THE $30,000 7 GAMERS 1 CPU BUILD IS NO MORE! - Disassembly Stream
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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16,642 words · ~83 min read
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pretty cool stuff right they're good guys but that is not the subject of
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today's stream no my friends today's stream is all about the seven Gamers one
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CPU machine or more accurately the death of
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the seven Gamers one CPU machine because
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that is what we will be doing today we will be disassembling it we will be
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tearing it limb from limb live for you
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or on the uh video on demand for you holy crap I forgot how heavy this thing
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was so I actually never really showed anything to do with the process of
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building it if I recall correctly I
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ended up just just like kind of building it during a WAN Show when when Luke was
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hosting by himself so now I'm going to go ahead and take it
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apart so yeah without further Ado I've got all my tools with me so I've got one
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iix hit kit two iix hit
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kits oh right it's an aluminum case there well I've got a magnetic Parts
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tray for the magnetic parts that are inside it got my laptop so I can monitor
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the twitch chat here and I have a lot of
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water when I did the ultra wide Festival
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winners like live build thing that I did I made the mistake of streaming for
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almost 2 hours or however long it was with no freaking water huge huge problem
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you guys would be amazed how much moisture you can expel just by talking
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so I've never actually done a review of this case this is the case oh I've got a
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lot of people asking me a lot of people asking me um guys are the reason I'm
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taking it apart is because I take apart pretty much all
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of the computers that we build there's almost nothing that we actually get to
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keep forever I mean it's um and and even
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if we even if we were able to hold on to the hardware I mean this
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is just about the world's least practical computer in every possible way
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like when you're flying that close to
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the Sun it is pretty easy to get burned
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so um it's you know compatibility with
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USB devices when it posts isn't great um
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just general behavior is not great it
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kicks off a ton of heat it consumes a metric whack ton of power like there's a
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lot of reasons I can think of to take apart this computer so that that my
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friends would be why but I do have big
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plans for a lot of the hardware that is still in here I'm just going to pull up
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my USB drive so these USB drives here are actually what runs un raid the SSD
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array in the bottom which I can probably get you guys a better angle at here so
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this SSD array here in the bottom was only running the 7 VM so I had uh 8
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terabytes so about actually only about 500 gigs per VM because I was running
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with a redundant uh storage setup I've actually this is cool so I've actually
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got another camera angle for you guys today uh compared to the last one of
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these streams I did I'm kind of trying this out as a new format um wow that is
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not focusing at all come on Mr webcam
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you can do it there you go so I can really get you guys uh a better look at
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uh at what I'm doing in certain cases I don't know if we ever actually showed
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super close up how to remove those cards so that's one thing that I'm going to
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I'm going to try and show you guys with this camera angle if I if I can but yeah
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in general this is uh this is a new format I'm trying out where I just kind
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of do things live because the reality of it is I'm working on this stuff anyway
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so y'all might as well come along for the ride if you're into that sort of
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thing I mean people watch each other play video games on Twitch they might as
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well watch each other build computers it's not that different is it okay so
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the way the cas laabs S8 comes comes apart actually I I kind of wish I had
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done a review or something of the case before I I went ahead and did seven
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Gamers cuz it's it's pretty nice I quite
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like it like there's some sort of like
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you know it doesn't have the same you know Beauty I guess as something like a
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Le and Lee but it definitely has like this industrial Beauty to it that I
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personally uh can can quite appreciate and I have
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realized that um I uh made a mistake and
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I am planning to disassemble a water cooled computer and I did not bring a
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bucket so I will do that and I will be
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right back I I am pretty sure that my
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audio device is going to is going to work for as far as I need to go so I'll
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excuse me I will I will try and keep you guys company but uh no guarantees on
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that one I just need to find a
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bucket I am talking to the stream not to myself people around here
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they're looking at me like I'm crazy that Brandon guy who are you talking to
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maybe to my imaginary friend are you going to judge me I could hear him
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judging I could hear him judging right in his
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voice either that or I'm just reading too much into it and uh and lashing out
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I mean maybe this stream is a good time to discuss my personality
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flaws or maybe I have the bucket I
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need and I am ready to continue working
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on the computer
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yes that is indeed what's going
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on I'm back so uh apparently oh everyone
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in twitch chat is judging me now too they're saying I'm a terrible person for
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uh for for hating on Brandon I I don't hate on Brandon I love Brandon that's
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why that's why I control Brandon like that me and Brandon we're like
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besties okay oh wow
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man this thing's heavy so we're going to start by draining the water and this is
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something that there's no real one way
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to do I mean sure professional Builders
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will say stuff like well you should really have like a a drain point in your
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Loop or something or something but the way that I actually usually do it I'm
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just going to go ahead and I'm going to prop up wow I don't have an easy a
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really easy access access to the
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um to any of the tubing here this is uh
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this one right here is kind of a funny story actually why don't I why don't I
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talk about that before we go any further so the here we go let's switch angles
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here so the original spec for the system
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called for the one pump here with the reservoir attached to it and I had
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originally thought that EK was going to provide me with
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oh no there it is sorry sorry sorry so eekk
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was going to provide me with a block for the seven cards that was parallel so so
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that is to say that the the restrictiveness of it would be very low
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but it's actually serial so it goes through one block then the next then the next then the next then the next then
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the next um so I actually ended up having to add another pump at the last
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minute an adventure that ended up causing
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uh uh Taran and I to spill uh a bunch of
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water onto the system it was incredibly
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incredibly scary um so I think I'm going
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to use that point as my access point
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here so like I said most professional you know water cooled machine Builders
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will tell you oh well you should have like a drain port and you should do all this stuff and you should that is indeed
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the correct way to do it but what I usually do is not bother with that and
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then I'll just rip off a piece of tubing somewhere that I'm you know at least 90%
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certain it will not uh leak onto anything else so first let's get some of
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our cable management ties out of here and then that looks like a pretty uh
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pretty good candidate right there so I'm going to do my best to get
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you guys a reasonable angle at what that
