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water cooling parts for skunk works were provided by performance pcs for the largest online selection of PC modding and water cooling parts head to performance pcs comm here we go part two now of the skunk works version three updates and answer a couple questions from the comments of the first part now I don't know exactly when this video is going up going on vacation this weekend taking the family all down in San Diego for a few days and I think I already said that last video but I can't remember the case apparently I didn't mention what case it was it is a case labs smh and of course more like why aren't you using the enthalpy move why aren't you using the defined s why aren't you this why aren't you that guys I don't answer why aren't you or why didn't you questions there's just so many limitless permeations of combo of parts that I could have chosen and this is what I'm going with so I don't answer the questions of why I didn't go with this or why I didn't do that like people saying why didn't you put Intel 750s in there well because until then 77 50s as I've said this is a sponsored build and I use the parts that I have I'm not spending money on this build so anyway we're going to do today we're going to start doing some of the simple assembly I'm not sure how far we're going to get it's already the afternoon I had a lot of had some car repairs to get done today so I lost a lot of time but my goal today is to get the upper radiator mounted and fans because that has been mounted in place so I can know where to put the reservoirs get the reservoirs mounted and get the mid plate in there and start figuring out how I want to do the loop that way I can figure out where I have to drill so because I have the mid plate ready you know to be able to put in and out pretty quickly I can pull it out and then do drilling where I needed to be done and then put it back in so looking forward to that where the first time I had to do all the drilling with it assembled but anyway let's go ahead and get some of this stuff mounted up and would like to get the blocks on the Titans and so it'll start looking like a computer again here shortly hopefully anyway that's the plan well it wouldn't be a J's build if there wasn't some sort of snag and here snag number one so I put in the new mid plate there's only a couple screws holding it in place you can see how we have a cutout here and this is designed for if you're gonna have like a 480 rad in the front you need to have you know enough room for it to pass through well this is the one that came out of the old mid plate and the case that didn't give me a new one I don't think they realize that I had to drill into this so I went ahead and wrote them an email to see if they could send me another one but that's going to be that's gonna hold me back a little bit uh shouldn't matter too much though I can still do what I need to do because I don't think I was going to be drilling into that unless I can find some way to incorporate that hole into the bill but I'm not sure so yeah like I said this wouldn't be a JS build if it didn't have some sort of snags along the way that's what keeps it fun and exciting though well I guess I don't have to figure out what to do with that hole because 13 minutes after writing an email to K slabs they've already shipped me out that replacement panels so yeah it's just this little piece of aluminum but alright so we're gonna go ahead get the radiator mounted up and we're gonna start placing things because that's not going to stop me that's not how we do this this is the radiator going on the top it is a black ice nemesis GTS this one's a 480 you can see they are fairly decent fin density they're double finned so it means for each row there's two sets of fins given tons and tons of surface area what I want to point out about this radiator those this was actually custom made for me by request because normally this radiator comes in the wrinkled coat only so I asked black ice or hardware labs if they would be willing to make me one that was with the same matte texture that comes on their higher-end radiators and they said absolutely so this is what we've got here these are actually some custom radiators for a custom system they're they're pretty nice-looking radiators man they these things are slick looking I like the bevel on the side it gives us some some really nice shape yeah tell me what you guys think of this thing this is pretty badass so of course we got a 480 a 560 and a 280 it's a lot of radiators look there's a new pump and Reza's put into place so I can start getting some of the tubing routed I've got to re sleep those in the bottom the wires as you can see they're coming apart so drill some holes so the wires can go straight back and it will look good there's a radiator in place the front fans look I've always loved the way the yellow looks shining through the front of the case I mean I think it just looks badass the yellow in the gunmetal I thought about changing the colors but it just they just had to stay but now we're moving on to the part that everyone's been waiting for and that's me water cooling the Titans so here's the first one we already took it apart and as you can see it's got a ton of memory chips on there on the front on the back so yeah we're going to water cool these three get those bolted up into place over there that way we can start figuring out how we're going to run this loop and I'm not sure I'm gonna get much farther than that today what do we get to work on this again well I get to work on it some tomorrow and then not at all again until like Monday ah the anticipation is killing baby alright so this is where we are right now we've got three Titans in there we've got the pumps and reservoirs in there in the upper rad I cannot for the life of me figure out how I want to do this loop I'll figure it out I tend to go through this every single time but we had another setback in that one of the valves I bought broke so the handles on the valves from bits power are plastic and they're very very stiff to turn when you first get them even if you wet them and turning the handle on one of them simply trying to move it from the position at which it was shipped in broke the handle right off and here it is right here as you can see the plastic like it's just a plastic piece on there that's supposed to turn the metal shaft in there and it's got like a nylon washer and it's very stiff so if you guys have ever turned any bits powered rotary fittings you know how stiff they are and well so that's busted now I got to get a new one of those but yep not a whole lot to report on today other than we got the graphics cards ready to go and I just can't figure out how I want to do the loop the way had it before was the outer reservoir did the graphics cards and had all the tubing under there I want to use less soft tubing and I don't want to put a whole lot in the basement so now I'm trying to figure out how to get you know all the tubing where it needs to go because as you can see even though there's a lot of room in this case there's me a lot of crossover and I don't want a lot of crossover so so there we go guys that's it for today is kind of a short one spent a lot more time just staring at this thing trying to figure out how I want to do it then actually getting any work done I mean all the blocks are installed that's important probably not to rotate the CPU block so I can get the inlet and outlet on the proper sides and now it's just a lot of brainstorming a lot of tedious stuff like Reese leaving the pumps and then doing the bending and all that stuff so anyway I don't get to work on this thing until next Monday right now it's Wednesday and I don't get to work on this thing till next Monday because after tech talk tomorrow the family and I we are hitting the road and going down to San Diego until Sunday so I won't get to actually work on this until Monday which is good though because I already wrote an email asking for a replacement valve for the one that broke and possibly some other fittings and I'm going to need so yeah we may be that stuff can be here in time by the time I'm back and ready to work on it I'm probably not going to do a lot of updates going forward on this because believe it or not stopping to do the camera and all that stuff really does slow me down so I think at the end I'm just going to do a complete system review and show you take you guys on a tour through it do some nice camera work and all of that of course guys you can't forget to thank the sponsors for this build if you guys are enjoying seeing this system come together of course in video for the three tight nexus dot EVGA Nvidia sent those cards over some of the stuff I already had like the ek waterblock on there was sent the supremacy block was sent by ek hardware labs sent the radiators but all the rest of this stuff that you see going in here in terms of water cooling was all sent by performance pcs so if you guys are shopping for water cooling stuff make sure you hit over to performance - PCs and just check them out especially since frozen CPU is still not up and running really performance pcs is kind of like your option 4 you know the best selection so and then of course the ek water blocks did send me the blocks for the Titan Nexus so thanks for that guys and what it's all done we'll give this system a complete a worthy b-roll and dramatic effect and all that stuff is not like doing the cinematography type stuff when I can even though I kind of suck at it it's still fun anyway guys as always thanks for watching