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oh my God look at this card so hot bread look this other everywhere hey hey hey honey well at least this thing is silent stop talking get out introducing the node 202 from fractal design it's cool compact and quiet check the description below for more details what's up guys welcome to build log 3 of my custom liquid-cooled system now in the first few build logs you guys obviously saw a lot of custom painting with the thermal armor on my saber-tooth x99 motherboard as well as the radiators that are going to using using the system but I haven't even told you guys the full spectrum of hardware that I'll be using in this system so that's what I'm going to go over right now if you can take a look here there it is sitting nice and pretty so I'm just going to kind of run through this stuff pretty quickly because there's a lot to go over and I don't want to bore you to death so starting off with some of the stuff that you already know is in this system is the define s from Franklin design we've got the saber-tooth x99 from Asus beautiful motherboard we've also got a lot of stuff from ek they've really hooked me up for this project so starting off with the pump this is their d5 pump it's a pump and reservoir combo as you can see we've also got there a cool stream PE radiator so we've got a 360 at the top there and a 240 on the front aided by some fractal design these are their venturi HP fans these are HP 120 s of course there's going to be three of them in push at the top and two more at the front that are also going to be in push given some nice intake to the case above that we've also got some tubing here and a lot of you guys are asking me are you doing hardline tubing or are you doing soft tubing well here's your answer definitely going soft take that for what you will this is e Ches primo chil primo flex advanced LRT and yeah I could have done hard line tubing but I figure it's it's more complicated and since this is my first time doing a custom build you know I just assumed that you should probably learn how to walk first before you start running so that's I'm going to go with this and I think even if I had the choice between hard line acrylic and soft tubing I just think that the soft tubing is going to look really nice in here anyway so wish me luck on that we've also got some mayhem pastels perfect pink or Mayhem's pastel perfect pink fluid I've actually seen Lee from PC junkie mods uses this in one of his systems a while back and it looked really nice so I'm pretty stoked on that apart from that we've got some more water cooling hardware here including two beautiful water blocks for our GPUs which are the gtx 980ti is of course right here it says titan x but as most of you know the pc b--'s like pretty much the same between the two of them so ek obviously spent no extra time making a custom 980ti version they're completely compatible so those will work just fine along with some sexy back plates for our video cards as well got to have those spray paints I'm going to get to later we've also got this very nice ek supremacy Evo water block this is one of the cleanest looking water blocks I've ever seen I've always been attracted attracted to these these types of water blocks especially the super supremacy line from ek and I think it's just going to look absolutely stunning once it's all in there of course I've got some ek fittings already attached we've also got a dual slot terminal to connect the two GPUs and it is in parallel I believe so that's going to be pretty sweet as far as storage options we've got two savage SSDs from HyperX or Kingston for those of you who aren't familiar with their their hyper X line so I've got a 240 gig up top it's gonna be my boot drive with some applications editing software and stuff and then we've got a 960 gig excuse me you got a 960 gig for pretty much all of the RAW files that I'm going to be editing with we've also got three four terabyte WD black hard drives right here two of which are going to be in raid one I'm going to be mirroring these I'm going to be putting all the awesomesauce archives on it as well and we've got just a third one just just because maybe for games and movies and music and photos and things like that apart from that we've got an EVGA supernova and want p2 sorry for the reflection hang it over here you can see I'm on my knees right now wouldn't be the first time this is going to be just enough power I think for the two gtx 980 eyes as well as the 59 60 X which I don't have shown here it's actually my test bed right now I'm going to do a little CPU swap arooo voodoo magic but that's why it's not here but I will be using a 59 60 x4 the system here the two gtx 980 is the first one the gigabyte is fully referenced it's got the reference cooler from nvidia on its just rebranded gigabyte logo and a sticker has been slapped onto it but this one's the zotac amp edition which i recently did a review on you can go ahead and check that out if you want but this is fully customized cooler that works really well and it's super silent so I'm a little bit bummed that I'm gonna have to take off the cooler but I think I'll be okay once I see how it looks with those beautiful water blocks installed onto it so that's that's that and we've got some g.skill ripjaws for ddr4 memory this stuff is blazingly fast as 26 66 megahertz 32 gigs is gonna be plenty for my needs in this case and i think that's pretty much it apart from the sleeving so this is a beautiful tee Leo's line sleeving from mainframe customs if you guys haven't seen my my custom sleep tutorial where I teach you how to do your own extensions go ahead and check that out it's a really good tutorial and I in that video I use this exact same sleeping so you can see kind of what it looks like when it's done or you can just sit around for the end product of this build and you'll also be able to see what it looks like when it's done um but here's the deal hmm now this is why I saved the spray paint for last and that's because I'm gonna need to edit some stuff that I originally thought I would like and now I don't like so much which is the thermal armor on the sabre-tooth x99 at first I was like cool with the fact that it was a really dark gray and that the radio's radiators were light gray and that's why I chose these three colors because you got dark gray and light gray along with black of course I was like yeah it'll look fine with it's all done but I've since then decided I don't like that and the reason why is because I think there's just too much dark gray in one area and there's too much light gray in another it kind of divides the case it divides the look and feel the case I think so what I'm going to end up doing is going to pop the thermal ruff you guys are gonna think I'm crazy because I am and I'm going to go ahead and mask off all the black again and I'm going to sand down all the gray and I'm going to re spray-paint it with the same with the same spray spray paint because member these two are the same came from the same can both of these shades the grey you're seeing here I just did way too many coats my first run on the thermal armor so now that I'm a bit more experienced with spray painting I know I say experience but I've really only just spray painted these three things but it's amazing how much you learn from from doing so