welcome to a personal rig update that will be sort of in the form of an
unboxing because this inside here is my
package it's pretty big takes a lot of tape to wrap it up
but you know what can I say it's uh you
know you don't get to pick your package you just have to make do with the one
you've got and this is was sent to
me by Mountain mods it is my tj07 inside
here and I had underestimated how difficult it was going to be to cut this
box open it is been powder coated and it is ready for assembly so
I'm so stoked because as slick is so
fond of reminding me it has been a year
since I have actually had a properly built working gaming desktop over over a
year thank you slick um we'll be back once all right
there we go I managed to get all the tape removed and oh wow there is another
box with more tape uh says black wrinkle
which is the finish that I opted for for my tj07 there's a lot of you guys who
have questioned why I'm sort of staying loyal to this tj7 s that between the
initial cost and having it painted twice
now and having the original paint stripped off so that I could repaint it
and make it look all gorgeous and fresh again has probably cost me nearly
$1,000 uh it was a gift from my wife it was one of the first gifts she ever got
me and um also I like it I it's cheaper
than buying a new tj07 and getting that powder coated so there's a number of
reasons why I would want to do it this way so Mountain mods charged me uh 250
bucks for getting everything powder coated and shipped back to myself and
they have wrapped everything in their customary sort
of uh whatever this would be called
cling wrap like giant industrial cling
wrap their black wrinkle finish is so
gorgeous like out of all the paint finishes that I've encountered on
computer cases or just sort of in general this has to be my favorite um I
did think about doing something like an automotive finish on the outside but
like I said few things compare to sexy
black wrinkle black wrinkle finish so these are the anodized aluminum side
panels and I'm just going to go ahead and try of well I'm not going to go
ahead and sort of anything but uh let's see how quickly we you know what we're
just going to have to unpack this off camera here guys and we'll be back all
right so we unb boxed it and other than a few blemishes which I am of course
going to show you all of because this system is my baby and so I was a little
bit disappointed to find any of them although with a project this big with no
doovers um what what powder coaters would normally do is they would just
throw out the blemished piece because it's so expensive to strip powder
coating and then they'd just redo another one but they don't have that
option cuz this is sort of all one shot deal so there's a small blemish here on
the bottom left corner I don't know if you can see that diesel yeah Diesel's
got it um there's a blemish on the top
which is here where there's a little bit too much paint build up you got that one
okay diesel can't even see it so that should give you guys some idea how much of a nitpicker I'm being about this uh
the oh the grills turned out fantastic
so these are anch 900 grills and I had
them powder coated black wrinkle so that they're going to match the case
perfectly now whereas before they just had the stock non wrinkle powder coating
and then I had an anodized finish here so now these are going to look extremely
sharp uh so there will be radiators or
there will be a radiator and fans behind that so that's going to look really
really clean right there I had the uh I had the back piece done all as one piece
so the screws are all installed I'm never going to install two power supplies in it installing two power
supplies in a modern system is totally pointless because you can get like 1500
watt power supplies and you'd be hard pressed to uh to build a system that
sucks more than 1500 watts in a standard ATX form factor okay so here there's uh
there's some some blemishes like this one here uh probably one of the ones
that bothers me most I think is the one on this side panel where uh yeah it's
this one you can see here that there's some
like something going on here yeah but
again like I say not the end of the world and from some angles you can't
even really see it and at least it's the other side panel the windowed side panel
is quite clean um slick asked me why send it to Mountain mods why not just
get any shop to do it one of the reasons I like having Mountain mods do it is
they're PC guys so they understand that standoffs need to be masked they
understand which holes don't need to be masked so you can see one of the things
they do is um there's a there's a rubber
piece here that they put in in order to prevent any kind of paint from getting
into the threads here so they put these all over the place and they just they
know what they're doing they know their way in in and around a PC so that's why
I'm more comfortable having them work on it but so you can see the motherboard tray has been modernized with a CPU
cutout as well as Cable Management holes
and I think that's pretty much it so
hopefully the next time you guys see a video from me about my personal rig I
will be doing either either a live stream or just a video of me building it
oh this is one little finishing touch that I'm really really pleased about so
I had them do the hold down plate for my limited edition goldplated Apple ghd in
Black wrinkle as well so that's going to be just a kind of an awesome centerpiece
to have on the uh in the middle of the motherboard thank you for checking out
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