**The Ultimate PC Drop Test: A 30-Foot Fall**

In a shocking display of fragility, a computer was dropped from the roof of a building to test its survival chances. The crew, consisting of Mr. Yeester and his team, gathered around to witness the spectacle.

"I used a good foam," Mr. Yeester said nonchalantly, as if it were a everyday occurrence. "Yeah, yeah."

The conversation turned to the numerous heights from which the PC had been dropped prior to the final test. "It started with two inches," one of the crew members revealed. "And then four inches... 16... Stop." The PC had survived each drop, despite the increasing height.

As the team pondered whether it was possible for a PC to survive such a fall, Mr. Yeester quipped, "I'm surprised this made it through UPS."

Despite its warped motherboard and malfunctioning power supply, the PC somehow managed to fire up when connected to power. The crew held their breath as they waited for the fan to spin, which would indicate that the PC was indeed functioning.

"A few things are concerning," one of the team members noted. "Motherboard being bent, not ideal... Power supply having bits of power supply chunks flowing around."

Undeterred by the numerous issues, Mr. Yeester attempted to jumpstart the board using a screwdriver. Alas, it was dead. The PC's demise was met with a somber violin melody.

In conclusion, if you've ever wondered whether a PC will survive a 30-foot drop, the answer is a resounding "no." However, this experiment did demonstrate that a PC can survive falls of varying heights, albeit with increasingly fewer chances of success. The limit of a PC surviving a fall lies somewhere between 20 and 30 feet.

As Mr. Yeester summed it up, "The fact that this survived as far as it is, is incredible."

