 It's been over a year since the last episode of Sketchy Heat Sinks. This project was actually probably Alex's worst at the company. It was over time, over budget, and the end result was absolutely abominable. So, I told him, we're not doing Sketchy Heat Sinks again, unless you can do a better job than this. Which you might think is a reasonably low bar, but then it took an entire year to bring another concept to the table. So you're already over time and over budget. But, to your credit, this does look a lot more promising. Private Internet Access encrypts your internet traffic and uses a safe, protected IP. Check it out today through the link below. That was just not fair at all. Not fair at all? What part of it was not fair? First of all, this is amazing. It cooled the processor great, but anyway, what was not fair about that is that I just don't have the tools that I needed to properly do it. You had a blank check to buy the tools you needed. That's not an excuse. Okay, let's just... Yeah, let's just get to this. Let's put the past in the past. Alright, so the plan for this one is we're actually going to put heat pipes into aluminum and then have actual aluminum fins. So we're going to try to make a Hyper 212, basically. Yeah, pretty much exactly. It's like largely ripped off of them. If you look at the design here, basically what we're going to do is take one of these guys, drill six holes directly down in, then we're going to stick the heat pipes in, bend them at 90 degrees, and they'll go up through the fins, which will have also six holes in them. And are you going to solder the heat pipes to the aluminum or...? They're going to be thermal epoxy on. You can't solder them because pipes will explode if you heat them. The only part that really sketches me out is bending the heat pipe, which hopefully will be done with this, but I don't know if we'll get a full 90 degrees on it. So if that doesn't work, it's going to have to sort of come out at two angles, like a V8, or a V6, I guess. That's going to make the holes through the fins a complete nightmare. Oh, we'll have like fins on either side. We'll like cut them in half and they'll like come out like this. The first order of business was to see how far we could bend the tubes. We ordered 10 heat pipes, so we only have four chances to figure this out. Oh, man, this is... This is such a terrible bender. Oh, my God, it's already just stuck on itself. This is about to get gross. Out of the box, the guide on the bender wasn't correctly aligned. How is this thing so bald? So we needed to make up some of the slop to get consistent bends. So the working idea to make this, which goes the wrong way compared to the tubing sizes, line up correctly is to just give her with the gaff tape. Hopefully it'll work. I guess this is what you get for buying like a $20 thing. I think that'll work. Will it fit? So we've got the clearance there. Looks good. Yeah, that one didn't quite work out. Oh, that one did not work out either. Those are both totally mangled. This one right here, this one worked out. So we're going 45 degrees. With the heat pipe angles decided, it was time to move on to creating the base that would sit on top of the bender. So we have a guide. For the CPU block, what we really needed was a 3.5 by 3.5 inch square, but it was cheaper to buy 4 inch stock. So the first order of business was to cut it down. Then with our square cut down to the correct size, we needed to drill the holes for the heat pipes to go in. Huh. It's basically a milling machine. So we're going to drill the holes for the heat pipes. So we're going to use a milling machine. That's not going to work. Problem solved. Perfect. Could not have been better. Well, it definitely could have been better, but... Is this even going to hold this in place? Oh yeah, it should be fine. I didn't want to take the time to measure all of the holes, so I just laser cut them. Captain, it should be fine, everyone. This one is fine. That one is fine. This is going to go through there. I don't think you have a plan. I was just going to eyeball it. Straight about there. No, this way a bit. Hey look, it's got a laser. Yeah, it doesn't work well. If only we had a rubber mallet. Prepare for some lube to go everywhere. Well, okay. I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to apply that lye-wet spit. If only we had brushes here. You know, I approve everything you want to buy. All you have to do is order it. Well, we also literally have brushes, so... I want to try it. I mean, you wanted something to go wrong, so now we can both get our wish. Yeah, that's lots. Like it? Oh yeah, you want that? It actually isn't as far off as I was expecting. Why are you expecting it to be off? Gee, I don't know. These don't fit that tightly. They fit tightly enough. Some of them are tighter than others. This