i really wish youd do a video dedicated to old janky watercooling solutions how people in the 90s and early 00s repurposed car parts etc to cool pc parts. Its so interesting but ive never seen anyone do a video about the history.

@ryanhamstra49

2 жыл бұрын

That would be cool!

@jeffrobertson3030

2 жыл бұрын

I concur!

@nazmulfahad3044

2 жыл бұрын

I can only imagine the level of satisfaction one got after the diy water cooling system was successfully built back then ngl

@bikerboy3k

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in those times and I've never even heard of it. Where you from?

@popanda3652

2 жыл бұрын

I love those builds

Oh Hey I made it into the video :D Some more info: The fountain pump was submersible and had a UV light on it, if you look closely you can see the socket on the left. The big black box is a reservoir from a Zalman Reserator XT and the water block is a Zalman ZM-WB5 also from that kit. And yes I still have the Reserator XT fully working but not in use :P

7:20 I think he was referring to his pc literally bending the shelf it was sitting on.

Okay, I really feel like Jay's keyboard/mouse mat vs. GN's modmats vs. Linus's desk pads really sums up the three channels. Linus is like "yahhhh colors! RGB! Oontz, oontz, oontz!" GN's like, "okay, we're gonna spend 45 minutes explaining what each wire does and what all the components are so when you get your [STUFF.] from Gigabyte, you'll know what exploded." And Jay's like "Here's a keyboard. And… a mouse. There. Go play games er somethin'."

@usefulidiot21

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. And being a mechanical engineer, it makes sense that I have the GN one, though I like all three channels.

@Redbikemaster

2 жыл бұрын

@@usefulidiot21 I'm only an engineering student drop out but I'd still want the GN one. It wasn't the engineering that made me drop out lol

@reedlarson302

2 жыл бұрын

What about Bitwits mats?

@knghtbrd

2 жыл бұрын

@@reedlarson302 I dunno, I follow Paul, but not really Kyle. Probably a great guy, but his videos don't strike a chord with me.

The sad part about the first one is that it's a lot cleaner than a lot of completed builds we've seen

@killertruth186

2 жыл бұрын

And has one of the most sought after GPUs.

@ZaMonolith1986

2 жыл бұрын

And painted the frame black

7:38 I don't get how Jay didn't understand what was so janky about that setup. It's obvious that the PC case is sitting on one of the most rickety shelves I have ever seen and I know it's rickety because I have the same one sitting next to me. I wouldn't set my router on it let alone a heavy ass tower.

@SharienGaming

2 жыл бұрын

and you can clearly see how much the board is bending under the weight XD i was like "will it break?" XD it was as if he was looking at the monitor and thought that was the PC XD

@camiblack1

2 жыл бұрын

when here did a close-up on the retro gaming collection and the Mobo Box was showing the angle thejanky shelf was at was giving me such bad anxiety I stopped the video.

@bazzakrak

2 жыл бұрын

Was also my thought of it, bit of a shame that Jay missed it

@PotterPlaysGaming

2 жыл бұрын

My apologies for making such a late reply..I wanted to comment I just had to move my almost if not 50 pound pc (ASUS Helios tower) off of my desk, It's so heavy it rocks and shakes both of the desks that I tried setting it on..,I havent been able to find anything that can hold it :/

@poketcg1592

2 жыл бұрын

Gotta take risks sometimes my dude.

I love janky systems. The creativity of people, whether out of need or laziness, is always a treat.

Josh Bell's jank was the particle board book case it's sitting on and the bow. I've watched a 5 gallon aquarium take so many of those out. Side note, I did a submerged mineral oil build in '96. Messy, but fun.

@Lemurion287

2 жыл бұрын

I was coming here to say just that...

@bepbep7418

2 жыл бұрын

I had a water cooled setup back then myself, I've always wanted to do a 3M Novec build.

@Drummin003

2 жыл бұрын

I couldn't understand why Jay or Phil didn't see the danger in that book case and the fact that the top was sagging about an inch from where it probably started. As soon as they put the picture up it was one of those "no, no, no, No, NO" moments.

@gorkskoal9315

2 жыл бұрын

OOH! DUUUDE lets here! how well did it work? wouldn't that nuke anything plastic on it: ya know like fans and ram holders?

