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youro has had enough of the giant glowing RGB Tower and if you're being

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honest so have you but the solution obviously isn't to stop gaming what if

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we could tone things down a little though wooden computers have been around

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since at least the apple one but it's only recently that the aesthetic has

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made its way into high performance gaming Hardware wooden case check wooden

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mechanical keyboard double check is this a wooden water cooling fitting though

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there's no way you can build a whole PC out of wood accented parts and you'd be

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right a search for wooden RAM is just going to give you a bunch of little

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carvings of sheep but that may not always be the case the world's very

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first wooden transition resister was revealed just a few weeks ago so it's

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not that farfetched to Envision a future where biodegradable memory and CPUs

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could take a dent out of the world e-w problem but for now with the wooden

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transistor running at less than one cycle per second that's one not 1 mahz

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and measuring about 3 cm across we can safely assume that we'll be waiting a

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while for Intel to release the uh 386

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Boo the Cory tree boo yeah that's fair

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we're going to kick this this off with our CPU Cooler the EK Quantum velocity

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squared 1700 lignum Edition which is

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apparently Latin for wood get your mind

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out of the gutter I mean lignum doesn't sound like something particularly Savory

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to me but I'm not in charge of ek's branding okay anyway the point is at

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$190 it's even more expensive than their

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standard Quantum velocity squared but as far as we can tell EK is the only one

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that's making wood accented water cooling parts and our goal was to build

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something that you could actually replicate at home assuming that you had

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copious amounts of disposable income we're going to be installing it on an

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MSI z790 carbon Wi-Fi because after all

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what is carbon if not burned wood okay

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no but seriously the motherboard had more to do with just having a relatively

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clear CPU socket area for our Hardline tubing for our CPU we've gone with a 24

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core Core i 93900 k since by the time we

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spent this much on our block why not and then we've paired it

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with a 32 gig kit of 6,000 megat transfer per second cl32 RAM from

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gskill okay it does look pretty cool

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though I do have to question why this cost so much more than the acrylic one

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given that this case the fractal design North comes with so much more wood and

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is only $120 for the whole case it also

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supports up to a 360 mm rad in the front

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a 24 40 mm in the top and has all the modern connectivity you'd want including

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USB type-c it's available in a number of

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different color schemes but we settled on the black and walnut cuz we figured I

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mean we'd be idiots to choose anything else that's what we have this is cool I

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like fractal's completely recyclable packaging for their accessories and look

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at this little leather pull tab ooh our

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power supply okay this might not seem to have

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anything to do with our wood theme here but the Corsair RM 1000x shift is super

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cool it moves its modular interface from

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this side to this side that gives us

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extra room down here in the basement for our EK Quantum kinetic ft80 D5 pump

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reservoir combo where no one will notice

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that they are not made of wood truth is

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certain things shouldn't be made of wood and power supplies and water cooling

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reservoirs are chief among them oh wow

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this is quite the Endeavor look at that not bad not bad at

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all totally hidden

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stealthy one kind of bummer with this power supply is it means you can't use

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off-the-shelf replacement cables so hopefully black matches the theme of

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your build how did nobody ever think of this and it just keeps getting smarter

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they've got six of their PCIe CPU

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connectors over here and then they've got two of them over here why so they

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can run straight up here to where the eight pin is on most

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motherboards look at that clean flat

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there's one odd Choice from a cable management perspective here there is no

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pass through on this side of the top of the motherboard so you just have to kind

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of go through either this hole or way over here by the eight pin connector if

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there's something else that I would have said no please no not out of wood it

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would have been fittings for our water blocks this kind of reminds me of back

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when they did um acrylic fittings and

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you know they all cracked obviously but here we are the EK HDC lignum 12 mm is

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available with a walnut collar that honestly like kind of looks

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amazing you can't deny that looks pretty

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cool but it drives the cost up to $17 us

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per fitting shout out EK for sending these over because that's over $150 in

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fittings and there's just 10 of them in the whole build we're using a sabrin

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rocket 4 plus G2 terb because on the one

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hand we're balling out of control but on the other hand we spend all our money on

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wood water cooling fitting so this is

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nice little middle ground for radiators we've chosen EK Quantum surface series

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for the front for its Superior performance and their coolstream SE

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series for the top for its thinner profile and easier fit really EK I mean

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don't get me wrong love the wooden stuff couldn't have done this build without

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you but uh you use different threaded

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screws for your different lineups of Radiators oh oh my God they have

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different heads on them too naturally we've gone with noct toa's

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industrial PPC 2,000 RPM fans meaning this machine is going to sound as good

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as it looks and as good as the LTT screwdriver

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feels man should we do a wood one can we

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do a wood one yeah okay if that's possible then maybe

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but for now you can sign up for a notification for the Noctua Edition one

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or just get the regular black one LTD store.com I moved these fans to make it

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a little bit easier to do this run and I think we're ready to tube we've pre-done

