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laid out in front of me are all the parts for pretty much as ball in a

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gaming rig as money can buy but as everyone knows if you want to get the

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maximum performance out of your hardware you need cooling that can keep up and

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for all its other faults custom loop water cooling is still the way to go if

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you want no compromises maximum performance and near silent operation

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unfortunately on the path to building a custom water cooled system there are a

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lot of pitfalls that at best can waste your time and at worst can actually

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damage your components well that changes today this right here

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is the singularity rafe a case that was

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built from the ground up to make putting a custom water cooled system in it as

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easy and painless as possible yeah easiest water cooling my friggin

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buttocks so our plan is to throw this thing together

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with hardline tubing with hardline tubing in about the next hour

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and this video is brought to you by the vue sonic elite xg270 qg gaming monitor

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it's 1440p 165 hertz g-sync it's got 98

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coverage of the dci p3 color space and you can get yours at the link in the

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video description

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while alex is assembling the monitor i'm going to run you guys through the hardware for today we've got an aorus

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x570i pro wi-fi motherboard this is a mini itx board so even though this is a

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bit of a bigger case it still takes a small motherboard because we got to make

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room for all that water cooling stuff we're going to be running an AMD ryzen 9

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3950x so there's a 16 core processor in

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here and we're going to be teaming it up with an rtx 2080 ti aorus extreme from

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Gigabyte and what's cool about this one is that it is pre-water cooled meaning

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that it is basically slot in tubes in

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and go for the rest of our water cooling we're

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using a bunch of stuff from ek water blocks so they're cool stream sc240

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radiators i believe we've got uh yup their velocity d RGB CPU block a bunch

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of their straight hard line fittings as well as their vardar evo RGB fans then

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for storage we've got aorus's PCIe gen 4

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m.2 SSD as well as a set of g-skill

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trident z royale with cheese actually

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i think that's junk i think this is actually their uh yep it's trident z

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neos so we've got what appears to be a

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32 gig kit of 3600 c14 nice that'll be a

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really great pairing with our 3950x makes it sound like wine all right uh

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well we won't need that until later but thank you yeah let me put it there

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i think it looks cool too yes are we for real aiming to do this in an

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hour with hardline i don't know

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hour and a half should we try yeah i want to try the time is now 3 43 at 4 45

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we're gonna be turning this thing on full of water posting you got it we got

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this yeah all right let's go so i'll go motherboard you want to unbox

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the case yep it's actually kind of amazing to me

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that it's taken so long for a case like this to make its way onto the market

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because you get all these cases out there that are

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designed for water cooling like with a 360 millimeter radiator mount in the

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front a 240 in the top can i help you with that

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but they give no thought whatsoever to where you're supposed to put a pump and

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a reservoir so singularity is actually a super small company but they are really

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dedicated to water cooling and building just like

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these gorgeous super industrial looking designs so let's walk you guys through

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some of the features that we're working with here oh we apparently cheated a little bit it already has an 800 watt

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power supply in it you put that in there oh yeah i did that to measure the power

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supply like the cable runs that's fine we'll give ourselves a two minute

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penalty at any rate so right up here is where our mini itx motherboard goes

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we're using pci express risers right here to get our graphics card down to

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its um you know vertical mounted show

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off position down here at the bottom power supply goes here and then i

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believe this spot over here is just for drives isn't it uh that's to hide your

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cable management oh is that all it's for yeah knee radiators in the top and the

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front and then the entire back of the case

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is actually fluid distribution and a built-in reservoir that leads down to

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the integrated d5 pump pretty sweet oh

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my goodness is there an RGB component to this we have cable mod RGB stuff okay

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i'm getting warm this might be the time to it actually hasn't quite happened yet as

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of filming this video but uh i promised i would wear marquez's merch

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if he hit 10 million before we did so here it is

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oh god remove the front led cover by undoing

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the three fasteners on the front panel of the case

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so this thing here oh but this is gonna light up super cool okay

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i can't figure out how this strip goes in though

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unless it goes in sideways oh

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they recommend their own rigid RGB strip

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is that not gonna happen is that for the front only i guess so

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i have a lead on that front RGB strip nice so we're good

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did you do the back one or am i doing that oh you're doing it okay let's just

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peel it unceremoniously

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it's safe to guess that i can just cut this anywhere right

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so the RGB groove at the back seems quite a bit wider it looks like i'll be

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able to get my strip in there quite easily

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so that's pretty cool how's our hour coming along here

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uh it's 409 i think if we get this done before the end of the day i'm gonna call

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it a win that is like two hours for the build i'm

