The Importance of Proper Cleaning and Maintenance: A Look at Our AMD System

We started by taking a look at our coolant system, specifically focusing on the nickel plating. We dyed orange to test for any discoloration, and we're pleased to report that there was none. The coolant flowed smoothly through the system, with no clogging or blockages of any kind. This has led us to avoid using pastel-colored coolants in the future, as they tend to thicken and coagulate over time, causing problems with our system. We've also learned to avoid dealing with stuck coolant, which can be a real pain to clean up.

As we continued to inspect our system, we took a closer look at the CPU block. The flow plate and jet plate were extremely clean, with no signs of debris or blockages. This is why we don't experience any problems reusing this coolant - we simply drain what's left in the system and pour back in what we need. We don't bother doing a full flush, as it's not necessary for our needs.

With our coolant system taken care of, we moved on to the graphics card installation. We had originally installed a single slot card at the bottom of the case, but decided to swap it out for a dual slot AMD Radeon card. This allowed us to fill out the empty space and make the system look more aesthetically pleasing. The change also brought us some welcome slack in our PCIe slots, which we didn't have with the single slot card.

In terms of the graphics card itself, Phil decided to try out an AMD solution for his system. He opted for a Radeon card instead of an NVIDIA option, which had more advanced DLSS features and capabilities. However, Phil was concerned that he might lose some of these features, so we decided to give it a shot anyway. We were pleased to find that the performance was similar to what he would have gotten with the NVIDIA card.

As we continued to set up our system, we took a closer look at our storage drives. One of the drives had only three gigs of free space, which wasn't a lot considering its capacity. This made us realize just how much storage was needed in our system, and we're now better equipped to handle future upgrades.

Finally, it was time to power up our system and test everything out. We plugged in the power cord, capped off the motherboard, and waited for the system to boot up. As we waited, Phil installed his Radeon drivers, which gave us a chance to take a closer look at our new system. The CPU was running cool at 27 degrees Celsius, which is impressive considering the heat generated by the graphics card.

