**The Maintenance of a Soft Tube Loop Water Cooling System**

As we take a closer look at the inner workings of this soft tube loop water cooling system, it becomes clear that maintenance is key to ensuring its optimal performance. The owner of this system had been neglecting regular cleaning and maintenance, resulting in the buildup of debris and gunk within the block. This led to a significant reduction in the system's ability to cool the components effectively.

One of the first signs of trouble was the clogging of the tubes, which resulted in a complete shutdown of the cooling system. The owner had been trying to clean out the block, but it became clear that this was not enough to resolve the issue. In fact, even after draining the system and cleaning out as much debris as possible, the block still suffered from severe degradation. This is especially concerning when you consider that the owner has pets and uses a vaporizer, both of which can accelerate the process of degradation within the system.

The use of an old CPU fan also became apparent during this inspection. The fan had been used since its installation and was now showing signs of significant wear and tear. The fact that it had not been replaced or cleaned out for so long made it clear why the cooling system had started to fail. This highlights the importance of regular maintenance and cleaning to prevent such issues.

A recent experiment demonstrated what happens when a soft tube loop water cooling system is used with distilled water, particularly in an environment where there are pets. The owner's attempt to create a simple mixture of distilled water and Petey Nuke mix resulted in the collapse of the tubes and the solidification of the water block. This was due to the buildup of debris and gunk within the system, which caused the fluid to become clogged and unable to flow properly.

The use of an AI oh loop can sometimes make maintenance easier by providing a more straightforward cooling solution. In this case, however, the lack of hands-on maintenance became clear as we looked at the inner workings of the block. The fact that it was so difficult to clean out the block made us realize that we needed to come up with a new plan for maintaining this system.

**A New Build**

Given the difficulties encountered in maintaining this soft tube loop water cooling system, we decided to start from scratch and build a new computer from scratch. We chose to use an i5 7600k CPU, an Asrock Gaming case Z270 motherboard, 16 gigabytes of DDR4 RAM, and a brand-new power supply. We also opted for an EVGA 240mm AI oh cooler to minimize the need for hands-on maintenance.

One of the key upgrades we made was inverting the power supply upside down so that it pulls air from the vented shroud rather than the floor. This move is crucial when dealing with a system that will be on carpet, as it prevents the buildup of dust and debris within the power supply. We chose to use a tempered glass side panel from Fractal Design, which not only looks great but also provides an easy way to inspect the components.

The result of our new build is a system that can handle demanding games at high resolutions with ease. The i5 7600k CPU paired with the EVGA 240mm AI oh cooler allows for seamless cooling and reduced noise levels. With this system, we hope to provide a better experience for the owner, who will no longer have to deal with the hassle of regular maintenance.

**A New Perspective on Water Cooling**

While water cooling can be a complex and time-consuming process, it is also an incredibly rewarding one. By providing a closer look at the inner workings of this soft tube loop system, we hope to highlight some of the key challenges that come with maintaining such a system. However, we also want to emphasize the importance of water cooling in providing optimal performance and reduced noise levels.