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gonna get the motherboard prep then i don't think we're doing as bad as you

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think you don't no

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we're doing all the hard stuff first that's why the situation looks dire

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you already pre-installed the CPU it's like a minute you grabbed a

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four-stick kit of memory

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well that's fine we can have 16 gigs of RAM yeah i think that's okay

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literally doesn't affect performance for gaming at all

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how much pre-prep did you do on this because it looks like our m.2 slot is on

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the back and that probably isn't going to fit

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uh i just assumed that it went here wait there is one on the front yeah yep it's

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packed and packed in there pretty tight so i got to figure out how to get this

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off looks like it's just these two screws hey i told you we're in great shape okay

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so our SSD heatsink goes in there and this

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does it just go on top actually no it's not great

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it fits well enough though i think we can get away with it all right i'm gonna start running the cables

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these are the ones that i got i think they look pretty sweet hey wow i like it

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where's my CPU block at alex so here it is

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yeah you have a choice so i can go with matte black plus silver or nickel and

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plexi i'm gonna have a look at the graphics card and then i'll decide wow

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you know your graphics card is hardcore when it includes a tube of thermal

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compound in the box okay well based on this

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i think the only way to go is the matte black and silver then all right well

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this is going to slow me down a little bit my mounting hardware for my block

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needs to be removed and reinstalled because it comes with Intel mounting

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hardware on it something that made sense for a long time but nowadays does it we

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have 15 minutes okay panic mode time

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uh i have no clue how the RGB works no if it wasn't for the RGB

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we'd be in much better shape right now yeah

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all right oh god my block installed

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i guess i can mount the motherboard now though right yep so our time's up i am

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honestly kind of tempted to abandon our RGB fan pursuit here

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yeah that's fair enough okay motherboard's in so here goes our

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pci express extension which conveniently covers up our pump here so can i just

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plug this into the RGB header on the motherboard

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so my plan was to do like splitter on splitter okay so if we're gonna have to

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put a mess of wires into it anyway we might as well put a commander into it

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yeah i'm gonna tear them out all right

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and i'm not gonna try and do it your way there's too much stuff in here now i'm

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just taking the rads out and then taking the fans off literally undoing the first

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20 minutes of work what a waste

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well i guess it's GPU time uh i absolutely hate how gigantic this thing

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is oh do we actually have to use that i mean we don't have to it's just

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for better or for worse it's an easy way

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to manage all the RGB on a bunch of Corsair crap and a bunch of fans in one

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go what if i could put it right there

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maybe yeah that's not bad i guess it's loop planning time wait do they have

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adapters to the one with the spacer

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i have no idea how to make those work they're three pin

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but they don't have the four pin piece and the gap

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this wouldn't have worked at all there's only three wires even though

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there's four spots okay fine

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forget addressable then we just go with the traditional ones

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and we tear those strips out yeah so i'll undo all the work you did at the

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beginning while you undo all the work i did at the beginning

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so progress commander pro is gonna handle fan

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control and the RGB for these fans and then uh how are we doing the RGB strips

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again uh so they're just wired up to the cable

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mod thing we're gonna have to have a splitter and then their proprietary thing that

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plugs into SATA and how are we going to hide all of this

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i don't know are we going to have to just cable ties

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lttstore.com actually how do we even get into the reservoir is that down there

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oh my god is it well the GPU has to come out then

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okay we did not think about this at all if

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we're gonna make use of the integrated like tubing runs

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basically nothing we've done so far makes any sense yeah i have to take this

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front radiator off again don't i i think so yeah

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there's no way we're hard line tubing this no let's not do that

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after an email chain with singularity we now understand how the loop works so

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this radiator is supposed to go

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this way with the fittings down now the whole thing makes a whole ton more sense

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so i'm gonna focus on figuring out the RGB wiring while you start figuring out

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how to build the loop and one of the other things that we discovered is that

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rather than trying to do hardline bends to reach all these places

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which really wasn't going to be feasible we are going to have to rely on some

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kind of fancier fittings in order to reach all the

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little nooks and crannies we are still doing hard line though right you know

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what i'm on RGB duty and you might be thinking like you could come out

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straight from here and then do a bend and a bend and then go around but

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getting bends that close to each other are actually really hard because when

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you heat one of them up the other one unbends itself gets melty so yeah

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it doesn't really work well now that we've adjusted our expectations somewhat

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this is actually going really smoothly oh did i just twist that

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the wrong way wait what the hell is this

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oh no i forgot about the RGB strips

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we've already submitted to the ridiculous fittings gods why don't we

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just put one of these in no no yeah wait wait just hear me this is like the money

