I always tell people that computers, and electronics in general, are way more resilient than they used to be but they can also be completely destroyed by the tiniest water droplet if you are unlucky
Yep! I had that happen to me. I'm a sweaty guy, and one day a couple years ago while working on my PC, I didn't notice a sweat bead (probably the worst type of 'water' to do it) drop onto the motherboard. Unluckily, it dropped right onto a IC chip and just a day or two later, it completely died out. Had to take it to a MB repair specialist shop to figure out the issue and get it replaced!
@@RockingStar1011 Seen a case of an apple laptop dying because a little insect got in via usb port and took a little toilet break at where they put the 53v and 1.2v traces beside each other. Probably was Rossmann covering the story since Apple refused warranty because of water damage.
@@TokeBoisen But you'll have to buy windows again for the next pc, or even if you don't pay for it, microsoft's partners get more money from the parts or prebuilds, and they can still get the data from you...
@@TheIdiotPlays ... why exactly? Unless you're talking about laptops which typically come with a licence that's only valid for that particular device (and much cheaper because of it), all regular Windows licences are transferable, you can just use it on your new PC.
@@wanderer5438 furthermore windows can be used to its fullest extent even without a license but rather some third party tools (noone likes microsoft's tools anyway) that said a license can void itself if you've been swapping a bunch of parts recently which has been covered in the past on LTT. im not exactly sure myself but each license key is somehow finite, but you are technically correct so i agree.
According to all the companies that make a fortune on anti-static tech, theoretically that should be fine.. But you should probably buy the vacuum cleaner with all the attachments that will totally be better.. according.. to them? Because you know... Moving air with dust doesn't generate static electricity the same way, just as a concept.. Look I actually genuinely understand that there's more to it than that with a vacuum cleaner and there's the fundamental it's not a grounded device usually.. But I mean come on.. half of those devices are just vacuum cleaners . And if they're they happen to be flipped into a blower position, they're not going to be any different lol than if they were extracting things if not worse. That being said a compressed air blower, with the exception of being able to potentially knock components off.. like theoretically that would be a less problematic way to go about things as you have a lot of separation between you and the source of power for it and the output.. But yeah.. Y'all have no idea how nice it is to live in the modern age with proper shielding and techniques in microelectronic manufacturing lol.. I remember hearing a story just the other day from the Atari guy on his failed business to have personal drink butler robots lol.. and they had problems with static electricity causing the computer bits to flip and causing them to run into walls and smash things and stuff lol.. It used to be so bad.
I have heard that the reason why using vacuum is might be bad is that the metallic nose of the vacoom cleaner will charge up static electricity and by vacuuming your PC case you may release the static energy directly to the motherboard and that may kill the PC. so it is not the air that is considered bad
That line has a very "I'm going to bed before either of you comes up with another clever idea to get us killed. Or *_worse_* ...expelled!" Sort of vibe to it 😂
This part made me extremely nervous. I've seen people get lit up doing much less. I don't think that person should be handling or near electrified components.
@@scott9269 I know enough to know how power supplies function. They're literally designed to prevent water damage issues these days, and any that aren't are going to just explode anyway.
the whole "taking out storage and ram" was crazy. never knew the comp can still somewhat operate before crashing. makes sense why ram usually is the faulty part.
Some machines have hot plugs on storage so if you connect ssd o hdd it would just pick it up and go like if it were an USB Same with some PCI devices but it's not common
If you are into retro gaming, there is a lot of videos that corrupt the game by unplugging cards in specific way. Sometimes it leads to interesting results.
Software actively avoids touching the HDD/SSD because it has higher latency, so it makes sense that unplugging it wouldn't be as catastrophic. Even so I kind of expected the OS drive unplug to go worse.
Not as fun on older systems though, I've tripped the system out pulling out the molex from an IDE hard drive. The spark woke me up that morning at least.
@@TheDewProject if im not hearing red tailed hawk noises(the real bird of the country) with a picture of a bald eagle then someone is doing something wrong
@@ThumbDr British actually. The brits made imperial and only switched about 60 years ago. They also still use MPH and sometimes feet. Also only American laymans use imperial, industry here uses metric all day, even American car manufacturers use metric. lol nice try though.
Easy to replicate that in the winter in a car with a modern LCD head unit when it's extremely cold out, takes a short while to recover to normal speeds again until the car cabin reaches a normal temperature.
@@richard-davies heck, left my work laptop in backpack in car overnight during some cold-af days and yeah if I turn it on ASAP the LCD will be a smeary motionblurry mess until it warms up a lil.
I remember having a tablet with an LCD and a tablet with an OLED in the car while skiing, and coming back and the tablet with an LCD having crazy motion blur and the tablet with an OLED being fine. It's pretty cool.
@NicholasFlamy I saw the same thing when I had a PSP on me in winter. Always super fascinating to see. I was slightly disappointed when my fancy new OLED PSVita didn't do the same.
11:46 That is caused by the sampling rate being slower than the rpm pulses from the sensor. If you shoot video of a spinning wheel at a fixed frame rate, as the wheel gets faster and faster, sometimes it appears to stand still and other times it may even appear to move backwards. If you filmed at a higher frame rate, which is analogous to a faster sampling rate, then these artifacts would appear less and only at higher speed.
