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guys Jase two cents and we're going to be doing this one probably somewhat on the iPhone a little bit sorry for it being kind of cheesy and cheap but it's just easier to handle this way so we are doing our x99 build and once again there are snags things are never ever easy hello I said okay now I just put out an Instagram saying it's alive but it's far from perfect let me go ahead and start elaborating first off this is a pretty standard size cooler in terms of just its overall size via the fan sits right over top of the DIMM which i guess is kind of normal but you wouldn't be able to get that dim out if you're doing with this this cooler you know itself okay fine I get that but here's the other problem do you see how close the 16th the 16x top slot is for the PCI Express to the cooler you can't really see it but down in there come on camera stop it down in there is the release tab for the graphics card no because I bet the graphics card adapter cooler was in I cannot get the graphics card out because the cooler is blocking it now get the fan off I can kind of get my finger down in there to actually release the the card but I couldn't do that if I had ran in here right so everything is just like squished together super tight and there's another problem with this top slot then I'm going to but I'm going to also point out that I'm not happy about so probably the major gripe I have is the lower tabs for the memory you see that do you see how they pop down right most most motherboards now are going with a bottom retention clip that doesn't actually move or only the top does can anybody spot the problem with this does anyone spot the interference with the slot J you're being awfully hard on EVGA this is a $400 motherboard EVGA has been really good to me but it's also very important for me to be as unbiased as possible and give real user experience that's why I started this YouTube channel that's why I do this whole thing it's not to get free stuff and build cool systems and just be like oh if there's a problem to gloss over it and and then have somebody else potentially have a big issue because they bought something based on my experience that I portrayed rather than experience I really had so I'm I can deal with these issues and actually move forward with this build for a couple of reasons one because I'm running water cold graphics cards water-cooled CPU rigid tubing and all that I'm not pulling components in and out of my system all the time as long as I can get it all installed then we're actually good to go but that's not the case for other people other people may want to upgrade the RAM you know more frequently they may want to change out their graphics cards more frequently or or not be stuck to everything is kind of like threaded together in such a way that you can't pull anything out individually because these problems I'm pointing out exists on non water-cooled parts as well I mean the 290x the 780ti a lot of these cards have back plates on them so you're not going to be able to get the memory out when the graphics cards in there it's little things like that that really just have me scratching my head on this and going I'm very disappointed in the design choice there's also one other thing on here that I need to show you so I just got done talking to EVGA Jacob over there and he I mean they're aware of some of these issues like the USB 2.0 goes up where the 3.0 is a 90 that's kind of weird but the problem is if you have anything in this bottom slot right here if I was to say not run anything in the top slot that way I don't have the interference with with these tabs right here then we interfere with the front panel connectors where the graphics card comes right over the top of those and I think if I put a tight Bend on the cables it would actually fit I'm not entirely sure so I'm going to figure out what I need to do on this but I was talking to him and he was saying that you know they tried sourcing these uh single sided latches you know slots with the single sided latches in black and they were having a really hard time so I've actually been sitting here like practicing okay can I get this slot this stick out with only doing one side so yes I can as you can see the question is you know can you get it back in and if you kind of like I know it's really hard to see you guys let's see here if I kind of finagle that in there just right but you kind of sucks on enthusiasts platform you should have to do any of this I can actually get the dim slot back in without having to move that tab so I guess I have a workaround for that at least it's not ideal but it's possible so anyway now we'll go with that I mean I'm kind of calming down a little bit why why am I upset because I want you to J to make such a I want them to come back and be a strong contender in the motherboard you know realm and and strengthen their portfolio with good motherboards and stuff but I just these little things and I understand that this is you know this is early adopter blues and I'm okay with that I really am I just I don't want to have to deal with these little things but we're going to go ahead and go forward with this build because I'm hearing good things about the overclocking on this board where it's actually I guess contending with Asus in terms of stability which I guess we'll find out but I'm gonna go ahead and go forward so yeah EVG I just I want you to do well that's that it's like a parent that's like I only want the best for you guys I want you to do better than I did I care that's what it's all about so I tried Pele enough the aluminum plates that are on there by using you know razor blade and you know to peel it up and two things were happening just watch what's which I was afraid of gosh came to talk one it's a it's stuck down there really good so it starts Bend no no one event and to you know actually I could have probably just pulled them off and said screw it and clean the inside and it would have all been solid black hindsight whatever anyway to it started to scratch the the metal around it so I don't want that to happen so what I did now is as you can see I masked off a pretty massive piece of the motherboard and I traced out very defined where those indentations are for the inner the EVGA II and I actually use this little round thing here to kind of get in there in the corners that way to push down really good now what we do is I'm gonna take a razor blade I might get a brand new razor blade this one's kind of chewed up so it's nice and sharp but I'm going to trace that out and then I'm going to peel up the parts on the top of the II and I'm going to spray it either black or yellow I can't decide am I do yellow but either way this is the technique I'm using to get that heatsink looking right alright so there it is now I just have to decide if I want to do yellow or black and you know I think I think I'm gonna do yellow ah got to hard decision though maybe you know what I'm just gonna do black black it is so I fixed the bottom heatsink now if you saw I had traced it out and I was going to do just black and leave the whole heatsink the way it was but the problem was the black that was on here the powder coating or whatever that was on there was a like a semi-gloss where if you look at the top heatsink this is very dull dusted kind of a satiny black in it I didn't think