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today's stream no my friends today's stream is all about the seven Gamers one
CPU machine or more accurately the death of
the seven Gamers one CPU machine because
that is what we will be doing today we will be disassembling it we will be
tearing it limb from limb live for you
or on the uh video on demand for you holy crap I forgot how heavy this thing
was so I actually never really showed anything to do with the process of
building it if I recall correctly I
ended up just just like kind of building it during a WAN Show when when Luke was
hosting by himself so now I'm going to go ahead and take it
apart so yeah without further Ado I've got all my tools with me so I've got one
iix hit kit two iix hit
kits oh right it's an aluminum case there well I've got a magnetic Parts
tray for the magnetic parts that are inside it got my laptop so I can monitor
the twitch chat here and I have a lot of
water when I did the ultra wide Festival
winners like live build thing that I did I made the mistake of streaming for
almost 2 hours or however long it was with no freaking water huge huge problem
you guys would be amazed how much moisture you can expel just by talking
so I've never actually done a review of this case this is the case oh I've got a
lot of people asking me a lot of people asking me um guys are the reason I'm
taking it apart is because I take apart pretty much all
of the computers that we build there's almost nothing that we actually get to
keep forever I mean it's um and and even
if we even if we were able to hold on to the hardware I mean this
is just about the world's least practical computer in every possible way
like when you're flying that close to
the Sun it is pretty easy to get burned
so um it's you know compatibility with
USB devices when it posts isn't great um
just general behavior is not great it
kicks off a ton of heat it consumes a metric whack ton of power like there's a
lot of reasons I can think of to take apart this computer so that that my
friends would be why but I do have big
plans for a lot of the hardware that is still in here I'm just going to pull up
my USB drive so these USB drives here are actually what runs un raid the SSD
array in the bottom which I can probably get you guys a better angle at here so
this SSD array here in the bottom was only running the 7 VM so I had uh 8
terabytes so about actually only about 500 gigs per VM because I was running
with a redundant uh storage setup I've actually this is cool so I've actually
got another camera angle for you guys today uh compared to the last one of
these streams I did I'm kind of trying this out as a new format um wow that is
not focusing at all come on Mr webcam
you can do it there you go so I can really get you guys uh a better look at
uh at what I'm doing in certain cases I don't know if we ever actually showed
super close up how to remove those cards so that's one thing that I'm going to
I'm going to try and show you guys with this camera angle if I if I can but yeah
in general this is uh this is a new format I'm trying out where I just kind
of do things live because the reality of it is I'm working on this stuff anyway
so y'all might as well come along for the ride if you're into that sort of
thing I mean people watch each other play video games on Twitch they might as
well watch each other build computers it's not that different is it okay so
the way the cas laabs S8 comes comes apart actually I I kind of wish I had
done a review or something of the case before I I went ahead and did seven
Gamers cuz it's it's pretty nice I quite
like it like there's some sort of like
you know it doesn't have the same you know Beauty I guess as something like a
Le and Lee but it definitely has like this industrial Beauty to it that I
personally uh can can quite appreciate and I have
realized that um I uh made a mistake and
I am planning to disassemble a water cooled computer and I did not bring a
bucket so I will do that and I will be
right back I I am pretty sure that my
audio device is going to is going to work for as far as I need to go so I'll
excuse me I will I will try and keep you guys company but uh no guarantees on
that one I just need to find a
bucket I am talking to the stream not to myself people around here
they're looking at me like I'm crazy that Brandon guy who are you talking to
maybe to my imaginary friend are you going to judge me I could hear him
judging I could hear him judging right in his
voice either that or I'm just reading too much into it and uh and lashing out
I mean maybe this stream is a good time to discuss my personality
flaws or maybe I have the bucket I
need and I am ready to continue working
on the computer
yes that is indeed what's going
on I'm back so uh apparently oh everyone
in twitch chat is judging me now too they're saying I'm a terrible person for
uh for for hating on Brandon I I don't hate on Brandon I love Brandon that's
why that's why I control Brandon like that me and Brandon we're like
besties okay oh wow
man this thing's heavy so we're going to start by draining the water and this is
something that there's no real one way
to do I mean sure professional Builders
will say stuff like well you should really have like a a drain point in your
Loop or something or something but the way that I actually usually do it I'm
just going to go ahead and I'm going to prop up wow I don't have an easy a
really easy access access to the
um to any of the tubing here this is uh
this one right here is kind of a funny story actually why don't I why don't I
talk about that before we go any further so the here we go let's switch angles
here so the original spec for the system
called for the one pump here with the reservoir attached to it and I had
originally thought that EK was going to provide me with
oh no there it is sorry sorry sorry so eekk
was going to provide me with a block for the seven cards that was parallel so so
that is to say that the the restrictiveness of it would be very low
but it's actually serial so it goes through one block then the next then the next then the next then the next then
the next um so I actually ended up having to add another pump at the last
minute an adventure that ended up causing
uh uh Taran and I to spill uh a bunch of
water onto the system it was incredibly
incredibly scary um so I think I'm going
to use that point as my access point
here so like I said most professional you know water cooled machine Builders
will tell you oh well you should have like a drain port and you should do all this stuff and you should that is indeed
the correct way to do it but what I usually do is not bother with that and
then I'll just rip off a piece of tubing somewhere that I'm you know at least 90%
certain it will not uh leak onto anything else so first let's get some of
our cable management ties out of here and then that looks like a pretty uh
pretty good candidate right there so I'm going to do my best to get
you guys a reasonable angle at what that
I'm what I'm doing here
um and okay here we
go wow this is not gonna be this is not
going to be an easy thing though so basically I'm going to take my bucket
I'm going to put it right here and then I'm going to crack open one of these
fittings and start draining it and
you're going to see a lot of things that are not necessarily the industry
accepted best practices on this stream but
frankly a lot of the stuff that I do isn't industry best practices and I
think I like to think that's one of the things we like about me
shut up Brandon yeah the audio is great on the
uh on the interface yeah it sounds really good I just had to play around
with the um delays I still want to know
why the audio wasn't working to begin with too yeah funny funny story guys um I
probably have about 40 like test recording Clips here um of trying to get
this stream working
uh yeah so we finally got it working anyway that is the quick and dirty and
the empasis is on dirty way to get most
of the water out of a water cooling Loop so you can begin to disassemble it now I
don't think that I actually got anywhere
anything even resembling all of it so let me just find out where my uh
trying to remember which way things were going around let's go the other way see if I
can get some more out of those radiators cuz that is not enough
water oh man I don't know if I have the
lung capacity for 2360 RADS and seven GPU blocks
okay I mean that's the thing about doing something like this on stream right is
if I pass out you guys will call someone
right okay let's just call that good enough now when I say quick and dirty I
really do mean dirty um I'm not planning to reuse really any of these components
in any sort of reasonable time frame so they will have plenty of time for any
microbes that I just blew into them to die
um
yeah so now we can actually start
disconnecting many of the other components we're going to get a little bit of water on stuff but like I don't
know people freak out about electronics and water and my goodness but the
reality of it is the machine's not even booted up right now it's not powered on
there's literally no power to anything anywhere um so the actual chances of
damaging it with water are are very very
slim I mean I have washed motherboards
like literally soap and water washed motherboards long story what it had on
it that needed to be washed off but I have done that and then allowed it to
dry for like two weeks in a hot place
with air flow and with any you know applicable heat sinks or or nooks and
crannies exposed so that you can really dry everything out and um I have yet to
