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hey guys what's up J here with Jays two cents bring apart five a project red mist I'm getting a little bit sick of it too to be honest with you guys it's late it's after midnight it's summer around 12:30 I've been working on this thing since the moment I stopped tech talk tonight and we signed off and I am just really friggin exhausted so bear with me on this one okay so the jokes aren't going to necessarily be flying out because even though it looks like I got a lot done believe it or not a lot of this is gonna have to come back out because unfortunately I've got some bad news we'll get to that in a minute as you can see here I've got both the loops together we've got the white loop we've got the red loop and it turned out really really good I'm very happy with the way that it looks got the white LED strip here I've got the backlighting going on the reservoir it's kind of hard to pick up on the camera but trust me it's there we've got the red and the white going on I've got all the lower plumbing going on I've got the drain ports I've got some of the wiring in in fact there's not going to be that much more wiring going on inside here so it's going to be really easy to see just how clean and tidy this is going to be in fact this build is starting to look like something that belongs in a trade show on display rather than something that should be played with every single day so and I'm gonna miss this thing I've spent a lot of hours if I had to estimate the amount of hours I spent today on it and the amount of hours I've already spent I'm about 65 hours invested into this build so far which means that my hourly rate at what I basically been paid means I've been working for about 50 cents an hour not steady anyway it's totally worth it because I get to do custom build like this for you guys so the bad news what happened there's two pumps and two loops going on here unfortunately one of the pumps is bad I'm going to give you a little education here in part 5 on what's going on with the pumps and what this means the way that these pumps work is they're centrifugal floating bearing pumps so what that means is you have an impeller that's being turned by an electric motor that pulls water into the middle of it spins it and centrifugal force pushes it out now it's a floating bearing because the only lubrication these pumps get is from the water surrounding the bearing allowing it to stay centered inside of the shaft rather than I said shaft yeah I did it stays floating in the middle without touching any of the sidewalls that's why it is extremely bad to run your pumps dry you should never run your pump dry even for a few seconds because that can cause immediate life-shortening and damage to your pump now one of the pumps the one on the red loop is fine where it works perfectly from the moment I turned it on unfortunately the loop pump for the white loop is making it that very bad sound that you can hear now what it sounds like to me is that the impeller itself might be slightly out of balance it sounds like it's kind of flopping around in there and and it's hitting on the sidewall just slightly what can happen sometimes is air can get in there in that Anette fluid bearing if you will where the the air can actually cause turbulence in there will make it move around now before coming to the determination that it was bad I played with the speed on it I die let the pump run for a while I let it bleed turned it off turned it on speed it up slow it down and no matter what the sound is there so that tells me the actual sleeve or the bearing itself or the shaft I said shaft again is out of balance so I get to start the RMA process which means I get to chest test out my drain plug drain the white loop get the plug or the pump swapped out and start all over on that one it's not a big deal at least nothing has to come apart on this actually it's all going to be done in the bottom so thank God for the for the drain port you guys ask me all the time when it comes to water cooling like hey how do you get the fluid out well you've got to think ahead and put a drain core or train plug or ste fitting with a plug and a cap on the bottom something to get the fluid out of there so glad I thought ahead and did that on this one now as you can see here we've got some of the lighting going on now one thing that I want to go ahead and address here is about the way that the graphics cards are set up in the loop here because I already know that there's gonna be people thinking that I did this and I'm going to be having temperature issues and trying to convince me that I made a fatal mistake here and I'm here to tell you you guys are making a fatal mistake by thinking I don't know what I'm doing now without sounding cynical or egotistical guys this has nothing to do with the fact that I've been water cooling for ten years it has everything to do with the way that fluid dynamics work and here's how this works the fluid is initially going to flow through the first card entirely it's going to bypass the first card entirely flow through the second card up through the top and then back down through the first card it will bypass that first card until that loop is complete at which point that becomes pressurized where the fluid will then separate off into the first card completing that loop and meet up with the fluid coming out of the second card thereby completely dividing the flow fifty-fifty evenly where both cards are getting the exact same amount of flow the amount of time it takes for them to bypass the first card fill up the second and then meet again in the first is only a couple of seconds and that's done during the initial filling process at which point when all of the system is bled they are getting an exact equal flow of water between the two of them and if I had wanted it this was one loop I could have gone all the way through the left side through the first card into the second card out of that top port into the CPU and have the suite CPU come back and come through that side so they just look like two tubes coming all the way through graphics card graphics card CPU the exact same concept applies so just putting that out there guys you guys want to try and tell me that I made a mistake here just wait don't waste your time please this is fluid dynamics has nothing to do with my opinion it is the way physics work and there is absolutely no conversation we had here this just looks a hell of a lot cleaner so the bending on this I you can see I got all the bending done quite honestly the most difficult Bend I had in this entire thing and you might think it was this lower tube or maybe the tube coming out of the Southbridge into the return of the white loop no it was actually the tube going from the upper radiator down into the motherboard block that was the hardest one because it's just slightly out of alignment it's perpendicular so you've got coming down and in so in its off-center so that was actually a little bit hard I took me five tries to get that Bend finally nailed it and I think it looks pretty good considering so there it is guys I actually had a lot more LEDs I could put in here I don't think I'm going to because I think at that point it'll be too damn bright so I had hoped that part six was going to be the build is done and we've got some benchmark numbers and stuff unfortunately now maybe I'll just document the replacement of the pump and see where we go from there so guys this has been part five I think I don't know it's late and I lost track so my eyes are bloodshot whatever is what it is I'm going to edit this together real quick I'm going to get to bed I'm going to spend a Friday which is like technically today hanging out with the family and maybe I'll get some more done on this unfortunately most of it now has to wait for the replacement of the EK pump and i just want to address that real quick guys this is nothing this is not a bad thing for EK i mean sure it sucks to get a bad part but you guys ask me all the time you know have you ever gotten anything that's bad in the mail very very rarely and this happens this is not i'm not mad at EK I'm not at frozen CPU this just happens every now and then you get something in the mail that is just broken by the time you get to it or defective in some way don't stress and don't sweat it yeah it screws up your timeline a little bit but just go through the RMA process communicate with them without like trying to be mean and be like your products suck I can't play my games now because I have to wait that doesn't get anything done so just be adult keep your head cool go through the process you'll get your stuff replaced and you know ek unfortunately this one was bad but I know that they'll make it right so I may get on out of here guys as always I hope to talk to you guys on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram pictures of this build as it's happening or going up on Instagram and I'm really tired and I remember what I was going to say so see ya