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hey what's up guys J is $0.02 here and we are taking a look at the backend of skunk works we're looking at her big ol booty anyway today's gonna be kind of a vlog style video I have an upcoming project I'm gonna be doing with this and collaboration with loot row customs and I've got to prepare for some wiring work here so I figured we'll do a vlog e style video I haven't done in a while and yeah let's just say that my PC is not always as clean as some people might think why is my focus broken oMG so yeah this is for those people who are saying your computer is always so clean how's it always so clean oh my god you must clean it every day yeah I've actually already wiped some of the dust off but if we take a look at the power supply here look at that yeah guys I'm trying to focus here guys I'm sorry I'm using a cheap the cheap camera anyway earlier this that is so gross anyway what I'm gonna be doing here with loot row customs is we are going to be doing a custom wiring harness for this thing so as you can see I've got extensions here that I did a review on for both the 8 pin EPS power I've got a 6 pin axillary going to the PCI Express Lanes on the motherboard and then I've got my 24 plus our 20+4 pin extension and then I've got 6 6 pin extensions for the 3 9 80s in there as you can see the wiring is a bit of a mess and because their extensions I've got way more cables and I need and so they basically said let us do a custom wiring loom let's let's just do a whole complete custom kit so what I've got to do is I've got to take all these wires out I've got a plan and route where the wires are gonna go and then I have to measure how long each harness needs to be and give them those measurements that way my EVGA 1600 watt p2 power supply will have proper length cables so I'll probably get some custom fan cables made or make those myself but I figure we'll just kind of do a vlog little maintenance here and how I clean the computer I basically use this guy for the most part this is just a electronics brush with the anti state bristles and sort of a microfiber II type material and then you just kind of dust like that like I'm like your maid now there is why the pumps and stuff looks so bad is because you know it's now I have the 560 rad right in there for the graphics cards and the air is pushed into this compartment and the only thing I have pulling air out at all is I basically just take one of my static my extra static pressure fans and I'd literally just sit it there I plug the fan in up here and one of my molex things and then I let that help exhaust some of the area at least so it can force you know not warlike force but coax the air to move its way out the rear vent otherwise the dust just comes through and lands on all this and has nowhere to go so one of the downsides of having extra long power supply like this one here and then the two pumps down here and all this tubing is I can't mount any fan you know brackets back here to move the air out I guess in hindsight I could have relocated these pumps somewhere else and then had like a 240 mount here which would pull the air through but really the temperatures don't suffer at all so I just kind of left it this way but yeah as you can see it's a it's pretty bad it's it's gross so I guess before I get too crazy on the dusting I might as well just go ahead and remove all of the cables get those out of the way now one of the things I do which really helps with cleaning the cases I'll just take a microfiber cloth and I'll damp it that way you can see how like you get inside all these little I forgot to use this lens damnit this is raw unscripted see all that dust and stuff right there like these brushes don't really get in there too good but if you damp like a microfiber then you can get in there nicely and clean off all that dust a case like this is textured so the dust gets in that texture and it makes it really hard to clean so yeah damping dampening a cloth is I feel the best the best thing to do and I'll just do this usually like New Year's it's kind of a tradition for me to do this sort of thing obviously it's New Year's right now and then I guess it's a lot of work but dust is an enemy to electronics and so I take it pretty serious all right so I got pretty much got the cables straightened out how I want you guys can see my fan splitters up there fanciful you can't see how she has one in front of the radiator down there and then there's one there so I've had a lot of questions I guess I didn't cover very well when I did my build log on this was how everything's wired up I have the four top fans in the in the top 480 red going into a splitter right there which then has this cable coming off of it here like you're really bright has this cable coming off of it here which through this extension connects to the one down there in front of the radiator which also has the four fans on it for the five sixty though for 140s and then I have up there a molex to three pin adapter which is actually going to the motherboard CPU one header now the CPU one header on this was is able to handle two amps and I think it was twenty eight watts maybe twenty four watts and all of these fans at full load come in at