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yes I got it done and I kept it in only two parts even though I had a very embarrassing story to tell you guys I could have easily broken this out into three parts and I even said on Twitter I was running across some issues that was not going to let anything stop me and I did it it's done the new z170 classified motherboard from EVGA features eight phase-- PWM 4 Way SLI support along with top notch components to offer gamers and enthusiasts more of what they want badass motherboard with no compromises click the link below to learn more so anyway if you guys have missed part 1 make sure you check that out I'm putting the link down the description for those watching on mobile too that way guys has something to click I know you can't touch the screen and follow cards and stuff like that when they pop out I don't think so it doesn't really matter check out part 1 if you guys haven't already this is part 2 here of my build of the practice web bench from primo chill they sent this over it was a sponsored case build but anyway the words are stuff obviously in this video are going to be entirely my own including the I digress and I'm guaranteed to throw in here somewhere mostly because it triggers some of you and that's the best part honestly so before I start being a Rambler man I'm going to go ahead and just let you guys watch the part that I know you're here to see so we'll go ahead and get on with it right now you you you as you guys see the build is done I did some color mixing for the green checking out a shade I want to use in skunk works and just seeing how it holds up before I do that but anyway I'm calling this build toxicity obviously because of the white and the green kind of looks like toxic sludge in there not only that the color scheme is the same color scheme I have going for my phone here yeah I use an iPhone deal with it but it's green and white and I've had this case now for about a year so as you can see it's they match they're like buddies but anyway it's just a phone who cares God's happy now triggered over what phone I use nerd but building in the Praxis wet bench was pretty damn easy I mean it's it's open it's an open test bench everything on top is accessible it gives you plenty of room to reach underneath the motherboard if you need to the standoffs are huge that's the point of an open air test bench just to make access really easy for those that have to do constant swapping out of parts and stuff and that's one of the reasons why flex tubing on this build and not rigid tubing as much as I wanted to but I need to be able to get the water block off to change out CPUs and stuff if I want to do a CPU swap or a motherboard swap or whatever it's a lot easier with Flex tube and than it would be with hard tubes so that's why I did that it's one of those things where a hard tube on this would have been overkill he'll water cooling of this nature with the laying DDC on there the the giant alpha cool reservoir and integrated top triple e KPE radiator on there vard our fans it's all such overkill but who cares man I had the stuff so why the heck not you guys know how much I love my water cooling builds and I want to get back to doing some more of those videos it's been a while since I've done like real diehard dedicated water cooling stuff but we're back we're back to it but anyway the Praxis wet bench here I don't really have anything I have a couple things I want to say that are negative but things that I would have liked to have seen a little bit different on there but the cool thing about this wet bench is the fact that it's not like primo Cho just set out to make a test bench and this is their first runner though it's not their first rodeo whatsoever that you can see that this case is a progression of wet benches that they've made in the past even had all acrylic ones which looked fantastic the problem was a durability of acrylic as you guys know they can break and crack and whatever else that's why you need to also be careful with the inserts when you put them in if you bend them they will crack it's pretty scratch resistant trust me I've already tried to scratch it not on purpose but just when you build things happen and yeah so anyway this it's pretty scratch resistant very durable but one thing to keep in mind is because it is a stamped steel and it is very rigid it does Bend and flex so you want to keep that in mind you'll want to go shoving the graphics cards down on the motherboard because you can warp and vote the the actual motherboard tray and keep that in mind I mean you can see here it's just flat metal there's nothing really supporting it underneath the middle just on the side so you can't just go shoving stuff down on there and not expect bad things to happen but as long as you go into it with that mindset then you're going to be fine with that the one thing I would have really really liked to have seen would have been a place to mount a motherboard fan and the reason being is when we're using test bench we're doing load sessions on graphics cards or long gaming sessions to test out whatever or even CPU testing and overclocking especially overclocking you have to have air moving over the motherboard even though it's water-cooled yessir is the CPUs water-cooled the VRMs the MOSFETs and the chipset are not