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the writing team is moving to the lab which means I've got to set up my new

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office and while I've never been one for trophy hunting and decorating I have

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hunted down such a rare species that I simply couldn't resist

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the sign of my now defunct former

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employer NCIX now Die Hard viewers of

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the channel will know I'm something of an NCIX collector I bid on their YouTube

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play button I've been trying to get their old domain and YouTube channel and

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I even dug around in the trash to fish out their old video host so what better

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way to demonstrate my love of NCIX memorabilia than to make the inside of

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my new office look like the outside of a crappy Shopping Plaza

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I can think of one and this is Linus Tech tips and this is

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an NCIX sign my PC and

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but it's not going to be easy I have to get all of these components in here with

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adequate cooling the sign obviously still has to light up it's going to have

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to mount on the wall because it's a sign and it's only this thick

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like this thick Segway to our sponsor Zoho one with Zoho one there's no

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below so uh here's the plan

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no there is no plan throw away the prompter

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we're off the rails from here on out let's go now as far as I can tell the N

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is the only letter that's really big enough to fit even an ITX motherboard so

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a rough plan is to go wait no that's not

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right oh motherboard's got to go in the X

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for extreme that's not actually what it stood for it just didn't stand for

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anything netlink computer incorporated

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I think our best bet is going to be to just find the biggest components and

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start with that where could these things possibly fit the eyes got to be the

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radiator but motherboard we could maybe go X yeah we could go X as long as we go

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top or bottom mounted i o already the lack of planning is showing I'm sitting

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here going yeah the x is probably best because that would be the one that's closest to where my desk is

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where is my desk going I don't remember even the shape of the office first I

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need to figure out where I'm putting my GPU in this one

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it's gonna be a bit of a challenge now I know what you're thinking lioness you

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don't need such a gigantic powerful GPU in an office PC and you're right but

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come on what better choice for the defunct business sign PC than a card

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from the defunct GPU division of EVGA might have some new ideas I think you're

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gonna move uh oh that could work that's

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fine you can just go over there right I think the power supply is going to be a

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real problem here uh yep that's not

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gonna fit at all let's explore some other options oh

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right we're also moving Logistics over to the lab there are no power supplies

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here let's go on a little Adventure

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okay and we're here

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100 watt 500 watt oh I see a Silverstone

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beefy one right there do we have Silverstone compatible long

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occurs to me I should come up here too and figure out where the devil on the wall is gonna go

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it doesn't have walls you only have this ball yeah I don't even think this is

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like a real wall though this is like just uh modular like panel thing shoot

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Tanner yes how did we not think of this there's no walls because then we

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wouldn't be able to think of it now yeah we're gonna make this one work we're

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gonna just cable manage Network and power along here up this wall and to the

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PC the desk will go here these will be perpetually down so I won't have to

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worry about Reflections and I'm just gonna have to have a small desk

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this even gonna fit we better get this cracked open did you know this is it too

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thick for sfx well the idea was that we're going to put a back on it just to

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keep all of the letters together anyway so if we raised it in a little bit to

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actually allow us to put some cables behind there and not have them sticking

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out of every letter we might as well have a little bit of

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extra room for the power supply as well it's just like cheating though doesn't

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it I think it's got to fit in the sign well the other option is the 12 volt

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power supplies like what's currently in your desk oh and I won't need my desk PC

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anymore good job on the LED lighting uh whoever

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made this got some VHB tape oh it stinks

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yep that's the smell of the rest of them oh it's disgusting yeah it's almost like

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it's been sitting outside for long periods of time possibly mounted to a

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building all these LEDs are going to have to go

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oh no crusty VHB tape twist is

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definitely the Strat there we go we'll be putting our own lighting strips in

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here black

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clean English does it fit and the power supply

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doesn't fit that means we're basically going to have to go DC to DC power

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supply these looked a lot bigger from the outside than they are on the inside

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I was thinking radiator and fans no problem

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radiator barely I know the plan was

