No cat in this studio, unacceptable!

@der8auer-en

22 күн бұрын

:( seems like I have to record extra cat content for a cat-break

@Tautolonaut

22 күн бұрын

@@der8auer-en C-roll?

@helljester8097

22 күн бұрын

@@Tautolonautexactly or if there is a appropriately adorable doggo at thermal grizzly will accept d-roll I am not hard to please.

@gunysa

22 күн бұрын

Who will test product caTability?

@GrainGrown

21 күн бұрын

@@helljester8097 No dogs. Only cats.

We should bring back copper+transparent coolers. Like the HIS IceQ series. Edit: IceQ not chill. Wrong name

@shaneeslick

22 күн бұрын

G'day @yensteel yeah I love the look of my HIS HD5770 ICEQ5 Turbo

@yensteel

21 күн бұрын

@@shaneeslick Oh, the cooling name may have been wrong. The HIS IceQ were definitely quiet coolers! Some of them were blowers with a quiet radial fan, and a transparent shroud. ^ ^

@banko-xv4rt

21 күн бұрын

I LOVE BARE COPPER!!!

@kevinerbs2778

21 күн бұрын

Those where the best blower card coolers ever made, they have hybrid fan design inside of them too. I'm sick of this nickel plated bullcrap nickel is NOT a good conductor it's actually 3-5 times worse than aluminium.

@kasuraga

21 күн бұрын

I have a pair of HD4830 IceQ 4's awesome looking coolers, even if most of the copper is just painted aluminum

The only way something made by Thermaltake to last 20 years is in a sealed box.

@der8auer-en

22 күн бұрын

hahahaha

@ocudagledam

19 күн бұрын

I don't know of any water cooling kits that can last 20 years while in use.

@burrfoottopknot

14 күн бұрын

@@ocudagledam TT have a track record of poor build quality IMHO

Oh boy please make that 8800GTX video, such a legendary card

@DrNoBrazil

22 күн бұрын

1080 ti is the ultimate legend

@ChrispyNut

21 күн бұрын

Really not, the GT[512] way more legend.

@puciohenzap891

21 күн бұрын

@@ChrispyNut 8800/9800GT 512MB was legendary, so was the 9600GSO 384MB but as a budget offering. HD2900XT from ATI was legendary...bad, as was the Nvidia FX5950 Ultra few years before.

@Warmeister-zr2tg

11 күн бұрын

8800gtx was my first high end card and had them in SLI, good old days

Car coolant is good at preventing corrosion, but as you found, when something was covered in coolant and then the level drops exposing it to air, rust can occur. GM learned this lesson in the '90s, where vehicles were being driven with low coolant, but not low enough to over heat, so some parts were basically getting splash cooled only. Those areas would rust really badly and turned the coolant over time into a rusty slurry.

150 watt TDP what a time that was to be alive. I can only hope we can make a return to more modest TDP numbers. 400 whatever watts for the 4090 is just insane. If it wasn't performing so well it would just have been a reincarnation of the GTX 480.

@der8auer-en

22 күн бұрын

I loved my 8800GT with G92 chip back then. And it was 125W haha. Crazy how things got out of hand

@alexanderrybicki6270

22 күн бұрын

I want a desktop that consumes 2000W at idle.

@djchotus1

22 күн бұрын

Well. A 4060 is 110watt. And I bet performs way better than that old. Card. We're in the Golden age!

@petrihadtosignupforthis8158

22 күн бұрын

2080 > 4090 is roughly 3X performance jump. It is also 2.5x jump in power demands.

@Belaziraf

22 күн бұрын

@@alexanderrybicki6270 Next gen nVidia will allow you to consume 5000W with power off.

absolutely oxygenmaxxing in there with all the greenery

The little Terrarium with the light on the desk is a bit to bright, rest looks good!

@BrandensOutdoorChannel

21 күн бұрын

Too*

I love this videos! they take me back when I was a kid reading about this gadgets on magazines! It is awesome they still kinda work after 20 years!

Love these old cooler videos!

My first AIO video card was a EVGA 980ti. It worked really well at the time. Currently running a MSI Suprim that is also an AIO solution and doesn't look massive in the case. This was a fun throwback to watch 👌👌

I love HW legends episodes!

this hits me hard in the nostalgia I wanted one of these coolers so bad back in the day. back when Thermaltake was making their own designs Lol!

