okay so this is cool our buds over at cable mod you know these guys that make
fancy cables they just launched builds.gg which they're gonna kill me
for putting it this way but it's basically pinterest for gaming rigs so
if so you build a gaming rig you submit it
and then people can get inspiration they can see what parts you use they can see
what like mods you apply to it or whatever the case may be and you can
also go there if you want to find like the coolest rad stuff for your build
anyway to celebrate the announcement they are sponsoring this video where
alex and i are going to be building our submission to builds.gg and they're
launching a contest which obviously we're going to be winning where they're
giving away 10 000 us dollars in prizes
for the sickest builds so check that out but not before you check
this build out
oh those have we told them what we're doing yet
um we're building an awesome system for
for build.gg okay all right
so we have this Corsair cx600 um be a bit careful because
these are just wires why are these just bare
it says in the thing scrapyard wars is the reason so water cooling next i mean
we have water cooling right yeah so i have this swiftech radiator um
i really like the bit um where is it yeah the marine epoxy that's in here
from that time that you drilled into it
fun bit of trivia for our viewers radiators used to be designed with the
water tubes directly under the screw holes so it was a fairly easy mistake to
make if you accidentally over tightened something a little i've heard the washer
aesthetic is like really in because the more washers you have the cleaner your
build okay get it
so what tubing do you think we should use i was thinking we need quick connects anyway so
the white could just run to the quick connects and then we could change it to
blue and red you know what though there's a compelling practical reason
for putting in some clear tubing that way we can make sure the water's in
there oh true yeah and we need to make sure that it doesn't cancel my old coils
yeah those are really important so basically the way it works is you just
kind of put it on there kind of like that
and then
it's like instant performance increase for your
tubing kink free oh this right here goes on the front oh
our build we're gonna have to go in from behind
actually i think that you can just take this whole radiator bit out yeah and just move it
right to here
bam does that fit because if we could get even more cooling that would be
great we could just double sided tape it oh yeah that could totally work so for
this build we're going to be using the rog maximus x formula it's a z370 board
and it's actually freaking sweet so
really don't make a mess
so we've got water cooling for the vrm that's built right into the motherboard
it's awesome but my only concern is that
these vrms put out a lot of heat yeah so we probably shouldn't combine the CPU
and the vrms on the same radiator
hmm so what i'm thinking is there's this cooler master gemini or
gemin 2 s424 yeah which i think could look
really good in this case how does this go on uh yeah it goes over
the RAM so that you get the additional benefits of cooling the RAM that's
something you won't get with normal water cooling so we're going to go with the tridenzi royals they're
definitely the blingiest RAM on the market at the moment like look at that
like can you just see me so the most important thing
before you put on your CPU cooler is to make sure that you get the correct
amount of thermal paste oh that's gonna make a mess don't do
that don't do that it's gonna take like 10-15
minutes to clean that up oh my god it's a dick
up and to the left just a touch
so we have the zotac mini 1080 that uh
it got a bit chopped up so yeah yeah in the case yeah i remember that um
did we shave down the top of it too yeah it looks like that we did
this is gonna look great oh yeah
straight from unloved zero
to epic hero
by not cutting off the end of this zip tie i can actually keep it for use later
on down the line because all you need to do
is stick a little pin or something in there and you can bend that little
plastic tab down and then you can actually extract this and completely
reuse it for any length of project so i'm just going to fold this up under the
card kind of like that nice
and what's really cool is that we actually get some additional cooling for
the rest of the system out of this configuration so we're going to put the
GPU in the vertical mount right here and that gives us some direct cooling
for our chipset which is located right here on the motherboard so i guess one
thing that we haven't thought of yet is where is our pump and reservoir going to
go no you know what it actually looks like what there are o-rings in here
that's o-rings not threading oh so this is to be straight piped into in fact i
love it so since that's just the reservoir we also need a pump
so i was thinking that this one right here from active aqua which conveniently
has its own power supply you could just put it in here it has suction cups on
the bottom to uh that's great and then we could just have
it have its own power cord yeah that goes on the computer uh here can you
help me cable manage this first though um sure see that
that actually goes right back too if we just put a screw in there it's not the
right one but uh it should work yeah no one's gonna notice we do not have the
correct size fittings at all oh really yeah