little you learned pretty quickly so I think I'm pretty confident that the next time around when I go over this thermal armor I'm going to get a gray much closer to the radiators and I think overall that's going to look really nice of course then that creates another problem because now I no longer have a dark need for a dark gray in my sleeping so what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this fuchsia stuff this fuchsia fuchsia bright spray paint and I'm going to try to spray paint some of the sleeving pink or fuchsia whatever that way instead of using the dark grey the the sleeving colors will just be black light gray and that fuchsia color that which is going to match the liquid perfectly I think that will really give off the look that I've been intending this whole time for the build and I think I'm gonna be much happier for it I know it's going to be a lot of extra work to do those things painting the thermal armor and stuff and the sleeping but I think overall the results are just gonna be worth it in the end so enough of me rambling I'm rambling away too much now so what am I going to be doing in this video well instead of just talking my ass off I will actually be installing these two water blocks onto these two video cards right now and it's uh it's it's gonna be fun because I've never done it before I'm really excited so cross your fingers everyone cross your fingers I can see you I can see you you you right there you're you're not crossing them and let's just see how they turn out you guys ready alright let's do this you all right guys so I have hit a snag as you could probably tell from the time-lapse I finished installing the GPU block on the reference card here it is it's actually very nice fix pretty speeds kind of dirty it's got some thermal paste on it but I'll clean that up soon enough but this this was fairly easy I did have to remove the the water block at some point because I forgot to put some thermal pads on a few of the regulators but there it is it's looking all right now then I started moving on to the zotac card which are the coolers right here take a look here there it is the cooler was really easy to remove the backplate was really easy to remove but this heatsink that's covering some of the memory modules as well as a vrm and whatnot is like glued shut onto the PCB and I just I tried forcing it but I don't want to force it too much obviously because I want to break the PCB so unless I have a heat gun which I don't have much experience with I know you just kind of point at it and and warm it up but that's also more time and something I've never done before I think I'm gonna have to call it quits on the zotac card I'm gonna have to resign the zotac card for now put it aside and just go for the other reference gtx 980ti that i have the P&Y one and i've already spent quite a bit of time getting this one installed i prefer not to spend too much time on on trying to get this guy removed so on that note I'm gonna set this aside like I said and I'm gonna work on the other reference 980ti alright folks here they are those two gtx 980 eyes with their custom water blocks and back plates fully installed looking nice looking nice if you guys have never seen one of these things custom blocked GPU in person i'll tell you right now the video never does justice they are just super sexy and i think they look pretty damn good in my system so far if you are curious about doing this yourself there are a couple things to keep in mind and i guess this is where i should quickly transition into the things that i learned in this process the first one being that's putting a custom block on your GPU is not difficult if you think it's hard and it's intimidating you shouldn't be scared it's kind of like when i first built my computer for the first time ever the first one I ever did I was pretty worried that I would mess it up and I was like whoa so like this is out of my league type of thing but it's not really like that and the same thing goes for for something like this it does however take a lot of time and patience to get it right and you know you never want to rush this sort of thing that being said I did run into a few snags which also was a good learning experience for me if you are going to do this for the first time anyway and you're not too experienced like myself I would suggest trying to work with a reference GPU first just because there's fewer surprises I guess like the the instance that I ran into with the zotac amp 980ti where I just couldn't get that damn heatsink off I wasn't expecting that and thank God I had a another reference 980ti lying around I was able to use that but that's just another thing I would say unless you've done extensive research on that particular model of non reference card and you see that it's really easy and simple to take the cooler completely off and mount a your own custom one I would suggest going with a non reference I'm sorry a reference video card when doing something like this another thing this is probably more specific but tweezers no one ever told me to use tweezers and I'm sure there's videos out there that do tell you to use tweezers but tweezers came in handy so much in this this whole experience just because I could not get the thermal pads on correctly or I couldn't get them on straight or properly with my fat nubby fingers having those precision nosed tweezers the high quality ones were really helpful just being able to lift them off of the little adhesive pad they come on and stick them right onto the whatever it was the memory chips and what-have-you was really helpful so I would highly suggest getting some tweezers before you take on a test like this as well also a little screw tray magnetic screw tray you guys might have seen that in the time-lapse pick one up on Amazon or wherever for next to nothing and it's really helpful in this kind of situation because you're dealing with a lot of little screws and you don't want to get them lost so even having maybe a couple of them having one or two might be helpful because you can kind of divide them up evenly between whatever cards that you're using or based on wherever they go and I think the last thing is that's it I think those are all the things so um stay tuned for the next bill blog hopefully you guys enjoyed this one toss me a like on if you liked it if not tell me why in the comments but build log for get this look at this look at this guys these are the last fittings that I was waiting for in the mail and they just came yesterday so you know that means that means in the next build log we might build this thing I want to say we're going to because I still have some stuff to do I still need to paint the thermal armor repaint the thermal armor and I might even do some other custom modding slight custom modifications that I'm going to keep a secret for now but this means that we are now right I am now ready to build this thing as soon as those other things happen there's a very specific order these things need to have operate in but we're getting really close we're getting super close and I'm really excited thank you guys so much for joining me along on this amazing journey it's been super fun I can't wait to build my second one and now having the experience that I do build in this first one so thanks for staying tuned guys I'll see you next time in the next video