@quasaristmagnetar2658

19 күн бұрын

they still own their designs

Always appreciate how much effort you put into your videos!

love this kind of content, revisiting the good old stuff is so much fun!!

Nice studio Roman! Love the HW legends episodes. Any chance of DFI and Abit motherboards episode?

@Knowbody42

22 күн бұрын

I remember that socket 939 Lanparty board with an Nvidia nforce4 chipset.

@puciohenzap891

22 күн бұрын

​​​​​I had a few of them, the nf3, the NF4 UltraD and the NF4 SLI-DR Expert, should've never sold the last one, truly an idiot moment considering it had an athlon FX60 on it😢

@der8auer-en

22 күн бұрын

I have some DFI boards and also one abit board. Will check :)

@andrew1977au

22 күн бұрын

Definitely DFI, I had heaps of those boards back in the day

@puciohenzap891

21 күн бұрын

@@der8auer-en Please do Roman! Legendary OC boards - maybe some LN2 fun? 😀

To think this kit retailed for $75 is crazy value

@rayproductionsbackupchanne3862

21 күн бұрын

yeah that was before manufactures realized idiots are willing to pay upwards of 500% extra for something,

Flush the coolant out via the fill port and replace it all with distilled water, you could probably grab the contaminants with the syringe as well. I'm pretty sure coolant has a shelf life, so being 20 years old is likely Part of the problem as well.

The new studio has a fresh and lovely air. Congratz Roman , 'caz it looks awsome !

I personally really appreciate the effort you put into getting this piece of tech history working again. Thanks alot! Oh and these AIO's were really geared toward the tinkerers.

Those unknown pieces are crystallized coolant, quite a common thing with old fluid, I think the longest interval is 10 years for replacement. This one is 9 years past its zenith. PS:Next time you need to clean the radiator and also the heat exchanger because it will also be in it, the best thing is to rinse it all with vinegar water.

@GULIwer1980

21 күн бұрын

Yeah coolant is long-lasting but not that long-lasting. Nice video and nice studio.

@brandonroeder2461

20 күн бұрын

I have an AIO for my CPU that's used the same coolant since 2006, Feser F1 UV Blue. The ONLY thing I've added since then has been small amounts of distilled water into the sealed resevoir, eHeim Inovatek resevoir/pump. And that's every other year or so. 😂 Still runs clear and quiet.

@REPOMAN24722

15 күн бұрын

Glycerin based coolant is ever lasting. doesn't break down, 10 years in my car already. VW G13 coolant.

Thank you for showing old tech like this. It is quite interesting!

15:23 one of the reasons your content is some of my favorite. (aside from the great technical perspective) the unintended humor is always hilarious

Gratz on 200k subs!

Thank you for showing us such a cool concept!

I like the green colors and plant like accents in your new studio.

Still have my 8800GTX hanging on my wall, still working, still able to play Witcher 2 and things like this. Epic GPU series

I modified a CoolIt FreezeOne back in 2006 for my E8500, I still use it today for my 5800X3D. The only thing I had to change was the block, the rest ( including the vast majority of the coolant ) is all as it was in 2006 when I first installed it. Works like a charm still. I even have a backup unit I bought at the same time that's not modified at all yet, all original.

new studio: looks and sounds great to me!

I had the Thermaltake SLI version installed on two Geforce 7800 GT's. What I remember is that the performance was in between stock air cooling and custom waterblock. It was an improvement over the single slot air coolers.

Loving the new studio, very eco!

@der8auer-en

22 күн бұрын

thanks :)

Great video, Roman! Thanks for sharing!

New background looks good!

The whole 8800 family was legendary for the time. Great cards, and glad to see a unique version of one here!

DUDE I have three Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 8800GTXs in triple SLI in my retro rig. So sick to see this cooler!!! I even have a dead one on display occupying my vertical GPU mount in a Corsair 680x.

Oh I remember that thing. I periodically run into some hardware relics while browsing local flea markets. My best finding for now is CM aquagate with zalman WB

Nice studio!! Congrats! One feedback: the boards hanging on the wall are somehow blending with the boards on the desk.. maybe because of the bg colors?!

