i really wish youd do a video dedicated to old janky watercooling solutions how people in the 90s and early 00s repurposed car parts etc to cool pc parts. Its so interesting but ive never seen anyone do a video about the history.
Oh Hey I made it into the video :D Some more info: The fountain pump was submersible and had a UV light on it, if you look closely you can see the socket on the left. The big black box is a reservoir from a Zalman Reserator XT and the water block is a Zalman ZM-WB5 also from that kit. And yes I still have the Reserator XT fully working but not in use :P
7:38 I don't get how Jay didn't understand what was so janky about that setup. It's obvious that the PC case is sitting on one of the most rickety shelves I have ever seen and I know it's rickety because I have the same one sitting next to me. I wouldn't set my router on it let alone a heavy ass tower.
and you can clearly see how much the board is bending under the weight XD i was like "will it break?" XD it was as if he was looking at the monitor and thought that was the PC XD
when here did a close-up on the retro gaming collection and the Mobo Box was showing the angle thejanky shelf was at was giving me such bad anxiety I stopped the video.
My apologies for making such a late reply..I wanted to comment I just had to move my almost if not 50 pound pc (ASUS Helios tower) off of my desk, It's so heavy it rocks and shakes both of the desks that I tried setting it on..,I havent been able to find anything that can hold it :/
Okay, I really feel like Jay's keyboard/mouse mat vs. GN's modmats vs. Linus's desk pads really sums up the three channels. Linus is like "yahhhh colors! RGB! Oontz, oontz, oontz!" GN's like, "okay, we're gonna spend 45 minutes explaining what each wire does and what all the components are so when you get your [STUFF.] from Gigabyte, you'll know what exploded." And Jay's like "Here's a keyboard. And… a mouse. There. Go play games er somethin'."
For any one wondering what Semi truck that was. It is a Freightliner Cascadia. I can tell by the cabinets and the window up at the top above the monitor. I think it's a 2018 or newer model. Those were very nice and very powerful. It does rock like a boat.
Oh man I remember my Cascadia days. I don't miss those things. I'd joke with friends that they built the interior with eBay posts. Running a KW now that's my own.
Josh Bell's jank was the particle board book case it's sitting on and the bow. I've watched a 5 gallon aquarium take so many of those out. Side note, I did a submerged mineral oil build in '96. Messy, but fun.
I couldn't understand why Jay or Phil didn't see the danger in that book case and the fact that the top was sagging about an inch from where it probably started. As soon as they put the picture up it was one of those "no, no, no, No, NO" moments.
Fun Fact: Back in the early days of radio, there'd be a water feature in front of the transmitter house, with fountains, which was used to cool the transmitter. Considering the God level voltages involved, combined with pipes full of water, and our lack of knowledge at the time, it would have scared the hell out of me to be in that building when it was running.
Hey @Jayz2cents glad you didnt notice the heavy fully custom loop computer, sitting on the bookshelf that the top shelf was sagging, but thanks for not going too hard on my setup. Also, the desk is a repurposed Sofa table we inherited from my wife's grandma.
The coolest tractor trailer setup I saw was a 42" tv mounted to the sloped roof of the cab and the Xbox tucked into one of the cabinets. He also had all the cables run behind the interior panels and audio was run through the truck's sound system (which was of course far from stock)
Those rubber tabs for fans have been around a while. I'm pretty certain you can reuse most, but some are sorta single use. Supposedly, they help with noise reduction by preventing vibration transference. It's a LOT easier than having to thread the fans' holes, you just stick it through and pull till the catch part pops out the other side.
I'm pretty certain Arctic used to provide those with their fans ten years or so ago. And I have a feeling Noctua used to have them. It's been years since I've used those rubber pull tabs though.
1:50 Those tabs look like they came from a box for something like an RC car. To reinforce the places where they run the twist ties through the cardboard.
They are actually metal "straight brackets." Got a whole pack from Amazon and used them to secure the radiator and power supply as well. The final design will actually replace some of them with L brackets to make things more compact.
I ran console in my rig for years. Had a great setup with my Xbox 360 and then my PS4. Couldn't have done all my time without it. Always wanted to run a PC setup. Problem is wattage requirement and battery drain. Unless you owned your truck and could dump money into a battery, charging system and or a side mounted generator. PC gaming just requires to much energy demand to be feasible for most of your run of the mill truckers. Thank God for energy efficient televisions, consoles and mobile hotspots. Made me look back at the days when I was lucky to have a crap laptop or portable DVD player and made time on the road much more livable. Thanks for the nostalgia trip!
You could go with some high efficiency parts and have a system that's capable of playing recent games within 300W reasonably. Watch out for amd's 6000 series desktop apus with ddr5 ram - they will absolutely be great igpus to game with
Am I the only one who idles the company truck if I wanna do some gaming? Gotta keep the broom closet cool if you wanna keep your hardware cool, and it also solves the battery drain problem...
@@LavenderSystem69 unfortunately I worked for a company for a decade that had Idle limiters. One time I got a Volvo that I could cancel the idle. Other than that. Unless it was over 78 or under 36 degrees. I was out of luck.
@@seaninman3899 Most of the time, all you had to do was wedge something between the driver seat and the throttle, so you could bump the RPMs just enough to trick the truck into thinking it wasn't just sitting there idling... hell, most trucks I've been in, you can set the cruise control at idle, and it overrides the shutdown timer
I want to see you guys do a frame like the PVC one that's functional to the water cooling. Use copper pipe as a distribution/reservoir and tap the GPU and CPU into it. I'm sure you'll find a place for the rad(s).
Oh my god! That second one! I took apart a water fountain to make a water cooler for one of the first P90 processors off the line! We later just threw the whole board into an oil bath, but the watercooler water cooler worked better. Then, someone in the group had the idea to use the watercooler setup to cool the oil and the pump caught on fire.
I'm sure that Josh Bell was referring to the cheap bookshelf from Target that the actual PC is sitting on top of. Notice the top of the bookshelf bending under the weight.
13:55 I used to have those speakers. Not bad, not great, just good. Yeah, they were the ones that reminded me that I was poor and had been spoiled by my pops' high end stereo system. Yeah, once you've heard the sound of some good quality speakers that cost $2k each, it's hard to listen to computer speakers.
It's me! I enjoyed those speakers for about 8 months until the right channel died and instead of repairing them I just bought a decent pair of bookshelf speakers
I had to give up on my Alienware with an intel 3820 a year ago, and I tried to save as many parts from it as I could. Only problem is that cases have changed a lot, and neither my psu nor optical drive would fit in the new case. I ROUTED ALL THE CABLES AROUND THE OUTSIDE OF THE CASE, and had the disc drive sitting on top above the exhaust. The thing looked like a fire hazard express, and it didn't help that the power supply kept falling off the desk while making horrendus buzzing noises.
A PSU would not be one of the priority items I'd save from a built to cost prebuilt, but I guess in this market we've been having you probably want to save every dollar when going DIY.