There's a whole science art series of practices and equipment to keep the frame rate of film and devices from getting the wrong impression of the thing they're capturing lol.. it's something that really frustrates me about modern video game developers as they don't seem to understand that but they want to build the functionality of the actual vestigial if not negative downsides to camera effects in video game engines.. it's like dude.. if you go to a movie and the shutter speed was set so low for a POV long shot played on a mouse essentially so it's darting around like human eyes.. It would just be blur, which is kind of what video games look like nowadays at least if you're on the PC. I don't understand why it doesn't bother people.
12:55 - as an Electrical engineer, I'd warn you that's a VERY dangerous thing to do even if you've turned off the computer. Why? Cuz you sprayed the PSU that has bulk caps (electrolytic caps) that can hold charge for longer, and can electrocute you when its still wet.
I was totally freaked out when I saw him grab the entire wet bench with his bare hands. I don't know much about capacitors but just don't do it.I hope they at least unplugged it??
@@МихаилКондаков-х7м it'll give you a pretty bad (and potentially fatal depend on the footwear you're wearing etc. ) shock even if it's unplugged. These big capacitors are there to keep the voltage steady when there's wild current transients, by storing some within them, and so as long as they're not fully discharged, it can be dangerous.
Word, I was recently playing around with a really old athlon system and I popped the (admittedly very old) PSU by hotplugging a damaged pcie wifi card from an even older laptop. I heard one very loud "POP!" while the system was on and had the second one 5 minutes AFTER I disconnected the PSU from mains. Funnily enough the computer still works and already has a new owner.
14:00 I'm glad this was included. Also just one more reason to have your valuable electronics plugged into a UPS. One more layer of protection for your expensive tech.
I also do stuff like putting those $3 Chinese ADUM3160 USB Isolators on USB connections between things on different UPSes, such as the USB-MIDI adapter that lets the SoundBlaster 16 in the PC on my retro-hobby desk use the Yamaha PSR-E413 connected to my main PC as an external synthesizer. Every little bit helps.
yea he should have spoken the whole corrected sentence and then the editor should have cut it out. hope LMG sees this caus it just adds a could of more seconds tbh
I like how even your videos that's based on destroying things teach me stuff. I was worrying when some paste squeezed out the side when I installed my cooler, but this puts my mind at ease
12:50 - You should probably add a disclaimer that picking up a PSU that has water on it (and probably in it) is monumentally stupid, even if the power cable is no longer connected ;) Edit: All of the comments that say that there is no danger, keep in mind that this can be an old psu with questionable past. I dont think they would use a new PSU. Safety regulations are there for a reason ;)
It is safe once the power cord is disconnected. Even if the capacitors within the power supply were still charged, there is no path to ground from the power supply to the potential victim.
my darkest pc fantasy is for every power supply cable to be compatible with every power supply so ssd's and other components wont die with a single mistake.🙃
@@MrFlarespeed Oops all Fan cables! Ignore the grotesquely over build front panel LED wires, and the smell of burning from the power supply, its all compatible!
@@Frappe3621M.2 is a form factor and doesn't necessarily indicate using pcie lanes. For example, M.2 sata drives don't use nvme (at least not directly). M.2 NVMe drives are the ones that use pcie lanes.
With water what happens actually is that it reacts with electricity and starts to eat up the connections. The higher the voltage, the higher the corrosion or the metal. In a PC you've got 12V, 5V 3.3V and CPU is even lower, so most probably you will get a break on a 12V or a 5V line. If you plug the computer out right after the water is spilled you will probably get away with just drying out the board or cleaning it with some other liquid and a brush before powering it on again, otherwise if you leave it powered even for as little as a half a minute you can actually get a completely damaged device.
More vids like this. Great seeing all the crew in on having fun and creating our worst nightmares. Maybe a short series of shorts, on how can i destroy my PC?
Sometimes if you're having a bad day it can be fun to get an unimportant VM, take a snapshot and delete random system folders in the VM until it breaks. Then when you're done taking your frustration out on it just restore the snapshot, ready for next time lol
@@Sandwich4321the corrosion is sped up because of the conductivity, if a computer is off it takes a looooot longer for stuff to rust than if it's on and gets water on it
@@aminsan3 I haven't rinsed my motherboard or GPU (pcb) in water yet, but I have done it before on my previous build, and it still works 🤣 you can watch some of Tech Yes City's ultra clean series though for a full pc.
You guys are legends, I literally span my PC fans yesterday when cleaning them and I fully intended not to but my air duster is so powerful, I thought oh hell that's it then, but you have just given me some great re-assurance, plus my pc is working fine atm! 😅
Can we just appreciate how much fun Linus and the gang have with this video. Just seeing him so excited with the crystals in the freeze chamber is just adorable.
The LCD on the stereo in my old car used to get completely unresponsive anything below 0 F. That was in the early 2000's. Newer LCD's in vehicles seem to do better, but still get sluggish below -10 F in my experience
As a physicist, the "cosmic like x-rays" test tripped me over. Your board at the end rescues it a little bit, but you should differentiate more clearly between particles and (x-ray) photons.
0:11 had a very "I'm going to bed before either of you comes up with another clever idea to get us killed. Or *_worse_* ...expelled!" Sort of vibe to it 😂
10:45 This one's actually really practical: FELLOW LAPTOPS USERS, you no longer have ANY EXCUSE! You can vacuum dust off your heatsinks from the fan intakes, even if youre too scared to go in there and unplug the fans!
