Fixing The Spiffing Brit PC That Broke Youtube ft. Real Mouldy Tea
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2024
- This once perfectly balanced PC was exploited and broken by tea... Find out how Overclockers UK patched the glitch and saved the day so Spiffing Brit can use it to finally run Skyrim at 60FPS.
Check out Spiffing Brits UA-cam channel Here: @thespiffingbrit
00:00 - This PC is Gross!
01:30 - Stripping the PC Down Timelapse
01:50 - Cleaning the Blocks Timelapse
02:22 - The Damage... So Far
05:20 - No More Tea
05:56 - Reassembly Timelapse
06:34 - How We Fixed It
07:43 - More Broken than Expected
09:11 - The Finished Build
09:48 - Spiffing Brit Makes an Appearance
10:57 - BIG DAVE 😍
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Can't believe Spiffing Brit is an actual human.
He's British.
I've seen him many times on yogscast
I'm gutted. I was certain he was a cartoon man IRL. Or at least a sentient hat of some sort.
Hes not a sentient teabag afterall
If you follow the Yogcast he makes lots of appearances :)
so strange seeing Spiff as more than just a disembodied voice behind his drawn persona
As they say, never meet your heroes. No matter what image you had in your mind from watching Spiff's videos you are very likely to be disappointed.
@@Pileot i'm not disappointed lmao, why would i be? it's just a surreal feeling, but not in a bad way.
also, that hoodie is amazing
@@DeeSnow97maybe Pileot was disappointed that he didn’t walk in with a moustache and a top-hat lol and that hoodie looks amazing 😂
Always weird to hear this from people who don't want the Yogscast.
Skill issue
I was expecting Spiff to have a top hat, long pencil mustache and a monocle.
I'm kinda offended he didn't have, at the very least the top hat.
What you saw was his disguise he wears in public you see.
OMG ME TOO
And old.
@@KiwiAlexJohnston It's the skin of one of his old enemies
Came here from WAN show. This is great content. We all knew the tea was gonna be bad we just didn't know how, when or where.
So this evergreen of a tea pot PC was exciting to hear pop back up in the news.
Yeah I don't know why they didn't swap it for a real cooling fluid after they tested it but then again that was partially assumed to happen later.
Hopefully you don't get any more http 418 "I'm a teapot" errors with big Dave, how British!
I love the tee box inside, this made for a great unintentional collaboration and I'm glad it mostly made it across the pond. Speaking of which it's time for tea.
they probably didnt swap the fluid because of the broken riser cable keeping them from using it
@@z33thr33 I think it's implied that the riser broke in shipping, so on LTT's end the PC was totally fine but it got knocked in shipping and the impact caused the riser to break. I can't imagine LTT would have knowingly shipped out a broken PC to anybody.
Aw man, now I want some tea....
@@jbg0801 Yeah, exactly. I think the intention was that they wanted the meme of Spiff getting to initially turn on and use the PC that was cooled with tea, and then he (or someone over there like Overclockers UK did in this video) would swap out the tea for regular cooling fluid. But because of the broken riser cable, it ended up not being used, and (presumably) because Spiff was busy, things kind of just got left waiting instead of immediately trying to get it dealt with, so we ended up having things happen the way they did here.
More than likely it would have been fine enough for him to run it if the PC had still worked when he got it in the first place (assuming said fluid swap was then done afterwards), but after sitting for so long, there was no way it wasn't going to get moldy. But in the end, he also ended up with a better CPU block and pump, and the Yorkshire Tea box, so it all worked out for the best lol
Did they talk about this on the wanshow
That segue bit at the beginning was perfect. Loved it 😆
OK overclocker screwdriver that costs 15 bucks to make, 72 dollars to sell.
Comes with a 'trust me bro' warranty
There's something quite funny about Overclockers UK showing every part of the PC but the hidden note saying British landlords and the royal family are responsible for the potato famine, lol.
The Irish are still pissed about that one, so we dont like to bring it up.
Also as a UK company, that is pushing it into really sketchy grounds with the lunatic brigades who cant understand that sometimes countries do bad things even if they are the supposed good guys.
@@chasler1741 I'm surprised they didn't nail a potato to the front, frankly. Not everything has to have some edgy political statement when it was supposed to be light-hearted.
@@chasler1741 Countries are never the good guys, just the winners get to tell themselves that lol.
@@IlIIlIIIIIlBrianSt0rm hi, im irish, its true, they basically committed a genocide on us by starving us
@@IlIIlIIIIIlBrianSt0rm I mean its actually worse than always told. The reason there was a famine, is cause the English Landlords that owned most of the land in Ireland, decided to just say screw the irish, lets send all the produce Ireland produced to England instead. Oh also you cant pay your rent cause you are starving and cant work? Get bent you cant live here anymore so out on the road you go.
