Personal Rig Update 2012 Part 17 - IT'S FINALLY DONE! Project Summary & Deluxe Tour
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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the Corsair flash Voyager go is the easy way to move photos music and videos
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between your Android device and your PC click now to learn
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more so the funny thing about that I'm holding a slate right now
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click is that I've actually been working on building this computer since before
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we even had any practices like slating or I had my own company and a staff of
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people all for the sake of making YouTube videos about computers and the
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irony there I guess is that we've been doing this professionally all this time
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and I still can't manage to actually build my own computer and complete it
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it's been mostly done for a while but
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there were some delays in releasing the video because the LED strips I'm using
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these are phobia UV LED slips they're strips they're actually fairly unique um
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most of the LEDs on my original strips actually failed so we weren't going to
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be able to film it very well so I finally gotten around to swapping them
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out with some brand new ones and we are ready to take you guys on a tour of my
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personal rig so we'll start with the component selection the CPU is a 4960x I
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don't really recommend extreme editions though um really what I recommend is
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4770k if you need hyperthreading 4570k
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if you're just gaming four threads is enough and then if you're doing content
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creation or any kind of professional work where you can really leverage additional course 4930k those are the
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three CPUs that are like really the high performance options within Intel's
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lineup for the RAM I'm using crucial's ballistics Tracer this is actually an
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early revision of the memory that's not really compatible with the x79 platform
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at all and uh has all kinds of problems
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unless I run it at extremely loose timings and it's all like crappy I have
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better RAM there's definitely RAM that will work better with my board but for
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the sheer blame factor I did go with this stuff it's not perfect and it's
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funny because like crucial has a utility so you can program the LEDs on it now by
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default they're going to be um activity LEDs so they'll flash slowly if you're
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not doing much and then they'll flash really fast if you're doing something really intens intensive but you can
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configure them to do all kinds of different patterns and stuff unfortunately crucial's missing two
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crucial patterns and that is off and
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solid I don't really want them to flash like this what I would like is to have
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the underglow ones solid the way that they are and I would like to actually
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turn top ones off cuz I find them a little bit over the top but I'm still
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going to stick with them anyway for the motherboard I've got a SS's workstation
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class L LGA 2011 board this is the new Ivy Bridge e compatible model P9 x79 ews
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is the E is the new part um the reason I went with the workstation class
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motherboard is I'm just so sick of
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consumer grade stuff just not really working right it feels like the more
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features anyone tries to add to something it's like this router has like
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beam technology it like focuses your you
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know antenna as like a dish it wear your laptop it like I just want something
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that's a Workhorse workstation grade and
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this one does it it's got the overclocking stuff it's got a decent
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audio codec it's got USB 3 like it's not a server board where it's like green PCB
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and like two USB ports at the back but
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it's it's also not over the top with like OC panels This and voltage
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checkpoints that just plain Works absolutely love the board it also
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has tons of PCI Express expansion um I wasn't sure at the time of originally
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planning this build if I was going to go SLI so that would take up four of the
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slots and then at the time um I was using a sound card it's actually still
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in there but I don't actually use it anymore so I was using a sound card I
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wanted a 10 gbit Nick which I have pulled out now because I don't have a 10
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GB switch at my house anymore and finally I have a raid card in the rig as
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well so I wanted seven PCI Express slots so that's another reason to go with a
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workstation class board like this it is a little bit on the wider side which is
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kind of funny because when I was cutting the hole in the motherboard tray for my
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24 pin connector to wrap around I had to
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position it um as if I might someday put a regular ATX board in and it still
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won't show and be ugly so I had to like squeeze those cables to get them out
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around the uh the edge of the motherboard because it actually goes over the the uh the hole that I cut on
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the motherboard tray uh for the GPU I'm running a GTX Titan my original graphics
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card solution was a 590 or I was thinking about going quad SLI with 590s
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but quad SLI just really doesn't make any sense to me it um doesn't scale
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particularly well unless you're running it very very high resolutions and it
