my main concern here is that when we start doing thermal tests that the glue in the in the duct tape is going to start heating up and then letting go um so my money is on that graphics card cooler just dropping off the graphics card mid benchmark thats that's what i think is gonna happen here uh but maybe maybe it works out let's let's see its not firing up me just do that and im going to jump it because i think i messed up the power button oh no its not working oh no something somewhere is not happy my mouse is lighting up we definitely have power but its not responding at all to me jumping the power a few moments later everything's plugged in properly i was looking for any kind of actual assembly problems but it all seems fine my main thinking is that its probably thats cpu mounting like i just dont know what else it would be thats just make the system not respond at all like its not even tries to boot oh that's thats not a great sign i dont i dont think i havent seen that happen before im guessing the cpu wasnt socketed correctly and thats kind of the main problem that we had there im gonna reinstall the retention mechanism because i dont think tapes gonna cut it to be honest i dont think thats gonna work
now unfortunately were gonna have to do it like real losers and have the just stock retention retention clip in place take two i really hope its works this time i actually think the cooler is not as well mounted as it was before i just couldnt get it to sit the same way but anyway lets lets see if it fires up now oh someone's touching a fan but it is booting so thats that's good oh yes okay finally we have a boot i've sorted out the fan problem it was the fan cable that was in the way it actually had nothing to do with the tape job so that's that's got me all impressed with myself again oh no thats not good were um were already thermally throttling and were just at idle oh yeah the tape actually let go a little bit um there was no thermal contact at all although our gpu temps are really good i i need to i need to sort out that mounting thats definitely the solution because what was happening was that the aio pump block was kind of pulling down like this so ive anchored it across the top a lot better
okay so unfortunately something happened at this point which was exactly four minutes in where i think the temperatures kind of hit a crucial point where the glue and the thermal paste and stuff loosened enough and it kind of let go because there was this sudden huge spike so im actually going to stop the cpu because i dont want it to take the system down because i am curious to see if the gpu is going to be able to survive long enough half an hour in and uh were doing really well on the gpu its been sitting at 100 load this entire time and it's just been pegged at 60 degrees celsius now the the cpu was definitely not doing as well even with a light load it still kept going up to about 90 degrees celsius and then id push down on the block and it'll be okay for a bit but yeah so the graphics card is okay the cpu not so much
so at the end of the day the cpu mounting was the problem i i did not expect that i almost didnt even do the gpu because i thought it was just such an obvious waste of time and it actually worked out really well so the big takeaway from this video you can actually build a gaming pc using only duct tape youre just gonna have some problems with your cpu and cpu cooler mounting yeah so with that just very useful bit of information thank you very much for watching if you want to see more videos like this go check out the pop-up thing or subscribe to the channel whatever you want to do and until the next video thank you for watching bye
WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday we're gonna see if you can build a gaming pc using nothing but duct tape this is a terrible idea and it's probably gonna go very badly i cannot believe how ridiculous that looks like now for all good tests you need a nice baseline so for this i've actually run the pc fully assembled to see what kind of temperatures we get and in terms of gpu temps we're sitting at about 60c and when it comes to the cpu we've been having an average of about 60c this is after about 20 minutes of running so yeah let's see how close we can get to that figure with our duct tape mounting now the system that we're going to use for this terrible duct tape bondage idea is the old dirty craigslist system that i cleaned passive aggressively recently i don't want to damage any fancy new hardware so what i'm going to do is i'm going to disassemble this old system and then we're going to duct tape it back together hot not gonna need these pathetic things anymore i've already used duct tape to attach the ssd so that's like 50 of my job done now after disassembling the system i had a closer look at the retention mechanism for the the cpu mounting and it actually looks like it's removable which got me thinking i'm going to remove that and then actually socket the cpu using duct tape just to take it to the next level now that we have the entire pc disassembled it's time for us to get started with some duct tape now i'm gonna be using scissors to cut the duct tape which i guess is technically using a tool other than duct tape but whatever so we're gonna start off with a strip like that okay there we go that's that's one corner down then because the thing is it's not like we're really even gonna have like much mounting pressure keeping the cpu in the socket so yeah we're gonna have to hope that this is this is this is enough mounting pressure now i'm not gonna lie as far as socketing cpus with duct tape goes that is very professionally done look at that we are making a little bit of contact with the ihs which is unfortunate uh but that cpu doesn't get too hot so so i'm hoping it's gonna be okay that's quite confidence inspiring uh it is it is about as securely socketed as you'd want a cpu so yeah i'm unhappy with that let's