Can Ice Cubes Replace your CPU Cooler?

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0:00 Intro
0:37 AICamp Sponsored Segment
1:46 Traditional CPU Cooling
3:55 Baseline Benchmark
5:08 Ice Cubes!
7:58 Compressed Air!
8:38 Electric Duster!
9:03 Conclusion

[@vannhantran547]

This guy’s not a problem solver, he’s a maker

[@TophatDude1]

Problem maker?

[@BraunesToast]

jamaica

[@FrankLoq]

a maker solver?😭😭

[@0m3gA_o3]

I think an inventor would sound better

[@HarmonRAB-hp4nk]

pfft, guys got nothing on us... LIQUID NITROGEN baby lol who said 7 giga hurts wasnt impossible? kish our caboosh :-)

[@JakeTheRake179]

Thermal paste alternative: Toothpaste!

[@justrens7809]

He already did that

[@xPhantomMC]

Yes

[@shiloranxxer]

Spoiler alert

[@harrythecoolb3280]

Already done

[@JakeTheRake179]

Aww man, already done? Damn.

[@sheeshaliosama5837]

Next video: can a real rat replace your mouse?

[@user-dv9ds2uq9l]

And answer - yes!

[@kleinenervigeyoutube-maus.6283]

No 😮

[@LudwigVanBeethoven123]

No.

[@Infact77]

someone would find a way. Anyway, why is youtube recommending this to all of us again?

[@The-rq2og]

no , you need a real MOUSE not a real rat

[@kamien.k6903]

i realy like your concepts there crazy like linuses but also nicely demonstrated and in a very cool format

[@partyethtoon7486]

Use a combination of all the coldest thermal paste alternatives to make the ultimate one

[@minaamhaq]

As well shampoo

[@momu5600]

it's a cool idea I wish the man himself sees it.

[@Harlow.]

thats cool and all, but why do you have that as your profile picture?? (even though it's canonically accurate)

[@momu5600]

@@Harlow. everyone has weird pfp here including you dude

[@Harlow.]

@@momu5600 eh true

[@ZankoGamer92]

Instead of changing the cup for a new one you should have added more ice Due to a property of materials called latent heat, when a material is changing its phase its temperature will remain constant It means that if you mantain a mixture of water and ice its temperature will always remain at 0°C I'm sure that if you swapped between cups of this solution you could have gotten way better results

[@nilsfrahm1323]

I was about to suggest same. Also surface area of an ice cube that touches the cup is small, but with water and ice cube, heat will transfer much better between the cube and water and between water and the cup. Maybe even better, modify a heatpipe cooler to enter through a cup, seal it with a glue gun, it would have the heatpipes in the ice cold water and would getter heat transfer in my opinion.

[@uspo8326]

Yeah except it would have flooded the motherboard...

[@alqualonde2998]

While he would get a way better result, your statement is lacking as there is something called heat conductivity and convection speed. Water that is on contact with the heated surface needs time to move or conduct the heat to other parts of the liquid. So you should also add a stirring system to effectively cool your system.

[@niewazneniewazne1890]

​@@nilsfrahm1323 Yeah he should have added cold water. The metal part initially only exchanges heat with small contact patch on the ice cube + itself. And largely the ice cube "touches" air which doesn't exchange as much heat with the metal cup.

[@haoranmeister4177]

A

[@krzysztofczarnecki8238]

The cooling got better as the ice melted because of poor thermal coupling of a loose ice cube, that is improved by the water that bridges the gap as it melts. Filling the pot with water and freezing it would improve that. You could also try to use paraffin (candles), as it has a higher melting point, so maybe it would cool less but last longer.

[@HarmonRAB-hp4nk]

by that do you mean ,,uh.. convection? heat tranfer from one hot objedt to one cold object? ya yer right, the ice has to touch the medium, or its just heating water... and the cube is melting at a rate cooling stops transfering heat, and just boils off.... cooking is a good example... heats low but pan is hot, tons of ice,,, no dif, the pan is being heated faster then the water can cool it :-\.. oop oop what we call, a half ass thermal runaway. :-)

[@shankS0]

Its incredible how cool old CPUs were

[@northern_21]

and less powerful...

