with its Factory tuning and data center DNA an Intel 730 series SSD is an
amazing choice for gamers and performance
enthusiasts so after months of protesting lonus has finally made me do
a personal rig update so as you can kind
of see before me there are the remnants of the late mineral oil computer it does
not exist anymore if you've seen my video hopefully somewhere around here uh
before of the mineral oil computer you'll know where that came from that
computer was very dear to me um it helped me get a scholarship to get to
school it then helped me meet friends at school once they'd see the computer
they'd talk to me and that was fun um and it helped me get this job amongst
other things so that computer was actually very dear to me and it meant more than just being a computer so it
was really crappy to see it go it went
because um A Series of Unfortunate Events with previous roommate who will
remain nameless um for his sake and
hopefully I don't find him um resulted
in the bottom of the fish tank cracking I then hand carried the fish tank all
the way home over bus transit where one of the bus drivers thought it was a bomb
and didn't even really want to let me on at first uh over a ferry and then my dad
picked me up on the other side of the fair and all the way home and then my
dad thank you dad helped me fix the computer by by sealing the bottom with
Automotive sealant and that was great it held for quite a while actually um it
held long enough that you guys could see that video and that video was filmed
about a year and a half afterwards and then it took about another 6 months to
reach its final demise it started leaking out of the bottom again um about
5 6 months after that video was filmed the video about the mineral computer
originally and I kind of knew it was its time the sealant was giving away it's
really hard to find those fish tanks Eclipse 6 they're they're designed in a
way that it's really nice for putting a computer in it oddly enough considering it's a fish tank the front is bowed and
the top has a big dome on it so you can build in your cable management and your
hard drives and whatnot up there so it is actually quite nice and it is fairly
important that you have that case so I couldn't find another one and that was
it I now just have these remnants amongst pretty much everything else that
was in that computer the only part that died coming out of that computer was my
graphics card and that was due to negligence of my own unfortunately I
didn't really think about the fact that after being in there for like 5 years um
the oil would kind of take away at the thermal paste and I just put the
graphics card in a computer really quickly after ID taken it out of the mineral computer and ran it for a little
while hoping that it would work and trying to fix it and I think I might
have burnt it out so got rid of that everything else still works though this
power supply still works and uh the
story behind this is interesting you'll notice it doesn't have the casing anymore it doesn't have the casing
because when I tried to fit it in the mineral oil computer it sat at the
bottom and I couldn't get the rocks out of under it so it would sit up on these
rocks and it was too high and the top of the power supply was actually pushing up
against some RAM that I had in the computer again if you look back at that
video you'll see the clearance there and so I had to take the casing off because
once I took the casing off I could get the fan out and once the fans out um it
would fit it would be fine so I unscrewed everything took it off and
then I hit this point on the bottom where you can
see there was a terrible job of taking the metal apart I was determined to get
this thing built in one day it took me like 12 or 13 hours it was brutal um and
once I got to this part I used a piece of metal which was not designed for
pulling metal apart and brute strength to literally rip the metal off so I
wedged it in so I could get a point um of Leverage and then literally pulled
the thing off you it's terrible hopefully there will get some close-ups
of it um but it worked I was pissed I was like 10 11
hours into the build and I had to make it work and I made it work and it's
fantastic and the power supply still works somehow my favorite thing about this power supply is that around the
time that this came out this is a let me see here hx620 W modular power supply
from Corsair when this first came out everyone was fighting tooth and nail for
black PCB motherboards that was like not a huge thing at that point in time and
this has a black PCB in it that always blew my mind it's a power supply like
almost no one other than me really got to see that other than the modular part
that's super green but the actual base PCB is black which is just fantastic
thank you for doing that because I would totally see that otherwise this is the
radiator that was in the mineral computer uh it still has oil in it I
still have a Ziploc bag on the back so the oil won't drip everywhere um because
oil is incredibly hard to get off things there's still oil on this power supply
actually if you touch different parts of it there's still definitely oil on it um
and the plant the legendary plant that was inside the oil computer and is like
super dilapitated now um yeah I don't
know I didn't want to show off everything because I look like a super packrat because I am because I'm very
nostalgic about all this stuff and I can't really let it go I used to have a
bubble machine that was inside of it but this was actually one of the first big
hurdles that I had to jump over was this stupid bubble machine cuz I it had these
black rubber suction cups so you could push it on the inside of the case they
expect you to have a water-filled fish
tank cuz that makes sense jerks um so I