move on let's move on to the next step yeah that looks fine i'm happy with that you know we may be assembling a pc with duct tape but we do at least want to do it with a little bit of pride you know i don't know i'd say that looks like a fairly solidly mounted power supply so now we need to move on to the next step which is possibly the most concerning part uh we're gonna have to mount the motherboard in the case i really love the duct tape cpu cutting it a little bit thinner so that you know it can kind of fit in the groove we don't want to cover the boot leds because we need those just cover a little bit of the heatsink like that okay there we go that's not meant to be weight bearing at all just to kind of keep the motherboard in place so that it doesn't kind of swivel out it like this i don't think this is really gonna do anything but this is starting to look real professional now we just need to see if the motherboard stays in place when we lift the case up gently gently does it if anything it actually feels sturdier using duct tape than it does if you mount it with screws that looks pretty good there we go and that works again super well this is actually going much better than i was expecting so far so now let's mount this sucker it's going to be very difficult to tape it in a way that isn't going to block at least a little bit of airflow through the radiator like i could kind of attach it over here like along these bits and leave the actual mounting holes for the side panel open i'm kind of thinking that's going to be my best bet to just tape it on here this is this is a right struggle it's already kind of in place this tape is so dope we're gonna stick it down as much as possible there we go the radiator is um semi-mounted it kind of feels relatively sturdy and it should stay in place again it's actually slightly sturdier than it was before because previously we could only use two screws in the top middle to mount it so it doesn't feel too bad but i do think the next step is to actually mount the pump block on the cpu so i've applied the thermal grizzly thermal paste i am also using the mounting bracket bits i'm not going to screw it down but i'm using it as a bit of a guide that may be cheating a little bit but we're still not technically using screws i guess just stick it down over the ram because i can't get it down in between the things we're gonna have to hope that works oh no that that looks a little bit like a botched lobotomy to me i don't think i don't think that's gonna work very well but at this point we're just gonna have to hope that it's fine it's time for another test lift to see if everything we have so far can withstand the rigors of gravity that looks perfectly fine okay moving on to the next step we are getting really close to it being done and aside from it obviously looking very stupid i'm actually quite impressed with how well it's turned out so far uh it didn't really it really has gone better than i was expecting it to uh although there is one very important part missing the graphics card at this point i spent ages whining like a little baby concerned about various ways in which my gpu cooler duct tape mounting could go wrong but then i had a genius idea about how to tape on the cooler now i just had a genius idea about how to tape on this cooler i'm gonna screw the cooler back on so that while i'm doing the taping i know that i have good thermal contact and then once i'm satisfied with my cooler tape job i'll undo the screws and then hopefully the tape will be able to maintain thermal contact um what did you do at work today honey oh i just duct taped a pc together that's that actually seems to be working quite well like it is it is definitely hanging in there so now we just need to drop it into the system and then we should have a fully duct tape assembled pc and then we just need to see if it catches on fire or not i guess oh yes there we go that is a spectacular looking specimen of a gaming pc i cannot believe how ridiculous that looks like my main concern here is that when we start doing thermal tests that the glue in the in the duct tape is going to start heating up and then letting go um so my money is on that graphics card cooler just dropping off the graphics card mid benchmark that's that's what i think is gonna happen here uh but maybe maybe it works out let's let's see it's not firing up let me just do that and then i'm going to jump it because i think i messed up the power button oh no it's not working oh no something somewhere is not happy my mouse is lighting up we definitely have power but it's not responding at all to me to me jumping the power a few moments later everything's plugged in properly i was looking for any kind of actual assembly problems but it all seems fine my main thinking is that it's it's probably that cpu mounting like i i just don't know what else it would be that would just make the system not respond at all like it's not even like a tries to boot oh that's that's not a great sign i don't i don't think i don't think i've seen that happen before i'm guessing the cpu wasn't socketed correctly and that's kind of the main problem that we had there i'm gonna reinstall the retention mechanism because i don't i don't think tape's gonna cut it to be honest i don't think i don't think that's gonna work now unfortunately that we're gonna have to do it like real losers and have the just stock retention retention clip in place take two i really hope it works this time i actually think the cooler is not as well mounted as it was before i just couldn't get it to sit the same way but anyway let's let's see if it fires up now oh someone's touching a fan but it is booting so that's that's good oh yes okay finally we have a boot uh i've sorted out the fan problem it was the fan cable that was in the way it actually had nothing to do with the tape job so that's that's got me all impressed with myself again oh no that is not good we are