This Factory makes 50,000 Fans and Heatsinks per DAY - DeepCool Factory Tour
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:47 Injection molding process for fan production
3:00 Injection molding machines for 50,000 fans/day
5:52 AiO parts & case parts
6:39 Hetzner (advertising)
7:28 Motors & pumps
11:29 Fan assembly
13:51 Radiator production
17:12 Cooler production
21:03 Copper pipe to heat pipe
23:12 Heatpipes to air cooler
26:04 Heat sink production by skiving
27:04 Fan test chamber & long-term tests
29:27 Summary/conclusion
29:38 Outro
The Sound was 100%.... Thanks.
yep, you guys nailed Roman's voice vs background level (loud enough to tell what's going on but not too loud that it's distracting).
A colab with Deepcool would be a logical next step, from manufacturing standpoint they got it covered
The word you are searching at 4:30 is a extruder or extruder screw. It is in fact a heated pump. The rotating screw inside pushed the granulate forward. The twisting motion combined with wall friction effects and optional notches mixes the plastic. This mixing dissipates the energy into thermal engery and additionally the expander is heated. These combined effects result in a mostly homogeneous molten plastic. Injection molding in general is very similar to metal casting, in that a cavity is formed within a mold. These molds manly constist of two plates which can be opened by pulling them apart. The construction of these molds quickly becomes very complicated to enable injection molding machines of many different features like undercuts, threads, holes etc. In contrast to metal casting the plastic is injected under high pressure because of its complicated material properties. Because of this it is necassary to use very high forces to keep these molds closed.
And they're running the molds at very specific temperatures, the larger molds often multiple zones of temperatures, not just for mold tolerance but also part cooling. Also the barrel isn't just relying on pressure/friction to heat the material, they have heater bands to maintain the proper temperature. It's not as simple as "get it hot, cool it off" it's all controlled in order to produce in-spec parts quickly. I didn't see any of those machines running particularly fast, likely because they don't need to. Plenty of capacity available because all of the human labor required later in the process.
I agree with all of the positive things said here already. I've worked in manufacturing facilities for thirty years. Very few have been as clean and organized as Deepcool's. Minor point, but reciprocating stamping presses are very different from hydraulic ones.
Incredible video, Thank you! As an owner of a Deep Cool AK 620, and built several gaming PCs with AK 420s in them, it’s amazing to see that every part is manufactured and assembled in-house. It’s great to see the entire process and quality that goes into the Deep Cool brand. Thank you to Deep Cool for the opportunity, and thank you Derbauer for the great video!
its crazy how me buying a $12 fan is enough to keep a business like this functional.
To be fair, most of the fans are sold to OEMs, the market for those who build their own PCs is relatively small in comparison.
your logic is a bit flawed, you could say the same thing about buying water bottle, even cheaper but bigger profits, its all about profit margin + volume
G'day @rogerdouglas2306, some people's comments... When Sarcasm falls on Deaf Eyes 😂
little dude just discovered economy of scale
they would only see about $3-4 for that $12 fan as well, wholesale price, shipping, packaging
This is a truly impressive factory. I knew they had a big operation going but that's an incredible scale and it's maintained beautifully. I wouldn't think twice about buying a DC product after watching this. This is top notch Chinese manufacturing. Thanks for the tour Roman.
I am actually mostly impressed by how decent the working conditions are.
@@p_mouse8676 Absolutely. Hard to know for sure obviously but how spaced out, clean and well maintained everything seems to be combined without allowing Roman to do this in the first place indicates it's certainly a step above the conditions in many other large operations I've seen there.
there is no such thing as "Top-notch Chinese Manufactoring"; it's all crap because they think it is ok as a Society to screw over everyone else.
The only shit about DC products is their stickers. I thought 2 of my fans had failed after 4 years, but it was just the stickers hitting the back of the radiator. I was really impresed about their 5 euro fans. Now i can see how they could afford this super low prices.
