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more so um finally personal rig update
time it's actually been done for kind of a while so I have my glass window on
there you can actually even tell NVIDIA hi slick hello you can actually
even tell NVIDIA how much clearer that
makes the side panel window so I'm doing a couple small upgrades number one and
people ask me why I use such a ghetto
water cooling setup with curved tubes and you know like it's not it's not the
nicest looking water cooling in the world the reason is because I do things like this I'm going to swap a
motherboard without actually changing any of my tubing and without making my
life more difficult than it has to be mine is upgradeable which if you have a
really really tight runs and you have like you know perfect um you know curved
fittings and then straight tubing runs or whatever else you can't really you
don't really have that same flexibility so I'm also upgrading my graphics card
so I'm going to be going from the GTX 590 that's in there to this GTX Titan
and uh that is for one reason and one reason only because 590 is still a
beastly card great performance but the thing that's missing is support for
streaming to NVIDIA Shield which is something that I want to be able to do
so we can go ahead and pull the side panel off oh yeah these are something
that I actually added since the last update so these are just little uh
decorative hey Focus piece of junk yeah
there we go little decorative uh knobs
they don't actually hold anything on the glass is held on by um an industrial
strength adhesive in here so yeah those don't do anything they just are for
looks and they're like the cheapest possible thing that I could find at Home
Depot that didn't look absolutely terrible so there's a there's a look at
the insides so I've got crucial ballistics Tracer tactical whatever the
uh with the LEDs memory there's that
gold CPU block so boss and then there's
the graphics card that I'll be pulling out all right so I roped slick into
holding the camera for me for a minute here so I'm just on the last screw to
pull out the motherboard here so I just got to find somewhere to hold it by I'm
going to go with this heat sink there we go
and this my friends is why I do things
the way I do them because I can extract my
motherboard just like
this and probably what I've been doing this maybe what six seven minutes maybe
yeah and you got all those cards out too and I got all the cards out so I can
extract the motherboard just like that that's not a card that you pulled out
and that reveals the oh shoot okay there's one
thing I missed that SATA cable yeah come
on locking SATA cables love that all
right so we can go ahead and put that
down okay now this is where things are going to get a little bit tricky because
I got to drain this graphics card in order to swap in this graphics card and
that's one thing I haven't looked that closely at is how well the Barb
positions are going to line up between these two cards because I don't want to
redo my tubing if I can get away with it
so so let's just kind of try to sort of
visually line these up and kind of bad yeah yeah that's going to be okay so
we're going to use this bucket right here as a drain bucket we're just going
to pop one of the fittings off of the graphics card we're going to undo it and
then just uh drain into here I don't
have to fully drain the loop which is great because um I just have to drain
the part that I need to swap in the new graphics card put that in and then it
means that it's going to be much quicker to bleed uh bleed the air out of when
we're done in fact I may not even need to top up the reservoir in order to get it back up and running so this is
extremely unorthodox I don't really recommend doing this but what I'm doing
right now is I'm loosening one of the plugs here and we're just going to drain
just the card and anything that would sit above it while we swap it out for a
different one now you know the funny funny conversation slick and I just had
about GTX 590 he's all like hey uh I
would take that card off your hands and I'm all like like hey are you sure and
he's like yeah sure and I'm like no Shadow play he's like oh crap GTX 590 is
probably the best card that just makes absolutely no sense right now from a
features perspective performance-wise if you're not planning to stream to a
shield or use Shadow play so game streaming on Twitch or anything like
that man it's such a beast I'd actually kind of forgotten I was looking it up
the other night this thing owns the 680
I'd completely forgotten about that it just Stomps all over it in terms of
actual FPS performance so uh still a
good card just got to move over to something else I mean raw FPS I don't
think Titan's going to be that much faster it might not even be at all
having the bigger frame buffer will help though because GTX 590 is going to be
held back by each of the gpus having only 1 and A2 gigs so if you wanted to
go higher than 2 and 1/2k probably or even higher than 1080p in some of the
more modern titles then that might hold you back a little bit I think that was
pretty much all the water we're going to get out of it probably wow that was was pretty
painless might be speaking too soon here though you never know I've been known to
do that from time to time oh this is going to be tricky here's something to
watch out for guys so if you're ever trying to do a ghetto water cooling Loop
upgrade like this watch out for this so when I disconnect this I'm going to have
to secure it above the end down here
somehow because otherwise all the water from that Reservoir will come dumping
out of it and that'll be a problem so I just got to watch out for that so the uh
crazy Russian gave me this a little while ago and I had kind of a Nostalgia
moment just for lws I mean remember guys between the best decent thermal compound
on the market and the worst decent thermal compound on the market we're
talking a few degrees so just for laws I'm going to be using ocz Ultra 5 plus
thermal paste on my 3970x and I've decided to change the order of
operations a little bit here so I was going to do the video card swap first
but instead I think I'm going to put the motherboard in first because that'll
allow me um that'll give me somewhere to put the video card once I'm done so that
it doesn't just kind of flop all over the place so uh I'm going to get that
put in right now this is a relatively small upgrade but I'm actually ditching
the killer Nick it's just causing driver issues again even though it has a really
cool red LED on it and stuff and I'm throwing in an Intel uh server Nick so
we're going to go go that route instead it's a bit of an old one but it supports
everything that I need it to support and at least takes some of the processing load off of the CPU not that it doesn't
have plenty to spare but you know every little bit counts right putting the raid
card back in for those of you who haven't seen it before that's running to
eight Corsair ssds that are running in raid zero giving me a total of around
