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welcome to the most overkill build guide

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we have ever done this system with all the

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peripherals that we're going to suggest might be appropriate for it is gonna

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cost over six thousand dollars u.s so it

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is not for the faint of heart however if you want nothing but the best of the

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best i can stand pretty confidently behind

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any of the recommendations on this table

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so who is this system for exactly well number one is the components we've

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chosen are optimized for gaming number two is they are optimized for

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overclocking and number 3 is they are optimized for very very quiet operation

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and we've also gone with a full custom liquid cooling setup in order to help us

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achieve the goals of gaming overclocking and quiet operation all at the same time

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now with that said our choices here today were not dictated by performance

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per dollar or any kind of value metric really we're going for the best possible

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performance that we can get and

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that's it for our CPU and motherboard combo we've

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gone with a 4770k unlocked processor

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from Intel so this is on the lga 1150 platform and we've gone with the maxima

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6 extreme motherboard from ASUS now you

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might ask why didn't we go lga 2011 with this system the benefits of lga 2011 are

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more cores more RAM as well as more pci express

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lanes natively but because this is a gaming oriented system and not a

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workstation we aren't going to benefit from those things as much as we'll

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benefit from being able to use a fourth generation haswell architecture because

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most games are lightly threaded workloads compared to a second

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generation sandy bridge architecture which at the time of filming this is the

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highest available on the lga 2011 platform next up is graphics cards we've

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gone with two ASUS GeForce gtx titans

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with coolants water blocks on them the reason we're water cooling them is that

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you can get higher boost clocks if you keep these gpus very cool due to GPU

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boost 2.0 and the reason we've gone with titans as opposed to gtx 690s or Radeon

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7990s is that i personally find that the

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best scaling and the best compatibility comes with two-way graphics card

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configurations of no more than two cards now the reason to use two titans as

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opposed to a single 690 is that you get a six gig frame buffer with gtx titan

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that is not available on any other consumer grade gaming graphics card that

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means particularly when running at high resolutions titan is going to deliver a

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better gaming experience with large textures so now and in the future than

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any other solution on the market storage is very personal but we've gone

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with two Intel 520 series 240 gig ssds

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for a total of almost 500 gigabytes of os fast raid 0 so accelerated SSD

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goodness for our applications then we've gone with two western digital red series

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three terabyte drives in raid 1 for redundancy now we could add more of

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those drives in a more elaborate raid configuration but the most important

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point i want to make here guys is for our os and applications and the things

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that we can always reinstall if we lose them we're using raid 0 which is fast

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but not safe and then to back up that SSD array on a nightly basis at least as

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well as to archive important data we're using a safe raid 1 array on a raid

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optimized drive such as the wd red

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also in line with our gaming theme is the use of an ASUS zonar phoebus sound

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card it's very similar to the zonar zentz that i've been using for quite a

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while now except it's a little bit more gaming optimized so it has a front

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control pod you can plug your headphone microphone into it uses all three and a

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half millimeter connectors and it always gets the latest software updates from

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ASUS for their gaming optimized features so my understanding is that their new

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radar will be coming to it soon which is a visual indicator of where sounds are

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coming from which is kind of neat we're using premo chill primo flex lrt

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advanced tubing my personal favorite type of tubing it's awesome we're using

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coolant's 3 8 inch id 5 8 inch od

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compression fittings what i like about these is the fact that they can be

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wrenched tight or hand tightened and they look outstanding we are also using

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a phobia gold-plated reservoir which looks pretty la bling bling as well as a

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coolant 380i CPU block which is one of the best performing CPU blocks on the

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market the last couple water cooling components are a swiftech

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mcp655 pump it's really the only one i recommend and a phobia gold-plated

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reservoir for peripherals these are so

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personalized but these are some pretty good general recommendations we've gone

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with a logitech g710 plus it uses cherry

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mx brown switches logitech's excellent software and even includes along with

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the media keys and programmable g keys an o-ring mod on every single switch

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making them even a little bit softer to type on we've also got a deathadder 2013

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although a logitech g700s would be another great pairing for that

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particular keyboard the thing people like about the death adder 2013 is it's

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one of the highest sensitivity optical mice on the market as opposed to laser

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mice so there's none of those weird acceleration issues finally for our

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headphones we've gone with the custom one pro from bayer dynamic and we

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recommend checking out the mod mic if you need something to go along with it

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or perhaps something like a blue snowball which is an excellent desktop

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microphone and last but not least the elephant in the room

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right here the 900d pretty much the only case maybe not the only but one of the

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only cases in existence capable of housing this type of a machine

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especially all those radiators the first

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step in any successful build endeavor is ensuring that you're at a static safe

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workstation so i don't recommend working on carpet and in our case we're working

