so hopefully that looked pretty cool because I'm currently at Square One all
I have right now is a whole bunch of awesome computer parts and 18 lbs of
amethyst crystals yep as you may have seen I
wasn't just going to have colored light representing the inside of a geode I I
want it to really feel like you're looking inside of an actual geode that
happens to have some Wicked looking computer parts and in order to make it
look like that I must build so without
further Ado let's get to
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the video description hey yo homie G we building
the computer see first things first I should probably see if this stuff is
even going to function I've had some of these things for a while now um and
they've just been kind of sitting here and I don't even know if they work
W so right off the bat I need to actually like test all the stuff I've
been sourcing the things for this computer for the greater part of 2016
and now it's 2017 so I haven't taken
some of these things over their boxes in so long that they have like dust on them
the first thing I'm going to install into my strix x99 gaming motherboard is
an i7 6900k which is going to be
fantastic because I've been struggling on my twitch stream for a long time now
with an i72600k and Windows 10 which don't
really go very well together I can barely stream rocket League bring it
one of the nice things about this motherboard too isn't just that like
it's a really great looking motherboard and it's going to be a solid motherboard
is this like RGB header down at the bottom right here not the easiest thing
to see ever but I can plug in my like cable mod RGB cables into that and syn
all the lighting in my system which is going to be rather awesome considering
uh the importance of lighting in this build now I'm going to install some RAM
some clev memory I really like this clev
crass stuff I don't see very many people use it but I just think it looks awesome
one thing that was pretty important when I was picking all these computer parts
was that they looked nice but rather minimalistic because I didn't want the
computer parts to visibly take away from
the amethyst crystals I wanted them to accent it so white lighting or having
Lighting in general was rather important and then the rest of it I basically just
wanted it to be black I'm hoping I checked for
compatibility with the cooler I did this so long ago that I don't remember but
that's some tall memory and this is a big
cooler man this looks amazing already have you ever wanted to like stop a
build partway through and just be like it can stay like this now let's see if
this cooler is even going to fit how am I supposed to open this I
can't get it open I don't want to break it so
that's what they want it to look like and in that configuration it would
definitely not fit oh man okay okay
hopefully my idea for how this should go will make it fit let's
see come off fan oh my God maybe not the mounting is
in a weird spot I think if this was in the middle it would actually fit to the
point where I might need to take off like this entire black section in order
to make it fit for those wondering why I would use an air cooler and not just go
water cooling um the rig is called Geodude Geodude is a rock and ground
type in Pokemon both of which are weak to water at the same time I can't put
water in this build that wouldn't make any sense at all he would take more than
just double damage from that it would be 4X the original damage of the water
attack there is no way that I would risk
Geodude I will make this work so I'm modifying the cooler to try to
make the one side shorter as you can hopefully see right there and hopefully
that'll get over the RAM I do know right now that these heat pipes also go too
far out okay so I think it's actually going
to work we've bent the heat pipes back there's like dents in the heat pipes
from uh where I was pushing but I don't think we actually ruptured anything I
was able to make uh the one side taller
than the other yeah like it gets over the RAM and it doesn't really push the
RAM over it all so now all I need to do
is try to get this guy to go back on
here somewhat like that so that you can't tell that I
screwed up so it's like actually going to size up pretty well wonder if I can
get the fan back in
I did not think that would work at
all oh my goodness I can't believe this is going on right now I've almost got
the cooler on um bringing it lower
by I'm an idiot I didn't put thermal paste
on that wasn't even planned or scripted we just started
filming damn it I've spent so long trying to screw
this there you go so it worked
everything's on I actually put freaking thermal paste on it this time uh it
looks sort of horrible from this angle
you can totally tell that it's wonked out but when you'll actually be looking
at it in the case it looks
fine now like 2 hours later we're
finally continuing on with trying to see if any of the components even
work great wonderful so all of the RAM
is installed the CPU is installed the cooler is installed now I just need to
get a GPU on here plug things into the power supply and make sure that we can
actually post
all right so power spy switch on time where is the power switch here it
is CPU Cooler fan spinning graphics card fan spinning and then they turned off
because they're supposed to do that power supply fan did the same thing I've
got a monitor back here which is not
responding oh hey okay everything does seem to be
working moving on hell yeah now to put
it in the case there we
go it's upside down all
right oh I'm excited to work with you
again okay so iot tray I remember that I
got to do that right
now okay so I'm swapping out the default
ASUS stricks logos um I never checked the manual on how to do this so
hopefully just tearing them off was the approved method of removing them and I'm
going to put on black and silver ones that came in the Box because this goes
really well with my whole
theme God damn I can just never touch
that again all right into the computer
we
go let me see what this looks like oh my
God even with without all the drives and
all the amethyst crystals this thing already has some weight to it oh jeez
this is going to be one hell of a build so I got rid of the boring power spy
cables and got this plain brown
box anyways cable mod stuff hopefully
this doesn't spill everywhere oh my goodness okay so I got a whole bunch of
cable Combs which will come in use later for organizing cables mainly that are
behind the motherboard trip and I got a bunch of lighting strips the
cables that I went with I actually collaborated with the Forum mod team on
their design are purple silver black and