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introduces some driver issues that there's just no real solution for other
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than to turn off SLI and if I'm going to put four gpus in my system we're talking
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like a couple thousand dollars worth of gear I better be using it all the time
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or I'm just not going to put it in so um the only reason I upgraded from the 5
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which is actually a faster card than the GTX Titan in terms of raw performance uh
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was that I really wanted game stream for my NVIDIA Shield so that I could stream
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to myself and you have to have a Kepler based GPU for that to work so the Titan
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ended up in here because we didn't have duplicates of any other graphics cards
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we had two Titans so I was like okay the one Kepler that I can actually grab
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happens to be a Titan so I threw that in there we also had a water block for it
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from cool an that is absolutely beautiful so that why I went with that
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I'll talk more about the water cooling after for the power supply I have an XFX
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th000 watt 80 plus Platinum modular power supply that I sleeved myself I
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didn't do a great job of the sleeving um you can do much better if you
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individually sleeve each one I am using murder or MD PCX sleeving or whatever
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that stuff is I got it from Charles from murderbox um so I'm using really good
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sleeving but I did it a little bit differently than most people instead of doing each individual wire I actually
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did each sleeve over two wires so you can't get quite as close to the
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connector this way but I actually find
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it looks a little bit cleaner with fewer wires and it did make the uh the cables
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less bulky when I was trying to Route them around inside which was important
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as you're going to see when I show you the cable management at the back and how
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difficult that was the reason I went with this power supply this is what like
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the only reason was that it was based on the same platform as seic 1000 watt
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platinum and that was the first power supply that had the uh zero debel fan
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feature so that the the power supply actually only turns on its fan when you
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get to I think it's around 20 to 30% load so most of the time that fan
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actually doesn't even spin um speaking of fans that don't even spin my fan
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controller is an mcubed T balancer that's strapped on the back I'll show
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you that more later but on this side there are four fans on the uh quad
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Radiator in the bottom that's an old thermal chill pa1 120.4 not quite
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classic thermal chill it's got the 15 mil spacing but uh it's still Thermo
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chill so it's like old school water cooling high-end junk um so there's four
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down there those one spin all the time then there's two on a hardware Labs
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black ice Pro that is a pretty ancient Radiator in the front that's actually my
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first water cooling radiator first one I ever bought with my Appo block and I
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think I just did my CPU the first time I picked up an mCP 350 pump way back then
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and uh that that ended up failing at some point I think I don't really like
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those half height pumps the mCP the DDC series not a big fan I'm using a D5 now
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so that one's hidden in the basement it's got the jankiest
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um anti vibration Mount ever where actually it just has a little like
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rubber sleeved wire between it and the side panel so that it doesn't pass any
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vibration to the case so I've got a black ice Pro in the front that has two
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fans that aren't spinning and then you may have actually noticed that the two
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fans in the back here are also not spinning the two in the top do spin all
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the time so the mqt balancer takes care of that so when the system is just
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running at the desktop or web browsing most of the fans in it are actually off
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and then the other ones are running at extremely low speeds and then as soon as I ramp up speeds um everything kicks
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into high gear so I have two temperature sensors one at the top of the
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motherboard and then one that is actually taped with thermal compound
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between it and the bottom radiator in place so that I can monitor water
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temperatures and air temperatures within the case and the appropriate fans react
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accordingly whenever those temperatures increase so I don't remember where I was
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going with that so raid card um that's an LSI 9268 I at the time that was an
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extremely high-end card and was optimized for maximum throughput on
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large SSD raid zero arrays which brings
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us to my SSD arrangement I might not show these to you guys yet but there are
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eight ssds around the back of the case ah what the hey we might as well just
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like start cracking this baby open so there are
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eight man these are tight with the powder coating I'll talk about the case
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after because the case is quite a story lots of lots of things altered on that
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oh I guess I should talk about the side panel before we get into the ssds okay so the side panel was a nightmare
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because I don't like Plexi side panels because they're not really very clear
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they're easy to scratch you can put micr scratches all over a Plexi side panel
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just by wiping it down with a microfiber cloth like they're just terrible um
