I mean relative to $3k it's not THAT expensive. Whilst I like using off the shelf cheaper variants, there may be other incompatibility problem i.e, the cheaper fitting was made with more tolerance and allows some water to drip overtime, or perhaps the metal makes contact with and corrodes in the liquid. As a non-water-cooler PC fan, I wouldn't know, unless I looked it up, and I wouldn't want to use my GPU as the guinea pig unless I'm absolutely sure that this is ok.
If it is indeed a standard plumbing measurement as a commenter above said then a cheap plumbing connecter would work as even the cheap ones have low tolerances since they're used for radiators etc
Between Elijah's scrapyard war debacle, Adam's mullet, and of course Linus defacing himself in Slim Shady cosplay, we're truly in a miserable era of LTT haircuts.
@@arnox4554 honestly, their cases have sucked for a long time. My 750D used to rattle and vibrate, especially from a hard drive spinning. Same exact issue with the 4000D which everybody raves about. On the strength of the raving I used it for a build for my niece - she hates it. Especially the only one USB type A on the front (for no reason). A Lian Li 216 makes it look like the cheap, tinny, crap it is. My Sp2500 speakers melted a circuit board after 18 months in the sub case that turned out to be a known issue due to the wrong size resistor (there's a whole very long video about it) - Corsair refused to help and told me just to throw it away even though I could have just replaced that small circuit board but nope, they wouldn't send me one. My Corsair headset broke after 14 months from sheer plastic fatigue, they just fell apart one day. The drive sleds in the 750D did the same thing, they just disintegrated without even being used (the thumb clip bits on the end that you squeeze to pull them out). In short, I have learned the hard way that Corsair is a cheap, low end brand trying to sell its junk at a premium price. My Edifier speakers and Sony headset that I replaced the Corsair stuff with still look like new after 5 years.
Lesson in this episode is: if you really want to watercool, buy some serious like PrimoChill soft tubing and everything else from Alphacool, quit buying Asus, Corsair and EK's crap and RGB stuff. Don't pay extra for a fancy 4090, even if you have the money.
@IcyCaress you and me both brother but zotac is garbaggio just like gigabyte and msi. EVGA and ASUS were the last bastions of quality. Yes evga was number one overall still got my old evga card
Hehe there is nothing to worry about, the 4090 matrix is sold out everywhere so they wouldn't be getting anything out of you even if you wanted the card. Last seen for sale in my tracker in June.
I think LMG did a great job with this kind of video. To have someone with very limited knowledge of watercooling, showing his errors and then have Slim Shady come consult about what he did wrong clearly is a winner here. Love this video guys!
Strong agree. This is very informative for someone who is looking to water cool for the first time. Guides from experienced people like J2C are obviously great, but it is the little stuff that gets the new guys, and this kind of video fills that gap. I'd love to see more videos of seeing how a first timer does with a task.
Fun Fact: When you are limited by the amount of something(Coolant Tubing). Start with the longest piece first. If you screw it up, you can use that length for the next largest piece.
I don't think most people appreciate how critical this advice can be. He came out okay, but from the looks of it, he was 1 or 2 bad cuts from having to buy another $30 of tubing, or else using something that didn't match the rest.
This... even string or tape measure and get your rough measurements as you can always reorientate components of the loop. Fittings alone are stupid price, anything to make you use less of them.
@@MrTmansmooth To be fair, I didn't know she transitioned myself until recently, so I would've also asked where Anthony was if I was uninformed. But for these other guys... Yeah, don't think they're the most accepting people in the world.
@@lexecomplexe4083 For many many years, Asus was one of my preferred brands! I've never bought anything from the ROG line, but I've never had an Asus component fail. They only get retired when they are replaced with something newer/better or just not needed anymore
Yeah...i remember a guy i helped building a computer, he wanted a new gpu but around 700$ for a 3070 not to far of release when there where no cards to be found...was a nono but a ROG Gaming chair for the same was what he bought...
I ABSOLUTELY refuse to give corsair another single penny after I spent over $500 and 3 months of emails, at their supports recommendation, on getting their fans to light up and they STILL do not light up. Does your computer have 2 commander pros AND a lighting controller? cause mine does.
Corsair wouldnt refund me after their headset had interference problems the moment i started using it, paid $130 and they wouldnt do anything. Amazon told me to contact them, in the end amazon gave me $65 off. I hate their products the only thing i will say is okay is their RM power supplys, seems they have someone confident working in that department.
i think he actually beat it since $3200 for ONLY gpu cooling as compared to a little more for ALSO cpu cooling, if it wasnt for the little delays then he wouldve gotten it below budget as well.
The fact that it's even debatable, and the reaction at 21:53 tells the full story. I'm not someone who would even buy a regular 4090 to begin with, but for those who are and want a simple solution, it's clearly going to be expensive no matter what so I can see why someone might go with the ASUS 4090. If anything, this video surprised me with how quickly the alternative adds up. And yes theirs does have CPU cooling, but that doesn't cost much on top of the already huge price tag.
@@Impervious11but you also need to take into consideration that he bought some very overpriced parts and could have gotten easily 200$ off his parts if he picked them a little bit better.
@@Impervious11, I mean, he wasted money on that pump, he wasted money in that block, he waste money on the fans, he wasted money by mistakenly taking the wrong case it's not a good deal at all
@@Impervious11 Is that convenience worth many hundreds of dollars though? Even after wasting a ton of money, this guy got an entire system out of what the GPU costs alone.
For $3200, you could build a whole respectable air-cooled gaming rig. However, the basic message remains the same - don't be afraid to try, nobody ever learned to walk without stumbling.