[@ZlorFLIX]

Say that to my old i7 920 what reached a good 90c while playing valorant

[@ashupashu5559]

pentium 4 extreme edition entered the chat

[@MrMooAndMoonSquirrelToo]

​​​​​​​​​Dude I had a Dell XPS studio with one of those in 2008 and the thing sounded like a friggin jet turbine every time I started GTA IV. And, yeah 90 C was common on that processor with the demanding games of the era. In the CPUs defence, I'd never even heard of liquid cooling back then. Coolers were typically smaller then, too. But, hey, multithreading and ddr3 blew my mind at the time. It was such a jump from my previous 32 bit Windows XP system.

[@BlackLight1478]

You may try this same thing with other kind of metals like aluminum, copper and even with heatsink (idk how to do). I think the problem here is with heat conductivity of metal used. Ice is below zero, it must have cooled.

[@jivewig]

Yeah, use a thin and small copper cup, pour water in it till the brim and freeze it. Then apply fresh thermal paste and just use that frozen cup.

[@IftiChan]

But cpu is much hotter

[@IftiChan]

I usually use wet tissues on my laptop cpu

[@SlowerIsFaster139]

If you have ever seen someone hold a 1/8th inch copper pipe in there hand and just hold it against an ice cube, it cuts the the cube like butter just with the heat transfer from your hand. Point is better heat transfer would be good but it would probably melt the ice cube in about 30 seconds lol

[@ChrisD__]

And more mounting pressure on the CPU.

[@magman687]

I'm really liking these longer videos you're doing

[@oliverfo5169]

Same

[@Wastefulpine9]

Same

[@errresh473]

same

[@YTshashmeera]

Same

[@MatthewCampbell765]

An idea I once had is a "slush cooler". Basically, it works like a water cooler, except it's hooked up to a slushy machine. The slushified-water fluid is pumped down to the CPU, where it naturally will melt, then the melted slushy fluid is pumped back up to the slushy machine where it is re-cooled.

[@Micha-Hil]

This sucks and I love it. Someone get on this right now.

[@soggygrenade5370]

I used this and it worked thanks for a tuturial!

[@drew899]

Ooooohhhh an alcahol evaporative cooling setup would be interesting to see. Get some rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle and spray it on the surface of the CPU! If you’ve got a 3D printer, you could make a collar to go around the CPU so that you don’t get any over spray and it could just mount to the same air cooler holes. (If you wanted me to design the collar for you I’d be happy to do so)

[@timserious7678]

It's pretty much same thing as a heat pipe

[@drew899]

@@timserious7678 it functions on the same principal as a heatpipe, but it’s about it’s only similarity to a heatpipe

[@pav1u]

I did all these experiments back when i was 12years old more or less, i did Dryice and LN2 by 15yo on P4 Prescott and Pentium D's, amd Athlon etc...so yes, this is the content i found and still find interesting and captivating! Subscribed.

[@nikachitidze7219]

3:28 what kinda guy puts ice in their soup lol

[@WeedCop]

In a 9 minute video, video doesnt start until minute 6

[@vedantshetty5029]

Well you should've tried ice with salt cuz salt drops the temperature of ice to about -15°C. Go try this test it could be great!

[@IHATEYOUTUBESNEWUSERNAMESTUFF]

doesnt ice smelt with ice?

[@vedantshetty5029]

@@IHATEKZbinSNEWUSERNAMESTUFF Yes it does , but I mean it would be a nice experiment do test.

[@sosopwsi829Jjw9]

@@IHATEKZbinSNEWUSERNAMESTUFF ice smelts with ice???

[@evkene7219]

salt changes the freezing point of water. the ice will be the same temperature as the air in the freezer whether or not there is salt in it. what's most likely is that the water would never freeze in the first place

[@_Haadi]

the compressed air was better than the air duster bc its an aerosol, so the gas decompressing (condensing) also cools down the cpu. You can test this by spraying some on your hand, it'll be cold.

[@_lun4r_]

2:21 bsod jumpscare

[@justlafver4931]

3:05 for SOME reason, oh I don't know maybe because your motherboard is literally on a wood desk without a case, and one ram stick xD

[@theretroduck777]

The measuring cups really should have been sanded to at least a grit of 3000. If that were done, the liquid water would probly be able to sustain a decent temperature without switching cups.