Wow, Spiff himself, in the flesh. I thought he might have been some kind of dastardly rogue AI that was hell-bent on breaking as many games as possible.
have you not seen the yogscast? he face revealed like 5 years ago lol
@@kierano8390 What is Yogscast? I am kidding and no, I did not know he did a face reveal. Then, again. 5 years ago? I was done watching Yogscast. Then, again...wasn't 5 years ago a scandal happened with Yogscast? Pretty much nearly destroy the brand. Was a serious matter.
@@Qardo it didn't nearly destroy the brand, just a couple of the UA-camrs were chatting up kids and shit I believe, yeah spiff goes inperson to do the jingle jams each year
@@kierano8390 Exactly, they dealt with it pretty quickly, and they are still going strong.
Must be cool to work not just on an LTT PC but one for Spiff too!
How dare you replace the zip tie with a screw and still call it a LTT build
Truly scandalous behaviour, really. I too am rather flabbergasted by this incident.
Perfectly balanced and now it just works!
Big Dave? It's a PC, with tea, a PTea if you like, why is it not called Petey?!?
Petey sounds small.
i was thinking ben, to fit the england theme
The TEA-C
@@mikeycrackson or just TC
Now that's a Segue Linus would be proud of! Great video!
Love to see this system up and running again, one of my favorite YT pc builds. It's just so violently british, but it's still a pc, not something else with a pc in it.
Awesome to see that the pc has been fixed, i always wondered what happened to it after the build
I got the idea they'd drain and flush it and actually set it up for shipping but I guess that's expecting too much from LTT again.
@@ffwast They are only good at telling others how they should ship PCs. Following their own advice would be expecting too much ;)
@@ffwast I was under the impression that they really wanted him to get the PC with the tea in it (obviously hoping it to be in working order though) so that he could have - presumably- made a video about running his PC using Yorkshire Tea, or something along those lines, and then either he - or someone like Overclockers UK - would have drained the loop and swapped it out for regular cooling fluid. But when the riser cable broke, things got screwed up and it ended up sitting unused for months before this video was made, unfortunately.
I get that it's fun to dunk on LTT, but we have no knowledge of what the conversations or agreements were between them and Spiff were, what the plans or intentions were, or anything other than the end results here.
I haven't seen your stuff before but I love LOVE that you were able to fix and update LTT's work for Spiff. The piping looks so great with the etched fittings and it's so clean that the teapot and teabox don't clutter at all
"Browns really easy to mix" mixes red by mistake
Think the red comes from the red LEDs and tea though fairly brown but when you expose it to light it tends to be a bit on the red side.
Could also be a colour grading issue as it's not always possible to get things looking the same on camera as they do in person
Brown kind of doesn't exist as a color. It's a less saturated orange that only looks brown depending on the surroundings and background.
Holly... Didn't expect some face reveal
I mean, he did it like 5 years ago so...
@@kierano8390 Last I remember was watching his something, maybe million subs, video, he had the guy who was lip syncing with him going off the rails and it was just beautiful.
I'm not sure how I feel about knowing Spiff is just an average looking guy now lol.
Pretty sure he's had it on his other socials for a while now as well.
Just for frame of reference: The computer would have come from near Vancouver, British Columbia, all the way on the west coast of Canada, in its bottom left corner. Makes your big distance even bigger! :)
I was wondering why I hadn't heard anything from Spiff about the new PC LTT built for him. I assume he'd tried contacting Linus et al about it but logistics were difficult. Can't wait to see Big Dave in action!
Thats crazy the vertical GPU cable SPLIT! Nice job fixing it up team Overclockers UK!
Wow I've been waiting to see what happened to this PC since its conception on LTT.
Liked and subbed.
I've been watching Spiff for years and I have never seen him before. Couldn't be happier that I got to see him happy. ^_^.
9:53 i had never seen spiff's face..... gotta say my guy is looking spiffy
Timelapse shots of the subject of the video is the best sponsor ever.
Great to see an update on this PC. I figured it just ended up broken and in Spiffs closet or something.
I use PBW wash to clean my loop. It is a chemical cleaner used in the brewing industry and is meant to scrub at brewing pump and serving lines. Very cheap and works quickly. Just get water to 130f toss in pbw and fill your line with it then run the pump for 20 minutes or so, flush the loop and refill with proper fluid.
That's what I was thinking at first - but most brewing setups don't include CPU cooler blocks, and they might not be able to get through tiny lines with muck. What do you think?
@@dascandy the pbw desolves into solution. There are no changes to clog anything up. Of course verify that for yourself before dumping it in the loop though. Also make sure you rinse it all out before refilling your loop.
@@volkskrieg8735 I know - but with a cpu block with tiny channels being already clogged, I don't know if it is able to penetrate into that clog to dissolve it well enough.
