Gadgetory

here we go pimp my rig episode 3 I'm super excited for this one because unlike the other two clients that we've had so far in the series this is an extremely high-end system that needs virtually zero performance upgrades but could use all the help it can get in the aesthetics department the H 500 I from NZXT carries a small footprint without compromising on features like flexible hardware configurations a removable radiator bracket for easy installation and stellar cable management for a tidier system gamin style with the tempered glass side panel integrated RGB lighting and a built-in cam powered smart device to manage your lighting and fans do more with less in the H 500 I click the link below to learn more this is Adam gaming PC and it's the first ring he's ever assembled so I will commend him on his part selection we've got an incredible lineup of hardware here including an Intel Core i7 6700 K on top of an msi z170a m7 gaming motherboard 32 gigs of Corsair Vengeance lpx ddr4 at 3200 speed and msi geforce r-tx 28 epi gaming x-tree and a handful of other premium components including a fractal design to find our v chassis that make this a dream build for any gamer but what i love most about this rig and how it pertains to this series is that it shows that you can spend some serious coin and drop in some really high-end hardware into your system and still not turn any heads you know if I'm being honest the system looks about as plain as a saltine cracker there's no cosmetic flair no style of any kind to really tell people that this is a special build so that's what I want to do today is make this system look as good as it performs and I think we can do that with just a couple simple changes but for now let's talk some more on Adams build this is fun for starters we've got this Noctua cooler I believe it's an Nhu 14s with mismatched fans I mean the brown is already ugly enough Adam you had to you had to throw the black one on there to contrast even more horrific alee with the brown one like what what's going on might as well swap out that nasty exhaust fan too they perform great don't get me wrong everyone knows it but they're just hideous especially if you're not going to own that color scheme of OOP that's all I see with this poop so this whole area obviously needs work you've got some red accents on your z170 board back there that you can't really see anyway because they're being covered up by this massive card and the cooler is pretty massive too when you have both of those fans on there you've got a few red accents on your graphics card and on this GPU bracket that's not even touching your GPU it's just making your card look thicker what are you compensating for something Adam I say we just get rid of the red and throw some RGB it doesn't seem like you've really owned the red here anyway there are no notable red accents elsewhere in the system it just seems kind of like an afterthought they've got this hideous sticker on the power supply why why do you guys keep the stickers the the rail specs on here makes me makes me mad just me I'm sooo pissed it's tough I'd comment on the cable management if there was any weight all these loose cables you got a 2 pin another 8 pin PCI just just hanging out I don't know what kind of pets or animals you have at home but I know you at least have a bird because there's a crow's nest right above your freaking hard drive cage it's up of that Adam huh I see you got another nest by your power supply hey it's a duplex alright alright I'll give you a break for now Adam lucky for you there's still hope we can still turn this ship around alright so I think the first thing we want to do here is take care of the color situation we really need to get rid of these red accents on the graphics card and the motherboard heat sinks so we can actually prep the system for some serious RGB action so let's get her done Adam prepare to have your PC pimped so our paint job for this project is pretty much out of the way now the graphics card is still drying off so you'll get a closer look at that later and we blacked out the motherboard as best we could you can see we've still got some we've got a red dragon of the MSI dragon and some thin lines on the chipset heatsink that were just too difficult to mask off and we didn't want to risk messing anything up so we're leaving them there Plus once the graphics cards installed it's gonna be covering that up completely more or less and this is Adam's not to a cooler like I said before it's a great unit it's just an eyesore so we want to change that but at the same time we don't want to sacrifice not two levels of performance so what I have here is an out to it and HD 15s a great cooler it's kind of the inverse of this one in terms of design we're instead of having a single heatsink Tower and a fan on either side it has dual heatsink towers and a single fan in between them the problem is is that this cooler is just as hideous out of the box as this one fortunately we have some chrome axe fans and accessories to help us along there so chrome axe for those of you who don't know is the best thing to have ever possibly happened to nock to a when it comes to aesthetics it's basically their line of fans and accessories that complement their existing coolers to take them from super ugly to super attractive is more or less the high-level explanation so we have some cover plates for our heat sinks that don't impede performance whatsoever along with an NF a 15 HS which is going to be the fan that we put in between those heat sinks and an a14 which is going to replace the existing rear exhaust fan both of the fans are fully blacked out and come included with a bunch of rubber corners in various colors so you can kind of customize it to your liking there so what we're gonna do now is we're gonna populate the board with the CPU and memory and then we're gonna mount this cooling solution and see how it looks