For $3200, I could buy a nice used camper, a decent used vehicle, all new furniture for the living room, a used ATV, a boat, 32 high class working ladies... I mean if I had $3200 laying around, I don't think I could ever justify spending it on a graphics card.
21:56 wait a minute, linus actually missed a big point at the end, that expensive gpu only has a gpu loop, while the custum loop also included the cpu. he missed a big point there especcialy if this is a price comparison when water cooling is already this expensive.....
The fact that "Warranty Void" stickers are just not enforcable rather than f**king illegal drives me up the wall. How has it not been codified into law that you get hefty fines when you try to bamboozle your customers into not using their rights?!?!?!
I'd Say while its illegal to not accept it as the stickers have been taken off, I think it's more of a deterrent like people who wouldn't know of it being illegal they would be thinking "Oh, I took the waranty void sticker off to fix it and the fix didn't work, Oh well I won't call them now, there's not much of a point."
Because Congress has spent the last hundred years trying to illegally delegate away more and more of their constitutionally mandated authority so that they don't have to do anything.
They probably get away with saying their manufacturing plant from overseas make all of those and the stickers are valid for other countries. Not from USA and I don't know if any country actually have that kind of rule though. Though those stickers may serve as some kind of limit. If you didn't take it off you cannot mess with parts that are critical, and if you don't know what you are doing you better not touch them. There are idiots who think they know what they are doing but completely don't. If they took the sticker off and say, scratched the die with a screwdriver, poured detergent and water on the board to "clean" it, pulled off capacitors thinking they can just plug them back in, etc. etc. the company can refuse fixing it for free.
@@ANDSENS I'm more concerned about the tag on my mattress that says it's illegal to remove. Feels like a swat team will show up in the middle of the night, bust in and arrest me.
I would watch that series. Jake and Alex just going around and reacting to random stuff LTT crew is doing. Or maybe even videos from other creators and memes.
Eh, a fully water-cooled system with soft tubing can be left unmaintained for almost the whole life of the build, and can be quite cheap. Mine's been water-cooled since 2017, I've maintained it twice (first time routine, in 2020 due to using a colored coolant and being bored of it. Second time for a new GPU in 2023). Running something like distilled water and liquid utopia(or similar) is pretty much maintenance free, I have never had any corrosion or gunk issues. I water cooled the whole thing for $250ish. I5 7700k, GTX 1080. I use generic clear tubing, barrow/byski fittings, barrow CPU block, phobya pump, generic res, and 2 of the cheapest 240 rads on the market.
2 main takeaways here... -It would be easily possible with an ounce of research and sensibly priced water loop parts -Corsair really are scumbags these days
Seeing a man with purple nail polished nails look me in the eye confidently saying he isn't afraid of kinks while giving his number is a new fear I didn't know Id have 😂
Warranty stickers are used mostly as a measure of knowing if the card has been opened before. Not necessarly that you are not allowed to open it without voiding your warranty.
6:45 Not only are they not enforceable in the US, they are actually completely illegal to put on. It's no longer allowed to say "Warranty void if removed/damaged/etc.". Only like on the graphics card a sticker with which it is visible whether it was opened or not, but these words are not allowed on there.
@@ezikhoyo The reason they are illegal to put on is that having such a sticker means consumers are likely to think they aren't able to (or shouldn't) do repairs (or, I suppose, cleanings or simply looking inside a product to see how it works, whatever else a consumer wants to do with their product) themselves if a sticker like that is on. I should also add that the USA is currently the only jurisdiction in the world with such restrictions on 'warranty void' labels, they are not a legal issue anywhere else, to my knowledge they are not just legal to include but enforceable everywhere else.
This video's funny cause the sort of people that would buy this gpu have so much money to spare and are probably so lazy (at least tech research wise), that they wouldn't even build their own PC. They'd probably spend 10k on some overpriced pc pre-built boutique like Origin and call it a day.
The value you get from the learning experience really stands out. Even though it took quite a bit of time and had a hiccup with that pump controller, the end-result temperatures are impressive. It's good to see that with the right research and parts, you can make a robust cooling system that rivals high-end cards
I have water cooled my PC's for a decade + (don't want to age myself to much) and I have been hooked. They run cool and you can barely hear them even at full load on both the CPU/GPU. 24/7/365 100% stable with overclocks and good temps.
This is your I'm broke cruise director. We offer all our patrons on this boat the following options for purchase Nothing for 100k Yes, we know you can't afford that, but that's why you chose us for all your cruise needs.
Just dont buy anything from corsair .... With how many things I have seen around from people and bought myself, icue sucks and most things break before warranty ends... Which is great cuz you get new product at 2 years... Never buy corsair wireless headsets they sound really horrible
You actually can do EATX with this case and still have the RGB panel on. You just gotta read the manual, where it shows that you have to flip the panel around, and that actually makes it slimmer, so that EATX fits. But no UA-camr researches the products they review, so now we got a whole bunch of videos on UA-cam showing that the case doesn't properly support EATX, even though it does. You just gotta read the damn manual, it's not that hard.
Early 2000s building my first custom loop... less information back then and I had ordered a pile of parts from Koolance. Instead of sending me out something with problems they actually put a pause on my order, called me and talked to me about a couple things they thought would be problematic and helped me adjust my order. That made a world of difference on my first custom loop.
Howdy likely similarly aged friend. Built my first loop in 2004, and still running the same Laing D5 vario pump and Swiftech MCR radiator I bought 20 years ago in my current PC right now. Still using the same old school building techniques (barbs and tube clamps, reservoirless w/ t-line fillport, automotive coolant, EPDM tubing) from my first build, it has never let me down, and personally I wouldn't touch modern techniques as it just trades reliability for vanity. I got my help from the great members on the Extreme Overclocking Forums. They told me exactly what to order, and $335 later, I had a CPU + dual GPU loop built. Experienced the silence of water cooling, and have never wanted to air cool again.
