Gadgetory

whether guys Jase two cents here and it's time to start the official skunk works building blog you know how you know it's time my hair is jacked up and I haven't shaved and I just realized that every single vlog I've ever done for skunk works in the history has included messed up hair and terrible unshaven face maybe that's just because I get so stressed out when I'm get ready to do this I just stopped shaving whatevs with its specifically tuned copper base and maintenance-free plug-and-play operations the EVGA 980ti hybrid offers ultra-fast gaming performance at the lowest temperatures possible click the link in the description for more details so even though gigabyte says they pre tested this I had to pre test it myself and this is going to freak some people out I actually have my 5820k in here technically I'll go into that for a second but there's no fluid in there you can see that tubes are open and this freaks people out cuz look what I'm about to do I'm about to be like BAM no coolant and I'm turning on this thing we're doing a we're doing a boot test obviously to make sure things are going to work we want to make sure we get some sort of a video signal here x99 takes extraordinarily long to turn on see what happens - oh we got a blue light we got a blue light and a little cursor thingy should go to BIOS BAM yeah no coolant no nothing in there and it works just fine you can do it for a few you could do that for like a few seconds like I just did to make sure things work what's funny is I did this already before the video I touched the back of the socket thinking maybe it was gonna be really hot because you know if you did this on like a 4790k or 4770k what a thermal shutdown in the time that that took but no it's all still cold so amazing that that block with the epoxy that's used on the enthusiast chipset like the 5820k that's in there right now actually has enough heat transfer to there you could turn on the system but here's the other thing that I find amazing is I thought that chip was bad I thought that chip was bad because it wouldn't boot my MSI motherboard but turned out the MSI motherboard was bad and it wouldn't boot with any of the other it but it would only boot with one Ram stick in the MSI board and I thought maybe the memory controller inside the CPU went bags I put two three or four in there it wouldn't boot only if I had one but we just booted right now with 32 gigs of ram and all four channels occupied so that means I have another working x99 CPU yes who knows what I'm gonna do with that but obviously I'm not going to leave the 5820k in there that was just for the test boot everything is still assembled in here so we're gonna do today we're gonna get this guy taken apart we're gonna drained we are gonna take the blocks out of there I'm going to open up one of them and inspect and see if it was getting plugged which I think might have been happening because my GPU temps were getting hotter and hotter and hotter as the fluid was turning more into like a like a REIT a ol color of beer but anyway that's what were going to do so I've got to take this thing back apart now get the block off of here because with these rigid tubes actually little bit of work involved to get the block off and then get my 59 60 X in there in any way it works yes it's another rainy day here in Southern California we've already had more rain in the last month and we've had in like the last year that's because of that there and El Nino you can see news even is mo so sad and wet in the rain hmm smear possible drive this car in the rain maybe we'll be like yeah it's fun to drive into me you know sideways and stuff yeah that's true but I also don't want to end up as one of those idiots on YouTube who curbs their car because I haven't necessarily become the best drifter in the world but yeah this is kind of neat this is called water you can think that they're El Nina for the weather and I think that's why it's also been so hot down in Australia because as the weather heats up in the Pacific Ocean the water heats up it gets hotter down south so sorry to all yo Down Under and that's what she looks like without the lights on in there that's just how nasty this is and you know a lot of people sent me pictures and links on forums showing me how so many people have had this happen to their pastel loops and you can see how much of its like fallen out so you can like see through that you're not supposed to be able to see through that but even the top even the main loop change a little bit of color to it just has to do with the reaction of some of the metals and if you guys remember when I did this build it was the same color as the fan rings I just has to do with reaction to the metals and temperatures and stuff and I'm not sold on the pastel anymore I won't use it I will recommend it and I think just regular regular water based and pre-mixed coolants or all you need enough of this pastel enough of this nano fluid stuff anyway when it comes to draining the loop all I do is take off the top well I first I screw in this tube here into my valve and you can see right now I've already drained it I kind of forgot to hit record oops anyway look how nasty that is but then I have this just going into a bowl there take off one of the top ports because member you have to let air in for the fluid to get out you have to refill this volume with something you can't create a vacuum in there and then you turn the valve this is closed this is open and then literally everything from the loop just runs out into here look at this look how gross this is this is how it more looks to my eye right there this very shitty brown color that and this was the loop that looked better wait till you see what this is going to look like when it comes out this is why I'm done with this Nano fluid I'm done with you so done with you I've read some comments too about people saying wow your systems dustier than I thought it would be this is the exhaust fans for the 280 that's on the back side of skunkworks if you couldn't tell guys I live in the desert okay there's there's no there's no dust filters on case labs cases I've never read fitted any to them and this is this is just what you deal with and I don't sit here and clean my system constantly I keep the front as clean as I can but even intake fans on the front are pretty dirty and every time I take the system apart I take the opportunity to try and clean up you know some of that does but this is what you deal with the PCs and if anyone's going to say their system isn't