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CHAPTERS
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0:00 - Linus gets things thrown at him
0:35 - UGreen!
0:49 - Linus plays with LN2
1:49 - Why would you want LN2 for overclocking?
2:30 - How to prep for -193C
5:58 - How to hardcore overclock
8:05 - Alex attempts to overclock
11:25 - Splave does an overclock
13:29 - Linus comes back, is amaze
15:56 - MSI!
16:35 - Outro

[@linussebastian6053]

Couple points! Thank you Nikolay Pelov and linuxgeex At this low a voltage, the motherboard should never arc. Also, the true thermal barrier isn't even the increased resistance. It's the reduced impedance due to increased quantum tunnelling as temperature goes up, which increases leakage current, which is the majority source of the increased heat once you get into thermal runaway.

[@eastenmay4823]

Is this linus's personal youtube account?

[@_schlemil_9633]

Okay did not understand it at first

[@GD15555]

please make pc inside the vacuum chamber

[@LKOO7]

ok

[@HayderAbdulridha]

Nice It Linus Jobs!

[@AndroidBugler]

Allen is an absolute UNIT I guess he does only 2 things in life, lift and OC

[@ralan_bek]

He OC CPUs and muscles

[@WereCatStudio]

"Look at those gains! +1237 points in R20 compared to the run before!"

[@eldibs]

Dude is like, three or four absolute units.

[@jrshaul]

"Every time I bluescreen...I do ONE push-up."

[@sojirou]

He benches the 230L of LN2 cylinder while waiting for cinebench runs

[@wasabiwaxy5748]

Loved this guy. He's got a gentle giant vibe to him

[@ncrawford1488]

It’s funny, at the beginning he reminds me of an employee I’ve had for 20 years- the guy is nearly 50 and still a virgin… Once Linus was gone, though, he showed a little more personality.

[@anthony1917]

loved?

[@79huddy]

The big kid from Camp Onnawanda

[@exkoi]

a giga chad at its finest

[@EriksWorld14]

@@ncrawford1488 lol bro what - keep that to yourself next time. also I bet he still gets more play than you

[@Unprotected1232]

P-cores at 6.9GHz and E-cores at 4.2GHz. We're hitting all the nice numbers in this video.

[@ADeeSHUPA]

ないす 남벌쓰

[@M4D0GG0]

@@ADeeSHUPAwhy dont you like it

[@Kingcrab0]

I really like Splave. He's so chill and knowledgeable. Though, to be fair: most of Linus's crew has a unique and fun personality.

[@pmudri]

Hes not the crew

[@The_Divergent]

​@@pmudriBaki?

[@tkirchmann]

Linus got jealous of Steve's giant well polished cylinder.

[@eepyeri]

of the what

[@rwosu]

ayo

[@HoosierTransfer]

:SUSSY:

[@ClayTheFoxx]

Lmao

[@jcak654]

:(

[@cianboy97]

Splave is a massive guy. If I was a CPU I would simply overclock as high as he wanted me to

[@buenomini]

Real

[@blez5418]

Sus

[@cydoniaastronaut9277]

LMAO

[@whoa3805]

#gay

[@cianboy97]

@@blez5418 YEAH

[@J3G2]

Splave is the sorta dude you'd want having your back in a rough alley and some sort of zen tournament of absolute controlled power

[@ramasso]

Do you want this guy in your back?

[@pitonpriscal3379]

@@ramasso 🗿✋

[@BloonMan137]

Was “zen” a pun because amd? Im overthinking this..

[@EdgyShooter]

One of my favourite memories from my undergraduate is completely forgetting the project we were supposed to be doing and dunking everything we could find into liquid nitrogen, including a USB stick which we then transported via tongs to the computers and plugged in 😅

[@1p2k-223]

Did it still work?

[@rcninjastudio]

rumours are is that Splave didn't use nitrogen to cool the cpu, he just told it what he wanted and the cpu was too scared not to do anything else 💪😝

[@Aschentei]

that what gains are for 💪

[@feridad1928]

Absolute unit of an overclocker

[@stupr1138]

gotta love how the record holder for one of the geekiest things on planet earth is like an absolute unit of a chad what a twist lol

[@jemjones5675]

Soft nerds/geeks aren't soft because they're nerds/geeks. Soft nerds/geeks are soft because they don't want to be, or they do want to be, but don't want to put in the effort, or don't believe they should have to put in the effort, and instead dream up terms such as "chad" to express their displeasure at their own feelings of inferiority. The irony is that they don't even realize that they can utilize their smarts into solving their own problems by approaching them the same way they would a scientific problem: with the scientific method, then putting their findings to practice. Btw, 1/2 hour a day of body weight exercise and you'll be 80% "chad" yourself. Pullups, dips, and squats.

