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after months of trials and tribulations the next gen desk pc has finally gone

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from render to reality now our ambitious goal of

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creating a water-cooled pc and a desk that's no thicker than a regular desk

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all without compromising on either gaming performance or silent operation

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has not been easy but by the time we're

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done this video you guys are gonna see it all laid out

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why don't we kick it off with what went well using the model we marked our

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three-quarter inch sheet of birch wood then used a table saw to break it into

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all the components we needed to build the box that you're looking at the only

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slightly tricky part was creating a little lip here on the side rails so

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that the glass top will have a place to sit so once we've finalized the

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component placement it's as simple as throwing the bottom piece here onto the

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router and going and cutting all the holes that we're

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going to need for final assembly but

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what about uh what about this why don't you run me through

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this well these are our rez's or attempts at

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them anyway it's gonna look great whenever i can get it to work we tried

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so many different ways so here's the thing clear materials like

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acrylic they're not forgiving like wood or aluminum one wrong move can cause it

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to crack or even shatter and because

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it's clear you can see the damage from literally

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every angle yeah a lot of my experience is with metals

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which are much more forgiving to work with on my shop laser i just couldn't

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get the cut right uh i couldn't get the settings to not light itself on fire and

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it's something that i could have probably dialed in but

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i decided to move on from v1 here vaporized acrylic likes to get a little

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burny and given the 10 watt per millimeter rule of thumb 130 watts of

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power for 18 millimeters of acrylic is pushing the limit a little so for the

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second go-around our pals over at metalmart gave it their best with their

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water jet and initially we had high hopes but the brittleness of the acrylic

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reared its ugly head again causing just

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these beautiful cuts around the LTT

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but unsightly craters everywhere where the

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water jet pierced the stock in an attempt to make the holes so i pivoted

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from that to the router something i was really trying to avoid because these

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parts are really well suited for 2d fabrication and it went surprisingly

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well but i failed to brass off or dull

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the tip of the drill and it pulled out a huge chunk of material and scrapped this

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attempt as well so close yet so far

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thankfully though while we were busy with techtimber trotec sent over this

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beauty right here and it was time to give it another shot

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because while the raw power of this unit is actually about the same as columns

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laser at 130 watts as the name suggests

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the speedy 400 flex runs circles around

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prosumer tools moving literally 10 times faster which we can use to our advantage

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now in the router version of the part these slots all around it were designed

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to increase volume and improve water

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flow but the thing is partial cuts like this aren't something

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that a laser can typically do you see an

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etch pass only removes a fraction of a

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millimeter of material but here's the thing with the speedy i can just run the

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same edge over and over and over and over again and this piece right here

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oh there it is took a couple of hours but if you look the entire surface of

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the LTT is actually a couple of millimeters lower than the outer rim

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that's almost as big brain as buying all your clothes from ltcstore.com

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now small holes in thick material are another thing that's pretty tricky with

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a laser mostly because a laser beam isn't actually cylindrical but rather

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conical and as you can imagine a cone shape is not the ideal shape for a

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threaded hole so instead of drilling all the way through i just made little holes

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and then finished them afterwards on the drill press that way they're on location

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and to the correct size unfortunately after solving this problem it went

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together great and it even held water ah

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that doesn't really sound very unfortunate okay okay i'm getting to that uh in the midst of disassembling it

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i got distracted by the camera falling over and i fat fingered the drill's

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direction lefty loosey became ready tidy and uh i made a little crater oh no

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oh it's otherwise perfect yeah she's dead jim okay but

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even though this is just a cosmetic sample then we are confident now that we

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can build it since i mean you did do it

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once i did what it held water you just had to i was so close

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what it means is we're confident confident confident that we can build it

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which means we're not going to have to resort to some kind of commercial

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off-the-shelf reservoir we know we can rely on having this and we can do the

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final layout for the rest of the parts right yes confident confidence he's

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confident look at this guy these 1u radiators from alphacool are

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super neat they're actually designed for servers but they've got some cool

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features that make them perfect for our use case as well they've got the inlet

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and outlet on either side of the rad and

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then check this out you can chain them together in cereal by using these end

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ports or you can go in and out on this side so what we're going to be doing

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is we're going to be lining the right side of the table

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here we go with these radiators we just made a small oopsie and we only ordered

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one of them as part of our proof of concept so you'll have to imagine that

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there's more of them over here the only question is is that going to be

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enough radiator surface area i think we're going to have about the equivalent

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of a dual 120 millimeter red and with the way that we're positioning the fans

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we'll show you that in a minute it should be enough first beck the idea

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here is massive positive pressure we're gonna have eight Noctua industrial ppc

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fans with filters basically creating this pressurized chamber in the case

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that's gonna cause the air to kind of passively

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whoosh over the components that need air cooling like the motherboard chipset and

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vrms for example and then exhaust through the only part of the table

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that's not sealed which is going to be the radiators so

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like that when it came time to choose a power supply while we did have a lot of

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options most of them were absolutely terrible because you can get 1u power

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supplies i mean even fancy redundant ones but the issue is they're designed

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for servers which are not made to be quiet!

