another in progress shot here guys so I've got almost everything torn out
although I am actually going to take the case apart all the way um all the way
down to the drive cages here the mid
plate uh these back pieces I don't know if you guys have ever noticed this
before but when I originally got the internals of my case powder coated you
can see here this is a mountain mods black wrinkle finish uh when I
originally got that done I forgot to send Ben from Mountain mods this piece
this piece and this one so they've always still been the original silver uh
aluminum color so what I'm going to do is I'm going to try and find a local
shop with a chemical bath strip down the
powder coating off of my old Parts
including my motherboard tray here as well and then I'm going to send him all
the old Parts stripped down the parts that have never been done I'm going to
RP the powder the factory powder coating off these uh antech 900 Drive cages and
I'll send those down as well so that they will at least if they don't match
this finish they'll at least match the interior finish cuz otherwise I don't
really know what else to do with that you can see there's a lot of gunk in
here that I'm going to have to clean off before I can even get the paint stripped
off these are this is residue Left Behind from the uh cathod lights
mounting so there's some up here as well
I don't know if you guys can see that oo something up there whoops I forgot about
those uh there you go now you can see it so there's lots of tapes and junk that's
going to take me a while to clean out got to get these fans out of here I think I'm going to stick with the GED
wings I like them for a couple reasons they undervolt really well plus the
blades come right off so it means you can clean them out really easily and
then uh just pop them back in there so
that's awesome plus it's one of the few high quality fans that comes in 120 mil
92 mil um and whatever other sizes you need I'm going to stick with air
penetrators for the radiator in the bottom as well I don't see the point of
uh spending money on fans if I already have good high quality ones that I can
just clean up now Reservoir this is something that's a bit tricky this is my
this is my most current one so this is my problem with the MCR micro it always
gunks up because no Loop is 100% clean
and to you know lesser or greater extents this one's epic so it's pretty
uh yeah it's pretty pretty disgusting and it's impossible to clean um so I'm
either going to go with a fresh MCR micro so here's a new one this is a red
two so it's got the uh the fill port in the bottom I think yeah so it has the
fill port in the bottom all those are rev ones um so I'm either going to do
that or I'm going to go with uh the xspc
acrylic tank reservoir for the Lang D5 cuz I don't have a ton of space in the
basement down here once I put in that thick um 480 mm radiator and the power
power supply I'm left with just a tiny bit of space here for cable routing and
uh and for the pump and Reservoir so I might go that route remember the
fittings for the radiator come out over here as well so it's very cramped in
there um and since T tidying up the cabling is one of the goals for this
build I'm going to have to figure out a smarter way to do that so the reservoir
top goes on instead of this piece right here you just screw the pump unit into
it and then it acts as both a pump top
to theoretically improve performance of I don't really care about that as well
as a reservoir so that's probably the route we're going to go for that one of
the other things I'm sort of considering
since I'm going to have to go to probably a plating shop anyway to get
these uh to get these stripped is maybe plating the Copperheads cuz right now
there's no way I'd consider using these in the build just because the color
scheme is just I mean terrible you can't
have silver remember this is like a true silver color silver gold and copper in
the same build that simply will not fly
but I do have two of these so I could potentially do uh one on each side of
the memory in order to I mean it's going to be really busy tubing wise though so
yeah I still got to think about that whether or not I want to water cool the
RAM I know there's no performance benefit don't worry guys I know this
isn't even real Copperhead memory this is just a this is just cheap memory with
uh with the copperhead heat spreader look it's just DDR3 uh 1600 cl9 like
there's nothing special about about it but I just wanted the copper head uh
sink so that I focus focus Copperhead sink so that I
could do uh so I could show them off in the ultimate water cooling guide so uh
that was my whole motivation there uh what are other things that I
that I want to sort of talk about I can show you guys more about the machine you
can see how disgusting it gets with all the like cat hair and like look at that I
can't even I can't even scrape this off I might even have to like pressure wash
this thing I'm not really sure how I'm going to get it clean I thought about
painting the case itself but I love the finish of the Silverstone tj07 um so I
yeah I think I'd be doing a disservice to this particular case by by painting
and it's really not in that bad shape this is a very durable finish that's on
this particular case especially on here the side panels are not in nearly as
good condition but painting is is an
expenditure once again that I don't really need and with uh you know rotten
creatures like that one over there um it's yeah likely to get scratched and
all that so uh one other small problem I
have is that my motherboard tray one of the you can see that the one right in
the center of the frame that hole is actually bigger than the other two one
of those is stripped so I've thought
about whether or not I want to bother trying to get a new one from Silverstone
or something like that I I don't know what to do about that I mean I could
retap them all a different side and use like custom screws in order to hold in
all my adding cards but once again it's kind of like do I want to go through the
hassle because the thing that's going to be installed in there is going to be the
graphics card which is going to have two screws in it anyhow so I'm not really
that concerned about it um oh yeah the
last thing I'm probably going to powder coat is the housing for this so since
I'm sending it down to uh to Mountain mods I might as well have them deal with
that as well and then I think that's it for for metal stuff I'm going to stick
with my uh my shiny um shiny PCI slot covers I really
like the look of these um you know goes
with stuff like this sort of you can't really tell but this is also very mirror
finish it's just Dusty yeah there we go
okay so uh moving on to the next thing oh yeah along the the same note of the
gunk that's built up and that uh that GTX 480 block that um caused my whole
Loop to go all cloudy and murky I mean this is the state of the tubing that uh
that was in my that was in my loop at the time I'm going to have to do
something about my radiators because I'm not going to replace them because that's
hold on I'm just going to turn off the auto white balance or rather turn it on
uh just okay so we're in the bathroom here so yeah once again it's an
expenditure I don't really need and uh
you can't even you can't even really get
a better radiator than the one I'm already using anyway the thermo one so
what is the point I might as well do what I can in order to salvage it right
um you know what I lost the tubing I was going to use give me a sec guys so this
is not the best way to cleanse radiators so I got my thermal chill one uh to 4x1
120 mil and I've got this is this is awesome this is my U Hardware Labs black
ice Pro two this is the first radiator I ever bought it's in horrible shape all
of these threads are stripped to hell
but uh I hold on to it just because you know it's my one of it's one of the few
things I have left although I still have my Appo my original swifttech Appo which
was also in my first water cooling like custom water cooling Loop um so yeah I
continue to use it cuz you can't really see it anyway so yeah uh here you can
actually see I don't know if you guys can see that you see all the gunk in the
water there you can see like dust in particulate matter um that's obviously
part of the water cool now that it's uh
got all those metal corrosion bits floating around in it so to cleanse
these if I was a purist I would probably be using some kind of like filtration
system or something like that but what I'm going to do since I'm just going to
ghetto it is um just run water I might
do hot water at first and then switch over to cold water and run it all night
but I'm just going to hook these two radiators
up I'm going to take this piece of tubing
and I'm going to tape it into the
faucet yeah how's that for a product placement right there got that taped on
there and then I'm just going to run the water for a little bit
here I know this is not the best way to
do this just because of a couple things so one is the uh the metal ions that can
exist in tap water so yeah that's going to leave a bit of a
deposit here but I think the net result is still going to be better than what I
had going on in there before uh it's a bit of a waste of water as well the good
news is I live in British Columbia Canada where water costs almost nothing
my cat's very curious about what the heck's going on in his sink this is sort
of the cat bathroom cuz they have their food and their water in there um so yeah
there I think that's pretty much the update for now cleaning up my water cooling stuff and uh still some
decisions to be made got to send away some parts so it might be a little while
before I have another update but uh will keep you guys posted don't forget to
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