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I'm what I'm doing here
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um and okay here we
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go wow this is not gonna be this is not
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going to be an easy thing though so basically I'm going to take my bucket
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I'm going to put it right here and then I'm going to crack open one of these
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fittings and start draining it and
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you're going to see a lot of things that are not necessarily the industry
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accepted best practices on this stream but
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frankly a lot of the stuff that I do isn't industry best practices and I
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think I like to think that's one of the things we like about me
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shut up Brandon yeah the audio is great on the
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uh on the interface yeah it sounds really good I just had to play around
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with the um delays I still want to know
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why the audio wasn't working to begin with too yeah funny funny story guys um I
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probably have about 40 like test recording Clips here um of trying to get
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this stream working
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uh yeah so we finally got it working anyway that is the quick and dirty and
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the empasis is on dirty way to get most
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of the water out of a water cooling Loop so you can begin to disassemble it now I
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don't think that I actually got anywhere
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anything even resembling all of it so let me just find out where my uh
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trying to remember which way things were going around let's go the other way see if I
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can get some more out of those radiators cuz that is not enough
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water oh man I don't know if I have the
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lung capacity for 2360 RADS and seven GPU blocks
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okay I mean that's the thing about doing something like this on stream right is
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if I pass out you guys will call someone
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right okay let's just call that good enough now when I say quick and dirty I
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really do mean dirty um I'm not planning to reuse really any of these components
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in any sort of reasonable time frame so they will have plenty of time for any
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microbes that I just blew into them to die
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um
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yeah so now we can actually start
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disconnecting many of the other components we're going to get a little bit of water on stuff but like I don't
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know people freak out about electronics and water and my goodness but the
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reality of it is the machine's not even booted up right now it's not powered on
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there's literally no power to anything anywhere um so the actual chances of
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damaging it with water are are very very
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slim I mean I have washed motherboards
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like literally soap and water washed motherboards long story what it had on
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it that needed to be washed off but I have done that and then allowed it to
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dry for like two weeks in a hot place
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with air flow and with any you know applicable heat sinks or or nooks and
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crannies exposed so that you can really dry everything out and um I have yet to
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have something that was off that got just water now to be clear I'm talking
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fresh water here I'm not talking salt water I'm not talking contaminated water
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but anything that's just gotten like fresh clean water on it I've yet to have
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anything that had any lasting effects all right so bump number one is
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out um and we can maybe we'll pull out
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pump number two now this one was not quite as simple to get at I'm going to
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switch to my overhead view here to try and show you guys what I'm doing
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now all right Boop there we go
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so pump number two I got to remove these front panel pieces I do like how much of
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this case is actually tooless um for such a sort of industrial
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feeling
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design just take out these and it's really really modular as well which is
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which is really cool they're really really good guys over there at Cas laabs
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we've literally never worked with them before this but uh they were like way on
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board to uh to help us out with this project they even custom painted the
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side of the chassis forest and stuff like that which was which was really really cool of them I mean obviously you
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know they get something out of it you know they get the exposure in the video
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but um still you know not everyone not everyone wants to work with you so so
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it's nice when people do oh that's interesting okay I think I
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might have might have forgotten how this
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goes together um and there may not be an easy
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what how did this work what what the
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crap does this one pop off the other
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thing what
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the HM okay I have forgotten how this
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goes together so I am going to go
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somewhere else for now let's get the
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let's get the radiators out cuz those things are really in my
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way I think I have a screwdriver for that in here
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hex hex hex hex hex no this oh this doesn't have
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hexes that's funny I thought it did that's okay this one
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does
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okay wow I am really warm I am going to
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have to start stripping pretty quick here I know twitch frowns on it but uh
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they might just have to deal cuz I legitimately way too warm right
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now I mean here's something are you allowed to like are you allowed to like
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take clothes off seductively if you actually don't show any skin like where
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is the
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limit
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okay oh 3,000 people watching me take apart a computer imagine if I was
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actually like building one well no I don't have to imagine that we
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actually did do a stream about that before but um okay all right this is
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probably the most tedious thing about my
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job is disassembling the computers that
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I spent all this time building um like there's
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nothing rewarding feeling about it it's
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nice that you guys are here to keep me company um cuz I usually just do this by
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myself but uh yeah pretty much every machine that we've ever built like the
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number of people who asked me uh you know why I thought my threeyear old
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needed a you know $3,000 gaming machine of course not I'm just making videos I'm
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just making videos on the internet
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um so yeah pretty much every machine that you've ever seen has been
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disassembled shortly after we built it with a couple of exceptions so personal
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rigs um they're called personal rig update because that's my personal rig
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um the oil machine has not yet been disassembled and I never intended to
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disassemble it but I'm going to have to now because it's um it's damaged leaks
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which is a super bummer okay so this RADS out we're going
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to go ahead and retrieve the old bucket
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here and pop off a couple of fittings
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sorry I'm having a hard time keeping keeping your guys's angle very good you
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know what okay hopefully I don't break all of Brandon's hard
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work
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okay oh my goodness this thing is so
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heavy okay let's see if that's a little
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better yeah now you guys can actually see what I'm doing cuz I might be over here on the edge of the table sometimes
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especially if I have this this bucket here oh I've got people asking where the
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oil machine is leaking it's actually leaking in exactly the same spot as last
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time down the back seam um and I tried to repair it I did like a vlog video
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where I where I actually showed the you know as far as I can tell correct repair
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process but it didn't hold and unfortunately due to a patent troll
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everybody's favorite people Puget is not allowed to manufacture those cases
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anymore so I can't even get a new case to transplant it into so the entire
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thing is just just dead now
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unfortunately yeah uh yeah this video is going to be on YouTube as well um for
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whoever that is that asked it um yeah
