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okay so day four well I think day four there's been three videos put up so I'm going to assume we're on four things are starting off a little bit weird there was a fly buzzing around in here and I'm swat net and I'm practically knocking everything off the shelves and I'm trying to get it and like a screw it I'll start the video and I start to record and then in the computer over there I hear near the flight flew into the CPU fan so I guess that just kind of sort of worked itself out all right guys day four project redness today I'm going to try and get the acrylic tubing done and I'm going to try get the pumps installed down the bottom and get that all plumbed up and ready to go it's not a whole lot left to do the last thing I may be pulling out of the 900 E is my power supply and getting that in here but that will be on the very last day because of the fact that that system is still running in fact that is how I've been doing the builds for you guys or the videos for you guys on this so one other thing to note my GTO mega racing chair came as you can see right there we doing a review on this bad boy it's pretty much a racing seat turned into a chair so that's kind of cool but anyway I'm gonna go get on my hard line tubing stuff and then we're gonna where to start getting that ready to go and I'll show you guys how the tubing is gonna look affect I think you're really gonna like it so I'm listening to some Last Comic Standing while I'm doing this and Roseanne Barr is a judge uh I thought this was Comic Standing anyway so here's my piece of acrylic tubing right here and I've already cut it I wanted to go over the tools real quick and these actually belong to the owner of red mist he's letting me use these for my build and I'm going to give him back his tools but it's a monsoon kit this is just a standard hacksaw comes with a couple blades it's got the little thing here that you stick the acrylic tubing in there you can use that to make solid cuts across like that and this is a reamer I guess you could say it's sort of like a deburr it does outside and inside so you put it on the outside like that to do the outside put that on the inside to deburr the inside this is a piece of silicone tube that goes inside for when you do your bends you have to put something in there when you bend it otherwise it will crush and then that's like oh yeah there's a heat gun you need to heat all this but that's in the other room so these are the tools you use when you're working with acrylic and here's the heat gun just a basic Wagner heat gun so this Bend that I'm doing right now is we pretty simple it's gonna be going from the CPU down to this fitting right here it's just a simple 90 degree Bend the one that's gonna actually be hard is a to get perfect it's going to be that one to the radiator so that'll be kind of rough but we'll get it we'll get this done I think that's we're going to do tonight all right so we got the CPU return line done there it is right there running parallel with the GPU loops and this is all that's going to be visible right there for the CPU line except for what goes up there stuff to make these two tubes started test-fitting the reservoir tubes so as you can see the reservoirs are going to only have these two tubes and that's it that's all you're going to see in there we already loop it's gonna be very open very minimalist hope it's going to look good once we have fluid in it all right so there's what it looks like with the reservoir installed and both of the acrylic tubes and the revolver fittings I just need to get the other two in before I can do the other one but the tubes are already cut they are right here ready to go some of the fittings there now I just got to do the two here for the graphics cards and then well so to bend that you guys can probably tell by now I've been holding off on bending that one I'm not looking forward to bending that but whatever let's just keep going all right we got the bend finally out of the way the one I was dreading the most and I was dreading it for good reason because these that you see down here were failed attempts at making that Bend it's not easy to make it really tight 90-degree angles so close together remember not only that's come out of here but it has to perfectly line up both distance and depth with that fitting and and that fitting so it's not easy but the work was definitely well worth that I actually spent probably an hour and a half getting that been taken care of so there we go I it's really starting to look nice and clean normally I like a lot of tubing to show in my builds but as you can see I am going the minimalist route on this one all right there we go all the hard line tubing is done and now you can see the way that this was routed how there's no tubes going sideways well except for that little bit right there it's all up and down so I think this looks really good you can see the fittings through there I'm very happy with the way this turned out this is my first time kind of going with a minimal tubing so as you can see I'm still waiting on those two fittings so I am done for the night we'll go and pick this video up tomorrow with getting the pumps and stuff down the bottom and I hope you guys are enjoying I'm gonna go to bed but you guys will see the next part here in just a couple of seconds through the magic of editing all right it's the next day I don't even know how many days I've been doing this thing now I'm kind of sick of this build I'm kind of sick of vlogging it I just want to be done so today I'm finally gonna try to get the lower pumps installed I wouldn't picked up a couple of three gallons of distilled water that way I can flush out the rate of the new radiator and I can leak tests and all that stuff and you got I got to thinking about how fortunate I am that I can just go to the store and pick up distilled water because I know a lot of you guys where you live you can't do that you have to actually get distilled water shipped into you which I guess is just mind-boggling to me I don't understand that just goes to show how different things are all around the world so I