I've had fans break into shrapnel doing that. They can get going way faster than they're built for, and the laptop ones are pretty delicate. Kinda wish they'd shown one breaking apart to give some caution (and maybe not have their eyes in line with the spinning plane, even if they were wearing safety glasses) I never considered that blowing a fan fast makes it into a generator, though...
Even if it doesn't screw with the motherboard, dusting a fan can absolutely damage the fan components. Anecdotally, I once mistakenly dusted my laptop's fan without holding it in place and it didn't impact the fan's performance as far as I could tell, but it did cause a permanent whining sound from that point on. Clean your laptop fans, but hold them in place when you do it!
Would love to get that wallet but 120€ not including shipping is just absurd Edit: Apparently shipping is free but still too much for two sheets of aluminium
@@Daunlouded Thanks for the unfortunately irrelevant counterpoint. There's like a hundred different (reputable) brands that sell similar wallets for way less, whether I could make something like this myself is completely irrelevant
5:40 Missed a trick - given that cooling it down increases viscosity and slows pixel response, would've been cool to see if heating it up had the opposite effect. I'm now left with this intrusive thought, and will hold your responsible for what happens to my monitor in the oven. BRB...
There would come a point where it achieves its maximum speed, which it probably does at room temperature. If warming it up had any benefits you can be sure there would be monitors with heating elements in them.
@@Safetytrousers Of course, and if you place your palm on your screen right now you'll noticed it feels warm, meaning it's operating at least a few degrees above ~37c/98f already. I suspect the reason you don't see screen heaters is because there's plenty of waste heat already. Whilst clearly I was making a joke, the question is begged: Might there be a measurable improvement in pixel response to be had by turning off your air conditioning, and letting it creep up another few degrees? Puts a whole new spin on the idea of the "sweaty gamer".
The LCD screens not liking very cold temperatures is very fun when starting a car with important LCD screens at -30C, and with some of them it doesn't even need to be that cold.
Not-so-fun fact: If you are ever visiting a nuclear disaster exclusion zone (think Fukushima or Chornobyl) and see those white dots from 13:17 on your recording device, it may already be too late for you!
I needed this video. I just swapped CPUs between computers and a tiny bit of thermal paste got on the pins. I cleaned it carefully with a toothbrush, but I think a small amount is still on two of the pins. I have been dreading turning it on for testing. Now the dread has been replaced with hope!
It’s wild how they’re pushing the limits of “what if” scenarios with tech-like borderline tech torture! The whole freezing monitor thing was fascinating, especially seeing how the liquid crystals started gelling up. It’s a reminder of how extreme conditions can push our everyday devices to their breaking points. And that bit about deleting System32? Messing with your own PC like that is a nerd rite of passage, but watching someone else do it takes the anxiety away. Also, never thought I’d need to worry about my fan turning into a generator! Total chaos but in the best way.
I think this might just be the greatest tech video of 2024, with the potential to kickstart a whole series. It’s the kind of content that could branch into wild variants-like your recent video showcasing all the different battlestation subreddits. Imagine: • A version where intrusive thoughts take on truly surreal twists. • Or someone who survived a cyberpunk hellscape, only to be thrown back in time, trying to make sense of it all-like Wolf from Future Man landing a job at LTT, his sweet madness barely contained. The kind of chaos that comes from a lifetime of having to imagine yourself inside the boxes that other minds seem bound by. • Or the art of trolling a friend at DEFCON in the most minute ways-by the kind of person who in one breath would riff on the Chaos Communication Congress’s fertile ground for in-jokes, only to segue in the next into a discussion on rendering techniques or simulation models at SIGGRAPH. Crossed with those teachers if you ever had them that had such novel takes on things it was paradigm shifting to you. These are just a few of my most intrusive thoughts¹, and yes, I paused the video to jot this down because I’m savoring the anticipation of what’s coming next. Do I press “Cancel” or “Comment”? “comment.” Or “cancel”? ¹yes, that Lonely Island “Popstar” finale song came to mind None of what I’m advocating for is Office Space-style sweet, sweet pyrrhic catharsis-well, maybe just a touch. But mostly the educational “what-ifs” that show why not to do certain things definitely have value,so-more please. Sincerely, -The glitch in the simulation that even the matrix would debug out jk, too dark Had an edible & currently am buffering between existential dread and misplaced confidence
Thermalpaste on the bottom of your CPU might actually help with heat transfer on modern CPU's lol... using the white grease was a good way to keep condensation out under extreme cooling!
Any chance you could drill holes or sections out of the back cover and cover it with a fine mesh? It was a quick fix for tech back in the 90s. Worked well but haven't seen the issue since otherwise I'd do it again
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Mr Linustech 👍🏼
You are an amazing TH-camr
You didn't remove the spins on AM4 chip in order to make it into an AM5 chip.
5:46 is that his son?
no problem im gonna eat some thermal paste now
“You could get hurt, or worse! Damage your PC”. Man has his priorities straight.
@@hafezali860 a computer is a man’s beating heart. A man simply cannot function without one.
@hafezali860 when a pc can cost 2k its understandable they put its safety first
I will recover. The computer will not
@@FailFactory-TT as opposed to my life which is worthless
XD i was going to say the same
I always tell people that computers, and electronics in general, are way more resilient than they used to be but they can also be completely destroyed by the tiniest water droplet if you are unlucky
Linus could order an unpaid intern to do the deed, and they would die, not he!
