Gadgetory

I'm glad you had a good business trip honey sounds like it went really well yeah I'm glad to be home is that a computer case yeah it's the define us from fractal design they run so quietly I figured I'd put it there as a reminder that in this crazy hectic world silence really is golden is that the same computer case yeah the define and supports triple radiators water cooling pumps and reservoirs so I think you're not put one there just to remind myself to be flexible in life really in the bathroom why well yeah I figured the toilet hasn't been working lately and the define us has such a spacious interior that I just thought my god the define s from fractal design is built for uncompromised custom water cooling please use responsibly click the link in the description for more info what's up guys welcome back to build log 4 of my custom water cooled build I am super excited to announce that today I'm actually going to be putting this damn thing together now before you get too excited that doesn't mean the completed build is going to be ready by the end of this video I'm still going to need to do some finishing touches like the cable sleeping as well as adding in some LEDs potentially in the future but you are going to be able to see me build the actual loop I'm going to be filling it with that beautiful pink loop liquid and we're going to get an overall look our closest look at the finished build that we've had since the beginning of this bill blog so super exciting stuff there are a couple little things I need to do before I start the build process however including flushing the radiators just to get all the little bits and gunk out that were leftover from the manufacturing process which is fairly simple to do so once I'm done with that we're going to start building there's a couple feel feel little things minor things that have happened since the last build blog that I haven't documented yet you might have saw seen this on my Instagram but I did paint the corners the little tabs here the PCIe slots that my video cards are gonna be going into I painted them black with the black spray paint as well as this SATA port right here which used to be beige used to be the color of all the beige on on the motherboard by spray painted that black as well the only reason I did these three things is because they are going to be stay or gonna be standing out the most and they will not be covered by any other components once the build is finished and I didn't want that beige showing through too much so that's why I kind of left the the PCIe slot itself alone because you're not gonna be able to see those once the video cards are installed anyway oh also I spray-painted the PCI slots now these are not the finished products these are testers I originally sprayed some primer on them and it wasn't clear primer it was actually dark these used to be white PCI slots I spray paint coated them once or twice with some dark grey primer which was not a good idea because it actually forced me to have to use several pink coats color coats more than I than I wanted to and I kind of ended up with this purpley you know darker shade of pink that I really wanted so the other ones my second batch are drying in the drying in the garage right now I just spray-painted them about half an hour ago and they're already looking a lot better because I did not use any primer this time around I just spray-painted straight onto the white slot and they're already looking a lot better and they're definitely more true to our pink fuchsia color that we're trying to go for in the liquid so my damn camera will focus so one thing I'm not a huge fan of on this camera autofocus could be much improved I love God Mother of God there we go there we go so now let me take you over to our little flushing station remember kids always flush it's the courteous thing to do take a look over here you can see my 360 radiator is all good to go it's ready for flushing I've got a funnel here just stick that in there I'm not going to show you guys exactly how to do it step-by-step but the basic procedure here is you get some distilled water make sure it's distilled don't just use regular tap water that's a no-no so I just picked this up at sprouts you can get any pretty much grocery store drugstore this was a dollar for a gallon so cheap stuff stock up on it so you don't run out and you're just gonna fill it up there until your radiators I don't know half to three-quarters full and then you plug them up either use some plugs or I usually just stick my thumbs in into the holes and then you just shake it vigorously for a while and then you drain it you let it all out into the sink or the bathtub or whatever and usually more often than not you'll see little bits and flakes coming out I already flushed my 240 radiator and you can't really see was actually pretty clean to begin with you don't see much much gunk in there and a lot of it's probably just from the sink before I even started flushing but it is good procedure and protocol to do before because once you have the loop built you don't want a little little bits of crud flying floating around in here in your system and that's going to look really nasty and also potentially affect performance more importantly so I'm going to give this a couple flushes two to four flushes until everything looks good and nothing else is coming out and then we're going to start building this thing so brace yourselves it's going to be awesome here we