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Three, two, one.So you might be wonderingwhy I'm throwing a PCoff the roof.Well, when my buddy, Mr. Yeester, came byand wanted to test some TikTok tech hacks,things escalated quickly.But before that, I would like to testsome of my own theories andsuspicions about gaming PCs,and specifically if theygonna die on me or not.The first test is a very simple one.If you are, say, a firsttime gaming PC builder,you may not remember toput your CPU cooler on.Now, that's a bad thing,but exactly how bad is it?I mean, what's theworst that could happen?So, right now the system is up and runningand you'll see our CPUwith the stock cooleris sitting at 29 degrees.Normally, the way this worksis that this is attached to your CPU,the heat is pulledthrough that thermal pasteinto the actual aluminumor copper heat sink,and then the fans willblow it away, right?But without it, you cansee we've quickly spikedfrom 33 to 50 degrees Celsius.Now, technically, this isactually still with spec.Mind you, not for very long.But what will happen is thatas soon as it starts to hittoward the max temperature of the CPU,typically around 100 degrees Celsius,it will throttle back,and if that doesn't work,the CPU will just shut itself off,or the motherboard willtell the CPU to turn off.I will say there's a littleCPU LED which has come on,which is red now.I don't think that was there before.The motherboard knows things are not good.Wait a minute, it's leveling out.No.No.No.It's stabilized!What!This shouldn't be the way this works.We may actually need to boot the Windows.Now, mind you, as soonas I fire up Windows,I'm gonna assume thatthis is gonna collapse,but also, who knows.(Austin claps)We have Windows with noCPU cooler whatsoever.Oh, I wanna see what my clock speeds are.Clearly, this is not gonna lastbut for a minute or something.We're at two gigahertz.What!There's no cooler!Core Temp is showing that we are pullingeight, nine watts on the CPUand the actual CPU coresare sitting at 83 to 100 degrees,based on how I'm actually doing it.This might not die.Like this might just throttle itself downto the point where it's finewith zero cooler whatsoever.I think I need to Prime95 it.This will load up your CPU 100%.Usually I use this for stress testingand we're gonna stress test all right.1.4 gigahertz, so it's throttling.But what you're seeing right here, right,is this working exactly as intended.If your temperatures hit a certain point,the only thing the CPU cando is turn down the voltageand turn down the clock speed, right?Which, it's exactly what it's doing.We're down to 1.3, 1.4 gigahertz.It's much better to just slow things downthan to just throw the switchand call it a day, right?This will, I hope at some point,crash and turn itself off, right?Like that's the final fail-safe.Temperature's too high, youcan't bring voltage down,it just needs to turn itself off.But with zero CPU cooler,it is able to sustain 12-13 watts of load.Mind you, it might beat 100 degrees Celsiusand at 1.4, 1.5 gigahertz,but it's working.All right, the only thing I can think ofis I'm gonna start unplugging fans nowand just see if I can getthis thing to overheat.So now there is no airflowin this whatsoever.Now, mind you, I don't think the fansbefore were doing that much,but now they're especiallynot doing anything.We're at 1.3 gigahertz,so it is definitely throttling,but it's still working.So I guess the myth ofdo you need a CPU coolerapparently is busted.CPU coolers are optional.Go out and buy yourself aCore i9, a Ryzen 9 7950X,don't put a cooler on it.Totally fine.The purpose of a heat sinkis to pull heat away from the CPU,enabling better performanceand for it to not die,so I'm going to give it a heat blow.A heat gun.I'm gonna heat gun the CPU.All right, we're at max temperature.Is everyone ready?(heat gun whirring)Very warm, all right,I'm going to now heat gunthe CPU until it dies.Oh, it immediately dropped.Whoa, look, look, look.Immediately dropped to 0.2 gigahertz,but it didn't turn off!I'm not giving up.This is going to turn off.Come on, little guy.Just go to sleep.Yes!It finally turned off!That is one of the most insane experimentsI've ever done with a PC.Now that it's all stillvery, very toasty and warm,why don't we move on to whatI was originally gonna do,which is to cool it throughan alternative method.My friends, have you heard the word?All the cool kids, theydon't use air cooling.They don't use liquid cooling.They use dry ice.(ice crackling)(buzzer beeping)So, if you wanna go cold,one of the best ways to dothat is with some dry ice.Again, do not try thisat home, but let's seehow well using dry iceworks to keep my CPU cool.We have reset everything.Prime95 is back up and runningand CPU is exactly where it was,which is about 100 degrees Celsius,throttled, but functioning.Now, let's add some dry iceand see if it actuallyimproves our performance.I think it might.All right, we're just gonna put this on.Everyone ready?(dry ice squeaking)That's the noise of theice when I press it down.(dry ice screeching)is it working?Yo!My CPU got up to like 2.7 gigahertz!Okay, I got a big chunk now.How's that helped my performance?It's working!We've gone up to full 100% CPUand we're down to 82 degrees.We've solved it!I don't know what we solved,but we solved something.We have dry ice successfullycooling my CPU right now.We've got max clock speed, 3.7 gigahertz,which is as high as this will go.We're down to 50 degreesCelsius, pulling 47 watts.Basically the absolutemax the CPU can push outis being dissipated throughthis dry ice right now.What is going on? This is so cool!So what's funny about whenyou're just using a chunkof dry ice like this,it melts like a hole,like a square shape in the ice,so the ice is now like frozen down to itbut it's actually not making contact,so my temperatures have gone back up,but it's literally likefrozen on here now.Can you see that?So it's literally a squareshape on my chunk of ice.So the only thing I can think of nowis to just gently cool off my dry ice.