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so hopefully that looked pretty cool because I'm currently at Square One all

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amethyst crystals yep as you may have seen I

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wasn't just going to have colored light representing the inside of a geode I I

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want it to really feel like you're looking inside of an actual geode that

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happens to have some Wicked looking computer parts and in order to make it

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look like that I must build so without

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further Ado let's get to

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it hp's new Omen X lineup comes equipped

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with Intel's 7th generation core i7 processor check it out in the link in

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the video description hey yo homie G we building

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the computer see first things first I should probably see if this stuff is

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even going to function I've had some of these things for a while now um and

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they've just been kind of sitting here and I don't even know if they work

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W so right off the bat I need to actually like test all the stuff I've

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been sourcing the things for this computer for the greater part of 2016

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and now it's 2017 so I haven't taken

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some of these things over their boxes in so long that they have like dust on them

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the first thing I'm going to install into my strix x99 gaming motherboard is

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an i7 6900k which is going to be

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fantastic because I've been struggling on my twitch stream for a long time now

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with an i72600k and Windows 10 which don't

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really go very well together I can barely stream rocket League bring it

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one of the nice things about this motherboard too isn't just that like

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it's a really great looking motherboard and it's going to be a solid motherboard

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is this like RGB header down at the bottom right here not the easiest thing

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to see ever but I can plug in my like cable mod RGB cables into that and syn

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all the lighting in my system which is going to be rather awesome considering

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uh the importance of lighting in this build now I'm going to install some RAM

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some clev memory I really like this clev

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crass stuff I don't see very many people use it but I just think it looks awesome

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one thing that was pretty important when I was picking all these computer parts

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was that they looked nice but rather minimalistic because I didn't want the

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computer parts to visibly take away from

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the amethyst crystals I wanted them to accent it so white lighting or having

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Lighting in general was rather important and then the rest of it I basically just

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wanted it to be black I'm hoping I checked for

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compatibility with the cooler I did this so long ago that I don't remember but

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that's some tall memory and this is a big

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cooler man this looks amazing already have you ever wanted to like stop a

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build partway through and just be like it can stay like this now let's see if

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this cooler is even going to fit how am I supposed to open this I

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can't get it open I don't want to break it so

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that's what they want it to look like and in that configuration it would

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definitely not fit oh man okay okay

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hopefully my idea for how this should go will make it fit let's

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see come off fan oh my God maybe not the mounting is

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in a weird spot I think if this was in the middle it would actually fit to the

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point where I might need to take off like this entire black section in order

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to make it fit for those wondering why I would use an air cooler and not just go

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water cooling um the rig is called Geodude Geodude is a rock and ground

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type in Pokemon both of which are weak to water at the same time I can't put

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water in this build that wouldn't make any sense at all he would take more than

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just double damage from that it would be 4X the original damage of the water

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attack there is no way that I would risk

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Geodude I will make this work so I'm modifying the cooler to try to

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make the one side shorter as you can hopefully see right there and hopefully

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that'll get over the RAM I do know right now that these heat pipes also go too

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far out okay so I think it's actually going

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to work we've bent the heat pipes back there's like dents in the heat pipes

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from uh where I was pushing but I don't think we actually ruptured anything I

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was able to make uh the one side taller

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than the other yeah like it gets over the RAM and it doesn't really push the

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RAM over it all so now all I need to do

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is try to get this guy to go back on

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here somewhat like that so that you can't tell that I

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screwed up so it's like actually going to size up pretty well wonder if I can

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get the fan back in

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I did not think that would work at

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all oh my goodness I can't believe this is going on right now I've almost got

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the cooler on um bringing it lower

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by I'm an idiot I didn't put thermal paste

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on that wasn't even planned or scripted we just started

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filming damn it I've spent so long trying to screw

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this there you go so it worked

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everything's on I actually put freaking thermal paste on it this time uh it

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looks sort of horrible from this angle

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you can totally tell that it's wonked out but when you'll actually be looking

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at it in the case it looks

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fine now like 2 hours later we're

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finally continuing on with trying to see if any of the components even

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work great wonderful so all of the RAM

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is installed the CPU is installed the cooler is installed now I just need to

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get a GPU on here plug things into the power supply and make sure that we can

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actually post

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all right so power spy switch on time where is the power switch here it

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is CPU Cooler fan spinning graphics card fan spinning and then they turned off

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because they're supposed to do that power supply fan did the same thing I've

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got a monitor back here which is not

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responding oh hey okay everything does seem to be

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working moving on hell yeah now to put

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it in the case there we

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go it's upside down all

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right oh I'm excited to work with you

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again okay so iot tray I remember that I

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got to do that right

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now okay so I'm swapping out the default

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ASUS stricks logos um I never checked the manual on how to do this so

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hopefully just tearing them off was the approved method of removing them and I'm

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going to put on black and silver ones that came in the Box because this goes

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really well with my whole

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theme God damn I can just never touch

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that again all right into the computer

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go let me see what this looks like oh my

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God even with without all the drives and

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all the amethyst crystals this thing already has some weight to it oh jeez

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this is going to be one hell of a build so I got rid of the boring power spy

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cables and got this plain brown

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box anyways cable mod stuff hopefully

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this doesn't spill everywhere oh my goodness okay so I got a whole bunch of

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cable Combs which will come in use later for organizing cables mainly that are

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behind the motherboard trip and I got a bunch of lighting strips the

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cables that I went with I actually collaborated with the Forum mod team on

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their design are purple silver black and

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white in different variations depending on which cable you have and the SATA

