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alright guys so today I'm gonna do a build log for hotline two I'm actually gonna get some stuff installed and ready for water cooling inside of the fantex involve ex over here but unfortunately we're not gonna get around to bending any tubes today because I encountered a last-minute issue so you see the pink in the custom sleeves here right and then you compare that to the pink fluid that used to be in the original hot line very different this is almost like a fuchsia there's more purple to this and this is just like a straight hot neon pink oboes I looked online I could not find a single fluid that came anywhere close to this color they all more or less look like this however I did find some primo chill colored tubing in UV pink that matches the pink in our cables very closely so I'm kind of leaning that way now and having colored tubing instead of colored liquid which is gonna obviously change the overall look of the system immensely but I think it might be kind of cool and I'm willing to at least try it out not to mention using good old fashioned distilled water that doesn't clog up your pipes like a big turd is a huge bonus but what kind of sucks about this pink tubing is that a I don't have it yet so it's gonna take a few days to get here and be it only comes in the skinnier size with an outer diameter of 12 millimeters whereas this stuff and the fittings that ek sent me are compatible with 16 millimeter outer diameter tubes so I'm going to wait for ek to send me some more fittings assuming that they want to do that and of course I'll have to wait for the pink tubing to arrive before I can actually get bending so I'm sad to say there won't be any tube ending in this video but it's still gonna be pretty fun we get to slap on the other GPU block for our r-tx 2080 TI you can see you've already got one of them done here we're gonna get our 9900 k installed into our slightly modified motherboard which looks very lovely except with a couple minor blemishes from from not masking it a hundred percent this is uh this is why pea sauce is doing I'm just gonna throw under the bus because I'm her husband that's what they do we're gonna fix this velocity RGB block onto the board like so look at just how it just looks so seamless it looks like it's part of the board the design language from both these pieces are so in tune with each other it looks great maybe we'll get some cables connected and also the radiator and fans you can see I spray-painted the radiators in a light grey trying to match the the color of the sleeving here and I actually think it turned out pretty nice my spray painting skills are definitely improving they're not a hundred percent dry it hasn't been a full 24 hours yet so that's why they're resting kind of in mid-air on on some camera lenses but they look really good can't wait to get them fitted inside the case as well we've got the thicker thirty eight millimeter radiator going top with three fans in in push those are gonna be the ll1 20 series RGB fans from corsair and then we have our slightly thinner 27 28 millimeter thick radiator that's gonna go at the front of the case along with our pump res combo that's gonna mount sort of like this straight to the radiator it's probably gonna be like I don't know maybe like this with a with a longer tube of course to fill up some of that dead space up top so that's the plan we're gonna try to get all this hardware that I just showed off installed today so that when the tubes and the fittings come in we're ready to go and start bending and also once all this stuff goes inside the case we'll actually be able to see where all the parts are positioned in relation to each other giving us a better idea of how we're gonna go about doing our runs so stay tuned to the end of the video maybe you guys can give me some suggestions but that should be a lot of fun let's get her done all right here is what I got so far looking pretty darn good man I'm really diggin it there are a couple things to note however for example you might have caught while I was installing the water block on the 28 ETI that it's not actually a 28 e TI water block it's rather an RT X 2080 block that ek sent me by mistake and I didn't realize that until I had fully mounted it onto the GP I don't think it's an issue because I'm pretty sure that both these blocks are machined the same way I think the difference just lies in the user's manual because you know there's a different number of memory chips - perhaps the thermal pad positioning is a little bit different but I emailed ek I'm waiting on the response just to double confirm apart from that I've got some fractal venturi HP 12 fans at the front here for our front radiator very nice and in case you're curious we get about two to three millimeters of clearance between our Revo D 5 pump and the actual water block for our 2080 TI's it's it's very very close the tail on the motherboard matches the cables perfectly now that we have some decent studio lighting in here it actually looks really close I do have to go over and touch up some areas that were missed on the spray paint you can kind of see some of the reflective material behind the paint there that just wasn't masked off fully properly it's not a huge deal shouldn't be too difficult to fix it's also worth noting that this is not necessarily the final envy link SLI bridge that I'll be using I may very well swap this out with something with a little more Flair down the line we'll just have to wait and see now this is the stock reservoir tube that came with the pump res combo and I was planning to actually swap it out with a 204 millimeter tall one but that's definitely not gonna happen because in order to do that I would have to mount the pump way down here at the bottom that the bottom fan mount on the radiator which is not possible now that I can see that there's a power supply shroud in the way so this little guy will have to do it actually ended up being the perfect height because it leaves us just enough clearance for the tubes that'll be going in and out of this radiator on a final note I want to point out that there's gonna be a lot more pink in the finished product than what you see here it kind of looks like teals taking over at the moment that's just because we don't have the tubing or the coolant in which is going to be pink so obviously pink is still gonna be a very prominent color this is hot line after all I just thought I'd reassure any of you who are freaking out over the abundance of team now let's talk about bends there's a lot of different options and my head's kind of spinning I literally just started thinking about this five minutes ago so by no means is the path I'm about to share with you guys a set in stone option I'm just sort of spitballing here this is sort of my my first impression of how things could look potentially and obviously you guys are free to give me some advice suggestions in the comet that's always appreciated so here we go we got the pump right here right I was thinking is maybe we can come out here just kind of hug the the back plate of the GPU and then just go straight in straight into the GPU and we're gonna go boom with two tubes essentially cooling these GPUs in parallel out the top card straight back left and straight up into the BRM heatsink and then from there it's gonna come out here straight to the left straight up into the radiator out of the radiator straight down all the way to the right and then back into the CPU water block tube comes straight out of the block straight up and then a hard right into the radiator and then here I was thinking maybe we could go straight down perhaps behind the pump pres and then come out from underneath and straight back in might be kind of tricky but I think it's doable so I did a quick and dirty mock-up of that path I just described and I really only drew the tubes that I think are gonna be the most visible from from this perspective so obviously not every tube is represented here but that's sort of the lay of the land and I'm not exactly sure how I feel about it just because again I haven't really given this too much thought so far and it's really just hard to visualize because some of these tubes are more in the foreground than others and it's just really hard to see get a sense of depth of how this is all actually gonna look in person so once I get the the tubes in I can start playing around with it get a better idea and again this is all subject to change so guys please share your thoughts and suggestions in here you know I'm a water cooling new but I've only done this a handful of times so I can use all the help I can get and thus concludes what I would consider the first real build log for hot line - I am super excited to get this under way finally and I'm looking forward to sharing the rest of it with you guys feel free to get subscribed if you haven't yet so you don't miss part 2 coming up very soon until pretty jesus everything's fine be sure to smash that like button if you enjoyed the video guys that helps a lot thank you so much for watching have a good one and I'll see you all in the next