@@p_mouse8676 Humans doing the repetitive work that will be replaced by even more robots shortly.
yeah, that fan industry is blowing you away for sure ;) 3:31
I dream of one day seeing an Austrian Noctua factory tour
Yeah plus a few other leaders in the industry, I enjoy this type of content & really like the GN Factory Tours as well. I would have added an EKWB Factory Tour for Custom Loop Products but now not so much, maybe Alphacool or Bykski
@@shaneeslick I had a Bykski waterblock block for a RX5700 (non XT). amazing they made one for that, but the instructions were photocopied on to A4 sheets in tiny blue print that was smudged and totally unreadable. Luckily it was a simple install.
Isn't it also manufactured in Asia, like everything else? The logo on their website claims "designed in Austria", not "made in Austria".
@@szaszm_ 🤔Think they are made in both China & Taiwan & yeah seeing 1 fan get made basically seen them all get made... but I would still find a tour of the Austrian Factory for Design/Prototyping/Testing interesting
I think DeepCool hit the jackpot back in 2021 when they came with the new brand and the new AK coolers (AK620 for example) which were very well received...until then I didn't think I would buy Deepcool products, but now they are really good. I have a Assassin 4 in my PC and I am very happy with it. It can be seen in the video that they are successful, that factory is brand spanking new
As one of their customers since 2013, they really improved greatly. It used to be that Deep Cool has very affordable fans, and their heatsinks are priced good and are competitive. I loved the look of the very first Gamer Storm Assassin cooler. It was a beefy twin tower cooler like the D15 but it performed less, but it wasn't as expensive as Noctua. The Assassin 2 even had 8 6mm heatpipes and it still didn't beat the D15. Then the Assassin 3 came and blew the D15 away. Part of me still wishes that Deep Cool brings back the Ice Blade Pro V2. Imagine this beast of a 4 heat pipe cooler. Unlike the Hyper 212 that was famous back in it's day, the Ice Blade Pro V2 has four 8mm heatpipes!
I love these factory tours. It really does generate some good will to the brands that let you show them to us. I was impressed how clean the environment was, seemed like a decent place to work.
25:13 Daym that's a big heatsink!! I all of the sudden feel like i need that
it's designed for passive air cooling and for large heating spots so it's quite limited in application.
@@PainterVierax Why would you want a passive cooled heatsink? One that big surely they can add a fan and greatly reduce the size?
Probably for next gen Xeon CPUs xD
@@grlmgor To avoid noise and dust, and to some degree maintenance! Passive coolers are used in hard to reach or in machines that need zero vibrations like medical devises or very delicate stuff, yeah you could add a fan a make it better or smaller, but it also adds all of those things you don't want.
@@alelokox88 thanks for the info.
I love this. As someone who started as a manual Milling / Turning machine operator and then learning how to program and operate CNC machines and then moving more into 3d Design and 3d Printing I love watching videos like this. Some of these parts can't be made in the same way shown in the video in my country without MANY safety precautions / doors to isolate the operator from the active machine tools because these machines CAN dismember and kill you- no joke. Hydraulic presses can smash limbs into paste. I've seen some people with long hair not keep it tied back properly in a hair net or similar and a few strands get caught in a high RPM rotary tool (lathe, or vertical mill cutter / drill) and get their hair ripped out- sometimes with a bit of skin and scalp. In my younger days when I was starting out I will always remember one of my safety supervisors who lost his arm to a lathe. In his youth he was a new employee back in the 80's and he did not respect work safety. While operating on a rotary lathe he tried to adjust the machine by reaching over the piece being cut by the lathe operating at full RPM. His sleeve was caught and he lost his arm in the accident. He sure as hell learned to keep the assembly line safe after that and his missing arm really drove home how dangerous working in a factory can be to every one who worked there.Really charming man, he ended up retiring about a decade ago last I heard.