As always, our goal is to provide you with the information and resources necessary to build and maintain your own PC or server. We believe that by sharing our knowledge and experiences, we can help others avoid some of the common pitfalls associated with water cooling. Whether you are a seasoned expert or just starting out, we hope that this article has provided you with a new perspective on soft tube loop water cooling systems and the importance of regular maintenance.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys Jase $0.02 he remember a couple years ago I did a basic beginners guide on how to water cool your computer well here it is unfortunately it's in some serious disrepair and actually some stuff going on in here I want to take a look at the inside you can see this Inlet completely it's the inlet to the reservoir to the pump completely collapsed on itself so I'm expecting this block to be completely gunked-up but this is actually like an old athlon x4 it's a very low watt part and actually the owner said that it never even overheated and stuff which I believe because it's such a low wattage part but you know one of the best things we can do around here is you know take care of these computers and provide tech support for friends and family but it's also a serious need for an update so we're gonna kind of do two birds with one stone here we're gonna take this loop out we're gonna look inside of it and they're gonna build a whole new system to just deal with this so yeah let's go ahead and take it apart and see what's inside today's video is sponsored by Squarespace and whether you need a domain a website or an online store make it with Squarespace easy to use templates make creating an online identity even easier and doesn't require any coding or programming and when it's all one platform you never need to install patch or upgrade anything need a domain - but Squarespace has you covered there with their hassle free domain transfer registration and management Squarespace empowers millions of websites across thousands of different industries for people just like you so get started today by heading to Squarespace comm and starting your free trial and when you're ready to launch go to Squarespace comm / Jays two cents and save ten percent off your purchase of a website or a domain fortunately I can get this loop out in one piece because I don't want to have to disassemble this inside of the system but you can see at the bottom of this reservoir how it's all kind of black and gunky yeah I'm not sure exactly what that is I mean it could be growth normally growth has a little bit more of a green color to it not this sort of a black color but I have a lipstick as a bracket I have a feeling that what is inside the loop or at least inside the block that is completely clogged it up is the same stuff as this so we're gonna be completely building a new system the only thing that's really gonna get kind of transferred over here is the hard drive so there's a thermal paste thermal paste looks alright I mean didn't expect it not to be so here's our loop see comes out one piece so here's the excess PC block we can actually just take an allen key and undo these four and then see what's going on inside the block but first I have to drain it here's all that gunk I was talking about right here I'm pretty sure that's right inside the block looks like and one thing to point out though is this owner actually has a few dogs and you can see that as much as we tried to clean this out listen to that fan sounds CLE dried up this one's completely seized up it's important to really dust out your systems as often as you can if you have pets or you smoke or you vape or whatever we're near your computer then you're accelerating the level of which the degradation can happen to your fans right here these are old yet loony fans they were used when I gave them to him but yeah he's also a disabled veterans so I'm not expecting him to get down and crawl around all the time and clean this off but I'm just wanted to kind of show you what long-term use with a pet environment actually looks like on fans and stuff he would have noticed this a lot sooner had he had a more powerful chip that would have actually noticed when it was getting cooling issues so if you guys are wondering what this loop was this was just a distilled water with Petey nuke mix this was not a fluid like a premix or concentrate this was just straight-up distilled water I mean the tubes collapsed on themselves and then just sort of never came back it's kind of crazy Oh exactly what I expected to see ooh that looks like doo doo doo completely clogged it's even solidified so that's why there was no more water flow going through there look at that this could probably be cleaned even gonna know the truth like but yeah I don't think we're gonna even try that's pretty built up in there could probably wire brush that but what's the point I mean this is this water block is so old we're just gonna go ahead and do this quickly we are gonna build a new computer from scratch cuz it's time this computer was the CPU and RAM and stuff that he got at the time was near end-of-life and that was back in 2012 when we built the motherboard the RAM and the CPU the graphics card updated for him last year but or maybe a year before geez time flies all right let's do it so here we go his new tower up and running it's got a gtx 980ti it's got an i5 7600 k with an asrock gaming case six fatalities z 270 motherboard 16 gigabytes of ddr4 a brand new power supply and obviously we've got our EVGA 240 millimeter a i/o cooler in there so I was worried about gunk and stuff building up in another custom loop making this a lot more maintenance-free and a lot more easy for him to maintain and I think I say he's a disabled vet so I don't know how to get down crawl around on the ground or whatever trying to take care of this so you might have noticed - I installed the power supply upside down so it's pulling air from this vented shroud right here rather than the floor because the first thing I asked him especially after cleaning out the other case is will it be on carpet or on a desk and he said it's going to be down on the floor on carpet so I don't want pulling up dirt and dust and even though he does not he's not gonna let the animals in that room it's you know how animals are and hair and all that it will get and everywhere in the house so I don't want it sucking any of that dirt up into the power supply so we inverted it but as you guys can see Oh in the case obviously here is a define see from fractal design it's a tempered glass edition so it has a tempered glass side panel you can see in there a huge upgrade from his previous build which was like an Athlon x4 I think it was ddr3 and it was certainly a dated system so now he can play just about any game he wants at high resolution high settings I want him to be able have just maxed the settings out and that's what he can do now so what do my guys I just want to get bring you guys this video and show you kind of what happens with a soft tube loop that gets clogged up and gets gunky and give you guys more ammunition to be like this is why you shouldn't water cool but you know what doesn't matter