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cables are just purple it's a pretty bright compared to the rest of the build

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but I did want them to stand out a little bit cuz they look beautiful so

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yeah I'm going to do like two more cable

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runs just for the graphics cards but

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everyone else needs to go for the day so

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time lapse mode

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engage so I had a rough night we had a lot of issues I spent like six freaking

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hours cable managing this thing and it's not as good as it was but I'm kind of

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done with that now so this is where we're going to be uh the power supply

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was not it things were bad it was showing LEDs on the motherboard but I

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couldn't actually turn the system on and it was Troublesome to figure out how I

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ended up swapping out the power spy trying a different one eating some pizza

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and working through it figured out that it was the graphics card cables I think

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they just weren't seated well enough into the power supply itself I must have

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tugged on them or something I'm not entirely sure but we are up and

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operational now so it is time to add the

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18 lbs of amethyst crystals the whole

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interesting part of this entire build is finally starting and I've got to wash

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some Stones now that they're all in the bath it's time to get rid of the like

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caked on dust and grime existing on basically all of them from lingering

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impurities and the grinding against each other that happened in shipping and

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storage for so long I'm going to use some scrubbing tools to get rid of what

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I can and hope that what I can't fix just won't show now that that's done I'm

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going to rinse them all off with distilled water just to ensure that

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they're at the very least clean before trying to secure them all I don't

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actually want to Tumble them tumbling them would make the surfaces smooth

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smooth and I want them to be kind of

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jagged this is just me like trying

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some okay so all the rocks are clean I've laid them out in like somewhat of a

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size order so I've got really small almost pebbl size amethysts over here

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and then they get really big over here um you can make jokes about how I'm

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feeling the positive energy of all the crystals because this looks freaking

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awesome this section right near the power spot here that hugs all the way up

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the side I love love that bit and then the top area here is more just a proof

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of concept it definitely needs some work there's too much gap between some of

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them and it's too easy to see the individual LEDs but if I can get the

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whole area looking like this that's what I'm going for I got a lot of work ahead

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of me so uh let's go

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look at this that's the glass fully

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on very

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nice so I'm like really sad uh hopefully

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you guys just watched a really cool time lapse of me putting in a huge amount of

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amethyst stones and then I did a whole bunch more work after the camera died

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and finished up with what we've got right now as you can tell though it's

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off and the CPU is out of the socket and I have some other weird RAM in

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there the entire right hand side of

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memory doesn't work this whole Bank of memory all four sticks none of it works

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it all detects in the BIOS as na not applicable no RAM there and if they're

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plugged in at all it is unstable doesn't matter what RAM I I use I swapped out

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the CPUs so this is a 6900k this is a

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6950x I tried both of them

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oh forget about that please that never happened don't no stop don't look at it

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anyways tried both of those doesn't work

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it's the motherboard the motherboard is the issue we have another x99 stricks in

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the office I can swap it out we can RMA this one everything's fine except I just

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spent all of those hours gluing it in

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place so the plan now is to try to do a

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motherboard rescue I have to get it out of there the top part won't be all that

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difficult to get out but the lower section is going to be a lot of work I

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have to get both the graphics cards out of there in order to get the motherboard out so in the end I had to take out all

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of the amethysts right up here and most of them coming along this way but then

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was able to get away with leaving this big one which is good and a couple other

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little ones as well but it might be a different story trying to get those

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graphics cards back inside now it's time to put the motherboard in which I have

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already prepped with the NVMe drive uh my 6900k and the mounting screws for my

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radiator um and I've swapped out the colors of the custom stricks logos so

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yeah time to go let's get the drives plugged in okay so the motherboard board

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is back in now I have to try to get those gpus back in the bottom GPU I'm a

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little bit worried about so oh I think I got it oh what is I was saying that it

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popped right there oh that is

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good okay all right that went far better than

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expected that wasn't too bad it works it

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actually works all 64 gigs fully detects

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and the SLI works I can verify it on this screen right over here everything

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is fine all I need to do now is put the amethysts back that I took out put the

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glass panels on do some performance testing and we're good so putting all

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those amethysts back worked fine it wasn't too hard I kind of got used to it

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at that point it looks great but we'll look at Glam footage of it in a moment

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for now benchmarking benchmarking for this was a little bit unique because

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what I really cared about was how much better it would stream video games so I

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had to bench Mark things while streaming using xsplit up to Twitch games acted a

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Metro last Light I went from seeing an average of 74 frames per second to an

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average of 120 that's fantastic by itself something like Tomb Raider I went

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from 65 FPS to still 65 FPS if I turned off

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xplit and didn't stream I did get 77 FPS

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but still but looking at minimums on the geothermal map I went from 4.45 FPS to

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direct X11 I went from an average of 19 to an average of 50 that's a pretty

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major Improvement DSX mankind I went from an average of 30 with a minimum of

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but all of those performance improvements aside the main thing that I like about this computer is what it

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looks like so we can stop looking at me and by the way I have a huge amount of

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hair right now and my beard is ridiculous because when we first started

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filming this I decided that I wouldn't get a haircut and I wouldn't shave until

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we were done cuz I knew it was going to take forever and I'm disgusting so after

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yeah while you're looking at GL Des footage on my computer I guess if you check out the link down below there's uh

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was so freaking cool and uh no I'm not

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going to link another video actually no I'm lying there will be another video up

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there eventually maybe now and then we can just keep the Glam footage going

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afterwards but it'll be the Fallout bomb build that I did which was another epic

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video I'll see you guys next time