Which PC Parts can Survive being Frozen in ICE?

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0:00 Intro
0:22 Finding Container
0:30 Selecting Volunteers
0:53 Adding Water
1:20 Freezing
2:07 Extracting the PC Parts
3:22 Testing the Old GPU
4:00 Testing the New GPU
5:15 Testing the Mouse
5:35 Testing the RAM
5:56 Testing the HDD
6:50 Testing the CPU/Mobo/RAM combo
7:55 Outro

[@zUltraXO]

The newer GPU was probably still wet which caused shorts, same goes the mouse The hard drive still worked because they're sealed to prevent dust from corrupting data

[@kilgarragh]

Dust doesn’t corrupt data. They are sealed so it doesn’t land on the disk and crash into the microscopic magnetic head at 7200 rpm

[@JessicaFEREM]

Drives aren't sealed they have air holes

[@zUltraXO]

@@kilgarragh well if the dust happens to go through the read head, couldn't it make it malfunction or something, making it write garbled data?

[@ISAK.M]

@@zUltraXO 1 spec of dust can completely destroy the entire drive as it bounces around on the platter at 5400 or 7200 rpm. Essentially rendering it useless.

[@yeejay6396]

How about this. Don't expose electronics to stupidity. That simple.

[@gert2628]

There seems to be a few problems with this video. I think you should've waited to for it to melt from the beginning without pulling stuff out. Also, you didn't give the parts enough time to dry as the mouse was still wet and the modern graphics card has a lot of crevices for water to be trapped. Finally, when you were testing the motherboard, I noticed the plug on the graphics card side had partially fallen off so it's possible that caused the motherboard to not post.

[@malcolmyp247]

Cmos battery not installed as well. Also one of the reasons why it didn't post

[@TwinShards]

@@malcolmyp247 Some pc/motherboard will still post without a cmos battery. However it will throw up a dead or missing cmos error if it post.

[@warrax111]

@@TwinShards all motherboards post without cell battery. Some of them refuse to go after BIOS thought, or store data from BIOS (so they cannot even detect hard drive and store it, so BIOS knows what disk was detected etc...)

[@RAILGUNSHOOT]

​​@@malcolmyp247 all modern pc motherboards can post without CMOS battery, they store the data in NVRAM instead of battery now

[@jaxsonyt]

@@RAILGUNSHOOT uhh no they use the battery to keep the data intact so it doesnt reset your bios ant tome settings

[@TwinShards]

You should have do a proper drying of all parts before putting them to the test. Obviously the older GPU will survive because there's less tiny air tight zones for the water to stay trap and not dry. And for the new GPU & Mouse it's basically the same story but flipped the other way around.

[@HanifAhmad02]

Exactly

[@LiquidPeanuts]

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[@CreeplayEU]

🤣

[@redstonegod296]

DuckDuckGo: pour liquid nitrogen all over the PC

[@user-fe7bo5mm1o]

would be interesting to see the results if they were completely dry and cleaned off water residue

[@sabianwarner5316]

In theory, they would be completely unaffected unless the expanding of the water damaged anything. This is if the parts had no minerals tho otherwise I have no idea myself lol

[@yeejay6396]

@@sabianwarner5316 I doubt there'd be much difference....

[@garyr7027]

There's a high chance once dried out completely it will work just fine. I know this because I washed one once. Artifacts at first but once all dried out with air nozzle from a air compressor it had zero problems.

[@VITAS874]

Chinese do that. After mining 😉

[@CarryPotter007]

Everyone: "why would someone do this?" mryeester: "I think we have computer soup!" Everyone: "understandable, have a nice day"

[@nick-team-kinetic-energy]

The hard drive kept working because there is an airtight seal where the disks are and it prevented water from getting into the disks so it still worked

[@germanfisch]

What about the breathing hole

[@nick-team-kinetic-energy]

@@germanfisch ah it’s not 100% airtight, but the hole has a filter on the other side so water won’t get through that either

[@MarcelSchr]

I would be interested to know how many of the parts survive liquid nitrogen that freezes much faster and more aggressively

[@user-fe7bo5mm1o]

none nitrogen cracks everything because of how aggressive it is

[@Tobi_DarkKnight]

@@user-fe7bo5mm1o then why people use liquid nitrogen to extremely overclock computers?

