My father had a friend whose house was 100% demolished by a tornado. They dug his old Gateway computer out of the mud. Opened up the case and proceeded to HOSE IT OUT in the yard. Let it dry for about a week. Booted up no problem. We told him to sell his story to Gateway!
Is Gateway even still a company? Haven't heard about anything by them for like over a decade. Now, yes, I COULD just Google this easily...but it's more fun engaging some random stranger on the internet.
@@IzzySarru I’m not certain, but I DO know that my school still uses gateway computers (that are obviously fairly old) but they are running Windows 10, so I assume they were made in the past 10 years
You can wash PC parts in a dishwasher, by the way. You probably (almost certainly) forgot to take the CMOS battery out. The board is being supplied with a tiny amount of current when it's in, regardless of whether or not the PC is on. So that's what got it.
They also really should have taken off all the coverings on the motherboard as well. They probably trapped a lot of water inside it and giving it only 1 day to dry with all of that trapping the water was almost definitely not enough.
Techie of 20 years, never used a wrist strap. Never a problem. With that said, I do on occasion touch the back of a PSU just to ground myself if I've been walking a lot on carpet, just as a maybe case.
you're probably living in an area with high humidity. where i live the humidity in winter is so low, i get zapped when touching the plastic mouse. and i don't even have carpet. don't push your luck
@Jarius Santiago thats not how electronics work, if there is anything like water in a system like a computer it will short no matter what. That is why you allow adequate time for water to evaporate
Tech Yes City washes "dead" PC components every other day, it seems like, and he can revive a good number of them after adequate drying (not all dead parts get revived though)
@@WalterKnox Ay man, you're enjoying yourself. That's all that matters. People are out here buying laptops. I was lucky enough to snag a GE62 VR for cheap right before the 2nd wave of mining. People can't find anything cheap these days and gaming on a budget is just as simple as "buy a laptop."
@@Clark11 yeah as toothpaste can't cool the same as thermal paste and can start to overheat your cpu and then it can be damaged and potentially harm other components
@@kube311 Yeah I feel like one day is waaaay too low for it to properly dry. He should have given it more time or maybe dry it in food furnace on lower temperature. Also, there might be some soap left in the dishwasher from the past. Or maybe there was too high temeperature. Or maybe the water caused corrosion somewhere. Who knows
Talking about static wrist bands, when I built Servers, Workstations, and Business Desktops for HP, we used the ones that wrap around your ankle, and we had to step up on a machine to test if we were "properly grounded."
I would have liked to see for the memory test where you tested two high-end memory sets of equal listed performance, and got the scores for each. Then run with memory mixed between the two brands to see if it pulls the score one way or another.
@@Kingfizh of they didn't know they still don't, a comment is only a comment it won't teach people who Linus and electroboom are or what the content of their featured videos has
Btw, just wanted to tell everyone that if you plan on using toothpaste then mix it with Vaseline in 3 parts toothpaste and one part Vaseline ratio and you will be surprised at just how good it will perform. My laptop was overheating like crazy a few years back and I tried this on it since there was no way to buy thermal paste in Ethiopia. And don't use fluoride based toothpaste since it will eat the copper on the heatsink.
Haven't read the comments yet: But you absolutely can wash a mother board in a dish washer. It's common among extreme over clockers, as it's a sure fire way to make sure all Vaseline is off the board. Two things though: 1. You need to make sure the cmos battery is removed ahead of time. Like anything: Batteries + water with open circuitry = bad. And it's super simple to pop out that battery and pop it back in after. 2. Remove the shielding. It is going to hold moisture. At least remove it, bear minimum, after the wash for drying purposes. You do not need to let it dry a couple weeks - absolutely a single day can be enough (extreme over clockers even use it again same day, but they use more advanced drying techniques than just letting it sit). Also for ideal drying during that 24 hours, you should take some fishing line and hang it by one of the screw wholes and let it be suspended to give the water a flow path off the board itself. Great video concept. Also absolutely, if an average consumer sticks their mother board in a dish washer after watching an extreme over clocker do it - this is going to be the result. You have to know what you are doing. Water in that of itself doesn't brick components. Nor does the heated drying process. I use to work in board manufacturing and we literally use water and heat a billion times during assembly and after assembly. We just don't do it AFTER the battery is put in.
You did not kill the Graphics with the magnet. It prolly died because you just shorted to or more solder/metal points with the metallic magnet when you touched it
That's what most likely happened. A magnetic field would never affect a GPU's functionality apart from the fans. This is why I don't like when people make such videos. They either don't understand anything about it or simply do not explain it.
