I Wasn't Going To Make A Video About This PC, But...

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**A Well Attached Fan That Works: A Experiment in Improvisation**

I was looking for a fan to attach to my PC case and decided to use a well-attached fan that I had lying around. The fan didn't need to be load-bearing, so I thought it would work just fine.

**The Final Touches**

To get the fan working, I needed to add some duct tape. I applied the tape and hoped for the best. If there was any issue with the connection, the duct tape should fix it.

**Building My Streaming PC**

For this build, I'm using my trusty old Corsair RM550X power supply. However, I don't think I need that much power for this build. Instead, I'll use the power supply for something else. This unit makes more sense to me, so let's hook it up and fire up the system.

**Testing the Power Supply**

I tested the power supply by connecting the power cables from a bin in my office. I'm not 100% sure that they're Corsair modular power cables, which would be really bad. But I'm 98% sure they are safe to use.

**The Result**

To my relief, nothing immediately exploded when I turned on the system. The beautiful green boot LED was all we were looking for. Now, I can power off the system and move all the components into the case.

**Choosing a Case**

I've decided to use the Corsair 220T case for this build. It's quite small for an ATX case, but it fits my needs. The other reason I chose this case is that I already had one lying around and didn't want to buy another one.

**The Experiment Begins**

We're not going to do any crazy benchmarks today. Instead, we'll see how the graphics card holds up temperature-wise with its special little cooler arrangement. The system is a bit noisier than I'd like, considering it's always running in the background.

**Temperature Results**

The temperatures are climbing quickly, reaching 70 degrees Celsius within a minute. This is not ideal for a GPU that won't be under high utilization. We're already seeing temperatures above 80 degrees Celsius after 10 minutes. I'll play around with the fan speed to see if it makes a difference.