definitely know how good I've got it here so yeah I don't even know what I'm gonna do next and I'm still waiting on those stupid fittings and that's just really holding me up I'm not going to take the power supply out of there until I'm ready at the very last minute that you can see that computer still on have been rendering videos on that setup while it's in its temporary format oh yeah let's go ahead and get the lower pumps installed get the soft tubing done down there because I can finish all that without those fittings and that's nothing hold me up there and I think I can get at least one of the loops filled and bled tonight so that's our goal you get one loop fat filled and bled and ready to go okay so the next I'm gonna do is I'm going to get my pumps ready to go here for the drain system these are just some fittings I'm using for that Junction block here Aquitania it's an alpha cool we're bauble fittings and then these are pretty much just fill ports and I'm going to be using as drain ports they're getting drilled in anything they're pretty much just going to rest at the bottom of the case with the slack of tubing on there coming off of these tee blocks that way I can just route them outside the case and drain when I need to drain so nothing entirely too extravagant but these are the fittings of them be using for that and you'll see the way this is all going to work once they're all together alright so the CPU loop is done as you can see here like I said it feeds down into the pump this goes out from that Junction block that I showed you earlier all the way up to the top and then I still have to do the actual fitting on here that goes to the bleed but that's how it's going to bleed right there and then there is all of the other tubing so now I have to do the GPU loop and then we'll be all plumbed up and ready to go all right there we go guys it is 100% plumbed up we've got two pumps here obviously this is the pump for the graphics card and this is the pump for the CPU and there's quite a bit going on down here I mean this is a bit of an extreme oh I wouldn't say extreme but this is a bit of an advanced cooling loop down here I've got so much going on this is probably quite confusing if you guys figure it out but just know that it all works now you guys are always asking me about J how do you drain your loops well I've got as I mentioned earlier this tee block right there which you can see both of these pumps have coming off of the outlet this adds a little bit of restriction because it's got to make a sharp 90 but these pumps are very very powerful these D playing d5 pumps are absolutely behemoths when it comes to power fact I keep them pretty much set to speed too at all times so when it comes to draining I've got coming off of the T block these two tubes right here that I can pretty much just yank out of the case and then these are just pretty much fill ports that I'm going to use as you know you just unthread that and it all come right out so we've got independent ones for each each loop there and I just keep these out of the way guy up there and actually like this that guy nope okay member how I did my own loop you areö that guy goes up there man damn it there we go so I've got this one that just kind of back there and then this one is just resting right there so those are out of the way and not bothering anybody when they're not being used so there's the lower loop loops I should say yeah not too complicated it's just it's got a lot going on down there now we just take a look at the mess here to get all this done I mean I've got a box of fittings right here that I already have some of these guys I've got an empty box of fittings they're falling out everywhere I've got more fittings on the floor down there ever being used I've got you know leftover tubing and stuff down there so yeah I mean the amount of fittings are in this thing are pretty insane I've got 22 of the rigid compression fittings for the acrylic loop I've got probably another 20 or 25 thinnings total between the soft tubing compressions and the elbows and the blogs and the yes I've got at least 45 fittings in this thing and we're talking several hundred dollars with the fittings that's actually kind of depressing alright so a lot of you guys have asked what coolant I'm going to be going with and I am using the mayhem it's pastel sunset yellow concentrate right here I have two bottles it for two litres I actually have a third bottle on the way two liters actually is not enough I brain farted when I ordered these so when I ordered the fittings that I'm was short I also ordered another bottle this so I have total of 3 litres it just mixes two distilled water here which I mentioned earlier you know I can just go to the store and pick up distilled water because I'm really fortunate so I'm gonna go ahead and mix this up and then we are going to go ahead and fill the GPU loop tonight that way I feel like I actually got some but none okay so I've got this ready to go I've got my distilled water here with exactly one and a half litres of water give the rest to my dog because this actually is better than drinking water I have three gallons of this I've got more than enough now why a litre and a half well that's because this is 250 milliliters that concentrates out to one liter so 750 milliliters or three-quarters of a liter times two one and a half litres so two bottles of this makes up the one half of a liter so they're going to pour this in and you guys will see the color that we're going with on this make sure you shake this up really really good too so yeah you got to shake it alright there it is just to put it into perspective this is the new fluid the nice pest Mayhem's pastel and this is my old fluid here this is some of the dragon ice that was mixed with orange and yellow and yeah I did a really bad mixed job on this believe it or not so that's the old fluid we're getting rid of that bad boy as you can see the new color actually goes really really good with this build I think this is gonna look hot or like really bright orange juice button take too long the GPU loop is filled it's now bleeding you can see right there there's still