Gadgetory

welcome back to harbor unboxed small Steve here and today I have an update on the Corsair or 1000d build aka coffee Ripper now some of you noticed in the last few videos this system has been in a few pieces a few things missing I did pull out the air coolers for the second gen thread Ripper review because it just happened to be that that was the time I started pulling this apart because I got a heap an absolute heap of aka gear to jazz this thing up and finally do the build justice with a whole heap of liquid cooling gear in short we have almost 1.4 meters worth of radiators we have to GPU blocks to CPU blocks to massive reservoirs as you've probably noticed and 19 Corsair ml series fans and that created a whole heap of cable management challenges let's say because you have two cables per fan so that was a whole heap of fun since I don't have too many days spare or really even a day spare at the moment due to all the content that we have coming up I haven't really been out to throw too much time sort of in one big heap at this thing so I've just been doing a bit here and there and over the last few days I've got it to this stage so I thought good time for an update at this point branch everything is installed now I just have to do a bit of true bending and get all that in there and obviously that I'll finish it off and then I can top it up with the liquids that I have on hand a few more hours worth of work there and I'm probably not going to have time to complete all that for about a week or at least a week from now so in the meantime I have quite a bit to discuss about they are built to this point so let's go over that the first thing I told were the front mount of radios these are the ek cool stream XE 480 models although they feature an aluminium and steel housing they are copper fender radiators with copper tubing and that makes them quite heavy at 2.1 kilograms each they also have a liquid capacity of 450 milliliters so that will add almost another half kilo in weight not that weights really any concern for build anyway installation of the two front mounted radios was a breeze thanks to the 1000 DS telescoping radiator trays though I will speak about those a bit more later on in this video this also made installation of the additional 8 120 millimeter fans quite easy though simply screwing the fans into place really was the easy part dealing with the 32 cables now that was the real challenge with both radiators and all 16 120 millimeter fans installed in the front of the 1000 E the next step was to install the top mounted radiator and for that I'm using the ek cool stream ce4 20 which supports 3 140 millimeter fans and this is where I ran into my first issue and I suspect it even before beginning the build that this may be a challenge basically the front mounted gear measures 110 millimeters wide in total as this includes a 60 millimeter thick radiator and then a pair of fans in a push-pull configuration this does limit the room you have in the top of the case to squeeze in the 420 millimeter radiator and while it is technically possible it did come with a compromise at least in this situation unfortunately I could only install two of the three fans installing a third fan would block the inlet and outlet ports of the front radiators this is kind of annoying as coarse as spec sheet and their website claims you can install up to two 480 millimeter radiators in the front and then one 420 millimeter radiator in the top and although they don't specify the thickness they do show a case with 60 millimeter radiators installed the catch here being that the demo build uses what looks to be or really has to be a three hundred and sixty millimeter radiator which is odd as the top trays only support 140 millimeter to 80 millimeter and 420 millimeter radiators so that is very misleading I'm also less of a fan of the telescoping radiator trays because they do limit compatibility with radiators in my opinion they do anyway they sound awesome in theory but ultimately the end up being a bit pointless again in my opinion they just add unnecessary weight and cost to the case I would have much preferred they either make this big huge glass front panel or which probably presents quite a few challenges there because it is a big heavy panel so I can kind of understand why that is fixed in place alternatively do something like they did with the 500 D which is just some thin aluminium sheets that slide out you put all the stuff on slide and back in very compatible very light and probably a lot more cost-effective yeah one of my main issues with the ball bearing runners used to slide the trays out and then back in is they do take up quite a bit of room you'd probably get a sense of that looking out here so a more simplistic design like what we saw in the 500 d probably would have worked a bit better without the space required to fit the runners in I could have slid at the top radiator back where is it that one there slid that further back and then I could have put the third 140 millimeter fan in and it would have looked a bit better it would have worked a bit better and the case would be that much lighter overall and probably that much more affordable but anyway also one of my biggest criticisms I suppose of the trades apart from all the things that I've just spoke of is that you can't use the telescoping ability anymore once you do your cable management because I don't suppose you have 30 centimeters of slack cable so you can slide it back out