Final Deployment of My New PC! - Personal Rig Update 2015 Part 5 (FINALE)
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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it is finally the conclusion of personal rig update 2015 yes I know it is 2016
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now that's not the point the point is that it started in 2015 today is all
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about the final deployment in the cabinet in the closet
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so let's make it
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happen a Pacers as720 is a dual
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interface USB 3.1 type c equipped SSD
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with read speeds of up to 540 mbes per second check out the link in the video
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description to learn more yeah let's just like tip
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it okay well I didn't really do anything
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uh now I got to load up all the other junk into the back of the truck here so
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this is actually our first look at my wife's machine so it also had the front
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bezel of the same case uh airbrushed by
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our neighbor here neighbor Steve let's get this baby loaded up too
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okay looking
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good oh no need an optical drive oo light
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scribe okay so here's the situation there's actually a lot to do first I've
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got to get this ruthless bastard up the stairs I have straight up no idea how
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that's happening these PCS this UPS
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these rails these monitors all need to go up the stairs as as well this Nas
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needs the correct Hardware put inside it and finally all of the gear that we are
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no longer using in here needs to
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GTFO so let's get down to it shall we
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okay well this thing weighs a metric shed load but there are some ways that I
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can significantly reduce its weight then by removing as many of the outer panels
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and inner components as I can before I try and take it up the stairs
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can you move thank
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you I need more leverage more more okay
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more traction more something I need more something this is what I hate about
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camera people they never lend a hand they just sit there and
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watch I think what I need right now is some Nikki V's lifting tips
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all right Nikki V here back with another moving tip okay so we got this big ass
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thing here what we want to do is lift with our back twist jerk in a you know
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jerking motion he knows the most ergonomic way to do
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this okay go to sleep he's supposed to
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be napping I'm actually going to have to go into his room in order to tilt this
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up
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okay sorry honey go back to
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bed
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okay oh wow that's a really tight fit
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um okay it looks like this is going to
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fit that's good man this stuff is heavy
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okay so this and the other one in the room in there already are the clay power
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uh th000 volt damp UPS's that I'm going
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to be using for the two systems in there my system gets its own cuz it's a little
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bit more powerful and then my wife's is going to share her ups with the uh the
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server
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slnas life personal rig oh wow this
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one's a lot
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heavier okay Pro tip uh don't don't carry rack mount
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cases by the mounting Rail and Acer said
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let there be monitor upgrades and there
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were and it was good and finally of
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course none of this is staying
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here it's all going to be rack mounted so here are my rails so I've been
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meaning to pull out some of the consumer grade gear that I've had in this server
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for for quite some time this WS board is a great board doesn't support ECC memory
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this raid card Great Raid card doesn't
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properly support monitoring the discs and then I've replaced all that stuff
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with a more suitable configuration so while I don't have the Ballin six or8
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terab hard drives that I do with the office I do have 1 tby WD blacks and I
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am using an Enterprise grade SSD cash in raid one to allow me to get the best
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possible performance out of the yes the
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you thought they were retired but they're not ulx 10 GB network card so
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I'm actually going to be using those combined with the onboard Nyx in order
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to enable not 10 gbit but at least faster than 1 gbit transfers between all
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the rack mounted computers just using um single cables from them to each other
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and actually not having them go through the router or the switch at all I
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changed up the motherboard to uh one that has Remote Management so I've added
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a little ikvm module right there I've changed out to ECC memory not really
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necessary with unraid but I want the utmost instability I'm going to be
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running VMS on here so that I can have stuff like my air video server running
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on Windows um and then I can have stuff like crash plan running in a Docker
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container there's a lot of functionality here I may do a follow-up video on just
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this machine and then I'm running a xon processor so that I can take advantage
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of that ECC RAM and then it uses a very similar case to Clover server actually
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it's just the 12 Bay versus the 8 bay one because at home I don't have those
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same high-capacity drives so if I want any storage at all I need to have uh a
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few more expansion Baye there okay so
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now I got to clear out this corner and I really hope you guys either don't look
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too closely at or don't judge me for my
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power setup in here I am going to be working on something a little bit better
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than a power bar run through the wall in
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the future okay so most of the network
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cables running into the next room over there actually need to go away because
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all of the networking is pretty much going to stay in here
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now yep that's my that's my wall
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hole oh no I pulled out the nails this
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is the world's most ghetto wall
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mount so step one is going to be our ups
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battery backups we're going to put these on the bottom because they're really
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heavy they're a pain in the butt to uh
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to move you don't want your thing ending up being all topheavy and the other main
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reason is that I don't have shelves for them so I need to sit them on the bottom
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of the unit so that the entire weight isn't being borne
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by these puppies there we go okay one down second
