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hey what's up guys Jase $0.02 here and I thought I would take this opportunity that we're about to do with skunk works where I'm doing all kinds of new water-cooling stuff with it then I would take the opportunity to go ahead and show you guys some more stuff when it comes to water cooling end of all of the water cooling videos I've done I've actually never covered how to do a water block on your motherboard we'll talk about is it necessary do you need it and then we will do kind of a quick demonstration of how to install the damn thing it's really not that hard but some people get a little freaked out we'll go ahead and put your minds at ease if you will today's video is sponsored by lynda.com /j now if you guys new me on a personal level or you ask anyone who knows me closely like coconut monkey I am a nerd when it comes to knowledge and I love to do self learning and research and that's why Linda calm is an amazing site to go and check out you can learn about pretty much anything 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can learn anything you want about any subject from experts anyway open another tab and do it now just don't just don't leave this video you still want to watch this one just me so anyway first I'm gonna do here is I'm just going to go ahead and take this motherboard out I should have probably done that in preparation for the video huh hindsight I guess also - fair warning what this is on my wrist this is actually an adidas activity tracker I'll be doing a review on this I just started it up and we're using it for the first I'm it's not an anti-static now you guys might want to use an anti-static environment when you do this I have personally never used an anti-static strap and any computer I've ever built now some people would say Jay you're stupid for doing that that's okay so I'm going to tell you right now that recommended you use an anti-static strap especially if you're sitting on carpet or something like that but I personally don't so that's up to you now anyway we're going to be doing here with this block is we're going to be removing this heatsink and this heat sink right here which is actually all of these are connected via a heat pipe you can see the heat pipe right here there's nothing actually under here being cooled it's just right there and this is additional surface area being used by the heat pipe so when we take this off some folks were concerned that there's going to be too much orange with you know the orange fluid and the orange Ram and all and this but this is coming off we're going to lose this orange here we're really in that up there we're only going to really retain the orange on the slots otherwise everything else is going to be pretty much black now it would also be recommended that you make sure this motherboard works before you do this now gigabyte has already tested this motherboard for me I'm going to take their word for it just simply for the sake of time so do a component test put in your CPU putting some rampant in the motherboard hook up your power supply and then see if you if it posts and gives you you know an error that there's no hard drive if it does then you're good to go anyway the other thing we're going to do to is we are going to look at the back of the motherboard and get familiar with what tools we're going to need to remove the heat sinks now on this one here you can see they are sprung Phillips screws right here right here right here right here and on the back of the vrm which has a little support plate on there so all we're going to need for these is a Phillips head screwdriver I've got my multi-tool which you guys have seen tons and tons of times actually it's not a multi-tool everyone gets mad calling me a multi-tool it's like a five in one find whatever it's a screwdriver that's got a lot of and it's bent actually I've used it to pry things so it's a little bit anyway this is this is my lucky husky I've used it so many times once you are familiar with all of that then we are going to make check the contents of the block and we also want to get familiar with the instructions prior to actually starting the work now I know that sounds very unmanly like and we mean check the instructions J we're men wrong you know as tend to two men Taylor would say we don't need instructions we don't need directions well that's true if you can afford to break this and start all over then by all means go ahead so well I'm gonna inspect the block real quick I've actually not taken this out of the packaging yet this is the chipset block right here and that's actually going to end up going right about there like that and then we have also got the vrm block right up here which is pretty obvious that it's also going to go right up there so these actually look pretty good they give us some thermal pads here and all of our screws and offset or spacers and plastic spacers that we need to keep from blowing things up you know one thing that I find kind of interesting and it's not common for UK water blocks to do this but I'll go ahead and engine it right now they do not include any of the thermal grease that you need normally they would give you everything you need even just like a small you know a couple of grams of thermal grease which we are going to need for this guy right here which is going to be contacting the chipset chip so I guess I have to go grab some of that like there's nothing else in here they did not give us any grease that's strange all right I'll be right back now a couple of other things we're going to need here for the sake of getting this done is some scissors