1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:06,640 laid out in front of me are all the parts for pretty much as ball in a 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:10,719 gaming rig as money can buy but as everyone knows if you want to get the 3 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:16,320 maximum performance out of your hardware you need cooling that can keep up and 4 00:00:13,519 --> 00:00:21,119 for all its other faults custom loop water cooling is still the way to go if 5 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:26,880 you want no compromises maximum performance and near silent operation 6 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:31,039 unfortunately on the path to building a custom water cooled system there are a 7 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:34,800 lot of pitfalls that at best can waste your time and at worst can actually 8 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:40,960 damage your components well that changes today this right here 9 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:43,520 is the singularity rafe a case that was 10 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:48,320 built from the ground up to make putting a custom water cooled system in it as 11 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:52,239 easy and painless as possible yeah easiest water cooling my friggin 12 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:58,320 buttocks so our plan is to throw this thing together 13 00:00:55,760 --> 00:01:04,080 with hardline tubing with hardline tubing in about the next hour 14 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:12,799 and this video is brought to you by the vue sonic elite xg270 qg gaming monitor 15 00:01:08,159 --> 00:01:15,040 it's 1440p 165 hertz g-sync it's got 98 16 00:01:12,799 --> 00:01:20,360 coverage of the dci p3 color space and you can get yours at the link in the 17 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:20,360 video description 18 00:01:27,119 --> 00:01:34,240 while alex is assembling the monitor i'm going to run you guys through the hardware for today we've got an aorus 19 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:38,960 x570i pro wi-fi motherboard this is a mini itx board so even though this is a 20 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:42,240 bit of a bigger case it still takes a small motherboard because we got to make 21 00:01:40,479 --> 00:01:48,159 room for all that water cooling stuff we're going to be running an AMD ryzen 9 22 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:50,240 3950x so there's a 16 core processor in 23 00:01:48,159 --> 00:01:55,680 here and we're going to be teaming it up with an rtx 2080 ti aorus extreme from 24 00:01:53,439 --> 00:02:01,840 Gigabyte and what's cool about this one is that it is pre-water cooled meaning 25 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:03,439 that it is basically slot in tubes in 26 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:07,200 and go for the rest of our water cooling we're 27 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:12,400 using a bunch of stuff from ek water blocks so they're cool stream sc240 28 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:17,760 radiators i believe we've got uh yup their velocity d RGB CPU block a bunch 29 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:24,959 of their straight hard line fittings as well as their vardar evo RGB fans then 30 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:28,400 for storage we've got aorus's PCIe gen 4 31 00:02:24,959 --> 00:02:30,879 m.2 SSD as well as a set of g-skill 32 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:34,080 trident z royale with cheese actually 33 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:40,080 i think that's junk i think this is actually their uh yep it's trident z 34 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:45,280 neos so we've got what appears to be a 35 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:48,160 32 gig kit of 3600 c14 nice that'll be a 36 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:52,720 really great pairing with our 3950x makes it sound like wine all right uh 37 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:57,360 well we won't need that until later but thank you yeah let me put it there 38 00:02:55,280 --> 00:03:01,760 i think it looks cool too yes are we for real aiming to do this in an 39 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:05,440 hour with hardline i don't know 40 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:11,519 hour and a half should we try yeah i want to try the time is now 3 43 at 4 45 41 00:03:09,599 --> 00:03:16,959 we're gonna be turning this thing on full of water posting you got it we got 42 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:21,120 this yeah all right let's go so i'll go motherboard you want to unbox 43 00:03:18,879 --> 00:03:26,159 the case yep it's actually kind of amazing to me 44 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:30,239 that it's taken so long for a case like this to make its way onto the market 45 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:34,560 because you get all these cases out there that are 46 00:03:31,599 --> 00:03:38,879 designed for water cooling like with a 360 millimeter radiator mount in the 47 00:03:36,799 --> 00:03:42,560 front a 240 in the top can i help you with that 48 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:47,599 but they give no thought whatsoever to where you're supposed to put a pump and 49 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:51,680 a reservoir so singularity is actually a super small company but they are really 50 00:03:50,319 --> 00:03:55,680 dedicated to water cooling and building just like 51 00:03:53,599 --> 00:03:58,879 these gorgeous super industrial looking designs so let's walk you