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the Berkeley is talking about the iix hit kit yeah man you know what's funny I
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actually you uh you mentioned using our our um our sponsor link for it I don't
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think they've actually sponsored anything with us in a in a while it's so
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funny like I have people you know chasing me about sponsored this and
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sponsored that all the time like I did um I finally got around to fixing the
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home button on my iPhone 4 which has been dead for like I don't know it's
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been sort of going slowly for well over a year anyway and um my my picture like
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the Instagram picture that I posted when I was working on it had an iix IT kit in
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it and people are like that product placement D and it's
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like no I'm doing a phone repair what
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else am I supposed to use if I have an i fix it kit I'm going to use it
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like okay let's get this other uh let's
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get this other rad out of
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here it'll be nice to salvage these LT Edition fans back I've actually got
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another really cool project planned for them very very soon like a full Linus
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Tech tips Edition build and I know this
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ended up kind of being that with the uh the black and orange color scheme but
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the other one's going to be a much more realistic machine um one that I would
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actually expect people to be able to buy
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um so it's going to be off the-shelf
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black and orange components with one exception I am planning to paint a
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reference NVIDIA cooler so that one
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should be pretty cool I considered just using something from someone like I
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believe both Gigabyte and Zotac have
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black and orange themed cards but I mean I wanted to spice up the build a little
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bit so I'm actually I've got some of it's ordered already some of it I still
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need to order but I've got some Automotive grade paint like the same kind of stuff that we used in that LG
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monitor painting guide and I'm going to be showing you guys how to paint
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disassemble paint and then reassemble your NVIDIA reference cooler should be
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good should be good I'm really looking forward to it okay so this radiator I'm
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actually not as worried about leakage
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with uh just because the barbs are on the top side but we still might get a
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couple drips so I'm going to try and get my my water bucket pretty close to it um
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you'll notice that what I'm doing is I am removing fittings or I I'm removing
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the fittings and I am um taking the tubing off of components that are very
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unlikely to be damaged by water like a radiator so here I'll actually I'll get
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you guys my uh my other camera angle here sorry I apologize to people who get
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motion sick for for that so what I'll do is I'll leave this tube attached to the
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video card because if I were to take this fitting off then what would happen
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potentially is any little drips here would go right onto the motherboard
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whereas if I leave the tube here then at
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least I can kind of tie it up somewhere like up on this piece of metal or
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something so I can keep it from dripping and then if anything drips off of this
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radiator well no big deal because it's just going to fall down into to my
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bucket and I apologize for the frame rate on that camera too I don't know
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what the deal is with that maybe I can fix it sorry give me just uh give me
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just one second here guys I'm just going to switch to it and see if maybe it's
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set to like 15 FPS or something like that I don't know what the deal is uh no
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okay motion jpeg 30fps I don't know yeah
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it's it's running super trash though I don't know what the problem is normally
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those webcams are really good we use them all the time but I'm I'm Linus
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I can break a live stream I can break tall live streams with a single bound
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Etc I don't know what it is I'm like snake bitten like Luke doesn't even get
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it cuz he streams all the time like all the time from home and he's just like
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yep I know how to use this software you're definitely using it right uh we
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have better Hardware at the office also the same hardware and we sometimes we
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end up like going through the whole everything and it just uh doesn't
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work sorry I'm not crying I'm just I'm a Feeling a little under the weather right
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now feeling a little sick so I was commenting to Luke today I don't
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remember the last time I actually had a a sick day that I was able to take off
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being self-employed there are good things about it for sure like I love my
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job I am not complaining that it is my job to hang out with you guys and take
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apart this computer right now but uh the
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the vacation the vacation negotiation uh between my union rep and
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my employer did not go particularly well tell you that much all right
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so Pro tip keep all your fittings
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together so if you've got like uh hold
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Downs for compression fittings put those on the barbs as you go because otherwise
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you're going to be running around after the fact trying to figure out what the
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heck what the heck happened to everything all right so
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now we've got most of the really bulky
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water cooling stuff removed from the system so we can start to focus in on
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removing some of the some of the blocks I really like getting all the water
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stuff out before I do really anything else because
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um it kind of holds everything in it's the piece that went in last so I find
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it's the piece that's easiest to take out
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first I got someone suggesting I buy a lonus clone to do the extra
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work got people asking about Union no no
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lineus Media Group is uh definitely not
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uh not Union we uh I I don't even I
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don't even begin to know what the process would be um or yeah anything
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like that okay got an extra tube here don't
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need that anymore actually you know what I'll just put those in my water bucket
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believe it or not it's very difficult to damage a piece of tubing with water so
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you you can kind of throw all your water water junk into the into the water
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bucket try and contain it last thing you want is a bunch of
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water kind of all over the place when you're trying to take out the rest of
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the components because like I said um you know clean water generally not
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really a problem but bearing in mind
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that the water in a system like this and this one hasn't been running very long
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so it's less of a concern but the water in a system like this can pick up
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contaminants from things like the copper blocks so you can end up up with copper
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ions in your Loop and um and and it can
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end up being a problem and copper ions aren't the only ones actually this is
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really good water cooler trick that most novices don't know these days but um
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putting a piece of silver in your Loop I've actually run um silver silverplated
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fittings before it worked just great putting a piece of silver in your Loop
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acts as a natural bioside so you don't have to deal with uh any funky business
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growing in your water Without Really adding anything I've had a lot of people
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ask me over the years uh what's the best fluid for water cooling and I say well
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it's right in the name water water is the best thing for
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water cooling a lot of show builds are going to use you know fancy fluids that
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have like these milky cloudy effects and like do all this crazy stuff uh but the
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reality of it is you ask even those professional modders who use that stuff
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um in the show builds that they do they're all going to tell you exactly
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the same thing if you are building like a 247 like a daily driver machine you
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water cool with water if you want to not
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have to deal with any hassle down the road I really like this uh Reservoir and
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pump combo the DK sent over for this build it's actually aside from the seven
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GPU block um like uh splitter thing is