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they're very very reflective compared to Glass and they're just not as good but
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unfortunately what I wanted was to get someone to cut a glass panel and very
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very carefully drill holes so that I could actually Mount the glass panel on
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the back with bolts through the front so it would be extremely secure they
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delivered me a piece of glass with all the holes drilled but I gave them my
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side panel to do the sizing and they a couple of the holes were actually off on
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the glass and you know what they did they took my side panel not painted yet
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fortunately they took my side panel and just like widened the holes so I was
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like oh okay great not only can I not use this because it's going to look
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terrible and the piece of glass broke when they were drilling the last hole or
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whatever so not only have you not delivered me a usable piece of glass you've widened the hole on a side panel
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that I actually can't replace because every tj07 is a little bit different and
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Silverstone won't even give you a new side panel because there's a chance it
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won't fit with the curvature at the front so what I ended up having to do
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then is a kind of a more ghetto solution so I just went to a glass shop got a
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regular piece of glass and they offered to use an industrial double-sided tape
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to tape it on for me that's how it's attached then I went to Home Depot I got
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a couple little finishing nubin things there and I just glued them on so that's
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how the side panel works I wish I had a more sort of glamorous story about that
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um what was I talking about right RAID controller so I guess this will be my
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first opportunity to show you guys the horribleness at the back here it is an
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absolute rat Nest back there and part of it's my fault but part of it is just
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that uh there's a lot of cables going on back there so that is the eight Drive
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raid zero array that powers my personal
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machine it is kind of ridiculous it's actually stupid nobody nobody people ask
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me about my personal machine all the time and I say just because I'm running
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something doesn't mean you should nobody should run this configuration that is
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eight Corsair Force refurbished ssds
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running in raid zero off of that raid card it is pretty much going to fail at
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some point but I do nightly backups and I keep almost nothing of substance on it
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other than maybe the odd save game here and there so everything else goes off to
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a NZ so that's why I have an Intel Nick in here just for slightly better
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performance to the nas it really doesn't make much of a difference these days especially because a workstation board
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like this has an excellent Nick on it already so the cable management for that
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was done with one of the case modifications that I had to do which was
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cutting Cable Management holes down at the bottom of the motherboard tray in
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addition to the CPU tray cutout that the tj7 doesn't come with natively the 24
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pin and um 8 Pin and six pin for the
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graphics card cutouts that are over here on this side as well as these cable
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management holes that are cut into the um the divider between the top of the
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case and the basement just so that I can get cables up to the top without using
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the cable management holes that are included in that divider because they're
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they're quite ugly you can't really hide the cables there at all so what kind of
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performance do I get out of this well well over 1 Gigabyte per second reads
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and wrs so it's extremely fast I actually changed over from these ssds to
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just a single SSD for a little while because I don't remember I was doing
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some kind of Maintenance and I didn't notice immediately um that there was a
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difference but then when I went back to these ones I was like I had forgotten
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how fast it was it's actually really really really fast just again not
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something I really recommend I do have an optical drive in my system something
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that a couple of you have probably noticed by now and the story there is
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that I originally added an optical drive to it because I got a great deal on a
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fairly unique item at the time LG did an HD DVD SL Blu-ray Reading Drive it was a
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couple hundred bucks but I got it for like a hundred and it was also a DVD
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rewriter and a CD writer I think I'm not
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sure if it can yes and wait hold on yeah
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so so it records DVDs and CDs and reads Blu-rays and HD DVDs now I was like okay
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this is the last optical drive I'll ever need and it turns out I was right so
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it's in there so the reason that it's still in there is because I only sourced
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six of these These are original antech 900 front cage covers and I only sourced
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six of them so I didn't have a seventh to put in even if I did want to take the
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optical drive out plus the way that that front radiator mounted with just like a
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piece of like sticky double-sided velcro thing rolled up under the bottom so that
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it like sticks in place and then Velcro on the bottom of the DVD drive and the
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radiator stuck to that I can't really take the optical drive out anyway so