water-cooled they usually rely on the airflow inside of a case to take away heat and move air over them allowing some sort of semi active cooling if you will but that doesn't exist on here I'm fortunate I have an overhead fan in here that does blow quite a bit of air down on this motherboard but I'm still going to look at ways to perhaps mount a fan somewhere on here that's aesthetically pleasing won't get in the way and will allow me to control the airflow over the motherboard especially when I run my overclocked all the time some test benches actually come with like a gooseneck fan that's on there that you can mount a fan to it whatever fan you want and it's flexible so you can control where the airflow is move it out of the way when you're working on the motherboard move it back when you want to do some active cooling so I think that's something I would have liked to have seen integrated into this case but other than that it gives you tons and tons of mounting options I chose to hang my hard drives underneath rather than putting them on the top that way I can access my hard drives right here under the system without having to try and get in here or go in the side or whatever if they were mounted on the top side of the bottom panel but you it's flexible you can do it however you want you mount it on the top you can hang it you can mount accessories in their pumps wherever you guys want even optical drives you can mount underneath here that's hanging obviously you guys can see I chose to put a little bit of like JDM underglow if you will but I love the fact that this is steel and not aluminum because it means I can use my magnetic lighting on there so the fact that that's magnet I just stick it up there and off we go that's really cool in fact I can't do that with skunkworks because it's an aluminum case magnets don't stick to aluminum but I love the fact that they also have integrated handles in here and even they make it super obvious because it's got little like finger grooves on there but I'm glad they did that and it's making it obvious like hey grab it here when you move it because as I showed you what the fact this is flexible metal you don't want to bend the thing by trying to pick it up you know right here or something like that you will bend the out of it so grab it where it's meant to be grabbed it also gives you a pretty decent amount of access you can get your whole hand back in there to access anything that you may put in there in my case I might case it in my instance here I actually put one of those swift Tec PWM fan splitters that you would find unlike weather water cooling kits like h2 20x to control the Vardar fans around my radiator but I also have four additional ports now available to me so if I want to four five I have five additional ports available to me if I want to do some fan testing or whatever else and PWM control over them as well and there's lots of access to it so I love the fact that it's kind of its kind of like a trunk if you will you put all kinds of junk in there and I think putting some lighting in there would have been cool but I only had this one green light and I want to do white but that's not really all that important anyway yeah the water cooling loop on here definitely is overkill but that's kind of the point of it was a wet bench so I thought I might as well do something custom with it the green fluid on here it's kind of funny I put the pictures up on Instagram and Twitter and I got a lot of questions of why green well why green well but I think it's kind of silly question why any color why red why blue it's just it's just a preference thing I'm also testing this fluid like I said for skunk works but one of the reasons why did green I love green I love green fluid especially the pastel it looks amazing I've avoided green for years especially on the YouTube channel because I didn't want people being like he's only doing green because he's such an Nvidia fanboy bla bla bla bla I could've been doing a Razer theme but still if it's green people automatically just assume you're an Nvidia fanboy well I wanted to avoid all that everyone calls me a fanboy now anyway so I figured why the hell not might as well at least go with the green so now I'm gonna have a green test bench and I'm gonna have a green main system deal with it like I said in part one I didn't use any of the front panel buttons on here because there's no point since I went back to the EVGA x99 classified it's got motherboard mounted start and reset button or power and reset button so there's no point it'd be really redundant to run those cables have to worry about wiring those what I'm I can just touch it right here on the motherboard but the two 980ti is on there just because really there's no it's a test bench there's no point putting us-ally on there I will be doing SLI testing though in fact these are on here because you guys were asking how to 980ti is versus like a 1080 or a Titan X would do so we're gonna be doing that obviously I said on Twitter today that something happened that actually set me back and to where this video almost didn't get done today and I want to talk about that real quick and in fact has nothing to do with the test bench a wet bench whatsoever actually is everything to do with the power supply as you guys know again in part one I showed you I'm using