I used to be a truck driver and I had an itx rig in my truck with a 24” monitor. Even played VR in it, but I had to be careful and tuck away the monitor because I wrecked one playing it. Had a large RAM mount setup to hold the monitor. Made it easy to move it out of the way.
11:15 The first Flatscreen of my father (I was too young to have some PC stuff) was manufactured in 2006. Yes this is not one of the early flatscreens but still. And it works still I just replaced a year ago some caps on the power supply pcb in it and I hope it will work for another atleast 4 years to make the 20 years complete.
For me, out of all of the "jank" featured here...the PVC pipe case build was the best of the bunch...as just a cool idea. I wouldn't personally do it, but yeah...really cool!
as someone who recently built an open air pc case out of sams club cutting boards, i really enjoyed this one. something about “making it work” type of projects is fantastic
My first water-cooled setup was a Pentium 4 "Extreme Edition" (lol!) cooled with a Danger Den CPU block. The plumbing was made from Tygon clear tubing and all fittings/collars came from the plumbing aisle of my local Home Depot. The radiator was a heater core from a 1993 Mercury Topaz, which would fit 2 x 120mm fans almost perfectly. Another popular radiator back then was the Pontiac Bonneville heater core, but the Tempo/Topaz cores were much easier and cheaper to get. I know I scrapped that radiator long ago, but I think I still have that DD CPU block somewhere. I may also have an old GPU block from DD as well. If you're going through with that "retro water-cooled" video, I can try to hunt them down for you. That is authentic stuff from 2004-2005-ish!!
I have the parts of an old P4 setup. The radiator came from some A/C. The block was milled out of copper at the local uni and then a Grundfos circulator pump. I haven't used it.
This was a great video. As soon as Jay said burninator, TROGDOR! was the first thing that came to mind and I'm glad Jay didn't disappoint. It's been a long time since I've thought about HomeStarRunner. Phil out-dad-joking Jay and Jay just walking away. That cable management debacle made me laugh because even as messy as I am, I couldn't allow something to be that unorderly or chaotic.
Respect for the trucker picture. Myself back in the day i made a shelf i could put on the dash and the side passenger door to hold my laptop on my downtime. For a while i had an Xbox and a monitor i would put on the dash. Poor monitor vibrated so much against the front seat i made a hole through the screen. I can't wait for the steam deck tho, that thing will be AWESOME for us trucker/gamers.
Jay do you remember when people was building custom heatpipes in home to increase the efficiency of those old aluminum fins radiators? The memories of those games coolers... I did shit like that, and i still do! Who had a internal fan mounted in the chassis anchored using metal wire using some chassis holes for a parallel/serial port... If only YT would allow to post pictures....
Lol this video is reminding me of my first car. The hydrolics in the trunk was broken (hatch back) so I had to hold it up anytime I wanted to use it. The antenna broke off so I had no radio. I had to use a fork to move the ac/heat slide. It always froze shut in the winter. I had an after market radio which wasn't terrible. If it got too cold, I couldn't roll up the window and all winter long I had to physically grab the window to help it close. But by far, the worst part was when I couldn't put my car in park so I spent months each time it happened putting my car in neutral and throwing on the ebreak. But because it wasn't on park, I couldn't remove the key so I left the key in and had to take the radio out so it wouldn't kill my battery each time I left my car. All that said, I loved that car. She handled perfectly well in the winter, even better than any truck or suv I've driven and leagues better than my current car. Her name was Brandi and I still miss her.
1:16 Love this concept. He should buy an inexpensive case to cut out the motherboard tray with the entire back for IO shield, power supply mount, rear fan mount and PCIe slot brackets, then build the walnut case around it.
Oh I've done the dual PSU build, with the PSU primary rails soldered together so they would work from a single mains cable, and a car relay switch to make one PSU turn on the other, by grounding pin 13 of the secondary PSU when 12V went through the relay from the primary PSU. I found it the best solution back then as I was using several Seagate Cheetah SCSI drives.
I also remember when we had to make everything for liquid cooling even the water blocks and hope we did not crack the exposed CPU Die when installing it. I think my first store bought water block came from Danger Den.
Yeah, so, I wrote above that that weird piece of "industrial" metal Jay was weirded out about is actually from a Noctua air-fan setup, and it's usually installed on the back of the motherboard so you don't crack your CPU while installing a giant hunk of metal on top of it. So I find it fitting (heh) that it was used to hold down the CPU cooler block. :D
that copper water block is from laser water cooling system. Back on the day you could buy cheap laser water cooling components. I've build custom dual loop with two pumps two radiators two water blocks on GPU and one on one on cpu with one common res for just over 100 bucks. And it worked way better than my current 360 aio that I bought for the same price.
1976 chevette heater core. That was a popular one for water-cooling back in the day. Welded on my own barbs. That's what I used for single 120 rads. I sold them as a side gig for awhile.
Years ago, I used a Danger Den water block, with an aquarium submersible pump, in a 5 gallon aquarium with an oil cooler for the rad, that was about 8"x10". I had the cooler laying flat onto of the aquarium with 2x 90mm case fans mounted to the rad. It was a pretty small setup for the day for sure. I built like 4 or 5 of those setups for my buddies. My PC at the time, was an Athlon 750 over clocked to a 1000 with a Voodoo 5 5500 Video card... That system was awesome for the time. I still have the Voodoo and water block some where in my boxes of old parts.
I want to see a version of this where people tried to build the normal way, it failed, then they did a jank rig of it and it somehow worked. Like having to zip tie fans into a case because the screw holes to install them caused clearance issues or stuff like that.
The most Jank i have is a 92mm FAN strapped on the outside of my NR200P to cool the M.2 on the backside of the Board. It is mounted with the rubber doodads from Noctua through the mesh Panel. The cable if routed through the Vertical GPU Slot on the back, which is a 3D-Printed part to replace the Vertical GPU Slots. And no the 3DPart doesn't have a hole for the cable, it is bent creating a gap...
Unhinged Systems' 2001 setup is my favorite. Take me back to those good old days. The best days. What's really crazy is I had that exact same sound system. Looking at that picture is like time traveling, man. Wow.
9:20 That PVC one is actually kinda cool. Also, I know MANY technicians that have beater cars. It has more to do with, we know it still runs and we don't need to do the work right this minute, lol. That small oil leak is no big deal just throw in another quart ill fix it later. When you do it all day, ya know.
The rubber tabs on the first build come with bequiet fans. You can use them instead of screws. supposed to help with vibrations to keep the fan a bit quieter.
Still using two 50cm wide IKEA cabinets as a rack, with hand made brackets to hold the rails at precisely 19" width. Clamped together with various IKEA extra parts from other cabinet models.
since you mentioned it, the laws about truck drivers are the same all over the world. safety regulations are very strict on this job because if the driver is tired he could cause an accident that could do a lot of damage both to property and people, not to mention losing the cargo (which is the most important issue for the company).
