WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.160 All right, guys. Welcome to what I think is like part two of my build vlog. This 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:10.960 is the continuation of Squirtle. We've ditched the 800D disgusting mess that I 00:00:09.200 --> 00:00:14.559 had before, and now we've moved to this partially built test bench. Huge 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:19.039 improvement. Um, what this video is really about is asking questions about 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:22.640 what I can do with this test bench. So, I'm trying to figure out things about it 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:27.599 as there's not a ton of information out there as I went with something fairly obscure just cuz I thought it looked 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:30.160 pretty cool. Yes, it's 8020 extrusion, so I could have just built this on my 00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:33.920 own, but I didn't want to rip the guy's design off. That's not really fair. What 00:00:32.239 --> 00:00:39.680 I am going to end up doing, though, is butchering this thing like crazy and 00:00:37.040 --> 00:00:43.120 changing it a lot to make it my own. And in that, we're going to be trying to 00:00:41.120 --> 00:00:47.680 figure out how many rads I can fit to this thing because the most I've ever 00:00:44.559 --> 00:00:50.079 seen it with is one triple, and I want 00:00:47.680 --> 00:00:55.440 to fit four radiators on it. I was kind of hoping two uh 3x120s and two 2x120s. 00:00:54.160 --> 00:01:01.760 I don't think I'm going to get quite there, but I still want to get four radiators on it. I want to see where I 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:05.199 can fit this fairly large reservoir, especially for this style of computer, 00:01:03.680 --> 00:01:10.400 and I want to see if I can do that in a pretty cool place, which you'll hopefully see later. And I want to see 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:13.600 about how I can access things in the bottom of the computer. So, we're going 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:16.960 to try and answer all those questions in this video where I kind of mess around 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:23.700 with this test bench. If you want to see all the rest of these build log videos as they come out, stay subscribed to 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:29.119 Linus Tech Tips. Let's get a move on. 00:01:29.119 --> 00:01:35.520 Save on select Intel CPUs, nucks, and SSDs with special Black Friday rebates 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:38.720 from select retailers. Click now to learn more. 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:41.680 First things first, we got to do a little bit of out with the old, in with 00:01:40.320 --> 00:01:46.479 the new. So, I'm going to get rid of that pretty old power supply. I'm going 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:50.960 to get rid of that old uh not very usable at this point for what I want to 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:53.840 do graphics card and that gigantic air cooler. I'm going to leave the 00:01:52.320 --> 00:01:58.799 motherboard because while I won't necessarily be using this motherboard 00:01:55.759 --> 00:02:00.079 specifically, uh it's the right size, so 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:05.040 it's not really that big of a deal. And I do need it to be there so I can kind of see how stuff like cables are going 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:08.479 to be routing and stuff like that, which I won't need the GPU for, and the GPU 00:02:07.119 --> 00:02:13.280 would be more annoying than anything. Later on, I'll have to have a placeholder GPU so I can see how like 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:17.760 the water cooling is going to come up and get to that, but for now, it should 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:20.879 be fine. Now that all the old stuff has been removed, it's time to start 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:24.160 strapping radiators to it. So, the first thing I'm going to do is grab one of the 00:02:22.640 --> 00:02:30.720 spare alpha cool radiators that we had at work, the 3x120, and try to put it on 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:35.440 alongside my other in parallel, at least my other 3x120 mm radiator. My current 00:02:33.519 --> 00:02:39.440 one is really thick. This one is not quite as thick, but it's still pretty 00:02:37.040 --> 00:02:42.800 thick radiator. Um, but we'll see how that works. Uh, I know this is going to 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:46.319 fit. This isn't actually really a problem, but I do need to strap it to 00:02:44.720 --> 00:02:50.959 the bench just to make sure that other things will be able to fit alongside it. 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:53.920 it itself fitting is not necessarily the most important thing. Everything else 00:02:52.720 --> 00:02:58.239 being able to fit inside the same ecosystem is also extremely important. 00:02:56.640 --> 00:03:03.920 Now that that's strapped to the bench, I need to go to the smaller end cap where 00:03:00.720 --> 00:03:06.640 I find out that as I expected, the 2x120 00:03:03.920 --> 00:03:10.400 mm radiator is too long. I do not want to have it on the outside. I do want it 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:14.319 to be on the inside of the bench just so it won't get hit by anything or anything 00:03:11.920 --> 00:03:17.920 like that. So, it's too long. It's not going to work. I was kind of hoping it 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:22.239 would. And I could custom fit the bench to make it bigger to accommodate for it, 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:26.400 but that would make the bench really big and get rid of the whole compact nature 00:03:23.920 --> 00:03:32.560 of it, which I do like. So, not going to go that route. Moving onwards, the 140 