900 gigs of SSD based
storage I don't know how this always happens but like my build log videos
always end up with things I don't recommend in them like jamming a pen in
a piece of tubing to keep it from uh spraying water all over the place I used
to have proper tubing plugs that I used to use for this stuff but I don't really
have them anymore then like twist tying the block up here so
that this doesn't drain into the rest of the system anyway here's the new
graphics card that's going to be going in and uh yeah GTX Titan koolance block
looks absolutely beautiful here we go so as you may or may not have noticed the
computer is now upside down um we have a bit of a problem I dropped my back plate
behind the motherboard so I got to go
home see my family and stuff so we're going to call that it for uh for today
but it's like I flipped it upside down and I did manage to get it to come back
so that's good news I don't have to pull the motherboard out uh other good news
is the graphics card is now installed the fittings are on and we're going to
be pretty much ready to rock as soon as I get that uh CPU block mounted and get
these expansion cards put in very very
excited all right so I got it sorted out
uh Fair bit of picking away at the back I also had to completely destroy what
little I had done in terms of cable management back here in order to access
the back plate so that's going to be a bit of a mess to fix now but the
expansion cards are all in there we go
oh that one needs to be cleaned Zonar zens from Theus with that
Sennheiser co-branding on it there we go
maybe that's a little bit better now ah that gleam there we go all right so
there's the LSI 92 68i there's my Intel
whatever it is that gigabit Ethernet card as well as sound card and graphics
card so the last thing left here is to
oh this is something I did not think of
uh-oh I don't need one of the two pins
anymore so this extra two pins I do not
need that's fascinating um guess I'll have to figure
out somewhere to hide those good thing I still have that other side panel off and
I haven't done anything with the wires all right so there she is with the
board swap done get a bit of a better angle what I
love about this board is it has tons of piec P Express expansion so you can
still add like another PCI e6x card
potentially something else down here if I was willing to move this down a little
bit I wanted to give it a bit more room to breathe than it had before though so
yeah I can still put a couple more PCIe adex cards in here which is pretty darn
impressive so uh now I just got to fix things up at the back a little bit close
it up and then we're good to go
you're good so the ultimate first world problem is like having too many ssds
piled up behind your motherboard tray so you like can't close your chassis
anymore see that they actually stick out quite a bit from here you got to you got
to Mush them down flat there so um what
I have to do with my system is basically lay it down on its side this is why I
don't like taking up the side panel you can see there's quite a bulge here and I
just got to see it's quite a tight fit
now that I had it painted because it changes the tolerances a little bit
for fitting together and I got a slider
shut like that in order to contain everything but other than
that close it up
okay who now you did it now she's done
and that is what the inside is in theory
supposed to look like so that's a little bit gimpy right there that's SATA cable
but I guess that's not too bad I feel bad cuz like the backs of the cards are
dusty and stuff but it's not exactly a new build in the same way that it was
new when I put it together like months ago so time to take it home and fire it
up and get some uh Shield streaming gaming going on
here all right friends this is the
moment where we find out if she boots up
boots up or powers on and boots on all
right let's see how that water level's doing in the rez oh looks like she's not
bleeding perfectly okay so let's oh
looks like it decided to take another crack at things itself that's
interesting
okay come on pump
come on postcode keep doing things waa
that's a good sign all right so she
boots but I don't see anything that looks like particularly good water flow
in there so we're going to shut her down see if we can let some of that uh
the air bubbles that are stuck in the pump bleed out all right so I'll be back when we try this
again and that my friends is why I
always recommend a variable speed pump
and not cheaping out and getting the B version of the D5 because I'm able to
tweak the speed in order to just jar
loose the bubbles and I'm able to get things running so looks like I didn't
even lose enough fluid during the refill to completely drain my res so all I got
to do is top this baby up and we're pretty much ready to rock I hope she
boots up I guess we'll might as well find out together
right I think that's the whole point of this little vlogging thing oh that
doesn't look like enough drives oh there they are okay good normally it's only
one on the second page so I guess this
board does it differently for some reason that freaked me out a little so
you can see my RAID zero has been
found 9 100
gigabytes okay please boot up please
boot up H oh it might not be set to the correct
uh boot order oh okay well the Rams
protected that's good cuz officially on paper this RAM is not
compatible F1 tender
setup yeah I'll spare you guys the
suspense and There She Goes booting up into Windows with the fresh changes to
the hardware it looks like we are good so thank you for checking out uh build
log number I guess this is part 16 of
the personal rig update that I guess is finally sort of done I still want to do
kind of a you know like a Glam video showcase of the
rig or something but I'm not quite done with my setup yet because as you can see
I'm still running an older monitor this is like an ancient BenQ 1920x 600 thing
I've got a new monitor that I've had on order for a while I've had people asking
me also um for a little while here what I
use for peripherals so this is my replacement of Cari laser this is my
third one now so that I mean I guess I use it a lot but you know they I guess
they die but I can't get used to anything else I've tried um this is a
Mex zable 60 uses Cherry MX blacks which are not generally my favorite switches
but I like this particular keyboard these are my steel Series 7 H's that I
use for when I'm sitting here and when I don't have something else to plug into
the essence One external USB sound card
and Dack I use Corsair SP 2500 speakers
and just to show my uh my total
nonbiased I balance out my swag with AMD
swag and this is actually a a ruby sword
so he uh he sits here with all that stuff which I think is kind of funny
it's my little swag guy there's my Star Citizen citizen card or whatever they're
called and I guess that's uh that's pretty much it full tour proper tour and
some Glam of the system coming when I get around to it thanks guys for
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