[@SqueakyNeb]

Successful people are driven and focussed people, it all goes together.

[@CraftingCake]

@@jemjones5675 1/2 hour body weight exercise with no optimized diet won't get you anywhere close to looking like this guy if you're not blessed with your genetics. The people I know who do a lot of body weight exercise are all pretty slim with trained muscles and almost no fat content.

[@jemjones5675]

@@CraftingCake You can literally eat like shit, do 30 minutes WORTH of body weight exercises, and be, like I said, 80% "Chad". I'm *not* saying to neglect your diet, but you can go far so long as you ingest enough calories. Do 200 push ups, 200 sit-ups on one day, 200 squats and 200 sit-ups the next day, and whatever pull ups you can manage on the day of your choice, you'll be golden. You will be bulky. You'll have bulges in your arms, a muscular upper body, and tree trunk legs. All for 7-8 three minute sessions throughout the day. Those are all compound exercises, hitting large amounts of stabilizer muscles, and main group muscles; there's a reason they're known as "The Olympic Lifts". It takes no time to do a set of pushups or squats, then sit-ups, and then go about your business for an hour or two before repeating until you've hit whatever arbitrary number you want (mine is around 240; 8 sets of 30 reps per day).

[@archaeologistify]

@@jemjones5675 True. If any of you nerds are reading this, purchase a pull-up bar that fits between your door frame, its cheap af. About 2 weeks of just trying to hang as long as you can and you'll do your first pullup. It will feel awesome and you'll only go up from there - speaking from experience. I still spend most of my time at a pc either at work or at home, but life feels better overall.

[@reductor_]

Speed of light is also a big limitation, 6.9 ghz means light can only travel 43mm (1.7 inches) per cycle, which is just insane. The size of the die is 20.5 mm × 10.5 mm, now that clock cycle is only within one core inside that CPU die, but still insane, you'll start to see why there isn't a much of room left.

[@shadow_rune6178]

wAiT a MiNuTe tHoSe SpEcS aRe KiNdA SuS

[@nikkiofthevalley]

Also the speed of electricity is slower than the speed of light, which could very well get it to within the range of the die if you tried to get much higher.

[@hejdu13337]

@@shadow_rune6178 actually laughed hard out loud.

[@Dampfaeus]

15:38 the "wheeeeee" and that look full of concern in the background 🙂

[@MinistryOfMagic_DoM]

I love how the professional overclocker is standing there watching Linus explain what he does lol. He looks like he wants to jump in and explain it.

[@ctrlectrld]

Imagine being this guy, having to be there listening to Linus explain what you do while making wiii, puuuu, piiiii noises.

[@astigmatic8978]

He looks so intimidating with his arms crossed and the serious expression

[@DuyNguyen-yx2vd]

It's like watching a kindergartner explain to another kindergartner what they just learned.

[@MrDeerbomb]

more like a "volunteer" overclocker than a "professional"

[@enterusernamefuck]

8:13 He's got a great point. Overclocking the RGB to produce a wider color gamut is genius! LOL

[@zachcrawford5]

Leds actually will emit at a higher frequency (bluer) wavelength the colder they are. So even though he was joking, it's also kind of accurate.

[@mirabilis]

We need more UV-B

[@naturally_rob]

That was the most chill dude I've ever seen. So soft spoken. So calm. It contrast well with Linus going "WEEeeEe" while pouring the liquid cold

[@zhongxina9420]

Contrary to popular belief, big dudes are actually pretty chill. You go to any gym in the world, approach the biggest guy in there and talk with him and he'll 90% be the chillest dude there. Strength makes you kind

[@naturally_rob]

@@zhongxina9420 a buddy of mine is 7'2". Dude's nickname in high school, from football, was "The Fridge". He's the most caring and chill dude I know. So in my experience, your comment is the truth.

