risking a 3090 is exactly what i expected out of this channel

@ffwast

2 жыл бұрын

Must have gotten close enough to the release of the 4090

@angeldust4200

2 жыл бұрын

Not just any 3090. One of the rarest 3090's in the world...

@mikepawlikguitar

2 жыл бұрын

If they don't fry it, Linus will just drop it later anyway 😛

@GrumpyCoffeeBean

2 жыл бұрын

Somebody has to do it...

@TheBeatDilla

2 жыл бұрын

Bumped you up to 400. You’re welcome. Good day, sir.

it seems to me that Alex is the perfect example of "knowing just enough to be dangerous."

@dposcuro

2 жыл бұрын

He knows enough that he knows he doesn't know as much as he should... And he knows that he really *should* have better tools, but deadlines are deadlines, and content is content. So, in the immortal words of this new generation: "Jus'fuckin' send it bud!"

@SergeantDude

2 жыл бұрын

@@tommitchell7294 he may think he's the smartest cookie but at least half of the office would run laps around him in just about any subject.

@eldeanogrande

2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of my CEO.

@han5vk

2 жыл бұрын

@@spunkmire2664 Please don't insult actual engineers by comparing Alex to them, thanks.

@JLneonhug

2 жыл бұрын

@@han5vk it's a joke, but mildly true, don't tell me the projects you work on aren't fudged together, be it lack of project management or lack of time/funding. Then engineering has to yolo things together and hope it works. If your projects aren't like that you're not really an engineer. Maybe software, which is basically is the IT guy ;)

Linus awhile back you asked what I wanted to see on the channel. This. This is what I want to see! Y’all using the workshop mythbusters style pushing the boundaries of pc tech.

@lucasrem1870

2 жыл бұрын

Running it on apple M2 only!

@numberpirate

2 жыл бұрын

Isn't it easier and shorter to type you vs y'all? Everyone knows you mean "all of them", so there is no need to go the extra step in differentiating between singular and plural. Or do you like looking hokey(rhymes with pokey)?

@joeyjohnsonson4341

Жыл бұрын

@@numberpirate typ mor smpl bc w'kno wht y'mean

@autumn-876

Жыл бұрын

@@numberpirate 🤨

@hexagon8899

Жыл бұрын

@@numberpirate the difference between "you" and "y'all" is less than the difference between "" and "isn't it easier and shorter to type you vs y'all? Everyone knows you mean "all of them", so there is no need to go the extra step in differentiating between singular and plural. Or do you like looking hokey(rhymes with pokey)?"

“We’re going to hack something up with an angle grinder and call it good.” - Alex, surrounded by thousands of dollars worth of amazing cutting machines.

I really like how Alex’s concepts and drawings always sounds quite good. But then we get to the practical parts…

@thatrealba

2 жыл бұрын

He was an engineering STUDENT, as I recall. He never finished. And this is why pretty much everything he builds is sh*t.

@arsenal4444

2 жыл бұрын

@@thatrealba makes for more entertaining content tho

@bbbbbbb51

2 жыл бұрын

@@thatrealba paid engineers build like shit too. Making an idea work is about more than the planning. Things often work on paper, but fail in practice. There are near limitless variables.

@littlejackalo5326

2 жыл бұрын

He was an engineering undergrad, who watches a lot of KZread videos of actual engineers. He thinks if he watches those KZread channels, uses their terminology, and gets Linus to buy him the tools that they use, that he can do actual engineering and fabricating. That half a million dollar shop with $150k worth of welding, machining, and fabrication tools and machinery, and he can't even solder a resistor on to a PCB. Everything he does turns out like trash. He couldn't even get the chiller to do anything more than look pretty with a laser cut sheet metal case and some LEDs. They need to get an actual engineer/fabricator on the payroll. He's just not it. It took him like a grand worth of cast acrylic and days (over several weeks) worth of labor just to machine the reservoir for the desk PC. He made like 20 failed prototypes. I don't get how or who he convinced that he has more abilities than he actually does. Had to have been Yvonne. Was an engineering undergrad, you learn almost zero engineering skills, and next to no fabricating/practical skills. It's mostly math and physics classes and that's why you don't become an engineer just because you have an engineering degree. You need to work at an engineering firm to become an engineer. Like doing rotations and residency to become a physician. He's like most engineering students. They may do really good in the physics/math classes, but couldn't screw two pieces of wood together. But I suspect that he didn't do good in classes either, considering he didn't finish.

@gerryjamesedwards1227

2 жыл бұрын

What I don't understand is how he can wind up in the job, and then still not bother learning what he needs to know.

As an experienced hardcore overclocker who spent many-a-day working with LN2 cooling and shunt mods this video hurt me... because it reminded me of my early days stepping into the hobby. Der8auer and the like make it look so easy after literal years of effort. But I enjoyed every second of this car crash and definitely want more content like this, thanks Alex!

