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what's up guys Jays $0.02 here and it's been a long time since I've updated the skunkworks bill here on YouTube and it trust me every time I do a video I see your comments out where is skunk works well it's here things are kind of progressing along there's been some snags I want to talk about that I'm going to show you some other parts that came in today and hopefully you guys will understand what's going on after that and then we'll get this build fully underway and the hell out of my shop because I'm it's taken up way too much space what are you doing guys thought it's time for an upgrade that's little J's Xbox ah much better how did you even get in here Mickey last time I was here no big deal well I could go for a drink right about now though I kind of feel like you've already done this whole living room thing before no there's different channels these are horrible man well you are breaking and entering no not I have witnesses the new defined nano s from fractal design supports full-size power supplies full-length graphics cards room for a complete custom water loop and heck even room for a couple of freeloaders click the link in the description for more details tractor josh not included all right so it's gonna pretty much look the same as you guys saw it last time the loop it's pretty much all put together with the occur they almost acrylic the ptg I haven't got a chance to cut the glass yet but yeah it pretty much looks the same it's all routed some of the guys don't like the way that this turned out with the way it crosses over I don't really have a choice because of where the holes were pre-drilled otherwise I would have made the ones that you know wouldn't have crossed over I would have figured that out but I have to reuse the holes that were already there from the previous built we've got the ek radiators in there and here are the three 980ti s and I want to talk about that but I'm not going to talk about it yet I'll talk about that in a second something else that came in and what I've actually been waiting on that was making this take a while in the beginning was the custom sleeves and we've got a lot of cables for this build right here now these sleeves are made by joe he's actually the owner of sanctum sleeping me he also is part of the modders group modders inc and so if you guys want to find him you basically look up Joe with modders Inc it'd be kind of the best way to find him but he's the same guy that's done pretty much all the sleeps for any of my systems you guys have seen has just been some name changes throughout time but yeah this is these are the colors that we came up with here obviously these colors are specific to you know the way it's gonna look inside red mist so I think that this is gonna look pretty good we chose not to go with any white in the sleeves this time around last time there was red white and black I think this looks a heck of a lot better but I'm not wiring these up until the loop is done because I'm gonna have to have these wired up first but I want to make sure there's nothing in the way with the loop now one other thing that we decided to change here is if you guys follow me on Twitter then you would seen that I posted these 980ti is for sale because the owner of red mist is as much as he tried and bless his heart he could not deal with the fact that these are no longer the latest and greatest so we just sold all three of these kudos to you guys who bought actually two people by one guy bought together got about one these are getting boxed up and shipped out either today or tomorrow and you guys will have these on their way and they are coming with the stop coolers so guys are asking us not coolers there they are right there well we come with the stock coolers these cards never even saw a single game they never even saw water so you guys are good you guys got a pretty good deal but he's gonna be going with two 1080s actually he's gonna ditch the third card even though he knows three will work he just spent 1,800 bucks on all three of these and then the water blocks he spent over $2,000 on these he took a huge loss and then is actually getting two more 1080s and two more water blocks so you spent a lot of money on graphics card lesson learned folks don't buy your parts and pieces save your money and then buy all your parts at once that way that doesn't happen with you so there's the 59 60 X let's go ahead and talk about that for a second a lot of people just like the graphics card we're like why do you buy a new CPU because the new stuffs coming out it's not usually as big of a deal with the new CPU stuff as GPUs it's a lot less of a generational gap but I kind of had a feeling in the back of my mind that the 69 50 X was gonna be really expensive the only problem was in the back of my mind I was thinking 1,250 bucks 1,300 bucks who knows and we got this CPU at micro Center for 900 so or eight between eight nine hundred remember exactly what it was but it was a hell of a deal so when the CPU came out 1700 bucks for the 69 50 X even he was like yeah I wouldn't bought that anyway and I don't think a lot of people would and the amount of performance you're getting with the eight core sixteen thread yeah that's one of those things that definitely didn't leave him feeling a little bitter like especially like the graphics card did so something I want to talk to you guys about real quick here just for a couple of seconds or minutes whatever in the middle this video is it's really better to save your money rather than buying the stuff in pieces it's fun to buy it it's fun to get it in the mail or it's fun to go and get it off the shelf and play with it but if you can't build the whole system yet you might find yourself in the situation unfortunately like the owner of red mist did where by the time he started collecting the parts and by the time the build started happening and we were still waiting for stuff like the sleeves to get done before we could finish the build you might get obsoleted before you even fire up the system so unfortunately for him with the graphics card it was an expensive lesson to learn but I don't think in the next build he's gonna do it that way he's probably gonna be like an every two year builder so I honestly think the money should just be set aside rather than buying parts but when it comes to the CPU though typically you're gonna find nearly as much of a jump as you would find with graphics cards so we wanted to talk about the CPU here just for a second it's not something we were too concerned about hell I'm not even feeling the need upgrade to a 10 core 20 thread $1700 CPU this doesn't even if I end up with one it's so not necessary and yeah I speaking from an enthusiast and a reviewer that price