You can absolutely wash a motherboard in the dishwasher. You did not remove the CMOS battery, and you did not give it enough time to dry. People put vintage computer motherboards in the dishwasher a the time to clean them off.
yes you could absolutely wash your pc components with water, as long as you the capacitors are empty, and you remove any attached batteries like the cmos battery that Austin forgot to remove *I'll have to add however that the minerals contained in tap water could cause corrosion or at least speed it up I wouldn't recommend it but it's mostly fine
I've had keyboards that took an unexpected cola or juice shower, water works fine for cleaning them (rinse with distilled or deionized water after washing).
I have a feeling that the magnet touching the back of the graphics card was why it shut down. If you did the same thing with a non-magnetic conductive metal I think the same thing would happen.
@@supremeicecreme1658 I've only done my first year of electrical engineering so far, but I'm fairly certain the chip won't behave any differently. Though if the magnet is strong enough it could pull on surface components and possibly affect inductors (if there were any) if certain conditions are right.
Hi Austin & Team, I wash used motherboards in the sink often and haven't lost a single board. These are a few things I learned from Brian at Tech Yes City. 1: Remove all heatsinks to clean them separately. 2: Remove the CMOS battery and short the power button connector to drain any residual charge. 3: Run the board under warm water (NOT in the dishwasher) and go over it with a gentle brush. When I say gentle, I mean something with soft bristles and ideally designed for electronics. 4: Take it outside and use some kind of air blower like a DataVac to get as much water off as possible. 5: Let it sit in the sun for a while to allow remaining water to evaporate. If it's really sunny/hot, don't do this step for too long! 6: I recommend running a hair-dryer on warm/hot over the CPU socket, as this is where water can easily pool even after steps 4 and 5. One time I neglected this and got BSODs when trying to boot. It was fine once I dried the CPU socket. 7: Replace heatsinks, CMOS battery and test!
I routinely wash old motherboards with water. Water does not kill electronics, it does not corrode the material (unless it's water against it for like months/years). What ruins the system is the electricity acting as a reaction catalyst between the water and the copper/other conductive metals in the PCB. So, if you give it enough time to dry afterwards, you could literally dunk a gaming PC into a pool, and it would be totally fine.
@@phillipdeeznuts856 I totally agree. They used a more scientific approach which was much better, as well as being properly explained during each test. Cheers.
I worked in a circuit board manufacturing plant. We absolutely washed fully populated circuit boards with water (de-ionized). Like someone else mentioned, was the CMOS battery removed? Was the board fully dry? There is nothing inherent about washing a board that should cause damage.
I work at a circuit board manufacturing company with an assembly department. When they are done with the assembly process, they quite literally run the boards through a washing machine that works EXACTLY like a dishwasher. The only difference is that they use DI water and special soap.
Him tries his best to use his body statistic electricity to kill the pc Me :Carefully remove ram out of the socket to clean the dust and guess what the first ram i touched died 😃 Life is great
I shall now summon THE RECTIFIER @ElectroBoom to RECTIFY Austins actions. If you're here pls reply so that i'll know if the summoning was successful. :D
I used to hand-assemble PCBs for a small company and I can tell you, without a doubt, that if you don't have batteries on your boards they will survive the dishwasher just fine. I wave-soldered all my boards, and washing the flux off would have taken me about ten years if we didn't have a dishwasher(yes, a literal dishwasher)in the warehouse.
For the RAM, I was more interested if using a different brand but the same/closest available speed and timings, would produce the same or worsened performance of two identical sticks.
I have the experience that everything works fine if speed and timings match. maybe the performance could be a bit worse, but I didn't measure that fine.
I opened my PC for the first time and somehow I killed the hard-drive and I'm still not sure if it was because of static. For months I will occasionally get the message that a drive failure was inminent and I should back up everything (which I did) and 3 months later it completely died. My new SSD has not has any issues so far, but I am still afraid to touch mechanical drives.
HDDs don't die when you put a magnet near them because of mechanical parts (mostly), it's because their storage is wiped by the magnetic field. This might destroy system files.
Actually, nope, even these neodymium magnets are not enough to mess with the bits on the platters. Magnetic field required to realign a "bit" on the hard drive platter must be quite strong, and HDDS get away with that by generating it in very short bursts over miniscule area. To match that with a regular magnet you would require quite a monstrous one. Mechanical damage (e.g. heads scratching platter surface) would be much more impactful, but there is chance that heads would park themselves before contacting platters.
A magnet will for sure mess up a hard drive. Especially if it is running like this one was. They have lots of metal in them and have really strong magnets in them to start with. Doing what they did probably made the heads crash into the platters and srewed the drive up.
Jay actually had a whole video about how static electricity in his room at home caused his PC to turn off and on… so I’m assuming it does have an effect of some sort.
I've washed motherboards before. After washing dunk it in isopropyl alcohol then bake the board @200 or lower for at least an hour. The alcohol disperses the water, doesn't corrode, and evaporates much easier. Baking the board of course causes any liquid left over albeit alcohol or water to evaporate much quicker.
