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RGB RGB RGB it's like it's the only damn

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thing anyone talks about these days even us i'm sure you guys saw the RGB build

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guide well one of our writers Jake saw

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it too and in a fit of what i can only describe as nerd jealousy

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concocted up his own version of it in an

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attempt to go even further over the top

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by doing RGB hard line water cooling and

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given how much you guys hated the anti-RGB build i mean this is clearly

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what you want to see so i green lit it

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Corsair's void pro gaming headsets feature microfiber mesh fabric and

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memory foam ear cups as well as custom tuned 50 millimeter neodymium drivers

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check them out at the link below the first step in any build is always

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part selection

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wait this time it was actually pretty interesting there were some legitimately

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tense moments when Jake wasn't sure if

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he was going to be able to one-up james by finding RGB components for every

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single part of a water cooling loop but in the end he did so moving on then an

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RGB CPU block wasn't hard to find

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however most of the products on the market were either cheap knockoffs or just downright

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hideous fortunately our friends over at ek had

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the perfect solution their strix z270e

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monoblock it keeps the vrms and the CPU

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nice and chilly while also looking dank af this was actually our first time

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using a full cover motherboard block so we'll spend a little more time on this

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first the stock motherboard vrm heatsinks need to be removed then you

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cut and stick on the included thermal pads you may also need to remove the

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plastic io fascia piece being careful

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with any connected cables while you do it

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yeah then with everything prepped we put our

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7700k in since this is a gaming machine

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and applied a generous amount of thermal goop

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RAM was next and while we actually tried to stay away from non-water cooling RGB

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parts to keep the focus on the RGB loop g-skill trident z's are just too

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irresistible so we went with a four by eight gig config to get all them slots

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populated and meh man does that ever look good

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next it was time to lay the monstrous

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thermaltake tower 900 on its side and

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remove the glass to make installation easy or at least possible

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in went the io shield and then went ASUS's strix z270e

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a solid motherboard choice for example features overclocking capability and

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most importantly compatibility with our RGB block

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as for the GPU we went with NVIDIA's flagship gtx 1080 ti because why the

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heck not right but getting an RGB block for the graphics

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card ended up being one of the most difficult parts to source for the build

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most of what's out there in RGB is for the base 1080.

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fortunately fantex is a lot better at

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building sexy products than they are at making a website so after we overcame

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some bad seo we set to work getting it installed

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it did take a while but man is it ever worth it and just wait for when it's lit

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up by far the most time-consuming part of this build was the hardline tubing

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even after all the time spent planning out the loop

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things changed as they always seem to do and hardline

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tubing is challenging enough when you're just doing basic plumbing when all of a

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sudden you want to power every one of the fittings to light up

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your tubing well it adds a whole new dimension of

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difficulty every single fitting needs to be individually powered ah holy crap

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let's talk about the rest of the cooling system the star of the show here is

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easily the dual quad 140 millimeter radiators installed

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in the back now look i know this is basically the

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most overkill possible setup and we could probably cool like

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four Threadripper systems with it but if you haven't come to expect overkill

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here atlanta's tech tips then what kind of fan are you

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speaking of fans the obvious choice was our LTT edition Noctua fans again

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because this is about RGB water cooling not RGB air cooling now the original

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plan for holding our tubes in place where they're converted to soft tubing

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behind the motherboard tray was to 3d print some mounting brackets on the

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ultimaker 3 but then came a stroke of

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jerry rig university engineering genius

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how about tension mounts with zip ties and anchors at the back

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and it worked so with that system in place the tubes

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were cut to a manageable length and then finished off with an RGB fitting tied to

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a 90 degree angle to adapt to our soft

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tubing hard in the front lots of wiggle room in the back

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we actually really like this style of hardline since it makes maintenance much

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easier finally cable management oh lordy

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cable management even with sexy cablemod

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cables running the 8 million individual wires

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for every fitting around the back was a challenge to say the least but look at

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this it's actually coming together quite

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nicely all of the fittings conveniently plug

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into a single controller giving the tubes a really pleasing glow that should

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be made even more impressive once primochill's opaque white coolant

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concentrate is added finally

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time to fill our CPU and GPU are

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actually on completely separate loops so we started on the GPU side

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these gargantuan radiators take a huge

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amount of water to fill but we eventually got them both filled

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up and with zero leaks i'm impressed

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which isn't to say that we didn't forget anything we had to unscrew the cap of a

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filled reservoir to put on the RGB reservoir holder rings

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but it was totally worth it then the cherry on top was a non-RGB Corsair

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mp500 SSD that we couldn't install earlier because someone else had it in

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their test bench hyperdirt finally though we added the coolant concentrate

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actually plugged in our mono block and damn

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haters gonna hate but if you're being honest with yourself i think you have to

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admit this is one of the best looking builds we've ever done and if you're not

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