@gorkskoal9315

2 жыл бұрын

and wasn't that when slashdot was still a thing?

Fun Fact: Back in the early days of radio, there'd be a water feature in front of the transmitter house, with fountains, which was used to cool the transmitter. Considering the God level voltages involved, combined with pipes full of water, and our lack of knowledge at the time, it would have scared the hell out of me to be in that building when it was running.

For any one wondering what Semi truck that was. It is a Freightliner Cascadia. I can tell by the cabinets and the window up at the top above the monitor. I think it's a 2018 or newer model. Those were very nice and very powerful. It does rock like a boat.

@LavenderSystem69

2 жыл бұрын

It's a 2016. Those are literally identical cabinets to what I had in my first truck lol

@Redbikemaster

2 жыл бұрын

Oh man I remember my Cascadia days. I don't miss those things. I'd joke with friends that they built the interior with eBay posts. Running a KW now that's my own.

The coolest tractor trailer setup I saw was a 42" tv mounted to the sloped roof of the cab and the Xbox tucked into one of the cabinets. He also had all the cables run behind the interior panels and audio was run through the truck's sound system (which was of course far from stock)

1:50 Those tabs look like they came from a box for something like an RC car. To reinforce the places where they run the twist ties through the cardboard.

@benzero

2 жыл бұрын

They are actually metal "straight brackets." Got a whole pack from Amazon and used them to secure the radiator and power supply as well. The final design will actually replace some of them with L brackets to make things more compact.

@Druid_Plow

2 жыл бұрын

@@benzero are you the builder? If so I would love to see the finished product.

@benzero

2 жыл бұрын

@@Druid_Plow Yup, I am :) I will try to remember to post some pictures when it's done, heh

@Druid_Plow

2 жыл бұрын

@@benzero nice. Good luck with it bro.

@benzero

2 жыл бұрын

@@Druid_Plow Thanks!

I want to see you guys do a frame like the PVC one that's functional to the water cooling. Use copper pipe as a distribution/reservoir and tap the GPU and CPU into it. I'm sure you'll find a place for the rad(s).

@thiagopepper

2 жыл бұрын

You sir, you are a genius. Definitely want to see that happen

This was a great video. As soon as Jay said burninator, TROGDOR! was the first thing that came to mind and I'm glad Jay didn't disappoint. It's been a long time since I've thought about HomeStarRunner. Phil out-dad-joking Jay and Jay just walking away. That cable management debacle made me laugh because even as messy as I am, I couldn't allow something to be that unorderly or chaotic.

@tswan137

2 жыл бұрын

Of course that came to your mind. That's literally where is from. "When Jay said toothpaste, I totally thought about brushing my teeth! Lol! 😆"

@usefulidiot21

2 жыл бұрын

Anybody who likes Homestar Runner and Strongbad is alright with me.

Hey @Jayz2cents glad you didnt notice the heavy fully custom loop computer, sitting on the bookshelf that the top shelf was sagging, but thanks for not going too hard on my setup. Also, the desk is a repurposed Sofa table we inherited from my wife's grandma.

@aaroncarrillo7

2 жыл бұрын

I actual said out loud, "Is Jay too distracted by all the retro games to notice the tower sitting there?!?!".

@Celician83

2 жыл бұрын

@@aaroncarrillo7 it is distracting. The NES was over by the TV in those pics, plugged in.

Those rubber tabs for fans have been around a while. I'm pretty certain you can reuse most, but some are sorta single use. Supposedly, they help with noise reduction by preventing vibration transference. It's a LOT easier than having to thread the fans' holes, you just stick it through and pull till the catch part pops out the other side.

@blahorgaslisk7763

2 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty certain Arctic used to provide those with their fans ten years or so ago. And I have a feeling Noctua used to have them. It's been years since I've used those rubber pull tabs though.

I ran console in my rig for years. Had a great setup with my Xbox 360 and then my PS4. Couldn't have done all my time without it. Always wanted to run a PC setup. Problem is wattage requirement and battery drain. Unless you owned your truck and could dump money into a battery, charging system and or a side mounted generator. PC gaming just requires to much energy demand to be feasible for most of your run of the mill truckers. Thank God for energy efficient televisions, consoles and mobile hotspots. Made me look back at the days when I was lucky to have a crap laptop or portable DVD player and made time on the road much more livable. Thanks for the nostalgia trip!

