well it's personal rig upgrade time so for those of you who aren't familiar
with my personal gaming machine it's a Silverstone tj07 with some antech
900 uh CASE front cover so that I can
have a dual 120 mm radiator there in the front and then I've also got uh a 980x
CPU with 2 4 gigs of RAM Big Bang X power GTX 480 liquid cooled killer Xeno
network card uh 926d LSI raid card
hooked up to uh eight ssds in the back got an ASUS Zonar sense going on there
I've got some UV called cathodes positioned sort of around different
places good for lighting effects cuz this is UV Blue tubing I've got a
quadruple 120 mm Thermo chill rad so
that's a total of 6x1 12 with the Dual
120 in the front and the quadruple 120 in the bottom um on the back we find
actually a lot of the uh the cooler Hardware that's going on in here so
we've got an mcubed T balancer which helps me control all the fan speeds so
um it uses the temperatures that it gets from various probes in order to adjust
fan speeds or even turn them off entirely when I don't need them that is
eight yeah these are these are stacked double here so that is eight for course
120 gig Corsair ssds running off that
LSI RAID controller so that is a total of 9 whatever 800 and something gigs of
SSD storage for my boot Drive uh ENT Max Revolution 1050 watt
power supply check out this fluid it's
like so murky needs to be cleaned out
and uh and replaced so that'll be part of this procedure my trusty mCP 655
which has been running for about 3 years now without a hiccup and um I apologize
for the cabling mess on the back here but uh
yeah yeah we're not we're not really doing anything differently probably with
it this time around I mean there's a few things in here that are kind of you know
sleeved but I don't worry too much about the cabling on the back as long as the
cabling on the front's okay and it's not too bad right come on guys reassure me
here it's not too bad right okay so what are we doing first of all
power supply is got to go it's only 80 plus silver so we'll be replacing that
with an XFX Pro 1000 limited edition 80
plus Platinum power supply what I like about this one so
much and I mentioned this during the unboxing is the hybrid fan control so
that switch is right here which basically allows it to turn the fan off
entirely under low loads this is a silence freak Enthusiast PC that is why
I have all the fans controlled by the T balancer most of the fans are actually
off during day-to-day operation with only the ones on the bottom radiator
running at a nominal nominal speed so
adding this will allow me to turn off this fan which has been kind of
bothering me um kind of 90% of the time anytime I'm not running something very
intensive what I'll also be doing is I will be adding silver fittings so these
are bits power true silver compression fittings please Focus
please Focus there we go bits power true silver compression fittings to anywhere
where I can put them this will allow me to avoid having my water Gunk up like
this again because it is antimicrobial which means stuff will not grow in the
loop I will also be upgrading to LGA 2011 so we've got an MSI uh whatever
this is It's a gd65 x79 a gd65 8D
haven't quite decided on the RAM configuration I'm either going to leave
those copper heads in there because they look ball in or I'll uh throw in my ocz
special Linus Edition never existed for
anyone but me RAM skew so this is uh see
matches the uh motherboard really really well that was why I specifically
requested this color of spreader it's like DDR3 2000 or something like that so
I might throw those in there and just go for four dims 16 gigs um haven't quite
decided yet so we'll we'll figure that out later and I'm also upgrading the
graphics card so from a GTX 480 I'm going to be going with an EVGA GTX 590
classified liquid cooled card and the
piece that I am most proud of oops you
know what guys give me a sec here the piece that I am most proud of the
centerpiece of this build is going to be my limited edition swifttech apple G HD
goldplated water block so there it is the limited edition stickers on there
somewhere there we go limited edition number
169 soing with the bits
power true gold compression fittings I'm
normally anti- two-tone but I had to do
it so like I said I'm either going to go with this RAM and keep the color scheme
black and silver and blue other than the water block or I'll leave in the
Copperheads just to have them matching so uh there's going to be a couple
challenges because unlike the revolution 1050 watt which uh has four SATA cables
per modular connector this guy has three so it means I might have to widen this
hole a little bit to get another connector up there alternately I can not
run this Molex and then I can use a s a Molex adapter in order to power all this
stuff but we'll figure it out and uh
yeah hopefully there will be some kind of a performance Improvement especially
in games I'm not expecting too much in the way of a CPU performance boost going
from a 980x to a 39
60x but uh should be able to render your
guys' videos just a little bit faster and get games going uh quite a bit
faster with the liquid cooled GTX
590 so thank you for checking out this
little teaser video of my upgrade and I'm probably not going to update you
guys again until it's done but uh who
knows I might show some in progress depends on what you guys demand so what
are we going for here we're going for more power more efficiency
and uh to clean out to clean out the old water cooling gunky Loop that's uh
become a little bit well gunked up and
got my cat attacking my leg so we're going to call it quits here on this one
let's see if he wants to uh to visit
here hold on going to do this thing
let's see if he jumps on my
shoulder oh no he just wants to nuzzle right
now can probably hear him purring oh maybe not well there we go I
think we're done here