1:55 I don't know if they are plastic or sillicon. I'm using those ones: 'AABCOOLING Anti Vibration Rubber Screws' and I would love to see comparision between them and normal screws with/without sillicon rings :)
The first pc, with MDF, the fan brackets look like brackets used to mount server racks together. APC server cabinets to be specific, I’ve had those laying around everywhere in the datacenters at work.
I used a Danger Den ceramic pump, Peltier unit, and a transmission cooler with two 120mm fans for a chill water cooling unit on an LGA775 rig once. I also put an AMD ATX build in an original Xbox shell, complete with an ATI GPU. I had to cut an L shaped slot in the top of the shell to allow the GPU to fit.
LOL that was awesome. My Jankiest build was back in 2001 when I built a working PC from a bunch of thrown out PC parts that a friend of mine, who was a digital video editor, that worked for the company that would produce copies of movies to be sent out to the cinemas, brought to my place one Saturday morning early in 2001. He actually scavenged through a dumpster full of PC's parts that the Tech guys had thrown out and brought them to my place and said "Do you think you can build a working PC from all of this crap?". So we set about testing all of the parts to find out which ones still worked and then with a couple of my own spare parts managed to build a PC that could actually run WIN 98se rather well. Then in typical Aussie fashion we had a BBQ and got drunk to celebrate a successful DIY PC build, and the best part was that the PC we built continued working for several years being used as a server to host a MechWarrior 4 dedicated server.
14:10 I believe that's a Behringer UMC404HD Interface. Mix and Headphones on top and the bottom knob is the volume for the main outs for studio monitors. Great little interface!
How about Janky repairs? I had a keybaord someone had spilled milk into. the acid in the milk ate away one of the traces. I used a piece of scotch tape and a doublemint gum wrapper (foil on the outside) and fixed the trace. Used that keybaord for a few more years before it was replaced.
I missed the widow but I have a PC case I made out of stained wood for my Minecraft Server. Looks professional. Laser cut side panels, hinged door, 4x120mm fans, 10TB storage, and HVAC air filters, in less than a cubic foot. Why? The cost of materials was half the cost of a metal PC case and the results were stunning.
Old video, just have to add; one of my old builds, circa 1999 had hardcore OC and similarly hardcore cooling to cope with this; back then, fans tended to be much smaller than today, with 80 mm being the most common chassis fan, and CPU fans was commonly even smaller. The one on my CPU cooler was a 40 mm "Delta" fan which was pretty legendary at its time for it's cooling capability. Problem was, it achieved this by spinning at like 12k RPM and it sounded like an industrial vacuum cleaner. To make it even more effective I had this idea that it was a bad idea to use the already hot air inside the chassis, so I took a Dremel to the side panel of the beige case and cut a hole, then made a sort of duct down to the CPU fan, so that it sucked in air from the outside. This setup actually did work really well, but you almost had to wear ear protection to be able to stand it. Over the next couple of years, as the market for DIY computers emerged and computer cases went from a selection between small, medium or large beige box to black becoming an option without having to spray it yourself and more enthusiast features popping up, I saw quite a few repeat the idea with a hole in the side panel, however it commonly had a fan in it and not my amazing ducts. Sadly, this was before digital photography was a mainstream thing and it seems I didn't think the computer was something worthy of wasting a frame of film on, so there are no images.
14:36 - the cover for the seat - mine is doing the same thing, it just dissolves over time (cheap fake leather, might be related to the fact I've basically spent the bulk of the last two years sitting in it working from home) and peels off the seat and arm rests
watercooling tower hanging out the window, held up by bolts to the window frame and zip ties ;) tubing going from the full tower (yeah, it was 2005 ala that watercooling story) from the mcw50 and dangerden waterblock out the window. towels "keeping" the new england air out in the winter... kind of. Wish we had phones with decent cameras back then...
I've had jankier setups than most of these, I used the same pc case from 2005 until 2019, lost every panel on it over the years and eventually I bought an AIO that I just held onto the front of the case with a shoe string, I also discovered in 2012 or so that if you bend a graphics card just ever so slightly it will still work, and you'll also have room for another hard drive in your case(the same one with the shoe-string budget radiator)
I personally picked up a jtc mouse matt. it is absolutely incredible, super comfy material. great size with a full size keyboard, and its very high quality at a fair price!
So for the 3rd Build what he means as being jank with regards to what it's sitting on is that bookshelf where the top is already starting to warp. It clearly is having trouble with the weight
Wish I had pics of my old jank system. Was built in a dresser drawer, using a blower fan from a old heater as a input fan. Was water-cooled, by which I had a simple copper pipe smashed semi-flat for the GPU. (a rx580) used a pump from a old rv, (which ran 12v, so I had a power converter mashed in the box too) Cpu was in the same loop, but that had just a simple copper heatblock screwed onto the mobo with a chunk of plastic. Ran a old og phenom (not the 2), but later upgraded to a 2600x. Kept the case and cooling system. Dispite the jank, the system never got higher then 46c even under full load.
On my last built I decided to cheap out on my case so I bought a 40$ cheap corsair. It was hermetically closed with 0 airflow so I got mad and with a hacksaw made a big square hole in the front. Then I used I cut a pouch made with mesh and made a jank air filter. It worked great for a few years. Now I have a 150$ case, and omg no regrets.
I'm a OTR trucker. In the next 2 days I'll have an ITX rig built for the road; Cougar Dust 2 Iron Gray case Be Quiet 280mm AIO Asus Rog Strix Z590-I i7-11700F Rog Strix 3060 OC 12gb 32gb Corsair Vengeance LPX (2x 16gb) Supernova 650 80+ gold PSU 1tb 980 Pro nvme 2tb 970 Evo plus nvme
The most hard disk drives I ever had in the computer for storage (not just testing) were 12. The problem was I couldn't even touch this computer as the balance of power was "touchy". You touch it, and some drive instantly started to have power issues. And this was very hard to resolve. I am so happy that molex is a connector of by gone era
Every laptop user should know this. 1. Just “raise the bottom” let more air into the machine and you will found cpu&gpu each them reduce 10~15°C or in high usage will have more efficacy 2. You shouldn’t be use “laptop cooler” , cuz that effectiveness actually just like you put two bottle caps under laptop to raise it. But the cooler still use your limited power and it will let cpu&gpu become more hungry. There also very many ways let your experience better , like “gamer most of the time should limit cpu’s PL1&PL2 and offset voltage” “discrete graphics card overclock”. Sorry my bad English,hope it's not too hard to read. Just want help you gus. From Taiwan
"you HAVE to have good air flow" me: *sweating nervously as I looked at my almost decade old pc that has somehow lasted with a single case fan* ...yes I knew that...
