We Cooled a Computer with FIRE - Hacksmith Collab
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The Hacksmith are here and they want to subzero cool a computer using..... Fire??? Yes that is correct, by using liquid propane this computer should be wicked fast.
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
0:56 Simple Setup
3:34 More Complex Setup
9:05 Braving the Winter
9:39 Hit It
11:40 A terrible idea
12:15 How It Works
13:10 Marshmallows
15:14 Outro - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
I like the idea that AMD sponsored this once they found out the system they were doing this stuff on
Indeed
AMD sheesh on intel computer with Nvidia graphics card
@@akashkallumkal I think it's even funnier the fact that the PC is literally on FIRE, like the AMD CPU's and old GPU's they made LMFAO.
lol
I like the idea that the thumbnail is them inside the windows XP bliss wallpaper
The spiffing brit "This is a perfectly balanced PC build with no exploits or bugs at all!" sips tea
expected someone to comment this. thanx
LTT just making sure it can handle the fire of what spiff is going to put it through with his exploits and shenanigans.
Opens up the liquid cooling loop filled with tea and sips out of it.
If it isn't tea-cooled with Yorkshire Gold, I'm unsubscribing
Vaseline covered is the most perfectly balanced kind of motherboard.
Now we also need an LTT and Nile Red colab. I don't know what they would do, but I know it would be batshit insane and therefore entertaining lol
This would be cool but non volatile endothermic reactions that can handle a cpu of this prospect would either need ridiculous flowrate or expensive chemicals
@@aoyuki1409 oh my ...so nile
I just want Nile to post more videos, whatever he'd like to post...
Best we can do is Nile Blue
Styropyro instead of Nile red
I can just imagine Spiff receiving just that melted system as is with an apology note.
not even boxed, just dumped on his doorstep in a pile
Seeing all that fire, I continued to imagine that the computer was going to Piff the Magic Dragon and for that case, partially burnt case would have been fitting, IMO.
*What have you done to my precious!*
oh wow didnt expect you to be here lol
Hi
Hi spiff
Ok that was one of the best weird cooling episodes ever.
that shit was fire bro
I wonder if you actually need the fire ? Cant't you just let the gas escape?
6 gigahertz. I will be happy with 5ghz for my next PC build after 6 years.
@@HappyDude1 yes, you could just let the gas escape, but the fire is obviously more cooler
They could have made some sort of metal shield at the base of the fire to help protect the case.
"Any machine is a smoke machine if used wrongly enough" is a beautiful quote
Along with "give a man a fire, keep him warm for the day. Set a man on fire, keep him warm for the rest of his life."
"I wanna see your Mac doing this"
The fact that Bogdan and Alex can both make each other visibly nervous really speaks to their skills as -mad scientists- engineers
They should get styropyro involved and see if they can get him one of those cooling lasers, and just see if that can have any effect on a PC
I love how this is the only acceptable time to be pleased by a PC on fire
@@inqizzothen you get used to it and it’s not a big deal anymore until the new one comes out and you’re disappointed by your current product that’s perfectly fine
I'm not sure the monitor would agree that it was acceptable :D
Nope, it's actually a PC 'under' fire!
As a console player I love pc gamers fighting between amd and Nvidia
Just imagine popping a game in your pc and it instantly working…🤡
Just stop fighting my friends
Nvidia is the best by raw power
Amd is the best value
Fuck flying Ryan though, Microsoft Activision deal is pro-gamer
alex: "should we add a-?"
linus: "you've had enough thoughts alex"
that absolutely floored me
Probably one of my favorite videos of all time. I mean, there's nothing better than seeing a melted monitor and Linus looking into the camera and eating marshmallows with a smile on his face
Maybe the flame expander could instead be a flame thrower, a bit dangerous but more predictable and you can point it on one direction. Make it in the shape of a dragon and between that and the subzero CPU you'd have a PC of Ice and Fire
Best comment here
Also let the propane overflow to read so that some portion freezes but the heat keeps the road working.... True fight between ice and fire
"Sadly our monitor was melting and we ran out of time" is not a sentence i ever expected to hear.
The Collab we didn't expect but definitely needed.
Dit forget the Collab with TSB. Also interesting a perfectly balanced pc 🤣
They've done a few collabs now
They did two of them a bit ago.
We got Hacksmiths, LTT, and the future computer going to Spiffin Brit. This is a bigger multiverse crossover than Marvel. I don't think Spiff got this computer. Turns out the Computer Torch did not make money in the box offices and set the theaters on fire.
@Carl Gunderson Yes it is with Alex Tech Tips!