If they kept it small, growing having control over their company, watching the product demand and being humble in personal expenses, they could do better but....thanks for the info. Good life lesson beyond all.
There was a significant flaw to this experiment. You had him HOSTING while he was supposed to be BUILDING. That killed a great deal of his time. Additionally, penalizing him for having to go to the store and get a different part is BS. The Geek Squad is literally at the store. If you're gonna make his time worth theirs, it should also have the benefits they have. And finally, this should NEVER have been a complete build to begin with. It should have been an apples-to-apples water-cooled GPU. After all, that pricey GPU-AIO combo was always meant to be its own thing.
I think the idea was to stack the odds against them, and _still_ come up a bit cheaper. It didn't work out (thanks to Corsair's unethical business practices), but I respect that they didn't "cheat" and reshoot the video with a cheaper pump, but owned up to their mistake. And the takeaway is still the same.
I think the point was to demonstrate that, for the premium that you're paying for the matrix, you can get more value even if you get fancy parts like he did. its not a strict 1-to-1 comparison in terms of performance alone, but also in terms of value and flexibility. And as for the time issue, i'd say that was just for entertainment purposes as there was no real penalty for going overtime
@@Rachit0904 Graphics Card like the Matrix are factory OC-d, they just tried to match that. After all, the whole point of watercooling is the additional thermal headroom for boosting.
The scripting and editing on this video really felt like TV production, and generally not in a bad way. It did build a bit of distance from the viewer due to a more-corporate-less-UA-camr feel, but there was a great mix of entertainment and education all done with slick production quality that shows off the skills of all the team off and on camera.
I'm 40 and haven't had a PC tower in a couple decades when water cooling was hitting the market and the rgb was coming out to popular. I never built another and picked up a 17" ROG laptop and loved it for roughly 8 years. I personally don't like all that rgb stuff but I do like that case too show off a rog board with that cool stealth plane look and that nice clean pin stripe of rgb across the top. Watching your channel on these PC builds makes me want a PC again and need to save up that money first to buy everything at once all together. I wanted to try and buy piece by piece but always seen PC tech kinda advanced with the prices fluctuating as little bit of time moves along before I could get all the pieces to build a PC. My wife's fall guy's friends she plays with end up building her a nice Ryzen 5 cpu with a 2060i GPU or something like that and other nice sweet pieces. All we needed to do was buy a picture box, loud clacky mechanical keyboard that keeps me up at night and an ok mouse. I'm still having fun with my Xbox one series X and eventually get a PC when I have the money and time to get one. My monitor at the moment would be a 68in 65? LG nano cell TV 😊 if I had a PC.
🤣 Some good jokes in this one lol “I have no fear of kinks, my phone number is 6” …. Also the editors note saying I looked really cute was nice 😌 Edit: also Jake and Alex are not wrong SHAME Corsair for selling those trash tubes. Many people on a budget would be buying them or people who just don’t know any better and only know the name and those people would be even more likely to set things up wrong to get a kink and mess up the loop 😒 gee thanks Corsair for your stuff lmao
Moral of the story: it's incredibly easy to screw up when watercooling. Better double check your shopping list and assembly plan with someone who knows, maybe 2 someones
The real criminal is Corsair charging an extra $60 for something that should have been included with your product
For REAL.
The barber that charged $60 for that haircut is also criminal
@@ryandavis7011 lmao word. I hear some charge more ..and make you schedule through an app like a women’s salon 😂
@@prescotthancock5907lads, is it feminine to plan your day?
There's a reason the company is not having such a great financial time.
Where’s my money Linus Daddy?
Our money
That's wild 💀
Linus is our shared 2ft tall, cheese haired, Frito scented, karate chopping, tech dropping sugar daddy now. I want pizza.
Our money, communism intensifies!
sorry, but no one can prove you won't buy something else even more stupid
Jake and Alex just roasting the crap out of the parts choice is just.. so catty and I love it.
catty? english version?
@@Shadow0fd3ath24 ???
Definition for catty (1 OF 2)
adjective, cat·ti·er, cat·ti·est.
catlike; feline.
slyly malicious; spiteful:
a catty gossip.
@@Shadow0fd3ath24 so theres this thing called google and you can search things up on it that you want to know such as the word... catty
Meanwhile Alex would attempt to machine his own waterblock, fail completely, and end up zip-tieing a car radiator to it or something.
@@FenrisSkoll haha absolute facts
I'm sorry but $80 for 3 fittings is literal robbery, it's a common plumbing fitting/size you could absolutely do this way cheaper
Uk bro here, could get those fittings for literally 7 quid per piece. ( bout 12 usd)
I can find em cheaper at Home depot! 😂
I mean relative to $3k it's not THAT expensive. Whilst I like using off the shelf cheaper variants, there may be other incompatibility problem i.e, the cheaper fitting was made with more tolerance and allows some water to drip overtime, or perhaps the metal makes contact with and corrodes in the liquid. As a non-water-cooler PC fan, I wouldn't know, unless I looked it up, and I wouldn't want to use my GPU as the guinea pig unless I'm absolutely sure that this is ok.
If it is indeed a standard plumbing measurement as a commenter above said then a cheap plumbing connecter would work as even the cheap ones have low tolerances since they're used for radiators etc
Just go find some hose clamps if you don't care for looks, it's definitely a budget saver.
ROG: Ripping Off Gamers
cry ab it their products are amazing
@@UsersmiledogX stop driding asus wont let u hit lol bro
@@UsersmiledogXbro is jumping up and down on it💀
@@krishnas3473 driding? its just true lol
@@urbexingTssYou give a "A company made a mistake so their products are immediatly bad" vibe off.