@aravindpallippara1577

2 жыл бұрын

You could go with some high efficiency parts and have a system that's capable of playing recent games within 300W reasonably. Watch out for amd's 6000 series desktop apus with ddr5 ram - they will absolutely be great igpus to game with

@LavenderSystem69

2 жыл бұрын

Am I the only one who idles the company truck if I wanna do some gaming? Gotta keep the broom closet cool if you wanna keep your hardware cool, and it also solves the battery drain problem...

@seaninman3899

2 жыл бұрын

@@LavenderSystem69 unfortunately I worked for a company for a decade that had Idle limiters. One time I got a Volvo that I could cancel the idle. Other than that. Unless it was over 78 or under 36 degrees. I was out of luck.

@LavenderSystem69

2 жыл бұрын

@@seaninman3899 Most of the time, all you had to do was wedge something between the driver seat and the throttle, so you could bump the RPMs just enough to trick the truck into thinking it wasn't just sitting there idling... hell, most trucks I've been in, you can set the cruise control at idle, and it overrides the shutdown timer

@KaitouKaiju

2 жыл бұрын

You could def get away with an efficient ITX build dedicated to gaming and media

Such an entertaining series. I love when you review average peeps systems. Jenky or not, cool af. Keep this series alive.

@gwils7879

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I don't think most of hate a janky system as much as Jay does. lol

Please do that “how we used to do water cooling back in the day” video! That would be awesome, take us along to the scrap yards!

I'm sure that Josh Bell was referring to the cheap bookshelf from Target that the actual PC is sitting on top of. Notice the top of the bookshelf bending under the weight.

@ianchristmas

2 жыл бұрын

I had one of those fall from less bending. Not too much damage when it's filled with paperbacks. Unlike a place to casually rest a pile of knives.

4:37 I had that mouse! It was my first ever optical mouse! It was such a novelty after having used rollerballs for years lol

when he said "My time of the month is all month" I felt that

Oh my god! That second one! I took apart a water fountain to make a water cooler for one of the first P90 processors off the line! We later just threw the whole board into an oil bath, but the watercooler water cooler worked better. Then, someone in the group had the idea to use the watercooler setup to cool the oil and the pump caught on fire.

I love these setup reaction videos, would be great if you could do more of them.

Jay if you are finding wood harder to get you should talk to your doc.

@alainmilette6460

2 жыл бұрын

There's also a guy at my gym who says he can help with that! Like in a steroid kind of way not ......... ahhhh nevermind.... curse my twisted mind!

I would LOVE to see you build out a system with old junk and parts like the old days, please do it!

@Sabrinahuskydog

2 жыл бұрын

Linus already did it with an old janky water cooler. That's why Jay won't do it.

@aidenbuterbaugh1478

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sabrinahuskydog but jay WILL do it, just wait and see

13:55 I used to have those speakers. Not bad, not great, just good. Yeah, they were the ones that reminded me that I was poor and had been spoiled by my pops' high end stereo system. Yeah, once you've heard the sound of some good quality speakers that cost $2k each, it's hard to listen to computer speakers.

@Haargeroya

2 жыл бұрын

It's me! I enjoyed those speakers for about 8 months until the right channel died and instead of repairing them I just bought a decent pair of bookshelf speakers

I love this videos! I actually get inspired to do my case with things like this. Thanks Team JayzTwoCents!

Jay do you remember when people was building custom heatpipes in home to increase the efficiency of those old aluminum fins radiators? The memories of those games coolers... I did shit like that, and i still do! Who had a internal fan mounted in the chassis anchored using metal wire using some chassis holes for a parallel/serial port... If only YT would allow to post pictures....

My first water-cooled setup was a Pentium 4 "Extreme Edition" (lol!) cooled with a Danger Den CPU block. The plumbing was made from Tygon clear tubing and all fittings/collars came from the plumbing aisle of my local Home Depot. The radiator was a heater core from a 1993 Mercury Topaz, which would fit 2 x 120mm fans almost perfectly. Another popular radiator back then was the Pontiac Bonneville heater core, but the Tempo/Topaz cores were much easier and cheaper to get. I know I scrapped that radiator long ago, but I think I still have that DD CPU block somewhere. I may also have an old GPU block from DD as well. If you're going through with that "retro water-cooled" video, I can try to hunt them down for you. That is authentic stuff from 2004-2005-ish!!

