WEBVTT 00:00:06.640 --> 00:00:13.360 the Corsair flash Voyager go is the easy way to move photos music and videos 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:17.320 between your Android device and your PC click now to learn 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:22.720 more so the funny thing about that I'm holding a slate right now 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:27.800 click is that I've actually been working on building this computer since before 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:31.759 we even had any practices like slating or I had my own company and a staff of 00:00:30.119 --> 00:00:35.800 people all for the sake of making YouTube videos about computers and the 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:38.680 irony there I guess is that we've been doing this professionally all this time 00:00:37.079 --> 00:00:44.640 and I still can't manage to actually build my own computer and complete it 00:00:41.239 --> 00:00:46.320 it's been mostly done for a while but 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:51.160 there were some delays in releasing the video because the LED strips I'm using 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:56.120 these are phobia UV LED slips they're strips they're actually fairly unique um 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:58.680 most of the LEDs on my original strips actually failed so we weren't going to 00:00:57.359 --> 00:01:02.559 be able to film it very well so I finally gotten around to swapping them 00:01:00.519 --> 00:01:08.000 out with some brand new ones and we are ready to take you guys on a tour of my 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:13.159 personal rig so we'll start with the component selection the CPU is a 4960x I 00:01:11.360 --> 00:01:19.799 don't really recommend extreme editions though um really what I recommend is 00:01:16.600 --> 00:01:21.240 4770k if you need hyperthreading 4570k 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:24.520 if you're just gaming four threads is enough and then if you're doing content 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:30.640 creation or any kind of professional work where you can really leverage additional course 4930k those are the 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:34.720 three CPUs that are like really the high performance options within Intel's 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:39.320 lineup for the RAM I'm using crucial's ballistics Tracer this is actually an 00:01:37.240 --> 00:01:45.119 early revision of the memory that's not really compatible with the x79 platform 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:46.680 at all and uh has all kinds of problems 00:01:45.119 --> 00:01:50.640 unless I run it at extremely loose timings and it's all like crappy I have 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:54.680 better RAM there's definitely RAM that will work better with my board but for 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:59.399 the sheer blame factor I did go with this stuff it's not perfect and it's 00:01:56.479 --> 00:02:04.880 funny because like crucial has a utility so you can program the LEDs on it now by 00:02:02.039 --> 00:02:08.319 default they're going to be um activity LEDs so they'll flash slowly if you're 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:13.760 not doing much and then they'll flash really fast if you're doing something really intens intensive but you can 00:02:12.480 --> 00:02:21.840 configure them to do all kinds of different patterns and stuff unfortunately crucial's missing two 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:23.920 crucial patterns and that is off and 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:28.080 solid I don't really want them to flash like this what I would like is to have 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:31.239 the underglow ones solid the way that they are and I would like to actually 00:02:29.519 --> 00:02:34.480 turn top ones off cuz I find them a little bit over the top but I'm still 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:39.879 going to stick with them anyway for the motherboard I've got a SS's workstation 00:02:37.480 --> 00:02:45.519 class L LGA 2011 board this is the new Ivy Bridge e compatible model P9 x79 ews 00:02:43.480 --> 00:02:50.239 is the E is the new part um the reason I went with the workstation class 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:53.080 motherboard is I'm just so sick of 00:02:50.239 --> 00:02:57.440 consumer grade stuff just not really working right it feels like the more 00:02:55.480 --> 00:03:03.200 features anyone tries to add to something it's like this router has like 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:05.799 beam technology it like focuses your you 00:03:03.200 --> 00:03:11.720 know antenna as like a dish it wear your laptop it like I just want something 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:12.840 that's a Workhorse workstation grade and 00:03:11.720 --> 00:03:17.599 this one does it it's got the overclocking stuff it's got a decent 00:03:14.760 --> 00:03:23.360 audio codec it's got USB 3 like it's not a server board where it's like green PCB 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:25.760 and like two USB ports at the back but 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:30.319 it's it's also not over the top with like OC panels This and voltage 00:03:27.720 --> 00:03:34.879 checkpoints that just plain Works absolutely love the board it also 00:03:32.239 --> 00:03:38.760 has tons of PCI Express expansion um I wasn't sure at the time of originally 00:03:36.959 --> 00:03:42.680 planning this build if I was going to go SLI so that would take up four of the 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:46.400 slots and then at the time um I was using a sound card it's actually still 00:03:44.360 --> 00:03:50.319 in there but I don't actually use it anymore so I was using a sound card I 00:03:48.599 --> 00:03:53.400 wanted a 10 gbit Nick which I have pulled out now because I don't have a 10 00:03:51.920 --> 00:03:58.560 GB switch at my house anymore and finally I have a raid card in the rig as 00:03:55.599 --> 00:04:01.959 well so I wanted seven PCI Express slots so that's another reason to go with a 00:03:59.959 --> 00:04:05.680 workstation class board like this it is a little bit on the wider side which is 00:04:03.920 --> 00:04:11.040 kind of funny because when I was cutting the hole in the motherboard tray for my 00:04:07.920 --> 00:04:13.760 24 pin connector to wrap around I had to 00:04:11.040 --> 00:04:18.759 position it um as if I might someday put a regular ATX board in and it still 00:04:16.400 --> 00:04:22.160 won't show and be ugly so I had to like squeeze those cables to get them out 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:27.840 around the uh the edge of the motherboard because it actually goes over the the uh the hole that I cut on 00:04:25.880 --> 00:04:32.120 the motherboard tray uh for the GPU I'm running a GTX Titan my original graphics 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:36.360 card solution was a 590 or I was thinking about going quad SLI with 590s 00:04:34.280 --> 00:04:40.639 but quad SLI just really doesn't make any sense to me it um doesn't scale 00:04:39.320 --> 00:04:46.000 particularly well unless you're running it very very high resolutions and it 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:49.240 introduces some driver issues that there's just no real solution for other 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:54.000 than to turn off SLI and if I'm going to put four gpus in my system we're talking 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:57.960 like a couple thousand dollars worth of gear I better be using it all the time 00:04:55.960 --> 00:05:02.199 or I'm just not going to put it in so um the only reason I upgraded from the 5 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:07.800 which is actually a faster card than the GTX Titan in terms of raw performance uh 00:05:05.400 --> 00:05:11.160 was that I really wanted game stream for my NVIDIA Shield so that I could stream 00:05:09.479 --> 00:05:16.560 to myself and you have to have a Kepler based GPU for that to work so the Titan 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:21.039 ended up in here because we didn't have duplicates of any other graphics cards 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:24.479 we had two Titans so I was like okay the one Kepler that I can actually grab 00:05:22.880 --> 00:05:28.600 happens to be a Titan so I threw that in there we also had a water block for it 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:31.800 from cool an that is absolutely beautiful so that why I went with that 00:05:30.520 --> 00:05:36.680 I'll talk more about the water cooling after for the power supply I have an XFX 00:05:33.960 --> 00:05:40.880 th000 watt 80 plus Platinum modular power supply that I sleeved myself I 00:05:38.520 --> 00:05:43.880 didn't do a great job of the sleeving um you can do much better if you 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:48.440 individually sleeve each one I am using murder or MD PCX sleeving or whatever 00:05:46.759 --> 00:05:51.720 that stuff is I got it from Charles from murderbox um so I'm using really good 00:05:50.400 --> 00:05:57.319 sleeving but I did it a little bit differently than most people instead of doing each individual wire I actually 00:05:55.080 --> 00:06:01.639 did each sleeve over two wires so you can't get quite as close to the 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:03.319 connector this way but I actually find 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:07.080 it looks a little bit cleaner with fewer wires and it did make the uh the cables 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:10.080 less bulky when I was trying to Route them around inside which was important 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:14.319 as you're going to see when I show you the cable management at the back and how 00:06:12.440 --> 00:06:18.039 difficult that was the reason I went with this power supply this is what like 00:06:15.960 --> 00:06:22.880 the only reason was that it was based on the same platform as seic 1000 watt 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:27.919 platinum and that was the first power supply that had the uh zero debel fan 00:06:25.919 --> 00:06:31.759 feature so that the the power supply actually only turns on its fan when you 00:06:29.840 --> 00:06:36.560 get to I think it's around 20 to 30% load so most of the time that fan 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:40.440 actually doesn't even spin um speaking of fans that don't even spin my fan 00:06:38.599 --> 00:06:43.840 controller is an mcubed T balancer that's strapped on the back I'll show 00:06:41.599 --> 00:06:47.759 you that more later but on this side there are four fans on the uh quad 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:52.440 Radiator in the bottom that's an old thermal chill pa1 120.4 not quite 00:06:50.880 --> 00:06:56.960 classic thermal chill it's got the 15 mil spacing but uh it's still Thermo 00:06:55.520 --> 00:07:00.960 chill so it's like old school water cooling high-end junk um so there's four 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:05.960 down there those one spin all the time then there's two on a hardware Labs 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:09.960 black ice Pro that is a pretty ancient Radiator in the front that's actually my 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:15.120 first water cooling radiator first one I ever bought with my Appo block and I 00:07:13.479 --> 00:07:20.280 think I just did my CPU the first time I picked up an mCP 350 pump way back then 00:07:18.599 --> 00:07:24.720 and uh that that ended up failing at some point I think I don't really like 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:28.479 those half height pumps the mCP the DDC series not a big fan I'm using a D5 now 00:07:27.280 --> 00:07:32.960 so that one's hidden in the basement it's got the jankiest 00:07:30.400 --> 00:07:36.440 um anti vibration Mount ever where actually it just has a little like 00:07:34.520 --> 00:07:39.840 rubber sleeved wire between it and the side panel so that it doesn't pass any 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:43.080 vibration to the case so I've got a black ice Pro in the front that has two 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:46.440 fans that aren't spinning and then you may have actually noticed that the two 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:50.159 fans in the back here are also not spinning the two in the top do spin all 00:07:48.039 --> 00:07:54.400 the time so the mqt balancer takes care of that so when the system is just 