fill it up with mineral oil and the mineral oil rots away the Rubber and the
rubber just starts gooing everywhere and particles go all over the place and it
was a disaster I tried to um I tried to
pour it through like a Civ kind of thing and it it didn't filter the rubber out
at all it was still really gross so I had to eventually get rid of all that
oil that was expensive and I had to get new oil um um I felt bad because my
brother actually bought a lot of the oil for me for the first build because I was running out of money and that was
fantastic and then I had to get more so that kind of sucked um so the demise of
the mineral oil computer brought to attention Squirtle this is the new
computer this is the current in limbo computer also known as limbo actually
because it changes so much and because of how it set up so that it can change
so much it's an an 800d which was a hand-me-down from Linus's wife's
computer at the time she has a much smaller easier to manage case now this
thing is a beast and weighs a ton uh
luckily I can carry it around but it is actually very annoying to carry around I
do bring this thing to lands and we do land fairly often so that can be kind of
frustrating uh to go through components let's start with the power supply now
I'm going to preface this with with uh I love this power supply this power supply
is fantastic what I don't like about it is that it's blue for one and two it's
very poorly sleeved um but other than that it's absolutely fantastic circuitry
is great um the features are awesome no
issues with it there but I I very
recently tried to kind of pull a fast one by swapping a Silverstone cloth
sleeved beautiful power supply into my workstation at work which totally
doesn't need it so it could kind of sit there and be forgotten and then my
eventual plan was to move it into this computer and Swap this one out up there
um but yeah know line is CAU off to that one pretty much immediately so that's
not happening going to have to sleeve this guy so we'll see what I can do
about that um next up is the SSD that's
in here everything has a story in this case uh next up is the SSD that is an
octane 256 GB SSD from back when I was
testing Thunderbolt and USB 3 speeds and
all these weird SSD test that I was doing at the time and I had to do a lot
of those outside of hours so lonus let me have that for doing all the outside
of hours work that was fantastic um I was also never able to water cool before
this due to straight up cost I was always a student never able to really
afford water cooling so when mineral oil
computer finally went away lonus supported me in getting water cooling
going as well which was fantastic the gigantic rad up here is from Linus the
nice swifttech water block is from Linus I had a t- virus from lonus but it was
semi-broken so got rid of that the D5
vario in the bottom which is beautiful
if you're going to get a pump you should get that pump um that's from Linus as
well and there's something interesting about the bottom you might be wondering
why this is not down there this is the removable plastic thing that goes in
Corsair 800 DS and slides into the bottom right there not down there
because with how how it works I wouldn't really be able to mount my pump to it
very well why would I want to mount my pump to it um well part of it's because
it's plastic so it make a lot of noise and there's other issues for mounting a
pump to it um because I wanted the pump to be
removable everything in this case has to be able to be very easily swapped and
very easily pulled out and messed with so it wasn't really going to work great
on this so we took a mud flap from my
old crappy convertible which like barely
worked when it did work and is in a scrap Heap somewhere now we took a mud
flap from it and my dad was able to custom cut the mud flap so that it fits
on that sliding rail so you can actually see the model of my car on there which
is which is kind of cool actually I like that that's that's super ghetto but I
always have to have something that's super ghetto in my computer unfortunately right now pretty much
everything is super ghetto in this computer but we'll get more into that
later next up is the motherboard area components so I got this z77 premium
ASUS board by accidentally bricking my
z77 Deluxe ASUS board while I was
working so luckily I was able to get that swap out uh which is good but I
don't really use any of the additional uh features that the premium has over
the deluxe so wasn't a huge Improvement there although it works which is a
pretty huge Improvement uh I'm still running a 2600k in here and I'm not
really that interested in upgrading to be completely honest as of right now
this platform is great for me this 2600k
is crazy fast I have profiles for it running uh 5 gz plus I have Prof Prof
files all the way down just for different temperature levels and voltage levels and all that kind of stuff I have
it all perfectly set up exactly how I need it to be and that's fine there's
been no processor that's really wowed me lately so I'm completely okay with the
2600 K and I fully expect myself to be sitting on this platform for a while um
other than that we've got a graphics card which is 780 from Gigabyte the wind
Force edition whatever but it is a reference design card I have a block
coming so that I can start water cooling and integrate it into my Loop you can
see the tubing goes right over top of it so it'll be really easy to integrate into my Loop um and then that'll be
great I also have a heat killer back plate which I actually have it's not
here but I have a heat killer back plate for it already which will look fantastic
I love those heat killer back plates and as you can probably see the water loop
is absolutely putrid I was hoping that
