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I need to find RGB LEDs which in 2016 shouldn't be hard but I need to find those a mini ITX case and components because it's too late to order things in time for Christmas I'm trying to do a PC build for my sister who else with some of the game benchmarks on the site and we need to replace her gaming htpc including Mini ITX case we're gonna try and scavenge parts and put all that together before getting to that this coverage is brought to you by catalyst energy Mint's which contain caffeine taurine b vitamins and siberian Eleuthera root learn more about this zero calorie energy drink alternative in the link in the description below use code gamers nexus for a discount so this will serve two purposes one is the last-minute build I'm trying to get this done might have enough time to do two days shipping on a few things if I don't have them but we're trying to replace a system that has a trinity APU and it's a 5800 K I think it's while since I've looked in those parts and it's got a GTX 960 which might stay in there because it's actually kind of decent card and she's able to play right now watchdogs too with high-ish settings at 1080p and get sort of high 30s low 40s fps that's not great the system is aging the trinity apu is dragging everything else down so the GP is not bad so we're gonna try and rebuild things you'll get a mini office tour while we're doing it so first I need some RGB LEDs and personally I don't really put those in my system but she's a big fan of neon lights this is the closest thing I got so we've got a few options one is I have these Corsair SP 120 RGB kits that are going unused right now they sent two of them because the one that shipped with this 570 X was defective because it was a a pre-production model so this is one option we're gonna hang on to this another option of course would be the competing and the XE hue plus I haven't actually set one of these up myself I've used the one on the 570 X we'll try this out but the hue plus is the next option so we're gonna go grab one of those and in addition to that look for a CPU a motherboard I think we can skip the video card as ds1 in there I ordered a hard drive I was ahead the game there had we needed an SSD and a case and a power supply we need everything let's get behind it so first grab the Hugh plots in case we want to use that instead and see the collection of empty boxes for in Tana and these CDs so we like to have those for the tables during shots so I've got the cute plus and we've got the SP RGB kit you're gonna have to blur that out okay CPUs so I think we're gonna go if we go Intel I might have a spare Intel chip 35 70s that was never used as a low-power Ivy Bridge chip it's basically built for HD bc's let's set that aside you might be able to go into that if not got a 4770k in the other room which I am trying to hang on to but that's the last-minute option we use the Ivy Bridge or if we use the Haswell 4770k the benefit is ddr3 which doesn't sound like a benefit but when RGB LEDs are one of my biggest points of concern we've got some decent memory somewhere in one of these with a few kits of LED enabled memory I can only spare one I think but I'll walk you through what we have so for ddr3 we have HyperX savage g.skill this is pretty bad this is 1600 or 1333 mega Hertz I think this is good I like this memory but that's for a permanent test bench cannot put that in anything else vengeance pro memory which is decent but not LEDs so no good for our purposes some a data mediocre kid memory this is like ddr4 with the corsair LED stuff so it could potentially use that more corsair LED stuff that's the other half the kit these two i suspect are bad so we can't use those HyperX beast and then the one that I'm most interested in we have these g.skill modules that I bought for my machine that I never built so those haven't been put to use ancient Genesis memory this looks like beast as well this looks like predator and then we have a single stick of crappy Ram Michael talked about and then we've got these two of extra modules it's been out for a little while now but I think they have some of the best LEDs I've seen on memory she's killed just announced some new stuff but this will probably be better so I think this will work I think we can use this for our LED needs in this particular build and my hope is to put something together that kind of resembles like a mixture of the Tron movies for LEDs so get a bit of Tron in there I get some cyberpunk feel and I think that memory and a mini ITX board we can only have two slots anyway so that'll work for that if we run the 35 70's we're gonna be limited to off top my head something like what is it 2130 it might even only be 1600 megahertz but definitely no higher than 21 33 so we might get to 21 33 but certainly no higher than that and we're on ddr3 so now we need to figure out a couple of other things how do we need to figure out now okay so we have thinking the cube plus the reason I think in the hue plus is because if I can find a crack and cooler that we can use then we can connect them together the problem is the crack and smallest size is 140 and that's not gonna fit in the case that I think I want which is in in 1 901 I emailed in when a few days ago and asked for this case they said they would ship one and I haven't gotten an update so to their credit it was very last-minute on my part but I really don't think I'm gonna get one in time for Christmas so I think we bunch of the sex might have to order a system and but then we have the cracking problem so the crack and only the crack and X no the X 52 won't fit in here either X 52 0 to 40 that's not gonna fit so we can fit a 120 millimeter fan in here so that means this is a pretty good-looking case from any ITX right now we have the Silverstone case we have this one in use right now for that gaming htpc but it's not flashing up so I do want something with tempered glass this will work into the backup option I'd love to look and see what I have so we ordered this that's an option now the problem is those liquid cooler I wants not gonna fit because the liquid cooler I want doesn't exist so what we need is an X 32 which doesn't exist at least not in the US so I need a 120 millimeter radiator and ideally an RGB pump but I don't know if while both those so I I'll pause the radiators we'll see what I have then figure out the rest so you know 120 millimeter radiator ideally somehow we figure out the LED pump solution this is what I got for about half of the liquid coolers that we have right now so we've got plenty of 120 s this is an EVGA hybrid solution which might come in use if I want to convert the video card into a liquid card later that's that's an idea would reduce the noise levels even if it's a 960 which doesn't need it to reduce the noise that's an option for that but we can maybe splice one of these with a crack and pump block or something and create a last minute crack in X 32 this is