an eagle-eyed viewer uh spotted some tj07 parts in one of my recent videos
and asked when the next personal rig update is coming it is finally here I'm
sorry guys I've been super busy and I just haven't had much time to work on
the project but I do have some updates so sleeving is progressing here's the 24
pin sorry there's an extra piece of heat shrink here that will go at the other
end when I'm done with it but yeah sleeving is progressing so I'm ending up
with cables that uh are going to look pretty darn sharp once I C once I bind
them all together and run them in a way that is that is reasonably nice see
here's my uh here's my eight pin for the top of the motherboard you can see I've
done two cables per sleeve which I personally think looks pretty good I
haven't really seen that done before but I'm sure someone's done it but yeah so
there those ones will go around there somehow I've also got my r for my T
Virus Reservoir so I will be integrating
that into this build somehow you can see I'm experimenting with some fittings
over here so this is my old big bang X power motherboard this is not the one
I'm using just cuz my system is running on my test bench down here so I don't
want to uh I don't want to tear it apart
just yet but I think I'm going to have to in order to test fit everything
before I send see you can see the paint's been stripped off of uh off of
these parts before I send everything in to be powder coated cuz I'm going to
have to make whatever Cuts I want to make in the metal before I do that so
you can see I've made some modifications to this case in the past so there's a
hole here for running fan cables from these two 92 Ms and the two 120s that go
in the top uh but I'll probably want to widen that and then what I'll also
probably do normally I used to uh I've
always run the eight pin under the motherboard here and then up the top
here because the tj7 US is larger than normal standoff
but I think what I'm going to do this time is I'm actually going to widen this
cut that I was using here for the SATA cables all the way along the back it'll
lose a little bit of strength but I think I'm willing to uh willing to make
that sacrifice here so I'm going to widen that and then run the eight pin up
the back and make some Cuts here for a
uh CPU cut out this is an older tj07 so it doesn't have some of the features
that the newer ones have cut here for an 8 Pin
cut here to run the 24 pin and I'll
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
cuz uh those are a bit of a be in terms of placement just because they take up a
fair bit of space now there are some challenges that I have here because I
don't know if you guys are going to be able to see this but there's some come
on Focus there you go there's some Nicks
in the metal here some pieces are even worse check out this one see it's full
of little pock marks um and that was something to do with the
stripping process so not only that but it completely ate the threads out of
this piece um and then there's one other piece that's uh having a bit of trouble
with the threads I was able to put the case back together though it just means
that uh oh and these threads are still intact which is really fortunate because
I did not want to try to rebuild those in any way uh you can see here I'm using
some masking tape to uh dry fit the T
Virus res without scratching it I won't be using that when I do the final build
uh routing the water cooling is I think I've pretty much figured out how I want
to do it I hate having tubing cross I I
don't think tubing should cross in a clean system so what I'm probably going
to do is I'm going to use a 90° fitting here this guy is going to be more in the
front of the case so closer to closer to
over here like right up at the front so what that means is you're not going to
be able to see that one then I want to do a hole I'll drill a hole through
this base plate here as well as through the USB 3 front panel thing that I'm
going to put right here uh in order to get that one down then I'm going to have
this come out it'll cross the T Virus
which I don't like but I'll I'll have to live with that it'll go to the Apple ghd
Gold down to here this will go to the res then the
res will go down to the pump which is going to sit down here in the basement
there's going to be a lot more room in the basement now with um with the c
Laing tidied up a lot down there hold on let me just sorry guys I apologize for
the born series like shaky cam that's
going on here so there's going to be a fair bit of space down here just cuz I'm
going to have everything routed really cleanly um so then this will come out
it's going to be pretty tight cuz it has to go down to that bottom that bottom
tube or the the bottom fitting in order to make sure that the bubbles bleed more
easily then out here which will go up
to right here up to the second radiator
so the it would be easier for me if this
radiator could be turned the other way but once again for ease of bleeding I
want to have the fittings on the top so that the air bubbles don't get caught in
it uh as
much really don't like the look of being able to see the power supply here what I
may do is remove the sticker just so that it's a little bit cleaner looking
um I'm going to try to have as few hittings as I can up here at the top cuz
as you can tell I actually didn't terminate the ends on the power supply
itself as cleanly as I did the ends that are going to go to the components sort
of forgetting that I'm going to be able to see it you guys feel free to post in
the comments let me know what you think of this tubing placement right here I will be using my blue tubing but
basically these are going to run around here there we come out a little bit and
then this tube is going to run from here to here with uh with silver compression
fittings I just I just don't know about
that one if I can tighten it up a little bit it might help but I'm just not sure
in terms of SATA cables I've decided to I've almost decided to go away from my
usual uh UV reactive SATA cables let me see if I can just find them they're the
ones that come with Intel's high-end boards or at least used to come with
Intel's high-end boards anyway I can't find it but I think I'm going to go with
this guy because it does match the color scheme of the board even though it's not
reactive in any way it's pretty close to the blue that's on
there and it'll allow me to have a really tidy uh run so what I'll do is
I'll go straight from the SATA output here then I will bring it through a hole
so I'll cut I'll cut maybe that hole will go uh further I'm not really sure
through a hole and then up here over and
down to the optical drive now this right now is screwed into uh some holes in the
motherboard tra that happened to be threaded correctly but what I'll probably do is move it over just a touch
and drill some new holes uh because it doesn't look like this is going to quite
fit I may also get a different optical drive I haven't decided what to do about
that I'm either going to powder coat this or I'm going to get a different
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
drive so that's why it's so long too
many lasers
inside still haven't decided what to do about the outside side of the case the
Finish is damaged to the point where I don't want to just leave it but I'm not
really sure if I want to paint it anymore either um I may send it in to be
powder coated with the rest of the internal parts but I think the whole
machine's going to look really plain if I do that so I'm still very much
waffling about that overall nothing insurmountable the
t- virus looks amazing here I'll show you
guys that is going to be a heck of a centerpiece for this build oh you can't
really see it's so bright in here hold on let me turn off some
lights that's helping a little bit you can kind of see what it's going to look
like oh sorry guys let me just oh no I
can't really take that down there that's okay you can kind of see what it's going
to look like so that's going to look slick I've I'm just going to go with
clear distilled plain water for the liquid I'm not going to do any kind of
coloration just cuz I don't want to deal with the gunk that inevitably builds up
I mean I've got quite the die collection let me tell you I have uh used a lot of
dyes in my day and there's no
uh there's no winners where dyes are involved there they are this is my
favorite die though this is some awesome fluorescent green stuff that Aqua tuning
way back in the day yeah I got some old dette die this
stuff was horrible got some fesser dieye
stuff's all right but eventually um which color was it I can't
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
time since I've uh since I've used any of that stuff oh there's my old triple
rad that I used to be using in the bottom of my case now I'm using the
quadruple so I think that pretty much does it for my update for now I still
have to uh I still have to go to the local glass shop where they told me they
should be able to do a oneoff piece of glass for me so sick of this gross uh
scratched up acrylic so I'm going to get something better for that I still got to
send away whatever Parts I decide to send away um like this this is going to
be a bit of a challenge cuz this is supposed to screw on to this piece here
but because all the threads are dead what I might end up doing is riveting it
on and then sending the whole thing to be powder coated as one piece so I still
have a lot of prep to do before I can uh
before I can go any further so thank you for checking out this personal rig
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