iBuyPower Suite @ CES 2011 Featuring the Erebus Water Cooling Gaming System Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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three okay so I'm hanging out here in the IB power suite and they've actually
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got something pretty cool on display that I wanted to show you guys so this
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is the arabus they've got a video playing behind me on sort of a makeshift
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projector screen to show some of the cool features but since we have the
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benefit of having one here in person we can actually just check out what's going
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on right down and dirty in the system so
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here we have okay bear with me here because this is going to take a while
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it's a very high number we have one two
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three four radiators in the system so
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that is three dual RADS and one
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quadruple rad up in the top of the system so they have completely overbuilt
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this case in terms of the water cooling potential that it can handle now not
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only can you mount all those radiators but you have tons of room for whatever
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other Hardware you could possibly want to throw at it so for one thing you can
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handle a very long power supply okay for the next thing you can handle up
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to up to six hard drives and I'm going to go ahead and assume that like their
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other sliding rails these are 2 and 1/2 in ready and if someone can this is a
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very early prototype so I'm just going to go ahead yeah there's a mounting hole
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there so we got no problems there up to four 5 and a/4 in Bays so this is going
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to be designed for system integration which means that a lot of those
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customers are going to want not only a reader and a writer but maybe also a fan
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controller and since you don't have to worry about how to hook all that stuff
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up their technicians are going to do it for you then I have I have no problem
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with seeing that that number of 5 and 1/4 in Bays on a case like this because
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they can make sure that that's all taken care of we've got a very high-end
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completely custom cooling solution here so we're running cool an radiators cool
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an quick connects we've got a lang pump so they've really gone a Step Beyond
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using cookie cutter water cooling components they're using the ones that
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are actually designed to last a long time Lang pumps are number one pretty
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much I have a l pump running in my system I've had for over 3 years nonstop
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and there are countless stories like that this is actually the D5 I believe
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um what else do we have here to talk about so we got some Max Vans which
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falls in line with the color scheme that they're using we've got I actually don't
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know what motherboard this is but it looks like one of the one two 3 four
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five six no only seven expansion slots in that particular board although oh no
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no yeah this is their uh this is the ud7
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so this is an x58 motherboard so we've got support for triple Channel memory
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core i7 extreme core processors and they've not only water cooled so let's
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let's look at everything we've water cooled in this system the CPU and three
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graphics cards and three-way SLI but they've also water cooler cooled the
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mosfets on this board and they are using an EK water block for that so like I
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said fully custom fully awesome components not nothing that's off the
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shelf and then what are we using it looks like we're using coolant blocks on
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the gpus now you've got this is a full cover motherboard water block so you've
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got not only the mosfet cool but also the North nor bridge and the South
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Bridge if you want to come down here and look right down there you can actually
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see that it is almost completely covered in liquid cooled metal we're using uh
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compression fittings which I a big fan of because it's very very difficult to
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lose your seal with compression fitting even over time and they're using 90°
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fittings in order to really keep and even some 45 Dee fittings that's that's
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a nice touchdown there to keep the tubing flow from uh from kinking and
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keep from having any issues with that particular aspect of it so thank you to
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my makeshift cameraman here so so that I could show you the arabus and don't
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