guys through 52 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:04,560 some of the features that we're working with here oh we apparently cheated a little bit it already has an 800 watt 53 00:04:02,879 --> 00:04:08,720 power supply in it you put that in there oh yeah i did that to measure the power 54 00:04:06,879 --> 00:04:12,560 supply like the cable runs that's fine we'll give ourselves a two minute 55 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:17,120 penalty at any rate so right up here is where our mini itx motherboard goes 56 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:22,240 we're using pci express risers right here to get our graphics card down to 57 00:04:19,199 --> 00:04:24,000 its um you know vertical mounted show 58 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:28,320 off position down here at the bottom power supply goes here and then i 59 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:32,960 believe this spot over here is just for drives isn't it uh that's to hide your 60 00:04:30,639 --> 00:04:37,919 cable management oh is that all it's for yeah knee radiators in the top and the 61 00:04:35,759 --> 00:04:41,680 front and then the entire back of the case 62 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:48,160 is actually fluid distribution and a built-in reservoir that leads down to 63 00:04:44,639 --> 00:04:50,720 the integrated d5 pump pretty sweet oh 64 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:55,520 my goodness is there an RGB component to this we have cable mod RGB stuff okay 65 00:04:53,600 --> 00:05:01,360 i'm getting warm this might be the time to it actually hasn't quite happened yet as 66 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:07,199 of filming this video but uh i promised i would wear marquez's merch 67 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:09,759 if he hit 10 million before we did so here it is 68 00:05:08,639 --> 00:05:15,680 oh god remove the front led cover by undoing 69 00:05:13,840 --> 00:05:20,400 the three fasteners on the front panel of the case 70 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:25,280 so this thing here oh but this is gonna light up super cool okay 71 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:29,199 i can't figure out how this strip goes in though 72 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:34,080 unless it goes in sideways oh 73 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:36,160 they recommend their own rigid RGB strip 74 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:40,720 is that not gonna happen is that for the front only i guess so 75 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:43,520 i have a lead on that front RGB strip nice so we're good 76 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:48,880 did you do the back one or am i doing that oh you're doing it okay let's just 77 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:48,880 peel it unceremoniously 78 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:55,600 it's safe to guess that i can just cut this anywhere right 79 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:58,960 so the RGB groove at the back seems quite a bit wider it looks like i'll be 80 00:05:57,199 --> 00:06:02,400 able to get my strip in there quite easily 81 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:06,960 so that's pretty cool how's our hour coming along here 82 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:10,000 uh it's 409 i think if we get this done before the end of the day i'm gonna call 83 00:06:08,319 --> 00:06:15,919 it a win that is like two hours for the build i'm 84 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:19,600 gonna get the motherboard prep then i don't think we're doing as bad as you 85 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:23,759 think you don't no 86 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:29,199 we're doing all the hard stuff first that's why the situation looks dire 87 00:06:26,479 --> 00:06:35,199 you already pre-installed the CPU it's like a minute you grabbed a 88 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:37,840 four-stick kit of memory 89 00:06:35,199 --> 00:06:42,800 well that's fine we can have 16 gigs of RAM yeah i think that's okay 90 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:46,240 literally doesn't affect performance for gaming at all 91 00:06:44,639 --> 00:06:49,360 how much pre-prep did you do on this because it looks like our m.2 slot is on 92 00:06:48,319 --> 00:06:55,600 the back and that probably isn't going to fit 93 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:59,520 uh i just assumed that it went here wait there is one on the front yeah yep it's 94 00:06:57,919 --> 00:07:02,400 packed and packed in there pretty tight so i got to figure out how to get this 95 00:07:01,039 --> 00:07:09,919 off looks like it's just these two screws hey i told you we're in great shape okay 96 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:14,080 so our SSD heatsink goes in there and this 97 00:07:11,759 --> 00:07:18,560 does it just go on top actually no it's not great 98 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:23,039 it fits well enough though i think we can get away with it all right i'm gonna start running the cables 99 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:27,919 these are the ones that i got i think they look pretty sweet hey wow i like it 100 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:31,599 where's my CPU block at alex so here it is 101 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:35,520 yeah you have a choice so i can go with matte black plus silver or nickel and 102 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:39,440 plexi i'm gonna have a look at the graphics card and then i'll decide wow 103 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:43,120 you know your graphics card is hardcore