WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.120 the writing team is moving to the lab which means I've got to set up my new 00:00:03.540 --> 00:00:11.639 office and while I've never been one for trophy hunting and decorating I have 00:00:08.940 --> 00:00:16.740 hunted down such a rare species that I simply couldn't resist 00:00:13.500 --> 00:00:20.520 the sign of my now defunct former 00:00:16.740 --> 00:00:22.140 employer NCIX now Die Hard viewers of 00:00:20.520 --> 00:00:26.880 the channel will know I'm something of an NCIX collector I bid on their YouTube 00:00:24.779 --> 00:00:30.480 play button I've been trying to get their old domain and YouTube channel and 00:00:28.859 --> 00:00:34.620 I even dug around in the trash to fish out their old video host so what better 00:00:32.460 --> 00:00:39.239 way to demonstrate my love of NCIX memorabilia than to make the inside of 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:42.780 my new office look like the outside of a crappy Shopping Plaza 00:00:41.219 --> 00:00:47.820 I can think of one and this is Linus Tech tips and this is 00:00:45.059 --> 00:00:52.379 an NCIX sign my PC and 00:00:49.620 --> 00:00:58.379 but it's not going to be easy I have to get all of these components in here with 00:00:56.160 --> 00:01:02.340 adequate cooling the sign obviously still has to light up it's going to have 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:08.280 to mount on the wall because it's a sign and it's only this thick 00:01:05.299 --> 00:01:12.960 like this thick Segway to our sponsor Zoho one with Zoho one there's no 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:16.799 worrying about using multiple platforms and pieces of software to manage your 00:01:14.580 --> 00:01:21.180 business Zoho 1 provides you with a single unified platform that's both 00:01:18.600 --> 00:01:27.299 comprehensive and easy to use start your 30-day free trial using the link down 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:29.640 below so uh here's the plan 00:01:27.299 --> 00:01:32.100 no there is no plan throw away the prompter 00:01:30.479 --> 00:01:37.140 we're off the rails from here on out let's go now as far as I can tell the N 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:43.259 is the only letter that's really big enough to fit even an ITX motherboard so 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:45.439 a rough plan is to go wait no that's not 00:01:43.259 --> 00:01:52.380 right oh motherboard's got to go in the X 00:01:49.860 --> 00:01:55.259 for extreme that's not actually what it stood for it just didn't stand for 00:01:54.299 --> 00:01:59.420 anything netlink computer incorporated 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:07.920 I think our best bet is going to be to just find the biggest components and 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:12.599 start with that where could these things possibly fit the eyes got to be the 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:17.940 radiator but motherboard we could maybe go X yeah we could go X as long as we go 00:02:15.300 --> 00:02:21.120 top or bottom mounted i o already the lack of planning is showing I'm sitting 00:02:19.500 --> 00:02:26.340 here going yeah the x is probably best because that would be the one that's closest to where my desk is 00:02:24.060 --> 00:02:30.000 where is my desk going I don't remember even the shape of the office first I 00:02:28.739 --> 00:02:34.319 need to figure out where I'm putting my GPU in this one 00:02:32.220 --> 00:02:39.000 it's gonna be a bit of a challenge now I know what you're thinking lioness you 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:43.140 don't need such a gigantic powerful GPU in an office PC and you're right but 00:02:41.220 --> 00:02:48.060 come on what better choice for the defunct business sign PC than a card 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:55.620 from the defunct GPU division of EVGA might have some new ideas I think you're 00:02:50.459 --> 00:02:58.080 gonna move uh oh that could work that's 00:02:55.620 --> 00:03:03.060 fine you can just go over there right I think the power supply is going to be a 00:02:59.700 --> 00:03:04.920 real problem here uh yep that's not 00:03:03.060 --> 00:03:09.480 gonna fit at all let's explore some other options oh 00:03:07.140 --> 00:03:15.739 right we're also moving Logistics over to the lab there are no power supplies 00:03:11.519 --> 00:03:15.739 here let's go on a little Adventure 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:20.959 okay and we're here 00:03:21.480 --> 00:03:28.860 100 watt 500 watt oh I see a Silverstone 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:32.480 