Gadgetory

my my my it is wet outside it's raining it's raining in Southern California we don't we don't get this kind of weather often it's usually bright sunny skies but we need it I guess we've been in a drought for awhile and I don't mind the rain because it comes so infrequently here that it's kind of fun when it happens you know forces you to sort of run to your car instead of walk it's good good exercise what am I getting at here we're back the point is that we're back we're back from Las Vegas back from CES it's a brand new year 2019 whoo brand new year same terrible dance from wifey sauce some things some things never change you know your New Year's resolution should be learn how to dance but then again your resolutions supposed to be somewhat realistic right can't can't be a can't be a moon shot ow that that really stinks other resolution work on your burn game burn Oh again let's be realistic here okay so what was I gonna do today oh wait you probably want to see my face don't you probably not only show it to you anyway so we're gonna do a little bit of a vlog today because we just unpacked all the stuff all of our gear from CES here at the office but I forgot the AC power cords for our LED lights that we use for all of our stage lighting and stuff so it would be terrible lighting if I just tried to do a regular video which is why we're gonna blog today those are the lights of them talking about they have no power cables we can't use but that's okay we're still gonna have a fun day hopefully you can see here I've actually got some water cooling hardware from ek this is their vector RT X xx atti water block has actually mounted onto an RT X xx atti right now you guys remember I actually did a video on the water block installation a few weeks back this is all for hot line ok hotline 2.0 we've got the asus rog Maximus 11 formula and we have to RTX 28 ET is that we're putting together in NV link sli and here's the other water block still in the box I have not yet mounted this to the other 20 abt I these are founders edition 28 et eyes by the way and of course we have a backplate this one will have a backplate to look at the Z 390 chipset here I'm gonna be slotting in a core I nine ninety nine hundred K from Intel it's an 8 core 16 thread CPU currently the fastest gaming chip on the market because this is first and foremost a gaming PC and all this will be going inside of the fantex evolve X mid tower case that's kind of disassembled right now so why am I telling you all this well that's because we have this box here from ek that I have been waiting to open for several months now I initially put in a request of the guise of D Cave awesome team by the way over there about three months ago October 15th I believe is when I initially asked for all of these parts everything to get the job done for hotline 2.0 was about three months ago so I waited for a week and actually a week or so later this first waterblock came in and that's why I did the installation video way back then but then nothing else really came after that and I was waiting and waiting I waited weeks and weeks and weeks and also very busy along the way so kind of forgot about at the same time till I finally followed up with ek and they realized that there was a shipping mishap with DHL they were waiting on my response which I had never given them and so this whole package everything else was just kind of waiting and shipping on someone to respond so finally I did and then this box finally came probably right before Christmas but then of course Christmas happened and the New Year's happen and then CES and Las Vegas happened and now here we are three months later after initially requesting this package to finally open it you guys are gonna get to see the rest of the water cooling hardware I will be using four hot light 2.0 very excited so here we go we're gonna open it right now on camera I'm gonna do it one-handed and I've actually kind of already forgotten exactly what I requested because it's been so long so this as much as a surprise for me as it is for you cue hardware porn groove music so first off we've got the other act plate good I was hoping that they wouldn't forget this so we got the back plate now for both water blocks so we can cover all this nasty PCB business look at this what is this ek cool stream SC 360 so we've got a 360 rad then we have another 360 rad but I believe this is yes this is a cool stream PE so this is actually quite a bit thicker let me let me get a ruler really quick so the PE which is the white box is about 60 millimeters and then the SE must be around 50 maybe 45 or 50 millimeters thick hope we got an extra back plates so now we have three now I now I can actually afford to screw one up and break one and still have a backup so that's good now the original hot line had some funky bends if you recall so to do it justice I'm gonna do some funky bends this time around as well which means I'm probably gonna mess up a lot which is why I asked ek for a lot of tubing and these are 12 millimeter inner diameter and 16 millimeter outer diameter so they are quite a bit thicker than the tubes that were in the original hot line fun we had a tube is this a tube I believe it's a - yes it's a tube 204 millimeters tall this is our reservoir tube for our pump press combo this might be our pump Rask combo hey ekx res 140 rivo d5 RGB PWM and cool ass old pump black acetyl I'm calm down I think this is like their flagship pump res combo don't quote me on that but it's got RGB it's got a d5 pump the works unit pump bracket so we're gonna be mounting this guy to this bracket and then this bracket mounts on to a 120 mil your fan I haven't decided which one that's gonna be yet though look oh please you never have too many fittings we've got another velocity RGB block here brand spankin new from ek but this one's gonna be for our ninety nine hundred K nickel an acetal construction very classy and should do a really fine job of carrying all that heat away from our cpu I think those are all the custom water cooling parts for this build it was very exciting to see it all laid out on the table however haphazardly it might be but there's one more thing that ek put in this box and not exactly sure this might be a bag let me get this open woods tricky trying to open this one-handed with a razor without cutting the bang I think we've reached the boss level it is a bag look at that it's got like a full custom loop on and everything that makes it the coolest bag ever wait something's inside some things inside that can only be one thing a notebook is a water-cooled thank you very much ek for providing all this stuff we are so close now to getting this build underway there are a couple things though that need to