white in different variations depending on which cable you have and the SATA
cables are just purple it's a pretty bright compared to the rest of the build
but I did want them to stand out a little bit cuz they look beautiful so
yeah I'm going to do like two more cable
runs just for the graphics cards but
everyone else needs to go for the day so
time lapse mode
engage so I had a rough night we had a lot of issues I spent like six freaking
hours cable managing this thing and it's not as good as it was but I'm kind of
done with that now so this is where we're going to be uh the power supply
was not it things were bad it was showing LEDs on the motherboard but I
couldn't actually turn the system on and it was Troublesome to figure out how I
ended up swapping out the power spy trying a different one eating some pizza
and working through it figured out that it was the graphics card cables I think
they just weren't seated well enough into the power supply itself I must have
tugged on them or something I'm not entirely sure but we are up and
operational now so it is time to add the
18 lbs of amethyst crystals the whole
interesting part of this entire build is finally starting and I've got to wash
some Stones now that they're all in the bath it's time to get rid of the like
caked on dust and grime existing on basically all of them from lingering
impurities and the grinding against each other that happened in shipping and
storage for so long I'm going to use some scrubbing tools to get rid of what
I can and hope that what I can't fix just won't show now that that's done I'm
going to rinse them all off with distilled water just to ensure that
they're at the very least clean before trying to secure them all I don't
actually want to Tumble them tumbling them would make the surfaces smooth
smooth and I want them to be kind of
jagged this is just me like trying
some okay so all the rocks are clean I've laid them out in like somewhat of a
size order so I've got really small almost pebbl size amethysts over here
and then they get really big over here um you can make jokes about how I'm
feeling the positive energy of all the crystals because this looks freaking
awesome this section right near the power spot here that hugs all the way up
the side I love love that bit and then the top area here is more just a proof
of concept it definitely needs some work there's too much gap between some of
them and it's too easy to see the individual LEDs but if I can get the
whole area looking like this that's what I'm going for I got a lot of work ahead
of me so uh let's go
look at this that's the glass fully
on very
nice so I'm like really sad uh hopefully
you guys just watched a really cool time lapse of me putting in a huge amount of
amethyst stones and then I did a whole bunch more work after the camera died
and finished up with what we've got right now as you can tell though it's
off and the CPU is out of the socket and I have some other weird RAM in
there the entire right hand side of
memory doesn't work this whole Bank of memory all four sticks none of it works
it all detects in the BIOS as na not applicable no RAM there and if they're
plugged in at all it is unstable doesn't matter what RAM I I use I swapped out
the CPUs so this is a 6900k this is a
6950x I tried both of them
oh forget about that please that never happened don't no stop don't look at it
anyways tried both of those doesn't work
it's the motherboard the motherboard is the issue we have another x99 stricks in
the office I can swap it out we can RMA this one everything's fine except I just
spent all of those hours gluing it in
place so the plan now is to try to do a
motherboard rescue I have to get it out of there the top part won't be all that
difficult to get out but the lower section is going to be a lot of work I
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
of the amethysts right up here and most of them coming along this way but then
was able to get away with leaving this big one which is good and a couple other
little ones as well but it might be a different story trying to get those
graphics cards back inside now it's time to put the motherboard in which I have
already prepped with the NVMe drive uh my 6900k and the mounting screws for my
radiator um and I've swapped out the colors of the custom stricks logos so
yeah time to go let's get the drives plugged in okay so the motherboard board
is back in now I have to try to get those gpus back in the bottom GPU I'm a
little bit worried about so oh I think I got it oh what is I was saying that it
popped right there oh that is
good okay all right that went far better than
expected that wasn't too bad it works it
actually works all 64 gigs fully detects
and the SLI works I can verify it on this screen right over here everything
is fine all I need to do now is put the amethysts back that I took out put the
glass panels on do some performance testing and we're good so putting all
those amethysts back worked fine it wasn't too hard I kind of got used to it
at that point it looks great but we'll look at Glam footage of it in a moment
for now benchmarking benchmarking for this was a little bit unique because
what I really cared about was how much better it would stream video games so I
had to bench Mark things while streaming using xsplit up to Twitch games acted a
little bit oddly but there was pretty huge Improvement it's something like
Metro last Light I went from seeing an average of 74 frames per second to an
average of 120 that's fantastic by itself something like Tomb Raider I went
from 65 FPS to still 65 FPS if I turned off
xplit and didn't stream I did get 77 FPS
but still but looking at minimums on the geothermal map I went from 4.45 FPS to
28 which is pretty substantial Hitman
direct X11 I went from an average of 19 to an average of 50 that's a pretty
major Improvement DSX mankind I went from an average of 30 with a minimum of
21 and a maximum of 39 to an average of
56 a minimum of 40 and a maximum of 91
but all of those performance improvements aside the main thing that I like about this computer is what it
looks like so we can stop looking at me and by the way I have a huge amount of
hair right now and my beard is ridiculous because when we first started
filming this I decided that I wouldn't get a haircut and I wouldn't shave until
we were done cuz I knew it was going to take forever and I'm disgusting so after
this video I'm going to go take care of this that'll be that'll be a good thing
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afterwards but it'll be the Fallout bomb build that I did which was another epic
video I'll see you guys next time