@rstidman

2 жыл бұрын

I first overclocked a 486 dx2, so I feel your pain my friend. at least the cache and most of the other modern soc parts were external.

@WTP_DAVE

2 жыл бұрын

yeah im confused at the whole effort to use the chiller when ln2 is available

@farjam1990

2 жыл бұрын

LN2 OC is king, had my share of fun when it was real fun... lol

@matiaslgonzalez

2 жыл бұрын

@@WTP_DAVE I guess the point is to use a easier to get consumable, so distilled water instead of ln2

@everaimless

2 жыл бұрын

@@WTP_DAVE I'm confused at them struggling with the leaky chiller when they could have left a tub outdoors for some ice water for a plain water loop!

Alex and Kyle need their own video segments, they're hysterical together!

@Joe-og6br

Жыл бұрын

No

@notinterested8452

Жыл бұрын

😂is he African?

@LeanderLoomans

Жыл бұрын

@@Joe-og6br Yes

Preheating boards for soldering is actually one of the many unexpected uses for my 3D printer's heated bed. Very useful. Also getting plastic laminate pliable, softening glue. But most of all I use it to keep my dinner warm.

Alex: we have this super janky chiller, it might leak idk Also Alex: fills entire thing with expanding foam *Chiller proceeds to leak* Alex: surprised Pikachu face

@myaccount__7269

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome to LTT

17:48 That screen flicker was so perfectly timed with what Alex was saying about risking a card for OCing.

@LinusTechTips

2 жыл бұрын

The CPU wasn't ~quite~ stable and would occasionally crash right there. Opening the door and letting the 0° air in helped a lot -AC

@timu1960

2 жыл бұрын

@@LinusTechTips 🗿

@mars5268

2 жыл бұрын

@@LinusTechTips 🗿

@JoseGarcia-mi4ig

2 жыл бұрын

@@LinusTechTips 🗿

@Loyis

2 жыл бұрын

@@LinusTechTips 🗿

More vids like this please..... Wow the difference from the camera shy boy to the vids you are putting out on your own is massive, you (Alex), Linus, James, Riley, Anthony, Jake in no specific order for me are the core of LTT (on screen). I cant remember when I started to watch this channel, dam, it was something like in the 30k subs and the work you guys do on and off screen since then is truely remarkable.

I have that same Hakko soldering iron, and it is easy to accidentally set the offset instead of the temp. If done it can think that it much hotter or colder than it actually is.

@lucasrem1870

2 жыл бұрын

Sqeaky It's sponsored by TSMC, they sell more GPU chips if you do this at home!

@boz89

Жыл бұрын

What soldering iron is this? Does this one use the T12 / T15 tips?

@robmckennie4203

Жыл бұрын

the temperature offset thing is confusing as fuck, they call it temperature offset when it's actually a calibration, and it's easier to get to the calibration than the actual temperature adjustment. ridiculous design

@deth3021

Жыл бұрын

Yeah but they were trying to solder onto ground/power planes. So that iron just doesn't have enough grunt for the application.

@cavemaneca

Жыл бұрын

@@deth3021 nah, it definitely has enough power to do it. I use that exact same iron at work all the time.

"poor GPU, it didn't deserve any of this" *Looks at 3090 prices* Yes, yes it did.

@petersantana4986

2 жыл бұрын

blame scalpers instead

@petersantana4986

2 жыл бұрын

its also the flagship gpu

@Montisaquadeis

2 жыл бұрын

@@petersantana4986 actually that the 3090 Ti now NOT the 3090. Also I blame scalpers and Miners for these sstupid prices

@charmsly9506

2 жыл бұрын

@@Montisaquadeis yeah its not like covid or a silicone shortage exists

@will2brown50

2 жыл бұрын

@@charmsly9506 it's a combination of numerous factors

Watching this "solder-job" hurts me on so many levels

@EveryGameGuru

2 жыл бұрын

I couldn't even finish the video 😭

@LastOfTheRangers4090

2 жыл бұрын

I know it's hard, but I guess you'll just have to solder on...

@MTGeomancer

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it was something special. I'm an EE myself, and work with several hundred. You'd be surprised at how many don't know how to solder at all, it isn't something you learn in school. There was nothing wrong with their iron.

@stephm0

2 жыл бұрын

The audacity to blame it on the soldering iron too. That Hakko station is great

@stark5270

2 жыл бұрын

@@MTGeomancer I learned it in undergrad for Mechatronics engineering

You guys are really good at making things look more difficult than they are.

@thefish322

Жыл бұрын

Serioisly wtf

Can you please help me? I have a rtx 3080 turbo by gigabyte It's really hot and loud, Yes turbo sucks for home usage. I couldn''t find any waterblocks for it. How can I make it cooler?

Kyle wearing the Live Laugh Liao shirt cracked me up!