Y'all should check out the LTT video of cleaning keyboards with a dishwasher. The before and after germ/bacteria count and just the general cleanliness of the board. If you get a deal on a keyboard that is rough or have just neglected cleaning for a while....or even just want to do a thorough cleaning every once in a while it's very effective. Of course they gave it 2 weeks to dry just to be safe.
It depends on the toothpaste. Some ingredients in toothpaste are also in thermal paste. The more gritty toothpaste can be used as thermal paste short term. I wouldn't use it long term though because there are also oils / glycol to prevent it from drying out.
Linus actually tested quite a few of these myths on his channel before, so it's surprising how some stuff like the dishwasher didn't work considering it worked when he tried it.
It isn't so much a question of "working or not", it is more about doing it properly. In this case I would argue that Austin certainly did not do it properly.
Derbauer uses the dishwasher method as well. You have to remove the CMOS batter and make sure all capacitors are drained before doing it and also 1 day is not nearly enough to properly dry the motherboard. There was likely moisture here and there in the motherboard still.
Did you remove the CMOS battery from the motherboard before washing it? Even a tiny current through the board can damage it when it gets wet. I have washed numerous components in the bath (including a power supply) and not had one go bad. I use an old hoover with blower function to remove the water then leave the components to dry thoroughly for a couple of days and they have always worked.
7:15 I dont think thats what he meant, at least partially. Seems like mixing same speed and capacity sticks from DIFFERENT manufacturers would be a bit more relevant test. For example, mixing a Corsair 16GB 3200MHz stick with a GSkill one of the same rating. Also latency impact?
also just want to point out. the pc plugged into the outlet and MB on the stand offs with the IO shield it is very well grounded. i think the myth is more about when building a pc and touching the components before they are placed into a grounded environment.
I need Austin to make an Ultimate Smartphone setup styled like the Ultimate GameCube. I think it would make for a hilarious video. I can imagine how crazy a phone would be to hold with all the weird cell phone accessories that are out there attached all at once.
The only time I have damaged a component (Very Expensive SGI RAM) was when my manager told me to wear a static strap... The precautions are to touch the case when you insert cards or such. Never hand a component to someone else as you are likely to be at different static potentials (eg you can shock someone for fun, well when it is RAM it is not fun).
I dont know about putting an entire motherboard into a dishwasher, but you *can* wash computer parts with water. It isn't the water that hurts computer parts, its the minerals in the water. If you take the minerals out via machines meant to do so (and i mean all the minerals. They're pricey machines but they work) you can soak particularly dirty computer parts and then clean the water off via drying it 100% or solution safe for computers.
13:14 Thats PC 2000 Electrical compliance, the only thing can burn the componentes are only directly overvoltage, and even that this dificult due to equipment are protected against that
You actually can wash parts in the dishwasher and you can use dishwasher detergent, but you should turn heated dry off and hard water could cause issues (I also never put parts on the bottom rack). After washing you should use 91% IPA alcohol to displace the water and then dry thoroughly before hooking up to power. I’ve never done this with modern hardware but I do do it to grimey retro hardware fairly often, especially with keyboards. If the parts will fit in my ultrasonic cleaner I use that instead of the dishwasher, though.
Washing components should be completely fine. So long as you use purified distilled water. Water is actually an insulator, it's the minerals within the water that allows electricity to conduct. If it was left to dry out completely it would be fine. In fact with purified water, you could run the entire PC completely submerged and it would work completely fine. Probably not the best for performance as the water won't conduct heat away as fast as a flowing water cooling system with a radiator, but it would certainly stay cool. The reason the motherboard was killed was for one: you probably left the battery in the motherboard, two: a dishwasher will use regular tap water filled with a mineral content, and three: a day is not long enough to dry. A few weeks at least would be needed.
you can wash motherboards in a dishwasher but you have put in an oven for about 20 minutes and let it it sit for a few days or let it set out in sun for almost a week to ensure the moisture is out of it befor you power it on or it does fry it
People in 1990: “I wonder what people will do with the internet in 30 years”
2021: man tazers his pc
I remember seeing a guy tasering his crotch on youtube quite a while ago. So maybe we did advance?
2021: man teaches his robot dog to piss beer
So true
@@russiancheems2275 YES
2050 : man proposing to a pc 😂😂
My father had a friend whose house was 100% demolished by a tornado. They dug his old Gateway computer out of the mud. Opened up the case and proceeded to HOSE IT OUT in the yard. Let it dry for about a week. Booted up no problem. We told him to sell his story to Gateway!
Is Gateway even still a company? Haven't heard about anything by them for like over a decade.
Now, yes, I COULD just Google this easily...but it's more fun engaging some random stranger on the internet.
