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  • Hello again.

  • As you know I am.

  • Eli, we're going to continue this a plus track by talking about PC cooling today.

  • So whatever you talk about different types of technology, they're they're fundamental concepts to it.

  • Whatever that type of technology is on, when you're dealing with PCs and when you're dealing with servers, cool, lean is one of your biggest issues.

  • You're gonna have be having these systems.

  • On many times they're gonna be running 24 7 And if you haven't thought about the cooling situation and how you're gonna be dealing with cooling with your systems, you can have a lot of problems.

  • We're going to deal with this at its own individual class because this is one of those those topics that spans almost everything that you're gonna be dealing with with a computer.

  • Whether you put in a big ass case fan like this, depending on what graphics card got a purchase, you know what kind of heat sink you're gonna put on your CPU?

  • Heat is just one of those integral topics.

  • Whenever you're talking about computers and if you get it wrong, you can have a lot of issues back in the day when I have my consulting company.

  • I made a lot of money essentially by cleaning out heat problems.

  • Basically, CPU heat sink fans would fail.

  • Computer cases would just get clogged with cat hair and other things.

  • I even had a computer that literally died from secondhand smoke.

  • Do you Do you want to know when you need?

  • Has quit smoking when your computer dies from secondhand smoke?

  • Literally.

  • You know, I sat there and I was doing all this trouble shooting with a computer.

  • So I try to do anti virus and anti Mau.

  • Where tried you updates?

  • Oh, it would kept freezing.

  • It would keep locking up And I didn't understand, Right?

  • The fan the fan spun how the fan was supposed to spin.

  • I even had this side off the case.

  • So should there be there should be enough air getting to the CPU and everything to cool it off.

  • And I was sitting there just scratching my head, trying to figure out what is the problem with this computer.

  • And then I just sit there, right?

  • I've gone through all the all the all the all the trouble shooting right.

  • What is it like?

  • Uh, you know, when you when you when you finished doing all of the trouble shooting, that seems reasonable.

  • That's when you get into the troubleshooting that becomes absurd.

  • And so a city they're down, all the normal troubleshooting.

  • Then I looked down at the CPU heat sink, and it was like this brown color, so CPU heat sinks.

  • Basically, these are made out of aluminum, and so generally generally they're silver.

  • Maybe if they're painted their black, but they more or less.

  • They should either be silver or black.

  • And I looked down to this one.

  • It was Brown.

  • I was like, Well, that's weird.

  • But to be clear, there wasn't dust and dirt on it.

  • It just looked brownish.

  • So that's bizarre.

  • And so I had run out of every other thing I could do to this computer.

  • So I was like, You know, maybe maybe the heat sink is just maybe whatever that Brown stuff is isn't what's supposed to be there.

  • Maybe that's not paint or whatever.

  • And so I polled the whole CPU heat sink, you know, contraption apart, pulled out the aluminum block, went over to the sink, washed it off with Don and just all this brown just tar Just used off of the heat sink cleaned it up, made it look all nice and silver dried it off way before to dry, plugged everything back in.

  • And wow, that computer spun up and it worked like a champ all because of a heat issue.

  • So we talk about heat.

  • He can cause you lots and lots of different problems in your computer.

  • So always make sure that however, the heat is supposed to be dissipating your computer, that it's working properly and think about weird stuff, they get away when you get done.

  • Troubleshooting all the normal problems Look for the absurd problems because sometimes he had served absurd problems are where the real issue is.

  • So a big question should be.

  • You know how how big a deal is the cooling stuff really right.

  • You go to YouTube, you watch, you know, Jay's two cents.

  • You watch all these other tech YouTubers and they're talking about liquid coolly, and they're talking about big old fans and that assertive boy you really have to ask yourself is cool and really that important.

  • Ah, are these people just trying to trying to figure out topics to talk about.

  • Um, and the reality is, is it's somewhere in the middle, depending on what the situation is for the system that you're dealing with.

  • Ah, and what you plan to do with the systems.

  • So so to be clear, to be clear, Ah, heat is a real problem.

