Gadgetory

well guys I promised you that next time you saw this system it would be complete and obviously I kept my word we're going to talk about this system we're gonna talk about some of the parts and stuff I'm gonna answer some of the questions and comments that I saw in the previous video where I was showing me putting some of this together EVGA silent series power supplies offer excellent silence and efficiency through their new EVGA eco-mode technology and also features a seven year warranty for worryfree gaming click the link in the description to learn more now the case on here is a case labs sm8 I have said it before and a lot of people keep asking me what case is that again it's the case labs sm8 basically it's the smaller brother to the case labs sm8 even though I think this one came out first technically or it doesn't have the lower basement or any of that it's much smaller but as you can see even with a full water cooling loop in here particle graphics card massive radiator massive pump will defy pump lowering massive pump but it's still hard to get this thing looking full what I'd like to do right now is go ahead and just kind of run through the list of parts and then we'll kind of do a two part video here well two purposes says video not a two part we're not doing a Part B and Part C or any of that I promise even though technically this is already part two I wanted to talk about why the parts that are in here are in here because a lot of people in the previous video seemed to draw their own conclusions as to why these parts are in there and unfortunately you guys are pretty much flat out wrong and secondly I want to talk about rigid tubing and whether or not it's something you should consider for your first time build because that seems to be the most common question I get regarding rigid tubing is do I recommend that a first time water cooling builder try it so before we start talking about the parts let's go ahead and roll that epic loop filling video you guys love seeing the loops get filled and I do admit it is kind of nice to watch it's it is kind of sexy so anyway let's go ahead and roll that footage and then we'll start talking about the system I still believe that the best bang for the buck AMD CPU that you can buy right now is still the 8350 so it's got eight threads of performance and that's more than enough for just about any game these days so it isn't 8350 being cooled by an UK supremacy Evo block with the proper insert in there and proper cooling plate for the AMD CPU we have an EVGA GTX 980 super clocked in here with the EK nickel and acetal full cover block with the full cover backplate on their fury 650 more than enough wattage for this system especially since since this is going to a customer and it's not mine I only overclock the CPU to 4.4 so I can keep the voltage low and I'm gonna leave the graphics card stock she plays mostly like World of Warcraft and a lot of games that aren't super intensive so I don't want to introduce more heat and more maintenance or just the idea of possible crashing so we're just letting the GPU do its own thing with the stock BIOS it's not a hacked BIOS or anything like that the motherboard is an asrock fatality 970 performance motherboard it's not the greatest overclocking motherboards that probably still belongs to the asus crosshair 5 formula but I think the bang for the buck the features that you get on this motherboard for being a 970 are definitely there you've got plenty of fan headers you've got full fan control overclocking control memory timings memory speed everything you would want on a basic motherboard is they're easy to use but with more advanced feature sets and you really don't need to go with a 99 tf-x chipset it's not gonna do anything for your performance unless you are running more than two way crossfire or whatever they call it I mean it's 2-way would be SLI it isn't SLI and a crossfire board but unless you're going more than two graphics cards three or four you don't need the 990 FX the memory in this thing is sixteen gigabytes of 82 XP gv1 what with that because it's nice read it matches the system nicely slightly different shade of red but nothing terrible for main drive 256 gigabyte SSD m6 s from Plextor and then it's got a 2 terabyte Toshiba 7200 64 Metcash main drive well I guess you'd call it junk drive game drive storage drive mass storage now let's talk about the cooling because this is the part where most people were like why in the heck are you spending money on water cooling this thing when you could spend the money on getting better performance parts likes a faster memory or a better motherboard or another graphics card or something along those lines well we'll just start with the list of parts first EK water blocks 45 millimeter by 480 millimeter radiator we've got four of the brand new fractal venturi static pressure fans on here we've got three of the venturi airflow fans on the front alpha cool top on a D 5 bits power 250 millimetre reservoir primo chill revolver fittings for all the rigid fittings and then of course we've got the primo chill ptg tubing on this thing and I got to tell you right now this thing runs super cool in fact this CPU under load is only hitting 47 degrees Celsius the graphics card is hitting 45 degrees Celsius there is definitely more cooling in this thing than is really necessary but that was kind of the idea especially since we live in a hot climate look the system just turned red and must be no we're talking about AMD right now but my white balance just went to hell here's the bottom line on the parts this video was never meant in fact this series about this case and this system was never meant to be a guide it didn't say guide anywhere