when it includes a tube of thermal 104 00:07:41,039 --> 00:07:48,160 compound in the box okay well based on this 105 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:51,280 i think the only way to go is the matte black and silver then all right well 106 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:55,039 this is going to slow me down a little bit my mounting hardware for my block 107 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:58,560 needs to be removed and reinstalled because it comes with Intel mounting 108 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:04,240 hardware on it something that made sense for a long time but nowadays does it we 109 00:08:01,919 --> 00:08:08,720 have 15 minutes okay panic mode time 110 00:08:06,479 --> 00:08:12,879 uh i have no clue how the RGB works no if it wasn't for the RGB 111 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:17,919 we'd be in much better shape right now yeah 112 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:19,120 all right oh god my block installed 113 00:08:17,919 --> 00:08:24,560 i guess i can mount the motherboard now though right yep so our time's up i am 114 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:29,199 honestly kind of tempted to abandon our RGB fan pursuit here 115 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:33,680 yeah that's fair enough okay motherboard's in so here goes our 116 00:08:31,599 --> 00:08:38,640 pci express extension which conveniently covers up our pump here so can i just 117 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:42,800 plug this into the RGB header on the motherboard 118 00:08:40,560 --> 00:08:46,160 so my plan was to do like splitter on splitter okay so if we're gonna have to 119 00:08:44,560 --> 00:08:48,560 put a mess of wires into it anyway we might as well put a commander into it 120 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:52,720 yeah i'm gonna tear them out all right 121 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:55,519 and i'm not gonna try and do it your way there's too much stuff in here now i'm 122 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:59,040 just taking the rads out and then taking the fans off literally undoing the first 123 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:02,959 20 minutes of work what a waste 124 00:09:00,399 --> 00:09:07,839 well i guess it's GPU time uh i absolutely hate how gigantic this thing 125 00:09:05,279 --> 00:09:14,160 is oh do we actually have to use that i mean we don't have to it's just 126 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:16,560 for better or for worse it's an easy way 127 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:22,959 to manage all the RGB on a bunch of Corsair crap and a bunch of fans in one 128 00:09:19,839 --> 00:09:24,880 go what if i could put it right there 129 00:09:22,959 --> 00:09:30,959 maybe yeah that's not bad i guess it's loop planning time wait do they have 130 00:09:27,839 --> 00:09:33,440 adapters to the one with the spacer 131 00:09:30,959 --> 00:09:38,560 i have no idea how to make those work they're three pin 132 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:41,519 but they don't have the four pin piece and the gap 133 00:09:39,839 --> 00:09:46,160 this wouldn't have worked at all there's only three wires even though 134 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:48,320 there's four spots okay fine 135 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:53,680 forget addressable then we just go with the traditional ones 136 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:57,519 and we tear those strips out yeah so i'll undo all the work you did at the 137 00:09:55,680 --> 00:10:00,320 beginning while you undo all the work i did at the beginning 138 00:10:00,399 --> 00:10:06,720 so progress commander pro is gonna handle fan 139 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:10,560 control and the RGB for these fans and then uh how are we doing the RGB strips 140 00:10:08,959 --> 00:10:15,120 again uh so they're just wired up to the cable 141 00:10:13,839 --> 00:10:21,920 mod thing we're gonna have to have a splitter and then their proprietary thing that 142 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:25,440 plugs into SATA and how are we going to hide all of this 143 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:29,120 i don't know are we going to have to just cable ties 144 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:35,279 lttstore.com actually how do we even get into the reservoir is that down there 145 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:37,839 oh my god is it well the GPU has to come out then 146 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:42,320 okay we did not think about this at all if 147 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:47,040 we're gonna make use of the integrated like tubing runs 148 00:10:45,519 --> 00:10:52,240 basically nothing we've done so far makes any sense yeah i have to take this 149 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:54,959 front radiator off again don't i i think so yeah 150 00:10:53,600 --> 00:11:00,160 there's no way we're hard line tubing this no let's not do that 151 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:04,880 after an email chain with singularity we now understand how the loop works so 152 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:06,079 this radiator is supposed to go 153 00:11:06,079 --> 00:11:13,519 this way with the fittings down now the whole thing makes a whole ton more sense 154 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:17,760 so i'm gonna focus on figuring out the RGB wiring while you start figuring out 155 00:11:16,079 --> 00:11:23,200 how to build the loop and one of the other things that we discovered is that 156 00:11:20,399 --> 00:11:27,519 rather than trying to do hardline bends to reach all these places 157 00:11:24,959 --> 00:11:32,079 which really wasn't going to be feasible we are going to have to rely on some 158 00:11:30,079 --> 00:11:37,120 kind of fancier fittings in order to reach all the 159 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:40,959 little nooks and crannies we are still doing hard line though right you know 160 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:44,000 what i'm on RGB duty and you might be thinking like you could come out 161 00:11:42,560 --> 00:11:47,440 straight from here and then do a bend and a bend and then go around but 162 00:11:45,839 --> 00:11:51,440 getting bends that close to each other are actually really hard because when 163 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:56,720 you heat one of them up the other one unbends itself gets melty so yeah 164 00:11:54,560 --> 00:12:00,720 it doesn't really work well now that we've adjusted our expectations somewhat 165 00:11:58,959 --> 00:12:06,079 this is actually going really smoothly oh did i just twist that 166 00:12:02,959 --> 00:12:11,120 the wrong way wait what the hell is this 167 00:12:06,079 --> 00:12:12,639 oh no i forgot about the RGB strips 168 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:18,000 we've already submitted to the ridiculous fittings gods why don't we 169 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:21,600 just put one of these in no no yeah wait wait just hear me this is like the money 170 00:12:19,680 --> 00:12:27,040 shot bend you can't do a huge fitting for him hear me out just hear me out 171 00:12:23,839 --> 00:12:28,720 okay humor me there boom 172 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:32,000 one bend oh no 173 00:12:30,959 --> 00:12:37,360 no it doesn't even have to go that high okay hold on hold on i went over kill i 174 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:40,079 went over killed there yeah that's not that bad 175 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:46,800 it's like yeah yeah that's not that bad so what i've 176 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:49,360 decided is that the case RGB strips will 177 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:55,040 be controlled with just like the remote control the CPU block will be controlled 178 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:56,560 by the on-board 12-volt RGB header and 179 00:12:55,040 --> 00:13:00,720 then all the fans will be controlled by Corsair software 180 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:03,279 well i think it's making tubes time like all things considered this really 181 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:08,560 doesn't look like it's going to be super difficult sweet 182 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:10,720 i am uh still working on RGB wiring 183 00:13:08,560 --> 00:13:13,200 so i've got it in the right spot 184 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:18,480 if i pull too hard though i'm just going to unplug this connector down here 185 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:20,079 shoot it pulled out ah 186 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:24,079 i'm going to start actually cutting the hard line tubing all that i need to do 187 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:27,760 is just come in with a little measuring stick like this one 188 00:13:25,839 --> 00:13:31,839 you put it in figure out exactly how long your tube needs to be mark that off 189 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:35,839 and then cut it for the ones with bends i really like this jig right here that 190 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:39,040 alpha cool has so you can just come in and then kind of put it up against both 191 00:13:37,519 --> 00:13:42,880 repeating let's say we're doing this one right here the fitting 192 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:47,680 the fitting thereabouts you lock it 193 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:53,120 and then you know that it's going to be about 90 by 194 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:57,519 85 or so in fairness to singularity the instructions did say to do the RGB stuff 195 00:13:55,200 --> 00:14:02,000 first so my personal method for hardline 196 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:04,880 tubing is you cut it with the saw but i find that it doesn't do a good job all 197 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:10,560 the time like you can see there's a little chip right here so you just cut it a tiny bit long and then you just 198 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:14,240 take the belt sander and bring it down to the final dimension if you don't have 199 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:18,079 a belt sander that's fine it's really easy if you take just like some 200 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:22,000 sandpaper put it on a table rub it around a bit come on 201 00:14:23,199 --> 00:14:29,519 yes yes i have a dent in my hand 202 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:32,800 this is peak rat's nest right here 203 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:39,279 hey alex how is the pump powered uh is there even a pump in there 204 00:14:38,079 --> 00:14:45,399 they're uh that might just be a pump cover uh 205 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:51,920 there's no pump huh there's packing material 206 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:56,800 oh man i gotta run more power i come bearing the world's ugliest pump 207 00:14:54,720 --> 00:15:01,199 in goes our pump which now actually contains a pump all right so we have the 208 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:04,639 super small tube in there so now we can just swing the radiator 209 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:08,800 down and line it up just like that 