um we're already thermally throttling and we're just at idle oh oh yeah the tape actually let go a little bit um there was no thermal contact at all although our gpu temps are really good i i need to i need to sort out that mounting that is definitely the solution because what was happening was that the aio pump block was kind of pulling down like this so i've anchored it across the top a lot better okay so unfortunately something happened at this point which was exactly four minutes in where i think the temperatures kind of hit a crucial point where the glue and the thermal paste and stuff loosened enough and it kind of let go because there was this sudden huge spike so i am actually going to stop the cpu because i don't want it to take the system down because i am curious to see if the gpu is going to be able to survive long enough half an hour in and uh we're doing really well on the gpu it's been sitting at 100 load this entire time and it's just been pegged at 60 degrees celsius now the the cpu was definitely not doing as well even with a light load it still kept going up to about 90 degrees celsius and then i'd push down on the block and it'll be okay for a bit but yeah so the graphics card is okay the cpu not so much so at the end of the day the cpu mounting was the problem i i did not expect that i almost didn't even do the gpu because i thought it was just such an obvious waste of time and it actually worked out really well so the big takeaway from this video you can actually build a gaming pc using only duct tape you're just gonna have some problems with your cpu and cpu cooler mounting yeah so with that just very useful bit of information thank you very much for watching if you want to see more videos like this go check out the pop-up thing or subscribe to the channel whatever you want to do and until the next video thank you for watching byetoday we're gonna see if you can build a gaming pc using nothing but duct tape this is a terrible idea and it's probably gonna go very badly i cannot believe how ridiculous that looks like now for all good tests you need a nice baseline so for this i've actually run the pc fully assembled to see what kind of temperatures we get and in terms of gpu temps we're sitting at about 60c and when it comes to the cpu we've been having an average of about 60c this is after about 20 minutes of running so yeah let's see how close we can get to that figure with our duct tape mounting now the system that we're going to use for this terrible duct tape bondage idea is the old dirty craigslist system that i cleaned passive aggressively recently i don't want to damage any fancy new hardware so what i'm going to do is i'm going to disassemble this old system and then we're going to duct tape it back together hot not gonna need these pathetic things anymore i've already used duct tape to attach the ssd so that's like 50 of my job done now after disassembling the system i had a closer look at the retention mechanism for the the cpu mounting and it actually looks like it's removable which got me thinking i'm going to remove that and then actually socket the cpu using duct tape just to take it to the next level now that we have the entire pc disassembled it's time for us to get started with some duct tape now i'm gonna be using scissors to cut the duct tape which i guess is technically using a tool other than duct tape but whatever so we're gonna start off with a strip like that okay there we go that's that's one corner down then because the thing is it's not like we're really even gonna have like much mounting pressure keeping the cpu in the socket so yeah we're gonna have to hope that this is this is this is enough mounting pressure now i'm not gonna lie as far as socketing cpus with duct tape goes that is very professionally done look at that we are making a little bit of contact with the ihs which is unfortunate uh but that cpu doesn't get too hot so so i'm hoping it's gonna be okay that's quite confidence inspiring uh it is it is about as securely socketed as you'd want a cpu so yeah i'm unhappy with that let's move on let's move on to the next step yeah that looks fine i'm happy with that you know we may be assembling a pc with duct tape but we do at least want to do it with a little bit of pride you know i don't know i'd say that looks like a fairly solidly mounted power supply so now we need to move on to the next step which is possibly the most concerning part uh we're gonna have to mount the motherboard in the case i really love the duct tape cpu cutting it a little bit thinner so that you know it can kind of fit in the groove we don't want to cover the boot leds because we need those just cover a little bit of the heatsink like that okay there we go that's not meant to be weight bearing at all just to kind of keep the motherboard in place so that it doesn't kind of swivel out it like this i don't think this is really gonna do anything but this is starting to look real professional now we just need to see if the motherboard stays in place when we lift the case up gently gently does it if anything it actually feels sturdier using duct tape than it does if you mount it with screws that looks pretty good there we go and that works again super well this is actually going much better than i was expecting so far so now let's mount this sucker it's going to be very difficult to tape it in a way that isn't going to block at least a little bit of airflow through the radiator like i could kind of attach it over here like along these bits and leave the actual mounting holes for the side panel open i'm kind of thinking that's going to be my best bet to just tape it on here this is this is a right struggle it's already kind of in place this tape is so dope we're gonna stick it down as much as possible there we go the radiator is um semi-mounted it kind of feels relatively sturdy and it should stay in place again it's actually slightly sturdier than it was before