beefy one right there do we have Silverstone compatible long 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:41.400 occurs to me I should come up here too and figure out where the devil on the wall is gonna go 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:46.319 it doesn't have walls you only have this ball yeah I don't even think this is 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:52.140 like a real wall though this is like just uh modular like panel thing shoot 00:03:49.440 --> 00:03:55.680 Tanner yes how did we not think of this there's no walls because then we 00:03:54.060 --> 00:04:00.360 wouldn't be able to think of it now yeah we're gonna make this one work we're 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:06.420 gonna just cable manage Network and power along here up this wall and to the 00:04:03.900 --> 00:04:09.780 PC the desk will go here these will be perpetually down so I won't have to 00:04:08.099 --> 00:04:15.120 worry about Reflections and I'm just gonna have to have a small desk 00:04:12.900 --> 00:04:20.100 this even gonna fit we better get this cracked open did you know this is it too 00:04:17.220 --> 00:04:24.180 thick for sfx well the idea was that we're going to put a back on it just to 00:04:22.500 --> 00:04:29.460 keep all of the letters together anyway so if we raised it in a little bit to 00:04:27.479 --> 00:04:33.660 actually allow us to put some cables behind there and not have them sticking 00:04:31.919 --> 00:04:37.680 out of every letter we might as well have a little bit of 00:04:35.820 --> 00:04:41.400 extra room for the power supply as well it's just like cheating though doesn't 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:45.840 it I think it's got to fit in the sign well the other option is the 12 volt 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:49.500 power supplies like what's currently in your desk oh and I won't need my desk PC 00:04:48.060 --> 00:04:57.479 anymore good job on the LED lighting uh whoever 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:59.040 made this got some VHB tape oh it stinks 00:04:57.479 --> 00:05:03.780 yep that's the smell of the rest of them oh it's disgusting yeah it's almost like 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:07.620 it's been sitting outside for long periods of time possibly mounted to a 00:05:05.940 --> 00:05:12.960 building all these LEDs are going to have to go 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:15.540 oh no crusty VHB tape twist is 00:05:12.960 --> 00:05:17.880 definitely the Strat there we go we'll be putting our own lighting strips in 00:05:16.919 --> 00:05:21.180 here black 00:05:19.979 --> 00:05:27.060 clean English does it fit and the power supply 00:05:24.840 --> 00:05:31.020 doesn't fit that means we're basically going to have to go DC to DC power 00:05:28.979 --> 00:05:35.460 supply these looked a lot bigger from the outside than they are on the inside 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:39.900 I was thinking radiator and fans no problem 00:05:36.440 --> 00:05:41.699 radiator barely I know the plan was 00:05:39.900 --> 00:05:46.020 pumping the sea but what did you have in mind for a reservoir oh 00:05:44.340 --> 00:05:50.280 that is a good question fortunately we have a plan to figure all 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:53.580 of this out see this big piece of cardboard we're going to take all these 00:05:51.840 --> 00:05:58.860 letters and we're going to put them on here and place all the parts 00:05:56.280 --> 00:06:02.759 motherboard GPU somewhat aligned with the PCIe slot so 00:06:01.139 --> 00:06:07.620 the idea is we're going to have a riser that wraps around here and plugs into 00:06:04.740 --> 00:06:10.220 the GPU oh boy is that ever going to be tight oh yeah 00:06:11.520 --> 00:06:16.320 at work Tanner I don't know Linus how 00:06:14.580 --> 00:06:21.360 is how gonna work when you pitched it and said we need to have something in 00:06:17.940 --> 00:06:24.960 every letter I I did say that we go to 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:26.880 RADS we have one as an intake and one as 00:06:24.960 --> 00:06:31.319 an exhaust in the end so there's a little bit of room for air to float wait 00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:35.220 no oh crap yeah we can't get fans in it okay we need skinnier Reds maybe slim 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:39.360 fans even okay wait where's it even gonna take in air from are we gonna have 00:06:37.199 --> 00:06:42.120 like like posts or something like that that hold the backing off the wall and 00:06:40.919 --> 00:06:47.520 maybe we could count on the back for some