have something that was off that got just water now to be clear I'm talking
fresh water here I'm not talking salt water I'm not talking contaminated water
but anything that's just gotten like fresh clean water on it I've yet to have
anything that had any lasting effects all right so bump number one is
out um and we can maybe we'll pull out
pump number two now this one was not quite as simple to get at I'm going to
switch to my overhead view here to try and show you guys what I'm doing
now all right Boop there we go
so pump number two I got to remove these front panel pieces I do like how much of
this case is actually tooless um for such a sort of industrial
feeling
design just take out these and it's really really modular as well which is
which is really cool they're really really good guys over there at Cas laabs
we've literally never worked with them before this but uh they were like way on
board to uh to help us out with this project they even custom painted the
side of the chassis forest and stuff like that which was which was really really cool of them I mean obviously you
know they get something out of it you know they get the exposure in the video
but um still you know not everyone not everyone wants to work with you so so
it's nice when people do oh that's interesting okay I think I
might have might have forgotten how this
goes together um and there may not be an easy
what how did this work what what the
crap does this one pop off the other
thing what
the HM okay I have forgotten how this
goes together so I am going to go
somewhere else for now let's get the
let's get the radiators out cuz those things are really in my
way I think I have a screwdriver for that in here
hex hex hex hex hex no this oh this doesn't have
hexes that's funny I thought it did that's okay this one
does
okay wow I am really warm I am going to
have to start stripping pretty quick here I know twitch frowns on it but uh
they might just have to deal cuz I legitimately way too warm right
now I mean here's something are you allowed to like are you allowed to like
take clothes off seductively if you actually don't show any skin like where
is the
limit
okay oh 3,000 people watching me take apart a computer imagine if I was
actually like building one well no I don't have to imagine that we
actually did do a stream about that before but um okay all right this is
probably the most tedious thing about my
job is disassembling the computers that
I spent all this time building um like there's
nothing rewarding feeling about it it's
nice that you guys are here to keep me company um cuz I usually just do this by
myself but uh yeah pretty much every machine that we've ever built like the
number of people who asked me uh you know why I thought my threeyear old
needed a you know $3,000 gaming machine of course not I'm just making videos I'm
just making videos on the internet
um so yeah pretty much every machine that you've ever seen has been
disassembled shortly after we built it with a couple of exceptions so personal
rigs um they're called personal rig update because that's my personal rig
um the oil machine has not yet been disassembled and I never intended to
disassemble it but I'm going to have to now because it's um it's damaged leaks
which is a super bummer okay so this RADS out we're going
to go ahead and retrieve the old bucket
here and pop off a couple of fittings
sorry I'm having a hard time keeping keeping your guys's angle very good you
know what okay hopefully I don't break all of Brandon's hard
work
okay oh my goodness this thing is so
heavy okay let's see if that's a little
better yeah now you guys can actually see what I'm doing cuz I might be over here on the edge of the table sometimes
especially if I have this this bucket here oh I've got people asking where the
oil machine is leaking it's actually leaking in exactly the same spot as last
time down the back seam um and I tried to repair it I did like a vlog video
where I where I actually showed the you know as far as I can tell correct repair
process but it didn't hold and unfortunately due to a patent troll
everybody's favorite people Puget is not allowed to manufacture those cases
anymore so I can't even get a new case to transplant it into so the entire
thing is just just dead now
unfortunately yeah uh yeah this video is going to be on YouTube as well um for
whoever that is that asked it um yeah
the Berkeley is talking about the iix hit kit yeah man you know what's funny I
actually you uh you mentioned using our our um our sponsor link for it I don't
think they've actually sponsored anything with us in a in a while it's so
funny like I have people you know chasing me about sponsored this and
sponsored that all the time like I did um I finally got around to fixing the
home button on my iPhone 4 which has been dead for like I don't know it's
been sort of going slowly for well over a year anyway and um my my picture like
the Instagram picture that I posted when I was working on it had an iix IT kit in
it and people are like that product placement D and it's
like no I'm doing a phone repair what
else am I supposed to use if I have an i fix it kit I'm going to use it
like okay let's get this other uh let's
get this other rad out of
here it'll be nice to salvage these LT Edition fans back I've actually got
another really cool project planned for them very very soon like a full Linus
Tech tips Edition build and I know this
ended up kind of being that with the uh the black and orange color scheme but
the other one's going to be a much more realistic machine um one that I would
actually expect people to be able to buy
um so it's going to be off the-shelf
black and orange components with one exception I am planning to paint a
reference NVIDIA cooler so that one
should be pretty cool I considered just using something from someone like I
believe both Gigabyte and Zotac have
black and orange themed cards but I mean I wanted to spice up the build a little
bit so I'm actually I've got some of it's ordered already some of it I still
need to order but I've got some Automotive grade paint like the same kind of stuff that we used in that LG
monitor painting guide and I'm going to be showing you guys how to paint
disassemble paint and then reassemble your NVIDIA reference cooler should be
good should be good I'm really looking forward to it okay so this radiator I'm
actually not as worried about leakage
with uh just because the barbs are on the top side but we still might get a
couple drips so I'm going to try and get my my water bucket pretty close to it um
you'll notice that what I'm doing is I am removing fittings or I I'm removing
the fittings and I am um taking the tubing off of components that are very
unlikely to be damaged by water like a radiator so here I'll actually I'll get
you guys my uh my other camera angle here sorry I apologize to people who get
motion sick for for that so what I'll do is I'll leave this tube attached to the
video card because if I were to take this fitting off then what would happen
potentially is any little drips here would go right onto the motherboard
whereas if I leave the tube here then at
least I can kind of tie it up somewhere like up on this piece of metal or
something so I can keep it from dripping and then if anything drips off of this
radiator well no big deal because it's just going to fall down into to my
bucket and I apologize for the frame rate on that camera too I don't know
what the deal is with that maybe I can fix it sorry give me just uh give me
just one second here guys I'm just going to switch to it and see if maybe it's
set to like 15 FPS or something like that I don't know what the deal is uh no
okay motion jpeg 30fps I don't know yeah
it's it's running super trash though I don't know what the problem is normally
those webcams are really good we use them all the time but I'm I'm Linus
I can break a live stream I can break tall live streams with a single bound
Etc I don't know what it is I'm like snake bitten like Luke doesn't even get
it cuz he streams all the time like all the time from home and he's just like
yep I know how to use this software you're definitely using it right uh we
have better Hardware at the office also the same hardware and we sometimes we
end up like going through the whole everything and it just uh doesn't
work sorry I'm not crying I'm just I'm a Feeling a little under the weather right
now feeling a little sick so I was commenting to Luke today I don't
remember the last time I actually had a a sick day that I was able to take off
being self-employed there are good things about it for sure like I love my
job I am not complaining that it is my job to hang out with you guys and take
apart this computer right now but uh the
the vacation the vacation negotiation uh between my union rep and
my employer did not go particularly well tell you that much all right
so Pro tip keep all your fittings
together so if you've got like uh hold
Downs for compression fittings put those on the barbs as you go because otherwise
you're going to be running around after the fact trying to figure out what the
heck what the heck happened to everything all right so
now we've got most of the really bulky
water cooling stuff removed from the system so we can start to focus in on
removing some of the some of the blocks I really like getting all the water
stuff out before I do really anything else because
um it kind of holds everything in it's the piece that went in last so I find
it's the piece that's easiest to take out