to cut our thermal pads and the thermal grease as we already said so these are the tools you technically need right here scissors screwdriver and thermal grease other than that it's pretty straightforward this isn't a very difficult install whatsoever now the cool thing about the standoffs are the rubber standoffs here is they've pretty much already glued them in place although this guy here is a little bit off there we go they pretty much already glued the rubber or plastic spacers on here so that's kind of nice not to worry about that these are important these isolate metal from touching the motherboard so you don't get anything that grounds out so that's important to keep in mind same thing with these on here on the vrm these are already glued on there so that is good news so we're going to go ahead and do here is we're going to start by removing the stock heatsinks on here now depending on the motherboard you have you're going to want to kind of see what's connected because you wouldn't want to unhook say just this guy here and start trying to pull it off because as I've showed you already these are connected with a heat pipe to the main vrm cooler and over here to this guy and then down here to the chipset so you need to undo all of these screws and take it off as one big piece but also keep in mind like I've said there's nothing under these they're pretty much just floating in mid-air to get up into the airflow space of your either your CPU cooler or your case fans to give you additional cooling to the VRM into the chipset now I do plan on doing you know obviously overclocking with this so that's why I'm going with the motherboard cooler it's not really necessary do you really need motherboard water cooling no but since it's already CPU is already being water cooled and it's only about 120 bucks for this block might as well go ahead and do it on here for extra insurance so I'm just going to go ahead and start taking off these screws now you're also going to want to take off any rubber spacers that are on here for the stock heat sinks because those can add thickness which would make our block not make contact properly so make sure you're only using the hardware that is supplied with the ek block now one thing you want to do - and what I like to do so I don't lose any of this hardware is just in case you want to put this back to stock someday you're going to want to keep track of all of these screws and things so what I would do is I would take the Ziploc baggie here that you've got with the thermal pads in there and then just put all the screws and stuff in here including the back plate for the vrm cooler that way you don't lose any of this as I drop it all over the place do as I say not as I do god it's like Jay became your dad that's a scary thought don't you think if Jay was your dad that's terrifying alright now that it's all unscrewed be careful when you pick it up because literally the cooler might just pop right off and I can already feel it's very very loose and like I said this thing is going to come off in one giant piece now it is going to be probably adhesive to the VRMs there so you see how I rocked it just a little bit to get it loose and then everything else like I said comes off in one piece so that is what the stock cooling looks like for the vrm and that's why I said you couldn't do just one piece at a time because as you can see the heat pipes are keeping this thing together now just like I told everyone not to freak out about the amount of orange as you can see there's a lot less orange on here already the color theme that I'm going with this is it's very it's very subjective you either like orange or you don't and putting too much orange on there would definitely be a bad thing but I knew that by taking this off would lose a lot of the orange and then the color balance I think would be would be pretty good so right now I'm just going to sort of test fit this make sure it doesn't interfere with anything because that would just kind of suck so that's where that block is going to go and then this one is quite literally just going to go right here and it's going to make contact with the chokes right here because this is a one two three four five six seven eight phase power we've got MOSFETs down there and we've got chokes right here so we're going to adjust test fit that so that's how that's going to go it is actually going to be a really tight fit because I'm going to have to have obviously a graphics card is going to go on top of you three graphics cards are gonna go on top of this block and we have the fittings here and we had the CPU here and the VRMs there so I'm going to have to have the tubing come in and all this connected and then go out so that's going to actually be a bit of a challenge but Jay loves a challenge and we will we will get it done I'm not sure how much Ben's I can actually put right here considering the fact that there's not a lot of room for that radius but anyway I'm ahead of myself now what we have to do is take our alcohol I know I didn't mention we needed this in the beginning but if you do water cooling and custom blocks you know you should already have this or even you should always have this on hand anyway because this is how you remove thermal paste and we're going to want to remove the thermal paste here that's on the chipset chip so we're just going to kind of dab that use something that's fairly lint-free most people would say micro fibers aren't lint-free but really depends on the quality of the microfiber cloth this one right here is going to leave any fibers a lot of people also like to use coffee filters for you know machine