[@user-fe7bo5mm1o]

@@Tobi_DarkKnight nitrogen cooling doesn't mean just pouring nitrogen on a graphics card. it's done in a specific way and it's used because the card gets extremely hot. if the card isn't hot the nitrogen is just gonna crack it.

[@MarcelSchr]

@@user-fe7bo5mm1o I think so too, but considering that technology gets very cold in space, it would be worth a try

[@germanfisch]

@@MarcelSchr Fun Fact: space has no temperature

[@magman687]

Assuming you let them dry properly every single electrical component will work just fine

[@neosonixyz]

Yeah, although I wonder what would happen if you repeatedly do this, because water will freeze and expand in gaps

[@magman687]

@@neosonixyz yeah definitely could cause issues in that sense. But judging by how the video card acted this time I'm 90% sure it still had water in it somewhere. But I agree with you I do feel like if it were frozen and unfrozen multiple times that it would eventually quit working no matter how dry you let it get just because the small fractures that would be created

[@noobiii]

the newer gpu might still malfunction because of the metal lol

[@magman687]

@@noobiii very well could be the reason.

[@bojan6368]

Not true . Maybe if it wasn't tap water since that has other metals and minerals

[@MrTroll69onyt]

2:14 this is what boomers think crypto mining is

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[@Zeddify]

The reason the HDD survived is because it has a seal between the actual mechanics and the outside which makes it waterproof. Maybe the board too?

[@TwinShards]

the HDD probably would have break if it was placed in the middle of the ice cube. Being near the side the ice had no mechanical power to compress the tin silver cover (bending inward this cover into the disc can break the HDD)

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[@garyr7027]

More likely was sealed, but some are not as they have a small opening and behind it is a dust filter inside.

[@aku2dimensional]

I was also thinking that the hard drive could have been affected by thermal expansion and water damage but then again it's not a Western Digital or Hitachi drive so it makes sense.

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[@pmlabowicz3903]

I left my old rig jostling around in the trunk of my car for an entire Maine winter and was quite surprised to see it worked fine when I plugged it back in 😆

[@thatrandomdude7767]

Man goes from 10 views to 400 in like -2 seconds Edit thanks for the likes

[@Hardwaremoney]

That’s why he is the BOSS when it comes to PC Thinkering

[@therealgranny9467]

@@Hardwaremoney "thinkering" lol

[@therealwillie2024]

I have one of those dvi cable splitters too and I always wondered what gen gpu had those

[@SheathEntertainment]

It was so cold, his CPU was running at peak efficiency 😂

[@thomaselvidge]

If this guy was patient enough to wait longer after thawing for all the water to evapourate and without prying the components out he might have gotten better results.

[@cronostvg]

Always have a baseline. Meaning, show it is working. Before you froze it. Also some Dell laptop motherboard refuse to boot without CMOS battery. For mouse, you may want to open it before drying.

[@krestonosets5763]

Imagine a world where we have zombie pc parts, I wouldn't be surprised if he's behind this

[@KeenanAxolotl]

Imagine someone's computer getting frozen in ice during some extinction event, being unearthed by aliens, who then got the HDD data back and just found a massive collection of memes.

[@iammeyt8071]

3:15 I gently disposed the ice mr yeester : Throws the ice

[@Everest-nu1yx]

I really like these longer vids. Even when it’s longer the attention span is really on point. I wounder if you will ever make a pc building video or not. Other than that I really enjoy your experiments

[@CreeplayEU]

I enjoy the long videos more than the short ones 😬

[@adityadivine9750]

You're iconic in PC community whose every other video is so interesting! Lot's of love!

[@Hardwaremoney]

Very true. Always very educative and entertaining!