Back in 2006. I remember watercooling my cpu with a thermaltake gpu waterblock that I had ziptied to the cpu. Connected the loop together with some clear hose from home depot, a 12"x 18" transmission cooler from Napa, and a fountain waterpump that I placed in a plastic peanut container from Costco. I was close enough to the window with my setup so In the winter time I could just crack open the window a little but and the temps would sit around 40F on the cpu. Ambient temps outside in the winter were about 8F. It was so cool but so unnecessary at the same time.🤣
back in day i also build my own water system. i build the waterblock(100% copper) and reservoir(teflon) on a lathe, and a radiator from a car (the smallest one from a fiat cinquecento) and a aquarium pump.
I'm currently also building a custom wooden PC due to my motivation from these videos of yours. I'm on iteration 2 now as I was not happy with the 1st one.
Not super interesting but I once drilled an array of holes in the side panel of a case so I could put a fan blowing right on the video card. Also brought the rear USB ports to the front with a USB extension cable and Velcro to mount on the side.
8:22 I've had that happen to me. The way the chair broke, I was on my back, arms still on the armrests, legs up on the seat. I went from sitting normally to sitting laying down. lol
a few years back i was working at taco bell with this couch hopper guy. not gonna lie, wasn't the greatest dude in the world but we often bonded over his tablet setup. being essentially homeless he didn't have a pc or anything, so he had this little android tablet he'd use to text and stuff. he kept it in this trapper-keeper-esque case along with a bunch of accessories, and it was really really well managed. he had a battery pack tucked into the hinge part with a short cable to keep the tablet charged (while also being able to plug in and charge the external battery without removing it). he had a pair of earbuds strapped next to the tablet, with the cable going around and having a spot right next to the 3.5mm so he could easily plug it in. just a bunch of stuff like that, and it was great. i think he got arrested and i got a different job and i haven't seen him since. i think about him and his tablet sometimes.
I once put two towers next to each other. The first tower had the system I wanted to use, the second tower had the psu/addtional power connections I wanted. So I plugged the second tower psu into the first tower. At the time I did not know how to turn on the second psu without still being connected to the tower. So in sense, I had two psu's in two towers to power one system.
I have an NZXT Phantom and I fubared the top 200mm fan by accidentally bumping the case when it was running. I didn't feel like paying a premium for a rare proprietary thin single-color-led 200mm fan that could break so easily so I just bought a Noctua 200mm and stuck it on top. Eventually I'll cut the top panel so I can put it back on but for now it's naked. I knew I would have trouble replacing that fan when I bought the case, but I didn't expect it to be so fragile. Thing's bulletproof now though.
I upgraded to a 3090 recently... Wasn't happy with the ram Temps on the back, so I took an old pentium 2 cooler, filed the back flat, and slapped some thermal paste on the back of the card and set it there. Max temp didn't change. Realized there was a small gap on back right over 1 ram chip.... So logically I took a back plate cover and slid it in the gap. 10*c temp reduction! Success! But yeah... $2k card covered in paste and spare scraps of metal... It's a look
Dang, been a long time since i had a truly jank setup.. (AMD Athlon64, 120mm fan screwed to the heatsink, desk fan next to the tower blowing in instead of a side panel!) Or when i added a 240mm radiator from an old build to a custom loop trying to cool a Phenom 9850BE and a Radeon X1950XTX! No barbs, so i had to silicon the tubing into the 1/4" fitting holes and make sure they didn't leak..then it rested on the bottom of the case with fans (an original CoolerMaster Stacker) and still have that case! Also, that Foxconn heater core jank liquid cooled board is definitely Socket 775! And i had the gold version of that Zalman block with a clear top on that Phenom.. Once, the pump power supply failed and it started warping/melting the acrylic!
Also, i did a cardboard box build when i was about 14.. It was a Compaq DeskPro P90 overclocked to 120, i made it strong enough in the end using more card and hotglue so it could hold a monitor without bowing too much! Though i did technically cheat and use the metal frame of the riser board to help with that.. And the PSU! Also built a server for my exes website back when i was 17, that was in a cardboard box too! Though the PSU just sat on the shelf with it.. Motherboard was on top, then the HDDs were inside the box. An old AMD K6-2 i believe, was good enough for a basic site back then lol
Jay, when you do the salvage diy water cool build just do what old guys like us did back then. The process hasnt changed a bit so do exactly what you did before to source parts. The old pumps and fridge condenser combo is still the same, but the parts are better now. I encourage that video just so the kiddies these days can really see the meaning of 'jenk'!
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i really wish youd do a video dedicated to old janky watercooling solutions how people in the 90s and early 00s repurposed car parts etc to cool pc parts. Its so interesting but ive never seen anyone do a video about the history.
That would be cool!
I concur!
I can only imagine the level of satisfaction one got after the diy water cooling system was successfully built back then ngl
I grew up in those times and I've never even heard of it. Where you from?
I love those builds
Oh Hey I made it into the video :D
Some more info: The fountain pump was submersible and had a UV light on it, if you look closely you can see the socket on the left. The big black box is a reservoir from a Zalman Reserator XT and the water block is a Zalman ZM-WB5 also from that kit. And yes I still have the Reserator XT fully working but not in use :P
7:38 I don't get how Jay didn't understand what was so janky about that setup. It's obvious that the PC case is sitting on one of the most rickety shelves I have ever seen and I know it's rickety because I have the same one sitting next to me. I wouldn't set my router on it let alone a heavy ass tower.
and you can clearly see how much the board is bending under the weight XD
i was like "will it break?" XD
it was as if he was looking at the monitor and thought that was the PC XD
when here did a close-up on the retro gaming collection and the Mobo Box was showing the angle thejanky shelf was at was giving me such bad anxiety I stopped the video.
Was also my thought of it, bit of a shame that Jay missed it
My apologies for making such a late reply..I wanted to comment I just had to move my almost if not 50 pound pc (ASUS Helios tower) off of my desk, It's so heavy it rocks and shakes both of the desks that I tried setting it on..,I havent been able to find anything that can hold it :/
Gotta take risks sometimes my dude.
7:20 I think he was referring to his pc literally bending the shelf it was sitting on.
Okay, I really feel like Jay's keyboard/mouse mat vs. GN's modmats vs. Linus's desk pads really sums up the three channels. Linus is like "yahhhh colors! RGB! Oontz, oontz, oontz!" GN's like, "okay, we're gonna spend 45 minutes explaining what each wire does and what all the components are so when you get your [STUFF.] from Gigabyte, you'll know what exploded." And Jay's like "Here's a keyboard. And… a mouse. There. Go play games er somethin'."
I agree. And being a mechanical engineer, it makes sense that I have the GN one, though I like all three channels.
@@usefulidiot21 I'm only an engineering student drop out but I'd still want the GN one.
It wasn't the engineering that made me drop out lol
What about Bitwits mats?
@@reedlarson302 I dunno, I follow Paul, but not really Kyle. Probably a great guy, but his videos don't strike a chord with me.
