Gadgetory

all right we are doing hotline 2 right now what we're not doing on line 2 we're going to continue working on hotline to sort of a passion project of mines can be my personal gaming system last time we hit a roadblock because I was actually missing some fittings that were required to do some pretty cool bends that I that I had in mind so I actually had to wait for ek to send over some some more supplies and sure enough they pulled through they actually even called upon their friends over at performance pcs dot-com to get the items shipped to me even faster because they have of course a bunch of inventory there so huge shout out to both those guys performance pcs comm go ahead and check them out they're a great retailer that I use all the time as well as ekr blocks thank you guys so much for getting this stuff over in timely fashion but that's besides the point we're working on hotline 2 today so I'm pretty pumped and of course we have furry little friend here hey stinky little boy what are you doing in here you're not allowed in here so now that I'm working from home again be prepared to see copious amounts of cat hair on me in almost every video is there any other right now yeah I think that's one right there we're giving you away anyway to get out you want to come out here go on yeah I don't want you here either and one more thing before we move on to the build I just want to give you guys a quick look at the shooting room as of now still lots of work to be done but here's the big melt cabinet with a lot of my goodies in it it's kind of messy right now but this is sort of a b-roll set I guess one of two b-roll sets for smaller items if I have mini pcs peripherals I don't have any other plans for it right now I might well mount the monitor and clean up the cable management obviously but for now it's just kind of a pretty looking b-roll table that's also left pretty flexible so I can use it for whatever I need on the wall to the right of that I've kept it pretty empty because I need a lot of space as much space as I can have for all the shooting equipment cameras and lights that stuff takes up a lot of space so it's pretty barren over here on this wall I have a really slim kind of storage shelf with all my screws and various accessories that I use frequently we also have some batteries I want to turn this into like a charging station maybe I'll wall mount it to save even more space it's also a toilet bowl coffee mug that is serving no purpose at the moment I should probably move that and then we've got this this is sort of like the presenting area where I'm gonna be doing dialogue and stuff for reviews and unboxing videos things like that it's also where awesome hardware will be streamed from every Tuesday you can see it's sort of a similar layout to the set I already had you can see it's got that desk layout that I stole from Paul many years ago the desk great here is actually a vertical desk electronic electric desk so I can raise it is actually really handy and keeps my back from hurting when I'm working on systems and things like that this quarter oh the table is also gonna serve as a secondary b-roll table for larger items that can't fit over here so things like full-blown systems computer cases and the like I definitely need some acoustic foam paneling in here just to kill the echo sorry I'm also using the built-in mic on the camera I thought I was recording to the tascam to my lovelier but it's the battery died so crappy audio sorry but that's it I'm gonna shut up now now you guys know what the shooting room looks like and what my sort of plans are moving forward on line 2 we are ready for bending I'm ready to bend some tubes damn it I've been waiting for this moment for way too long I've got all the fittings installed so I know exactly which runs I need to make and don't worry these aren't two-tone fittings they're they're only silver because the caps aren't on them yet once the caps are on we'll be all black I know some people on Twitter were freaking out about that but what else is new alright I'm ready for bending let's bend some tubes all right tubes are done it's this is actually the next day it took me about three hours to bend all these yeah I know I'm slow but I was also kind of being sort of a perfectionist so I really took my time to make every Bend just right and I think the final results for the bends at least is really good drastically different from the original hotline but also has sort of its own funky spin I'm really digging these two these two bends right here at the front these are definitely the most complicated bends as well because they each had two bends in them and they were a fairly long tooth of the longest runs in the entire Bell the other tubes are all pretty straightforward there's only maybe one bent to each of them with the exception of this guy had big two relatively tight bends but it's a small tube so it wasn't that difficult I pretty much nailed every tube on the first or second try actually this long one right here I got on the first try somehow had to do this other one a couple times though I think it did it twice this is also the first custom loop I've ever done with a built in motherboard erm water block so that was kind of fun you can see the tube up there is actually parallel to the one in front of it and you almost can't see it from most angles if you look closely you can see I used a number of extenders in order to make everything fit just right and aligned the way I wanted to and then also there was a sort of a tee fitting there's like a two way or three way fitting here I'm only using two the ports though just so I didn't have to do a super-long three-way Bend or I guess it would be a double Bend just to save me a little bit of headache the tube in the back isn't perfectly straight mainly because it's interfering with the pump res it's all wedged in the back too so you don't really see it much oh yeah and then also the drain valve is kind of hiding right here tucked away this is the lowest point in the loop so made sense to put it right here kind of like how it just tucks away like that not using so some of you guys who've been following the build series know I've been experimenting with different colors for the coolant mixing dyes and things like that I still have some ways to go I'm getting there but it's not going to be ready in time for this video so instead of just ending the video here I'm actually going to fill up the loop with distilled water and do a little leak test that way you guys can at least see some liquid flowing through the system and should look pretty sweet so let's do that now okie-dokie leak test is in progress got the pump running and the water is circulating through the loop however the rest of the system is powered off just to avoid any kind of accidental damage or shorting and actually I did encounter my first leak alright I didn't get it on camera but and this is not gonna surprise any of you but I actually made these two tubes a little too short so they weren't clearing their respective or ings meaning there was no effective seal in place so when I started filling the loop for the first time water just started to pool around this bottom GPU here which wasn't panic inducing at all but I quickly dried it up of course there might still be some moisture inside of the card as long as I don't power this on for the next 24 hours we should be good but everything else from that point forward was pretty smooth the bad news for you guys is that since I'm waiting a whole day before I power the system on at all just to be extra safe you guys will not be able to see the system powered on in this video which means you'll have to wait for part three where we finally nailed down the fluid color configure the RGB lighting and only then will you see hot line 2 in its final form but I'm really liking how it's coming along so far those bends and bends so that's gonna do it for me guys thank you so much for watching this video as always toss some wood on it if you enjoyed it and get subscribed to the channel for more tech stuff coming at you really soon have a good one guys I will see you in the next day