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welcome back to harbor unboxed small Steve here once again and as you can see the build is now done at least for now anyway it'll no doubt continue to a change in evolve over time but for now at least it's done if you missed the first video of the previous video in this series I talked about all the components there in this build I won't go over all of that again and then I installed things like the radiators the reservoirs the water blocks pumps and all that stuff but since then I've been busy measuring cutting heating and bending ptg tubing to connect it all up and there were a few modifications made along the way so I'll cover those in this video but for those of you hoping to see any kind of benchmark results temperatures and all that kind of stuff I won't be covering that in this video this is just about finishing off the build process so if you missed the previous video I do run into a few issues there one such issue was the top 420 millimeter radiator which could only be installed with two of the three 140 millimeter fans which was disappointing and kind of sport the look of the build and it seemed plenty of you agreed that the missing fan wasn't really a compromise worth making but with no alternative options available I was kind of stuck on that one in the end I just couldn't take it anymore so I decided to channel my inner mater and get a bit creative and while I was happy with the end result I did regret it for a good hour or so while I was carrying out the mod so the problem is the telescoping trays they're just not flexible for the top mounted radiator it's basically a 420 millimeter a radiator template and it just locks you into that position there's no wriggle room at all you can't move it a little bit left or a little bit right it is fixed into the position that you saw in the previous video and this meant that I couldn't just move it back so it would avoid hitting the hitting the fittings up here so yeah I've had to do some modifications therefore my only option was to remove the top telescoping tray as well as the telescoping arms and then jerry-rigged the radiator into the top of the case and it turns out using this that I could have installed two radiators side-by-side if I really wanted to anyway the goal here was to fit the 420 millimeter radiator with all three 140 millimeter fans and with my modifications this was now possible and boy does it look much better so what was involved in these modifications quite a bit actually had I done this before I installed everything it would have been a hell of a lot easier significantly faster process but because I'd already installed the front mounted radiators with all 16 fans and then down all the cable management for the 32 cables associated to said fans I wasn't really keen on undoing over an hour's worth of very painful work but this was a problem because it meant that the top telescoping arms or cabinet drawer runners whatever you want to call them removing them was extremely difficult getting the one at the far end wasn't really a problem getting this one here was a big problem because to do that properly you really need to remove all this stuff as well and as I said I wasn't willing to under hours worth of work so I had to basically get a pair of long nose pliers wedge at that gap there sort of force that out a bit stick him in there and undo the screws using long nose pliers in what was about a 10 millimeter gap so I was doing about a quarter turn at a time and it took me roughly 10 minutes to undo each of the two screws anyway the process was extremely painful but it did manage to get a bit worse once I realized that I had to undo another four screws two of which were extremely difficult to get it because they're above the radiators here and I didn't have a screwdriver that would fit in that gap even my shortest one just wouldn't so again long nose pliers quarter turn at a time and I undid those two screws which allowed me to take the top aluminium and glass panel off and then by doing that I could then drill some custom holes in what was left of the top panel to mount the top radiator which you now see up here with all three 140 millimeter fans installed so I was very happy with that with that sorted it was time to spend a few hours working on the tubes and work at how I was going to run everything in the case with two CPU blocks two separate GPUs two reservoirs two pumps and three radiators there was plenty to do that said I'm not bragging or anything but this thing was a one-take wonder I didn't read to a single Bend there certainly could be one or two there that could have been done a bit better but I am under the pump on this one as I've got some GeForce r-tx testing to do so that being the case this is no time to try and get all the bends perfect I figured that next time I do a coolant flush I could take a crack at perfecting a few of these runs but for now this more than serves the purpose once all the truths were connected up I began to fill the reservoirs with the coolant and in the end each took two liters of fluid I then connected the pumps to an external power supply so a third power supply not one of the two corsair units that are in their case and I started my leak testing as usual I focused my attention on the water blocks because that's where most of the damage by a leak or at least most of the mess