As you know I am.

Eli, we're going to continue this a plus track by talking about PC cooling today.

So whatever you talk about different types of technology, they're they're fundamental concepts to it.

Whatever that type of technology is on, when you're dealing with PCs and when you're dealing with servers, cool, lean is one of your biggest issues.

You're gonna have be having these systems.

On many times they're gonna be running 24 7 And if you haven't thought about the cooling situation and how you're gonna be dealing with cooling with your systems, you can have a lot of problems.

We're going to deal with this at its own individual class because this is one of those those topics that spans almost everything that you're gonna be dealing with with a computer.

Whether you put in a big ass case fan like this, depending on what graphics card got a purchase, you know what kind of heat sink you're gonna put on your CPU?

Heat is just one of those integral topics.

Whenever you're talking about computers and if you get it wrong, you can have a lot of issues back in the day when I have my consulting company.

I made a lot of money essentially by cleaning out heat problems.

Basically, CPU heat sink fans would fail.

Computer cases would just get clogged with cat hair and other things.

I even had a computer that literally died from secondhand smoke.

Do you Do you want to know when you need?

Has quit smoking when your computer dies from secondhand smoke?

Literally.

You know, I sat there and I was doing all this trouble shooting with a computer.

So I try to do anti virus and anti Mau.

Where tried you updates?

Oh, it would kept freezing.

It would keep locking up And I didn't understand, Right?

The fan the fan spun how the fan was supposed to spin.

I even had this side off the case.

So should there be there should be enough air getting to the CPU and everything to cool it off.

And I was sitting there just scratching my head, trying to figure out what is the problem with this computer.

And then I just sit there, right?

I've gone through all the all the all the all the trouble shooting right.

What is it like?

Uh, you know, when you when you when you finished doing all of the trouble shooting, that seems reasonable.

That's when you get into the troubleshooting that becomes absurd.

And so a city they're down, all the normal troubleshooting.

Then I looked down at the CPU heat sink, and it was like this brown color, so CPU heat sinks.

Basically, these are made out of aluminum, and so generally generally they're silver.

Maybe if they're painted their black, but they more or less.

They should either be silver or black.

And I looked down to this one.

It was Brown.

I was like, Well, that's weird.

But to be clear, there wasn't dust and dirt on it.

It just looked brownish.

So that's bizarre.

And so I had run out of every other thing I could do to this computer.

So I was like, You know, maybe maybe the heat sink is just maybe whatever that Brown stuff is isn't what's supposed to be there.

Maybe that's not paint or whatever.

And so I polled the whole CPU heat sink, you know, contraption apart, pulled out the aluminum block, went over to the sink, washed it off with Don and just all this brown just tar Just used off of the heat sink cleaned it up, made it look all nice and silver dried it off way before to dry, plugged everything back in.

And wow, that computer spun up and it worked like a champ all because of a heat issue.

So we talk about heat.

He can cause you lots and lots of different problems in your computer.

So always make sure that however, the heat is supposed to be dissipating your computer, that it's working properly and think about weird stuff, they get away when you get done.

Troubleshooting all the normal problems Look for the absurd problems because sometimes he had served absurd problems are where the real issue is.

So a big question should be.

You know how how big a deal is the cooling stuff really right.

You go to YouTube, you watch, you know, Jay's two cents.

You watch all these other tech YouTubers and they're talking about liquid coolly, and they're talking about big old fans and that assertive boy you really have to ask yourself is cool and really that important.

Ah, are these people just trying to trying to figure out topics to talk about.

Um, and the reality is, is it's somewhere in the middle, depending on what the situation is for the system that you're dealing with.

Ah, and what you plan to do with the systems.

So so to be clear, to be clear, Ah, heat is a real problem.

Like there.

There is no doubt too much he will kill your computer, right?

So so again, if if your heat sink gets gunk up, if the fans failed, whatever else.

If you're not getting some cooling into your system, basically what happens is the CPU has has a special sensor on it.

And when the CPU detects that it's getting too hot and that it will get to a place where it will actually do physical damage to itself, it literally just shuts itself off.

That's why you'll see with heat issues, you'll run into problems or computers will freeze up, or they just just turn off.

You'll be doing something and they just turn off, and the reason for that is the CPU.

Sometimes things like the GP use now, they have heat sensors on them.

When that he gets too hot, it just shuts off and then you sit there, try to figure out a troubleshoot, so to be clear with, like, real heat like he with computers being way too hot.

Yes, that could cause a major issue.

But the question is, you know, obviously, you know no, no crappy lie.

That's a problem.

But what about all these people putting liquid cooling into their computers and all that kind of stuff?

Basically, the question there with the cooling is what do you plan to be doing with your system?

And essentially, how hard are you going to be pushing your system?

So if you have all right, if you have a little server or not, not little, so low computer and you're essentially going to be giving it to the secretary.

The secretary is going to be doing word processing, and it's going to be doing, you know, watching YouTube videos, doing Facebook and all that, right?

No, heat is probably not going to be a major issue for that person.

The reason being is because everything is in the system is gonna warm up to about where it normally sits at Ah, and then it'll just keep trucking along.

So so again, you go in a warehouse.

I've been to a lot of warehouses.

You gotta warehouses.

And the other side looks like a little Dyson vacuum cleaner.

You open it up, there's all kinds of crap in there.

And you think, Well, how how is that able to keep functioning without overheating?

And just the reality is is that the people using the computers don't push them very hard.

