 Okay, so I'm wandering around the warehouse looking for something right yeah was mounting brackets for these Didn't find them not the point point is I found this a Rubbermaid bin in gray That's not what's important what's important is what's inside This is the original motherboard and graphics card from the mineral oil cooled PC out of their oil and Oh my gosh absolutely Disgusting let's find out if they still work After I tell you about EK's Phoenix lineup of modular water cooling systems It's their next generation modular AIO and you can check them out now at the link in the video description So the dealio here is that we actually refurbished this machine around the time of LTX Last year with the intention of showing it off there So we pulled off some of the stickers that were kind of peeling off replace the motherboard Replace the graphics card with something more modern, so it's got a 1070 in there now and then never actually successfully Repaired the tank we think it might be working now But the previous attempts we've made have just resulted in it cracking again almost immediately and to replace this thing look There's a Ted fly in it. That's disgusting to replace this thing would have cost like a thousand dollars from a custom acrylic shop So that stuff's all gonna stay there because ideally I really would like to fix it at some point But in the meantime, I totally forgot about the motherboard and graphics card. I want to know if they still work So let's grab some test bench hardware here Our options are 5960 X or 5930 K. I guess that's the least valuable thing that we might wreck. So let's grab that Okay, so my options are use my crap here test bench But then I have to put a power supply in it or use my better one But then I'm gonna get mineral oil on it and lazy So I guess we're using this one This stuff is just nasty and it like spreads everywhere It's basically like glitter except it doesn't even look sparkly and fun So there are a couple of things to contend with when it comes to mineral oil now The main thing is the like mineral oil all over the place. But the big problem is that mineral oil has a nasty habit of degrading plastics and rubbers and really a lot of things that it comes in contact with so One of the things that's gonna be a challenge here as you can see this memory slot Just snapped off when we went to open it up and at least one of the pins is actually bent inside the slot there so what we're gonna try and do is lift that Back up and see if we can get a stick working in there. You know, it's actually not in Terrible shape all things considered. I mean it's like furry because it's been sitting out in the warehouse during the renovation and it's been covered in mineral oil the theory the theory if you talk to the mineral oil enthusiast They'll be like, oh, yeah, you just leave it out drip dry for a few weeks. No problem. You Want to touch it So let's just let's isolate our variables here. Let's try just the motherboard first Then we'll try it with the graphics card that was soaked in oil. Oh I Am excited right about now. I mean if this thing works, I don't I don't do with it but like Max's PC. Is that what you're gonna say? No, you don't want the mineral oil cooled Okay. So the reason we want to try just the motherboard without this card first is because we've got two potentially Like jank ass components here. So if it doesn't work, we want to know that it's down to One of them so we want to make sure the motherboard works first so we can troubleshoot anything there Then we'll try the graphics card because if we just put the graphics card and the motherboard on and it didn't boot up We wouldn't know what the actual issue was. Look I even went and got paper towel And why am I still wiping this on my pants? You know what screw it? Let's get this show on the road People paid good money to be here. Ow Watch this video Damn that hurt. Okay. Hey, we got post codes like that's a good sign. Check this out 32 4f 7 9 Look at this. It's got like a big long hair on it. It's gross Hey, look at that No problem Let's see how much RAM we've got detected here 12 gigs. Shoot that doesn't seem like an insurmountable problem Okay. Oh Wow, this memory is like it's wet Contrary to what people might think I don't actually want to go out of my way to destroy hardware Just kind of happens, you know, so one of them is just not making contact at all right now And then there's another four here that are all just exposed. They're no longer supported. Okay I'm not gonna put in that last stick this time But if we see 12 gigs this time, oh, it's seeping all over the card It's not an ESD safe cleaning method, but it's better than having mineral oil all over it Let's throw the last stick in I want to see 16 gigs because it could still actually be Something in the CPU socket that was damaged and then that would be another reason why we would have one of the dims not showing Up. In fact, it might have been not that stick all this time. I actually don't know Got it Mangled RAM slot repaired no idea how stable it'll be but that's the problem for another day. Damn. I'm good sometimes Some people get excited by No, like I don't know naked people this gets me excited Look at this here. We are on the desktop. Let's just run a quick stress test. I guess hoopa doop Okay, so we didn't run the full 15 minutes or anything like that. What are we sitting at eight minutes? But at this point it did not immediately crash Let's go ahead and shut this down then and find out if the graphics card works So looking at this you can see actually there's not a lot of external damage to it So these stickers all faded you can see the text will just wipe off So not bad. So whether they intended to or not EVGA made a pretty much mineral oil proof graphics card So if I'm turning it off, it's not a problem proof graphics card so if I'm turned on by hardware Seeing it suffer like this. Is that like a weird thing? If you're not comfortable having the door closed right now, we can open it Says Alex's drive not mine. Okay, so the driver install was a little bit weird See if we can run us some 4k rise of the Tomb Raider BAM, I don't even know if this card's capable of that 780. This is even pre 780 ti We did this build a long time ago. Wow. I'm getting old. I Mean one thing I was concerned about was whether it would still stay adequately cool I mean it has the benefit of having one of the best Graphics card coolers available. I mean how many heat pipes does this thing have? I Don't think anyone has a lot invested in whether I've got this right or not. What you guys hear that? You guys hear that short So that's not posting Something I had forgotten about is this motherboard actually got three caps Soldered back onto it once it came out of the oil. They were just like loose. So it's possible That there's been damage to the graphics card. Oh Oh, it's dead. 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