For any one wondering what Semi truck that was. It is a Freightliner Cascadia. I can tell by the cabinets and the window up at the top above the monitor. I think it's a 2018 or newer model. Those were very nice and very powerful. It does rock like a boat.
It's a 2016. Those are literally identical cabinets to what I had in my first truck lol
Oh man I remember my Cascadia days. I don't miss those things. I'd joke with friends that they built the interior with eBay posts.
Running a KW now that's my own.
The sad part about the first one is that it's a lot cleaner than a lot of completed builds we've seen
And has one of the most sought after GPUs.
And painted the frame black
I love janky systems. The creativity of people, whether out of need or laziness, is always a treat.
Josh Bell's jank was the particle board book case it's sitting on and the bow. I've watched a 5 gallon aquarium take so many of those out.
Side note, I did a submerged mineral oil build in '96. Messy, but fun.
I was coming here to say just that...
I had a water cooled setup back then myself, I've always wanted to do a 3M Novec build.
I couldn't understand why Jay or Phil didn't see the danger in that book case and the fact that the top was sagging about an inch from where it probably started. As soon as they put the picture up it was one of those "no, no, no, No, NO" moments.
OOH! DUUUDE lets here! how well did it work? wouldn't that nuke anything plastic on it: ya know like fans and ram holders?
and wasn't that when slashdot was still a thing?
Fun Fact: Back in the early days of radio, there'd be a water feature in front of the transmitter house, with fountains, which was used to cool the transmitter. Considering the God level voltages involved, combined with pipes full of water, and our lack of knowledge at the time, it would have scared the hell out of me to be in that building when it was running.
Hey @Jayz2cents glad you didnt notice the heavy fully custom loop computer, sitting on the bookshelf that the top shelf was sagging, but thanks for not going too hard on my setup. Also, the desk is a repurposed Sofa table we inherited from my wife's grandma.
I actual said out loud, "Is Jay too distracted by all the retro games to notice the tower sitting there?!?!".
@@aaroncarrillo7 it is distracting. The NES was over by the TV in those pics, plugged in.
The coolest tractor trailer setup I saw was a 42" tv mounted to the sloped roof of the cab and the Xbox tucked into one of the cabinets. He also had all the cables run behind the interior panels and audio was run through the truck's sound system (which was of course far from stock)
Those rubber tabs for fans have been around a while. I'm pretty certain you can reuse most, but some are sorta single use. Supposedly, they help with noise reduction by preventing vibration transference.
It's a LOT easier than having to thread the fans' holes, you just stick it through and pull till the catch part pops out the other side.
I'm pretty certain Arctic used to provide those with their fans ten years or so ago. And I have a feeling Noctua used to have them. It's been years since I've used those rubber pull tabs though.
1:50
Those tabs look like they came from a box for something like an RC car. To reinforce the places where they run the twist ties through the cardboard.
They are actually metal "straight brackets." Got a whole pack from Amazon and used them to secure the radiator and power supply as well. The final design will actually replace some of them with L brackets to make things more compact.
@@benzero are you the builder? If so I would love to see the finished product.
@@Druid_Plow Yup, I am :) I will try to remember to post some pictures when it's done, heh
@@benzero nice. Good luck with it bro.
@@Druid_Plow Thanks!
I ran console in my rig for years. Had a great setup with my Xbox 360 and then my PS4. Couldn't have done all my time without it. Always wanted to run a PC setup. Problem is wattage requirement and battery drain. Unless you owned your truck and could dump money into a battery, charging system and or a side mounted generator. PC gaming just requires to much energy demand to be feasible for most of your run of the mill truckers. Thank God for energy efficient televisions, consoles and mobile hotspots. Made me look back at the days when I was lucky to have a crap laptop or portable DVD player and made time on the road much more livable. Thanks for the nostalgia trip!
You could go with some high efficiency parts and have a system that's capable of playing recent games within 300W reasonably.
Watch out for amd's 6000 series desktop apus with ddr5 ram - they will absolutely be great igpus to game with
Am I the only one who idles the company truck if I wanna do some gaming? Gotta keep the broom closet cool if you wanna keep your hardware cool, and it also solves the battery drain problem...
@@LavenderSystem69 unfortunately I worked for a company for a decade that had Idle limiters. One time I got a Volvo that I could cancel the idle. Other than that. Unless it was over 78 or under 36 degrees. I was out of luck.
@@seaninman3899 Most of the time, all you had to do was wedge something between the driver seat and the throttle, so you could bump the RPMs just enough to trick the truck into thinking it wasn't just sitting there idling... hell, most trucks I've been in, you can set the cruise control at idle, and it overrides the shutdown timer
You could def get away with an efficient ITX build dedicated to gaming and media
I want to see you guys do a frame like the PVC one that's functional to the water cooling. Use copper pipe as a distribution/reservoir and tap the GPU and CPU into it. I'm sure you'll find a place for the rad(s).
You sir, you are a genius. Definitely want to see that happen
Oh my god! That second one! I took apart a water fountain to make a water cooler for one of the first P90 processors off the line! We later just threw the whole board into an oil bath, but the watercooler water cooler worked better.
Then, someone in the group had the idea to use the watercooler setup to cool the oil and the pump caught on fire.
I'm sure that Josh Bell was referring to the cheap bookshelf from Target that the actual PC is sitting on top of. Notice the top of the bookshelf bending under the weight.
I had one of those fall from less bending. Not too much damage when it's filled with paperbacks. Unlike a place to casually rest a pile of knives.
Jay if you are finding wood harder to get you should talk to your doc.
There's also a guy at my gym who says he can help with that!
Like in a steroid kind of way not ......... ahhhh nevermind.... curse my twisted mind!
13:55 I used to have those speakers. Not bad, not great, just good. Yeah, they were the ones that reminded me that I was poor and had been spoiled by my pops' high end stereo system. Yeah, once you've heard the sound of some good quality speakers that cost $2k each, it's hard to listen to computer speakers.
It's me! I enjoyed those speakers for about 8 months until the right channel died and instead of repairing them I just bought a decent pair of bookshelf speakers
I had to give up on my Alienware with an intel 3820 a year ago, and I tried to save as many parts from it as I could. Only problem is that cases have changed a lot, and neither my psu nor optical drive would fit in the new case. I ROUTED ALL THE CABLES AROUND THE OUTSIDE OF THE CASE, and had the disc drive sitting on top above the exhaust. The thing looked like a fire hazard express, and it didn't help that the power supply kept falling off the desk while making horrendus buzzing noises.
that was why i had to build my son in laws new system in a new case. Nothing would fit except their parts
cases havent changed. You bought a machine with propietary parts
A PSU would not be one of the priority items I'd save from a built to cost prebuilt, but I guess in this market we've been having you probably want to save every dollar when going DIY.
I used to be a truck driver and I had an itx rig in my truck with a 24” monitor. Even played VR in it, but I had to be careful and tuck away the monitor because I wrecked one playing it. Had a large RAM mount setup to hold the monitor. Made it easy to move it out of the way.
