WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:07.759 now for years corsair has sold all-in-one liquid coolers for gaming pcs 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:10.719 on the basis of how easy and fast they 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:16.000 are to install with great results well now they're dipping their toes in the 00:00:13.759 --> 00:00:22.240 custom water cooling market with their hydro x line and they reached out to 00:00:18.880 --> 00:00:25.760 sponsor this video to show you guys just 00:00:22.240 --> 00:00:29.599 how fast and easy it is to do a full 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:31.279 custom loop if you go all corsair so 00:00:29.599 --> 00:00:35.520 we're going to be putting it to the test using corsair's cooling configurator to 00:00:34.480 --> 00:00:41.520 design and build a full loop 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:45.960 ball and out tricked out gaming rig as quickly as we possibly can and 00:00:45.040 --> 00:00:50.929 go 00:00:53.840 --> 00:01:01.840 motherboard model msi x570 ace cpu model 3900x we're going 12 00:01:00.480 --> 00:01:06.240 core baby so the point of the configurator is to make sure that you 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:11.119 order stuff that is compatible msi helpfully co-sponsored this video so 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:17.040 they sent over their ventus 2080 ti there it is we have one of those and now 00:01:14.320 --> 00:01:22.159 we get to see our recommended setup hopefully we have this stuff jake do we 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:28.799 have an amd version of the block xc7 rgb yes good cooling performance they want a 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:32.079 stage two configuration your case contains corsair fence the number of 00:01:30.479 --> 00:01:36.159 included fans has been deducted from the total to optimize the cost to you we're 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:42.479 apparently going with light loop rgbs in white and i think we're good on fittings 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:46.560 tools they even sent over they've got their own uh 00:01:43.759 --> 00:01:49.200 loop filling squeezy bottle so 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:53.040 we should be pretty much ready to rock all right so step one of this corsair 00:01:50.880 --> 00:01:57.360 sponsored video is to clear all this corsair stuff off the table 00:01:55.040 --> 00:02:01.439 we won't need that until later and i was just teasing my bros over at corsair we 00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:04.560 actually do need their stuff almost right away here now by default it comes 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:09.119 with the intel mounting hardware but you can see that corsair has 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:13.680 faithfully borrowed the acetech ring mounting system so 00:02:11.360 --> 00:02:18.400 changing it over to amd is as simple as popping that on there like that oh 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:23.840 i went and inserted an extra step there um the 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:23.840 thermal compound is pre-applied 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:30.959 swamp now this is a bit of a tight fit but i 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:36.000 think it's going to be worth it i'm going to route the rgb 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:41.280 cable for my cpu block that's the challenge with rgb yes it looks cool 00:02:39.200 --> 00:02:45.440 but you run the risk of adding a whole bunch of wires and stuff that do not 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:48.959 look cool that's pretty clean i'm still waiting for the next 00:02:46.720 --> 00:02:53.519 innovation motherboard manufacturers putting holes in their motherboards so 00:02:51.519 --> 00:02:57.120 that you can pass through rgb like directly from your cpu and gpu and stuff 00:02:55.680 --> 00:03:02.000 now it's time for ram naturally we've gone with corsair's vengeance pro this 00:02:59.519 --> 00:03:08.800 kit right here is a four by eight gig 32 gig kit that clocks in at 3600 megahertz 00:03:06.480 --> 00:03:13.519 not too shabby as you guys probably saw in one of our previous videos for third 00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:17.760 gen ryzen that is a great middle ground for price to performance 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:22.000 you won't be really leaving anything on the table but you don't have to spend a 00:03:19.920 --> 00:03:26.159 fortune on a top spec memory kit now this next step is highly optional but 00:03:23.760 --> 00:03:29.680 because corsair did happen to send over some of their white light loops 00:03:27.920 --> 00:03:33.280 and i have not yet had a chance to check them out i wanted to integrate them into 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:36.080 this machine i'm into it all right so we're going to throw four of these in 00:03:34.480 --> 00:03:39.440 one at the back i'm into it and then three at the front i'm into it now one 00:03:37.519 --> 00:03:43.360 of the trickiest aspects of building any water cooled system is getting the 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:47.040 radiator mounted with all the fans if you can avoid it don't put your fittings 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:51.519 at the bottom it's much more difficult for your pump to push the air bubbles 00:03:49.440 --> 00:03:54.720 down against gravity to bleed the air out of your loop so fittings at the top 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:58.879 if you can second while having the fans on this 00:03:56.799 --> 00:04:02.560 side pushing air through or having them on this side pulling air through doesn't 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:08.480 actually make that much of a difference to performance for maintenance it can be 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:12.319 quite a lot easier to have the fans on this side pulling air through because 00:04:10.480 --> 00:04:16.079 then cleaning off the dust or cat hair or whatever else 00:04:13.760 --> 00:04:19.840 is that simple now this is a filtered case i'm going to say it's probably not 00:04:18.320 --> 00:04:25.199 going to get that much dust in it now here's another little trick to watch out for corsair actually includes three full 00:04:23.919 --> 00:04:29.680 sets of mounting screws for their radiators in the box and this can be a 00:04:27.840 --> 00:04:32.960 little bit confusing for new users you've got your short one that's pretty 00:04:31.440 --> 00:04:37.600 obvious that's for if you're mounting the rad directly to the case boom there 00:04:35.280 --> 00:04:42.960 you go but then there's two long ones there's one that just barely 00:04:40.479 --> 00:04:46.960 extends past the frame of the fan so that's the one in my left hand here and 00:04:44.880 --> 00:04:50.639 then there's one that extends quite a bit past the frame of the fan such that 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:56.800 it would actually dig into the radiator fins if you didn't have something like a 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:59.360 thick piece of acrylic or a big thick 00:04:56.800 --> 00:05:02.560 case in the way on the other side so that 00:05:00.880 --> 00:05:06.000 is what that longer one is for we're going to use the medium length one the 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:09.919 anti-vibration pads on these light loop fans are actually so thick that i ended 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:13.840 up needing the longer screws so we're going to switch over to those and i'm 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:18.160 going to do the opposite corner here in order to get the radiator mostly in 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:21.919 position here you know it's funny i was sitting here thinking this build isn't 00:05:19.440 --> 00:05:25.840 so simple or fast after all is it but it's not the water cooling that's taking 00:05:23.440 --> 00:05:29.280 all the time it's actually all the rgb lighting that we're putting into it wow 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:32.560 we are actually making great progress on this thing so with our fans and our 00:05:30.960 --> 00:05:36.160 radiator installed we're gonna go ahead and throw in our motherboard this is a 00:05:34.960 --> 00:05:40.160 feature i've always loved about corsair's cases though that nubbin that 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:43.759 they have in the middle that holds your motherboard in place while you 00:05:42.320 --> 00:05:47.680 fish around for the right screw to put it in so i always think storage is last 00:05:45.840 --> 00:05:55.440 but nowadays your storage like this mp600 pci express 00:05:51.440 --> 00:05:58.000 gen 4 ssd while in most cases we would 00:05:55.440 --> 00:06:01.440 install our ssd peel this thermal pad off and then we would throw that back in 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:06.160 our motherboard we're actually not going to do that instead opting to just leave 00:06:04.080 --> 00:06:10.639 our ssd exposed that way it will also get some airflow from the air moving 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:15.280 through our system now we can unpack our power supply so i 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:20.000 don't have any scientific evidence for this but in a case where 00:06:18.080 --> 00:06:24.639 most of my cooling is being handled by water i do tend to put my power supply's 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:28.160 fan up because the rationale would be that when they're 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:32.639 running fanlessly as this one will when it's under very low load that way they 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:36.479 can passively convect heat up more easily that's my theory i'm sticking to 00:06:34.880 --> 00:06:40.639 it now this is a bit of an unusual one but i actually like to run my modular 00:06:38.080 --> 00:06:45.039 cables backwards starting up at the motherboard and then ending 00:06:43.440 --> 00:06:51.280 down at the power supply and it's just because i find it a little bit easier 00:06:47.520 --> 00:06:53.120 to push my cables through this way 00:06:51.280 --> 00:06:56.479 than to try to bring them up through the back 00:06:54.560 --> 00:07:00.479 next up is our reservoir now this is one of the places where i think corsair had 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:06.319 to be the most careful 00:07:03.280 --> 00:07:09.360 because the reservoir and pump in most 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:12.080 cases are the most difficult to mount 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:17.680 you know cleanly and nicely because for years we've had this incredible 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:22.880 assortment of water cooling ready cases on the market that have radiator mount 00:07:20.400 --> 00:07:27.039 spacing but have given no thought whatsoever to where to put the pump and 00:07:25.280 --> 00:07:30.479 the reservoir so one thing that makes our lives a little bit easier is that 00:07:28.880 --> 00:07:33.520 they're completely integrated as a single unit and they've got a bunch of 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:37.360 different mounting options included so what we could do is we could use this 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:39.520 120 millimeter bracket mounted here but that would look stupid we're not going 00:07:38.400 --> 00:07:44.160 to do that we could also actually mount it here 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:47.919 which is far more reasonable we might end up doing that this is a nice little 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:52.160 inclusion so this is one of those jumpers so you can leak test your loop 00:07:50.400 --> 00:07:56.639 before you power on your system if you're not comfortable just sticking a 00:07:53.919 --> 00:07:59.680 wire into your power supply i'm comfortable sticking a wire into the 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:04.960 end of my power supply so i'll put that away this is our outlet and this one 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:08.960 here is our inlet now this is something i wish i had thought of before i put the 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:12.800 motherboard in this is a very it would be a very unusual build order 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:16.560 for me to put in all my water cooling stuff before i started putting in pc 00:08:15.280 --> 00:08:22.160 components but it might have actually been better in this case because with my motherboard installed 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:25.440 it's actually a little bit tricky to get at the mounting screws at the back here 00:08:24.080 --> 00:08:29.759 now it's worth noting that you can mount the bracket this way like i have or this 00:08:27.599 --> 00:08:34.640 way if you want more vertical play so we're almost totally wired up now 00:08:32.479 --> 00:08:38.399 which means it's time for the dark side of rgb 00:08:39.760 --> 00:08:44.720 now we don't need the basic lighting controller that came with the case 00:08:42.800 --> 00:08:47.680 anymore but it's more work to remove it than to just cable manage it at this 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:50.399 point so we're just going to leave that kind of here-ish 00:08:50.640 --> 00:08:57.040 this is a really nice touch actually i never noticed this this particular 00:08:54.320 --> 00:09:00.959 corsair case happens to have exactly the spacing you need for an rgb strip down 00:08:58.880 --> 00:09:05.040 the side here freaking gorgeous okay so power connectors for 00:09:03.040 --> 00:09:10.480 both our commander pro and our fan hub are taken care of now and we did have to 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:12.880 go and grab a molex connector for our d5 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:12.880 pump 00:09:13.760 --> 00:09:21.920 and now we're ready for what is ironically the easy part of this build 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:24.080 we had to go back to water cooling again so something that a lot of people don't 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:29.279 know is that while nvidia founders edition 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:34.560 cards have the greatest compatibility with third-party water blocks like this 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:37.120 one from corsair a lot of the time even 00:09:34.560 --> 00:09:41.839 non-founders edition cards use the same reference pcb mounting holes so you can 00:09:39.920 --> 00:09:45.440 still use a third-party block all right well let's find out which screws aren't 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:49.279 all the way up msi's design is different from the 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:53.200 founders edition in that it uses this big gigantic heat spreader 00:09:51.760 --> 00:09:57.600 to actually handle most of the mount points 00:09:55.600 --> 00:10:01.760 for the back plate that just kind of keep the card 00:09:59.040 --> 00:10:06.959 sandwiched together so it's got like a like a heat spreader sand witch so this 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:12.320 part is really