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how's it going y'all welcome back today's video is going to revolve primarily around hot line back here my custom water-cooled PC that I built a few months ago what am I going to be doing to it well I'm going to be upgrading it because as decked out as it is from top to bottom in terms of hardware the one thing that is lacking here in my opinion is the lighting situation you can see I do have some lighting over here I've got some little under glow strips right here as well as on the inside and you can tell from the inside of the system that it's actually a pink gray and black color scheme that I went with but the lights on the other hand are kind of like an in-between pink and purple ish blend and it kind of looks a little bit off I was really happy about it at first but it really was the closest I could find to the pink fluid and the pink cable slaving that's inside of the case so I kind of settle my they're really cheap II LED strips single color they're not RGB so that's why today I'm going to be upgrading hot line with the NZXT Q plus RGB custom led kit and Thing Thing is it's cool I actually did a really extensive review on this thing it's like half an hour long check it out if you want Demitri from hardware connects also also just launched his review on the Q plus and it's really good super concise he gets all the important information in there and obviously the b-roll looks really good as they usually do on Hardware kinetics um but that's primarily the focus of today's video so without rambling too much further I think the first challenge that I'm going to have to overcome today is where to actually put this thing because there's no more space in the hard drive cages they're all populated there's no there's no room for this thing so I'm gonna have to again McGavin some and see if we can actually get this thing in there in the first place otherwise this whole video is kind of a moot point let's get started on that alright let's go ahead and get started and we'll shut down shut down alright apart from upgrading hotline I also forgot to mention that it's it's about time for a good cleaning as well so I'm not going to take things out obviously but I'm just going to give it a good spray down a nice little wipe down as well and hopefully get this thing a little bit less dusty than it is currently Ben Wow it's been a while since hot line had a bath you're a dirty dancing know what that means it sounds dirty all right yes you are quite dusty aren't you it was a good hard look at the right side of the system you can see I've got like tape there should never be tape unless this electrical tape there should never be like scotch tape in a frickin computer bill but there you go I actually had to snip some of the wiring for the LED strips that are in here and then route them into a molex connector coming from my power supply to power the damn things super ghetto it's somehow worked I've got more tape up here it's just nasty it's just disgusting how do you live like that so I'm gonna go ahead and rip the out oh yeah way to do that for a while member kids pulling out as it fast I don't even care that I'm ruining these LED strips because I will never use them again good riddance this is also tape these are just taped on here because the adhesive that came with these LED strips is just so horrible how are you so heavy damn you too fat you're clearly American PC I wanted to go just this off have to bring it to the bathroom we're outside first and then I'll be right back it should I do it here I got this I probably should have done this first idiot but you already knew that getting them to be 750 series is a little tricky cuz how much space they have so much up the clock p.m. and I'm from a friend it's really clean don't wanna just to PPE no let me remind you that you can stop watching this video anytime you want this way to sit over here clears on top of you quizzes you take the dog out back and shoot Jenna for me he's dead he's a devil town ready really zooming Christina dust it just filter that's not really that dusty that's it my bad I'll be right back you look down EMI good good good good good good good good good good good good as new you got his Balu well I didn't realize this video would be so reliant on the cleaning aspect come on forgot there's no dust filter in the front dieter maybe I'll just slip a finger on there all right we got the hue plus out of monks we got four LED strips to play around with here so we've got a few options don't we we could either put all four LED strips inside of the case which is probably what most people would do um you saw that with my older le LED strips I actually had two of them on the bottom we showed that earlier in the video so I could put two of them on the bottom and two of them in the case I don't know what I'm gonna do yeah no gasps doom next we're gonna go ahead and try to figure out a place to put this guy you can see I've got it's fully loaded back here you know if I really need it to cram not even it's just too thick it's just way too thick if I'm going to fit so what we're gonna do is flip it around to the fruit yes uh-huh we could just put it right here that looks ugly that looks ugly let's do that or we could put it on the side of the power supply that actually don't look too bad I really wish that the this didn't have this like semi glossy