a little air and that tube see right there it takes a while for all this to bleed so I'm going to leave this running for a while starting stopping it a little bit and the way I'm powering the pump is I've just got my jumper right there which you can hopefully see there it's just a CPU jumper on my test rig and I've got my molex power running to that one over to the pump down there so now you can kind of see which one was the GPU loop and which one was a CPU loop so you can get get an idea of how it's retro dude there for the GPU and obviously all the other stuff is going to be the CPU so these fittings might arrive tomorrow I hope they do if they do then we're going to be done pretty soon but that's pretty much all we wrote for tonight guys I am going to go ahead and hit the hay yeah I'm getting kind of tired these types of bills take a lot out of you I have a bad sciatic nerve in my back so these bit these builds take a lot out of me that's why I've got a lot less energy now the one I'm started so I'm gonna go ahead and go and take a break kind of chill a little bit let my back rest and we will see you guys tomorrow hopefully hey guys blog time yep we're gonna be working on the computer tonight this is like vlog ception we're actually preparing for Tech Talk being hosted on Jerry's Channel and for that I can't actually hear you because I'm wearing headphones see I'm wearing headphones so anyway yeah we're setting up for that look what arrived today oh I don't want my pad my address look whatever look what I did is my address yeah like the package we needed to finish up that guy came today so after I'm done dealing with that guy in tech dog like that that is like a weird it's like a weird vlog ception thing going on does the webcam showing me holding the camera showing the webcam showing me hold the camera yeah so Jerry says I came with your vlogging with a giant SLR you should see where I'm doing it like this I'm like hi huh yeah anyway I can't wait to finish this bill tonight and since I'm off tomorrow because I get to go talk to some high school and college kids at the University I get to stay up all night playing with the new computer so since you made it into a build blog you guys will go ahead and wait by the you guys are on TV I think so yeah uh this is kind of weird now because I'm actually recording this which is going to be ending up in part 4 I think run part 4 whatever on that guy yeah oh yeah what's funny is this all gonna be a minute later so let's see what were the most recent comments here why is there pop-ups in my screen less porn less porn that's my advice there we go guys cuz you got the baggage from frozen CTU after the post office lost it for a little while so another bottle of the coolant which I said I wanted so now I've got three and these two little guys you believe these two little guys are what we were waiting on to finish this piece of crap alright let's go and talk about this sli bridge for a minute I put this rigid one on there because and even though it's a triple slot it still works for SLI because it's rigid it gives it more stability and structural integrity when it comes to the to the cards but you guys feel it's ugly I agree it's kind of ugly and a lot of you guys have said to use EVGA Pro bridge and I'm not the SLI Pro bridge I'm not a huge fan of it but EVGA actually contacted me today and said hey we know you don't like the way our Pro bridge looks but it comes apart really easy you can actually modify it if you want to paint it customize it so there overnighting me one it's gonna be here tomorrow and be modding it to put something cool in there that'll match now one of the things that was pointed out my last video one of my followers said hey you got this thing in slot 1 and slot 4 apparently there's an issue where slot 1 will only go in a txt lot for we're going 16x I immediately contacted EVGA and said hey what's the deal is that true they said yes it's true slot 1 has a direct path to the CPU slot 4 goes to the plx bridge and I said well what should i do should I drain my loop and should I move slot one down to slot two or what he said in his opinion that he would leave it just like this because slot four is going through the plx bridge anyway and that they actually ran specific tests with this configuration to see what the performance loss was and they said that it was negligible meaning it was in the margin of error and that they saw no performance gain going from slot one to slot two so it's 16 X + 16 X versus 8 X CPU 16 X px so we're just going to leave it like this alright so we going to get these two guys installed right there get the reservoir on there and then we can we can fill up the CPU loop to do some leak testing and filming on that then I've got to do all the front panel connections the PCI Express cables and get the power supply and everything installed but we're actually getting pretty close to the end and I'm excited because I'm ready to start playing some games again all right there we go both loops are full both of the pumps are at full speed right now what I think is funny is that the GPU loop apparently has a lot more restriction in it than the CPU loop because you can see a lot more churning in there than in there which is funny because we're in a parallel config so as you can see the CPU loop clearly has a lot less resistance in it than the GPU because of the way that's bubbling up both these pumps are on the exact same speed right now so I'm bleeding out the CPU loop right now and I'll let this go for a little bit and then we're going to start wiring it up get the hard drives installed and I'm thinking we're going to get a first boot tonight and when all this is said and done and put together I'm probably going to end up wiping the operating system and starting all from scratch fresh fresh installation but I think this is turning out pretty damn nice if you ask me what I think is cool is the way you can see the reservoirs through the front fan grille and do the fans so that's pretty neat looking ooh glamour shots the amber is okay something else I seem to get asked a lot even though I covered it with redness is how do the hard drives