How to clean clogged GPU and CPU blocks
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- This loop got RUINED with curdled Milk... so let's see if I can clean this.
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I like how Phil still snuck in a small explosion when Jay's hand hit the table
What time?
@@dennismathew9124 1:57
@@dennismathew9124 1:57
Same!!! I had a great chuckle on that!
Phil a treasure
Jay constantly bringing up his iFixit tool because his wife bought him for his father's day everytime ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Remember guys, if your lady ain't happy, nobody is happy.
Because of his sponsorship*
@@danielwalker8212 he was doing ifixit ads before being sponsored
Oh really did she ?? 😆
Give credit where credit is required 😅
One of the downsides of being a responsible adult: Having to clean up the mess you made when you were having fun.
Unless you're a wealthy adult and can hire someone else to do it for you. (I'm not, so I'm making assumptions.)
Yeah, it's always a bummer...
@@phydeux I follow the "Wise old geezer" method instead and never make a mess in the first place.
Sounds like you're still young if you don't enjoy cleaning.
@@integratedhatespreader - As do I. I was simply pointing out another possibility.
Fun fact: your iFixit ads are the only time an ad ever swayed my decision on making a purchase. I was like this guy knows his stuff and liked this brand enough to make his own crazy ads for it, so I went with theirs when I was looking for an anti static mat
Between him and steve at gn, glad I did got the manta. Quite an excellent purchase end up shearing those little torx on everything else.
Same here :D 1st and maybe last my purchase from yt ad
Same here... except I had JUST gotten a tool kit just before I saw the first ifixit ad from Jay. But if I need some more, or new tools I will for sure get an ifixit kit!
Pro Tech Toolkit has absolutely been one of the best investments I've ever made. It comes in handy for tech and other random repairs.
Used it to fix a door last week.
Same here. I went for ifixit kits for our workshop at work.
Jay: No explosions today
Taps on table: EXPLOSION
I laughed hard. I would definitely buy an iFixit.
i have 2 kits... the first one he grabbed, that he said was too big... and the biggest kit they sell (I used to work at a phone repair shop, and that big kit saved my bacon a few times.)
100% worth it, I use mine in computer / arcade repair, best tool kit I have ever owned. I use it for all of my pc / small electronic repair work, even repair / refab monitors
You forgot the interesting part.
Cleaning the radiator of all that gunk.
Damn it, I had forgotten about that, now it's going to haunt my dreams!
For that you'd mostly just run a bunch of water through it, then alcohol - it couldn't hurt to try to coagulate any remaining chocolate milk and the alcohol will clean it out. Then more water to get the alcohol out.
would be funny if he forgets, plums it all up, then it just spaffs out a buncha choco chunks into the clean loop.
Radiator and Pump!
Radiator may be able with much water or Alcohol but the issue is, if channels are blocked.
Hmmm, why not hot water and dish soap? After all it's designed to clean that stuff and not mess with various plastics.
Jay: "No iFixit explosions today!"
Phil: ᵗᶦⁿʸ ᵉˣᵖˡᵒˢᶦᵒⁿ
Phil's always got our backs. :')
Smol boom
That little explosion when he hit the table just cracked me up. Nice one Phil!
Me; Christ - what did they do? Put chocolate milk in it, or something?!
Previous video: yes.
21:27 As Louis Rossman says "don't put the long screw in the short hole."
"we dump all this junk in accordance with regulations"
Shuts off camera and immediately dumps it in the toilet.
I mean, in fairness, it is all stuff that's food produce so it can
kind of like how on Top Gear they were always going the posted speed limit ;)
@@filanfyretracker Exactly 😅
@@bengrogan9710 yeah there's really no reason not to that I can see.
Trying to act all PC. Since when can't alcohol, milk and other various food products go down a drain? Da fuq?
Jay is quite calm and pleasant to listen to when he's doing an instructable like this.
8:55 - You can also put the parts in a ziplock bag with the alcohol in it, then seal the bag and put it in an ultrasonic cleaner and add water to cover the bag. Just make sure the bag is sealed to fully contain the alcohol.
A chemist here, the term Jay is looking for at 15:43 is an aziotrope. It has a different boiling point compared to the components
*azeotrope
@@JeffBastian damn autocorrect 🤣
10:10 You want to use just plain water, and add a bit of dawn dishwasher detergent. Put your parts in there, tubing, etc and move them.
Instead of a toothbrush, use an electronics cleaning brush, the strands are thinner and brush them under the water as Jay did.
After that rinse them under running water, but shake them or use canned air to blow any excess water quickly to avoid stains, or residue, or calcium build up, then put them on shop towels to let them dry fully. If you have a small fan to blow air over them on the towels it would be better.