@xuser48

2 жыл бұрын

I have the parts of an old P4 setup. The radiator came from some A/C. The block was milled out of copper at the local uni and then a Grundfos circulator pump. I haven't used it.

I used to be a truck driver and I had an itx rig in my truck with a 24” monitor. Even played VR in it, but I had to be careful and tuck away the monitor because I wrecked one playing it. Had a large RAM mount setup to hold the monitor. Made it easy to move it out of the way.

Jay you won me over with this video. this was a fun video to watch

Really thought my DIY test bench woulda made the cut. Oh well, until the next one. Some good jank was featured thats for sure still.

I literally just disconnected my dual PC's to redo my desk and cable management. Hopefully I get some good JANKY ideas! 😸

as someone who recently built an open air pc case out of sams club cutting boards, i really enjoyed this one. something about “making it work” type of projects is fantastic

15:00 I literally went to my door to see who was knocking, haha. Love the jank, suddenly I don't feel so bad about my setup. Thanks Jay & crew!

I had to give up on my Alienware with an intel 3820 a year ago, and I tried to save as many parts from it as I could. Only problem is that cases have changed a lot, and neither my psu nor optical drive would fit in the new case. I ROUTED ALL THE CABLES AROUND THE OUTSIDE OF THE CASE, and had the disc drive sitting on top above the exhaust. The thing looked like a fire hazard express, and it didn't help that the power supply kept falling off the desk while making horrendus buzzing noises.

@jonathanwessner3456

2 жыл бұрын

that was why i had to build my son in laws new system in a new case. Nothing would fit except their parts

@amogusamogus8490

2 жыл бұрын

cases havent changed. You bought a machine with propietary parts

@aul0s

2 жыл бұрын

A PSU would not be one of the priority items I'd save from a built to cost prebuilt, but I guess in this market we've been having you probably want to save every dollar when going DIY.

I also remember when we had to make everything for liquid cooling even the water blocks and hope we did not crack the exposed CPU Die when installing it. I think my first store bought water block came from Danger Den.

@rebeccaoneill4221

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, so, I wrote above that that weird piece of "industrial" metal Jay was weirded out about is actually from a Noctua air-fan setup, and it's usually installed on the back of the motherboard so you don't crack your CPU while installing a giant hunk of metal on top of it. So I find it fitting (heh) that it was used to hold down the CPU cooler block. :D

I should've sent in my home server. I didn't know you were doing another one lol As a trucker, I'm impressed how well you described our situation.

For me, out of all of the "jank" featured here...the PVC pipe case build was the best of the bunch...as just a cool idea. I wouldn't personally do it, but yeah...really cool!

that copper water block is from laser water cooling system. Back on the day you could buy cheap laser water cooling components. I've build custom dual loop with two pumps two radiators two water blocks on GPU and one on one on cpu with one common res for just over 100 bucks. And it worked way better than my current 360 aio that I bought for the same price.

Haha got a full dose of Phil cracking up in the background today, always gets me laughing.

8:50 been there, done that... As a wake-up call, it's unbeatable! The bump on the head was just a bonus.

haha so many memory´s seeing those old copper blocks.... brilliant video... cant w8 to see a video from u guys with old watercooling stuff

Comment within two minutes of release to help the algorithm? Definitely. Thanks for the content Jay and team.

Be sick to see someone do a p-frame, and make the frame itself a reservoir with liquid cooling

@Redbikemaster

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yes. Needs to be done with the clear piping that Brady uses on Practical Engineering

u havent done this in a few months im glad ur doing it again

1:16 Love this concept. He should buy an inexpensive case to cut out the motherboard tray with the entire back for IO shield, power supply mount, rear fan mount and PCIe slot brackets, then build the walnut case around it.

@benzero

2 жыл бұрын

Too easy ;)

first

@MrJohn0fficial

2 жыл бұрын

Yea

@simonmorlandalgotsson9127

2 жыл бұрын

/clap

This is my favorite topic. I can watch this all day long!!