finish on the front because it is a bit more reflective makes it stand out more I guess that was the point NZXT was trainable but I don't like it all that much and it's okay and then maybe we could put it maybe we could put at the bottom maybe it'll be a bottom feeder right under the freakin brows since there's really no room and I'm having flashbacks now remembering why the LED layout initially was the way it was because there's really no room up top for any LED strips that's why I had one in the back one on the bottom that was pretty much all I can do I could however throw one at the front here so I have two on the inside on the sides and then one on the bottom I think that would provide the most even amount of lighting however I should be taking into consideration how how long the strip's going to be in total once I connect it and Chuck yeah just think about that slick not you look you're cool so we actually might need to use all forward I'll forward ease buyer boers okay I think I'm gonna do that guys I think the bottom LEDs are gonna have to wait for a later time maybe I'll do a part two to this video let me know if you think I should still try to get some under glow in there but I think this is gonna look pretty sweet this is a pretty sweet deal I'm glad that the four included strips that that we've got actually cover most of the case here what been cool if there was a two and a half inch mount right at the bottom of the case I mean just for this reason really but it's cool okay we'll just go ahead and put some velcro wrap I our minor all right I've got it in there looks like the velcro is adhering properly and I think we're good to go man frickin q+ installed whoo all right y'all so Before we jump into the software and start getting our groove on I just want to give you a close-up look at the interior of the case what I've done with the LED strips you can see all four of them go perfectly around the three edges of the computer chassis and then we've also got the unit right here so I did the best I could with cable management it's pretty since it's so low like literally at the very bottom it's pretty hard to even see when the side panels on and then of course the unit itself now it just happened to work out that the white LED is facing away from from me or from the side panel so you can actually see it's definitely illuminated there but since it's a mounted this way you can't really see it which i think is great I think I'm really glad that I don't have to show off that white LED because it might interfere with the rest of my color scheme you know what I'm saying you know I'm saying so there's just a quick look at the internals so you can kind of get an idea of what we're working with here so why don't we go ahead and jump into the software all right so now hot line is set up we are in the cam software it's a NZXT in-house program to configure all of our lighting modes and effects and things like that so you can see right now the system is not lit up at all even though the LED strips are on there we just have the LEDs disabled at the moment so we're just going to go through the list of presets here and I've already kind of configured create custom profiles within each of these that just to save time starting off with the basics we've got a fixed LED mode right now as you can see it's all the way on black I've gone ahead and played around with a few colors the first one being white it's very neutral obviously and you can really see the innards of this system the best I think with white lighting so this is definitely a contender just to go with a simple white lighting next up we have the fuchsia color that I tried to replicate the color of the liquid the fluid as best I could now even though it's maybe not 100% perfect this is still way closer to the the pink in hot line than the old LED strips that I had previously so I'm actually really digging this fuchsia I'm also going to be revisiting it on in some of the other future lighting modes that we have here next up we've got sky blue and even though there isn't a hint of blue in this entire rig this is just kind of an overall desc theme that I've ended up going with my desktop background is kind of a blend of this color and that fuchsia that we were looking at and also my k70 RGB kind of does a breathing effect between these two colors as well so I don't know why but these are just totally like hotline Miami colors and I think even though there's no blue in the system I think it still accentuates it quite well and it kind of complements the the existing pink that's in there so I think between this fuchsia and white those are probably the three main colors that we're going to be messing around with for the most part so moving on to breathing this is just again a really simple I'm gonna change this blue here this is just a really simple breathing effect I actually I like fading a bit better because you'll notice the breathing it the lights dim all the way before they go back up and I don't know I'm just not a big fan of that if there's lighting in the case I want it to always be on I don't like it to fade out and then come back on I just think it's a bit distracting for me so moving on to fading now I thought this was kind of a cool idea so this is kind of a best of both worlds I'm switching between fuchsia and white I've named this profile warm to cool because you do get kind of both