@@IzzySarru I’m not certain, but I DO know that my school still uses gateway computers (that are obviously fairly old) but they are running Windows 10, so I assume they were made in the past 10 years
My motherboard, cpu, and along with its CPU suffered the same story. The only thing is, it was a ricer flood. All the parts survived tho
@@IzzySarru yeah they're still a company, they actually make really cheap gaming laptops.
@@IzzySarru yes they do exist
You can wash PC parts in a dishwasher, by the way. You probably (almost certainly) forgot to take the CMOS battery out. The board is being supplied with a tiny amount of current when it's in, regardless of whether or not the PC is on. So that's what got it.
Good insight
Hope they see this
They also really should have taken off all the coverings on the motherboard as well. They probably trapped a lot of water inside it and giving it only 1 day to dry with all of that trapping the water was almost definitely not enough.
Even with the cmos battery out you should leave it to dry for much longer than a day.
And one day of drying aint enough, two weeks at minimum
10:49 "Don't burn your house down! Trust me, not fun."
*Only real fans will remember*
😂😂
I remember lew surprising him after that with a trashcan mac pro
@@reuben.mathew2 Oh yeah, he did!
Shhhhh it was the best they had at the time
I just found them but, while I hope I'm wrong, my vibes told me " he did burn it " when I heard he say that, with that face.
He didn't burn his house down though. And at least no one was harmed in that incident
"We're going to get one shot at this." *Tazes* *PC*
PC Survives
*Tazes* *PC* *again* ...
welcome back to another episode of questionable decisions.
@boiz agreed
true
Yup
yeah...
a-ha
Techie of 20 years, never used a wrist strap. Never a problem. With that said, I do on occasion touch the back of a PSU just to ground myself if I've been walking a lot on carpet, just as a maybe case.
I do the same. Touch the power supply housing (or the inside of the case, if the PSU is installed) periodically and you're usually fine.
In my city, grounding circuits is not mandatory and no one does it, so if touch my PSU, I'll just get shocked, lol.
you're probably living in an area with high humidity. where i live the humidity in winter is so low, i get zapped when touching the plastic mouse. and i don't even have carpet. don't push your luck
I feel like before working on my computer I have to touch the case enough to get rid of any static anyway
Austin be like: getting a static shock is so HARD
Me touches my iPad: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWW
Might want to sue apple
Yes I will do that
Same, well actually my iPad is a magnet.
mum: let your cousin on the pc.
Me: fine, but if he breaks anything hes out.
my cousin:
sweaty balls😂
Sweaty balls 😂
sweaty balls😂
sweaty balls 😂
WHAT THE F*** ARE THESE COMMENTS
*Too much themal paste results 1°C lower
The Verge guy: See? I'm right all along😂
I would think it is much more harmful to use too little thermal paste than too much.
@@CryptoTonight9393 the only thing that's bad about using too much thermal paste is that it creates a mess but it doesn't really affect performance
I have my WWJD bracelet and Tweezers... Yeah I got one...!
Lets not forget the swiss army knife that "hopefully" has a screwdriver in it... we cant forget that
make sure you have a allen wrench because you cant forget that...
Don’t forget your thermal past applicator 🥴
And a quarter ton tub of thermal paste
yall forgot the most important thing, A TABLE
I literally pulled a computer out of a pool back in the day, as long as you give it proper time to dry off (more than 1 day), it is fine.
@Jarius Santiago Austin did not give enough time for that pc to dry, if he let it dry it would have definitely worked
@@markomclane475 also he didn't take the battery out
@Jarius Santiago thats not how electronics work, if there is anything like water in a system like a computer it will short no matter what. That is why you allow adequate time for water to evaporate
Tech Yes City washes "dead" PC components every other day, it seems like, and he can revive a good number of them after adequate drying (not all dead parts get revived though)
Why was the computer in there the first place? 😂
the PC he is using to test this with, and it is supposedly going to the recycling anyway, it is alot better than my main PC.
Damn bro U playin on a optiplex
@@dickburrows7819 no, a thinkcentre m71
@@WalterKnox Ay man, you're enjoying yourself. That's all that matters. People are out here buying laptops. I was lucky enough to snag a GE62 VR for cheap right before the 2nd wave of mining. People can't find anything cheap these days and gaming on a budget is just as simple as "buy a laptop."
I tell you what's even better for, a person who doesn't have a pc!
Dis boy on the Commodore 64
Them: breaking pcs for entairtainment
Me: taking care of my pc with 2 gb ram
😂
same lol
same but with 1gb of ram
@@ourchicken mee to
@Twixter RBLX lucky
pov: you save $10 using ur toothpaste instead of thermal paste xD
Just save on toothpaste and use thermal paste as toothpaste
Just to harm your 2000$ pc
@@xlolopip8591 wow i didn’t know that, thanks ☺️
@@tarzetio 😂😂
@@Clark11 yeah as toothpaste can't cool the same as thermal paste and can start to overheat your cpu and then it can be damaged and potentially harm other components
just to let you know, the only reason the PC died when you zapped it was because you pushed the memory pins out of alignment slightly
:irlm;
I don't believe that happened I believe the data was interrupted by the voltage
I've actually had mad errors on memtest 86 when I touched the ram from the top of its heat spreader.
