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now for years Corsair has sold all-in-one liquid coolers for gaming pcs

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on the basis of how easy and fast they

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are to install with great results well now they're dipping their toes in the

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custom water cooling market with their hydro x line and they reached out to

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sponsor this video to show you guys just

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how fast and easy it is to do a full

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custom loop if you go all Corsair so

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we're going to be putting it to the test using Corsair's cooling configurator to

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design and build a full loop

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ball and out tricked out gaming rig as quickly as we possibly can and

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motherboard model MSI x570 ace CPU model 3900x we're going 12

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core baby so the point of the configurator is to make sure that you

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order stuff that is compatible MSI helpfully co-sponsored this video so

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they sent over their ventus 2080 ti there it is we have one of those and now

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we get to see our recommended setup hopefully we have this stuff Jake do we

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have an AMD version of the block xc7 RGB yes good cooling performance they want a

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stage two configuration your case contains Corsair fence the number of

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included fans has been deducted from the total to optimize the cost to you we're

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apparently going with light loop rgbs in white and i think we're good on fittings

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tools they even sent over they've got their own uh

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loop filling squeezy bottle so

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we should be pretty much ready to rock all right so step one of this Corsair

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sponsored video is to clear all this Corsair stuff off the table

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we won't need that until later and i was just teasing my bros over at Corsair we

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actually do need their stuff almost right away here now by default it comes

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with the Intel mounting hardware but you can see that Corsair has

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faithfully borrowed the acetech ring mounting system so

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changing it over to AMD is as simple as popping that on there like that oh

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i went and inserted an extra step there um the

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thermal compound is pre-applied

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swamp now this is a bit of a tight fit but i

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think it's going to be worth it i'm going to route the RGB

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cable for my CPU block that's the challenge with RGB yes it looks cool

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but you run the risk of adding a whole bunch of wires and stuff that do not

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look cool that's pretty clean i'm still waiting for the next

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innovation motherboard manufacturers putting holes in their motherboards so

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that you can pass through RGB like directly from your CPU and GPU and stuff

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now it's time for RAM naturally we've gone with Corsair's vengeance pro this

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kit right here is a four by eight gig 32 gig kit that clocks in at 3600 megahertz

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not too shabby as you guys probably saw in one of our previous videos for third

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gen ryzen that is a great middle ground for price to performance

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you won't be really leaving anything on the table but you don't have to spend a

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fortune on a top spec memory kit now this next step is highly optional but

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because Corsair did happen to send over some of their white light loops

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and i have not yet had a chance to check them out i wanted to integrate them into

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this machine i'm into it all right so we're going to throw four of these in

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one at the back i'm into it and then three at the front i'm into it now one

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of the trickiest aspects of building any water cooled system is getting the

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radiator mounted with all the fans if you can avoid it don't put your fittings

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at the bottom it's much more difficult for your pump to push the air bubbles

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down against gravity to bleed the air out of your loop so fittings at the top

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if you can second while having the fans on this

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side pushing air through or having them on this side pulling air through doesn't

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actually make that much of a difference to performance for maintenance it can be

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quite a lot easier to have the fans on this side pulling air through because

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then cleaning off the dust or cat hair or whatever else

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is that simple now this is a filtered case i'm going to say it's probably not

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going to get that much dust in it now here's another little trick to watch out for Corsair actually includes three full

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sets of mounting screws for their radiators in the box and this can be a

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little bit confusing for new users you've got your short one that's pretty

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obvious that's for if you're mounting the rad directly to the case boom there

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you go but then there's two long ones there's one that just barely

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extends past the frame of the fan so that's the one in my left hand here and

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then there's one that extends quite a bit past the frame of the fan such that

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it would actually dig into the radiator fins if you didn't have something like a

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thick piece of acrylic or a big thick

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case in the way on the other side so that

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is what that longer one is for we're going to use the medium length one the

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anti-vibration pads on these light loop fans are actually so thick that i ended

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up needing the longer screws so we're going to switch over to those and i'm

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going to do the opposite corner here in order to get the radiator mostly in

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position here you know it's funny i was sitting here thinking this build isn't

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so simple or fast after all is it but it's not the water cooling that's taking

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all the time it's actually all the RGB lighting that we're putting into it wow