is just astronomical I don't understand it it's not a Xeon it's not it's not a server CPU so why the hell is it so damn expensive something else I get asked about a lot are the Dominator tops and how I scored red ones and orange ones separately because I didn't buy the kits that they come on actually got the top separately it's just one of those things where it's kind of a perk of the job really as I had a I have contacts at Corsair I can make a request and then they let me know if they can make it happen or not unfortunately both times they were able to get me the tops I wanted the issue is that the colored tops like the orange and the red only come on 16-gigabyte kits and these are 32 gigabyte kits so I wasn't about we weren't about to buy 16 gig kit just for the tops although we could have and then just sold the the ram off and lost a little bit of money that's how we got the top so I really can't help you guys get him maybe right Corsair on your own and or hit up their PR and see if they can it can help you out but again I didn't I don't talk to the PR guys I talk to a different team altogether so I I really can't help you there now for the lighting he's got the NZXT hue this is purely on my recommendation absolutely love the hue it's the amount of control you have on this you can control each individual LED he was asking about lighting and previously we were just using some of the lodge assists corner sticks just solid white LEDs we want to add a little bit more control and fun with this system so we are going with the hue which is fully RGB about eighteen million colors and you can control it however you want you can make it marquee you can have it control based on temperature based on fps all kinds of funky stuff whatever you just want it to be again he bought this nothing in this system is actually sponsored with the exception of the motherboard EVGA did send that over but this is a fully retail built system so this way the system looks on the back right here these two cables actually are not fans these are going to the LED strips that are behind the reservoirs lighting those guys up there's the splitter for the fans up top this is controlling the fans up here for the radiator and this is being controlled by DC output of the motherboard down here we have the pumps and stuff you guys have if you've seen the original red mist series then you'll know how I did that if not I go and check out the original red mist series I guess everything down here in the basement is soft tubing and I decided not to do hard tubing this time around on red mist like I did on skunk works because I've got to pull out the radiators for skunk works because again I start to send those off to get tested we're finally gonna test the fluid change issue find out what's happening there and the rigid tubing is actually making a bigger bitch to take apart than I anticipated so yeah that's why we are using soft tubing there but that right there is how we are controlling the you guys can see that there we go that's the fan control or the fan splitter anyway for the four fans on the 560 and again it's all just running with these extension cables as you guys can see two different headers on the motherboard and that's how we were actually controlling the fans but I've got a lot of wiring I still have to do something else I'm asked often is how the hard drives mount in an SMA eight from case labs well it's got this upper cage here that will hold two three and a half inch drives and we've got this cage down here that will hold for two and a half inch drive so two three and a half's and four two and a half's natively as the way that it ships you can add more cages to the front if you need more but anyway he can put four more ssds here's if he wants he's putting another one in and then he's got MDOT to drive on the motherboard we already showed as his main drive so yeah I've got to pull these out unfortunately now he's gotta wait until 1080s are available because they are back ordered it is just like the 600 series all over again everyone wants one and nobody has them so unfortunately he's delayed his build again which is really pissing off his lady friend because they want she wants to play overwatch in other games and this is where his system has been now for like two months or whatever the shop was supposed to make things really easy but this behemoth is taking up all my space alright so that's it that's the update so far on skunk works and that's what we're now waiting on we got the cables which we are waiting on I hadn't cut the glass yet but I can do that in a couple of hours but now we're gonna be waiting on graphics cards yes it gives me time to figure out there's anything really more custom I can do with this I still got to make the EVGA bridge here I'm gonna paint this white and I'm gonna do my red LED backlit ish custom thing that I showed you guys before now EVGA does ship with these little stickers but these stick on the front they look really cheesy so we're not gonna be doing any of that we're gonna make it fully custom but I do think painting this white maybe the aluminum part white getting rid of the SLI sticker and making the LED glow red I think that'll actually accent really well with this system anyway guys I know there wasn't a lot of information in this update but it was so many people were asking me where the hell is red mist what happened is it broken did the guy quit is it done and you didn't finish it I just thought I'd go ahead and show you guys where we are so far with that and I know I guess just give you guys a little bit of a little bit of an update there got stuff coming up for skunk works got actually I'm kind of curious here I want you guys is opinion on something I'm gonna put a straw poll down in the in the comment section here and I'm thinking about trying out a new motherboard for skunk works when I do my update on that and you guys know I like to try out different pieces of hardware because that's the best way to get you know experience with the different brands and stuff that are out there and if you just use the same thing all the time at least in my position then you're always speaking from only a single perspective and I don't want to do that so I've also got in here the msi god x99 god-like carbon and I've also got the new gigabyte x99 phoenix sli which is a white and orange board and a thing about that be really cool on a white case like like red mist and do a white orange and white theme yeah white orange white that makes sense so I'm really torn oh yeah alright guys I'm gonna get out of here vote down in the description there's a link to the straw poll vote on it and I'm curious to what you guys have to say anyway I'm getting out of here I'll see you guys in the next one as always thanks for watching