the silver fittings were going to be able to hold back the gunk and that was
not true at all so somewhere around here
I have a silver kill C but I don't remember exactly where it is but that's going to be going in there as well and
I'm going to have to probably ditch all my tubing and clean up my rad and clean
up my block and clean up the pump and do all that kind of stuff so I can redo the
whole Loop which will not be fun but it's disgusting right now so that will
have to happen the sound card down at the bottom before the audio Forum starts
murdering me for having a sound card and not an O2 it I got it for 25 bucks way
back at an ncx Warehouse sale which was
awesome it's a Zonar card the main reason why I
like it is because it has the big quarter inch plugs which I just I like
that I don't like 3.5 mm plugs they're annoying I feel like they're going to
break all the time I adapter all my 3.5mm quarter inch which I know really
does nothing um but I just like it a lot
and it was worth the 25 bucks and I'm very happy I have it eventually I'm sure
I'll switch to some other solution but for now it's absolutely great now we get
into what I like to call my patent pending easy swap technology which is
where I just leave the cables for everything pre- plugged in and just
dangling there because it's easy to set things up that way so you can see I have
a hard drive mounted just sitting in the optical drive bay area and now saying
mounted is actually pushing it kind of far because this isn't screwed in in any
way and it just sits there and it's horrible super not recommended totally
not a good idea at all but yep doing it because it's super easy and it is a
temporary hard drive I'm not going to be keeping that forever I've been data swapping stuff towards my Nas for a
little while now and I've been trying to move things around if you guys saw the sonology video recently you'll know I
got a techology Nas and I've been kind of changing my setup so that is a
temporary hard drive so I could just move things to it and off of it all the time as I reformat drives and whatnot so
it will be moving eventually but the rest of these cables that are just kind
of dangling here are there so I can slide in drives into the front of the
case and just plug them in really easily because the back plane for this thing
broke years ago and doesn't work at all so I have to manually plug everything in
that way uh so yeah they're all just sitting there ready to go which is
horrible and disgusting aesthetically but is very easy to work with another
thing you'll notice is down here this fan is totally not screwed in at all
which was interesting while trying to move the case uh because it started
flopping around and also that the door
that goes over that fan above it is also
not in at all despite having it right
here uh I find these rather annoying I
don't mind seeing the fan and having to push this in and out all the time gets
yeah like I just said Annoying so I just leave it out and the reason why that fan
is completely loose is I could probably fix that cuz I have extra screws up here
in the top that could work for it is the long black screws that you often use to
fit through the top of your case through a set of fans and then into a radiator
uh when I was at of land another buddy didn't have enough to be able to mount a
new cooler that he had brought with him and so I sacrificed mine that we're
hooked into that fan cuz I was like it can just sit in the bottom and it's a gentle typhoon so it'll probably just
kind of be able to hold itself up and it'll probably be fine because I'm
managing it with a uh fans speed controller in the back of my case and
honestly it has been fine before I moved this I kind of forgot it was freely
floating like that so I'm going to have to steal some screws from the top I
think and screw that bad boy in or hopefully I'll just be able to get some
other ones eventually I'm going to be swapping pretty much all the fans out in
this case anyways for those new Noctua industrial ones because they look
amazing and I'm super stoked to get those so it'll happen at some point in
time no time soon though if you're wondering why the tubing for my water cooling goes up into the right instead
of up into the left this ties into that whole patent pending technology I was
talking about not really but yeah uh it
it it makes it so that if I take the block off it falls down into the right
instead of kind of dangling right in the way of everything and if it falls down into the right with gravity and the
tubes and everything that means that accessing the motherboard becomes
extremely easy instead of very annoying doesn't look aesthetically pleasing but
it works really well and now we move on to the dreaded and horrible back of the
case so continuing on with the patent pending easy swap technology no it's uh
I can't even keep that up for much longer this is terrible um I get angry
when I'm helping people build their computers and if they decide to do all
the cable management before I show up I unplug everything and redo
it I didn't do that with my
computer uh I I like to think that that
comes from the idea that if I'm building one for someone else or helping them
build it they're probably not going to change anything for a long time and I Chang things quite often with this
computer because I do but not really the
greatest excuse I could Cable Management in some form uh this is the octane I was
telling you about early on it is secured by nothing um this is my T balancer
which is fantastic great fan controller it is secured by electrical tape that's
it not screwed in no plate no bracket just electrical tape uh this rubber
grommet up here is not able to fully go in due to the mounting of my t- virus so
I secured it with electrical tape good