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probably my favorite piece of it because so many pump reservoir combos use the DD
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d c and I am not sold on the DDC I have
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had almost every DDC that I've ever used
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for an extended period of time has failed whereas the D5 in my personal rig
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was manufactured in like 2008 or something stupid like that I've never
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had a D5 fail on me I mean I worked at a retailer I've seen the failure rates um
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the D5 is definitely the more reliable and the thing that really bothers me
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more about the DDC is everyone talks about how quiet it is it is not quiet it
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has a very distinctive wine especially
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compared to a D5 at very low RPM so uh
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very few guys make Reservoir pump combo units with the D5 but EK did and I'm uh
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very happy that they did I really like this one sorry guys I apologize for my
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sniffles I know no one wants to hear that but uh I mean hey you're here so
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maybe you are into that I don't know all right so I'm going to put that over
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there actually I'm going to put these RADS over here as well we actually just
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got a new guy today who is supposed to help with stuff like tearing down
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machines but um I didn't want his first assignment to be taking apart a
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literally $30,000 computer well okay
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okay okay strictly speaking the tower is only about 20 $21,000 but um so I was
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including the monitors in that overall in that overall cost of the system but
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um I mean even so does that really make a difference I didn't want his first
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assignment to be a 20,000 computer either so I figured I'd do this
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one and I kind of like the idea of streaming it I wanted to see if you guys
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like this you can give me some feedback in the twitch chat if you think the the
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format is good I mean we're always trying new things but it's it gets hard
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like you know try and wrap your brain around this for a moment but I have done
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something in the neighborhood of
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3500 YouTube videos like it's
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ridiculous and the object is to come up
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with something different and unique every time and so you know if you're not
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trying to experiment with new formats all the time then you're can totally
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fail
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um oh what what the heck that's
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weird uh okay looks like we need a new
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battery on the other camera I will uh call in air support and hopefully we will get that
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resolved very very quickly actually my setup is uh my setup is pretty good
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today I actually have the stream monitored over there and uh I have my
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lifeline Brandon who will come you know
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what I I hear someone coming already I suspect someone else in the office has
29:41
already clued into this and is on their way up here with a battery look it's
29:46
Blandon oh I was about to call you yeah can I get a battery for that one I need
29:51
something El oh you need my stuff ah I see okay don't bump that AVX by the way
29:56
I figured out why it was turning off I I think the battery connection is loose yeah so when you were like moving
30:01
it around in the socket it derped I
30:04
wasn't moving around yeah you did you you flipped it from the orientation I
30:08
had to Vertical so that was why it cut out I think we're always learning new things
30:13
about how our equipment is broken audio is the worst like we have so many
30:18
lavalier microphones all of which are like you know $200 $300 or
30:24
whatever um
30:28
and yeah like many many many of them
30:32
have died I think we do go kind of hard on our on our equipment
30:36
though yeah hashtag blame Dennis I like that thank you twitch chat I forgot to
30:41
blame Dennis for
30:44
this okay tubing in there thank you I
30:49
appreciate it you can't tell from which one that
30:54
one what it said half battery it's what
30:57
it says half battery battery half battery oh well the the stream cut out I
31:02
don't know that's weird oh I wonder if it was the capture card that
31:06
derped that seems possible okay yeah it
31:10
has half crying out loud okay well thanks
31:14
Brandon thanks anyway oh well it's back
31:18
so whatever he did let's say fixed it
31:21
good good job
31:25
Brandon I don't know man I'm so glad that most of what we do isn't live like
31:30
I don't envy the full-time twitch streamers I mean I I I like I get it
31:34
like I I hear all the sort of you know people who have to work at a real job
31:39
sort of arguments like they get paid to play video games I I I get that um but
31:44
the reality of it is is that like being on all the time being live like that is
31:49
actually really mentally fatiguing and I
31:53
mean the kinds the kind of stuff that those guys have to go through whether
31:57
it's you you know their network connections being attacked or whether
32:01
it's like I mean all the kind of stupid stuff that happens you know twitch chat
32:05
being mean or you know wardrobe malfunctions or you know whatever kind
32:09
of kind of problems they have um especially technical difficulties man
32:15
when you are live and you have technical difficulties it is horrible whereas
32:20
everything we do is is edited so if
32:23
there's a problem like we get a chance to fix it if there's like a hitch in the
32:26
audio then you know whatever we can like we
32:31
get a chance to fix it and post whereas when you're live like everything you do
32:35
or say is like right out there it's like crazy all right so I do want to show you
32:40
guys this um I did I did promise that this would be part of the video I'm
32:44
going to try and maybe I'll like prop this camera up on something right here
32:49
or something I don't I don't really know exactly how I'm going to tackle this but
32:53
uh so the process for removing these graphics cards is redon so basically I
32:58
have to go I have to pull the tab of the
33:02
very bottom one first then while I'm
33:05
lifting the entire block of cards I have
33:09
to pull the tab on the second one then
33:12
kind of keeping the angle up I have to pull the tab on the third one then the
33:16
fourth one actually you can tell they're all kind of loose right now um I was
33:21
messing around with it a little bit to get the um seven people actually gaming
33:24
on it as well as the overclocking video that's coming done but um yeah actually
33:30
it looks like it's G to be relatively easy right now here but you kind of have
33:33
to pull it up here and then I have to pry it up from the other side so I got
33:38
to kind of pry it up this way then when
33:42
that's loose see you can see all the tabs tightened again I've got to pull on
33:46
all the tabs again and then finally I can remove the
33:51
bloody thing I mean this was
33:54
not not the kind of build that I would
33:58
that I would recommend that anyone do I mean and there are other issues too like
34:02
one of the big ones that we had to contend with throughout this is that
34:05
AMD's uh support for VMS in this way is
34:09
very very poor uh they took a bit of a shortcut or they claim they didn't but
34:15
it appears that they took a bit of a shortcut on the uh Fiji architecture
34:20
cards that makes it so that when you soft power down a virtual
34:26
machine the card doesn't properly reboot
34:31
like it doesn't properly reset oh okay there it
34:35
goes oh boy here show this to you guys there you
34:41
go oh so there it is the card block the
34:45
block of cards the card brick so
34:49
bad there you go it's like and it weighs
34:54
so much like it is so freaking heavy um
34:59
anyway so what happens is when you reboot a VM like a soft like a oh it's
35:03
pouring water all over the place uh I guess we should do this first like a
35:07
soft reset um the the car doesn't
35:11
actually properly reboot and so what happens is it doesn't give up its
35:15
resources again so when the when the rebooted like the new the fresh soft
35:21
reboot tries to grab the cardigan the
35:25
resources are already in use by the previous
35:28
by the previous boot I'm really not explaining this very well actually
35:31
normally I'm better at this see this is the kind of thing I'm talking about live streaming is difficult
35:36
um but the way that NVIDIA handles it is
35:39
even with a soft reset the card will release all the resources and it's all
35:44
good to go there is a workaround uh the workaround and and this is like this is
35:49
like insanity uh so the workaround is that in the uh safely add and remove
35:54
Hardware uh system tray thing what you
35:58
can do is you can eject your GPU and
36:01
then you can go back to unraid so you can navigate to it on the network um and
36:07
then you can stop the VM that way but I
36:12
mean the issue is that when you're trying to troubleshoot something the odds of being able
36:17
to properly eject something and then
36:20
shut down the machine is very slim so what would happen and this was just
36:26
infuriating what would happen is anytime I had a
36:30
problem with any VM that caused it to have to be rebooted anything but
36:33
perfectly gracefully and by the way that solution didn't always work um what I
36:38
would have to do was I would have to shut down all the VMS then I would have
36:42
to reboot the machine which takes about 4 minutes because of all the hardware
36:46
connected to it that uh unraid had to detect then I would have to start up all
36:53
the VMS again and then like you know it doesn't sound that bad but you know let
36:56
me tell you when you were working on something under a time crunch you know
37:00
waiting it was around a total of about an 8 to 10 minute process every time I
37:05
had an issue with a VM and I had to reboot one of them it would have been
37:10
made a lot simpler if I could reboot one at a time but I had to do the whole
37:14
entire system and sometimes it took a
37:17
lot longer than that like for example if I had to here I'll give you guys the
37:21
overhead view I'm actually doing stuff right now so if I had to for example um
37:26
open up a bunch of benchmarks so that I could run all the benchmarks at the same
37:30
time or let's say I was in the middle of running a benchmark like fire strike for
37:34
example and one of the VMS um you know
37:37
crashes or does something so now I have to go back shut down everything reboot
37:44
everything wait around for that then I have to fire up all the VMS after I've
37:49
like diagnosed what's going wrong then
37:52
then lucky me I get to fire up all of
37:56
those programs again one by one and then I get to start them again and then I get
37:59
to hope they finish this time and this system was not particularly
38:07
stable so it's funny I actually um my
38:10
contacted unraid sorry this a USB this
38:13
is so this like this is the kind of stupid stuff that I get to deal with
38:17
here guys check this out and it's like it's not a huge deal
38:23
but when you're in a hurry it's like the end of the world so you can see this
38:26
this USB 3 connector I was having a really hard time um
38:30
getting at releasing the gpus with the USB 3 plugged in and this USB header on
38:35
the board look at this it comes off the
38:39
pins it sticks the the connector here
38:42
sticks so hard in the socket that it just pulls the housing right off the
38:47
pins and that's the kind of stuff where it's
38:50
like I am in a hurry right now I'm trying to make a video I do not have
38:55
time for this crap and it's constant it's constant
