Gadgetory

here we are day three of this build you know what's funny as I'm trying to cram just about as much work as I put in to read miss well maybe not as much but I'm putting quite a bit of time into this build in a very short amount of time I'm working all day and most of the night to get this done like I said because I want to be down very much but a couple of things happened since my last video so let's go ahead and talk about that here we go guys day three of project skunk works now I'm puttin there's a lot of time going to this build in such a short amount of time see with red mist I got to work on it for a few hours and then walk away from it for days at a time depending on what my workload was but this computer is my workload so I've been working day and night on this thing so I'm cramming about as much work as I did in two months on red mist into about four days here yeah I got to take a long enough break last night to go enjoy some fireworks on some skydivers and some aerial flybys and stuff over at the fourth wood fourth of July celebration the University of Redlands and then from there came back home went to bed woke up and here we are again so let's go and talk about what's changed since part two okay so here's where we left off we've got the upper rad unfortunately we couldn't do the push pull as we mentioned but that's okay lower rad installed as the reservoirs we'll be doing today but you know these labels are these logos right here on all the fans I hate Corsairs logo and I don't want it anywhere near this build in fact the the entire logo just clashes because it's white and everything has that logo all the fans so I've got some 3m die nock carbon fiber paper or sticker paper people use this on cars and stuff and I basically took an inch and a half scrapbooking hole punch or round punch and punched out inch and a half stickers here that I can now stick on to the fans and as you can see they will cover up quite nicely on there so I won't have to look at these logos going around anymore we'll have some nice carbon fiber in there so I cut enough of them to do the front of all the fans that show and then fronts and backs of the the other fans so as you can see right there it's not too blurry so it's going to cover up all those logos like that so we want to look at that crap anymore so let's go ahead and get these things stuck on and see how it looks now the reason why I'm doing this is not like I hate course--a or anything like that I mean I have some things I don't like about Corsair but their fans are not theirs their logos and their stickers are not centered on the fans so when the fan is spinning you see that how it's all off-balance and that bothers me now here's what I just put my sticker on right there and you can see that when it spins that is a lot more desirable than the one on the right fact a little bit shimmer even looks kind of neat so yeah I'm not a fan of that at all well it set me back about two hours and the time it took to go and get the the circle punch from the craft store and stuff but I think it was time well spent not having those white Corsair logos just made everything look so much cleaner alright so today we're working on getting well I guess done so we're gonna get the reservoirs mounted we're going to get the hardline ran and I've got a pretty cool way of doing this I think I think it's a little fantastic the way I'm going to do this so we've got our our holes marked right there for being able to know where to put the pass-through fittings and then I've got to yank all this out so I can drill in there without actually getting metal shavings everywhere and then so I don't know exactly what I'm gonna do next I guess hand gestures are cool well that will just go and do it and figure out what happens next one other thing - I forgot to mention what came in the mail today my loot row customs round SATA cables - and yellow and - in black as well as some fan extensions so yeah these are going to really add to the look of the build these round citas love round cables are so much easier to route so yeah that's gonna look good in there - okay remove the motherboard and everything out of there the bottom rad pretty gutted case now because we're gonna drill some holes okay so the pass-through fittings are installed these two are for the GPU and you'll notice this one's slightly off to the side and not quite as linear as those you'll see why in a minute why that fitting is slightly off but I think you guys are going to like it now I'm gonna get the reservoirs mounted so I can get these pass-through fittings done and then we can start actually plumbing up the hard line alright so put the motherboard and the graphics cards back in for a test fit and you can see how these fittings right right here are going to pass straight through into the bottom through this pass-through fittings and they're going to be tubed up down there but I think you can see now what this one was is for the CPU loop I'm going to have an extremely efficient just one tube out and down through there so there's only three tubes coming down here and then one tube going from the inlet there to the red and the rest of the red stuffs me behind the motherboard tray so the only thing visible over here is going to be these tubes right here it's going to look really good I think so now I've got to get my reservoirs ready to go and I'm just going to basically boring mount them to the back