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pumping the sea but what did you have in mind for a reservoir oh

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that is a good question fortunately we have a plan to figure all

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of this out see this big piece of cardboard we're going to take all these

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letters and we're going to put them on here and place all the parts

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motherboard GPU somewhat aligned with the PCIe slot so

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the idea is we're going to have a riser that wraps around here and plugs into

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the GPU oh boy is that ever going to be tight oh yeah

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at work Tanner I don't know Linus how

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is how gonna work when you pitched it and said we need to have something in

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every letter I I did say that we go to

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RADS we have one as an intake and one as

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an exhaust in the end so there's a little bit of room for air to float wait

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no oh crap yeah we can't get fans in it okay we need skinnier Reds maybe slim

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fans even okay wait where's it even gonna take in air from are we gonna have

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like like posts or something like that that hold the backing off the wall and

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maybe we could count on the back for some airflow yeah I was really hoping

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that we'd be able to uh with the backing

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have enough room to I don't know amount of a couple small fans up top below I

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don't you're making this up as you go that's this entire project yes the good

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news is I think I found us a reservoir okay this classic from Swift Tech

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could be just perfect this is a bad situation we did find a power supply

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this is an 850 watt 1u power supply from

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fsp that I was going to use for a rack mount gaming PC at my house but now is

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going to live in here but the problem is that it's not really

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designed to run an RTX 3090 and it doesn't have enough PCI Express power

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connectors and I can't find any Splitters or adapters that are going to

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get us there wait this has a PCIe pin

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out but doesn't appear to actually plug into a PCIe connector what is up with

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this power supply here's your 8-pin EPS

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connector okay here's your six plus two

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PCIe here's another six plus two PCIe

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except it's split into four and four even though you can see the color coding

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is correct on the wires but it doesn't plug into this I think this is just a

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dumbass manufacturing defect okay I looked at the manual the data sheet for

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this it's supposed to be two six plus twos yeah let's see if they're all

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defective we have five of these oh come

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on they're all defective oh oh no this

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one okay oh yeah these are dual 140. yeah yeah

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that's not what we want yeah now what we've got right now is one of these I

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think we can there might be another one of those around if I were to really really dig

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but I could not find a second one I think today is a proof of concept today

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oh absolutely so let's go with this just

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one is fine you can put two RADS in the finished build we are about to have a

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classic do as I say not as I do moment here we've got a daisy chained dual

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eight pin connector coming off of our power supply I'm taking that first one

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splitting it into two eight pin connectors and then the second one and

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using that for my third eight pin connector on this 3090 this is a very

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temporary installation okay geez this is gonna be freaking tight in here gonna

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have to mash this down or something this is pretty low profile actually this is

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going to help save us some space we're just gonna do a slot in here and then

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we'll run this right through the back of the eye into the box at the back oh yeah

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perfect it's notable that even if these are Gen 4 risers which I don't know

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maybe they are maybe they aren't we wouldn't be daisy chaining them and getting Gen 4 speeds so we're gonna have

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to turn our motherboard down to gen 3 speeds which is fine for 30.90 anyway

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obviously this Riser is going to have to come up inside the X so it's going to

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have to sit kind of right there and like come up here and kind of Bend real tight

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here wow that's going to be really challenging counter yeah yeah it can't

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be that bad right just kind of go like that oh yeah oh yeah you're good you're

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good most of our cable extensions are missing in the move right now but we did

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find a couple of short 24 pin extensions

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um but nope aha but I have a second

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I don't think I'm gonna get oh oh nice

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no it's gonna reach yes uh almost yes

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good it doesn't look like it but we are actually getting dangerously close to

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test time I've just got to put this sabrin two terabyte drive in here at

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least that's what I thought I was gonna do I took off the heat spreader on this

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motherboard and there was already an SSD in it some of the custom ddr9 9000 cl69

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memory that Micron did up for me next up we've got the CPU water block

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I mean come on did you think I was going to go air cooling this is using ek's

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exact Mount and oh crap Tanner I think