13:01 I think that guy broke his tampered glass side panel and had to improvise

Loved it! Jay's Pizza analogy and Phils out-joking for the win!

I can't... The moment Jay got the joke and the jay.exe stop responding moment after is just priceless...

Respect for the trucker picture. Myself back in the day i made a shelf i could put on the dash and the side passenger door to hold my laptop on my downtime. For a while i had an Xbox and a monitor i would put on the dash. Poor monitor vibrated so much against the front seat i made a hole through the screen. I can't wait for the steam deck tho, that thing will be AWESOME for us trucker/gamers.

Love tha vids man. It's been few days since I've sat down & watched

When I was a long haul trucker, I had a similar setup. I had an Xbox 1 in my rig with a 20" TV and satellite TV. It was a good time.

enjoy these janks i like seeing other peoples set ups its so cool i remmber habing to hot wire my computer when the switch broke

Unhinged Systems' 2001 setup is my favorite. Take me back to those good old days. The best days. What's really crazy is I had that exact same sound system. Looking at that picture is like time traveling, man. Wow.

Really fun to watch

I love the "I gotchu - Phil" with the conversion - always refreshing to see bits of his silly humour in the edits :)

Awesome video. Love this type of content. This put me in a very good mood.

11:15 The first Flatscreen of my father (I was too young to have some PC stuff) was manufactured in 2006. Yes this is not one of the early flatscreens but still. And it works still I just replaced a year ago some caps on the power supply pcb in it and I hope it will work for another atleast 4 years to make the 20 years complete.

Love the creativity 😂

Great video. I'd love to see a techtuber version of junkyard wars now.

8:22 I've had that happen to me. The way the chair broke, I was on my back, arms still on the armrests, legs up on the seat. I went from sitting normally to sitting laying down. lol

Years ago, I used a Danger Den water block, with an aquarium submersible pump, in a 5 gallon aquarium with an oil cooler for the rad, that was about 8"x10". I had the cooler laying flat onto of the aquarium with 2x 90mm case fans mounted to the rad. It was a pretty small setup for the day for sure. I built like 4 or 5 of those setups for my buddies. My PC at the time, was an Athlon 750 over clocked to a 1000 with a Voodoo 5 5500 Video card... That system was awesome for the time. I still have the Voodoo and water block some where in my boxes of old parts.

The OG Gameboy not color @8:34 sold it for me. Thats some nostalgia.

I'm currently also building a custom wooden PC due to my motivation from these videos of yours. I'm on iteration 2 now as I was not happy with the 1st one.

10:33 I had about 7 or 8 computers in that white case on the floor in a computer Cafe in 2004. We rented them out for gaming. and one was reserved for business applications to rent time on.

I had the same radio as the guy he was showing at 10:36. remember getting it for christmas in 2000.

Oh I've done the dual PSU build, with the PSU primary rails soldered together so they would work from a single mains cable, and a car relay switch to make one PSU turn on the other, by grounding pin 13 of the secondary PSU when 12V went through the relay from the primary PSU. I found it the best solution back then as I was using several Seagate Cheetah SCSI drives.

LOL that was awesome. My Jankiest build was back in 2001 when I built a working PC from a bunch of thrown out PC parts that a friend of mine, who was a digital video editor, that worked for the company that would produce copies of movies to be sent out to the cinemas, brought to my place one Saturday morning early in 2001. He actually scavenged through a dumpster full of PC's parts that the Tech guys had thrown out and brought them to my place and said "Do you think you can build a working PC from all of this crap?". So we set about testing all of the parts to find out which ones still worked and then with a couple of my own spare parts managed to build a PC that could actually run WIN 98se rather well. Then in typical Aussie fashion we had a BBQ and got drunk to celebrate a successful DIY PC build, and the best part was that the PC we built continued working for several years being used as a server to host a MechWarrior 4 dedicated server.

good shit!! love the vids dude

1976 chevette heater core. That was a popular one for water-cooling back in the day. Welded on my own barbs. That's what I used for single 120 rads. I sold them as a side gig for awhile.

I'd love to see a part two, and maybe I'll submit my build. :). I like these vids of yours lately.