[@Lt.Shineysides89]

watching Jay do liquid nitrogen overclocking was really fun so it's good to see you do a video like this! i wouldn't ever try this as i just have no desire to but it is enjoyable to watch

[@KaminKevCrew]

I sincerely hope that if a CPU manufacturer ever releases a SKU that can hit 6.9ghz, they’ll call it the ‘Nice’ edition.

[@dscarmo]

N1C3 model name

[@jeffreyhughes5972]

it better have a 4.2Ghz base clock

[@_CinnamonKitty]

Intel 6969NICE

[@hwgusn]

The Giggity Edition

[@aydenbredenkamp452]

Intel 6960 Nice Lake edition

[@MikeS42069]

I love how much fun Linus has been having lately.

[@just.nobody]

@@samusaran6936 Why not?

[@samael4550]

@@samusaran6936cuz he’s doing what we all wish we could do, are you just jealous ?

[@knineknights]

Love your job and you will never work a day in your life.

[@sntslilhlpr6601]

Moving is very stressful. Moving into a mansion with a bunch of employees to help you and a bunch of cool life-goal tech stuff to setup is significantly less stressful. Might even be therapeutic.

[@anoirbentanfous]

Seeing a guy that looks more like a MMA fighter than a computer geek doing some serious overclocking to be considered one of the best overclockers over there is just refreshing to watch.

[@garcmunelgaming2009]

I was having a heart attack throughout the video, Linus has a reputation for dropping/knocking things over, imaging that happened when he's pouring that liquid nitrogen.

[@ArquimedesOfficial]

Same here bro 😨😨😨😨

[@marcelleuenberger4648]

Also.. ever had a LN2 burn? Wear some gloves, not a big hassle but makes such a difference

[@bobuccman1424]

nah. the leidenfrost effect would save you, so you wouldnt have contact with it, unless you put on gloves and it goes in there

[@marcelleuenberger4648]

@@bobuccman1424 Nope. I actually was burned by LN2 before, and while the Leidenfrost effect works it doesn't actually protect you from nasty burns :/ Especially with a whole thermos full of it😅

[@Sadistichippo]

SPLAVE needs a KZbin channel. Dudes vibe was amazing. Just a joy to watch

[@on.whatappi1495]

📩📩☝🏻 .. ..

[@yaago]

if he makes a youtube channel he will loose the time editing videos uploading etc therefore his ability with cpus would decrease

[@moegreen3870]

@@yaago - yup! i'm no content creator, but it been dawning on me just how much time other people sink into making videos. it definitely aint trivial lmao

[@gardensofthegods]

@@yaago he could always have somebody do the editing for him

[@Joe-og6br]

​@@gardensofthegods not everyone wants a social media presence. Especially a video channel.

[@johnnyfilms330]

Such a peaceful video. Their voices are soothing

[@vnm196]

You should hire this guy, if he needs a job. I would watch more of him hes chill

[@jakubstefek96]

I have to say this, I am really impressed by your water bottles and how well they are isolated. I never thought they can hold something like liquid nitrogen for such a long time and that you can hold it with your bare hands.

[@YannickBo]

This video actually might be the final push for me to get some

[@SivaKanthSharma]

This video is way better marketing for the bottles than anything else they can do.

[@Bobis32]

you need a vacuum insulated water bottle to prevent the ln2 from freezing your hand

[@hishaamabbasi5570]

Tbf, even normal vacuum bottles work just fine, as long as they are actually vacuum flasks

[@ShadowPlayer321]

@@YannickBo For some extra convincing, if I fill my water bottle with ice and ice cold water and leave it shut, it won't finish melting for around 20 hours.

[@johngermain5146]

You really exceeded our expectations this time, by bringing Splave, a world famous overlooking expert to hit Golden Sample CPU's with LN2. Good Job!

[@felipe_Pacheco13]

69 likes

[@kr19569]

*overclocking

[@kaldo_kaldo]

@@kr19569 Maybe he's also famous for overlooking things

[@kr19569]

@@kaldo_kaldo haha, right on!

[@qm3ster]

Loving how the video compression made the black cold look like "Unmoving Plaid" or an end portal.

[@PunmasterSTP]

I doubt I'll ever overclock anything, but this was fascinating as all hell to watch!

[@eccentricOrange]

Alex and Splave just doing it perfectly, completely chill, no problems at all. _[Enter Linus]_ Wiiieeeeeeeeeeeeee! Whooo-OH, BSOD (15:23 15:39)

[@rickcupola6262]

6.9 GHz on 6/9? Serendipitously nice.

[@QuasiMonkey]

Nice Nice!

