This Product Aged Like Fine Milk - Gigabyte 3D Galaxy II Retro Watercooling Kit
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Published 2021-12-02
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We got our hands on a SEALED PC water cooling kit from back in 2005 dubbed the "3D Galaxy II". Today we find out if it's any good.
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:00 Even the box is hilarious
2:28 This kit is a disaster
4:20 Corrode me, daddy
4:41 Wait, nvm, we have protection
5:42 The coolest fan
6:22 Mmm... fishy
7:08 The industry used to be lazy
7:45 Linus is impressed
9:20 We forgot about science
9:39 JK, we remembered science
10:08 The note
10:43 Trying to mount the block to a modern PC
11:02 Sexy Linus montage
11:19 Trying to mount it to a modern PC part 2
12:13 Building a masterpiece
14:08 Lube straight to the bloodstream
15:50 Oh god it doesn't work
16:24 Maybe jamming a screwdriver in it will fix things
18:20 This thing is great!
19:12 You're welcome, Geoff.
All Comments (21)
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"I don't need it, I'll use VGA." Geoff is such a good sport.
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Ah, hey! This is ours! My wife and I were so glad you guys were up for it. Im in a class at the moment but cant wait to watch it when I get out!
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"I don't need it, I'll use VGA" Spoken like a true computer tech.
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I wonder what the temps would be with actual thermal paste? Linus could've used some Arctic Silver 5 (which is still made and sold brand new) and it would've been authentic to 2005, as it was around back then, and it was top of the line, so it even matches with the water cooler.
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Others at the office: receives Intel Extreme Tech Upgrade Geoff: LTT Extreme Tech Downgrade
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The ending where they gave the computer back with the water cooler was gold.
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I had a family friend that showed off the first liquid cooling setup I had ever seen in 2005. Homebuilt with a junked motorcycle radiator, flexi tubing and a pump rotor affixed to a hobby rc motor in the "resivoir" the only thing he bought was a CPU block. Still jealous of it to this day! I never could play ut2004 and hl2 as fast as him.. great thing he let me use it whenever I came over!
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Actually I am really interested how would this loop perform with: 1. Modern thermal paste. Measure at this stage 2. Lapped block. Measure again (with modern thermal paste).
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Jake: "Nano scale coolant...what does that even mean" That it will look big in Linus' hand
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Yes, blue LEDs were something worth advertising on the box. Decades ago each LED colour required a different manufacturing process and blue LEDs in particular were incredibly expensive to produce. Only high-end electronics had them and that's why some products today, especially those that are marketed to the boomer crowd, still have blue standby LEDs. Anyway, when some Japanese guys discovered a way to make cheap blue LEDs they won the Nobel prize in physics for it. That's how big of a deal they are.
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The ending was a good surprise lol. I love how you can tell that at some parts Geoff is trying hard not to laugh.
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My first pc ever, I had one of these back when it came out. Watching your video really took me back more than a decade. You can even see me unboxing it along with the matching Araura case.
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Linus really seems to enjoy building things with his oldest son, Jake.
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2:37 holy crap I’ve just found out why my first PC case from 2014 had grommets on the back above the PCI slots
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They probably tell you to unhook the hard drive to prevent the system from booting while you boot cycle to purge the loop. You could just disable it in the bios, but instructions to do that for all motherboards at the time wouldn't fit in that small space. Much simpler to just tell people to unhook the power from the drive.
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I've been waiting for an instruction video on how to put this on my computer since around 2006, thanks for finally helping me out.
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Linus: "Wanna feature your PC in a video?" Geoff: secretly thinks he's getting Intel Extreme Tech Upgrade "YES" Jake and Linus yeets this back to 2005
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“We did a thing…and made it worse.” Top Gear vibes
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Aah, the nostalgia! The only thing I would have done would have been to also compare it against a good representative air cooler from that era too to in order to see if it was an improvement over what was available at the time. Noctua is a still quite a challenge to beat even for modern WC systems.