PLEASE more GPU modding like this! Show us how to hack up an AIO to cool a 3090! I LOVE this kind of GPU modding! Studio looks great man.

cool thanks Romen. great video as always

I still remember water cooling my Athlon xp cpu back in the day the tubes were the same size as your cooler in the video, I still have the water block but no longer have the other parts

I would describe it as a very calm place with an almost romantic atmosphere.

3:08 - actually preinstallied solution is combined water AND air cooling. So there is no TDP excess.

Love the reviews of retro water cooling kits. Might I recommend the Evercool Water Cooler Kit WC-202 for a future review? It too included a GPU water block, as well as CPU, and they are readily available on eBay. I had one back in the day and it was a beast to cool my overclocked Athlon XP mobile barton.

Given the increasing lack of PCIe Cards due to a lack of spare PCIe lanes, there's an opportunity to repurpose some of the PCI slots to handle blower-style liquid-cooling radiators. Dell themselves have marketed a GPU attached to a modern version of the TideWater, produced by Asetek.

used to love my old BFG 8800 GTX's running in SLI, could almost fry an egg on the side of the case they got HOT!!!

Would be cool to take a look at one of those external water cooling towers that were fairly common at the time.

abit stoned but I really loved the video 😅 i thought he would give up on the pump earlier.

I had one of these on my X1900XTX back in the day.

I love this kind of old hardware. would be neat to see more AIOs with different form factors like this. I was kinda hoping you'd fire up the 8800 though. I just dusted off an old 8400 since i needed a single slot gpu to get into the bios and change it from UEFI to CSM mode- my old Fury Nano wouldn't work in any of the other slots and it was too thick to put into the bottom slot. It was just sitting in a box with a bunch of other low-mid tier GPUs, but I now keep it in a safer spot since I know it still works and it saved me! I almost thought I'd gotten a bad motherboard with my new build, all is well though.

Really high hot spot may be because of clogged fins in the cold plate, or vad cold plate design in general. Early cold plates were quite primitive

you mentioning the video output chip in the TDP section reminded me they existed! I remember re-padding it whenever I was repasting my 275 gtx. what ever happened to them did they just become integrated into the gpu itself?

I remember playing on my SLI 8800 GTX & COD2 🎉

Ahhh my old tnt and radeon 9500 series just flash back

If you can have cats in this studio as well, i'm fine with it.

I miss all the cool aftermarket coolers Morpheus, Arctic Accelero/silencer. Larger blower conversions would be nice if you could easily convert to a 120mm ducting to get the heat away now that we are crossing into 400-600 watt territory

GJ Nice effort. Most people would just *try* to fit it in, give up, and later sell it on an auction Lol

I had the 8800 GTS (G92). Water cooled with a none full cover block if i recall correctly. I think it was my last card before I went full cover block. But what a great card it was. I could run crysis without peoblem.

- Video Content Suggestion - I saw something a couple of years ago from I think Anthony at LTT on 'Hypertec Immersion Cooling' or maybe the company is 'Submer', I'm not really sure. But it seemed like they had a new type of liquid you could submerge systems in that wasn't Novec and seemingly safe. Pretty sure it would make for a great video if you could get a tour of the factory or build system using it or something like that. I have always wanted an easy to maintain submerged PC!!

Nice Plants!

The Asus Aquatank card was a nice one, overclocked to ~Ultra speeds.

Computer hardware is so odd, often whenever I want something to exist, it isn't that it has never been done, it always has been, years ago but just never became a thing. I wish it was more common to see atypical but useful concepts turned into actual products each generation; even if they don't end up being widely accepted.

Never seen one back in the day, most water cooling was external that I came across in the early-mid 2000s. (usually just on the CPU and a big square box that looked like the PSU was mounted externally). It seemed to change overnight to AIO/Custom cooling with a reservoir. The popular reservoir I remember seeing was the DNA helix shape that looked like the thing from resident evil movies. I remember cases having 2 clear strips up the side that would light up and had fake bubbles inside, and cold cathode tubes lol.