That was an unnecessarily verbose and gorey explanation
@@truculenttabasco nah, totally necessary
@@truculenttabasco These are the realities of careless mistakes of people who did not respect safety procedures. These are very real consequences of not being careful. So it is fully necessary for me to convey the importance of safety, and very life changing consequences of being careless.
@@devilkit13 yeah, even in western countries we can see small wood/steel workshops with barely no safety. Fortunately for me, I started my career on such environment within an art school where students could use machines and handheld tools to make their projects so safety was considered a priority. Though what workers lack here is ear protections. Even in the less noisy zones, the constant background noise of the machines is far from safe.
@@PainterVierax I also got my start operating manual mills and lathes. Stop machine, place metal blank on a jig, secure it in the vice, then start up the mill to proper RPM so the cutting tool can make the proper cut / bore / threading / surface machining. Stop mill then remove part set aside grab the next blank and do it again. You only really see excessive safety measures around CNC machines that have hydralics / powered movement that. And since they are computer controleld by program it doesn't have the ability to recognize if a person gets caught in them. Unless a human operator can hit the emergency stop on the machine or production line. And I sort of miss the sounds of the workshop floor. I'm one of those strange people that like to listen to motorsports without ear protection as cars scream past on the high speed straights at 100+ MPH. So hearing the hum and whine of manual machines cutting away steel / aluminium is oddly soothing to me.
Thank you der8auer for the awesome tour of the DeepCool factory! The amount and variety of machines is mind-blowing. Great to see and learn a little about the processes involved in the PC-cooling industry. Grüße aus Portugal ✌️
"The number of fans DeepCool can make per day blows me away." -der8auer
WOW! Quite impressive operation! Amazing tour! Also wow to how much manual assembly there is.
Holy shit, DeepCool is massive.
It's amazing that there is this level of demand.
people keep on breeding
In some other video from GN or someone they mentioned that over 70% of what you saw here would be sold JUST on the asian markets. I *think* it was gamers nexus's last factory tour that he mentioned it. Its absolutely absurd how skewed that number is when you think about it... only a small percentage of what is being made is making it to the rest of the entire world.
@@cjm5002 China alone has more than 1 billion people. Mcmurica is probably the next largest consumer, thankfully they 'only' have a population of 340 million.
@@cjm5002 Wow, I missed that one from GN. Thanks for the info, this is really a shocker. It's not like they fail every month. In my household, we have about 30 fans among three PC's. Mostly 120mm. These add up to being more profitable than PC case makers.
@@user-gr5lh6cs8o Its kinda tough to keep track of which vid is what with them putting out so many high quality vids. If i remember which one it was I will mention it again on this string. Sorry I couldnt be more helpful :(
consistent simultaneous dual language releases are a testament to the quality of these channels
25:07 The 4090 Ti coolers look pretty insane...
"Harr harr haarrr." :p
Lol
what the hell is that thing cooling lol
Very impressive. Excellent tour. I learned a lot from this, and btw, the audio was quite good. Thank you. A Huge thank you to DeepCool for allowing this tour.
Really cool tour and amazing factory! Great job Roman 🙂
I recently bought a DeepCool product for the first time for a build, and I must say...for a company I'd never heard of before a few months ago, I'm deeply impressed.
Dude this is a great video. Almost at the end of it now, you did awesome with the tour and it was super informational. Well done guys!
That was great Thanks Roman!
Amazing video. Absolutely mesmerizing. Few things (as a native born german who has been living in the united states) whenever you say "work holding" in the US it's called a "fixture" and when you were talking about the pump pumping the plastic pellets into the cavity of the injection molding machine, in the US that pump is called a "screw"
Yet Roman’s English is more understandable than the presenter’s on the Gamer Nexus channel…
@@derpymcderp42 What I have said does not detract from the fact that Roman is completely understandable. However if I know anything about someone like Roman, he tries to be as accurate as possible - hence my feedback.