less than that so all eight fans are actually being run off the CPU fan header which I can control through the BIOS and smart fan control the three on the front are just being powered off four pin 12-volt molex width you can kind of see it there it's got three voltage reducers on there so the front fans are running at only about I think it's about eight hundred rpm bringing in a lot of air actually because it's completely unobstructed on the front you can you can kind of see there it just has absolutely wide-open airflow into the case and then the rear fan is also being controlled off of the fan header on the motherboard it's just one of the chassis fans and so everything is everything's controlled on this with the exception of the three front fans which are static now I'm actually considering adding a 360 mm meter rad to the front just for the hell of it and actually makes me kind of want to put a 120 in the rear as well because uh why not just fill this thing up with radiators I don't know we'll see you may notice there's an air bubble up there and my in my tube that's just because I moved the drain tubes I have right there which had some air in them and of course they worked their way up when I move those and then once I turn on the system that'll that'll sort of just work itself out and that won't be a problem so what I'm gonna do now and I didn't unplug the 24 pin or the 8 pin and 6 pin down there because I don't want to go through having to plug those back in I'm not gonna actually unplug those until I'm ready to remove those so what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna get some string and then some alum measuring tape and I'm going to just pretty much route out the cable paths that I want measure them and then write them down and get those over to loot row alright so what I've done now is I've basically just taken a piece of like kite string a pretty long length longer than I would need for anything else in here and then a measuring tape which I've just laid out flat and I've got a note pad here with all the different cable links that I know I'm going to need are different cables like 24 pin 8 and an EPS 6 pin PCI Express mobo connector for exhilarating time 6 SATA times 2 for the upper dry of SATA times tubes the lower drives molex times 2 for the pump and then on pumps and then molex times 1 for that guy so what I'm gonna do now is I'm just gonna take the string and I'm gonna lead it from where it's gonna start on the power supply up to wherever the end connection is and I'm going to add maybe one inch to that we'll see and we write down the measurements and then that's how we're gonna get our links for all the custom cables now people have asked me before about these SATA cables they're round SATA cables that Lucho just puts leaving on so that they look better and as you can see they are too long so I'm gonna I'm gonna measure those just in case I don't know if they have different lengths SATA cables they're pretty much a standard like a three inch short and then something like you know 16 inches for normal or something I don't know well go ahead and measure all that out and see I'll just give to him anyway but anyway it's all cleaned up my major goal for today was to clean the thing and then get these measurements they've actually been asking me to get these measurements for them for like three months that's the first chance I've had to actually tear the system apart so alright let's do it so while I was in here I decided to go ahead and reroute the fan fan fan cables yeah the PCI Express cables and as you can see I've got they're not perfect I'm going very ain't all over these wires I don't know why since they're coming out but instead of swooping in the side and taking up all the space next to the SATA cables I've crammed them all down that little bitty hole down there I've crammed it in two whole guys it's how babies are made anyway yeah so it's going down in there and well that gives me a pretty good idea of how long the cables need to be since the end of the PCI Express is right there so literally I just subtract about two inches from each one of these and there's my link so yeah there's that but tell me what you guys think about this versus when they were kind of going sideways I thought with everything else in this case kind of having an up-and-down theme that these goings like kind of a diagonal looked really silly in there so tell me what you think all right well I got all my measurements and my chicken scratch there so I guess it's going to be time to hook everything back up put it back together and stop screwing with this focus all right guys I will keep I will keep this alive this vlog thing once the cables are done and we'll come back with part two of getting it all wired up we'll do a review of those cables because is these are like the stiff it's very stiff like plastic or nylon sleeving which I'm not a huge fan of and we're gonna be doing paracord on the new cables so that'll be fun all right guys Jay is two cents as always thanks for watching follow on Twitter if you have any questions or just want to see some behind the scene pictures of this thing check out Instagram and as always guys I will see you in the next one which is going to be CES yeah baby