so I'm actually finally working on it the personal rig is in progress and I'm
I'm really going to build it this time you guys so I've got the case back for Mountain mods it's got a glorious black
wrinkle finish on it you can't really see it too well in this light but yeah
there we go that's not too bad looks just just Beast there's a couple small
imperfections on the case but I'm over it I've I've gotten over it so I'm not
over it but there's not a whole lot I can do about it at this point short of
re stripping and then rep powder coating the case which is probably going to cost me around 500 bucks so it ain't
happening so I've got everything scattered like all over the place here's
my T Virus res there we go I guess I
could actually do something about the exposure level there there you go
there's the t- virus res there's my soldering iron so I'm using that to
solder things like custom cables and whatnot there's my tubing that I'll be
using there's my double-sided velcro which is freaking awesome my backpack
with all my tools there's some adapters so those are some mox2 quad
SATA adapters that I may or may not be using to power the drives there's my
front Bay radiator so it's a dual 120 mil actually it's funny my radiators are
about as spread out as anything check this
out there's my quad radiator sitting here on the table along with my mCP 655
pump I won't be using that Luna block so that's that's for something else won't
be using that power supply either that's for something else as well Acer notebook
also for something else so oh yeah this tj10 also for something else so let's
get into the actual personal rig itself
I'm still going I blocked all the light still going with the XFX 80 plus
Platinum th000 wat power supply for the main reason that the fan doesn't turn on
when the system is not using any power
uh like when it's under idle I can really hear my breathing in this mic I'm
using a bit of a different mic setup so bear with me here guys the r card down
there you can see the cables are being routed behind the motherboard tray like
I had planned the ASUS Zonar card actually has a custom sleeved connector
on it so this is a here we go four pin
Molex that I've sleeved using MD PCX
sleeving so it's extremely clean looking can't see any color not that there is
any color so there's some sleeving there
making C custom cables like this is most of the work of a build like this and I'm
probably not going to overdo it so anything that's not going to be seen um
I don't think I'm going to put this sort of level of detail into it this is
keeping with my part of one of the themes for this
build which is that I'm not using individually sleeved cables I'm actually
sleeving two wires per cable for everything so the here you can see the
wires that are going to the GTX 590 classified from EVGA so that's uh again
two wires per per sleeve there's the 24 pin so if you count them 1 2 3 4 5 six
two wires per sleeve again and same thing up there for the eight pin now
this isn't going to be visible but this is one of the digital temperature
monitors that I'm going to be using from the T balancer so that's going to tuck
back there so that you don't actually see it so that's the one that I'll be using to monitor air temperatures and
that's going to control these fans and
these ones right here because those are the ones that are really going to be
cooling the actual chipset here so that way the the temperature sensor directly
controls the cooling in the area around the temperature sensor
there actually I guess I'll just use the zoom instead of moving around so there
is the custom black wrinkle hold down on
the Apple ghd limited edition goldplated water
block and the focus isn't quite right yet there we go it's a little bit dirty
so I'll clean it up before I do the final build and those are ballistics
tracers in there right now but those are just a placeholder this painter's tape
is just to uh keep the t- virus reservoir from getting rued
when I do test mounts so it's going to go I had a few people tell me I was
crazy for planning to mount the PCI Express cables around it so I'm going to
be uh I'm going to be going on hold then
there we go on this side instead so it's going to look a little something like
that you can see I don't have a lot of clearance here with the SATA cable so
I'm going to have to find myself a low profile left angle SATA power as well to
make that even fit in there and then I'm going to have one of these I'm going to
have to rotate a little bit and have one of these run straight down into the bottom which will go to the pump which
will be in the basement on the build um haven't installed any of the 5
and A4 Bay connectors or 5 and a/ qu Bay
adapters yet that'll come later so those are right there I still have to clean
out my radiator so I'll be using a 10% vinegar uh 90% boiling water solution
and then most people just flush them shake them out and then uh use them but
what I'll actually be doing is setting up my Loop my pump needs to be cleaned
too so I'll be setting up my loop on the kitchen counter in here and then I'm
just going to let it run for a day uh with the vinegar solution running