can occur if you are unfortunate enough to have a leak thankfully for me no leaks so I continued to top-up those to be reservoirs there and I kept an eye on all the fittings and things around that area and 20 minutes later it all appeared to be good but then I did notice a red puddle on the desk just at the bottom of the KC it started coming yeah and yeah I went into full-blown panic mode started checking everything and couldn't work out where the leak was thankfully the VGA blocks were fine because it's just a nightmare if it leaks down the back of those and goes over the PCB and everything else all the CPU blocks were fine some like okay probably not as bad as I thought and anyway I couldn't find it was looking everywhere turns out it was the adapters or one of the adapters anyway in particular on the reservoirs so it just wasn't done up tight enough it was done as tight as I could do it by hand so I wasn't sure if you had tightening up a bit more with a tool would help or if I was gonna have to drain all the liquid out try and work out what was wrong whether the right the washer had been crushed that can happen but as I said I only did it up finger tight and as tight as I could by hand anyway and normally that means they're okay if you use tools you can crush them and then they fail but anyway it now that a my long nose plyers came to the rescue once again I put him on there it was like not even a half turn the leak stopped I noticed the other one that with the clear liquid that was just dripping ever so slightly gave that another half turn that stopped that cleaned it all up dude all that got rid of all their residue and all that so I could do my leak testing again and now it's fine it's been a week since then so I'm pretty confident that it's solved but I'm not too sure what is going on there because all the other fittings not a problem I just did them up yeah with my hands no problems at all and it's just the two feedings the I think they're 45 degree angle feedings that I used off the Ortz the outlet of the radiators and both of them didn't seal very well at all they had to be that super super tight to avoid bleeding basically so not sure what the goal is there but that was the only problem I ran into and thankfully my long nose pliers were able to solve that one for me with that too much fuss anyway crisis over I got on with the build and after a day of further leak testing the two loops were rock-solid and I moved on to the all-important RGB lighting I have 20 Corsair ml series fans to configure three water blocks and a number of course our lighting node pro light strips since this is a set piece I don't really want flashing lights and a lot nonsense so I've gone with a simple blue and red static theme the plan was to eventually die the clear water blue but I'm starting to think that I should potentially run both loops with clear liquid that way I can change the color scheme at any time using the RGB lighting anyway not sure how it will change over the next few months but I do have a few ideas for now all the ml fans have been set to blue and solve all the CPU and GPU blocks then the Corsair Vengeance / RGB memory has been set to red and the LED light strips have also been set to red and I think it all looks pretty awesome have to admit the build ended up being a lot more enjoyable than I initially thought it might be at first I was kind of regretting all the RGB lighting as the wiring was just insane but it did ultimately end up being a lot of fun the course a 1008 is about as perfect a platform as you can get for a jewel system with dual loop cooling having said that though there are a number of things I would like to see change or improve in the next version but overall still a very epic case so my list of things that needs to be addressed with course as 1000d obviously the first thing is the top radiator tray that calls me the most problems and I think the solutions simple they just need to use the method that was used in the 500d much more simplistic design more flexible cheaper to implement so I think that's the way to go another big issue I ran into that really annoyed me it was the ATX power supply enclosure down here you can't access the ATX power supply from the back of the case at least not very easily my hands certainly can't and towards the end of the build I realized I needed a few more of those awful for pin molex connectors and I couldn't connect them to the ATX power supply because I couldn't get in there and you might think well how do you get to the ATX power supply the answer is you have to remove this entire shroud from this side and of course there's now an ATX sorry an ITX build on top of that it's the 87 or okay reg so I would have to have to completely bleed the clear liquid loop I would then have to undo all the piping I would then have to remove the graphics card I'd have to remove the motherboard basically disassemble the entire ITX rig to connect a few more cables to the ATX power supply and in such a massive case that's just unacceptable and a huge huge design flaw I don't know how that one happened it's this should be ample room at the back to get in there and then slide the SFX power supply out then the ATX power supply touch the cables you need and put them both back in but unfortunately that is not an option then the next thing on my wish list for the 1000 eversion 2 would be to make this top panel