airflow yeah I was really hoping 00:06:44.340 --> 00:06:49.560 that we'd be able to uh with the backing 00:06:47.520 --> 00:06:54.600 have enough room to I don't know amount of a couple small fans up top below I 00:06:52.919 --> 00:06:58.860 don't you're making this up as you go that's this entire project yes the good 00:06:57.120 --> 00:07:04.800 news is I think I found us a reservoir okay this classic from Swift Tech 00:07:02.280 --> 00:07:09.960 could be just perfect this is a bad situation we did find a power supply 00:07:06.660 --> 00:07:12.000 this is an 850 watt 1u power supply from 00:07:09.960 --> 00:07:15.780 fsp that I was going to use for a rack mount gaming PC at my house but now is 00:07:14.460 --> 00:07:21.180 going to live in here but the problem is that it's not really 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:25.500 designed to run an RTX 3090 and it doesn't have enough PCI Express power 00:07:23.280 --> 00:07:30.720 connectors and I can't find any Splitters or adapters that are going to 00:07:27.060 --> 00:07:32.880 get us there wait this has a PCIe pin 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:38.759 out but doesn't appear to actually plug into a PCIe connector what is up with 00:07:35.699 --> 00:07:41.759 this power supply here's your 8-pin EPS 00:07:38.759 --> 00:07:44.819 connector okay here's your six plus two 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:47.639 PCIe here's another six plus two PCIe 00:07:44.819 --> 00:07:52.620 except it's split into four and four even though you can see the color coding 00:07:50.580 --> 00:07:57.240 is correct on the wires but it doesn't plug into this I think this is just a 00:07:54.840 --> 00:08:02.280 dumbass manufacturing defect okay I looked at the manual the data sheet for 00:07:59.400 --> 00:08:07.500 this it's supposed to be two six plus twos yeah let's see if they're all 00:08:03.960 --> 00:08:10.620 defective we have five of these oh come 00:08:07.500 --> 00:08:12.840 on they're all defective oh oh no this 00:08:10.620 --> 00:08:16.740 one okay oh yeah these are dual 140. yeah yeah 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:20.340 that's not what we want yeah now what we've got right now is one of these I 00:08:19.080 --> 00:08:26.099 think we can there might be another one of those around if I were to really really dig 00:08:24.419 --> 00:08:30.840 but I could not find a second one I think today is a proof of concept today 00:08:27.840 --> 00:08:32.820 oh absolutely so let's go with this just 00:08:30.840 --> 00:08:36.360 one is fine you can put two RADS in the finished build we are about to have a 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:41.279 classic do as I say not as I do moment here we've got a daisy chained dual 00:08:39.419 --> 00:08:45.660 eight pin connector coming off of our power supply I'm taking that first one 00:08:43.680 --> 00:08:49.560 splitting it into two eight pin connectors and then the second one and 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:55.380 using that for my third eight pin connector on this 3090 this is a very 00:08:52.800 --> 00:09:00.300 temporary installation okay geez this is gonna be freaking tight in here gonna 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:03.779 have to mash this down or something this is pretty low profile actually this is 00:09:02.100 --> 00:09:07.500 going to help save us some space we're just gonna do a slot in here and then 00:09:05.940 --> 00:09:14.040 we'll run this right through the back of the eye into the box at the back oh yeah 00:09:11.160 --> 00:09:17.100 perfect it's notable that even if these are Gen 4 risers which I don't know 00:09:15.959 --> 00:09:21.779 maybe they are maybe they aren't we wouldn't be daisy chaining them and getting Gen 4 speeds so we're gonna have 00:09:20.160 --> 00:09:28.740 to turn our motherboard down to gen 3 speeds which is fine for 30.90 anyway 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:34.019 obviously this Riser is going to have to come up inside the X so it's going to 00:09:31.560 --> 00:09:37.440 have to sit kind of right there and like come up here and kind of Bend real tight 00:09:36.180 --> 00:09:41.459 here wow that's going to be really challenging counter yeah yeah it can't 00:09:39.779 --> 00:09:45.480 be that bad right just kind of go like that oh yeah oh yeah you're good you're 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:51.839 good most of our cable extensions are missing in the move right now but we did 00:09:47.640 --> 00:09:57.620 find a couple of short 24 pin extensions 00:09:51.839 --> 00:09:57.620 um but nope aha but I have a second 00:09:58.019 --> 00:10:05.459 I don't think I'm gonna get oh oh nice 