(dry ice clunks)(Austin evil laughs)(fly buzzes)(Austin coughs)(Austin evil laughs)Now of course, not everyonehas an unlimited supplyof dry ice that will need to be replacedevery two to five minutes.Instead, may I offer a different solution?So it's clearly, we've establishedthat coolers are a scam,fake and not necessary.So instead, what if we cool our CPUwith nothing but thermal paste?Anyone thirsty?So now, oh no!Whatever will we do?My CPU temperatures aregoing through the roof.Well, why don't we take some thermal pasteand see if that will solve our problems.So let's just, let's go have some fun.Don't try this at home.Okay, so that's one tube.How are my temperatures?Is it worse now?So if you were wondering ifyou can just put thermal pasteon your CPU, that won't help,but if you're wonderingif too much thermal pastewill cause a problem,I don't think so.I think I have applied slightlytoo much thermal paste,but that's fine 'cause you know what?(thermal paste squishes)What could possibly go wrong?So we're just gonna justplug our CPU fan back in.All right, let's see if it works.Wait, it's actually working.I mean, I knew that, ofcourse it's gonna work.I am an expert here.Actually, you know what I will say?Even with a slightly largeamount of thermal paste,it actually didn'treally make a huge mess.Like I can't actually seeany of it around the cooler.And you've seen it immediately works.Our CPU's gone straight back to 100%and we're coming downin temperature slowly.Now, what does it look likeonce we've actually done this?Oh.- Oh!- Ew.Will thermal paste holdmy dry ice in place?Actually, look, it immediately spiked.It immediately spiked. It works!That was what I was doing wrong all along.I should have used thermalpaste, then my dry ice,not dry ice on my own.Man, what a dummy.So the other day I got thistext for my buddy, Mr. Yeester,the TikTok Tech Tinkerer.Do you guys have roofaccess at your office?Coming from him, thisis mildly concerning.What do we have here?- I need you to take a look at my PC.- Okay.- Might be dinged up a little bit, but-- Sure, sure, need a littlebit of troubleshooting advice?- Yeah, maybe if you can figureout what's wrong with it,that'd be really helpful for me.- Okay, sure, no problem, man.- You know, when you ship PCs,you never know what'sgonna get moved around.- Oh you know what, your graphics cardmay have gotten a little loose inside.That's probably it.All right, so, all nicely padded.You used a good foam.- Yeah, yeah.- Um....(crew laughing)Did you drop this PC, by chance?- I think the question ishow many times did I drop it,if I'm being honest.- What kind of heights didyou drop this computer from?- Well, started with two inches.- Okay.- And then four inches.- Okay, that's funny.- And then eight inches.- That's too much, I wouldn't do that.- 16- Stop.- And then 128 inches,and then 256 inches.- And it survived?- It survived.- I'm afraid, is it?(crew laughing)Whoa!What?- I'm surprisedthis made it through UPS.(all laughing)- Believe itnot, this PC still functions.- Well, maybe with some reassembly.- If we define function asif we can get into the BIOS.- Okay, that counts.- The part that is potentially the-- Aah!- Okay.- Look at the back!Look at the back!That's not the anglegraphics card should be in.- Well, speaking of angles thatgraphics card shouldn't be,this GPU kind of-- Aah!- Ooh hoo.- Do not do that to me!- It is in its own element at this point.- As long as the boardphysically stays intact.'Cause obviously theboard starts cracking,traces are all gonna be gone.It's gonna be a wrap.- If the CPU stays intactwith the motherboard-- Which it would 'cause that'snot gonna be that practical.It's not going anywhere.- And aslong as one stick of RAMstays in place.- Yeah, yeah.- And I guess the powersupply doesn't explode,then you're gonna be fine.- Let's take this to the roofand see if it will survive the final test.- Let's do it.- Don't try this at home.(Mr. Yeester laughing)So I don't actually knowhow high this roof is.I'm gonna say somewherebetween 25 and 30 feetis probably accurate.- It feels very high.It feels very high when you look down.- We'll just say this straight up.We are trained professionals.Do not try this at home.Okay, just gonna be very clear.Do not try this at home.Do you think it's gonna survive?- My money is that this will still work.What do you think?- I'm gonna say it's gonna die.Here goes nothing, are you ready?- I'mready, let's drop this PC.- Three, two, one.(metal clanks)I don't think that survived.I don't know about this one.Oh my God.So, CPU power's in.- Powers in.Motherboard powers in.- It's fine, dude.I mean, okay, fine is a relative term.I don't know, though.Look at this edge.So here's the edge of the board.- That is true.- It is like-- This board is warped.- So literally without touching it,(bell dings)we're going to grab power forit and see if it will fire up.There's no way a board whichis bent like this could work.There's no shot.- Hey, well, we'll find out.- Have we mentioned donot try this at home?- We are trained professionals.All right, let's power this PC on.So power is connected.You can see the motherboardLED is flashing.- Oh my God.Okay, so power supply's working.- Powersupply is working, man.- So if this fan spins,we know we're in business.But if it doesn't, wemight be out of luck.- A few things are concerning.Motherboard being bent, not ideal.- Yeah.- Power supply having bitsof power supply chunks flowing around.(power supply rattling)- Power supply should not make this noise.- No, it should not.- But I mean there's about 100 reasonswhy this shouldn't work,so if any part of it works, I'm impressed.So let's see if we can use a screwdriverto jumpstart the board.Here we go.I think it's dead.- The PC is no more.(somber violin music)- So if you've ever wonderedif a PC will survivea 30 foot drop, the answer isapparently, surprisingly, no.- Which means the limitof a PC surviving a fallis somewhere in between a20 foot and a 30 foot drop.That is what we have proven here.- Dude.- That was awesome.- I am very...The fact that this survived asfar as it is, is incredible.- Yeah, now we gotta finda place to bury it here.Do you have a hole pre-dug?(Mr. Yeester laughs)