all right so it's personal rig update time again although unfortunately I
don't have nearly as much of an update for you guys as I would have liked so
I'm starting to test fit things together honestly I haven't worked on the project
in quite a while um the the tops of my
Copperhead spreaders are still at the plating shop where I discovered that
they actually can't be plated because they aren't brass which is what I
thought they were made of they are made of colored aluminum uh which is going to
be a bit of an issue so uh yeah that's
no good as you can see I've made some rough marks on the back in terms of
where I want to cut out a CPU cutout as well as some cable management holes
um yeah I put this back in you can see
it's no longer black it is now completely stripped I actually had some
issues with some of the metal that I um
that I got back from the plating shop cuz they were covered in white residue
when I got them back and so I cleaned them and unfortunately I didn't dry them
as well as IID thought and I got some rusting going on so I had to clean them
again with WD40 which means I'm going to have to um rinse them in a solvent
before I can actually get them painted
um yeah so some of that going on there
um right test fitting components so this
this whole phase is going to be basically getting the whole system built
and wired so all the custom wires made and sleeved and all whoops and all of
that without um before I get it painted
so the whole thing has to be pretty much done and then it's time to send
everything off for painting once I've made all the cuts that I need to make as
you can see I've switched motherboards I'm actually going to be going with the x79 ud5 unless a better option presents
itself because in terms of coil wine um
and aesthetic appeal it's the best balance I can find the ASUS one doesn't
coil wine but the color scheme doesn't really match what I'm trying to do and
this one the MSI one that I have is a bit of a coil wine issue when sort of
doing anything um the irony is that this one doesn't whine when I'm doing
anything CPU intensive but it windes when I'm transferring anything over the network so yeah every board has its
quirks I'm I can't stand Quail wine personally and it's really dampened my
enthusiasm for the whole project to be perfectly honest cuz I hate spending a
bunch of time building something that I know I'm not going to be happy with and
I'm going to have to change something later um other progress though moving
right along speaking of things that don't coil wine and are awesome in every
way the XFX 80 plus Platinum power supply so I've actually done uh the come
on Focus you can do it focus on that and then focus on that there you go uh so
I've done the bulk of the sleeving that'll that'll go into this power
supply cuz I'm not going to bother sleeving things that you're not going to be able to see I'll just leave the stock
leaving on those ones so you can see the CPU connector in there is done the 24
pin connector here is done so that's pretty much what it'll look like with my
uh patented two wires per sleeve individual sleeving so
semi-individual sleeving is what we'll call that yeah I think it looks pretty
sharp so you can see the color is a little bit right at the very
ends I'm willing to uh live with that compromise so yeah I think that's pretty
much it um so you guys will find out in
a moment why I haven't had any time to work on my personal rig and uh I
apologize for the color in this shot because it's terrible we had a bit of a
camera malfunction but uh we caught him at his best so we're probably just going
to going to go with
that so guys this is the reason why uh I
haven't really had time to work on my personal rig other than
the couple small updates that you can see uh that you saw so far let's make
sure he's sitting here okay so this is my baby boy and uh not sure how many
appearances he'll make on the channel but uh at any rate I figured I'd give
you guys sort of the scoop of what's going on and he's doing pretty well on the
camera here can you give us a
smile what do you think
I don't think we're going to get a smile out of him that's okay we had another
clip that had bad white balance where he randomly randomly managed to smile a
little bit so let's just get him scooped up here okay so let's see your your
practice say thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe to lonus Tech
tips oh wow what good timing
um yeah I know sweetheart so guys this is basically the
reason why I haven't had any time at all to work on my personal rig and
uh you uh some for some reason the camera loves him and he loves it because
he was so grumpy for the hour leading up
to us filming this and now he's giving us a nice big long smile so uh this is
my baby boy and I'm not sure if he'll
make too many appearances in the videos but uh there you go so more personal rig
updates when I get to it but for now there are other
priorities aren't their sweetheart