[@omairshafiq1998]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@legend101]

when applying a new paste, make sure you clean the cpu well, otherwise it won't work as much as it should

[@afjer]

There wasn't nearly enough pressure between the cup and CPU for the thermal paste to be effective. In fact it might have even had some insulating properties (edit: in comparison to metal-on-metal) due to less contact surface.

[@LinKueiDragon]

That's amazing. It's as if it wouldn't melt and water wouldn't short-circuit everything.

[@mordhaujoe773]

It would be epic if you water cooled the CPU with engine coolant lol, love these vids man!

[@ryankl1984]

Anti-Freeze

[@hammadazhar4927]

people dont know what kind of content they are missing! It was so informative. want more like this :)

[@emmabentley7945]

Awesome video. Instant sub!

[@Trip_837]

The fact that mryeester's video is also there. im honored.

[@awerelia]

I have that exact cpu in my old desktop, even for as old as it is, its impressive how well it ran modern day games on average hardware.

[@GMMReviews]

*playing games with friends* "Hold on guys, need to replace the ice for my CPU cooler real quick."

[@SkyGrizzzley]

Blowing that bowl of water with the compressed air next to the mobo really triggered my anxiety.

[@CabeoClips]

1:31 bro that keyboard.

[@johnparkes2452]

It’s a ergonomic keyboard

[@nicknigals6537]

A better way to try this out is to put ice in a custom water cooling loop so that it actually has a good contact to the cpu through a waterblock.

[@foc2241]

Try to put the Ice in the melted water. The ice block does not completely cover the surface of the cup. I'd like to see that rerun with only new ice in the melted water, I think this'll help even more:)

[@javierbonilla3411]

great video man ur a legend

[@yeetus59]

This video gave me closure for my i5 3450 which runs around 75°-80° glad to know that it can be over 90° and still function

[@haehum]

8:25 first time at the hospital:

[@samuel238]

you could retry the ice cube experiment with distilled water ice cubes, those shouldn't be conductive

[@palestrinha179]

Nice! I was messing with my PC and started to think just about that alternative 😂😂

[@disabledspoon5752]

I used to do something like this on my old crappy laptop. I would place a round lunchbox cooler under where the cpu was as the thermal paste on the cpu was all dried up.

[@TheRadmin1724]

5:53 It's different for some boards. For example on an OptiPlex mobo it'll just alert you that the corresponding fans are not found, and you can press F1 to continue.

[@Praxss]

Yeah, in Asus mobos there is option to ignore cpu fan

[@lonnieguthrie5375]

You should freeze mineral oil and see if it works as thermal paste

[@mtrichie111]

Of you guys find a way of supplementing a normal air fan but with ice somehow, it should lower the active temperature during stress a little more than just the fan, in addition to reducing the speed at which the ice melts.

[@sadebiru]

imo you should try surrounding the socket with paper towels and use pure ice, might still destroy your mobo but itd be interesting to see what'd happen with frozen water instead of thermal paste

[@Subwayu_Productions_Official]

Hello! Ice is actually quite more effective. I use it o the bottom of my laptop all the time. My laptop can get quite toasty,and throttles down,but as soon as I rub 1-2 ice cubes all ove te metal bottom it goes back to its maximum potential. I think the biggest mistake you did was to just let the ice sit there. A more effective solution would be to put a small metal plate ontop of the cpu and then rub it as it melts much quicker that way. The biggest problem with ice is that it cant flow tho. Perhaps near freezing temperature water cooling would be the best of conventional and non conventional Collin worlds

[@shadow_link6581]

Thermal paste ideas: -Make a PC PbJ sandwhich -Make a PC Smore -Peanut butter -Another CPU

[@RainbowHelveltica]

"another CPU" thats what i said!

[@SgtKaiden]

I had ran a i5 3470 without a cooler for a week before realizing that it was missing its cooler. Decided to test it with integrated graphics on games like OG ghost recon and rainbow six 3 and it never went above 80 degrees celcius. A testament to "old" Intel.

[@danh1060]

It was most likely thermal throttling itself.

[@plowman69]

The problem is surface area all the fins on the traditional coolers increase surface area being cooled. I think the ice improved cooling ability once the bottom of the cup was lined with water more heat transfer. The compressed air would work if you took the fan off the fins of an old cpu cooler.