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:34.159 mm single radiator also didn't fit. This 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:40.000 got me a little bit worried. I actually kind of thought that one would work. Um, 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:43.120 but no, it the the the fitting where the fittings should go on that radiator 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:46.560 collided with another one of the radiators that I had inside. And I don't 00:03:45.040 --> 00:03:52.959 want to swap either of those out. I like the thick 3x120s. So, that one didn't 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:57.680 work. Luckily, moving on to the single 120 mm radiator. That one fit pretty 00:03:55.440 --> 00:04:01.120 much perfectly. So, we're pretty good for rads at this point. All right. So, 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:04.959 we're three for three for radiators so far, and we've covered the whole side of 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:08.640 the bench in radiators that has the kind of like power supply on it at the bottom 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:13.360 of the motherboard area. Something to take note of here is before I started 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:17.519 strapping radiators to it, my plan was to have the reservoir come out of the 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:22.000 cable management hole for the power supply as I thought that would look 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:25.840 really cool and I space tested it before I put the radiators in. Just hold that 00:04:24.479 --> 00:04:31.600 in your memory for now and we're going to move on to fitting that last radiator. Now, problem with fitting the 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:35.199 last radiator, I don't have another 120 mm radiator to test here, but I'm not 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:41.520 worried about the spacing as the spacing is exactly the same as on the other side. So, the idea of fitting a radiator 00:04:39.320 --> 00:04:44.720 here, well, the idea of fitting the radiators all around the bottom is I 00:04:43.440 --> 00:04:48.880 thought it would look cool to have kind of like a radiator blackout on the 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:52.240 bottom of this test bench. So, that was a huge part of the inspiration of doing 00:04:50.479 --> 00:04:55.440 this. I wanted to make sure it fit. I'm happy it fit. I also kind of need to be 00:04:54.400 --> 00:05:00.639 able to access the bottom of the computer, though. Of course, if I tilt the entire test bench up, I could reach 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:05.759 up from the bottom and access it there, but that's really annoying. So, 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:08.000 solution, put one of the 120 mm 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:11.440 radiators on hinges. That's going to be this side where the top of the 00:05:09.280 --> 00:05:14.720 motherboard is facing the CPU end of the test bench. So, I'm going to put this 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:19.120 radiator on hinges. I still have to go pick those up, though. But, it will fit. 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:23.039 I'm not super worried about that. to be able to manage the tubing under there. 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:27.520 I'm fully expecting to utilize a combination of putting key rings over 00:05:25.440 --> 00:05:33.759 the tubing and then hooking those key rings up to springs so that when I pull 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:35.360 the uh radiator out, the tube will pull 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:39.840 along with it but not kind of go everywhere. I want the springs to be able to manage it properly. It's going 00:05:38.320 --> 00:05:44.639 to be an interesting project, but that's for a different video, not this video so 00:05:42.880 --> 00:05:48.320 far. All right, so that kind of concludes rads. We're essentially four 00:05:46.400 --> 00:05:51.919 for four at this point. The last one, while I don't have the hinges already on 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:55.199 it, where that'll mess with the spacing a little bit, will fit. If it doesn't 00:05:54.080 --> 00:06:00.240 work with the hinges, it'll work with the flat plates. That's fine. I can just access it from the bottom, but I'm 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:05.759 pretty sure it'll work with the hinges regardless. So, we're fine for radiators 00:06:03.039 --> 00:06:08.960 at this point. Not too worried about it. Need to move back to the reservoir. Need 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:13.759 to figure out how I'm going to mount mount it from the bottom. Okay. Well, 00:06:12.479 --> 00:06:18.400 this is where the figurative poop started hitting the fan. Things were not 00:06:15.840 --> 00:06:22.720 okay. The radiators were in the way. The 7-in power supply, which was actually 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:27.199 longer. My my power supply personally was longer than the one that I used to 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:30.800 have on the bench. Things were not going to work. I would have needed a reservoir 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:35.840 that was less than half the diameter of this one to be able to make it actually 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:37.600 work. Not good news at all. How am I 00:06:35.840 --> 00:06:41.759 going to fix this? Well, there's a lot of fancy extrusion work that I could do 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:44.800 by taking the motherboard support braces and chopping them off at the end of the 00:06:43.440 --> 00:06:50.199 motherboard so they don't go all the way down. Um, I could take the power supply 00:06:47.840 --> 00:06:54.000 support brace, which also supports the motherboards, and shift that up more 00:06:52.400 --> 00:06:57.199 towards the motherboard