dusty either then you're just a liar there's a flat-out liar okay so this is another reason why I'm done with the pastels and why I think my blocks are clogging for the CPU do you see that that crud every time I've ever used pastel and drain the loop and drain the system I've seen this stuff build up on the o-rings and inside the fittings so if it's building up in these free flow areas what on earth is it doing inside the nice tight blocks in there where you have small micro channels to go through when the system is done and put back together I'll I'll tear these at least one of them apart and take a look Walter them all apart me to clean them but yeah that's why I got new blocks because this is what you get so if you're using pastel I don't want to scare you but this is probably happening inside your loop okay so this is where we're at some more the fluid that was hiding me on the radiators and stuff you never get it all out random stuff so the system is completely torn down got to clean the radiators of course got to paint the fan rings I need to flush these radiators I don't want any of this or this Nano stuff but clean up the pump tops because it's got all that crud in there from the Nano fluids which is absolutely terrible it's just getting worse and worse and this has only been in here since mam when did I eight when did I drain and fill my loop last there's just this summer only a few months and this is what it looks like absolutely terrible I've also got to clean out the reservoirs you know because they've got a lot of this crap stuck to it down in there you can kind of see it's just it's just a nasty situation all around so that's what's next that's what we do next we clean we clean clean clean clean so I don't want to put new fluid in there and get it contaminated with this crud such crap I already started cleaning out some of that I mean you can see just the amount of crud that is been building up on the o-rings and stuff it will focus it's just not good whatever it's not focusing I don't care I shouldn't have to do too many more bends when we get the motherboard in her soon transfer over the CPU and get the block back on and this isn't this isn't a lot of work I guess it kind of looks like a lot of work but it's really not it only took me about 45 minutes to tear this down in about another hour and a half to five with people on Twitter but anyway I will I keep going now so far we can get today it is two days before Christmas so sleeping it can get done all right so I cleaned out the reservoir as I clean the radiators they're actually in my dish rack in the sink drying I stopped the dust-up down there but you see the system is pretty much nearly completely gutted I just didn't take out the pumps because they're wired in through the back wall and I can actually get those out yeah forethought right anyway I might have put some sort of a junction block or a molex or something back there to actually be able to unplug them hindsight anyway then I saw this powdery substance on the table and I thought well geez haven't done cocaine in a while that's a joke guys it's joke and I'm going what is this powdery stuff it turns out that that white gunk I was showing you that bill that was building up on here when it dries it actually turns very very thick and powder your watch I show you the spike and actually get the camera to focus here I can like see that so these are presumably the nanoparticles I think just yeah I mean it looks nice but it's just not worth the hassle as far as I'm concerned other thing I want to keep in mind too is you definitely are not going to want to reuse any of the old tubing this is the soft tubing a head down the bottom I'm going to be putting new tygon tubing down in there the reason why I don't do hard tubing down here is I have a radiator on this side and a radiator on this side and there's no way for me to get my hand in there and connect the two together um not to mention have a you know have a pipe that goes from there to down into the radiator I mean I could try it but it just would be a much bigger hassle than it's worth and I've run the soft tubing in the past with acrylic or a ptg and not had any problems so I I don't know but anyway I'm also changing out this plate on the front here for a vented one because this gets really really hot down here when I'm gaming because of the three type Nexus so I'll be putting a vent in there to help with airflow by about putting an intake fan on here to to get more cool air in here so that the 280 isn't just sucking in hot air from the 560 even though it is hot air it's still going to be providing a cooling benefit but when the radiator is right here there's no more room for a fan mount so that's kind of sucky so this is the front vent a special front vent here that case lab is made for me but unfortunately it doesn't look like I'm going to be able to use it the reason for that is this little 5a quarter-sized one is being blocked by the mid plate and I'm not taking that mid played out in order to just get this front thing on I kind of want it on there for that extra ventilation but at the same time I don't want to disassemble this whole case and try and finagle this thing out I've done it before it's not that hard I just don't want to really don't want to go through all that anyway I guess I'll go ahead and skip that piece for now it's unfortunate I thought I could get this out when I'm gonna take the mid plate out but that's not that's not possible at all damn it well I might not look any different but I just swapped out the 59 60 X in there to the 80 58 20 out of there and now we're all ready to go yes that sucks with it rainy as I painted the fan rings but obviously it's gonna take forever to dry so here's my three Titan exits right there time to take those blocks off put the nickel-plated plexi fronts on there as well as the nickel-plated crystal link fittings on there so everything is nice and blingy I went with the nickel plating like this because I think I've always liked the way orange and nickel plating looks I think it's going to look real good with the nice reflection on there it's going to help light bounce around a bit and since we were forced to go with the nickel plexi blocks for the champion board because it's the only color they make right now I think it's a pretty good accent some folks didn't like it I do that's most important and I think it looks great on there so the fan rings like I said they're drying might actually warm up the oven to about a hundred and maybe a hundred fifty degrees