unless you're David Blain being frozen
in a block of ice Probably sounds
terrible luckily for today's video
computer parts don't have feelings at
least not yet so we can freeze them in a
block of ice without remorse and the
question of the day is which computer
parts can survive being frozen in a
block of ice and which ones will perish
the setup for this experiment is pretty
straightforward first I need to find a
container large enough to fit some PC
parts no those are sausages nah that
one's too small ah this one that I
placed here too minutes ago perfect now
it's time to select the victims I mean
volunteers for today's experiment which
of you computer parts want a volunteer
to be
Frozen all right no volunteers victims
it is I grabbed an older GPU as well as
a slightly more modern one so we could
compare how the different heat sinks are
affected by the ice also grabbed some
RAM and a mouse which I think will be
super interesting as well as a hard
drive and then a full-on CPU motherboard
and RAM combo as well and with our
Avengers assembled it's time to open the
floodgates at this point only a thumbs
up from the emperor can prepare these
poor PC parts and the verdict thumbs
down as always please don't try this at
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home you know technically I think this
is a soup all right and with all these
computer components successfully
submerged in water and placed into the
fridge we need to wait overnight for it
to freeze in the meantime what do you
think will happen how many these parts
do you think will continue to work after
being frozen and thawed for my guesses I
think the CPU the ram the old old
graphics card The Mouse and the
motherboard will all work totally fine
on the other hand I think that the newer
graphics card and the hard drive have no
chance of working whatsoever take a
moment to think about which ones do you
think Will Survive and won't survive and
leave a comment down below to lock in
your answer day two after its first
night in the freezer the water still
isn't completely Frozen you can see some
air bubbles still floating around
underneath the surface day three and
just like that after the second night of
being in the freezer our PC soup has
turned into a PC popsicle and boy does
it look delicious H refreshing I grossly
underestimated how cold this would be
thankfully I have some tools to help me
with step number five which is somehow
getting these PC parts out of the ice
well here goes
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nothing this is proving to be much more
difficult than I thought it was going to
be in my head I was like I'll just smash
the ice and then I'll take the parts out
and test them but I think I'm just going
to have to wait for this to all melt to
get access to anything and boy did I
have to wait thankfully it was a super
hot and sunny day outside so I honestly
just let the sun do most of the melting
until I was able to pry off some of the
components the ram hard drive and older
GPU came off without much hassle and
check out this Iced Out heat sink pretty
cool the rest of the components were
putting up much more of a fight I was
eventually able to tear out the mouse
which ended up being kind of fun because
the buttons were still frozen and the
cord was still stuck in the ice so I
just kind of played with that for a
little bit and then I got impatient and
started yanking on the motherboard ended
up breaking off one of the heat sinks
well that's not good this thing was
super stubborn I had to call in some
assistance for my dog and even then we
couldn't get it off so I ended up just
waiting till midnight until the
motherboard easily came off and then I
gently disposed the rest of the ice and
now a couple days later our PC parts are
finally dry enough to test so this is
the final step of the experiment which
all these will work which ones won't
it's time to find out let's start by
testing the older of the two graphics
cards upon closer inspection I'm not
seeing a lot of water damage aside from
this poor sticker getting torn in half
but that's something I can live with
just to date this GPU even further it
has a dual DVID output which means I
have to use this adapter and now the
Moment of Truth as we power on the
system we can see the GPU immediately
spin a life look at that no hesitation
this thing's still kicking and after a
moment a signal pops on screen as well
let's go granted the display is funky
because this GPU is super old but that's
incredible this is still working now
that we know the older GP Works let's
try the more modern one to see if that
still has any life in it similar to the
last GPU I'm not seeing any significant
water damage on this one aside from some
condensation still stuck underneath the
wrapper honestly wouldn't even be able
to tell that this was frozen this GPU
does require some pcie power so let's
plug that in and now let's see what
happens as we power on the PC uh-oh
false start you can see the fans pulsing