first I got someone suggesting I buy a lonus clone to do the extra
work got people asking about Union no no
lineus Media Group is uh definitely not
uh not Union we uh I I don't even I
don't even begin to know what the process would be um or yeah anything
like that okay got an extra tube here don't
need that anymore actually you know what I'll just put those in my water bucket
believe it or not it's very difficult to damage a piece of tubing with water so
you you can kind of throw all your water water junk into the into the water
bucket try and contain it last thing you want is a bunch of
water kind of all over the place when you're trying to take out the rest of
the components because like I said um you know clean water generally not
really a problem but bearing in mind
that the water in a system like this and this one hasn't been running very long
so it's less of a concern but the water in a system like this can pick up
contaminants from things like the copper blocks so you can end up up with copper
ions in your Loop and um and and it can
end up being a problem and copper ions aren't the only ones actually this is
really good water cooler trick that most novices don't know these days but um
putting a piece of silver in your Loop I've actually run um silver silverplated
fittings before it worked just great putting a piece of silver in your Loop
acts as a natural bioside so you don't have to deal with uh any funky business
growing in your water Without Really adding anything I've had a lot of people
ask me over the years uh what's the best fluid for water cooling and I say well
it's right in the name water water is the best thing for
water cooling a lot of show builds are going to use you know fancy fluids that
have like these milky cloudy effects and like do all this crazy stuff uh but the
reality of it is you ask even those professional modders who use that stuff
um in the show builds that they do they're all going to tell you exactly
the same thing if you are building like a 247 like a daily driver machine you
water cool with water if you want to not
have to deal with any hassle down the road I really like this uh Reservoir and
pump combo the DK sent over for this build it's actually aside from the seven
GPU block um like uh splitter thing is
probably my favorite piece of it because so many pump reservoir combos use the DD
d c and I am not sold on the DDC I have
had almost every DDC that I've ever used
for an extended period of time has failed whereas the D5 in my personal rig
was manufactured in like 2008 or something stupid like that I've never
had a D5 fail on me I mean I worked at a retailer I've seen the failure rates um
the D5 is definitely the more reliable and the thing that really bothers me
more about the DDC is everyone talks about how quiet it is it is not quiet it
has a very distinctive wine especially
compared to a D5 at very low RPM so uh
very few guys make Reservoir pump combo units with the D5 but EK did and I'm uh
very happy that they did I really like this one sorry guys I apologize for my
sniffles I know no one wants to hear that but uh I mean hey you're here so
maybe you are into that I don't know all right so I'm going to put that over
there actually I'm going to put these RADS over here as well we actually just
got a new guy today who is supposed to help with stuff like tearing down
machines but um I didn't want his first assignment to be taking apart a
literally $30,000 computer well okay
okay okay strictly speaking the tower is only about 20 $21,000 but um so I was
including the monitors in that overall in that overall cost of the system but
um I mean even so does that really make a difference I didn't want his first
assignment to be a 20,000 computer either so I figured I'd do this
one and I kind of like the idea of streaming it I wanted to see if you guys
like this you can give me some feedback in the twitch chat if you think the the
format is good I mean we're always trying new things but it's it gets hard
like you know try and wrap your brain around this for a moment but I have done
something in the neighborhood of
3500 YouTube videos like it's
ridiculous and the object is to come up
with something different and unique every time and so you know if you're not
trying to experiment with new formats all the time then you're can totally
fail
um oh what what the heck that's
weird uh okay looks like we need a new
battery on the other camera I will uh call in air support and hopefully we will get that
resolved very very quickly actually my setup is uh my setup is pretty good
today I actually have the stream monitored over there and uh I have my
lifeline Brandon who will come you know
what I I hear someone coming already I suspect someone else in the office has
already clued into this and is on their way up here with a battery look it's
Blandon oh I was about to call you yeah can I get a battery for that one I need
something El oh you need my stuff ah I see okay don't bump that AVX by the way
I figured out why it was turning off I I think the battery connection is loose yeah so when you were like moving
it around in the socket it derped I
wasn't moving around yeah you did you you flipped it from the orientation I
had to Vertical so that was why it cut out I think we're always learning new things
about how our equipment is broken audio is the worst like we have so many
lavalier microphones all of which are like you know $200 $300 or
whatever um
and yeah like many many many of them
have died I think we do go kind of hard on our on our equipment
though yeah hashtag blame Dennis I like that thank you twitch chat I forgot to
blame Dennis for
this okay tubing in there thank you I
appreciate it you can't tell from which one that
one what it said half battery it's what
it says half battery battery half battery oh well the the stream cut out I
don't know that's weird oh I wonder if it was the capture card that
derped that seems possible okay yeah it
has half crying out loud okay well thanks
Brandon thanks anyway oh well it's back
so whatever he did let's say fixed it
good good job
Brandon I don't know man I'm so glad that most of what we do isn't live like
I don't envy the full-time twitch streamers I mean I I I like I get it
like I I hear all the sort of you know people who have to work at a real job
sort of arguments like they get paid to play video games I I I get that um but
the reality of it is is that like being on all the time being live like that is
actually really mentally fatiguing and I
mean the kinds the kind of stuff that those guys have to go through whether
it's you you know their network connections being attacked or whether
it's like I mean all the kind of stupid stuff that happens you know twitch chat
being mean or you know wardrobe malfunctions or you know whatever kind
of kind of problems they have um especially technical difficulties man
when you are live and you have technical difficulties it is horrible whereas
everything we do is is edited so if
there's a problem like we get a chance to fix it if there's like a hitch in the
audio then you know whatever we can like we
get a chance to fix it and post whereas when you're live like everything you do
or say is like right out there it's like crazy all right so I do want to show you
guys this um I did I did promise that this would be part of the video I'm
going to try and maybe I'll like prop this camera up on something right here
or something I don't I don't really know exactly how I'm going to tackle this but
uh so the process for removing these graphics cards is redon so basically I
have to go I have to pull the tab of the
very bottom one first then while I'm
lifting the entire block of cards I have
to pull the tab on the second one then
kind of keeping the angle up I have to pull the tab on the third one then the
fourth one actually you can tell they're all kind of loose right now um I was
messing around with it a little bit to get the um seven people actually gaming
on it as well as the overclocking video that's coming done but um yeah actually
it looks like it's G to be relatively easy right now here but you kind of have
to pull it up here and then I have to pry it up from the other side so I got
to kind of pry it up this way then when
that's loose see you can see all the tabs tightened again I've got to pull on
all the tabs again and then finally I can remove the
bloody thing I mean this was
not not the kind of build that I would
that I would recommend that anyone do I mean and there are other issues too like
one of the big ones that we had to contend with throughout this is that
AMD's uh support for VMS in this way is
very very poor uh they took a bit of a shortcut or they claim they didn't but
it appears that they took a bit of a shortcut on the uh Fiji architecture
cards that makes it so that when you soft power down a virtual
machine the card doesn't properly reboot
like it doesn't properly reset oh okay there it
goes oh boy here show this to you guys there you
go oh so there it is the card block the
block of cards the card brick so
bad there you go it's like and it weighs
so much like it is so freaking heavy um
anyway so what happens is when you reboot a VM like a soft like a oh it's
pouring water all over the place uh I guess we should do this first like a
soft reset um the the car doesn't
actually properly reboot and so what happens is it doesn't give up its
resources again so when the when the rebooted like the new the fresh soft
reboot tries to grab the cardigan the
resources are already in use by the previous
by the previous boot I'm really not explaining this very well actually