stick them in there them kind of cure a little bit you can do that actually to keep the temperature low enough so they don't melt but yeah what it's time to do now is get those blocks on there and then we can get the graphics cards mounted up here and that's a nice thing about the case labs case is you know with the removable tray and you can work on it outside of the case while the case is somewhere else in the room taking up all the space all right so those are three graphics cards sitting in there get all the blocks swapped out I still think it would have been really neat if I went with nickel plated back plates I don't know I mean it would have created more light reflection in there would have also added to the orange you could have probably seen the actual fluid back reflecting off the back plate from the block above because remember you're not going to really see it from this angle you're going to see it more from that angle I don't think it looks too bad though not a whole lot left to do really it's time to get the fittings put in here the bits power multi links in between here with the chrome fittings change out all the chrome fittings on the radiators and stuff and start put it all back together and put the the wiring in don't think I'm gonna get it done tonight we're heading to Disneyland tomorrow with the family my sister and her family is back in town so I'm taking everyone to Disneyland and I don't think this is going to get done until after Christmas oh well I will see how much father I get tonight but right now it's time to take a break and get some food so here's what the radiators look like this was the dirty side of all the radiators and as you can see they come clean pretty nicely I literally just run them under the sink with like a pressure nozzle and I just let them dry or I'll set them on top of a fan let air blow through them to dry them off still a little bit of water in them I'm not gonna be powering up the system tonight so I want to worried about it but yeah radiators are all nice and clean here are the fans over here fans are all nice and clean same thing I just used this spray bottle I literally will spritz the fan and then use a microfiber to wipe them all down so all of the dust and stuff is gone it's like spring cleaning at the same time alright this is where I'm stopping I got quite a bit done today but not as far as I wanted to I just put the 24 pin in there so that whoa okay wobbly there just so that way I can kind of see how the color looks I heard some folks complain like oh those cones look bad blah blah blah remember guys combs are just about training the cables not necessarily leaving them in place full time eventually I'll be able to move those comes and then the cables won't show or the cones won't show at all but the cable will be nice and trained those cables were courtesy of blue TRO customs thank you for that you see I painted the fan rings are far from perfect though there's some chips on some of them I've got a touch-up that's due to the rain really messing up my painting schedule today got all the chrome fittings on there as you can see a comp chrome they're actually nickel plated I got the nickel plated fittings on there that tube and the GPU tubes are unchanged but I do have to do a new tube that goes from CPU pump output into that guy right there that's the inlet for the chipset block then it goes to the CPU then it goes out of the CPU into the vrm then out of there into that fitting inside the radiator so I just do those two bends and then we'll be good some folks have asked me about the input or the inlet going into the chipset then the CPU and then the BRM and why the CPU isn't first because for the thousandth time it doesn't matter what order you put it in the loop is going to pretty much stabilize the temperature all the way across you're going to have very little temperature difference between the inlet of the radiator and the outlet of the radiator the radiator is going to keep the temperature as a whole fairly stabilized this isn't like a car where you have very hot temperature going into the radiator and much much cooler temperature coming out of it and also being regulated by a thermostat this is this is not a car it's not the same physics because we're not dealing with those extreme temperatures so that's not going to matter it's the same reason why I have no problems running parallel for my three graphics card so it's never been a problem but you can see it's not as much orange as some people were afraid there was going to be you see the orange in the front right there and then these are the radiators or there's the 280 and the 560 I think just enough and once I get the hue lighting in there I'll be able to adjust the white balance inside there if I want to do white light but not that hyper white like you get with the white LEDs I can actually make it more of a warm light and make the color much more warm inside the case which I think will make everything look a lot better with the orange and then of course we're going to have the orange fluid up in there which is going to round it all out so I think it's gonna look really good but I'm not gonna get to finish it until like Friday or Saturday probably not Friday since it's Christmas I'm probably good to touch it again until Saturday which kind of stinks that's it for today I'm exhausted I've spent about 11 and a half hours on this today it may not look like it but there's lots of cleaning I'm very anal about little things you guys know that I'm very anal with my systems but I want everything to be right because I don't want to keep taking this thing apart I would rather be playing games and let's face it making youtube videos on it then just constantly taking it apart and fighting the color-changing fluids and if the check if the fluid changes color again on me with this X X 1 or X T 1 fluid uh then I'm just I'm just going to be it I'm just gonna be pissed I'm probably gonna change the whole damn thing out or take out some graphics cards or something I don't know anyway guys thanks for watching this vlog it's I know there's been a lot of these you guys seem to love these it does make things take a lot longer we're not to keep stopping and pausing and doing video and talking about things but it's fun too it gives me some easy content to create while I'm doing other things anyway guys thanks for watching have a Merry Christmas you guys celebrate Christmas and if not then have a Merry whatever it is you celebrate and as always I will see you guys in the next video