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CPU with a vortex cooler and I haven't even opened
the box on this thing yet. So what the hell am I looking at? We got a piece of metal. - So that's the silencer - Shut up? This is an actual silencer. - [Alex] Yeah. That's a silencer. - That's what, oh my god it is a silencer. Our cooler needs a silencer. How awesome is this? We got a piece of cheap tubing. - I don't know what that's for - Some hose barb fittings And this, what is this? - It's a vortex cooler. We'll explain exactly how it works later - Hey Alex, that's not
information I didn't already have. - True. Yeah. - Vortex cooling. But what is it? - It uses some thermodynamic,
quirks and magic and probably a deal with
the devil to make hot air come out this side, cold air at that side. Apparently 90 PSI means the hot air is at 200 degrees Celsius and the
cold air is at negative 50. - Wait, what? - Yeah. - Okay. You still haven't
explained to me how it works. Where's your damn whiteboard. - Okay. I have a whiteboard. - I have expectations Alex.
We have standards around here. - The compressed air goes in, the hot air because
it's denser or something goes to the outside and dumps
kinetic energy or something. It stagnates here. The molecules lose energy
coming back through the hot air. - And then the cold air - Shoots out there
- Shoots out here. There's a control valve, which does what? - Changes, how much hot
air comes out or something. - You just have question marks on here. - Yeah. The question mark-- - Cold air and profit? - I watched like five videos. I read a bunch of stuff. None of it makes sense. It all is just kind of like, a thing happens here. Cold air. Yay. - So unless we have a
PhD in thermodynamics we're not gonna understand
it, but we can play with it. - We can definitely play with it. - [Brandon] Alex. Where'd
you get that thing? - Oh, I got off of McMaster-Carr. I just searched up electronics
cooler and it came up. It was $550. - Shut up for this piece of metal. - Yeah. - Why is it so expensive? - From what I've heard? It's because of the deal with the devil, but it might just be because
it's industrial only and you can use it for like 20 years and never do anything like maintenance wise, the PSI doesn't matter too much where we're gonna be
putting like 110 through it just cause that's what our shop is at. It's more so the airflow
and you can change that using the little nozzles there. 10 CFM is the lowest. That's 190 Watts of cooling - And you can go all the way to 40 CFM which is 820 Watts of cooling. At minus 50, this could be dangerous. - Oh yeah. - Like really dangerous. - Well, we can't really do the 40 CFM. So our air compressor, which is quite a good air
compressor, by the way. It's good for about 19 CFM at 175 PSI. So we can probably do the 25 CFM one. We can maybe use the 40
for a short amount of time. - [Linus] Okay. - This is our control system. - Oh, is this part of
the like $500 I spent - No, you spent this a while ago when we did the potato cannon. - Got it. - That planted trees. - I'm finally getting
another use out of it. - Yeah. - Hey, why don't we explain what it is? - This is a solenoid. Very simply you switch the solenoid with this button right here. It's not plugged in right now but it will go click when you click that that allows us to not just
use it 100% of the time. We can turn it off with this. It's way easier than like
using the ball valve up there. - This is so stupid. - You're not wrong - [Brandon] But it's an Alex video - I know. Alex. You've got kind of
a thing going on here. - I'm pretty sure that
when we complete this video all of the ideas that I had on
my resume, we will have done. - Really? - Yeah. - Wow and it only took
five and a half years. Oh. I thought you had opened it already. - [Alex] No (air blows) - Excuse me. Oh, there goes my lunch. - [Alex] Geez. Careful with the laptop there. - Oh man. Is this the CFM bit thing? - Yes - I got 15 R - 15's a good one to start at. That's the one we'll probably be using. We could also start with
either the smallest one at 10. - Let's start with the smallest one. Which one? Wait, which
one's the cold end again? Would you say 200 degrees? - Yeah. - So you want it more open, more close? What am I, what am I working with here? - I don't know. Just open it a tiny, tiny bit and we'll see what happens. - Okay. - Finally, there's no way with
our temperature range options in the FLIR, it's always going to be at least one of them is
outta range, but whatever. - I know the answer to this, but just for the people we are using
filtered oil free air, right? - Yeah, we are. - Yes we are. - Oh yeah. In our explanation, did I even say that the vortex in here is over a million RPM? - Well, that explains where
the heat's coming from. (air blows) - Oh, it cold. It's definitely cold. And that is definitely warm. What I'm right out is I'm
putting electrical tape on the device to make
it easier for us to get a measurement of it with the FLIR because when you try to
get a thermal reading off of something that is reflective what you're actually getting
is the thermal reading of whatever is reflecting off of it. - [Alex] The plastic nozzles at like minus 30, minus 40. Should we try adjusting this
a bit? See what happens? - Sorry what? Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a lot of moisture here. - Oh yeah. - Like my hands are wet. - That makes sense. - Yeah. - The 15 should be good for
about 300 WATS of cooling. - Theoretically. That's
getting dangerously close to CPU cooling capacity. - Yep. - The Debbie downer, Kyle is this is like the coolest thing ever. - [Kyle] What? I'm just saying, how are you gonna use the cold air? - Doesn't matter. It's cool. It's literally cool. Well, Brandon, you can