210 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:13,920 and if everything is measured correctly it should oh come on come on 211 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:19,920 i really wish that we could leak test this right now like just this one fitting so is that lined up uh 212 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:22,880 not quite okay so it doesn't need to be slightly longer then yeah seems like it 213 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:27,639 okay do you want the led strips that came 214 00:15:24,399 --> 00:15:27,639 with this case 215 00:15:27,839 --> 00:15:33,440 what they were sitting next to it 216 00:15:31,279 --> 00:15:37,120 you've got to be kidding me you know what though i just noticed the 217 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:41,920 one at the back is not sitting in the groove right 218 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:44,320 i just finished the wiring 219 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:48,880 go ahead and cut so here are the skinnier RGB strips that 220 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:53,519 those channels were designed for yo alex remember that RGB strip that i dented my 221 00:15:51,199 --> 00:15:56,240 hand putting in yeah so long 222 00:15:54,720 --> 00:16:00,959 what if you're supposed to run the RGB strip through from the other side i mean 223 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:04,800 the instructions do say run the RGB first but like 224 00:16:02,399 --> 00:16:08,720 holy crap just put a slightly bigger hole there okay i think i've got it in 225 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:13,600 the right spot now this is gonna be one of our first 90 degree bends we do have 226 00:16:11,199 --> 00:16:17,519 like jigs to get perfect 90 degrees but i think that the radius is going to be a 227 00:16:15,199 --> 00:16:21,440 bit too big for where it needs to go so i'm just going to 228 00:16:18,959 --> 00:16:26,160 do it by hand and then try and fit it and i think it'll be fine yeah that's 229 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:29,680 gone so well so far on this project alex although it's not going to feel super 230 00:16:27,839 --> 00:16:32,880 duper great is you don't want to wear any gloves because one of the key things 231 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:37,199 is when you're bending it to make sure if there's any like little 232 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:42,880 ridges or stuff to get them out and you can only feel that with your bare hand 233 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:47,120 that doesn't sound like very good advice so i've got this tube in here and 234 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:51,440 you know it's the right length but i can't quite swing it around because of the fitting so i took the screws out up 235 00:16:50,079 --> 00:16:55,839 here so we can just pull the whole thing up just a tiny bit 236 00:16:54,160 --> 00:17:00,079 and then just lower it down on there and i think we're gonna be perfect alex the 237 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:03,519 more tubing you put in here the more challenging it's gonna be for me to 238 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:06,720 finish my RGB runs well it's not my fault that you've been spending what 239 00:17:05,039 --> 00:17:10,400 like four and a half now i don't i don't even 240 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:14,720 want to hear it you know that this wasn't easy i don't 241 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:18,880 think i can fit the 24 pin under the plate i have decided 242 00:17:17,199 --> 00:17:23,199 that i'm going to run the 24 pin out here and i'm just going to do this weird 243 00:17:21,919 --> 00:17:27,439 kind of curvy thing here 244 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:32,080 little crease here do you think that's okay uh yes 245 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:35,360 yes at this point yes all right i'm gonna trim it 246 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:39,280 why even ask okay boom 247 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:45,360 i'm legitimately ready to help now um we need this to 248 00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:49,679 bend from like here to here done okay so that's a simple 90 degree yep see if i 249 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:52,240 remember how to do this okay do you dare me to just free ball bend this 90 250 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:54,480 degrees sure 251 00:17:55,200 --> 00:18:00,799 and it bubbled but this just seems to be kind of crappy 252 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:06,559 tubing okay well i'm gonna try again i think we're ready 253 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:06,559 three two one 254 00:18:06,799 --> 00:18:13,120 looking fine actually i think this is the point in the video 255 00:18:11,120 --> 00:18:16,799 where we have to admit that this is not easy though 256 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:20,640 no this is definitely not easy or fast how do i get all the melty stuff out 257 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:24,559 give it a little go we go and then you should be able to just like blow it up 258 00:18:24,559 --> 00:18:30,880 i think that tube pretty much nailed it yeah it looks pretty good awesome 259 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:35,520 this is all i can do to tighten the collar on this fitting 260 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:40,880 try and kind of push against it with one finger 261 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:44,880 it's home stretch time guys so i'm doing up the power connectors for 262 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:49,200 