Always like these kind of videos
We've worked with DeepCool many times. Great company and absolutely love the rebrand they started a few years back.
you remember right, 300 ton machine means that the maximum clamping force of moving and fixed plate in the machine is 300 ton (3000 kN)
Nice tour, and the volumes were good. Thank you👌
Thank you for the insight into the products we buy. Appreciate you man.
DeepCool, PowerColor, two of my favorites. My Captain still going strong after many years
This is amazing Roman!!! I love seeing just how much work goes into something as innocuous as a fan! It is easy to take for granted how cheap fans are these days; nice to get a reminder that millions of dollars worth of equipment and a lot of care is needed to produce them
Awesome job, love these types of videos!
LOVED this video Roman, thank you
I loved that video, thanks for putting all that effort!
These factory tours are some of my absolute favorite videos from you and @GamersNexus alike. Hope more companies will allow you to tour and film their facilities going forward.
I love these factory tour videos! I I find all these machines so fascinating...
Really cool! Looks like a decent place to work!
Hey, der8auer, former American factory worker here. In English, what you're referring to as a "work holding" is commonly called a "jig." That word also has other, potentially derogatory meanings, but in the context of machining it's a technical term.
I can honestly say I have never even once heard jig used as slang o.O
@@cjm5002 Clearly never seen Blazing Saddles. XD
@@amidamaru0086 LMAO i was raised on that movie but they never used it in a derogatory sense... "good mornin ma'am, and aint it a lovely mornin!"
The state of the factory and machines really speaks to the quality of their output. DeepCool is one of those brands making parts of amazing value these days- and you can see the pride they take in their processes, which leads to lower costs and higher quality than some competitors. I love these behind the scenes videos.
Awesome content, really nice to see behind the product.
Great video, actually insane the amount of machinery that's is usef in the cooling solutions of a PC :3
Thanks! Very informative, need more like this content))
LOVE videos like this. Awesome stuff!
audio at the loud part wsas excellent. super interesting video, thanks!
really cool tour, i really love all tech related with cooling. very informative, i see a lot of diferences vs be quiet heatpipes process, and cooler master factory,
I'm going to assume that Deep Cool is a OEM for a lot of other brands, this factory is massive for just the small amount of peripherals that they make.
The part the granules of plastic go through towards the mould is called an extruder. Great video as always, really enjoyed it, thanks!
Outstanding. Love the scale of engineering
i dont get why this guys has only 200k subs.
Has near 500k in Germany too but agree.
Its a german guy. Visit der Bauer and youll see...
Because he has educational content. The less actual information you put out, and the more "entertainment" you put out, the more attention KZhead gives you.
Well thos is his secondary channel. He used to post bith vids on the german one in english aswell now he made the english version a few years ago, and the frequency of uploads is less than most other youtubers because he runs an actual pc buisness too which doesn't help sub count.
Great overview of the factory...
Love these manufacturers videos.
Vielen vielen dank Herr. Derbauer für diese Video
Currently using a DeepCool case, AIO and fans. Very happy with it, but the DeepCool CH780 case has push-pins that hold the sides and top, and they are way too strong. DeepCool definitley has to work on this. The first time I opened the case I nearly hit myself in the face with the top of the case, as it is the first one you have to remove. But quality wise nothing to complain, whatsoever. Great video as always!
really really cool and enjoyable video Roman
i bought my 1st Deepcool cpu watercooler 2017 i took it out 2024 to check if the coolant was ok yep clean as i added some incase works perfect on my i79700k & 5ghz the gigabyte was the same nothing to add really 10+ years L8tr they be still be pumping away
It turned out to be an interesting video. Thanks Roman.
That warehouse shot at the end of the pallets and pallets of heatsinks and heat pipes.
thanks for showing this, as much work that goes into making a "simple" air cooler, i am very surprised they can be had as inexpensively as they are.
i love knowing how things are made / work when it comes to technology. gotta stay up in the know so i can buy stuff thats worth it!