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shot bend you can't do a huge fitting for him hear me out just hear me out

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okay humor me there boom

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one bend oh no

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no it doesn't even have to go that high okay hold on hold on i went over kill i

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went over killed there yeah that's not that bad

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it's like yeah yeah that's not that bad so what i've

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decided is that the case RGB strips will

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be controlled with just like the remote control the CPU block will be controlled

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by the on-board 12-volt RGB header and

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then all the fans will be controlled by Corsair software

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well i think it's making tubes time like all things considered this really

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doesn't look like it's going to be super difficult sweet

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i am uh still working on RGB wiring

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so i've got it in the right spot

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if i pull too hard though i'm just going to unplug this connector down here

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shoot it pulled out ah

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i'm going to start actually cutting the hard line tubing all that i need to do

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is just come in with a little measuring stick like this one

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you put it in figure out exactly how long your tube needs to be mark that off

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and then cut it for the ones with bends i really like this jig right here that

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alpha cool has so you can just come in and then kind of put it up against both

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repeating let's say we're doing this one right here the fitting

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the fitting thereabouts you lock it

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and then you know that it's going to be about 90 by

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85 or so in fairness to singularity the instructions did say to do the RGB stuff

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first so my personal method for hardline

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tubing is you cut it with the saw but i find that it doesn't do a good job all

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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

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take the belt sander and bring it down to the final dimension if you don't have

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a belt sander that's fine it's really easy if you take just like some

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sandpaper put it on a table rub it around a bit come on

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yes yes i have a dent in my hand

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this is peak rat's nest right here

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hey alex how is the pump powered uh is there even a pump in there

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they're uh that might just be a pump cover uh

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there's no pump huh there's packing material

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oh man i gotta run more power i come bearing the world's ugliest pump

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in goes our pump which now actually contains a pump all right so we have the

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super small tube in there so now we can just swing the radiator

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down and line it up just like that

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and if everything is measured correctly it should oh come on come on

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i really wish that we could leak test this right now like just this one fitting so is that lined up uh

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not quite okay so it doesn't need to be slightly longer then yeah seems like it

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okay do you want the led strips that came

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with this case

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what they were sitting next to it

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you've got to be kidding me you know what though i just noticed the

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one at the back is not sitting in the groove right

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i just finished the wiring

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go ahead and cut so here are the skinnier RGB strips that

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those channels were designed for yo alex remember that RGB strip that i dented my

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hand putting in yeah so long

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what if you're supposed to run the RGB strip through from the other side i mean

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the instructions do say run the RGB first but like

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holy crap just put a slightly bigger hole there okay i think i've got it in

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the right spot now this is gonna be one of our first 90 degree bends we do have

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like jigs to get perfect 90 degrees but i think that the radius is going to be a

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bit too big for where it needs to go so i'm just going to

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do it by hand and then try and fit it and i think it'll be fine yeah that's

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gone so well so far on this project alex although it's not going to feel super

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duper great is you don't want to wear any gloves because one of the key things

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is when you're bending it to make sure if there's any like little

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ridges or stuff to get them out and you can only feel that with your bare hand

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that doesn't sound like very good advice so i've got this tube in here and

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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

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here so we can just pull the whole thing up just a tiny bit

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and then just lower it down on there and i think we're gonna be perfect alex the

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more tubing you put in here the more challenging it's gonna be for me to

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finish my RGB runs well it's not my fault that you've been spending what

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like four and a half now i don't i don't even

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want to hear it you know that this wasn't easy i don't

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think i can fit the 24 pin under the plate i have decided

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that i'm going to run the 24 pin out here and i'm just going to do this weird

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kind of curvy thing here

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little crease here do you think that's okay uh yes

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yes at this point yes all right i'm gonna trim it

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why even ask okay boom

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i'm legitimately ready to help now um we need this to

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bend from like here to here done okay so that's a simple 90 degree yep see if i

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remember how to do this okay do you dare me to just free ball bend this 90

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degrees sure

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and it bubbled but this just seems to be kind of crappy

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tubing okay well i'm gonna try again i think we're ready

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three two one

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looking fine actually i think this is the point in the video

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where we have to admit that this is not easy though

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no this is definitely not easy or fast how do i get all the melty stuff out

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give it a little go we go and then you should be able to just like blow it up

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i think that tube pretty much nailed it yeah it looks pretty good awesome

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this is all i can do to tighten the collar on this fitting

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try and kind of push against it with one finger

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it's home stretch time guys so i'm doing up the power connectors for

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the graphics card right here so naturally alex left me the trickiest