Such an entertaining series. I love when you review average peeps systems. Jenky or not, cool af. Keep this series alive.
Yeah, I don't think most of hate a janky system as much as Jay does. lol
11:15 The first Flatscreen of my father (I was too young to have some PC stuff) was manufactured in 2006. Yes this is not one of the early flatscreens but still. And it works still I just replaced a year ago some caps on the power supply pcb in it and I hope it will work for another atleast 4 years to make the 20 years complete.
4:37 I had that mouse! It was my first ever optical mouse! It was such a novelty after having used rollerballs for years lol
For me, out of all of the "jank" featured here...the PVC pipe case build was the best of the bunch...as just a cool idea. I wouldn't personally do it, but yeah...really cool!
I would LOVE to see you build out a system with old junk and parts like the old days, please do it!
Linus already did it with an old janky water cooler. That's why Jay won't do it.
@@Sabrinahuskydog but jay WILL do it, just wait and see
as someone who recently built an open air pc case out of sams club cutting boards, i really enjoyed this one. something about “making it work” type of projects is fantastic
My first water-cooled setup was a Pentium 4 "Extreme Edition" (lol!) cooled with a Danger Den CPU block. The plumbing was made from Tygon clear tubing and all fittings/collars came from the plumbing aisle of my local Home Depot. The radiator was a heater core from a 1993 Mercury Topaz, which would fit 2 x 120mm fans almost perfectly. Another popular radiator back then was the Pontiac Bonneville heater core, but the Tempo/Topaz cores were much easier and cheaper to get. I know I scrapped that radiator long ago, but I think I still have that DD CPU block somewhere. I may also have an old GPU block from DD as well. If you're going through with that "retro water-cooled" video, I can try to hunt them down for you. That is authentic stuff from 2004-2005-ish!!
I have the parts of an old P4 setup. The radiator came from some A/C. The block was milled out of copper at the local uni and then a Grundfos circulator pump. I haven't used it.
I should've sent in my home server. I didn't know you were doing another one lol
As a trucker, I'm impressed how well you described our situation.
This was a great video. As soon as Jay said burninator, TROGDOR! was the first thing that came to mind and I'm glad Jay didn't disappoint. It's been a long time since I've thought about HomeStarRunner. Phil out-dad-joking Jay and Jay just walking away. That cable management debacle made me laugh because even as messy as I am, I couldn't allow something to be that unorderly or chaotic.
Of course that came to your mind. That's literally where is from.
"When Jay said toothpaste, I totally thought about brushing my teeth! Lol! 😆"
Anybody who likes Homestar Runner and Strongbad is alright with me.
Respect for the trucker picture. Myself back in the day i made a shelf i could put on the dash and the side passenger door to hold my laptop on my downtime. For a while i had an Xbox and a monitor i would put on the dash. Poor monitor vibrated so much against the front seat i made a hole through the screen. I can't wait for the steam deck tho, that thing will be AWESOME for us trucker/gamers.
Jay do you remember when people was building custom heatpipes in home to increase the efficiency of those old aluminum fins radiators?
The memories of those games coolers... I did shit like that, and i still do!
Who had a internal fan mounted in the chassis anchored using metal wire using some chassis holes for a parallel/serial port... If only YT would allow to post pictures....
Lol this video is reminding me of my first car. The hydrolics in the trunk was broken (hatch back) so I had to hold it up anytime I wanted to use it. The antenna broke off so I had no radio. I had to use a fork to move the ac/heat slide. It always froze shut in the winter. I had an after market radio which wasn't terrible. If it got too cold, I couldn't roll up the window and all winter long I had to physically grab the window to help it close.
But by far, the worst part was when I couldn't put my car in park so I spent months each time it happened putting my car in neutral and throwing on the ebreak. But because it wasn't on park, I couldn't remove the key so I left the key in and had to take the radio out so it wouldn't kill my battery each time I left my car.
All that said, I loved that car. She handled perfectly well in the winter, even better than any truck or suv I've driven and leagues better than my current car.
Her name was Brandi and I still miss her.
when he said "My time of the month is all month"
I felt that
1:16 Love this concept. He should buy an inexpensive case to cut out the motherboard tray with the entire back for IO shield, power supply mount, rear fan mount and PCIe slot brackets, then build the walnut case around it.
Too easy ;)
I love these setup reaction videos, would be great if you could do more of them.
Oh I've done the dual PSU build, with the PSU primary rails soldered together so they would work from a single mains cable, and a car relay switch to make one PSU turn on the other, by grounding pin 13 of the secondary PSU when 12V went through the relay from the primary PSU. I found it the best solution back then as I was using several Seagate Cheetah SCSI drives.
I also remember when we had to make everything for liquid cooling even the water blocks and hope we did not crack the exposed CPU Die when installing it. I think my first store bought water block came from Danger Den.
Yeah, so, I wrote above that that weird piece of "industrial" metal Jay was weirded out about is actually from a Noctua air-fan setup, and it's usually installed on the back of the motherboard so you don't crack your CPU while installing a giant hunk of metal on top of it. So I find it fitting (heh) that it was used to hold down the CPU cooler block. :D
Please do that “how we used to do water cooling back in the day” video! That would be awesome, take us along to the scrap yards!
I literally just disconnected my dual PC's to redo my desk and cable management.
Hopefully I get some good JANKY ideas! 😸
When I was a long haul trucker, I had a similar setup. I had an Xbox 1 in my rig with a 20" TV and satellite TV. It was a good time.
that copper water block is from laser water cooling system. Back on the day you could buy cheap laser water cooling components. I've build custom dual loop with two pumps two radiators two water blocks on GPU and one on one on cpu with one common res for just over 100 bucks. And it worked way better than my current 360 aio that I bought for the same price.
1976 chevette heater core. That was a popular one for water-cooling back in the day. Welded on my own barbs. That's what I used for single 120 rads. I sold them as a side gig for awhile.
Haha got a full dose of Phil cracking up in the background today, always gets me laughing.
Years ago, I used a Danger Den water block, with an aquarium submersible pump, in a 5 gallon aquarium with an oil cooler for the rad, that was about 8"x10". I had the cooler laying flat onto of the aquarium with 2x 90mm case fans mounted to the rad. It was a pretty small setup for the day for sure. I built like 4 or 5 of those setups for my buddies. My PC at the time, was an Athlon 750 over clocked to a 1000 with a Voodoo 5 5500 Video card... That system was awesome for the time. I still have the Voodoo and water block some where in my boxes of old parts.
I want to see a version of this where people tried to build the normal way, it failed, then they did a jank rig of it and it somehow worked. Like having to zip tie fans into a case because the screw holes to install them caused clearance issues or stuff like that.
I've got a car radiator, a pond pump and a home made water block on my Ryzen 9.
It works great.