Between Elijah's scrapyard war debacle, Adam's mullet, and of course Linus defacing himself in Slim Shady cosplay, we're truly in a miserable era of LTT haircuts.
not to mention james looking like an anorexic Freddie mercury
This just reminds me of old LTT in regards to Linus.
dude, THIS.
I love Linus' new look. Sue me 🤷♀️
I thought the same, is there something in the water over there? Are they all OK? Maybe they all need a bear hug?
Corsair's got some balls charging 40 dollhairs for that tubing.
and hiding the fact that you need the $60 hub to run that stupid pump.
Heard from GamersNexus that their cases now suck too.
Saw Corsair watercooling parts and my first thought was "ew why"
@@arnox4554 honestly, their cases have sucked for a long time. My 750D used to rattle and vibrate, especially from a hard drive spinning. Same exact issue with the 4000D which everybody raves about. On the strength of the raving I used it for a build for my niece - she hates it. Especially the only one USB type A on the front (for no reason). A Lian Li 216 makes it look like the cheap, tinny, crap it is. My Sp2500 speakers melted a circuit board after 18 months in the sub case that turned out to be a known issue due to the wrong size resistor (there's a whole very long video about it) - Corsair refused to help and told me just to throw it away even though I could have just replaced that small circuit board but nope, they wouldn't send me one. My Corsair headset broke after 14 months from sheer plastic fatigue, they just fell apart one day. The drive sleds in the 750D did the same thing, they just disintegrated without even being used (the thumb clip bits on the end that you squeeze to pull them out). In short, I have learned the hard way that Corsair is a cheap, low end brand trying to sell its junk at a premium price. My Edifier speakers and Sony headset that I replaced the Corsair stuff with still look like new after 5 years.
and 60 for the pump controller that isn't even included with the pump and no where mentioned that you need to buy it separately.
Lesson in this episode is: if you really want to watercool, buy some serious like PrimoChill soft tubing and everything else from Alphacool, quit buying Asus, Corsair and EK's crap and RGB stuff. Don't pay extra for a fancy 4090, even if you have the money.
I could have told you it was bad. It has Asus in the name.
Why is Asus bad I thought they were good in about to get my first PC soon @@deoxal7947
not really. the lesson to me is never watch a video with a man wearing purple nail polish ever again
That iFixit ad transition was uncomfortably smooth
it would have been even better if it had an asus instead of an acer to fix.
Absolutely, I'm also willing to bet that this was a Denis production
Yup! Great job on this ad.
Cerveza star wars ad transition energy.
to the point I didn't focus what ad was about :D
$3200 for a gpu with a track record of absolute garbage warranty history, yeah no, ASUS gets nothing from me...
I miss EVGA :(
@IcyCaress you and me both brother but zotac is garbaggio just like gigabyte and msi. EVGA and ASUS were the last bastions of quality. Yes evga was number one overall still got my old evga card
I bet its an aluminum radiator, copper block, and will clog up and corrode and die within 12 months.
Hehe there is nothing to worry about, the 4090 matrix is sold out everywhere so they wouldn't be getting anything out of you even if you wanted the card.
Last seen for sale in my tracker in June.
we all Miss EVGA.
@@WinjectAi Damnit. You beat me to it.
I think LMG did a great job with this kind of video. To have someone with very limited knowledge of watercooling, showing his errors and then have Slim Shady come consult about what he did wrong clearly is a winner here. Love this video guys!
slim shady killed me
Lol
Strong agree. This is very informative for someone who is looking to water cool for the first time. Guides from experienced people like J2C are obviously great, but it is the little stuff that gets the new guys, and this kind of video fills that gap. I'd love to see more videos of seeing how a first timer does with a task.
I call him PInkBoy. He should have made that computer all Pink parts, even the water.
@@1da1a172 I follow j2c for goofy experienced stuff and ltt for memes and slim shady
Only thing I could see was that stupid nail polish... Distracting disney princess colors
I will pay both of you to undo your hairstyles
and nail polish
Literally 💀
@@MrDkb718 THIS.
Saw the thumbnail/title and clicked just to comment this 😂
I was gonna comment this..but I thought the new chat moderator would delete it lol😂
editor's note at 8:12, a real hero we don't deserve
Yes but no. It's a great note and absolutely something that deserves to be in the video.
Fun Fact: When you are limited by the amount of something(Coolant Tubing). Start with the longest piece first. If you screw it up, you can use that length for the next largest piece.
@@justsomeguy6474 I’m just here for the tech tips ❤️
I don't think most people appreciate how critical this advice can be.
He came out okay, but from the looks of it, he was 1 or 2 bad cuts from having to buy another $30 of tubing, or else using something that didn't match the rest.
This... even string or tape measure and get your rough measurements as you can always reorientate components of the loop.
Fittings alone are stupid price, anything to make you use less of them.
beat me to it, this is super advice, not just for computers, but also woodworking or any piping in general DIY.
Anybody who worked construction, learned this lesson the hard way. It only takes once though for the lesson to stick!
A point you didn't drive home enough with the price comparison is that you now have a cooled CPU with the custom loop too.
Linus: I will pay to not buy this 3200$ GPU
Me and my bank account: 3.02$
niktek 🤯
I take that
I take that
Me with Rs 100:
When is the Ryzen 4070 review dropping?
This is a WILD year for hair over at LTT
and fingers.
I'm surprised you're one of the few people actually talking about this
They be ironic if he tried to do it for attention but no one actually cared
@@Elshrimporight that caught me off guard. He’s his own man I guess 🤷♂️
@@How_To_Drive_a_TARDIS why would people talk about it lmao it's just paint on nails, grow up
@@e_j_ Because it's garish. You'd be talking about silly outfits or funny shoes just the same.