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we are actually making great progress on this thing so with our fans and our

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radiator installed we're gonna go ahead and throw in our motherboard this is a

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feature i've always loved about Corsair's cases though that nubbin that

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they have in the middle that holds your motherboard in place while you

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fish around for the right screw to put it in so i always think storage is last

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but nowadays your storage like this mp600 pci express

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gen 4 SSD while in most cases we would

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install our SSD peel this thermal pad off and then we would throw that back in

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our motherboard we're actually not going to do that instead opting to just leave

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our SSD exposed that way it will also get some airflow from the air moving

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through our system now we can unpack our power supply so i

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don't have any scientific evidence for this but in a case where

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most of my cooling is being handled by water i do tend to put my power supply's

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fan up because the rationale would be that when they're

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running fanlessly as this one will when it's under very low load that way they

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can passively convect heat up more easily that's my theory i'm sticking to

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it now this is a bit of an unusual one but i actually like to run my modular

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cables backwards starting up at the motherboard and then ending

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down at the power supply and it's just because i find it a little bit easier

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to push my cables through this way

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than to try to bring them up through the back

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next up is our reservoir now this is one of the places where i think Corsair had

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to be the most careful

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because the reservoir and pump in most

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cases are the most difficult to mount

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you know cleanly and nicely because for years we've had this incredible

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assortment of water cooling ready cases on the market that have radiator mount

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spacing but have given no thought whatsoever to where to put the pump and

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the reservoir so one thing that makes our lives a little bit easier is that

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they're completely integrated as a single unit and they've got a bunch of

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different mounting options included so what we could do is we could use this

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120 millimeter bracket mounted here but that would look stupid we're not going

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to do that we could also actually mount it here

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which is far more reasonable we might end up doing that this is a nice little

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inclusion so this is one of those jumpers so you can leak test your loop

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before you power on your system if you're not comfortable just sticking a

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wire into your power supply i'm comfortable sticking a wire into the

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end of my power supply so i'll put that away this is our outlet and this one

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here is our inlet now this is something i wish i had thought of before i put the

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motherboard in this is a very it would be a very unusual build order

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for me to put in all my water cooling stuff before i started putting in pc

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components but it might have actually been better in this case because with my motherboard installed

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it's actually a little bit tricky to get at the mounting screws at the back here

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now it's worth noting that you can mount the bracket this way like i have or this

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way if you want more vertical play so we're almost totally wired up now

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which means it's time for the dark side of RGB

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now we don't need the basic lighting controller that came with the case

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anymore but it's more work to remove it than to just cable manage it at this

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point so we're just going to leave that kind of here-ish

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this is a really nice touch actually i never noticed this this particular

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Corsair case happens to have exactly the spacing you need for an RGB strip down

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the side here freaking gorgeous okay so power connectors for

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both our commander pro and our fan hub are taken care of now and we did have to

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go and grab a molex connector for our d5

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and now we're ready for what is ironically the easy part of this build

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we had to go back to water cooling again so something that a lot of people don't

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know is that while NVIDIA founders edition

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cards have the greatest compatibility with third-party water blocks like this

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one from Corsair a lot of the time even

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non-founders edition cards use the same reference pcb mounting holes so you can

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still use a third-party block all right well let's find out which screws aren't

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all the way up MSI's design is different from the

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founders edition in that it uses this big gigantic heat spreader

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to actually handle most of the mount points

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for the back plate that just kind of keep the card

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sandwiched together so it's got like a like a heat spreader sand witch so this

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part is really important when it comes time to reassemble your graphics card

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maybe you need to submit an rma or

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you know take the water cooler off it because you want to sell it on craigslist it doesn't matter

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you want to put all your thermal pads back exactly where you found them and in

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some cases that can even include going through and

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scraping the ones that are left on the card off with a knife

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and then putting them back on where they came from because otherwise once you

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reassemble it a lot of these other components on the board might not have

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temperature sensors and the card might not know to thermal throttle if they're

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not adequately cooled and you could end up breaking the card even if your you

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know GPU temps are very good because you did a great job of repasting it and then

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the other key is to carefully put all the screws back

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where they came from so once again part of Corsair's shtick

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is that as long as you're willing to strip down a GPU

