Personal Rig Update 2012 Part 13 FINAL ASSEMBLY HAS BEGUN Linus Tech Tips
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·2013-05-07
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so I'm actually finally working on it the personal rig is in progress and I'm
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I'm really going to build it this time you guys so I've got the case back for Mountain mods it's got a glorious black
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wrinkle finish on it you can't really see it too well in this light but yeah
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there we go that's not too bad looks just just Beast there's a couple small
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imperfections on the case but I'm over it I've I've gotten over it so I'm not
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over it but there's not a whole lot I can do about it at this point short of
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re stripping and then rep powder coating the case which is probably going to cost me around 500 bucks so it ain't
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happening so I've got everything scattered like all over the place here's
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my T Virus res there we go I guess I
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could actually do something about the exposure level there there you go
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there's the t- virus res there's my soldering iron so I'm using that to
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solder things like custom cables and whatnot there's my tubing that I'll be
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using there's my double-sided velcro which is freaking awesome my backpack
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with all my tools there's some adapters so those are some mox2 quad
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SATA adapters that I may or may not be using to power the drives there's my
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front Bay radiator so it's a dual 120 mil actually it's funny my radiators are
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about as spread out as anything check this
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out there's my quad radiator sitting here on the table along with my mCP 655
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pump I won't be using that Luna block so that's that's for something else won't
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be using that power supply either that's for something else as well Acer notebook
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also for something else so oh yeah this tj10 also for something else so let's
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get into the actual personal rig itself
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I'm still going I blocked all the light still going with the XFX 80 plus
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Platinum th000 wat power supply for the main reason that the fan doesn't turn on
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when the system is not using any power
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uh like when it's under idle I can really hear my breathing in this mic I'm
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using a bit of a different mic setup so bear with me here guys the r card down
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there you can see the cables are being routed behind the motherboard tray like
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I had planned the ASUS Zonar card actually has a custom sleeved connector
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on it so this is a here we go four pin
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Molex that I've sleeved using MD PCX
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sleeving so it's extremely clean looking can't see any color not that there is
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any color so there's some sleeving there
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making C custom cables like this is most of the work of a build like this and I'm
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probably not going to overdo it so anything that's not going to be seen um
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I don't think I'm going to put this sort of level of detail into it this is
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keeping with my part of one of the themes for this
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build which is that I'm not using individually sleeved cables I'm actually
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sleeving two wires per cable for everything so the here you can see the
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wires that are going to the GTX 590 classified from EVGA so that's uh again
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two wires per per sleeve there's the 24 pin so if you count them 1 2 3 4 5 six
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two wires per sleeve again and same thing up there for the eight pin now
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this isn't going to be visible but this is one of the digital temperature
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monitors that I'm going to be using from the T balancer so that's going to tuck
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back there so that you don't actually see it so that's the one that I'll be using to monitor air temperatures and
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that's going to control these fans and
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these ones right here because those are the ones that are really going to be
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cooling the actual chipset here so that way the the temperature sensor directly
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controls the cooling in the area around the temperature sensor
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there actually I guess I'll just use the zoom instead of moving around so there
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is the custom black wrinkle hold down on
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the Apple ghd limited edition goldplated water
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block and the focus isn't quite right yet there we go it's a little bit dirty
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so I'll clean it up before I do the final build and those are ballistics
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tracers in there right now but those are just a placeholder this painter's tape
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is just to uh keep the t- virus reservoir from getting rued
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when I do test mounts so it's going to go I had a few people tell me I was
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crazy for planning to mount the PCI Express cables around it so I'm going to
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be uh I'm going to be going on hold then
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there we go on this side instead so it's going to look a little something like
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that you can see I don't have a lot of clearance here with the SATA cable so
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I'm going to have to find myself a low profile left angle SATA power as well to
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make that even fit in there and then I'm going to have one of these I'm going to
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have to rotate a little bit and have one of these run straight down into the bottom which will go to the pump which
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will be in the basement on the build um haven't installed any of the 5
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and A4 Bay connectors or 5 and a/ qu Bay
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adapters yet that'll come later so those are right there I still have to clean
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out my radiator so I'll be using a 10% vinegar uh 90% boiling water solution
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and then most people just flush them shake them out and then uh use them but
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what I'll actually be doing is setting up my Loop my pump needs to be cleaned
