Personal Rig Update 2012 Part 2 - Most Hardware Torn Out - More Thinking & Plans Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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well this is just going to be a short in progress video so i've torn out
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most of the internal hardware components motherboards out i haven't drained my
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loop yet so what i'm going to do is i got my bucket here so i'll be using this
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bucket in order to drain it and then i'll just blow on the end of the tubing
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to clear out the rest of it until there's enough out that i can
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just start disconnecting tubing and pulling out the components and
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draining them one at a time you can see my temperature probe for my air fans
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which are these ones and these ones and then i've got a separate temperature
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probe down here for my water fans which controls these ones and these ones the
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ones on the front radiator i've got a better picture in my mind of what i want
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to do for this particular build i think i want to clean up the tubing or the
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tubing the uh tubing's fine i want to clean up the wiring a little bit so here
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on the back especially it's a total mess and there's a lot of sort of
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extra there's any way that i can reduce the overall amount of clutter a little
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bit that would be great especially down in the bottom so that's one of the things i'm going to
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be trying to do i also desperately i mean i had to do this anyway just to
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clean up my water loop check out this blog is that disgusting or what
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you and i'm gonna try and get you guys an angle of it here but do you see this
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here i don't know how to get it to
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to focus but there's text
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there's text on the block so shoot this is really hard to uh to show
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with it reflecting like that but um it's on the other side there we go i
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think we got it now it's on the other side of the plexi so it's not on the
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side that i'm touching it's on the other side and there's text that goes like
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this and then there's a like a black line that runs from here all the way
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across to here there's a www.something
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the most bizarre thing i've ever seen
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so um so that was that was kind of weird
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oh what else we got so yeah there's my old motherboard
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um raid card that's one of the other things i have to figure out over the
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course of this project this fan is really loud but it needs to be on there
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in order to cool the battery backup unit so i'm either going to pull the battery
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backup unit off of it or i'm going to figure out a better way
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to cool it that doesn't involve this allowed obnoxious little tiny fan uh
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made most of the noise in my system so it's got to
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go the advantage of the battery backup unit is that if my raid array fails in
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the middle of a right operation or while something is still in the cache of
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the of the raid card and not yet on my drives it's like partially in both
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places it can cause the uh data to be corrupted so the battery
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backup will flush the cache to um
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i don't remember it flushes it somewhere whatever
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or from RAM to something i don't know anyway it prevents corruption and uh
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but what happened was it was overheating
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so i had to put a fan on it and then it's loud so that's annoying uh so yeah
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reservoirs dirty these are really hard to clean i love the mc res micro but i
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really wish it was easier to clean so that's one of the things i'll be doing i
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have pulled off half of my ssds so far so i've got to pull off the other half
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of them still going to be sticking with the same SSD configuration i mean when
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you have eight ssds it doesn't matter if they're say to two or say to three you're uh you're going to be limited by
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other things other than the interface to each individual drive so
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um yeah i got to clean up wiring to the t-balancer a little bit as well there's
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a lot of extra there so i'll be cutting off some wires and then
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re-re-tying them and re-soldering them in order to clean things up if i if i
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have the gumption i also want to see these the gray on the insides
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of these i wouldn't mind spray painting those black just so that it's a little bit
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cleaner looking at the front if you get this angle it looks good but then if you
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get this dangle you see the gray so i'd like to like to get that fixed up
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and i'll think about painting the optical drive just because that's kind of ugly
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i think that's pretty much it for now so uh until there are more updates