Gadgetory

yeah I've got some fans all right so things look things well different don't they actually a lot has has changed since the last time we we were here this is not where the pump was last time or at least the reservoir there was a reservoir that was just right here on the NZXT bracket and it's not there anymore because it was just putting a little bit too much pressure on the GPU and I was just afraid of what kind of long-term effects that would have on the graphics card so I decided to remove it however the one that I had the 150 light was too large to fit anywhere else so I had to swap it out for this pump right here this is the this is actually a pump rez combo so it makes things a little bit simpler for us you can see I got I've got like this little uh this little fan bracket here radiator bracket so that it's gonna mount sideways isn't that isn't that special so this is sort of gives me a better idea and what what I realized is that I had gone through all this and completely overlooks the drain valve I was like alright my loop makes sense it looks good oh crap how am I gonna drain the system this is my not so elegant solution so what I'm gonna do is basically take this guy this is a five-way divider splitter I should say not a divider what a noob I am and that's gonna go right here like so so there's gonna be a hard tube connecting they're bumping uglies and then I'm gonna do soft tubing that's gonna go from this thing right here connecting to this fitting right here and then you can see here I've also got some more soft tubing that's just gonna go down and there's the drain valve we'll see if it works out you might have also noticed that the fans gun I used to have a 120 millimeter Corsair airflow fan here but I've since removed that because I've realized I'm gonna need a little bit more space I've liked a little bit more room for the tubing here especially if I'm sticking with the thicker 16 millimeter stuff but then it looks kind of empty doesn't it so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put in this little load this flow valve indicator booms come go right there towards the back it is UB reactive so might look pretty cool with our UV lights and also that brings me to this point fill in the loop first with the Mayhem's Aurora blue this is the one that looks like shampoo and jay told me that the shampoo effect doesn't really last very long if I don't like it I'll just take it out immediately if I like it I'll wait till the shampoo effect goes away and then I will drain it and maybe put something else in and the next we've got more fan stuff so you guys already saw me install tubes of Corsair SP fans they've got two more that's gonna go on the front radiator it's gonna go on the right side of course and then we've got our LED strips we may or may not go with you B depending because initially I was gonna use the the fluid up there I had two bottles of some UV fluid but since we're not doing UV reactive fluid anymore I might just go with a white a white LED strip this is these are both from cable mods so thanks kid blunt for hooking me up a--they so we'll play around with it dub we'll see what happens but those are all the things that I wanted to save for this very lengthy intro on that note I am going to start to bending the tubes you see I've got my bowl of bowl with soapy water over there all the tubes just getting ready to get bent saw I'm sawing today yo cuz I'm a man all right so I think we're halfway done with the bend so I think we have two more to go they are the longest ones in fact we got this one going from the pump to the video card and then we've got one from the CPU back to the radiator at the front you can see my drain valve back there looking looking kind of weird kind of funky it's a little it's a little wacky but you know it's functional and it sits in there the last tube that we're doing the super long tube going straight across it's gonna kind of steal the show a little bit so it's gonna take the foregrounds attention so I'm not too worried about that I also wanted to mention that the dudes over at unsourced are hooking me up with some custom extensions for this particular system so I'm gonna be swapping out these white extensions here with the unsourced ones they are not here yet though so I'm still gonna believe the system tonight I'm going to try to at least and once those cables arrive I will be swapping them out which I should be able to do even with all the tubing installed I think I'll be able to access that as long as the the RAM is the Rams removed too because those frickin heat spreaders bigger than so this pipe right here it's actually straight but it looks crooked the reason why it looks crooked is because this piece of stupid pump res is actually sagging the sag is actually causing the the tube to kind of go like that at a slant stupid and it's not the it's not the drain valve over there that's that's weighing down the the pump res this was actually already doing it before I even installed that drain so that's annoying anyone know like how I could prop this up cuz look when you prop it up poop the tubes perfectly straight it's like parallel with the video card as soon as you let it go anyone have any good solutions for propping this thing up and it's all bolted down as much as it can be on every single end so if anyone's got any suggestions let me know I'm an idiot and I feel stupider than I usually do right now which is saying a lot look I'd okay did you just so I was so excited to fill up the loop that I completely forgot to plug up the two quarter inch holes on the bottom of the GPU waterblock look they're just sitting