@Posichronic

2 жыл бұрын

It is comfortable to my eyes.

@Fay7666

2 жыл бұрын

That's gonna be a new product in the making, right?

"I'm not an angry person, I just like shouting at things" - Every electrical engineer ever

@askinperson2839

2 жыл бұрын

Every builder of things or solver of problems

@cheetahkid

2 жыл бұрын

Every engineer scream at the tools they don't own, lol, I do too.

@PhillipMaquiso

2 жыл бұрын

Every Engineer shouts at tools not working what it needs to.

you guys could've heated the board with a HEAT GUN FIRST. Lol. you don't gotta hold it up close and cook parts off or something, hold it like 12 inches away and day dream for a little while then check how hot it is

Absolute love the chaotic creative and risky mods to expensive stuff episodes you guys do!!

As someone who does soldering professionally, watching this really hurt xD

@flippy9133

2 жыл бұрын

I dont solder professionally and it still hurt

@R2_D3

2 жыл бұрын

Calling it ''soldering'' hurts even! 😉

@Jibberish81

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that was some of the worst soldering I’ve seen in my entire life. They go through all the effort of making a video about overclocking a card that very few of us can hope to obtain right now, and then just haphazardly glob some solder on the board, talk about how they could have done it correctly, and then just call it good for the lol’s. They didn’t even bother to use any cleaner on the board when they were done. Also, if you’re just going to solder another equal value resistor in parallel to cut the resistance in half, just desolder the original resistor and install a half value resistor. That would have been much more simple.

@Jibberish81

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertbrainard5651 That Hakko wasn’t really a bad soldering iron. It’s no Metcal, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not bad. Their big problem, as they correctly pointed out, was that the board was doing a very good job at syncing away the heat faster than the iron could heat the solder joint. They’re just too freakin spoiled and lazy to follow their own advice to preheat the board before soldering, or take other measures to get enough heat into the board fast enough to properly heat/flow the joint. I used to solder at an aerospace company and this heat dissipation issue is not anything new. They’re just lazy and spoiled.

@han5vk

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jibberish81 I share your frustration. I'd say desoldering the old resistor is definitely not easier though, at least in my experience. You run the risk of ruining the pad, and even if you don't you gotta clean it and all that. Piggybacking on top of the old one is faster and easier. Especially considering you have less thermal mass to heat up with more thermal resistance to the board, fighting its heatsinking capability.

Alex: *We’re gonna overclock this RTX 3090 with everything disabled. What could go wrong?* Canadians waking up tomorrow: *Where are the lights? I can’t turn anything on.*

@Neoxon619

2 жыл бұрын

That’s what happens when Linus isn’t in the room to reign Alex in.

@balmond4145

2 жыл бұрын

They got power issues

@Happiness-lp9fw

2 жыл бұрын

Don't worry i heard some canadians are working in a generator that uses honking to generate power!

@stevenbmeza

2 жыл бұрын

@@Happiness-lp9fw oof.

@chapel976

2 жыл бұрын

It's Canada, not Texas.

This new guy is my spirit animal... Cuz this was me working at my last tech repair gig. Every day is a discussion about how we are supposed to suffer without proper tools rather than just getting what we need to get the work done to the best of our ability.

Im only 30 seconds into the video and Im already loving it. Cant wait to see what Professor Alex has got for us today.

"Half a while" "Some fast" "Boot 'er up" Alex has to be the most Canuckian staff member at LTT

@13deadghosts

2 жыл бұрын

Boltr: 3090 Edition :P I would kill for an LTT Episode narrated by AvE

@markiep8477

2 жыл бұрын

If Alex doesn't play hockey, I will be disappointed.

@cdurkinz

2 жыл бұрын

You forgot "bippity boppity" (18:21)

@ShotGunner5609

2 жыл бұрын

@@13deadghosts I'd have a friggin heart attack from laughter if that happened. Especially the first 30 seconds while he uses a chansaw to open the box.

@tiny3678

2 жыл бұрын

alex's brother wayne lives in a small town called letterkenny

I remember in the late 90's early 2000's when the overlocking scene really took off, I had a conversation with a gearhead about it. Telling him "I swear squeezing every last frame out of a rig is exactly the same as tuning a car for every last pony." He looked so insulted that I would compare hobbies. Funny what time does to opinions like that.

@MiGujack3

2 жыл бұрын

That still happens to this day. Many car guys are really, *really* dumb. Tuners (the ones with dynos) would get along quite well with overclockers, both change computer values, both can blow things up too!

@YungEagle3k

2 жыл бұрын

Cars are far more complex, far more moving parts plus getting dirty while not getting dirty 😂

@YezzyHD

2 жыл бұрын

@@YungEagle3k While i dont agree what MiGujack3 said. But saying cars are more complex is a bit huh. Computers are probably the most complex things mankind has been able to come up with.