This entire video feels like a compilation of Austin being Linus. There’s so many videos on LTT that are basically these topics in actual depth.
Right?
@PopuForm very true
Your water is not distilled in the dishwasher water supply. Water supplies usually have minerals like fluoride and other metals.
That shouldn’t matter so much, besides, if der8aur does it, why shouldn’t we? I doubt the Germans distill their public water supply
@@ryanwallace983 I think if they properly dried it wouldn't be a problem
@@kube311 Yeah I feel like one day is waaaay too low for it to properly dry. He should have given it more time or maybe dry it in food furnace on lower temperature. Also, there might be some soap left in the dishwasher from the past. Or maybe there was too high temeperature. Or maybe the water caused corrosion somewhere. Who knows
Also someone else mentioned that they probably didn't remove the cmos battery
Some dishwashers have distillate tanks we had one for our kitchen water a tank filled up and was distilled and when it ran out no water in the kitchen
Talking about static wrist bands, when I built Servers, Workstations, and Business Desktops for HP, we used the ones that wrap around your ankle, and we had to step up on a machine to test if we were "properly grounded."
I would have liked to see for the memory test where you tested two high-end memory sets of equal listed performance, and got the scores for each. Then run with memory mixed between the two brands to see if it pulls the score one way or another.
I loved these ideas when LTT did each and every one of them.
I expected them to shot out to their video with electroboom 😂
Yeah LTT did these and they actually did more extensive testing for them.
So True 😂
Link please?
@@keyqui05 dude just search ltt x electroboom and u’ll find it
Linus and Electroboom did a much deeper dive into the static myth. It's a lot of fun and definitely worth watching!
I think literally no one knew that, thank you captain...we all know now....
@@tibib0ss a lot of people may not have known that. chill.
@@Kingfizh of they didn't know they still don't, a comment is only a comment it won't teach people who Linus and electroboom are or what the content of their featured videos has
So do I have to worry about static electricity
@@Thepotatoz. not really
When a dentist turns into a gamer:
Ikr his teeeets are soo white
Btw, just wanted to tell everyone that if you plan on using toothpaste then mix it with Vaseline in 3 parts toothpaste and one part Vaseline ratio and you will be surprised at just how good it will perform. My laptop was overheating like crazy a few years back and I tried this on it since there was no way to buy thermal paste in Ethiopia. And don't use fluoride based toothpaste since it will eat the copper on the heatsink.
@@yareddeyaso1219 wow thx
Great idea for a series!! Would love to see more of these.
Haven't read the comments yet: But you absolutely can wash a mother board in a dish washer. It's common among extreme over clockers, as it's a sure fire way to make sure all Vaseline is off the board. Two things though:
1. You need to make sure the cmos battery is removed ahead of time. Like anything: Batteries + water with open circuitry = bad. And it's super simple to pop out that battery and pop it back in after.
2. Remove the shielding. It is going to hold moisture. At least remove it, bear minimum, after the wash for drying purposes.
You do not need to let it dry a couple weeks - absolutely a single day can be enough (extreme over clockers even use it again same day, but they use more advanced drying techniques than just letting it sit). Also for ideal drying during that 24 hours, you should take some fishing line and hang it by one of the screw wholes and let it be suspended to give the water a flow path off the board itself.
Great video concept. Also absolutely, if an average consumer sticks their mother board in a dish washer after watching an extreme over clocker do it - this is going to be the result. You have to know what you are doing.
Water in that of itself doesn't brick components. Nor does the heated drying process. I use to work in board manufacturing and we literally use water and heat a billion times during assembly and after assembly. We just don't do it AFTER the battery is put in.
So good to see you guys! It's great how you hit 5 million, I am getting a PC soon and you guys are the reason for it :)
You did not kill the Graphics with the magnet. It prolly died because you just shorted to or more solder/metal points with the metallic magnet when you touched it
Doesn’t that mean he DID kill it with the magnet?
@Anthony Mendenhall That's like arguing that someone wasn't killed with a firearm but with a bullet.
@Anthony Mendenhall a bullet didn’t kill the man, the law of inertia propelling the bullet shot from a gun killed the man
@@GeraldV2 yes but actually no, the metal killed it not the magnetic force.
That's what most likely happened. A magnetic field would never affect a GPU's functionality apart from the fans.
This is why I don't like when people make such videos. They either don't understand anything about it or simply do not explain it.
A yes more “quality” content!
