BADASS Wall-Mounted Gaming PC
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,250 words · ~6 min read
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why on earth would you hang your computer on the wall
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well i could say it helps with cable management or that it helps with cooling
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or that you know what forget it there's only one good reason because it looks
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dank off now your garden variety wall
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pewter is rectangle shaped but here at LTT we are all about pushing the limits
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of college dropout engineering so our resident slav proposed that we make ours
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in the shape of the WAN Show logo with hardline tubing spelling out LTT however
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since he's barely touched power tools let alone built a fully custom wall case
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before we well essentially we needed an adult so
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we cast mods level 80. which didn't work
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obviously so we packed up our [ __ ] and drove down to their shop in seattle
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instead
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since the machine's frame would be built in vs mods's top secret facility in
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washington state before final assembly we needed to ensure that all the
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dimensions were relayed correctly we started with a two scale 3d model of the
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machine using sketchup and the built-in objects library they took our model
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added a few suggestions made an offhand comment about amateurs then rebuilt it
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from the ground up to account for their cnc machine's capabilities once that
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stage was complete we loaded our pre-tested hardware into the company suv
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and sent ivan and pella down south at the border crossing i'm sorry you're
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doing what with all this expensive looking electronic crap well the guard
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ended up disappearing for what felt like forever and then came back saying he
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watched some of our videos as proof that we were who we said we were
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hopefully he subscribed and we were on our way then while in the
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middle of zero cell reception nowhere our shifter
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broke forcing us to abandon the van at a local shop ivan got hit on by a
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middle-aged passerby on the side of the road and our trailer got carted away by
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an overzealous u-haul employee glass half-full though these delays only cost
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us a day and nothing actually fell out
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of the rental truck that one time time to build
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first things first we had to get the most important stuff done and peel the
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RAM then we laid out the key components to
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check if the real world would align perfectly or if some of our holes would
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need to be wood threaded 632 insert screws coupled
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with standard standoffs were used to mount our motherboard onto the frame
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with radiator inlets elongated with female to female extenders to reach
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through the board our graphics card slot dimensions were a little off so rod
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engaged the safety squints and extended it with a router next we removed four of
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the backplate screws from our hybrid cooled ASUS poseidon gtx 1080 ti
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replaced them with two millimeter threaded standoffs and used the highly
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advanced color the tips with white pen technique to mark our drill holes before
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mounting then we used a total of 1.3 meters
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of thermaltake pci express extenders to connect our graphics card now it's a
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scientific fact that you cannot achieve maximum performance without
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mucho RGB so to that end we yet again turn to
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thermaltake for both their RGB water cooling fittings and ring plus fans even
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going as far as to replace our stock
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power supply fan with an RGB one Corsair
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power supply plus thermaltake fans equals Corsair take thermal ser
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whatever it is it didn't survive the procedure so ivan had to mod our backup
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one and chisel out the through hole by hand
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looks like he's had some practice with that movement
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then when he was done to keep whole and biggening to a minimum every single fan
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and RGB fitting got d-pinned using two
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pairs of tweezers of all things because someone didn't have a proper d pinning
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tool rod so with the slab occupied rod fired up
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his parts pro 4896 cnc router apparatus
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and cut out the back panel for the frame this piece is important for both
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mounting to the wall and providing structural rigidity to the front once
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d-pinning was done through holes were drilled to route the cables and pump and
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res fittings through and then the whole shebang had to be
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re-pinned on the other side
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shockingly though all the fans and fittings lit up on the first go
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of course the machine had to be shamelessly branded so we added a cnc'd
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semi-transparent hexagon that would later be lit with side-firing leds then
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came a challenge rod can freehand bend hardline tubing
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like a boss but with our goal of having the bends for the t's run parallel the
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decision was made to design and cnc out
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custom jigs while these were being manufactured ivan finished wiring up the
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backside and then ran soft tubing along the back to all the ports to minimize
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the use of elbows to improve water flow
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unfortunately our first attempt didn't quite line up it took the cad guy some
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time to figure out the issue and because of the delays during the inbound trip
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our time at the shop ran out while we
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were discovering that pulling the silicone inserts out of our 3d bent
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tubes was going to be a two-man job so
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the machine was picked up and loaded into the van as is to be finished in our
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shop our tubing and paint both needed some improvement but hey we had a whole
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day and a half left until it would need to make its debut at ltx what could go
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wrong guys well i'm glad you asked the backstop on
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the poseidon could have been not tightened fully and
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spring a leak flooding the card power supply
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and the paint job and speaking of the paint job the dust
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in our warehouse could settle on the frame within hours making matters much
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worse but an isopropyl bath and some touch-ups later and the machine
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ultimately made it to the event where it was gloriously displayed above the dick
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but application area mission accomplished
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mostly guys this isn't funny
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got guys so here it is in all its glory
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we settled eventually on an Intel core i7 7700k on an ASUS maximus 9 code with
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64 gigs of Corsair dominator platinum
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special edition memory to accompany our ASUS rog poseidon gtx 1080 ti
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cooling was courtesy of ek water blocks those guys do damn fine work and thermal
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take there were certainly some hiccups but hopefully it was all in the name of
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your entertainment and we're proud of the result so much so that we're
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actually planning to keep it on display in our vr gaming room here at the office
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which was actually why we chose the 7700k
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so thanks for watching guys if you disliked this video
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