before we move on to the next step so let's get to okay you guys can see by now that I've decided to add some white accents into Adams build for a couple reasons one it adds a bit of a dynamic look to the system overall instead of just one color there's more you can do the more colors you add obviously we don't want to go crazy but I think a nice two-tone black and white is pretty classic and also white just reflects lighting a lot better reflects RGB a lot better than just straight black does and then we've got his power supply the 850 g3 so we're actually to remove that sticker that I mentioned before with a little heat gun this is a heat gun not not an air cooling fan like some people on this channel think and then the other thing that we want to do here is his SSD is mounted in a large drive cage I feel like it's overkill to have that huge cage just for a two and a half inch drive so I'm gonna remove that cage especially they look kind of weird here in 2018 when most Drive cages are now underneath a power supply completely out of sight so I'm gonna get rid of that and instead mount his two and a half inch drive against the backside panel his right side panel you see I've also got some black and white sleeved cables from cable mod for our SSD and what's even more exciting to top this all off is that when Adam handed off his system to me he also brought along with him two tempered glass side panel upgrades for the define r5 it's just an add-on item that you can purchase separately and again guys I'll drop links to all this stuff in the description so even have to hunt for it but what's exciting about the right panel now being made of glass is that it's gonna give a floating effect to our SSD once it's mounted there which I think will look pretty cool assuming I don't mess it up all right we are fast approaching the finish line people just a few more things and we're good to go we've got our cable mud wide beam LED strip is actually an RGB kit I should say with a controller and all that it's super fun we also have some cable mod cables these are not extensions these are the Pro Series full-length cables specifically for the EVGA 850 g3 because we don't have a power supply shroud I wanted to go with full-length cables just so we get it all nice and clean the whole way through I'm also throwing in a couple wide expansion slots this is just a quick and easy way to give us a more cohesive look as these will match nicely and sort of complement the other white accents in the build and finally you guys will be able to take a look at the GPU in its final form we didn't really do much just spray painted those red accents in white but sometimes a little can go a long way so we'll just have to see how it turned out in a moment but apart from that guys I can't wait to see this build finished I know Adam must be dying to see it so without further ado let's get her down I don't get my hair stuck in that fan scary alright so here it is what's pretty good man damn it turned out so well okay there was one thing one thing that I could change I was actually sort of an oversight on my end the cable mod say the power cable that I got for the SSD is too short and so originally I don't know if you could tell the b-roll but I had that SSD mounted quite a bit higher but I had to bring it down because the cable just wouldn't reach so I would prefer it a little bit higher I think it fills up some of that empty space up there but Adam might not mind it of course he could always swap it out down the line if he so chooses apart from that though chrome axe knocked to a cooler just to think this table just lifted an inch or two and then these three cables coming from the video card oh my gosh it just screamed power I'm getting fired up I'm getting so fired up I got to calm down I really love this thing but of course Adams response is really the one that matters here so why don't we go ahead and see what he thinks of his new pimped out PC alright Adam thank you for being here I'm just actually kind of curious was it hard not having your system for like a week or two I feel to have my old gaming laptops from years ago aside right 1/4000 like 13 just well I apologize for that I really do I'm sure that's tough but hopefully it was worth the wait I think you have any expectations off the bed better cubic management I'm horrible at you I think I think that was a given I think anyone could have guessed that now you actually have BitLocker on here right so if I don't type in the password within like a minute or so the system will shut itself off right so at some point I'm gonna turn it on but it might turn off midway through the shot just so you guys at home know that I didn't break his computer all right you ready yeah all right here it is new system so yeah that really nice it's different it's different than it was but we didn't change a whole lot to be honest all the core components are the same we did a paint job on the board to sort of black out the the red accents obviously sticking RGB in there definitely benefits from from having a more neutral tone this is actually you can see an upgraded cooler but still not to a we just kind of made it pretty with with a chrome accent thank you again for bringing in those those glass panels that saved me some some work definitely but I think it looks really good with the with the SSD float in there thoughts concerns well you said this was your first bill Barry yeah yeah awesome you honestly did a pretty good job for your first build I will say though when you watch this video back I did rip on you please and the system ISIL but but it was all in good fun it was just for the video you did an excellent job I hope you enjoy your new your new system thanks max yeah appreciate ya thank you guys for watching this video thank you Adam for being here if you guys liked the video toss like on it get subscribed and all that stuff and we'll see you guys next time bye