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First Custom Loop of 2018 - Personal Build Log Part 2.685

2018-01-03
what's up guys Jase $0.02 here and welcome to 2018 and I told you we were gonna finish this build and we're getting closer and trust me I get tired of showing it off as much as you guys are tired of looking at it I think but we have a care package remember I said I ordered some stuff from performance - PCs comm go and check them out but here's the care package they sent me and this is what we needed to get this done the new dg7 series cases from EVGA offer PC enthusiasts more of what they love like tempered glass side panels vertical GPU mount integrated RGB control board DG tuner and an awesome three-year warranty to learn more about the dg7 series of cases from EVGA head to the link in the description below bla bla bla bla bla bla so I got this right here which is really important this is the aqua computer it's a filter and it's not meant to be left in the system full-time it's designed for cleaning systems but you could leave it in there full-time if you wanted I'm not gonna be doing that but we're gonna be running a the Mayhem's blitz cleaning kits a two part kit and it's designed to get anything that might be stuck to the radiators out of there flush or flux and any of that solder material and even though radiator manufacturers will will try and convince you that they're clean and ready to go out of the box you don't believe them just clean your systems out but instead of just letting like the Blitz just circulate that crap all throughout the loop and redeposit it somewhere else we're gonna let it deposit right here inside of this filter now it's pretty neat to mesh filter it's gonna capture big stuff little stuff and this is gonna allow us to make sure that we get a nice clean system because we don't want to have any sort of color reaction we don't wanna have any sort of fallout I haven't decided what coolant I'm gonna go with yet but either way I need to clean the radiator so when I'm done getting this loop all setup and all the tubing cut then we are going to take the radiators out we're gonna set up the blitz cleaning set like in the kitchen and we're gonna let this run for like 24 hours capturing all the junk that it possibly can't believe it that's that's quality right there so something else that I got here was a crap ton of fittings which is usually some one of the most expensive like parts that add up to a system is the custom fittings but these right here are actually the bits power multi Lync fittings are twelve millimeter diameter fittings because I'm gonna be doing in this system glass these are twelve millimeter glass tubes right here they're for silly i'ts or whatever I'm sure I completely butchered that but anyway it's it's that that kind of glass like science glass that's what it is but we are gonna be doing twelve millimeter glass tubing I haven't done glass tubing in a while I've only done it once actually and it was in that fractal design defined nano s build that I did still together by the way never took that system apart so I decided a system this high-end and this custom and this elegant needs the last tubing so that's what we're gonna do and then of course with that we got a new glass tubing kit for cutting kits we got gloves to protect our hands we've got eye protection to protect our eyes and then we've got some sandpaper to smooth it out and then we've got some bubble wrap but then we've got a new set of cutters right here I've got a pretty cheap glass cutter that's like a little squeeze thing it's like a that's terrible anyway it was like ten bucks this is designed to score the glass because the way and we'll show you in this video the way that you you cut the glass down to size is you have to score it you wet it and then you snap it and it breaks where you score it if you do it right it's a clean break sometimes it's jagged which is why we have the sandpaper and stuff but enough talking let's just go ahead and play around all right so the loop is done I'm really happy I went with the custom glass because glass is so clear part of the problem I have a PT G especially is it always looks slightly dull I've used this analogy before and I'm in knowledge you guys can do it at home look at your thumbnail you'll see if you hold it in the light just right you can see those these grooves and liens in your thumb and that's exactly what PT G looks like and just always has a slight big cloudy look the glass is super clear so kerlix kind of in between the glass and the PT G in terms of clearness PT G is a lot easier to work with obviously than glass but that's kind of the challenge here we've got this super elegant high scale case that deserved this super high-end loop we got singularity PC parts and/or singularity computers I key call it pcs singularity computers parts we've got all the bits power fittings which are handling all of our bends for the glass you can get and I need agree bent glass tube you can get it from performance - pcs comm which is pretty much where everything you see here is available when it comes to water cooling but I like the way the fittings look especially since I wanted to fill it fill it out and make it look kind of busy I think it did really well but the glass is pretty easy I mean if you have the right tools anyway it's just like any job can only do as good as the tools that you have and wear that to will be your knowledge or a specific tool needed for something like you know cutting and breaking glass then I'm happy I got the new cutter because the cutter I got off Amazon the first time I tried it I really cheap tout because I wasn't sure if it was something I was gonna do a lot of so I did not get a good glass score and so it it was hard to work with this time I use something a lot better for scoring the glass and it was pretty easy I mean you score it it didn't try and walk it gave me a perfect circle and then once you wet it you just give it a little bit of a pressure like twisting and but you pull apart as you're doing it how'd you do it just snaps apart you're by creating a score or a scratch in the glass you're giving the glass sort of a track to break a park on and that's all you're doing with that but like the extra trick is getting it wet that's