youro has had enough of the giant glowing RGB Tower and if you're being
honest so have you but the solution obviously isn't to stop gaming what if
we could tone things down a little though wooden computers have been around
since at least the apple one but it's only recently that the aesthetic has
made its way into high performance gaming Hardware wooden case check wooden
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
right a search for wooden RAM is just going to give you a bunch of little
carvings of sheep but that may not always be the case the world's very
first wooden transition resister was revealed just a few weeks ago so it's
not that farfetched to Envision a future where biodegradable memory and CPUs
could take a dent out of the world e-w problem but for now with the wooden
transistor running at less than one cycle per second that's one not 1 mahz
and measuring about 3 cm across we can safely assume that we'll be waiting a
while for Intel to release the uh 386
Boo the Cory tree boo yeah that's fair
we're going to kick this this off with our CPU Cooler the EK Quantum velocity
squared 1700 lignum Edition which is
apparently Latin for wood get your mind
out of the gutter I mean lignum doesn't sound like something particularly Savory
to me but I'm not in charge of ek's branding okay anyway the point is at
$190 it's even more expensive than their
standard Quantum velocity squared but as far as we can tell EK is the only one
that's making wood accented water cooling parts and our goal was to build
something that you could actually replicate at home assuming that you had
copious amounts of disposable income we're going to be installing it on an
MSI z790 carbon Wi-Fi because after all
what is carbon if not burned wood okay
no but seriously the motherboard had more to do with just having a relatively
clear CPU socket area for our Hardline tubing for our CPU we've gone with a 24
core Core i 93900 k since by the time we
spent this much on our block why not and then we've paired it
with a 32 gig kit of 6,000 megat transfer per second cl32 RAM from
gskill okay it does look pretty cool
though I do have to question why this cost so much more than the acrylic one
given that this case the fractal design North comes with so much more wood and
is only $120 for the whole case it also
supports up to a 360 mm rad in the front
a 24 40 mm in the top and has all the modern connectivity you'd want including
USB type-c it's available in a number of
different color schemes but we settled on the black and walnut cuz we figured I
mean we'd be idiots to choose anything else that's what we have this is cool I
like fractal's completely recyclable packaging for their accessories and look
at this little leather pull tab ooh our
power supply okay this might not seem to have
anything to do with our wood theme here but the Corsair RM 1000x shift is super
cool it moves its modular interface from
this side to this side that gives us
extra room down here in the basement for our EK Quantum kinetic ft80 D5 pump
reservoir combo where no one will notice
that they are not made of wood truth is
certain things shouldn't be made of wood and power supplies and water cooling
reservoirs are chief among them oh wow
this is quite the Endeavor look at that not bad not bad at
all totally hidden
stealthy one kind of bummer with this power supply is it means you can't use
off-the-shelf replacement cables so hopefully black matches the theme of
your build how did nobody ever think of this and it just keeps getting smarter
they've got six of their PCIe CPU
connectors over here and then they've got two of them over here why so they
can run straight up here to where the eight pin is on most
motherboards look at that clean flat
there's one odd Choice from a cable management perspective here there is no
pass through on this side of the top of the motherboard so you just have to kind
of go through either this hole or way over here by the eight pin connector if
there's something else that I would have said no please no not out of wood it
would have been fittings for our water blocks this kind of reminds me of back
when they did um acrylic fittings and
you know they all cracked obviously but here we are the EK HDC lignum 12 mm is
available with a walnut collar that honestly like kind of looks
amazing you can't deny that looks pretty
cool but it drives the cost up to $17 us
per fitting shout out EK for sending these over because that's over $150 in
fittings and there's just 10 of them in the whole build we're using a sabrin
rocket 4 plus G2 terb because on the one
hand we're balling out of control but on the other hand we spend all our money on
wood water cooling fitting so this is
nice little middle ground for radiators we've chosen EK Quantum surface series
for the front for its Superior performance and their coolstream SE
series for the top for its thinner profile and easier fit really EK I mean
don't get me wrong love the wooden stuff couldn't have done this build without
you but uh you use different threaded
screws for your different lineups of Radiators oh oh my God they have
different heads on them too naturally we've gone with noct toa's
industrial PPC 2,000 RPM fans meaning this machine is going to sound as good
as it looks and as good as the LTT screwdriver
feels man should we do a wood one can we
do a wood one yeah okay if that's possible then maybe
but for now you can sign up for a notification for the Noctua Edition one
or just get the regular black one LTD store.com I moved these fans to make it
a little bit easier to do this run and I think we're ready to tube we've pre-done