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:57.879 running at the desktop or web browsing most of the fans in it are actually off 00:07:56.800 --> 00:08:04.840 and then the other ones are running at extremely low speeds and then as soon as I ramp up speeds um everything kicks 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:07.360 into high gear so I have two temperature sensors one at the top of the 00:08:05.840 --> 00:08:12.000 motherboard and then one that is actually taped with thermal compound 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:15.199 between it and the bottom radiator in place so that I can monitor water 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:20.639 temperatures and air temperatures within the case and the appropriate fans react 00:08:17.879 --> 00:08:24.240 accordingly whenever those temperatures increase so I don't remember where I was 00:08:22.520 --> 00:08:29.960 going with that so raid card um that's an LSI 9268 I at the time that was an 00:08:27.479 --> 00:08:36.039 extremely high-end card and was optimized for maximum throughput on 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:38.599 large SSD raid zero arrays which brings 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:42.760 us to my SSD arrangement I might not show these to you guys yet but there are 00:08:40.479 --> 00:08:45.640 eight ssds around the back of the case ah what the hey we might as well just 00:08:43.880 --> 00:08:48.000 like start cracking this baby open so there are 00:08:48.040 --> 00:08:54.839 eight man these are tight with the powder coating I'll talk about the case 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:57.959 after because the case is quite a story lots of lots of things altered on that 00:08:56.760 --> 00:09:04.240 oh I guess I should talk about the side panel before we get into the ssds okay so the side panel was a nightmare 00:09:02.279 --> 00:09:08.120 because I don't like Plexi side panels because they're not really very clear 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:12.200 they're easy to scratch you can put micr scratches all over a Plexi side panel 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:16.120 just by wiping it down with a microfiber cloth like they're just terrible um 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:21.440 they're very very reflective compared to Glass and they're just not as good but 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:26.399 unfortunately what I wanted was to get someone to cut a glass panel and very 00:09:23.920 --> 00:09:31.320 very carefully drill holes so that I could actually Mount the glass panel on 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:35.760 the back with bolts through the front so it would be extremely secure they 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:40.480 delivered me a piece of glass with all the holes drilled but I gave them my 00:09:38.079 --> 00:09:44.839 side panel to do the sizing and they a couple of the holes were actually off on 00:09:43.040 --> 00:09:49.480 the glass and you know what they did they took my side panel not painted yet 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:54.839 fortunately they took my side panel and just like widened the holes so I was 00:09:52.079 --> 00:09:58.279 like oh okay great not only can I not use this because it's going to look 00:09:56.279 --> 00:10:01.040 terrible and the piece of glass broke when they were drilling the last hole or 00:09:59.720 --> 00:10:05.720 whatever so not only have you not delivered me a usable piece of glass you've widened the hole on a side panel 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:09.600 that I actually can't replace because every tj07 is a little bit different and 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:12.360 Silverstone won't even give you a new side panel because there's a chance it 00:10:10.920 --> 00:10:16.600 won't fit with the curvature at the front so what I ended up having to do 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:20.120 then is a kind of a more ghetto solution so I just went to a glass shop got a 00:10:18.160 --> 00:10:24.040 regular piece of glass and they offered to use an industrial double-sided tape 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:28.240 to tape it on for me that's how it's attached then I went to Home Depot I got 00:10:25.880 --> 00:10:32.360 a couple little finishing nubin things there and I just glued them on so that's 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:38.079 how the side panel works I wish I had a more sort of glamorous story about that 00:10:35.680 --> 00:10:41.920 um what was I talking about right RAID controller so I guess this will be my 00:10:39.880 --> 00:10:46.279 first opportunity to show you guys the horribleness at the back here it is an 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:51.079 absolute rat Nest back there and part of it's my fault but part of it is just 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:57.760 that uh there's a lot of cables going on back there so that is the eight Drive 00:10:53.760 --> 00:11:00.639 raid zero array that powers my personal 00:10:57.760 --> 00:11:05.040 machine it is kind of ridiculous it's actually stupid nobody nobody people ask 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:08.760 me about my personal machine all the time and I say just because I'm running 00:11:06.800 --> 00:11:14.000 something doesn't mean you should nobody should run this configuration that is 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:16.079 eight Corsair Force refurbished ssds 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:21.639 running in raid zero off of that raid card it is pretty much going to fail at 00:11:19.920 --> 00:11:26.279 some point but I do nightly backups and I keep almost nothing of substance on it 00:11:24.680 --> 00:11:30.560 other than maybe the odd save game here and there so everything else goes off to 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:34.120 a NZ so that's why I have an Intel Nick in here just for slightly better 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:39.200 performance to the nas it really doesn't make much of a difference these days especially because a workstation board 00:11:36.839 --> 00:11:42.680 like this has an excellent Nick on it already so the cable management for that 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:46.360 was done with one of the case modifications