**Conclusion**

Unfortunately, my experiment didn't yield the desired results. The GPU cooler arrangement didn't hold up well to temperature demands. This is not an ideal solution for gaming, and I wouldn't recommend it. However, it's been an interesting experiment nonetheless.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enmy streaming slash capture pc that i'm gonna build in today's video wasn't actually meant to have its own video i was just gonna build it on stream and then never have to talk about it again but then a couple of quite predictable david mistakes happened the first one was i made an assumption about parts compatibility which meant that once i had everything ready for the build i couldn't actually plug any of the capture cards into the system um and then the second mistake was i broke a graphics card on stream we're just i'm just gonna ignore it we're just gonna pretend like nothing happened there i'm gonna have to ghetto mod a fan into that cooler now so in today's video i'm gonna fix that stuff and we're gonna finish the build for my streaming capturing pc i had a couple of requirements that kind of fed into each other to create the compatibility problem that i had which meant i couldn't finish building the pc on stream requirement number one i wanted to be able to capture a signal up to 4k 60 frames per second while passing it through so that i could use the thing while capturing it and i wanted to be able to capture a couple of camera angles as well while capturing the thing which meant that i needed a couple of capture cards luckily corsair is one of like three companies that actually replies to my emails uh so i went hey you guys make capture cards would you mind sending a couple over for a build and they very kindly did they sent over a 4k60 pro and a cam link pro which are two awesome capture cards that i'm really excited about but i kind of misjudged what pcie interface they used which brings me to requirement number two requirement number two i wanted the system to be as small as possible so that it didn't take up as much space which meant i was going to use my favorite motherboard form factor m80x which also meant i could reuse the case from the lenovo leg ion pre-built so i bought an am4 m80x motherboard and got everything ready for stream and on stream realized that actually the capture cards use pcie 4x oh no this is not 1x not 1x like other add-in cards i guess was my logic there i don't know why i didn't check that but they they didn't fit in pci 1x slots and unfortunately i couldn't find an am4 m80x motherboard that actually supported two 4x pcie slots and a 16x graphics card which meant that if i wanted to use my trusty old ryzen 7 3700x for this capture system i i had to move to an atx system which solves problem number one and here is the savage 1660 super in question which you can see terrible things happen to it and i may or may not have accidentally ripped the the cables out of the fan connector it's still actually in the connector on the pcb and the most embarrassing part of all of this is it actually happened live on stream now i could try and surgically remove this connector and then solder this back on there and it it's it's perfectly fixable but what's the fun in that why don't we upgrade the fan in there but before we we sort out the whole heatsink situation let's just have a quick closer look at the pcb because it is hilariously oemy as you can see it is it is a tiny little pcb with a bunch of stuff missing on it i'm assuming that it's so that they can use the same pcb for higher-end models and they can just kind of solder the extra bits of memory and power delivery on there and then another weird thing about this pcb is that only one of the memory modules was lucky enough to be endowed with a thermal pad not entirely sure why that is maybe it's a comment on classism i don't know so what i'm going to do is put thermal pads on all of them if i have enough of this thickness of thermal pad now initially i was just going to use a full fat noctua nff12 on here the thing with that though is that um they don't quite line up very well so what i did instead was buy one of these super cute little nf a914 fans which not only is a more appropriate size for the heatsink it's also narrower which means hopefully this fan won't get in the way of any of the capture cards that we're going to put in the system which was a genuine concern with the full fat f-12 the first thing that concerns me a bit here is that we've got a pretty big gap in airflow here on both sides actually because that's where the stock fan normally fits in right so in order to make this work well i may do a little bit of a duct tape funnel not enough to actually block all of these fins because they do need air moving over them um but just a little bit of tape to block off that just spillage there so we'll do that later but first let's figure out how to actually get the fan on here and what better way is there to do this than cable ties and that seems like a relatively well attached fan you know all it needs to really do is hang upside down and blow air it doesn't need to be load bearing right so yeah that's that's okay that's pretty good and now the final thing we need to do is get some duct tape going and there we go hopefully that's a not entirely useless solution to this problem it should be okay because it's not like this is particularly high resistance uh so yeah i'm hoping it'll help at least just a little bit yeah i'd say that that's not too bad uh if you look in between the actual heatsink and the pcb it doesn't look like this cable tie is actually making contact with anything and um it's not conductive hopefully so yeah i think we should be okay this should be a functioning contraption maybe um or or it'll cause a fire either way it'll be exciting i mean that looks pretty cool i'm not gonna lie and if you kind of hang it upside down the fan doesn't fall off now all that's left to do is build my streaming pc for this build i think i'm going to use my trusty old corsair rm550x uh corsair did send over a 750 watt version of this unit for the build but i don't think i need that much power for this build and then i can just use that power supply for something else i think this unit makes a lot more sense so let's hook it up fire up the system to see if everything works and then drop it in the case um another reason that i'm test firing it is because i got these power cables from a bin in my office i'm not a hundred percent sure that they're corsair modular power cables which would be really bad um but i am 98 sure so i'm sure enough to test fire it all so let's let's just see like that and then there's a button okay that's a that's a very good start nothing immediately exploded and that beautiful green boot led is all we were looking for so now we can power it off and move all these components into the case exciting in terms of the case i'm going to use this corsair 220 t i think it's called for two reasons the first one is it's quite small for an atx case and the other reason is i i had one lying around and i didn't want to have to buy another case foreign now we're definitely not going to go crazy in terms of benchmarks today i just want to see how that graphics card's holding up temperature wise with that uh special little cooler arrangement that we have there the system's a bit noisier than i'd like considering that it's gonna pretty much always be running in the background so i may change out those stock uh corsair fans okay um the temperatures are are climbing they're definitely getting close to to 70 degrees celsius very quickly we're only about a minute into the match which means the temperatures on the 1660 super are already higher than they were in the stock configuration in the leg ion system um i i was expecting it to do better than this now bear in mind this is a very unrealistic use case for this gpu uh it's not going to be sitting at 100 utilization because i'm not going to be gaming with it it's pretty much a video out and an end bank encoder at this point oh those those temperatures are getting hot pretty quickly we're we're hitting 80 degrees celsius now that's not ideal this is after about 10 minutes let me quickly play around with the fan speed and uh we'll see how much of a difference that makes a few moments later okay we're about seven minutes in and clearly this gpu mod a la david is not a good idea uh for gaming at least i'm gonna keep it this way for a bit and see how it how it handles my use case like i mentioned earlier there's not really gonna be gaming happening with this system so uh yeah this kind of extended 100 load situation is not something that is not something that we're we're gonna have to deal