The greatest advertisement to never use anything watercooling related from Corsair ever. They must be really happy about this video.
Haven’t had a lot of the OG’s on lately. No James, Dennis, Riley, Alex, “Anthony”, etc. I miss the old LTT
@@pcmasterracetechgod5660 why say "Anthony" it's just Emily now
@@jefferyG499keep yourself safe
@@jefferyG499Why are you acting like a child?
@@MrTmansmooth To be fair, I didn't know she transitioned myself until recently, so I would've also asked where Anthony was if I was uninformed. But for these other guys... Yeah, don't think they're the most accepting people in the world.
Adam doesn't need to go to the electronics store, he needs to go to a friggin barber shop.
ROG stands for Ridiculously Overpriced Gaming, so I am not sure why Linus is surprised.
For those who dare...
Except for the zephyrus laptops, it seems. Those seem pretty solid, ignoring the issues with buying from Asus as a whole
On the upside, I've literally never had a single Asus rog component go bad, in my life.
@@lexecomplexe4083 For many many years, Asus was one of my preferred brands! I've never bought anything from the ROG line, but I've never had an Asus component fail. They only get retired when they are replaced with something newer/better or just not needed anymore
Yeah...i remember a guy i helped building a computer, he wanted a new gpu but around 700$ for a 3070 not to far of release when there where no cards to be found...was a nono but a ROG Gaming chair for the same was what he bought...
I ABSOLUTELY refuse to give corsair another single penny after I spent over $500 and 3 months of emails, at their supports recommendation, on getting their fans to light up and they STILL do not light up. Does your computer have 2 commander pros AND a lighting controller? cause mine does.
I use all arctic p12 fans and a liquid freezer. No RGB but quiet and effective.
Maybe its just user error..... or replace them at the store.
@@Bewefau bro I spent 3 months troubleshooting it WITH corsair. I was not the issue.
Corsair wouldnt refund me after their headset had interference problems the moment i started using it, paid $130 and they wouldnt do anything. Amazon told me to contact them, in the end amazon gave me $65 off. I hate their products the only thing i will say is okay is their RM power supplys, seems they have someone confident working in that department.
This is why i like Phanteks D30 fans. awesome looking, universals connectors and MB controllable
It seems I lost some episodes... When Linus turned into _Leminem_ ???
Another D-Brand sponsorship.
Check the WAN Show clips
Leminem! I love it! 🤣😂🤣
He Dyed live on The Wan Show
Le Eminem
whats up with homeboys sparkly nails lol
dude can paint his nails if he wants
@@enomele agreed I genuinely love them
@@enomele You seem pretty defensive about it
Lots of Linus's staff are weird, honestly. But whatever. Canadians, eh?
prob just some virtue signaling.. all those types do it for attention.
Okay, not buying this GPU. Now, where's my money Linus?
That's exactly what I, and most probably everybody, thought when reading the video title.
Our money
the money is the friends we water cooled along the way...
i think he actually beat it since $3200 for ONLY gpu cooling as compared to a little more for ALSO cpu cooling, if it wasnt for the little delays then he wouldve gotten it below budget as well.
That's true! If he'd factored in the cost of a good CPU AIO, it probably would have been more.
The fact that it's even debatable, and the reaction at 21:53 tells the full story. I'm not someone who would even buy a regular 4090 to begin with, but for those who are and want a simple solution, it's clearly going to be expensive no matter what so I can see why someone might go with the ASUS 4090. If anything, this video surprised me with how quickly the alternative adds up. And yes theirs does have CPU cooling, but that doesn't cost much on top of the already huge price tag.
@@Impervious11but you also need to take into consideration that he bought some very overpriced parts and could have gotten easily 200$ off his parts if he picked them a little bit better.
@@Impervious11, I mean, he wasted money on that pump, he wasted money in that block, he waste money on the fans, he wasted money by mistakenly taking the wrong case it's not a good deal at all
@@Impervious11 Is that convenience worth many hundreds of dollars though? Even after wasting a ton of money, this guy got an entire system out of what the GPU costs alone.
Blonde Linus can’t hurt you.
Blonde Linus can’t hurt you.
he hurt me.
blonde linus hurt me.
😂😂😂
will the real slim sebastin pleas stand up?
I beg to differ... my eyes😢
Blonde Linus is much better than bearded Linus
When did bro become slim shady
*when did he
Something happened and we are witnessing the Aftermath
For $3200, you could build a whole respectable air-cooled gaming rig. However, the basic message remains the same - don't be afraid to try, nobody ever learned to walk without stumbling.
With 4090 no less.
For $3200, I could buy a nice used camper, a decent used vehicle, all new furniture for the living room, a used ATV, a boat, 32 high class working ladies... I mean if I had $3200 laying around, I don't think I could ever justify spending it on a graphics card.
@@82ndAbnVet um.... that's $3200 not $32000.... with the list you gave i think you need $320000
@@caliginousmoira8565 I said USED, not NEW, well, maybe the women... (and not all at once, a pick one deal)
@@caliginousmoira8565 It's an either or, not all at once.
21:56 wait a minute, linus actually missed a big point at the end, that expensive gpu only has a gpu loop, while the custum loop also included the cpu. he missed a big point there especcialy if this is a price comparison when water cooling is already this expensive.....
F**k me $3200 is literally 50% more than any budget I'd have for building an entire new computer right now.
@@felixu95 hell, you can get a Mac for LITERALLY LESS than that lol
AMEN
That's more than double the amount I've ever spent on computer parts at one time.
Fr i just built mine for 1100
@@AphroditesCrush and still be unable to play anything natively!
I won't because I'm too poor. So where's my money?