the gigabyte 1200 watt gaming extreme yes guys they've made a power supply with the name gaming on it but anyway it's a fully modular power supply and I'm used to power supplies that are very very diligent on the way that the modular plugs are keyed so that they only go in certain ports I'm sure you guys can really tell where this is going in the hustle and bustle of building a system like this and trying to get it done I wasn't paying attention and I plugged one of the EPS eight pin power plugs into the PCI Express 6 plus to power on the back of the mother of the power supply that should have never been allowed I've never had a case come in here that allowed me to take an EPS 8 pin and plug it into a PCI Express because the reason for that is the 12 volt and the ground on are reversed they are different and when you reverse polarity something like ground and 12-volt on a power supply with components you typically get magic blue smoke fortunately I didn't get that when I turned it on and immediately trip the internal breaker inside the power supply which won't reset until you unplug power tried to turn it on two or three times it kept tripping I finally traced all my wires thinking something got pinched or whatever by a process of elimination of unplugging things and trying to start it after about trying to start at six or seven more times apparently me trying to kill my system I eventually realized that one of my EPS eight pins because I'm running to one here was plugged into a six plus two PCI Express should have never been a lab so the moral here guys if you have a modular power supply make sure and double check that you guys don't have it plugged into the wrong port because a really good power supply manufacturer would never allow that to happen obviously some do allow that to happen so you definitely want to make sure that you don't do that that's actually how I killed an open EMD system once yeah I share my mistakes with you guys that way you can learn from my mistakes and we can all laugh at me because I'm fortunate enough to where if I blow this up I have spares and I can keep moving forward I remember when I drilled holes in a motherboard anybody remember that thought I was doing something custom turns out all I was doing was make forcing you guys all to watch me murder components but anyway I'm fortunate to where I could move on but I thought I actually blew up my 92t eyes and it's funny because I couldn't get the system to post after I fixed corrected my problem thought I killed the graphics card and one ends up and wind up happening is about 15 to 20 attempts to post the system later I finally got it to turn on most people would have thought they killed their system and tried to are amazing or just assumed it was bad because you I was getting boot loops I was getting no video error I was getting every light on the motherboard to light up like a Christmas tree all signs pointed to dead CPU or graphics card or both but through a particular technique that I know to get dead hardware to kind of reset itself I was able to get it back alive and there was one point where I got one 980 to work and not the other one obviously now I've got both of them working as you guys can see I would have loved to have made a video about it I was in too much of a pinch to make a separate video about that and it's not the kind of thing that I can force to happen to show you my methods for reviving dead hardware I promise if it happens again in the future I will do a video on it but yeah it ended up taking me a couple of hours to get the system back alive which really kind of slept and then windows didn't want to boot after that obviously we are we are past that because as you guys can see the system is is completely booted but anyway I digress guys the last you want to talk about here real quick is some folks ask me how I feel about this being used as like a daily driver case the only concern I would have are two things one of them I already touched on is the fact that there is no motherboard airflow whatsoever because it's an open air test bed so unless you have some sort of a stand fan next to it or something blowing air on it too I would be concerned about long gaming sessions long rendering sessions and stuff without the VRMs MOSFETs and the the chipset being cooled in some way the other thing is there's no dust control so you need to keep that in mind in a case you have fan filters you can do positive pressure there's things you can do to minimize the amount of dust this here is just sitting here saying please dust rain on me just cover me with your filth anyway guys time to go thanks for watching my new test bed is up and running about lots of graphics cards I got to check out I've got the RX 470 there RX 4 60 I've got the 1080 classified I don't know what else I I'm sure there's more out there I've forgotten but I've got lots of to get done in little time to do it so it's time to go thanks for watching guys give this video a like if you liked it dislike it if you didn't like it feel free to call me Nvidia fanboy because of all the green I don't really care shoot green was around long before Nvidia unless Jen's son invented green too then as I mean razor has to pay in video royalties on green these questions have to be answered I'm gonna get to the bottom of it I guess we'll see you later