see the benchmark part but we are gonna need
the thermal camera to see the heating up part. Wow. This is going up like a
degree every few seconds here. - I just wanna shout out FLIR
for sending us this camera. This thing is like $30,000. It's wicked. - Yeah. And it's enabled us to make
better content for you guys. So yeah. FLIR. Hey how you guys doing - [Alex] Currently? At 37 degrees. (air blowing) - Bring on the FPS - Now it's sub ambient. Four. Oh, come on. Subzero. Subzero. There we go. - Subzero phone cooling, baby. Holy crap. That's chilly. Wait, your score is better than 87% scores for the
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3. Well, we should cool it the whole time and do another run and see if we can like. - Oh yeah. Oh wow, when you move off of it, you can immediately see the SOC. - Oh, that's cool. Can I see? - Yeah - Yeah, there it is! What did we have last time? - 57-58. - Okay. Well we got another 25 points. Oh, the silencer. - You undo this thing and put it on there. - Oh, we got some frost this time boys. - Oh, we did? - We did. But like I said remember how it was like, oh, it's so weird. The condensations only on
the outside of the nozzle. All the frost is only on
the outside of the nozzle. - Yeah. - What kind of black magic is that? That way it can never get jammed but how did they do that? While we're at it do you wanna switch to the big dick nozzle? - Yeah. I was thinking, just
go all the way to the big one. - Right? We can only run that momentarily. - Yeah. Until our tank is gone. - Got it. The silencer though. So do we Teflon tape that? And then what? This goes here. I don't , I actually do not understand how this is supposed to be. - It goes in the same spot as before. - Oh, and the silencer's
on the other side of it. Yeah. Got it. Look at this guy. Okay. Is there anything that looks cooler than someone wearing sunglasses
through a thermal camera? I can definitely see the SOC
it's hitting about 20 degrees. (air blowing) That is definitely colder. Can confirm. - I feel like it worked better before. Without the silencer. - Let's take the silencer off. - Yeah. - Wait. Hey. Hey, get back here. (high-pitched air blowing) - [Alex] Oh yeah. That's cold. That's real cold. - I don't think our
compressor can keep up though. - No. - Okay. Let's dial it back to what our compressor can handle then. And I think it's time to cool a CPU. - I think Cinebench is
gonna be the most fun. - Okay. Cinebench. - Thermals for a hundred degrees. - What is this? Is it 12900 K? - Yeah. KS. - KS. Oh, okay. And how much wattage can
we do with this nozzle? 450? - That one's 300. - 300 watt. That's it? - That's it. - Okay. Well, good luck everybody. I'm taking this fan off boys. - All right. Cinebench run? - Yeah. I'm ready for it. (air blowing) How we doing? - It's slower. - It's worse? - Yeah, 'course. - I guess the problem
is I just I can't apply all of this cooling directly to the CPU. - Should we just aim it
like directly at the CPU? - I could try that, but the problem is that we don't have any surface area there. We might as well just aim it directly at the die at that point. - Should we try that? - Okay. Ready? 3, 2, 1, go. (air blowing) - [Alex] Get closer. - [Linus] Do we want the
thermal compound off? - I don't know. - [Linus] Okay. I got
it, I got it, I got it. - [Alex] This poor CPU. Yeah. It's pretty hot right now. Oh yeah. It's going real slow. - Are you running the benchmark? - Yes. - Alex, we gotta get the
thermal compound off! - Oh. - Oh my God. You are getting it everywhere. How's the CPU temps doing? - 93 degrees. - Okay. I'm on it. (air blowing)
- [Alex] So our CPU, is currently at 40 degrees, at idle. Could I try and run Cinebench? - Okay. - Okay. It's immediately
Thermal throttling. It's going real slow. - Stop the benchmark. Stop the pain. - Okay. - Let's talk about what happened there. I don't know if it'll work. I think the 12900 KS is just too much, too much heat
and too small, a spot. - I'm really surprised blowing
it on this didn't work. - Me too. Especially with how cold these
heat pipes felt to the hand. - Yeah. - Like they were chilly heat pipes. Let's talk about what these
are actually used for then. Shall we? - There's for loads of things. Most of it's in industrial
applications, like large plants. So if you have like a gas tank for a car that you just
welded, it needs to cool down. And maybe it would take three minutes if it's just in the air, stick one of these on now
it's a minute and a half and you can make heaps more of them. Or you can put this on like the end of a welding torch to cool that down. - Oh, that makes a ton of sense. Now there are other ways to turn power into cooling and heating. For example, Peltier modules. Kind of,
fundamentally do the same thing. You add power, not to compress air but rather just you power the thing and you get hot out one
side and cold out the other but those consume a ton
of power compared to this. And it's not as easy
to direct that cooling and direct that heat on whatever part it is that you wanna cool or heat. - Another thing these are great
for is electronics cooling but when it has to be away
from a bunch of things like completely sealed off. So this way you can
have compressed air in, hot air goes out, electronic
is cooled very precisely in a completely isolated area. - Got it. So not for this, basically. - No, I'm kind of sad that it didn't work. - Yeah. I kind of thought it would do more than it did at very least. We need a better air compressor. - We do. Yeah. - And we can put the
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