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on a mod matte extreme i recommend using an anti-static wrist or ankle strap i

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prefer to keep it on my ankle so it's out of my way and last but not least

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you'll need a multi-bit screwdriver just a phillips head will work for most basic

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builds but with this one things got a little bit crazy and we ended up needing

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a power drill and some other things as well but you can do most of what you're

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about to see with just the stuff i've outlined already

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this step is really really important guys pay close attention particularly

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with a liquid cooled build it is extremely important to build the system

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outside of the box outside of the case just like we've done in the past on our

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build guide so you can check that out there because the last thing you want is

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to spend hours and hours putting it together only to have it not boot up

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because something was dead on arrival particularly for graphics cards now we

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liquid cooled these graphics cards in a separate video so you can check that out

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but you don't want to install a water block on it only to find out that it is

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defective so install it with an air cooler run the whole system do your

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burn-in tests then it is time to

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actually assemble the computer for the sake of keeping this video a little bit

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shorter we're not going to do a step by step on it this time around though guys

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so just check out one of our previous build guides for how to build it outside

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of the case i recommend using your motherboard box as an anti-static

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workstation for this step once you've done your safety build outside of the

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case grab all the components that you need out of the motherboard box so that

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you're not in and out of there all the time so all the SATA cables you need to

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install all of your drives the i o shield which you'll need for the back of

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your case as well as the wireless module that also acts as an ngff upgrade slot

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and the antenna that goes with it this is a cool antenna it actually attaches

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magnetically to your case or anything else that's nearby this piece is

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optional this is ASUS oc panel it comes with the maximus 6 extreme it allows you

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to access some tweaking options whether you mount it outside of the case or

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orient it this way and mount it in a five and a quarter inch bay so that it

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can sit and operate in a more basic mode from inside the case there's also a

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custom cable that goes with that speaking of custom cables the last thing

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we'll need is an sli bridge because we are going to be running two graphics

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cards now it's time to install the CPU note

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carefully the orientation of the golden triangle on the corner of the CPU as

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well as the little plastic triangle on the socket cover you're going to want to

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line those up when you're installing it next pull up the retention ARM you don't

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need to remove the plastic cover yet position the CPU inside the socket

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carefully give it a little wiggle to make sure it's in the correct spot then

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all you have to do is let the ARM come

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down slowly sliding the retention clip under the nut

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then push down pull out and lock it

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under the retention ARM the little plastic cover will pop off and then your

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CPU is installed water cooling is all a little different

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so follow the instructions that's really really important this particular block

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comes with a large silicone isolating pad as well as a hefty metal back plate

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if it's not oriented correctly on the back of the board you could have

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problems later on so make sure that the cutout notch has the shape of the CPU

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back plate sort of corresponding to it so just be careful is all i'm really

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saying thermal compound application now i prefer ic diamond over other thermal

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compounds but just for lulls i pulled out an ancient tube of ocz ultra five

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plus just to show you the method just apply about the size of an uncooked

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grain of rice in a line down the middle of the CPU and you're golden

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now that back plate's on there but it's not secure at all in order to get it

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firmed up take four plastic washers and put them over each of the four posts

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followed by the four thumb nuts now these ones should go down

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enough that they're quite tight because these are what's going to keep the posts

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in place now that it's secure you can put the CPU block down on top of the CPU

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followed by four more plastic washers four springs and finally the four large

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thumb nuts now these ones you're going to want to tighten in a cross pattern

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and don't wrench them tight don't go so tight that the board is flexing and the

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CPU block is flexing it just has to be tight enough that it makes good contact

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with the processor underneath finally put two of the compression fittings onto

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the CPU block no need to put the top pieces on yet because we haven't

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installed tubing yet and that's pretty much it for your CPU block RAM

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installation not too complicated guys now do note that this particular board

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the maximus 6 formula has tabs on only one side so i recommend putting the

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non-tab side in first followed by pressing firmly on the tab side until it

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locks into place we have four dimms so we're going to do this

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four times

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with the tool-less release in the back we can take off the windowed side panel

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of the 900d as always i recommend stashing your side panels somewhere safe

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preferably inside the box that your case came in with the foam in between so that

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they don't get damaged in any way next up you can open up the basement by

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pressing the little tab here and pulling it open that's where you'll find the box

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with all the hardware that you need to install pretty much anything you could

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possibly want to in the Corsair 900d

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now the first thing we're actually going to install is our i o plate which as

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with any case is installed simply by aligning it

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with the hole at the back of the chassis and then popping

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each of the four corners in individually

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the mpcie combo 2 card acts as both a

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wireless module this is wireless ac as well as an ngff expansion slot so you

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can simply plug it in in the top of the board here