@Jarius Santiago lmao what?
@Jarius Santiago yes that's not the part I'm responding to... Why would pc people be mad lmfao
You can absolutely wash a motherboard in the dishwasher. You did not remove the CMOS battery, and you did not give it enough time to dry.
People put vintage computer motherboards in the dishwasher a the time to clean them off.
Well at least I’m starting to feel a little better about my ram for accidentally leaving it on the carpet for two days
@@wulffxarchive exactly 😂
yes you could absolutely wash your pc components with water, as long as you the capacitors are empty,
and you remove any attached batteries like the cmos battery that Austin forgot to remove
*I'll have to add however that the minerals contained in tap water could cause corrosion or at least speed it up
I wouldn't recommend it but it's mostly fine
I've had keyboards that took an unexpected cola or juice shower, water works fine for cleaning them (rinse with distilled or deionized water after washing).
I have a feeling that the magnet touching the back of the graphics card was why it shut down. If you did the same thing with a non-magnetic conductive metal I think the same thing would happen.
exactly what I was thinking, or if you put some paper or something between the two so it's non-conductive
@@supremeicecreme1658 I've only done my first year of electrical engineering so far, but I'm fairly certain the chip won't behave any differently. Though if the magnet is strong enough it could pull on surface components and possibly affect inductors (if there were any) if certain conditions are right.
Austin: Almost destroying the computer
Windows: (I will do it for you) Restart your PC to finish updates! :)
Also thx for the likes!
Hello
@@LestifyYT umm.. hi... do I know you?
Y e s
@@pepparody you can’t expect everyone who talks to you on a comment to know you. There are over 2 billion UA-cam users
@@Bagel_Le_Stinky then why does he just sayed a hello for no reason lol
Hi Austin & Team,
I wash used motherboards in the sink often and haven't lost a single board. These are a few things I learned from Brian at Tech Yes City. 1: Remove all heatsinks to clean them separately. 2: Remove the CMOS battery and short the power button connector to drain any residual charge. 3: Run the board under warm water (NOT in the dishwasher) and go over it with a gentle brush. When I say gentle, I mean something with soft bristles and ideally designed for electronics. 4: Take it outside and use some kind of air blower like a DataVac to get as much water off as possible. 5: Let it sit in the sun for a while to allow remaining water to evaporate. If it's really sunny/hot, don't do this step for too long! 6: I recommend running a hair-dryer on warm/hot over the CPU socket, as this is where water can easily pool even after steps 4 and 5. One time I neglected this and got BSODs when trying to boot. It was fine once I dried the CPU socket. 7: Replace heatsinks, CMOS battery and test!
I routinely wash old motherboards with water. Water does not kill electronics, it does not corrode the material (unless it's water against it for like months/years). What ruins the system is the electricity acting as a reaction catalyst between the water and the copper/other conductive metals in the PCB. So, if you give it enough time to dry afterwards, you could literally dunk a gaming PC into a pool, and it would be totally fine.
myth: what happens when you take a dump in your water-cooling system
Yes we need this
The performance will get shit on
and wash it down with piss
Linus did a video on static electricity a while ago with Electroboom. It was very interesting and informative as well. Worth checking out.
a much better video, with the use of the actual amount of electricity being accurate, not just jamming a fucking taser in there and calling it a day.
@@phillipdeeznuts856 I totally agree. They used a more scientific approach which was much better, as well as being properly explained during each test. Cheers.
And a video about ram mixing
"it's been drying for a day" bro gotta give it like a week with airflow
I worked in a circuit board manufacturing plant. We absolutely washed fully populated circuit boards with water (de-ionized). Like someone else mentioned, was the CMOS battery removed? Was the board fully dry? There is nothing inherent about washing a board that should cause damage.
I work at a circuit board manufacturing company with an assembly department. When they are done with the assembly process, they quite literally run the boards through a washing machine that works EXACTLY like a dishwasher. The only difference is that they use DI water and special soap.
Him tries his best to use his body statistic electricity to kill the pc
Me :Carefully remove ram out of the socket to clean the dust and guess what the first ram i touched died 😃
Life is great
I shall now summon THE RECTIFIER @ElectroBoom to RECTIFY Austins actions.
If you're here pls reply so that i'll know if the summoning was successful. :D
It failed
he's already tested this on LTT and his own channel I believe
@@krezzy5543 yea i know
Such a cringe comment.
The fact that I got a crest toothpaste ad right before they used the toothpaste still has my mind blown
You’re being watched and spied on
I used to hand-assemble PCBs for a small company and I can tell you, without a doubt, that if you don't have batteries on your boards they will survive the dishwasher just fine. I wave-soldered all my boards, and washing the flux off would have taken me about ten years if we didn't have a dishwasher(yes, a literal dishwasher)in the warehouse.