in the description it didn't say guide anywhere in the title it didn't say guide anywhere in my dialogue this is a log this is a computer that was built and it is being logged via video the parts that are in here do not necessarily match up and being the most efficient cost wise so what does that mean it means she had a set budget to spend and I had a set amount of money to work with things that I thought would look nice in here do good for a video do good for talking points I donated to the build I donated most of the water-cooling stuff I got the case provided by case labs absolutely free to her so a lot of this stuff here were things that I upgraded for her just for the sake of doing a build log on the video it's to the point to where I wanted to do something nice that looked really really nice she's the friend of the owner of red mist they wanted something that kind of matched and this is what we came up with now that my rent 30 is out of the way let's go ahead and talk about rigid tubing for a moment here that is easily one of the most common things I'm asked is how I feel about rigid tubing and should a first time water cooler try it you know quite honestly I think you should because it doesn't take any real special tools all the bends you see in here we're done by hand I didn't use a bending device I didn't use a bending aid I didn't even measure it it's one of those things if you take your time and you really just think about what you want to do before you do it anybody can do this I use an $18 heat gun from Lowe's nothing special and other than that other than a hacksaw in fact I don't even use a hacksaw anymore I use a $7 pipe cutter from Lowe's as well because you can do it with the ptg you can't do it with the acrylic it's easy the fittings are cheaper overall than getting all the revolvers and all the compression fittings that are needed for soft tubing the tubing isn't going to fade or leach plasticizer which is gonna make your clout your tubing look all clouded or get dunked up in your tiny micro channels inside your blocks and if you mess up the tubing is cheap to get 10 feet of soft tubing is usually in excess of 30 bucks but you can get 10 feet of ptg for like 12 bucks so buy a lot more than you need and practice it's not hard I think everybody should try it I really do because if you mess up you can just try again but soft tubing if you cut that thing and you messed up and you were too short well unless that piece can be used somewhere else in the build you just wasted that piece and speaking of somebody from experience who in the past has messed up with soft tubing and had to go buy more soft tubing is not cheap I just think that ptg or even acrylic still there's a there's plenty of uses for acrylic out there some coolants are actually not compatible with PE TG because of different chemical base and the plastic that's in the PT G it could cause melting maybe I should do a video about that in the future but just know that there are uses for both still and I just think a lot of the benefits of acrylic tubing or I'll just say rigid tubing out wave that of soft tubing the nice thing is you can also fill in a lot of this dead space with neat little bends like I mean some of these bends here are like this simply to fill in some of the space because of the fact that you just aren't with with soft tubing it's gonna go the way it wants to go and especially since it was coiled up it's gonna want to go the way it wants to go no matter what you do it's always gonna have a curve to it well guys there you go she's done customers gonna pick it up Sunday or Monday I think let me sad to see her go I love working on these systems I spend a lot of time on them I feel like a piece of me goes into them so every time I build one and off it goes I kind of feel like you know I'm a little sad like I know ones someone's mine into my computer and I've got enough computers around here so anyway it's time to get out of here you know I'm thinking we're lacking water cooling content so I need you guys to tell me what you want me to cover when it comes to water cooling I've got all this stuff in my head and some of it actually matters it's hard for me to just pick out like okay we're gonna do this topic we're gonna do this topic we're gonna do this topic it's easier for me to kind of get the collective information from the crowd saying alright there's you know 200 people asked me to cover this so I need you guys to tell me when it comes to water cooling stuff what do you want to see what kind of informational videos tutorials or how to's do you want to see and we'll get that done I do feel like we're lacking some water cooling stuff on here we're gonna change that soon I've got the land rig I'm building which is gonna be a water-cooled again with rigid tubing I've got some radiator reviews coming up a few of them actually and we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna do this we're gonna get back to our water cooling roots here on this channel especially since so many people are starting to pick up water cooling like Kyle and Paul's hardware and these guys are really starting to get their feet wet no pun intended or maybe just slightly I figure we'll just go ahead and get her done that's it we're gonna get on out of here I think the customers build turned out really really good I think it looks amazing I even you know lit up the reservoir back there I just put an LED strip behind it it's actually behind the reservoir it's not in the reservoir see this is my finger right there maybe not but anyway this is not one of those lit up reservoirs I just stuck an LED strip back there all right time to get out of here thanks for watching guys and I'll see you in the next one