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that's why I have one um yeah doesn't
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make it's not great uh so the fan controller I guess I guess I I talked
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about that already um I'll cover a couple more things about liquid cooling
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I'm using bits power true silver 3/8 in
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ID 5/8 in O compressions I think that 38
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ID 5/8 OD is pretty much The Sweet Spot in terms of performance because if you
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go lower than that you go down to like quar inch tubing you're going to drop about a degree of performance maybe two
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um and if you go up to 1 half it doesn't really make a difference and then the
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advantage of 38 over 1/2 is you can get much tighter Bend radi without kinking
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so I really really like thick wall 38 inch tubing and then these are the
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compressions that go with it the other thing is that you get better compatibility by going with 38 inch
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tubing because half inch compressions especially if you get thick wall so 3/4
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inch OD uh tubing the compressions to go with those are huge and they barely fit
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on anything so that was why I went that route this is a t- virus Reservoir right
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here it's a clear outside um and then I my original one was actually frosted
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blue for the for the he double helix inside but um i r made it and they kind
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of screwed it up they sent me back a clear one it actually looks just fine um
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it used to look a little bit better back when the cathode in there wasn't so
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faded out I got to get a new one and get it replaced but uh very very cool item
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you can get those from uh Frozen Q what
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else ah yes fans okay you may have also noticed the complete absence of Noctua
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fans yes I'm shallow part of the problem is not that
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I don't think Noctua fans can look good I think they can look good in some
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machines in fact um are upcoming Hackintosh build guide is going to have
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noctu a fans in an h440 from NZXT and I
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think it looks really really sharp in there but the problem is that it needs
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to go with the rest of this system and it just doesn't so I needed blue fans
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and the good news is there are some very high quality blue fans available so on
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my bottom radiator I'm using the original Silverstone air penetrators I
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think they're AP 121s or something like that so what's great about those is they
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take your airf flow and they turn them into kind of a a like a cyclone a funnel
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of air away from them and because the basement here only has this intake on
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the rad which is by the way mounted with velcro just on the bottom so um takes
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the air flow through and then I want it to push it out the other side but
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there's nothing kind of containing that air flow because this is this is quite
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open so I wanted something that is able to direct air flow like that so that's
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why I went with those there and then for everything that's visible up here in the
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top I'm using GED Wings because they undervolt quite gracefully they're easy
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to clean you can actually pop the blade right off them if you want to clean them
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which is quite okay I'm not going to do it now but that's quite nice and uh
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they're reasonably quiet even at LAD they also come with really nice rubber
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grommets so was quite a chore to do this one but the rubber grommets are
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installed on the back ones and then the one on the inside where normally in the
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tj07 you slide the fans in and then screw them in I had to get the fans in
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so I had to actually bend that cage Open Force the fans in somehow thread all the
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little rubber grommets through and then bend the cage back shut I cut my hands
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every time I've had to do that and cable managing is kind of a nightmare as well
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because there's only a little tiny like Gap left where you can slip a wire
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through it uh liquid cooling
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components I think that's pretty much it for the water oh yes that's not it so
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the uh sort of the the centerpiece of this rig is an apple gtz from swifttech
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that is the goldplated limited edition
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of it I got number 169 um I also had it altered a little
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bit so the hold down plate is normally just I think it's more of a flat powder
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coat but I've got Mountain mods's black wrinkle powder coat which matches the
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outside of the case um put on there aftermarket so I figured if I'm sending
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in the case I might as well send in that piece too the only thing in here that I
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could have powder coated I think that I didn't is the casing for the optical
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drive that I just spray painted it still kind of bothers me when I look at it but
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uh not that huge of a deal I guess and
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then I already mentioned the mCP 655 or D5 pump in the bottom I do really
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recommend if you're going to go with a D5 pump that you go with the variable
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speed one not only does it go to a
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higher RPM than the fixed one which is fixed at about four out of five of the
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variable one but when you turn it down all the way I keep mine all the way down
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you're only going to lose a couple degrees to a few degrees of temperatures
