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you've you've you've probably never heard of it they're called Spotswood

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Tech stations they're uh yeah they're pretty

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obscure Cooler Master V series semi modular power supplies feature 80 plus

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so I bought the Spotswood tech station for a personal project of mine which

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will be in a build log update video in the future but some of you may know that

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we use high-speed PC tech stations for our Tech stations at work so why deviate

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from what I know is already good I mean I've been using high-speed PC tech

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stations for years and I've never had a problem why use something else outside

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of work honestly the main reason was looks but outside of that I appreciate

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that it is made entirely of aluminum it's extremely modular and every one of

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its arms is a mountable rail so you can put anything on it that you want I

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really liked how you can put a radiator virtually anywhere so I went through the

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ordering process which was great by the way rich Suki AKA Spotswood I hope I

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said his last name right is very accommodating and seem to go out of his

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way to answer every question I had very quickly upon receiving the unit I was

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happy to see that he did a great job packing it with gratuitous amounts of

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bubble wrap and tons of packing peanuts as well for an independent the packing

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material was great tons of peanuts and bubble wrap had the bench actually quite

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secure before it showed up first thing you'll notice is that the Tex station is

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in two halves it goes together very easily and is quite secure once you have

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it in place next up you'll notice the the accessories oh my God the

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accessories there are so many the amount of bolts nuts and washers this guy

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included is insane and it doesn't stop there he also included all the different

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mounting brackets and arms you could possibly want and all of these things

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came in nice little reable bags that are nicely labeled other than a couple

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brackets I didn't order anything extra and everything you can see right now is

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just the leftovers that didn't end up on the tech station there will be no kit

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limitations here the only complaint I could see anyone having about the

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accessories is that they are all hex bolts which can be kind of annoying

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because you can't use your standard screwdrivers with them but not only does

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Spotswood include the three different hex Keys needed to install everything

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but if this is a bench that you'll be taking to something like a land or any

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public place the added security of say your graphics card not being able to be

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removed by a simple thumb screw in a matter of like 3 to 10 seconds is kind

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of nice next up we have the tech station itself starting from the top of the

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station we have the standoffs which I wish were installed by default as it

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shows in Spotswood pictures but it's not a very big deal as they're very easy to

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install also with the standoffs and the open rail system it is very easy to

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access the back of the motherboard which will make CPU block swaps a breeze

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speaking of the open rail system for those of you that may want to install

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motherboards that are not at TX format all the rails are easily adjustable and

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even removable by simply loosening or removing the bolts that are at the rail

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intersections even the expansion card support bar is adjustable just in case

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you may have short expansion cards like maybe a raid or sound card although I

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expect most of people to leave this bar exactly where it is then we come to the

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power supply mounting I really wasn't so sure about this before I started working

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on the unit but once you install the power supply there it's actually quite

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nice the cables don't look messy up top due to the cable management hole created

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by the motherboard support rails and it leaves you with more room to be creative

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with what you want to do on the lower level but you may notice the Wii U game

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no unfortunately this tech station does not come with Mario Kart 8 for Wii U I

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put it there to support the power supply as it is roughly the same thickness as

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one of the aluminum rails which is already holding up one side of the power

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supply unit while I do mostly trust the standard mounting setup it sketches me

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out that there's no support for the bottom of the power supply on that side

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now this power supply isn't necessarily short but it isn't long either if you

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had a long power supply like the one I intend to eventually install in this

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test bench it will reach to the second motherboard support bar but if you don't

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it will just kind of hang there all of

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this in mind it's probably fine I'm sure Spotswood knows about this as the power

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supply unit in his pictures is roughly the same length as the one that I have

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on the bench and he probably didn't see it as a problem I don't see it as one

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necessarily either as long as the tech station is left alone if someone wants

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to rest something on top of the power supply or bump it it's possible that

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something bad could potentially happen and whoever unlike likely the situation

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is I personally would rest easier if it was just supported hence the Wii U game

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all of that aside we can move on to the bottom of the tech station first off we

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have the hard drive and SSD mounting which is essentially the same process

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and it can take a little while but once they're in place it's actually quite

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secure and it has a bit of vibration dampening due to the rubber mounting

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solution which is a nice added bonus due

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to the spacing differences of 3 and 1/2 and 2 and 1/2 in drives you would need

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to install them on different rails if you wanted to do it properly but what

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exactly is properly when working on a tech station which caters to

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creativity I don't know but I will likely be buying a hard drive cage

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either from Spotswood or some other vendor to free up some real estate in

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the bottom of this tech station as multiple drives take up quite a bit of

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space if I wasn't interested in buying an extra cage I would likely end up

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fixing the SSD to one of the Rails just below the motherboard just to get out of

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the way secondly there was mounting my radiator the process of fixing the tabs

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system to the radiator and tech station through the use of the standard bolt nut

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and washer method was easy enough to do and looks quite sharp once you're done

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but you may again notice the Wii U game

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no yet again sadly it does not come with Super Mario Bros U or Super Luigi U and

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this is another one of my ghetto mounted support systems being only able to mount

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my thick and heavy Alpha cool nexx exos radiator which by the way will only get

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heavier once you run water through it on one side of the tech station causes it

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to torque and pull down on the far non-secured side now again it's probably

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okay but I especially don't trust this one as it seems to be torquing much more

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than the power supply was and has the same kind of issues if someone bumps

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into it or if I say accidentally pull it while trying to install a fitting it

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could get torqued too much and I would be livid because of this I grabbed my

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trusty Wii U game mounting system before it was even full installed this is

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something I will be finding a proper and more permanent solution to before I move

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my personal rig to this tech station Taran and I were able to come up with a

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few potential solutions to this radiator mounting problem one if we had longer

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tabs we could fit it to the bottom of the tech station as well meaning it

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would have two points of contact two another rail I could install myself on

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the other side would add another two points of contact and supported on both

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sides or three a rail mountable rubber pad system which could replace my Wii U

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game in its exact same Form and Function in conclusion is this the easiest thing

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to build on no but it's damn fun the

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Spotswood Tex station is extremely high build quality overall and allows you to

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do almost anything that you want with it because of how modular it is that being

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said the almost non-existent documentation can be more than a little

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annoying when trying to figure out how you're intended to do something and

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there's so few build examples out in the while that some of the issues I ran into

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could have honestly just been myself failing understand how something was intended to work especially since I may

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have been doing this build while streaming at 3: in the morning last but

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not least is the purchasing experience again Rich chety hope I'm saying that

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right AKA Spotswood as far as I can tell is a oneman operation and despite that

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he managed to keep on top of things very well I received shipping confirmation

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surprisingly quickly after ordering my unit and he continues to this day to

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answer any and all of my questions both quickly and thoroughly all right guys

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that's it are you interested in a techbench OR tech station let me know in

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