well this is just going to be a short in progress video so i've torn out
most of the internal hardware components motherboards out i haven't drained my
loop yet so what i'm going to do is i got my bucket here so i'll be using this
bucket in order to drain it and then i'll just blow on the end of the tubing
to clear out the rest of it until there's enough out that i can
just start disconnecting tubing and pulling out the components and
draining them one at a time you can see my temperature probe for my air fans
which are these ones and these ones and then i've got a separate temperature
probe down here for my water fans which controls these ones and these ones the
ones on the front radiator i've got a better picture in my mind of what i want
to do for this particular build i think i want to clean up the tubing or the
tubing the uh tubing's fine i want to clean up the wiring a little bit so here
on the back especially it's a total mess and there's a lot of sort of
extra there's any way that i can reduce the overall amount of clutter a little
bit that would be great especially down in the bottom so that's one of the things i'm going to
be trying to do i also desperately i mean i had to do this anyway just to
clean up my water loop check out this blog is that disgusting or what
you and i'm gonna try and get you guys an angle of it here but do you see this
here i don't know how to get it to
to focus but there's text
there's text on the block so shoot this is really hard to uh to show
with it reflecting like that but um it's on the other side there we go i
think we got it now it's on the other side of the plexi so it's not on the
side that i'm touching it's on the other side and there's text that goes like
this and then there's a like a black line that runs from here all the way
across to here there's a www.something
the most bizarre thing i've ever seen
so um so that was that was kind of weird
oh what else we got so yeah there's my old motherboard
um raid card that's one of the other things i have to figure out over the
course of this project this fan is really loud but it needs to be on there
in order to cool the battery backup unit so i'm either going to pull the battery
backup unit off of it or i'm going to figure out a better way
to cool it that doesn't involve this allowed obnoxious little tiny fan uh
made most of the noise in my system so it's got to
go the advantage of the battery backup unit is that if my raid array fails in
the middle of a right operation or while something is still in the cache of
the of the raid card and not yet on my drives it's like partially in both
places it can cause the uh data to be corrupted so the battery
backup will flush the cache to um
i don't remember it flushes it somewhere whatever
or from RAM to something i don't know anyway it prevents corruption and uh
but what happened was it was overheating
so i had to put a fan on it and then it's loud so that's annoying uh so yeah
reservoirs dirty these are really hard to clean i love the mc res micro but i
really wish it was easier to clean so that's one of the things i'll be doing i
have pulled off half of my ssds so far so i've got to pull off the other half
of them still going to be sticking with the same SSD configuration i mean when
you have eight ssds it doesn't matter if they're say to two or say to three you're uh you're going to be limited by
other things other than the interface to each individual drive so
um yeah i got to clean up wiring to the t-balancer a little bit as well there's
a lot of extra there so i'll be cutting off some wires and then
re-re-tying them and re-soldering them in order to clean things up if i if i
have the gumption i also want to see these the gray on the insides
of these i wouldn't mind spray painting those black just so that it's a little bit
cleaner looking at the front if you get this angle it looks good but then if you
get this dangle you see the gray so i'd like to like to get that fixed up
and i'll think about painting the optical drive just because that's kind of ugly
i think that's pretty much it for now so uh until there are more updates