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hey what's up guys JC cents here and I'm bringing you one vlog update on this custom AMD build that I'm doing for a friend and then it will actually be done so the next time you guys see it after today's video it's going to be completely done and it's kind of fun it's almost like going back to my roots considering I haven't done a custom water-cooled AMD build since before I started my channel if you guys were Watchers of my channel years ago you guys would know that you know everything I did was based on my AMD system back then so this is kind of fun and I figure right now we'll just kinda take a tour we'll talk about some of the parts why we chose the parts and then we'll we'll get the system done and then we'll do like a complete review of the system did what it's so small you really think so what does the wife thing well she says it gets the job done - all that smell the fractal design node - OH - it's not about how big it is but all about how you use it well here she is right here if you guys can't tell this is obviously sitting in a case labs case it's not the SMA 8 but it is the SM 8 I've always wanted to build in one of these cases and this is the first time I got an opportunity to do it you know it's got a feature that I didn't expect and I didn't even realize it is completely symmetrical I guess would be the word what's on the top is exactly what's on the bottom so you can flip this case over and you can make it an inverted case by simply swapping the bottom and the top pieces which is only a four screws so you can see or it's more than four but it's only a few screws but you can see how the grommets and everything are exactly the same it's pretty neat so it's not one of those cases you have to order necessarily and say I want it to be a left window you know inverted or a right window inverted or whatever you just do it yourself and you just put so putting the feet on the bottom you put them on the top and you can see you've got two two places to mount the power supply unit so that's a really neat feature I didn't even know that when I got the case alright so obviously this is an AMD build we are sitting here in an asrock 970 performance motherboard some people might frown upon this motherboard because it's not the greatest overclocking board on the planet that's okay because we're not going for the biggest overclock on the planet we're going to be going for a pretty I'd say a modest four point three or four point four gigahertz 24/7 on this but I like the color scheme and considering this computer is for a female and she really likes red mist in fact she's a friend of the owner of red mist so she kind of wanted the same color scheme going so it was the perfect board for red that didn't break the bank because yeah we could have gone with a crosshair formula motherboard but those things are still over two hundred dollars and they just would have had a ton of feature she wouldn't use on there so for the block on here we do have the new what is the ek supremacy Evo and it does have I do have in there the optional insert as well as the flow plate so it is optimized for AMD and I converted it over to you AMD bracket and then we've got primo chill white revolver fittings which is going to be going you know with my PT G tubing you can see I've got it going right there up the wall and so works when we all PE T G tubed now for the reservoir and pump you guys know I kind of like to do reservoir pump combos it keeps things tidy there's less tubing needed and in this case right here you can see that I actually have it you know mounted up off the ground it's kind of floating there and we've got a two hundred and fifty millimeter bib it's power reservoir so it is connected right there if you can see it's just got a standard fitting in there that's with basically a G quarter thread on both sides and then it's just thread it together and on the top it's got one of those multi res fittings so I can plug up the holes I don't need I can use one of the holes for filling when it's time to fill that's going to be going over to the radiator then that on the back is just a separate fitting now when you use a top return like this you have to use a push down tube I've seen people before try and use returns that were not pushed down tubes and just a waterfall effect one that makes it noisy too it introduces a bubbling and air that can get back into the system and it's just it's not very tidy so as long as you keep the fluid level above the return line and you're good that always returned down into the fluid and then the air will make its way to the top for radiator I am using an ek this is one of the X teeth I believe it's an XT read it's one of the big Reds 45 millimeters thick only has one set of inlets and outlets right here on the left it's a lot it's very similar to the Alpha cool radiators only it has one set of you know fittings on there it's not all the way around like the Alpha cool are they don't actually make this radiator anymore and this has been sitting in my closet since I did red mist because he gave me this radiator as well as some we ordered some alpha cool stuff and he ended up using the Alpha cool and said well hang on to this radiator in case we ever need it well here's a time when we need it now so we're going with a 480 ml by 45 mil which would be more than up to cool the CPU and the GPU it is a GTX 980 it's not an AMD graphics card which made a lot of people kind of sad when I tweeted that out or showed Instagram pictures of it being a 980 because it kind of felt like well it's an AMD build a Shiv an AMD GPU well it's a couple reasons why we're not using an AMD GPU one I already have three of these things laying around so it's already water blocked up the 980 is a very powerful GPU and it's still powerful in the 300 series and it you know it was very affordable I could you know let this go pretty cheap too the only other AMD GPU I have in here with a water block as I reach for it here is I'll put this right here is my cryo venom r9 290 which is sitting right here now there's nothing wrong with the 290 it's just this card versus that card in terms of performance whereas this one looks really nice it just wouldn't be giving us the performance numbers that we're looking for she won the 980 was sitting right here and was an option so that's why we went with the 980 on that the pump over here is kind of a hodgepodge really it was a alpha cool d5 top which I had unused and so I got the ek d5 and I put those two together I still have two sleeve the cables as you can see that's one thing I still have to do and then the power supply unit this is the bits power or bits Phoenix 650 power supply unit it's the same one I loaned to Paul that he used in his blue build so it was actually already slated for this build so this is the power supply here reason why I chose this one it already has all the priests leaved cables as you can see all the cables are pre sleeved in kind of the paracord material and so I thought it looked really really good oh and then I forgot to mention the memory this is the XP gv1 from a data I chose it again obviously because it's red and I think it looks really really good now one of the things I did different with this build is normally I'll do all the tubing and stuff and then I'll wire it up at the end but as you can see I went ahead and did all of the wiring on this first so with the exception of the fan cables and the pump right here pretty much this system is entirely wired up and the pump is going to actually route behind the pump and through this hole I'm not going to drill any more holes in here I to drill two holes to mount this that's it and then I want to drill any more holes so it's going to route through here and so let's go ahead and take a look at the back so you guys can see just how neat and tidy