normally I'm better at this see this is the kind of thing I'm talking about live streaming is difficult
um but the way that NVIDIA handles it is
even with a soft reset the card will release all the resources and it's all
good to go there is a workaround uh the workaround and and this is like this is
like insanity uh so the workaround is that in the uh safely add and remove
Hardware uh system tray thing what you
can do is you can eject your GPU and
then you can go back to unraid so you can navigate to it on the network um and
then you can stop the VM that way but I
mean the issue is that when you're trying to troubleshoot something the odds of being able
to properly eject something and then
shut down the machine is very slim so what would happen and this was just
infuriating what would happen is anytime I had a
problem with any VM that caused it to have to be rebooted anything but
perfectly gracefully and by the way that solution didn't always work um what I
would have to do was I would have to shut down all the VMS then I would have
to reboot the machine which takes about 4 minutes because of all the hardware
connected to it that uh unraid had to detect then I would have to start up all
the VMS again and then like you know it doesn't sound that bad but you know let
me tell you when you were working on something under a time crunch you know
waiting it was around a total of about an 8 to 10 minute process every time I
had an issue with a VM and I had to reboot one of them it would have been
made a lot simpler if I could reboot one at a time but I had to do the whole
entire system and sometimes it took a
lot longer than that like for example if I had to here I'll give you guys the
overhead view I'm actually doing stuff right now so if I had to for example um
open up a bunch of benchmarks so that I could run all the benchmarks at the same
time or let's say I was in the middle of running a benchmark like fire strike for
example and one of the VMS um you know
crashes or does something so now I have to go back shut down everything reboot
everything wait around for that then I have to fire up all the VMS after I've
like diagnosed what's going wrong then
then lucky me I get to fire up all of
those programs again one by one and then I get to start them again and then I get
to hope they finish this time and this system was not particularly
stable so it's funny I actually um my
contacted unraid sorry this a USB this
is so this like this is the kind of stupid stuff that I get to deal with
here guys check this out and it's like it's not a huge deal
but when you're in a hurry it's like the end of the world so you can see this
this USB 3 connector I was having a really hard time um
getting at releasing the gpus with the USB 3 plugged in and this USB header on
the board look at this it comes off the
pins it sticks the the connector here
sticks so hard in the socket that it just pulls the housing right off the
pins and that's the kind of stuff where it's
like I am in a hurry right now I'm trying to make a video I do not have
time for this crap and it's constant it's constant
like what I don't know it's it's funny I was talking about how people talk about
how game streamers have an easy job people think I have an easy job too and
like I said I love my job but it is and
I broke it broke the housing well I do
love my job but it is not necessarily as
easy as a lot of people think that it is
so now I'll just put the broken housing back on there I mean whatever it's not
like uh it's not like I'm which one is it
one it's not like I have any warranty coverage on this board
anyway there we go USB 3 is actually surprisingly hard
to line up when you're doing this USB 2 is really easy but the pins are so small
for USB 3 and if you line it up wrong you'll end up crushing one of the pins
and folding it flat onto the board which is a big problem um because then you
have to bend it back and get it just perfect USB 2 is easy like I mean these
things come off all the time it's not it's not a huge deal or anything it's
just annoying when you're in a hurry and
you have to like yank and replace a stupid header
housing every time you need to do something it's
ridiculous wow 4,300 viewers on uh
taking apart a computer you guys always you guys always impress me like I never
I never know this is a funny thing too like I I don't consume a lot of online
video mostly because I just really don't have time I'm too busy making it um so a
lot of the time I'm just kind of taking a shot in the dark at what I think
people might like because cuz I'm not really making something designed for
myself like I think it's it's really easy for me to do something like the um
the LTT Edition knock to a fan like to come up with an
idea like including a fanhub
sticker inside the box and I'll like one does that and to
me as an Enthusiast it's really easy to come up with an idea like that because I
think well man you know there's only one
way to install a fan out of four where the the rear hub sticker is correctly
aligned with you know gravity so you can read whatever's on it or whatever else
so why don't we just include a sticker and people can Orient it whatever way
they want it's like so it's easy for me
to think of something like that because I am the target audience but actually
making video I love technology I mean I love I nerd
out over this stuff I really really do but when it comes to you know what
formats people want to experience technology with me and it's really not
always that straightforward for me and I'm just kind of
guessing ah and I got these Wicked sniffles I really hope that I feel
better very soon because this sucks
it super duper sucks the big one I feel like I've been sick for months I
actually wasn't sick at CES for the first time ever but I was sick before it
and I am now sick after it I'm very thankful though that I
wasn't sick at CES getting sick at CES is such a bummer but I have kids now so
I think that's a big part of the problem is they go to Like pre- Preschool or
whatever and they come home with all the germs that their little germ friends
gave them and uh I'm the one who gets to
be sick I mean they get sick too I guess and
then I get to deal with that so I'm sick I'm dealing with a sick whiny kid and
I'm sick being an adult
sucks if anyone had told me that you know being an adult was like this I
might not have bothered waiting around for it um okay actually I know again I
love my life my life is good I'm not complaining I'm just saying I hate being
sick and I think we can all relate to that so this is most of the action right
here here uh some people probably saw like Instagram posts or whatever else
but I didn't really talk much about this
motherboard and what made it special so this is a good opportunity to do it so
two sockets was requirement number one I
needed two sockets I also needed a motherboard that had seven PCI Express
slots there are lots out there that have six okay and six is relatively easy
because especially if you're doing two sockets like this you want to do and you
want to do more dim slots a lot of motherboard manufacturers will put a bunch of dim slots up here and a bunch
down here and you end up eating one or even two of these slots with all of
these PCI Express slots with all the memory dim slots that you're putting on
the board and even like even putting more to these sides here you end up with
kind of like a wider board sometimes or you end up with like an offset here of
the memory that ends up eating up one of these slots so finding one with seven
PCI Express slots real challenge this one also had a
couple other things that made it very desirable so number one is that it has
um an ikvm header so I've actually already purchased a module and I would
go get it but it'd be kind of a waste of time um you guys are you guys are live
here um so I purchased a little module that I can put on here that will allow
me to control this board remotely over the network even if it's powered off I'm
going to do a video about um about ipmi
a little bit in the future here because it's pretty cool stuff it's only really
applicable to very high-end stuff but I I person def think it's neat so I'm
going to make a video about it deal with it and then the other thing that it has
that is way more important than people probably thought is this it has Onboard
video so the Onboard video is actually closely related to that Remote
Management feature because that Onboard video is what the Remote Management
feature uses and is able to uh to Output
to even when the system is powered down so this VGA port the Onboard video on
this motherboard is what allowed me to have unraid grabbed that and allowed me
to use all seven of my plugged-in graphics cards for seven discret VMS uh
the other really cool thing that we got going on here I mean aside from you know
CPUs forun oh yeah right no more about the motherboard first actually so uh it
also has multiple usb3 controllers so what I plan to deploy this board to do
in the future is uh two ingest stations
so people can um ingest their footage at the same time uh whereas right now the
system we have is a bit of a bottleneck so I'm planning to use it for that so having two different onboard usb3
controllers is good cuz I can pass through controllers to a VM which allows
us to have hot plug within a virtual machine so each of our machines will
effectively be using like if you slice the motherboard down the middle it will
be using 128 gigs of RAM actually I'll probably swap out this RAM for something
lower capacity but it'll be using half of the RAM half the CPU and then you
