The RAVE PC Build Log
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,487 words · ~7 min read
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it wasn't that long ago that if you wanted to glam up your computer you
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could either use a colored cold cathode tube or
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a uv cold cathode tube with some black
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light sensitive components RGB
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believe it or not wasn't a thing oh my
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god i know right and that got us thinking
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what if we combined the old and the new
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we took RGB uv cathodes and and and
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lasers and we smashed them all together into
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one computer to make the craziest most colorful most rave tastic pc the world
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has ever seen brace yourself my friends
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oh god
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isn't it beautiful
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selecting the case was probably the easiest part of this build the prime
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primera pm01fx from silverstone
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literally has a unicorn on the side
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what more could you want and it also has three 140mm fans up front which means
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that there should be enough space to fit our sky white 420 millimeter radiator
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from primo chill even if silverstone doesn't explicitly say so
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so measurement wise it should fit
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it's close it wants to do it
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oh balls yeah since we're in for a real
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derivating good time
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right our big radiator troubles weren't over
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yet though for our ddc pump and reservoir we planned to use this bit
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power mount that while sexy only
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connects to 120 millimeter fans
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but that's nothing that can't be fixed with a few minutes of solid works and some
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acrylic vaporization with our laser cutter not bad you might even say it's
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profesh as the kids say
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now it's time for some lighting RGB strip lights are cool
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but what's even better is spatially and
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temporally coherent lights oh yeah we're talking about lasers
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so we got this guy here off of amazon it's designed for dj booths but we're
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all about improvisation here and as it
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turns out the hole for the pci express power cables is just the right size for
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it only problem is the laser is too big to
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fit beside the massive prime titanium 1000 watt power supply from seasonic
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but what if we could make the laser smaller
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taking it apart revealed a lot of empty space and dr alex prescribed a healthy
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dose of angle grindelation to fix the problem
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oh yeah originally we wanted to add a smoke
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machine inside the pc as well but unfortunately the compact ones rely on
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water vapor a hopefully obvious problem
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inside a computer so we'll be relying on mineral oil based fog instead
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all right so now we've got a pretty funky case but
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this is LTT so we will need plenty of
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horses under the hood too first up was our GPU an NVIDIA gtx 1080 ti which gets
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the water treatment courtesy of bits power we removed the stock heatsink
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added some thermal grizzly cryonot and after a generous application of thermal
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pads we screwed on the water block now it looks pretty good here but that stock
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backplate now it's nice but a bit boring
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what's not boring though is this completely insane RGB back plate that we
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got from v1tx so we attached that to the
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GPU using magnets so it could be easily removed later
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for our CPU we chose a core i7 8700k
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and every Intel build these days needs a nice helping of liquid metal so we
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popped the lid added some conformal coating and then
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well in a perfect world we would have picked up a new syringe of liquid metal
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since the old ones have a bad habit of uh sticking
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fortunately we've already shown you how to clean these kinds of things up
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there we go with the CPU installed into our ASUS rog
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maximus 10 formula which comes with water cooling for the vrm already
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installed by the way and the CPU block on it was time to plan out the loop
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someday we will learn to do loop planning
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before we start but it is not this day
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wow alex's technique for hardline is to
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measure the bend first cut a bit longer than needed bend in the correct place
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massaging out the flat spots or oddities by hand then sand the tubes down to the
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correct size so the reason that we always recommend finishing this off with
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sanding is that it's super brittle and
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this way we can avoid that happening so do this a couple more
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times and you've got a hardline water cooled pc
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first we filled the system with distilled water and sysprep to make sure
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that any strange things would be removed next to find out if the liquid metal
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spill had damaged our CPU we went ahead and fired it up go
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oh excellent looks like we're good
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at this point things were starting to come together but the fans were a bit
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boring and we didn't want to just rely on throwing RGB fans into a case to make
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them pop idea number one was to use uv body paint
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which we have for some reason and sort of just
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throw it on there but by idea number one i mean the first idea
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not the best idea and quite frankly the rest were not much better
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so while the fans were getting figured out and we got a custom cut mirror to go
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on the top of the case we modified the laser light show to use the computer
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power supply by soldering the leads to a sacrificial molex connector and jazzed
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up the power supply shroud using some spray adhesive and a tasteful
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application of glitter if such a thing were possible
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with the loop cleaned overnight we flushed it with distilled water and then
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filled it up with uv pink dye from primo chill to give it some pop
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back to the fans then we tried using some different uv
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reactive paint to spice them up but try as we might all we ended up with
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were crappy looking half-painted fans
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so we primed some more for another crack at it
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i mean at least we got a couple of narwhals done while we waited for the
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fans to dry so that's a positive point
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coming back in on monday ed actually had a stroke of genius
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rainbow fans so we took those primed fans and roygbiv
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the heck out of them dabbing on all the haters out there that thought
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that they were going to come out looking bad with some uv cathodes added to the front
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to make them fluoresce there was just a bit of tidying up to do
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before it was time to admire the rave pc
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in its final form so get up and shake
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your booty to this Dan terrific glam
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check this got one more for the set list
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up
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oh
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so it looks great subjectively and the performance rocks
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too this thing stomps on every game we threw at it and with some overclocking
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we were able to easily get 5.1 gigahertz on all six cores with our 8700k sitting
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at under 70 degrees man i love this
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thing where's my lasers there they are that'd
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be my lasers at massdrop is back with the new force edc
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in-ear monitors they feature a single six millimeter dynamic driver on each
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side with both channels closely matched for a cleaner more accurate sound you
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can wear them at home in the office at the gym i mean they're in your monitors
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that's kind of the idea you can wear them anywhere they feature a lightweight
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plastic housing and they come with two removable braided cables pick them up on
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thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if it was
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description also down there is our merge storage has cool shirts like this one
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and our community forum which you should totally join this is what happens when
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we let someone who either has never been to a rave
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or more likely can't remember ever having
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been to a rave help me with our makeup
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i mean this yellow wire under the studio lights you can't even tell but it's
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flashing could you tell oh good