 Huge thanks to FlexiSpot for sponsoring this video. They're the ones that provided the desk portion of the desk. You've seen desks made out of wood, plastic, metal, and glass, but have you ever seen one made out of radiators? I've got eight 560 millimeter radiators here that are gonna give us so much cooling. Even an Intel processor is not gonna run hot. If the weight's any measure of quality, that's a good desk. This video was first pitched by DepressedZipfile on our Discord server almost a year ago, and I'm so glad we're finally able to do it. Now, there's a couple reasons this isn't a totally stupid idea. We're constantly chasing cooler and cooler builds while also trying to make them quieter and quieter. And this might allow us to run, what, like an RTX 3090 and a 12900KS just completely passively. We've got so many radiators, David. The first step of making a desk made of radiators is going and modeling it in SOLIDWORKS. Now, I made, like, a pretty crappy model. It wasn't too bad because AlphaCool does give you the 3D models, so that's just awesome. It allows you to do everything CAD, know that it'll all fit. But then, after I convinced AlphaCool and ProtoCase to join us, Labs employee number one, who's a real actual mechanical engineer, took it and did just a fantastic job designing the top of this. The way that these radiators mount to the desk is super simple. Originally, I had some ideas where, like, it's a big piece of metal that goes up and around and has glass on top and stuff. We decided against that. This is much more elegant and much more likely to work. Just some very simple little brackets. These were laser cut out by ProtoCase, then bent on a hydraulic press, and finally powder coated. I think they look awesome, and it's really simple. They just get bolted on there, and then this screws into the desk. We decided against having glass on the top, though, because this is the desk made of radiators, not a desk that happens to have a bunch of radiators in it. I haven't opened this up yet, and I'm so excited to see it. ProtoCase cut this on a massive CNC router that they have. It's very similar to one that we have. We technically could have done this here, but they just do so much better of a job that, like, it's going to be well worth it. Look at that. I just want to briefly shout out ProtoCase Designer 6 here. We didn't use it for the final design of this just because we have SOLIDWORKS and are very efficient in using it. But if you don't have SOLIDWORKS and want a custom case built, it's a really easy way to just go about doing that. Now ProtoCase agreed to do this for us on one condition. We tell you not to buy from them. Apparently, a bunch of hobbyists will call them after our videos and be like, hey, can you make this super complicated one-off case for $110? And they're like, no. If you're a large business, though, or have a budget, they do an exceptional job. This is not a $50 per, as you can tell. Now I guess we just do a bunch of screwing. It's a little bit floppy, but that's fine. All the support's on the bottom anyway. One thing that seems to be missing, though, is a reservoir support. So the plan is to have the PC here monitor the res, like, right here or something. And it looks like there's just nothing for mounting the res. Yeah, for the reservoir, we're doing the ice ball. It looks cool. It should be pretty neat. Just sitting right here. We do need to figure out how it's going to attach, though. One thing you probably would assume that we had figured out by the time that we started building the desk made of radiators is what PC we will use. Unfortunately, we have not. I was originally going to use this, oh, this PC, the VF1 from Velk PC. Unfortunately, it only supports SFX power supplies, and we need an SFX L. Maybe this thing from Case Labs will be good. Got a box? Yep. Hey, that looks pretty nice. It's very nice, but it might be too big. I think this is from the father-daughter build, the one where Linus's three-year-old daughter went to build a PC with him, and I ended up building a PC while he played with his daughter. That's most of your desk space. That's a lot of desk space. Oh, that's way better. It is way better, yeah. I'll see what I can pull out. For the reservoir mounting, I had a couple of different ideas. They include this fan mount that would require us drilling a hole there. Not very difficult, but then we need to drill a bunch more holes. It's kind of a pain. Metal on metal might be kind of loud. What they also have, interestingly, is this little plate. Now, I think this is supposed to be mounted using these little holes