and then add a little bit onto the side to make sure 00:06:55.919 --> 00:07:00.960 that it could still support the power supply. I could do a whole bunch of this 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:05.280 stuff with the extrusion to try and open up that space. Still didn't solve the 00:07:03.599 --> 00:07:10.960 problem, though. The radiators aren't going to move, and I already don't have 00:07:07.440 --> 00:07:13.120 a thick uh 3x120 alpha coal radiator 00:07:10.960 --> 00:07:17.840 like on the other side on that side of the computer. So shrinking the rads 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:22.639 isn't really going to help a ton either. It might help a little bit, but not much. What really needs to happen is the 00:07:20.880 --> 00:07:25.599 power supply needs to be swapped out. Again, the power supply that I have 00:07:23.919 --> 00:07:29.680 personally was never actually tested on this bench, but it's just over 7 in. And 00:07:27.520 --> 00:07:33.039 I tested one that was just over 7 in. That was not going to work. First 00:07:31.440 --> 00:07:36.479 solution that I came up with was a Silverstone short SFX 600 watt power 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:44.240 supply, which you guys have probably seen in a video featured by Lionus. It worked. It made sense, but it 00:07:42.479 --> 00:07:49.840 didn't look good. and it's only a 600 watt. There's not a ton of flexibility 00:07:46.080 --> 00:07:51.120 in terms of cabling and or power. So, I 00:07:49.840 --> 00:07:55.280 wanted something a little bit more. I wanted an ATX size power supply because 00:07:53.039 --> 00:07:59.520 it looked kind of weird having an SFX on this bench. So, I found Silverstone's 00:07:57.599 --> 00:08:03.479 other kind of short power supply, which is one of their 850 watts. More wattage. 00:08:01.919 --> 00:08:09.520 Cool. More flexibility in terms of cabling. Cool. And also an ATX format. 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:14.319 So, it fit. Cool. Triple cool. It worked. And it worked by what I would 00:08:12.400 --> 00:08:19.039 say is less than millimeters. How the reservoir fits in there right now, it is 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:22.960 touching on every single side. It is touching the motherboard. It is touching 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:26.720 the radiator on its other side. It is touching the other radiator and it is 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:31.840 touching the power supply. There is literally no extra room at all. I can't 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:37.360 believe I got this to work. Um, there's a couple options that I can do for 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:39.279 fitting the cables around it, but it's 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:42.719 going to work. You can ask Brandon. I was pretty freaked out at this point in 00:08:40.880 --> 00:08:46.160 the build. I was like, "Wow, my entire plan is not going to work. I'm going to 00:08:44.560 --> 00:08:49.680 have to change how I'm mounting a whole bunch of stuff. I might have to ditch 00:08:47.760 --> 00:08:52.880 some radiators all just to be able to fit a reservoir in there. I might even 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:57.600 have to ditch this reservoir altogether cuz it's too tall to realistically fit 00:08:55.680 --> 00:09:01.839 into the bottom of the case. Unless I can have it poking up the top. My whole 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:07.120 plan from the beginning was to have this reservoir poking up through that hole 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:11.040 and it might not have worked. So, pretty stoked that it did. So, with that all 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:14.640 figured out, what are my actionable items? Well, I need to figure out 00:09:12.800 --> 00:09:17.839 exactly how I'm going to mount this. To be able to do that, I need to finish 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:21.600 that extrusion job. So, I'm going to have to go shopping at a metal shop, try 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:26.000 to figure out the exact lengths of all the extrusion I need and do the tedious 00:09:23.920 --> 00:09:29.279 job of setting that all up. Then, I need to figure out how to mount this, which 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:33.120 will probably be an extrusionbased box with a plate on top of it, so it can sit 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:37.200 there and I'd screw it into that. Hopefully, that will work. We'll have to 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:42.560 see. That'll probably be next video. I also need my motherboard RAM and CPU to 00:09:39.839 --> 00:09:45.839 kind of show up. So, that'll happen at some point, but I'm not too worried 00:09:43.839 --> 00:09:49.600 about that. Then, I need need to figure out my like fittings set up. The bottom 00:09:47.920 --> 00:09:54.320 of the computer is already set up with how the radiators are orientated so that 00:09:52.320 --> 00:10:00.320 um they kind of feed into each other in a big square, which is fine and logical. 00:09:57.839 --> 00:10:04.160 Because of how messy the area where the reservoir is going to be is, I'm going 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:08.080 to have to have the water cooling for the graphics card come up just below the 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:11.120 motherboard on this side. And then I'll have a right angle on the graphics card 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:14.160 so it can grab it from there. Then I would just go straight up to the CPU and 00:10:12.800 --> 00:10:18.320 have it drop down just above the motherboard on this side. Obviously, I'm 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:22.880 going to have to see like, oh, should I have a right angle here? Should I not have a right angle here? All that kind 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:26.800 of stuff. 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