@glue_ostrich9600

2 жыл бұрын

@@YungEagle3k cars are honestly so much less complex. I don’t know a whole lot about cars but my dad is an auto shop mechanic and we are both into computers so I believe him when he says computers are much much more complex.

@taylorouellet7068

2 жыл бұрын

But it is true, they are similar in the way that you get more performance

I still think you should hook the "Chilltrocity" to a plate heat exchanger and use it to do chilled water loops.

Coming back to this channel after 2 months and the gpu crunch - Kinda gets my heart going! LOL

LTT: "the fastest GPU in Canada" Also LTT: *owns 98% of RTX30 cards ever made

@kai22333

2 жыл бұрын

they own like 5 bro

@DiarrheaBubbles

2 жыл бұрын

@@kai22333 Exactly

@MightBeBren

2 жыл бұрын

@@DiarrheaBubbles i was your 69th like... nice

@kai22333

2 жыл бұрын

@@DiarrheaBubbles next to miners that have hundreds

I think this is the first time we got to really see Kyle doing something other than standing around, looking mildly uncomfortable with Linus' exuberance. He's a lot more fun than I was expecting and I'm looking forward to seeing him in more videos. He's going to fit in great here.

@kenzieduckmoo

2 жыл бұрын

I have a feeling he's gonna feature heavily in LTT Labs stuff

@alcorza3567

2 жыл бұрын

He sounds like he's a South African. The accent is very unique.

@Willem_Lab

2 жыл бұрын

@@alcorza3567 I also got that idea when he started talking 😂

@whwhywhywhywhywhywhy

2 жыл бұрын

@@alcorza3567 if he's from South Africa there around 60 million people with similar accents

@n0ne0ther37

2 жыл бұрын

@@whwhywhywhywhywhywhy You would think this based on the population of the country but you're way off. With 11 official languages the dialects vary extremely. He sounds like an afrikaans native speaker and even then not all of those in SA have the same accent. As a South African I know I'm not spewing bullshit. Also, the numbe of afrikaans native speakers is only around 7 million, which is a lot less than 60 mil

This was great. I definitely prefer this kind of content from you guys!

One of my favorite videos on linus channel. I like the vibe and style and dirtines , just grate!

Hearing you got nearly 20% more performance out of the card without LN2 is actually pretty good imo lmao(6% from the k5 repasting and 12% over that) would love to see more.

@imadecoy.

2 жыл бұрын

I mean I got 19% performance boost on air out of my 6800 XT without ever opening up the card, though I wasn't starting at 390 Watts.

@kaiwenwu8148

2 жыл бұрын

Everyone can do it just on water, they just don't know how to use evc2.

@spdcrzy

2 жыл бұрын

EVC2 + shunt mod + full cover waterblock + sub-ambient radiator = Insane benefits for the price. And if you do it right, you can actually get a significant uplift for less than double the wattage. Plus it doesn't require constant monitoring!

@chrisakaschulbus4903

2 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see them mess around with liquid nitrogen

I hope Seasonic paid well for this, because this made a great promo piece for their power supplies.

Yoooooo!! It's really cool to see crazy stuff like this on LTT videos! A vast majority of content is everyone-friendly, accessible and understandable by everyone, a large amount is techie-minded with crazy stunts like the 5 mile wifi connection, and then the rest is really cool, extremely technical stuff like this!! Super love the variety of content, and I'm glad you guys aren't limiting yourselves to a smaller range of video ideas!

Every time I see that Water chiller I cry for the lack of hose clamps

Holy crap! And I thought MY solder joints looked bad! Thank you for making me feel better about my electronics skills.

@MiGujack3

2 жыл бұрын

If they look worse than this you REALLY have a problem.

Here is the plan: "To get a GPU..." Mission failed, we will get em next time

i just started my electronics classes for electrical engineering. this video is most of what were covering in a first year class lol

If you wanna try a cooling setup like this I have a few improvements. The use of copper cold plates is obvious, but considering the VRAM temps I would use forged copper VRAM heatsinks as I've experienced much better results with it. For conformal coating, try liquid electrical tape. Once it sets it does the job and can be peeled off with no residue. I use these to liquid cool a GTX 1080 with a Kraken CLC and NZXT G10 gpu bracket. I used liquid metal on the die to give it more of a fighting chance and I was able to overclock normally even with a 120mm rad and I'm sure something bigger would have done well with a shunt mod.

If you happen to read this, your going to want to do a factory reset on that Hakko unit as your issue is most likely when you "set" its temperature you actually set the temperature calibration. Its a common problem on that unit and the displayed temperature is not the true temperature but much lower.

@cdurkinz

2 жыл бұрын

This would explain why a Hakko was performing so bad I imagine. Was wondering that.