Like babies
if they did unplug it and let it dry it will work again. water just got under cpu, gpu or memory and it did screw up high frequency signals.
Yep! I had that happen to me. I'm a sweaty guy, and one day a couple years ago while working on my PC, I didn't notice a sweat bead (probably the worst type of 'water' to do it) drop onto the motherboard. Unluckily, it dropped right onto a IC chip and just a day or two later, it completely died out. Had to take it to a MB repair specialist shop to figure out the issue and get it replaced!
@@RockingStar1011 Seen a case of an apple laptop dying because a little insect got in via usb port and took a little toilet break at where they put the 53v and 1.2v traces beside each other. Probably was Rossmann covering the story since Apple refused warranty because of water damage.
The LCD in the cold chamber was awesome footage and a great explanation of why it's happening. That's science classroom worthy
8:26 "Windows actually doesn't want you to break your own PC"
No, Windows obviously wants to have that right exclusively to themselves
@@einstijn138 can't harvest data from a dead PC
Thas some Bussiness for billy y'know
@@TokeBoisen But you'll have to buy windows again for the next pc, or even if you don't pay for it, microsoft's partners get more money from the parts or prebuilds, and they can still get the data from you...
@@TheIdiotPlays ... why exactly? Unless you're talking about laptops which typically come with a licence that's only valid for that particular device (and much cheaper because of it), all regular Windows licences are transferable, you can just use it on your new PC.
@@wanderer5438 furthermore windows can be used to its fullest extent even without a license but rather some third party tools (noone likes microsoft's tools anyway) that said a license can void itself if you've been swapping a bunch of parts recently which has been covered in the past on LTT. im not exactly sure myself but each license key is somehow finite, but you are technically correct so i agree.
If you actually did, this would've been on your Onlyfans account
@@kshitijvarshney floatplane*
@@ayoisitsidbut not this week, this is Riley’s week 😉
@@ayoisitsidOnlyPlanes*
Water cooling grommet 😩
Ahem what?
My uncle when I was a kid: "DO NOT vacuum clean your fans because your motherboard could fry!"
LTT Crew: "I've got a compressed air gun..."
That's a good point actually, vacuuming would make it spin backwards sending a negative voltage into the header.
@@ilhuikar sucking is just blowing from the opposite side.
@@Eric-zz5ij deep
According to all the companies that make a fortune on anti-static tech, theoretically that should be fine.. But you should probably buy the vacuum cleaner with all the attachments that will totally be better.. according.. to them? Because you know... Moving air with dust doesn't generate static electricity the same way, just as a concept..
Look I actually genuinely understand that there's more to it than that with a vacuum cleaner and there's the fundamental it's not a grounded device usually.. But I mean come on.. half of those devices are just vacuum cleaners . And if they're they happen to be flipped into a blower position, they're not going to be any different lol than if they were extracting things if not worse.
That being said a compressed air blower, with the exception of being able to potentially knock components off.. like theoretically that would be a less problematic way to go about things as you have a lot of separation between you and the source of power for it and the output.. But yeah..
Y'all have no idea how nice it is to live in the modern age with proper shielding and techniques in microelectronic manufacturing lol.. I remember hearing a story just the other day from the Atari guy on his failed business to have personal drink butler robots lol.. and they had problems with static electricity causing the computer bits to flip and causing them to run into walls and smash things and stuff lol.. It used to be so bad.
I have heard that the reason why using vacuum is might be bad is that the metallic nose of the vacoom cleaner will charge up static electricity and by vacuuming your PC case you may release the static energy directly to the motherboard and that may kill the PC.
so it is not the air that is considered bad
0:11 "You can get hurt, or worse, you can damage your computer" - Order of operations peeps
I can always heal but my child, my precious, my glorious PC doesn’t have that ability 😂
I applaud their priorities, that sweet sweet entertainment isn't gonna produce itself!
That line has a very "I'm going to bed before either of you comes up with another clever idea to get us killed. Or *_worse_* ...expelled!" Sort of vibe to it 😂
@@dwatts64 that’s what i was thinking haha
@@dwatts64 lol
PLEASE WE NEED A PART TWO OF THIS
yep, it was way too short. I was just getting my popcorn out.
@@OriginalUser2023 yes we need a longer one with even crazier ideas
Yea n scan more stuff
yess
Agreed
12:53 Whoa! There ONCE was a secure separation between high and low voltage, but not anymore since you sprayed the power supply. Hands off!!
This part made me extremely nervous. I've seen people get lit up doing much less. I don't think that person should be handling or near electrified components.
@@scott9269 It's unplugged, the worst he could do is get jolted by the residual energy, which wouldn't be enough to kill you.
@@PerpetuusTenebris just say you know nothing about capacitance.
@@scott9269 I know enough to know how power supplies function. They're literally designed to prevent water damage issues these days, and any that aren't are going to just explode anyway.
That thermal paste one at the start BLEW MY MIND. That’s so wild that should not be ok
@@scorpionelite2543 how do you do that?
Blue Comment
Honestly I thought it would cause the pins to bend with the high mounting pressure
I wonder if pasting your socket improves cooling?
@@Kaltsut red comment
"Everything's got shmoo in it"
20 sec. later: "Why is there thermal compound in the fan?"
Me: "Because everything needed to have shmoo in it; duh."
