we are going to liquid cool all five of
our editing workstations together so those are like core i76 cores and GTX
Titans then we're going to take that water we're going to take it out of the
building and then we're going to put that on a massive radiator so we're
actually taking all that heat and dissipating it outside causing not only
our systems to run cooler but also our room in which we do our work to be
cooler we got to build things all right
build things uh you might want to start on a new case uh yeah is this one all
secured I guess um outside I don't know if they're
outside or inside I'm assuming I know that at least I see four of them so
there's one more
somewhere it's not in that box so
yes I realized I was using pliers rather than a wrench to tighten the fittings
onto the radiators that's what happens when Linus decides that one wrench is
sufficient for the seven people working on a project some sacrifices that seems
fine we'll probably have to use some extensions to get all these to where
they need to go but we have those so that's not a big deal um and then it's
going to push through yeah and then once you get all these mount wanted I might
send you and David on a on a field trip to Home Depot to figure out figure out
how like you might even have to do it there and just get everything mounted
onto something onto something that we can put up there that'll be strong
enough and just here if we have to
sacrifice airf flow to the top fan to
put four screws into it or something then that's what we have to do
we're realizing now that our idea for
hanging the radiators might not work we'll see what happens
I also have no idea how we're going to get a ladder
here does Home Depot deliver if you buy
things maybe we could just buy a ladder
and then have them deliver it okay possibly okay either way we should make
that happen pretty soon a ladder yeah
yeah I can give you that like
said so we also need the uh metal strips
and then the tubing will run from the window up
here down to here all
right were you planning to take someone with you or do you still need
to
uh I don't know let me look at it in a
sec oh uh radiators yeah I was just doing the
exiting for the camera oh I wasn't I thought you were leaving no okay
component selection was something that was really important for us these are the workstations that we're going to be
using to do the vast majority of our work so they need to be really fast and
they need to be extremely reliable so most of the systems are running the same
configuration so they're going to have core i7 4960x 6 core processors and the
I don't know may do a little bit of overclocking we'll see it won't be much
they're all going to be running on Aus x79 Deluxe motherboards that's a
motherboard that we're particularly fond of because it's the one that's been on
our Graphics test bench since its release and it's been extremely reliable
there they are all going to be running 32 gigs of Kingston memory just you know
nothing super fancy and really fast or anything but just nice reliable DDR3
memory and they're all going to be running and this is where things start
to get really interesting NVIDIA GTX Titan black editions now I had
originally reached out to NVIDIA to get GTX 780s because Swift te was our water
cooling provider and their only full cover water block from this generation
supports the 780 the 780 Ti the Titan and the Titan black on the reference PCB
and NVIDIA kind of went well you know don't you guys need double precision and
all that video memory so they ended up sending over Titan blacks uh fortunately
because I had already asked for the power supplies from Cooler Master at
that point the v750 modular power supplies that they're sending over are
80 plus gold and 750 wats is plenty for
a six core and a Titan black you don't actually want to go that Overkill
because if you do you can actually lose some of the efficiency that you're
trying to gain by going with a highly efficient power supply for the cases we
went with Cooler Master N600 Luke and I
actually spent a fair bit of time figuring out a case that was compact
lightweight enough professional enough looking that it wouldn't look out of
place in an office and yet capable of holding the Enthusiast grade Hardware we
needed and most importantly was able to
mount the reservoir radiator combo unit
on the top that we wanted from swifttech so that we could have one fewer
component inside each of the individual system water cooling Loops for when we
wanted to disconnect from the main Loop and run the systems on their own we went
with 4960 XS for our workstations because when it comes to video and code
video rendering more cores really does make a difference these aren't gaming
rigs these are meant for serious work and having the extra cores is going to
really help people get their jobs done more efficiently which is very important
to me we went with Kingston for the memory just because well it all comes
down to your personal experience and none of us has ever had a bad experience
with Kingston memory so we reached out to them to sponsor the project and they
actually agreed to chip in not only 32 gigs of RAM per system but also boot SSD
so got 240 gig Boot ssds and they also
chipped in 64 gigs of hyperx memory for
edel's system because he apparently thinks that he actually needs 64 gigs of
RAM the PC building process was actually
kind of fun it takes me back I haven't done a project this big in a long time
and you know the camaraderie and the pizza and Subway and all that good stuff
that's all part of that team building experience I thought was uh was pretty
entertaining one thing that was a bit of a challenge for me is that I ended up
doing the finishing touches on most of the systems because I water cooled the
internals of all five of them I was expecting to have some help but Luke
ended up doing a lot of benchmarking on an Intel CPU launch rather than helping
me build systems so I had to do uh all
the the finishing moves myself when we finally took all the systems over to a
table plugged them into a keyboard and mouse and had 30 seconds or so to make
sure that they post because they didn't have any water in them it was a huge
relief for me when each one of them powered on and uh displayed that you
know all the RAM was detected and all that good stuff I love the wall deal I think
they're absolutely amazing I'm extremely
pleased with them um in spite of our best efforts to measure them out and put
them exactly centered I'm pretty sure the W stealth one is about 3 in off
center but uh doesn't really matter the
point is I think they look great they were quite a bit bigger than I was
expecting I know how big 3 ft is but I never actually held the tape measure up
to the wall and kind of went yeah we're going to put this one here and this one
there because we didn't have the copper piping on the wall yet so I didn't
really know exactly where the drops were going to come down or anything like that
I left that up to Luke's dad so they're
a little big but they're super cool I I think the funniest thing about the decal
process was that it apparently takes three people to apply one wall decal
they came with two different application methods one was with a a front paper
piece so you just take the whole thing put it on and then kind of peel that off
and the spacing is all right and that one was easy but the other one didn't
come with a front piece cuz it was just a single decal and that one that one was
a a three-man job if you can support the sticker or
actually here if I support the sticker can you go cross hold
on ah okay in that case um we're going
to capture this moment and then take it away you take them look take it in
go Nick also does not use drills very
often and first was screwing things backwards so that was difficult aside
from the things David told me which I wasn't even aware of Nick had additional
challenges with the drill he was using a masonry drill bit the first time that I
saw him using it and I corrected that little embarrassing to realize I was
using the wrong one but you know I was I was actually pretty out of my element on
this project I don't have much experience with building anything so I
think it was just part of the learning process and uh luckily we got it fixed
at the end of the day now the original plan for the
radiators on the window was I think three or four triple RADS so we were
going to have a total of 9 to 12 fans
and it wasn't going to be that heavy so the idea was to hang it from the facial
board but we got all the RADS and fans assembled and realized that once we
filled that with water there was no way
that was going to hang from the fascia board we came up with a new plan and it
was you know three trips to Home Depot later including one trip where we had to
try to buy a ladder which was a challenge because they wouldn't let us
even try to put it into the rental van and instead we had to pay some guy in
the parking lot to let us just kind of
put it in the back of his truck and bring it to the uh to the office for us
but uh I think the plan we've got now is going to work with all of the radiators
mounted to the frame uh we did a leak test on it and none of them are leaking
I am a little bit worried about the head pressure of the pump I had thought and
it's a long time since I've used that pump I thought it had over 20 ft of head
pressure it looks like it's 12
so I'm really uncertain about whether it's going to be strong enough and I
wonder if we are going to need an additional pump a bubbles yeah there
goes the
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