that's what we do around here we love water cooling and I'm going to always advocate it but we did an AI oh and this one to make it as much less hands-on as possible anyway guys we're gonna go thanks for watching and as always I'll see you in the next onewhat's up guys Jase $0.02 he remember a couple years ago I did a basic beginners guide on how to water cool your computer well here it is unfortunately it's in some serious disrepair and actually some stuff going on in here I want to take a look at the inside you can see this Inlet completely it's the inlet to the reservoir to the pump completely collapsed on itself so I'm expecting this block to be completely gunked-up but this is actually like an old athlon x4 it's a very low watt part and actually the owner said that it never even overheated and stuff which I believe because it's such a low wattage part but you know one of the best things we can do around here is you know take care of these computers and provide tech support for friends and family but it's also a serious need for an update so we're gonna kind of do two birds with one stone here we're gonna take this loop out we're gonna look inside of it and they're gonna build a whole new system to just deal with this so yeah let's go ahead and take it apart and see what's inside today's video is sponsored by Squarespace and whether you need a domain a website or an online store make it with Squarespace easy to use templates make creating an online identity even easier and doesn't require any coding or programming and when it's all one platform you never need to install patch or upgrade anything need a domain - but Squarespace has you covered there with their hassle free domain transfer registration and management Squarespace empowers millions of websites across thousands of different industries for people just like you so get started today by heading to Squarespace comm and starting your free trial and when you're ready to launch go to Squarespace comm / Jays two cents and save ten percent off your purchase of a website or a domain fortunately I can get this loop out in one piece because I don't want to have to disassemble this inside of the system but you can see at the bottom of this reservoir how it's all kind of black and gunky yeah I'm not sure exactly what that is I mean it could be growth normally growth has a little bit more of a green color to it not this sort of a black color but I have a lipstick as a bracket I have a feeling that what is inside the loop or at least inside the block that is completely clogged it up is the same stuff as this so we're gonna be completely building a new system the only thing that's really gonna get kind of transferred over here is the hard drive so there's a thermal paste thermal paste looks alright I mean didn't expect it not to be so here's our loop see comes out one piece so here's the excess PC block we can actually just take an allen key and undo these four and then see what's going on inside the block but first I have to drain it here's all that gunk I was talking about right here I'm pretty sure that's right inside the block looks like and one thing to point out though is this owner actually has a few dogs and you can see that as much as we tried to clean this out listen to that fan sounds CLE dried up this one's completely seized up it's important to really dust out your systems as often as you can if you have pets or you smoke or you vape or whatever we're near your computer then you're accelerating the level of which the degradation can happen to your fans right here these are old yet loony fans they were used when I gave them to him but yeah he's also a disabled veterans so I'm not expecting him to get down and crawl around all the time and clean this off but I'm just wanted to kind of show you what long-term use with a pet environment actually looks like on fans and stuff he would have noticed this a lot sooner had he had a more powerful chip that would have actually noticed when it was getting cooling issues so if you guys are wondering what this loop was this was just a distilled water with Petey nuke mix this was not a fluid like a premix or concentrate this was just straight-up distilled water I mean the tubes collapsed on themselves and then just sort of never came back it's kind of crazy Oh exactly what I expected to see ooh that looks like doo doo doo completely clogged it's even solidified so that's why there was no more water flow going through there look at that this could probably be cleaned even gonna know the truth like but yeah I don't think we're gonna even try that's pretty built up in there could probably wire brush that but what's the point I mean this is this water block is so old we're just gonna go ahead and do this quickly we are gonna build a new computer from scratch cuz it's time this computer was the CPU and RAM and stuff that he got at the time was near end-of-life and that was back in 2012 when we built the motherboard the RAM and the CPU the graphics card updated for him last year but or maybe a year before geez time flies all right let's do it so here we go his new tower up and running it's got a gtx 980ti it's got an i5 7600 k with an asrock gaming case six fatalities z 270 motherboard 16 gigabytes of ddr4 a brand new power supply and obviously we've got our EVGA 240 millimeter a i/o cooler in there so I was worried about gunk and stuff building up in another custom loop making this a lot more maintenance-free and a lot more easy for him to maintain and I think I say he's a disabled vet so I don't know how to get down crawl around on the ground or whatever trying to take care of this so you might have noticed - I installed the power supply upside down so it's pulling air from this vented shroud right here rather than the floor because the first thing I asked him especially after cleaning out the other case is will it be on carpet or on a desk and he said it's going to be down on the floor on carpet so I don't want pulling up dirt and dust and even though he does not he's not gonna let the animals in that room it's you know how animals are and hair and all that it will get and everywhere in the house so I don't want it sucking any of that dirt up into the power supply so we inverted it but as you guys can see Oh in the case obviously here is a define see from fractal design it's a tempered glass edition so it has a tempered glass side panel you can see in there a huge upgrade from his previous build which was like an Athlon x4 I think it was ddr3 and it was certainly a dated system so now he can play just about any game he wants at high resolution high settings I want him to be able have just maxed the settings out and that's what he can do now so what do my guys I just want to get bring you guys this video and show you kind of what happens with a soft tube loop that gets clogged up and gets gunky and give you guys more ammunition to be like this is why you shouldn't water cool but you know what doesn't matter that's what we do around here we love water cooling and I'm going to always advocate it but we did an AI oh and this one to make it as much less hands-on as possible anyway guys we're gonna go thanks for watching and as always I'll see you in the next one\n"