we could just not do that yeah i think we're going to have to not do the pump
so i found another pump res combo oh great
i'm just not sure where to put it it's like kind of too long to go up in here
like the last one yeah like it fits but it's not going to be great
um it could go sort of
right there
but it might be kind of messy yeah i don't really like that look
i'm just really disappointed that we're not going to get to use this res anymore
can we use this one too and just put it up in the top
sure cool yeah i mean two resins is fine well
and it makes a lot of sense because you want to have the water nice and high
yeah so then we can just loop it here up
there yeah i found that when i was strapping on my
second fan here which i really want for optimal cooling that i was accidentally
covering my pci express power connector here but get this i can actually
repurpose my fan strap here
as like cable management to hold it in
that is using the old noggin
now our power supply isn't modular
so we can't actually replace the 24 pin cable but
we can get what i think is really basically the cable mod
experience with one of these extensions so we're just going to run this down
keeping the cable nice and taut as we go
and then we're going to run it back up and you can see
that with the really vibrant green and black color scheme on our extension
cable the regular one just kind of fades into
the background and you barely see it at all okay so i found some fan splitters
and fan extensions so that's how we're gonna get power to our front fans over
here and then i also found this single SATA to quad SATA power
adapter oh nice yeah so that way with just this one SATA power plug
we can power up to four SATA devices
high amperage check this out there's even a high amperage header on this
motherboard it's like it was designed for me to plug three fans into it now
what i noticed is that
those leads that i taped up
what we could do is we could splice on a molex connector oh use that to power the
pump or do you think that we can just run this over to that and just solder it
right on i mean i still want them to be detachable though so i'm not going to
solder them i'm just going to twist them together and use electrical tape oh okay
okay this is like the perfect situation where you'll want to use these anti-kink
what do you even call them just anti-kinkers yeah tube coils tube coils
okay yep and as you can see i've gotten a bit
artistic with it and kind of made a little
pattern here and then we're able to just come in here like this would be horrible
if we did not have these on but now we do not have to worry at all
about potential kinkage and those vrm's just hitting
5000 degrees i mean that should be fine yeah so you
go in there with that and then we bring another tube out of there into the vrm
cooler and then we're good we've completed the loop
just make sure you leave enough slack in the lines that actually has a double
benefit so one allows us to pull that out and fill it and then put it back in
and two that means we can repurpose the soft
tubing for a future build if we have a run that's slightly longer ah yes so i
really want to use white to go down to the vrms but we only have this little
scrap of tubing fortunately check this out
this quick connect from colder not only matches our red white and blue
color scheme it can act as a coupler so then we can
actually take check this out this piece of red tubing then
and extend it that is perfect three two a one
dang so one of our Corsair fans isn't connected but the pump does work
i think you might just have to power cycle real quick here
i thought it's hey nice okay so now we just need to uh i
think we need to plug plug it into a monitor and stuff get these fan headers turned on and all yeah
we've got all these cables for the light strips which looks
not all that great you can't have all of those cables there so i'm going to use
this cable mod aio sleeving
to just get it all nice and tucked away so we
don't have to worry too much about it oh i can smell it
we are so close so at the back we've got a matching
power and HDMI cable and then we've got other colors
hey it posted nice i mean we knew that was gonna
happen yeah because it didn't post and then we fixed it don't don't put that in i love the
way she moves
rides we be sitting here chilling in the woods on the campfire
take that boat out to that water for that fish fry i'll be swimming with some
gangers drinking mudslide if you get it how i get it then you living life i know
they hate the way i get it cause i'm some flying i can go and throw them
hundreds like emojis and go and chill with your girl while she coach me i'm
that dude i'm that dude
we've got quite the puddle here we might need to swap it out every
like hour or two of use but yeah that's fine think of it like oil changes for
your car okay but instead of oil changes just filling up the oil
that leaks out the bottom which i mean that's the thing yeah people do deal
with with their cars oh yes we've got a full bench drive
ready to rock here i want let's see this thing haul um
there's artifacting our GPU is dead
i don't think it's dead
speaking of dead this meme so uh thanks for watching our video creating um out
of parts we legitimately already had which is sort of terrible
the world's ugliest gaming rig
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thanks alex really uh really getting your priorities
in line there we go thank you
uh we should do a thumbnail and let's uh
let's end this