The most Jank i have is a 92mm FAN strapped on the outside of my NR200P to cool the M.2 on the backside of the Board. It is mounted with the rubber doodads from Noctua through the mesh Panel. The cable if routed through the Vertical GPU Slot on the back, which is a 3D-Printed part to replace the Vertical GPU Slots. And no the 3DPart doesn't have a hole for the cable, it is bent creating a gap...
The little black tabs for the fans are rubber anti vibration mounts, they are impressive for something so simple.
Unhinged Systems' 2001 setup is my favorite. Take me back to those good old days. The best days. What's really crazy is I had that exact same sound system. Looking at that picture is like time traveling, man. Wow.
9:20 That PVC one is actually kinda cool.
Also, I know MANY technicians that have beater cars. It has more to do with, we know it still runs and we don't need to do the work right this minute, lol. That small oil leak is no big deal just throw in another quart ill fix it later. When you do it all day, ya know.
The rubber tabs on the first build come with bequiet fans. You can use them instead of screws. supposed to help with vibrations to keep the fan a bit quieter.
Still using two 50cm wide IKEA cabinets as a rack, with hand made brackets to hold the rails at precisely 19" width. Clamped together with various IKEA extra parts from other cabinet models.
since you mentioned it, the laws about truck drivers are the same all over the world. safety regulations are very strict on this job because if the driver is tired he could cause an accident that could do a lot of damage both to property and people, not to mention losing the cargo (which is the most important issue for the company).
1:55 I don't know if they are plastic or sillicon. I'm using those ones: 'AABCOOLING Anti Vibration Rubber Screws' and I would love to see comparision between them and normal screws with/without sillicon rings :)
13:20 credits for this joke👌🏻👍🏻 good one
The first pc, with MDF, the fan brackets look like brackets used to mount server racks together. APC server cabinets to be specific, I’ve had those laying around everywhere in the datacenters at work.
I used a Danger Den ceramic pump, Peltier unit, and a transmission cooler with two 120mm fans for a chill water cooling unit on an LGA775 rig once. I also put an AMD ATX build in an original Xbox shell, complete with an ATI GPU. I had to cut an L shaped slot in the top of the shell to allow the GPU to fit.
LOL that was awesome.
My Jankiest build was back in 2001 when I built a working PC from a bunch of thrown out PC parts that a friend of mine, who was a digital video editor, that worked for the company that would produce copies of movies to be sent out to the cinemas, brought to my place one Saturday morning early in 2001.
He actually scavenged through a dumpster full of PC's parts that the Tech guys had thrown out and brought them to my place and said "Do you think you can build a working PC from all of this crap?". So we set about testing all of the parts to find out which ones still worked and then with a couple of my own spare parts managed to build a PC that could actually run WIN 98se rather well.
Then in typical Aussie fashion we had a BBQ and got drunk to celebrate a successful DIY PC build, and the best part was that the PC we built continued working for several years being used as a server to host a MechWarrior 4 dedicated server.
14:10 I believe that's a Behringer UMC404HD Interface. Mix and Headphones on top and the bottom knob is the volume for the main outs for studio monitors. Great little interface!
How about Janky repairs? I had a keybaord someone had spilled milk into. the acid in the milk ate away one of the traces. I used a piece of scotch tape and a doublemint gum wrapper (foil on the outside) and fixed the trace. Used that keybaord for a few more years before it was replaced.
I missed the widow but I have a PC case I made out of stained wood for my Minecraft Server. Looks professional. Laser cut side panels, hinged door, 4x120mm fans, 10TB storage, and HVAC air filters, in less than a cubic foot. Why? The cost of materials was half the cost of a metal PC case and the results were stunning.
Open Build should go next, and maybe you can borrow ideas for your personal build.
Old video, just have to add; one of my old builds, circa 1999 had hardcore OC and similarly hardcore cooling to cope with this; back then, fans tended to be much smaller than today, with 80 mm being the most common chassis fan, and CPU fans was commonly even smaller. The one on my CPU cooler was a 40 mm "Delta" fan which was pretty legendary at its time for it's cooling capability. Problem was, it achieved this by spinning at like 12k RPM and it sounded like an industrial vacuum cleaner. To make it even more effective I had this idea that it was a bad idea to use the already hot air inside the chassis, so I took a Dremel to the side panel of the beige case and cut a hole, then made a sort of duct down to the CPU fan, so that it sucked in air from the outside. This setup actually did work really well, but you almost had to wear ear protection to be able to stand it.
Over the next couple of years, as the market for DIY computers emerged and computer cases went from a selection between small, medium or large beige box to black becoming an option without having to spray it yourself and more enthusiast features popping up, I saw quite a few repeat the idea with a hole in the side panel, however it commonly had a fan in it and not my amazing ducts.
Sadly, this was before digital photography was a mainstream thing and it seems I didn't think the computer was something worthy of wasting a frame of film on, so there are no images.
14:36 - the cover for the seat - mine is doing the same thing, it just dissolves over time (cheap fake leather, might be related to the fact I've basically spent the bulk of the last two years sitting in it working from home) and peels off the seat and arm rests
watercooling tower hanging out the window, held up by bolts to the window frame and zip ties ;) tubing going from the full tower (yeah, it was 2005 ala that watercooling story) from the mcw50 and dangerden waterblock out the window. towels "keeping" the new england air out in the winter... kind of. Wish we had phones with decent cameras back then...
I've had jankier setups than most of these, I used the same pc case from 2005 until 2019, lost every panel on it over the years and eventually I bought an AIO that I just held onto the front of the case with a shoe string, I also discovered in 2012 or so that if you bend a graphics card just ever so slightly it will still work, and you'll also have room for another hard drive in your case(the same one with the shoe-string budget radiator)
I personally picked up a jtc mouse matt. it is absolutely incredible, super comfy material. great size with a full size keyboard, and its very high quality at a fair price!
This is my favorite topic.
I can watch this all day long!!
I'd watch a video on old school water cooling. Some others of us would as well I'm sure. Always good to get the history of where it came from.
So for the 3rd Build what he means as being jank with regards to what it's sitting on is that bookshelf where the top is already starting to warp. It clearly is having trouble with the weight
Wish I had pics of my old jank system.
Was built in a dresser drawer, using a blower fan from a old heater as a input fan. Was water-cooled, by which I had a simple copper pipe smashed semi-flat for the GPU. (a rx580) used a pump from a old rv, (which ran 12v, so I had a power converter mashed in the box too)
Cpu was in the same loop, but that had just a simple copper heatblock screwed onto the mobo with a chunk of plastic.
Ran a old og phenom (not the 2), but later upgraded to a 2600x. Kept the case and cooling system.
Dispite the jank, the system never got higher then 46c even under full load.
On my last built I decided to cheap out on my case so I bought a 40$ cheap corsair. It was hermetically closed with 0 airflow so I got mad and with a hacksaw made a big square hole in the front. Then I used I cut a pouch made with mesh and made a jank air filter. It worked great for a few years. Now I have a 150$ case, and omg no regrets.
