so this is a funny story i'm having a deja vu moment are you yeah a little bit
a little bit so guys welcome to the hardline build log that uh was doomed
for failure from the very start between bent a little bit too far
bent a little too far it got misshapen and uh you know when that happens at the
wrong moment trust me awkwardness and pain can ensue so let's go ahead and do
a quick introduction to the project i'll show you guys the tools we'll be using
to do your very own hardline system uh so
basically we're running an Intel core i7 5960x octa-core CPU we've got that
running on an x99 deluxe motherboard from ASUS graphics cards
we got two 980s which are both heart piped into the system as well and water
cooled with a couple of blocks from ek water blocks they actually provided all
of the water cooling we're powering this sucker with an ax 1500i power supply
because overkill we know it's overkill we could have used
something half that capacity that would have been just fine
speaking of half that capacity would have been just fine we've got 32 gigs of
ddr4 memory in there that's dominator platinums what else have we completely
overdone massive reservoir but i actually like the fact that we have a massive reservoir because topping this
thing off is gonna suck and oh right of course all the hardline
tubing tools so uh it starts with the
hardline tubing and hardline tubing is important because compared to flexible
tubing you want one of these
or you want one of those
that's awful one of these really thin but yeah one of these uh and it's petg
yes so that's important because petg is
more is less fragile so it's less prone to breakage and cracking it allows for
more re-attempts at bends and is just generally much easier to work with it's
less likely to lose its shape when you're bending it with this fuel line
stuff that we'll be using what else we got here oh compression fittings so
these are special hardline compression fittings um that we'll be using
throughout the build they're from primo chill they actually sent us a couple different styles we like the knurled
black ones um gloves are actually surprisingly
important because while you're bending uh the the tubing the petg tubing is
probably gonna be really hot so you're gonna want some kind of gloves you don't need anything too crazy and we got this
baby to do the bender yeah do the bender oh wow uh so this is the
uh this is the bend the rigid bender from primo chill the last thing is i
guess we've got a saw and uh and the heat gun also extremely important how
did i forget the heat gun i don't know because you also have to heat up the pg
that's why you need the gloves so that you can bend it around the bender and
maybe size it with the saw so guys this is going to be an absolute blast um i
it's going to kind of start in the middle it was an absolute blast yeah it was a blast because we're done and we've
lost some footage so we're redoing our intro
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step two continued remove the rest of them like okay why don't i just remove them
all right moving the screws part 1a
yeah sounds like a minus media group video
do this
it's a good thing ek includes enough thermal pads to basically do this twice
so you achieved a hole in a piece of metal in the last uh you know 20 minutes
here's what i did not 20 minutes i didn't i've done better cool you're not
done dick
hey lined up never got the whole angelina jolie thing
um i don't know if i've ever said that on camera before
i'm sure it will oh yeah incite riots yup talented yes
attractive no all right and then it's like
i had kind of a panic moment because ek sent two of the CPU blocks two different
kinds and i kind of went oh they sent two GPU blocks
wow i really hope when i asked for two GPU blocks they knew that i meant i
wanted matching ones and they were going in the same system they're okay though
okay they're the same so
we're getting close to
starting okay there is something that we do still
have to do though we have to get this radiator mounted
so that means we have to decide like how that's how that's working
exactly um so the pump wait so the pump
is going to take from here oh yeah we gotta drill the holes to mount the reservoir as well okay so we're not
we're not that close to starting and the problem is that that radiator
actually has a variety of different holes it can mount to
none of which it can access because you see how this
radiator is actually a touch wider than a 120mm fan most rads are flush with the
fan so i actually can't quite get over
far enough this way and quite can't quite get over far enough that way to
hit these mounting holes how about right there
you're supposed to see like the alignment and stuff no you're here is
that like is it super awful or is it like it's not directly in line yeah i
don't know if we're gonna get that without just doing new holes and like
having some places where the where the grill is just there we can't screw it in
because it's not like it's gonna feed directly from that we might have some
but it wouldn't be there there wouldn't be any kind of organized system to them
okay so all those spots i marked basically the holes that are there need
to be widened okay so i got a ghetto drill
or find a bit that's good for it
if i'm ghetto drilling no i found a bit that's good for it i think
forget it really then don't film it okay you remember how our genius plan was to
fill up from the top and there's a radiator so no
wait what yeah unless the this is oh no that wasn't the
whole we were planning to go through that so i think that's too small i think it was
oh that's not what i was planning to do it's okay it definitely wasn't over here
we can come in here though and just go just and just curve it sure
yeah i think i think it'll be fine um
but i believe i believe i can fly
wow this has never been opened i believe i can touch the sky
i think about
i think this is gonna work but this will come out at a bit of an angle but it might be okay because it's gonna come
out at this angle and then go up to the CPU so i think
we should be golden as long as there are no clearance issues with the
graphics cards where are they oh but then we were doing our test fit
with um freaking air coolers on
there's a drill bit here my ocd is uh really angry i legitimately went and
bought a whole new set of that after whole room water cooling because people
lost a couple of the pieces from it so that is now officially the LMG set with
its missing pieces that will make me crazy if i have to look at them you want
to like hold it for me sure
can brandon watch