removable as you see I haven't fixed mine back into place yet doing so would actually be very difficult so I'm gonna come up with some other way to secure that there or just leave it sitting there for now because doing those two screws underneath is a complete nightmare but it makes the case so much easier to work with if you have top access so it's kind of crazy to me that edging system to make that removable because just table management at the top there things like that are a lot easier when you can just come in from the top and dual that I found that great for installing the light strips and all that sort of stuff and really all they need to do to make this easy to access easy remove is make the glass an aluminium or one-piece deal stick those two together then make a tab here that you push them into clips them in it sits down and then at the back there's a tab with a couple of screws you screw them in top panel is easily removable and so that's something they definitely need to do for the next revision making the front panel removable would also be ideal as well but you can get away with that one a bit more easily I also think it'd be quite cool to make it possible to mount three and a half inch drives in the top of the case are those loads of spare room there and by making the top panel removable this section the case is very easy to access everything else is great though at the ability to install massive front mounted radiators is great the cable management basement on the backside is also excellent the plethora of fan mounting locations is great and the i/o panel is also very nice in my opinion the case looks good and the build quality is second to none even the price isn't bad five hundred dollars u.s. or seven hundred dollars aussie for a case of this size and quality in my opinion is very reasonable so there's just a few things that i would like to see address to make this the ultimate super tower about particularly hard things for corsair to do and they aren't expensive a lot of them would probably end up being cost saving things so i really hope they can do that but anyway for now that concludes the build portion of this video i thought i might try something a bit different for this one and that is to read the comments from the previous build video which was about a week ago there's some good comments on there some interesting things and some stuff that i thought i could address so if you're interested in that stick around but if not i hope you enjoyed the build and i'll catch you again next time first questions from donald steve looks like a dwarf beside that beautiful humongous beast yes yes i do it's it's a ridiculous case but that's kind of the point though isn't it next question is from our co-ed who said that right apologies if I didn't just one question how the hell do you lift to that it's so huge or it looks so huge sorry well not easily basically I suppose the solution would be to involve a few friends in the process of moving this beast because yeah it's just ridiculously heavy complete the build tipped the scales at 61 in kilograms I myself weigh about 90 kilograms so I can pick it up and move it around the office but I wouldn't be taking it to too many LAN parties next questions from Steve please tell me you're going to use purple fluid and that would be a sexy as hell you're right probably would be and at some point we might even find out for now it's the red and clear I was thinking of going fully clear you know for transparency as in video would say but yeah we'll have to see what happens in the future next one's from Francisco this thing is huge but cannot run Crysis and either be one of those in there well it can very easily play two copies of Crysis simultaneously as there are two systems in this rig and the 2950 axe can probably play a few copies of Christ at the same time though the GTX 1080 graphics card probably wouldn't love that next one's from Omar I think it is I'd drill some holes at the top and put the radiator three centimeter closer to the rear and that was exactly what I wanted to do unfortunately as I said with the standard gear in the case that simply wasn't possible because your fans would be blocked by the the template thing that we had I should grab that actually one second I'll get it so here is what was in the top of the case and as you can see if we drill some holes back here and shift the radiator back well certainly possible far from ideal because you'd really want to have to cut all this out that's a lot of messing around for what doesn't really solve the problem that well if you're going to go to all that time and effort you just end up doing what I've altered ended up doing but yeah good idea it sounds easy enough just isn't really possible so you'd have to end up doing what I did and an hour or so later those few holes ended up getting drilled okay next question sorry I'm not gonna butcher the hell out of your name on this one so apologies I am a very simple man why would you pair the i7 with the Vega GPU and the AMD CPU with the NVIDIA GPU a fair enough question there was quite a few questions very similar to that one and the plan was to do exactly that installed the Vega 64 card or with the thread Ripper CPU put the AMD gear together and then do an Intel in-video combo for the gaming system but then I realized you wouldn't see this beautiful RGB block the GeForce block isn't RGB