WEBVTT 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:06.160 This video is brought to you by our trusted partner, Intel. For a limited 00:00:04.640 --> 00:00:11.120 time only, with the purchase of any unlocked Core i5 or Core i7 Intel CPU, 00:00:09.200 --> 00:00:14.960 get a free Intel beanie with a chance to win an Intel snowboard. Valid for 00:00:13.040 --> 00:00:19.560 Canadian and US customers only. Some restrictions apply. For complete 00:00:16.560 --> 00:00:22.080 details, visit intelgaming 00:00:19.560 --> 00:00:26.240 promo.com. Welcome to a gaming build guide that we're doing here, guys. So, 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:32.000 we've got a Silverstone TJ10, a Silverstone Strider Gold Evolution 1000 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:36.360 watt with their sweet braided cables that are actually using like a nylon 00:00:34.239 --> 00:00:40.239 rather than a plastic braid. So, they're absolutely perfect in terms of not being 00:00:38.879 --> 00:00:44.960 able to see through to the cords. Extremely durable, all that kind of good 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:49.039 stuff. They look absolutely awesome. Uh, for liquid cooling, we're going to be 00:00:46.480 --> 00:00:53.960 going with a Swifttech H220, but we're actually going to be expanding it. So, 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:58.000 we're going to add a liquid cooled GTX 00:00:53.960 --> 00:01:00.480 670 as well as a Black Ice Extreme 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:07.560 single 120 mm radiator, giving us a total of 3x 120 mm rads, one of which is 00:01:04.080 --> 00:01:11.040 a thick rad, as well as a liquid cooled 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:15.600 3770K and a liquid cooled GTX 660 in the 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:18.080 same loop. So, hm GTX 670. Sorry, I said 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:22.119 660, I meant 670. We're also going with a Gigabyte Thunderbolt ready board. This 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:26.000 is a Z77X UP5th. So, this is pretty much 00:01:24.240 --> 00:01:30.640 state-of-the-art as far as features get. It actually has dual Thunderbolt ports. 00:01:28.240 --> 00:01:36.240 For memory, we're going to go with 16 gigs of Corsair Dominator Platinum 2400 00:01:33.520 --> 00:01:39.600 MHz memory. So, this is just I mean, honestly, this is a showcase piece. We 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:43.920 want it to look awesome. It's also got the blue light bars in it. So, this is 00:01:41.759 --> 00:01:50.320 going to be a blue themed build. Hence the use of blue LED fans for our 00:01:46.600 --> 00:01:55.439 radiators as well as ah yes two Samsung 00:01:50.320 --> 00:01:57.320 840 Pro 256 gigs in RAID zero and of 00:01:55.439 --> 00:02:01.600 course the centerpiece the Silverstone TJ10 and we're pretty much ready to go. 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:05.439 So this isn't going to be an exact step byep how to put CPU in socket that kind 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:09.360 of build guide but it's just going to be kind of following along with us as we 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:13.120 build up this sweet looking liquid cooled machine. Oh yeah, we're using 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:17.200 blue tubing as well. Now, one of the first things we're going to do because 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:21.360 we have to expand our Swifttech H220 is we're going to loosen there you go the 00:02:19.440 --> 00:02:26.560 included hose clamps and we're actually going to drain the system completely and 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:29.840 swap out the fluid for something else. So, we're we're also going to swap out 00:02:28.160 --> 00:02:34.239 the tubing because we don't have more of Swift black tubing on hand and for our 00:02:32.480 --> 00:02:39.040 blue themed build, we wanted to use blue tubing anyway. So, step one is to loosen 00:02:37.200 --> 00:02:42.319 there you go that clamp which holds the tubing in place. Now, you want if you're 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:47.640 going to reuse these clamps, you want to use 3/8 inch ID 5/8 inch OD tubing. So, 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:52.000 there you go. There's the Swifttech Hydrax water that's inside. So, we're 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:57.840 going to take the whole thing apart. Then, what we're going to do to simplify the filling procedure for ourselves is 00:02:55.680 --> 00:03:01.440 we are going to put it back together with all the additional components in 00:02:59.440 --> 00:03:04.319 the loop. We're going to kind of measure where the tubing's going to go and then 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:10.080 we're going to fill it. Then, we're going to put the whole assembled thing back into the system. This will allow us 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:14.000 to fill it as thoroughly as possible without trapping any air bubbles in it. 