How it's made, water cooled Asus Scar 16
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- Опубликовано: 3 фев 2024
- Just a quick overview on how the water cooled Scar 16 I made works and how I made it to clear up any confusion.
Parts used -
RAM Water Block
shop.alphacool.com/en/shop/ra...
EK Quantum Kinetic
www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-quantum-...
EK CoolStream
www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-coolstre...
Koolance Low Profile 90
koolance.com/fitting-single-s...
Koolance 6th gen Quick Disconnects
koolance.com/quick-disconnect...
Phanteks T30
www.phanteks.store/products/p...
Power Supply (12v max to protect the pump and fans)
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08...
Upsiren U6
www.amazon.com/UPSIREN-Proces... 
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Should invite LTT to do a similar project like this one
Thank you for the lecture in water blocks and thermal putty. Interesting project here, leagues-better than whatever Lenovo did with the self contained water cooling in the 9i.
this is really sick! what a great piece of engineering
finally i9 Laptops go Brrrrr.
To take a cleaner approach to this, would you say that designing a custom bottom panel wouldn't be a bad idea? I've recently acquired a 3D Printer and was wondering how effective a custom bottom cover would for this. Like that I can keep the stock cover intact while creating one that'll have the perfect size to fit the RAM block through.
If I had a bigger printer able to do a cover in one part I would definitely prefer that approach to clean it up. I was not a fan of needing to do the cover in multiple parts and was having a hard time getting the intricate angles on the bottom cover of the Scar 16 just right. If it was a more plain rectangle without the stylized RGB bar it would have been much easier to go that route.
One reason I was hesitant to go that route though, aside from the practicality, is the difference in strength of the printed material and the OEM case cover. I trust the cover to hold up for the life of the laptop where I partly expect to need to reprint parts eventually.
@@sloreo8278 You have a valid point. I forgot to take into account that the RGB's integrated with the cover, darn. I guess this approach really is the in between to keep the aesthetics and reliability.
Sorry man, I'm Italian so excuse my bad English, but I want to congratulate you in the meantime for this fantastic project. I have a MSI GP76 Leopard is I plan to replicate your project or make it similar. Unfortunately, the CPU reaches 97 degrees and my pc is getting ruined so I want to make a functional system. The only thing I don't understand is how does the ram waterblock stay in contact with the heat pipes? Is the putty you used an ordinary thermal paste or does it act as a glue? Did you solder something? I wouldn't know how to keep the ram waterblock well attached. I hope you can help me!
No worries! The putty being used is just a normal putty, not paste though, not and adhesive. Putty is thicker and has a longer service life than many pastes so it should last for a long time without any pump out issues. The block is just held on by the case cover. I cut the hole to be the size of the water chamber, not the cold plate. This way the water chamber fits through while the cold plate is pressed on and held in place by the lower case cover. I have some better picture on my LinusTechTips forum post here linustechtips.com/topic/1546110-water-cooling-a-scar-16-409013980hx-laptop/?do=findComment&comment=16290402 the last two pictures on the first page should help clarify.
To expand on that, it is because of how I use the cold plate to mount it that you HAVE to get a water block that has a flat cold plate. Many CPU blocks have a raised cold plate and will not work without seriously deforming the case cover.
can you share where did you buy the spare back cover?
All spare Asus parts Ive gotten have been from a-accessories.com
HELLO THERE U WORK IS REALLY BRILLIANT CAN U PLZ TELL ABOUT THE TOTAL COST OF THE PROJECT BOTH(TIME&MONEY) TOOK U TO MAKE THIS PROJECT
The cost got out of hand and was nearly $1000, but it can be done for cheaper. Timewise it is about a day of work just assembling the parts and cutting the laptop's bottom case cover. Realistically any water cooling kit from amazon or prebuild external radiator will work, but it might not preform as well.
The only parts that need to be the same/similar are the RAM water block and, imo, the Koolance connectors because of their extremely high quality.
@@sloreo8278 Hi again my research over the internet to make good watercooling solution like ur's using a good pomp/reservoir combo cut the cost to 400 USD
Is there any possibility to do shunt modding for Asus Scar 16?
I did a super short video on reddit about the shunt mod but dont want to get too in depth because of the risk of doing it. The two R005 resistors you need to replace are shown in the beginning of the video. www.reddit.com/r/GamingLaptops/comments/1b91n8o/shunt_modded_the_water_cooled_scar_16_for_a_20/?
Pricy.
Any tips for all in ones?
This category of projects it's about of ultimate result without any aio solutions, its fully custom.
So price will stand not in a first places, I know what does it mean on personal experience.
What if the cpu and gpu are placed at a distance and one ram block cant cover both?
The fundamentals here would still apply, but it might not work quite as well. What is happening as you are cooling down the laptops own heat sink, similar to an integrated heat sink on a full-size desktop CPU. As long as you cool down the heat sink it will improve the performance a decent amount, but the proximity to the chips might make it not work quite as well.
XMG claimed that the difference is negligible when they redesigned their in previous years Neo to only have the water pipe go around half of the heat sink.
@@sloreo8278 since both the CPU and GPU are spaced apart and not even on same horizontal level. I was thinking of using AIO water cooler only on the gpu heatsink since it has a little bigger square shaped area. Is it worth it? I couldn't find any ram cooler in that shape
@@Amit_Kattal It should work, but it depends how you mount it. The main reason I used a RAM block was just because the cold plate is flat and fit under the bottom case cover. Im trying out a direct die CPU block at the moment to see how they compare and it is looking good so far, but you want to find something with a flat cold plate/mounting hardware.
I see. I saw u mentioned that thermal pad solution with aio isn't good . Is it because of heat transfer is less or size/gap problem? I would like to try with thermal pad first to not have mess because of putty. Would that still work if mounting is no issue? And have similar performance?
You don't have a huge community(for example as LTT or any other) but making much more complicated and let's say deeply technical projects in comparison with 99% of RUclips content.
Btw found you initially cz of your first project with a gp66(also got this crap previously) and hate msi after it(only process of teardown its %#@*&).
Excellent job👌🤙
Thank you. Personally I enjoy my GP66 but the screen brightness was definitely lacking. I upgraded the screen to a 1440p panel with 400 nits and eventually did a shunt mod too. Actually currently using my GP66 while shunt modding this Scar 16.
btw, try to use Proxxon instead of Dremel(you will be surprised about "politics" for spare parts).