important when it comes time to reassemble your graphics card 00:10:09.040 --> 00:10:14.240 maybe you need to submit an rma or 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:18.800 you know take the water cooler off it because you want to sell it on craigslist it doesn't matter 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:23.920 you want to put all your thermal pads back exactly where you found them and in 00:10:21.920 --> 00:10:26.720 some cases that can even include going through and 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:31.279 scraping the ones that are left on the card off with a knife 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:35.360 and then putting them back on where they came from because otherwise once you 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:38.959 reassemble it a lot of these other components on the board might not have 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:43.120 temperature sensors and the card might not know to thermal throttle if they're 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:47.760 not adequately cooled and you could end up breaking the card even if your you 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:53.040 know gpu temps are very good because you did a great job of repasting it and then 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:57.200 the other key is to carefully put all the screws back 00:10:54.880 --> 00:11:00.800 where they came from so once again part of corsair's shtick 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:05.519 is that as long as you're willing to strip down a gpu 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:10.480 it's supposed to be relatively simple so it's got pre-applied thermal compound 00:11:07.839 --> 00:11:14.800 thermal pads don't even need like covers taken off them or anything you just 00:11:12.800 --> 00:11:17.920 go ahead and line up the holes then chuck the back 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:21.920 plate on and screw the whole thing together 00:11:20.079 --> 00:11:26.000 and now all that's left is to install it 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:30.880 and plan out our coolant runs in a perfect world we might 00:11:28.800 --> 00:11:34.640 have done that a little while ago but we don't live in a perfect world do we 00:11:32.959 --> 00:11:39.120 oh i'm excited this is really coming together now we're close 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:42.959 wow that's tight oh boy here comes our gpu power let's see if we can get this 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:48.320 in ah you know what maybe apple's onto something with the whole 00:11:46.160 --> 00:11:54.000 extra long pci express slot and no external power connectors ah there we go 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:58.880 let's do some tubing shall we we are going to go straight 00:11:57.120 --> 00:12:03.120 from our pump into our cpu block and then we're going 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:08.639 to see how things go from there now we're going to go from the outlet 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:12.399 over to our radiator all right angles 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:14.480 oh yes thank you jake all right 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:18.800 we just got saved by a wild jake who appeared yes 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:24.079 oh that's way better nice the wild jake bearing right angle 00:12:21.760 --> 00:12:29.040 and 45 degree fittings saved the day world's prettiest water cooling loop 00:12:26.800 --> 00:12:32.560 no but we weren't going for that award we were going for something that's 00:12:30.560 --> 00:12:36.320 relatively simple to throw together and the actual plumbing portion of this 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:40.639 build assuming that you're comfortable with you know 00:12:37.680 --> 00:12:45.200 installing a cpu cooler or mounting a bracket to a radiator or whatever else 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:50.160 only took what like 10 minutes not too shabby now corsair actually sent 00:12:48.079 --> 00:12:54.560 over a bottle of their red coolant they have a bunch of different coolant colors 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:59.360 but i'm going to take this opportunity to advise against one corsair product in 00:12:57.120 --> 00:13:07.120 favor of another one we're going to be using plain old water because if you put 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:09.120 colored liquid in an rgb setup 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:14.240 you're locking yourself in you're eliminating your options we've got an 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:17.680 rgb reservoir here kids don't squeeze this too hard hey 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:22.399 oh oh oh yeah i don't know if i'm the biggest 00:13:21.040 --> 00:13:27.360 fan of this one here we go all right 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:27.360 you got to live a little kids 00:13:27.839 --> 00:13:32.800 and there it goes ah 00:13:30.880 --> 00:13:36.880 