  • Like there.

  • There is no doubt too much he will kill your computer, right?

  • So so again, if if your heat sink gets gunk up, if the fans failed, whatever else.

  • If you're not getting some cooling into your system, basically what happens is the CPU has has a special sensor on it.

  • And when the CPU detects that it's getting too hot and that it will get to a place where it will actually do physical damage to itself, it literally just shuts itself off.

  • That's why you'll see with heat issues, you'll run into problems or computers will freeze up, or they just just turn off.

  • You'll be doing something and they just turn off, and the reason for that is the CPU.

  • Sometimes things like the GP use now, they have heat sensors on them.

  • When that he gets too hot, it just shuts off and then you sit there, try to figure out a troubleshoot, so to be clear with, like, real heat like he with computers being way too hot.

  • Yes, that could cause a major issue.

  • But the question is, you know, obviously, you know no, no crappy lie.

  • That's a problem.

  • But what about all these people putting liquid cooling into their computers and all that kind of stuff?

  • Basically, the question there with the cooling is what do you plan to be doing with your system?

  • And essentially, how hard are you going to be pushing your system?

  • So if you have all right, if you have a little server or not, not little, so low computer and you're essentially going to be giving it to the secretary.

  • The secretary is going to be doing word processing, and it's going to be doing, you know, watching YouTube videos, doing Facebook and all that, right?

  • No, heat is probably not going to be a major issue for that person.

  • The reason being is because everything is in the system is gonna warm up to about where it normally sits at Ah, and then it'll just keep trucking along.

  • So so again, you go in a warehouse.

  • I've been to a lot of warehouses.

  • You gotta warehouses.

  • And the other side looks like a little Dyson vacuum cleaner.

  • You open it up, there's all kinds of crap in there.

  • And you think, Well, how how is that able to keep functioning without overheating?

  • And just the reality is is that the people using the computers don't push them very hard.

  • They're low power, uh, components.

  • And they're so overall, they just don't get very hot.

  • So, you know, 45 10 degrees for these components, it doesn't really matter, because they're just not doing a lot.

  • Well, the thing is, once you start getting to the world of servers or gaming systems, that's when you can really start to have heat issues.

  • The reason being is because with these kind of systems, you may be pushing them to the absolute limit again, with a lot of the video gamers.

  • Why Jay's two cents talks a lot about cooling is because he's a gamer.

  • He creates gaming PCs.

  • And so with the gamers, you know, to each their own due to their own, they really like over clock and systems, anything taken over clock the over clock.

  • If they if they could figure out how to over clock keyboard, they would over clock a keyboard.

  • Right?

  • So you put all these components into into one of these gaming systems and they're gonna be running warm anyway, and then you decide over clock.

  • So basically, what you're trying to do is you're trying to push all the components past where the manufacturer has told you that they'll reliably operate out Well, when you start pushing them past that point, obviously they're going to get hotter and hotter and hotter.

  • The hotter the components get, the more unstable they get.

  • And so therefore, you want to try to cool them down.

  • And so that's why the gamers they get all these these liquid cooling system's going on.

  • The reason being is because they're trying to keep the components as cool as possible because they're physically pushing those components as hard as they can.

  • So, in that kind of environment, cooling can be a really big deal.

  • The same is true with things like servers.

  • Again, with servers were really pushing the hard drives.

  • You're gonna be pushing the processors and all of that and the cooler that you can keep those components, the less likely it is that they will fail and that you'll run into issues.

  • And so this is one of those things you have to be thinking about.

  • Cool.

  • Cooling is a real again, again if you if you do, if it gets too, it gets too hot.

  • Any computer is gonna shut down.

  • But this is one of those where if you're doing gaming, if you're gonna do servers, that type of thing cooling is a really, incredibly big deal again.

  • To be honest, if you're if you're giving a computer to a warehouse worker, if you're given a computer to a secretary, you know you give him some a little eye.

  • Three thing.

  • Um, ah, yeah, you know, get they'll give you gotta clean out the events.

