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an eagle-eyed viewer uh spotted some tj07 parts in one of my recent videos

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and asked when the next personal rig update is coming it is finally here I'm

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sorry guys I've been super busy and I just haven't had much time to work on

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the project but I do have some updates so sleeving is progressing here's the 24

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pin sorry there's an extra piece of heat shrink here that will go at the other

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end when I'm done with it but yeah sleeving is progressing so I'm ending up

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with cables that uh are going to look pretty darn sharp once I C once I bind

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them all together and run them in a way that is that is reasonably nice see

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here's my uh here's my eight pin for the top of the motherboard you can see I've

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done two cables per sleeve which I personally think looks pretty good I

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haven't really seen that done before but I'm sure someone's done it but yeah so

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there those ones will go around there somehow I've also got my r for my T

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Virus Reservoir so I will be integrating

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that into this build somehow you can see I'm experimenting with some fittings

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over here so this is my old big bang X power motherboard this is not the one

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I'm using just cuz my system is running on my test bench down here so I don't

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want to uh I don't want to tear it apart

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just yet but I think I'm going to have to in order to test fit everything

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before I send see you can see the paint's been stripped off of uh off of

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these parts before I send everything in to be powder coated cuz I'm going to

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have to make whatever Cuts I want to make in the metal before I do that so

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you can see I've made some modifications to this case in the past so there's a

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hole here for running fan cables from these two 92 Ms and the two 120s that go

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in the top uh but I'll probably want to widen that and then what I'll also

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probably do normally I used to uh I've

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always run the eight pin under the motherboard here and then up the top

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here because the tj7 US is larger than normal standoff

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but I think what I'm going to do this time is I'm actually going to widen this

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cut that I was using here for the SATA cables all the way along the back it'll

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lose a little bit of strength but I think I'm willing to uh willing to make

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that sacrifice here so I'm going to widen that and then run the eight pin up

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the back and make some Cuts here for a

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uh CPU cut out this is an older tj07 so it doesn't have some of the features

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that the newer ones have cut here for an 8 Pin

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cut here to run the 24 pin and I'll

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figure out if there's anything else that I need to do I still got to figure out how I want to lay out my eight drives

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cuz uh those are a bit of a be in terms of placement just because they take up a

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fair bit of space now there are some challenges that I have here because I

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don't know if you guys are going to be able to see this but there's some come

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on Focus there you go there's some Nicks

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in the metal here some pieces are even worse check out this one see it's full

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of little pock marks um and that was something to do with the

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stripping process so not only that but it completely ate the threads out of

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this piece um and then there's one other piece that's uh having a bit of trouble

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with the threads I was able to put the case back together though it just means

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that uh oh and these threads are still intact which is really fortunate because

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I did not want to try to rebuild those in any way uh you can see here I'm using

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some masking tape to uh dry fit the T

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Virus res without scratching it I won't be using that when I do the final build

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uh routing the water cooling is I think I've pretty much figured out how I want

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to do it I hate having tubing cross I I

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don't think tubing should cross in a clean system so what I'm probably going

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to do is I'm going to use a 90° fitting here this guy is going to be more in the

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front of the case so closer to closer to

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over here like right up at the front so what that means is you're not going to

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be able to see that one then I want to do a hole I'll drill a hole through

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this base plate here as well as through the USB 3 front panel thing that I'm

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going to put right here uh in order to get that one down then I'm going to have

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this come out it'll cross the T Virus

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which I don't like but I'll I'll have to live with that it'll go to the Apple ghd

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Gold down to here this will go to the res then the

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res will go down to the pump which is going to sit down here in the basement

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there's going to be a lot more room in the basement now with um with the c

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Laing tidied up a lot down there hold on let me just sorry guys I apologize for

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the born series like shaky cam that's

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going on here so there's going to be a fair bit of space down here just cuz I'm

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going to have everything routed really cleanly um so then this will come out

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it's going to be pretty tight cuz it has to go down to that bottom that bottom

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tube or the the bottom fitting in order to make sure that the bubbles bleed more