that's more like it why would corsair choose me 00:13:34.560 --> 00:13:39.680 to do their all hydrox water cooled build 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:44.320 whoa that rgb though so the pump won't pump 00:13:42.079 --> 00:13:49.680 until the air is out of it and you can see there's still air bubbles coming up 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:55.959 all right come on okay time for a classic linus live fill 00:14:02.800 --> 00:14:10.240 so now that our os is installed all of our fans are lighting up and 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:14.000 we did have to remove one of our rgb strips which is fine because i had only 00:14:11.920 --> 00:14:19.279 intended to do three in the first place so we threw an extension in the bottom 00:14:15.760 --> 00:14:23.040 and now one two three rgb strips res 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:24.350 block and other block all lit up also 00:14:23.040 --> 00:14:26.480 you guys might notice 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:32.000 the system is basically silent so 00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:35.279 everything in here can be configured from within corsair's iq software we can 00:14:34.079 --> 00:14:40.079 change colors we can change performance characteristics like oh i don't know 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:48.480 let's say uh we want all of these fans 00:14:44.880 --> 00:14:52.320 to be in extreme mode 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:54.480 all red for extreme wait where's my ram 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:58.320 boom all red on everything once you have the fan curves based on the temps iq 00:14:56.480 --> 00:15:01.519 monitors and lighting setup just the way you like it it's super easy to create a 00:15:00.160 --> 00:15:06.800 profile with an iq to save the configuration allowing you to quickly switch between profiles on the fly you 00:15:05.199 --> 00:15:10.079 can have multiple configs for gaming each with their own color setups a 00:15:08.399 --> 00:15:14.560 profile for movie watching and studying where your fans are set super quiet and 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:18.079 my personal favorite an automatic lights out profile for night time so that 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:21.199 awesome rgb setup you just installed doesn't interrupt your sleep so we're 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:25.279 just gonna fire up hardware info and have a look at what our temps look like 00:15:23.199 --> 00:15:31.360 i'm just gonna grab a quick blender project we're going to hit our cpu and 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:33.519 see how this thing flies is it all flash 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:37.839 or does it have some dash as well all right so our cpu is comfortably 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:43.040 turboing well past 4 gigahertz which is nice to see let's see how it handles in 00:15:40.079 --> 00:15:46.399 all core load now we jumped up to 60 degrees 00:15:43.920 --> 00:15:51.199 not bad and we're turboing right around four gigahertz which is exactly what 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:54.800 we'd expect from a 3900x really nice to see one of the coolest things about iq 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:58.639 for me is the profiles though so everything from uh performance of the 00:15:57.199 --> 00:16:04.720 fans to temp monitoring to rgb lighting effects 00:16:01.199 --> 00:16:06.240 can all be set up as profiles so i've 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:10.800 only adjusted lighting here but you can see i've got my unicorn barf profile 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:15.120 running right now if i want to go fast i need red for that high performance 00:16:13.279 --> 00:16:18.079 everything changes over to red or if i'm the kind of person who just doesn't like 00:16:16.639 --> 00:16:22.000 rgb i just turn it off 00:16:20.079 --> 00:16:26.480 and it's gone so there you have it guys this 00:16:24.560 --> 00:16:31.360 whole build took us about three and a half hours and that includes 00:16:28.880 --> 00:16:36.240 actually building a pc setting up the rgb lighting which was the single most 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:40.639 time consuming part of it and custom water cooling which i'd say if we were 00:16:38.160 --> 00:16:45.519 to isolate that part is maybe an hour to an hour and a half so 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:46.399 yeah it's not as fast or 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:51.600 as budget friendly as an aio water cooler 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:56.160 but if you want the best results i have always said that custom water cooling is 00:16:54.000 --> 00:17:02.920 the only way to get it speaking of custom water cooling 00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:02.920 custom water cool your body lttstore.com 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:08.480 now that's it that's all i was going to say about that see you at the next video guys