[@GameyCat]

As a european *i shall allow it*

[@QuasiMonkey]

@@GameyCat eciN

[@tai2691997]

With 4.20GHz at those e-cores too. What a nice video to watch at 6/9

[@d3fault1420]

double nice

[@md.sadidhasanmurad2347]

aah a stable overclocked setup is a blessing!

[@maaddaawg3568]

Damn, Splave ole buddy, recognized you right off - looking good Bro! Teammates years ago on the "No Borders Extreme Overclocking Team". He was the best way back then and just kept getting better!

[@Rockbocki]

im working with cryogenics for work and the samples we are working with need to be handeled in LN2 at all times so seeing this i got some ideas. If you put the motherboard in a big container, the gas nitrogen (from the boiling) would fill it because it is heavier than air and you would not have air (which has all the moisture) around it. If you have a university or research institute around, you could think about contacting them. Cryogenic work is quite common nowadays and there is probably some experts around that can help with this

[@iro4201]

What exactly do you do? 🤔

[@pwnmeisterage]

These guys handle some ridiculous materials. They do some ridiculous electrical mods. They engineer all sorts of ridiculous hacks and workarounds. But they insist on using "common" consumer parts in "common" consumer conditions. That means a computer on a table in normal air, no complete immersion, no vacuum, no exotic environments. Dunno why, exactly. The hobby is cutting-edge math, science, and tech on one hand. It's unscientific bumbling on the other. It's ruthlessly competitive on one hand. It's team collaboration on the other. It's methodical experimentation and calculation on one hand, it's reckless gamble on the other.

[@shanewilson3653]

To add to Groentje92 comment: Make the container out of 30mm plexiglass then enclose the top. whole thing rubber sealed. Add a flask with a tap to allow the topping up of liquid nitrogen. Add a vacuum pump. this will allow the chamber to be pulled down to a lower pressure, lowing the boiling temperature of liquid nirogen, allowing even colder temps. Also might be worth adding a 45psi burst disk,.. just in case of over pressure even if vaccum pump fails at some point.

[@Rockbocki]

@@iro4201 structural biology. The microscope we work with works in cryogenic condition so we have to prep our samples accordingly

[@Rockbocki]

@@shanewilson3653 I didn't want to go into vacuum as it is probably alot more difficult to pull of but you are completely right. Woud be even better

[@surena9451]

2:26 "Take it down to greater than 170 degrees Celsius" Damn... thats hot

[@rbacon131]

This was the video I needed for my birthday just wish I could have watch on the 9th.

[@ardenthebibliophile]

Just an FYI (months later) you'll probably encounter the leidenfrost effect with liquid nitrogen. Effectively the liquid boils away and shields the core from cooling; this is why you can dip your hand in liquid nitrogen. If you convert to a pumped/flow setup you will avoid this. It would also allow you to use other cases like helium with little change. Source: in grad school we worked with cryogens and temperature controllers for experiments at 4K or below

[@ThisIsTechToday]

the new guy looks like a body guard, lol

[@Linkfredy]

Linus went from looking like a child, to acting like a child. I love it

[@viktorpettersson9975]

Yeh it was emberassing to watch him.

[@utkarshpandey6471]

Splave is the most "chill" guy I have ever seen. Thanks for the video man, these things keep my brain intact :D

[@saturn7835]

Why is chill in quotes?

[@retrodude9667]

Your videos are full of energy, entertainment and ofcourse info. 👍👍👍

[@gialuquin88XD]

Oh men, When Luinus comes back and is amazed 13:29 LOL, I know that he is not faking it. I honestly feel the same way just by looking at this video, soo well produced with a touch of love, personality, and a real passion for all of you guys' disciplines. Thanks for soo much, LTT Team.

[@BBW4MEPLZ]

A video like this has been a long time coming. As a fellow LN2 overclocker, I’m happy to see this. While there are a lot of caveats in some stuff you said, you did an excellent job in packing it all in to a short time-frame. Kudos.

[@Felttipfuzzywuzzyflyguy]

This was super awesome! Such a cool dude, seems super chill.