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:18.800 Now, the plastic brackets that allow for toolless installation of 120 mm fans 00:03:17.040 --> 00:03:21.920 have to be removed from the top of the case. So, you just take out the eight 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:25.280 screws here, here, here, and here. And then you can just pull those brackets 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:29.920 out just like that. We're going to replace them with the rad support 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:34.560 bracket that is available as an add-on for the TJ9 and TJ10 case from 00:03:32.640 --> 00:03:39.760 Silverstone. So, we've made some changes now. We've actually gone ahead, we 00:03:36.720 --> 00:03:41.599 figured out that we can mount the rad 00:03:39.760 --> 00:03:45.360 bracket directly to the fans rather than mounting it to the rad as it says in the 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:50.239 instructions. So, this gives us the ability to use the reservoir that's 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:53.680 built into the uh the H220, which means we don't have to preassemble the loop if 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:58.560 we don't want to because we'll be able to pull it out, top it up, and then put 00:03:56.080 --> 00:04:03.080 it back in if the need should arise. So, we can just go ahead and show you guys 00:04:00.480 --> 00:04:08.239 where this is going to go. So it screws in sort of here somewhere. Something 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:12.000 like that. There we go. Just like that. So it's going to sit in the top. Then 00:04:09.760 --> 00:04:15.519 our thick rad is going to go back here. We've also installed the power supply. 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:18.880 I'm just going to pull this back out. So we've installed the power supply with 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:24.000 its sleing and we're trying to figure out what we're going to do in terms of cable management because this case is a 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:28.639 little bit dated and it doesn't have the best cable management out there. Oh 00:04:26.320 --> 00:04:32.560 yeah, last thing. Right. So this is an important step uh at this stage in the 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:36.720 build. So you can see where the cables are running out of the fans. So you have 00:04:34.479 --> 00:04:41.199 to plan for we're planning to plug all the fans into our motherboard. So this 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:47.199 one's going to go here. This one's going to go here. The pump is going to go to 00:04:44.880 --> 00:04:50.479 the CPU fan. The rear fan is going to go to the bottom one here. And the front 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:54.400 fan's going to go here. That way we can use the motherboard's utility to control 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:57.520 all the fans in this system. So we ended up scrapping the Black Ice Extreme. And 00:04:56.160 --> 00:05:01.840 I remember what I hated about these radiators, and that's that the mounting 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:06.560 holes are 120 mil, but the actual radiator is quite wide, so we weren't 00:05:03.840 --> 00:05:11.759 able to fit it in our case. The bad news is that uh we had to use a thin radiator 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:15.800 to replace it. And it's a bit of a an older one, but I'm going to show you 00:05:12.960 --> 00:05:23.759 guys my magic trick for fixing beat up radiators. And Sharpie marker. And 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:25.360 Sharpie marker. And Sharpie marker. It 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:30.880 actually works surprisingly well. You have to look at it pretty close to realize that it's been touched up with 00:05:28.960 --> 00:05:34.720 with a permanent marker. So, there you go, guys. There's a line of tech tips 00:05:32.400 --> 00:05:37.360 for you. Draw on your computer. If there's anything about it that you don't 00:05:35.919 --> 00:05:40.960 like, it even works for little places where the fins are bent. You just throw 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:44.240 some Sharpie in there and it becomes a lot less noticeable. There you go. It 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:48.160 just like disappears like that. It's awesome. Uh, we've also mounted the 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:52.080 motherboard into the case. So, there you go. That's what it's going to look like. 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:55.280 Uh, this is for some kind of like server thing or something like that. Once we 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:59.680 get the black the black of the other side panel on there, it should look a little bit better. But I would have 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:03.520 preferred if Silverstone had stuck with the older revision, which didn't have 00:06:01.440 --> 00:06:06.560 this hole in it. And I think that's pretty much our status update for now. 00:06:05.280 --> 00:06:11.199 All right, so we're about to load our drives in, which is on these convenient 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:14.240 rails with padding for antiibration. However, we won't have to worry about 00:06:12.400 --> 00:06:18.479 that cuz we're using 2 and 1/2 in drives on 3 and 1/2 in adapters. Don't mind the 00:06:16.400 --> 00:06:23.280 OCZ adapters. The uh the drives are Samsung still. So there we go. Clicks in 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:27.440 just like that. Now, I'd also like to take a moment to show you guys our CPU 00:06:25.440 --> 00:06:31.600 block installation. So, that's done. So, these three 3/8 in tubes are going to 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:36.240 route to this radiator, that radiator, and that GPU block. Also, the cable 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:39.600 management, although it's not perfect in this case because we're using 00:06:37.440 --> 00:06:43.360 individually sleeved cables. We did manage to get the 8 pin behind the 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:47.120 motherboard and have it come up individually so it's nice and thin back 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:51.120 there and go behind the board. Also, the 24 pin is going to look pretty decent 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:54.960 right here, I think. And then we've got all of our front panel ones routed 00:06:52.960 --> 00:06:58.560 behind the motherboard tray in a bit of a tricky way. So I'm going to go ahead 00:06:56.479 --> 00:07:02.400 and flip this around so you guys can check it out. Oh, it's getting heavy 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:06.319 already. Wow. Okay, so there you go. So these have to come between this support 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:09.919 brace here and the motherboard tray. Then there's a little bit of room here 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:13.919 cuz this support brace actually prevents you from routing cables across it. I 00:07:11.599 --> 00:07:18.639 would have liked for Silverstone to have somehow somehow improved that, but there 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:23.599 you go. So, we did manage to get most of our cable routing done. And of course, a 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:28.240 sleeved modular power supply makes a really big difference because we only 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:32.160 have to have these cables connected to it, which is going to keep the bottom 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:36.560 much tidier than it would have otherwise been. We've actually disconnected quite 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:39.759 a few of the cables here. So, uh, we're getting close to the end of our water 00:07:37.919 --> 00:07:43.120 cooling adventure. As with any liquid cooled build, you can make whatever 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:46.639 plans you want, but a lot of the time you end up changing little things here 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:51.440 or there. So, we actually rotated the SwiftTech block. Uh, hold on. Which 00:07:49.599 --> 00:07:55.039 side's threaded on here? There we go. That's the threaded side. Uh, we rotated 00:07:53.199 --> 00:08:00.319 it 90 degrees so that we'd have our inlet on the top so that we could get uh 00:07:57.360 --> 00:08:04.160 an easier run to the what will be the outlet on our reservoir. So, that's 00:08:02.639 --> 00:08:09.840 going to go up above the dominators there. Then, that also gives us a nice 00:08:06.960 --> 00:08:13.599 clean straight run from this guy to this guy. This one was really tight and was 00:08:11.919 --> 00:08:17.680 kind of hard to get in there, but uh overall I think it's going to look 00:08:15.520 --> 00:08:23.360 really, really sharp. So, here we are putting our hose clamps down on the very 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:29.039 base of the barb there. And then what we're going to do is we're going to grab 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:30.720 the Swift screws right here, and we're 00:08:29.039 --> 00:08:35.919 going to clamp those babies down. So, those will look just black and stealthy 00:08:33.839 --> 00:08:39.039 uh with the included fittings on the radiator as well as the pump. And then 00:08:37.760 --> 00:08:43.680 we're using compressions on the other ones uh to make those ones look really 00:08:41.599 --> 00:08:47.440 clean as well. And it looks like we actually haven't run that yet. Other 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:51.360 than that, oh yeah, so we've routed the cables for the video card itself. So 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:55.360 those are going to go here. Again, nice and stealth cables. We've also started 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:58.320 cable tying things down to make them a little bit more clean. And we're getting 00:08:56.880 --> 00:09:02.080 really close to the end of this build here. The liquid cooling tubings have 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:06.720 been routed. So, you can see one of the things to be really careful of is when 00:09:03.760 --> 00:09:10.640 you're using these clamp uh well, these clamp clamps, you want to make sure only 00:09:08.959 --> 00:09:15.680 one side's threaded. So, you want to make sure that you're going to be able to access it with the screwdriver. So, 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:21.120 we had to take the dominators out to get at the ones on the CPU block/pump unit. 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:24.399 Um, we have some very tight runs here. I don't like to cross tubing in a liquid 00:09:22.800 --> 00:09:28.880 cooling build. It's just one of those like it's one of those faux paw type 00:09:26.800 --> 00:09:32.640 things where it doesn't quite look as clean. But I think overall it kind of 00:09:30.959 --> 00:09:36.640 worked in here because we do have very very short runs which is part of what 00:09:34.800 --> 00:09:41.440 makes a water cooling build look optimal as well. You want very very short short 00:09:38.880 --> 00:09:44.880 runs. And I mean I think the only things that I could complain about with this 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:47.920 particular machine are maybe the short graphics card. I wish we had kind of a 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:52.480 longer graphics card so it looked a bit more a bit more beastly. But other than 