The command line stuff just helped me get rid of a stubborn directory I've wanted gone for several years now. Thanks!!!
the whole "taking out storage and ram" was crazy. never knew the comp can still somewhat operate before crashing. makes sense why ram usually is the faulty part.
Some machines have hot plugs on storage so if you connect ssd o hdd it would just pick it up and go like if it were an USB
Same with some PCI devices but it's not common
If you are into retro gaming, there is a lot of videos that corrupt the game by unplugging cards in specific way. Sometimes it leads to interesting results.
Software actively avoids touching the HDD/SSD because it has higher latency, so it makes sense that unplugging it wouldn't be as catastrophic. Even so I kind of expected the OS drive unplug to go worse.
Not as fun on older systems though, I've tripped the system out pulling out the molex from an IDE hard drive. The spark woke me up that morning at least.
And what about removing a pc case from a running pc 😂
5:21 Fun fact. -40 C and -40 F are the exact same temperature
hey, actually a fun fact thanks!
Nuh uh ones in Celsius and ones in American
@ThumbDr did someone say American rahhh 🦅🦅🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🎆🎆🎆
@@TheDewProject if im not hearing red tailed hawk noises(the real bird of the country) with a picture of a bald eagle then someone is doing something wrong
@@ThumbDr British actually. The brits made imperial and only switched about 60 years ago. They also still use MPH and sometimes feet. Also only American laymans use imperial, industry here uses metric all day, even American car manufacturers use metric. lol nice try though.
I heard that edited in voice bit at 5:04. don't you try to hide from me
Maybe their viscosity is *_higher_* as temperatures go down
oh hello there
@@CSGhostAnimation oh I just noticed it's you
Good Lord it looks like you applied maximum motion blur to that entire display in that chamber.
Easy to replicate that in the winter in a car with a modern LCD head unit when it's extremely cold out, takes a short while to recover to normal speeds again until the car cabin reaches a normal temperature.
@@richard-davies heck, left my work laptop in backpack in car overnight during some cold-af days and yeah if I turn it on ASAP the LCD will be a smeary motionblurry mess until it warms up a lil.
I remember having a tablet with an LCD and a tablet with an OLED in the car while skiing, and coming back and the tablet with an LCD having crazy motion blur and the tablet with an OLED being fine. It's pretty cool.
@NicholasFlamy I saw the same thing when I had a PSP on me in winter. Always super fascinating to see.
I was slightly disappointed when my fancy new OLED PSVita didn't do the same.
okay jamming the soldering iron into the solder coil was definitely unexpected but also definitely one of my bucket list items. thanks XD
11:46 That is caused by the sampling rate being slower than the rpm pulses from the sensor. If you shoot video of a spinning wheel at a fixed frame rate, as the wheel gets faster and faster, sometimes it appears to stand still and other times it may even appear to move backwards. If you filmed at a higher frame rate, which is analogous to a faster sampling rate, then these artifacts would appear less and only at higher speed.
For the specific math behind it, look into the Nyquist sampling thereom.
Seems like sample rate is around 250Hz given that it reached around 7500RPM (125Hz).
Called aliasing
Have seen that a lot watch fast car videos. Don't think I've seen in person, so I'd wonder what our own eyes 'frame rate' would equate to.
There's a whole science art series of practices and equipment to keep the frame rate of film and devices from getting the wrong impression of the thing they're capturing lol.. it's something that really frustrates me about modern video game developers as they don't seem to understand that but they want to build the functionality of the actual vestigial if not negative downsides to camera effects in video game engines.. it's like dude.. if you go to a movie and the shutter speed was set so low for a POV long shot played on a mouse essentially so it's darting around like human eyes.. It would just be blur, which is kind of what video games look like nowadays at least if you're on the PC. I don't understand why it doesn't bother people.
I love the LTT staff trying to outdo each other with bad segue ways and Linus just shaking his head at them
12:55 - as an Electrical engineer, I'd warn you that's a VERY dangerous thing to do even if you've turned off the computer. Why? Cuz you sprayed the PSU that has bulk caps (electrolytic caps) that can hold charge for longer, and can electrocute you when its still wet.
I was totally freaked out when I saw him grab the entire wet bench with his bare hands. I don't know much about capacitors but just don't do it.I hope they at least unplugged it??
@@МихаилКондаков-х7м it'll give you a pretty bad (and potentially fatal depend on the footwear you're wearing etc. ) shock even if it's unplugged. These big capacitors are there to keep the voltage steady when there's wild current transients, by storing some within them, and so as long as they're not fully discharged, it can be dangerous.
@@goldrushjkgh its still dangerous even when its not wet, right?
Word, I was recently playing around with a really old athlon system and I popped the (admittedly very old) PSU by hotplugging a damaged pcie wifi card from an even older laptop. I heard one very loud "POP!" while the system was on and had the second one 5 minutes AFTER I disconnected the PSU from mains.
Funnily enough the computer still works and already has a new owner.
You are overrating the conductive properties of that type of filtered water. (All water in housing/Office buildings tends to be particle filtered)
5:47 son just peeking back there
@@jusssaabcrepe he said he doesn’t have a sun ;)
@@HappyFluegelhe has a rising star.
@@HappyFluegel i know
14:00 I'm glad this was included. Also just one more reason to have your valuable electronics plugged into a UPS. One more layer of protection for your expensive tech.