wall because I'm too lazy to do anything custom there so I'm using this of this t-square it's not really a tee but using this square ruler right here with my leveler and stuff and we're just going to be marking out the holes there to make sure everything is straight and squared so time to mount the reservoirs do their pass-through fittings and then we can get started down here all right there we go now the reservoirs are installed nothing exciting here really it's just mounted to the back wall now I got to do the fittings in the past through is one two three four more of them it's hard to drill into this aluminum even though it's aluminum it's really thick and it's it feels like drilling into steel but it's not it's just K slabs uses such high quality aluminum that it actually takes a lot of effort to drill through this you can kind of see how thick it is if you look right here you see that right here you can kind of see how thick this hole it is actually pretty thick it's not just that then crap that main manufacturers use in mass production this is all built by well pretty much to order all right I got the lower pass-throughs done for the reservoirs right here and I realized something I was doing my counts based on red mist and I forgot on red mist I only had one tube on each reservoir going through the ground right there and so I'm off by two fittings so I'm too fitting short to finishing this build so now I'm going to do a rush order with frozen CPU and as soon as it will get here is mid next week so getting this thing done this weekend is not an option but I can get pretty much everything done except for two of those fittings so I'm going to keep going anyway but man just the importance of checking double checking and counting and counting and counting again can't even stress how important it is and I'm mad right now because now I have to pay rushed rush order and expedited shipping for something I already bought from the same company few weeks back so all right well like I showed now that I have all the pastures done these are the two fittings that are missing right there so babe Oh anyway you can see it all coming together now it's looking pretty dang nice so getting my passes down here fit it out I use Chrome or nickel plated fittings down here on the bottom where they don't really show for the ridge or the soft tubing that's going to go to the back and plumb up down here because it's cheaper for my sponsor to send me these this bits power was obviously Hunt sponsored but that's a mine there but I'm also getting this one here ready to go so I'm going to start getting some of the some of the work down here on the bottom ready to go some of these tubes connected that I can do now without mounting the pumps and then I think I'm going to be done here for for a bit so I get kind of tired and since I know I can't be done till mid next week now I guess I'm not in that big of a rush anymore okay so I'm pretty much done for the day just kind of show you how the loop is going to go now so this reservoir right here is for the graphics card or graphics cards this reservoir right here is going to be for the CPU now you can see under the bottom here I showed you earlier I had some black fittings here those have been changed out for the 45 in chrome right here like I said I don't care that they're chrome because they don't show so that I started to plumb right there now let's go ahead and show you how the loop is going to run and I think this is going to look really sleek because hardly anything is going to show now graphics card is going to this is the graphics cards GPU or the GPU loop got a game and talked my brain is so fried from all the work today so it's going to come down through here and that's going to feed into the pump the pump it's going to go out to the radiator which is going to be over here the a radiator is going to go out to here this guy right here it's going to go up through the cards in parallel come back out and then go all the way around and up into there now the middle guy here is the CPU loop and it's going to go right through here through into the pump it's going to go out of the pump behind the motherboard tray through soft tubing into the right radiator it's going to come out of the radiator down over straight into there it's going to come out up there come straight down through that fitting and then through that fitting it's going to meet up over here with this guy in fact I might have to make this a 90 an extension and a 90 like I did there so it can go straight across up into the reservoir then back through so that's going to be the loop so anyway you guys are pretty much done oh and there's the let it be a look pretty hot so there it is starting to look more like stealth mist instead of skunk works but either way I like the way it's turned out alright so we're done for today I'm going to order up the fittings and then hopefully we'll be done by Wednesday of next week probably tomorrow mount the pumps or something like that not sure if I'll grab the video camera for that simply because it's such a simple thing to do but guys it's been part 2 of project skunk works I hope you guys have enjoyed it I've got some other little custom things in store for this just tiny little things that I think will make a difference but as always guys follow on Twitter you can see some Instagram photos of this on Instagram as it's happening and I will see you guys in the next one