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GS here we go so now all that's left to do is plug
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those into the wall and then all my other devices can plug into those for
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power so I don't actually have to get back here anymore okay so for those of
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you who haven't played around with rack mount stuff before basically you take
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this inner slide you pop the little
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latch here all this without slicing your fingers
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open and then these rails mount to the
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side of your case with the screws that are included with the rails then
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you take the other sides of the rails and you mount these inside your cabinet
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hopefully in the right position which is not always easy wow this is a really
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shallow cabinet I didn't realize these weren't the same depth as the ones at
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the office that's okay that is a very minor curve
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ball no I'm one spot
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high of course I am yeah it needs to go
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down just a touch so weird wanted to
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work up a sweat today I was thinking could go to the gym today or I could uh
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Mount some server crap can this just stay in
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place
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please tight fit is fine as long as it's
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a fit that's weird what are we hitting
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maybe if we just give it the old ah there we go three units rack mounted
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easy okay it's okay it gets easier these rails are so much frakin
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better they lock on like that No
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Nonsense just Boop let's do this one now
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now these ones are a little bit more
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finicky to align here I can live with
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that for the benefits that they
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give there we go look at that man I love
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these reils it comes free of the entire thing so you can just go boop I'm
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working on the wife PC slide that baby
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back in there and there it
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is okay last
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one man I like those rails
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better okay oh I put them in
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backwards fortunately these are really fast to turn around
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it's in so let's get it all wired up
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then I'm probably going to get ear mounts for the ubiquity router as well
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as the net gear switch at some point I am going to give myself another power
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bar as well up here I have a more
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elegant solution at the office but this actually isn't too bad I'm just going to
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hook those up on top
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here UPS's are on let's get networking
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hooked up okay this is going well now Ethernet
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for waifu PC I mean okay overall not
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perfect Cable Management still needs some work yeah this is as good as it's
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going to be for now okay so with everything hooked up it
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is finally time for The Secret Sauce the Magic Bullet if you will and those of
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you who have been following from the beginning will already know this but I've had a lot of people asking me who
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have tuned into personal rig update 2015 later how are you planning to get all of
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your IO into the next room one Optical
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Thunderbolt cable per system from Corning that's why I added those assus
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Thunderbolt cards to the systems so all
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I've got to do is run these puppies through the wall and in theory we're
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pretty much Off to the
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Races how much is left okay
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okay now obviously a single Thunderbolt cable no matter how magical is going to
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need something on the other end to make it work so that is where these come in
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these are Thunderbolt hubs from Elgato uh they've got three USB 3 ports they've
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got mic and headphone Jacks they've got Thunderbolt pass through if you want to
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daisy chain more stuff and if you want
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it they've got an HDMI out as well as Ethernet if we're going to use
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Thunderbolt to DisplayPort to go straight to our Monitor and that is all
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the I/O for the computer again Cable Management not done but it is somewhat
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Moment of Truth time oh I hope this
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works here it is
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theoretically perfect Silence with no performance
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compromise whoa it worked right away what were the fraking odds of that
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nothing ever works on the first try for me all we've got to do in theory is get
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some Thunderbolt drivers installed on the system which I have to do from over
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here a yes always connect Elgato
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Thunderbolt dock
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okay hey look at that keyboard's working
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it worked once now we just have to do it
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again all that's left is to run one more
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Thunderbolt cable and we are pretty much
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Off to the Races ah someone was asking from my
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tweet the other night uh what desk this was and the answer is it is a desk saw
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in half full of
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cardboard for years for years I have
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pursued silent
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Computing and in the end Thunderbolt was
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the answer no amount of water cooling ever made it quite good enough and
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people asked me gee lonus why would you
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care about having a window on a rack out case that's why
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suckers that's why because that looks flipping awesome so this one's actually
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relatively tested I have at least tried
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the ASUS Thunderbolt card on this one okay let's just give her the old reboot
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and see what happens maybe something was just jostled
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loose and shipping and I can just oh hello okay let's find out what post code
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A2 means CPU fan error oh that's not a
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big deal I have a CPU fan it's water cool in
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theory we should be fine this time let's go up
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there you got to cut out all this stuff so that you just show the part where I'm
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like and it goes
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okay wait a minute ow oh power bar is a
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little finicky oh for crying out loud well
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there we go just like that my friends hey look at that g-sync showed up
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working right away g-sync display connected so it looks like the display
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port connection doesn't care at all that
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it's running through what is this like a 30t optical Thunderbolt cable freaking
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awesome so there you have it All That
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