mount well here is a hard drive cage it's got these rubber grommets with screws that go through and mount on there just like that just like pretty much any other hard drive cage and then it actually mounts on the back right there horizontally and there's the SS 3d cage which had the cables going through it now and that one so they mount on the backside of the motherboard and given how much room thinner is back here that's pretty much the most appropriate place place for it because then you have all the air flow without being obstructed by the hard drives that's one of the major case manufacturing design flaws that you can see right here at the 900 E and just about every other case is they put the hard drives in the front and block all of the airflow it just doesn't make any sense so I really do like this design a whole lot better this is actually the part I hate the most absolutely hate wiring it up I don't spend a lot of time trying to make this all super pretty because it doesn't show anyway anyway you can see all the loot row customs extension cables I've got my fan headers one up there this one up here is actually going to be controlled by this splitter thing I made right here with some of the cables that they gave me and this is coming off the CPU fan hitters this is the one right here that's controlling all the front fans the bottom fans are also being controlled by this guy right here that's also running up to the CPU - fan header and it's going all the way down into there so it's going to be controlling the bottom rads and then this one here I don't know we're gonna plug this one in yet but anyway that's the rear exhaust fan but a lot of you guys may be wondering how can you run so many fans off one hitter well CPU headers actually hooked directly up to the PWM circuit so they can handle a higher wattage load sometimes 30 watts or more these fans are very low wattage a very low amperage so there's not gonna be any problems to the controlling the fan speeds using those so we're getting there slowly but surely but man do I hate the wiring part it's pretty ugly from this angle but from the front it looks fantastic alright so uh why is it half torn apart and there's cables hanging out of it well I went to boot it up and then the PC would go click click and click click is usually bad thing that usually means there's a current protection usually that's happen to have a short wire or you don't have the CPU power plugged in something funky like that so it was also doing something weird with I click the CMOS button three times it would power on and then it would power off and then pushing the power button would do nothing so I got on the horn with EVGA midnight that's I guess this what happens when you have numbers and stuff and they're awake so I call them and they say yeah you know what power supply using I said I'm using the B 1200 they're like yeah we notice that we had some issues with that power supply something to do with overcurrent protection in the PSU and timings have an issue with the motherboard and so it was potentially a problem with the power supply while I pulled my supernovae out of my test rig and it works fine so I'm kind of sad I don't get to use the 1200 watt PSU because it would have meant more efficient you know keeping it down in the efficiency curve a little better but thousand watts is more than enough and now that I have well an EVGA motherboard and EVGA graphics cards might as well go with the he BGA power supply so now I get to put it all back together and the sad part is I drained the GPU loop thinking the GPU was shorting against that little plate that that wasn't I wasn't it at all all right let's put it back together it's only 12:30 so early well guys it's done it was a labor of love there were some snags along the way but skunkworks is done let's take a look now this wasn't without its fair share of snags one thing we discovered late last night actually called Jacob with EB GA emailed him at 12:30 in the morning he responded I said hey can I call you he said sure so we called and got a couple of snags along the way one my court Corsair my coolermaster v 1200 power supply is not compatible with this motherboard now that could be because it's an engineering sample was not a retail model of the power supply which I showed you earlier in the video it just kept triggering an immediate over current protection so the computer would click on and click off like immediately not good and then today when I was messing around with it I noticed that every time I booted the computer it would hang for about 30 seconds on the BIOS flash screen that it would restart and they would boot just fine well come to find out that my Mayflower o Dec objective - oh dang amp combo plugged into USB was actually the problem so they are going to research that and I'm going to loan them my O DAC if they need it and they're going to see if they can figure out why that's happening and fix that in a current BIOS update but overall this is actually a pretty solid board I'm very happy with it a lot of features very happy with the computer build what's funny is when I do these builds I get pretty damn sick of them like right now I'm really sick of looking at this computer I turn around and I look at it and it's just like oh so sick of this thing that's because I sent spent a solid week on this all my spare time went into this all my video productions and all the blogging everything I'm just sick of it so it's it's time to move forward now get on to bigger and better things so guys Magesty cents project skunkworks hope you guys have enjoyed it there is a PC part pick or link in the description open that little box believe it or not it folds down there's there's things in there I know a lot of viewers tend to forget that there's actually things down there yeah you gotta you gotta look down there well not down there down below the video down below the video yeah alright guys I'm gonna get the hell on out of here it's time to get away from this computer for a while follow on Twitter you guys an Instagram you guys can see some pictures of this thing from along the way and as always guys I'll see you in the next one