the top heatsink match the bottom heatsink well enough so I went ahead and just masked off the x99 logo there and decided to do a duster black primer finish to the entire thing so as you can see now it would stop over exposing I think it looks a million times better now my next challenge is these guys because I dumped the the Ripjaws great memory but I don't like these is these logos as labels so as you can see I kind of started to peel one up right there see if it'll focus come on there I started to peel one up just to see if they would come off and they do so we're probably not peeling off these labels on here - just so it's black you know stealthy Ram so I took the neat approach a little bit farther there's the Ripjaws right there and as you can see that just kind of really clashes with the whole color scheme I've got going on in there plus I think they're labeled as gaudy and since these are review samples they don't have any warranty really anyway so I went ahead and just ripped off the labels you can see this is before and you know and after this is going to look obviously I was just this is a gonna look so much better in there so yeah you know me I can't do anything simple and quick I just have to like a DD out and do all of these little things but I did put the the info for the rim you know the sticker for that back on there so anyway that still looks better than the ugly label I love g.skill memory it's great for gamers great for overclocking but dang their label department needs some help right well there it is project skunk works get ready to come apart yep I'm not to redo the tubing right they're different fittings you know for the third graphics card the tube for the CPU should line up CPU socket on both motherboards is in the exact same place so fingers crossed and figured we just do kind of one last little video of her before she comes apart but it she's probably just going to make her way over there the motherboard CPU and RAM cuz z97 it's no slouch but it also doesn't hold a candle to the eight core 16 thread monster in terms of productivity and considering productivity is what I do on my computer yep the z97 is it's already retired perfect for gaming though if your gamer shoot man z97 4790k it's a beast once again my drain system proves to be very very worth having so my hands are a little bit yellow maybe could see that I got some coolant on my hands and I've dyed my fingers yellow I got caught yellow handed maybe you can see that maybe you can't oh so now it's time to remove the tubing and stuff I already unplugged all the cables except for the 24 pin I need more slack on that one slide it out and take that bad boy and we slide it got slide like shy all right we're getting there now we're getting to the point oh well let me back up I did a lot obviously without the camera being on and that's okay I'm kind of getting an idea now where all the wires are going to be because the layouts a little different and checking my tubing now in terms of centering the CPU block and the socket is slightly off so you can see if I make this tube straight up and down it's let's see right about there it's not perfectly lined up on that that fitting so it's going to be off slightly as you can also see the socket is a little bit lower than where it is on z97 so I'm going to have to actually just cut a little bit that length off and then I might have to do like a little dog bend in there where it's just kind of like just slightly jiggered that's pretty easy I'll just put the silicon tube and there heat it up and then it'll move it over slightly and I'll have a slight Bend and they're just tiny tiny little bend not sure where I'm going to do it yet I could do up here in the joint but that also means because the sockets down lower this tube to the radiator doesn't doesn't fit anymore and that sucks because that's the bend I hated the most so I'm going to actually have to read that net but that's okay because look how sick these graphics cards look I have never owned an SLI setup until I did it on camera for you guys a few months back I have never owned anything this freaking fantastic so this is really cool I'm kind of kind of wigging out over my own system here but I'm not going to do a whole lot more tonight I'm tired and I'll I'll keep going on this tomorrow mmm I might actually do the the bending tonight but we'll see it definitely won't be up and running tonight so she's all wired up and I'm really having a hissy fit right now with these extensions I can't wait till the power supply cables are ready to go because they just keep like separating and fanning out because they want to do what they want to do regardless of what I tell them to do new cables that were sent to me don't have the combs on them so I can't control the way these cables actually go as well as I want to I mean okay yeah this isn't bad but I think I'm being a little picky on this one but that's just me I also not a fan of where the USB 3.0 is on this board on the z97 board it was right there going out the side so I could have had to come in from the side that would've been super clean with no wires coming from the bottom but because of the way that 3.0 is it's a 90-degree pointing down I had no choice but to do that funky bend in the cables which puts a lot of stress on that joint hope it doesn't ruin the cables so as when I brought the i/o button wires from the bottom anyway otherwise as you can see there would have been absolutely no wires on the bottom so I don't like that but I don't really have a choice do I I had not tackled the keytar the new tubing yet mostly because I still don't want to do that one but that's all I need to do I just need to get these two tubes figured out and then it's ready to be turned on I've already installed the 1600 watt let's go ahead and take a look at the back I don't put a whole lot of effort into the back of the cases mostly because they don't show and also because I am getting fully sleep set of black and yellow cables black yellow and gray cables for the 1600 and so it's all gonna be coming out again anyway so I can rewire it up nice and clean all in all it's not too bad on the back it could stand to me a little bit cleaner my hard drives SSDs so yeah well just get those look at those two the fit and then we'll be ready to fire her up for the first time all right well there's a little little dogged in there a little dogleg in there I had to do whatever you want to call that I don't know doesn't look too bad I kind of like it I mean it looks like it's like a circuit trace almost but it kind of sucks that that block doesn't perfectly line up cuz from other angles it looks like a weird like kink I guess but I can't do anything about that it's just because the block and the socket do not perfectly line up with where the fitting is but you know what I can live with it I I mean I could end up doing something else too where light comes up and then back in would look weird though I don't know I'll kind of play around with that while I'm doing the top band I'll kind of think about that and see what happens all right all the tubing is done time to fill er up bleed it and then it's time to see with this eight core CPU is all about and see how I did in the silicon lottery so fill it up time and then maybe we'll do something here we'll do some epic b-roll once it's ready to go you guys love that b-roll you you you