know half of the USB controllers each one will get a GPU and then some other
hardware and uh then the other thing it had again like there's still more
there's a lot that makes this board pretty much the only thing I could have
used it has 12 C ports so that gave me
eight for my ssds and I had planned to have four 8 tbte hard drives for mass
storage for the VMS but that didn't end up working out because the case didn't
have anywhere to mount them uh because they screwed up the adapter they sent me
then it has this this is an auxiliary power connector for the graphics card
slots and this became a big issue back in the days when three-way and four-way
SLI first started popping up is you would actually have people because these
these cards were so power hungry you would have people burning out the slots
on their motherboards on motherboards that didn't
have these auxiliary power connectors because I mean if you think about it
like it's not magic you know each of these I think is rated for 75 watts and
then you've got the um the connectors that plug into the backs of the cards as
well well but that doesn't mean that they're not drawing from the slot so all of a sudden you know 300 uh 450 I mean
we're talking 500 watts going through what these tiny little traces here
that's ridiculous so the auxiliary power
helps augment what's coming from the 24 pin which is way up here all the way
across the board uh by feeding these a little bit more so that helps out the
ones that are plugged into the back of the card so I was hopeful that having a
board that had that feature uh would help um and then finally I think there
was one other thing that mattered I mean it looks cool so there's that uh no I
actually oh oh yeah okay so it did have support for the uh these are 32 Gigabyte
memory sticks here from Kingston so it had support from those and Kingston was
a sponsor for the project the the system was on display in their booth at CES and
all that so being compatible with their latest and greatest memory was really
really key on this and I think yeah that's pretty much
about it so I can't wait to uh to roll this roll this baby out because I other
than you know the flakiness with the cards I was using um pretty much all of
which I can explain away due to the cards I was using which I used because
they were uh very power efficient because they were very short I was
really worried about clearance issues with like stuff over here if we had full
length cards um I'm pretty sure most of
the issues I had with the machine can be explained Away by the
cards man that was frustrating though
I mean people often ask me why I use the hardware that I use for a given project
um and I pretty much use whatever I'm sure
pretty sure is going to work best and even in those cases I end up with I end
up with some issues but uh
yeah I'm not a fan of anything except
stuff that works so why do we use things
that we use generally speaking for some compelling reason like it's the only
product that is in the form factor that we need it to be in in order for this
project to be a go like a perfect example would be uh that ASRock uh mini
ITX um LGA 2011 board that we did our 18
core shoe box machine in well they've got the only
ITX um 2011 3 motherboard so what else am I
going to use or it's the thing that I am most
confident will actually function which is surprisingly hard I
mean when when like and we encounter a lot of issues that most people never
would because we're pushing this stuff to limits that it was never really
intended to be pushed
to like I guarantee you no one at AMD I
guarantee it 100% no one at AMD has ever
put seven fijes in a single motherboard and I also
guarantee you that no one at ASUS ever
put oh hold on this is going to be bad
no one ever put seven high powered graphics cards in that
motherboard how do I know they didn't do this because that's not how validation
Labs work they don't do some like
completely like ass crazy thing they do
what they expect most people to run which is why most most people will never
encounter the problem the kinds of problems that we
do um so it's frustrating because people
will get upset with us about you know oh you know I have one of these and it's great why aren't you using it well
because maybe we've had issues with it that you've never seen before and we
just tend to go with whatever we think has the best chance of working in some
kind of like Bizarro land uh scenario
like oh I don't know putting seven graphics cards in a single
machine ah
yes I am planning to upload this stream to uh YouTube and to vessel that is a
plan I think last time I did a simultaneous release but this time I am
not because last time was sort of like a weird experiment thing like I I wanted
to do a video of building the machine because LG needed a video of the
machine um but the winner was supposed to do it but I still had all his
Hardware so I was like look I'll just do a video and I came up with this idea
okay I'll just like I'll I'll live stream it because we don't have any editing resources right now and then
people liked it it's like okay sure I
mean what do I know anyway I love these cables these are
awesome super big fan of these cable mod cables we've been using for our our
projects here actually a friend of mine is one of the founders of cable mod um
they like they're they're cool guys they're just it's like yeah like whatever projects you guys do we want to
sponsor it we want to be involved um product's good love it it's always good
I love that win-win stuff where it's like good product good people easy
companies to deal with man where they take your feedback like if there's
something that I don't like they don't get all you know defensive about it
they're just like yeah okay that's cool thank you we'll fix it
um I got someone saying line bro missed
you how can you miss me I'm like all over the
Internet $400 power supply on the corner of the table it's stable look see it's
not going anywhere come on man all right this was uh this was a fun part of the
machine here this this was some this was
some Jank Jank stuff that we had going on here so I didn't get the cages that I
needed to mount the ssds so these are
straight up double-sided taped
oh wow I used the same so we actually
bought this huge like massive roll of
the same double-sided tape that GoPro includes on their mounts and then I used
like I don't know if you can see them in there see I used like massive strips of
them which was definitely a mistake but I had thought at the time that we were
going to be shipping this system down to CES so I wanted them in there like
really good last thing I want is to send a machine to Kingston to Showcase in
their booth that has like the Kingston SSD is all like banged up and all over
the inside of the uh oh
wow how the crap am I going to get these
off um this might do
it wedge
tactics uh wow okay we'll just stab them real good
in there there I may have to I may have to cut them yeah that might work
although I can tell you that did not work on the Intel 750 series SSD that I
did my personal rig with nope that was
not a good strategy um you know what I'm going to have to go find a knife here
real quick but I can tell you guys what happened to that SSD in the
meantime but died
so I uh actually this is kind of funny normally a sample product like that
would have no warranty because it would be an engineering sample with no serial
number and stuff like that but um long
story but I had a retail 750 series SSD
so I contacted Intel's warranty department I'm like yo um so I broke
this is there anything you can do for me and they were like no you're an idiot
basically um wait did you inventory this
yeah uh this is a drive uh the sticker goes on the drive and the packaging gets
thrown away don't worry about it you're still learning sorry that's our new guy
um he's learning how to inventory things
I will tell you his name once he gets past his probation we've learned a valuable lesson about introducing people
on the channel before they uh before they
actually officially make it like we had
one guy we had the last guy who was in his position lasted for two shifts he
was just like yeah you you know this isn't really
the kind of work that I had in mind and I was just like
well this is exactly what I told you you'd be doing so I really don't
understand where that expectation came from but that's okay you know no hard
feelings or anything like that but just this puts us in a bit of a bind now I
tell you guys Human Resources management is not um is not fun it's like actually
super balls lame and you know what else is not fun I cannot find my knife I'm
very sure that I lent it to someone today which means that I am equally sure
that they didn't bring it back to me and this is why I get irate about this stuff
it's not because I like to be a terrible person who's like you know mean or
whatever it's just one of those things where if people don't return stuff to me
then I end up wasting the time of literally thousands of people while I
run around and look for a knife in the
warehouse Brandon did you borrow my knife
did you okay maybe I just misplaced it somewhere then I hope I did because I
super duper like that knife it's super dull now I actually found some scissors
and I'm kind of hoping this will be the
solution here we go I'm back oh it was
in the room the whole time there I was blaming Brandon for it and it turns out
it was me I have scissors now
too just in case I need those all right right so let's try slicing these apart