as if they're trying to get running but
it just can't until eventually it does
start running but ends up producing one
of the most ridiculous outputs that I've
ever seen what is
that is a sure sign that something's
wrong in case it's not clear this green
static should definitely not be here and
while I was able to get to the windows
loading screen eventually the car just
decided to die completely where finally
an output display error was presented on
screen now that's pretty interesting why
do you think the newer of the two
graphics cards doesn't work anymore but
the older one does if anything this is a
cool way to highlight the difference of
how these gpus are cooled if you take a
look at the heat sink on top of this
older GPU you can see that it's
basically just a bunch of plastic with a
fan on top now compare that to the heat
sink in this newer GPU what do you see
here metal pipes these are used to help
dissipate heat away from the actual chip
in the GPU But Metal typically doesn't
like the expansion of liquids inside of
them which is what happens when water
freezes pretty cool display of an older
piece of technology out doing a newer
one and now it's time for the mouse at
this point the buttons are clicking and
firing as normal but there is a bit of
water trapped in the scroll wheel will
that be enough to prevent the mouse from
working well as we plug in the mouse we
can see that its RGB does light up but
then disappears and at this point the
Mouse cannot produce a signal to the PC
man what a bummer I really thought this
one was going to work hopefully our
stick of ram can help even out the
playing field upon closer inspection
again I don't see any significant water
damage and so let's install it and Power
on with our Ice stick installed this
computer should be reading 12 gigs of
RAM let's see what the software
recognizes show me 12 gigs yeah here you
can see 12 gigs of DDR3 looks like our
stick of ram survived the ice as well
with that we're now two for four it's
time to move on to the one that I think
will be the biggest challenge the hard
drive hard drives are one one of the few
computer components that rely on
mechanical moving parts and for them to
work properly there needs to be a
precise amount of space between the
magnetic discs otherwise the head that
reads the discs won't be able to pick up
any data it just seems like this fragile
ecosystem would surely be damaged by the
water that's expanded when freezing well
let's find out as we power on the system
and inspect our computer's files we can
see that the hard drive is actually
recognized that's so crazy but there it
is clear as day 1 tbte of storage I
legitimately thought this had a 0%
chance of work working after having not
only water poured on it but also having
that water Frozen within it I went as
far as creating some new files and
folders within this hard drive and
honestly it just kept doing its job it
kept working yeah I'll be honest I
thought there was a 0% chance of this
working I honestly don't understand how
the freezing water didn't disrupt the
precise distance between the magnetic
discs but hey the more you know last but
certainly not least is our CPU
motherboard in Ram combo right off the
bat this one has the most water damage
by far you can see all of this extra
residue all over the board itself and
one of these heat sinks fell off when I
was impatiently pulling this out of the
ice how does this translate into it
still working well let's find out I've
got to say I've built a lot of computers
and honestly this is one of the worst
motherboard layouts that I've ever
interacted with check out where the
motherboard and CPU power slots are
they're just like in the middle of the
board typically you'll find this over on
the right hand side and the CPU power up
at the top so you can easily plug them
in but for this one nope they're uh
right here so thankfully it's not too
bad if you're not using a case because
this system doesn't have integrated
Graphics we're going to need a GPU so
let's just grab the one that we know
works if it ain't broke don't fix it and
with that we're ready to commence the
final test will this PC still work after
being frozen in ice as we short out the
power pins we can see that the fans do
end up spinning but unfortunately no
matter how long we wait there will never
be a signal on this monitor I'm not sure
if it's exact diagnosis but I have a
feeling that this motherboard has
breathed its last breath perhaps some of
that residue ended up shorting out some
of the circuits or perhaps the ice
knocked some capacitors loose regardless
it ends up in the not working pile which
brings our final total to three
components that survived the ice and
three components that the ice destroyed
I hope you had as much fun as I did
throughout this experiment and if you'd
like me to freeze any other specific
computer components let me know in the
comments down below as always I'm Mr
yeer your Tech tinker and I'll catch you
in the next one