that's twice in two days actually that I
am building something so huge that I
don't even fit next to it welcome to personal rig 2015 upgrade part 4 so if
you've been following along up till now I've introduced the hardware I have
introduced the I don't remember what the second video was about I have introduced
yes my friends the birth of the case right the second one was designing it
and now I am finally going to build
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was a bit of a roller coaster of a build for a variety of reasons it started out
actually like I was really excited cuz I had this great concept I've designed the
case from scratch with help from Taran and Proto case and like it finally
arrived and I'm like yeah I've got this new concept for taking my system and
putting it in a completely different room to achieve true silence and then I
looked at my old rig and I was like it's actually kind of hard to say goodbye
I've been using that case that tj7 BW
for 9 years it was a gift from my then girlfriend now wife I have polished it I
have dremeled it and cut it I have painted it I have stripped all the paint
I have painted it again and we have been through a lot and between that and the
radiator in the front that's my first ever water cooling radiator that I've
been using for 12 years I I am leaving
behind some of the pieces of like my PC
Enthusiast history that actually ended up meaning a little bit more to me than
I had originally thought that they did
but um hey the build's got to go on so
it started with carefully extracting the motherboard being really careful not to
chip that extremely fragile paint job that I gave it way back in this
controversial video here and grabbing some of the components that I'm going to
carry with me so the CPU the 5960x 8
core that's coming with me so is that goldplated Apple block from swifttech
and actually this is a funny one my optical drive is coming with me because
it handles CDs DVDs HDD DD and Blu-ray
all in one drive not to mention it has light scribe yes I'm sure someone
somewhere on Earth cares about light scribe one thing that won't be coming
with me is these UV LEDs these are the worst lighting solution I have ever
encountered they stop working within 1 to two weeks and then the UV light
actually causes the resin to turn to like Stone and crack it's ridiculous so
the RAM's new here we've got 64 gigs of Corsair Dominator Platinum I installed
them the way that I do install RAM not a whole lot to say about that the radiator
was a whole other story this was a tight
fit at the front and it actually took quite a while to get the cables for the
front panel connectors as well as front USB kind of out of the way enough to get
it just barely wedged in there and then I equipped it with three of those LTT
Edition noct to n12 fans now these are
pretty quiet fans but honestly I'm the kind of person where if this system was
actually sitting next to my head on my table I would be fan controlling them
but I ended up not carrying the T balancer forward and I'm just using two
of these little Molex to three fan connector cables that cable mod made up
for me with uh turns out they actually kind of screwed them up a little
inadvertently they didn't screw them up they're fine but they're three pin
whereas the fans are four pin so they didn't fit so I had to cut them and then
hot glue them together to secure the cables anyway it's all fine it's all
good so my point is that I would normally use a fan controller but I
didn't have to because the whole point of this build is to have it in a room
away from me the SSD was the next thing
I tackled while I was waiting for the glue gun to warm up and this was a
I could not get the stock cooler off I even tried a heat gun finally I resorted
to a hobby knife to cut the thermal
adhesive on the Nan chips I mean damn
even then it was hard to pry the thing off the good news though is that the
results are definitely worth it EK you
never seize to amaze me liquid cooling in SSD who to think
it the other front radiator was I
thought going to be the hardest part of this build it needed to be precisely cut
for the Hardline tubing to get exactly the right length to sit in between them
I'm running them in parallel and even
once I got that right tiing down the collar on the fittings was a freaking
nightmare the good news is that Monsoon tubing kit that was provided by
performance PCS is freaking awesome so I
used it to cut the tubing to exactly that right length it did take a couple
tries even so then with some very careful and tedious fussing around with
the mounts cuz the rad had to be slid into place from front to back and then
the tubing had to be pushed in from back to front and basically I learned a
valuable lesson about if I were to design this case again I would definitely not do it this way but I
eventually got it in there and by the end of it it was not leaking speaking of
not leaking and awesome freaking stuff recommended by performance PCS this
Monsoon Reservoir I mean I could talk to
you guys about mounting it or whatever with screws but instead I'm just going
to talk about how balls to the wall amazing it looks it uses Monsoon modular
system so you can actually configure it any number of different ways and they
kind of asked me what I wanted to do and I went gee that looks complicated you
figure something out and send it to me so they sent it with cathodes for the
bottom that I actually ended up taking out since I didn't really have anywhere
to put an inverter and I wanted to go
with UV LED lighting anyway so so I took
those out but even then holy crap it
looks so cool there's a ton of options for inlets and Outlets there's a lot of
flexibility sort of once I get to my tubing and the D5 pump goes right to the
end with this like sick metal cover on it and it all comes together really
nicely and saves me another tubing run at the same time freaking sick I didn't
think anything was going to impress me more than my old t- virus Reservoir this
one definitely did on the subject of
tubing though this was a disaster from
the start complete disaster the original
plan was to hard pipe water cool this thing so I broke out the monsoon kit
again I got the heat gun I got the fancy fittings I started cutting tubing length
except for one small problem the block for the 750 SSD is so much lower profile
than the GPU block that the bend here ended up being impossible at least for
me so I had to start evaluating other
options even going as far as to dig up some red angled fittings that were
earmarked for a project I never ended up completing and man that would have
looked awful but I was desperate trying to come up with some way to Plum that
card fortunately by some miracle I found
enough between the random fittings bin and my old system 90° fittings and
straight compressions to complete the build if I was willing to go back to
flexible tubing which I mean sure the runs aren't as perfect and beautiful and
clean looking as they would be with Hardline but there are a lot of benefits
to flexible tubing it is harder for it to leak it is easier to work with it you
ever want to upgrade and honestly I am okay with it it ended up looking in my
opinion pretty sick anyway and if I'm being entirely honest with myself it's
going to be installed in a server cabinet in a closet anyway so I'm
unlikely to ever see the guts unless I'm working on it which leads us finally to
the conclusion where I guess a lot of Brandon sexy b-roll is going to go I
learned a lot about a lot of things I especially learned a lot about designing
a case it is not as easy as the case
designers out there like George from Corsair make it look I did a lot of
things right actually this was Monsoon idea having a fill port on the side of
the system in order to make this thing so easy to fill freaking awesome I
personally like the front panel that was painted by our neighbor over here at
Linus Media Group uh he does like helicopter repair and apparently
airbrushing on the side I love the front panel I love the concept of the water
cooled rack mount case but man there were a lot of little things I could have
done to make my life easier in terms of planning out the tubing runs better in
terms of planning out the radiator installation better but the good news is
now that the system is actually built I think it looks fantastic I can't wait to
install it and it and my wife's system
and the new NZ and all that stuff so there is going to be a part five of
personal rig update 2015 but it is not this day today is done it's 2:40 in the
morning I am ready to go home today is done and it is finally
built and I actually very happy with it and I hope you guys are happy
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