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This is an actual silencer. Shut up. That's a silencer. Yeah. That's what... Oh my god, it is a silencer. Our cooler needs a silencer? How awesome is this? We got a piece of cheap tubing. I don't know what that's for. Some hose barb fittings. And this. What is this? It's a Vortex cooler. We'll explain exactly how it works later. Alex, that's not information I didn't already have. True, yeah. Vortex cooling, but what is it? It uses some thermodynamic quirks and magic and probably a deal with the devil to make hot air come out this side, cold air out that side. Apparently 90 PSI means the hot air is at 200 degrees Celsius and the cold air is at negative 50. Wait, what? Yeah. Okay, you still haven't explained to me how it works. Where's your damn whiteboard? I have a whiteboard. I have expectations, Alex. We have standards around here. The compressed air goes in. The hot air, because it's denser or something, goes to the outside and dumps kinetic energy or something. It stagnates here. The molecules lose energy coming back through the hot air. And then the cold air shoots out there. There's a control valve, which does what? Changes how much hot air comes out or something. You just have question marks on here. Yeah, the question mark. Cold air and profit. I watched like five videos. I read a bunch of stuff. None of it makes sense. It all is just kind of like a thing happens here. Cold air, yay. So unless we have a PhD in thermodynamics, we're not going to understand it, but we can play with it. We can definitely play with it. Alex, where'd you get that from? Oh, I got it off of Mastercar. I just searched up electronics cooler and it came up. It was $550. Shut up. For this piece of metal? Yeah. Why is it so expensive? From what I've heard, it's because of the deal with the devil, but it might just be because it's industrial only and you can use it for like 20 years and never do anything like maintenance-wise. The PSI doesn't matter too much. We're going to be putting like 110 through it just because that's what our shop is at. It's more so the airflow and you can change that using the little nozzles there. 10 CFM is the lowest. That's 190 watts of cooling. We can go all the way to 40 CFM, which is 820 watts of cooling. At minus 50, this could be dangerous. Oh yeah. Like really dangerous. Well, we can't really do the 40 CFM. So our air compressor, which is quite a good air compressor by the way, it's good for about 19 CFM at 175 PSI. So we can probably do the 25 CFM one. We can maybe use the 40 for a short amount of time. Okay. This is our control system. Oh, is this part of the like $500 I spent? No, you spent this a while ago and we did the potato cannon that planted trees. I'm finally getting another use out of it. Yeah. Hey, why don't we explain what it is? This is a solenoid. Very simply, you switch the solenoid with this button right here. It's not plugged in right now, but it will go click when you click that. That allows us to not just use it 100% of the time. We can turn it off with this. It's way easier than like using the ball valve out there. This is so stupid. You're not wrong. I know. Alex, you've got kind of a thing going on here. I'm pretty sure that when we complete this video, all of the ideas that I had on my resume, we will have done. Really? Yeah. Wow, and it only took five and a half years. I thought you had opened it already. No. Excuse me. Oh, there goes my lunch. Jeez. Careful with the laptop there. Oh, man. Is this the CFM bit thing? Yes. I got 15R. 15 is a good one to start at. That's the one we'll probably be using. We could also start with either the smallest one at 10. Let's start with the smallest one. Which one? Wait, which one's the cold end again? Would you say 200 degrees? Yeah. So you want it more open, more closed. What am I working with here? I don't know. Just open it a tiny, tiny bit and we'll see what happens. Okay. Finally, there's no way with our temperature range options in the FLIR, it's always going to be at least one of them is out of range, but whatever. I know the answer to this, but just for the people, we are using filtered oil-free air, right? Yeah, we are. Yes, we are. Oh, yeah. In our explanation, did I even say that the vortex in here is over a million RPM? Well, that explains where the heat's coming from. Oh, it's cold. It's definitely cold. And that is definitely warm. What I'm doing right now is I'm putting electrical tape on the device to make it easier for us to get a measurement of it with the FLIR, because when you try to get a thermal reading off of something that is reflective, what you're actually getting is the thermal reading of whatever is reflecting off of it. The plastic nozzle is at like minus 30, minus 40. Should we try adjusting this a bit, see what happens? Say what? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a lot of moisture here. Oh, yeah. Like my hands are wet. That makes sense. Yeah. The 15 should be good for about 300 watts of cooling. Theoretically, that's getting dangerously close to CPU cooling capacity. Yeah. The Debbie Downer, Kyle, this is like the coolest thing ever. Doesn't matter. It's cool. It's literally cool. Well, Brandon, you can see the benchmark part, but we're going to need the thermal camera to see the heating up part. Wow, this is going up like a degree every few seconds here. I just want to shout out FLIR for sending us this camera. This thing's like $30,000. It's wicked. Yeah, and it's enabled us to make better content for you guys. So yeah, FLIR. Hey, how you guys doing? Currently at 37 degrees. Bring on the FPS. Now it's subambient. Four. Oh, come on, sub-zero. Sub-zero. There we go. Sub-zero phone cooling, baby. Holy crap, that's chilly. Wait, your score is better than 87% of scores for the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3. Well, we should cool it the whole time and do another run and see if we can like. Oh, yeah. Okay. Oh, wow. When you move off of it, you can immediately see the SOC. Oh, that's cool. Can I see? Yeah. Yeah, there it is. What did we have last time? 57.58. 57.58. Okay, well, we got another 25 points. Oh, the silencer. You undo this thing and put it on there. Oh, we got some frost this time, boys. Oh, we did. We did. But like I said, remember how I was like, oh, it's so weird. The condensation is only on the outside of the nozzle. All the frost is only on the outside of the nozzle. Yeah. What kind of black magic is that? That way it can never get jammed. But how did they do that? While we're at it, do you want to switch to the big dick nozzle? Yeah, I was thinking just go all the way to the big one. Right. We can only run that momentarily. Yeah, until our tank is gone. Got it. The silencer though. So do we Teflon tape that and then what? This goes here. I don't under, I actually do not understand how this is supposed to. It goes in same spot as before. Oh, and the silencer is on the other side of it. Yeah. Got it. Look at this guy. Okay. Okay. Is there anything that looks cooler than someone wearing sunglasses through a thermal camera? I can definitely see the SOC. It's hitting about 20 degrees. That is definitely colder. Can confirm. I feel like it worked better before without the silencer. Let's take the silencer off. Yeah. Wait, hey, hey, get back here. Okay. Oh yeah, that's cold. That's real cold. I don't think our compressor can keep up though. No. Okay. Let's dial it back to what our compressor can handle then. And I think it's time to cool the CPU. I think Cinebench is going to be the most fun. Okay. Cinebench. Thermals were a hundred degrees. What is this? Is it 12900K? Yeah. KS. KS. Oh, okay. And how much wattage can we do with this nozzle? 450? That one's 300. 300 watt. That's it? That's it. Okay. Well, good luck everybody. I'm taking this fan off boys. All right. Cinebench run. Yeah. I'm ready for it. How are we doing? It's slower. It's worse? Yeah. It's worse. I guess the problem is I just, I can't apply all of this cooling directly to the CPU. Should we just aim it like directly at the CPU? I could try that, but the problem is that we don't have any surface area there. We might as well just aim it directly at the die at that point. Should we try that? Okay. Ready? Three, two, one, go. Get closer. I don't know. It's a poor CPU. Yes. It's pretty hot right now. Oh yeah. It's going real slow. Are you running the benchmark? Yes. No. You're going to get the thermal compound off. Oh my God. You're doing it everywhere. How's the CPU temp doing? 93 degrees. Okay. I'm on it. So our CPU is currently at 40 degrees at idle. Could I try and run Cinebench? Okay. Okay. It's immediately thermal throttling. It's going real slow. Stop the benchmark. Stop the pain. Okay. Let's talk about what happened there. I don't know if it'll work. I think the 12900KS is just too much, too much heat and too small a spot. I'm really surprised blowing it on this didn't work. Me too, especially with how cold these heat pipes felt to the hand. Yeah. Like they were chilly heat pipes. Let's talk about what these are actually used for then, shall we? They're used for loads of things. Most of it's in industrial applications like large plants. So if you have like a gas tank for a car that you just welded, it needs to cool down and maybe it would take three minutes if it's just in the air. Stick one of these on. Now it's a minute and a half and you can make heaps more of them. Or you can put this on like the end of a welding torch to cool that down. Oh, that makes a ton of sense. Now there are other ways to turn power into cooling and heating. For example, Peltier modules kind of fundamentally do the same thing. You add power, not to compress air, but rather just you power the thing and you get hot out one side and cold out the other. But those consume a ton of power compared to this. And it's not as easy to direct that cooling and direct that heat on whatever part it is that you want to cool or heat. Another thing these are great for is electronics cooling, but when it has to be away from a bunch of things, like completely sealed off. So this way you can have compressed air in, hot air goes out, electronic is cooled very precisely in a completely isolated area. Got it. So not for this, basically. No, I'm kind of sad that it didn't work. Yeah, I kind of thought it would do more than it did. We need a better air compressor. We do, yeah. And we can put the big nozzle on and like... Ingersoll Rand hit us up. Also shout out our sponsor, Vessi. Vessi footwear is known for being lightweight, easy to pack, comfortable, and most importantly, waterproof. Vessi's Everyday Move shoes are here, and actually they're on my feet, and they're designed to keep you moving with advanced breathability and added support. 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