the graphics card right here so naturally alex left me the trickiest 263 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:53,440 bends and one of the tricky things here is that it still has to stay perfectly 264 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:55,440 round and straight where it goes into the fitting 265 00:18:54,559 --> 00:19:02,280 there i don't really have a way of checking this unfortunately 266 00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:12,160 i think the tubing is good in terms of like the length and the angle i'm going 267 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:15,520 to call it i got it all right i see your confidence level is 268 00:19:14,559 --> 00:19:22,760 high the system is full of paper towel 269 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:22,760 yep okay lttstore.com 270 00:19:24,799 --> 00:19:31,520 oh dang pretty sick hey that's our res oh is it even going in 271 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:35,600 get in slowly get in there oh actually this is a good learnable moment see how 272 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:38,960 our pump is spinning and it's not technically running dry 273 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:42,480 there's lots of water in it but it wasn't actually moving much fluid that's 274 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:46,720 because there's too many bubbles caught so what we need to do find the on off 275 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:52,880 switch on our power supply where the devil is it there it is 276 00:19:49,039 --> 00:19:53,760 see let that gigantic bubble come out 277 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:57,919 then fill up our reservoir a bit more 278 00:19:56,160 --> 00:20:01,120 this is really cool you can really see the bleeding process 279 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:04,559 all right so now the pump can grab that water a lot 280 00:20:03,679 --> 00:20:07,559 better you want to hit the power button metal 281 00:20:09,039 --> 00:20:14,320 oh oh stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stopping i'm stopping what's going on uh 282 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:18,080 there's there's a really big leak i'm not entirely sure where 283 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:24,240 a really big o it's the pump the pump the oh god you've 284 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:27,760 got to be kidding me okay how easy is it to get at the oh 285 00:20:25,679 --> 00:20:32,000 oh no yeah easiest water cooling my friggin 286 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:38,880 buttocks if you want to be able to easily drain a loop you need to have a drain port at 287 00:20:36,159 --> 00:20:42,240 the very bottom of the system and so conveniently they provide one right here 288 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:46,880 we didn't put like a proper drain fitting on it or anything so we're just going to use the fill port we're going 289 00:20:44,799 --> 00:20:50,480 to flip it upside down really we might not even have to do that we can 290 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:54,799 probably just stop her this flip it which will take this gigantic 291 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:57,840 air bubble and put it in the pump do some o-ring surgery and put it back 292 00:20:57,039 --> 00:21:02,320 on yeah we actually can do that um dare me 293 00:21:00,559 --> 00:21:06,880 to power it on for a couple of seconds to oh i just destroyed our tabletop 294 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:14,840 oh rip oh come on 295 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:20,640 um yeah what is that water there oh what's this 296 00:21:18,159 --> 00:21:24,559 how are we gonna dry that i don't know that's like never ever ever 297 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:27,679 gonna dry i actually don't know if it got all the 298 00:21:26,559 --> 00:21:31,600 way in i put it in really tight last time 299 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:36,799 because i was hoping it wouldn't leak and now i can't get it off 300 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:40,720 there we go got it wait 301 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:42,640 what's that sticker we didn't remove 302 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:46,880 uh i think that's the sticker that said to read the manual before doing anything 303 00:21:47,360 --> 00:21:53,440 my ARM is stuck okay so now draining the loop is a 304 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:56,080 little trickier it's fine one second we can just get a little bit just get the 305 00:21:54,480 --> 00:22:00,720 funnel a little bit just get the funnel look i mean this is going to be off in 306 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:04,559 like a matter of moments here alex it's leaking all over the table 307 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:09,919 move that way you move move your body that way oh geez 308 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:15,280 and then i'm gonna there's a lot of water what is stuck there what am i stuck on 309 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,280 okay 310 00:22:17,039 --> 00:22:24,080 see that would have been fine i don't remember the last time i had a 311 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:28,480 water cooled build go this poorly it's still very very very full of water 312 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:32,480 oh god where's the water coming out uh must be the pump cool 313 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:36,559 okay yeah that's basically fine neat let's just get this mains power 314 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:40,080 away yep 315 