why I was putting it in water or pouring water on it to get water in the crack and then let's say this is where it's you know I'm gonna I'm gonna score and break it right there and you don't twist like this you give a little bit of pressure as you're pulling apart and if you do that the right way then you get a pretty clean cut this is actually one of my breaks right there I have deburred it yet it's never gonna be perfectly flat and mr. cutting it with like a proper machine that cuts glass which obviously I don't have but this is more than good enough to get the job done but obviously the glass is delicate I mean it's pretty it's pretty robust and handling it it's not gonna break that easy if I dropped it on the conker right now clearly it would but it's it's a lot like tempered glass it's pretty robust until it's not and then when it's not it shatters it's really not that hard I mean what I do to make sure I don't waste any glass because it's not cheap it's not super cheap as I use ten by twelve millimeter ptg tubing cut that all to length then I mark the glass and cut the glass plus it gives us a really good template to keep retrying if we we have a bad break or we you know rather than cutting the glass for me like oops and tossing it we have extra PT G which is a lot cheaper I didn't want to actually do a bunch of fittings on the top I played around with that I put a picture up on Twitter you should be following a social media he was seeing all the behind the scenes of putting this together it looked too crowded and too busy it was just too much happening there I didn't like the way it look so instead I decided to bring it out in front of the reservoir it's offset from this piece back here and it's higher than the piece in the back right here so they kind of frame each other out which gives us just a really neat full look now in terms of fluid haven't decided what I'm gonna do yet I've got three batches of fluid that are mixed up right now and I've been nickel tell you I'm constantly holding it up and looking at it and I can't make up my mind one is a UV green Matt may have his pastel the sand green I'm using in skunk works that's held up for two years with no color changer issue we've also looked at the UV green from Prima chill that's the view the same stuff we tested out Nick's computer for a while until we tore it apart to see what happened with the blocks of course it was like slightly abrasive so it was cleaning our blocks which isn't too bad and then I also have some Mayhem's xt-1 which is a clear that a custom mixed green in to make it look like an automotive coolant I don't know a lot of you were like you should I just got coolant but I I wanted to use stuff specific to water cooling for computers and I think I think that one's out if you wanna know the truth because it's it's a such a different shade of green than the rest of the green that's in the system that it just looks too different so I think that one's gone so for me it's between the Mayhem's pastel and the primo chill view and you guys won't even know would I go with until either I show it on social media or you guys see the final video because the next video you guys see this it will be done the only thing left to do now is lil wiring and then of course I've got a custom back plate being made by my friend Joe and he's gonna be he's milling that for me and that's gonna be covering up the wires on the back and then put the glass panels on it's gonna look super clean because we have no SATA drives we have no SATA cables and no SATA power to worry about for those we do have SATA power for the control boxes for the these are the mag level 120 RGB fans got six of those lots of cables to have to manage with those are terrible I wish I wish Corsair coming with a better way to connect power and RGB with those fans daisy chain them something every other manufacturers daisy chaining them but they're not so I don't know what that's all about but anyway I digress I'm using a proprietary in wind power supply the power supply that comes with this case is meant for this case it's the same one that actually were was in the Terry Crews it doesn't have the same mounting holes as a standard power supply and of course we could have made an adapter and use any power supply we want we've got a high rated power supply that comes with its 1000 65 Watts more than enough for this system my cable mod also supports custom cables for in wind power supplies so I'm actually using their cable configurator which is allowing me to put custom links in there play around with the colors to see what I like - it looks like in different materials I considered going with a paracord which they have available but I think I'm going to end up going with mod mesh instead we'll just have a brighter more vibrant color which is what we kind of want for this but the cool part is when you use the configurator you tell them what power supply you have you tell them what cables you want so obviously in this case we'll be using a 24 pin 8 pin EPS 4 pin a +4 pin EPS for the CPU - 8 pin PCI Express - 6 pin PCI Express and we need a SATA for our fans for the RGB control box we might get a couple extra cables just in case but the best part is you can play around with it see what it looks like change each individual wire color to figure out exactly how you want it then you tell them the links you tell them the material you can even go with thicker wires if you want which we'll probably be doing for this and then they make them they send them to you and there are they're really not all that expensive in the grand scheme of things you think about what some like this cost and the fact that we have over 500 dollars in fittings alone for this glass tubing then what you pay for the custom cables is really not that bad if you take a look at it but obviously it's a luxury for a luxury system so I wouldn't have it any other way anyway guys I'm gonna go thanks for watching like I said you're not gonna see this again in another video until it is done which should should be right after CES once those cables arrive we'll get to it and we'll get it done anyway guys tell me what you think in the comments below thanks for watching and as always I'll see you in the next one
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