  • You gotta make sure the fans spin, but it's it's probably not not gonna be the biggest issue.

  • There now is a professional when you start thinking about cooling and start going to start thinking about how you're going to keep all of your systems cool so that you don't have to do any more trouble shooting than necessary.

  • The first thing that you need to think about is spec ing out your systems from the get go one.

  • The big problems that I see is that, Ah, lot of the troubleshooting that you have to do for for people's computers many times is because they were given a computer that's far superior in resource is to what they need.

  • They just need a nice little simple box that will stay relatively cool on its own.

  • And instead, you know they got a 10 80 you know, T I video card or something in this thing.

  • The reason being is big goes that the geek or the Tech said, Well, you know, they're having sales on those video cards this week, so I decided to buy one.

  • And so the problem is again, the hotter the components, basically, the more high end the components of the warmer.

  • Those components are gone, it run.

  • Ah, the more likely you're going to run into heat issues is just a just a basic thing.

  • So if you have somebody in, all they're doing is they're they're running productivity software, Web browsers, YouTube and all that.

  • One of the things you should be thinking about is how low can expect the computers.

  • Can you spec them with very low quality processors or low speed processors, low speed graphics cards.

  • You're not gonna have to run into heat issues.

  • That's one thing like like with this particular graphics cards.

  • So this is an absolutely new graphics card.

  • Actually bought it for the for the system that I'm ripping apart and showing you folks while I do this A plus, Siri's and one of things you'll notice with his graphics card is that there is no fan on this graphics card.

  • Ah, so all it has it has the aluminum heat sink right on top of the GPU and then the case cooling is what keeps this particular graphics car cool.

  • The reason being is cause more or less.

  • This is Ah, this is a five year old architecture.

  • Ah, this is a relatively cool gpu.

  • Ah, and therefore it doesn't need the fan to spin to keep it cool.

  • Now again, he said, There you think about it.

  • If you're going to video gaming.

  • No, you don't do this.

  • If you're gonna do V r.

  • No, you don't use this, but if you're gonna do Web browsing for gonna do YouTube.

  • This has this has a gig?

  • Ah, video video memory on it.

  • It will be more than find enough.

  • And why I like these types of graphics cards without the CPU fan, is I saw time and time again, where the CPU fan on the graphics card is usually what fails and that cause problems with graphics cards.

  • You don't know how many times desktop computer wasn't working properly.

  • I'd crack open the case, and you would literally just see the fan blade for the graphics car.

  • This sitting at the bottom of the case.

  • Uh, yeah, there's there's there's your problem right there.

  • All right, so if you if you get a graphics card or other thing that doesn't need a fan or to keep it cool, and then then that's last lap.

  • One less component that can cause you problems.

  • As far as he's concerned again in this modern world where we start talking about these small microcomputers, this is one of those things that you should be thinking about from a heat standpoint is if your people all they're gonna be doing is getting the basic productivity stuff, Do you need a full size desktop computer anyway.

  • Again, this is something from Azul, Tech, Azul, Texans, Me, all these kinds of kinds of little computers and products that take a look at, and it's surprisingly powerful again.

  • This this little guy here that has a quad core processor, I think that says four gigs.

  • Aram has 32 gigs.

  • Storage that's upgradeable has Windows, Windows 10 professional in it all in this little little computer.

  • And so that's one thing like this.

  • You're not gonna have to worry about heat issues.

  • The same way is if you have a full fledged desktop computer, this entire little thing here most likely puts out less heat than simply a desk, a normal desktop power supply again, something to be thinking about with these small microcomputers, even as faras servers are concerned.

  • I know that may seem like sacrilege, but I know one consultant that literally uses nukes.

  • So Intel's next unit computing those those really small.

  • It was really small little computers.

  • He actually uses those for full fledged server, so he goes into small business environments.

  • He installs Windows 2012 server onto one of those little nukes, and that is actually they're active directory server.

  • Now I know it sounds funny, but again, in an environment where you don't need a lot of server resource is this allows him to put it.