happen first before we get started no I don't have them on hand right now they're actually at home but n sourced customs sleeps some beautiful cables for hotline that I can't wait to see in the finish bill as you can see from this b-roll we've got some black some gray some pink and now we've added teal to the mix or turquoise or whatever you want to call it just a slightly differentiate it from hotline 1.0 and switch things up a bit so what I'd like to do today is find some spray paint that matches the teal in the cables and go to town on this here motherboard actually spray-painting the reflective areas of the vrm water block because you can see they're super super shiny right now they look kind of good but when you get up close they've got scratches all over them and this is this is basically from nothing at all like this is this a microfiber cloth did that I'm gonna leave this section alone because there's actually LEDs here and the real reason I want to spray-paint these areas teal is because the coolant in hotline 2.0 very much like the original will be hot pink so I kind of want to balance things out and not just have everything hot pink and only have teal represented in the cables themselves I want teal to be another accents in the system so I think having them right here and here is a really good place to start I also wanted to kind of spray-paint this little area this sort of the black trim just from here all the way up to here I think that's gonna be easy to mask off and it'll also even out some of the teal areas so it's not just in the top or left side of the board but also a bit on the right and then with a pink fluid kind of moving around that I think it's gonna look really really good I'm gonna leave the lower half of the board alone because once the graphics cards are installed you won't be able to see this area so much the focus will be primarily on the graphics cards and the water blocks whose LEDs we can configure the color up to our liking that's what we're doing today yeah shopping for paints modifying motherboard probably eating and some other random errands because this is a vlog you guys know how this goes would you get pea soup Bunji Bunji is a kanji or congee it's kind of like a porridge right is it for poor people all right I got the won ton soup I'll would be proud you know it's good when your neck disappears into your body you notice how they didn't once come over and ask us how everything was Larry now why ask questions you know the answers to right I am home now and I wanted to show you guys the hot line 2.0 cables these are full length full-length cables that'll be going into an EVGA I think 1300 watt power supply I believe it's the g2 I mean the camera doesn't really do them justice joy from mentors did a fantastic job put that hot pink teal and gray black color scheme it just looks so good obviously this is the 24 pin ATX you got two pairs of eight pin PCI Express cables here's an 8 pin EPS 12-volt cable for our CPU and an additional 4 pin cable because our motherboard supports extra overclocking just joy did a fantastic job here really proud of him and sourced has really become one of the family in recent years as you can see I'm gonna go run some errands with me Oh what kind of work oh yeah I forgot about that whole we just bought a new house thing ok well see you later bye now there are a couple of hardware stores around my house we've got Home Depot Lowe's a couple local hardware stores as well but because we're looking for a really weird kind of oddball color like teal that's something that you would ordinarily find in a common household I think we're better off finding something like that at a hobby store or an arts and crafts store or something like that and I think I know just the place Michaels of course of course it's Michael's not just getting Hobby Lobby you're going to Hobby Lobby can you go get Bobby with his big old knobby and take him to Hobby Lobby maybe he can get a job what's for dinner corn on the cob II Oh Michael I'm sorry this is the hobby store she tells you not to worry about there we go spray paint we got here looks like teal kinda right titled blue kinda like an aqua there's waterfall as well there's another aqua looks a little bit too light and then we have surf which huh it's kind of hard to tell all right so after much internal contemplation I settled on waterfall it is pretty darn close and the lady who worked at the store actually gave me a fresh pair of eyes on it so I'm pretty happy with this choice where all you need one can because the surface area that we're spray-painting is actually very small on that motherboard I also happen to grab gray because I'm still debating this but I might actually spray-paint the radiators or some other accents in the system gray just like I did with hotline 1.0 and as you can see this should definitely match up nicely as well man I didn't see a person under the age of 85 in that store no joke they could have all been is like bunch of my grandpas and grandmas walking around mostly grandmas Hobby Lobby if times ever get rough you should think about selling caskets I'm sure there's a lot of old people looking to get into the recreational sport of dying I'm looking for a page that matches my skin tone my corners asking I shouldn't be joking about the old people they're very kind and wise I'll be one of them someday so so you know I should probably live it up while I still can Yolo and all that you know I'm gonna go on a bender right now screw all my responsibilities let's let's have some fun okay I guess we'll have our fun later in the meantime I'm back home and while I was gone wifey sauce so beautifully mashed off all the areas for the motherboard here and she did a great job looks very very precise she also cleaned all the surfaces prep them for painting so we are good to give well that is gonna do it for today it's been a long day but a productive day and the paint on the motherboard is actually still drying I won't have time to show it to you guys tomorrow morning because we have to meet with a contractor at the crack of dawn to replace all the flooring in our new house it's this whole ordeal so here's some b-roll that I shot the morning after so you can kind of see what the finished product looks like you guys let me know what you think if you have any comments concerns or questions I'm hoping that it looks good enough for an amateur model like myself I'm sure you guys will let me know either way but that's gonna do it for me guys thank you so much for watching this video if you enjoyed it and you like what we do here on the pit wait toss a like on the video before you go and get subscribed for more tech stuff coming at you really soon have a good one guys I will see in the next