to some sort of pump mount or whatever. What I think is going to work really well is we just use countersunk screws, attach it like that, and then double-sided tape it to the desk. Now, we are doing this not because we're lazy, but for sound isolation. Having some nice 3M VHB tape on the bottom is going to be an excellent damper and allow us to be nice and silent. Oh, that is pretty good. It's even got holes for water cooling. Oh, wow, yeah. This is perfect. It's literally perfect. Can you still have loads of space? It fits the build in black, but it's very sterile. Oh, racing stripes would be sick. All right. Purple racing stripes. Hell yeah. I like that. This is the beautiful thing about designing all of your stuff in SOLIDWORKS at first. You can make decisions months ago, completely forget what you decided, and then come back and look at it. I did not remember how the tubing and everything was going to flow, how it was all going to work. There it is. Great. We did it. Don't have to think about it. All of our fittings are on the desk. Now, I'm going to do up the tubes. We don't have the PC built yet, but I want to just make sure that the pump has no problem pushing a bunch of water through this because there is a radiator's worth of restriction here. I just want to make sure that the soft tubing looks good enough. Hard tubing is just a pain in the ass. This will be a whole day longer if I decided to go with that, and I don't really want to. For cutting soft tubing, you don't need to use the Castrator 9000. If you got it, you might as well use it. It does cut very clean. What do we think of that, David? Doesn't seem too bad. That looks okay. Yeah. We're just soft tubing the whole thing. It's going to be great. It's going to fit really well, so whole loop is plumbed up. We also have the PC. It's built. Unfortunately, the RTX 3090 in here had to be stolen from the Hot Wheels PC. This RTX 3090 that's chunk modded just would not fit in anything. As you can see, this is where the PCIe normally stops. That's where GPUs normally also stop. This goes a good inch past that, plus the fittings. It just does not fit in any small form factor PC that exists. We've got i9-12900KS here. It's the one with the copper IHS on it. You also have a 1000-watt SFXL from Silverstone. That is insane that they fit that much horsepower into such a small little power supply. It might not be the best idea to fill the entire loop right now with water because we're going to need to drain it so that we can attach it to an actual desk. At the same time, I really want to make sure that everything works, no leaks, and most importantly that this PC right here, if we find out on Friday that it doesn't work, then that sucks and we don't get a video done. Alpha Cool logo is upside down. Do you want to get this, Mark? That's the Alpha Cool logo. Yep. Wow. We sure flipped those radiators fast. We're finally getting to the sponsor of the video, FlexiSpot. They make standing desks that I think are pretty good. I don't know. I'm not sure if they're going to be together right now. We'll find out soon. The first bit of assembling your FlexiSpot desk is to get this part, which is not from FlexiSpot, but it is a lot easier to bolt onto our desk here. Let's see. Right about there. Made it through this one no problem. Got to the FlexiSpot and our not exactly sharp drill bit couldn't do it. Well, this is a pretty good product demo to show how good their steel is. Wow. These instructions are incredible. It says right here on page two, and if you're modifying it to use with a desk made of radiators, you should first try L brackets, M8 bolts. And then when you realize that the FlexiSpot steel is too good, you should use 916 lag bolts straight through some steel. Oh, well, the lag bolts aren't going to work and I'm about at the get. We're just doing it the easy way stage of doing this automotive grade. This is how we're doing it. When you're not trying to modify it though, this is a pretty easy desk to put together. And just for you, FlexiSpot, I'll be nice and use all four screws on the bottom. On second thought, we're doing it the right way. I made these little steel brackets. They're preloaded, holds the whole thing together and it's real nice and sturdy. This thing is not going anywhere. Much better solution than zip ties. Anyway, let's fill the loop. The leak tester didn't even budge all of last night, so it's finally time to fill this thing up. I really hope this little PC works because Nicholas went ahead and made us some racing stripes for it. It'd be real sin if we had to change it out. This is actually going to