  • You know, you don't have to worry about a server room and all that you can put in a little location.

  • You don't have to worry about overheating the system or any of that kind of stuff.

  • And so this is one of those things that you should be thinking about again.

  • At the end of the day, heat issues are going to end up causing a lot of problems, especially if you're in an enterprise environment.

  • And so, if you could do little things such as my great people down to smaller, smaller computers like this, or simply use graphics cards or suck that don't need extras, fans or such that can cause you that that could be a real benefit at the end of the day.

  • Now, the next thing you know you'd be thinking about when you think about cooling your your computer is what environment is it going to get put into?

  • Ah, the harsher the environment you're going to put it into, the more that you're going to have to worry about cooling.

  • So if you're here in the United States and you're in an office building in the office building this cap that a nice I don't know somewhere between 70 to 75 degrees during the summer, then you're probably not gonna run into a whole lot of heat issues unless something fan specifically fails.

  • The reason being is the ambient air around the computer is relatively cool.

  • Basically, that relatively cool air gets sucked into the computer.

  • It gets heated up to get spit out.

  • The big old air conditioner for the building cools the air, and everything's pretty, pretty hunky door.

  • But one of the things you ought to be thinking about is what about if you're not in a normal office environment?

  • What if you're in an environment that doesn't have a TV A C?

  • So when it's 95 degrees outside, it's 98 degrees inside.

  • This is somebody be thinking about again, like I talk about that.

  • When I had clients had warehouse environments, I had clients who had stables, and that was that was one issue that we actually ran into with one of their systems.

  • Ah, you ever wonder why, Why I don't go back into the field?

  • Because I don't want to deal with customers again.

  • Ah, we sold.

  • We sold one of my customers.

  • We sold a very, very fancy ah, digital surveillance system.

  • Back in the day was a 16 camera.

  • Oh, is g o vision.

  • I think it was geo vision.

  • Ta high end, high, high, high, high end surveillance system.

  • Where's the thing?

  • Ah, they showed me the office.

  • They showed me the office that that there were gonna be putting it into, um and it was in a stable.

  • So they had a fancy stable for people with fancy horses.

  • Put their fancy horses, right?

  • And so I go in there and they're building everything out.

  • And when they're talking about the surveillance system, we have to run all the cables because this was an I p.

  • K.

  • This was this is co ax cable.

  • All that has to go back to the one location.

  • And so I sit there and look at him.

  • I said, Okay, well, you know, this is gonna be a pretty powerful little server in order to be able to do this DVR stuff.

  • And so I want to make sure this room is going.

  • The door is gonna be closed and it's gonna have air conditioning, right?

  • They said yes.

  • Yes, of course it ISS So Okay, so they smell a lot of money on the surveillance system.

  • And, uh, yeah, they destroyed the server within the first year.

  • That was a very interesting conversation about warranties.

  • And I Well, we have a warranty.

  • I No, no, no.

  • You know, it's one of those things when when you try to claim warranty with some some faceless company like del Hey, it's like when you try to claim warranty and you're like, I told you, the environment and that was a problem is it was in the stables and it was dirty and was disgusting.

  • And for whatever reason, they never got around to installing the air conditioner into that room.

  • And so you go into that room again.

  • 95.

  • Outside's 100 degrees in that room, plus his dusty and dirty.

  • The problem is, things got dunked up and stuff failed.

  • And so this is one of those things you have to be thinking about is the environment.

  • You're going to be putting systems in, uh, you know where I'm gonna show you different types of heat sinks and basically heat sinks that have fans and he sinks without fans.

  • And to be clear, right, if you're gonna be putting your computer or your system or your appliance into an environment that's gonna be dusty and dirty and hot, one of things you may be thinking is do you actually want fans on your CPU heat sink and on your, uh, your your graphics card?

  • Because they may get dunked up, they may fail.

  • And that may cause a system to fail.

  • Finding going with a heat sink that doesn't require ah ah fan may be useful again.

  • The same thing is true with looking at cases.

  • So a lot of cases now they'll have, like fine mesh over the vents, essentially in order to be like air filters.