ek didn't send the RGB version that block for whatever reason maybe they didn't have it in stock I don't know I didn't I was very happy with what they did since I wasn't gonna say ASCII and why they didn't send particular bits of hardware very place with what they sent me and the Radeon block is certainly the more showy block and since this is just a display system as I've said it's a set piece I wanted the best looking block on show so that's why you've got the Vega block there it's not going to be used as a system anyway as I've said many times it is just a set piece so it doesn't really matter what's paired with what because unfortunately it won't be used for gaming or anything like that and that sounds like a shame and a waste of hardware but it's a set piece makes the set look a bit more interesting for people watching their videos and it didn't cost me anything because companies involved okay next question is from just the facts ma'am I don't know why the comments are so tiny on my phone it's like sighs microphone anyway wow that thing it makes you look like a dwarf yes I'm a normal-sized person but I realize this does make me look like a dwarf definitely wins the most ridiculous ridiculously sized PC award yeah it it probably would if there was such a category I think Corsair would take that as a sort of a mission accomplished I'd say that's what they set out to achieve the most ridiculously sized PC case voila Daniel says really wish you guys would do a livestream for this build it would be just nice to watch in slow pace and you might get a lot of donation in super chat try it sometime just make sure it's a good build and I budget low end another budget low end ones I find more interesting sometimes anyway really not I like the idea probably not appropriate for a build like this it's the kind of stuff we would this kind of stuff we would do for patreon members because it'd be like a 20-minute stream here half hour there hour there because I didn't just sit here and do this in one go I'd be just sitting on my backside working on this for days on end because it was well that's over a day anyway probably if I hit it in one big go and you sort of get a bit I do anyway I can benchmark for days on end no problem but doing this kind of stuff I don't know I enjoy it but it's not something I could really do a lot of I don't know yeah okay anyway I very much enjoyed the build and I do plan to do livestream builds on the channel I think Tim's done before Tim and I were gonna do like a build off at his place and we will do that so we're gonna build him a new desk so it will support two builds and yet you'll see that on the channel in the future just bit more professional than what this would have been this was just a bit of messing around here and there so hopefully that answers that one alright next questions from Bert soon building a PC will be a job for plumbers only now well you've got the all-in-one liquid coolers they're very easy to install and stuff like that but yeah water cooling isn't really it's not rocket science it's certainly not that difficult not as difficult as some people make out I suppose it depends on you know if you're good with your hands hands I've I find it very simple I was I did my first hard shoe build about two years ago now and I'd heard nothing but horror stories about how difficult it was but we had the opportunity I when I thought why not and I was shocked by how simple it was but I've done actual plumbing around the house and stuff like that I kind of the same sort of you don't want leaks in either situation so I suppose they're similar in that sense and they both have a liquid running through the the pipes or tubes yeah not not super difficult but if you wanted to get into it and you were concerned about how difficult it is just start with soft tubing that you can even buy kits so it has all the bits you need to have to try and work out what you need and that's a really good place to start I think I started with a soft tube kit and they're dead easy can't really mess them up super super-easy and then once you've you know evolved from that maybe set up your own custom rig and still use soft tubing but work out what you need and like kind of stuff and maybe incorporates and incorporate some VGA box and go from there and then eventually get to the hard juban so how'd you being though really I don't know it's not something I would probably run in my own computer my personal computer unless I was willing to put a lot of time and effort into the maintenance because it can get a bit like that also I personally like to upgrade and change and mess around with my PC and this doesn't really allow for that it's kind of like build the PC it is what it is and you want to go more than a year ideally without having a change everything but maybe some people do like bending the pipes and changing it constantly so it depends what you enjoy doing anyway I'm rattling on a bit hopefully I not even sure what your question was anyway you don't need to be a plumber to build your own PC like this certainly not next questions from fishmonger I was going to comment on the impressive Photoshop skills on the thumbnail and then I watched the video it is a bit like that hard to believe this case is real basically what he's saying in the last video the thumbnail was a picture of the case with me sitting next to it I don't know giving the