are together which oh yeah probably isn't the most efficient way to do that no yeah it's going to be like right here is where all the heat gets dissipated and then this is all just worth it yeah like probably the like outer inch or so is doing nothing so aluminum here doesn't help us a whole lot it probably should have been copper but it would have been way more difficult to machine and stuff you're calling what you did machining yes at this point all that was left to do was leave it to cure overnight and gather some comparative benchmark data so we could determine just how good or bad our creation really is it's really dumb that windows doesn't automatically restore connection to network drives all the time i mean far be it from us to criticize other people's products at this moment though we pay for their products though no one's buying this i paid for it uh you're getting paid for it the total cost of this monstrosity was 107.38 which is canadian dollars so that's two dollars less than an hd15 and let's find out how long it takes to mount i guess now you've stolen some mounting hardware i see here this looks like uh noctua mounting hardware that's sort of cheating that's revised to everyone though so i think it's okay and it's the first one that wasn't mounted with zip ties so it's a pretty big improvement what we're looking for so intel stock heatsink okay took 40 seconds to mount okay the cooler master hyper 212 took 9 minutes and 30 seconds okay so that's what we're looking to beat so we start the time right now um sure this is kind of cheating because we're using two people but i think this thing needs every advantage it can get hold on no i don't have to hold it from the bottom actually and of course this is going to be a hard mount now not a spring mount because our block is so thick these aren't going to reach oh did you check you didn't check i might still have an old school water block mount in my office this is like training wheels off cpu mounting we could probably go a little tighter but it's fine no we're not going to use a blowy on this that's cheating well i figured that if that doesn't work i think rubber bands is actually probably a better bet yeah sure good enough all right it's 54 seconds still being hyper 212 so the hyper 212 idles were like 30 40 degrees the intel stock was regularly getting up to 60. it's still 30 degrees it's not going up yeah so do we hit it with a load it's kind of cheating to put like a 30 fan on it too i realized that but i just wasn't gonna mention it like we definitely could have just like c and seed out the whole block got the pipes professionally done it wouldn't even cost that much probably would have cost less than a drill press [Music] there's no fun in this exactly that's why it's our job to do it wrong it's not even warming up like our heat pipes with their lesser bend may actually have some kind of efficiency improvement in terms of their evaporation and condensation another thing that we haven't really considered is that even though our heat pipes look like they're the same diameter they might be like a high quality heat pipe so we don't know if these are good heat pipes or not i would say that they are they cost like 80 bucks and you were just like ruining them all right hit me with the flear i want to see this first whoa it's really cool yeah the hottest part is the fan hub yeah like if you look at the motherboard i mean there's the coolest spot is our heatsink the base of our heatsink is tops like 31 degrees as measured by this you compare that to like this capacitor at 35 so cpu score is seven like 73 26 73 26 how does that compare we're right up there with the hype same as the hyper 212 i mean there's plenty of time for it to buckle under a sustained load i guess oh okay so that jumped right up to 83 degrees on the hottest core so far still turboing huh full turbo no throttle oh it's still climbing though 86 degrees yeah so our victory there might have just been purely on mass alone so i have a solution to this what's that we call it a gaming heatsink then when people say well you know under a sustained all-core load it actually doesn't perform as well we say well it's designed for gaming so if we had spread out our heat pipes more which we knew yeah was better that's why they design it like this so that way that little area around the heat pipe right in the path of the most optimal parts of the fan is exactly right yeah and that's why it ends like a fingers width away from the heat pipe because you're just nothing's happening if you have more aluminum here all right so it hasn't thermal throttle though or it's thermal throttle but it hasn't it has it doesn't it's not turboing anymore it's actually no you know it's still above base clock 3.85 is above the base 3.7 clock speed of an 8700k so do we declare victory it's better than intel stock it's worse than a hyper 212 so assuming that you have a half a dozen heat pipes some blocks of aluminum and a bunch of aluminum sheets a drill press some thermal epoxy and a lot of time on your hands you can conceivably have a better cooler than the intel stock cooler that your cpu shipped with this one didn't though by following this method mission accomplished boys speaking of missions being accomplished thermal takes mission when they were created the vue 71 snow was to make a four-sided tempered glass case and they pulled it off it supports mini itx micro atx atx and the atx motherboards it has four tempered glass panels and a dual swing door it allows vertical mounting options for two and a half slot gpu solutions so even massive graphics cards with the riser cable sold separately it's got three-way radiator support so top front or vertical and it includes two of their ring 140 millimeter white led fans and you can check out the full details at the link in the video description so thanks for watching you guys i know it was painful if you dislike this video you can hit that button but if you liked it hit like get subscribed or maybe consider checking out where to buy the things that are actually any good that we feature at the link yeah video description these fans are good too also down there is our merch store which has cool shirts like this one and our community forum which you should totally join am i hot yeah yes i do it

Channel: Linus Tech Tips

Views: 3,804,958

Keywords: CPU Cooling, Homemade, DIY, Heatsink, Sketchy, Heatpipes, Aluminum

Id: 3B1kjxO0sxM

Length: 19min 5sec (1145 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 17 2018

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It only costed over 100 dollars including fan