  • And again, if you have a Rh filters on your system and it's sitting in an office environment, yeah, it's still got it.

  • It's still going to add up to more trouble shooting calls.

  • You know it's gonna add to your workload at the end of the day, but probably not absolutely horrible will be well below it will be horrible, but again, you put a computer into something like a stables where there's just there's just this fine, dusty crap everywhere.

  • If you have a Rh filters, that computer's gonna get shut down by the end of the day, things to be thinking about the environment.

  • Beyond that, things to be thinking about is simply like the computer desks and where you're going to be putting the computer.

  • One of problems I used to see is computer desks.

  • For some reason, they used to.

  • It's it's not.

  • Most people now just have flat desks, and they put the computer under it.

  • But computer desks used usedto have like this side cabinet to them.

  • And in that side Cabinet is where you put your tower computer.

  • So basically slide your tower computer there and run the cables up.

  • It's supposed to keep it all nice and clean.

  • Well, the problem is, is people turn on their computer and they shut the door to that little fig, and then it shuts off after half an hour.

  • And there, there, there.

  • They don't understand why, and they call out the geek to try to try to fix the problem, and the reason is is because basically, you turn it on, and the only heir that that computer can get is whatever is in that little Cabinet as soon as it heats up that cabinet.

  • But then everything shuts down because there's a heat problem.

  • I also saw this with with companies where they had a server room, So basically they used a broom closet for a server room.

  • A lot of room closets don't even have Vince in the door, so they'll be surprised they got it.

  • They put a couple of servers into that broom closet, and then they don't know why they're crashing every day or so.

  • The reason is because the broom closet would get too, too warm.

  • Then all the systems inside was shut down.

  • So these are things they're gonna be thinking about with cooling is again.

  • It's not just suspecting a system.

  • Think about you know what, what?

  • The system should be, what's actually required and then look at the environment that it's going to go into and try.

  • Try to match those two things to figure out how you're going to cool your computer and make sure the cooling mechanisms you have or appropriate to what's going on now, as as I was talking about when I'm talking about the environment for the cooling situation for your computer.

  • Thea other thing that you're gonna gonna be thinking about is the case itself and how well designed is the case that the computer is in for the cooling environment in the cooling situation that you're going to be using the system.

  • And this could be a real problem a lot, especially like a lot of the less expensive cases.

  • Again, you get them on those $20 cases is you'll have.

  • You know you'll have a couple of little holes, basically a couple of the little grills about this big.

  • You throw in a Tate 10 80 T, I throw in an iodine processor and all the sudden you have a nice little barbecue on your hands, right?

  • So that's one of things you have to be thinking about, is with all the components is putting those components into the case and then figuring out is there going to be enough airflow in the case?

  • Ah, in order to keep all the components cool now, One thing to think about is If you're running into heat issues, Ah, and you have a computer.

  • One way you can try to solve the heat issues nowadays is you can simply go out to micro center or new egg and by case fans.

  • So if the system is getting too hot, it's got all the holes it's ever gotta have.

  • Somebody think about is you can put in case fans in this case, fans.

  • Will there be a push?

  • Aaron, Pull it out.

  • Generally, you put one on one so say you put you put the the exhaust event on the back and an intake fan on the front.

  • Basically, that pulls the air through.

  • But that's one way you can try to keep the case, so that's cool.

  • This is an issue, too, with a lot of the cases that look cool.

  • Like, Oh, wow, that's a fancy case.

  • Well, thing is, lay like air intake or exhaust.

  • You know, grills don't always look the coolest.

  • Don't always look the sexiest.

  • One of the problems you run into is a lot of these case manufacturers.

  • The trap.

  • They'll try to hide the little grills in weird, bizarre places and what you find a lot of times is how they hide those grills actually cuts down on the air circulation a lot.

  • You may have this huge area for a grill, but then it has a face played over it and has a tiny little intake.

  • So you look at it like, Well, this gorilla's huge, but the actual air intake for the grill is incredibly small or a problem that you can have, especially as these computers and cases get fans.