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bends and one of the tricky things here is that it still has to stay perfectly

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round and straight where it goes into the fitting

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there i don't really have a way of checking this unfortunately

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i think the tubing is good in terms of like the length and the angle i'm going

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to call it i got it all right i see your confidence level is

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high the system is full of paper towel

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yep okay lttstore.com

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oh dang pretty sick hey that's our res oh is it even going in

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get in slowly get in there oh actually this is a good learnable moment see how

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our pump is spinning and it's not technically running dry

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there's lots of water in it but it wasn't actually moving much fluid that's

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because there's too many bubbles caught so what we need to do find the on off

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switch on our power supply where the devil is it there it is

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see let that gigantic bubble come out

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then fill up our reservoir a bit more

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this is really cool you can really see the bleeding process

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all right so now the pump can grab that water a lot

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better you want to hit the power button metal

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oh oh stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stopping i'm stopping what's going on uh

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there's there's a really big leak i'm not entirely sure where

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a really big o it's the pump the pump the oh god you've

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got to be kidding me okay how easy is it to get at the oh

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oh no yeah easiest water cooling my friggin

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buttocks if you want to be able to easily drain a loop you need to have a drain port at

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the very bottom of the system and so conveniently they provide one right here

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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

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to flip it upside down really we might not even have to do that we can

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probably just stop her this flip it which will take this gigantic

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air bubble and put it in the pump do some o-ring surgery and put it back

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on yeah we actually can do that um dare me

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to power it on for a couple of seconds to oh i just destroyed our tabletop

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oh rip oh come on

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um yeah what is that water there oh what's this

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how are we gonna dry that i don't know that's like never ever ever

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gonna dry i actually don't know if it got all the

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way in i put it in really tight last time

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because i was hoping it wouldn't leak and now i can't get it off

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there we go got it wait

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what's that sticker we didn't remove

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uh i think that's the sticker that said to read the manual before doing anything

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my ARM is stuck okay so now draining the loop is a

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little trickier it's fine one second we can just get a little bit just get the

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funnel a little bit just get the funnel look i mean this is going to be off in

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like a matter of moments here alex it's leaking all over the table

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move that way you move move your body that way oh geez

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and then i'm gonna there's a lot of water what is stuck there what am i stuck on

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okay

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see that would have been fine i don't remember the last time i had a

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water cooled build go this poorly it's still very very very full of water

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oh god where's the water coming out uh must be the pump cool

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okay yeah that's basically fine neat let's just get this mains power

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away yep

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so i just took apart this alpha cool pump here and yeah you can clearly see

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that instead of around the outside it's supposed to go on the front just right

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there like that oh my god

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does the case come i saw them i saw them

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i saw them and i was like yup

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me o-rings in the case i even saw

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them i was like i saw them and i wondered what are they for

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i g i can guarantee you that this goes on

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exactly where it's supposed to go up right in there and of course it's a

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white one too so you so it looks better with the clear acrylic

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in fairness to us i just read the whole manual

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doesn't mention the pump once pretty sure in revision 1.1 it's going

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to okay but that's good news then because

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we didn't have any other leaks as far as we know but yeah so we can just put the

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pump in and as long as everything works we're basically good to

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go i saw them the next day

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it's actually shocking how well this dried this out like even the water that

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was stuck between this back cover here and the plexi is gone

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so i feel pretty good about that the

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power supply and stuff is probably dry so let's give you guys an

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update then alex has made some modifications one is that the system has

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been put back together uh the next is that our funnel

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there we go now has an air return channel so it

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should pour a little bit easier and last but not least

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the o-ring is now clear

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and we also leak tested it with the leak tester like we probably should have in

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the first bit yeah that would have been smarter okay so theoretically this is

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just a matter of dumping water into it and being off to the races yep let's do

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it my RGB wiring could still be all wrong

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oh geez you got to credit this case with being very easy to bleed the bubbles out of

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yeah it's actually a pretty cool reservoir design

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because it's so thin here the bubbles kind of come out slam against this wall

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and then have to make their way to the top i like it oh okay

00:25:01.520 --> 00:25:06.640
i feel like blue channel is not plugged in on this one

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yeah because this one's going like RGB and this one's going just like rg i had

00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:16.720
to guess one of the things is just like theoretically once Windows boots up this

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

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currently noon on the third day yeah we

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didn't work on it for the full days though

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so you say like eight hours yeah i think eight hours three hours okay but we're

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done pencils down final peel

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and that is one good looking machine how did you get the RGB fixed on the back

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panel i poked it with a stick gorgeous

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so for all the pain we actually ended up

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with a pretty sick looking machine

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and it's pretty compact for something with

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quad 120 millimeter worth of radiators too but can it game

00:25:58.159 --> 00:26:05.440
so we might have a problem alex but uh we might have officially outgrown doom

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

00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:14.720
even drop below it on ultra details at 1440.

