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sup guys i'm in denver colorado at micro center and this time around the concept

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for our sponsored video sounded simple enough Linus all you got to do is build

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a pc i've got what six and a half hours till

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you guys close and you picked out all the parts for me

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so i don't even have to like go shopping like last time what kind of a system

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could take more than six hours to

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you have got to be kidding me what even

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is this multiple NVMe drives dual graphics cards hardline water cooling

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why are we putting an nvs810 graphics card in this what am i even looking at

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here this

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is no simple gaming rig this is supposed to be

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the showcase build for AMD's unreleased

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threadripper 64 core 3990x

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processor and i've got only six hours to build it

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wait what are you doing there's no time for that this is a speed build now but first here

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are the parts we'll be using

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come on we gotta get this thing ripped open get the motherboard got the zenith

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two extreme alpha but you're just gonna stand there and hold the camera david

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expect you to pitch in today no i'm just no i'm kidding i'm kidding

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we actually do need to make a video about it step one let's get the CPU out

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of the nondescript brown box that it shipped here in with the tamper evident

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tape oh we tampering boys

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costs a pretty penny don't it look at that it's ten dollars cheaper than four

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thousand dollars i mean it's outlandish but when you talk in terms of the

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performance and price of anything comparable it's right in there because

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there's nothing comparable that was close

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ooh it even smells fresh the craziest thing about this CPU to me is just how

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utterly unnecessary it is they already won this is just like grinding your

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opponent into the ground for no reason

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use my debaur edition case as a chair

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what's up roman i'd be curious if one of you just like

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showed up and was like yeah i really just want to buy that and take it out of the store right now what they would do

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how many freaking m.2 slots are there on this thing so it's got a dim.2 module up

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here which will hold two it's got two more in here and then they snuck another

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one on the back freaking love it i mean i guess if you've got what is it like 88

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pci express gen 4 lanes or something stupid like that coming off the CPU you

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got to find some way to use them we're using PCIe gen 3 drives in this system

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for desktop use anyway the performance won't make much of a difference

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especially if it's a good gen 3 drive like these it's funny to me to think

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about you know what the headspace of someone building

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something like this would be like you'd have to basically be i'm not the kind of

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person that has to ask how much things cost so just build it right

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wow it needs like almost this entire tube of the included ectotherm all

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thermal compound applications look the same once you put the block down and

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mash it on there okay deluxe white mini valve with black

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handle these fittings appear to be to link the gpus together but i don't see

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any GPU blocks was there a rhyme or reason to the fittings that were

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selected does anyone know like were these fittings picked for a specific

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reason or no oh was the

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goal to water cool the gpus

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so we are just liquid cooling the CPU with

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uh 720 millimeters worth of radiator i

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don't know what's more crazy the fact that we've got a 550 power supply

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or the fact that we've got a system that might actually justify it

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four thousand dollar CPU three grand worth of GPU

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even when we're done we will be nowhere near the price of like a mac pro

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front panel connectors these look like

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drive cages that's nice having these

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rear accessible drive cages that's pretty sweet they could also be power

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supply mounts let's throw the power supply in first let's do that

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i don't know how to get it out maybe i don't have to

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and we definitely need to remove it

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so i think you have to remove the drive cages

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and then put that in there

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wait you just take off these screws

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these ones stay on why would why did they do it like this

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i'm getting very frustrated with this case

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feels less like installing a power supply more like installing a power

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plant poor hard drives i remember when they used to have some sex appeal and now

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it's just like all right i guess i probably need a hard drive for like the

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games i don't play that often pro tip by the way guys for when you're doing your next build based on this exact spec the

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zenith 2 xtreme alpha has a missing mounting hole here because it's two

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covered in vrms so i had to remove that standoff

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just you know one more little thing

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to go wrong during this build i got to give some thought to the loop

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layout here i feel like i'm going to end up putting

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this one towards the front just because

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it's going to interfere with my GPU if i have the water coming out right over here you

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know what i think six screws is plenty to hold in

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i radiator how much this thing is 200 bucks

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man these things are sick though where does it go

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i thought it went to the front but i i don't see anywhere to mount that

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no it doesn't look like it goes there oh if you're advanced enough to buy this

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thing you should just know where it goes idiot so you throw it in here screw it

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in from the back and the only problem is that it's really

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designed for you to have graphics cards connected to it and if

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you'll recall we didn't have blocks for our graphics cards fortunately we went

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and got different graphics cards these are supposedly using reference pcbs so

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we can just use some standard ek vector rtx 2080 ti RGB blocks and we should be

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pretty much good to go what even is all this

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oh cool so they include their own fan power hub and a separate fan RGB hub

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that i just about snapped the connector off of and it's bent back cool

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if the objective is lots of RGB and airflow this seems like a good way to

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achieve it i feel like i'm using some primo zerg

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tactics here you know you just got to get the creep everywhere and you worry about building later time to install the

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top rad oh please fit

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okay i'm sure glad i took the time to put all these fans on here before checking to

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see if it actually fit in there do you guys have a thin triple rad while we

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sort out the radiator situation i'm gonna go ahead and do some more of the

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wiring that i need to get done like our front usb 3.

