Personal Rig Update 2012 Part 12 TJ07 Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
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·2013-05-07
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welcome to a personal rig update that will be sort of in the form of an
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unboxing because this inside here is my
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package it's pretty big takes a lot of tape to wrap it up
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but you know what can I say it's uh you
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know you don't get to pick your package you just have to make do with the one
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you've got and this is was sent to
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me by Mountain mods it is my tj07 inside
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here and I had underestimated how difficult it was going to be to cut this
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box open it is been powder coated and it is ready for assembly so
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I'm so stoked because as slick is so
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fond of reminding me it has been a year
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since I have actually had a properly built working gaming desktop over over a
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year thank you slick um we'll be back once all right
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there we go I managed to get all the tape removed and oh wow there is another
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box with more tape uh says black wrinkle
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which is the finish that I opted for for my tj07 there's a lot of you guys who
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have questioned why I'm sort of staying loyal to this tj7 s that between the
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initial cost and having it painted twice
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now and having the original paint stripped off so that I could repaint it
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and make it look all gorgeous and fresh again has probably cost me nearly
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$1,000 uh it was a gift from my wife it was one of the first gifts she ever got
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me and um also I like it I it's cheaper
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than buying a new tj07 and getting that powder coated so there's a number of
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reasons why I would want to do it this way so Mountain mods charged me uh 250
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bucks for getting everything powder coated and shipped back to myself and
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they have wrapped everything in their customary sort
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of uh whatever this would be called
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cling wrap like giant industrial cling
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wrap their black wrinkle finish is so
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gorgeous like out of all the paint finishes that I've encountered on
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computer cases or just sort of in general this has to be my favorite um I
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did think about doing something like an automotive finish on the outside but
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like I said few things compare to sexy
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black wrinkle black wrinkle finish so these are the anodized aluminum side
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panels and I'm just going to go ahead and try of well I'm not going to go
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ahead and sort of anything but uh let's see how quickly we you know what we're
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just going to have to unpack this off camera here guys and we'll be back all
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right so we unb boxed it and other than a few blemishes which I am of course
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going to show you all of because this system is my baby and so I was a little
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bit disappointed to find any of them although with a project this big with no
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doovers um what what powder coaters would normally do is they would just
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throw out the blemished piece because it's so expensive to strip powder
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coating and then they'd just redo another one but they don't have that
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option cuz this is sort of all one shot deal so there's a small blemish here on
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the bottom left corner I don't know if you can see that diesel yeah Diesel's
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got it um there's a blemish on the top
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which is here where there's a little bit too much paint build up you got that one
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okay diesel can't even see it so that should give you guys some idea how much of a nitpicker I'm being about this uh
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the oh the grills turned out fantastic
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so these are anch 900 grills and I had
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them powder coated black wrinkle so that they're going to match the case
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perfectly now whereas before they just had the stock non wrinkle powder coating
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and then I had an anodized finish here so now these are going to look extremely
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sharp uh so there will be radiators or
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there will be a radiator and fans behind that so that's going to look really
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really clean right there I had the uh I had the back piece done all as one piece
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so the screws are all installed I'm never going to install two power supplies in it installing two power
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supplies in a modern system is totally pointless because you can get like 1500
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watt power supplies and you'd be hard pressed to uh to build a system that
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sucks more than 1500 watts in a standard ATX form factor okay so here there's uh
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there's some some blemishes like this one here uh probably one of the ones
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that bothers me most I think is the one on this side panel where uh yeah it's
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this one you can see here that there's some
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like something going on here yeah but
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again like I say not the end of the world and from some angles you can't
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even really see it and at least it's the other side panel the windowed side panel
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is quite clean um slick asked me why send it to Mountain mods why not just
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get any shop to do it one of the reasons I like having Mountain mods do it is
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they're PC guys so they understand that standoffs need to be masked they
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understand which holes don't need to be masked so you can see one of the things
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they do is um there's a there's a rubber
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piece here that they put in in order to prevent any kind of paint from getting
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into the threads here so they put these all over the place and they just they
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know what they're doing they know their way in in and around a PC so that's why
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I'm more comfortable having them work on it but so you can see the motherboard tray has been modernized with a CPU
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cutout as well as Cable Management holes
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and I think that's pretty much it so
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hopefully the next time you guys see a video from me about my personal rig I
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will be doing either either a live stream or just a video of me building it
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oh this is one little finishing touch that I'm really really pleased about so
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I had them do the hold down plate for my limited edition goldplated Apple ghd in
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Black wrinkle as well so that's going to be just a kind of an awesome centerpiece
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to have on the uh in the middle of the motherboard thank you for checking out
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