Honestly, Spiff would say "This is a perfectly balanced PC build with no exploits or bugs!" and sip Yorkshire Gold tea made from the heat of the literal burning fire next to him :)
What's crazy is that this actually worked well, and like Linus said, with a better optimized regulator/evaporator (and not keeping the flames right on top of the case), this could actually be a cool way to get sub-zero temps for testing.
and maybe have a more controlled flame further from the pc :D
I'm not scientist or an expert but couldn't there be some way to make like a closed loop system ? If the liquid propane is being turned into gas by the heat from the components couldn't a condenser be able to save that propane ?
@@Gatorade69 well, if you add a compressor after that, you have reinvented fridges/airconditioners..
I bet half the crew was like: Should we ge t a longer HDMI cable? And Alex surely went: Naaaaaah!
Couldn’t even spin the case around so the cables had more reach
To be fair, Alex was saying the monitor was too close. Linus was way to excited to run the pc to get another cable though
the monitor: WHYYYYYYY ALEX!
Or even just move the monitor over to the other side where the flames weren't being blown towards.
Yep, that is a short cable… and why not just put their items upwind
thespiffingbrit after receiving those parts: this computer is perfectly balanced with no exploits whatsoever
Is that a reference to something?
@@Badsniperarmy watch one of brits videos and youll get the reference
infinite vaselin is op
@@Badsniperarmy thespiffingbrit does exploit content... and his famously known line is - "perfectly balanced with no exploits"
@@lucaswyrm7323 Todd Howard would be pleased
This one felt like friends having fun on TH-cam. It was excellent
I'd like to see them do this again but with better knowledge of water cooling. Right now they're just sending the liquid propane through a T-junction that basically doesn't have any surface area for heat exchange. If they made a more optimized block with a better flame diffuser solution, this could actually be really cool (and cool)
Maybe see if they can find an old Vapochill and salvage the block from that.
"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life" - Terry Pratchett. Hacksmith have good literary taste.
that had me rolling
Love Terry and Discworld. Reading Hogfather rn!
Lesson learned: burners in the shape of PC rads may look cool, but there's a reason why propane burners typically include some kind of wind shroud.
Even a metal base under the burners and extending past the plastic bits of the case would have helped.
@@Hubris2 or just not mounting the burning radiator directly on the partly plastic case could have also solved the issue, and "we mounted this on a separate frame so we don't melt the PC" wouldn't be unreasonable in the eyes of most viewers.
Either way, they at least should have just grabbed monitor extension cables. I'm sure they have plenty of those, and instead of melting a monitor they could have just grabbed one within 5-10 minutes.
@@pixelmaster98 Yes, but it wouldn't make such great content
@@bartleferink4911 sure, mounting the burning radiator anywhere other than on top of the case would probably have been a bit lame.
Grabbing an extension cable wouldn't have made the content less entertaining, though. On the contrary, not destroying functional hardware for no reason (thereby creating e-waste) is actually preferable.
@@pixelmaster98 I mean that monitor isn't destroyed yeah it's plastic got a lil melty but that doesn't really matter
This is insane and I would never put flames near my pc equipment like this. But it sure was fun to watch! Thanks LTT! Nice scores too!
Totally appreciate the chaos! Would be cool to see a v2 with a better evaporator and a better flame shield for wind on top of the case.
And propane tanks away from open flame? lol
Spiff's PC needs to have a heat exchanger so it can heat tea while keeping the system cool and not mix the nice tea with nasty coolant
12:30 Just to clarify, the liquid propane by itself is the same temperature as the environment. Only the gas is then -40 °C after the liquid expands to gas in the cooling block on the CPU. The super cold gas immediately starts sucking up all the heat it can get, that is why the metal of the cooling block gets cold. And the liquid doesn't turn into gas because it is heated by the CPU, it turns into gas because it is released from the pressure vessel that kept it liquid and naturally wants to expand into gas. The cold is just a by-product of that expansion.
I don't think the three people involved in the project could have come up with a worse explanation.
I guess the typical audience here means that I shouldn't expect a proper scientific explanation.
Also worth adding that's it's not the gas expanding that provides most of the cooling effect. If the propane were going from a high pressure gas to a low pressure gas, the effect would be way smaller. Instead, it's the phase change from the liquid state to the gas state that causes the temperature to drop. This is also exactly what happens in heat pumps, as Alex pointed out in the video.
