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so skunkworks is done but that doesn't mean it's ever really done you know me I like to screw with things unnecessarily and that's exactly what we're gonna do today with skunk works but first listen to this message from our sponsor swish today's video is sponsored by Kano and their new Harry Potter one it's a perfect gift this holiday season for the Harry Potter fan in your family that also likes tech with over 70 creative challenges you can learn how to code and recreate popular spells from the Harry Potter franchise or even create your own and with recommended ages between 6 and 690 it's the perfect gift this holiday season for the Harry Potter and technology fan in your family and right now you can learn how to save even an additional 20% by checking the link in the description below okay so skunk works is done when it comes to hardware and overclocking if you guys haven't seen the previous videos of what led up to this configuration of skunk works which is like its fourth or fifth iteration now it's RTX 20 80 TI SLI which unfortunately is useless until some titles come out that actually allow you to SLI and dx12 and r-tx on not battlefield at this point it's got a 79 60 X 16 core 8 or 64 xviii radii we went backwards our 16 core 32 thread processor and the same 64 gigs of ram and all that stuff but what what the system has never had and has had in here since the day I had built it all the way back to the 4790k era that was when I actually built this particular system is it never had like lit fans I've got some pretty lit fans though you guys follow me on social y'all are dope but anyway I digress let's go ahead I've never had fans that light up and the builds I've done since then have all had some sort of illuminated fan because that's kind of become the thing since I started building this system back in 2014 so that's why today we're gonna tear it half apart just to do the cosmetic swap of lit fins now I don't want you gonna put a little fire logo up here which I'm I say lit aren't you feel I can feel it these are the coarser ml 120 Pro LED fans these are kind of these the the predecessor to what's now known as like the HD 120 or the RGB and then now the light loop or ll fans these are just white and you can order them in white green no I'm white blue or red no green unfortunately I might have gone with green but I want fans that light up now here's the thing here's the reason why I'm really doing this not just because they light up but these are the quiet edition SP 120 fans in here except for the front these are the AF or airflow or SP for static pressure they've been running in this system now for four years going on five years and the bearings are starting to get a little bit loud they've got some dust and stuff in there and shir I could tear them apart and clean the bearings and read em and put it back together these are Maglev fans that's what the ml stands for for magnet levitation so there's not actually a bearing or a sleeve or anything in there that's being contacted it's writing on a magnetic field which makes it extremely quiet when it comes to motor buzz and stuff like that if you've ever had an old like ball bearing or sleeve bearing fan go bad then what happens is they start to make a buzzing sound dust gets in there they start to slow down they hum and that's not what these are gonna do unlike regular systems where you can just sort of like open it up unbolt some fans and plug it and put it in the skunkworks is a little more complicated but I want a little more bling like I said but we're not convinced I talked to Phil but prior to this video we decide we're going to leave the 140s down here as the standard corsair fans that don't light up because we want to bring our attention up to here and not necessarily light this area up down here it's just white LEDs right so it would just kind of be showing through which I think would be neat but I don't have any 140s right now and to put 140s down there I would have to them out of my current system I have upstairs in the studio and let's just face it I'm kind of lazy so here's what we're do we're gonna put one in the back and then we're gonna test that before I go drinking the loop one of the nice things about the ml fans is the fact that because they're not RGB they don't have any extra wiring that you've got to deal with now there's plenty of room for it in this case some of the smaller form factor cases are kind of difficult to do like you know the RGB fans because they'll have another lead coming off of it specifically for the RGB it's that four pin and then that's got to go into a controller and then from the controller it's got to go into a whatever and you can just use splitters but again you're acting you're adding a whole bunch of wiring so this is all you've got right here for the MFN it's just the PWM because the actual white LEDs in the case fit or the fan itself get power through the PWM 12 volt on there okay don't stick your finger in the pinch which is something I do a lot of what we wanted to kind of test right now is yeah there's no keyboard or mouse plugged in I know EVGA we just wanted to see if the white LEDs on this I don't like that they don't affect the UV at all yeah the UV is stronger than the output of like lumen wise my only concern honestly is these white pieces right here which to be honest I think I could actually like take these off and paint them alright so after about an hour and a half worth of work and waiting for paint to dry literally watching it dry it's ready to go now with our battleship gray paint it's the same exact paint we used on the rings on the SB so as you can see they serve a battleship gray and a good accent to you know the rest of our system they're very monochromatic but now these are gonna light up white so now we've got to go ahead and install them and like I said I like to do things the hard way betweens now I've got to drain my CPU loop which is fortunately the easiest loop in the system to drain so that I can actually set these up so yeah with the fans at 100% it's pretty obvious it's moving some hair that's just a single 120 we think it looks great like this and with the front how you can see the fans there