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and it is extremely quiet it's one of
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people talk about this all the time and it drives me crazy like the internet
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doesn't know silent silent is silent and
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not silent is not silent mCP 350s are not silent ddcs are not silent at all
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they're loud and this one when you turn it down is legitimately extremely quiet
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almost silent I mean my mic's on my chest
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here that's what my rig sounds like nothing that is satisfactory anything
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else is not silent so there's that um I
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think that's pretty much it for like the component choices so let's talk about
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the case the origin of this case I've had a lot of people ask me why do you why do you
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use that tj07 that thing is ancient and
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you're right it was a gift from my wife way back when we were dating it was the
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first big ticket item present that she ever bought me so there's some
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sentimental value there and then there's also the fact that I personally don't
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think a better case has been made yet and better is a subjective word it means
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different things to different people to me better means a combination of a lot
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of things it means means the design it means the build quality it means the
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craftsmanship that went into it are there cases with better features than
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this one that are perhaps more water cooling friendly you don't have to mount your front radiator with velcro and your
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bottom radiator with well also velcro um
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yes there are better cases in terms of features these days but the the feet the
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manufacturing feet of this single unibody piece that goes all the way from
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the back of the top to the back of the bottom and is a single thick piece of
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aluminum has not been replicated since the tj07 except by the tj11 which I have
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a whole set of problems with aside from it being too big for me um I just don't
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find it as um I don't find it as space efficient as the tj07 and I don't want
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anything bigger I mean this thing already weighs 59 Pounds full of
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Hardware I don't need anything any bigger or any heavier so that's that's
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my that's my whole thing there so the craftsmanship of it is something that I
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really appreciate I don't really like plastic if I don't have to use it and
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the other thing is why would I need to upgrade I've had a lot of people tell me
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why don't you get a switch 810 well because a switch 810 is plastic for one
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thing and for two I think it's pretty Gody looking whereas this is a more a
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very clean very classical look and it fits all the hardware I need people are
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like oh the switch 810 fits this in this I don't care I'm running One graphics
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card it's sort of normal eatx board I don't have an XL ATX board I have six
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fans 6 120 mm fans worth of radiator to
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cool a GPU and a CPU like that's it um
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so it's already extremely silent what do I need more for so anyway that's why I
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still have the tj7 there are some things where people
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have a good point though I've spent way too much on this tj07 I mean back in
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like my first build that I did in it where I really wanted to like go crazy
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on it um I wanted to get the mid plate
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actually polished so it's like a raw aluminum um stock and I wanted to get it
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polished to a mirr shine I'd seen it done before and it looked really really
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good so the place I took it to to get that done they completely screwed it up
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they made a total mess of it and it was like completely unusable so that was the
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point where I was like okay well I will have to powder coat the interior so I
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went to Mountain mods I got them to powder coat the interior this was all
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like the first time the outside still had the very beautiful stock anodized uh
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aluminum finish on it so when that got
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beat up and it was time to redo the build anyway and I was going to tear the
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whole thing apart that's another thing that's great about the tj07 again
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features that aren't on a spec sheet it can be taken apart completely it is
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assembled with screws not with rivets so but when it came time to take it apart
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again I was like okay I'm going to send the whole thing away I want to get it
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powder coated for the outside but the inside was all beat up from upgrading
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hardware and you know dinging it and stuff like that so I started looking into how to get powder coating stripped
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oh extremely expensive involves like chemical baths and there's like no
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guarantees that the parts will even make it so I took a gamble they came out okay
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but I think it cost me a couple hundred bucks like it was ridiculous um but only
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there so one of these uh PCI screws it's not really threaded anymore I just have
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like some Loctite in there so that it stays and then other than that it
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survived the uh the chemical bath pretty well so I sent it away to Mountain mods
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to be coated again and other than one screw up on the right side panel which
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looks pretty ugly it actually came out really really well I think their black
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wrinkle finish is one of the most beautiful powder coating finishes available it's actually uses quite a
