it wasn't that long ago that if you wanted to glam up your computer you
could either use a colored cold cathode tube or
a uv cold cathode tube with some black
light sensitive components RGB
believe it or not wasn't a thing oh my
god i know right and that got us thinking
what if we combined the old and the new
we took RGB uv cathodes and and and
lasers and we smashed them all together into
one computer to make the craziest most colorful most rave tastic pc the world
has ever seen brace yourself my friends
oh god
isn't it beautiful
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selecting the case was probably the easiest part of this build the prime
primera pm01fx from silverstone
literally has a unicorn on the side
what more could you want and it also has three 140mm fans up front which means
that there should be enough space to fit our sky white 420 millimeter radiator
from primo chill even if silverstone doesn't explicitly say so
so measurement wise it should fit
it's close it wants to do it
oh balls yeah since we're in for a real
derivating good time
right our big radiator troubles weren't over
yet though for our ddc pump and reservoir we planned to use this bit
power mount that while sexy only
connects to 120 millimeter fans
but that's nothing that can't be fixed with a few minutes of solid works and some
acrylic vaporization with our laser cutter not bad you might even say it's
profesh as the kids say
now it's time for some lighting RGB strip lights are cool
but what's even better is spatially and
temporally coherent lights oh yeah we're talking about lasers
so we got this guy here off of amazon it's designed for dj booths but we're
all about improvisation here and as it
turns out the hole for the pci express power cables is just the right size for
it only problem is the laser is too big to
fit beside the massive prime titanium 1000 watt power supply from seasonic
but what if we could make the laser smaller
taking it apart revealed a lot of empty space and dr alex prescribed a healthy
dose of angle grindelation to fix the problem
oh yeah originally we wanted to add a smoke
machine inside the pc as well but unfortunately the compact ones rely on
water vapor a hopefully obvious problem
inside a computer so we'll be relying on mineral oil based fog instead
all right so now we've got a pretty funky case but
this is LTT so we will need plenty of
horses under the hood too first up was our GPU an NVIDIA gtx 1080 ti which gets
the water treatment courtesy of bits power we removed the stock heatsink
added some thermal grizzly cryonot and after a generous application of thermal
pads we screwed on the water block now it looks pretty good here but that stock
backplate now it's nice but a bit boring
what's not boring though is this completely insane RGB back plate that we
got from v1tx so we attached that to the
GPU using magnets so it could be easily removed later
for our CPU we chose a core i7 8700k
and every Intel build these days needs a nice helping of liquid metal so we
popped the lid added some conformal coating and then
well in a perfect world we would have picked up a new syringe of liquid metal
since the old ones have a bad habit of uh sticking
fortunately we've already shown you how to clean these kinds of things up
there we go with the CPU installed into our ASUS rog
maximus 10 formula which comes with water cooling for the vrm already
installed by the way and the CPU block on it was time to plan out the loop
someday we will learn to do loop planning
before we start but it is not this day
wow alex's technique for hardline is to
measure the bend first cut a bit longer than needed bend in the correct place
massaging out the flat spots or oddities by hand then sand the tubes down to the
correct size so the reason that we always recommend finishing this off with
sanding is that it's super brittle and
this way we can avoid that happening so do this a couple more
times and you've got a hardline water cooled pc
first we filled the system with distilled water and sysprep to make sure
that any strange things would be removed next to find out if the liquid metal
spill had damaged our CPU we went ahead and fired it up go
oh excellent looks like we're good
at this point things were starting to come together but the fans were a bit
boring and we didn't want to just rely on throwing RGB fans into a case to make
them pop idea number one was to use uv body paint
which we have for some reason and sort of just
throw it on there but by idea number one i mean the first idea
not the best idea and quite frankly the rest were not much better
so while the fans were getting figured out and we got a custom cut mirror to go
on the top of the case we modified the laser light show to use the computer
power supply by soldering the leads to a sacrificial molex connector and jazzed
up the power supply shroud using some spray adhesive and a tasteful
application of glitter if such a thing were possible
with the loop cleaned overnight we flushed it with distilled water and then
filled it up with uv pink dye from primo chill to give it some pop
back to the fans then we tried using some different uv
reactive paint to spice them up but try as we might all we ended up with
were crappy looking half-painted fans
so we primed some more for another crack at it
i mean at least we got a couple of narwhals done while we waited for the
fans to dry so that's a positive point
coming back in on monday ed actually had a stroke of genius
rainbow fans so we took those primed fans and roygbiv
the heck out of them dabbing on all the haters out there that thought
that they were going to come out looking bad with some uv cathodes added to the front
to make them fluoresce there was just a bit of tidying up to do
before it was time to admire the rave pc
in its final form so get up and shake
your booty to this Dan terrific glam
check this got one more for the set list
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so it looks great subjectively and the performance rocks
too this thing stomps on every game we threw at it and with some overclocking
we were able to easily get 5.1 gigahertz on all six cores with our 8700k sitting
at under 70 degrees man i love this
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i mean this yellow wire under the studio lights you can't even tell but it's
flashing could you tell oh good