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screw it in from the back then you're ready to mount the board

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once that's done you'll see that the motherboard standoffs for our standard

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atx size board are already applied so

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all we need to do is take the appropriate screws out of the box of

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screws and put nine screws through the board into the back of the motherboard

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tray you know how your room kind of gets messier before it gets cleaner this is

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the part where we actually have to disassemble things before we can

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continue assembling them so we're going to take out the rear fan we're going to

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take off the front aluminum plate and take off the front fans by undoing the

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screws we are going to remove all three

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of the existing triple drive cages that are in the 900d by removing the screws

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at the back and finally we're even going to remove the screws that are holding in

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the additional mount point for another one of those drive cages remember you

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can get them optionally now we have a

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clearer idea of what we're dealing with now this my friends is when things start

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getting really serious business so just for the sake of knowing where it is so

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we don't accidentally install any radiators that interfere with it we're

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going to put the power supply in now so i recommend putting the power supply in

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on the side of the case that is nearest to the motherboard tray the reason for

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that is it's shorter runs to the components particularly up the back of

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the tray however this case does support dual power supplies and you can put it

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in whichever bay you prefer now mounting radiators most of the

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radiator mounts in this case are native however there are two pieces of metal

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that were hidden that we actually took the screws that hold them in place out

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when we were removing the cage mounts on the bottom of the case one of them is

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cleverly labeled down and the other is cleverly labeled up

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these simply mount to the case using little

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hooks as then and then screws to hold them in place permanently once they're

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in these are what are going to allow us to mount that quad radiator that goes on

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this side now we're ready to start physically planning the layout of our

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loop in terms of where we want to install fittings radiators and tubing

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this is the point in the build where you want to actually make sure all of your

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carefully laid plans are even going to work take those radiators do quick test

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fits make sure that you not only have room for the radiators and graphics

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cards and other bulky components but also that you have room for the

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associated cables and fittings and tubing that's going to go with them

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because even the best laid plans well it is possible to make mistakes

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once you've done your test fit it's a great idea to take some of the little

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difficult hard to reach connectors and plug them in now before you put in your

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graphics card and you have a bunch of tubing running all over the place and all that stuff so we've done some

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rudimentary cable management with them here on the back panel then we're going

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to plug in basically just the easy stuff front usb 3 front usb 2 front panel

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audio as well as our front connectors

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for our power switch reset switch and indicator leds

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next up remove the five pci slot covers that correspond to where you want to

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install your cards guys there's no shame in consulting the manual at this point

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to find out which slots are most optimal for the kinds of cards you're installing

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for that matter even for that last part where you're installing the front panel

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connectors guys it's all in the manual usually in a little leaflet quick start

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guide that you can consult so once we've pulled those off we're going to install

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the sound card first just because that one's not in the way of anything else

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we're doing then this is where things start to get a little bit tricky because

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with our two graphics cards we're going to be using a special sli fitting that

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allows us to put them very close together which you normally wouldn't be

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able to do with fittings and tubing in between so once we've done that we're

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going to rearrange all the other fittings according to the test fit we

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did before and where we want pipes coming in and out of what is now a

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single graphics card assembly we're going to take that whole thing install

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it into the two slots then put the thumb

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screws back in and our expansion cards are now done

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the next thing i like to do is install the radiators where they're going to go

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according to our overall design for flow

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so the first thing you'll have to do is remove the top cover on the 900d there's

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a little tab in here you basically put your thumb in there and then push

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forward towards the front of the case and that comes off revealing the

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radiator mount there we go

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up there on the top then you're going to have to take each

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of the radiators and plug all the extra holes that you do not need okay we're

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going for slightly positive air pressure here guys so basically on the bottom

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in the basement we're going to have air moving through towards the power

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supplies intake and then out the other side then up in the top we're gonna have

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three intake fans that are not on a radiator behind the drive cages pulling

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air in we're gonna have our rear fan here pulling air in and then we're going

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to have four fans up here on the top pushing air out so this should give us a

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slightly more intake than we have exhaust allowing for slightly positive

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pressure which usually results in less

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dust buildup radiator mounting can be a bit of a bear

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and a big part of the problem is that these guys can't all standardize on

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something they've all got a different way they expect you to attach the fans

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to the rad so alphacool includes two different lengths

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of screws with their rads we're going to be using the shorter of the two now be

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careful when you're mounting fans directly to the radiator that you orient

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the labels correctly if that matters to you as well as the direction that the

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wire leads are coming off for optimal cable management it's going to be

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difficult to undo this later and redo it after the fact for our bottom quadruple

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120 millimeter radiator what we did was we mounted all the fans directly to the

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rad and then because alpha cool again that whole standards can't be

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consolidated thing did not include short screws the good news is they use the