I use any ultrasonic bath as the final cleaning step on loop parts. Makes them come out beautiful
We actually use iFixit kits at my workplace for our service technicians. I personally would also buy one if I didn't already have another screwdriver kit.
I have the super large carry bag kit from my days as a technician. best 350 bucks i have ever spent IMO
Jay I recently took on doing a custom water cooling loop for my system. It was a lot of fun learning how to do it and putting it together. I am an avid flight simmer and custom water cooling produced amazing results , wish I had this years ago. You were my inspiration and I really appreciate your videos on the subject . Thank you so much and your maintenance videos I find extremely helpful!
You're quite fortunate that you didn't let it sit. I made cheese and what you ended up doing was mixing the milk with a coagulant that created the curding process. fortunately you didn't let it sit for long. If you did your loop would have turned into a giant thing of cheese; which is a pain to clean. Also if I recall correctly the basic properties of milk cause it to stick to metal surfaces and will persist to where you have to devote some major elbow grease to get rid of it(this is why companies use really strong chemicals like caustic and nitric acid).
Just happy to see him still doing the watercooling, he was the first channel i was looking for while installing my own watercooling :3
When he put the alcohol in to clean the milk I thought, "well anyone who's ever put milk in lemon tea knows where this is going."
What happens? I've never done it (I don't even own any lol)
@@izakomandaz2895 The milk curdles like sour milk that's been left out too long.
@@joer8854 ewwww! Thx for telling me!
Jay I run distilled water with a tea spoon of iodine in it and haven't had to clean it for 4 yrs, But the color of iodine doesn't mix well with liquid cool colors for sure so I tried a drop of magenta ink for printer cartridge's and couldn't believe it worked so happy I never ever had to clean it again.
Clearly you didn’t have cruel friends on your 21st birthday giving you a cement mixer
I've always been a bit scared to go full custom water cooling because I never really knew if it was going to be a pain to clean or not but it's not to hard if you can empty it safely! I guess I might try to do this for my next build.
Kind of looks like Jay needs a ModMat from GamersNexus to keep his screws together when doing the tear down.
The little blast on jay touching the ifixit kit absolutely killed me. Thx Phil 😆😆
You should have tried milk system cleaner for coffee makers. Readily available and dissolves coagulated milk very good (that's what it's designed for). Maybe an idea for another video just for the vast amount of users, running milk (chocolate or other) in their loop :D
this kind of vid always makes me happy since i learn more and more about each part and how to do it, sadly i'm still not that big into the tech side of it and dont want to end up ruining my pc
"You can get it replaced if not for free then for a very small fee."
"Hey Phanteks wanna send me new parts because the old ones are ruined?"
"How did the damage happen?"
"I cooled my CPU with vodka and choccy milk!"
Jay I love these tear down videos. Reminds me of the early days. Wish you would have more of these.
You can tell they've never tried drinking chocolate milk while drinking alcohol. It's even worse coming up, out of your stomach. Lol
@@PistolPete1251 I wonder how many people have done this too?
Similar experience:
When I was working in a restaurant years ago, during a wedding event, the owner came up with something for the event(with the groom and bride's acknowledgement); a chocolate martini.
The first sip was alright-ish, but the subsequent sip had this nasty aftertaste. I worked through the whole thing with a strong heartburn that subsided by the time things calmed down. Worst cocktail, ever. At least the bride liked it.
@@duelgundam lol. That's crazy!
This video reminds me of the day after a frat party....all the cleaning up and regret of the last night! :D
Have you thought about using an ultrasonic cleaner (like the ones designed for jewellery) with distilled water for block cleaning?
You mean like the one he got a while ago for cleaning components?
The pump still works is a miracle on its own
Now all we need is to see how Jay cleans the radiator!
Mrs. Jay: "Honey, have you seen my tooth brush"?
I've had great luck with distilled white (clear) vinegar. I put it in about 5 parts distilled water to 1 part vinegar and run the loop for several hours. Then I run several gallons of distilled water, both directions, through the loop under pressure to get all the loose gunk out (I use a hand water pump, the kind used to transfer gas between containers). I keep cycling until I see no more gunk. Works a charm. Never had to deal with curdled milk though...
Two things I have learned from this:
*how to clean your loop
*never use a loop, use air coolers.
Or just use an AIO and replace it every like 18 months 😅
I did this a few days ago to an acrylic distribution plate. I couldn't for the life of me get some of the more caked on stuff off the plate, so I resorted to using isopropyl alcohol. Not only did it not etch the acrylic, it seems to have gotten rid of any clouding that I would have expected to naturally occur. I was, needless to say, pleasantly surprised.
It's worth noting that I applied the alcohol to a shop towel and then used that to scrub off the residue, so it may be that I simply just didn't have enough alcohol contact for enough time to really damage the acrylic, or it may be that the scrubbing action just left a nice even surface rather than allowing the plastic to "melt" naturally as it did here.