In his defense, most of that time seemed to be from having the wrong case and pump. It's not even a money issue.
They did put a disclaimer for that lol. He could've gotten it if he got the case right.
The fact that "Warranty Void" stickers are just not enforcable rather than f**king illegal drives me up the wall. How has it not been codified into law that you get hefty fines when you try to bamboozle your customers into not using their rights?!?!?!
I don't know if you've realized, but corporations have wayyyyy too much legal sway.
I'd Say while its illegal to not accept it as the stickers have been taken off, I think it's more of a deterrent like people who wouldn't know of it being illegal they would be thinking "Oh, I took the waranty void sticker off to fix it and the fix didn't work, Oh well I won't call them now, there's not much of a point."
Because Congress has spent the last hundred years trying to illegally delegate away more and more of their constitutionally mandated authority so that they don't have to do anything.
They probably get away with saying their manufacturing plant from overseas make all of those and the stickers are valid for other countries.
Not from USA and I don't know if any country actually have that kind of rule though.
Though those stickers may serve as some kind of limit. If you didn't take it off you cannot mess with parts that are critical, and if you don't know what you are doing you better not touch them. There are idiots who think they know what they are doing but completely don't. If they took the sticker off and say, scratched the die with a screwdriver, poured detergent and water on the board to "clean" it, pulled off capacitors thinking they can just plug them back in, etc. etc. the company can refuse fixing it for free.
@@ANDSENS I'm more concerned about the tag on my mattress that says it's illegal to remove. Feels like a swat team will show up in the middle of the night, bust in and arrest me.
“I’m not afraid of kinks, My phone number is 604-.” 😂😂😂
Paper and pen in hand 😇😭
So Adam is going through the Ava Kris phase?
@@Justakatto just bc of the nails?
i give it 9 months before he's in the news for leaked dms with teenagers
Thanks for the compliment 8:10 in the text, but I'm bald.
@@Arzikii meanwhile I'm sitting here literally having just gotten a haircut like "how did they know?".
Everywhere?
@@NickZamora me too I got mine 4 hours ago
Yeah, that editor deserves a raise :)
@@NickZamora bro same, like what lol
“Jake and Alex turn up”.. the OG money wasting meme’rs. 😂
I would watch that series. Jake and Alex just going around and reacting to random stuff LTT crew is doing. Or maybe even videos from other creators and memes.
@@DudokX EXCELLENT IDEA !
In Adam’s defense, Corsair’s unethical business practices are indefensible.
Quite frankly, if you want a reasonably priced, stable, low maintenance system, just air cool it.
Eh, a fully water-cooled system with soft tubing can be left unmaintained for almost the whole life of the build, and can be quite cheap. Mine's been water-cooled since 2017, I've maintained it twice (first time routine, in 2020 due to using a colored coolant and being bored of it. Second time for a new GPU in 2023). Running something like distilled water and liquid utopia(or similar) is pretty much maintenance free, I have never had any corrosion or gunk issues.
I water cooled the whole thing for $250ish. I5 7700k, GTX 1080. I use generic clear tubing, barrow/byski fittings, barrow CPU block, phobya pump, generic res, and 2 of the cheapest 240 rads on the market.
2 main takeaways here...
-It would be easily possible with an ounce of research and sensibly priced water loop parts
-Corsair really are scumbags these days
I love Corsair
@@Bewefau Corsair are great another company who parts are always good quality and reliable.
His ounce of research was in the video 'best 4090 waterblock' and speedreading 5 AI article conclusions 😂
They should make an evil ifixit. It would be called ifuxit and it would come with a hammer and a rock and stuff
@ifixit I have the perfect April fool's product
@@claudiobizama5603 My immediate thought as well, this is genius.
And No. 1 Grit sandpaper 🪨
@@Metal_Maxine oooh we have a dankpods viewer here
@ilamparithi. Oh my PK cell
Seeing a man with purple nail polished nails look me in the eye confidently saying he isn't afraid of kinks while giving his number is a new fear I didn't know Id have 😂
I'd call him
Warranty stickers are used mostly as a measure of knowing if the card has been opened before. Not necessarly that you are not allowed to open it without voiding your warranty.
8:10 i got a haircut today, thank you for noticing!
Awww they called us cuteee
Me too!
Same😂
I, for some reason, also found appreciation in the message.
Came here to comment about how I loved that part lol. I didn’t get one but next week! Lol
6:45 Not only are they not enforceable in the US, they are actually completely illegal to put on. It's no longer allowed to say "Warranty void if removed/damaged/etc.". Only like on the graphics card a sticker with which it is visible whether it was opened or not, but these words are not allowed on there.
@@ezikhoyo The reason they are illegal to put on is that having such a sticker means consumers are likely to think they aren't able to (or shouldn't) do repairs (or, I suppose, cleanings or simply looking inside a product to see how it works, whatever else a consumer wants to do with their product) themselves if a sticker like that is on. I should also add that the USA is currently the only jurisdiction in the world with such restrictions on 'warranty void' labels, they are not a legal issue anywhere else, to my knowledge they are not just legal to include but enforceable everywhere else.
I was gonna buy 10 of those, but thank god Linus warned me.
me too, he saved us some pocket change
10?
This video's funny cause the sort of people that would buy this gpu have so much money to spare and are probably so lazy (at least tech research wise), that they wouldn't even build their own PC. They'd probably spend 10k on some overpriced pc pre-built boutique like Origin and call it a day.
Your Lucky man, I bought 10 by accident 0.000001 seconds before he uploaded. Oh no
@@enmanuel1950 you build your own house?
What is going on with dude's painting their fingernails!?!?!
Its cool thats why
Lol "My phone number is 604" cut to next scene had me laughing.
