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yeah I cannot wait for us to watch ant-man tonight I mean obviously the movies gonna butcher the original storyline but come on he's like the most underrated character in the Marvel Universe hey screw ant-man man let's go to Vegas the venturi fans from fractal design make everything cooler that's right even you check the link in the description boy what's up guys welcome to my custom water-cooled build log this is built like number 5 where I'm gonna be doing some custom cable slaving for the well I haven't really named the bar cooling system break yet but I should name that soon but that system is going to get some nice leaving I've got some tele asleeping from the guys over at mainframe custom super cool guys they do a really great job go ahead and check their site out if you're looking to do some sleeping yourself so you'll see right here I've got some whites leaving I'm going to be spray-painting this stuff pink and I'm going to mix that with a black and gray sleeving and do a kind of mixture of those three colors that really ties in with the color scheme of the rest of the system and I'm gonna see if that works because I've never tried this before some people online have recommended to stay away from spray-painting sleeping you're sleeping teos is kind of like a plasticy material so I think the paint will adhere a little bit better than it would on like a fabrics leaving for example but we're gonna find out that's all part of the fun and the learning experience for today so I've got my ATX pins right here all my wires I'll wire it up with them pretty ATX pins so I'm going to be doing my sleeping extensions for the 4 PCIe cables because I've got two gtx 980 eyes in there so i've got four of those going in as well as my 24 pin ATX for the motherboard now you're probably wondering how do you go about spray-painting this stuff and i actually tried to do a tester I actually cut one piece about a foot long piece and tried spray-painting I literally just held it on I put it on top of a little table spray painted it and it like literally just flew off the table label on the ground it was ruined so I tried another piece I took a piece of really thin wire and I hung the little piece of sleeving from like a clothesline i spray-painted it up and down that way but then it just kept waiting around like frantically so i wasn't able to get a really nice even coat on that either so I've kind of devised a new method what I'm going to be doing is gonna be taking these little shish kabob skewers that I got at your local grocery store whatever and I'm going to be sticking them in this piece of foam and I'm going to be taking individual pieces of sleeping and sleeping them over the shish kabob sticks that make sense so smell like that stick it in there and there it is the sleeving is all nice and straight it holds its form really well and you get 360 degrees of accessibility to evenly coat the entire surface area so on that note why do we get started you by travelpod member you you alright guys so the cable sleeping process is finally finished it took me about anywhere from 8 to 10 hours for the whole procedure not including time it takes for the paint to dry and we'll take a look at the finished product here it is I think it looks pretty darn nice that being said I can only confirm that spray painting you're sleeping can be done with this particular type of sleeping because it's the only one that I've ever done it with obviously this is a teleo sleeping again probably the best sleeving to spray paint because it's not like fabric or cloth II it's just kind of more like a plastic and the paint adheres really well as long as you let it dry fully before handling you should be fine but I think it looks really nice the color actually came out nice too it matches the fluid pretty spot-on I also did want to mention that I'm very happy with how my sleeve kebab method worked out for spray-painting these suckers just like I intended I was able to get basically attack the sleeving from all angles going 360 degrees around just kind of spray-painting until everything was coated and also keeping it rigid and not waving around anytime I'd spray some some paint at it was really really helpful and very effective so I'm happy about that some snags that I had hid in my sleeping experience now this remember this is the second time that I've sleeved my own cables cable extensions let me turn this aperture but I hit some snags this time around that I didn't hit the first time actually so I was kind of intrigued by that and also very annoyed it's very frustrating the first thing was that I couldn't get one of the ATX I couldn't get one of the cables into the connector my heat shrink work was just too thick and it wasn't fitting in and I kept trying to shove it in which is stupid of me it was a pink cable that I was doing with and I met the finger oils on on my my fine self they rubbed off on to the paint and some of the paint actually came off of the cable sleeving and so you could see some of the white bleeding through the cable and didn't look very good so I had to actually take the sleeving off and flip it around you know either like ruin the the heat shrink job that I had done to get it off the wire in the first place it made the cable the slating a lot shorter so what ended up happening was the other end that goes behind my motherboard tray is now short or it's now devoid of some sleeving and it just it's definitely an eyesore but luckily it's behind the motherboard tray now that could have all been avoided had I painted extra sleeves I see I made the stupid mistake of only painting the exact number of sleeve pieces that I needed and I should have known doing this once before that things are going to go wrong at some point you are going to need extra everything so bear that in mind always paint more than you need because what will happen is if you have to go back to the drawing board and paint a new piece of sleeve that sets you back like hours because you have to wait for the paint to dry so it's just a big mess that you can easily avoid if you just paint some extras from the get-go the other major snafu that I had once leaving these cables was actually not plugging in the wire but taking it out I made another I made a lot of stupid mistakes this time around guys I know none of you are surprised at all but I actually plugged in one of the cables into the wrong hole in the connector so I had to get to get it out and for whatever reason I couldn't get it out you with my ATX pin removal tool that just didn't work for some reason I kept trying to yank it out eventually I yanked it all the way out and the cable and sleeve came but the ATX pin was stuck and lodged inside of the connector still and I looked for for an hour or so online trying to figure out how to get this damn thing out because it's really hard you need the you can't just jam it with something on the other end because you those little pins those little pins on the side are locked into place so you have to have the ATX pin removal tool in there while you're trying to get it out which makes it impossible to push anything through you actually have to pull it so what I ended up doing was I took a piece of really thin wire that I just happen to have lying around I was actually part of my DIY kid stuff so I jammed a wire in there the same side of the connector that the wire would go into I jammed it all the way through until it came out the other end and then I bent a little loop I just kind of like twisted it and made it into a J like a fish hook and then I pulled it and managed to yank it out bear in mind with the ATX removal pin the entire time it was an ordeal it took me like an hour and a half to finally figure out how to do it and actually get the damn thing out so what I will suggest is buy extra connectors as well because it would have just been easier if I had just had a spare connector the same connector lying around that I could have just tossed that one that had the stuck ATX pin in it and just use the fresh one and they're cheap anyway so just stock up on a bunch of them but I think on that note everybody that pretty much wraps up this year custom build log number five g's were on five now my goodness there will be a couple more I know in the last build la goes like oh there's only one or two more that'll be done that's a lie because I recently officially decided that I'm going to be using hard line tubing for this build as nice as it looks you know with with the soft tubing I think hard line tubing will look much better with those cleaner lines and super straight corners and stuff like that I've been talking to the guys at primo chill they're hooking me up with some PT G tubing and I'm gonna need to get a heat gun and stuff like that but that'll be a whole build log on its own and holy crap I can't imagine the snafus that'll hit there so stay tuned for that but apart from that apart from the hard line tubing I think I just need to add a fan in here maybe painted pink maybe paint this cover plate or just part of it you guys were saying just maybe paint the x99 or the ring around it I still have to decide if I'm going to do either of those if I have the pink fan in here I might not need to do this at all and then I think it's just a matter of shrinking it out with maybe some pink LEDs or something like that and I think we'll be good to go and obviously wiring up the rest of the cables you can see the eight pin and some of the fans aren't plugged in some of the fans aren't even installed yet but that'll all happen in due time so thank you guys so much for joining me in this build log stay tuned for more tech videos coming really soon hit that like button if you enjoyed it subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and I'll see you all in the next video you