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alright guys welcome to what I think is like part 2 of my build blog this is the continuation of squirtle we've ditched the 800 d disgusting mess that I had before and now we've moved to this partially built test bench huge improvement what this video is really about is asking questions about what I can do with this test bench so I'm trying to figure out things about it as there's not a ton of information out there is I want with something fairly obscure just cuz I thought it looked pretty cool yes it's 80/20 extrusion so I could have just built this on my own but I didn't want to rip the guy's design off that's not really fair what I am going to end up doing though is butchering this thing like crazy and changing it a lot to make it my own and in that we're going to be trying to figure out how many rads I can fit to this thing because the most I've ever seen it with is one triple and I want to fit four radiators on it I was kind of hoping to three by 120s and two 2x1 20s I don't think I'm going to get quite there but I still want to get four radiators on it I want to see where I can fit this a fairly large reservoir especially for this style of computer and I want to see if I can do that in a pretty cool place which you'll hopefully see later and I want to see about how I can access things in the bottom of the computer so we're gonna try and answer all those questions in this video where I kind of mess around with this test bench if you want to see all the rest of these build log videos as they come out stay subscribe the Linus tech tips let's get a move on save on select Intel CPUs knucks and SSDs with special Black Friday rebates from select retailers click now to learn more first things first we ought to do a little bit of out with the old in with the new so I'm going to get rid of that pretty old power supply I'm going to get rid of that hold not very usable at this point for what I want to do graphics card and that gigantic air cooler I'm going to leave the motherboard because while I won't necessarily be using this motherboard specifically it's the right size so it's not really that big of a deal and I do need it to be there so I can kind of see how stuff like cables are going to be routing and stuff like that which I won't need the GPU for and the GPU would be more annoying than anything later on I'll have to have a placeholder GPU so I can see how like the water cooling is going to come up and get to that but for now should be fine now that all the old stuff has been removed it's time to start strapping radiators to it so the first thing I'm going to do is grab one of the spare out focal radiators that we had at work a the 3 by 120 and try to put it on alongside my other in parallel at least my other 3 by 120 millimeter radiator my current one is really thick this one is not quite as thick but it's still pretty thick radiator but we'll see how that works I know this is going to fit this isn't actually really a problem but I do need to strap it to the bench just to make sure that other things will be able to fit alongside it it's self fitting is not necessarily the most important thing everything else being able to fit inside the same eco system is also extremely important now that that's strapped to the bench I need to go to the smaller end cap where I find out that as I expected the 2 by 120 millimeter radiator is too long I do not want to have it on the outside I do want it to be on the inside of the bench just so I won't get hit by anything anything like that so it's too long it's not going to work I was kind of hoping it would and I could custom fit the bench to make it bigger to accommodate for it but that would make the bench really big and get rid of the whole compact nature of it which I do like so not going to go that route moving onwards the 140 millimeter single radiator also didn't fit this got me a little bit worried I actually kind of thought that one would work but no the fitting where the fittings should go on that radiator collided with another one of the radiators that I had inside and I don't want to swap either of those out I like the thick three by one 20s so that one didn't work luckily moving on to the single 120 millimeter radiator that one fit pretty much perfectly so we're pretty good four rads at this point all right so we're three four three four radiators so far and we've covered the whole side of the bench in radiators that has the kind of like power supply at the bottom of the motherboard area something to take note of here is before I started strapping radiators to it my plan was to have the reservoir come out of the cable management hole for the power supply as I thought that would look really cool and I space tested it before I put the radiators in just hold that in your memory for now we're going to move on to fitting that last radiator now problem with fitting last radiator I don't have another 120 millimeter radio to test here but I'm not worried about the spacing as the spacing is exactly the same as on the other side so the idea of fitting a radiator here well the idea of fitting the radiators all around the bottom is I thought it would look cool to have kind of like a radiator blackout on the bottom of this test bench so that was a huge part of the inspiration of doing this I want to make sure it fit I'm happy it fit I also kind of need to be able to access the bottom the computer though of course if I tilt the entire test bench up I could reach up from the bottom and access it there but that's really annoying so solution put one of the 120 millimeter radiators on hinges that's going to be this side where the top of the motherboard is facing the CPU end of the test bench so I'm going to put this radiator on hinges I still have to go pick those up though but it will fit I'm not super worried about that to be able to manage the tubing under there I'm fully expecting to utilize a combination of putting key rings over the tubing and