In conclusion, maintaining our AMD system requires regular cleaning and upkeep. By taking care of our coolant system and properly installing our graphics card, we've been able to create a reliable and efficient system that meets our needs. Whether you're a seasoned tech enthusiast or just starting out, it's essential to take the time to maintain your system regularly.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso this is our editing rig we're about to do some work to it so if you're watching this video either it worked or feels editing on his laptop nzxt's build is a quick and easy way to get a new gaming computer and right now they're proud to announce expansion and availability to australia the netherlands france and italy build a gaming pc on your budget using the built-in configurator and see exactly how your favorite games will perform want to build your own pc but still have the nzxt peace of mind warranty then the new bld build it yourself kit has what you want buy it and build it yourself and nzxt has you covered to get started configuring or building your next gaming pc visit the build link in the description below so this system is two years old now and we've cleaned it out more than what i've i know i've cleaned it once phil's cleaned it again and it's looking pretty gross but then again we live in a really and work in a really dusty area and our office is not exactly the uh yeah i mean because it's got drop ceiling in a warehouse and it's just dust is falling from the ceiling all the time we're gonna do three different things today that we have to do for this system one obviously it needs to be cleaned really badly let's look at the power supply dust filter in the back first of all look at that right there you you some more the other thing we have to do is we have to take out these two drives right here which are completely full and then we're gonna replace them with two new two terabyte drives which means we huh wow 10 terabyte drives so we got 20 more terabytes going in here so we're taking out these 20 terabytes we're going to archive them somewhere else later um then we'll get those drive capacities back two fresh drives are going in here uh so that means obviously we're cleaning it replacing drives and while we're in here i told phil's like we should get this 3080 out of here um phil ironically has the slowest graphics card of the three of us so i have a 30 90 in my system nick has a 3800 xt i guess i hate numbers i have a 30 90 in my system nick has a 6800 xt and then phil has a 3080. although 38 is probably faster than the 6800 xt even though both are water cooled going to put a better graphics card in here but what we're going to do is we're going to take the gpu out of the loop entirely so it means we also have to make a new run from this radiator to this uh is that the outlet yeah that's the outlet so we got to go from the return outlet to the rad then the cpu then out the brad and back to the thing the problem is i also don't think i have any of this tubing this exact size which means we're going to trigger all you by probably running a different tube from there to there like a black one i could just replace all the tubing with black tubing but i don't wanna that's funny this is one of those systems that we built to like really show off threadripper 32 core 64 thread cpu uh like i said phil does all our rendering on this but really it's about being practical and easy to service which is why we did the soft tubing to begin with which a lot of people got mad at me for like you're the water cooling like hardtubing king why are you using soft tubing because carrying fluid from one component to another really doesn't matter how you get it there as long as you get it there the thing about soft tubing is the fact that we could take a cpu block off and still access our cp without having to drain the whole system and such all the way to drain right now but all right i guess we should just start with uh blowing it out this is gonna go well this is why it's super important to always have a drain in your system even if it's not at the absolute lowest point because technically those points are here in the radiator this is going to make life so much easier when it comes to servicing your system and i'm really torn in my brain i'm always turning my brain my brain is very torn but i'm very torn on whether or not i want to replace all these tubes with black or literally just replace that one because again this is a function over form system that has to just work it's a lot less about aesthetics and i have this is actually the first time in a long time that i've done any sort of system that's like stuck that has an actual fill port at the top a fill port for my fill i always say the nice thing about having a fill port on top which you can't see but you'll see it uh if you watch our build of this system which is two years old now it's nice i don't take any ports off of this reservoir to let the coolant out so remember air in jesus tight equals air out fluid in fluid out right so air in fluid out that's what we want that's the fluid dynamic we're looking for here i'm just gonna let this thing kind of continue to piss for a while yeah the official terminology aaron piss out hashtag fluid stuff so i have to let the air get up there if the air doesn't get up there it's probably a good idea replacing the tube anyway look it's like yellowing because of the orange fluid so i now have to disconnect that tube in that tube and we decided we're just going to hook them together with this so i have two fittings there for a stupid reason which is whatever it's fine and i have to do this without coolant deciding it's just going to boom okay we're good oh tighten that on there there we go it looks good yeah see i've seen worse in your rate my setups it's so tight on the tube this might be the stupidest looking computer thing uh oh boy better connect them real quick i can't because ah because i can't spin it i have to put the fitting on first nick nick i have if i let this down it's going to come out of there come on this ah see there it goes i need that bottle put over here so i can drain the tube and lower it fluid goes down not up sir i did that so this isn't hard i'll take this everything's gonna have a orange hue to it for the first time piece of cake you could do this at home so i want to point out the condition of the card after two years of use with this coolant this is actually the ek crow fuel coin if i remember correctly that we dyed orange uh look at that absolutely no discoloration whatsoever to the nickel plating no clogging of any sort that's why i've kind of gone away from any of the pastels because of the fact that they look nice but they are they're they're thick they coagulate they turn thick and jelly and they get stuck everywhere and i just don't we don't want to deal with that same thing with the cpu block too if you look up in there at the cpu block extremely clean there's nothing stuck in the flow plate or the jet plate at