@MmntechCa

21 күн бұрын

There was a bunch of them. Corsair I think had those that mounted on top of the case. I think Thermaltake had one that mounted in the 5.25 bays. Zalman's Reserator was the most I was most interested in. Was a fanless setup with this big cooling tower. Most enthusiast cases of that era had cutouts to run the hoses through. IIRC, Coolit had the first AIO as we'd know them today. I think they were a variant of the ones Apple was using in the G5 PowerMacs. Of course you had to have CCFL blacklights with UV reactive parts.

Impressive Roman, as to how far you are willing to go to get a product to function.. 👍😎

good enough for me, sounds good, looks good. so no problem for me.

Only problem with the new studio is the lack of kitty

Hmm,just another of "unobtanium"😊. I think,i can remember seeing it somewhere,and wandering,how cool it was.

Bring the cats to the new studio and we are happy.

Love these kinds of videos. One thing thou, so the card is rated at 155W plus 35W for the other components, and the cooler could manage 120W, just wondering how that could be described as a perfect fit? What am I missing?

That was a cool looking aio solution.

hey, love yours vids, could you find the MSI stirling engine CPU cooler to make a vid about it? couldn't even find a vid of it

@chrunchyhobo

22 күн бұрын

That's extremely unlikely, as it was a one-off prototype that never made it to market. It was a chipset cooler BTW, not a CPU cooler.

the impeller on my fish tank pump does the same, has to be squeeky clean.

Bought 2 coolermaster aquagate viva aios for old gpus a few weeks back. They needed a refill but something like a filter was gone to hell and clogged up everything. Happily these have a flow meter and i was able to take it out.

After all those years, I'd replace the coolant. Even now a watercooling coolant have around 2 year shelf life. At least the coolant and pump doesnt look like one from older Pauls Hardware system.

Dedicated cat studio space!

Roman strikes again! Couldn't be cooler (pun intended, of course!)

good job

I like the terrariums , the cat is missing , nice product , will it cool down a HD 7770 ?

Der8auer went Eco mode on set lol

Pretty crazy that a "cheap" small sized GPU air cooler is much better than what was the premium solution back then.

I have the old universal GPU waterblocks and I do wonder if the new memory chips like gddr6 work well with passive air cooling without heatsinks.

Hey look, its that brand new Alienware watercooling

Unless you're using a liquid metal thermal interface, nickel plating is practically unnecessary in consumer electronics. It increases corrosion resistance which is nice, and there's the aesthetic part of course. But a company opting to not use it to save on paying for the process in industry makes perfect sense.

for now overall picture is darker than before but quite nice!

Murphys law in full effect lol

looks like a sensorless brushless dc motor ，measure inductance and resistance on each phase and find a 3rd part drive can drive that motor

Tide water , With Tribe VX still have them and still working and where amazing , had also TT Original Tribe that i breaked down cause the pump had failed after a looooong time and replaced with tribe II , don't remember what card i had install in Tide Water but most posible was my x1900XT from noise was too high.

I love the all copper heatsink. Really cool to watch you fix this old thingy. I love my old PC parts that I never will use again. I think the pressure of the waterblock is not good since there is such a large difference from hotspot to gpu temp.

I still keep my Cooler Master AquaGate Mini R120 from 2008 and its still working good.

I think sapphire... Yeah the X1950XTX Toxic also had a AIO cooler on it similar to this

This was fun :-)

You can clean everything, add new tubing, maybe new mini pomp from other AIO, new clean destilated water but it still be 20 years old AIO.

Thermaltake was so close yet so far. If only they'd released something with a pump in the block we might have avoided all the Asetek drama. They filed for their patent in mid 2004 but I don't think anything utilizing it were sold to OEMs for another 1-2 years.

Great times.

Great stuff thy for english version, that cooler would be awesome in 2007 but now is not horible but kinda unusable. All in all great video i love it.

"Copper plate and copper radiator is nice because there are no mixed metals" ...Pump is jammed and performance is so-so anyway... Yeah I know this was old but still :D

I remember this and the subzero

wish Thermaltake was as good as it was back then

We missing the cat now as well roman.

I think most of us are still curious about the tech you used for your ai traslated video. any updates on that plan i thought that was so awesome

Cooler master aquagate duo viva