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the good news is it looks great so this viewsonic elite monitor is actually

00:26:16.400 --> 00:26:23.520
using the same lg one millisecond response time ips panel that we've seen

00:26:20.960 --> 00:26:27.760
before which means that as you're whipping the camera around you retain a

00:26:25.919 --> 00:26:32.400
lot more of the image sharpness than you would on a traditional ips

00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:36.400
the other thing that i actually didn't realize about this going into it is that

00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:41.120
it is overclockable so we'll just use our little

00:26:38.880 --> 00:26:46.480
nipple based navigation system down here which by the way is the best oh geez

00:26:44.720 --> 00:26:51.279
that's fine you'll be back soon enough and boom

00:26:48.080 --> 00:26:52.720
we can flip over to 165 hertz suckas oh

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

00:26:55.120 --> 00:27:01.360
33 degrees max of 45.

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and where's our CPU at max of 59.

00:27:03.240 --> 00:27:10.400
nice man the system ended up looking good though oh yeah i'm glad we stuck

00:27:08.320 --> 00:27:12.960
with the RGB even though it was a nightmare

00:27:11.520 --> 00:27:16.799
you know maybe i'll come around to hardline tubing now it wasn't that bad

00:27:15.360 --> 00:27:20.480
especially if you're willing to blow like a hundred dollars on fittings to

00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:23.679
make it more palatable now we've got shadow of the tomb raider

00:27:21.840 --> 00:27:29.360
loaded up and that looks like freaking

00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:32.880
butter that is so smooth yeah even from the angle here looks pretty great well i

00:27:31.279 --> 00:27:37.840
mean that's the benefit of an ips display right yeah all right so real

00:27:34.799 --> 00:27:39.679
talk time this was far from the easiest

00:27:37.840 --> 00:27:44.080
computer build we've ever done on Linus tech tips but

00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:48.320
in fairness to singularity the water cooling part of it and particularly

00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:53.919
things like the maintenance with the dedicated fill and drain ports actually

00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:58.960
wasn't that bad you just need to familiarize yourself with how the layout

00:27:56.960 --> 00:28:01.760
is supposed to work and some of the pieces that you're going to need

00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:07.039
especially with respect to fittings to make your life a lot easier because this

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

00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:16.399
worth of water cooling capacity there are 16 processing cores in it so you

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

00:28:19.399 --> 00:28:25.360
45 degrees after running 3d mark times

00:28:22.880 --> 00:28:29.679
by and there's been no compromises on the looks either i think the accents on

00:28:27.600 --> 00:28:34.880
the cables actually ended up looking darn good especially with the pink and

00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:39.039
purple RGB color scheme that we've got going on in here now and

00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:44.000
despite the occasional uh you know green wire visible somewhere

00:28:41.840 --> 00:28:48.159
the hard line tubing we managed to cram it in there it doesn't leak

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

00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:57.120
thousand dollars with peripherals included wait

00:28:54.720 --> 00:29:00.799
that's that's not really a plus nope well okay fine

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

00:29:02.559 --> 00:29:08.399
monitor and if not maybe you'll get lucky when we give away

00:29:06.240 --> 00:29:13.919
two of these at the end of this video the viewsonic elite xg27 is wicked for

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

00:29:17.039 --> 00:29:23.600
ti like our build here that'll easily push out the 165 frames per second that

00:29:21.919 --> 00:29:27.440
you'll need to fully take advantage of this monitor's capabilities in every

00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:31.840
frame is going to have that nice fast one millisecond response time of course

00:29:29.600 --> 00:29:35.679
if your rig can't always maintain 165 then g-sync can step in to lend a

00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:40.320
helping hand to ensure that your animations are as smooth as they can be

00:29:38.399 --> 00:29:43.840
now lots of frames are good but ones that are crispy

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head over to store.mkbhd.com

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store.mkbhd.com back to the xg270 qg it's got a built-in

00:30:06.159 --> 00:30:11.919
headphone holder on the side which we actually really liked RGB lighting on

00:30:09.520 --> 00:30:16.880
the back and of course a robust stand with height adjust swivel pivot and all

00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:21.120
that good stuff so big thanks to you sonic for sponsoring this video and

00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:25.279
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00:30:23.120 --> 00:30:29.760
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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

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