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glossy paint but then there's so much texture to the finish that the light
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scatters really well and it ends up having more like a a net matte effect
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anyway um so that that cost me another I don't know 150 bucks or whatever like
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that and people kind of look at and go well you could have just bought yourself a new case because you powder coated it
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once stripped the powder coating off powder coated it again I'm just like uh
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yeah you're probably right but you can't
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achieve this case with the changes that I've made to it including the cable
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management in the back and uh well
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mostly the cable management in the back is all that I really added to it without
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buying a tj7 and getting it powder put it anyway so buying a new tj07 still
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costs like 350 or 400 bucks or whatever so there you go I might as well just
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reuse this one uh one other change I did make to the case is the front IO I've
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completely done away with the audio ports because I'm using an objective 2
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and odac now so I don't need the front audio on my case so all I have in there
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is two USB 3 ports which is something that the case doesn't come with by
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default this little uh this little uh door right here is actually kind of a
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funny story once I had the case painted the buildup of the paint made made it so
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that the stock magnet wasn't strong enough to attract the door and and cause
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it to close so it would just fall open so I had to sand down the powder coating
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on the steel piece inside the door and then I had to go steal a fridge magnet
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that had a rare earth magnet in it was one of those cute little like uh like
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bulletin board tack ones that has a rare earth magnet in it so I had just like
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cut that thing open and then steal the magnet out of it and then the magnet was
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too big to fit so I had to like file it down and like super glue it in there and
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that's the only reason that front door closes so that was uh that was pretty
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janky um front bays are just mounted
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with like wood screws basically there's a lot of things that are super imperfect
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about the machine but I think that's part of what gives it character right
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let's talk oh cable management at the
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back so there's a lot of stuff back here
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there's the temp probes that help me control the fan speeds there's all the
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fans so every fan in the system is plugged in in the back uh in the back
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here somehow so I think down here I I have handmade adapters so that all four
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fans on the bottom radiator can be combined into a single lead to come up
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to the top up here and then everything else kind of runs back here as well the
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tea balancer is something I get asked about a lot it's a real bear to
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configure I don't recommend that people buy it unless they want to fight with it
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for probably a good like you know 3 to six hours to really get it working
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properly but once you do I've had this thing for a few years now and I've
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hardly even touched it so you know it's
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great for what it is it's not great for a lot of the other things that it is I
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guess I don't really have too much else to say I'm just kind of looking at some
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of the other sort of notes that I have for myself oh so there's some kind of
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funny little imperfections and ghetto Solutions I get asked by quite a few
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people how to keep their graphics card from sagging and the solution that I
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managed to come up with is really really stupid I took like a little piece of um
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it's a piece of a v checkpoint so it actually is like a wrapped rubber uh
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little metal piece inside and I jammed it in between the PCI slot rear like
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bracket piece and a DVI port and what that did is it gave the graphics card a
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little bit of extra support so it ends up being a little bit straighter it's
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not even it doesn't make that much of a difference though and the rear side
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panel it's really funny because it's almost impossible to close so is this
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like is this something that Steve Jobs would be proud of I don't think so but
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is it something that serves me extremely well and uh has been worth the effort oh
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I don't know it serves me well I don't know if it was worth the effort but I
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think that pretty much wraps it up that is the end of personal rig update 2012
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and it is very unlikely that I will be touching my personal rig anytime in the
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next probably couple of years other than maybe a graphics card upgrade um that's
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something that people ask me about a lot as well is why' you go so like ghetto
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why are you just using you know regular primoflex tubing and like curves like
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this when the fashion these days is to use angled fittings and very straight
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tubing runs and I love that I think it looks fantastic um but the issue is that
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I've always been of a philosophy that
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something that's your actual daily driver rig has to be very easily
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upgradeable so this approach gives me a lot more flexibility in terms of if I