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:56.080 that, I mean it's uh it's really really really sharp and I'm very very pleased 00:09:54.720 --> 00:10:01.440 with it. So we're going to go ahead and fill it. Now, we did change our minds 00:09:58.640 --> 00:10:04.080 about filling it uh first, then putting the whole thing in. And I'm glad we did 00:10:02.800 --> 00:10:08.320 because that did make it a little bit easier to deal with overall. So, filling 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:15.200 it is just going to involve taking out this rad and then um setting up a power 00:10:11.920 --> 00:10:17.120 cord here so that we can uh power cycle 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:20.800 in order to circulate water through the loop and then keep topping up the 00:10:18.640 --> 00:10:24.560 radiator as we go. We also still have to run SATA cables, but other than that, 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:28.959 we're pretty much done. So, guys, this is it. This is where we reveal what this 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:33.839 project was actually for. Here's a little tour of our Steeler series themed 00:10:32.079 --> 00:10:38.160 gaming den set. So, we're going to be doing some Steeler unboxings, as you can 00:10:35.920 --> 00:10:42.079 probably tell from all the boxes that are here. So, we've got uh a bunch of 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:48.880 cool stuff we've never looked at before, like some variations of the Siberia V2s, 00:10:44.880 --> 00:10:50.079 a new Sensei, as well as their Apex RAW. 00:10:48.880 --> 00:10:54.760 That's something I'm actually really excited to check out. We saw that for the first time at CES. I've also hinted 00:10:53.920 --> 00:11:01.360 on Twitter about this. So, we actually got 00:10:57.920 --> 00:11:04.240 a Steeler vinyl wrapped custom gaming 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:08.800 desktop uh sort of table here that I think is absolutely stunning. You can 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:12.240 get this done for about 500 bucks to get a custom printed vinyl and then have it 00:11:10.880 --> 00:11:17.040 wrapped around a table if you can find someone you know who does it, which I think is just freaking sick. And just, 00:11:16.079 --> 00:11:21.680 you know, I mean, you don't have to put Steel Series logos on it, but you could put whatever you want. and it would just 00:11:19.839 --> 00:11:27.279 kind of actually look it makes the overall desk look so much cooler. Uh so, 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:30.320 right, so our rig is done. I meant to mention this before, but we never 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:34.079 installed an optical drive because we intend to use an external optical drive 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:38.079 for our optical needs cuz we don't really use it all that often. And then 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:42.640 it's time to power it up. So, I want to add some more lighting effects still. 00:11:39.959 --> 00:11:47.519 But, oh, I forgot to plug it in. But this is what it looks like for now just 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:52.079 with the Dominator light bars in there as well as some glow from the LED fans 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:56.160 that are uh that are around the edges there. Can you see that? Okay. Uh try 00:11:54.480 --> 00:12:01.279 and get a little bit less less glare maybe from this angle a little bit. But 00:11:58.560 --> 00:12:07.920 uh yeah, overall I'm extremely pleased with this build. It's a wicked looking 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:09.440 like gaming den build. And oh, is it 00:12:07.920 --> 00:12:14.360 still charging though? It's still recording. I know. Oh lol. here. Why 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:18.959 don't we move that or Oh, we can't move it 00:12:19.399 --> 00:12:26.160 much. Okay, that was all the moving it. All right, so that gives you guys a 00:12:23.920 --> 00:12:30.000 pretty good look at what it looks like inside. We've also got a really sweet 00:12:28.079 --> 00:12:33.200 glow coming out of the top grills here because those LED fans are right up 00:12:31.680 --> 00:12:38.079 against the grills and the rads are on the inside. Uh, if you wanted to see the 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:42.240 finished insides, which I don't remember if I showed you in the last shot or not, 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:45.600 looks pretty good in there, too. I know I said a lot about how the cable 00:12:43.760 --> 00:12:50.000 management of the TJ10 isn't really optimal, but I think you guys will find 00:12:47.839 --> 00:12:55.440 that in spite of that, we ended up with a very, very clean looking interior, 00:12:52.800 --> 00:13:00.480 aided in a big way by these sleeved cables here that are available as an 00:12:57.600 --> 00:13:04.480 upgrade for the uh Strider 1000 Evolution. So, stunning build. Actually, 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:08.639 this is a really good angle, too, from slightly over more that way. There you 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:12.399 go. So, uh, big thanks to Silverstone for helping us with this TJ07 build. 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:16.639 And, uh, I'm looking forward to bringing you guys lots of cool videos from our 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:19.760 new Steel Series Gaming Den. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:23.040 for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.