Gadgetory

all right so we have new case here from fractal design and I was going to do like this whole thing and I decided you know what since I have to build it as well take you guys along for the ride on some of the loop planning and all that sort of stuff because I've gotten some feedback lately of the the montages are cool and all but people kind of miss the old days where we used to just sort of talk about every little thing that we're going through and I figured maybe we'll do that today it's kind of like two birds with one stone recording the work that counts as the work rule the games from the seven kingdoms with your iron claw Mouse from your Iron Throne it has a scroll wheel that looks like a off-road tire and buttons on the side and top to do stuff don't lose grip while doing stuff with the textured sides and do it in style with the odd learn more Coursera the components in this build are kind of secondary to just the point of doing the build I guess building in a case is obviously one of the best ways to get familiar with it now the chassis on this is gonna seem very very familiar this is very derivative of like BS - obviously it's cs2 vision which means you have tempered glass side panels we'll talk about all that once it's done because that was kind of the plan originally was have it done and show it all beautified and now I decided to just to show you the process so the components like I said are secondary but because I know you're gonna ask for a CPU with an i7 9700 k-8 corn on hyper-threading CPU so not a high-power part not a super high heat part so we're definitely good there EK waterblock on that that is the velocity block we have on the motherboard it's an msi ma gz 390 ace not the godlike bits the ACE still has the OLED panel and stuff right there for memory haven't put in there yet though we have 32 gigabytes of the HyperX predator ddr4 RGB memory graphics card we have an msi geforce r-tx 28 ET i seahawk this is the one that has the EK r d-- block already installed so that's kind of nice we have to worry about that it's got to eight pin power plugs plus a 6 pin now the nice thing about the s2 vision here is the fact that it comes with all four of these 140 millimeter Prisma fans these are RGB they're high static pressure but they're also good for case flow so you can use in one things like radiators or your case obviously typically case manufactures only include one maybe two fans one intake 1 exhaust but as you can see here you get four of these and these are digital RGB so these can hook up to things like mystic light which is why we're using MSI for this build and you'll be able to control them and obviously control your themes so with that let's go ahead and build it and talk about the loop and stuff because the loop I'm really sort of doing like a water cooling build ish review with this it's kind of see what we can come up with here when I'm doing my builds with water cooling I usually try and figure out the reservoir placement first the the thing with reservoirs is there's lots of different options you've got your combo units you got your individual components unfortunately I had requested that we get a combo unit and I was sent to individual component so I'm gonna see if this works out if not I've got a few other options I mean I've still got this guy from when we did the six gold and white build which is the photon from excess PC still one of my favorite reservoirs glass which makes it kind of nice but also kind of scary to handle at times so we'll see I'm not a fan of that one though because it's a round pump all the fittings come off at weird angles rather than nice and square so I like to get the reservoir and pump sort of figured out first the nice thing about the the s2 vision here is the fact that it doesn't of course come with the back wall here which has all these slots so that you can mount things like reservoirs and pumps I'm just using a fitting in between these two it's a double rotary a double rotary 90 so I can recenter it because the problem is if you look at the bottom this reservoir does not have a centered hole so I couldn't Center it on there so we're just gonna have to see I mean that's kind of the name of the game here is to play around with it and see how it goes I don't know because the problem here what kind of straighten this out fulfil is it's not straight because that fitting does not push the pump over enough to like make it perfectly centered but the hole on the reservoir mount is centered the pump is also centered because of the slots that we're gonna mount it to because it comes with the two little brackets so you can see is crooked because of that because it's not centered on left and right between where these mounts so my either got to see if I can't come up another fitting option for that or I'll be ditching this ek system altogether for a different brand entirely so this what I'm talkin about like this this crap is round and so you got one coming off that way one going that way one going that way one going that way it just looks stupid it's dumb that's literally the only word I could think of the people who designed these round reservoirs with fittings coming off the way they do are dumb yeah I think that's got to be my flow order Brad to take the ride out now and clip it back over fantastic I'm already bleeding you know there was open the drawer how good that guy okay so every time I do any sort of hard to video you guys see this fitting and everyone asked me what is this fitting so this is actually from primo chill and it's not even like specifically a fitting they make I think it's just one they resell but look at the look at this this is this is all jacked up right so it's literally and it works with 12 mil and 13 mil just put it in it's worth the like 20 bucks or 15 bucks whatever it costs honestly and then you can actually use it to shorten a tube to four millimeters at a time I get no kickback on that by the way so I cut this tube too short like two different times I'm like men I cut another tube and I'm like man then I forgot that it does slide up top so we could have just slid it to where it needs to go so one of the things I like to do when I'm doing custom loops like this is sort of test fit everything so as you can see this is not a complete bill there's no RAM there's no callers on any of these compression fittings but this is the order that we chose and that obviously I used 90 degree angles fittings for this one because I already had them too I wanted to use them again they look they kind of add something to this I guess I started to bend the 12 millimeter tubing though just to see how it would look and twelve millimeter tubing with the only two millimeter wall versus three does kind of kink a lot easier and I wasn't a fan of the way that was turning out so I just decided to use the elbows anyway and they stay in their spot pretty good I