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same threads as an optical drive so we were able to use some of the screws

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included with our 900d to mount this rad down here in the bottom for our rear 120

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millimeter again we weren't able to use the included screws so what we ended up

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using was more of the case screws however we had to use a washer here

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because the holes at the back of the case were so wide that the narrow heads

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that were included with both the rad screws and the included case screws went

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right through them because they're intended for fan screws then we used one

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of the shorter length screws to mount the fan directly to the rad for our top

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mounted radiator again we're going for a pull configuration here we used the

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longer screws because now we're going all the way through a fan all the way

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through the case and into the radiator in order to get them mounted now this is

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again a spot where you're going to want to do any test fits that you think you

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need to do for example here in the back we were not able to orient the 120 ml

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rad in what i would consider to be the optimal orientation with the barbs up

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this makes it easier to bleed the air out of it instead we had to turn it

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around and it was still a very tight fit with our tubing to ensure that we were

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actually going to be able to get water up to that top radiator removing the top

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panel on the 900d is pretty simple once you get the hang of it just flip the tab

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under here slide it off to the left hand side of the case if you're facing it

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from the front and that's how you get access to mounting that top rad

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and this goes to show you guys that no matter what you do there's bound to be a

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minor oopsie we had to take our power supply out and the reason for this is

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with it in we realized we couldn't access the fittings on the quad radiator

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in the basement because it was too close so we weren't going to be able to

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install tubing on it what we'll have to do instead is install our dual radiator

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using the long screws washers and then going through a fan into the rad this

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gives us a very natural airflow path in the bottom of the case here so you can

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see we're pulling air through this way and then pulling it out this way so it's

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all going in the same direction not fighting itself and then once we've done

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that we can run all the tubing run all the fittings in the basement including

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getting tubing installed on the pump which is going to go next to the dual

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rad right down here then we can put our power supply back in

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and start getting the cables hooked up part of getting the basement of the case

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plumbed correctly is installing the reservoir which

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actually is going to go up here by the pci slots now guys get a pen ready write

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this down the order of your loop does not matter you go CPU block GPU block

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radiator doesn't matter we're talking maybe a degree or two of

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difference but what does matter is having the pump pulling water directly

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from your reservoir that way it can never run dry now we used the flexible

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fitting options on this particular phobia gold-plated res in order to make

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sure that we were going to have clearance to install our tubing so it

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has an inlet on the top which i would actually recommend using as a fill port

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otherwise you're going to get trickling noise and then it has two different

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fittings that come out at about sort of 70 degrees on the sides and two on the

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bottoms it's important to use one on either side because there's a baffle in

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the middle of the reservoir that keeps the cyclone effect from occurring

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sucking air into your pump making it louder and less efficient

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phobia ships a pretty robust mounting system with this particular res now we

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could drill holes in fact later on in this build we are going to drill holes

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and stuff but for this one it wasn't really necessary we were able to use

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some of the vent holes at the back of the case in order to get our two c-clips

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installed then all we had to do was put the plastic washer on then put on the

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metal nut tighten it with a screwdriver and we were ready to snap our reservoir

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into place now the one challenge here is that once you've already got all of your

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expansion cards installed you're going to have to remove your reservoir to change them but you probably won't be

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changing them that often so you might want to try and find a different place

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to put the res this was the place that we found that made sense

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when you're actually installing tubing some people believe in sort of putting

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it in the spot and like measuring it and then cutting to measure i don't what i

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usually do is i install one end of it so remember guys you've already got the

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fitting component of your compression fitting screwed into whatever component

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it happens to be whether it's a block or radiator so make sure before you put the

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tubing on it you actually put the retention ring on top of the tubing

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otherwise you're going to have to run it all the way in from the other end now go

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ahead and install it on there tighten it down finger tight pretty much as far as

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you can go remember that's holding it on and compressing it for a good seal then

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line it up run it to where it needs to go and just mark it with your finger

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then pull it out and cut it with either a tubing cutter or a very sharp pair of

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scissors if you have dull scissors you might end up with an uneven cut which

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can potentially cause leaks and particularly in cases where you're not

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using compression fittings it can look cosmetically not very appealing now

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some people do this some people don't i like the d5 pump or the mcp655 from

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swiftech unfortunately it has half inch barbs integrated you can buy an

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aftermarket top that you can change out the fittings on but i usually don't do

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that what i do is i stretch my 3 8 tubing over the half inch barbs it does

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require a little bit of elbow grease however there is a couple tricks that

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you can use to make it easier number one is boil a cup of water then soak the

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tubing in it for even about five seconds and then try and go at it if that then

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doesn't work then soak it again stretch it in four

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different directions using a pair of pliers soak it again and try one more

