what is going on here building a computer obviously this does not look like a normal computer though
no of course not this is the ncix pc the pc built in an ncix sign that we bought at auction for like
i think i got it for like 30 bucks or something like that which makes sense only 30 bucks well why
would anybody else want it i guess so as i was telling the former owner of ncix i guess current
owner but um when i was trying to buy the domain and the trademark and everything i was like look
there is literally no one else on this green earth who wants it so the whatever it's worth
is what i am willing to pay for it he did not take kind of that so we didn't get a deal done
but like we weren't going to get a deal done we were pretty far apart on the price they wanted
like seven figures for it and i'm sitting here seven figures high so this is like a legitimate
sign that was like on like the storefront yeah yeah this is from one of the stores do you know
which one i don't know which one but i think it's possible that we could figure it out because
tanner was saying that from looking back at old pictures apparently the c's in particular were
slightly different from store to store there wasn't really a ton of consistency so we may be able to
figure out exactly which store it came from which would be pretty fun tanner are you on it just take
a look at this very grainy photograph right here that looks like the same c that we're dealing with
which store is that no no no no no no that's huge it's not that one that sign is like four times
the size of this one i suspect this was actually an indoor sign and the reason it smells so bad is
because it's been stored outdoors for the last five years since they ripped it away
that's possible oh timing would be pretty close no it's not see the c is wrong
so i think that's the older style c so it would have been a newer display so it could be
i think good so hazelbridge way that's uh that that's rich bend right yeah so this appears to be
a photo of hazelbridge way but the c in that sign is different if we can oh it could very well be that
one it's hard to tell if this one has like a metal lip on it though it doesn't really look like it
it looks like it's flush at the front hard to say this one is an indoor one yeah it is
and the size is probably about right
where's the exit you know what i don't think so tanner no i think the white border around this
x is significantly larger no no i think the border is bigger here yeah and that's white not clear
that is true we'll track it down where now all these signs are like different shapes you think
that they just order a bunch every store you lease is going to have different spaces that
you're going to want to put signs in every municipality is going to have its own bylaws
for like what your signs can look like and how big they can be and blah blah blah blah uh whether
they can be eliminated oh i have a hole in my pocket wait one yeah i need to stop oh my goodness
pocket hang it i gotta get these pants these are these are a little bit past their best before
did you ever work on like opening stores and stuff like that i remember you were at like
some grand opening events right yep i worked on the markham grand opening i actually my first day
at ncix happened to be the grand opening of the langley store oh but i i wasn't involved in the
opening other than just being there and i wasn't even working the tail even though i was technically
sales i was just like a gopher like i was helping run things back and forth to the backs of the
sales could just take orders and get through the line as fast as possible because they did a grand
opening on boxing day was this pre ncix tech tips oh yeah yeah yeah ncix tech tips didn't exist before
i started it uh and that was only after i moved to head office so i worked for retail sales first
okay i need a couple more right angles i think the radiator is going to be fine with the right
angles how about you enjoying that your pet water cooling project is like in a sign it's the best
not challenging right no here we go i just need this right angle
mm-hmm with this fitting in it to work would you like to buy a vowel thanks
really we're gonna have to find a lower profile fitting what about the fans at least
these slim 120s should be enough to handle this as long as we've got two of these radiators in here
and then we'll put a second radiator in i think what we should probably do is a cut out here with
a filtered intake and then we'll have these just blowing air out and then we'll just have like a
big filtered intake in the middle or something like that okay does that make sense yes okay cool
well here's some additional fans the placeholders for where that other radiator is going to go
oh tanner yes no we're good the radiators will just have holes and they'll punch through into the
box that the sign is going to be mounted on so they'll just go straight into the back yes
easy i don't even need right angle fittings i just realized are you guys working on a piece
of cardboard look it's only one step down from ikea at this point aren't ikea tables like legitimately
made of cardboard i'm not wrong yeah we could put stoppers here and this one could also just like
punch down so that we don't have to worry about clearance for the fittings themselves
i guess you get to learn how to water block a GPU yes i do prove someone to double check your work
before you close it okay because there'll be a whole whack of instructions for like where to put
the thermal pads and stuff so what i would like done is um yeah we get the water loop running
and then we could just like kind of put the letters on top as best as they'll go and then we should
have just like a couple strings of leds to kind of stuff into the letters and be like yeah just so
we have kind of a natural stopping point for the video what happens to the water cooling stuff like
you know what it doesn't matter it's fine okay anyway we'll need like a custom-shaped filter
really good way to do that is just with like pantyhose as long as we have some kind of nice
like finishing for it so that doesn't look stupid we're putting it together all right um i have
done before and then for these pumps like i would just have them both here just like mounted with
vhb or something that'll be fine i think this GPU might just barely fit we won't know until the block
is actually on because we won't know exactly where it sits on the card so how high up this goes
here motherboard almost certainly will fit does anything else need to go in here no we're just
going to have the i o running down wow there's a lot of stuff going on yep andy where does this
frank in the the projects that you've captured before oh my god