thumbs up or doing something and it looked absolutely ridiculous because it looks absolutely ridiculous as you can currently see so not photoshopped this is really ridiculous next questions for Joshua so your Mini ITX system isn't probably faster than the real system in gaming because Vegas 64 versus 1080 they'd be pretty much the same the GTX 1080 of Vegas 64 neck-and-neck I mean the 1080 comes out a little bit on top depending on the spread of games overall it is a little bit faster but it doesn't exactly murder Vegas 64 so they're I would say they're close enough in terms of gaming performance the only 7rk is obviously a better gaming CPU so I think that's where you're hinting at but I paired it with what's arguably the slower graphics card there's very little in it if you play it 1440p again it doesn't really even matter between the two CPUs you're gonna see a very similar result 4k they will be identical but yeah u7 okay is the better gaming CPU I'm not trying to say it's not but it's a set pace so it doesn't really matter but if you were to use this as a streaming PC it would be pretty awesome because you'd have the 21 50 X to do your encode your your live stream and then you could just game on the 87 okay and it will be in one big rig so it's kind of like the ultimate streamers dream stream dream Cisco says one of your front fans is 90 degrees off so it's this fan yeah so all of them have got the correct or they're the correct way around one of them is just on its side it doesn't really matter that's certainly how it's staying I'm not gonna change it now but yeah I did notice that as well when I built it I was like yeah yeah it'll be fine next question is from Martin why does it look like the top radiator could be moved back or left toward the i/o away from the front radiator okay well I've kind of covered that it just because of the because of that being fixed in a place you can't do it so yeah that one's being covered but yeah it's just you to Corsairs design I wish it had it been a bit more flexible next one is from Jocko but can it run crisis are you'll beaten the punch by almost one week on that question mate parasite atom 666 says dude your PC looks like it's gonna beat you up for your lunch money well if this thing fell on you it would be taking much more than just your lunch money okay the one you don't see says looks like a competitor to skunk works on Jays two cents Channel who skunk works I have to google that one after the video question here from I'm gonna call you lamb hope that's okay lamb says lamb says lionesses one is better not sure what to say to that one yeah I'm I'm pretty sure lioness really built his one okay next up we have ke I'm not gonna bother sorry again simpleton this cooling is beyond overkill yes yes it is okay next question is from Mobius it's a bit of a long one here in extremely small font so bear with me is push-pull really necessary for anyone building one of these for practicality you could make more room for activities okay I get the feeling that this case is largely only used as a showpiece what gave you that feeling in most instances though and then it keeps going on okay well yes it is overkill push-pull isn't necessary I said multiple times in that video that it is overkill the build is ridiculous that is the point and I also said multiple times that is a set piece so it isn't meant to be for any kind of practical application techride says looks like a great case for a land party well I have to agree it's perfect it's a two-in-one system so you and your hundred kilo beefcake mate can carry it to basically any LAN party and you could quite literally crush your opponents with it okay next question again sorry I'm gonna skip the name on this one the CPU seems really weak for a $7,500 machine it looks really nice but the specs seem too weak and the cooling is overkill yes why don't you use a 79 80 XE that's better than a 29 50 X in everyway or $500 more and it's possible to get an epic 32 core CPU or I could just use the 2990 WX if I wanted to do that 128 gig of ram sure 1080 TI sure this looks more like building a PC for fun more than building a PC for workstation job well anyway the comment does go on I'm just going to stop it there but yes this is much more like building a PC for fun because that's what I did it as I said many many many times in that video this is a set piece so I wasn't it's not a build guide it's a set piece that's gonna sit here and where it was sitting previously I've just jazzed it up a bit see me featured in every video so anyway it'll be interesting to see how many people in the comments section of this video say the Cooling's overkill and the specs don't make sense or something along those lines anyway but thank you for your question or your comment thank you Oscar said pipes coolers what is this an oven well I don't know about you but if you stick your head in an oven you're probably not gonna see too many pipes or coolers so don't think this is an oven Damian says why is there an ITX 8700 k in there - I I don't know I guess because Ken okay big said I I remember this comment I thought poor people like AMD because it's cheaper and not much worse wTF is this then I actually reply to that comment I replied with that's odd and at this point I have to say I have no comment ok next time Tony that's one huge number crunching beast you're building looks beautiful already