also use these when I'm doing glass tubing so it's kind of the same effect but this is ptg so we're coming out of the reservoir and pump combo going up and over into the radiator through the rad back down into the cpu in so right here is where I have it coming into the graphics card now it's not explicitly labeled as in and out like you would find on the CPU block but it's very similar design you can see you've got this sort of a jet plate here it goes through it splits goes to different directions it meets again back here there's a cover here so you can't see but I like to come in and down through here instead of having it split this way merge and come back up because what I found is where it splits over here when you're in a vertical mount like this you can get air sort of trapped and it can kind of be a pain in the ass to get it all out so I found that when you flow this way it sort of pushes the air back up because air naturally wants to rise site so anywhere that fluids going down the air is gonna fight it and get trapped at the top so when it goes like this I found it naturally sort of pushes the air out and then of course comes out of there back into the reservoir so all of this is just sort of loosely mounted I mean this isn't tighten down the riser card the CPU block is mounted obviously with the thermal paste and stuff though this can still sort of move so I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna take all of this out I'm gonna take a picture of it too so I know where all the tubes go because they kind of suck trying to realign it all up later but now that the loop is done I can go ahead and build the system and then we can fill it and do all that stuff so what do you say we let Phil do his montage of filling now for the RGB what we do is we took basically our own we made our own splitters four way five way splitters and just plug everything into like I said the 12 volts have their own splitter because there are some 12 volts stuff on here and then we've got all the Prisma fans plugged into the digital decibel on the motherboard which works seamlessly with like mystic light and aura and all that stuff so this is what the back end looks like nice giant cutout to be able to get to your back plate for whether it be an air cooler or a water block like we have here and then right here and I've got these brackets which we're not using because we don't need them you can mount additional three and a half inch hard drives or two and a half inch drives and three more of them like that I just take them off when we're not using them kind of probably a bad practice since if you need them later you might lose them but we are only using the single SSD right here which is mounted to SSD trays on the back these could also mount to the front if you want and since it is RGB you could do that and it would be you know nice and pretty and show off in your system but since we're using the vertical mount I chose not to do that and just put it right here on the back now let's talk about the top because this chassis does come with a solid glass panel on the top that you have to remove and basically discard entirely if you want airflow on the top of the chassis so rather than having any sort of air gap or having it rise or come up with some sort of a solution that doesn't require you to lose the glass pan altogether you replace it with this very basic filtered grille for the top which is the same as what you'd find unlike the r6 or the define s2 so that's a little bit disappointing because it's kind of like you've got this premium glass all the way around the chassis and then this very kind of a cheap looking plastic frame for the top which then in my opinion two tracks from the elegance that this chassis is supposed to be but in terms of air flow plenty of air flow no issues whatsoever when it comes to cooling the graphics card or the CPU when you go with a radiator on the top or even if you put one in the front there's plenty of airflow and it just kind of keeps with the standard tradition of fractal design keeping it close to the chest with the very familiar rectangular box but there now I think what happened is they realize a lot of us we're taking additional glass panels from other cases and putting them on both sides because they are interchangeable you could put the back panel on the front and vice versa they are 100% mirrored you can flip it upside down and it works on both sides people were doing that as sort of a mod and I think fractal kind of took it ran with it and then added the glass to the front and to the top unfortunately like I said you lose the top if you aren't using only the rear exhaust fan which then in my opinion is not enough because if you're running high-end hardware with the amount of heat that's gonna be generated in the chassis even if you're running air coolers one 140 millimeter fan that's a lot of heat to have to exhaust so you then have to run it at a higher rpm to kind of match the amount of fans pushing air in which then means that you're gonna be dealing with a ton of positive pressure air coming out of all the cracks and then only one fan having the responsibility of exhausting the heat which i think is substandard but that's that's my opinion what's your guys's opinion on this hopefully you guys like the way the bill turned out this is just an example of how you could water cool a chassis like this and you can see there's plenty of room to do it we could have added another rat if we wanted in the front with that removable plate in the front you could go all the way up to 80 millimeter radiator with fans and still have plenty of room for a long card like you can see this is a pretty long card this Seahawk is for all intents and purposes a water-cooled trio which is one of the biggest cards they make with the exception of the God light card are the Lightning card and so yeah you can see there's plenty of room in this considering the fact this is still technically a mid tower it's pretty impressive what you can fit in here so this is where you guys sound up in the comments below about this chassis how do you feel about it what would you change oh I forgot to mention it does also include an LED strip which is kind of nice because large Hasse's are not including any sort of lighting in them you just can't really notice it and this one - well because it's in between the radiator and the wall of the motherboard because this is an offset radiator design which means it doesn't fit up here in the front where it's pre-installed so I relocated it but anyway here we go again tell us what you guys think about this chassis what would you do what kind of build would you do and more importantly what would you change if it was your build thanks for watching guys and as always we'll see you in the next one alright so I was gonna do this whole know this always fractal design define s2 vision RGB lmnopq you