  • Here is I was watching a review by Jay's two cents talking about this one gamer case where in order to keep it all streamlined Ah, when the computer is powered off, there are no grills.

  • Like when you look at it, you can't see any air intake.

  • And the reason is because when you turn it on, you press a bunch in, and then it kind of has like, this little air intake tower that rises up Well, one of the points that he made is that Aaron take Tower doesn't rise up automatically.

  • It rises up manual.

  • Uh huh.

  • And so stupid.

  • So the others big fancy case.

  • You throwing all these graphics cards and then how many people you hit the power button.

  • How many people are going to forget how many times not to hit the little little button so little tower rises up so that I can actually get the air intake that supposed again?

  • These are the kind of stupid things that you need to be thinking about when you're looking to the computer case again.

  • Maybe in an old timer.

  • I don't want acrylic sites.

  • I don't want things that look like storm Trooper helmets.

  • I don't want little towers that rise up, rise down.

  • If you ever look at the computers that that that I build and I probably will be ability one shortly for for this track is I like the good steel cases with a lot of lot of lot of grates on, um, throw it a fan or two.

  • And then then that's all I have to worry about.

  • With the case cooling, I would rather my components stay cool and work how they're supposed to versus, you know, having something that looks like it should be on the set of Star Wars.

  • So now we get to talking about CPU.

  • Heat sinks, and they're just a zillion Brazilian Brazilian.

  • Different versions of CPU heat sinks.

  • Ah, if you're gonna be using some kind again aluminum, he sink with a fan.

  • The question of what heat sink do you use?

  • It's a lot of ah ah.

  • I think I need a big heat sink for this one.

  • Uh, no.

  • Probably a small heat Single work for this one.

  • All right, there's a lot.

  • It's a big old guessing game.

  • As far as faras he sinks, Go circulate.

  • If you think your computer is gonna be running hot, get a bigger get a bigger heat sink.

  • If you think it's gonna be run running rather cool, keep the heat sink that you have now it is important if you go out there, you buy an intel.

  • Ah, see, Pew, I think with some of the A M.

  • D.

  • C pews, normally you'll get what's called a stock heat sink and 00 the gamers.

  • Oh, the gamers.

  • I would never use a stock heat sink again to be clear with hate saying it depends on what year you're using your computer for if you're not gonna be over clocking, if you're basically using your computer in order to YouTube and that kind of thing.

  • Whatever the stock heat sink they give you is probably fine.

  • It's honestly probably fine.

  • You're better off plugging that heat sink in, seeing how it works, seeing if you have any issues.

  • You don't have any issues, then don't buy.

  • But don't don't bother buying another heat sink.

  • If you do have issues, then you go out.

  • You buy, buy bigger.

  • He's sick.

  • Now we go over and we take a look at something like new egg.

  • You can see that they're just again.

  • To be clear.

  • There are a zillion different types of heat sinks out there.

  • You can have, he sings.

  • With multiple fans, you can have heat sinks of multiple sizes.

  • One of the big issues that you're going to run into is what size heat sink will fit into the case.

  • So if you look at this Nordic a heat sink right here, this is a big old beast that is an absolutely big old beast of a heat sink.

  • And so one of the problems that you can run into is that if the heat sink is too big ah, then it can't fit into the case.

  • So that's not gonna work out for you.

  • So you go through when you see they've got you know, they got flatter heat sinks that have larger heat sinks.

  • So you kind of go through and you figure out what kind of heat sink you want now, one of things that I will say is for anybody out there that are going to be creating a appliances So basically like appliance type computers or again, computers they're going about in warehouses and all that.

  • What you might think about is going for a fan.

  • Lis heat sick.

  • I like families.

  • He sinks a lot again for these appliances.

  • I want to talk about appliances we're talking about, like digital surveillance systems were talking about maybe telephone systems.

  • Essentially, these are these air relatively low resource servers or computers that do whatever they do 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

  • It's actually you plug him in, you turn them on and they're really only ever going to get turned off again.