all so that's why i said i have no problems reusing this coolant so i don't i'm not doing a flush i'm just drained what we didn't need and pouring back what we need and we're gonna call it a day after that so now we gotta decide what graphics card's gonna go in here so i gotta rearrange all these because we're moving the car so we put the card originally like down towards the bottom slot one because we felt it look super empty with it all up high remember this is a this fantex case is designed to be able to put an itx system right here and so we ended up putting everything down low so it would fill out the system because we felt it looked really ugly and it triggered people and we love that we love we love to trigger people the other cool thing is because now we went from a single slot card back to a dual slot we don't have a missing pcie slot so phil decided he wants to give amd a shot and see how it's open is that going to be enough slack uh oh but this is one of the reasons why now we've gone with standard that sag so much you know what screw it it can sag i don't care and now that it's not water cooled if it turns out to be bad we can just throw a 30 90 in there the 30 90 would have been nice just because it has 24 gigs gigabytes of vram but again video editing doesn't use vram like you know doing 3d modeling and stuff does so it's just nice for him to be able to give this a shot now and then i asked phil i was like are you sure you want to lose the you know advanced dlss options and features and stuff on nvidia and he was like the only games i play here is pretty much rocket league i mean you do play star citizen and uh you know you're um halo infinite every now and then but honestly that's actually one of the reasons why i wanted to go md because you know i want to see what the performance is like i mean the pigtail looks dumb but nick hasn't complained about his 6800 xt but then again i don't think nick would complain oh yeah the coil wine but that's because of the water block that's 100 because of the water block all right so now we have to get these drives out of here it's been too long i shall fight for honor that's satisfying and just like that 20 new terabytes of i shouldn't leave that in the fan all right just like that we got 20 new terabytes of we could fit so many jc sense videos about two years worth we've actually figured out all right all there is left to do now is uh turn it on let it fill the rad and stuff top this back off um i'm about to power it up right now i guess to do that then phil's got to get his radeon drivers installed i'm fine we'll be right back maintenance like this is something we tend to do on phil system every year or so i mean phil already cleaned out the dust and stuff in this once but like i said we live in a very windy dusty deserty area we can't really help any of the dust that makes its way in here we really can't and we're done so theoretically well i have to cap that off first and then we're done but theoretically now phil's got two empty drives no longer you have two drives that are like completely and utterly full like how much storage was actually left on there phil i think one of them had like three gigs three gigs not even one single video yeah not even one video so this doesn't actually look as bad as i thought it would looks like a little barbell or a little dumbbell okay so yeah there we go cpu is at 27c all right guys there you go so we take you along for the ride on this little shindig now we've got two systems in the office that are completely amd nyx phil's mine's a threadripper but it has a 30-90 in it so yeah amd fanboys here i guess who'd have thought who would've thought that you guys would see us in our next video tooso this is our editing rig we're about to do some work to it so if you're watching this video either it worked or feels editing on his laptop nzxt's build is a quick and easy way to get a new gaming computer and right now they're proud to announce expansion and availability to australia the netherlands france and italy build a gaming pc on your budget using the built-in configurator and see exactly how your favorite games will perform want to build your own pc but still have the nzxt peace of mind warranty then the new bld build it yourself kit has what you want buy it and build it yourself and nzxt has you covered to get started configuring or building your next gaming pc visit the build link in the description below so this system is two years old now and we've cleaned it out more than what i've i know i've cleaned it once phil's cleaned it again and it's looking pretty gross but then again we live in a really and work in a really dusty area and our office is not exactly the uh yeah i mean because it's got drop ceiling in a warehouse and it's just dust is falling from the ceiling all the time we're gonna do three different things today that we have to do for this system one obviously it needs to be cleaned really badly let's look at the power supply dust filter in the back first of all look at that right there you you some more the other thing we have to do is we have to take out these two drives right here which are completely full and then we're gonna replace them with two new two terabyte drives which means we huh wow 10 terabyte drives so we got 20 more terabytes going in here so we're taking out these 20 terabytes we're going to archive them somewhere else later um then we'll get those drive capacities back two fresh drives are going in here uh so that means obviously we're cleaning it replacing drives and while we're in here i told phil's like we should get this 3080 out of here um phil ironically has the slowest graphics card of the three of us so i have a 30 90 in my system nick has a 3800 xt i guess i hate numbers i have a 30 90 in my system nick has a 6800 xt and then phil has a 3080. although 38 is probably faster than the 6800 xt even though both are water cooled going to put a better graphics card in here but what we're going to do is we're going to take the gpu out of the loop entirely so it means we also have to make a new run from this radiator to this uh is that the outlet yeah that's the outlet so we got to go from the return outlet to the rad then the cpu then out the brad and back to the thing the problem is i also don't think i have any of this tubing this exact size which means we're going to trigger all you by probably running a different tube from there to there like a black one i could just replace all the tubing with black tubing but i don't wanna that's funny this is one of those systems that we built to like really show off threadripper 32 core 64 thread cpu uh like i said phil does all our rendering on this but really it's about being practical and easy to service which is why we did the soft tubing to begin with which a lot of people got mad at me for like you're the water cooling like hardtubing king why are you using soft tubing because carrying fluid from one component to another really doesn't matter how you get it there as long as