13:01 I think that guy broke his tampered glass side panel and had to improvise
I always enjoy seeing what truckers come up with to keep themselves busy in their down time. Not sure why. I don't know any truckers...
I'm a OTR trucker. In the next 2 days I'll have an ITX rig built for the road;
Cougar Dust 2 Iron Gray case
Be Quiet 280mm AIO
Asus Rog Strix Z590-I
i7-11700F
Rog Strix 3060 OC 12gb
32gb Corsair Vengeance LPX (2x 16gb)
Supernova 650 80+ gold PSU
1tb 980 Pro nvme
2tb 970 Evo plus nvme
The most hard disk drives I ever had in the computer for storage (not just testing) were 12. The problem was I couldn't even touch this computer as the balance of power was "touchy". You touch it, and some drive instantly started to have power issues. And this was very hard to resolve. I am so happy that molex is a connector of by gone era
Every laptop user should know this.
1.
Just “raise the bottom” let more air into the machine and you will found cpu&gpu each them reduce 10~15°C or in high usage will have more efficacy
2.
You shouldn’t be use “laptop cooler” , cuz that effectiveness actually just like you put two bottle caps under laptop to raise it.
But the cooler still use your limited power and it will let cpu&gpu become more hungry.
There also very many ways let your experience better , like
“gamer most of the time should limit cpu’s PL1&PL2 and offset voltage”
“discrete graphics card overclock”.
Sorry my bad English,hope it's not too hard to read.
Just want help you gus.
From Taiwan
yeah the first flat screen available in the us was the pioneer plasma 13 grand for the tv alone and another 3 grand for the tuner/upscaling box.
"you HAVE to have good air flow"
me: *sweating nervously as I looked at my almost decade old pc that has somehow lasted with a single case fan* ...yes I knew that...
Back in 2006. I remember watercooling my cpu with a thermaltake gpu waterblock that I had ziptied to the cpu. Connected the loop together with some clear hose from home depot, a 12"x 18" transmission cooler from Napa, and a fountain waterpump that I placed in a plastic peanut container from Costco. I was close enough to the window with my setup so In the winter time I could just crack open the window a little but and the temps would sit around 40F on the cpu. Ambient temps outside in the winter were about 8F. It was so cool but so unnecessary at the same time.🤣
please, pleaaaase go to the junk yard and make a build / video on it! I would love to see content like that! Keep up the great work. Love what you do!
back in day i also build my own water system. i build the waterblock(100% copper) and reservoir(teflon) on a lathe, and a radiator from a car (the smallest one from a fiat cinquecento) and a aquarium pump.
I'm currently also building a custom wooden PC due to my motivation from these videos of yours.
I'm on iteration 2 now as I was not happy with the 1st one.
Not super interesting but I once drilled an array of holes in the side panel of a case so I could put a fan blowing right on the video card. Also brought the rear USB ports to the front with a USB extension cable and Velcro to mount on the side.
8:22 I've had that happen to me. The way the chair broke, I was on my back, arms still on the armrests, legs up on the seat. I went from sitting normally to sitting laying down. lol
a few years back i was working at taco bell with this couch hopper guy. not gonna lie, wasn't the greatest dude in the world but we often bonded over his tablet setup. being essentially homeless he didn't have a pc or anything, so he had this little android tablet he'd use to text and stuff. he kept it in this trapper-keeper-esque case along with a bunch of accessories, and it was really really well managed. he had a battery pack tucked into the hinge part with a short cable to keep the tablet charged (while also being able to plug in and charge the external battery without removing it). he had a pair of earbuds strapped next to the tablet, with the cable going around and having a spot right next to the 3.5mm so he could easily plug it in. just a bunch of stuff like that, and it was great. i think he got arrested and i got a different job and i haven't seen him since. i think about him and his tablet sometimes.
The pvc build is awesome, not janky at all 9:35
Thanks you :)
8:50 been there, done that...
As a wake-up call, it's unbeatable! The bump on the head was just a bonus.
I once put two towers next to each other. The first tower had the system I wanted to use, the second tower had the psu/addtional power connections I wanted. So I plugged the second tower psu into the first tower. At the time I did not know how to turn on the second psu without still being connected to the tower. So in sense, I had two psu's in two towers to power one system.
i like the way they spend their money to hitech things instead of buying a new desk
I have an NZXT Phantom and I fubared the top 200mm fan by accidentally bumping the case when it was running. I didn't feel like paying a premium for a rare proprietary thin single-color-led 200mm fan that could break so easily so I just bought a Noctua 200mm and stuck it on top. Eventually I'll cut the top panel so I can put it back on but for now it's naked.
I knew I would have trouble replacing that fan when I bought the case, but I didn't expect it to be so fragile. Thing's bulletproof now though.
The OG Gameboy not color @8:34 sold it for me. Thats some nostalgia.
Putting the power bar with all the plugs in it down near your feet is epic win. The wall warts keep your toes warm.
I would absolutely love an old jank style video, it may well get more engagement thatn you expect
I upgraded to a 3090 recently... Wasn't happy with the ram Temps on the back, so I took an old pentium 2 cooler, filed the back flat, and slapped some thermal paste on the back of the card and set it there. Max temp didn't change.
Realized there was a small gap on back right over 1 ram chip.... So logically I took a back plate cover and slid it in the gap. 10*c temp reduction! Success! But yeah... $2k card covered in paste and spare scraps of metal... It's a look
Dang, been a long time since i had a truly jank setup.. (AMD Athlon64, 120mm fan screwed to the heatsink, desk fan next to the tower blowing in instead of a side panel!) Or when i added a 240mm radiator from an old build to a custom loop trying to cool a Phenom 9850BE and a Radeon X1950XTX! No barbs, so i had to silicon the tubing into the 1/4" fitting holes and make sure they didn't leak..then it rested on the bottom of the case with fans (an original CoolerMaster Stacker) and still have that case! Also, that Foxconn heater core jank liquid cooled board is definitely Socket 775! And i had the gold version of that Zalman block with a clear top on that Phenom.. Once, the pump power supply failed and it started warping/melting the acrylic!
Also, i did a cardboard box build when i was about 14.. It was a Compaq DeskPro P90 overclocked to 120, i made it strong enough in the end using more card and hotglue so it could hold a monitor without bowing too much! Though i did technically cheat and use the metal frame of the riser board to help with that.. And the PSU! Also built a server for my exes website back when i was 17, that was in a cardboard box too! Though the PSU just sat on the shelf with it.. Motherboard was on top, then the HDDs were inside the box. An old AMD K6-2 i believe, was good enough for a basic site back then lol
Jay, when you do the salvage diy water cool build just do what old guys like us did back then. The process hasnt changed a bit so do exactly what you did before to source parts. The old pumps and fridge condenser combo is still the same, but the parts are better now. I encourage that video just so the kiddies these days can really see the meaning of 'jenk'!