go all right boys and girls the loop has finally been bled and well let me take a look at it here there it is the bleeding process was relatively simple I got through it okay hit a few snags but nothing too serious I guess I'll just dive right into the things I learned from this experience first off and my buddy Jay from Jays two cents helped me out with this quite a bit I texted him last night in a panic and he put me at ease but apparently when I first bled this thing and I had powered it on it the fluid wasn't actually flowing through the loop it was just kind of stagnant I could see a little bit of trickling on this tube right here but it wasn't actually getting full and even the little air bubbles in this tube right here weren't moving at all so I thought for a second that maybe my pump was defective and I almost had a heart attack but Jay let me know that because I'm using a PWM type pump they tend to spin at really really low rpms unless the cable the the 4-pin header is plugged in to a pwm header on your motherboard or something similar so I had actually just had this pump wired to an external power supply right there and nothing else was powered on and apparently it was just spinning so slowly that it looked like it wasn't even working so what I did was I just powered up the motherboard and then I plugged in the the cable into one of the PWM headers on that saber tooth and fired it up and sure enough everything was fine so Thank You Jay thanks for saving my life I owe you one buddy apart from that another thing that I learned in this whole experience is by more fluid than you think you need as you can see here I hate you autofocus I hate you as you can see here I have not purchased enough fluid to fill my reservoir and I guess this really applies to people with multiple radiators in their system and a fairly large reservoir is like mine right here if you really want to get it filled up and get that nice clean aesthetic look because obviously this doesn't look that great you might need more than one liter of whatever fluid you're using but obviously you can still run the loop just fine it just won't look as nice when it's half-full or whatever the other thing that I learned is is you know never never underestimate expectations versus reality when you're planning a custom loop like this because up until now all of this this whole build has just been an image in my head you know I and I'm not going to know you're never going to know what its gonna look like until you actually build it and I'm not gonna say that I hate it or anything but I'm not necessarily in love with it as much as I thought I would be and I think that's also having to do with having not having to sleeping in there I think once I have some pink sleeping for the video cards in the ATX cable I think I'm gonna like it a lot more also once the venturi fans the three venturi fans are up here on the 360 radiator that's going to be pretty cool but also like I said before I think I mean we have a straight fitting right here because I want to extend the tubing and I want to make it a little bit more curvaceous it's just a little too straightforward for me right there and also I might get a t-connector instead of having one separate one for the drain and one for the outlet to the loop I think I'm just going to combine it into one fitting basically a splitter fitting and I think that'll look a lot cleaner additionally do you hear that noise I hear it listen listen carefully where is it where's it coming from wait ah a little the little mini fan on the sabre-tooth x99 is noisy as hell so that's not gonna fly with me but that's okay because asus includes this little this little shield right here that you can just swap out for the fan and there you go no more fan and this also brings up a nice opportunity for some color theme modification as well because when I was looking at this originally after I'd first bled the loop I thought you know there's really a lot of pink towards the right side of the case and not so much on the left I tried my best with the PCI slots which turned out really nice I'm actually really happy with how those turned out but there's just a little bit of pink lacking in this upper region to the left of the case toward the back so I think what I'm going to do is I know I've been spray-painting like a madman but I think I'm gonna spray-paint this pink or at least try to well I'm not gonna try it I'm gonna freakin do it damn it and I think that'll add just a little bit more pink in that rather empty region and I did also want to that I am going to try my hand at hard line tubing in this system in the future probably in the near future actually because now that I've done the soft tubing I'm like okay been there done that I kind of want to try hard line tubing like I said I am not in love with with the way the the tubing looks in here but I think that hard line tubing would really make it look pretty damn sweet and just have a lot cleaner lines all together and of course it's a good learning experience and you know I might as well do it sooner than later but that is pretty much gonna wrap it up for this build blog guys thank you so much for joining me like I said we've got a couple more of these before the system's fully ready to go and thank you all for for staying tuned so catch you guys in the next one please feel free to toss me a like on the video if you enjoyed it - also feel free to 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