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time now i can pretty much guarantee you'll be able to get it on there

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there's one trick though guys remember no matter how hard you've stretched the

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tubing i always recommend using a retention mechanism of some sort whether

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it's a plastic clip a compression fitting or even a zip tie so make sure

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that you put something on there to prevent leaks in the future

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it should be noted that if the tubing routing in the basement looks a little

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weird it's because i'm trying to have water go in the bottom and out the top

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of radiators whenever possible it makes it much easier for the air to travel up

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through it and then be driven out of it even though we don't have a super

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powerful pump considering the fact that we have so many components in this

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system now when it comes to wiring up the fans this is the point where i would

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be doing it now you have a ton of different options there's advanced stuff

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like the m-cubed t-balancer which is what i use in my own personal machine

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allows advanced software curves and stuff like that it's expensive and it's

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quite difficult to set up but for what we're doing here we're going for a much

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simpler option we're using swiftex pwm splitter which can actually be used to

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have pwm control on up to eight fans

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with a single motherboard header and a single molex power connector very cool

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little device but we're actually going to use it in an even simpler fashion so

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rather than running the wires up to the motherboard or anything like that we're

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just going to plug it in via molex and use the included low noise adapters that

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come with our Noctua fans we'll be using extension cables as well as those

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adapters to hook up the three front fans and the six that are on the radiators in

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the basement all right so we jam that power supply

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back in there it's a little bit tricky but she's in there no problem we've now

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got modular cables to deal with and some implementations are better than others

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so we have an aftermarket individually sleeved cable kit for this power supply

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but that doesn't change the fact that i like the way they've done their modular cables in general so instead of just

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giving you you know 10 connectors on the back of the power supply and 10 cables

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and you can unplug or plug in as many as you want Corsair goes well they bought a

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1200 watt power supply they're probably going to need most of the cables anyway

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so instead they give you options in terms of what kinds of connectors you

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want so for example the pci express connectors you can either have a single

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to dual connector so that's specifically for running to a graphics card so that

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you don't have to run two discrete cables or you can have a one-to-one

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connector which is great for things like an auxiliary connector on a motherboard

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or a six pin pci express connector on say for example a sound card like what

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we've got so we can have the best of both worlds we don't have extra you know

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plugs hanging off of things and we don't have to run extra wires we ran our 24

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pin in pretty much the standard fashion it should be noted that this case has a

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ton of cable management room so we were able to get away with crossing you know

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connector harnesses in the back and we're still going to be able to close the side panel but if you have a case

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that doesn't have quite so much room you're going to want to be careful to make sure everything's laying flat in

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the back and use cable ties to tidy things up last but not least we

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connected our 8-pin connector to the CPU up in the well not to the CPU to the

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motherboard but it's the CPU connector and it should be noted we only plugged

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in one eight pin CPU connector even though it has another spot for an

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additional four pin that additional four pin is optional and it is my personal

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belief that on an lga 1150 platform unless you go on liquid nitrogen there's

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no way you're going to exceed the current that can be delivered by a single eight pin so we're going to leave

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it at that and there you have it my friend that is

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how you install five radiators in the 900d and still

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have room for two hard drive cages giving you a total of four

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three and a half inch drives or two and a half inch drives potentially so what

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we had to do was we had to mark off a couple spots on the motherboard

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tray so normally you wouldn't put a radiator there but we were like well we

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want to put more radiators we want more drives no big deal so we marked off a

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couple spots there discovered that that really wasn't strong enough to hold up

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our radiator with the three Noctua fans loaded onto it of course in the optimal

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configuration we've pre-installed all of our fittings and all of that good stuff

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so we added a third mounting point just to the side of the drive cages we found

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with three mounting points it was good enough but if we could get some other

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more different custom brackets we could probably actually affix it to this

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radiator on the top here as well and then we could get a really

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really solid mount for it but guys honestly we're going to take this build

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apart when we're done so you can come up with something a bit more elegant we

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just used l brackets from home depot with some self-tapping screws to drill

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into things as well as little washers for making fine adjustments to the fit

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and finish to make sure that it's sitting there correctly we're wiring up

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all the fans in the top of the system so the four on the top the one at the back

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and the three in our motherboard tray radiator to the

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motherboard itself so the ones in the bottom are all going to be static

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according to how we installed them and the ones on the top will be able to be

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controlled using ai suite just as a reminder guys we're running two Intel

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520 series ssds in raid zero and we're running two wd three terabyte

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red drives so these are nas or raid operation optimized drives in raid 1 for

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safe storage because we have more bays we can either leave them for now and

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expand our storage later or we could actually run up to four drives right off

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the bat for our storage array in fact you could probably run six and just hide