here so right so this did not work for the SSD but in the case of the SSD I was
like slicing thermal adhesive off of
chips so I think what probably happened
was uh wow these are on they
good um like that I just kind of flexed too much and uh like disconnected
something from the board like it kind of works a little like Windows will pick it
up as an NVMe device but it can't you
know write anything to it the BIOS actually doesn't see it even though Windows kind of does like it's super
weird it's dead and Intel is just like yeah you you broke it dude and I'm like
yeah I know I told you I broke it and they're like well okay why did you call
then it's like I don't know maybe my internet Fame is worth
something turns out internet Fame is actually not worth much but for the
first time ever I was hanging out with um
techrax who busts up iPhones on YouTube
and what's inside who uh opens things up
on YouTube but doesn't unbox like slices things open um and we were at the
International Auto Show and we went we tried to go to a restaurant like we were
legit just trying to go out for dinner and they wouldn't let us in
because of a private booking so we're standing there trying to figure out where else to go and someone comes
out and she's like
um and she just kind of walks up and starts talking to us we were just saying
oh yeah sorry we didn't we didn't know it's a private event so we're we're just trying to we're going somewhere else
she's like oh uh well who are you here with are you here for the auto show
we're like oh yeah yeah we're here for the auto show she she's like who are you with we're like oh well you know I make
YouTube videos and she's like are you influencers we're like I don't know I I
I guess so uh and uh she's like how many
followers do you have I'm like oh well between the three of us like something
to the tune of five million subscribers on YouTube she's like no way and we're
like yeah yeah she's like okay come on in so we got a free meal that was the
first time due to my internet Fame that I have ever gotten like just randomly
invited into a private event and gotten a free dinner it was awesome it was very
good I forget the name of the place I'm not really good at that kind of stuff
but it was a Kia party so um we're we're going inside and um what's ins side is
like hey yo and I realized I had a Ford
badge on my hip cuz I was actually I was
actually there sponsored by Ford I mean
it's not like it really it's not like it matters like we were just going out for
dinner it's not like I was like oh I'm going to go have secret meetings with
Kia or whatever while Ford is sponsoring me to be here at the show and you guys
probably saw those sponsored posts mostly on like Twitter and Instagram um
but just like walking around at the Kia party with a Ford badge on which
probably seems like not the greatest thing
ever uh yeah people like don't use the knife towards you no it only matters if
you use the knife towards you if there's somewhere for it to slip towards you I
am pushing down on the knife it is okay don't worry I have never actually
managed to stab myself I cannot believe how difficult these are to remove I have
no idea how long this is going to take I have removed one drive one drive I have
to take eight off I don't know if I'm going to be able to come up with stories
to tell to occupy the time it will take to remove eight of these
drives stop
go oh my goodness this is
horrible okay oh I got a better slicing action going now here okay so I was
pulling towards myself there but don't worry you guys got someone
suggesting to heat the knife not a terrible idea but um not actually sure
if it would be applicable to this particular type of
adhesive slicey
slicey man this stuff is
Savage holy crap like this is not easy to remove and
look how much of it I put on why did I do that I could have put like a little
tiny tab in each corner and it would have been fine I like I'm bending the
drives I don't know if you can see that but the drive is bent these better still
work I still need these these are one tbte KC
400s jeez
ow okay I've never stabbed myself but I have definitely like whacked myself if
you know what I mean I'd like to give a shout out to our sponsor Kingston thank
you for powering the seven Gamers PC
Kingston thank you get out of here
it's not enough that I'm stabbing their ssds you got to give them shout outs
too there we go okay I got a I got a
better technique here now I think
that no I am not going to say you can stab Kingston ssds and they will still
work it is highly likely that they will not still work if you stab them
these guys this is what I got to deal
with okay it's not that easy to pull all
the so I had actually wired up all the uh SATA cables before taping them into
place so having to remove them before I pull the drives out is a
little bit trickier oh man you hear that sound like
these are not happy
drives ah I'm like this stuff is really
hard to remove ah it's like
gooey okay half of the drives are out
yes got people saying the case is tough
it'll bounce back uh yeah I don't know if it's going
to bounce back but I can probably bend it back here's something a lot of people
probably don't know unless you've like you know read a lot of SSD reviews
online is that the stuff inside an SSD there's actually not a whole lot of it
um so even if you were to bend the outer casing a fair bit the odds of that
damaging any of the internal guts is is pretty slim it can bend a fair bit
before the internal PCB which does have to stay pretty much straight um would be
bent out of whack slice slice slice slice slice
baby okay
prying oh my goodness look at this one
ah and the stuff is so
like a it pulled the label off dang it I
was doing so well all of them had kept their labels up till now
okay oh hey the label is back in Action
nice this one I scratched the bottom of though that's okay all
good got someone saying this is H why
they use velcro I've actually been using that industrial strength Velcro that I
get at Home Depot for a long time I've had some issues with the adhesive on it
um it eventually turns kind of gooey and
sticky well okay okay it's supposed to be sticky it's adhesive but it turns
kind of like like soft and and um like
how would I describe it it's kind of like a kind of more like sap than an
actual than an actual tape um and it seems to not really work very well over
long periods of time so I've actually stopped using it uh I did my cable
manage the last thing I did with it was my cable manage your desk the manly way
video and everything that I mounted with it has fallen off in that time um just
from you know I guess being a relatively hot place or whatever else like it's not
even that hot like it's a climate control office but there is some
sunlight that comes into it so I'm just kind of guessing at this point but um
I've also had some issues with it with UV lighting like UV case
lighting uh that makes the that makes the adhesive turn really really hard as
well this stuff's great like if the idea is to
stick something to something Forever This stuff's really
good I wish they had this adhesive on the other side of the velcro that would
be perfect all right I'll take those apart later I'm just going to pull this
last set of drives out of here
oops see my knife form might not be perfect
but it slipped and nothing was damaged or hurt
why are people telling Nick to steal a power supply and why is Nick watching a
twitch stream instead of working these
are both great
questions laughs this
guy trying to moderate the chat well I
can tell you why that's not working because it's
futile I wouldn't worry about it
that's weird My Stream just cut out but no one else seems to be complaining so
uh there you
go okay the
drives are out love
it love it now I can deploy these
somewhere else which is what I have been wanting to do with them for quite some
time got people asking for more stories
I'm just trying to think if I have any more stories right
now what have we been up to lately oh
this here's is kind of a good one we were trying to film an episode of uh
holy bleep the other day and I got these
really cool dish-based internet doodads from
ubiquity so there are these point-to-point
um like huge dish things that allow you
to send a network connection anywhere from you know depending on the skew on
whoops dropped my knife anywhere depending on the skew on their website
anywhere from like I think like 20 kilm to up to 200 plus
kilomet and I had a bunch of pieces of
stuff that they sent me and so I grabbed them all and we started filming the
video and I realized halfway through the video that I had two different products
so one of them was a 200 plus kilom
product that you needed a separate antenna for that they didn't send so I
knew nothing about any of that and then the other one so so I
didn't even have all the pieces of that one and that was the one I started with and then the other one was a complete
kit like completely Standalone kit by itself it was like 150 bucks like it was
actually relatively affordable whereas the other one was like Enterprise grade
like super expensive stuff so we actually filmed half a video of me
explaining what we were going to make the video about and it turned out that
it was completely the wrong product completely the wrong product so what we
ended up doing was we changed gears and we kind of went um okay so let's let's
redo let's redo the footage here and we
will um so we'll just redo the intro and we're we'll just start with this one the
the one that we actually have all the pieces for so we filmed most of it and
then um it got to be the end of the day i'