because previously we could only use two screws in the top middle to mount it so it doesn't feel too bad but i do think the next step is to actually mount the pump block on the cpu so i've applied the thermal grizzly thermal paste i am also using the mounting bracket bits i'm not going to screw it down but i'm using it as a bit of a guide that may be cheating a little bit but we're still not technically using screws i guess just stick it down over the ram because i can't get it down in between the things we're gonna have to hope that works oh no that that looks a little bit like a botched lobotomy to me i don't think i don't think that's gonna work very well but at this point we're just gonna have to hope that it's fine it's time for another test lift to see if everything we have so far can withstand the rigors of gravity that looks perfectly fine okay moving on to the next step we are getting really close to it being done and aside from it obviously looking very stupid i'm actually quite impressed with how well it's turned out so far uh it didn't really it really has gone better than i was expecting it to uh although there is one very important part missing the graphics card at this point i spent ages whining like a little baby concerned about various ways in which my gpu cooler duct tape mounting could go wrong but then i had a genius idea about how to tape on the cooler now i just had a genius idea about how to tape on this cooler i'm gonna screw the cooler back on so that while i'm doing the taping i know that i have good thermal contact and then once i'm satisfied with my cooler tape job i'll undo the screws and then hopefully the tape will be able to maintain thermal contact um what did you do at work today honey oh i just duct taped a pc together that's that actually seems to be working quite well like it is it is definitely hanging in there so now we just need to drop it into the system and then we should have a fully duct tape assembled pc and then we just need to see if it catches on fire or not i guess oh yes there we go that is a spectacular looking specimen of a gaming pc i cannot believe how ridiculous that looks like my main concern here is that when we start doing thermal tests that the glue in the in the duct tape is going to start heating up and then letting go um so my money is on that graphics card cooler just dropping off the graphics card mid benchmark that's that's what i think is gonna happen here uh but maybe maybe it works out let's let's see it's not firing up let me just do that and then i'm going to jump it because i think i messed up the power button oh no it's not working oh no something somewhere is not happy my mouse is lighting up we definitely have power but it's not responding at all to me to me jumping the power a few moments later everything's plugged in properly i was looking for any kind of actual assembly problems but it all seems fine my main thinking is that it's it's probably that cpu mounting like i i just don't know what else it would be that would just make the system not respond at all like it's not even like a tries to boot oh that's that's not a great sign i don't i don't think i don't think i've seen that happen before i'm guessing the cpu wasn't socketed correctly and that's kind of the main problem that we had there i'm gonna reinstall the retention mechanism because i don't i don't think tape's gonna cut it to be honest i don't think i don't think that's gonna work now unfortunately that we're gonna have to do it like real losers and have the just stock retention retention clip in place take two i really hope it works this time i actually think the cooler is not as well mounted as it was before i just couldn't get it to sit the same way but anyway let's let's see if it fires up now oh someone's touching a fan but it is booting so that's that's good oh yes okay finally we have a boot uh i've sorted out the fan problem it was the fan cable that was in the way it actually had nothing to do with the tape job so that's that's got me all impressed with myself again oh no that is not good we are um we're already thermally throttling and we're just at idle oh oh yeah the tape actually let go a little bit um there was no thermal contact at all although our gpu temps are really good i i need to i need to sort out that mounting that is definitely the solution because what was happening was that the aio pump block was kind of pulling down like this so i've anchored it across the top a lot better okay so unfortunately something happened at this point which was exactly four minutes in where i think the temperatures kind of hit a crucial point where the glue and the thermal paste and stuff loosened enough and it kind of let go because there was this sudden huge spike so i am actually going to stop the cpu because i don't want it to take the system down because i am curious to see if the gpu is going to be able to survive long enough half an hour in and uh we're doing really well on the gpu it's been sitting at 100 load this entire time and it's just been pegged at 60 degrees celsius now the the cpu was definitely not doing as well even with a light load it still kept going up to about 90 degrees celsius and then i'd push down on the block and it'll be okay for a bit but yeah so the graphics card is okay the cpu not so much so at the end of the day the cpu mounting was the problem i i did not expect that i almost didn't even do the gpu because i thought it was just such an obvious waste of time and it actually worked out really well so the big takeaway from this video you can actually build a gaming pc using only duct tape you're just gonna have some problems with your cpu and cpu cooler mounting yeah so with that just very useful bit of information thank you very much for watching if you want to see more videos like this go check out the pop-up thing or subscribe to the channel whatever you want to do and until the next video thank you for watching bye