[@blackhole3800]

Try using acetone. It has a boiling point of 56 degrees celsius. By turning the top part of your cpu into a basin, you could literally boil off acetone at 56. That means that the excess heat would be turn into energy to boil off the acetone and prevent the cpu from reaching above 56 celsius.

[@potatoes402]

Ah yes, chemical poisoning

[@blackhole3800]

Add salt to ice to melt it without increasing its temperature. That would distribute heat more efficient.

[@arstino]

I don’t think that’s how it works…

[@Riska__]

Thermal paste alternative ideas: Yogurt, oatmeal, banana paste, ice cream, or Vaseline!

[@DerangedScout]

Someone teach this guy about mounting pressure.

[@spryzen2446]

Next : liquid nitrogen

[@barstiryaki4441]

Can you flip the motherboard, and apply the ice from bottom? That way water will drip to ground, keeping the motherboard dry without using a cup in between

[@jivewig]

Then you’ll need something like a spring constantly pushing the ice upwards. Also the condensation formed on the motherboard can kill it too.

[@Rubennatorr]

@@jivewig I think he means that if you put it on de otherside of the motherboard

[@jivewig]

@@Rubennatorr nope, then it won’t work at all. There’s wood in between then, a bad conductor of heat. He meant CPU facing down and ice in contact with it.

[@Rubennatorr]

@@jivewig But he said bottom

[@jivewig]

@@Rubennatorr first flip the motherboard, then apply ice from bottom

[@KozakBlade]

Lmfao I haven’t watched this but as a concept this is fucking hilarious come back when I can watch this

[@mxtorabibibibi]

Many years ago when I was at school I upgraded my 484 to pentium... I spend all for ram, cpu, graphic. No case and fan just a power supply. For a few month I used to put ice in a glass on the cpu and some cloth around it to keep things dry. It worked.

[@DGTelevsionNetwork]

I'd love to see a CPU cooler by an evaporator condenser (HVAC) system.

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

Like this? kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZK3gHujqrNlg5I

[@shereenhussian6651]

I guess this guy just really hates thermal paste...

[@FredySandoval_123]

I remember when I was kid opening my computer and seeing the thermal paste, and taking it off thinking it was dirt.

[@rgi8426]

maximum contact is required between the cup and cpu. There's a reason you screw in an air cooling system tight. As for the air blower, you could've installed the aluminum fins and then blown it with the air blower in replacement of the fan.

[@akiharuao]

Maybe you could try dry ice for the cooling?

[@f0h_]

watch linus then they already made a video about it a month ago

[@zsombor_99]

💡 What if a continuously running compressor blows air onto the CPU instead of that can of compressed air? 🤔

[@crisnmaryfam7344]

What if..... A continually spinning fan were to move air across it?!? We may have come up with a new type of Cpu cooler!.........wait..... No... Nope.

[@lorenzmaut3708]

@@crisnmaryfam7344 not really nobody uses that method, first you need to add more surface where the heat can be transferred like a piece of metal that connects to the CPU the it can become more effective

[@BurakUnan]

I remember testing a peltier module on CPU. Cooling was crazy.

[@geoffwadleigh7272]

Or re-purpose a portable ice maker into a cpu cooler somehow? It's something I have wanted to try.

[@parshavjain9142]

Please use liquid nitrogen to cool cpu

[@amazidiot]

And that folks is s what you use to overclock a cpu

[@naroznik_z_IKEA]

e8400

[@parshavjain9142]

@@amazidiot 👍

[@crisnmaryfam7344]

@@amazidiot or Gpu for that matter.

[@parshavjain9142]

@@crisnmaryfam7344 i think he have all the stuff to performance this experiment

[@Jay-eq1zb]

Dry ice next time ?

[@ImmenseJ-tard8253]

2:16 i can tell this is Tyler1

[@saturno8938]

rappers have been real quiet since this dropped 🗣🗣🔥🔥

[@tanishq7]

Well I wanted to say that I actaully tried on Phone this ice cooling its stayed below 40 while its 53 normallly and I tried on Battery I dunno but i cool it, It gave me 30% battery boost again i did it again gave 22% Boost I dont know But Maybe If battery stays cool it automatically charges ? I was actually charging it before a min and then switch mobile and then cooled it, thats how i did it

[@benxr1058]

Battery's start to die at low enough temperatures

[@Lapraniteon]

Please dont comment again

[@tanishq7]

@@Lapraniteon ?