had to go home I had to go home and we weren't quite done yet so I was like
okay so here's what I'll do we'll we'll come in tomorrow morning and we'll we'll
finish it off so after all that after refiling it twice or filming it twice
filming it once and then ref filming it get this SD card died this is the kind
of stuff that you guys never get to see like everyone's always like it's so easy
to make videos you just stand in front of a camera and talk for a bit you know what actually not um and okay admitt ly
that first problem could have been prevented by me actually looking at uh
what it was we were making a video about beforehand so okay fine but I like those
I like the holy bleep episodes to be very genuine like I want it to be the
initial reaction so I want it to be like okay here it is let's rip it out of the box and have a long range you know
network connection or whatever um but
the one where the SD card died like there's nothing we can do about that and like we we'll set out at the beginning
of the week with with all these goals SSD is all successfully removed by the
way all these videos we want to make and then we just get these obnoxious
curveballs thrown at us right like something dying in the middle of the
week um you know a USB header popping
off of a motherboard while you're trying to just just trying to work on
it so yeah I mean it's gotten to the
point now where for like personal
personal gear like when I was building up my wife's machine
am I putting you know an Rog board in there an NVMe SSD 10 gig network card no
man I'm not doing any of that stuff I
went with ASUS's um they call it their
channel series um internally anyway
excuse me uh but I went with their premium channel series board uh z170
Deluxe simple simple you know consumer
grade not like you know aiming or
whatever um went with just a 6600 GTX
6600 keeping it really simple you know went with just some some Corsair memory
like super basic memory not highp speed
we're talking like DDR3 2133 or something like that like very very base
model because that's the stuff that works and there's a reason for that it
actually makes sense if you understand the product development process um a
little bit so when you build a
product you can invest x amount of R&D
into it that has to be somehow proportional to the reward that you're
going to get from it and like a $500 motherboard you know yeah you're selling
a motherboard for $500 but the reality of it is that
you're not going to sell that many of them because who buys $500 motherboards
come on you got to be kidding me here right so the the board that's going to
sell the most is actually going to be the one that Returns the most for the
investment in it and the board that sells the most is going to be the one
with the most other people using it so
if the whole thing with products in the last well really forever has been that
the end user ends up being kind of a beta tester then what I tend to do these
days if I want something that's going to work is I'll go with the most mainstream
possible thing because that way a bunch of other people already bought it and
can already complain about it if it's not working properly and if there is a
huge issue with it the odds of the manufacturer having
to fix it in order to do damage control
is much higher because many many more of their customers have
it so the way I select products for our crazy projects and the way that I select
products for my own use are actually very very
different so there you go there's a little Pro tip for you guys there we go
so the case
is put back together it's actually really like crazy light like I don't
know if you guys know this case mods cases aluminum really light it's only
once you put like you know 80 lounds worth of you know copper into it in the
form of water blocks that they end up getting extraordinarily
heavy uh just got a little bit more left to do I was actually I was thinking
about live streaming the entire uh tear down of the of the multi block
video card thing but I think that will
take too long and like I know some of you are going to be like no lus come on
do it no really it will actually take too long like I spent probably about 4
hours mounting them all so you're not
sneaky he get out get out of here get out of
here Nick giving into twitch chat and their
they Wicked
suggestions this
guy he doesn't even need a 1600 wat power
supply I know because his computer
sucks yeah that's right I just talked trash about your computer my
computer yeah take that jerk I have a 357
he's saying he has Athlon 64
X2 what a
loser yeah I think the X2 um any
criticism of that would not have anything to do with fanboyism it would
be more to do with how old it is and slow yeah get wrecked son
okay so last thing here just going to pull this bracket this is a really cool
mounting bracket too actually EK was
another huge helper on this project uh
would have been hard to do without them
and case Labs um kind of helping me out on the water cooling cuz when I have a
case already and I've sort of seen all the water cooling Hardware already it's
pretty easy for me to be like okay yeah here's all the stuff I need um but I've
been kind of out of the loop so to speak for water cooling for a while
um like we don't really review this stuff anymore so I I only really bring
it in for projects so like I know how to water cool but I don't I don't really
keep up on it the way that I used to so
both of them helped me out uh you know figuring out hey where are we going to
put the res where are we going to put the pump um how are we going to mount
the res and this Mount this like um 120
mm like bracket Mount that you can turn
into the U the anti vibration rubber mount for that Reservoir pump combo
freaking awesome love it and you can actually get a version of the of the res
pump combo that has a shorter res if I recall correctly so you are not uh
married to having something so tall so depending on your case you may actually
even be able to mount it at the back of the case on your exhaust pan don't quote
me on that one though I'm not 100% sure if that'll work out great for you my
laptop battery is about to die it's at 7% see if I can save
it oh I was so frustrated the other night cuz my phone was um was like oh
battery about to die 2% battery or whatever and then you know how you do
the whole thing where you're like I can beat it I can do this and so I like ran
to plug it in and I got it like I
actually made it it was at like 1% I'm like I made it
yeah and then while I was sitting there checking the battery level with the
screen powered on it was only plugged into a one charger so it
died I was that down to the wire that
just the fact that it was charging but not charging enough was enough to uh was
enough to take it out so disappointing because then you
got to wait like 5 minutes or whatever for it to charge up a bit like I don't I
don't really like charging my phones at 2 amps because um I like my batteries
lasting for longer so I only really do that when I'm
desperate but uh yeah I was I was pretty
disappointed right there cool story bro thanks
bro this is frustrating case manufacturers if I ever make that video
that I had talked about last week of like manufacturer dos and don'ts do use
screws with iron in them because don't
use ones that are just made of like uh
there's a test bench that I was using a little while ago from deusch deusch
deusch anyway um all the screws included are aluminum
which is terrible because a if you have a magnetic screwdriver uh that doesn't
help you out a whole lot because the screw won't stick to the bit and B
aluminum is a super malleable metal like
anytime oh okay this time it's the battery don't worry we got this so
anytime um like a a thread doesn't go in
perfectly or whatever it just derps out hardcore and
and actually shear off so you end up with remnants of of screw in the hole
and then you end up with no head to actually take it out so you have to
drill it out it's ridiculous so do not use aluminum screws
and do use screws with iron in them so that I can use my magnetic screwdriver
because a magnetic screwdriver makes projects go a lot lot
faster if you work on as many of these types of projects as I do you care about
every like fraction of a second that you can save while you work on
them wow we're up to nearly 5,000 viewers man you guys if I had known you
like these kinds of streams so much I could stream like pretty much all the
time when I'm working on this kind of crap cuz I'm pretty much always doing
this like if I'm not filming actively filming a video I'm probably working on
something like this whether it's our servers here at the office or whether
it's like an upcoming video or teing down an old one or whatever else the cas
may be all right let's uh where' that
front panel piece go can't remember how this mounts anymore unfortunately I
think uh I think it goes in here and
then sits on like some spikes or something and then uh yeah here we'll
switch to the overhead view the unfortunate thing about this
stream is that I had to tear down the WAN streaming computer in order to do it
so you might think that that will mean
that wo will be on
time but because I've got the stream machine working but having it working
with one configuration doesn't necessarily mean it will work with some
other configuration so I actually have even less hope than usual and we are
still doing W show today I've actually seen a couple people asking about that in the chat yes that is definitely still
the plan I mean when do we ever Miss wow