most of the fan cable don't even that long to begin with so once you've installed all your fan cables you've done your cable management they don't slide out anymore and they sure as hell can't slide out once you're hard tubing's installed so it's kind of a one-time deal and I get that it you slide it out so the fans that are really far back or a bit easier to install but honestly of this entire build the absolute easiest part of the installation will be installing the front mounted fans and radiator so I don't really see the point next up on the advice of a few patreon members we ditched the thread ripper 1950s and replaced it with a 29 50 X and I suppose why not it's only a very minor upgrade but it is much easier to make that upgrade now rather later on once the build is complete while changing the CPU I also removed the motherboards of erm heatsink as I'm installing eks MSI X 399 gaming RGB mono block I was pleased to find that installing the mono block is extremely quick and easy just make sure you install the thermal strip over the motherboards MOSFET chips and it'll be happy days once installed I think the monoblock looks pretty great hopefully you guys agree I think all I need now is a little bit more of that Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro memory and that will really set this section of the build off after all it's a pretty extreme build and it would be just wrong not to populate all those DIMM slots next up I quickly threw in the ek supremacy Evo RGB block on the core i7 8700 K and that is for the little mini ITX build at the bottom of the case and this is another nice-looking block though sadly I don't think you'll actually get much of a chance to see it once the builds complete as it will be hidden behind a Radeon rx Vegas 64 graphics card speaking of which my next job was to install some VGA blocks starting with Vegas 64 the first job was to disassemble the reference card which is a relatively easy process then with the stock cooler removed you just need to install the thermal pads on the massive VRM apply some thermal paste on the GP on HBM 2 stacks and then finally screw on the block I'm using the EKF C Radeon Vega RGB block and I think it looks pretty impressive since you won't see the backside of this graphics card is is forward facing in the 1000 a the standard backplate back on then for the thread River portion the build we have the e K FC geforce gtx efi RGB block and since i already had a stripped-down 1080 fe car just sitting around doing nothing this is what i used again the same sort of deal here is what we just saw with the vega card though this time you do have to install the individual thermal pads on the memory ICS as the 1080 users gddr5 x-- memory I didn't actually have the FA backplate handy at the time of installing the water block so I just went with the naked PCB which you will be able to see but I quite like the look of the bare PCB anyway in my opinion both graphics cards look absolutely incredible with the K blocks installed and I can't wait to see some liquid flowing through them the last components I had to install were the pumps and reservoirs and since I'm using two of the massive ek or as x3 400 reservoirs which measure 400 millimeters tall and have a huge 820 milliliter capacity I had to remove the three and a half inch drive cage to make room to install these behemoths I was aware of this ahead of time so this wasn't any kind of surprise or sort of last-minute work around the cages are technically non removable as they are pop riveted into place but since the build is merely a showpiece and not something I'm gonna use on a regular basis there isn't really much need for anything beyond a few m2 nvme SSDs so that being the case I would rather just remove the big three and a half inch drive cage to make way for bigger more showy reservoirs drilling out the hard drive cage was a pretty quick and easy process though the only technical hiccup here was that I had to lay the case down and at this point the case weighed about 35 to 36 kilograms so bit of a daunting task that one therefore I also took this opportunity to drill out some holes for the pumps as they will be mounted in the bottom of the case for connecting the pumps to the reservoirs are used an assortment of EK adapters from their black nickel range and i think again you will have to agree they look rather impressive so that's about where I'm at now with the build quite a few hours have gone into it to get to this point but yeah pretty much everything is installed now and I am ready for the hard tubing I think it's fair to say this is an absolutely ludicrous build but that's kind of the point and I've had a heap of fun working with it so far and I'm personally really pleased with how it's turning out hopefully you guys I think it looks pretty cool as well I think it's one hell of a set piece hopefully I will have a bit of time like I said over the next week $2 tube bending and get the liquid in there and hopefully no leaks and get it all up and running but as you're likely aware we do have some pretty big product releases over the next few weeks so free time is even more scarce than usual and that is gonna do it for this one if you did enjoy the video well feel free to the like button for us we much appreciate that subscribe if you want to see more content especially more of this build because like I said over the next week hopefully I'll have it finished no promises 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