then hooking those key rings up to springs so that when I pull the radiator out the tube will pull along with it but not kind of go everywhere I want the springs to be able to manage it properly it's gonna be an interesting project but that's for a different video not this video so far all right so that kind of concludes Reds we're essentially four four four at this point the last one while I don't have the hinges already on it we're that'll mess with the spacing a little bit will fit if it doesn't work with the hinges it will work with the flat plates that's fine I can just access it from the bottom but I'm pretty sure it will work with the hinges regardless so we're fine for radiators at this point not too worried about it need to move back to the reservoir need to forget how I'm gonna remote mount it from the bottom okay well this is where the figurative poop started hitting the fan things were not okay the radiators were in the way the 7-inch power supply which was actually longer my power supply personally was longer than the one that I used to have on the bench things were not going to work I would have needed a reservoir that was less than half the diameter of this one to be able to make it actually work not good news at all how am I going to fix this well there's a lot of fancy extrusion work that I could do by taking the motherboard support braces and chopping them off at the end of the motherboard so they don't go all the way down I could take the power supply support brace which also supports the leather boards and ship that up more towards the motherboard and then add a little bit on to the side to make sure that it can still support the power supply I could do a whole bunch of this stuff with the extrusion to try and open up that space still didn't solve the problem though the radiators aren't going to move and I already don't have a thick three by 120 alpha cool radiator like on the other side on that side of the computer so shrinking the rads isn't really going to help a ton either might have a little bit but not much what really needs to happen is the power supply needs to be swapped out again power supply that I have personally was never actually tested on this bench but it's just over seven inches and I tested one that was just over seven inches that was not going to work first solution that I came up with was a Silverstone short SFX 600 watt power supply which you guys have probably seen the video featured by Linus it worked it made sense but it didn't look good and it's only a 600 watt there's not a ton of flexibility in terms of cabling and/or power so I wanted something a little bit more I wanted an ATX sized power supply because it looked kind of weird having an SFX on this bench so I found silver stones other kind of short power supply which is one of their 850 was more wattage cool more flexibility in terms of cabling pool and also an ATX format so it fit cool triple cool it worked and it worked by what I would say is less than millimeters how the reservoir fits in there right now it is touching on every single side it is touching the motherboard it is touching the radiator on its other side it is touching the other radiator and it is touching the power supply there is literally no extra room at all I can't believe I got this to work there's a couple options that I can do for fitting the cables around it but it's going to work you can ask Brandon I was pretty freaked out at this point in the build I was like wow my entire plan is not going to work I'm going to have to change how I'm mounting a whole bunch of stuff might have to ditch some radiators all just to be able to fit a reservoir in there I might even have to ditch this reservoir altogether because it's too tall to realistically fit into the bottom of the case unless I can have it poking up the top my whole plan from the beginning was to have this reservoir poking up through that hole and it might not have worked so pretty stoked that it did so without all figured out what are my actionable items well I need to figure out exactly how I'm going to mount this to be able to do that I need to finish that extrusion job so I'm gonna have to go shopping at a metal shop try to figure out the exact lengths of all the extrusion I need and do the tedious job of setting that all up then I need to figure out how to mount this which will probably be an extrusion based box with a plate on top of it so we can sit there and I'd screw it into that hopefully that will work we'll have to see that'll probably be next video I also need my motherboard RAM and CPU to kind of show up so that'll happen at some point but I'm not too worried about that then I need to figure out my like fittings set up the bottom of the computer is already set up with how the radiators are orientated so that they kind of feed into each other in a big square which is fine and logical because of how messy the area where the reservoir is going to be is I'm going to have to have the water cooling for the graphics card come up just below the motherboard on this side and then I'll have a right angle on the graphics card so we can grab it from there then I would just go straight up to the CPU and have it drop down just above the motherboard on this side obviously I'm going to have to see like Oh should I have a right angle here should I not have a right angle here all that kind of stuff but it's fairly straightforward as of now so I need to go shopping for fittings I need to get some extrusion and I need to have my components show up speaking of stylish design five for club five for club allows every member that they have to get 120 dollars worth of clothes for just 60 bucks a month but today they have a very special Cyber Monday deal going on which is you can get 60 bucks a month worth of clothes same price but using their Cyber Monday offer code which should be somewhere on the screen right about now you get your second month for free so that's 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