one's pretty loose. How are you going to get all that oil out of there? I was planning on just kind of cramming it full of thermal paste. You can't just slap a block of aluminum on the CPU though, since it will interfere with the capacitors around the socket. So this side with the holes, I don't want to destroy them. So that's why I'm using the hacksaw for this. I can see this really quickly just turning into me angle grinding. With capacitor clearance cut and sharp edges removed with the sander and file, the block was looking like it might work. It's drill pressing time again. Well, I'll have to let you do that yourself. I have other pressing matters to attend to. All right. Bye. This is a good pun. This is an excellent pun. No, no, I'm still satisfied. I don't need you to get off to be satisfied. Oh, it's so much more on the edge. I love it. A bit more lube. Ha ha. Perfect. I love how proud you are. Such a great fit. Cool. With our plan fully worked out, it was time to bend the rest of the heat pipes. All right. Now we need to do six of these and I can make two errors during that. And I don't know if I'm capable of that really. They're kind of finicky and this tool sucks. And I say that, but I just made it look easy. So we have one left over. We can tell Linus to do the last one and tell him that it actually matters and see what happens. Nice. Well, that was easy enough. The problem that we have to go over now, we have all of these sheets of aluminum. Yeah. And they need to go on these. Yes. So we need to drill these holes in these and we need to figure out a good way to hold these. Got the clamps. Yeah, we seem to be on the same page here. So do we want to do half of them like that? I don't know. You claim to be the expert. That moved a fair bit while you were putting it up. I don't even know how much that's going to affect the bit wandering. That moved so much. Okay. Oh, wow. How are we going to do this? Professional. This is where we find out if this project is going to be on time or not. It cuts through these like butter. Not bad. They are mostly in a straight line-ish. Yeah, I think so. Just some cleaning and prep was left until it was time to do a test fit and make sure it would all go together. All of those clear that. Awesome. So about there. The fit, surprisingly, was pretty good, although a couple needed to be trimmed down so that we could get the maximum number of fins onto the heat sink. Oh, nice. So we got this thermally conductive adhesive from MG Chemicals, which hopefully when put between the fins and the heat pipes will conduct most of the heat. I don't know. The thermal conductivity on it isn't great, but it's the best that we've got. Or that exists, really. It's kind of like casual tuna. I don't think I'd recommend putting this on your sushi. Sushi. Sushi. Oh, man, that smells like tuna, too. Our choice of medium cure time epoxy means we'd have about 45 minutes to work with it before it cures. First, the heat pipe holes in the block were filled with NTH1 thermal compound, and then the thermal epoxy was put on the end to hold them in place. I suppose this one's done, I guess. Oh, my God, these are like all almost gone. From here, the heat pipes were covered in thermal epoxy and the plan, anyway, was to just jam the fins on. I guess that before I put the epoxy on, I should have made sure that all six heat pipes will go into this all right. To keep the fins from sticking together, we resorted to some good old fashioned Canadian engineering using pieces of a cut up Tim Horton's box to space them out. We repeated this process until we were out of fins. So while you're off spending company money on lunch. Actually, that was personal lunch with personal money. Same thing. So I basically finished it. Oh, finished is a word. So don't move it too much. It's still setting, but... I noticed that something I hadn't really thought of until now, all the heat pipes are together, which I think probably isn't the most efficient way to do that. No, yeah, it's going to be like right here. Is where all the heat gets dissipated and then this is all just worthless. Yeah, like probably the outer inch or so is doing nothing. So aluminum here doesn't help us a whole lot. It probably should have been copper, but it would have been way more difficult to machine and stuff. You're calling what you did machining. Yes. At this point, all that was left to do was leave it to cure overnight and gather some comparative benchmark data so we could determine just how good or bad our creation really is. It's really dumb that Windows doesn't automatically restore connection to network drives all the time. Far be it from us to criticize other people's products at this moment, though. We pay for their products, though. No one's buying this. I paid for it. You're getting paid for it. The total cost of