Personal Rig Update 2012 Part 10 IT'S DREMELING TIME!! Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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now as you guys already know if you're following me me me on Twitter at Linus I
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am resurrecting the personal build project I have found the perfect
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motherboard the GX 79s up5 zero coil
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wine great look it'll match everything else that I got going on here really
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well so my next step is to start making some cuts into the case for cable
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management the reason I didn't want to move ahead with any cable management
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holes before I had finalized a motherboard is because where would I cut
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the holes if I don't know where the cables are going to be running and what kind of a board I'm going to be using so
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I'm going to be cutting some cable management holes I'm going to be painting some things myself so things
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like the outside of the optical drive I'm just going to be priming and
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spraying with a textured black whereas the bulk of the case components I'm
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going to be sending away to Mountain mods to be painted in Black once I have
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made my necessary Cuts so it never hurts to give a metal surface a quick scuff
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just to make sure that the uh primer will adhere so I'm not going for a
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perfect finish on thiss so I won't be over complicating
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things in terms of uh of the preparation process there we go make sure that's
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working you always want to apply spray really really lightly like underdo it as
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opposed to overdoing it this can be Rec in as little as about half an hour so
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I'm not not too concerned about getting perfect coverage no one will ever see
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the top of the optical drive but I'm peeling the sticker off just for the sake of uh semi completeness here and
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when you're done uh actually make sure you're always in a well ventilated area
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when you're done with an aerosol always make sure you clean out the nozzle
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before you're uh before you finish well those lines seem pretty straight trusty
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Dremel never fails so got to do the CPU cutout I decided not to do any cutouts
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for um you know ATX 24 pin or whatever
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else I'm just going to bring them around like I used to and then I do want to do
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a cutout here for routing various stuff
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uh under the bottom of the motherboard same thing here and uh to the back of
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the uh to the back of the back plate I'm also going to do a CPU cutout just so
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that I can easily change CPU blocks and
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yeah so here's a couple cuts having been
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made with the Dremel for the CPU cutout
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going to do two more of those and then I think the last cut is going to be down
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here for the cable management and and we're making some progress here and more
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progress so I have done the CPU cutout
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that's some freehand dremeling right there actually pretty straight All
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Things Considered should I have marked it yes but I didn't so there you go so
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now there's see there's a door for the uh for the CPU cutout so uh that'll give
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me the ability to close it off when I'm when I don't want act no I'm just
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kidding I'm going to just take that off off there all right so there you go now
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I will be able to easily install CPU coolers or remove them without any
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difficulty um I'm also really not sure
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what to do about this that looks kind of goofy with that uh little Gap there so I
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might just take this all the way to the edge but I might just leave it I mean it's in the right position and sort of
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the right size for the eight pin now all that's left is I want to do some Cuts
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sort of along the bottom here so that I can uh run things like front panel
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connectors and stuff like that behind the motherboard without without any
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difficulty so more progress it's all
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good all right so let's call that pretty much it for this personal rig update so
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I've thrown the hardware back into the case just so that I can do a little bit of test fitting so uh number one is the
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hole for the eight pin connector is good and I'll be able to run sort of fan
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wires through there and stuff and anywhere where I don't want to run fan
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wires through here if I want it to be even more hidden there's also a hole
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drilled here I should widen that a little bit before I'm done actually I
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can take these ones and those ones cathode lights um can have their wires
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run through there so this yeah actually know what this might just be for uh for
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the eight pin um so what else have we
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got that's new other than that you're not going to be able to see many changes
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from this side so you can see now I can run the um the SATA cables from my RAID
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card to the back of the motherboard tray where all of the drives will go just
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find my my one of my things are drives so the drives will go back here and then
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the uh SATA data cables will come through here from the back so I've cut
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two more cable management holes this one's for like front USB or um front
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panel connectors all that kind of stuff I was thinking about cutting one here
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for SATA cables if I ever decide to plug the drives directly into the motherboard
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but I decided not to so there's the you can see the motherboard cutout is lined
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up correctly so I've got access to all four holes back here there's that
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eight pin I decided against cutting holes over here for 24 pin and PCIe um
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there's just I don't think there's any perfect way to do this so unfortunately
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I am stuck with mounting the t- virus kind of here we'll just be kind of
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hovering off the motherboard tray there and uh this is going to just go around
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it and this is just going to go around it yes I know it's not ideal but I don't
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really see um a better way to do
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everything at this point with how much Hardware I'm cramming in here I mean
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remember this is going to be full of a radiator um I thought about doing a mid
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plate here but just time and effort
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constraints I'm not going to end up doing it so I'm just going to get the
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whole thing powder coated once I've made all the cuts oh right more cuts that I
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need to do so I need a way to get all these cables up past here past here cuz
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the side panel closes right against this so I'm going to cut big holes here to
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here so that I can move all my my cables up this way I'm going to widen this one
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right here and that's going to give me two really good options actually you
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know what I'll probably do I'll probably do something here as well three good
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options to get cables from the back of the system down to the bottom of the
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system without running them through the existing cable routing holes here so
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that should pretty much fix my only complaint about the tj07 well no my two
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only complaints cable Management's terrible and the uh the inter interior
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should be black so once we get the cut and powder coated we should be good to
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go thanks for checking out my personal rig update and stay tuned for more I'm
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hoping to actually get this done within the calendar year I know I call it
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personal rig update 2012 so so we're on the clock here if it runs into 2013 my
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title will no longer be correct