38:58
like what I don't know it's it's funny I was talking about how people talk about
39:02
how game streamers have an easy job people think I have an easy job too and
39:05
like I said I love my job but it is and
39:09
I broke it broke the housing well I do
39:13
love my job but it is not necessarily as
39:16
easy as a lot of people think that it is
39:20
so now I'll just put the broken housing back on there I mean whatever it's not
39:23
like uh it's not like I'm which one is it
39:28
one it's not like I have any warranty coverage on this board
39:32
anyway there we go USB 3 is actually surprisingly hard
39:37
to line up when you're doing this USB 2 is really easy but the pins are so small
39:42
for USB 3 and if you line it up wrong you'll end up crushing one of the pins
39:46
and folding it flat onto the board which is a big problem um because then you
39:51
have to bend it back and get it just perfect USB 2 is easy like I mean these
39:55
things come off all the time it's not it's not a huge deal or anything it's
39:59
just annoying when you're in a hurry and
40:02
you have to like yank and replace a stupid header
40:06
housing every time you need to do something it's
40:12
ridiculous wow 4,300 viewers on uh
40:16
taking apart a computer you guys always you guys always impress me like I never
40:20
I never know this is a funny thing too like I I don't consume a lot of online
40:25
video mostly because I just really don't have time I'm too busy making it um so a
40:31
lot of the time I'm just kind of taking a shot in the dark at what I think
40:35
people might like because cuz I'm not really making something designed for
40:39
myself like I think it's it's really easy for me to do something like the um
40:44
the LTT Edition knock to a fan like to come up with an
40:48
idea like including a fanhub
40:52
sticker inside the box and I'll like one does that and to
40:58
me as an Enthusiast it's really easy to come up with an idea like that because I
41:02
think well man you know there's only one
41:05
way to install a fan out of four where the the rear hub sticker is correctly
41:11
aligned with you know gravity so you can read whatever's on it or whatever else
41:16
so why don't we just include a sticker and people can Orient it whatever way
41:19
they want it's like so it's easy for me
41:22
to think of something like that because I am the target audience but actually
41:26
making video I love technology I mean I love I nerd
41:30
out over this stuff I really really do but when it comes to you know what
41:36
formats people want to experience technology with me and it's really not
41:42
always that straightforward for me and I'm just kind of
41:48
guessing ah and I got these Wicked sniffles I really hope that I feel
41:53
better very soon because this sucks
41:57
it super duper sucks the big one I feel like I've been sick for months I
42:01
actually wasn't sick at CES for the first time ever but I was sick before it
42:05
and I am now sick after it I'm very thankful though that I
42:10
wasn't sick at CES getting sick at CES is such a bummer but I have kids now so
42:14
I think that's a big part of the problem is they go to Like pre- Preschool or
42:18
whatever and they come home with all the germs that their little germ friends
42:22
gave them and uh I'm the one who gets to
42:26
be sick I mean they get sick too I guess and
42:29
then I get to deal with that so I'm sick I'm dealing with a sick whiny kid and
42:33
I'm sick being an adult
42:36
sucks if anyone had told me that you know being an adult was like this I
42:41
might not have bothered waiting around for it um okay actually I know again I
42:47
love my life my life is good I'm not complaining I'm just saying I hate being
42:51
sick and I think we can all relate to that so this is most of the action right
42:56
here here uh some people probably saw like Instagram posts or whatever else
43:00
but I didn't really talk much about this
43:04
motherboard and what made it special so this is a good opportunity to do it so
43:09
two sockets was requirement number one I
43:12
needed two sockets I also needed a motherboard that had seven PCI Express
43:17
slots there are lots out there that have six okay and six is relatively easy
43:23
because especially if you're doing two sockets like this you want to do and you
43:28
want to do more dim slots a lot of motherboard manufacturers will put a bunch of dim slots up here and a bunch
43:32
down here and you end up eating one or even two of these slots with all of
43:37
these PCI Express slots with all the memory dim slots that you're putting on
43:40
the board and even like even putting more to these sides here you end up with
43:44
kind of like a wider board sometimes or you end up with like an offset here of
43:48
the memory that ends up eating up one of these slots so finding one with seven
43:51
PCI Express slots real challenge this one also had a
43:57
couple other things that made it very desirable so number one is that it has
44:03
um an ikvm header so I've actually already purchased a module and I would
44:07
go get it but it'd be kind of a waste of time um you guys are you guys are live
44:10
here um so I purchased a little module that I can put on here that will allow
44:13
me to control this board remotely over the network even if it's powered off I'm
44:17
going to do a video about um about ipmi
44:21
a little bit in the future here because it's pretty cool stuff it's only really
44:24
applicable to very high-end stuff but I I person def think it's neat so I'm
44:27
going to make a video about it deal with it and then the other thing that it has
44:30
that is way more important than people probably thought is this it has Onboard
44:37
video so the Onboard video is actually closely related to that Remote
44:42
Management feature because that Onboard video is what the Remote Management
44:46
feature uses and is able to uh to Output
44:49
to even when the system is powered down so this VGA port the Onboard video on
44:54
this motherboard is what allowed me to have unraid grabbed that and allowed me
45:00
to use all seven of my plugged-in graphics cards for seven discret VMS uh
45:06
the other really cool thing that we got going on here I mean aside from you know
45:09
CPUs forun oh yeah right no more about the motherboard first actually so uh it
45:13
also has multiple usb3 controllers so what I plan to deploy this board to do
45:18
in the future is uh two ingest stations
45:21
so people can um ingest their footage at the same time uh whereas right now the
45:27
system we have is a bit of a bottleneck so I'm planning to use it for that so having two different onboard usb3
45:31
controllers is good cuz I can pass through controllers to a VM which allows
45:36
us to have hot plug within a virtual machine so each of our machines will
45:40
effectively be using like if you slice the motherboard down the middle it will
45:44
be using 128 gigs of RAM actually I'll probably swap out this RAM for something
45:47
lower capacity but it'll be using half of the RAM half the CPU and then you
45:51
know half of the USB controllers each one will get a GPU and then some other
45:54
hardware and uh then the other thing it had again like there's still more
45:58
there's a lot that makes this board pretty much the only thing I could have
46:03
used it has 12 C ports so that gave me
46:06
eight for my ssds and I had planned to have four 8 tbte hard drives for mass
46:11
storage for the VMS but that didn't end up working out because the case didn't
46:14
have anywhere to mount them uh because they screwed up the adapter they sent me
46:18
then it has this this is an auxiliary power connector for the graphics card
46:23
slots and this became a big issue back in the days when three-way and four-way
46:28
SLI first started popping up is you would actually have people because these
46:33
these cards were so power hungry you would have people burning out the slots
46:38
on their motherboards on motherboards that didn't
46:43
have these auxiliary power connectors because I mean if you think about it
46:48
like it's not magic you know each of these I think is rated for 75 watts and
46:53
then you've got the um the connectors that plug into the backs of the cards as
46:56
well well but that doesn't mean that they're not drawing from the slot so all of a sudden you know 300 uh 450 I mean
47:03
we're talking 500 watts going through what these tiny little traces here
47:07
that's ridiculous so the auxiliary power
47:10
helps augment what's coming from the 24 pin which is way up here all the way
47:15
across the board uh by feeding these a little bit more so that helps out the
47:18
ones that are plugged into the back of the card so I was hopeful that having a
47:21
board that had that feature uh would help um and then finally I think there
47:28
was one other thing that mattered I mean it looks cool so there's that uh no I
47:34
actually oh oh yeah okay so it did have support for the uh these are 32 Gigabyte
47:39
memory sticks here from Kingston so it had support from those and Kingston was
47:44
a sponsor for the project the the system was on display in their booth at CES and
47:47
all that so being compatible with their latest and greatest memory was really
47:51
really key on this and I think yeah that's pretty much
47:55
about it so I can't wait to uh to roll this roll this baby out because I other
48:00
than you know the flakiness with the cards I was using um pretty much all of
48:05
which I can explain away due to the cards I was using which I used because
48:09
they were uh very power efficient because they were very short I was
48:13
really worried about clearance issues with like stuff over here if we had full
48:17
length cards um I'm pretty sure most of
48:20
the issues I had with the machine can be explained Away by the
48:23
cards man that was frustrating though
48:27
I mean people often ask me why I use the hardware that I use for a given project
48:34
um and I pretty much use whatever I'm sure
48:42
pretty sure is going to work best and even in those cases I end up with I end
48:46
up with some issues but uh
48:49
yeah I'm not a fan of anything except
48:53
stuff that works so why do we use things
48:57
that we use generally speaking for some compelling reason like it's the only
49:01
product that is in the form factor that we need it to be in in order for this
49:05
project to be a go like a perfect example would be uh that ASRock uh mini
49:11
ITX um LGA 2011 board that we did our 18
49:15
core shoe box machine in well they've got the only
49:19
ITX um 2011 3 motherboard so what else am I
49:24
going to use or it's the thing that I am most
49:29
confident will actually function which is surprisingly hard I
49:34
mean when when like and we encounter a lot of issues that most people never
49:38
would because we're pushing this stuff to limits that it was never really
49:43
intended to be pushed
49:47
to like I guarantee you no one at AMD I
49:50
guarantee it 100% no one at AMD has ever
49:54
put seven fijes in a single motherboard and I also
49:59
guarantee you that no one at ASUS ever
50:02
put oh hold on this is going to be bad
50:05
no one ever put seven high powered graphics cards in that
50:11
motherboard how do I know they didn't do this because that's not how validation
50:16
Labs work they don't do some like
50:19
completely like ass crazy thing they do
50:23
what they expect most people to run which is why most most people will never
50:27
encounter the problem the kinds of problems that we
50:31
do um so it's frustrating because people
50:34
will get upset with us about you know oh you know I have one of these and it's great why aren't you using it well
50:38
because maybe we've had issues with it that you've never seen before and we
50:42
just tend to go with whatever we think has the best chance of working in some
50:46
kind of like Bizarro land uh scenario
50:49
like oh I don't know putting seven graphics cards in a single
50:55
machine ah
50:59
yes I am planning to upload this stream to uh YouTube and to vessel that is a
51:04
plan I think last time I did a simultaneous release but this time I am
51:09
not because last time was sort of like a weird experiment thing like I I wanted
51:14
to do a video of building the machine because LG needed a video of the
51:20
machine um but the winner was supposed to do it but I still had all his
51:24
Hardware so I was like look I'll just do a video and I came up with this idea
51:28
okay I'll just like I'll I'll live stream it because we don't have any editing resources right now and then
51:33
people liked it it's like okay sure I
51:36
mean what do I know anyway I love these cables these are
51:43
awesome super big fan of these cable mod cables we've been using for our our
51:48
projects here actually a friend of mine is one of the founders of cable mod um
51:54
they like they're they're cool guys they're just it's like yeah like whatever projects you guys do we want to
51:59
sponsor it we want to be involved um product's good love it it's always good
52:05
I love that win-win stuff where it's like good product good people easy
52:10
companies to deal with man where they take your feedback like if there's