with so it should be fine and on that sad note of pathetic failure it brings me to the end of the video thank you very much for watching and until the next video byemy streaming slash capture pc that i'm gonna build in today's video wasn't actually meant to have its own video i was just gonna build it on stream and then never have to talk about it again but then a couple of quite predictable david mistakes happened the first one was i made an assumption about parts compatibility which meant that once i had everything ready for the build i couldn't actually plug any of the capture cards into the system um and then the second mistake was i broke a graphics card on stream we're just i'm just gonna ignore it we're just gonna pretend like nothing happened there i'm gonna have to ghetto mod a fan into that cooler now so in today's video i'm gonna fix that stuff and we're gonna finish the build for my streaming capturing pc i had a couple of requirements that kind of fed into each other to create the compatibility problem that i had which meant i couldn't finish building the pc on stream requirement number one i wanted to be able to capture a signal up to 4k 60 frames per second while passing it through so that i could use the thing while capturing it and i wanted to be able to capture a couple of camera angles as well while capturing the thing which meant that i needed a couple of capture cards luckily corsair is one of like three companies that actually replies to my emails uh so i went hey you guys make capture cards would you mind sending a couple over for a build and they very kindly did they sent over a 4k60 pro and a cam link pro which are two awesome capture cards that i'm really excited about but i kind of misjudged what pcie interface they used which brings me to requirement number two requirement number two i wanted the system to be as small as possible so that it didn't take up as much space which meant i was going to use my favorite motherboard form factor m80x which also meant i could reuse the case from the lenovo leg ion pre-built so i bought an am4 m80x motherboard and got everything ready for stream and on stream realized that actually the capture cards use pcie 4x oh no this is not 1x not 1x like other add-in cards i guess was my logic there i don't know why i didn't check that but they they didn't fit in pci 1x slots and unfortunately i couldn't find an am4 m80x motherboard that actually supported two 4x pcie slots and a 16x graphics card which meant that if i wanted to use my trusty old ryzen 7 3700x for this capture system i i had to move to an atx system which solves problem number one and here is the savage 1660 super in question which you can see terrible things happen to it and i may or may not have accidentally ripped the the cables out of the fan connector it's still actually in the connector on the pcb and the most embarrassing part of all of this is it actually happened live on stream now i could try and surgically remove this connector and then solder this back on there and it it's it's perfectly fixable but what's the fun in that why don't we upgrade the fan in there but before we we sort out the whole heatsink situation let's just have a quick closer look at the pcb because it is hilariously oemy as you can see it is it is a tiny little pcb with a bunch of stuff missing on it i'm assuming that it's so that they can use the same pcb for higher-end models and they can just kind of solder the extra bits of memory and power delivery on there and then another weird thing about this pcb is that only one of the memory modules was lucky enough to be endowed with a thermal pad not entirely sure why that is maybe it's a comment on classism i don't know so what i'm going to do is put thermal pads on all of them if i have enough of this thickness of thermal pad now initially i was just going to use a full fat noctua nff12 on here the thing with that though is that um they don't quite line up very well so what i did instead was buy one of these super cute little nf a914 fans which not only is a more appropriate size for the heatsink it's also narrower which means hopefully this fan won't get in the way of any of the capture cards that we're going to put in the system which was a genuine concern with the full fat f-12 the first thing that concerns me a bit here is that we've got a pretty big gap in airflow here on both sides actually because that's where the stock fan normally fits in right so in order to make this work well i may do a little bit of a duct tape funnel not enough to actually block all of these fins because they do need air moving over them um but just a little bit of tape to block off that just spillage there so we'll do that later but first let's figure out how to actually get the fan on here and what better way is there to do this than cable ties and that seems like a relatively well attached fan you know all it needs to really do is hang upside down and blow air it doesn't need to be load bearing right so yeah that's that's okay that's pretty good and now the final thing we need to do is get some duct tape going and there we go hopefully that's a not entirely useless solution to this problem it should be okay because it's not like this is particularly high resistance uh so yeah i'm hoping it'll help at least just a little bit yeah i'd say that that's not too bad uh if you look in between the actual heatsink and the pcb it doesn't look like this cable tie is actually making contact with anything and um it's not conductive hopefully so yeah i think we should be okay this should be a functioning contraption maybe um or or it'll cause a fire either way it'll be exciting i mean that looks pretty cool i'm not gonna lie and if you kind of hang it upside down the fan doesn't fall off now all that's left to do is build my streaming pc for this build i think i'm going to use my trusty old corsair rm550x uh corsair did send over a 750 watt version of this unit for the build but i don't think i need that much power for this build and then i can just use that power supply for something else i think this unit makes a lot more sense so let's hook it up fire up the system to see if everything works and then drop it in the case um another reason that i'm test firing it is because i got these power cables from a bin in my office i'm not a hundred percent sure that they're corsair modular power cables which would be really bad um but i am 98 sure so i'm sure enough to test fire it all so let's let's just see like that and then there's a button okay that's a that's a very good start nothing immediately exploded and that beautiful green boot led is all we were looking for so now we can power it off and move all these components into the case exciting in terms of the case i'm going to use this corsair 220 t i think it's called for two reasons the first one is it's quite small for an atx case and the other reason is i i had one lying around and i didn't want to have to buy another case foreign now we're definitely not going to go crazy in terms of benchmarks today i just want to see how that graphics card's holding up temperature wise with that uh special little cooler arrangement that we have there the system's a bit noisier than i'd like considering that it's gonna pretty much always be running in the background so i may change out those stock uh corsair fans okay um the temperatures are are climbing they're definitely getting close to to 70 degrees celsius very quickly we're only about a minute into the match which means the temperatures on the 1660 super are already higher than they were in the stock configuration in the leg ion system um i i was expecting it to do better than this now bear in mind this is a very unrealistic use case for this gpu uh it's not going to be sitting at 100 utilization because i'm not going to be gaming with it it's pretty much a video out and an end bank encoder at this point oh those those temperatures are getting hot pretty quickly we're we're hitting 80 degrees celsius now that's not ideal this is after about 10 minutes let me quickly play around with the fan speed and uh we'll see how much of a difference that makes a few moments later okay we're about seven minutes in and clearly this gpu mod a la david is not a good idea uh for gaming at least i'm gonna keep it this way for a bit and see how it how it handles my use case like i mentioned earlier there's not really gonna be gaming happening with this system so uh yeah this kind of extended 100 load situation is not something that is not something that we're we're gonna have to deal with so it should be fine and on that sad note of pathetic failure it brings me to the end of the video thank you very much for watching and until the next video bye