this monstrosity was $107.38, which is Canadian dollars, so that's $2 less than an NHD 15. And let's find out how long it takes to mount, I guess. Now, we've stolen some mounting hardware I see here. This looks like Noctua mounting hardware. That's sort of cheating. That's revised to everyone, though, so I think it's OK. And it's the first one that wasn't mounted with zip ties, so it's a pretty big improvement. What we're looking for. So Intel stock heatsink took 40 seconds to mount. The Cooler Master Hyper 212 took 9 minutes and 30 seconds. So that's what we're looking to beat. So we start the timer now? Sure. This is kind of cheating because we're using two people, but... I think this thing needs every advantage it can get. Hold on, though. I do have to hold it from the bottom, actually. Of course, this is going to be a hard mount now, not a spring mount because our block is so thick. These aren't going to reach. Did you check? You didn't check. I might still have an old school water block mount in my office. This is like training wheels off CPU mounting. It could probably go a little tighter, but it's fine. No, we're not going to use a blowie on this. That's cheating. Well, I figured that if that doesn't work. I think rubber bands is actually probably a better bet. Yeah, sure. Good enough. And it's 54 seconds. Still be the Hyper 212. So the Hyper 212 IELTS were like 30, 40 degrees. The Intel stock was regularly getting up to 60. Still 30 degrees. It's not going up. Yeah. So do we hit it with a load? It's kind of cheating to put like a $30 fan on it, too. I realize that, but I just wasn't going to mention it. We definitely could have just like CNC'd out the whole block, got the pipes professionally done. Wouldn't have even cost that much. Probably would have cost less than a drill press. There's no fun in that. Exactly. That's why it's our job to do it wrong. It's not even warming up. Like our heat pipes with their lesser bend may actually have some kind of efficiency improvement in terms of their evaporation and condensation. Another thing that we haven't really considered is that even though our heat pipes look like they're the same diameter, they might be like a high quality heat pipe. So we don't know if these are good heat pipes or not. I would say they are. They cost like 80 bucks. And you were just like ruining them. All right. Hit me with the FLIR. I want to see this first. Whoa. It's really cool. Yeah. The hottest part is the fan hub. Yeah. Like if you look at the motherboard, the coolest spot is our heatsink. The base of our heatsink is tops like 31 degrees as measured by this. You compare that to like this capacitor at 35. So CPU score is 7, like 7326. How's that compare? We're right up there with the Hyper 212. Same as the Hyper 212. I mean, there's plenty of time for it to buckle under a sustained load, I guess. Oh, OK. So that jumped right up to 83 degrees on the hottest core so far. Still turboing. Full turbo, no throttle. Oh, it's still climbing though. 86 degrees. Yeah. So our victory there might have just been purely on mass alone. So I have a solution to this. What's that? We call it a gaming heatsink. Then when people say, well, you know, under a sustained all core load, it actually doesn't perform as well, we say, well, it's designed for gaming. So if we had spread out our heat pipes more, which we knew was better, that's why they design it like this. So that way that little area around the heat pipe right in the path of the most optimal parts of the fan is exactly where... Yeah. And that's why it ends like a finger's width away from the heat pipe because you're just... Nothing's happening if you have more aluminum here. All right. It hasn't thermal throttled though. Or it's thermal throttled, but it hasn't... It doesn't... It's not turboing anymore. It's actually... You know, it's still above base clock. 3.85 is above the base 3.7 clock speed of an 8700K. So do we declare victory? It's better than Intel stock. It's worse than a Hyper 212. So assuming that you have a half a dozen heat pipes, some blocks of aluminum and a bunch of aluminum sheets, a drill press, some thermal epoxy and a lot of time on your hands, you could conceivably have a better cooler than the Intel stock cooler that your CPU shipped with... This one didn't though....by following this method. Mission accomplished, boys. Speaking of missions being accomplished, Thermaltake's mission when they created the Vue 71 Snow was to make a four-sided tempered glass case and they pulled it off. It supports Mini ITX, Micro ATX, ATX and the ATX motherboards. It has four tempered glass panels and a dual swing door. It allows vertical mounting options for two and a half slot GPU solutions so even massive graphics cards with the riser cable sold separately. 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