Yeah, that was bothering me too, thanks for writing out a good explanation. Just to add to it a little bit, lighting the propane on fire is completely unnecessary for cooling the cpu. They could have just released the gaseous propane into the air and gotten the same effect. Whether or not having a cloud of explosive gas surrounding your computer is a good idea, well…
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8:21 The look of pain on Linus' face after that dad joke is pure gold
Linus + Alex + some wacky idea = absolute gold every time
Always a fun and a "Why the F*$k are you doing this" video when Alex is involved, it multiplied when hacksmith get's involved.
it's even better knowing this perfectly balanced build is meant for SpiffingBrit. Guaran"tead" zero exploits and ready to dispense glorious Yorkshire goodness
I love how they just casually added the fact that the CPU is running at 6.4GHz
@thenotjp in the video they overclocked the CPU to 6.4GHz to test if it can hold it with that level of cooling
@thenotjp lol Oof I'm sorry if I confused your brain
I mean it's on fire.
well tbh the marshmellow was much of a more pressing and compelling issue at their hand
@@aronseptianto8142 fair enough
Really cool idea. I would like to see this refined more. Maybe have burners like what you would have for propane heaters so that the flames/heat is more easy to manage. Would be a cool way to keep your PC room warm in the winter, while gaining massive performance. lol
On the "Obviously the flame isn't doing the cooling" of Linus I want to point out that the first fridges worked with a Kerosene flame to power them, it's called absorption refrigeration and it let you cool something using an heating source as energy
ten years ago, i helped my father fix a propane powered one. it was used on a town which didn't have continuous electricity to cool meds. IIRC it used ammonia as cooling gas.
Alex is the best. If it’s technically possible, he’ll try for the maximum possible value no matter the cost. It always makes great content.
yeah he has mythbusters vibe
Alex: *Has a Tormach CNC machining center that can literally manufacture any fitting he can design*
Also Alex: "I just went to Home Depot and got $300 worth of barbed fittings to smash together. It probably shouldn't leak."
@@rherydrevins machine time ain't cheap my friend
Props to the sound editor for fixing Linus audio in post!
This is why you always run a scratch mic. And because it makes aligning sound to video a lot easier =p
Thank you for supporting Hacksmith. Its so cool to see two of my favorite TH-camrs contribute to one video and the timing is perfect. Linus, thank you! Hacksmith Industries, Thank you!
I really want to see this revisited and taken to the max
Will Spiff's PC be perfectly balanced?
No exploits at all. Tea cooled
@@rhyswilliams4893 *sips Yorkshire Tea* With the best tea there is
Integrated Yorkshire Tea dispenser heated by the CPU.
Perfectly balanced between Ice and Fire.
I totally wanna see Spiff's pc actually being cooled by Yorkshire Tea😬😬😬
I want to that, but I also want to see it powered by Yorkshire tea, which was the request
@@bipbop3121 Technically by cooling it with tea you're allowing it to stay on (as no cooling would = it dead), so in a way it is being powered by tea.
@@mataskart9894 yes, I can see that. I'm still looking forward to the fun build, either way. Tea cooled, will maybe bring pee jokes. I'm wondering what, if they'll do anything about the acidity, or build up.
The unsweetened iced tea gets problematic at a fast food place, if not cleaned properly frequently enough, though that's not a closed loop, among other factors.
I hope The Spiffing Brit will let us know how long this crazy system lives.
That was pretty sweet, really going all in on phase change cooling by lighting the gas on fire
You guys should really revisit this with some upgrades to the flame vents
Cant wait for the cell phone version.
We already had one, with the note 7.
Samsung ahead of the curve💀
Right after the laptop version 👍
@@Toni-js1ft @Karlo both of yall geniuses bro
Linus' Steam Deck, surely...
The first Hank Hill approved gaming PC.
Underrated comment
The computer... was on fire!
But does it run Pro-PAIN?
Underrated joke
Bobbeh
Now I can't wait to have another version of this
When I first saw the thumbnail I thought you were using convection from the flames to pull air through the system, I guess using the phase change to your advantage produces much colder results but hard to describe it as a system cooled by flames considering it would do the same job if it weren't on fire
It would fill the place with flammable gas tho, which is better burned in a controlled way than all at once accidentally.
Tea Cooled Spiffing Brit PC is something worth of waiting. Also, great colab guys, another perfect match for Hacksmith community, and Linus team's jankines.
Yeah i am hoping they actually use tea in it cus it should make it alot more interesting cus I don't think tea and metals work very well together so they might need to make like glass radiator and block. 🤔
Sadly it has to be liquid and air tight so he won't even smeeellllll! what the comp! is! cooking!
@@nebulous962 thermodynamically impossible
@@Scottybo1096 may i ask why? not enough thermal conductivity?