right there I completely forgot to screw them in and luckily thank God that this PCIe cable is the only thing that got really wet everything else is perfectly dry maybe except for the radiator here because we get the power supply shroud thank god that there's a power supply shroud here otherwise the water would have just shot straight out onto the power supply I would have I would have died I would have just totally died I don't I don't even know what to say guys it's I'm I'm just scared now of myself but I'm not done I need to see this loop all finished all running smoothly and we're gonna do some drain testing or leak testing overnight kind of looks like I just did some leak testing right now and that was a fail but let's just let's fill the sleep up again or try to all right so system is finally bled that was kind of a struggle at first notably mainly because of my der penis with the the quarter-inch plugs here but you might have also caught during that that little montage that there was a leak coming from the flow meter here as well I actually had to swap out the stock plug that it came with this guy sorry my focus sucks had to replace this this thing it was leaking was leaking all over the place luckily nothing was damaged or compromised but I had to replace it with this this plug that came from a Titan water block back in the day so that's that's been working out so far also the the actual propeller in here wasn't spinning up when I first powered the system on I was like oh crap I'm gonna have to like open it up and fix things but now I just had to give a little tap gave a little tap at the screwdriver and and up and out it went about the coolant I I do like it but I don't know if it's the right coolant for this build I don't know I mean the shampoo effect is nice and all it looks really cool in the in the reservoir there but I don't know I think I think this just needs I think it needs to step up a little bit more just to match the insanity of those those heat spreaders on the memory so I think what I'm gonna do and this maybe I'll save this for the next vlog but I'm gonna try bleeding the system with this with this is the aqua tuning stuff that I had initially planned to go with which is UV reactive and you can kind of see it is pretty UV reactive however we're gonna intensify that we're gonna try to intensify it a little bit more with some Mayhem's UV clear blue dye sorry focus focus and and hopefully it'll look even cooler because if you look at this I just this is just regular tap water and I put a couple drops of that stuff in here and it's a lot more vibrant than then the aqua tuning stuff is by itself so I think the combination of these two things is really going to make the system pop with that UV light maybe I'll get a second UV strip in here just to intensify the effect I feel like it could be a little brighter but who knows also this is the morning-after the builds I went to bed it was like 3:00 in the morning but I did not leave it leak testing overnight just because after the to various leaks that we had here I was just too paranoid to leave it unattended so I just turned it on about an hour ago and there's no leaks at all obviously a one-hour leak test is probably not so quick I'll be doing some more testing later today but so far it is super dry and I'm pretty happy with how it's turning out so far so we have one more build log to go I believe which is going to include the the new cables from end sourced and I have to finish wiring some of like the front panel connectors those aren't even installed yet and then and then the fluid fluids gonna go in there and who knows who knows what else maybe I'll do some other wacky stuff less and final thing I wanted to say is that I this is how I'm temporarily solving the the saggy pump res issue I've just got another I just cut a piece of tubing that I'm using kind of as a kickstand and it is straightening straightening it out quite a bit and the the run the run look at the run actually I had to redo this run remember before I was like it's not the runs fault it's the pumps fault well the pump was still crap but my run was also bad so I just redid the run and now it's like super straight I'm pretty happy with how all the runs turned out like especially these really tight ones and even like the little one up there it's cute the one run that I might redo I don't know you guys let me know and maybe it's hard to tell on camera but is the the long one the long one right here I mean I think it's I think it's good enough it's passable but if I really look at it I'm like well maybe it could have been a little bit maybe just a little bit straighter here I don't know I could be imagining things to you let me know but let me know what you guys think of this build in the comments so far if you think I'm doing it right or not Oh before before I close everything out let me turn the lights off so you can just get a better idea of the UV effects alright so that's what it looks like right now it's definitely some more pop äj-- of that flow meter and this is the the Aqua Tunis stuff and then this is the the Mayhem's see how much brighter the mayhem stuff is like I want that I want I want that level of ridiculousness so we're gonna we're gonna have to mix the two and see what we get hopefully there's no like really bad reaction will be I'll be unfortunate if there is but that is gonna wrap it up for now guys sure to like the video if you enjoyed it let me know what you think of this system so far in the comments below if you have any other suggestions moving forward and have a great rest of your day I will see you all in the next video