i mean like i guess if he's into that
so he's into that okay we should do this outside though i
think because you got to take it out to do those um the dremel thing anyway
yeah it's like a disaster down there
well i i was given a cutting edge i know that's fine minus media group push
forward with no regard for the consequences
these are just grabbing the edge if i was going to do this somewhat properly i'd definitely put washers on them
because these went a little deep
really dusty motherboard wow
that's what happens when it sits on a test bench i guess
so interference issue is gone
all right
all right i'm feeling good okay cool
where did the power supply go so i'm
gonna put in the power supply i was thinking maybe i would
uh oh one of them uh yep
okay push push push yeah okay good
make our final decision you want to do black and white or clear
clear would work pretty well and the res is going to be clear we can't color it
so the res is going to look kind of out of place
these don't look the same okay now i'm a little worried
is one of these like uv blue or something
you know what let's go for let's go for the home run
swing because the black and white thing is going to either look really cool or
super dumb yeah let's go for the home run swing
ah hold still you bastard
whoa put that up against there
and oh i don't and
90 degrees ish oh okay that's not quite
so then you just hold it until it hardens our very first bend
okay well here i'll i'll chat with you
so we are deeply worried about having enough tubing because primo
chill bless their hearts sent us one stick of each color maybe they intended
to send it to us just as a sample so we could then tell them what color we
wanted to do this project and they could send us a whack of it
because we have zero room for error if we have enough
tubing at all and we're not sure which of those is the answer right now
so um we're thinking
we're thinking a white run here which is going to be like
half or more of the rest of our white oops
okay so like kind of there to there
then we're thinking
uh this is gonna have to go to here
and that'll have to be black this one
will be white which will use up pretty much the rest of our white
not a whole lot of room for error and then this one
will be
black down to here and then this one over here will be
black as well and i think we're gonna just make it
let's put that in yep uh clean off the marks with isopropyl first if you don't
mind that's alcohol it's not taking it off no
that came off these came off it's the heat aw crap
and now i don't have my damn marks you know how you leave it off
oh my goodness i just went the wrong way on it
holy crap that was close okay can you just
wow i am like no
i didn't put the thing in see how the
my pressure from the bend is really makes it really flat here yeah i figured
out how to do it more like that so what you gotta do is you gotta heat
up the rest of it so that's the least
soft part so then when you press it against it it bends more pulls that makes sense yeah
and it doesn't dent into it so much oh no it's ugly
it's hideous oh come on
i don't think so i cut it already
right yep people are going to see this video and
they're going to be like well if these idiots can do it maybe that's the point
of Linus tech tips all right should we fill this sucker
yeah man all right so we've got our fitting up there
no no everything's okay i think i thought i saw something dripping i've
got some half inch tubing up here that's going to take a while it's going
to take a really long time
so what's cool too about this hard pipe tubing
is that its inner diameter is very small so the actual amount of liquid in the
loop is not very much a total volume yeah it's going to be like radiators and
reservoir basically
and just stop
okay that's not that bad we did all right
yeah okay hold on okay
you got the weight and i'll do the maneuvering some kind of like bearish
there we go and
i got it that was fun that was really fun that
was actually that was really fun we learned a lot um i think thing number one that i
learned is that two two things of piping
is like not enough no margin for error in a case this size
if you guys are gonna do a hard line build because it looked like long runs
in a big case i think if you got a single color get three yeah yeah yeah um
and then if you want to do a two-tone thing like us then
like four yeah i'd probably say one of each two of each color sorry i mean
jeffy made it but jeffy we probably would have put him down if we'd had the
option to redo jeffy we probably would have so so that's something that you
want to build into your your bill of materials um the other thing i think i
took away from this is that i wouldn't recommend a hardline tubing
system for your first water cooled build um softer softer tubing is way easier to
work with like you just kind of and it's about like that
if it's too long it's fine whatever so so there's a lot more room for error
even for people who are experienced water coolers i i still wouldn't do this
personally like because for me i can do a graphics card swap on my liquid cool
build in like 10 minutes this you are
definitely draining most of your loop if not all of it you
are definitely redoing some bends it's it's a lot more work but
i think the result justifies it it looks absolutely stunning so if you were
someone who maybe you're not even building for yourself where you're going to be doing frequent upgrades
or something yeah i think it makes the production values of the system look
way better because i mean this isn't that this is
definitely one of my favorite builds that i've ever done or been involved in
like what would be better the the only ones
like together i'd say the mineral oil build it's behind me still i really
liked that build yep um but like for a more standard computer
this is probably my favorite or if not my second i think
that my overkill build guide that red one i did in the 900d with like five
radiators and all the Noctua fans and like all that stuff i think that still
takes it whereas but this one even though it's not like it's almost as
high-end costs way less yeah and actually looks cleaner
looks cleaner overall that one i just loved for the just sheer ridiculousness
overdone this i can't even move red i couldn't even move it five radiators
so um yeah great build lots of fun i hope you
guys enjoyed it as much as we did but i am like super hungry
so if we've been happy all day how long are we at this total nine hours probably oh
yeah it must have been just as painful for whoever was shooting it and editing
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