  • You know when there's a power failure or when they're gonna get replaced.

  • I like these of endless heat sinks, because then you don't have to worry so much about fans failing you don't have to worry about the vacuum cleaner effect thing is getting so dirty.

  • Essentially, with these thes family seat six, there's they're very, very large.

  • He sinks.

  • So you have to make sure that you get a case that's big enough to actually go to shove one of these things in.

  • And then the the fan the case cooling fans are what tried to keep the CPU cool again.

  • You know, if you're dealing with I three processors, you're dealing with I five processors.

  • This should be good enough for you.

  • You're trying to with an I nine process you're trying to over clock it.

  • Obviously, this probably won't work out, but there's all kinds of different heat sinks to be looking at.

  • You know what Heat sink you fuse.

  • At this point, you gotta be thinking about how hard they're gonna be pushing the CPU again.

  • To be clear, if you're not doing over clocking just a stock CPU or just want a little crappy CPU fans and he sinks should be fine.

  • Another hand, if we're gonna be doing over clocking, you might want to go for one of these bigger jobs.

  • Now, what about liquid cooling.

  • You ask Eli, talk to us about liquid coolant s.

  • So this is something that's become or amore prominent over the past five or six years.

  • Liquid cooler has been around for a long time.

  • Ah, basically, with with the video gamers and really with the these high powered video game systems PCs, liquid cooling has become a more prominent issue.

  • I'm again.

  • I me, I me y'all know who I am?

  • I'm not a huge proponent of liquid cooling.

  • Ah, simply because again, I'm not a huge proponent of over clocking.

  • I don't push my sit systems to the absolute max and essentially with liquid cooling, you're adding additional components where they may fail.

  • And again, there's a cost to it.

  • Eso it's I've never found liquid cooling to be something that I have been particularly interested in again.

  • This is something you have to be thinking about with what you're going to be using your computer for.

  • Ah, and then you know the cool in situation.

  • Remember, if you're going to be doing video games, the cooler you can keep the components the higher resolution you can guess if you're trying to do you know, four k 60 frames per second.

  • You need to keep your components as cool as possible.

  • Essentially, that computer is going to run as hard as you allow it to run.

  • And so, by doing liquid cooling in order to keep the component just a little bit cooler, that will allow you to get that performance and a lot of people again when they're doing video games.

  • It's not like video encoding, even where you know I may.

  • I may in code ah, video.

  • But it encodes for 20 minutes or 30 minutes, or maybe an hour, right?

  • A lot of these video gamers, they're pushing their systems incredibly hard for an hour, two hours, five hours.

  • And so when you're pushing that hard again, you have to keep your keep your components very cool.

  • Now there's all kinds of different liquid cooling systems out there.

  • Everything from basic, you know, pull pull it out of the box, and it's rather easy to install all the way down at the tanks and reservoirs and doing all kinds of custom stuff.

  • When you look at this, this is one of those where you do need to do your research.

  • You need to take a look again.

  • You're going to be over clocking the systems.

  • You figure out how cool that you're gonna need to try to keep your components.

  • You got to figure out what is actually going to fit into your case and then a big thing again with liquid cooling kind of goes back to the whole RTB light situation where a lot of people like liquid cooling because it looks cool whether or not you actually need the liquid cooling they like, you know, different color liquids to be going through their system.

  • And so these are some of the things that you need to be thinking about.

  • If you're going to go down that hole liquid cooling route, you take a look.

  • The basic idea of liquid cooling system is essential.

  • If we go over, you can see that.

  • Basically, you've got a radiator.

  • So this is the radiators with liquid goes from the radiator to the heat sink that's over the CPU or deep.

  • You depend on the situation.

  • Ah, and then there's a little pump that circulates the liquid from the radiator to that CPU.

  • Then with is basically you have big old fans.

  • So this is just like a radiator in your car, so the heat is taken from the sea.

  • The liquid gathers the heat from the CPU that goes in the radiator.

  • Fans blow over the radiator cools everything down.

  • Then the liquid goes back.