[@12bucklemyshoe34opennanoor]

Stut

[@12bucklemyshoe34opennanoor]

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[@obnoxiousthegod]

the amount of problems in this video it’s like u didn’t even want to see which survived and tried ur hardest to break them all

[@toxicproduce2523]

Finally he did something that I really wanna do when my PC components overheat

[@peteip2604]

The damage is mostly caused by liquid damage to more liquid sensitive parts of the graphics card. If you just use liquid nitrogen on the GPU, isolating the rest of the card from liquid damage, you can get it to work. Also there is still water and condensation building up on the card, when you removed the ice.

[@truefoxtrot2884]

Would be interesting to see if dissembling and properly drying the parts would help, that would show that the ice/cold is the only thing destroying the components, and not the water.

[@flyguyheregames6444]

4:44 maybe its because you froze them for 3 days and one of them was more protected

[@stevenm3141]

HHD are airtight enclosure with only solid state electronics on the outside. This was a very good video showing the differences of electronics

[@fn.schm.0533]

Nice But is it possible to build a full working PC in a freezer. That would be interesting. Keep your Great Work up :)

[@pipsdontlie3031]

Okay guess I won't be freezing my mobo, cpu and ram to save it for later

[@146aviation7]

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[@Malix2238]

Takes the "washing your motherboard" meme to a whole other level.

[@stevencarlson5422]

the reason the hdd still worked fine is because there sort of sealed in a way has some venting in it but very small and would be hard for the water to get inside it so it would've been just hard frozen outside and not internally

[@urnoob5528]

freezing it or heating it will have the most minimal and negligible thermal expansion if at all typically damage from thermal expansion are from years of cycles

[@atlantic7332]

Fun fact. Hard drives are water proof

[@JustGamingTV1]

Fun fact. atlantic7332 is a certified dumb ahh cringelord

[@mahanc1124]

2:22 He took GPU mining too seriously

[@dat_platypus7007]

i remember dropping some old gpu, the main thing was bent but when i plugged it in my older pc it still worked, cant believe how stuff got more fragile overtime

[@josephquinn6060]

I want to see you freeze a block of ice around an air cooler's fins, then test how it performs when installed

[@Error_Return]

Technically, everything should be able to survive as long as they naturally melt and are all 100% dried

[@Jnanabase]

Cool little test lol, I enjoyed it

[@warrax111]

3:45 thank you for identifying this card. I have it, and could not test it. It had strange DVI port. Nothing could be plugged into it. Now I know, that it is OEM Radeon HD3450, with dual DVD-I port. Thank you.

[@FlagsandHonor]

Keep up the great work!

[@scarey9582]

Yeester: will gently dispose this ice... Also yeester : *yeets it off the balcony*

[@boxritter]

Yes finally a longer video

[@shortrat4462]

i just love this channel a lot lol

[@garyr7027]

I washed a GPU card once because it was from a smoke environment. At first it worked great when I thought it was completely dried out, but then came major artifacts, and refused to work right until it was completely dried out with a air hose. Most of the moisture was under the ram and GPU. After that though, it worked flawlessly and gamed with zero issues.

[@wake-archus]

the hard drive is basically an air/water tight component. there is little to no openings on most modern hard drives for air/water to get in.

[@janluofficial]

i think a lot of the mother board damage came from when you sprayed it directly with the water

[@senseimonke6902]

Thank you men ❤️❤️❤️💙 It's the best video I've seen

[@cirrxcirrx1866]

Thank you very much! What a good video ! Keep up creating contents please :) Really good content for real

[@Evercreeper]

Should plug some of these in with pure ice on em

[@teamofone1219]

“Technically this is a soup.” Carful there you are playing with fire.

[@RossClarke0]

I was going to say the HDD was fine, then you got the hammer.

[@Duck_that_funny_channel]

this video hurts me seeing those pour parts being blasted with the #1 enemy i feel so bad for those parts

[@Tamay.]

Freeze a full PC with the case, monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers and maybe other accessories

[@KingLinkVR]

3:21 I love your shirt! I’m a huge TLOZ and fan! Awesome video dude!

[@DukeDudeston]

Man I am so happy. I accidentally froze my hdd the other day and have been wondering if it will be ok.

[@pumpkinjutsu1249]

Ah yes, best way to solve the shortage.

