Personal Rig Update 2012 Part 1 - Tearing Out Some Stuff, Discussing Plans Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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well it's personal rig upgrade time so for those of you who aren't familiar
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with my personal gaming machine it's a Silverstone tj07 with some antech
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900 uh CASE front cover so that I can
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have a dual 120 mm radiator there in the front and then I've also got uh a 980x
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CPU with 2 4 gigs of RAM Big Bang X power GTX 480 liquid cooled killer Xeno
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network card uh 926d LSI raid card
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hooked up to uh eight ssds in the back got an ASUS Zonar sense going on there
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I've got some UV called cathodes positioned sort of around different
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places good for lighting effects cuz this is UV Blue tubing I've got a
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quadruple 120 mm Thermo chill rad so
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that's a total of 6x1 12 with the Dual
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120 in the front and the quadruple 120 in the bottom um on the back we find
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actually a lot of the uh the cooler Hardware that's going on in here so
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we've got an mcubed T balancer which helps me control all the fan speeds so
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um it uses the temperatures that it gets from various probes in order to adjust
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fan speeds or even turn them off entirely when I don't need them that is
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eight yeah these are these are stacked double here so that is eight for course
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120 gig Corsair ssds running off that
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LSI RAID controller so that is a total of 9 whatever 800 and something gigs of
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SSD storage for my boot Drive uh ENT Max Revolution 1050 watt
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power supply check out this fluid it's
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like so murky needs to be cleaned out
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and uh and replaced so that'll be part of this procedure my trusty mCP 655
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which has been running for about 3 years now without a hiccup and um I apologize
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for the cabling mess on the back here but uh
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yeah yeah we're not we're not really doing anything differently probably with
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it this time around I mean there's a few things in here that are kind of you know
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sleeved but I don't worry too much about the cabling on the back as long as the
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cabling on the front's okay and it's not too bad right come on guys reassure me
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here it's not too bad right okay so what are we doing first of all
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power supply is got to go it's only 80 plus silver so we'll be replacing that
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with an XFX Pro 1000 limited edition 80
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plus Platinum power supply what I like about this one so
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much and I mentioned this during the unboxing is the hybrid fan control so
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that switch is right here which basically allows it to turn the fan off
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entirely under low loads this is a silence freak Enthusiast PC that is why
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I have all the fans controlled by the T balancer most of the fans are actually
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off during day-to-day operation with only the ones on the bottom radiator
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running at a nominal nominal speed so
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adding this will allow me to turn off this fan which has been kind of
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bothering me um kind of 90% of the time anytime I'm not running something very
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intensive what I'll also be doing is I will be adding silver fittings so these
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are bits power true silver compression fittings please Focus
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please Focus there we go bits power true silver compression fittings to anywhere
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where I can put them this will allow me to avoid having my water Gunk up like
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this again because it is antimicrobial which means stuff will not grow in the
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loop I will also be upgrading to LGA 2011 so we've got an MSI uh whatever
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this is It's a gd65 x79 a gd65 8D
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haven't quite decided on the RAM configuration I'm either going to leave
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those copper heads in there because they look ball in or I'll uh throw in my ocz
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special Linus Edition never existed for
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anyone but me RAM skew so this is uh see
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matches the uh motherboard really really well that was why I specifically
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requested this color of spreader it's like DDR3 2000 or something like that so
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I might throw those in there and just go for four dims 16 gigs um haven't quite
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decided yet so we'll we'll figure that out later and I'm also upgrading the
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graphics card so from a GTX 480 I'm going to be going with an EVGA GTX 590
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classified liquid cooled card and the
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piece that I am most proud of oops you
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know what guys give me a sec here the piece that I am most proud of the
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centerpiece of this build is going to be my limited edition swifttech apple G HD
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goldplated water block so there it is the limited edition stickers on there
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somewhere there we go limited edition number
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169 soing with the bits
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power true gold compression fittings I'm
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normally anti- two-tone but I had to do
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it so like I said I'm either going to go with this RAM and keep the color scheme
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black and silver and blue other than the water block or I'll leave in the
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Copperheads just to have them matching so uh there's going to be a couple
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challenges because unlike the revolution 1050 watt which uh has four SATA cables
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per modular connector this guy has three so it means I might have to widen this
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hole a little bit to get another connector up there alternately I can not
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run this Molex and then I can use a s a Molex adapter in order to power all this
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stuff but we'll figure it out and uh
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yeah hopefully there will be some kind of a performance Improvement especially
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in games I'm not expecting too much in the way of a CPU performance boost going
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from a 980x to a 39
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60x but uh should be able to render your
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guys' videos just a little bit faster and get games going uh quite a bit
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faster with the liquid cooled GTX
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590 so thank you for checking out this
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little teaser video of my upgrade and I'm probably not going to update you
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guys again until it's done but uh who
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knows I might show some in progress depends on what you guys demand so what
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are we going for here we're going for more power more efficiency
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and uh to clean out to clean out the old water cooling gunky Loop that's uh
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become a little bit well gunked up and
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got my cat attacking my leg so we're going to call it quits here on this one
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let's see if he wants to uh to visit
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here hold on going to do this thing
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let's see if he jumps on my
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shoulder oh no he just wants to nuzzle right
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now can probably hear him purring oh maybe not well there we go I
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think we're done here