@mycosys

2 жыл бұрын

yeah that iron is definitely more than ample for the job, clearly some setting was wrong, ty

@waltm4674

2 жыл бұрын

@@mycosys yeah Ii use it to solder onto small copper plates at 650F with no issues.

Customer support: Which way do you think you may have voided the warranty on your 3090? LTT: Yes

@taylorouellet7068

2 жыл бұрын

It would go more like this. (GPU company- So how did you manage to void the warranty? LTT- every possible way.

That spray foam also comes in a special variant, made for sealing wells.

Love the more extreme overclocking videos thanx guys , question : why did Alex not just make a LN2 or Dice container ? Would have been more fun and less hassle :) . Or do a hardcore overclocking with CPU and GPU under sub zero :) .

i rememeber being a teen (1999) and my idea of ''advanced' overclocking was taking a room fan, pulling off my side panel on my 500mhz p3 with 64mb ram and a ati rage 128 16mb, then pointing it into the case. i got some pretty good results! stock 90/90, i had solid performance at 125/145 or so if not higher. i miss that

@TehButterflyEffect

2 жыл бұрын

I did exactly the same thing with a Celeron II and the same graphics card, in about 2003. I ended up frying the card and never bought another ATI card again. 😀

@FusionC6

2 жыл бұрын

@@TehButterflyEffect that card in 2003 wasn't any good for anygthing anyways lol

@TehButterflyEffect

2 жыл бұрын

@@FusionC6 Eh, I was playing games from 1999 and 2000 that my old Matrox card and Voodoo 3 had struggled with like crazy. I went from 2-3fps with the Matrox to 10-15 fps with the Voodoo, then 20-30fps with the Rage. I had one game it couldn't run, which is why I tried to overclock it. Combat Flight Simulator 3. 👍

@ShieTar_

2 жыл бұрын

Eh, that's still very modern. My first overclocking experiment started when I noticed that the 50 MHz quartz crystal in my Amiga 68030 card was not actually soldered in, so I went and got a 60 MHz crystal from an electronics shop and replaced it. Worked well for a while, then summer came and the system (with absolutely no fans) overheated after about 30 minutes. Plus, gaming back then didn't even care about the overclocking, since it was all designed to run perfect on the base model.

@callummcleish5281

2 жыл бұрын

@@ShieTar_ I had an es AMD Athlon 1100 in 1998 (dad was head of R&D at mesh computers) he "acquired" it from work written off as a dead chip slapped it in my first rig and overclocked it to 1.5ghz for me, he had it running a 3dfx guillemot voodoo maxi gamer phoenix with an incredible 16mb of memory on the graphics card, a 4gig hard drive and 256mb of sdram, best christmas present ever. my first upgrade after that was a matrox G400 dualhead graphics card that made games run in hyperspeed when the frame limiter was disabled then a voodoo3 then a geforce fx5900 then a winfast geforce 6800 and then a radeon 2900xt then a zotac gtx580 and now a gigabyte gtx950 a lot of other cards in between that I can't remember along with mobo,ram,cpu upgrades to the point I'm sitting with a semi decent rig (don't game much any more on pc) asus x99 deluxe i7 5960x gtx950 32gb dominator ddr4

I think my favorite part of Alex's projects is how they always turn out looking like my own projects.

@bagibadoo439

2 жыл бұрын

Except he has tools for tens of thousands dollar and does it on work time and it still always ends ups like shit. If i did something like this i would get fired (which would be fair)

Awesome! I'm gonna do this on my laptop!

@Gaetano.94

Жыл бұрын

I did it a while ago, made my 2080 Super from 80w to 150w and hardly increased the temperature. Worked really well, just make sure that your Ac adapter is rated for enough power.

love wild janky projects like these, my favorite kind of LTT videos, more, more, more! Just don't go too far and ruin the Canadian electricity grid

@CentigradeMind

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@LTV746

Жыл бұрын

The grid be damned! 13000!

The fact that you guys keep that card alive was a success for me. Nice job!

It's a shame you didn't have a watt meter on the wall to measure draw at the outlet on this. That would have been interesting to see.

@Br-Shaft

2 жыл бұрын

For what he said, the draw is over 1200w, judging by the low waste seasonic is know for you can put 10% over that

@MajorMokoto

2 жыл бұрын

@@Br-Shaft that was only an estimated draw. It's probably accurate but if something can be measured you should measure it.

If there's one consistent through out LTT videos, and there are a lot, it's that seasonic is definitely recommended.

kyle needs his own ltt series working with power supplys and alex working with gpus and linus well being linus jack of all trades lol !

Seeing this soldering job gives me so much more confidence in finally repairing the buck rectifier on my GPU ( I blew it up with a DIY eGPU setup by accidentally plugged in a 19V power adapter rather than a 12V) Maybe the card isn’t dead

@SuperTtKiller

2 жыл бұрын

Should be dead if there is no fuse

@c4sualcycl0ps48

2 жыл бұрын

@@SuperTtKiller I was thinking that maybe since the rectifier (what controls the voltage) blew, maybe everything downstream would be fine.