@@nebulous962 ye glass is an insulator
Linus is cooling his server with his pool, and his VR rig with his barbecue grill. I bet his house parties are 🔥🔥
I have the Mid Tower compact version of that Frectal Chassi and it looks so good, and have insane air flow :)
6:40 I work with a propane lift truck, propane tanks valves leaks often. It doesnt smell for long. I sometimes get soaked. I would smell propane for maybe 1 hour at top.
Linus Tech Tips, Hacksmith, and Spiffing Brit? Are you guys doing an Avengers-level crossover?
It’s not Linus Tech Tips It’s Alex Tech Tips today!
You should make a christmas themed "fireplace PC" build where you get a bunch of brownish components (like Noctua stuff and the wood fractal design case y'all reviewed on short circuit) and then do the classic "TV on top of fireplace mantle" thing with an HTPC inside the fireplace that is also on fire.
that is a badass idea
All the Warren G and Nate Dog Regulator memes was a nice touch. Good job to that editor!
You somehow need to make the flames like pressure torch. Like your “lightsaber” torch. So that way flames could be controlled more easily. But maybe that's achievable with gassy propane.
The way the double tubes come off the CPU actually looks kinda sick
Let's be real, Spiff would applaud the creative use of perfectly balanced game mechanics of mother nature.
Put a turbo on it; specifically a gas turbine driven generator and inverter and use that to power the computer.
Use a regulator to adjust the gas flow based on load. When the system demands more power, the cooling will scale proportionally!
The ultimate off-grid PC!
It would probably require an inline UPS with automatic voltage regulation (AVR) for best stability
Always love the chaos Alex brings to the party.😂
I love how Linus is collabing with hacksmith and hacksmith has collabed with a bunch of my other favorite science creators and I'm really hoping that one day we can get a collab of Linus with the other science creators on TH-cam
like a cryo chamber for you whole pc
the "iced" computer
Birb build server for Kurzgesagt 😅
Honestly I want to see what kind of chaos you can get up to with people like Michael Reeves, Allen Pan, William Osmen or backyard scientist. About the only one on the safety third crew that I don't want to see him collab with would be Nigel red because I don't think that would make for super interesting content. Though maybe some chemical reaction that would cool a PC could be interesting
Absolutely loved this collab, would love to see more!!
Finally, Linus has tried what I've always hypothesised about CPU cooling via vapour compression, the exact same process HVAC system use. Hella inefficient economically and environmentally, suffering from the same cons as home air conditioning. You would need your system to be close to a window or gouge out a hole in the wall to fit a condenser and run tubing to the case. Completely insane cooling method but hopefully another collab with hacksmith, you could try this out?
2:03 whoever made that thumbnail with linus face looking like a madman, it was pure gold and got me a good laugh.
I find it hilarious how this colling project doesn't look as crazy as some of the previous ones done by Alex.
Crazy engineers from Hacksmith + Linus is quite the combination.
The Hungarian Waltz you're using as background music is my phone's ringtone so I've spent the last have of this video frantically checking my phone every two seconds.
mesh walls around the flames would help quite a bit in protecting whatever is around it from the flames
These videos just keep getting better and better. You guys have came such a long way over the years and it's been really fun to watch it all grow to this point.
I love these kinds of videos, they just go all over the place.
The main plan works but there are a bunch of things that go wrong but nothing can stop you guys.
And also AMD being like "yeah we're gonna sponsor them to light a computer on fire and show a computer running faster because it is on fire" 😂.
Also Canadian weather is perfect for this kind of build.
And they were even running an Intel CPU in an AMD sponsored video
@@muhammadazeem1346 😆😅 Intel Chips still are like heating elements ! makes sense
@@muhammadazeem1346 and Nvidia GPU. So one could say that AMD roasted all their competition with this sponsored video.
blast from the past on the video format here. Crazy "why tho" stuff
Love it.
LTT: Sorry we have to use components intended for a gift PC.
Also LTT: Cook a monitor and a case.
As someone who oversees a large tank farm making aerosols I live this idea. When we push and pull lines for changeovers everything ices over quickly. Love this!
I really didn't even notice Bogdan was there explaining it to them until after the intro. His chaotic engineering vibe fits in perfectly with Alex.
Mythbusters found the fastest way to cool a beer was a fire extinguisher, the CO2 kind. It also uses gas expansion for extreme cooling. Second best was ice in water with salt. Future Alex video maybe?