I can't wait for you to get it complete fill it up and running PS are you sure the table is able to handle all the weight you're adding well first of all thank you very much I hope you approve of the final product and enjoyed the build the table has been checked by an engineer and been given the all-clear so hopefully when I move that over to here we're all good next questions from streamline you bet I hope that thing never leaks otherwise you're going to flood your entire house I have to say that it's probably a genuine concern at this point which is well I'm probably more worried about killing the components in it but there's a lot of liquid in there if you came in and it's almost impossible for it to all leak out so anyway it's still a funny comment yes there is quite a lot of liquid that could come out and it would certainly spoil my day if I walked in here and half my floor was covered in coolant now we have just the facts ma'am back and this time they've commented and you would need some power tools I love the channel but sometimes you've got a troll a bit I can't even remember what the previous comment was but I recognized the name anyway I assume that was meant to be a reply to an earlier comment perhaps the only read or another one but if you're going to troll it probably would be best to where I can have the replies function works first Paul says I'd be interested with the total cost of the build will be well Paul the cost of the total build was in the title of the previous video it was $7,500 us it would accumulate quite a bit of if you added a few more graphics cards and things of that nature storage and whatnot but yeah as it is the base bill was seven and a half thousand u.s. TSA trash says I wonder how noisy all these fans will be it's still really cool the electrical bill must be a big problem basically to answer the first part of your question it's extremely quiet the fans only need to write like 200 rpm maybe not even that to keep everything chilly as cool as it's going to get so you're running them and a much ladder up here to make a whole heap of racket wouldn't make too much difference because there's just a huge amount of airflow and a lot of radiator so yeah works out quite well we says brilliant build I thought it was going to be for a client of yours but it's a showpiece wish that much money I wish I had that much money to spend on marketing well first of all I'm not professional enough to have any actual real clients the good news is though it didn't cost me a single dollar because youtubers that run tech channels get everything for free and it's really easy and a really cushy life okay I'm taking the piss a bit too much there but yes I didn't pay for any of it it was all technically free depending on how you define the word free companies like Nvidia AMD Intel MSI ek they all sent their hardware to me for free luckily put in this system because this system is going to be on display in every video but yeah it was a lot of work to make it happen and I don't really get any personal benefit from it apart from the fact that it looks nice and hopefully is a cool set piece for you guys to look at ok the next one is from ranch the name is it even logical I don't know how is it not logical hmmm trying to explain this to all of you guys but I'll do it anyway it has a core i7 87 ok CPU which is based on the coffee like architecture pretty commonly known and then we have a thread Ripper CPU so the coffee like CPU is meant to be for the gaming portion the build the third Ripper CPU was meant to be for the productivity portion to build so you sort of get the best of both worlds a core heavy CPU and a really low latency awesome gaming CPU so the genius behind the name was I took the coffee from coffee lake and then the Ripper from thread Ripper and then I put coffee in front of Ripper and that gave us coffee Ripper so hopefully now that I've explained that it is a little bit more a little more logical okay last question is from Lucien that's his meaning this is a joke this isn't a serious comment he's saying you're copying Paul's build aren't you question mark smiley face plagiarism smiley face with many mouths so yes very very funny I do really enjoy Paul's work and I enjoy watching his content i watch a fair bit of it and when I get time and he's a real he's a really nice guy chilled out guy just really enjoyable to watch really relaxing to watch so you enjoy Paul's work a lot and he did do a 1000d build he took the easy way out and did some soft troubiing now as it actually looks really good to practice I think he's using it as a test system which is why the soft tubing makes a hell of a lot of sense in any case it's a really cool-looking build he goes through the process really well so I'll Chuck a link to that one in the video description and I think that is a good point to wrap this video go watch Paul's video now but if you did like this video hit the like button and if you have any comments or suggestions about the build let me know let me know what you think about my radiator hack and just the build in general love hearing from you guys and let me know feel life to this little comment but at the end I'm not gonna do a whole lot but for these kind of videos I think it was kind of good to look back at the previous video in the series anyway before I waffle on any longer I am your host Steve and I'll see you next time you