it's amazing how many people still ask us that actually it's like hey are you
guys doing W show today when was the last time we missed a w show suckers
that's what I thought we almost never miss wow even if
we're like in another country we don't miss
wow One does not simply Miss wo like
either Luke or I may miss wano but I
don't think we have ever both been absent for it since the show started but
you guys may have to correct me on that one it's possible we missed one my
memory is a little fuzzy because I'm
old all right and I just knocked it back in got
to be freaking kidding
me just popped it in and I popped it
back out that's okay though I got this just get get in there just just don't
just don't thank you all
right get out of the way cable dang it
now there's a cable stuck there now it's done all right now I can box that baby
back up all
done all right well you know what we've got a little bit of time left so why
don't we do this oh why don't I at least
show you guys I'm think we'll mostly use the
overhead view for this why don't I at least show you guys how the seven block
uh Joiner thing here actually works
Works where my screwdriver go DNB it knowing me it's probably like
inside the computer or
something okay blah blah blah blah blah
blah okay sorry just checking emails I
know it's rude but the reality of it is I get a lot of emails and if I don't
reply to those then that will be rude too so I'll just be rude to everyone
universally that's the only solution that I can come up with where is my
screwdriver I definitely need it I need
the hex head screwdriver and I cannot find
it I know this is definitely my fault
and it is definitely not in the
case Okay
um is it definitely in my
pocket sometimes that
happens all right time to empty the
pockets phone ah there it is
good well that solve that problem
all right so basically the way it works is you install all the Blocks
individually on the cards then you take
this piece on the top here and install
the cards onto it one by one so I'm actually going to have to remove pretty
much the whole shebang here in order to show you guys how one of them mounts but
um or maybe not maybe I can just pull one off here actually yes that makes
more sense okay
I'll get you guys a bit of a closer look with the uh with the webcam when I get when I get a minute
here okay here we
go so right here I've got these long
bolts these guys right here that go through here then I'm going to flip this
over I'm going to put down this camera for a second while I flip it over just
CU I don't want to uh I don't want to break anything here ideally
okay so this one should detach yep there we go so then uh ek's
blocked but just fell dang
it and we dropped something fantastic I
don't know what it was even oh that is
very very unfortunate if I knew what it was I
would at least know what I was looking oh there it is it is is that no that's
not it yes it is what is this
screw wow I super super duper don't know
oh here wow weird one of the screws in
this block just like came
out this one wow okay anyway so this is
a really cool thing that EK does is the tops of their blocks are kind of oh oh
go away go away
okay the tops of their blocks are kind of modular now so you can you can see
they've got these these slits here where the water flows so two slits per side
and then you can either have ones that kind of come off like this or like this
or using those bolts I showed you before they can go straight into a big splitter
like this see so you've got oh you can't see that very well hold on
there we go so there you've got O-rings in here as long as you get those sealed
exactly perfectly and then the whole thing goes in this one and then out this
one and then into the next card here and then out the next card right around here
and so on and so forth very very cool
stuff and yes there is a lot of water on
the table I am aware of that thank you yes I do see that as something of a
problem but not going to stress about it now no
my friends I'm not going to stress about it now I am going to remove these one by
one yes all this stuff is like not bad
in small doses but
oops that's funny uh not bad in small doses but by the time you do
like you know seven cards times three bolts what is that 21 bolts BS it gets
kind of tedious all right let's remember that
they come off now moving forward that
would be
good
okay everyone's like rip come on this
stuff's not that fragile I hope you guys know that like it is but it's also not
like look at any secondhand shop look at the way they treat Hardware that
Hardware still works just throwing that out
there um like no it's not ideal yes some
of it will get broken but literally like bins of graphics cards can still work
and they just get kind of thrown in a bin and that fell onto the block not
onto the PCB even so the chances of knocking off a surface mount component
or something like that is pretty much zero
fortunately I don't need these cards for any other projects anyway so I am pretty
much done with them but that doesn't mean that I like killing things if I
don't have to I actually kill surprisingly Little
Hardware although I've had a bit of a rough run of it lately with the um with
that 750 SSD man I did not want to kill
that $800 or $122,000 SSD or whatever um
and all those motherboards for that router machine I was super not happy
about that
either
okay I have a really fun one coming that involves taking an angle grinder to a
GTX Titan uh so for those of you who are on vessel you've already seen it but um
for those of you on YouTube you have that to look forward to should be
good I do not like killing servers I haven't killed any servers what you
talking about speaking of servers oh I am so stoked on this um that super
micro machine that I tweeted about uh last week I think it was has arrived so
it's an 8 GPU server
machine I am super stoked I think you
guys probably already know where I'm going with anything that can take a
bunch of gpus um but this is this is going to be
a it's going to be a bit of a different angle on how many people I can have gaming off
of a machine all at once very very cool
got people asking me to move the power supply you know the more you ask me the
less likely I am to do it so there's pretty much nothing you
can do you are powerless powerless to save the power
supply okay wow there we go seven
graphics cards all removed here let's take another look at that bad
boy so that's it all the screws are out there they are
and you can see what EK did here so they
uh there's actually a lot of inlets and Outlets depending on the mounting
options that you want for it this thing's really cool like I'm going to hold on to this I don't know when I
would ever use something like this again but that is definitely like oneof aind
unique item hold on to that just in case
just in case you ever happen to have to water cool seven cards in a single
system again the kind of disappointing thing is that um ek's ek's system for
connecting the multiple cards on the bottom there's no plugs for
them so you actually have to do seven
cards that was a pretty horrifying moment when it looked like we weren't
going to get the system posted with seven cards and John from lime Tech was
like oh no it's no big deal we'll just cuz I I had actually told Kingston I
told the sponsor it'll be like six or
seven and so John's like well don't worry you told Kingston it could be six
I'm like yeah okay yes but we have a
problem I can't take out a card I can't
do six it'll have to be four with air cooling which I definitely didn't want
to do that's like admitting defeat
or it'll be seven and well you know how that story ends we
did end up getting it working but it was extremely
stressful it's like man how bad I looked in that video like
how defeated and tired I looked that was
exactly exactly how I felt it was
brutal ouch hm that is not going to be
oh yeah actually here there's another cool Pro tip for you guys
um if you're having trouble getting a fitting out and it's one that doesn't
have a spot to use a wrench on just grab a piece of tubing and then use that for
grip see
easy now you can't say I never taught you anything unless you already knew
that in which case you can say that but then why are you watching this
show oh this one's not coming it doesn't help when your tubing's wet though a bit
of a problem we'll try the old pants trick
nope no dice all right let's try another piece of tubing maybe like different
tubing we'll cooperate more with me ah yes there we go
awesome no my power supply is not
depressed okay well yeah I guess uh I
don't know how much else there is to really say about this if you guys
enjoyed this uh this stream then hey you
know like I guess do they have that on
Twitch well if you're watching this on YouTube then you can
definitely
um a that's so nice um uh our contact at
Kingston just sent me a message saying that he's a depressed that the system
will not live on forever I'm sorry to uh I'm sorry to be the one to have to break
it to him that unless he wants to provide us with completely new sets of
all the hardware for every machine we do then that really isn't possible except
we do really ask him for that so I've probably given away too much at this
point and uh two he said that the stream
is being really well run that's the first time I've ever heard that from anyone about a stream Luke's nodding
thanks for that um so I guess that's pretty much it
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only it is what it is oh I have to stop
the stream Luke Mouse I'm just going to stand here
and wave and look sexy until uh