[@JxSTICK]

6.9Ghz overCOCKed CPU (Central Penetration Unit), nice specs man. I love your videos

[@hyperheadbanger22]

Splave definitely missed his true calling of being a professional wrestler. I say this as a fan, he's got the PERFECT look for it

[@MesquiteAutomotive]

He probably does competitive lifting

[@SparkysAdventure]

@@MesquiteAutomotive he does, or at least he did in the past

[@Soutar3DG]

Gonna be fun next gen with rumours Zen 4 is hitting 5.8Ghz in the lab in early silicon samples, we're gonna have many more attempts at very high clock speeds coming up.

[@batt3ryac1d]

Man that sounds wild. I wonder if they're gonna be hot as fuck or real efficient.

[@batt3ryac1d]

Man that sounds wild. I wonder if they're gonna be hot as fuck or real efficient.

[@pineapplesarecool6901]

@@batt3ryac1d efficient, zen 4 will be insane

[@swecreations]

@@batt3ryac1d All CPUs can be both inefficient and efficient, it only depends on what power they run them at from the factory. If you're worried about efficiency just undervolt it like I do.

[@theplayerofus319]

@@swecreations not everyone is comfortable with such stuff...granted its relativ easy today but a chip should always be considererd by its og settings from the factory because most will use them like that

[@AlmostLikeHuman]

This is absolutely insane. I love it!

[@user-rr6ct2sv2u]

Cinebench is a very good benchmark for comparing true potential. I wonder however how crazy performance would be for certain games more limited by CPU performance while having a high end gpu. How high can those fps numbers get ;)

[@aiden_3c]

You know you're doing some extreme cooling when you need to actually heat it too

[@orangeheartguy]

Splave is so chill, probably from being around liquid Nitrogen a lot! 🙃

[@jasonhas7709]

Really like this content! More ln2 please

[@ryanjofre]

Splave is a freaking beast!!! Linus comes up with Dank people!!!

[@257ersSupport]

I love the overclocker duo, that was very enjoyable to watch!!

[@ChiralWolf]

Man that really puts it into perspective for how long it's been since I've seen a gpu or cpu actually need to advertise, nature is healing

[@theunholybanana4745]

Love the ugreen sponsor, they're my go-to brand for cables

[@Memento86Mori]

Man I loved this man, he is like a gentle giant

[@linuxgeex]

@Linus the true thermal barrier isn't even the increased resistance. It's the reduced impedance due to increased quantum tunnelling as temperature goes up, which increases leakage current, which is the majority source of the increased heat once you get into thermal runaway. That is what will damage the CPU, and that's the reason for throttling. Well... unless you're throttling before you melt the board's power stages or power delivery traces. We're at that point now where some mobos will fail before the CPU!

[@someonestolemyname]

yeah it sounded wrong to me since semiconductor should have lower resistance as temperature goes up unlike metal. Thanks for clarifying the whole thing.

[@jenda386]

@@someonestolemyname I was also very confused, as resistance of semiconductors indeed goes down with increasinig temperature.

[@nickpayne1182]

Ah, this is the post he referenced at the top! Thank you. Now I know that silicon has a negative coefficient of resistivity, which I think explains why he said that the board doesn't like to power on when it's cold- The impedance of the silicon is too high when it's cold & doesn't allow enough current flow.

[@linuxgeex]

@@nickpayne1182 At the frequencies they're pushing, 99% of the chip is a series of connected RLC tank resonators being coerced into operating literally in harmony. For best efficiency those little tanks are designed to operate happily in a given frequency range with a given amount of power based on capacitance, inductance, the driving voltage, the driving frequency. The rate of change of voltage is based on the resistance (metal and semiconductor) and impedance (metal and semiconductor.) The resistance of both goes up quite linearly with temperature. Impedance on the other hand is quirky, lol. As the capacitance and inductance deplete they induce current flow which increases impedance to the depletion of the inductance. Higher temps decrease that impedance but prolong it. Net effect is that the transistor takes a little longer to switch, and so requires a higher voltage to switch fast enough to keep up with the clock rate, hence why cooling and under-volting allow you run higher clocks at lower power. Quantum tunnelling does the opposite. It's behaves similarly to how an avalanche starts thanks to vibration. The electrons want to get from A to B. Semiconductors can be biased to operate as either conductors or insulators. Insulation works to prevent electron movement by presenting a uniform wall of electron shells perpendicular to the desired path of the electron(s). As the insulator's molecules heat up and shake larger gaps intermittently appear in that wall. When the gaps get large enough, the odds of electrons jumping through them increases (quantum is all about odds lol). That shakes the molecules even more, and soon you have an avalanche of electrons migrating where they shouldn't, plus more heat than was designed for. If the heat is sufficient it can break molecular bonds and the electrons will start pushing atoms around, aka "electromigration". CPUs have heat sensors to make themselves throttle before that happens, but those sensors can fail and allow a CPU to self-immolate, sadly, and that's part of why TDP exists - the CPU will also throttle above a certain power usage window as a backup failsafe anti-suicide measure. Intel K series processors have that safety feature turned off... you pay for less safety lol.

