Gadgetory

today's the day today's the day I've been waiting for for so long and you guys been waiting a long time to I'm sorry to have dragged this out for so long but today we're both you and I for the first time we're finally gonna get to see hot line to complete and pop top and the last big thing we have to do for the build is figure out the fluid color so we've got some ek cryo fuel solid white this is a pastel color and we've got a few dyes to mix in to try to get the the exact same pink that's found in our custom sleeved cables from the folks over at and sourced it's gonna be tricky because this is a sort of neon pink it's unique to end sourced and you can't just find a premade fluid that matches that color so we're gonna have to make it ourselves which is hopefully not gonna be too big of a problem now there is a concern here with colored coolant of any kind clogging up your loop and degra nating performance over time which I've seen firsthand with the elite build and I am definitely concerned about that and thinking about that as I go about this project but here's the thing hot line too in my book needs to have pink fluid in order to pay proper homage to the original that being said that's just for the video that's for all the sexy b-roll and once I'm done with this video and done with production I may very well swap out that beautiful pink fluid for basical distilled water just for long-term use if I'm gonna be gaming on this thing for the next year or so I don't want to have any problems down the way I want to sort of minimize the amount of risk it kind of takes both the boxes that way we get to see the rig the way it's intended to look with the nice pink fluid but we can swap it out shortly after so we don't encounter any issues down the line so that's what we're doing today I can't wait to see this thing finish I say we just jump right in and start playing with our fluids wow that sounded really disgusting I'm sorry okay well that was surprisingly quick and easy we only had to do one testing run we didn't even have to use our our second test tube right there it was really straightforward we just started adding dyes that we thought made sense starting with red and once it got to red we started balancing it out with a little bit of pink this pink is sort of like a fuchsia so there's a bit of purple to it which there's also a bit of purple to these cables as well so we just kept you know guessin checking taking a look at it just sort of eyeballing it a head white piece Austin you're helping me as well until we found what looks to match almost perfectly and what we did to get that was four drops of red and nine drops of pink and that was with this amount of fluid of course which we should measure right now so we're gonna measure this out it's a right about 100 milliliters so for every hundred milliliters of fluid we need four drops of red and nine drops of pink meaning all we have to do now is drain the system measure out how much fluid is actually going into this loop do some quick math and they'll be able to tell how many drops of each dye we need to make the color just right all right all right the build is done and it looks beautiful you guys will see the whole spread of b-roll in just a moment but a couple things to point out before I show to you guys the first thing is that the dye the dye color put it in the loop to discover that it was still way too dark the color was right it was just too rich and dark so I lightened it up with some additional white coolant until it became the color that I wanted and now it is matching beautifully also the internal LED strip on one of the r-tx 20 80 TI water blocks actually had its wiring come undone it just completely popped off and I attempted to solder it back on it took me I spent about an hour hour and a half trying to do this guys it's really pathetic but I could not do it I'm just a new bit soldering and I don't really have a good solder kit it's a really cheap kit and the solder points on this LED strip which is very tiny for inexperienced solder er solder is so not being able to get one of the GPUs illuminated I felt it was only right to disable the other one to make it fair it also just doesn't make a lot of sense to me to only have one GPU lit up I turned both of them off so you'll please forgive the lack of our GP on the GPUs but everything else in the system is for lack of a better term lit and I do mean that in the most literal and figurative way possible I am absolutely in love with the end result I hope you guys are too and I'm sure you're dying to see the finished product by now so without further ado ladies and gentlemen it is my great honor to present to you the one the only hot line to and there she blows Letty's well well well not too shabby eh maybe maybe you guys hate it I feel like this is a lover hate belt I completely understand it people are like yeah but I like it I really do but a couple things note here this is looking a little bare this little fan mounting area and there's no way that a standard 25 millimeter thick fan can fit here because of the two fittings coming from the radiator which is kind of a bummer I would have loved to put another ll series fan here to add some more lighting to this side of the case but what can you do I was kind of thinking it might be cool if I got the old CPU from hot line one and like somehow mounted it back here just kind of again to pay homage to the original might be a cool little thing to add in here I'm not exactly decided yet but we'll figure it out in case you're wondering all of the RGB elements in this system are connected to the motherboard with the exception of the LED strips and the l-series fans which are both from Corsair that's hooked up to a lighting node Pro so it's all being configured within the IQ software but everything else that's connected to the board is being controlled with Asus aura and between both of those softwares I was able to get a very consistent shade of pink for all the devices and nto I'm teal for that matter so it's matching pretty nicely and I think it's it's looking good I am gonna try my best to get a replacement LED strip for this bottom GPU here so we can actually illuminate the end of these cards as well as the actual text here the GeForce r-tx I believe the ek logo on the side lights up as well if I can get that sort of out great and if not it's not a huge deal honestly I'm happy with how the system looks as is I don't know how well you can hear it but the fan noise right now isn't the best because I haven't configured anything on that end so they're all just spinning up their fixed rpm we got six bands in here total so it's a little noisy at the moment but that's something we'll address in a future video as well as overclocking our 9900 K and our SLI RTX 2080 ti setup should be pretty awesome we'll be doing some benchmarking thermal testing as well you can sort of see the the CPU temp readout that digital readout on our Maximus 11 formula it's hovering around the low 30s sometimes even in the high 20s so things looking good so far but to tell exactly how this thing performs under load but I think that's pretty much it so I'm gonna end the video here guys thank you very much for watching be sure to congratulate me in the comments on my new build I'm very excited I need to fix this damn table why does I walk before you go be sure to toss a look on the video if you enjoy it and get subscribed for more tech content on the way including a follow-up video to this guy where we finally get to see it in action should be pretty sweet guys thank you so much for watching have a good one and I'll see you all in the next video