9:47 sent me. 😂😂😂😂That part of the video alone was worth the price of admission. Adam's such an underrated presenter.
WILL THE REAL SLIM LINUS PLEASE STAND UP. I THINK WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A PROBLEM HERE
@Wub892 you still think this is funny? Jesus
Slim is dead
After not watching for a while, the drama that happened a while ago has definitely resulted in higher quality videos, like the staff wanted. well done
8:10 What the heck, I actually went to the hairdresser today (thanks for the compliment, I guess) 😂
I was gonna go to my barber and get a new haircut and then I saw the message hahahahaha
same just got my hair done yesterday
I did something new with mine too lol
Whoever wrote that at 8:10 needs to chill because they got me blushing and I bet they are looking 10x cuter.
IDK... 8:10 looks like something that brings you into the HR office and 9:48 is a mandated trip to HR
I think Corsair won 😂 20:57
Made money from adam
Got a somewhat iffy ad
I'd say they came out on top
6:25 not with those nails...
@@zaelu second this.
disgusting right
That phone number bit was HALARIOUS! 😂
@@kaelenwhite3609 im dying lmaoooo
Ya I actually laughed out loud. He's such a character.
was it? calm tf down.
It was kind of homosexual, just like his nails.
The cutoff at 9:51 was golden
As Linus hair.
604 is the area code for British Columbia phone numbers, I didn't even need to hear the four, I simply shouted in laughter 😆
You're simple
The value you get from the learning experience really stands out. Even though it took quite a bit of time and had a hiccup with that pump controller, the end-result temperatures are impressive. It's good to see that with the right research and parts, you can make a robust cooling system that rivals high-end cards
I have water cooled my PC's for a decade + (don't want to age myself to much) and I have been hooked. They run cool and you can barely hear them even at full load on both the CPU/GPU. 24/7/365 100% stable with overclocks and good temps.
9:51 "my phone number if 60"☠️
0:01 new world symphony
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 “From the New World”, Mvmt. IV. Allegro con Fuoco, m. 10 to 23 by Antonín Dvořák
@banancorn9894 he identified the song. If you wanna know it is also used in asura's wrath 's final fight.
@@seanfan1500 nerd
@@TropicSpoonhaha person of culture
@@Joshyohmygoshy it's a baller game
"I feel no fear"
"my phone number is 065"
my man has no fear😂
Short number to be fair, man must have had it a long time
The real criminal are his purple nails 🤣🤣💀
“I have no fear of kinks… My phone number is….”
You just became my all time favorite LTT host!
Ltt just lost a sub 👍
@@xsmooth69x bouuhhh
(To spell it out for those taking that comment at face value) and gained a dom!
@@xsmooth69x no-one asked
Not to mention the nails and the cool shirt
Welcome to another episode of “Linus tells me to not buy stuff I can’t afford”!
4090 isn't best value per dollar/euro anyway.
This is your I'm broke cruise director. We offer all our patrons on this boat the following options for purchase
Nothing for 100k
Yes, we know you can't afford that, but that's why you chose us for all your cruise needs.
ok
where’s my money
Lol same 😂
our money
AVP 👽
It doesn't have octo core power / I see 🙈 that /
Linus save my money from -3200 to 0. You may check, it could be similar.
People are still buying things from EK? Did we all forget about their shocking business practices and how they treat their employees?
‘I have no fear of kinks…..my phone number is’ got me laughing real good.
Oh I love Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 in the background at the beginning. To be exact the part is IV. Allegro con fuoco. Amazing!
Second movement gang but love the whole thing
I play it at the wrong speed😂
....oh, I thought it was Rhapsody of Fire XD
thanks for pointing that out.
As this is my favorite piece of classic music I'm asahmed I didn't notice it myself. Therefore thanks agan :D
TLDR: don't buy anything for water cooling from Corsair or you will be screwed!
this is the lesson i learned today
Just dont buy anything from corsair .... With how many things I have seen around from people and bought myself, icue sucks and most things break before warranty ends... Which is great cuz you get new product at 2 years... Never buy corsair wireless headsets they sound really horrible
Agree. i only buy PSU from them and it is still good untill this day, the RM850 .
never bought anything from them except it.
@@LapLandSystempsu and ram are great.
While I wholeheartedly disagree, since I’ve had great luck with Corsair products…. this video does not help my argument. 😂
I love listening to these kind of videos whilst doing non computer related hobbies
You actually can do EATX with this case and still have the RGB panel on. You just gotta read the manual, where it shows that you have to flip the panel around, and that actually makes it slimmer, so that EATX fits. But no UA-camr researches the products they review, so now we got a whole bunch of videos on UA-cam showing that the case doesn't properly support EATX, even though it does. You just gotta read the damn manual, it's not that hard.
RTFM 😂
Early 2000s building my first custom loop... less information back then and I had ordered a pile of parts from Koolance. Instead of sending me out something with problems they actually put a pause on my order, called me and talked to me about a couple things they thought would be problematic and helped me adjust my order. That made a world of difference on my first custom loop.
Howdy likely similarly aged friend. Built my first loop in 2004, and still running the same Laing D5 vario pump and Swiftech MCR radiator I bought 20 years ago in my current PC right now. Still using the same old school building techniques (barbs and tube clamps, reservoirless w/ t-line fillport, automotive coolant, EPDM tubing) from my first build, it has never let me down, and personally I wouldn't touch modern techniques as it just trades reliability for vanity.
I got my help from the great members on the Extreme Overclocking Forums. They told me exactly what to order, and $335 later, I had a CPU + dual GPU loop built. Experienced the silence of water cooling, and have never wanted to air cool again.