copy machines you can see this one's really really hard and caked on their this almost makes me wonder with how easy it came off if it might have given us some cooling issues so this is a good thing we're doing this there we go I was really surprised that was actually really hard to get that thermal paste off there was very very hard usually when thermal paste gets really hard like that and it came off really easy the the heatsink did means it wasn't very good bond a surprise that might have gotten hot on us alright so this is gonna be a little bit of a hard part here because it's a really small chip that we want to put thermal paste on so I'm just gonna literally do like a tappy tap tap tap tap tap ooh they want you to kind of try and do an X that's gonna be nearly impossible so that's all it's getting right there from me quite literally if you use non conductive grease it'll be okay if it gets a little bit on the I don't know if those are causal circuits right there just make sure that you don't go too crazy on it obviously but I'm using the Eco therm which is non conductive so that's a that's a bonus there alright so we're just going to kind of dump out our screws and we're going to also put washers on the backside so there's gonna be washers on either side of these holes so right now I'm going to just sort of put this in place and hold it there we go I can actually feel it push down on that thermal grease that's a good thing you can also see the holes lining up on the back right there so I'm going to hold this in place with my hand I'm going to line up one of these washers and then I get one of these screws here started you're also going to install these in a cross pattern just like you would any other block or heatsink that way you get even distribution of torque it's also going to keep us from warping our motherboard or cracking it or anything like that these motherboards are pretty robust though they're not very delicate like some people would be afraid that they're so delicate they're going to break them now I don't worry about it motherboards are really really strong all right just make sure you don't over tighten it just go until you've got some resistance and then like maybe a half turn past that you can strip these threads that are very very small you don't want to do that but there is our chipset block let me use this a little bit of alcohol here to clean the top here where I was touching it with my dirty fingers don't ask me where they've been that is none of you bays wex called about alcohols it evaporates really really fast so there's that one right there now we need to do the vrm block which is a little different because we're not using thermal paste for that we were actually using these thermal pads now you want to pay attention to the manual because you have two different thicknesses here a half millimeter and one millimeter and that depends where they go depends on which one you know where it's going so you need to consume consult the manual and it's going to tell you which one goes where so in this one here looking down number one which is the half millimeter is going to go down there on the MOSFETs and then right here number two which is the one millimeter thick it's going to go right here on the choke okay so this really sucks and I'm gonna go ahead and continue this video anyway because you guys know that I've always continued to keep my screw-ups in these videos because I do it with the hopes that my screw up will help someone else so there are two versions of this block the ek FB kit GA x99 and then the GA x99 SOC champion so this one's slightly different than the SOC Force which means right now this block does not fit up here on where the VRMs are because of the fact that it is narrower the holes don't line up so I'm assuming the only thing that's different in the upgraded kit is this guy right here and that really sucks so anyway to keep the installation you know at least the tutorial going so that you guys could finish with the idea of how this works is you would take your thermal pads basically line them up where they would go and then you would cut them with your scissors into size and then you would apply them to the underside here of the block you know basically where they go the other thing you could do is you could just cut it down to where it fits the under part of the block here without hanging off and then you would apply it and screw it down the same way I did here with the chipset block and then you would end up having you know your water-cooled motherboard where your VRMs and power delivery is water-cooled that's a big deal because especially as you overclock these things go under a lot of stress and then your chipset is nice and cool as well which can also introduce you know some instability with temperatures on your motherboard temps because these parts are just passively cool that's pretty much it for this one uh well that sucks but oh well you know I it happens it's really easy when you're ordering all these parts to miss something minor because they showed a picture of the SOC force which looks very similar except for it has eight DIMM slots instead of four and it's really easy to mess up by not paying attention but it is what it is so anyway guys I hope this videos helped you in some way maybe it made you laugh if it made you laugh they click the but I'm I'm always going to keep my mistakes in these videos because it keeps things as real as possible and that's what I'm all about I'm all about the reals being the real all right guys see in the next one thanks for watching and like I said click like just out of pity all right catch you later