Personal Rig Update 2015 Part 4 - My new gaming PC is done!!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,962 words · ~9 min read
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that's twice in two days actually that I
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am building something so huge that I
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don't even fit next to it welcome to personal rig 2015 upgrade part 4 so if
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you've been following along up till now I've introduced the hardware I have
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introduced the I don't remember what the second video was about I have introduced
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yes my friends the birth of the case right the second one was designing it
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and now I am finally going to build
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it fresh books is the super simple invoicing solution that lets you get
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organized save time and get paid faster check out the link in the video
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description to try it for free so this
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was a bit of a roller coaster of a build for a variety of reasons it started out
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actually like I was really excited cuz I had this great concept I've designed the
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case from scratch with help from Taran and Proto case and like it finally
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arrived and I'm like yeah I've got this new concept for taking my system and
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putting it in a completely different room to achieve true silence and then I
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looked at my old rig and I was like it's actually kind of hard to say goodbye
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I've been using that case that tj7 BW
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for 9 years it was a gift from my then girlfriend now wife I have polished it I
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have dremeled it and cut it I have painted it I have stripped all the paint
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I have painted it again and we have been through a lot and between that and the
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radiator in the front that's my first ever water cooling radiator that I've
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been using for 12 years I I am leaving
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behind some of the pieces of like my PC
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Enthusiast history that actually ended up meaning a little bit more to me than
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I had originally thought that they did
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but um hey the build's got to go on so
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it started with carefully extracting the motherboard being really careful not to
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chip that extremely fragile paint job that I gave it way back in this
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controversial video here and grabbing some of the components that I'm going to
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carry with me so the CPU the 5960x 8
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core that's coming with me so is that goldplated Apple block from swifttech
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and actually this is a funny one my optical drive is coming with me because
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it handles CDs DVDs HDD DD and Blu-ray
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all in one drive not to mention it has light scribe yes I'm sure someone
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somewhere on Earth cares about light scribe one thing that won't be coming
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with me is these UV LEDs these are the worst lighting solution I have ever
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encountered they stop working within 1 to two weeks and then the UV light
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actually causes the resin to turn to like Stone and crack it's ridiculous so
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the RAM's new here we've got 64 gigs of Corsair Dominator Platinum I installed
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them the way that I do install RAM not a whole lot to say about that the radiator
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was a whole other story this was a tight
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fit at the front and it actually took quite a while to get the cables for the
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front panel connectors as well as front USB kind of out of the way enough to get
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it just barely wedged in there and then I equipped it with three of those LTT
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Edition noct to n12 fans now these are
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pretty quiet fans but honestly I'm the kind of person where if this system was
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actually sitting next to my head on my table I would be fan controlling them
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but I ended up not carrying the T balancer forward and I'm just using two
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of these little Molex to three fan connector cables that cable mod made up
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for me with uh turns out they actually kind of screwed them up a little
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inadvertently they didn't screw them up they're fine but they're three pin
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whereas the fans are four pin so they didn't fit so I had to cut them and then
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hot glue them together to secure the cables anyway it's all fine it's all
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good so my point is that I would normally use a fan controller but I
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didn't have to because the whole point of this build is to have it in a room
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away from me the SSD was the next thing
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I tackled while I was waiting for the glue gun to warm up and this was a
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I could not get the stock cooler off I even tried a heat gun finally I resorted
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to a hobby knife to cut the thermal
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adhesive on the Nan chips I mean damn
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even then it was hard to pry the thing off the good news though is that the
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results are definitely worth it EK you
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never seize to amaze me liquid cooling in SSD who to think
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it the other front radiator was I
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thought going to be the hardest part of this build it needed to be precisely cut
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for the Hardline tubing to get exactly the right length to sit in between them
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I'm running them in parallel and even
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once I got that right tiing down the collar on the fittings was a freaking
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nightmare the good news is that Monsoon tubing kit that was provided by
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performance PCS is freaking awesome so I
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used it to cut the tubing to exactly that right length it did take a couple
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tries even so then with some very careful and tedious fussing around with
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the mounts cuz the rad had to be slid into place from front to back and then
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the tubing had to be pushed in from back to front and basically I learned a
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valuable lesson about if I were to design this case again I would definitely not do it this way but I
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eventually got it in there and by the end of it it was not leaking speaking of
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not leaking and awesome freaking stuff recommended by performance PCS this
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Monsoon Reservoir I mean I could talk to
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you guys about mounting it or whatever with screws but instead I'm just going
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to talk about how balls to the wall amazing it looks it uses Monsoon modular
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system so you can actually configure it any number of different ways and they
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kind of asked me what I wanted to do and I went gee that looks complicated you
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figure something out and send it to me so they sent it with cathodes for the
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bottom that I actually ended up taking out since I didn't really have anywhere
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to put an inverter and I wanted to go
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with UV LED lighting anyway so so I took
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those out but even then holy crap it
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looks so cool there's a ton of options for inlets and Outlets there's a lot of
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flexibility sort of once I get to my tubing and the D5 pump goes right to the
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end with this like sick metal cover on it and it all comes together really
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nicely and saves me another tubing run at the same time freaking sick I didn't
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think anything was going to impress me more than my old t- virus Reservoir this
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one definitely did on the subject of
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tubing though this was a disaster from
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the start complete disaster the original
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plan was to hard pipe water cool this thing so I broke out the monsoon kit
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again I got the heat gun I got the fancy fittings I started cutting tubing length
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except for one small problem the block for the 750 SSD is so much lower profile
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than the GPU block that the bend here ended up being impossible at least for
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me so I had to start evaluating other
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options even going as far as to dig up some red angled fittings that were
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earmarked for a project I never ended up completing and man that would have
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looked awful but I was desperate trying to come up with some way to Plum that
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card fortunately by some miracle I found
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enough between the random fittings bin and my old system 90° fittings and
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straight compressions to complete the build if I was willing to go back to
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flexible tubing which I mean sure the runs aren't as perfect and beautiful and
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clean looking as they would be with Hardline but there are a lot of benefits
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to flexible tubing it is harder for it to leak it is easier to work with it you
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ever want to upgrade and honestly I am okay with it it ended up looking in my
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opinion pretty sick anyway and if I'm being entirely honest with myself it's
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going to be installed in a server cabinet in a closet anyway so I'm
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unlikely to ever see the guts unless I'm working on it which leads us finally to
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the conclusion where I guess a lot of Brandon sexy b-roll is going to go I
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learned a lot about a lot of things I especially learned a lot about designing
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a case it is not as easy as the case
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designers out there like George from Corsair make it look I did a lot of
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things right actually this was Monsoon idea having a fill port on the side of
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the system in order to make this thing so easy to fill freaking awesome I
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personally like the front panel that was painted by our neighbor over here at
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Linus Media Group uh he does like helicopter repair and apparently
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airbrushing on the side I love the front panel I love the concept of the water
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cooled rack mount case but man there were a lot of little things I could have
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done to make my life easier in terms of planning out the tubing runs better in
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terms of planning out the radiator installation better but the good news is
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now that the system is actually built I think it looks fantastic I can't wait to
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install it and it and my wife's system
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and the new NZ and all that stuff so there is going to be a part five of
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personal rig update 2015 but it is not this day today is done it's 2:40 in the
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morning I am ready to go home today is done and it is finally
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built and I actually very happy with it and I hope you guys are happy
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I just did well depending on when you're watching this I might have done it a
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long time ago if you're watching this 10 years in the future where I have seven
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gaming rigs running off of a single box it's freaking bananas