I also do stuff like putting those $3 Chinese ADUM3160 USB Isolators on USB connections between things on different UPSes, such as the USB-MIDI adapter that lets the SoundBlaster 16 in the PC on my retro-hobby desk use the Yamaha PSR-E413 connected to my main PC as an external synthesizer. Every little bit helps.
This is one of the most Linusy Tech Tips videos that have been made.
This is literally the content I subscribed for.
5:05 that higher caught me off-guard 😂
It messed up Linus also.
yea he should have spoken the whole corrected sentence and then the editor should have cut it out. hope LMG sees this caus it just adds a could of more seconds tbh
13:00 This needs to be a clip at the end of each episode of all LTT vids. You know just "ahh daa Linus"
I like how even your videos that's based on destroying things teach me stuff. I was worrying when some paste squeezed out the side when I installed my cooler, but this puts my mind at ease
12:50 - You should probably add a disclaimer that picking up a PSU that has water on it (and probably in it) is monumentally stupid, even if the power cable is no longer connected ;)
Edit:
All of the comments that say that there is no danger, keep in mind that this can be an old psu with questionable past. I dont think they would use a new PSU. Safety regulations are there for a reason ;)
Not if it's picked by Elijah, he's fine since he has 9 lifes
@@PotravnyyVV probably lost 4 of them just from picking it up
if you're stupid enough to do it then u deserve the consequences
It is safe once the power cord is disconnected. Even if the capacitors within the power supply were still charged, there is no path to ground from the power supply to the potential victim.
@@tomsixsix not really, but the capacitors would've discharged themselves by shorting with the water though
my darkest pc fantasy is for every power supply cable to be compatible with every power supply so ssd's and other components wont die with a single mistake.🙃
@@JedDontUnderstand thats the darkest you can get?
Why stop there? Every cable should be compatible with every piece of hardware. Sata to your gpu? No problem.
@@MrFlarespeed Oops all Fan cables! Ignore the grotesquely over build front panel LED wires, and the smell of burning from the power supply, its all compatible!
@@MrFlarespeedI mean technically m.2 is just a few lanes of pcie dedicated to a drive
@@Frappe3621M.2 is a form factor and doesn't necessarily indicate using pcie lanes. For example, M.2 sata drives don't use nvme (at least not directly). M.2 NVMe drives are the ones that use pcie lanes.
With water what happens actually is that it reacts with electricity and starts to eat up the connections. The higher the voltage, the higher the corrosion or the metal. In a PC you've got 12V, 5V 3.3V and CPU is even lower, so most probably you will get a break on a 12V or a 5V line. If you plug the computer out right after the water is spilled you will probably get away with just drying out the board or cleaning it with some other liquid and a brush before powering it on again, otherwise if you leave it powered even for as little as a half a minute you can actually get a completely damaged device.
"So I brought my laptop like you told me to, but now the hospital tells me I broke the CAT scanner and their lawyers are asking me for your contact."
"or worse, your computer could get damaged" 😭😭😭
American health care moment 😭
or worse, expelled!
@@crashmatrix 😂😂😂
Hermiona's level of awareness
My body can heal ill be fine 😂
I got a good one. Take a duster can, don't use the nozzle, tilt the cape down, and spray into a DRAM slot and around the area.
god this could be a series and I'd watch every second of it
It's called Mythbusters
@@ergastiri3d199 Imean, yeah kinda sure, but also I want mythbusters LTT edition
This was genuinely probably one of the best LTT videos I’ve seen in a minute, and that’s a very high bar. It was so fun, and I actually learned a lot.
More vids like this. Great seeing all the crew in on having fun and creating our worst nightmares. Maybe a short series of shorts, on how can i destroy my PC?
Sometimes if you're having a bad day it can be fun to get an unimportant VM, take a snapshot and delete random system folders in the VM until it breaks. Then when you're done taking your frustration out on it just restore the snapshot, ready for next time lol
....you know I might do that today, thanks for the idea :)
(although it also feels like it might violate the Geneva convention)
Some of the fun is sitting through the installer😅 it feels like you are getting ready to do some thing amazing but mostly just watch TH-cam videos
If you're really having a bad day, it can be even more cathartic to do this with production servers.
0:34 Dropping my CPU on the ground then
They've already tested that, on basically any video where Linus has to hold a CPU.
@@phuzz00😂
69th like 🎉
Fantastic video, I really love the format where everyone is just goofing aroung and we get to see multiple different people
the "we dont have a sun" and the sudden angry son popping out the back was hilarious lol
I usually wait so long in-between cleans that washing my components with water is the only way to really get them clean.
Makes me wonder, what happens if dusty components get wet while the PC is on? Will the soggy dust conduct electricity?
please make a video of your next washing and tag me or something
@@Mr.Mordena lot of the time the issue ends up being corrosion instead of water conducting electricity
@@Sandwich4321the corrosion is sped up because of the conductivity, if a computer is off it takes a looooot longer for stuff to rust than if it's on and gets water on it
@@aminsan3 I haven't rinsed my motherboard or GPU (pcb) in water yet, but I have done it before on my previous build, and it still works 🤣 you can watch some of Tech Yes City's ultra clean series though for a full pc.
What is this magic at 9:17???? "Hit the like button to proceed" and the button glows up? Witchery!!!!!!!! I'm scared, I'll hit it
I want to see a hermetically sealed, dust free, argon atmosphere and sub-zero cooled PC!!!
This!