take forever. The little East ball here is not the best to fill up. I don't know how many liters of water goes into all of these radiators, but we're going to be here for a while. My hand was getting tired from all the squeezing. Work smarter, not harder. When this starts to overflow, I'm just going to hit the pump and we're going to hope for the best. There we go. Come on, kick on, kick on, kick on. There we go. Ah, that wasn't too bad. We might've done it. Probably once the bubbles come out, that was about three and a half liters of water in this water loop. HDMI one is plugged into HDMI two. Whoever did that is an idiot. Well, we'll be back in a bit. The computer is like dead dead. CPU fan doesn't turn on, sounds like something shorted on the back of the board dead. I don't know what's going wrong, but Nicholas is going to figure it out. In the meantime, I need to attach this desk made of radiators to a desk. That's why you guys need to help. We need to be very careful. Yeah. Yes. As, as you see. Okay, I see. Watch the box. Yup. Okay, we did it. Thank you. Why is it coming out of the quick disconnect? I don't know. It should not do that. Nope. This is all sorts of not good. All right. Now it's bracket time. Yeah. I was thinking, oh, I need to like lay on my back to get this desk, but no. Flexi spot has standing desks. Aha. Attaching the table to the desk is pretty simple. We have these brackets right here. It's going to go onto the radiator just like that. So two screws into the fan holes and then to attach it to the actual desk, we are just using some simple metal self tappers. That'll go right in. Great. So much better. I always need to do that for 16 clamps. That was really painless actually screwing all of that stuff in with the drill took less time than it did to fill the loop. And I think it's all lined up. These brackets worked out really well. Again, thank you, proto case. Thank you. I'm LTT labs, engineer designer did a good job. Think we're good to start screwing it in. And this. There we go. Balls. This drill bit seems duller than our self tappers. Haha, there it is. Okay. Oh, we're actually into the bio. Oh, thank God. Okay. Figured out the problem. Turns out the power supply that we had died. Swapped it out. It works great. But anyway, it works. Let's just make sure that our temperatures are good here. 23 degrees on the CPU. That's exactly what we want to see. And 21 degrees on the GPU. Hell yeah. I can't believe how well this came together. Holy ****. What the hell are we cooling? That is a lot of heat. There is? Well, you don't think so? Oh yeah, that is a lot of heat. Are the fans even on right now? Yeah, they're on. Yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, they're barely spinning. Yeah, I have it set up so they don't come on until it's 80 degrees on the processor. What is making all of that noise? It's the VRM fan. Shut up. Oh, that's painful. So if we had water cooled the VRMs on this board, it would be completely silent with a 12900KS and a 3090. This is kind of genius. Because you consider how much people spend on a nice tabletop. In my humble opinion, this looks amazing. Like it's industrial chic. And you compare that to like people will often spend five, six hundred, even a thousand dollars on a tabletop. And like, yeah, it's made of radiators. That's expensive. But like it's within the realm. Are you one, two, yeah, they're quadruple. They're quadruple. Quadruple 140 mil. Each one's 150 bucks. 150 bucks. Okay. 300, 600, 900, 1200. Okay. Yeah, it's really expensive. But it's really cool. This desk uses carbon steel. Yeah. Instead of, you know, the normal stuff. Oh, so like good steel. Yeah. It was really hard to drill through. It was a huge pain. We ruined so many drill bits. That's amazing. I mean, you can't fault the quality of the product. Good job, FlexiSpot. But a little less modifiable. It seems Alex, like you're telling me that a really good feature is a bug. And then it's exactly what he did. Yep. I officially love this. Maybe it wouldn't make sense to do with PC radiators just because it was really expensive. But if you were to do something, how's those fans go? At full bore, boy, does this ever have some cooling potential. But if you were to do something like this with salvaged heater cores or salvaged radiators from, you know, cars or you were to just grab like an old condenser off of like a refrigerator or something like that. Man, you could totally make a build like this make sense. I love this thing. This turned out like, actually, I was going to say exactly like I envisioned it, but it's not it's better. I had