that I had to do which was 00:11:44.720 --> 00:11:49.959 cutting Cable Management holes down at the bottom of the motherboard tray in 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:55.720 addition to the CPU tray cutout that the tj7 doesn't come with natively the 24 00:11:52.639 --> 00:11:57.279 pin and um 8 Pin and six pin for the 00:11:55.720 --> 00:12:01.800 graphics card cutouts that are over here on this side as well as these cable 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:05.959 management holes that are cut into the um the divider between the top of the 00:12:04.120 --> 00:12:09.600 case and the basement just so that I can get cables up to the top without using 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:13.480 the cable management holes that are included in that divider because they're 00:12:11.959 --> 00:12:18.040 they're quite ugly you can't really hide the cables there at all so what kind of 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:22.440 performance do I get out of this well well over 1 Gigabyte per second reads 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:27.720 and wrs so it's extremely fast I actually changed over from these ssds to 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:30.360 just a single SSD for a little while because I don't remember I was doing 00:12:28.880 --> 00:12:34.199 some kind of Maintenance and I didn't notice immediately um that there was a 00:12:32.760 --> 00:12:37.800 difference but then when I went back to these ones I was like I had forgotten 00:12:36.079 --> 00:12:41.440 how fast it was it's actually really really really fast just again not 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:44.360 something I really recommend I do have an optical drive in my system something 00:12:43.079 --> 00:12:49.800 that a couple of you have probably noticed by now and the story there is 00:12:47.040 --> 00:12:54.680 that I originally added an optical drive to it because I got a great deal on a 00:12:51.760 --> 00:13:00.880 fairly unique item at the time LG did an HD DVD SL Blu-ray Reading Drive it was a 00:12:59.639 --> 00:13:07.639 couple hundred bucks but I got it for like a hundred and it was also a DVD 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:11.240 rewriter and a CD writer I think I'm not 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:13.560 sure if it can yes and wait hold on yeah 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:17.600 so so it records DVDs and CDs and reads Blu-rays and HD DVDs now I was like okay 00:13:16.079 --> 00:13:22.360 this is the last optical drive I'll ever need and it turns out I was right so 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:27.240 it's in there so the reason that it's still in there is because I only sourced 00:13:24.760 --> 00:13:32.839 six of these These are original antech 900 front cage covers and I only sourced 00:13:31.079 --> 00:13:36.680 six of them so I didn't have a seventh to put in even if I did want to take the 00:13:34.560 --> 00:13:42.079 optical drive out plus the way that that front radiator mounted with just like a 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:46.399 piece of like sticky double-sided velcro thing rolled up under the bottom so that 00:13:43.839 --> 00:13:50.600 it like sticks in place and then Velcro on the bottom of the DVD drive and the 00:13:48.680 --> 00:13:55.560 radiator stuck to that I can't really take the optical drive out anyway so 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:57.600 that's why I have one um yeah doesn't 00:13:55.560 --> 00:14:01.079 make it's not great uh so the fan controller I guess I guess I I talked 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:05.680 about that already um I'll cover a couple more things about liquid cooling 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:09.360 I'm using bits power true silver 3/8 in 00:14:05.680 --> 00:14:12.079 ID 5/8 in O compressions I think that 38 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:15.240 ID 5/8 OD is pretty much The Sweet Spot in terms of performance because if you 00:14:13.800 --> 00:14:20.560 go lower than that you go down to like quar inch tubing you're going to drop about a degree of performance maybe two 00:14:18.839 --> 00:14:24.600 um and if you go up to 1 half it doesn't really make a difference and then the 00:14:22.160 --> 00:14:29.839 advantage of 38 over 1/2 is you can get much tighter Bend radi without kinking 00:14:27.839 --> 00:14:32.160 so I really really like thick wall 38 inch tubing and then these are the 00:14:30.920 --> 00:14:37.759 compressions that go with it the other thing is that you get better compatibility by going with 38 inch 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:42.839 tubing because half inch compressions especially if you get thick wall so 3/4 00:14:39.920 --> 00:14:46.360 inch OD uh tubing the compressions to go with those are huge and they barely fit 00:14:44.199 --> 00:14:51.800 on anything so that was why I went that route this is a t- virus Reservoir right 00:14:48.959 --> 00:14:55.920 here it's a clear outside um and then I my original one was actually frosted 00:14:53.680 --> 00:15:00.040 blue for the for the he double helix inside but um i r made it and they kind 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:03.800 of screwed it up they sent me back a clear one it actually looks just fine um 00:15:02.199 --> 00:15:07.720 it used to look a little bit better back when the cathode in there wasn't so 00:15:06.040 --> 00:15:13.959 faded out I got to get a new one and get it replaced but uh very very cool item 00:15:10.160 --> 00:15:16.839 you can get those from uh Frozen Q what 00:15:13.959 --> 00:15:21.120 else ah yes fans okay you may have also noticed the complete absence of Noctua 00:15:18.959 --> 00:15:25.519 fans yes I'm shallow part of the problem is not that 00:15:23.560 --> 00:15:29.440 I don't think Noctua fans can look good I think they can look good in some 00:15:26.920 --> 00:15:34.959 machines in fact um are upcoming Hackintosh build guide is going to have 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:36.600 noctu a fans in an h440 from NZXT and I 00:15:34.959 --> 00:15:40.720 think it looks really really sharp in there but the problem is that it needs 00:15:38.160 --> 00:15:44.600 to go with the rest of this system and it just doesn't so I needed blue fans 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:48.959 and the good news is there are