52:14
something that I don't like they don't get all you know defensive about it
52:18
they're just like yeah okay that's cool thank you we'll fix it
52:24
um I got someone saying line bro missed
52:27
you how can you miss me I'm like all over the
52:32
Internet $400 power supply on the corner of the table it's stable look see it's
52:37
not going anywhere come on man all right this was uh this was a fun part of the
52:42
machine here this this was some this was
52:45
some Jank Jank stuff that we had going on here so I didn't get the cages that I
52:49
needed to mount the ssds so these are
52:52
straight up double-sided taped
52:56
oh wow I used the same so we actually
52:59
bought this huge like massive roll of
53:02
the same double-sided tape that GoPro includes on their mounts and then I used
53:07
like I don't know if you can see them in there see I used like massive strips of
53:11
them which was definitely a mistake but I had thought at the time that we were
53:15
going to be shipping this system down to CES so I wanted them in there like
53:19
really good last thing I want is to send a machine to Kingston to Showcase in
53:24
their booth that has like the Kingston SSD is all like banged up and all over
53:29
the inside of the uh oh
53:32
wow how the crap am I going to get these
53:42
off um this might do
53:46
it wedge
53:50
tactics uh wow okay we'll just stab them real good
53:56
in there there I may have to I may have to cut them yeah that might work
54:02
although I can tell you that did not work on the Intel 750 series SSD that I
54:08
did my personal rig with nope that was
54:11
not a good strategy um you know what I'm going to have to go find a knife here
54:15
real quick but I can tell you guys what happened to that SSD in the
54:19
meantime but died
54:22
so I uh actually this is kind of funny normally a sample product like that
54:27
would have no warranty because it would be an engineering sample with no serial
54:31
number and stuff like that but um long
54:34
story but I had a retail 750 series SSD
54:39
so I contacted Intel's warranty department I'm like yo um so I broke
54:45
this is there anything you can do for me and they were like no you're an idiot
54:50
basically um wait did you inventory this
54:53
yeah uh this is a drive uh the sticker goes on the drive and the packaging gets
54:58
thrown away don't worry about it you're still learning sorry that's our new guy
55:03
um he's learning how to inventory things
55:07
I will tell you his name once he gets past his probation we've learned a valuable lesson about introducing people
55:11
on the channel before they uh before they
55:15
actually officially make it like we had
55:18
one guy we had the last guy who was in his position lasted for two shifts he
55:23
was just like yeah you you know this isn't really
55:27
the kind of work that I had in mind and I was just like
55:30
well this is exactly what I told you you'd be doing so I really don't
55:35
understand where that expectation came from but that's okay you know no hard
55:39
feelings or anything like that but just this puts us in a bit of a bind now I
55:43
tell you guys Human Resources management is not um is not fun it's like actually
55:51
super balls lame and you know what else is not fun I cannot find my knife I'm
55:56
very sure that I lent it to someone today which means that I am equally sure
56:01
that they didn't bring it back to me and this is why I get irate about this stuff
56:04
it's not because I like to be a terrible person who's like you know mean or
56:10
whatever it's just one of those things where if people don't return stuff to me
56:15
then I end up wasting the time of literally thousands of people while I
56:19
run around and look for a knife in the
56:23
warehouse Brandon did you borrow my knife
56:28
did you okay maybe I just misplaced it somewhere then I hope I did because I
56:33
super duper like that knife it's super dull now I actually found some scissors
56:37
and I'm kind of hoping this will be the
56:42
solution here we go I'm back oh it was
56:45
in the room the whole time there I was blaming Brandon for it and it turns out
56:50
it was me I have scissors now
56:53
too just in case I need those all right right so let's try slicing these apart
56:58
here so right so this did not work for the SSD but in the case of the SSD I was
57:03
like slicing thermal adhesive off of
57:09
chips so I think what probably happened
57:12
was uh wow these are on they
57:16
good um like that I just kind of flexed too much and uh like disconnected
57:23
something from the board like it kind of works a little like Windows will pick it
57:26
up as an NVMe device but it can't you
57:29
know write anything to it the BIOS actually doesn't see it even though Windows kind of does like it's super
57:33
weird it's dead and Intel is just like yeah you you broke it dude and I'm like
57:37
yeah I know I told you I broke it and they're like well okay why did you call
57:42
then it's like I don't know maybe my internet Fame is worth
57:48
something turns out internet Fame is actually not worth much but for the
57:53
first time ever I was hanging out with um
57:57
techrax who busts up iPhones on YouTube
58:01
and what's inside who uh opens things up
58:04
on YouTube but doesn't unbox like slices things open um and we were at the
58:09
International Auto Show and we went we tried to go to a restaurant like we were
58:13
legit just trying to go out for dinner and they wouldn't let us in
58:18
because of a private booking so we're standing there trying to figure out where else to go and someone comes
58:23
out and she's like
58:27
um and she just kind of walks up and starts talking to us we were just saying
58:30
oh yeah sorry we didn't we didn't know it's a private event so we're we're just trying to we're going somewhere else
58:34
she's like oh uh well who are you here with are you here for the auto show
58:37
we're like oh yeah yeah we're here for the auto show she she's like who are you with we're like oh well you know I make
58:42
YouTube videos and she's like are you influencers we're like I don't know I I
58:47
I guess so uh and uh she's like how many
58:53
followers do you have I'm like oh well between the three of us like something
58:56
to the tune of five million subscribers on YouTube she's like no way and we're
59:00
like yeah yeah she's like okay come on in so we got a free meal that was the
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first time due to my internet Fame that I have ever gotten like just randomly
59:13
invited into a private event and gotten a free dinner it was awesome it was very
59:16
good I forget the name of the place I'm not really good at that kind of stuff
59:20
but it was a Kia party so um we're we're going inside and um what's ins side is
59:26
like hey yo and I realized I had a Ford
59:30
badge on my hip cuz I was actually I was
59:33
actually there sponsored by Ford I mean
59:37
it's not like it really it's not like it matters like we were just going out for
59:40
dinner it's not like I was like oh I'm going to go have secret meetings with
59:43
Kia or whatever while Ford is sponsoring me to be here at the show and you guys
59:48
probably saw those sponsored posts mostly on like Twitter and Instagram um
59:52
but just like walking around at the Kia party with a Ford badge on which
59:57
probably seems like not the greatest thing
60:00
ever uh yeah people like don't use the knife towards you no it only matters if
60:04
you use the knife towards you if there's somewhere for it to slip towards you I
60:08
am pushing down on the knife it is okay don't worry I have never actually
60:12
managed to stab myself I cannot believe how difficult these are to remove I have
60:17
no idea how long this is going to take I have removed one drive one drive I have
60:23
to take eight off I don't know if I'm going to be able to come up with stories
60:28
to tell to occupy the time it will take to remove eight of these
60:32
drives stop
60:37
go oh my goodness this is
60:42
horrible okay oh I got a better slicing action going now here okay so I was
60:46
pulling towards myself there but don't worry you guys got someone
60:51
suggesting to heat the knife not a terrible idea but um not actually sure
60:56
if it would be applicable to this particular type of
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adhesive slicey
61:04
slicey man this stuff is
61:08
Savage holy crap like this is not easy to remove and
61:13
look how much of it I put on why did I do that I could have put like a little
61:18
tiny tab in each corner and it would have been fine I like I'm bending the
61:23
drives I don't know if you can see that but the drive is bent these better still
61:27
work I still need these these are one tbte KC
61:31
400s jeez
61:36
ow okay I've never stabbed myself but I have definitely like whacked myself if
61:42
you know what I mean I'd like to give a shout out to our sponsor Kingston thank
61:45
you for powering the seven Gamers PC
61:49
Kingston thank you get out of here
61:58
it's not enough that I'm stabbing their ssds you got to give them shout outs
62:05
too there we go okay I got a I got a
62:10
better technique here now I think
62:15
that no I am not going to say you can stab Kingston ssds and they will still
62:19
work it is highly likely that they will not still work if you stab them
62:28
these guys this is what I got to deal
62:35
with okay it's not that easy to pull all
62:39
the so I had actually wired up all the uh SATA cables before taping them into
62:44
place so having to remove them before I pull the drives out is a
62:49
little bit trickier oh man you hear that sound like
62:55
these are not happy
63:01
drives ah I'm like this stuff is really
63:04
hard to remove ah it's like
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gooey okay half of the drives are out
63:15
yes got people saying the case is tough
63:18
it'll bounce back uh yeah I don't know if it's going
63:23
to bounce back but I can probably bend it back here's something a lot of people
63:28
probably don't know unless you've like you know read a lot of SSD reviews
63:33
online is that the stuff inside an SSD there's actually not a whole lot of it
63:39
um so even if you were to bend the outer casing a fair bit the odds of that
63:44
damaging any of the internal guts is is pretty slim it can bend a fair bit
63:49
before the internal PCB which does have to stay pretty much straight um would be
63:54
bent out of whack slice slice slice slice slice
64:06
baby okay
64:09
prying oh my goodness look at this one
64:15
ah and the stuff is so
64:19
like a it pulled the label off dang it I
64:22
was doing so well all of them had kept their labels up till now
64:31
okay oh hey the label is back in Action
64:36
nice this one I scratched the bottom of though that's okay all
64:42
good got someone saying this is H why
64:45
they use velcro I've actually been using that industrial strength Velcro that I
64:49
get at Home Depot for a long time I've had some issues with the adhesive on it
64:53
um it eventually turns kind of gooey and
64:56
sticky well okay okay it's supposed to be sticky it's adhesive but it turns
65:01
kind of like like soft and and um like
65:05
how would I describe it it's kind of like a kind of more like sap than an
65:10
actual than an actual tape um and it seems to not really work very well over
65:15
long periods of time so I've actually stopped using it uh I did my cable
65:20
manage the last thing I did with it was my cable manage your desk the manly way
65:24
video and everything that I mounted with it has fallen off in that time um just
65:30
from you know I guess being a relatively hot place or whatever else like it's not
65:34
even that hot like it's a climate control office but there is some
65:38
sunlight that comes into it so I'm just kind of guessing at this point but um
65:42
I've also had some issues with it with UV lighting like UV case
65:46
lighting uh that makes the that makes the adhesive turn really really hard as
65:52
well this stuff's great like if the idea is to
65:56
stick something to something Forever This stuff's really
66:00
good I wish they had this adhesive on the other side of the velcro that would
66:05
be perfect all right I'll take those apart later I'm just going to pull this
66:09
last set of drives out of here
66:12
oops see my knife form might not be perfect
66:17
but it slipped and nothing was damaged or hurt
66:29
why are people telling Nick to steal a power supply and why is Nick watching a
66:32
twitch stream instead of working these
66:35
are both great
66:39
questions laughs this
66:46
guy trying to moderate the chat well I
66:49
can tell you why that's not working because it's
66:53
futile I wouldn't worry about it
66:58
that's weird My Stream just cut out but no one else seems to be complaining so
67:01
uh there you
67:05
go okay the
67:08
drives are out love
67:13
it love it now I can deploy these
67:16
somewhere else which is what I have been wanting to do with them for quite some
67:23
time got people asking for more stories
67:26
I'm just trying to think if I have any more stories right
67:29
now what have we been up to lately oh