actually envisioned it with like a glass top originally. And then there was going to be like a spacer. So it was going to be super thick. But this is just normal desk thickness. It's actually amazing. What is this blue piece of masking tape that says alpha cool? Oh, it's upside down. Oh, no, Alex. Okay, that's fixed. You can barely hear it. Oh, yeah. That's a D5 in there. Yeah. No, D5s are the best. They last frickin forever. They're silent and they move a ton of water. By the way, this looks really clean at the back. I don't remember if this is what we had originally discussed, but this looks outstanding. I didn't think of this, though, for sure. This is awesome. The case came with those. Oh, the end case. Oh, yeah. That's awesome. FlexiSpot does have a cable management spot in their desk, and I filled it with fans. I actually kind of love that it ends up being like a hand warmer. You will never get cold in the winter gaming on a setup like this. I would hate it for the summer. For the summer. You can turn the fans around. Yeah, you just turn on the fans. No, no, turn them around. So they suck ambient air and blow the hot air away. So it's actually like cooling your hands. I think that if you just had the fans going kind of fast, it would be enough cooling that your hands would get cooled even though the desk is kind of hot. Let us know in the comments. I strongly disagree. This is Antoine. He's off his probation by the time you guys see this video. He works for Labs and he really stepped up helping us get this catted out when Alex was super busy with, well, everything. Okay, this is 1440p ultra nightmare with ray tracing on and we're doing like 200 and whatever the frick FPS and the best part CPU is frickin peaked it. Really 82 on the hottest peak core. Okay, this is a, this is 12900KS in fairness. It's the one with the copper IHS and liquid metal. So we did hacks or this one a little bit, but still that's amazing. The fans are not even spinning right now. And then what's our GPU at? I think the GPU is really good. GPU temperature peaked at 53 degrees. Basically completely silent. That 80 mil is spinning, but like, come on, it's not, it's not that bad. So you get a full coverage block for the motherboard and then you don't even need a fan in the chassis at all. As the man behind case made of radiators, how do you feel about desk made of radiators? Well, it, uh, it looks a little more premium. I would say, holy crap. It's so hard. There's fans under it. What? The kick on one of the CPU is at 80 degrees. Oh, maybe you should have them turn a little bit earlier. Oh man. This is awful. My wrists are sweating already. The warmest forbidden Pokeball. It looks cool though. Holy the mouse pads moving up. Oh wow. It's immediately like way more comfortable. This is nice. It's like, uh, it's like ventilated seats in a car, dude. Are these 3000 RPM industrials? Oh yeah. Jesus. Oh, I shouldn't stick my hands under there. No, yeah, that'll hurt. That was, that was close to bad. I think I have to give us a 10 out of 10. Perfect. 11 out of 10. You know, it's actually, you know, it's quite a bit better now that the fans are running. If I just put my hands here, I think, I think if you set them to like the minimum RPM, it actually would be kind of a nice experience. Luxury. They're pretty fricking sturdy. I mean this desk is solid metal. Yeah. Well come stick your hand over here. Look, the mouse pad is floating. Oh my God. Oh, this is actually the perfect gamer setup for sweaty moments. Oh yeah. Except that it's blowing heat. That's pretty cool. Oh, just give it a sec. Give it a sec. If you were in like a closed room, this would be not be ideal. All right. Now that I've, I've turned on the fans, I'm going to have to give this like a 30 out of 10. It's so cool. You're doing God's work out here, Alex. Thanks to FlexiSpot for sponsoring today's video. Their E7 desk is shockingly stable when fully extended and can hold up to 355 pounds. From May 25th to 27th, FlexiSpot is celebrating their birthday by having their biggest site-wide sale of the year. On May 25th, you can get $130 off the FlexiSpot E7 desk for one day only. Remember to also check out FlexiSpot's Facebook group for a chance to win freebies. We're going to have links to everything in the description down below. This is amazing. Big shout out FlexiSpot for sponsoring this video. Big shout out you for watching it. If you enjoyed this video, maybe go check out, oh, why don't you go check out the ultimate thin desk PC. That was a good one too. Or case made of radiators. Or case made of radiators, yeah. That was pretty funny as well.