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:43,840 so i just took apart this alpha cool pump here and yeah you can clearly see 316 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:49,919 that instead of around the outside it's supposed to go on the front just right 317 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:51,679 there like that oh my god 318 00:22:49,919 --> 00:22:57,360 does the case come i saw them i saw them 319 00:22:54,960 --> 00:23:01,120 i saw them and i was like yup 320 00:22:59,039 --> 00:23:05,520 me o-rings in the case i even saw 321 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:10,000 them i was like i saw them and i wondered what are they for 322 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:13,919 i g i can guarantee you that this goes on 323 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:18,720 exactly where it's supposed to go up right in there and of course it's a 324 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:23,280 white one too so you so it looks better with the clear acrylic 325 00:23:21,360 --> 00:23:26,400 in fairness to us i just read the whole manual 326 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:30,400 doesn't mention the pump once pretty sure in revision 1.1 it's going 327 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:34,720 to okay but that's good news then because 328 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:39,280 we didn't have any other leaks as far as we know but yeah so we can just put the 329 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:43,919 pump in and as long as everything works we're basically good to 330 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:48,000 go i saw them the next day 331 00:23:45,919 --> 00:23:52,320 it's actually shocking how well this dried this out like even the water that 332 00:23:49,679 --> 00:23:58,400 was stuck between this back cover here and the plexi is gone 333 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:58,400 so i feel pretty good about that the 334 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:05,440 power supply and stuff is probably dry so let's give you guys an 335 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:12,720 update then alex has made some modifications one is that the system has 336 00:24:09,919 --> 00:24:15,600 been put back together uh the next is that our funnel 337 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:20,720 there we go now has an air return channel so it 338 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:25,520 should pour a little bit easier and last but not least 339 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:27,760 the o-ring is now clear 340 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:30,559 and we also leak tested it with the leak tester like we probably should have in 341 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:34,960 the first bit yeah that would have been smarter okay so theoretically this is 342 00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:38,880 just a matter of dumping water into it and being off to the races yep let's do 343 00:24:37,679 --> 00:24:42,559 it my RGB wiring could still be all wrong 344 00:24:41,279 --> 00:24:49,360 oh geez you got to credit this case with being very easy to bleed the bubbles out of 345 00:24:46,799 --> 00:24:53,520 yeah it's actually a pretty cool reservoir design 346 00:24:51,039 --> 00:24:58,080 because it's so thin here the bubbles kind of come out slam against this wall 347 00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:03,520 and then have to make their way to the top i like it oh okay 348 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:06,640 i feel like blue channel is not plugged in on this one 349 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:11,440 yeah because this one's going like RGB and this one's going just like rg i had 350 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:16,720 to guess one of the things is just like theoretically once Windows boots up this 351 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:22,159 will be it moment of truth not bad at all so how many hours was this it's 352 00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:24,320 currently noon on the third day yeah we 353 00:25:22,159 --> 00:25:26,000 didn't work on it for the full days though 354 00:25:25,279 --> 00:25:34,320 so you say like eight hours yeah i think eight hours three hours okay but we're 355 00:25:29,919 --> 00:25:34,320 done pencils down final peel 356 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:41,840 and that is one good looking machine how did you get the RGB fixed on the back 357 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:47,279 panel i poked it with a stick gorgeous 358 00:25:43,919 --> 00:25:50,960 so for all the pain we actually ended up 359 00:25:47,279 --> 00:25:51,919 with a pretty sick looking machine 360 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:56,159 and it's pretty compact for something with 361 00:25:54,000 --> 00:26:00,799 quad 120 millimeter worth of radiators too but can it game 362 00:25:58,159 --> 00:26:05,440 so we might have a problem alex but uh we might have officially outgrown doom 363 00:26:02,799 --> 00:26:10,880 as a test title we're running at a locked 200 frames per second i can't 364 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:14,720 even drop below it on ultra details at 1440. 