most of our tubing runs cooking shows style but we are going to have to do at
least one of them because we screwed it up so so let's start by doing this back
run here these work exactly the same way
that any other Hardline tubing fitting would you know what I think we could
probably just shorten this a touch try and get it level and then we're good I
have actually never used a pipe cutter
like this before can you tell time to double-sided
tape our Reservoir pump combo down because yep that's how we're doing
it how am I supposed to get in there um
no no I've got an idea I've got an idea we're just going to ow uh let's see how
close it is I mean hey that's not bad
right it's pretty straight is don't look
that close what are you doing get get get out of here and now we get to Mount
our GPU which
is by far the most exciting part this is
a vector squared block that EK whipped up for us for the assus strix RTX 4090
they don't actually have this one available on their site yet but I guess
nothing would prevent them from making it available if someone wanted it it
looks freaking awesome that means the last thing we want to do is put it in
like this where we're barely going to see it no no we want the Showcase
position for it it's going to look so good but for that we're going to use one
of these Cooler Master univers IAL horizontal to Vertical Mount adapters we
just plug our PCI e6x in here there we
go then we take this bad
boy and just kind of mash it down little
something like that bit of a tight fit back there but seems to kind of work
okay and now this guy oh boy oh that's actually a pretty
tight fit you got to love the RTX 490
and this my friends is why we created the stubby version of the LTT
screwdriver wow that's really heavy do
we have a support brace or anything by any chance no but we can find something
no okay I mean oh
idea wood
H nope never mind oh crap if I get this
I expect Applause oh yeah oh yeah no
problem no problem piece of cake
one now we just need our second RGB connector wait what is this one for uh
the oh that's for our Reservoir we don't need that oh interesting the CPU block
doesn't have RGB at that price okay well
this is progress oh the theme of the build is
wood and sagging flaccid wood yeah it's
not clicked on that's why it has hooks
see that these hooks weren't on there we
go I mean it's still a little sketchy
but that's a lot better you know what's actually kind of nice about these
fittings even if you're not into the wood aesthetic because they're a little
bit bigger than most
fittings it's really easy to thread them on okay where's my last collar at right
this is the one where I'm missing an O-ring and I'm extremely upset about it
okay maybe if I do this it'll
appear yep oh did it really by your Foot
Right Foot yes I got my O-ring back I
get so upset about little things like missing O-rings because little things
can cause big problems someone goes to do a wood themed PC sometime in the
future and they use that fitting without realizing that someone put that fitting
away without realiz izing that there was no o-ring water goes everywhere and
you've ruined an RTX 6090 nice or or something like
that and now we have the fitting that
looks freaking awesome this will be
interesting we actually tried to fill a loop with this particular Reservoir
combo yesterday and it was
challenging and it's uh not right side
up again so cool uh yeah maybe I'll just
lay the computer down on its side uh that does make it a little bit
more difficult for me to see what's going on but who needs to see anything
let's go you know what I feel like we need David what up somewhere for the air
that the water is displacing to go we're going to crack a fitting somewhere in
this system so I think what we're going to do
yeah yeah like this we're going to pile
up a bunch of paper towel here and then I'm basically just going to crack this
fitting in the top radiator and we're
just going to run it I mean Wood's waterproof right they leave trees out in
the rain all the time are you guys are you guys are you seeing any water in the
tubes yep hey look at that man if we had a taller tube here we could actually
fill even more of it okay this is where things are going to get really sketchy
if this wasn't sketchy enough for you okay I'm just GNA
I'm just going to crack this just a little just there just a little just a
little while the water starts moving just a little just a little crack you
know just a little and then when the water goes then I'm just going to jam
the tube back in oh okay uh the Water it squirted out a
little bit uh and everything is fine the loops
filled the setup is set up oh like hey
have we actually seen this thing post yet oh boy fire it up
fresh show me the output oh man I feel
bad covering it up yeah that sucks
hey I do not know where my delete key is
I don't think it gets much more wooden than this my friends experience good L
is the experience good I mean you tell me how flipping quiet is this okay even
with bubbles in the pump this thing makes no noise at all it looks
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the idea to make these EK blocks look affordable jeez I mean they look great
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really letting it down though uh it's
not Walnut like basically everything else it's
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this video uh maybe you'll like the one where Alex and I try to water cool a bed
I mean yeah that was what's the wooden PC wooden PC is better it's not possible
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sick yeah go watch the other wooden PC we made