Adam's barber must get exiled from the northern hemisphere
@@Alfie0001 its his choice tho, lets just tell him it looks dogshit 🤔
I came looking for a comment about that haircut, woof.
His nail tech however :D
The Nails are fire
@@Alfie0001 people do be Math.random(); ing their look/style nowadays
Thats some NHL quality haircut
for that money, you can buy a normal card and water block and pay a guy to build it and you will still save bucks
Adams fingernails look exactly like Linus' car 😂
RETAIL THIRTY TWO HUNDRED DOLLAR GRAPHICS CARD AND BLONDE LINUS WHAT TIMELINE AM I LIVING IN
You forgot the full grown male with painted nails.
@@XQLUS1V if your definition of a man is so easily threatened by nail paint then you need to do some serious introspection
The second to most dark one.
You don't want to know about the darkest timeline.
@@XQLUS1V really? Kid behavior
@@XQLUS1V look at this beta, all threatened by some nail polish
love the nails
If they kept it small, growing having control over their company, watching the product demand and being humble in personal expenses, they could do better but....thanks for the info. Good life lesson beyond all.
Wtf with the painted nails ?
Been hanging around with emthony.
There was a significant flaw to this experiment. You had him HOSTING while he was supposed to be BUILDING. That killed a great deal of his time.
Additionally, penalizing him for having to go to the store and get a different part is BS. The Geek Squad is literally at the store. If you're gonna make his time worth theirs, it should also have the benefits they have.
And finally, this should NEVER have been a complete build to begin with. It should have been an apples-to-apples water-cooled GPU. After all, that pricey GPU-AIO combo was always meant to be its own thing.
I think the idea was to stack the odds against them, and _still_ come up a bit cheaper. It didn't work out (thanks to Corsair's unethical business practices), but I respect that they didn't "cheat" and reshoot the video with a cheaper pump, but owned up to their mistake. And the takeaway is still the same.
they also OC'd the custom loop but not the Matrix. Lots of unfair aspects to this competition, as with any LTT video.
I think the point was to demonstrate that, for the premium that you're paying for the matrix, you can get more value even if you get fancy parts like he did. its not a strict 1-to-1 comparison in terms of performance alone, but also in terms of value and flexibility. And as for the time issue, i'd say that was just for entertainment purposes as there was no real penalty for going overtime
@@Rachit0904 Graphics Card like the Matrix are factory OC-d, they just tried to match that. After all, the whole point of watercooling is the additional thermal headroom for boosting.
@@EvanOfTheDarkness But the Matrix can also be _further_ overclocked
1:08 That was the best sponsor segway I have EVER seen. You captured my interest while informing and entertaining me. My compliments.
He's finally going through his Eminem phase LMAO.
The first three numbers after "I'm not afraid of kinks" had me DYING laughing.
12:48 that should be illegal !
@@vhol93 what? This haircut? Yes I agree!
@@EvilDesktop lmao
@@EvilDesktopDo you work for corsair?
The scripting and editing on this video really felt like TV production, and generally not in a bad way. It did build a bit of distance from the viewer due to a more-corporate-less-UA-camr feel, but there was a great mix of entertainment and education all done with slick production quality that shows off the skills of all the team off and on camera.
I'm 40 and haven't had a PC tower in a couple decades when water cooling was hitting the market and the rgb was coming out to popular.
I never built another and picked up a 17" ROG laptop and loved it for roughly 8 years.
I personally don't like all that rgb stuff but I do like that case too show off a rog board with that cool stealth plane look and that nice clean pin stripe of rgb across the top.
Watching your channel on these PC builds makes me want a PC again and need to save up that money first to buy everything at once all together.
I wanted to try and buy piece by piece but always seen PC tech kinda advanced with the prices fluctuating as little bit of time moves along before I could get all the pieces to build a PC.
My wife's fall guy's friends she plays with end up building her a nice Ryzen 5 cpu with a 2060i GPU or something like that and other nice sweet pieces. All we needed to do was buy a picture box, loud clacky mechanical keyboard that keeps me up at night and an ok mouse.
I'm still having fun with my Xbox one series X and eventually get a PC when I have the money and time to get one.
My monitor at the moment would be a 68in 65? LG nano cell TV 😊 if I had a PC.
I want bearded linus back
Hell no.
🤣 Some good jokes in this one lol “I have no fear of kinks, my phone number is 6” …. Also the editors note saying I looked really cute was nice 😌
Edit: also Jake and Alex are not wrong SHAME Corsair for selling those trash tubes. Many people on a budget would be buying them or people who just don’t know any better and only know the name and those people would be even more likely to set things up wrong to get a kink and mess up the loop 😒 gee thanks Corsair for your stuff lmao
budget and corsair shouldn't be in same sentence
9:46 i love how adam just said all of that with a straight face, i'm starting to really like that guy
Dudes got painted fingernails he wasn't kidding
Who ever wrote the messege in the video, just thanks for that 😊
I love around 18:30 when Linus has an audience and simply explains how stuff works.
See the LTT logo up there? Now imagine it on his nails... Make it happen.
What is wrong with you?
@@TheMiraldi 2k24 mens
EVGA would have made something better.
And cheaper!
these purple finger nails were so distracting 😡😡
Things only a bigot would be bothered by.
@@Squidley88 No, the purple is just distracting m8
oh dear gods what has he done to his hair?
@@johnshirayuki you will live
God*
a dare
It’s all DBrand’s fault.
Blame dbrand
Moral of the story: it's incredibly easy to screw up when watercooling.
Better double check your shopping list and assembly plan with someone who knows, maybe 2 someones
Title (14 August 2024 19:52 UTC): "I will PAY you not to buy this"
How and when do I get my money, Linus?
I don't know why I am watching this while I only have 1050ti on my dell optiplex 790.