there were some scheduling difficulties around the arrival of my third and final
offspring that delayed the release of this video sorry about that but good
news everyone it's finally here desk PC
part two the finishing
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the link in the video description so step one was to remove
the literal dust that had settled on
this project then roll it over to our shooting location to Begin work those of
you who haven't seen part one you should probably go back and watch it it's up
there but I'll get you up to speed anyway we constructed this desk out of a
single piece of MDF and we made a slight miscalculation that resulted in our
piece of glass that we got on Craigslist being slightly smaller than our desk no
problem so now that we're back at it we're going to manufacture a small lip
to both hide our error and to hold our glass Snuggly in place and keep it from
sliding around so while my Dad ran to Home Depot to get the necessary Cuts
made Jake set to work on one of the most important steps of any complicated
custom build pre-testing to ensure that the Hardware Works before you install it
then it was time to begin what would prove to be by far the most tedious part
of this entire process aligning Hardware
as perfectly as possible and creating all of the mounting points that were
going to need for final assembly so after a quick test hole and a scrap
piece of wood we were ready to create the motherboard Mount which was actually
one of the simpler ones we just positioned it with the correct spacing
to allow for cable management up the side later poked a mark through the
holes Center punched and drilled for the
same threaded inserts that I used for the bottom mounted desk PC project which
you can check out here then there was another delay I think a big part of why
this project has taken so long has been
in decision done we have many other holes to debate
for the rest of the day why are you creating work that's like 2 minutes why
are you creating work out of no out of no work okay just cuz you're you don't
have any handy skills any else you're the handiest person I
know J right oh God so with that out of the way it was time to work on water
cooling now the original concept was to use Hardline tubing like every other
desk PC ever but in part because
Hardline is tedious and in part because we wanted to do something a little bit
different we ended up deciding to drill 5/8 in holes through to the bottom of
the table and Route both our cables and
our tubing down there for a really clean
look so with that settled we were able to mark the mounting points for the
radiators in such a way that the air holes wouldn't interfere with our
diagonally positioned legs on the bottom and then move on to the hard drives hard
drives were another case of we came in with one plan and left with a completely
different one we were originally going to use L brackets and screw them into
threaded inserts from the top but hey
why not put the St handoffs in the drives then drill all the way through
and use long 632 bolts so using
templates we aligned our four Drive RAID
10 as best we could and then after a test fit with our custom length cable
mod SATA cables we ended up having to widen the holes a little bit for some
more wiggle room but it looks pretty good and hey at least we missed
accidentally drilling through the legs on the bottom right this time we did no
such luck with the reservoirs spacing wise we wanted to keep somewhat
consistent with what we'd done with the hard drives which put our tubing right
over the leg now what well we ended up
drilling straight down then Beering off
at an angle with our 5/8 in bit it's not
perfect but the hole isn't that much bigger and once it's painted black it
shouldn't end up being that noticeable leading us to more problems while my dad
worked on the outer lip I I began work on the radiators while the fan holes for
them won't interfere with the legs the tubing unfortunately will so if we flip
it over and we try and go straight down to the bottom of the table we go right
into the legs if we had the tubing come up and then out we're short and elbow
fitting and we end up with one of the tubes really close to where the tubes go
through for the reservoirs and it's going to end up looking dumb damn it
Jake so I decided to change gears and work on the mounting for the G CPU and
the SSD so I decided on a height for the floating video card Mount and got the
water block installed on our GTX 1080 so that we could build the mount and Mark
our tubing holes while my dad built a small wooden post with a threaded insert
to mount our PCI Express SSD so we made
good progress for a while we completed the SSD mount it lined up perfectly then
we decided to use some extra mounting holes that EK left open in their block
design to bolt the GPU into the bottom of the desk with inserts and we
finalized the holes for the power supply and then we went back to debating the
damn radiators and pumps again then it was drill drill drill insert holes for
the GPU and power supply remeasuring the
very approximated holes for the CPU block tubing drilling holes for the GPU
and damn it I hit a leg again this time
I cracked a support but it doesn't seem to be a major structural issue next we
drilled the hole hes for the front intakes they're not quite perfect but
we're going to cover them with some Silverstone filters for now that'll mask
small errors and later on I might ask protocase to make something custom for
it after running out of battery cuz that hole saw is a bit of a beast and running
out to Home Depot for a corded drill we drilled the holes for the radiator
tubing hit the legs again holy crap I wish we had plann that out a little bit
better and we are finally done the holes
except wait no no I need holes for the power wires for the pumps and the fans
we also grabbed a power sander and some 220 grit sandpaper while we were out
remember though that this step wouldn't be necessary if we hadn't bunged up the
size of our desk so it shouldn't affect your cost if you were to recreate the
project and some washable furnace filter
that along with some xacto knife cut border pieces should be a pretty darn
good solution to allowing access to the
machine's IO while keeping out dust the
pumps and radiators go back in one more
time to drill their power holes and we are pretty much ready to paint which I'm
going to do off camera whenever I have some time so part three will be the
final assembly and the conclusion and I promise it won't take as long as part
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