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easily then out here which will go up

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to right here up to the second radiator

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so the it would be easier for me if this

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radiator could be turned the other way but once again for ease of bleeding I

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want to have the fittings on the top so that the air bubbles don't get caught in

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it uh as

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much really don't like the look of being able to see the power supply here what I

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may do is remove the sticker just so that it's a little bit cleaner looking

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um I'm going to try to have as few hittings as I can up here at the top cuz

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as you can tell I actually didn't terminate the ends on the power supply

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itself as cleanly as I did the ends that are going to go to the components sort

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of forgetting that I'm going to be able to see it you guys feel free to post in

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the comments let me know what you think of this tubing placement right here I will be using my blue tubing but

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basically these are going to run around here there we come out a little bit and

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then this tube is going to run from here to here with uh with silver compression

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fittings I just I just don't know about

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that one if I can tighten it up a little bit it might help but I'm just not sure

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in terms of SATA cables I've decided to I've almost decided to go away from my

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usual uh UV reactive SATA cables let me see if I can just find them they're the

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ones that come with Intel's high-end boards or at least used to come with

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Intel's high-end boards anyway I can't find it but I think I'm going to go with

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this guy because it does match the color scheme of the board even though it's not

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reactive in any way it's pretty close to the blue that's on

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there and it'll allow me to have a really tidy uh run so what I'll do is

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I'll go straight from the SATA output here then I will bring it through a hole

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so I'll cut I'll cut maybe that hole will go uh further I'm not really sure

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through a hole and then up here over and

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down to the optical drive now this right now is screwed into uh some holes in the

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motherboard tra that happened to be threaded correctly but what I'll probably do is move it over just a touch

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and drill some new holes uh because it doesn't look like this is going to quite

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fit I may also get a different optical drive I haven't decided what to do about

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that I'm either going to powder coat this or I'm going to get a different

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optical drive so that it'll be flush here it won't be visible this is an older one it's an HD DVD blu-ray combo

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drive so that's why it's so long too

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many lasers

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inside still haven't decided what to do about the outside side of the case the

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Finish is damaged to the point where I don't want to just leave it but I'm not

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really sure if I want to paint it anymore either um I may send it in to be

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powder coated with the rest of the internal parts but I think the whole

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machine's going to look really plain if I do that so I'm still very much

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waffling about that overall nothing insurmountable the

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t- virus looks amazing here I'll show you

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guys that is going to be a heck of a centerpiece for this build oh you can't

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really see it's so bright in here hold on let me turn off some

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lights that's helping a little bit you can kind of see what it's going to look

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like oh sorry guys let me just oh no I

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can't really take that down there that's okay you can kind of see what it's going

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to look like so that's going to look slick I've I'm just going to go with

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clear distilled plain water for the liquid I'm not going to do any kind of

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coloration just cuz I don't want to deal with the gunk that inevitably builds up

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I mean I've got quite the die collection let me tell you I have uh used a lot of

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dyes in my day and there's no

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uh there's no winners where dyes are involved there they are this is my

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favorite die though this is some awesome fluorescent green stuff that Aqua tuning

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way back in the day yeah I got some old dette die this

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stuff was horrible got some fesser dieye

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stuff's all right but eventually um which color was it I can't

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remember there's one color that had that gunked up I'm sure they've changed the formulas since then it's been a long

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time since I've uh since I've used any of that stuff oh there's my old triple

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rad that I used to be using in the bottom of my case now I'm using the

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quadruple so I think that pretty much does it for my update for now I still

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have to uh I still have to go to the local glass shop where they told me they

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should be able to do a oneoff piece of glass for me so sick of this gross uh

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scratched up acrylic so I'm going to get something better for that I still got to

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send away whatever Parts I decide to send away um like this this is going to

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be a bit of a challenge cuz this is supposed to screw on to this piece here

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but because all the threads are dead what I might end up doing is riveting it

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on and then sending the whole thing to be powder coated as one piece so I still

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have a lot of prep to do before I can uh

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before I can go any further so thank you for checking out this personal rig

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