I want to see a version of this where people tried to build the normal way, it failed, then they did a jank rig of it and it somehow worked. Like having to zip tie fans into a case because the screw holes to install them caused clearance issues or stuff like that.

I would absolutely love an old jank style video, it may well get more engagement thatn you expect

Lol this video is reminding me of my first car. The hydrolics in the trunk was broken (hatch back) so I had to hold it up anytime I wanted to use it. The antenna broke off so I had no radio. I had to use a fork to move the ac/heat slide. It always froze shut in the winter. I had an after market radio which wasn't terrible. If it got too cold, I couldn't roll up the window and all winter long I had to physically grab the window to help it close. But by far, the worst part was when I couldn't put my car in park so I spent months each time it happened putting my car in neutral and throwing on the ebreak. But because it wasn't on park, I couldn't remove the key so I left the key in and had to take the radio out so it wouldn't kill my battery each time I left my car. All that said, I loved that car. She handled perfectly well in the winter, even better than any truck or suv I've driven and leagues better than my current car. Her name was Brandi and I still miss her.

14:10 I believe that's a Behringer UMC404HD Interface. Mix and Headphones on top and the bottom knob is the volume for the main outs for studio monitors. Great little interface!

im actually about to start my class 1 MELT this week so that last one looks great.

Most of these setups were really nice. Definitely thinking about building a wooden case for my next build now ^^

8:49 Maybe Josh is a werewolf and chews on the chair when the moon is out....

I'd watch a video on old school water cooling. Some others of us would as well I'm sure. Always good to get the history of where it came from.

17:35 really nice old skool aquarium water pomp next to an power brick

The peice used to clamp the water block down on knitsoaps build is a fan mount for an electrical install lol brilliant

The little black tabs for the fans are rubber anti vibration mounts, they are impressive for something so simple.

Putting the power bar with all the plugs in it down near your feet is epic win. The wall warts keep your toes warm.

please, pleaaaase go to the junk yard and make a build / video on it! I would love to see content like that! Keep up the great work. Love what you do!

i loved this Jay-nkey edition

Perfect video guys !! some of those "jank"" rigs took me way back to my childhood when "VOODOO" was a badass GPU :) omg I´m old :D !! LOVE YOU GUYS !!

Great to see some truck driver exposure! We do what we can out here on the road haha

OMG, that comment about having the C64 and the Nintendo hooked up together reminds me of my setup as a kid too! Except, I only had the 1 CRT screen and I had daisy chained the switches for both the C64 and the Nintendo together into the same TV :D

The first pc, with MDF, the fan brackets look like brackets used to mount server racks together. APC server cabinets to be specific, I’ve had those laying around everywhere in the datacenters at work.

Would love to see a DIY desk / built into a shelf PC case video along with maybe a JTC take on doing something like that. Either built into a desk or built into Ikea shelves or something like that

I would love to see a gaming setup -- forced conversion to work-at-home setup. I am in that situation and feel i did a decent job, but would love to see recommendations from others on how to improve it

this was awesome! im gonna have to find my old setup pix from over the decades! :D are you gonna do this again? I want in! :)

Back in 2006. I remember watercooling my cpu with a thermaltake gpu waterblock that I had ziptied to the cpu. Connected the loop together with some clear hose from home depot, a 12"x 18" transmission cooler from Napa, and a fountain waterpump that I placed in a plastic peanut container from Costco. I was close enough to the window with my setup so In the winter time I could just crack open the window a little but and the temps would sit around 40F on the cpu. Ambient temps outside in the winter were about 8F. It was so cool but so unnecessary at the same time.🤣

The whole desktop, not just the PC at 13:33 hands-down takes the 1st place blue ribbon, followed by the 4:28, (hold the cheese) *"Triple Meat Treat" Peter Piper laptop! LMFAO!* The IT guy for the blue ribbon PC definitely needs to take a course in cable management! The PC at 1:27 is totally awesome! *The design of his jig really look nice! If the final build turns out as good as this, it will be a true showpiece!* Hell, I'd take some good glue, some nice real walnut veneer and finish it as is!

I've got a car radiator, a pond pump and a home made water block on my Ryzen 9. It works great.

Man, that one from 2001... The nostalgia is real.