67:34
this here's is kind of a good one we were trying to film an episode of uh
67:39
holy bleep the other day and I got these
67:44
really cool dish-based internet doodads from
67:50
ubiquity so there are these point-to-point
67:53
um like huge dish things that allow you
67:58
to send a network connection anywhere from you know depending on the skew on
68:03
whoops dropped my knife anywhere depending on the skew on their website
68:06
anywhere from like I think like 20 kilm to up to 200 plus
68:11
kilomet and I had a bunch of pieces of
68:15
stuff that they sent me and so I grabbed them all and we started filming the
68:18
video and I realized halfway through the video that I had two different products
68:25
so one of them was a 200 plus kilom
68:29
product that you needed a separate antenna for that they didn't send so I
68:33
knew nothing about any of that and then the other one so so I
68:38
didn't even have all the pieces of that one and that was the one I started with and then the other one was a complete
68:42
kit like completely Standalone kit by itself it was like 150 bucks like it was
68:47
actually relatively affordable whereas the other one was like Enterprise grade
68:51
like super expensive stuff so we actually filmed half a video of me
68:56
explaining what we were going to make the video about and it turned out that
68:59
it was completely the wrong product completely the wrong product so what we
69:05
ended up doing was we changed gears and we kind of went um okay so let's let's
69:10
redo let's redo the footage here and we
69:14
will um so we'll just redo the intro and we're we'll just start with this one the
69:19
the one that we actually have all the pieces for so we filmed most of it and
69:23
then um it got to be the end of the day i'
69:27
had to go home I had to go home and we weren't quite done yet so I was like
69:31
okay so here's what I'll do we'll we'll come in tomorrow morning and we'll we'll
69:34
finish it off so after all that after refiling it twice or filming it twice
69:40
filming it once and then ref filming it get this SD card died this is the kind
69:46
of stuff that you guys never get to see like everyone's always like it's so easy
69:49
to make videos you just stand in front of a camera and talk for a bit you know what actually not um and okay admitt ly
69:55
that first problem could have been prevented by me actually looking at uh
70:00
what it was we were making a video about beforehand so okay fine but I like those
70:06
I like the holy bleep episodes to be very genuine like I want it to be the
70:10
initial reaction so I want it to be like okay here it is let's rip it out of the box and have a long range you know
70:14
network connection or whatever um but
70:18
the one where the SD card died like there's nothing we can do about that and like we we'll set out at the beginning
70:22
of the week with with all these goals SSD is all successfully removed by the
70:26
way all these videos we want to make and then we just get these obnoxious
70:31
curveballs thrown at us right like something dying in the middle of the
70:36
week um you know a USB header popping
70:39
off of a motherboard while you're trying to just just trying to work on
70:44
it so yeah I mean it's gotten to the
70:47
point now where for like personal
70:52
personal gear like when I was building up my wife's machine
70:56
am I putting you know an Rog board in there an NVMe SSD 10 gig network card no
71:03
man I'm not doing any of that stuff I
71:07
went with ASUS's um they call it their
71:10
channel series um internally anyway
71:13
excuse me uh but I went with their premium channel series board uh z170
71:19
Deluxe simple simple you know consumer
71:22
grade not like you know aiming or
71:26
whatever um went with just a 6600 GTX
71:31
6600 keeping it really simple you know went with just some some Corsair memory
71:37
like super basic memory not highp speed
71:41
we're talking like DDR3 2133 or something like that like very very base
71:45
model because that's the stuff that works and there's a reason for that it
71:49
actually makes sense if you understand the product development process um a
71:54
little bit so when you build a
71:58
product you can invest x amount of R&D
72:02
into it that has to be somehow proportional to the reward that you're
72:06
going to get from it and like a $500 motherboard you know yeah you're selling
72:10
a motherboard for $500 but the reality of it is that
72:14
you're not going to sell that many of them because who buys $500 motherboards
72:17
come on you got to be kidding me here right so the the board that's going to
72:22
sell the most is actually going to be the one that Returns the most for the
72:27
investment in it and the board that sells the most is going to be the one
72:31
with the most other people using it so
72:35
if the whole thing with products in the last well really forever has been that
72:41
the end user ends up being kind of a beta tester then what I tend to do these
72:45
days if I want something that's going to work is I'll go with the most mainstream
72:49
possible thing because that way a bunch of other people already bought it and
72:53
can already complain about it if it's not working properly and if there is a
72:58
huge issue with it the odds of the manufacturer having
73:03
to fix it in order to do damage control
73:06
is much higher because many many more of their customers have
73:09
it so the way I select products for our crazy projects and the way that I select
73:14
products for my own use are actually very very
73:18
different so there you go there's a little Pro tip for you guys there we go
73:24
so the case
73:27
is put back together it's actually really like crazy light like I don't
73:31
know if you guys know this case mods cases aluminum really light it's only
73:35
once you put like you know 80 lounds worth of you know copper into it in the
73:40
form of water blocks that they end up getting extraordinarily
73:44
heavy uh just got a little bit more left to do I was actually I was thinking
73:49
about live streaming the entire uh tear down of the of the multi block
73:55
video card thing but I think that will
73:58
take too long and like I know some of you are going to be like no lus come on
74:03
do it no really it will actually take too long like I spent probably about 4
74:08
hours mounting them all so you're not
74:12
sneaky he get out get out of here get out of
74:18
here Nick giving into twitch chat and their
74:24
they Wicked
74:28
suggestions this
74:33
guy he doesn't even need a 1600 wat power
74:39
supply I know because his computer
74:43
sucks yeah that's right I just talked trash about your computer my
74:48
computer yeah take that jerk I have a 357
74:59
he's saying he has Athlon 64
75:02
X2 what a
75:10
loser yeah I think the X2 um any
75:14
criticism of that would not have anything to do with fanboyism it would
75:18
be more to do with how old it is and slow yeah get wrecked son
75:25
okay so last thing here just going to pull this bracket this is a really cool
75:29
mounting bracket too actually EK was
75:32
another huge helper on this project uh
75:35
would have been hard to do without them
75:38
and case Labs um kind of helping me out on the water cooling cuz when I have a
75:43
case already and I've sort of seen all the water cooling Hardware already it's
75:47
pretty easy for me to be like okay yeah here's all the stuff I need um but I've
75:51
been kind of out of the loop so to speak for water cooling for a while
75:55
um like we don't really review this stuff anymore so I I only really bring
75:59
it in for projects so like I know how to water cool but I don't I don't really
76:03
keep up on it the way that I used to so
76:06
both of them helped me out uh you know figuring out hey where are we going to
76:10
put the res where are we going to put the pump um how are we going to mount
76:13
the res and this Mount this like um 120
76:17
mm like bracket Mount that you can turn
76:20
into the U the anti vibration rubber mount for that Reservoir pump combo
76:25
freaking awesome love it and you can actually get a version of the of the res
76:29
pump combo that has a shorter res if I recall correctly so you are not uh
76:36
married to having something so tall so depending on your case you may actually
76:39
even be able to mount it at the back of the case on your exhaust pan don't quote
76:43
me on that one though I'm not 100% sure if that'll work out great for you my
76:47
laptop battery is about to die it's at 7% see if I can save
76:53
it oh I was so frustrated the other night cuz my phone was um was like oh
77:00
battery about to die 2% battery or whatever and then you know how you do
77:04
the whole thing where you're like I can beat it I can do this and so I like ran
77:11
to plug it in and I got it like I
77:15
actually made it it was at like 1% I'm like I made it
77:19
yeah and then while I was sitting there checking the battery level with the
77:22
screen powered on it was only plugged into a one charger so it
77:29
died I was that down to the wire that
77:33
just the fact that it was charging but not charging enough was enough to uh was
77:38
enough to take it out so disappointing because then you
77:41
got to wait like 5 minutes or whatever for it to charge up a bit like I don't I
77:45
don't really like charging my phones at 2 amps because um I like my batteries
77:49
lasting for longer so I only really do that when I'm
77:52
desperate but uh yeah I was I was pretty
77:56
disappointed right there cool story bro thanks
78:02
bro this is frustrating case manufacturers if I ever make that video
78:07
that I had talked about last week of like manufacturer dos and don'ts do use
78:12
screws with iron in them because don't
78:16
use ones that are just made of like uh
78:19
there's a test bench that I was using a little while ago from deusch deusch
78:24
deusch anyway um all the screws included are aluminum
78:27
which is terrible because a if you have a magnetic screwdriver uh that doesn't
78:32
help you out a whole lot because the screw won't stick to the bit and B
78:36
aluminum is a super malleable metal like
78:39
anytime oh okay this time it's the battery don't worry we got this so
78:44
anytime um like a a thread doesn't go in
78:48
perfectly or whatever it just derps out hardcore and
78:53
and actually shear off so you end up with remnants of of screw in the hole
78:59
and then you end up with no head to actually take it out so you have to
79:03
drill it out it's ridiculous so do not use aluminum screws
79:08
and do use screws with iron in them so that I can use my magnetic screwdriver
79:13
because a magnetic screwdriver makes projects go a lot lot
79:18
faster if you work on as many of these types of projects as I do you care about
79:23
every like fraction of a second that you can save while you work on
79:30
them wow we're up to nearly 5,000 viewers man you guys if I had known you
79:35
like these kinds of streams so much I could stream like pretty much all the
79:39
time when I'm working on this kind of crap cuz I'm pretty much always doing
79:43
this like if I'm not filming actively filming a video I'm probably working on
79:48
something like this whether it's our servers here at the office or whether
79:51
it's like an upcoming video or teing down an old one or whatever else the cas
79:54
may be all right let's uh where' that
79:58
front panel piece go can't remember how this mounts anymore unfortunately I
80:03
think uh I think it goes in here and
80:07
then sits on like some spikes or something and then uh yeah here we'll
80:11
switch to the overhead view the unfortunate thing about this
80:16
stream is that I had to tear down the WAN streaming computer in order to do it
80:22
so you might think that that will mean
80:25
that wo will be on
80:28
time but because I've got the stream machine working but having it working
80:33
with one configuration doesn't necessarily mean it will work with some
80:38
other configuration so I actually have even less hope than usual and we are
80:42
still doing W show today I've actually seen a couple people asking about that in the chat yes that is definitely still
80:48
the plan I mean when do we ever Miss wow
80:51
it's amazing how many people still ask us that actually it's like hey are you
80:54
guys doing W show today when was the last time we missed a w show suckers
80:58
that's what I thought we almost never miss wow even if
81:04
we're like in another country we don't miss
81:08
wow One does not simply Miss wo like
81:12
either Luke or I may miss wano but I
81:15
don't think we have ever both been absent for it since the show started but
81:19
you guys may have to correct me on that one it's possible we missed one my
81:23
memory is a little fuzzy because I'm
81:27
old all right and I just knocked it back in got
81:33
to be freaking kidding
81:38
me just popped it in and I popped it
81:41
back out that's okay though I got this just get get in there just just don't
81:47
just don't thank you all
81:50
right get out of the way cable dang it
81:56
now there's a cable stuck there now it's done all right now I can box that baby
82:01
back up all
82:05