"We are trained and Licensed Professionals"
The Mobo potentially could have been ok if it didn't go through the drying cycle, also gotten a isopropyl bath directly after
For the RAM, I was more interested if using a different brand but the same/closest available speed and timings, would produce the same or worsened performance of two identical sticks.
Same. Expected them to throw a Gskill 3600 cl 14 and corsair 3200 cl 16 combo in there. Not some worst ram combined with best ram.
I have the experience that everything works fine if speed and timings match. maybe the performance could be a bit worse, but I didn't measure that fine.
if they don't run stable you have to slow the sticks down a bit but other than that it's fine.
They should’ve used an Intel cpu capable of ‘Flex’. Not a very good “test”
@@robhuff2336 AMD has flex mode too.
19:12 Well , Bryan's "Tech Yes City" did clean motherboards, but i assume he used some sprayed alcohol to clean it❤
I opened my PC for the first time and somehow I killed the hard-drive and I'm still not sure if it was because of static. For months I will occasionally get the message that a drive failure was inminent and I should back up everything (which I did) and 3 months later it completely died. My new SSD has not has any issues so far, but I am still afraid to touch mechanical drives.
Coming from a guy that's scared of being static shocked, that stun gun myth hurt me a lot.
HDDs don't die when you put a magnet near them because of mechanical parts (mostly), it's because their storage is wiped by the magnetic field. This might destroy system files.
Actually, nope, even these neodymium magnets are not enough to mess with the bits on the platters. Magnetic field required to realign a "bit" on the hard drive platter must be quite strong, and HDDS get away with that by generating it in very short bursts over miniscule area. To match that with a regular magnet you would require quite a monstrous one. Mechanical damage (e.g. heads scratching platter surface) would be much more impactful, but there is chance that heads would park themselves before contacting platters.
i don't think so. if this would be the case, the drive would be recoverable. most likely the magnet interfered with the platter head
A magnet will for sure mess up a hard drive. Especially if it is running like this one was. They have lots of metal in them and have really strong magnets in them to start with. Doing what they did probably made the heads crash into the platters and srewed the drive up.
Breaking computer parts with austin
"We are trained and licensed professionals"
Doubt.exe
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The long ass gloves you thought were necessary to wear when using a Tazer had me dying. LOL
Jay actually had a whole video about how static electricity in his room at home caused his PC to turn off and on… so I’m assuming it does have an effect of some sort.
“Trained and licensed professionals”
Licensed by what Austin “by UA-cam 😃👍”
When recommended is faster than notis
It was opposite for me 😂
14:47 I'm guessing Austin is trying to get a job at The Verge building gaming PCs. Stefan Etienne would be proud of that thermal paste overkill.
I've washed motherboards before. After washing dunk it in isopropyl alcohol then bake the board @200 or lower for at least an hour. The alcohol disperses the water, doesn't corrode, and evaporates much easier. Baking the board of course causes any liquid left over albeit alcohol or water to evaporate much quicker.
16:03 “And with that, our toothpaste is installed.”
I never thought I’d hear a tech UA-camr say that phrase.
Austin isn't a tech youtuber
LOL!!!
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Y'all should check out the LTT video of cleaning keyboards with a dishwasher. The before and after germ/bacteria count and just the general cleanliness of the board. If you get a deal on a keyboard that is rough or have just neglected cleaning for a while....or even just want to do a thorough cleaning every once in a while it's very effective. Of course they gave it 2 weeks to dry just to be safe.
It depends on the toothpaste. Some ingredients in toothpaste are also in thermal paste. The more gritty toothpaste can be used as thermal paste short term. I wouldn't use it long term though because there are also oils / glycol to prevent it from drying out.
Lol I used to use toothpaste to cool my main system, it worked fine, but I had to replace it like every week, it was super messy though.
I did the same but added Vaseline to make it stay little wet and it worked.
@@thatsoomohit smart
But why? Cheap thermal paste is 2-3 Dollars.
“Includes paid promotion” ahh yes
Lol duh
How could we go a day without Austin evans trying to sell out to every company possible
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@Isabelle In a nuttshell He didn't miss the joke at all. No "r/woooah" like you said.
@Isabelle In a nuttshell I didn't miss the joke. What I meant was it's an Austin Evans video. There's bound to be paid promotion. Sooo.... r/woooosh
Linus actually tested quite a few of these myths on his channel before, so it's surprising how some stuff like the dishwasher didn't work considering it worked when he tried it.
It isn't so much a question of "working or not", it is more about doing it properly. In this case I would argue that Austin certainly did not do it properly.
Derbauer uses the dishwasher method as well. You have to remove the CMOS batter and make sure all capacitors are drained before doing it and also 1 day is not nearly enough to properly dry the motherboard. There was likely moisture here and there in the motherboard still.