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it's supposed to be relatively simple so it's got pre-applied thermal compound

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thermal pads don't even need like covers taken off them or anything you just

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go ahead and line up the holes then chuck the back

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plate on and screw the whole thing together

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and now all that's left is to install it

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and plan out our coolant runs in a perfect world we might

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have done that a little while ago but we don't live in a perfect world do we

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oh i'm excited this is really coming together now we're close

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wow that's tight oh boy here comes our GPU power let's see if we can get this

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in ah you know what maybe apple's onto something with the whole

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extra long pci express slot and no external power connectors ah there we go

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let's do some tubing shall we we are going to go straight

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from our pump into our CPU block and then we're going

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to see how things go from there now we're going to go from the outlet

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over to our radiator all right angles

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oh yes thank you Jake all right

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we just got saved by a wild Jake who appeared yes

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oh that's way better nice the wild Jake bearing right angle

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and 45 degree fittings saved the day world's prettiest water cooling loop

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no but we weren't going for that award we were going for something that's

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relatively simple to throw together and the actual plumbing portion of this

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build assuming that you're comfortable with you know

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installing a CPU cooler or mounting a bracket to a radiator or whatever else

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only took what like 10 minutes not too shabby now Corsair actually sent

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over a bottle of their red coolant they have a bunch of different coolant colors

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but i'm going to take this opportunity to advise against one Corsair product in

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favor of another one we're going to be using plain old water because if you put

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colored liquid in an RGB setup

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you're locking yourself in you're eliminating your options we've got an

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RGB reservoir here kids don't squeeze this too hard hey

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oh oh oh yeah i don't know if i'm the biggest

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fan of this one here we go all right

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you got to live a little kids

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and there it goes ah

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that's more like it why would Corsair choose me

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to do their all hydrox water cooled build

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whoa that RGB though so the pump won't pump

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until the air is out of it and you can see there's still air bubbles coming up

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all right come on okay time for a classic Linus live fill

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so now that our os is installed all of our fans are lighting up and

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we did have to remove one of our RGB strips which is fine because i had only

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intended to do three in the first place so we threw an extension in the bottom

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and now one two three RGB strips res

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block and other block all lit up also

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you guys might notice

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the system is basically silent so

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everything in here can be configured from within Corsair's iq software we can

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change colors we can change performance characteristics like oh i don't know

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let's say uh we want all of these fans

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to be in extreme mode

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all red for extreme wait where's my RAM

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boom all red on everything once you have the fan curves based on the temps iq

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monitors and lighting setup just the way you like it it's super easy to create a

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profile with an iq to save the configuration allowing you to quickly switch between profiles on the fly you

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can have multiple configs for gaming each with their own color setups a

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profile for movie watching and studying where your fans are set super quiet and

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my personal favorite an automatic lights out profile for night time so that

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awesome RGB setup you just installed doesn't interrupt your sleep so we're

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just gonna fire up hardware info and have a look at what our temps look like

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i'm just gonna grab a quick blender project we're going to hit our CPU and

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see how this thing flies is it all flash

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or does it have some dash as well all right so our CPU is comfortably

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turboing well past 4 gigahertz which is nice to see let's see how it handles in

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all core load now we jumped up to 60 degrees

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not bad and we're turboing right around four gigahertz which is exactly what

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we'd expect from a 3900x really nice to see one of the coolest things about iq

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for me is the profiles though so everything from uh performance of the

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fans to temp monitoring to RGB lighting effects

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can all be set up as profiles so i've

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only adjusted lighting here but you can see i've got my unicorn barf profile

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running right now if i want to go fast i need red for that high performance

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everything changes over to red or if i'm the kind of person who just doesn't like

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RGB i just turn it off

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and it's gone so there you have it guys this

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whole build took us about three and a half hours and that includes

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actually building a pc setting up the RGB lighting which was the single most

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time consuming part of it and custom water cooling which i'd say if we were

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to isolate that part is maybe an hour to an hour and a half so

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yeah it's not as fast or

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as budget friendly as an aio water cooler

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but if you want the best results i have always said that custom water cooling is

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the only way to get it speaking of custom water cooling

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custom water cool your body lttstore.com

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now that's it that's all i was going to say about that see you at the next video guys