done all right well you know what we've got a little bit of time left so why
82:10
don't we do this oh why don't I at least
82:14
show you guys I'm think we'll mostly use the
82:18
overhead view for this why don't I at least show you guys how the seven block
82:22
uh Joiner thing here actually works
82:31
Works where my screwdriver go DNB it knowing me it's probably like
82:37
inside the computer or
82:48
something okay blah blah blah blah blah
82:52
blah okay sorry just checking emails I
82:57
know it's rude but the reality of it is I get a lot of emails and if I don't
83:01
reply to those then that will be rude too so I'll just be rude to everyone
83:06
universally that's the only solution that I can come up with where is my
83:12
screwdriver I definitely need it I need
83:16
the hex head screwdriver and I cannot find
83:21
it I know this is definitely my fault
83:26
and it is definitely not in the
83:29
case Okay
83:32
um is it definitely in my
83:36
pocket sometimes that
83:40
happens all right time to empty the
83:44
pockets phone ah there it is
83:49
good well that solve that problem
83:56
all right so basically the way it works is you install all the Blocks
84:02
individually on the cards then you take
84:06
this piece on the top here and install
84:09
the cards onto it one by one so I'm actually going to have to remove pretty
84:13
much the whole shebang here in order to show you guys how one of them mounts but
84:17
um or maybe not maybe I can just pull one off here actually yes that makes
84:22
more sense okay
84:25
I'll get you guys a bit of a closer look with the uh with the webcam when I get when I get a minute
84:33
here okay here we
84:37
go so right here I've got these long
84:42
bolts these guys right here that go through here then I'm going to flip this
84:47
over I'm going to put down this camera for a second while I flip it over just
84:50
CU I don't want to uh I don't want to break anything here ideally
84:56
okay so this one should detach yep there we go so then uh ek's
85:02
blocked but just fell dang
85:10
it and we dropped something fantastic I
85:13
don't know what it was even oh that is
85:17
very very unfortunate if I knew what it was I
85:21
would at least know what I was looking oh there it is it is is that no that's
85:25
not it yes it is what is this
85:28
screw wow I super super duper don't know
85:33
oh here wow weird one of the screws in
85:36
this block just like came
85:42
out this one wow okay anyway so this is
85:46
a really cool thing that EK does is the tops of their blocks are kind of oh oh
85:50
go away go away
85:56
okay the tops of their blocks are kind of modular now so you can you can see
86:01
they've got these these slits here where the water flows so two slits per side
86:06
and then you can either have ones that kind of come off like this or like this
86:11
or using those bolts I showed you before they can go straight into a big splitter
86:17
like this see so you've got oh you can't see that very well hold on
86:24
there we go so there you've got O-rings in here as long as you get those sealed
86:28
exactly perfectly and then the whole thing goes in this one and then out this
86:32
one and then into the next card here and then out the next card right around here
86:37
and so on and so forth very very cool
86:44
stuff and yes there is a lot of water on
86:47
the table I am aware of that thank you yes I do see that as something of a
86:53
problem but not going to stress about it now no
86:59
my friends I'm not going to stress about it now I am going to remove these one by
87:06
one yes all this stuff is like not bad
87:10
in small doses but
87:14
oops that's funny uh not bad in small doses but by the time you do
87:19
like you know seven cards times three bolts what is that 21 bolts BS it gets
87:25
kind of tedious all right let's remember that
87:30
they come off now moving forward that
87:33
would be
87:39
good
87:42
okay everyone's like rip come on this
87:46
stuff's not that fragile I hope you guys know that like it is but it's also not
87:54
like look at any secondhand shop look at the way they treat Hardware that
87:57
Hardware still works just throwing that out
88:00
there um like no it's not ideal yes some
88:04
of it will get broken but literally like bins of graphics cards can still work
88:10
and they just get kind of thrown in a bin and that fell onto the block not
88:17
onto the PCB even so the chances of knocking off a surface mount component
88:20
or something like that is pretty much zero
88:26
fortunately I don't need these cards for any other projects anyway so I am pretty
88:31
much done with them but that doesn't mean that I like killing things if I
88:35
don't have to I actually kill surprisingly Little
88:41
Hardware although I've had a bit of a rough run of it lately with the um with
88:45
that 750 SSD man I did not want to kill
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that $800 or $122,000 SSD or whatever um
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and all those motherboards for that router machine I was super not happy
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about that
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either
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okay I have a really fun one coming that involves taking an angle grinder to a
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GTX Titan uh so for those of you who are on vessel you've already seen it but um
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for those of you on YouTube you have that to look forward to should be
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good I do not like killing servers I haven't killed any servers what you
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talking about speaking of servers oh I am so stoked on this um that super
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micro machine that I tweeted about uh last week I think it was has arrived so
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it's an 8 GPU server
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machine I am super stoked I think you
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guys probably already know where I'm going with anything that can take a
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bunch of gpus um but this is this is going to be
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a it's going to be a bit of a different angle on how many people I can have gaming off
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of a machine all at once very very cool
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got people asking me to move the power supply you know the more you ask me the
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less likely I am to do it so there's pretty much nothing you
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can do you are powerless powerless to save the power
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supply okay wow there we go seven
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graphics cards all removed here let's take another look at that bad
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boy so that's it all the screws are out there they are
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and you can see what EK did here so they
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uh there's actually a lot of inlets and Outlets depending on the mounting
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options that you want for it this thing's really cool like I'm going to hold on to this I don't know when I
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would ever use something like this again but that is definitely like oneof aind
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unique item hold on to that just in case
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just in case you ever happen to have to water cool seven cards in a single
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system again the kind of disappointing thing is that um ek's ek's system for
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connecting the multiple cards on the bottom there's no plugs for
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them so you actually have to do seven
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cards that was a pretty horrifying moment when it looked like we weren't
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going to get the system posted with seven cards and John from lime Tech was
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like oh no it's no big deal we'll just cuz I I had actually told Kingston I
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told the sponsor it'll be like six or
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seven and so John's like well don't worry you told Kingston it could be six
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I'm like yeah okay yes but we have a
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problem I can't take out a card I can't
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do six it'll have to be four with air cooling which I definitely didn't want
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to do that's like admitting defeat
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or it'll be seven and well you know how that story ends we
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did end up getting it working but it was extremely
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stressful it's like man how bad I looked in that video like
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how defeated and tired I looked that was
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exactly exactly how I felt it was
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brutal ouch hm that is not going to be
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oh yeah actually here there's another cool Pro tip for you guys
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um if you're having trouble getting a fitting out and it's one that doesn't
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have a spot to use a wrench on just grab a piece of tubing and then use that for
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grip see
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easy now you can't say I never taught you anything unless you already knew
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that in which case you can say that but then why are you watching this
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show oh this one's not coming it doesn't help when your tubing's wet though a bit
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of a problem we'll try the old pants trick
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nope no dice all right let's try another piece of tubing maybe like different
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tubing we'll cooperate more with me ah yes there we go
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awesome no my power supply is not
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depressed okay well yeah I guess uh I
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don't know how much else there is to really say about this if you guys
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enjoyed this uh this stream then hey you
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know like I guess do they have that on
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Twitch well if you're watching this on YouTube then you can
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definitely
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um a that's so nice um uh our contact at
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Kingston just sent me a message saying that he's a depressed that the system
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will not live on forever I'm sorry to uh I'm sorry to be the one to have to break
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it to him that unless he wants to provide us with completely new sets of
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all the hardware for every machine we do then that really isn't possible except
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we do really ask him for that so I've probably given away too much at this
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point and uh two he said that the stream
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is being really well run that's the first time I've ever heard that from anyone about a stream Luke's nodding
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thanks for that um so I guess that's pretty much it
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watch next cuz this was so fun and engaging maybe check out the last
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only it is what it is oh I have to stop
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the stream Luke Mouse I'm just going to stand here
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and wave and look sexy until uh