through it and then I'll just uh clean all that water out so I'll just set it up next to the sink clean all that water
out and then I'll uh do a couple flushes
with distilled to make sure that they're actually clean because I know there was
some some junk in my Loop before ah LEDs so I'm using UV LED
strips you actually won't be able to see the one that's back here so that's the
only one I've installed so far and the only reason I installed it is because it's really difficult to get at that
spot once the system's built the rest of them are going to go here two up here
and then either one or two here I'm not sure yet it's going to depend what I can
get away with without them being seen the trick with lighting is that you
should be able to see the light being thrown not the lights themselves cuz
they're extremely bright I may end up putting one or two
back here as well I really haven't decided yet one of the challenges is
going to be uh combating the blue LEDs that are also in the
system um and that was uh wait where where are those coming from
yeah I don't have what was the problem no I think the problem was when I lit
this guy up um the cathode in there
makes the uh makes the coil in the T Virus glow so bright that it was
overpowering anything that I tried to do on the tubing because the tubing wasn't
as UV reactive as this so I don't want to end up with a ton of blue light I
want to end up with UV Blue glow on the
appropriate component so that'll be the UV Blue tubing the UV Blue fans and the
UV Blue T Virus as well as this UV Blue cable although you won't be able to see
much of that one cuz it's just going to sneak in back here and that's about
that's about all you're going to see of it so the quad Rad's going to go in the
basement dual Rad's going to go in the front and overall it's going to look kind of like this although you can't
really get a good feel for it with the uh light reflecting off it funny like
that but there you go um the back will
look kind of something like
that haven't really decided if I'm going to leave the sound card in there or not
cuz I have an Essence one that I'm going to be using for my headphones
uh what else do we have on here oh yeah I guess I could show you
guys the back that probably should have occurred to me earlier so this is where
the T balancer is going to go all the connectors are at the bottom here you
see got four or three pin connectors Molex for power this USB one right here
I'll probably unplug it some point but I need it in there just to program it and get it set up with the new profiles
these are double stacked so that's eight f120 ssds each were 120 gigs so that's a
total of 960 gigs or something stupid like that um it's going to be
challenging getting the power in there you can see the sort of the breakout
cables have to be coiled around a fair bit so they go here here here here and
here and they actually take up a lot of the cable management holes that I made for myself that are not actually stock
on the tj7 but I think I'm going to get away with it cuz these can pretty much
lay flat here all I have to get is some more fan wires run so I'll do some of
them up here some of them down here I have to get one inverter in and I have
to sleeve this for the cathode that's inside the t- virus and then I'll
probably stash that here or here so behind the motherboard tray so basically
all I have to get up here is a couple molexes to split out into the quad satas
for these guys try to keep them wiring to a minimum because it's going to be a
real challenge I have to get a Molex up here to power this guy I have to have a
Molex down here for the pump and then I have to figure out how to run extensions
and then Splitters out to where all the fans go still haven't decided how to
power all the LEDs I might use something like a um like a three pin block like
comes with swift tax h220 water cooler where it's like a one three pin or one
four pin to like 84 pin uh splitter out so then I can run all the LEDs to one
place and then I'll just plug them in like here and have it just run
everywhere and I'll just use extensions to get it where it needs to go
so cable Management's coming in handy so
Cable Management here here and here were all cut this time around actually I
think I had a little one here but I made a much bigger one uh the motherboard
tray cutout has been useful if nothing else for making the uh the T balancer
actually fit so for those of you who don't know what a t balancer does it controls all of my fans
automatically USB 3 upgrade in the front done this is a fairly unique item right
here it's that LG uh Blu-ray and can I
manually focus here yeah there we go that LG Blu-ray and HD DVD player so
it's just I don't know it's kind of neat I don't use an optical drive much but if I do then I want it to be like a sweet
hard to find one I guess that's about it
sorry for the breathing throughout this video it sounds really awful but I'm not
going to refilm it at this point so good night everyone thank you for checking out my personal rig update don't forget
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