"Let's do shots!" PC: "I want an Irish car bomb."
cement mixer
Great to be back, almost 2 years I haven't watched a computer talk (or whatever you want to call it) video
Try pouring some Baileys (coffee-alcohol liquor) and tonic, from gin-tonic, in a glass and see what happens, trust me ;)
Bailey's is an Irish cream liqueur, nothing coffee to it.
Baileys is a cream liqueur, not a liquor
@@racistpandagod - Bailey's is frequently put into coffee to make it 'Irish'... Probably where the confusion comes from.
@@FHL-Devils it is exactly why that confusion occurs lmao
In a glass?!
What kind of amateurs do you take us for?
Pump reservoir is the only way.
absolutely loved the educational part of this video, I feel more comfortable to try upgrading my pc to a water loop.
Can you make a liquidmetal loop? It will be interesting to see the temperatures with Liquidmetal and I have not seen anyone do it.
Because the cost to do it would be huge for little benefit and you'd need to be 100% certain there where no alumium fittings
I saw a sick clean-job on reddit and the guy showed a tube of what he used, a product called “Autosol” meant for cars. He said you use just one drop! Very strong stuff.
California: Pooping on the sidewalk: ok, pouring alcohol in the drains: not ok. 🤔
CA is a shit hole. Glad I moved
@@zack9912000 please, do not vote for the same policies that turned CA into that. Leave that commie sh!t in CA.
Dawn dish soap and water is what I use, then a good rinse with distilled. And the nickel can be polished with elbow grease and cotton cloths.
Curdle, that's the word you're looking for Jay. That's what happens when alcohol touches milk
Ever hear of a White Russian? The heat had a lot to do with the curdling.
Loved the flame when Jay hit the table :-P I got myself an Ifixit pro tech toolkit this week, couldn't be happier!
I hope that EVGA card isn't part of the global giveaway 😂
The graphic card watercooling part remind me when i cleaned an EVGA 980 Ti i bought on ebay with a waterblock almost completely clogged and which looked rusted.
I think the guy had sell it at low price because he didn't knew it was possible to clean it.
But after using soap and toothbrush long enough, i got it almost like new.
Now this card is even better than my Asus 980 Ti Poseidon and she's the primary card in my SLI.
:)
why not used a watered down KP thermal paste as loop fluid?
The paste would quickly separate in the loop an clock in the microvanes
Saltwater has a faster heat absorption rate than pure water, so it may work better than distilled. No idea what damage it would do to the loop though over time.
It will corrode metal very fast. It will also boil at a lower temperature. If for some reason it reaches boiling temp it can cause serious damage.
Jayz
OK, now let's get the cheese off the loop
I like how you have a whole collection of ifixits
What about the radiator? That must've been nasty to clean
I'd honestly just throw it out after something like this tbh, since it's just a standard 240 or 280 rad, nothing ridiculously huge or expensive. All the tiny channels are gonna be fcked. One might be able to get some of it out with compressed air or high(-ish) pressure water but even then i still wouldn't fully trust it afterwards
I have the same iFixit kit, bought it during black friday for 25€. Seriously, one of my better purchases. I use it for small allen key tasks, phone/laptop/tablet assembly & disassembly and generally any task that doesn't require a lot of force/torque. Recommended!
Have these guys never tried an Irish Car Bomb drink? Come on.
I'm lucky in the fact I'm always upgrading parts so I'm constantly needing to drain and clean my loop multiple times a year,, but if you have good fluid I typically reccomend changing fluids yearly. Can you go longer? With appropriate fluid sure but better safe than sorry. Distilled water with a biocide ftw! It's cheap and super effective!
Yes plain old soap just works.
I really appreciate the understated 💥 when Jay hit the table during his plug for iFixit.
Wonder how's the custom engine pc doing?
Love this kind of "maintenance vlogs" and all the odd videos that lead to it. It is very fun to watch.
This makes me feel way less gross about my pc. Thanks LOL
Pro-tip from a heavy use restaurant kitchen dishwasher: Dawn Dish Soap will eat through almost anything stuck on metal or dish type materials almost immediately if you scrub it in with warm water (unless its literally baked on then you need dawn and steel wool)
Jay mention his wife's IFixIt present!, have not head that one for some time now :P
Lol. Still dead from the last "how many calories is your loop"
IFIXIT! yeah got 2 of them and they really help me with the pc, my scooter, smartphones, even my watches and glases so really a fan of them bdw just a question, does the alchohol breaks the tubes or something? like breaks the chemical compositition of any parts? thanks.
Alcohol can dissolve some types of rubber and plastic parts. Same reason that cars / boats / lawnmowers have to be compatible to use with 10% ethanol fuel.