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we have another problem what's our problem we're gonna have tubes coming

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out of here I think it's going to be too tall as well do we not have the ability

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for right angle fittings there's a lot of things interfering with this right

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now maybe a measuring tape would be in order

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before we started we only have six centimeters to work

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with which would put us like basically right here pretty clear that this is not

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going to work Tanner did you factor in

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the height of the GPU block let's get the GPU block out I don't know if any of

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this is going to work man I don't think the GPU is going to fit in the eye my

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thought with doing this was that we could take off this front area here

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that's fine but the issue is that we've got the PCIe connector over here that's

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hanging off the edge of the eye and we already don't have enough margin here to

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slide the eye on top I have grossly miscalculated if we don't use the foam

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as a stabilizer for the backing it might just fit I think we're still on business

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we still need to figure out this we're not licked yet they have one new water

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blocks and we're going to run the tubes like over here between the PCIe Riser

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and the RAM so all we got to figure out now is a pump and this is not going to

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be it this is a DDC x-top from UK we

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actually need a bone stock DDC which has the inlet and the outlet on the side and

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is much lower profile because this is clearly not going to fit oh man you know

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what even if we can't get our hands on

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like a 1u block or something that'll fit we could just adapt one of these old GPU

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blocks boom low profile done this will

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be a good enough placeholder for today the point is to just figure out if this

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is going to work and we can create custom mounting brackets and adapters

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and all that kind of stuff over the next few weeks and you can tell we're in the

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middle of a move right now not because I showed you we're in the middle of the move but because clearly this um video

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is a little bit here's how we're going to do the red

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the red and something newer and skinny that would definitely be good here we go

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I just need this right angle

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crap even this one really we're gonna

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have to find a lower profile fitting what about the fans at least these slim

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120s should be enough to handle this as long as we've got two of these radiators

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in here so we're just gonna go ahead and do a little something like that well

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here's some additional fans to be placeholders for where that other

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radiator is going to go oh Tanner yes

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the radiators will just have holes and they'll punch through into the box that

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the sign is going to be mounted on so they'll just go straight into the back

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yes easy don't even need right angle

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fittings okay this is what I was worried about

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with the clearance for a PCIe extension okay that puts us about here and then

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the clearance we need for the top of the block with the fittings there is no way

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we're going to fit this EVGA 3090. the most frustrating thing is there's so

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much empty space on this PCB did it really need to be this big EVGA you've

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literally got holes in it fortunately this pre-water cooled card from ASUS has

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no such problem if we run the fittings into the box that's going to be at the

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back I don't think there are any clearance issues here at all this is

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awesome and we're down to just two eight pin power connectors meaning that we

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don't have to have that really sketchy adapter I think we are getting

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dangerously close to test time oh you

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might have noticed we swapped out the reservoir the other one leaked not where

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I showed you the cracks but in one of the other fittings for lighting these

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strips from Elgato not perfect but they're easy to control and they're

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definitely good enough for our test here and plug one two

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not bad I really don't know how well the RGB effect is Gonna Shine through a blue

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you know thing but I guess we can find

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out ah hmm

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we are definitely gonna have to do something to get more even lighting

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above where components are like this big dark spot where the motherboard is some

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of the other letters might not be as challenging though like I think the eye is going to be okay you can't even

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really see it ah you can see it a bit uh this might be

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about the best we can do for the sea for now

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wait yeah oh yeah

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no one mocks up quite like LTT

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powered on X for Extreme Performance

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the whole reason I took the x office foreign

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there we go

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great I know it doesn't look like much right now but this was an important

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exercise to figure out all the little things that might have blindsided us

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later when we do the final build and I think we've solved all of them did this

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just reboot not a great sign get it

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hey there we go I think to make our

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lives easier for lighting we should use white components wherever possible yeah

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no that sounds like a good plan if we can find white fans for these radiators

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for example I think that'll really help with light kind of bouncing around to

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make it easier to light them up evenly okay apparently we're going to run 4K

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