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too so I'll be setting up my loop on the kitchen counter in here and then I'm
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just going to let it run for a day uh with the vinegar solution running
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through it and then I'll just uh clean all that water out so I'll just set it up next to the sink clean all that water
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out and then I'll uh do a couple flushes
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with distilled to make sure that they're actually clean because I know there was
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some some junk in my Loop before ah LEDs so I'm using UV LED
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strips you actually won't be able to see the one that's back here so that's the
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only one I've installed so far and the only reason I installed it is because it's really difficult to get at that
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spot once the system's built the rest of them are going to go here two up here
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and then either one or two here I'm not sure yet it's going to depend what I can
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get away with without them being seen the trick with lighting is that you
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should be able to see the light being thrown not the lights themselves cuz
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they're extremely bright I may end up putting one or two
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back here as well I really haven't decided yet one of the challenges is
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going to be uh combating the blue LEDs that are also in the
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system um and that was uh wait where where are those coming from
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yeah I don't have what was the problem no I think the problem was when I lit
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this guy up um the cathode in there
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makes the uh makes the coil in the T Virus glow so bright that it was
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overpowering anything that I tried to do on the tubing because the tubing wasn't
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as UV reactive as this so I don't want to end up with a ton of blue light I
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want to end up with UV Blue glow on the
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appropriate component so that'll be the UV Blue tubing the UV Blue fans and the
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UV Blue T Virus as well as this UV Blue cable although you won't be able to see
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much of that one cuz it's just going to sneak in back here and that's about
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that's about all you're going to see of it so the quad Rad's going to go in the
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basement dual Rad's going to go in the front and overall it's going to look kind of like this although you can't
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really get a good feel for it with the uh light reflecting off it funny like
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that but there you go um the back will
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look kind of something like
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that haven't really decided if I'm going to leave the sound card in there or not
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cuz I have an Essence one that I'm going to be using for my headphones
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uh what else do we have on here oh yeah I guess I could show you
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guys the back that probably should have occurred to me earlier so this is where
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the T balancer is going to go all the connectors are at the bottom here you
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see got four or three pin connectors Molex for power this USB one right here
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I'll probably unplug it some point but I need it in there just to program it and get it set up with the new profiles
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these are double stacked so that's eight f120 ssds each were 120 gigs so that's a
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total of 960 gigs or something stupid like that um it's going to be
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challenging getting the power in there you can see the sort of the breakout
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cables have to be coiled around a fair bit so they go here here here here and
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here and they actually take up a lot of the cable management holes that I made for myself that are not actually stock
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on the tj7 but I think I'm going to get away with it cuz these can pretty much
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lay flat here all I have to get is some more fan wires run so I'll do some of
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them up here some of them down here I have to get one inverter in and I have
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to sleeve this for the cathode that's inside the t- virus and then I'll
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probably stash that here or here so behind the motherboard tray so basically
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all I have to get up here is a couple molexes to split out into the quad satas
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for these guys try to keep them wiring to a minimum because it's going to be a
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real challenge I have to get a Molex up here to power this guy I have to have a
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Molex down here for the pump and then I have to figure out how to run extensions
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and then Splitters out to where all the fans go still haven't decided how to
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power all the LEDs I might use something like a um like a three pin block like
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comes with swift tax h220 water cooler where it's like a one three pin or one
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four pin to like 84 pin uh splitter out so then I can run all the LEDs to one
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place and then I'll just plug them in like here and have it just run
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everywhere and I'll just use extensions to get it where it needs to go
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so cable Management's coming in handy so
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Cable Management here here and here were all cut this time around actually I
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think I had a little one here but I made a much bigger one uh the motherboard
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tray cutout has been useful if nothing else for making the uh the T balancer
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actually fit so for those of you who don't know what a t balancer does it controls all of my fans
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automatically USB 3 upgrade in the front done this is a fairly unique item right
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here it's that LG uh Blu-ray and can I
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manually focus here yeah there we go that LG Blu-ray and HD DVD player so
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it's just I don't know it's kind of neat I don't use an optical drive much but if I do then I want it to be like a sweet
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hard to find one I guess that's about it
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sorry for the breathing throughout this video it sounds really awful but I'm not
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going to refilm it at this point so good night everyone thank you for checking out my personal rig update don't forget
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