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all right I hope you guys aren't sick of hot line to content yet because I've got more for you today today we're actually gonna be addressing this little tube right here the one let's go in from our top GPU to the vrm heatsink the reason for that is because if you watch the last hotline Tube video and you already know that we installed these really nice addressable RGB custom-made GPU back plates from the folks over at v1 tech they did a fantastic job but they go on top of the existing RT X xx atti back plates that I already had installed so it makes them extra thick and so the top GPU back plate is actually pushing this tube upwards you can kind of see it's very obvious how crooked it is compared to the tube to its right before it was really nice and straight it was parallel with the other tube now it's completely bent out of whack you know if this was like sort of my first time go at custom water cooling I would probably be ok with it but this is hot line freaking too and it needs to be perfect so today we're gonna be addressing that trying to fix it now the reason why this warrants its own video and why it's not just a quick and simple fix is because I want it to look good not just function and what I mean by that is I could easily just pop in like a four millimeter riser for this fitting elevate it and that would get patched and clear the GPU backlight there but it would look terrible because then it would no longer be even level with with the tube to its right and that's just not gonna fly so I'm gonna have to find a whole new creative way to run this tube from here to here and I have no idea how I'm gonna do that yet gee willikers what's that thing in your hand it looks sad and probably doesn't perform well you'll be much happier with the iron claw RGB Gaming Mouse from Corsair it has a lightweight body and contoured shape that's perfect for palm grips and larger hands an 18,000 dpi optical sensor built to last Omron switches and seven programmable buttons are sure to make this your new favorite pointer click on the link below for more info I do have enough fittings for an army fittings and adapters and stuff so I have no shortage of equipment to work with and that's that's gonna be pretty key to get this exactly how we want it and I also have a bunch of spare tubing as well so that's not a problem on a side note I'm also using this as an opportunity to drain hot line to which needs to be done anyway if we're gonna work on fixing that tube and refilling the loop with distilled water as most of us know by now any colored or dyed fluid that pretty much anything that isn't pure h2o is subject to clogging your loop over time and that can actually lead to reduce performance in terms of thermals and and even gaming performance if if the thermals get really bad so we're sort of killing two birds with one stone today by the end of this video hotline 2 will be filled with distilled water that's on the agenda guys let's go ahead and start by draining this son-of-a-bitch can I say that can I say that without getting people on time I guess we'll find out alright I've drained this guy as much as I can you can see there's still some fluid in this tube for example and this tube but that's okay because we don't need to like take out any of these tubes anyway they can just sit there without without issue this is the only tube we're really removing today so shut up phone but you may have noticed that the remaining fluid in the loop is actually clear it's not pink that's because I spent a good half hour just cycling the loop with distilled water adding distilled water draining some adding more distilled water draining some more until they pretty much flushed all of the pink stuff out and we're left with just good old distilled water that'll give us a little head start when we're done fixing this tube and ready to refill the loop for good so now we got to figure out what to do with this guy now like I said before we can't just elevate this fitting and continue going left because that'll just be very jarring to have these two tubes running the same direction parallel but at different heights that'll just look really weird so one alternative I'm considering is elevating it running the tube straight back as opposed to to the left that way it's not so obvious how mismatched these fittings are so they'll go straight back over the back plate and then left and then up back into this fitting I don't know how it would look but it might be worth trying let's give it a shot and see how it goes alright so this is where we are now after I've played around with some of the fittings you can see that I added a little extender here I think that's like four or five millimeters at the bottom just to elevate this fittings really can get over the GPU backplate so ideally the tube would go straight back and to the left into this 45 right angle fitting but you can see that there's hardly any room for the tube to make a turn so once it goes straight back and makes it and hooks a left turn it's gonna have to make a really sharp left to actually get into that fitting and I just don't think it's gonna make it but I mean if you look at a tube like this you definitely need to account for extra distance taken up by the bend itself anything tighter than this is gonna kink the tube or just won't look very good so that's already a bad sign and additionally I'm just not sure if I'm a fan of how this is gonna look like even with that tube in I think it just kind of throws off the aesthetic the fact that there's just all fitting here and you don't really see much tube anymore I think we're gonna have to go a different route so this is what I'm thinking remove the extension again put this to the left again remove this guy and go left and instead of going back and up we're gonna go up and back so you'll be able to see more tubing it'll be able to clear the GPU backplate because we're going up first and over as opposed to the other way around and maybe that'll do the trick so let's try it out all right the new tube is in looking pretty good now it looks a little bit more curvaceous than than I anticipated that's mainly because we don't have much distance to work with so it was kind of difficult making these really tight bends but I did I did the best I could and overall I'm really happy with the results it definitely fits in the design language of hotline 2 and more importantly the run is now parallel and perpendicular with the other lines in the loop so it looks really nice plus we've got a lot more clearance for our backplate you can actually see more of it now which is a nice bonus that pretty much concludes our surgery work for the day I guess at this point we can go ahead and refill the loop booter back up and see how she looks I never get tired of drooling over the PCs that I make and this is no exception you guys let me know what you think though I think we can officially say that hotline two is 100% complete and I don't plan to make any changes to this thing unless some issue should arise knock on all the wood again this is my primary gaming PC I will not be doing an ounce of work on this rig which ensures that every time I look at it I will think happy thoughts and be overjoyed so um yeah that's it guys thank you for watching this video let me know what you think of hotline twos new look and feel free to toss a like on this video if you enjoyed it to get subscribe for more tech content on the way thank you guys so much for watching have a good one and I'll see you in the next video