[@benxr1058]

@@Lapraniteon ?

[@tab1540]

What if you remove a disk from a hard drive and install it into a pc ?

[@kitty.x3]

Bro a harddrive without a disk is like a cpu without cores 🤣

[@Croatilillious]

I wanted you to spray the upside down compressed air on the CPU so badly. That would cool it down for sure lol

[@joepedovevo1507]

I have that exact compressed air can, wow

[@mentalplayground]

Sub added, fun watch. Thank You

[@DavidGarcia-oi5nt]

Please use Copper Paste as a thermal paste, it is used to lubricate car brakes where extreme temperature differentials are normal usage.

[@tjn1017]

I don't remember the name of some elevtrical component but it cools a metal pad to below zero when connected to electricity. You should try it

[@Turtlecuber]

i certainly didnt learn a thing but it definitely was entertaining

[@dancingsilence7828]

Wondering what happens if you just straight up put the entire computer casing inside a freezer.

[@kiendalinux]

6:00 *Cooking a Ice Cubes!*

[@pxldsilz6828]

i did this once. P4 1850mhz. it got hotter than usual but worked fine. used motherboard w/out fan or heatsink edit: tip: there needs to be a little water with the ice to help conduct heat

[@Asterix7351]

Haha ! Back in the mid 80's, I needed to place a plastic bag of ice & water on the two 40-pin chips inside my brother's Commodore-64 to prevent it from crashing & freezing. That trick worked just fine ! 🙂

[@Fhrgaderga]

Thermal paste on the bottom of the cup for the ice, and keep replacing the ice as the water boils off

[@PomegranateJuiceSmoothie]

I thought he was gonna flip the compressed air upside down so it spews out the super cooled liquid

[@mackenziechamness4222]

Create an endothermic chemical reaction to pull the heat away from the processor. Would look really cool

[@ShadowNghbr]

me: help my pc is hot! school nurse: *ICE!!!*

[@user-rl1ds8li2x]

I think the problem with the icecube not being able to bring the temp down as much as it should has more to do with the metal container than anything else. Ice is pretty cold compared to the cpu, if it were directly on the cpu it might be able to transfer away way more heat way more quickly. Another option would be a container made of copper or the thermally conductive material of the cpu itself.

[@thefactor910]

You got yourself some hot-swappable ice? Dang that’s cool

[@sbfguy7793]

Thermal siphoning water cooling system would be cool.

[@Mutantcy1992]

This is so funny to me as a chemical engineer. Running the experiment instead of just calculating it based on the CPU's power usage and assuming various efficiencies to see what would happen ideally with the ice. I guess this way is more fun!

[@Spongebobber463]

They should just make fridges that you can connect your laptop to and somehow make it cool it down

[@zimtak6418]

Wow, less than 10 seconds into the video and you're already blowing my mind.

[@ChrisSlowens]

I have intense anxiety every time I handle my CPU... and here you are throwing Nutella on this one and it's still going strong lol

[@B1Boomer]

Imagine you are talking to your friends on discord and you say "brb I have to replace my ice" every 3 minutes or so.

[@Rogue_Sniper]

Instructions unclear: Ice Cube ran out of breath trying to blow air onto my CPU. Had to call his doctor, Dre.

[@MissesWitch]

Future pcs will have integrated ice cube makers being stored in a copper heatsink to cool your pc!

[@fantv525]

Interesting video but in the end you should've summed up the degrees you got with each cooling method.

[@natur2184]

Is it possible to "water/ice" cool the cpu by attaching something which can keep freezing the ice/water without damaging the cpu?

[@yr-ns3gu]

Video starts at 6:07

[@eternal1104]

If you use a copper can instead of an aluminum cup the ice will work better and get a bigger cup to put multiple in, the temperature goes to around 60 under load

[@ripjoe.-_-.]

I had a laptop that started to get hot af so it would overheat (sounded like the fans were not running anymore), So I grabbed a bad of ice and put it under the laptop, surprisingly it worked for around 3 hours

[@Arcoolr]

Fun fact - The name for the shape of Pringles is called a 'Hyperbolic Paraboloid'.