@@MsSgent wow, had no idea thanks a lot for the answer
never cleaned blocks except used ones i have bought but after installing a new gpu and gpu block, i noticed a huge drop in water pressure and after testing, low and behold the cpu waterblock was clogged beyond belief. I learned two lessons: thoroughly flush new blocks and tubing and always keep flex tubing and fittings around for diagnosing where in the loop issues might occur. I was able to eliminate the gpu block and the pump itself before moving to the cpu without a total tear down but connecting soft tubing between the parts. Just thought id share that, might save people time.
Who else feels like their day is incomplete without watching his videos💕
No
Have to watch every time I'm eating.
Are you the same as me? I always press like immediately as soon as the video starts?
I would’ve loved to seen how you clean the Reservoir and pump as well. Great video, thanks for the video!
I LOVE IT !! NOW CLEAN THAT MESS :V
Jay I’m loving what you do with that cylinder
The only thing that got me really anxious was the use of so many papel towels :( and going to the trash with little use
Thanks for the tiny explosion Phil, you guys make my day on many days :)
Did he disconnected PSU cables from gpu and motherboard without turn off the system? 👀
Why would you think that? He literally flicked off the switch on the PSU, which was off-screen, right before he unplug anything.
Jay Jay Jay, Thank you for CC!!! as watched it approx. 30 min after it was released. Again thank you !!!
Looks to me like an awesome air cooler commercial :)
You need to get some powdered brewery wash (PBW) to clean up difficult messes like this. Safe on plastics, rubber, metals, etc. and is crazy effective (basically oxiclean)
Love this doctor j. Sounds like the top gear presenters.. sorry I have to do stuff j..bye..
Well, got that kit, it's real good. The magnetic lid with the ridges inside. Just great for breakdown placement if you lack a modmat. One of the good ones where ad matches the spot.
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I bet a Philips Sonicare toothbrush would work pretty well in some of those channels. I have an old one in my tool box for things like this.
Love that tiny explosion edit after saying it was gonna be more serious. Perfect xD
I bought one of those ifixit sets because of seeing your Ad..... Great bits of kit! Thanks.
That's great! I would love to see a coolant competition using real coolants folks can use to get more performance out of their current GPUs. Like Silicate-ester (i.e. Coolanol 25R)
Jay, you can use an ultrasonic parts cleaner to clean the spots that are very difficult to reach. Just be sure to put a plastic basket inside the metal basket to avoid and scratching where the pars contact the basket. Ones with a heater work best but inspect your parts after 20-30 minutes especially around the heat pipes/fins contact points and any solder joints. Be sure to check the largest parts measurements to make sure you get one large enough so the part will lay flat.
Interesting vid, it kinda makes me glad I decided to air cool my system.
It was actually satisfying to watch you clean that
@JayzTwoCents i just use glass cleaner and that is aggressive enough to break down the gunk but harmless enough to not damage the metal. same on plastics. and you get a beautiful shine and clarity.
I’ve asked for an ifixit tool kit for my birthday 😎 can’t wait to take everything apart!
You should buy some 3m novec and play around with cooling the die directly with the liquid. No copper cold plate connected to micro fins connected to a water block. Just liquid on silicon. Would love to see that stuff!
the magnetic IfixIt mat is also pretty nice to keep Track of the Screws
3:03 I expected Phil to just put the usual iFixit ad here, right at the end of Jay finishing his real iFixit talk. Haha
jay that little metal water block would be effectively cleaned with a jewelry cleaner. using that electromagnetic vibration thingy would clean those fins extremely well. me personally i know a master jeweler and can just ask him if i need to but for anyone else all you gotta do is just go in and ask them to hit it with the jewelry cleaner most wont have a problem at all. the high pressure steaming, cleaning solution and the electromagnetic cleaning thingy would do an amazing job cleaning those metal blocks with those micro channels
Can you make a video about what you think a PC building shop should look like/ what items are required/recommended?
I know a iFix it tool kit will be most useful - but a guide to building your own PC workshop or a "most useful/used tools" video would be interesting
When putting in multiple screws, remember the saying, "Start them all before you tighten any." I learned this with a fairing that had 19 screws. If you didn't leave them all partially loose to start, the thin fiberglass fairing would move enough that you'd never get the last couple of screws in without going back and loosening the others anyway.
For the copper block one of those cheap ultrassonic cleaners with dH2O + bit of neutral detergent could be handy when there are more sticky pieces of dirt.
I'm not even interested in water cooling a system, but thumbs-upped because that was just interesting and satisfying to watch.
Perfect timing, I have a phanteks wb for my 1080ti and it's about the time i need to change The fluid in my loop.
Ever since I first saw Jay use that Blowy Thingy (CompuCleaner) I made a point of Buying one for myself. IT IS EXCELLENT!!!! BUY ONE!!!!