some very high quality blue fans available so on 00:15:47.040 --> 00:15:53.279 my bottom radiator I'm using the original Silverstone air penetrators I 00:15:51.040 --> 00:15:56.639 think they're AP 121s or something like that so what's great about those is they 00:15:55.319 --> 00:16:01.759 take your airf flow and they turn them into kind of a a like a cyclone a funnel 00:15:59.839 --> 00:16:05.680 of air away from them and because the basement here only has this intake on 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:10.440 the rad which is by the way mounted with velcro just on the bottom so um takes 00:16:08.920 --> 00:16:14.360 the air flow through and then I want it to push it out the other side but 00:16:12.560 --> 00:16:17.839 there's nothing kind of containing that air flow because this is this is quite 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:21.079 open so I wanted something that is able to direct air flow like that so that's 00:16:19.319 --> 00:16:24.600 why I went with those there and then for everything that's visible up here in the 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:29.279 top I'm using GED Wings because they undervolt quite gracefully they're easy 00:16:26.959 --> 00:16:32.360 to clean you can actually pop the blade right off them if you want to clean them 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:36.880 which is quite okay I'm not going to do it now but that's quite nice and uh 00:16:34.639 --> 00:16:41.319 they're reasonably quiet even at LAD they also come with really nice rubber 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:44.279 grommets so was quite a chore to do this one but the rubber grommets are 00:16:42.680 --> 00:16:47.959 installed on the back ones and then the one on the inside where normally in the 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:52.319 tj07 you slide the fans in and then screw them in I had to get the fans in 00:16:50.079 --> 00:16:56.560 so I had to actually bend that cage Open Force the fans in somehow thread all the 00:16:54.880 --> 00:17:01.079 little rubber grommets through and then bend the cage back shut I cut my hands 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:03.880 every time I've had to do that and cable managing is kind of a nightmare as well 00:17:02.560 --> 00:17:06.880 because there's only a little tiny like Gap left where you can slip a wire 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:11.360 through it uh liquid cooling 00:17:09.280 --> 00:17:16.880 components I think that's pretty much it for the water oh yes that's not it so 00:17:13.959 --> 00:17:23.600 the uh sort of the the centerpiece of this rig is an apple gtz from swifttech 00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:26.160 that is the goldplated limited edition 00:17:23.600 --> 00:17:31.520 of it I got number 169 um I also had it altered a little 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:35.960 bit so the hold down plate is normally just I think it's more of a flat powder 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:40.280 coat but I've got Mountain mods's black wrinkle powder coat which matches the 00:17:37.679 --> 00:17:43.240 outside of the case um put on there aftermarket so I figured if I'm sending 00:17:41.679 --> 00:17:46.559 in the case I might as well send in that piece too the only thing in here that I 00:17:45.080 --> 00:17:50.280 could have powder coated I think that I didn't is the casing for the optical 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:55.240 drive that I just spray painted it still kind of bothers me when I look at it but 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:57.799 uh not that huge of a deal I guess and 00:17:55.240 --> 00:18:01.440 then I already mentioned the mCP 655 or D5 pump in the bottom I do really 00:17:59.840 --> 00:18:06.440 recommend if you're going to go with a D5 pump that you go with the variable 00:18:03.280 --> 00:18:08.240 speed one not only does it go to a 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:12.080 higher RPM than the fixed one which is fixed at about four out of five of the 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:15.880 variable one but when you turn it down all the way I keep mine all the way down 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:21.320 you're only going to lose a couple degrees to a few degrees of temperatures 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:23.039 and it is extremely quiet it's one of 00:18:21.320 --> 00:18:28.159 people talk about this all the time and it drives me crazy like the internet 00:18:24.760 --> 00:18:31.039 doesn't know silent silent is silent and 00:18:28.159 --> 00:18:36.480 not silent is not silent mCP 350s are not silent ddcs are not silent at all 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:41.760 they're loud and this one when you turn it down is legitimately extremely quiet 00:18:39.679 --> 00:18:46.720 almost silent I mean my mic's on my chest 00:18:43.880 --> 00:18:54.400 here that's what my rig sounds like nothing that is satisfactory anything 00:18:49.080 --> 00:18:56.640 else is not silent so there's that um I 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:59.320 think that's pretty much it for like the component choices so let's talk about 00:18:58.320 --> 00:19:06.520 the case the origin of this case I've had a lot of people ask me why do you why do you 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:08.720 use that tj07 that thing is ancient and 00:19:06.520 --> 00:19:12.640 you're right it was a gift from my wife way back when we were dating it was the 00:19:10.360 --> 00:19:15.840 first big ticket item present that she ever bought me so there's some 00:19:13.760 --> 00:19:20.480 sentimental value there and then there's also the fact that I personally don't 00:19:18.039 --> 00:19:25.120 think a better case has been made yet and better is a subjective word it means 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:29.640 different things to different people to me better means a combination of a lot 00:19:28.120 --> 00:19:33.640 of things it means means the design it means the build quality it means the 00:19:31.360 --> 00:19:36.840 craftsmanship that went into it are there cases with better features than 00:19:35.559 --> 00:19:43.840 this one that are perhaps more water cooling friendly you don't have to mount your front radiator with velcro and your 00:19:40.360 --> 00:19:46.200 bottom radiator with well also velcro um 