@SuperTtKiller

2 жыл бұрын

@@c4sualcycl0ps48 It could be...but 12v in core can kill it already, so 19 v doesn't help 😓

7:03 "Stick it into the toaster oven" - I can hear Louis Rossman scream at his screen all the way from here.

@AndreiKucharavy

2 жыл бұрын

7:32: I think at this point he just fainted.

I love seeing more Alex!! Fun video :)

So with the Hakko, people often mistakenly change the calibration temperature rather than actually changing the tip temperature. There is a way to reset it back to factory default. But the usually scenario is a user is trying to increase the temp and they end up setting it to max and it seems to be actually colder or poor performance.

I actually managed to get my hands on a 3090FE, and this was still one of the most painful videos I've seen on LTT.

@gamzeelmao1157

2 жыл бұрын

I bow down to your glory

@aydenistaken

2 жыл бұрын

i have a 1030 gt

@will2brown50

2 жыл бұрын

How's the cooler on the FE 3090. I've heard FE typically had poor cooling but the 30RTX series has rectified that issue?

@marciomicio

2 жыл бұрын

please reassure your card you'll never do something like this to her!

@TheRealLink

2 жыл бұрын

SAME. I re-timmed my Memory pads but not trashing the beautiful FE cooler. This made me cry a bit ;p.

Not surprising, the non leaded solder is suppose to take a higher temperature to melt, it saves the planet and your graphics card from dying. But is impossible to work with as leaded and unleaded solder don't form good joins, that's why Louise removes it and starts fresh when rebuilding a circuit.

@israelmxc

2 жыл бұрын

It doesn't really save your GPU, good old leaded solder is actually way better (in therms of long lasting lifetime) modern electronic solder joints can easily fail within 5-10 years while old school stuff still works. As far as I know its just a thing of saving money more than a enviroment or safety thing. Leaded solder must be worked with active air suction. If not the companies are legally accountable for medical problems. So not leaded means no legal responsability and saving money on not needing air extractors.

@greebj

2 жыл бұрын

so glad I can still buy the stuff so I can use it when I need to. On the scale of things destroying this planet a teensy bit of PbSn solder isn't enough to trigger my conscience

@scurvofpcp

2 жыл бұрын

Those newer solders are brittle as hell and god forbid whatever you are working on has a fine oxide layer or any type of electroplate layer, because that will be your fail point in like 3 years.

@DerrickRG

2 жыл бұрын

Saves the planet? Lol, no.

@0x8badf00d

2 жыл бұрын

@@israelmxc That's for the flux fumes. You still need air filter/whatever for lead free solder. There is bugger all lead vapor.

i love how they show the problems that happen

This is the first DIY video I watched without any intention of doing it myself. I love my 3090, it works wonders when running cad and doing design. I been spoiled so when I used someone elses computer and realized how fast mine is when running programs like cad, I'm great where I'm at.

@wzpu3283

2 ай бұрын

You should do some cad.

You gotta be careful soldering boards with huge heat capacity. It's always best to warm the whole board up and then use the minimum heat needed to flow the solder. While they're built for big heat spreading ability, there are still very fine traces especially around the GPU itself. Big thermal differentials can shear those tiny traces right in two.

@UNSCPILOT

2 жыл бұрын

Things like this make me happy to keep my sapphire 5700XT nitro+ as stock, much easier to keep reliability than trying to do.... this

@prashanthb6521

2 жыл бұрын

I just lost 4 days of SMD capacitor soldering only to know on the 5th day that many of them had cracked because of uneven heat / thermal cycling.

@etatsopa

2 жыл бұрын

@@prashanthb6521 that’s a bad time. You may need to invest in a heat plate my friend :)

@Kholaslittlespot1

2 жыл бұрын

Hot air station for the win

@EkiToji

2 жыл бұрын

I used to use a toaster oven I rigged a Tiny to so I could actually have an adjustable PID to deal with the temperature ramp in addition to the target temperature and soak time. Worked well enough as a reflow oven but not sure I'd trust it for something like this. Probably would have just masked off around the shunt resistors and then used a heat gun with some soldering paste and a flux pen to just go to town.

That whole intro to soldering was amazing..."look how much solder is in there?...whats up with this tip?...eww no not that flux...how do you lower this?" the perfect sounds of a professional at work HAHAHA

Maybe my fav linus tech yet. This guy is good and not methed out in any way. Thumbs up. Thanks

The best honest power supply ad ever! Go Seasonic!

Caution: this may void your warranty! xD Just stick it in the toaster! I absolutly love your borderline insane projects! Keep it up boys 'n' girls!

