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we've done a lot of liquid cooling over the years ranging from super jank DIY to a iOS - all the way up to sub-zero chiller units but there are still some things that we've never messed with until now going full hard mode with copper rather than plastic tubing it's a lot of work and the learning curve looks a little something like this but Boyle boys the end result ever shiny Corsairs Vengeance RGB pro series overclocked memory utilizes dynamic multi zone RGB lighting to light up your rig check it out at the link below so the first question is why why would we do something like this I mean it's good to try new things but aside from that is there any reason to use metal tubing copper or otherwise truthfully other than looks no so if you're only worried about cooling performance it's probably best to stay with inexpensive soft plastic tubing because as I demonstrated during scrapyard bores to even a massive coil of copper tubing doesn't dissipate much heat so the relatively small runs in your case won't make a measurable difference so then with that other way let's get started the case dictates a lot of the other components that you might choose for a build like this so that came first we chose the refreshed lelee PCL 11 dubbed the dynamic 4 it's all white interior tempered glass side and front panels and it's spacious trunk which makes it perfect for hiding tubing and cables next up is the actual gaming vids for once here we're actually gonna take a step back from insanity and just build a respectable color-coordinated high-end gaming machine that is without an extreme edition CPU and Titan graphics card so we opted for Intel's 8700 K one of the best processors for gaming made it to an Asus Z 370 a prime the widest board in their lineup for this chip ran then was an easy pick as the best-looking weight RAM on the market IMO is Corsairs vengeance RGB in white of course for our graphics card we would have loved to use the latest GTX RTX excuse me RTX 2080 ti but water blocks weren't quite available yet when we started this build so we went with the next best thing a 1080 TI which is still a very powerful card and significantly more affordable which man if you told me a year ago I'd be calling a 1080 TI more affordable Oh anywho for storage we opted for a 512 gig samsung 960 pro is our boot drive with a couple of iron wolf pros in the PCL Elevens rear butt flap for storage which brings us to water cooling where things get a little more unusual now one of the manufacturers that we featured in our cheap Aliexpress water cooling video Barrow actually makes some really cool case specific water distribution / reservoir blocks and they happened to have one for the PCL 11 so that one wasn't easy by then for the rest of the system we requisitioned a bunch of goodies from our friends over at ek going for mostly their standard affair stuff including their previous flagship supremacy Evo CPU block a full cover 1080 Ti GPU block a couple of their slim 360 millimetre radiators and then a metric boatload of fittings now sadly while we were able to use their straight 16 millimeter hard line fittings these are the same ones that you need for plastic tubing by the way they still don't have 90 degree fittings so we needed to paint our own with everything dry fitted the next step was sending the fittings and radiators with a sanding block for optimal paint adhesion oh and before you guys head to the comments below yes we masked off the radiator fins an extra layer of paint isn't gonna destroy your rad but it's not ideal for thermals either now let's get back to the star of the show the copper tubing there are actually way more different types of copper tubing and pipe than I expected be it coiled straight soft hard there whatever combination of the four of them but you actually don't need to worry about any of that because we already went out and spent the money to figure out which one's best so that you don't have to initially we thought that coiled tubing would be our best bet this kind of copper is pre and kneeled which means that in the factory the pipe was heated up red hot then cooled to soften the metal now for materials like steel if you quench the metal after heating it actually hardens it making it great for use in tools for example but with copper heating then immediately cooling it actually softens it making it perfect for bending or so we thought in practice you with a fancy patented straightening tool like this one from eastwood the tube never ends up all that straight and it's got little bumps and blemishes all over it so coiled tubing wouldn't work for the clean aesthetic that we wanted a better choice ended up being straight hard half inch diameter copper pipe which is called half inch but it actually has a 5/8 inch outer diameter one really important note here though is that you'll want to use the slightly more expensive type a pipe its walls are a little bit thicker which makes it easier and cleaner to bend from here the process is actually pretty similar to regular hardline tubing each run starts with roughly estimating the length of the run with a little bit of extra on each end and cutting a pipe with our pipe cutter the one that you're looking at now by the way will run from our cpu block to the Barrow distribution block then because we do still need to anneal the copper before we commend it our tube needs to be heated up for a minute or two we used a matte gas torch now it's really important here for the part that you intend to bend to get visibly hot and it should be noted that it actually doesn't have to all be that same hot color at the same time so once you see it starting to get red you can begin to work your way around once you're done you can quench the pipe in a bucket of water and then freak out a little over the gross discoloration that you'll be spending the next few hours dealing with with a piece of sandpaper and some polish now we didn't do it this way hindsight is 20/20 as they say but we'd recommend that you do the bulk of your sanding before you bend the pipes because it is a lot easier to send and polish a straight pipe than a bent one as they say anywho now it's bending time since these are just single 90-degree bends thanks to our fancy-pants distribution block we don't really need to mark out our Bend and we can just kind of go for it I'd recommend for a bender that you get something with a fairly large radius like this one that we got on eBay for 50 bucks smaller radius benders can you know give you a tighter Bend obviously but they can also cause some pretty severe crushing creating flat spots on your Bend that will be very noticeable especially if you go for a smooth polished look on your pipes we ended up initially filling our pipes with sand to help them retain their shape during the bend but it turned out later that this wasn't necessary for us though if you're having issues it might be worth a try the process was honestly pretty rinse and repeat from here so I guess let's watch a fancy time-lapse then of Jake bending and fitting the pipes one more pro tip here by the way if you already sanded your pipes and you want to keep them as scratch free as possible we'd recommend putting some grease on the mating surfaces of the bender at this point all the painted parts were dry and we could get into installation of the finished parts first was our CPU block with a white painted hold down plate and RGB shroud then we installed our GPU backplate our nicely painted white radiators and the custom 3d printed pop top for our DDC pump we actually didn't have the appropriate oring for mounting to the distribution block so this was fun we ended up making use of some high temp silicone which work surprisingly well Wow looking good all done right and no because we were dumb and didn't press and it it all has to come out again for sanding and then polishing and I won't bore you with every detail but the basic process for us involved sending each pipe with a fairly rough 400 grit sandpaper then polishing with some brass oh this gave us a pleasing brushed finish that we really liked because the high shine polished style tubing didn't really fit the look we were going for or the time frame that we were going for for this build by the way we'd recommend sealing the tubes with something like brass lacquer when you're done as the polish doesn't do much for preventing tarnish now for final assembly we mounted our tubes again ran our sexy cable mod Pro cable kit made it to our supremely reasonable RM 750 X power supply and hoped for the best eg lights on now good yeah there we go once the radishes were resolved it actually did end up working and the film went pretty smooth with only one small leak Jake forgot to put the o-ring back on one of the CPU things bringing us finally to the moment you've been waiting for that sweet sweet minute of jaw-dropping b-roll of what may be our most beautiful system yet and 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