Half measures, submerge the whole motherboard in liquid helium
That’s what quantum computers are
@@trapical pov:you don’t know what quantum computers are
it would run so hot argon sucks at conducting heat.
(this is usualy a problem for argon gloveboxes more so than nitrogen ones)
I wasn't expecting to see Alex suspiciously holding a soldering iron with a shit eating grin "now it's my turn" 💀
next time they should just start desoldering things from the motherboard while having the pc running
This is probably the most informative computer video I've ever watched.
Jordan always makes me smile when he’s in the video, he’s such a good vibe and I would love to see more of his knowledge in future videos!
5:02
“…maybe their viscosity is
HiGhEr”
Lol smooth Linus
You guys are legends, I literally span my PC fans yesterday when cleaning them and I fully intended not to but my air duster is so powerful, I thought oh hell that's it then, but you have just given me some great re-assurance, plus my pc is working fine atm! 😅
Can we just appreciate how much fun Linus and the gang have with this video. Just seeing him so excited with the crystals in the freeze chamber is just adorable.
5:45 "Well, we don't have a sun.."
2054 Linus: "So we bought a nearby star, for testing purposes."
now i'm here wondering why we cant laser other particles beside photons
14:05 - instructions unclear, I'm now giving my doctor a CAT scan while he holds a picture of my laptop.
3:22 Nicely done editor!
The LCD on the stereo in my old car used to get completely unresponsive anything below 0 F. That was in the early 2000's. Newer LCD's in vehicles seem to do better, but still get sluggish below -10 F in my experience
Yeah I've seen that happen.
This video is da bomb. One of the best recently - great hosts, great jokes, actually useful knowledge. This is fresh!
As a physicist, the "cosmic like x-rays" test tripped me over. Your board at the end rescues it a little bit, but you should differentiate more clearly between particles and (x-ray) photons.
0:11 had a very "I'm going to bed before either of you comes up with another clever idea to get us killed. Or *_worse_* ...expelled!" Sort of vibe to it 😂
We need more of these videos. They're entertaining as hell
5:45 we dont have a s(u)n 😂😂😂
Dad?
Sn?
0:26 he violated that cpu cooler
2:39 The combination of incredulity and bemusement simulataneously emoted here with that facial expression. So pure.
That ridge wallet is so awesome. Sarah did a great job designing that.
14:00 - In the late 90's we had several Sum Microsystems machines die with CPU issues, the official root cause analysis, from Sun, was "Solar Flares".
You asked the sun and it answered ? 😮
I suspect this was due to the popularity of the Bastard Operator From Hell series, more so than an actual diagnosis of the issue
This. This is why I love your channel.
4:52 autobots transform
10:48 this is truly mythbuster. thanks for showing this 👍
Mryeester is the only guy who can find the most ridiculous thermal paste and use it and make his pc still work after the torture.
10:45 This one's actually really practical:
FELLOW LAPTOPS USERS, you no longer have ANY EXCUSE! You can vacuum dust off your heatsinks from the fan intakes, even if youre too scared to go in there and unplug the fans!
or just stick like a sewing needle in there to stop the fans from spinning
I mean. Just because it didn't break *one computer*...
I've had fans break into shrapnel doing that. They can get going way faster than they're built for, and the laptop ones are pretty delicate. Kinda wish they'd shown one breaking apart to give some caution (and maybe not have their eyes in line with the spinning plane, even if they were wearing safety glasses)
I never considered that blowing a fan fast makes it into a generator, though...
Even if it doesn't screw with the motherboard, dusting a fan can absolutely damage the fan components. Anecdotally, I once mistakenly dusted my laptop's fan without holding it in place and it didn't impact the fan's performance as far as I could tell, but it did cause a permanent whining sound from that point on.
Clean your laptop fans, but hold them in place when you do it!
@@aavocadont true it's pretty hard on the bearings
I actually came back to this video to say, one of the best LTT videos I've seen in a while. Great writing.
14:11 I cant tell whether Linus is disappointed at having the segue stolen, or angrily disagreeing about taking laptops into a CAT scan.
10:30 was physically painfull to watch
This was a fun one! Loved the different experiments and multiple hosts too
Glad to see more Labs fun content!
Would love to get that wallet but 120€ not including shipping is just absurd
Edit: Apparently shipping is free but still too much for two sheets of aluminium
they should put a $100 amazon gift card inside each of the wallets to make up for the price yea :D
If it's only two sheets of aluminium, you can easily craft it yourself and sell them for 120 €.
@@Daunlouded Thanks for the unfortunately irrelevant counterpoint. There's like a hundred different (reputable) brands that sell similar wallets for way less, whether I could make something like this myself is completely irrelevant
Need this as a series just trying stuff out, the soldering one hurt cuz it didn’t even turn out, it just happened and we have to live with it
5:40 Missed a trick - given that cooling it down increases viscosity and slows pixel response, would've been cool to see if heating it up had the opposite effect.
I'm now left with this intrusive thought, and will hold your responsible for what happens to my monitor in the oven. BRB...
There would come a point where it achieves its maximum speed, which it probably does at room temperature. If warming it up had any benefits you can be sure there would be monitors with heating elements in them.
@@Safetytrousers Of course, and if you place your palm on your screen right now you'll noticed it feels warm, meaning it's operating at least a few degrees above ~37c/98f already.
I suspect the reason you don't see screen heaters is because there's plenty of waste heat already.