Firstly u need to remove the CMOS and leave it to dry around 2/3 days and all will fine
Did you remove the CMOS battery from the motherboard before washing it? Even a tiny current through the board can damage it when it gets wet. I have washed numerous components in the bath (including a power supply) and not had one go bad. I use an old hoover with blower function to remove the water then leave the components to dry thoroughly for a couple of days and they have always worked.
Quality and fun finally married. Great job. Happy that I found you. 👍
Can we have a tour of your whole room please?
Never mind lies. What about those that are missing out on the extra FPS the more rbg your system is.
Hahahahahahha lmaooooo 😂😂😂😂😂😂 rgb = more fps am I right guys? Now laugh 😂😂😂😂
Linus did a video on static with the shock guy (fyi) also its not the voltage that kills, its the amperage (i believe)
Dude. Back in the early days of highschool. Sidewalk dumpster PC’s, mixed ram and Toothpaste & Vaseline thermopaste was all we had. AND we got by.
Congrats on the 5 mil you've come a long way. Good job
Hey Austin, could you build a pc in like a fish tank and fill it with distilled water for cooling.
"This is no longer a myth" yeah a rare phrase
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@Quantum 🤔 wanna bet the next one is frozen urine
7:15 I dont think thats what he meant, at least partially. Seems like mixing same speed and capacity sticks from DIFFERENT manufacturers would be a bit more relevant test. For example, mixing a Corsair 16GB 3200MHz stick with a GSkill one of the same rating. Also latency impact?
Basically if you don't have termal paste on your hand, toothpaste will do for the time being, until you get actual thermal paste
TBH...
*It’s so tempting to try this at home.*
Great video lad keep up with the good work
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I'm disappointed that you did not refere to mehdi+Linus collab regarding the static stuff ;-;
But it's fine ig?
also just want to point out. the pc plugged into the outlet and MB on the stand offs with the IO shield it is very well grounded. i think the myth is more about when building a pc and touching the components before they are placed into a grounded environment.
3:31 “Magnets will kill the inside of a smartphone”
*iPhones with MagSafe sweats nervously*
I remember having to BEG my friend not to use toothpaste on his salvage pc that he's still building a year later.
I like how he looks like the guy from good eats when he went to wash the motherboard in his kitchen
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I love staying home just binging Austin, JayzTwoCents, Kyle, and Linus videos.
I need Austin to make an Ultimate Smartphone setup styled like the Ultimate GameCube. I think it would make for a hilarious video. I can imagine how crazy a phone would be to hold with all the weird cell phone accessories that are out there attached all at once.
You should have left the motherboard for atleast 2-3 days lol not 15 hours
@Jarius Santiago bcz the motherboard didn't work=)
@Jarius Santiago water didn't escape and they turned it on
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The only time I have damaged a component (Very Expensive SGI RAM) was when my manager told me to wear a static strap... The precautions are to touch the case when you insert cards or such. Never hand a component to someone else as you are likely to be at different static potentials (eg you can shock someone for fun, well when it is RAM it is not fun).
I dont know about putting an entire motherboard into a dishwasher, but you *can* wash computer parts with water. It isn't the water that hurts computer parts, its the minerals in the water. If you take the minerals out via machines meant to do so (and i mean all the minerals. They're pricey machines but they work) you can soak particularly dirty computer parts and then clean the water off via drying it 100% or solution safe for computers.
13:14 Thats PC 2000 Electrical compliance, the only thing can burn the componentes are only directly overvoltage, and even that this dificult due to equipment are protected against that
You actually can wash parts in the dishwasher and you can use dishwasher detergent, but you should turn heated dry off and hard water could cause issues (I also never put parts on the bottom rack). After washing you should use 91% IPA alcohol to displace the water and then dry thoroughly before hooking up to power. I’ve never done this with modern hardware but I do do it to grimey retro hardware fairly often, especially with keyboards. If the parts will fit in my ultrasonic cleaner I use that instead of the dishwasher, though.
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12:13 I think what killed the system is not the static itself but Austin's hand slightly pushing that RAM
Washing components should be completely fine. So long as you use purified distilled water.
Water is actually an insulator, it's the minerals within the water that allows electricity to conduct.
If it was left to dry out completely it would be fine.
In fact with purified water, you could run the entire PC completely submerged and it would work completely fine. Probably not the best for performance as the water won't conduct heat away as fast as a flowing water cooling system with a radiator, but it would certainly stay cool.
The reason the motherboard was killed was for one: you probably left the battery in the motherboard, two: a dishwasher will use regular tap water filled with a mineral content, and three: a day is not long enough to dry. A few weeks at least would be needed.
you can wash motherboards in a dishwasher but you have put in an oven for about 20 minutes and let it it sit for a few days or let it set out in sun for almost a week to ensure the moisture is out of it befor you power it on or it does fry it