00:10:01.380 --> 00:10:07.680 no it's gonna reach yes uh almost yes 00:10:05.459 --> 00:10:11.339 good it doesn't look like it but we are actually getting dangerously close to 00:10:09.540 --> 00:10:15.060 test time I've just got to put this sabrin two terabyte drive in here at 00:10:14.100 --> 00:10:19.560 least that's what I thought I was gonna do I took off the heat spreader on this 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:28.260 motherboard and there was already an SSD in it some of the custom ddr9 9000 cl69 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:32.580 memory that Micron did up for me next up we've got the CPU water block 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:38.820 I mean come on did you think I was going to go air cooling this is using ek's 00:10:35.100 --> 00:10:40.440 exact Mount and oh crap Tanner I think 00:10:38.820 --> 00:10:43.440 we have another problem what's our problem we're gonna have tubes coming 00:10:42.060 --> 00:10:47.640 out of here I think it's going to be too tall as well do we not have the ability 00:10:45.300 --> 00:10:51.959 for right angle fittings there's a lot of things interfering with this right 00:10:49.140 --> 00:10:54.480 now maybe a measuring tape would be in order 00:10:52.920 --> 00:10:58.860 before we started we only have six centimeters to work 00:10:56.279 --> 00:11:04.440 with which would put us like basically right here pretty clear that this is not 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:06.720 going to work Tanner did you factor in 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:11.579 the height of the GPU block let's get the GPU block out I don't know if any of 00:11:09.540 --> 00:11:16.260 this is going to work man I don't think the GPU is going to fit in the eye my 00:11:14.760 --> 00:11:21.180 thought with doing this was that we could take off this front area here 00:11:18.660 --> 00:11:25.500 that's fine but the issue is that we've got the PCIe connector over here that's 00:11:23.640 --> 00:11:30.540 hanging off the edge of the eye and we already don't have enough margin here to 00:11:28.079 --> 00:11:35.700 slide the eye on top I have grossly miscalculated if we don't use the foam 00:11:33.180 --> 00:11:39.959 as a stabilizer for the backing it might just fit I think we're still on business 00:11:37.980 --> 00:11:43.260 we still need to figure out this we're not licked yet they have one new water 00:11:41.820 --> 00:11:47.399 blocks and we're going to run the tubes like over here between the PCIe Riser 00:11:45.540 --> 00:11:56.459 and the RAM so all we got to figure out now is a pump and this is not going to 00:11:52.920 --> 00:11:59.100 be it this is a DDC x-top from UK we 00:11:56.459 --> 00:12:03.540 actually need a bone stock DDC which has the inlet and the outlet on the side and 00:12:01.140 --> 00:12:09.360 is much lower profile because this is clearly not going to fit oh man you know 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:11.519 what even if we can't get our hands on 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:17.700 like a 1u block or something that'll fit we could just adapt one of these old GPU 00:12:13.680 --> 00:12:19.140 blocks boom low profile done this will 00:12:17.700 --> 00:12:22.920 be a good enough placeholder for today the point is to just figure out if this 00:12:21.060 --> 00:12:26.279 is going to work and we can create custom mounting brackets and adapters 00:12:24.899 --> 00:12:29.940 and all that kind of stuff over the next few weeks and you can tell we're in the 00:12:28.140 --> 00:12:35.160 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 00:12:32.880 --> 00:12:38.000 is a little bit here's how we're going to do the red 00:12:38.940 --> 00:12:47.000 the red and something newer and skinny that would definitely be good here we go 00:12:42.959 --> 00:12:51.420 I just need this right angle 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:53.100 crap even this one really we're gonna 00:12:51.420 --> 00:12:58.500 have to find a lower profile fitting what about the fans at least these slim 00:12:55.680 --> 00:13:02.760 120s should be enough to handle this as long as we've got two of these radiators 00:13:00.660 --> 00:13:07.500 in here so we're just gonna go ahead and do a little something like that well 00:13:04.800 --> 00:13:12.540 here's some additional fans to be placeholders for where that other 00:13:09.060 --> 00:13:15.480 radiator is going to go oh Tanner yes 00:13:12.540 --> 00:13:18.540 the radiators will just have holes and they'll punch through into the box that 00:13:16.980 --> 00:13:23.399 the sign is going to be mounted on so they'll just go straight into the back 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:24.959 