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these ssds somewhere if you wanted but for the sake of doing things by the book

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which we haven't done until now we're going to install them in the actual

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drive cages now you've got a couple of different options here for installation

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so number one is the two different types of SATA cables that are included with

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your board they're straight ones and right angle ones go with on an

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individual drive basis whatever makes for the most natural run without kinking

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the cable then for power we unfortunately don't have as many options

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as i would like Corsair only includes

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four port harnesses for SATA power i wouldn't have minded seeing them include

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a couple of two port harnesses so you have the option to use those because

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we're gonna use a single 4-port one to run to our drives here in the front of

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the case then for our optical drive up in the top we're going to have to run a

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full additional 4-port harness in order

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to get power up there it should be noted once again that i do consider a blu-ray

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drive highly optional in a modern computer but if you want to have it then

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there you go we're going to show you how to install it here just like that

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and finally my friends it is time for tubing we're close to the end when you

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are sort of eyeballing out your runs and measuring them out don't cut extra it's

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actually quite difficult to cut the last sort of three millimeters of extra

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tubing that you have that makes it bulge out funny so you're better off to just

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try to cut it as close as you possibly can and then

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you know just kind of suck it up and use another piece if it ends up being too

439
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:17,520
short because odds are excellent that especially if you work from longest

440
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:21,360
pieces to shortest pieces that you'll be able to use that slightly too short

441
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:26,480
piece somewhere else so you're not wasting the entire length of it

442
00:31:24,159 --> 00:31:30,960
so i did bring in 20 feet of tubing to do this but we managed to get this whole

443
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:34,799
thing plumbed up with less than 10 feet of tubing which is uh

444
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:38,640
kind of fantastic now there are a few things

445
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:43,200
needed that few things i want to point out about the tubing process while you

446
00:31:40,559 --> 00:31:48,480
guys watch this accelerated video number one is go with the bend of the tubing

447
00:31:46,559 --> 00:31:53,279
never try to fight it it's much more likely to kink if you go against the

448
00:31:50,559 --> 00:31:57,919
natural bend that has been there since it was originally produced and put onto

449
00:31:55,440 --> 00:32:01,600
a spool number two is that this is one of the things i've actually come to

450
00:31:59,519 --> 00:32:05,919
really enjoy about the 900d is there's the space to do what we're doing here

451
00:32:03,919 --> 00:32:10,559
you can actually run tubing behind the motherboard tray on this case

452
00:32:07,919 --> 00:32:16,000
and get away with it there's enough space whoa it's heavy there we go oh

453
00:32:14,399 --> 00:32:18,799
that was hard there's enough space to have tubing back here

454
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:22,399
and have wires and all that and you're still

455
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:27,519
going to be able to close that side panel which is pretty unique there's not

456
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:32,480
too many cases out there wow it's heavy though that are going to

457
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:36,159
be quite like that all right next thing i wanted to mention

458
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:40,799
is that yeah the way we did it is not really

459
00:32:38,559 --> 00:32:45,120
that optimal buying all straight fittings and then just kind of going

460
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:48,480
with the flow and making it work it doesn't work necessarily as well as

461
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:53,120
buying things like angled fittings that's the way that you might be able to

462
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:58,159
get cleaner runs for example here around the CPU socket without having so many

463
00:32:55,919 --> 00:33:01,679
unsightly bends but i think we did pretty well considering the lower cost

464
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:05,200
of straight fittings i mean bearing in mind we already spent about a thousand

465
00:33:03,279 --> 00:33:08,240
dollars on the liquid cooling setup for this computer like do we need to spend

466
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:13,760
another couple hundred on fittings i don't know it's up to you but we went

467
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:15,200
with pretty basic fittings and uh

468
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:18,559
and then the fact as well that we don't have to do like a google sketchup model

469
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:24,720
of the system just to find out if the fittings are all going to actually work together the way that we intend

470
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:27,679
now before filling the system there are a couple of different schools of thought

471
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:31,840
for a couple of things number one is preparing the system so many people

472
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:35,600
believe in cleaning out the radiators with hot water and a mild vinegar

473
00:33:33,679 --> 00:33:39,039
solution before you even assemble anything it is a good idea there can be

474
00:33:37,679 --> 00:33:44,480
residue left over in them from manufacturing that is easy to remove if

475
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:50,320
you flush prior to building the other thing is which coolant to use i

476
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:56,320
personally am an advocate of colored tubing with clear distilled water simple

477
00:33:53,600 --> 00:34:00,320
no dyes or anything fancy like that if you want to have a biocidal agent i

478
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:05,519
suggest putting a chunk of silver into your reservoir and just calling that a

479
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:08,320
day as opposed to using clear tubes and a bunch of dyes i've just seen them gunk