of those color temperatures with this lighting mode and then moving on to marquee tool around marquee tool Wow okay okay Photoshop users this is the spotlights that I created now generally the market the way marquee works is you have a backlight color that just stays constant so static lights that lights up on all the LEDs and then you have a marquee color that kind of just travels around that that loop so to speak in a different color what I've done here is I've actually made the backlight color black so I've essentially disabled all LEDs for the backlighting and then I just made the marquee color white and you can see I've named this this one spotlight just because I think it's kind of a neat idea having the case pitch black but then having this one bright white LED traveling around it and you can see I've also made the group size of LEDs five LEDs long covering marquee very similar to the one we just looked at but I'm going with an RGB here instead of having a backlighting the colors just run they travel one after the other so there's no real backlighting there but I just went with the classic RGB obviously doesn't match with with the pink it actually looks kind of hideous but I think this is just for me more more of a fun option got a throw if they're RGB LEDs go throw some or GB in there sometimes right sooner or later it's going to catch up to you but that's all for that one pulse for pulse I just see this as like a strobe light effect I guess if you go really slow you can make it more like a heart beating and you can probably even you know make it look even more like a heart if you choose like a warmer color represents blood or something like that let's just go pure blood the blood dripping down pumping through the pipes I don't know what I'm saying so yeah I just I don't know I like I kind of like the strobe light effect with with the white I think it looks pretty sweet this is probably as fast as I was I would go you go any faster than that pretty much give yourself a seizure and then we got spectrum wave there's not much customization you can do here in terms of color picking because it is just every color of the spectrum that that runs through and so yeah you can really just change the interval out of the speed and direction so we can go backwards if you really want to live life on the edge I'm going backwards today guys good for you kinda good for you so yeah this is just a nice mode to have on hand and then we've got alternating which i think is my my new favorite one after playing around with it you can see I've named this one slot machine and we've got both our fuchsia and our blue when I apply that BAM it just reminds me of a slot machine like I could just like coins falling out and everything yeah that's totally what this is this is exactly like so I've got the moving emotion on you can see without it moving the lights just kind of I mean they alternate but they don't really go anywhere and that kind of freaks me out I think the moving just looks a little bit more seamless less seizure inducing again got a three LED group size that just seems to be or I guess the spotlight was plus five but we've got a little bit shorter one shorter of a group size here and it's going pretty fast going on the fastest mode and we're going forward we're going forward this time guessed and back to our old ways but yeah I really like this one a lot it kind of gets both of those nice colors in there at the same time I think I'm just going to start playing slot machine sound effects in the background of all my videos now and then lastly we've got candle light which is actually a new feature that comes to us through a patch update very recently that that I haven't seen this until now but this is cool that NZXT is adding new LED modes to the software I just I don't know it makes it seem more worth the hefty premium that you pay for this thing so I think it's like 60 bucks but this is kind of a cool effects it's supposed to replicate the flame of a candle the flickering flame of the candle I should say and it comes default with this nice auburn color but of course you can change that change that up to whatever you want although that didn't work here we go you can change it to whatever you want it'll just kind of slowly flicker there's no speed adjustment for this one so you know if you wanted to replicate like a candle flickering in the wind violently you probably couldn't do that unless they added it in the future patch those are pretty much all the led effects guys um I let me know which one you guys like the best or if you'd like me to try something else and maybe I'll post a video on it on Instagram or something like that but that's pretty much gonna conclude it for this video I think for now I think today today I'm feeling I'm feeling slot machine I'm gonna I'm gonna run slot machine today but who knows what I'll run tomorrow I already know what I'm gonna do tomorrow but but I'll never tell so thank you guys so much for watching this video go ahead and test me like if you enjoyed it feel free to subscribe to the channel if you haven't already more tech videos coming really soon I promise and have a merry a very Merry Christmas I'll probably see you guys again before then whether it's in a video or some kind of maybe old periscope or something like that but yeah thanks for tuning in guys have a good one and I'll see you all in the next video