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man these usb 3 connectors are bulky front audio there it is wow that's a

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long front audio cable wait don't look at that side david it's uncomfortable

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you're making everyone uncomfortable right now how will i manage all these cables

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i am going full raw dog cable management back here i am so sorry everyone i feel

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like as long as i keep making an excuse and saying oh i'm gonna have to do that

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this time the people who don't watch the videos regularly might think that

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usually i do a good job oh my goodness there's so much SATA

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power back here i want one with less than four SATA connectors on it where

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the heck am i gonna put this RGB controller no

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no no

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nothing is on fire don't say that no

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no how ridiculous is that no

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how could i really this one's getting four screws i don't

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give a [ __ ] we've got a lot of tubing to bend but

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but i'm not gonna cable manage it until i actually see this thing turn on which

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we can't do obviously until we plumb it up theoretically it should be relatively

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straightforward oh my o-ring just went in the garbage i give up holy crap david

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we might be screwed it looks like just to clear the RAM we already need one of

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these extenders and then to clear the

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extender we're gonna need like double gigantor extenders this feels a little

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ridiculous would you say that's too tall

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the line is special we need to start putting the graphics

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cards in and we're not going to have any idea where the fittings are going to

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line up with our distribution block so well that's a little tighter than i

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might have hoped why

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why right here boom does that line up oh not quite

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that is gonna be a bit of a tough shot that's a shame natasha here from micro

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center has generously offered to help us out i think she felt bad for us she does

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things kind of by the book though so i'm just going to be like bending stuff by

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hand so can anyone cover the phones for natasha

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15 mil what is this tubing

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i don't know if we do have 15 mil tubing i mean if we do i've never needed to go

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find it okay so i have no idea what fittings are actually installed on

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anything because apparently i somehow ended up with a mix of 15 and 16

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millimeter fittings if we even manage to get this thing to post i will be

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you haven't posted lord no heavens now

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you should do that before yeah you should it's a free tech tip for me

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so that would be a 15 mil wonderful

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whoever micro centers water cooling product manager is let me give you a tip

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just two sizes small and compensating for something just

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get rid of stuff that doesn't work with each other because there's enough

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variants of like colors and extenders blah blah blah blah but your life is

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difficult enough as it is ah

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if they wanted it built properly they would have had you do it sideways

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oh man i'm so triggered right now

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you look at it and you just feel bad

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all right fine this is the ocd triggering build officially

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wow since we're committed to this concept now we've decided we're going to

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take it to a whole other level they actually got a shipment of soft tubing

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fittings in but natasha over here isn't going to stop

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hardline tubing either so if it's not going to look great it might as well be

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horrible what do you think david if we're going

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to go soft tubing should we go soft tubing i think it's not wild enough i

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think it's well remember i got one more okay all right all right i'm into it

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we're doing it a wise woman once told me every pc has

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to have a theme the theme of this one is oh [ __ ] it's eight o'clock and we've got

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an hour left to finish you need to be more wild more wild cause i could do

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yeah there i could do that oh no i kind of want it to go up the other way what

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do you think of that that's it is that it that's it okay nailed it

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okay how's it feel to be taking directions from a monkey

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i like the 87 degree bend you've given me to work with here by the way we have

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a theme you got to go all out someone at corporate's gonna be so mad it's fine

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what are they gonna do take their business elsewhere uh you've been double checking my loop

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order right no why would you not do that you think i'm gonna get it right i could

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have easily moved that fitting oh is that so that is so sorry you want me to

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sign the case i can do that but i do have a condition and that is that you

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guys don't fix it when i'm done it's a conversation piece

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accidents are soft while my plan to have the water come in

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at the top of the reservoir is a good one we have these two openings here that

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were supposed to be for the radiators so we decided we're just gonna run an empty

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tube there forty dollars worth of fittings to carry nothing

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um how's it look it's more crooked than the other side

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i'm sorry it's definitely a piece of something

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all right should we fill it ah there's a swivel fitting in here that

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is very annoying

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oh that's a big loop

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new plan anywhere it leaks we're gonna replace the hard line with soft

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all right this is going to take a lot of water ladies and gentlemen here we go

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all right

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is it RGB enough please tell me there's water flowing

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through every component david nope what not funny it's actually kind of cool

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what the i actually really like this

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i'm a monster should we see if it actually posts that'd be nice

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unfortunately we got eight minutes

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so uh i'm just grabbing a test drive gotta throw on our rtx envy link

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whatever they call it these days no you gotta be kidding me vga's stupid

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thing overhangs the thing come on

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by the way does anyone have any idea why this is here should we throw it in we

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could put it along the bottom no okay don't do it

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give it a minute it can do it uh-oh

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watch pot never boils watch pot never boils please stop doing memory tests

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please please does this board have a memo k button

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we didn't make sure that we have the latest BIOS supporting this chip on the

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board

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so that is as far as we are gonna get by the time you guys drop by the micro

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center in denver colorado this will be up on display natasha will have used

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their usb BIOS flashback feature to throw the latest BIOS on there it's not

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a conventional build but in my opinion that's kind of the spirit of diy isn't

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it for better for worse what you built is with your own two hands so you know

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you kind of got no choice but to love it

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neat huh all right i'm back at the office with an

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update for y'all natasha from micro center was able to update the BIOS for

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me and it's working great so you can go check it out if you're not in the denver

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area though natasha did screencap some crazy pants benchmark runs on it that

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we've got loaded up here for you now as we talked about in our review the 3990x

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isn't really a CPU for typical gamers but if you've got a creative workload

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that needs this kind of horsepower it crams more CPU cores in a single socket

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than the competition is putting in two sockets in the workstation space so in

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summary always allow more time than you think you need for an advanced build

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like this so thanks for watching this video massive shout out to microcenter

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for sponsoring it and we will see you guys at the next one if you're looking

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for something to watch right now maybe check out the last build we did at micro

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center that was also a one day build but i didn't try to

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full custom loop water cool it so it was a little bit easier