00:19:43.840 --> 00:19:51.640 yes there are better cases in terms of features these days but the the feet the 00:19:49.360 --> 00:19:56.320 manufacturing feet of this single unibody piece that goes all the way from 00:19:54.440 --> 00:20:01.400 the back of the top to the back of the bottom and is a single thick piece of 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:05.480 aluminum has not been replicated since the tj07 except by the tj11 which I have 00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:10.440 a whole set of problems with aside from it being too big for me um I just don't 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:13.840 find it as um I don't find it as space efficient as the tj07 and I don't want 00:20:12.760 --> 00:20:17.720 anything bigger I mean this thing already weighs 59 Pounds full of 00:20:16.039 --> 00:20:22.200 Hardware I don't need anything any bigger or any heavier so that's that's 00:20:20.120 --> 00:20:25.640 my that's my whole thing there so the craftsmanship of it is something that I 00:20:23.840 --> 00:20:29.720 really appreciate I don't really like plastic if I don't have to use it and 00:20:28.039 --> 00:20:32.960 the other thing is why would I need to upgrade I've had a lot of people tell me 00:20:31.520 --> 00:20:37.240 why don't you get a switch 810 well because a switch 810 is plastic for one 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:41.520 thing and for two I think it's pretty Gody looking whereas this is a more a 00:20:39.640 --> 00:20:44.960 very clean very classical look and it fits all the hardware I need people are 00:20:43.360 --> 00:20:48.960 like oh the switch 810 fits this in this I don't care I'm running One graphics 00:20:46.919 --> 00:20:55.120 card it's sort of normal eatx board I don't have an XL ATX board I have six 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:58.840 fans 6 120 mm fans worth of radiator to 00:20:55.120 --> 00:21:00.520 cool a GPU and a CPU like that's it um 00:20:58.840 --> 00:21:03.360 so it's already extremely silent what do I need more for so anyway that's why I 00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:07.080 still have the tj7 there are some things where people 00:21:05.600 --> 00:21:11.720 have a good point though I've spent way too much on this tj07 I mean back in 00:21:09.880 --> 00:21:17.120 like my first build that I did in it where I really wanted to like go crazy 00:21:13.480 --> 00:21:19.440 on it um I wanted to get the mid plate 00:21:17.120 --> 00:21:23.440 actually polished so it's like a raw aluminum um stock and I wanted to get it 00:21:21.880 --> 00:21:27.000 polished to a mirr shine I'd seen it done before and it looked really really 00:21:25.080 --> 00:21:30.799 good so the place I took it to to get that done they completely screwed it up 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:34.480 they made a total mess of it and it was like completely unusable so that was the 00:21:32.520 --> 00:21:37.720 point where I was like okay well I will have to powder coat the interior so I 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:41.679 went to Mountain mods I got them to powder coat the interior this was all 00:21:39.320 --> 00:21:48.600 like the first time the outside still had the very beautiful stock anodized uh 00:21:44.840 --> 00:21:50.520 aluminum finish on it so when that got 00:21:48.600 --> 00:21:52.960 beat up and it was time to redo the build anyway and I was going to tear the 00:21:51.840 --> 00:21:57.080 whole thing apart that's another thing that's great about the tj07 again 00:21:54.840 --> 00:22:01.480 features that aren't on a spec sheet it can be taken apart completely it is 00:21:58.840 --> 00:22:04.120 assembled with screws not with rivets so but when it came time to take it apart 00:22:02.880 --> 00:22:08.320 again I was like okay I'm going to send the whole thing away I want to get it 00:22:05.919 --> 00:22:11.400 powder coated for the outside but the inside was all beat up from upgrading 00:22:10.080 --> 00:22:18.200 hardware and you know dinging it and stuff like that so I started looking into how to get powder coating stripped 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:21.520 oh extremely expensive involves like chemical baths and there's like no 00:22:20.039 --> 00:22:25.640 guarantees that the parts will even make it so I took a gamble they came out okay 00:22:24.080 --> 00:22:30.880 but I think it cost me a couple hundred bucks like it was ridiculous um but only 00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:33.880 there so one of these uh PCI screws it's not really threaded anymore I just have 00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:37.720 like some Loctite in there so that it stays and then other than that it 00:22:35.760 --> 00:22:41.640 survived the uh the chemical bath pretty well so I sent it away to Mountain mods 00:22:39.360 --> 00:22:46.200 to be coated again and other than one screw up on the right side panel which 00:22:43.720 --> 00:22:49.080 looks pretty ugly it actually came out really really well I think their black 00:22:47.679 --> 00:22:54.880 wrinkle finish is one of the most beautiful powder coating finishes available it's actually uses quite a 00:22:52.760 --> 00:22:58.520 glossy paint but then there's so much texture to the finish that the light 00:22:56.480 --> 00:23:03.799 scatters really well and it ends up having more like a a net matte effect 00:23:01.080 --> 00:23:06.320 anyway um so that that cost me another I don't know 150 bucks or whatever like 00:23:05.320 --> 00:23:10.840 that and people kind of look at and go well you could have just bought yourself a new case because you powder coated it 00:23:08.799 --> 00:23:16.360 once stripped the powder coating off powder coated it again I'm just like uh 00:23:13.240 --> 00:23:18.320 yeah you're probably right but you can't 00:23:16.360 --> 00:23:23.000 achieve this case with the changes that I've made to it including the cable 00:23:19.679 --> 00:23:24.600 management in the back and uh well 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:28.640 mostly the cable management in the back is all that I really added to it without 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:33.080 buying a tj7 and getting it powder put it anyway so buying a new tj07 still 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:36.799 costs like 350 or 400 bucks or whatever so there you go I might as well just 00:23:34.760 --> 00:23:40.799 reuse this one uh one other change I did