[@nickpayne1182]

@@linuxgeex Holy cow, thank you for the explanation & giving me a good starting point to do more research. I learned the basics of electrical theory in my apprenticeship, so luckily this isn't all Greek to me. Your explanation sounds very similar to what I was taught about reactance & hysteresis in AC circuits. Thank you again for the explanation.

[@wettuga2762]

You can call it a good day when Linus doesn't lose a hand while messing around with liquid nitrogen. I'm pretty sure Yvonne only found out about this AFTER it was already filmed.

[@leoforzeth]

it's pretty hard to lose a hand to liquid nitrogen unless you're an absolute fuckup, it vaporizes before touching your skin

[@LinusTechTips]

@@clavius5734 Gloves are actually bad when handling LN2. Your hands are hot enough when it hits them the LN2 boils and you're protected by the vapour creating an insulation layer (Leidenfrost effect). Put on gloves and the LN2 soaks in leading to v frosty hands. -AC

[@DuckMan77]

As was said, you REALLY don't want gloves or even socks when using LN2 for OCing. LN2 isn't really THAT dangerous assuming you know what it does. Movies make people think it'll freeze you instantly and that's just false.

[@DuckMan77]

To give a little more context as to the dangers of LN2, it has 2 primarily. First is its displacement of oxygen causing asphyxiation (don't breath the gas). Second is its cold, but when touching your skin it due to the temperature gradient causes the LN2 to flash directly to a gas with a sort of barrier forming between your skin and the LN2. If you put on gloves this doesn't happen, it soaks into the gloves and super cools the gloves leading to burns from it. This will happen with socks and other fabrics too.

[@DenLam94]

I have worked with LN2 for biophysics work. you learn to respect it

[@pierre-julienpeyroux26]

Flippin' excellent choice of track to kick off with Ahah, the bass going along the mad intro description of sweet madness we are about to witness .. hehe

[@organicmethamphetamine2391]

wow such a realistic and practical video idea

[@jessebraughler8594]

Allen talks and acts like he's the Bob Ross of overclocking and I love it.

[@urbanexploring-2go494]

Alternate title: Linus playing with frozen food and doing a bit overclocking for 17 minutes straight

[@charliecharliewhiskey9403]

Alternate alternate title: Linus smashes his banana and pours liquid in the hole

[@urbanexploring-2go494]

@@charliecharliewhiskey9403 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@bradhaines3142]

@@charliecharliewhiskey9403 way better

[@devneldkumar6513]

Or, Linus making a hole in a metal bucket with his banana then pours the liquid in his cpus black hole

[@KuhWristChin]

Splave seems like such a chill guy! :^)

[@Azzurra2k]

This is so cool, Reminds me of my favorite LTT video the phase change cooler one

[@Kawwyke]

Do more content with this guy - he is great!

[@MrTRST22]

The guy is so humble. Love the vibe. Thx for the special content. :-)

[@techitout4710]

The intro is amazing

[@StanielP]

My brother and I would always play with the LN at work when I first started. Good times

[@DigiNeko]

linus the mad seggs scientist

[@maxenti]

Watching him play with the liquid nitrogen had me very concerned until Alex had him put on safety gear xD

[@ViciousTuna2012]

Gotta protect the cash cow

[@Robskimask]

Could of been linebacker in the NFL but he overclocks. I love it

[@bruhmoment2312]

6/9th is my birthday, thanks for the vid lol

[@julliansibi]

I love how Linus literally just made a video to get 6.9GHz on 6/9. Whoever thought of that must have had a NICE day. 😂

[@thomasphillips885]

It's 9/6 everywhere else in the world. See you on the 6th of September

[@KotteKumar]

@@thomasphillips885 it isnt, it's just 9/6 for america, because america wanted to reject everything the english did apparently

[@benicionavaira4501]

Thats nothing don't you know Tom cruise went over 10G!!