480
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:12,720
up too many times i'm sure there's good ones out there but that is my personal

481
00:34:10,879 --> 00:34:15,679
approach this is just a random bottle from some professor coolant that i use

482
00:34:14,240 --> 00:34:21,200
to put distilled water in you can get it at the grocery store it's pretty inexpensive what we can all agree on

483
00:34:20,159 --> 00:34:26,560
however is the procedure of using a separate

484
00:34:24,079 --> 00:34:31,359
power supply or unplugging your existing power supply from all the sensitive

485
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:35,200
components inside in order to prime the system so that is to say what

486
00:34:34,240 --> 00:34:40,399
you'll do is you'll get like some kind of conductive piece of

487
00:34:38,079 --> 00:34:44,800
something so i usually bend a paper clip you bridge the green pin

488
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:48,320
on your power supply and if you can't find which one's the

489
00:34:46,720 --> 00:34:52,399
green pin on your power supply say for example if you have a custom sleeved one

490
00:34:49,919 --> 00:34:56,800
like this then you can check out manuals online or diagrams online so you bridge

491
00:34:54,560 --> 00:35:01,359
the green pin with any black pin on the power supply then you are able to easily

492
00:34:59,839 --> 00:35:05,040
control the on off functionality with the switch

493
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:09,359
at the back it will automatically turn on any time you have the on switch on at

494
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:13,839
the back so what that means is you can plug this into just the pump and you it

495
00:35:11,839 --> 00:35:18,320
allows you to do the quick cycles that you need in order to fill the loop so

496
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:21,599
basically what you'll do in this case i've taken an extra scrap piece of

497
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:26,480
tubing and i've attached another fitting to the top of my reservoir so that i can

498
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:30,560
fill it so you'll fill up your reservoir as much as you possibly can

499
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:36,160
just like this then cycle the power on so that all the

500
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:39,760
liquid comes out of the reservoir and is taken somewhere else in your loop your

501
00:35:37,599 --> 00:35:42,720
pump should be gravity fed if you've set up your loop correctly it should be the

502
00:35:41,119 --> 00:35:46,960
next component and nowhere for air bubbles to get trapped then what you do

503
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:51,599
is fill it up again cycle the power again and as soon as that res is empty

504
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:54,800
turn the power back off and rinse and repeat

505
00:35:53,839 --> 00:35:57,440
rinse because water

506
00:35:57,599 --> 00:36:04,400
near the end of your filling adventure you're going to get to a point where the

507
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:08,720
reservoir isn't full yet but the water cycles continuously

508
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:12,160
without the pump sounding like it's not working properly you never want your

509
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:16,000
pump to run dry that's really bad but once we get to this point what we can do

510
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:20,800
is we can actually leave the system running while we top up the reservoir

511
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:24,079
the rest of the way i recommend leaving it in this state without any of the

512
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:27,920
components actually powered on and risking getting shorted out and damaged

513
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:32,640
for at least 6 to 24 hours maybe even 48 hours if you

514
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:36,160
want to be super sure what you can do to prevent water from dripping under any

515
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:40,480
loose fittings or anything like that on your valuable components is use folded

516
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:45,119
up paper towel then come back and inspect it frequently to see if anything

517
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:49,839
is dripping water and leaking inside your system now we were careful to

518
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:54,240
install all of our SATA cables into the Intel chipset on this particular

519
00:36:51,839 --> 00:36:56,960
motherboard the Intel chipset SATA ports they're all say to six with this

520
00:36:55,599 --> 00:37:00,480
generation of products so you don't have to worry about which two of the Intel

521
00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:05,760
ones to get the best speed out of your ssds for example setting up raid 0 is a

522
00:37:03,359 --> 00:37:10,560
snap once you've got raid enabled within the BIOS all you do is press ctrl i to

523
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:16,400
enter the configuration utility where we can configure our ssds as raid 0 and our

524
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:20,640
hard drives as raid 1. from there we can install Windows off of a usb drive or

525
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:25,599
off of a cd and i've covered this topic before in the past

526
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:29,280
guys we're finally done here she is

527
00:37:27,119 --> 00:37:33,119
was it worth all the work i guess it's up to you was it worth all

528
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:38,400
the money i guess that's up to you too is this the system i would build

529
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:40,560
personally the answer is no

530
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:45,119
but what was the benefit why did we put 17 Noctua fans running at low RPM well

531
00:37:43,359 --> 00:37:48,240
here here's my microphone i'm going to point that at the system

532
00:37:48,720 --> 00:37:55,200
you can't hear it over the refrigerator that's running like two meters to my

533
00:37:52,720 --> 00:38:00,079
right that way it is extremely quiet it also runs extremely cool in spite of the