you get it there the thing about soft tubing is the fact that we could take a cpu block off and still access our cp without having to drain the whole system and such all the way to drain right now but all right i guess we should just start with uh blowing it out this is gonna go well this is why it's super important to always have a drain in your system even if it's not at the absolute lowest point because technically those points are here in the radiator this is going to make life so much easier when it comes to servicing your system and i'm really torn in my brain i'm always turning my brain my brain is very torn but i'm very torn on whether or not i want to replace all these tubes with black or literally just replace that one because again this is a function over form system that has to just work it's a lot less about aesthetics and i have this is actually the first time in a long time that i've done any sort of system that's like stuck that has an actual fill port at the top a fill port for my fill i always say the nice thing about having a fill port on top which you can't see but you'll see it uh if you watch our build of this system which is two years old now it's nice i don't take any ports off of this reservoir to let the coolant out so remember air in jesus tight equals air out fluid in fluid out right so air in fluid out that's what we want that's the fluid dynamic we're looking for here i'm just gonna let this thing kind of continue to piss for a while yeah the official terminology aaron piss out hashtag fluid stuff so i have to let the air get up there if the air doesn't get up there it's probably a good idea replacing the tube anyway look it's like yellowing because of the orange fluid so i now have to disconnect that tube in that tube and we decided we're just going to hook them together with this so i have two fittings there for a stupid reason which is whatever it's fine and i have to do this without coolant deciding it's just going to boom okay we're good oh tighten that on there there we go it looks good yeah see i've seen worse in your rate my setups it's so tight on the tube this might be the stupidest looking computer thing uh oh boy better connect them real quick i can't because ah because i can't spin it i have to put the fitting on first nick nick i have if i let this down it's going to come out of there come on this ah see there it goes i need that bottle put over here so i can drain the tube and lower it fluid goes down not up sir i did that so this isn't hard i'll take this everything's gonna have a orange hue to it for the first time piece of cake you could do this at home so i want to point out the condition of the card after two years of use with this coolant this is actually the ek crow fuel coin if i remember correctly that we dyed orange uh look at that absolutely no discoloration whatsoever to the nickel plating no clogging of any sort that's why i've kind of gone away from any of the pastels because of the fact that they look nice but they are they're they're thick they coagulate they turn thick and jelly and they get stuck everywhere and i just don't we don't want to deal with that same thing with the cpu block too if you look up in there at the cpu block extremely clean there's nothing stuck in the flow plate or the jet plate at all so that's why i said i have no problems reusing this coolant so i don't i'm not doing a flush i'm just drained what we didn't need and pouring back what we need and we're gonna call it a day after that so now we gotta decide what graphics card's gonna go in here so i gotta rearrange all these because we're moving the car so we put the card originally like down towards the bottom slot one because we felt it look super empty with it all up high remember this is a this fantex case is designed to be able to put an itx system right here and so we ended up putting everything down low so it would fill out the system because we felt it looked really ugly and it triggered people and we love that we love we love to trigger people the other cool thing is because now we went from a single slot card back to a dual slot we don't have a missing pcie slot so phil decided he wants to give amd a shot and see how it's open is that going to be enough slack uh oh but this is one of the reasons why now we've gone with standard that sag so much you know what screw it it can sag i don't care and now that it's not water cooled if it turns out to be bad we can just throw a 30 90 in there the 30 90 would have been nice just because it has 24 gigs gigabytes of vram but again video editing doesn't use vram like you know doing 3d modeling and stuff does so it's just nice for him to be able to give this a shot now and then i asked phil i was like are you sure you want to lose the you know advanced dlss options and features and stuff on nvidia and he was like the only games i play here is pretty much rocket league i mean you do play star citizen and uh you know you're um halo infinite every now and then but honestly that's actually one of the reasons why i wanted to go md because you know i want to see what the performance is like i mean the pigtail looks dumb but nick hasn't complained about his 6800 xt but then again i don't think nick would complain oh yeah the coil wine but that's because of the water block that's 100 because of the water block all right so now we have to get these drives out of here it's been too long i shall fight for honor that's satisfying and just like that 20 new terabytes of i shouldn't leave that in the fan all right just like that we got 20 new terabytes of we could fit so many jc sense videos about two years worth we've actually figured out all right all there is left to do now is uh turn it on let it fill the rad and stuff top this back off um i'm about to power it up right now i guess to do that then phil's got to get his radeon drivers installed i'm fine we'll be right back maintenance like this is something we tend to do on phil system every year or so i mean phil already cleaned out the dust and stuff in this once but like i said we live in a very windy dusty deserty area we can't really help any of the dust that makes its way in here we really can't and we're done so theoretically well i have to cap that off first and then we're done but theoretically now phil's got two empty drives no longer you have two drives that are like completely and utterly full like how much storage was actually left on there phil i think one of them had like three gigs three gigs not even one single video yeah not even one video so this doesn't actually look as bad as i thought it would looks like a little barbell or a little dumbbell okay so yeah there we go cpu is at 27c all right guys there you go so we take you along for the ride on this little shindig now we've got two systems in the office that are completely amd nyx phil's mine's a threadripper but it has a 30-90 in it so yeah amd fanboys here i guess who'd have thought who would've thought that you guys would see us in our next video too\n"