make to the case is the front IO I've 00:23:38.600 --> 00:23:45.039 completely done away with the audio ports because I'm using an objective 2 00:23:42.760 --> 00:23:48.919 and odac now so I don't need the front audio on my case so all I have in there 00:23:46.520 --> 00:23:52.480 is two USB 3 ports which is something that the case doesn't come with by 00:23:50.159 --> 00:23:56.480 default this little uh this little uh door right here is actually kind of a 00:23:53.760 --> 00:24:00.600 funny story once I had the case painted the buildup of the paint made made it so 00:23:58.799 --> 00:24:04.559 that the stock magnet wasn't strong enough to attract the door and and cause 00:24:02.720 --> 00:24:10.360 it to close so it would just fall open so I had to sand down the powder coating 00:24:07.919 --> 00:24:13.880 on the steel piece inside the door and then I had to go steal a fridge magnet 00:24:12.520 --> 00:24:17.400 that had a rare earth magnet in it was one of those cute little like uh like 00:24:15.600 --> 00:24:21.159 bulletin board tack ones that has a rare earth magnet in it so I had just like 00:24:19.320 --> 00:24:24.760 cut that thing open and then steal the magnet out of it and then the magnet was 00:24:22.520 --> 00:24:27.760 too big to fit so I had to like file it down and like super glue it in there and 00:24:26.320 --> 00:24:33.799 that's the only reason that front door closes so that was uh that was pretty 00:24:30.120 --> 00:24:36.000 janky um front bays are just mounted 00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:39.960 with like wood screws basically there's a lot of things that are super imperfect 00:24:37.840 --> 00:24:45.000 about the machine but I think that's part of what gives it character right 00:24:41.919 --> 00:24:48.120 let's talk oh cable management at the 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:49.799 back so there's a lot of stuff back here 00:24:48.120 --> 00:24:54.000 there's the temp probes that help me control the fan speeds there's all the 00:24:51.960 --> 00:24:58.600 fans so every fan in the system is plugged in in the back uh in the back 00:24:56.120 --> 00:25:03.720 here somehow so I think down here I I have handmade adapters so that all four 00:25:01.480 --> 00:25:07.399 fans on the bottom radiator can be combined into a single lead to come up 00:25:05.480 --> 00:25:11.039 to the top up here and then everything else kind of runs back here as well the 00:25:09.480 --> 00:25:15.200 tea balancer is something I get asked about a lot it's a real bear to 00:25:12.799 --> 00:25:19.679 configure I don't recommend that people buy it unless they want to fight with it 00:25:16.840 --> 00:25:23.760 for probably a good like you know 3 to six hours to really get it working 00:25:22.120 --> 00:25:29.799 properly but once you do I've had this thing for a few years now and I've 00:25:25.520 --> 00:25:32.440 hardly even touched it so you know it's 00:25:29.799 --> 00:25:36.760 great for what it is it's not great for a lot of the other things that it is I 00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:40.120 guess I don't really have too much else to say I'm just kind of looking at some 00:25:38.559 --> 00:25:43.279 of the other sort of notes that I have for myself oh so there's some kind of 00:25:41.679 --> 00:25:47.000 funny little imperfections and ghetto Solutions I get asked by quite a few 00:25:45.120 --> 00:25:50.799 people how to keep their graphics card from sagging and the solution that I 00:25:49.120 --> 00:25:55.799 managed to come up with is really really stupid I took like a little piece of um 00:25:53.960 --> 00:26:00.120 it's a piece of a v checkpoint so it actually is like a wrapped rubber uh 00:25:57.919 --> 00:26:06.679 little metal piece inside and I jammed it in between the PCI slot rear like 00:26:04.120 --> 00:26:10.600 bracket piece and a DVI port and what that did is it gave the graphics card a 00:26:08.919 --> 00:26:13.640 little bit of extra support so it ends up being a little bit straighter it's 00:26:11.960 --> 00:26:16.760 not even it doesn't make that much of a difference though and the rear side 00:26:15.399 --> 00:26:21.919 panel it's really funny because it's almost impossible to close so is this 00:26:19.840 --> 00:26:26.760 like is this something that Steve Jobs would be proud of I don't think so but 00:26:24.559 --> 00:26:31.679 is it something that serves me extremely well and uh has been worth the effort oh 00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:35.919 I don't know it serves me well I don't know if it was worth the effort but I 00:26:33.080 --> 00:26:41.240 think that pretty much wraps it up that is the end of personal rig update 2012 00:26:39.200 --> 00:26:45.679 and it is very unlikely that I will be touching my personal rig anytime in the 00:26:43.600 --> 00:26:49.679 next probably couple of years other than maybe a graphics card upgrade um that's 00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:53.600 something that people ask me about a lot as well is why' you go so like ghetto 00:26:51.640 --> 00:26:58.679 why are you just using you know regular primoflex tubing and like curves like 00:26:56.640 --> 00:27:02.799 this when the fashion these days is to use angled fittings and very straight 00:27:00.840 --> 00:27:09.399 tubing runs and I love that I think it looks fantastic um but the issue is that 00:27:06.279 --> 00:27:11.159 I've always been of a philosophy that 00:27:09.399 --> 00:27:16.080 something that's your actual daily driver rig has to be very easily 00:27:13.200 --> 00:27:20.039 upgradeable so this approach gives me a lot more flexibility in terms of if I 00:27:18.360 --> 00:27:25.679 want to do a GPU swap I can probably get a GPU swap done in like I don't know 20 00:27:22.840 --> 00:27:29.640 minutes tops and whereas if you have like all like hard piping tubing it's 00:27:28.279 --> 00:27:33.760 pretty much impossible it's a real nightmare like I can just like take my 00:27:31.480 --> 00:27:37.159 CPU block off I can do a CPU swap in like eight minutes so stuff like that 00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:41.840 making sure that the system is upgradeable and something that I can continue to add to in the future is 00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:46.399 something that I've always kind of thought about as I've built up this machine although I think now we've 00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:52.760 reached the point where I'm really not going to make too many changes