365 00:26:12,559 --> 00:26:18,799 the good news is it looks great so this viewsonic elite monitor is actually 366 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:23,520 using the same lg one millisecond response time ips panel that we've seen 367 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:27,760 before which means that as you're whipping the camera around you retain a 368 00:26:25,919 --> 00:26:32,400 lot more of the image sharpness than you would on a traditional ips 369 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:36,400 the other thing that i actually didn't realize about this going into it is that 370 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:41,120 it is overclockable so we'll just use our little 371 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:46,480 nipple based navigation system down here which by the way is the best oh geez 372 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:51,279 that's fine you'll be back soon enough and boom 373 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:52,720 we can flip over to 165 hertz suckas oh 374 00:26:51,279 --> 00:26:59,440 this is a good chance to check our temps though so our GPU is sitting at a frosty 375 00:26:55,120 --> 00:27:01,360 33 degrees max of 45. 376 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:06,159 and where's our CPU at max of 59. 377 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:10,400 nice man the system ended up looking good though oh yeah i'm glad we stuck 378 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,960 with the RGB even though it was a nightmare 379 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:16,799 you know maybe i'll come around to hardline tubing now it wasn't that bad 380 00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:20,480 especially if you're willing to blow like a hundred dollars on fittings to 381 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:23,679 make it more palatable now we've got shadow of the tomb raider 382 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:29,360 loaded up and that looks like freaking 383 00:27:26,559 --> 00:27:32,880 butter that is so smooth yeah even from the angle here looks pretty great well i 384 00:27:31,279 --> 00:27:37,840 mean that's the benefit of an ips display right yeah all right so real 385 00:27:34,799 --> 00:27:39,679 talk time this was far from the easiest 386 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:44,080 computer build we've ever done on Linus tech tips but 387 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:48,320 in fairness to singularity the water cooling part of it and particularly 388 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:53,919 things like the maintenance with the dedicated fill and drain ports actually 389 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:58,960 wasn't that bad you just need to familiarize yourself with how the layout 390 00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:01,760 is supposed to work and some of the pieces that you're going to need 391 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:07,039 especially with respect to fittings to make your life a lot easier because this 392 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:12,159 is a no compromises machine it's in this small form factor with four by 120 mils 393 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:16,399 worth of water cooling capacity there are 16 processing cores in it so you 394 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:22,880 could render out huge jobs in a jiffy it's got a freaking rtx 2080 ti that hit 395 00:28:19,399 --> 00:28:25,360 45 degrees after running 3d mark times 396 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:29,679 by and there's been no compromises on the looks either i think the accents on 397 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:34,880 the cables actually ended up looking darn good especially with the pink and 398 00:28:32,559 --> 00:28:39,039 purple RGB color scheme that we've got going on in here now and 399 00:28:36,799 --> 00:28:44,000 despite the occasional uh you know green wire visible somewhere 400 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:48,159 the hard line tubing we managed to cram it in there it doesn't leak 401 00:28:46,159 --> 00:28:52,559 anymore and the best part of this whole build is that it'll cost you just five 402 00:28:51,039 --> 00:28:57,120 thousand dollars with peripherals included wait 403 00:28:54,720 --> 00:29:00,799 that's that's not really a plus nope well okay fine 404 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:04,320 even if one of these isn't looking good anytime soon maybe you can check out the 405 00:29:02,559 --> 00:29:08,399 monitor and if not maybe you'll get lucky when we give away 406 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:13,919 two of these at the end of this video the viewsonic elite xg27 is wicked for 407 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:19,600 people who have anywhere from i'd say an rtx 2060 all the way up to an rtx 2080 408 00:29:17,039 --> 00:29:23,600 ti like our build here 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xg270 qg it's got a built-in 420 00:30:06,159 --> 00:30:11,919 headphone holder on the side which we actually really liked RGB lighting on 421 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:16,880 the back and of course a robust stand with height adjust swivel pivot and all 422 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:21,120 that good stuff so big thanks to you sonic for sponsoring this video and 423 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:25,279 letting us indulge in a build as sick as this one huge thanks to to sven and 424 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:29,760 daniel from singularity computers for sending us one of the first ones of 425 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:33,200 their new wraith case as well as a little bit of help via email and ek and 426 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:36,480 Gigabyte for sending us the vast majority of the hardware and of course 427 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:42,120 congratulations to marquez for hitting 10 million subscribers again check out 428 00:30:38,159 --> 00:30:42,120 his merch shop.mkbhd.com 429 00:30:43,279 --> 00:30:46,919 and 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