[@peptalk5495]

It's also at 69k likes rn

[@PureRushXevus]

Yep.. silly reversed formatting

[@berenlea486]

a cool extention of something like this could be to put the whole system in a pressurized nitrogen atmosphere so moisture isn't an issue then use a cryogenic heat pump similar to the ones used to make LN2 as a cpu cooler by maybe using LN2 or helium as the cooling liquid. have a raspberry pi or the like managing flow rates and temps and it could make one hell of a server (wouldn't want a set up that big on a desk so in a rack it must go)

[@Deviated09]

The problem is, the action of the LN2 boiling rapidly is actually what sucks out so much of the heat. It pulls a lot of thermal energy out from the pot to go from the liquid to the gas state. This is actually very much how freon(r134) in our AC systems works, the transition from liquid to gas, and back, makes it able to absorb and release that heat so efficiently That's a really neat idea tho, I wonder if there is a way to implement it in a moisture free pressure vessel that still allows the energy transfer as efficiently(maybe more?)

[@kristmadsen]

Can't they put it in a sealed box with a water condenser .

[@mohammedwajeed5853]

You saved my life! Thx

[@alterra5429]

Another idea for preventing condensation is running the motherboard in a partial vacuum with the rest of the air being dehumidified beforehand, assuming that the hardware isn't extremely sensitive to lack of air or atmospheric pressure.

[@krisha12]

Would boil LN faster

[@savvidisaudio]

I really love all the additional information, you guys blend in. Good job, this is a 11/10 vid!

[@hrebs]

@WhatsApp°±I𝟳𝟳𝟱𝟰𝟳𝟲𝟲𝟽𝟪9 get lost scam

[@zWORMzGaming]

My kind of CPU. Nice 😏

[@exodyno]

Aye my boy. Keep going strong my dude. Your vids helped me with the gtx 970. Been happy with it for half a year now xD

[@Prometheus-is-mywife]

Jack? Is that you?

[@luigiismariosbrother.7656]

Jack

[@hariskhan01]

hey kryyzp

[@Shadowyurix]

Amazing video, loved the guest!

[@carlsoll]

11:59 Wow. Very cool, like this open set up *absolutely* freezing cold, experimenting with these conditions. Awesome stuff O.O

[@rogue3398]

2:11 Splave looming in the background, looking like he's about to rip Linus in half

[@ZacLangston]

He is finally overclocking that is awesome

[@lazarus_3116]

Alex and Allen: "talking about overclocking" Meanwhile Linus: UIIUUIIIIIIIIIIIIII

[@Pritam252]

MY FAVOURITE VIDEO OF ALL TIME!!!!!

[@ctwolf]

@7:30 - talking about no money in OC'ing, the "Very True" felt like it came from the gut. I felt that. It was visceral for me lmfao.

[@brothatwasepic]

Honestly this is such a cool video. Pushing things to the limits is amazing

[@hey_its_shrey]

i love how splave's face glows red like he's a little kid going over to his new neighbor's house and seeing that his neighbor also also likes playing with g.i. joe action figures. its so innocent and wholesome 😊🤗

[@TuxedoMaskMusic]

Thanks Steve! we love Gamers Nexus!

[@FransvandenBergeMuziekschuur]

You just found a new member of your team. What a cool (overclock) dude.

[@kkon5ti]

Uhhh the new design of the video-references is really good! Love to see it!

[@vengirgirem]

I hope that sometime in the future there will be a point that cooling systems will be so advanced that any person would be able to have a 10GHz CPU in his desktop PC

[@spidermangalarza]

Man Splav cool heavy !!! the gentle giant !

[@choppedandspewed]

Legendary editing at 6:39. God speed friend.

[@chipinnc]

Awesome! Love the videos partnering with other folks!!!

[@on.whatappi1495]

📩📩☝🏻 .. ..

[@gua-pi-mao]

I remember waking up and watching this first thing in the morning

[@thestoicwhinger]

This video made me anxious

[@getmepaid2day653]

Of course it's not even hard when you have a professional Overclocking Chad walking you through the process lol

[@poldelepel]

Can't wait to watch this the 6th of september!

[@ZamBam-kg8nf]

this entire video was dedicated to the nice lords themselves, and i *love* it

[@Drsuds]

I love how nonchalant he is about it.