@@dascandy I guess that would depend on the nature of the clog. If it is clogged with biological material (dead bacteria and such) it will work fine. If it is mineral build up it won't do anything.
WAN Show brought me here!
Same. surprising out of the 40 comments there's only like 3 or 4 of us.
UA-cam's algorithm brought me here! (I'm behind on WAN shows anyway...)
Which wan show? Do you have a link to the time? I want to go watch what they said
@@jeb4eyes April 19th WAN show, 1h49m into it
ua-cam.com/video/OnVUXC9Fou4/v-deo.html&ab_channel=LinusTechTips
I missed it too, but usually I just catch clips of interesting sections
Awesome job and great seeing Spiff!
I watched the video of them building the pc and wondered what would happen to it as it was shipped, never thought I'd see an update on it. I love the pc aha 😅 would love a pc like that.....tbh I'd love to just have a pc 😂
I watched the making of video as well. I would have bet dollars to donuts that the teapot wouldn't have survived shipping, not the GPU riser cable.
How bout a nice cup of Liber-TEA!! sorry been playing too much helldivers 2.... and since it was tea related... ill see myself out now
Democracy NEVER SLEEPS
$10 says they removed the message on the inside of the back panel
Or added some more
Of course they did.
1:23 I fully expected a actual Segue, nicely done.
I know drop in the bucket impact, but tea box in front of the fans hurts my soul, what I wish Linus would have done originally (in hindsight now) is to have a custom vinyl sticker printed saying Yorkshire Tea and have their logo on top of the sidepanel glass, would hide the radiator/fan without impacting airflow. (again I know drop in the bucket impact, but OCD perfectionist)
Glad to see it restored to working condition. This PC is by far one of the coolest out there. The tea gimmick was cool but I always assumed it would cause complications.
Also I've always loved that case. Not only is it one of corsair's finest but the decals also bring so much character.
Always wondered what happened to this PC, split cable so it never worked is sad, even if issues would've cropped up with the tea in some time, would've been fun having a video from spiff on his tea cooled PC. Glad he can finally get the computer though after all this time
The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen song was a nice touch!
Good job guys, looks amazing!.. after a good clean up.
Nice. I wonder if you will sell that teapot stand. Like Spiff said, more PCs should have a teapot in it (don't worry, we're not going to put actual tea into it).
smooth segue! Hi I came over from LTT to watch the maintenance.
Great job fixing and saving this build
awesome seeing the update on this and knowing what was going to happern
That was a sick cleaning and minor upgrade! How the heck does a channel with such great work and production value have so few subs?!?!
Love the rehab you did, knew that tea was a Terrible idea from the start lol.
It hurts seeing those two GPU screws not lined up
It does, but it's not LTT's or OCUK's fault. I have pretty much the same waterblock (Alphacool, 1st series of their RTX4090 waterblocks, just this one looks like it's for reference design PCBs while I have an FE) and sadly you can't really align those screws because you risk over or under tightening them. At least mine sit with the logo on the top on the left screw and the logo on the bottom for the right one, and they're both pretty centered. Technically you could use other plugs but I only had ones with logos/text on hand, now to replace them I would have to drain my loop, so...
It looks so brand new!
I want to know how much tea was drunk during the course of this leviathon task! I hope you were keeping count of the mugs!
And hopefully they didn't mix up the tea they made with the tea that came out of the PC. I would also imagine it was a lot since it probably took multiple days so that's at least once a day.....
They're British. It would be easier to count the tea bags left, from the full box.
Ok, i didn't expect to see spiff in person. O_O
My brain has adjusted very slowly to attach very familiar voice to that impressive unfamiliar guy.
Omg, I love that hoodie/jumper SB is wearing. Fits his persona so perfectly! lol
Even after this pc becomes obsolete, it will still be one hell of a display piece.
The in-game war crimes going to be committed on that PC...
As someone who drinks loose leaf tea regularly, I'm not surprised there was buildup on the parts. I think Linus also expected problems, but it was kind of a meme build. Besides having micro-organisms, tea also has oil, which builds up on anything you drink tea out of and don't clean. I don't remember if the teapot reservoir was open on the tops, but if it isn't it probably should be to prevent dust from getting into the coolant and causing blockages.
The teapot is aesthetic only, so that shouldn't be a problem thankfully. That piece of soft tubing that had to be replaced runs completely through it, with the only actual reservoir being the one hidden behind the tea box down well below the pot.
That one engineer must've had HAZMAT suit cleaning those blocks xD
It's crazy how this went from Linus to spiff and now to a cleaning
Big Dave looks amazing 🎉
I watched this get built!!! Shoutout to LTT! Good to see Briony again. WHY was this shipped with liquid in it? That makes NO sense.
Never seen this channel b4 but got recommended probably bc i watch LTT. I recommend an outro where you tell us to check out the recommended video that pops up and to subscribe or something
Somehow I had doubts about this when I saw it assembled. Sorry to find I was right. Glad you fix though !