@BruceCarbonLakeriver

2 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHA XD

Alex :we don't have a full blown lab The new ltt lab : Are we a joke to you Future joke

@BobSentell

2 жыл бұрын

This episode is a demonstration on why they are getting one. It has been over a decade since I worked as an electronics technician and my eyes were still twitching.

@MiGujack3

2 жыл бұрын

Their whole lab plan seems extremely rushed. I expect them to do things wrong for quite a while. It's good to have more "labs" but LTT has a history of bad and undetailed benchmarks. They can't even match GN, considering their resources.

Kudos for giving it a try, but bringing a professional overclocker on the show is great

I did microminature soldering in the Military back in the early 2000's. You def need the RIGHT equipment to put those resistors on. It takes about 5 seconds--with the right tools.

FYI, Weller sells tweezer irons for these types of SMD resistors. They heat both ends of the resistor at once, and keep it from sliding around.

@phlooke

2 жыл бұрын

Now that sounds like something I should have bought or invented 10 years ago, I must have one

@Spritetm

2 жыл бұрын

Those are not super powerful though... probably wouldn't have worked to heat the solder up enough with that huge GPU ground plane wicking away all the energy.

@derekcheyne7066

2 жыл бұрын

Also were they in “A” or American mode or C? Im curious if there temp wasn’t actually the temp they thought. Or someone fiddled with it and accidentally reset their calibration curve. Ive seen that in more than one lab before before and you had to reset it to factory settings on those hakkos.

@tiegert1

2 жыл бұрын

These are garbage, the best solution is to use a heatgun to warm up the board and then use two soldering irons so you can connect both ends at once.

@Robertkopp84

2 жыл бұрын

2 times 40 watts are maybe enough to get some wieners hot. And you can get the big jbc with 2 irons for the price of a micro tweezers set.

You probably need to reset / re-calibrate the soldering iron - there's a video for that model that shows how to do it easy. Probably someone thought they were adjusting it and that's why its running cold.

years ago, I submerged my computer in mineral oil then put the coils for an ac unit into the oil and it worked beautiful. The sealed tank with the a/c coils and motherboard submerged in oil prevented condensation in the sealed tank.

You could use a water block if you put the card in a box with a dehumidifier, no condensation.

I loved seeing Buildzoid getting involved in a project like this. Love all the AHOC content!

@77Brainfreeze

2 жыл бұрын

His voice was instantly recognizable.

Alex + overclocking = this is gonna be an amazing video

I would really like to see this done with the EK block that cools both sides of the card, I bet you would get the scores you're looking for.

You monsters… OMG that poor board. Y’all just straight up evil. 7:33

6:50 I'm running that same iron, and have soldered far higher heat capacity components before with no problems. In that scenario what I'd do is place some al foil and kapton over the plastic components then carefully preheat the area with a heatgun to around 100C, keep the hakko at about 180C. Add some flux, then gently solder the new one making sure to use leaded (NOT LEAD FREE) solder or specialized low melting point solder (used by specialized components that cannot withstand 150C from an iron due to temperature gradients or whatever).

@xdog12

2 жыл бұрын

Could be that someone screwed with the calibration. I did it by accident.

@xdog12

2 жыл бұрын

@@MaritimesNB thank you! I just decided to live with my fuck up. It's not like I know what temperature it should be at anyway

@warasilawombat

2 жыл бұрын

I mean clearly they didn’t use enough flux so

LTT: ”Hardcore overclocking is very easy” Me who brunt down my GPU and CPU in 3 minutes: Yes indeed! Im pretty much an expert myself!

@matyo_

2 жыл бұрын

ahh yes

@stellisch

2 жыл бұрын

Now i look dumb because they changed the title of the video

@stellisch

2 жыл бұрын

Also, that's some nice sparkles

@matyo_

2 жыл бұрын

@@stellisch no they still said overclocking is very simple

@stellisch

2 жыл бұрын

@@matyo_ Shit! Now i look even dumber

reminds me the goold old days with two 7300GTs in SLI, having a potentiometer soldered onto them to raise voltage. once i was lazy and impatient so started raising voltage without a multimeter. that was an expensive lesson :D

That guitar pick was putting in some work on that thermal paste 😆

It bugs me so much that they're using a huge flat soldering iron tip for this... and FAT solder wire. Come on guys, i know yall have the budget for a good Weller and some .020 wire!

@Rexwizord

2 жыл бұрын

it is what it is. more money than sense

@agenericaccount3935

2 жыл бұрын

Calm down

@ioogy

2 жыл бұрын

@@agenericaccount3935 I really do 🤣. I've just built many an industrial control box using the right equipment... and it's one of those things that i notice on a lot of youtuber vids lol.

@LinusTechTips

2 жыл бұрын

We did use thinner wire for the final job, helped quite a bit. Also before this video we were already in the process of getting better soldering irons.. now that process is being expediated haha -AC

@oliverbevan2575

2 жыл бұрын

@@LinusTechTips even just a thinner tip on the Hakko would’ve made a massive difference

Kyle is such a cool guy (not an angry person 😄). Hope wee gonna see him more often

@KingLarbear

2 жыл бұрын

Is he new?