this is I know a lot of people ask me to do you know a video about how to do cable management I honestly don't know how I would do that video because I kind of feel like no matter how I do it it would almost be condescending because it cable routing is kind of common sense you just have to look at it and say oh this path makes sense and then you put it there and then you zip tie it down and you try and find the route that utilizes the length of the cables most efficiently and plan it out and do it so I don't know I really don't know how to do that video maybe I'm maybe I'm just overthinking the video I don't know but it's a highly requested video and we'll see about do but anyway it's going to take a look at the back alright so here's the back it's not the tiniest of jobs but it certainly gets the job done you can see here how I kind of pushed back some of the extra length for like the USB cable and and routed it in there some of its behind the SSD there's a SATA cable going that way but you can see because the lengths of the cables actually that thing came unplugged because of the length of the cable sometimes you have to get a little creative on the way that you route them you know you can see I have some spares like this the two the plus two pins for the PCI Express power they're down there since the 980 only uses two six pins and then there is the power cord for the CPU now the only other thing I still have to do in here as I mentioned is the pump and the fans but as you can see everything is pretty tidy there's lots of plenty of room here for making sure the panel can close and stuff the drives as you can see this is a Plextor m6 m6s 256 gig SSD and then up here we have a Toshiba 2 terabyte hard drive 7200 rpm 64 Meg cache and you know I've been very happy with the performance of these drives so I had no problems using these products here inside this build it's going to perform very very well for her and you can see we do have room here for more to more hard drives another hard drive up here if we need to and another SSD in here if we want to expand the storage you can also see here the screws where I mounted the reservoir it's going to be you know very very issues right there it's very important to make sure that you guys before you drill into anything that you kind of plan out where things are going to go because I knew that I had these drive cages on the back of the case here that I had to be mindful of so basically I kept I looked at it and said where's the most logical place to put these screws now when ah well next to the pass-through holes there's nothing there so I might as well just drill next to that and that's what I did and we go that cable right there but that's not a problem so definitely want to plan ahead before you start drilling in anything because if I had just willy-nilly drilled I could have drilled right into the SSD mounting plate which would technically have not been terrible but I didn't want to that obviously so you can see right here on the top of the case it has these fan cutouts here so that not only is it for a radiator but it's also for top fountain fountain top mounted fans if you were just doing air cooling the only problem with this is these do introduce some airflow restriction when it comes to getting air through the radiator but it's pretty minimal especially if you use static pressure fans but you might have noticed there's no radiator fans on here yet I'll go ahead and tell you why so there's no radiator fans on here yet because I haven't decided which fans I'm going to use in the front here I already have some bits Phoenix white LED fans but I don't think they match the build very well I've actually reached out to Josh at fractal designs to see if he's interested in sending over some of the venturi fans I'm very impressed with the venturi fan I know you guys saw that video recently so I would like to put four static pressure fans up here and three airflow fans right here now you might notice two things here on the rear one it looks like there's a big giant hole where the power supply would go behind the radiator the block off plate I just haven't reinstalled it yet because I want to have easy access to getting to those fittings and as you can see by leaving that off I have a pretty easy access to getting to those fittings to tighten up you know the PT G tubing when when I'm ready so I can get into it for behind and get into it from the side I just have all access with that there it would be very it's not comfortable getting to the rear fitting here especially when the fans are installed because they're going to add 25 millimeters of thickness so this is always this was a nice option when I saw that I was like oh crap I'm taking that out and we're leaving that out until we're done you might also noticed I use the block off plate back here for the rear fan the reason for that is we're not going to put a rear exhaust fan on this thing now those that are astute will already know why I'm doing that but those who are here watching this video to learn I'm going to tell you right now why you can see up here we have a power supply unit that is drawing in air from the main compartment of the case mostly because there is no hole down here there's no hole through the floor to pull an air through and exhaust it out so it kind of has its own airflow path so it has to take air from the inside of the case so this is an exhaust we're going to have four fans up here in the top even though we're going to have resistance going through the radiator there's still four fans with high static pressure moving air through the radiator and we only have three intake now yeah I can balance the airflow by slowing down the radiator fans and speeding up the intake fans so that these three fans are making up the airflow more airflow than the rear or the top exhaust for the radiator and get myself positive airflow but because I have one two three four five 120 millimeters worth of exhausting and only three 120 millimeters worth of intake I would have to slow down the radiator fans quite a bit more than I want to in order to keep positive pressure in this case and we want positive pressure so we don't pull dust in through all the other vents and things so I'm going to be looking at getting airflow fans like I said I want the venturi as if I can get my hands on them in the front here so I have nice airflow with a quiet and lower rpm and then I can run like 50 or 60% speed on the radiator and keep positive pressure and I put in the back block off plate in the back just to try and help keep positive pressure where I can even though you know we have these vents up here in this vent back here it shouldn't be too hard we're actually going to force the airflow to go like this you know it's going to come in the front and it's going to go up that's the idea so anyway that's where we are so far in the AMD build and next time we see it this thing will be done and running and of course it's going to have red fluid because you know project red mist at all anyway guys I'm go ahead and get the heck on out of here thanks for watching next time you see it would be completely built and when this system is done then I can get started on my land rig though the white and green land rig I talked about doing and I still undecided which GPU I'm going to put in that I might put one of the nine ATS I also have water blocks and stuff for either tighten or 980ti I might put one of those in there I just haven't exactly decided yet sometimes having choice and actually having the freedom of choice makes things a lot more complicated it I liked when I just had to buy whatever I could afford because that was so much easier to figure out yeah first of all problems I know all right guys I'm going on out here thanks for watching couldn't do these videos without you guys and I will see you in the next video