to it other than when Star Citizen launches 00:27:49.919 --> 00:27:56.720 I'll be putting in a whatever makes sense at that point we'll see how things 00:27:54.399 --> 00:28:02.960 shake down with mantle and direct X12 and whatever graphics card ends up going 00:27:59.600 --> 00:28:04.679 in there that's pretty much it guys 00:28:02.960 --> 00:28:09.080 sorry for the super long video like it if you liked it disliked it if you 00:28:06.679 --> 00:28:12.360 disliked it leave a comment and let me know if you have anything to say about 00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:16.159 the rig obviously I'll be reading the comments pretty carefully on something 00:28:13.919 --> 00:28:21.080 that's you know about my own sort of Pride and Joy here um don't forget you 00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:24.640 can support Linus Media Group by contributing to us monthly to allow me 00:28:23.159 --> 00:28:28.640 to build more computers like this evidently um actually it's funny I I 00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:33.760 should okay before before I finish the video I'll tell you guys which ones are samples and which ones I actually 00:28:31.519 --> 00:28:39.440 legitimately paid for um so you can do that you can buy T-shirts you can change 00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:43.120 your sorry my cameraman fell asleep at the wheel over there so the uh you know 00:28:41.360 --> 00:28:46.480 SD card got all filled up because he made that last shot take so long so I 00:28:44.760 --> 00:28:51.039 was just going to say as always guys thank you for watching and don't forget to subscribe and then now I don't even 00:28:49.360 --> 00:28:55.600 remember the story I was going to tell what was it oh yeah oh yeah which stuff 00:28:53.600 --> 00:28:59.399 which stuff like I legitimately paid for and which stuff was samples okay so 00:28:57.039 --> 00:29:05.399 we'll go through part by part the case has cost me a grand total of and my now 00:29:02.600 --> 00:29:11.080 wife so because it was bought initially um has cost like easily about $1,000 up 00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:13.279 till now like but when you consider that 00:29:11.080 --> 00:29:17.440 it's made it through quite a few builds and that's been over a span of like five 00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:22.799 years now or however long it's been four or five years it's like buying a new 00:29:20.039 --> 00:29:27.000 really nice case every year I guess so I can justify that to myself uh the uh the 00:29:25.640 --> 00:29:31.880 radiator in the front like I said was part of my very first cooling setup the 00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:37.000 optical drive I bought the t- virus Reservoir I'm just trying to remember no 00:29:34.840 --> 00:29:41.919 that was a sample so I did that one as a that was an unboxing um the motherboard 00:29:39.559 --> 00:29:46.320 itself was a sample from ASUS the RAM came from crucial the CPU again I would 00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:49.960 not recommend running an extreme Edition unless you get them as like an engineering sample and you don't have 00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:55.360 anything else to do with them then you throw them in your rig um the water 00:29:52.320 --> 00:29:57.679 block that that Apple I actually had 00:29:55.360 --> 00:30:01.960 swifttech offer to send me one of these Limited Edition which they only did 200 00:29:59.600 --> 00:30:07.320 of them goldplated and I was like nope Gabe I can't do that I have to buy it I 00:30:05.360 --> 00:30:11.919 I must buy it because otherwise I won't feel worthy to own such a very very cool 00:30:09.960 --> 00:30:15.840 piece of computer hardware so I paid for the CPU block all the fittings as well 00:30:14.279 --> 00:30:19.799 those are really expensive the true silver fittings uh the Titan and the 00:30:18.120 --> 00:30:25.240 cool an block were things that we used for a video and then the uh the 00:30:22.279 --> 00:30:28.960 Sennheiser sound card that came with a that came as like a bundle with a 00:30:26.760 --> 00:30:34.960 headset for my wife uh the raid card yeah that was that was 00:30:31.080 --> 00:30:36.760 my problem and then the ssds oh spent a 00:30:34.960 --> 00:30:43.039 grand on those that was one of the biggest computer purchases I've ever 00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:45.760 made was buying all those 8 ssds at once 00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:51.360 um but it was a really good deal like to this day it still holds up pretty well 00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:56.799 from a price to Performance standpoint this whole solution so it was about 00:30:53.600 --> 00:30:58.679 1,500 total or so cuz I was able to get 00:30:56.799 --> 00:31:02.960 those drives for under under a dollar per gig cuz it was like a crazy refer 00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:06.799 blowout this is back in San Force One days getting them under a dollar per gig 00:31:05.159 --> 00:31:11.960 it was a really good deal so I was like okay this is my opportunity I'm going to 00:31:08.919 --> 00:31:14.639 get my ultimate SSD set up 900 gigs SSD 00:31:11.960 --> 00:31:19.880 super fast I went for it so was like crazy balls um this radiator was a 00:31:17.919 --> 00:31:24.000 purchase those fans were a purchase the XFX power supply was a sample so but I 00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:28.200 would have bought one if I wasn't able to get one otherwise but don't tell XFX 00:31:26.080 --> 00:31:33.080 that and I think that pretty much much wraps it up so there you go guys the 00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:36.840 benefits of being a YouTuber yes you do get a bunch of samples which is really 00:31:34.679 --> 00:31:41.559 really cool but oh I bought the te balancer as well but it also forces you 00:31:39.760 --> 00:31:45.120 to like buy other stuff to go with it well it doesn't Force you but you know 00:31:43.360 --> 00:31:49.039 and it's like getting a job somewhere where you have like a great staff 00:31:46.679 --> 00:31:52.080 discount you end up spending more there even though you have your staff discount 00:31:50.399 --> 00:31:58.760 than you would have if you just didn't work there and didn't go there every day 00:31:54.320 --> 00:32:01.730 so all right I think I'm done now 00:31:58.760 --> 00:32:12.349 yes I'm done now