@Pseudomeaningful

2 жыл бұрын

And he’s South African !

@TheDigigram

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pseudomeaningful that bloody accent, don't hear it too much here in my corner of Aus, so made my heart beat green and gold again

@matthew9341

2 жыл бұрын

'Yah, shame man' got me lol

@TheDigigram

2 жыл бұрын

@@matthew9341 oh I miss that soo much 🤣🤣

@linus tech tips The solder on the componuts were likely Full silver, next time, try to melt the solder, and then Add some cheaper lead/tin/silver solder to the puddle, Then, use a solder revomal tool to suck away the mass, and then just use the bare pads and some fresh regular solder just fine with the IC's

"I'm not an angry person, I just like to shout at things" - me too! It's so liberating, especially when something annoys you, of course at the risk of sounding like a bitter/crazy individual. 😆

What I want to know is, if you stuck some passive heat sinks on basically everything that makes heat, then put the card outside on a bitter cold day (or maybe in an industrial fridge) with some blowy-mactrons maintaining air circulation; how much of an overclock could we get?

@Incommensurabilities

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if really cold, high-velocity air would have enough thermal mass to cool the GPU die using a passive heatsink. Everything else would be fine

@WorldLaughsWithYou

2 жыл бұрын

@@Incommensurabilities The thermal conductivity of air is very low, it would do well in a hydrogen environment as well as eliminating the concern of condensation.

@Plastic0Demon

2 жыл бұрын

I would love to see that. But I believe humidity might be a huge problem in that conditions

Your solder was spiking meaning you didn't have enough flux. The hakko 888d is totally capable of doing a shunt mod, but melting solder without enough flux is harder.

This entire video has given me more anxiety than listening to those stories about cave divers getting trapped in underwater caves in the complete dark. Thanks.

Frame Chasers did a pretty solid job of doing this.

Every time I see Alex I know something sketchy is going to happen. But I didn't expect this much sketchy stuff in sequence

I like this crazy duo, it's just as good as Anthony giving us the benchmarks on new GPUs and nerding about Linux.

I like it so much that it got so much more nerdy over the last 2 years... :D

Quick nerd trick for soldering! Melt the soldering wire above cold hard surface like a metal block or tile. When it hits the droplet will flatten. Use scissors or snips to cut a nice strip to lay between your contacts. Apply a little flux between the contacts and your solder strip. Downward pressure from and apply heat. no mess!

This guy has access to an entire workshop to do everything to a professional level, but yet every time he does anything on screen it's always a hack job...

Do a video on seeing how hard it is to brick modern day computer parts by basic tasks like overclocking and other configuration settings

@jsteezus

2 жыл бұрын

If you aren’t running a modified bios/ hard modding the component its extremely difficult to damage things with overclocks. You have more control with cpu overclocks so you can technically crank way too much voltage and fry your chip, but killing a graphics card via just changing sliders in something like msi afterburner is almost near impossible. If a gpu dies after running it at the highest allowed power limit then it wasn’t long for this world, and it would almost certainly have died under more stock conditions pretty shortly after anyway.

@rasmust8044

2 жыл бұрын

@@jsteezus It's also near impossible to fry a cpy today, i have overclocked my cpu and wrote in the wrong settings with instead of 10% to a 100% this just made the pc crash instently but with a quick bios reset it started normally

@jsteezus

2 жыл бұрын

@@rasmust8044 you are not likely to fry a cpu by entering too high a voltage and POOF the magic smoke, but within a couple months that thing will be toast. But yeah to overclock something so it literally catastrophically fails on you damn near impossible with any setting that is shown to you in any bios or software. And if it does kill it it wasnt the overclock but a fatal flaw that already existed that you found out right then instead of 2 months later.

@rasmust8044

2 жыл бұрын

@@jsteezus True I just meant it's hard to accidently fry it, but of course you need to test the cpu afterwards you uppd the voltage and clockspeed so its stable aswell to make sure it's properly cooled. And it's also easo enouth so any adult should be able to do it with a little bit of reasearch

If this video would be 3times longer, I would still watch it.

When using great stuff spray foam spray a little at a time then spray it with a little bit of water to cure it faster and you should be able to avoid that mess. Also should wait 24 hours to be sure the foam has cured

This was painful, beautiful, and I want more of this mad lad level stuff.

10:38 Forbidden cream cheese

Proper solder rework equipment is soo much needed for this sort of thing. They are totally winging it. Good luck guys! (ur gonna need it!) Plumbing skills would be a plus, wow at least put in a return pump to keep the coolant in the loop hahahahah

Not gonna lie, this is the jankiest tech video I have ever seen, bar none! Love it!