yes easy don't even need right angle 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:29.639 fittings okay this is what I was worried about 00:13:26.760 --> 00:13:33.899 with the clearance for a PCIe extension okay that puts us about here and then 00:13:32.339 --> 00:13:38.760 the clearance we need for the top of the block with the fittings there is no way 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:43.560 we're going to fit this EVGA 3090. the most frustrating thing is there's so 00:13:40.620 --> 00:13:47.700 much empty space on this PCB did it really need to be this big EVGA you've 00:13:45.540 --> 00:13:53.639 literally got holes in it fortunately this pre-water cooled card from ASUS has 00:13:50.820 --> 00:13:57.120 no such problem if we run the fittings into the box that's going to be at the 00:13:55.440 --> 00:14:01.260 back I don't think there are any clearance issues here at all this is 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:04.740 awesome and we're down to just two eight pin power connectors meaning that we 00:14:02.760 --> 00:14:10.139 don't have to have that really sketchy adapter I think we are getting 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:11.339 dangerously close to test time oh you 00:14:10.139 --> 00:14:15.660 might have noticed we swapped out the reservoir the other one leaked not where 00:14:13.740 --> 00:14:19.920 I showed you the cracks but in one of the other fittings for lighting these 00:14:17.399 --> 00:14:23.100 strips from Elgato not perfect but they're easy to control and they're 00:14:21.540 --> 00:14:31.260 definitely good enough for our test here and plug one two 00:14:28.500 --> 00:14:37.079 not bad I really don't know how well the RGB effect is Gonna Shine through a blue 00:14:33.959 --> 00:14:37.920 you know thing but I guess we can find 00:14:37.079 --> 00:14:43.320 out ah hmm 00:14:41.160 --> 00:14:48.720 we are definitely gonna have to do something to get more even lighting 00:14:45.959 --> 00:14:52.320 above where components are like this big dark spot where the motherboard is some 00:14:51.060 --> 00:14:57.240 of the other letters might not be as challenging though like I think the eye is going to be okay you can't even 00:14:55.680 --> 00:15:03.000 really see it ah you can see it a bit uh this might be 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:05.180 about the best we can do for the sea for now 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:13.680 wait yeah oh yeah 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:19.459 no one mocks up quite like LTT 00:15:13.680 --> 00:15:19.459 powered on X for Extreme Performance 00:15:19.620 --> 00:15:24.899 the whole reason I took the x office foreign 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:32.720 there we go 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:39.600 great I know it doesn't look like much right now but this was an important 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:43.860 exercise to figure out all the little things that might have blindsided us 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:50.600 later when we do the final build and I think we've solved all of them did this 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:53.760 just reboot not a great sign get it 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:55.560 hey there we go I think to make our 00:15:53.760 --> 00:15:59.459 lives easier for lighting we should use white components wherever possible yeah 00:15:57.720 --> 00:16:02.880 no that sounds like a good plan if we can find white fans for these radiators 00:16:01.320 --> 00:16:06.779 for example I think that'll really help with light kind of bouncing around to 00:16:04.920 --> 00:16:11.180 make it easier to light them up evenly okay apparently we're going to run 4K 00:16:08.820 --> 00:16:15.899 nightmare if I'm being honest 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:22.440 ergonomics not great performance on the other hand outstanding gpus at 52 00:16:18.660 --> 00:16:24.600 degrees CPUs at 73 degrees I think with 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:29.339 the box in the back and enough airflow to the radiators this is going to be 00:16:26.220 --> 00:16:31.199 freaking awesome but when I died I died 00:16:29.339 --> 00:16:34.980 before I got a chance to tell you about our sponsor thanks to grammarly for 00:16:33.420 --> 00:16:38.399 sponsoring this video whether you're writing a script for a YouTube video or 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:42.720 emailing A co-worker to make sure a project is moving along ensuring you 00:16:40.380 --> 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