8:55 I hope you guys use Yorkshire Tea Gold 😂😂🤣🤣
If LTT had made a project like this themselves, it would be a 3-part videos for sure.
well yeah, of course - they'd have to build the entire thing first. Instead, they were just using what Hacksmith provided - who, btw, also made a video about this. I haven't watched it, so I don't know if Hacksmith is only making one video about this (presumably yes), but it's still at least two videos total.
Given that the team over at Hacksmith actually knows what they're doing when it comes to building stuff, it wouldn't be unreasonable for LTT (who are not professionals in this regard) to take long enough and have enough trial-and-error to fill two build videos instead of one. Plus, failing at sketchy random stuff like this is exactly LTT's formula for projects like these - spending tons of work in order to get it working perfectly first try isn't in their interest. And 2 build videos plus 1 demo video equals 3 videos total.
@@pixelmaster98 bro wrote a whole essay on a joke 💀
@@post_low BatChest reading bad
4:34, I've always wondered where this meme came from.💀
Okay! You def need to do this again and try to make it more efficient. This time though, add a metal box on top to direct the flames more up 😂
Liquid Propane is not at -45 degree. It is at the same temp. as the surround area, but it is stored by high pressure. And when you allow it to expand again, the evaporation needs a lot of energy and it takes that from the only source, temperature of the gas and the surrounding. Thats why you can cool with compressed and liquefied gas, and you can do that with any and all gases.
I am actually seeing one practical application for this, if you have alot of servers you can replace the flame throwers already in your oven/boiler and use them for heating, just need an automatic fire suppression system
Lol cycle all your propane through your servers before you use it....
Spiffing Brit needs this testing to be done. Strictly for the fact to be perfectly balanced and he could boil his tea right next to his set up.
9:05 Canadian pc builders in their natural habitat eh?
That episode was pure chaos... I loved it!
Love Alex’s “totally everything is in control” look
Damn, you're working with Spiff?! If only this came out in time for the jingle jam!
....My god this was incredible.
....RIP Nate Dogg.
This is the last collaboration that I expected!
Really glad to see your channels collaborating again. Plus Linus is probably one of the few peers James has in terms of Canadian TH-camr businessman experiencing burnout. Hopefully they share a beer together soon.
That was hawt 🔥 Would be neat to see that re-done but with better fire protection - maybe the PC coolers could be mounted further off the case, and/or with a shield around the sides, and some heat shielding for the monitor - maybe longer cables. 🐧
If they actually tried for efficient burning on the "flame expander", instead of basically dumping the gas through a large opening, it wouldn't look so much like a bonfire, but wouldn't be waving and dancing so dangerously.
I would like to see a real, serious attempt at this.
I'm born and raised in Van but always noticed that Anthony and Alex had a similar accent that sounded Canadian but definitely not west coast. Turns out it was Newfoundland which makes so much sense now haha
Correction: liquid propane from a pressure vessel is not -40-45°C. It's the same temperature as the container it's in, which would usually be ambient temperature. Propane cannot be liquid at one atmosphere and room temperature, but it can stay liquid under high pressure, which is why it comes in a rather substantial steel container and not a soda bottle. When the pressure keeping the propane liquid at ambient temps suddenly drops, it phase changes (boils) to gaseous propane and thanks to out old friend latent heat of vaporization (and the ideal gas law) becomes much colder in the process.
As a Canadian, roasting a marshmallow on a PC would be my ultimate time dream. Keep it up guys
The Linus propane joke actually made me laugh out loud 😂
the crossover we all needed
Chestnuts roasting on a open - c'mmon guys. This would have been such a great Christmas special!
they should have put some sort of shroud around the flame spreader thing
Absolutely did not expect this collab, absolutely didnt disappoint! :)
Especially with Hacksmith restructuring, this is nice to see!
It was your idea so you should give yourself a pat on the back
Never did I think in a million years did I think I'd see a Young Guns reference on Linus Tech Tips
Use a decompressor and add an empty cylinder at the other end and reconnect it to the cylinder for reuse this way we can maintain the temp without fire
now THIS is a classic gamer moment
SO GREAT! wish linus did more collabs
Some of the first electric refrigerators ran on liq propane, they switched after peoples houses burned down after they got old and leaked propane into the house and ignited.
There's one thing missing in the explanation I think. The cooling effect should not come just from liquid propane being cold but rather the evaporation of the propane as Alex mentioned earlier in the video. It always happens with regulators even if you are welding a lot and your argon/CO2 needs to be expanded by regulator to become a gas. Evaporation sucks a lot of energy and that's what creates the cooling, not just the liquid being cold (which it actually should be room temperature anyways).
If I had a dime for each time linus moved the monitor away from the flame and then pushed it right back into the flame