I'm gonna shut the lights off for quick so you guys can see I think that looks absolutely phenomenal in terms of you'll see that the fans through there but now I feel like I have to see the bottom here I feel like we have to see the bottom for two reasons one just the amount of additional static pressure we've gained by doing this so I get this panel off a quick the biggest complaint you guys had and I'm gonna go in justify I just didn't I made a while back once again that doesn't the justification does not hold water anymore because the bottom fans here it's panels always so tight oh they're bottom panel is really tight so these are airflow fans you see the blades how there's lots of blades and they are being spaced out and there's gaps this moves a decent amount of air through the radiator the problem is it's got a lot of obstruction has to overcome as come through the panel has to go through the rad which is a thick rag and then it has to go through all the components and wires and tubes that are on the bottom and then out the back I do have two rear exhausting fans back here that help pull that hot air out the problem is at the time I built this system and what with the 560 radiator which is for 140 millimeter fans there were no static pressure optimized 140 millimeter fans on the market this as mainstream as waters become or water coins become static pressure on the larger formats even 200 millimeter static pressure fans are becoming sort of a thing the larger the fan gets the lower the static pressure and this has gotten the job done it's just not doing it as efficiency as efficiently as I would like so now we have to switch out the bottom ones so yeah we're in ahead and did it that was a lot more work than actually seemed like it would be though because I had to take the fans out of my system upstairs which I don't do a lot of rendering on but it's my rendering rigging now it has no case fan so I've got to replace those maybe with of these these are all the fans we took out look how many fans we actually freed up here well there's 14 of them right here but that's okay I digress here they are right here by 140 million milah milliliters millimetre ml 140 so much higher static pressure they're gonna be much louder cuz I've got to go in here and still adjust the fan kerbin stuff we had to drain the loop to fill it up for the top rad we got those in and yeah the loops look like two different shades of green because this one's slightly aerated because it's fresh that one's already been in there for a while so they will go back to the same color so let's go ahead and turn it on now it's gonna be loud like I said they're running a hundred percent so let's see what it looks like was anticlimactic that is so loud I still think painting it was a good idea because I know the white would have shone through really bad it actually makes a buzzing sound and move so much air because this grille so yeah this system under 100% load would be pretty annoying okay so maybe I'll maybe quickly I'll go into the component of the program and slow down the fans watch jokes gonna be on me these some for some reason won't slow down under DC so all of the cores are sitting in the mid to low 20s at the moment which is pretty insane of course we've got C States and Mable to all the voltage and everything is really low I'm gonna run Cinebench right now and see what the temps are hottest course 74 35 hope there's a 76 but yeah okay so I'd say obviously the airflow and this is super effective but obviously we've got it quieted down a little bit on the loud side so in typical J fashion one thing leads to another the leads to another that leads to another yes I know the front pans aren't going they're not plugged in right now these fans are extremely picky with voltage what do you mean by that is if they don't get enough starting voltage then they just pulsate like the lights will pulse and yes to be fair I've got four fans per header and there's plenty of amperage on those headers there to be able to power the fans my problem is the volume specifically the bottom fan right here the bottom fans the blades are so close to this grill that when I close the grill all the way it's kind of sitting off as you can see it makes it very irritating sound listen to make a very high-pitched propeller kind of a sound as you can hear well j-just turn it down what I found is it still makes that sound all the way down to the voltage at which the fan won't even start it's just because of how close the blades are to the grill so now I'm stuck with the prospect of putting the other fans back or just putting some other 140 millimeter fans that I have like my Vardar fans or something and going from there so it's back to the way it was a couple hours ago or a few like four hours ago because now I just I mean I don't even care anymore at this point now at the end of the day I'm very well aware that but that systems not silent I never built skunkworks to be silent it's got 16 fans in it for 14 fans whatever was I said earlier it's got a lot of fans way more fans than it needs and that's what makes it cool as you can hear now the volume is much more manageable and the system looks better with those fans up in the top and stuff I now really think that this is a perfect example of why custom computers can take so damn long to build well not as long as it took to build the post Malone PC because I'm building a house in less time than that tech so that's besides the point at the end of the day a skunkworks is going to continue to be tinkered with because it is my it's my favorite system I've ever built it's now a it's now a legend because it is in a case that you can't even buy anymore and I thought about actually decommissioning this system a while back and I decided not to now so far as always guys thanks for watching this useless video which is nothing more than J changing out fans and hopefully you found it somewhat entertaining and again a huge thank you to our sponsor for today's video Kano and their new Harry Potter one so please check out the link down in the description below you guys can go and see compounding discounts on that like we mentioned in our ad thanks for watching guys and as always we'll see you in the next one cut to cut