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most of our tubing runs cooking shows style but we are going to have to do at

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least one of them because we screwed it up so so let's start by doing this back

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run here these work exactly the same way

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that any other Hardline tubing fitting would you know what I think we could

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probably just shorten this a touch try and get it level and then we're good I

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have actually never used a pipe cutter

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like this before can you tell time to double-sided

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tape our Reservoir pump combo down because yep that's how we're doing

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it how am I supposed to get in there um

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no no I've got an idea I've got an idea we're just going to ow uh let's see how

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close it is I mean hey that's not bad

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right it's pretty straight is don't look

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that close what are you doing get get get out of here and now we get to Mount

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our GPU which

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is by far the most exciting part this is

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a vector squared block that EK whipped up for us for the assus strix RTX 4090

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they don't actually have this one available on their site yet but I guess

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nothing would prevent them from making it available if someone wanted it it

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looks freaking awesome that means the last thing we want to do is put it in

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like this where we're barely going to see it no no we want the Showcase

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position for it it's going to look so good but for that we're going to use one

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of these Cooler Master univers IAL horizontal to Vertical Mount adapters we

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just plug our PCI e6x in here there we

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go then we take this bad

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boy and just kind of mash it down little

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something like that bit of a tight fit back there but seems to kind of work

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okay and now this guy oh boy oh that's actually a pretty

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tight fit you got to love the RTX 490

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and this my friends is why we created the stubby version of the LTT

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screwdriver wow that's really heavy do

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we have a support brace or anything by any chance no but we can find something

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idea wood

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I expect Applause oh yeah oh yeah no

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problem no problem piece of cake

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one now we just need our second RGB connector wait what is this one for uh

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the oh that's for our Reservoir we don't need that oh interesting the CPU block

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doesn't have RGB at that price okay well

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this is progress oh the theme of the build is

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wood and sagging flaccid wood yeah it's

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not clicked on that's why it has hooks

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see that these hooks weren't on there we

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go I mean it's still a little sketchy

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but that's a lot better you know what's actually kind of nice about these

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fittings even if you're not into the wood aesthetic because they're a little

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bit bigger than most

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fittings it's really easy to thread them on okay where's my last collar at right

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this is the one where I'm missing an O-ring and I'm extremely upset about it

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okay maybe if I do this it'll

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appear yep oh did it really by your Foot

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Right Foot yes I got my O-ring back I

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get so upset about little things like missing O-rings because little things

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can cause big problems someone goes to do a wood themed PC sometime in the

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future and they use that fitting without realizing that someone put that fitting

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away without realiz izing that there was no o-ring water goes everywhere and

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you've ruined an RTX 6090 nice or or something like

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that and now we have the fitting that

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looks freaking awesome this will be

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interesting we actually tried to fill a loop with this particular Reservoir

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combo yesterday and it was

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challenging and it's uh not right side

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up again so cool uh yeah maybe I'll just

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lay the computer down on its side uh that does make it a little bit

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more difficult for me to see what's going on but who needs to see anything

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let's go you know what I feel like we need David what up somewhere for the air

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that the water is displacing to go we're going to crack a fitting somewhere in

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this system so I think what we're going to do

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yeah yeah like this we're going to pile

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up a bunch of paper towel here and then I'm basically just going to crack this

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fitting in the top radiator and we're

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just going to run it I mean Wood's waterproof right they leave trees out in

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the rain all the time are you guys are you guys are you seeing any water in the

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tubes yep hey look at that man if we had a taller tube here we could actually

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fill even more of it okay this is where things are going to get really sketchy

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if this wasn't sketchy enough for you okay I'm just GNA

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I'm just going to crack this just a little just there just a little just a

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little while the water starts moving just a little just a little crack you

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know just a little and then when the water goes then I'm just going to jam

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the tube back in oh okay uh the Water it squirted out a

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little bit uh and everything is fine the loops

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filled the setup is set up oh like hey

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have we actually seen this thing post yet oh boy fire it up

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fresh show me the output oh man I feel

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bad covering it up yeah that sucks

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hey I do not know where my delete key is

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I don't think it gets much more wooden than this my friends experience good L

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is the experience good I mean you tell me how flipping quiet is this okay even

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with bubbles in the pump this thing makes no noise at all it looks

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absolutely amazing oh I guess now is as

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no I don't have an iPhone I lied actually I told you guys I had an iPhone earlier boom whoa whoa three teams

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caps are off of etsy sorry how much are these key caps $300 $300 key caps was

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the idea to make these EK blocks look affordable jeez I mean they look great

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though don't they got my grovemade wrist

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rest the mouse I got to say the mouse is

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really letting it down though uh it's

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not Walnut like basically everything else it's

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bamboo and yeah I think the most positive thing

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I mean yeah that was what's the wooden PC wooden PC is better it's not possible

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they can't what what wooden PC the one that I made oh that one oh that one's

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sick yeah go watch the other wooden PC we made