[@samadel.a765]

The new gpu is more complicated in the architecture so it has smaller and more fragile parts that could easily be damaged if treated badly

[@al-lw1me]

what do you mean.. "we can be freezing them without remorse" one gpu getting frozen and i wont financially recover ever again.

[@zeenxdownz]

Funfact: If you leave it for a day after taking the ice off, they will work. I once broke my keyboard every key pressed some other key and left it dry for like a day and it worked.

[@forever.j4m35]

i went to the the store just to buy some snacks to enjoy this video, love the content 🙃❤

[@whendarknessfalls6969]

As long as certain parts didn't break from the temperature, and it dried first. That all should work. But I'd be worried about the watch battery in the mobo filling with water

[@FBI-lk1yu]

Love your content! Hopefully you get more views and subs!

[@DanielMartins-zm2eo]

i'm pretty sure that if instead of just waiting for the things to dry and test them you would open them up, make sure they were all dry and clean, everything would have worked just fine except for the mobo+cpu+ram combo

[@kahvozeinsfang6953]

Well if freezing didnt kill the parts the crowbar sure will lol

[@ducky1681]

I think if you'd have fully dried them out, they all would've worked

[@henningokholm7912]

Looked fun and devastating. I also have a technical background as radiomechanic.

[@a_marc]

This is next level cooling

[@dan167]

I think there's much larger space for water to hide in the newer gpu personally.

[@NafrytiNosferatu]

Seagate has a 1TB per platter structure now, so, i believe if you used either an older Seagate, like from BEFORE the fancy green labels, like when the word Barracuda was in Orange, then there would be more than 1 Platter per TB... OR any of the newer 2TB+ Seagate drives are multiple platters.

[@Mini-z1994]

Probably need too wait longer for the parts too dry out that weren't working in the video here.

[@koimochi11]

Ah yes, a helpful video for when I plan on bringing my pc parts in a tub of water to Mount Everest

[@akashsaha3306]

I love your experiments

[@a_nicegaming]

Me: *plugs the pc in when it’s ice* Pc: GET YOUR BOT HERE AND HEAT ME UP

[@KatJustice97]

Something about watching you fill a tub of computer parts with water felt downright evil

[@playershortsyt]

I am not surprised the hard drive worked

[@oldpcuser3136]

and one day, in the year 3000, the motherboard finally got unfrozen

[@azanidx]

Thermal paste been real quite recently

[@B4s1c23]

I think they all going to survive

[@olgabecker8571]

I thought none of them would survive at first .

[@yonualtu]

I have an idea for another video, which is similar to this, but you put all the PC in a freezer and not use any fans or cooling elements.

[@PhroggiusPhrog]

Next time you freeze a component, if you want to get it out, get a seraded knife, a hammer, make a shallow cut in the ice, and gently but firmly tap on the knife, the ice should then split!

[@vMarkmanv]

fire video, thanks bro

[@MLchewie]

Bro sacrificed a 1 tb external hard drive 💀😭

[@okuyashoe_official]

Why did I feel that ice bite

[@gegervary]

Yet the best way to make it 6 out of 6 running parts is by not freezing your computer components.

[@theslammer1999]

This video is definitely going to blow up

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[@Angel-nb9st]

Air cooling, water cooling and now solid cooling!

[@SHUTENSEPC]

an ultra random video and first that I watched from you, but damn its a good one

[@noobiii]

maybe try the hdd again but with some data, should be interesting

[@CrunkyOMan83]

Freezing pc parts said no one, mryeester I’ll do it!

[@filenotfound__3871]

you didn't let the dry for long enough

[@wanexline]

first gpu is same as mine so.. i can freeze it without thinking! thanks man

[@FoxTheLord32]

the biggest thing is how ice expands

[@wolfisbad8965]

you should've put everything in rice right after it was removed from the ice, let it dry over night and test

[@noahfoley5576]

Im shocked any of these worked in any capacity 😵‍💫

[@thecubertutor]

Love your vids!

[@Skittles-1]

try to freeze half of the components to see if it’s still gonna work or not or even show corruption

[@synapse5791]

6:42 im pretty sure the reason it still worked is because drives are sealed so no dust will be able to get in and same for water no water will not be able to get in at least thats what i think