  • Ah, using this, you can keep your components a lot cooler than simply using air cooling.

  • But again, it adds in different components to your system, as in cost as in complexity.

  • So this is just one of those things, whether or not you do it, and it's going to be on your particular situation, really, In the modern world, it's mainly gamers.

  • Honestly, it's mainly gamers.

  • If you're not game and you probably don't need liquid cooling, that's what I've got for you.

  • As far as cooling is concerned, we'll probably have some other classes on things like liquid cooling again.

  • Liquid cooling is a class unto itself, so we'll probably do a class on liquid cooling.

  • But basically, I mean, most of this stuff is just kind of common sense.

  • Things really, really.

  • The big problem with cooling issues is just keeping nubes from being nubes.

  • Ah, you know, you know when your new when you're 20 you know you want to go out there.

  • You always want to buy the most powerful system.

  • So that those secretaries, man, they can They could be blazing fast while they use excel.

  • And the thing is, you go out there, you buy these these expensive computers, you know, these higher and computers their size.

  • You know, the question of where do you put them in the question of cooling all that kind of thing.

  • And that's where a little box like this may make a lot of sense.

  • I think this thing from Azul Tech cost you like 200 bucks.

  • Got a nice little 200 buck thing dollar thing you could you could basically you can actually screw this pride onto the back of a monitor.

  • You don't have a lot of problems here.

  • It stays cool.

  • It's just it stays relatively cool just by doing what it does.

  • Um, and you don't run into any major issues again.

  • The same thing's like with graphics cards.

  • You know, you sit there and a lot of times I see this, like why I used to use these types of graphics cards, is on motherboards.

  • For whatever reason, either the onboard graphics would fail or the video card poor.

  • Back then, it was either a, G, B, a, G, P or P C I express card would fail.

  • And again, they're not video gamers.

  • They're not.

  • They're not doing anything fancy.

  • Ah, they just they just need to be able to word processing.

  • And so you go out for, like, $30.

  • You could buy a graphics card like this, I think.

  • Honestly, like Micro Center.

  • I bought this thing for for $37.

  • He just grab a crafty little $37 car like this, a PC I card or whatever.

  • You shove it into the computer, and it just does what it needs to do.

  • You don't have to worry about cooling problems.

  • You don't worry about fans failing.

  • It just trucks along 24 7 and gets things done.

  • So these are some of the things to be thinking about it again.

  • The environmental situation.

  • So it's so much a star again with with with cooling, especially in the real business world.

  • Ah, lot of it is is in the overall environment the computer is in.

  • You can have all the fans in the world But if it's 100 decrease in the room issues, right, if that's what I have to think about, is like the ambient temperature especially, you know, in any of these systems with any of these systems, they don't actually have their own little internal H V a.

  • C all it is his fans.

  • Even the liquid cooling remember, liquid cooling still can only cool down to ambient air.

  • So if the ambient air is ah, 100 degrees, your system is gonna have some troubles.

  • It's good.

  • It's gonna have some problems because the coolest it can ever get is whatever the air around it is.

  • So you running issues that way.

  • This is just a little class about thinking about cooling.

  • Cooling is they talk about in the networking world.

  • Troubleshooting.

  • You know, the networking environment is that it's always a layer one issue, like 90% of the time, it's layer one issue.

  • What what that essentially means, is, is when you can't connect to the Internet, you can't connected Network resource is most of the time.

  • It's because somebody unplugged the cable out of the back of your computer layer one, and that's that cooling.

  • I would argue many times, it's kind of like the layer one problem of the computer repair world.

  • So many computer shuts down randomly.

  • For some reason, probably Kool Aid Computer freezes up randomly For some reason, probably Kool Aid Computer starts doing really weird stuff, like the mouse like kills all over the screen.

  • It's probably cooling.

  • If you have really weird issues of the computer, crack over the side of the case and look at the bottom of it for, like any like fans that are just sitting there because they broke in themselves off.

  • That's probably it's the issue that you're gonna be dealing with.

  • So that's all I've got to say about cooling today.

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