job there there you go um yeah and none
of these cables are actually held in by anything if they're secured at all it is
secured by other cables actually this is
the only place that there's any form of
cable management and it's not holding it to the case it's just it was tied that
way and it was actually tied this way by someone else not by me so I can't even
take claim for that uh we're not going to spend too much time back here because
it makes me sad so we're g to move on so
you guys know it's bad lonus knows it's bad now pretty much everyone at lus
Media Group knows it's bad most my friends won't know it's bad until they
see this video because I kind of hide it under my desk so you can only see it out
of the corner of your eye so it looks good uh my mom will think it's fantastic
no matter what I love you Mom uh and so
what am I going to do about it because it sucks well I've been sitting hunting
for a case for an extremely long period of time and I honestly can't find
anything that I truly really have fallen
for uh I really like Linus's case tg7
but they've kind of changed how they made them so to be able to get one that's absolutely fantastic you need
lioness's case one of the original t7s which are great there's the murder box
uh mark one or whatever it is which is
great but horrifically scary freakishly
expensive and I can't bring myself to buy it um and other than that I'm just
not really sold so I'm probably going to stick with good old
800d what am I going to do to it first plan is to take this back panel and cut
a Tree of Gondor into the back panel huge pel Lo of the Rings by the way um
and then line it with this stuff which
is be quiet! PC noise absorber kit uh if
you open it up on the inside you find
one giant thick piece of super squishy foam and then a bunch of these not as
thick not as squishy panels that you can custom cut to whatever size you want I
got this not way too long ago and I plan on using this all throughout the case to
be completely honest I want to use it pretty much everywhere because that
paired up with the industrial Noctua which I plan on getting should be
fantastic that making a very quiet computer so I want to cut the Tree of
Gondor then line the outside of the Tree of Gondor with that stuff try and get
white LEDs to point either directly at at the back panel or to point uh
sideways not out so that you can look right at it and it's glowing but it's
not glowing directly at your eyes so it's not very hard to look at uh I think
that would look fantastic I think it would look absolutely great just the white lined LEDs I think that would look
really good and that's it for the back now for the inside so the back was the
Tree of Gondor the inside I'm thinking
I'm less sure about this but I'm thinking more of a Mordor theme so we're
placing all the tubing which already needs to happen with uh red red tubing
replacing the liquid with probably mayhem's red I'm probably going to have
to replace this t- virus but I might just get another t- virus cuz I love
these things I'm not entirely sure but I might do something with the RAM I'm
going to try and paint the heat sinks on the motherboard red uh I'm going to try
and get a really cool design done to the heat killer plate that I'm going be
putting on the back of the 780 I'm going to try to do something with the box of
this power supply but I'm not entirely sure what I'm not too worried about it
cuz it does get hidden when the door's on uh there's no way I'm removing my
Sunfire mud flap so that's staying there Sunbird whatever
um cleaning up cables I have to resleeve the power supply for sure I have to
change lengths of the cables because I'm going to be doing that Tree of Gondor thing on the back I'm going to have to
Cable manage around things so I'm going to have to make my own cables for the power supply that'll suck but whatever
uh replacing all the fans with nocta industrial fans I'm probably going to
leave the rad up there it's a huge rad and I like it works really well and yeah
that's probably about it not entirely sold on that plan we'll see maybe I'll
go with a Hobbit theme but I don't know how IID do that or something I'll figure
it out Elvin I don't know how i' do that either I don't like gold so green and
gold would look really weird I don't know I'll figure it out uh as for the
back I want to steal something from NZXT and put a led up in the back so I can
see my IO really easily I think that would be fantastic and that shouldn't be
too hard to do either so I plan on doing that um and then that's honestly about
it I have no plan on changing the platform because again no processor has
really wowed me I don't see myself changing the case because no case has
really wowed me enough to want to actually switch to it from this case
yeah I guess I need to try to fix this back plane here so I can actually put
hard drives there again because putting hard drives down here in the bottom
which is another hard drive cage is terrible it's it's not good at all so
I'm going to have to try and fix that in some form or just move to straight ssds
which might be a plan as well cuz I can just shove them in the back hopefully
better than that that's another thing need to fix the K management but I think
I already brought that up and then that's about it um sorry to everyone
that expected something awesome if you're wondering why if you've watched
some of the After parties why I'm really vague when I answer what my curent
computer is it's cuz I kind of hide it CU I'm not really happy with what state
it's in right now it's hard to go from Min oil awesomeness to poor old Squirtle
here who is awesome but just doesn't get
enough credit because I don't treat him well enough I'm sorry
Squirtle I'm so sorry anyways thank you
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