a phat 120 radiator so it is 120 it would work within 1 901 which is what we want to use and it cools about as well as some of the two 40s because it is fatter this is a terrible garbage awful Coolermaster solution that is not getting used in this build haha and then what else do we have a couple different generations of a stack pumps this is an older one I'm not sure what this is attached to maybe a 550 LC or something but you can see because it's fatter this is a previous gen ACE attack pump so this is a bit older and then we've then we've got a these bad boys I think this might be a 420 radiator bit large considering we can only fit 120 put this put a little bit over the lemon we've got 420 hit 360s in here if we were building a larger system okay so that's that's an idea well kind of set this aside I think we can potentially dig from here if necessary and hack together a solution with the LED pump plate from a crackin em in one of these and ripped the tubes off the barbs try and fill it and put them together not a great solution but a possible one and we don't have a lot of time anyway so now we need to figure out the case check your inventory I guys hopefully got 9:01 but if we can't get it I will see what I have so this is what we want and don't have here's what we have don't necessarily want so four cases all of these are cases twenty-something K is 28 cases maybe I'm gonna say we go with an Tek cubes an option it's not really flashing off corby ones an option if you don't know what that was there's a core v1 could do that it's got three panels that you can switch around so I could put a glass panel on the top that would look straight down at the pump plate which would hopefully be RGB that's a baby pig maybe on that and the Xing Manta I forgot that exists and I forgot that I have one but we do in fact have an NZXT Manta and it is the red black one that's all that's all I got other than video cards so okay so here's our Manto that we used in the review ages ago and it is a pretty nice looking case I may have used the phrase bloated whale when I was describing it originally but it's grown on me especially when this is one of our only options okay so let's let's see if we get this in win one if I do the in one case then we would have to have pass to me get it here I can't do that it's the 21st technically so you have today if we do two days we'd be in 160 for the caves fifty for shipping that's kind of brutal would we even get it on time okay so we did two days $160 on the case $50 on shipping and we get on the 27th that's no good $80 get by the 23rd that puts our order up to 240 dollars for a case don't think I'm okay with that so can wait for n1 and they probably won't get it here in time so I asked too late or we can pull something out of this list I'm gonna say we pull the S the nothing SD for you where's it say we pull the manta for now which is located in the Attic come on I've got it catalogued as long-term storage which means it's not in plans to be tested anymore okay let's go pull the Manta and then if the N word one comes in time great if not we'll be using the manta which is not a bad case and gives us a glass side panel so I can position it in a way that all the LEDs will be visible and that'll look nice anyway so we're gonna go into some of the inventory which is the Attic manses conveniently right here so you gotta get this down pleasant noise okay I just tagged this we just started that inventory system that you saw that is brand-new this it's only got cases and video cards in it right now there are a lot of cases you figure out what motherboard and CPU were using so we use this case we can actually get away with using mm-hmm next 42 and I wouldn't have to do anything crazy and try and make an X 32 let's go with that plan for now Molly bored Ram we have RAM RAM right here RAM we can put all this shit away z170 is the 170 X 99 z170 is he 170 88 97 z97 that was supposed to be for my bill that I never did oops ah you want 70 mini ITX which would be perfect if I could spare it but I can't we need that for the site there is however each 77 motherboard that has not moved since I bought it some years ago to use with the 35 70s it never did you can see there's a there's a thread here common thread between my mind Everest build systems and then ending up doing everything just for GN and not ever building computers that I want to build so we're gonna do that now we're gonna actually be able to use this board in theory it works bought it and never used it there's an H 77 Mini ITX board that's not bad-looking that's an okay looking board little pretty gross okay so cool we have a motherboard motherboard we have a CPU now we need a power supply and drive which I just bought the drive the other day 4 terabyte drive she has used consistently every year below there all the space on the drive so I'm going to upgrade it to a 4 terabyte drive and this is one of the new ones I haven't tried yet I really should benchmark it before I apparently put it away in the system I've got one of those we need a boot drive yes we need a drive for test for now so let's let's take all this in the other room and I have a an SSD that we can use that's already built for Ivy Bridge and we can just deploy it instantly to see if everything works and if everything works then the next step is to start the cloning process and clone your existing data onto these devices and then hope it will windows will survive a transplant from AMD to Intel and if it does we're good if it doesn't I really don't want to install a new OS and environment because once someone's kind of embedded in there is you don't want to uproot that that's it's like Merry Christmas also here's a new OS for you to learn and good luck finding all your files so we're gonna try and avoid that but let's let's get this started I need a power supply back in the room we have a photon 650 80 plus gold higher efficiency ratings probably better for this build since it's an HP PC ideally something with a passive cooling I don't think any of you just have that I know max could do that but okay well he is one of these so we have all the parts now it's just a matter of building it and that's what we're gonna be doing in the next part first of all a couple of options here I could upgrade the video card the 960 that's in there is pretty good but I might be able to scavenge something better we'll see I think I might have an old 780 it might be a bit better than the 960 the next problem is going to be liquid cooling I do want to liquid cool the CPU for the visual effect but the GPU is gonna burn up in that case depending on what I use and what cooler it has so I might end up liquid cooling a GPU you want to stick around for that but yeah the build is part two we'll benchmark and do the file transfer and then challenges that may arise and I'm sure they will her eyes as they always do so patreon link in the post roll video if you want to 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