534
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:05,599
fact that we haven't even optimized this 900d for airflow by removing things like

535
00:38:03,359 --> 00:38:09,119
these solid covering panels that are down on the bottom we have done

536
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:14,800
absolutely nothing to optimize the build and it still runs like a champ that gtx

537
00:38:12,079 --> 00:38:20,480
titan has been running the combustor overclocking stress test for about 15

538
00:38:18,079 --> 00:38:25,040
minutes now and the GPU is running at 40 degrees celsius

539
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:30,720
unfreaking believable so that is the point of a system like this it's totally

540
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:32,880
overkill it's totally unnecessary you

541
00:38:30,720 --> 00:38:37,280
could get similar performance for half the price well maybe not half the price

542
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:41,680
but significantly less so for all of you in the comments saying oh he could have

543
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:45,920
done yes i know absolutely i know the point of this was we wanted to show you

544
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:52,240
guys the most overkill build we could so we put five radiators in a 900d we put

545
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:54,160
dual titans in a 900d we put a 4770k in

546
00:38:52,240 --> 00:38:58,880
there we loaded it up with 32 gigs of 2400 megahertz memory but again

547
00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:04,320
kind of unnecessary but it's for fun it's for looks i personally

548
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:08,240
think it looks awesome the only things i'd change probably about the appearance

549
00:39:06,079 --> 00:39:12,800
are maybe i'd take out the optical drive and that was also the reason we didn't

550
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:16,400
install the oc panel from ASUS so that fits into a five and a quarter inch bay

551
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:19,040
you can run this externally as well so you can just sit it on your desk or or

552
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:24,079
you can install it in the five and a quarter inch bay if you don't mind that i would also probably add some bit

553
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:28,480
phoenix alchemy lighting strips i really like these the the defect rate on them

554
00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:31,920
is very low compared to other led strips that i've used in the past where some of

555
00:39:29,839 --> 00:39:35,200
the leds will start to fade very quickly we've had very good luck with the

556
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:39,920
alchemy ones so we definitely recommend them around here and uh man guys i'm

557
00:39:38,079 --> 00:39:43,680
gonna just sort of ramble for a bit here well you can check out some glam footage

558
00:39:42,079 --> 00:39:48,000
of the system here there were some challenges with this system anytime you

559
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:51,839
strive to do something that's really out of the ordinary you can expect there to

560
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:55,520
be some hiccups i wasn't actually expecting to get all five radiators in

561
00:39:53,599 --> 00:39:58,240
it at first because i had kind of looked it up and i'd gone oh okay supports five

562
00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:01,520
radiators didn't really think about it that much you know called up alphacool i

563
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:05,440
was like hey guys i need this this this and this and then i got it here and i

564
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:09,599
realized the triple in the front doesn't fit natively if you also have a

565
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:13,040
quadruple and a double in the bottom so that was where we came up with the idea

566
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:16,960
to mount it on the motherboard tray which actually is pretty effective

567
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:22,079
because it's going to be able to take in some of the intake air from those front

568
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:27,119
three 120 millimeter fans and it gives you still more radiator surface area we

569
00:40:25,119 --> 00:40:30,160
also had some definite challenges with respect to

570
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:33,839
fittings and water cooling tubing and getting everything to fit just right

571
00:40:31,839 --> 00:40:37,520
because it's uh it's pretty

572
00:40:35,119 --> 00:40:41,839
tight in there but it was a lot of fun to build we actually didn't undo that

573
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:46,480
many things along the line and i'm extremely pleased with how effectively

574
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:50,400
we were able to fill up a 900d to the point where it doesn't look empty in

575
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:53,680
there which is what most of the 900d builds i see look like they just look

576
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:57,760
like the case is so big and there's not enough in there we were able to fill it

577
00:40:55,359 --> 00:41:01,440
up with stuff that actually made sense like what i'd probably do as well is i'd

578
00:40:59,599 --> 00:41:04,800
use all six of those front bays for hard drives and then i moved the ssds around

579
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:08,480
to the back of the motherboard tray where there is still tons of room

580
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:13,680
because there's just a ton of cable management room in this particular case

581
00:41:11,119 --> 00:41:18,880
it's a very cool build but it's also extremely heavy to the point where i'm

582
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:23,440
not exactly some kind of muscle man so me saying i can't move it might not mean

583
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:28,560
anything to you but i would have a difficult time moving this system around

584
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:32,640
unaided it has five radiators hard drives heavy copper water blocks and it

585
00:41:31,119 --> 00:41:39,760
has over two liters of coolant in it so it is

586
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:42,319
extremely extremely heavy thank you guys

587
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:47,200
very much for checking out our overkill build guide with the haswell 4770k

588
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:50,880
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