Absolutely spiffing!
I never expected to see Spiff on another channel, before seeing him on his own channel. XD
I've been waiting over a year for this :)
@1:13 Got it. How often would you recommend a tea change? Every month? Weekly? Daily?
That was very cool and unique. Never seen the Spiffing Brit before either.
Can't wait for the expanding tube inside the ceramic to do it's thing when it heats up, otherwise great job! MOSTLY joking but hope they temp tested it, and gave him the tea coolant mixx ratio, mr spiff better keep his fans clean.
Nice segue, where did you get the idea to do it that way XD
And yeah, tea was always a bad idea XD
That's a really neat PC! Did you guys list the specs anywhere in the video? I didn't catch it if you did.
Still waiting for Overclockers USA branch to open, so I can continue purchasing from them since I moved over the pond.
Wait, I was NOT ready to see Spiffing Brit!!! You could have warned us
I've been out of the loop for a while. Did Briony move from Kitguru over to Overclockers ?
I've never actually seen what Spiffing Brit looks like, but honestly he seems like the chill dude that everybody gets along with
It's good to see this PC built properly!
Why would you ship with the graphics card installed? Why wouldnt you flush system before shipping? Even the original bends look rushed lol. Well done getting it fixed!
Can you use Na azide in the cooling system?
It's quite toxic, but you are not going to drink it. Question is will it be too corrosive on you water block
i vaguelyx remember Linus with something like "you're gonna use REAL TEA?" Wise old man.
Some sound insulation in this build location/set would greatly increase the production quality of videos like this
Such a majestic PC.
I think the soft tube actually looks better from the tea pot. Feels more organic :D
A hot take re: GPUs - now that they're so large and heavy, it feels like the old style of mounting them (i.e. supported by the PCI-E connector and the backplate) is just no longer sufficient. The industry really needs to come up with a new standard way for securing GPUs into the case. Ideally one that supports the whole length of the card/cooling system.
I’m honestly impressed that only the riser cable, cpu block, and some tubing were the only casual-teas.
he summed it up perfectly. "We're going to do so many dasterdly things."
I came from WAN Show, I missed why the pump was replaced. Was it filled with schmoo?
Yes lots of schmooo! 🤢 During the first lot of testing, after the initial clean it kept overheating. This was due to the block and then the pump not having enough flow (Likely due to gunk). It was decided to replace them to ensure the loop remains reliable.
Replaced tea with EK cryofuel. Is there really a difference?
A couple shots with the side panel on and just the right light glare made me think his watermark was on there. Great and beautiful work! I can't believe the riser exploded like that.
it is its on the back of the pc
@@R_E_D22 Nice detail! I missed that the first time around. :)
@@JeffHB123 id recommend watching the Linus tech tip build of it
I'm honestly amazed it lasted this long
I saw the build video for this. I figured someone would have removed the actual tea and replace it with something a little less life giving right away. Guess my assumptions were wrong.
Thanks for fixing this for Spiff. I look forward to the games he'll prove to be reasonably balanced. Todd Howard Rejoice.
Tannins are mildly acidic so goodness knows what kind of mischief they'd do to the innards of a cooling loop.
9:56 Alex did put the box in there in the linus video!
I really wanted to know what happened to that system
Happy to see him use it
Surprised LTT actually sent it to Spiff with the tea in it. 'someone else's problem now'
Well, looks like i need to get some Yorkshire Tea. Unity among Big Daves!
Bei dem Video von LTT hab ich mir schon gedacht das Tee in der Kühlung ein gute Idee ist. 😅
To be fair, it is not a lot of mould..
I think *any* mould in a water cooling closed loop is bad.
You can't have any mould. Any amount is too much because it grows.
@@MikeOHaraYQM- Oh I agree. But the mould surely was not the main issue here. Would have become a problem sooner or later though
@@svettnabb I think the fact that it caused the CPU block to fail would be enough to prove you were very incorrect here...
I can understand any kind of shipping (or tea) damage that has happened, BUT HOW ON EARTH THE TEA BOX DISAPPEARED BETWEEN CANADA AND UK?
Totally brain meltdown! Spiff has a face and is not a tea bag? 😮 😆
Secretly hoped it would be called the tea-minator.
not what i expected spiffing brit to look like atall
Not sure uve ever sen him in the flesh
Hail to the best PC ever built...Big Dave.. what-oh. One must never underestimate the power of a good cup of Yorkshire Tea
I love it when professionals fix West Coast Choppers builds.
Nothing against LTT, but they have an entertainment schedule and things won't always go perfectly. They did a great job.
If they sold it off for a real build, it would be just like Pimp My Ride
LTT seeing the tea-colored liquid cooling "wait why didn't we do that?"
It was the whole point of the joke, the only real tea cooled pc...