They're low power, uh, components.

And they're so overall, they just don't get very hot.

So, you know, 45 10 degrees for these components, it doesn't really matter, because they're just not doing a lot.

Well, the thing is, once you start getting to the world of servers or gaming systems, that's when you can really start to have heat issues.

The reason being is because with these kind of systems, you may be pushing them to the absolute limit again, with a lot of the video gamers.

Why Jay's two cents talks a lot about cooling is because he's a gamer.

He creates gaming PCs.

And so with the gamers, you know, to each their own due to their own, they really like over clock and systems, anything taken over clock the over clock.

If they if they could figure out how to over clock keyboard, they would over clock a keyboard.

Right?

So you put all these components into into one of these gaming systems and they're gonna be running warm anyway, and then you decide over clock.

So basically, what you're trying to do is you're trying to push all the components past where the manufacturer has told you that they'll reliably operate out Well, when you start pushing them past that point, obviously they're going to get hotter and hotter and hotter.

The hotter the components get, the more unstable they get.

And so therefore, you want to try to cool them down.

And so that's why the gamers they get all these these liquid cooling system's going on.

The reason being is because they're trying to keep the components as cool as possible because they're physically pushing those components as hard as they can.

So, in that kind of environment, cooling can be a really big deal.

The same is true with things like servers.

Again, with servers were really pushing the hard drives.

You're gonna be pushing the processors and all of that and the cooler that you can keep those components, the less likely it is that they will fail and that you'll run into issues.

And so this is one of those things you have to be thinking about.

Cool.

Cooling is a real again, again if you if you do, if it gets too, it gets too hot.

Any computer is gonna shut down.

But this is one of those where if you're doing gaming, if you're gonna do servers, that type of thing cooling is a really, incredibly big deal again.

To be honest, if you're if you're giving a computer to a warehouse worker, if you're given a computer to a secretary, you know you give him some a little eye.

Three thing.

Um, ah, yeah, you know, get they'll give you gotta clean out the events.

You gotta make sure the fans spin, but it's it's probably not not gonna be the biggest issue.

There now is a professional when you start thinking about cooling and start going to start thinking about how you're going to keep all of your systems cool so that you don't have to do any more trouble shooting than necessary.

The first thing that you need to think about is spec ing out your systems from the get go one.

The big problems that I see is that, Ah, lot of the troubleshooting that you have to do for for people's computers many times is because they were given a computer that's far superior in resource is to what they need.

They just need a nice little simple box that will stay relatively cool on its own.

And instead, you know they got a 10 80 you know, T I video card or something in this thing.

The reason being is big goes that the geek or the Tech said, Well, you know, they're having sales on those video cards this week, so I decided to buy one.

And so the problem is again, the hotter the components, basically, the more high end the components of the warmer.

Those components are gone, it run.

Ah, the more likely you're going to run into heat issues is just a just a basic thing.

So if you have somebody in, all they're doing is they're they're running productivity software, Web browsers, YouTube and all that.

One of the things you should be thinking about is how low can expect the computers.

Can you spec them with very low quality processors or low speed processors, low speed graphics cards.

You're not gonna have to run into heat issues.

That's one thing like like with this particular graphics cards.

So this is an absolutely new graphics card.

Actually bought it for the for the system that I'm ripping apart and showing you folks while I do this A plus, Siri's and one of things you'll notice with his graphics card is that there is no fan on this graphics card.

Ah, so all it has it has the aluminum heat sink right on top of the GPU and then the case cooling is what keeps this particular graphics car cool.

The reason being is cause more or less.

This is Ah, this is a five year old architecture.

Ah, this is a relatively cool gpu.

Ah, and therefore it doesn't need the fan to spin to keep it cool.

Now again, he said, There you think about it.

If you're going to video gaming.

No, you don't do this.

If you're gonna do V r.

No, you don't use this, but if you're gonna do Web browsing for gonna do YouTube.

This has this has a gig?

Ah, video video memory on it.

It will be more than find enough.

And why I like these types of graphics cards without the CPU fan, is I saw time and time again, where the CPU fan on the graphics card is usually what fails and that cause problems with graphics cards.

You don't know how many times desktop computer wasn't working properly.

I'd crack open the case, and you would literally just see the fan blade for the graphics car.

This sitting at the bottom of the case.

Uh, yeah, there's there's there's your problem right there.

All right, so if you if you get a graphics card or other thing that doesn't need a fan or to keep it cool, and then then that's last lap.

One less component that can cause you problems.

As far as he's concerned again in this modern world where we start talking about these small microcomputers, this is one of those things that you should be thinking about from a heat standpoint is if your people all they're gonna be doing is getting the basic productivity stuff, Do you need a full size desktop computer anyway.

Again, this is something from Azul, Tech, Azul, Texans, Me, all these kinds of kinds of little computers and products that take a look at, and it's surprisingly powerful again.

This this little guy here that has a quad core processor, I think that says four gigs.

Aram has 32 gigs.

Storage that's upgradeable has Windows, Windows 10 professional in it all in this little little computer.

And so that's one thing like this.

You're not gonna have to worry about heat issues.

The same way is if you have a full fledged desktop computer, this entire little thing here most likely puts out less heat than simply a desk, a normal desktop power supply again, something to be thinking about with these small microcomputers, even as faras servers are concerned.

I know that may seem like sacrilege, but I know one consultant that literally uses nukes.

So Intel's next unit computing those those really small.

It was really small little computers.