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so we went with one of these this is an 800 watt

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dc atx power supply from hd plex

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super cool product right because we've got enough power for a threadripper and

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rtx 30 series graphics card but

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passively cooled and super slim

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these get used for all kinds of projects from computers to av to i mean pretty

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much any situation where you need a high power dc power supply these guys are

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super cool of course the thing about ac

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the thing about dc power supplies that is ones with a 12 volt input and then

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3.3 5 volt and 12 volt outputs is that

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they still need to do the ac conversion from the wall so for that we're

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employing two of these 400 watt power bricks also from hd plex these puppies

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because they're kind of messy looking and because we

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want them to have access to fresh air we're actually gonna put on the outside

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of the unit on the underside now let's talk motherboard because um

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okay i can't come up with a good reason for this because AMD sent it to me i'm

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using a ryzen 3970x on an ASUS zenith 2 extreme

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is this the alpha or the non-alpha i think it's the alpha it's not alpha

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it's the non-alpha which is fine because realistically we are not going to be

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overclocking this thing anyway we had to make a couple of small modifications to

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the board it was so close to being too thick to

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fit in our case we actually had to remove the cover on the vrm fans here as

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well as the cover on the i o so it'll look a little more

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industrial just like last time we're going to be setting the motherboard and

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the graphics card back probably about an inch or an inch and a half from the edge

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what this allows is because the i o is on the rear this time some room for the

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cables to bend or have large connectors before they just butt right up against

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the wall now you might have noticed if you're extremely keen eyed that this is

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a 3080 that is not the graphics card that we

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actually intend to use for the final project we're gonna go with a 30-70 just

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to keep power consumption under control oh god we're going to need custom cables

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yes uh actually they're silverstone compatible so i can get custom cable mod

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cables perfect so cable mod just yep easy peasy fire that up check the box

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while i may be on the record saying that i think the lang ddc pump is a piece of

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unfortunately in a 1u enclosure we just don't have a

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choice so the next best thing to using a good pump like a d5 is using two ddcs so

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at least if one of them fails you've got another one

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so i'm just putting these here as like a placeholder for now we're gonna have to

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tweak this a little the last piece that i have to show you guys today is our

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water block this is also from alphacool and this thing is super neat so not only

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does it have a large enough cooling plate for our ryzen threadripper processor it has a total of eight

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options for inlet ports and outlets what

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that does is it allows us to put it onto the CPU socket and then

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figure out with our RAM and our vrm

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cooling and all that stuff how the heck we're gonna be able to get tubes in and

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out of it i lied there is actually one more thing we've got four two terabyte

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crucial ssds with the intention being

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kind of to take up space as much as anything else but also that'll give you

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know eight terabytes of i mean who cares

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we could check them in raid zero yes get that performance eight terabytes of

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solid state storage in addition to an m.2 boot drive

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but hear me out i know you want this on the outside i do

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but could we put it here we could but i really don't want to and

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this is just because of the distance that this 12 volt run has to go well

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we're putting a heat source next to the radiators you see like if we have these

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on the outside of the case then all this heat isn't input into the system and

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we're already pretty tight on on air flow in here that's fair so this is i

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mean assuming about 90 efficiency that's like under full load that's like 80

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watts that we can have yeah outside but under your realistic load we're probably

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talking 40 watts but even that do you really think airflow's going to be tight

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we've got eight cooling fans but we have a lot of pressure we don't have a lot of

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flow it just has such a small orifice to come out of i

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think you're going to be surprised probably but i want to plan for less

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heat in the system that's why we went with a 30 70. i wanted a 30 80. but like

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like then where would those go right i mean we could move the red down

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and then like have them here and then they're close to the SATA ports yeah

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we're gonna and we're gonna need tubing runs and stuff like that this area is

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fine we're gonna use those little end connectors that i used for the

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stacking radiators video so these will be tight but what we could do is we

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could go pumps and then we could go drives here actually the outlet port for

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the water block is in here so there's no sense really having a pump out here well

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i couldn't help noticing that our reservoir still isn't actually

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manufactured fine i can change that see

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if i had done my job and made this right then it would be set and i

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wouldn't have to entertain these ideas you like my ideas come on

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okay so let's pull the cables off this for now yeah yeah no it's a mess with

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them this might seem crazy but we're gonna be painting this for the finished

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product anyway so drawing on it is not that stupid

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so here's what i'm thinking right angle here into the end cap here then we go

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straight out of here here we've got a height problem this is

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lower than this we go this way

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and then into here we go out from here into the graphics card out of the

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graphics card and then out from here into reservoir

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very sub-optimal from a filling perspective it will take like an hour or

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two to fill this yeah i was kind of hoping to put ports

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in the actual desk and have a fill and a drain area

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i see that we can also use these because they're

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just vertical so we can put the fill funnel up here and just fill it my god

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you're a genius so we can fill the res

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and flood the pumps so they don't run dry for the filling process yeah

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okay build in the quality of life you want right i did not think of that well you

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did you know what does teamwork make the dream work for

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one okay so can you get me uh my little uh my little valve it's technically not

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the symbol for a valve but it'll allow it oh sorry you're right that's that's

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the incorrect signal symbol for a valve let me fix it

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there fixed it for you

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you know the reference right this

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is sick man this is good it's gonna be fine i think it'll be yeah just not a

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nightmare and whenever you need to look at it oh i'm so glad you used the word

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nightmare because i have one for you oh great we've been having some issues with

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the aquantia nyx and our new switches okay and this is an on-boarder quantum

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there's no way we're fitting a 10 gig card without another riser what if it

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was here well how is that going to fit right

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why why have you done this well Jake found the problem so Jake is

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my issue blame Jake i do but i do need an add-in card

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where's it gonna go well if it was here we would just have

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another cutout there's a lot of cutouts we're gonna have a cut out here here

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here like and this is supporting that huge sheet of glass we could do like a

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couple support pillars little bogeys yeah yeah i'm so excited right now

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now hopefully i won't have to wait eight months for the next part no guarantees

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although you've kind of seen everything that we covered in that one so maybe

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just check out the uh the conclusion to our last desk pc

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project to demonstrate that yes in fact we do eventually finish these projects

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just take some time