Whilst clearly I was making a joke, the question is begged: Might there be a measurable improvement in pixel response to be had by turning off your air conditioning, and letting it creep up another few degrees?
Puts a whole new spin on the idea of the "sweaty gamer".
9:15 You almost perfectly aligned with the Like button. But you pointed slightly more at the dislike button.
The LCD screens not liking very cold temperatures is very fun when starting a car with important LCD screens at -30C, and with some of them it doesn't even need to be that cold.
13:06 Is that the dual-screen ThinkBook? You should do a review of that before you kill it.
Thank you! I was wondering what laptop that was…
6:06 never ever say that again
This is my favourite of all of your videos. Even more so than the Steam Deck review when I was waiting for mine to arrive!
8:58 that would be... Linux.
Not-so-fun fact: If you are ever visiting a nuclear disaster exclusion zone (think Fukushima or Chornobyl) and see those white dots from 13:17 on your recording device, it may already be too late for you!
Really enjoy watching as new talent is fostered on this channel.
Does anyone know the brand of laptop Linus is holding at 13:44 ?
I would also like to know
after some googling... It seems to be a Lenovo Thinkbook Plus Gen 3
Yeah this is where circle to search can be useful, it's Lenovo Thinkbook Plus gen 3
It could be the KingnovyPC Dual Screen Laptop, 15.6 Zoll 1920 x 1080 IPS Screen
@@P1ngg0 Good finding, the keyboard buttn shape is different than the lenovo ones.
1:59 Cmon maaan. 4790k is a beast. Im still rocking it today. ;__;
Had one for years. A great CPU!
I just updated my 4790k system with a period appropriate Quadro K6000.
Better than my 3770
Better than my i5 2400. 😢
every cat thinks its a tiger 😁
I needed this video. I just swapped CPUs between computers and a tiny bit of thermal paste got on the pins. I cleaned it carefully with a toothbrush, but I think a small amount is still on two of the pins. I have been dreading turning it on for testing. Now the dread has been replaced with hope!
13:07 Can someone please enlighten me on what laptop Linus is wielding here?
Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 3
That thumbnail reminds me… of the one and only… Denis…
It’s wild how they’re pushing the limits of “what if” scenarios with tech-like borderline tech torture! The whole freezing monitor thing was fascinating, especially seeing how the liquid crystals started gelling up. It’s a reminder of how extreme conditions can push our everyday devices to their breaking points. And that bit about deleting System32? Messing with your own PC like that is a nerd rite of passage, but watching someone else do it takes the anxiety away. Also, never thought I’d need to worry about my fan turning into a generator! Total chaos but in the best way.
8:52 "The Item has Children. If you continue, all children will be removed with the item. Are you sure you want to continue?"
thats... so sad
“What would happen” IF I SHOWED MY PINK EXPLOSIVE FINGERNAILS 💀🤣🤣
I think this might just be the greatest tech video of 2024, with the potential to kickstart a whole series. It’s the kind of content that could branch into wild variants-like your recent video showcasing all the different battlestation subreddits. Imagine:
• A version where intrusive thoughts take on truly surreal twists.
• Or someone who survived a cyberpunk hellscape, only to be thrown back in time, trying to make sense of it all-like Wolf from Future Man landing a job at LTT, his sweet madness barely contained. The kind of chaos that comes from a lifetime of having to imagine yourself inside the boxes that other minds seem bound by.
• Or the art of trolling a friend at DEFCON in the most minute ways-by the kind of person who in one breath would riff on the Chaos Communication Congress’s fertile ground for in-jokes, only to segue in the next into a discussion on rendering techniques or simulation models at SIGGRAPH. Crossed with those teachers if you ever had them that had such novel takes on things it was paradigm shifting to you.
These are just a few of my most intrusive thoughts¹, and yes, I paused the video to jot this down because I’m savoring the anticipation of what’s coming next. Do I press “Cancel” or “Comment”? “comment.” Or “cancel”?
¹yes, that Lonely Island “Popstar” finale song came to mind
None of what I’m advocating for is Office Space-style sweet, sweet pyrrhic catharsis-well, maybe just a touch. But mostly the educational “what-ifs” that show why not to do certain things definitely have value,so-more please.
Sincerely,
-The glitch in the simulation that even the matrix would debug out
jk, too dark
Had an edible & currently am buffering between existential dread and misplaced confidence
"Why is there thermal paste all over the CPU" Error Error Duzzz Duzzz " ya deluh del Linus"
Thermalpaste on the bottom of your CPU might actually help with heat transfer on modern CPU's lol... using the white grease was a good way to keep condensation out under extreme cooling!
And parts of the bootloader reside in system32!
10:24 you guys have amazing editors, this is funny af
I've put my phone in the freezer to stop its overheating
Any chance you could drill holes or sections out of the back cover and cover it with a fine mesh?
It was a quick fix for tech back in the 90s. Worked well but haven't seen the issue since otherwise I'd do it again
@@rexcatston8412 I'll go drill holes in my z fold 5, wish me luck guys
I actually routinely do this 😂
I actually routinely do this 😂
Beware of condensation
The thumbnail with the thermal paste under the cpu hurt😢
That CPU still worked like crazy.
Wow this was great, I was totally hooked up, we need a 2nd part 😊
9:07
I love this man, he's like Anthony/Emily
They needed to replace Anthony when he had a mid life crisis.
Jordan is great