They make pretty good stuff, their retail products are generally good looking with solid quality and reasonable pricing. I've worked with the Theta 20, GAMMAXX 400, UD551, Castle EX, LS520, CK-AM209 and other similar products from DeepCool; though I've yet to check out their cases. Might cop one of their Mystique 360 AIOs for my personal rig when they release a white variant given how well received their LT720 was.
I've had deepcool products since my first pc, it was the gammaxx gte v2, the normal rgb version ( not the argb) and ever since that i knew that this company had a bright future combining above average quality with dirt cheap prices, they are truly the pinnacle of chinese manufacturing 👍🏼
RTX reflections were awesome thanks for sharing
Great video!
What a great video. Many thanks!
Fantastic tour Roman (as all your coverings)!!! I´m always learning something with you, your life mentality and your videos! Greetings from Brazil!!! - PS: eating my cereal and learning something useful ;)
Loved the video! It's great to see how these parts are made. Here's a quick English vocabulary tip: I would call many of those parts used to hold parts in place "fixtures" or "jigs".
That aging room though!! That looked like a straight up sauna in there dang
I'm actually amazed how it can be profitable to make PC fans. Sure, PC fans have increased in price over the years but when you look at the machines building them, you wonder how the fans aren't more expensive.
Have a Deepcool AIO in my desktop. Another build with a tower cooler. Built my niece a PC with a Deepcool AOI. So far so good with the price and quality.
Whole new level of respect for this company. I was anticipating shackles, chains, and child labor.
Super fascinating.
28:01 what a nice temp.
Niceeee
This is serious business indeed. My next tower heatsink will be DeepCool for sure, worth every penny. 🤩
Thanx for this video. I love deep cools cooling solutions. I have the AK400 digital, and in a few days I'm buying the LS720...
That chungus skiving machine was really cool.
Very deep video into a cool factory
Very informative thanks
blows me away... You're one funny German.
I’m slowly becoming a huge deepcool fan! No pun intended 😅 after owning EK products and custom cooling my Pc I got myself an deepcool AIO and couldn’t be more happier with the performance, quality and price
A week before this video i bought an air cooler (400 Digital), a extra fan (FK120) and a power supply (PX850G) from DeepCool. So i loved this video :-)
I have a DeepCool LT720 AIO, it is absolutely brilliant.. Would be nice if they did some different PUMP covers for it, which I would think would be quite easy to do.. What an absolutely brilliant video..
These kind of videos are so cool.
don't worry, video is awesome, thanks Roman :3
Good stuff.
This video was too cool to watch. I noticed those workers were not wearing ear muffs and that made me concerned they might all get tinnitus.
19:13 no problem at all, great job Roman
oooh, sheet. best budget fan open to public. goddamn, gratz
The sound was fine, could here 100% thank you! I never imagined the scale that this type of manufacturing would need. One could assume DeepCool is making parts for almost every fan company if they make 50k/day, how many fans are needed if you've got multiple manufactures making tens of thousands fans. I found it very interesting that they're making the heat-sinks for GPUs, I wonder also if they make fans and such for Corsair... I wish they were required to tell us who makes what so we can make informed decisions... Instead of paying the Corsair markup, just buy DeepCool lol
Great video thanks
I've seen one of these at a factory tour once, ececpt it was a lot bigger, It had a die size big enough to do 10-12 fans at a time.
W DeepCool Factory Tour!!!
Inside is a screw that turns and heats and cuts the plastic pellets. A hydraulic press pushes the material into the cavity
Good video. I have old Tower - Zalman CNPX10X, 10X or Performa.. and 148mm height. For me, the height of the cooler is very important.
sound was great and very interesting video
I LOVE IT
Awesome :D
Much better video than chaotic G Nexus' factory videos ❤
COOL !!!
If not even Deep Cool 😎