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want to do a GPU swap I can probably get a GPU swap done in like I don't know 20
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minutes tops and whereas if you have like all like hard piping tubing it's
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pretty much impossible it's a real nightmare like I can just like take my
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CPU block off I can do a CPU swap in like eight minutes so stuff like that
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making sure that the system is upgradeable and something that I can continue to add to in the future is
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something that I've always kind of thought about as I've built up this machine although I think now we've
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reached the point where I'm really not going to make too many changes to it other than when Star Citizen launches
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I'll be putting in a whatever makes sense at that point we'll see how things
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shake down with mantle and direct X12 and whatever graphics card ends up going
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in there that's pretty much it guys
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sorry for the super long video like it if you liked it disliked it if you
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disliked it leave a comment and let me know if you have anything to say about
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the rig obviously I'll be reading the comments pretty carefully on something
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that's you know about my own sort of Pride and Joy here um don't forget you
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can support Linus Media Group by contributing to us monthly to allow me
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to build more computers like this evidently um actually it's funny I I
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should okay before before I finish the video I'll tell you guys which ones are samples and which ones I actually
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legitimately paid for um so you can do that you can buy T-shirts you can change
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your sorry my cameraman fell asleep at the wheel over there so the uh you know
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SD card got all filled up because he made that last shot take so long so I
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was just going to say as always guys thank you for watching and don't forget to subscribe and then now I don't even
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remember the story I was going to tell what was it oh yeah oh yeah which stuff
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which stuff like I legitimately paid for and which stuff was samples okay so
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we'll go through part by part the case has cost me a grand total of and my now
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wife so because it was bought initially um has cost like easily about $1,000 up
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till now like but when you consider that
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it's made it through quite a few builds and that's been over a span of like five
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years now or however long it's been four or five years it's like buying a new
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really nice case every year I guess so I can justify that to myself uh the uh the
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radiator in the front like I said was part of my very first cooling setup the
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optical drive I bought the t- virus Reservoir I'm just trying to remember no
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that was a sample so I did that one as a that was an unboxing um the motherboard
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itself was a sample from ASUS the RAM came from crucial the CPU again I would
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not recommend running an extreme Edition unless you get them as like an engineering sample and you don't have
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anything else to do with them then you throw them in your rig um the water
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block that that Apple I actually had
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swifttech offer to send me one of these Limited Edition which they only did 200
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of them goldplated and I was like nope Gabe I can't do that I have to buy it I
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I must buy it because otherwise I won't feel worthy to own such a very very cool
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piece of computer hardware so I paid for the CPU block all the fittings as well
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those are really expensive the true silver fittings uh the Titan and the
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cool an block were things that we used for a video and then the uh the
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Sennheiser sound card that came with a that came as like a bundle with a
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headset for my wife uh the raid card yeah that was that was
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my problem and then the ssds oh spent a
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grand on those that was one of the biggest computer purchases I've ever
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made was buying all those 8 ssds at once
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um but it was a really good deal like to this day it still holds up pretty well
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from a price to Performance standpoint this whole solution so it was about
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1,500 total or so cuz I was able to get
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those drives for under under a dollar per gig cuz it was like a crazy refer
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blowout this is back in San Force One days getting them under a dollar per gig
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it was a really good deal so I was like okay this is my opportunity I'm going to
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get my ultimate SSD set up 900 gigs SSD
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super fast I went for it so was like crazy balls um this radiator was a
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purchase those fans were a purchase the XFX power supply was a sample so but I
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would have bought one if I wasn't able to get one otherwise but don't tell XFX
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that and I think that pretty much much wraps it up so there you go guys the
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benefits of being a YouTuber yes you do get a bunch of samples which is really
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really cool but oh I bought the te balancer as well but it also forces you
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to like buy other stuff to go with it well it doesn't Force you but you know
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and it's like getting a job somewhere where you have like a great staff
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discount you end up spending more there even though you have your staff discount
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than you would have if you just didn't work there and didn't go there every day
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so all right I think I'm done now
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yes I'm done now