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so I'm working on a little changeup in my wife's PC I decided to pull out the g1 sniper and go with reasonable board so I'm just using a gigabyte p67 a I'm actually changing the CPU as well I had a 2500 K in there before and I'm going to be putting in a 2600 K this is an ancient sample board so this is actually using the b2 chipset which means I can only use the SATA 3 6 gigabit per second ports without without them eventually dying but that's fine because I'm only using a single SSD for the boot drive and then I say 2 optical drive for this machine and I just the only reason that I'm bringing this up is because actually as we move this out of the way it can sit over here with the other computers that are on this shelf that's why motherboards going on got another one sitting over there anyway I can go there No ok so the reason I brought this up is because I'm going to be reconfiguring the airflow in this machine a little bit because it's been a little bit problematic so you know she's like yeah yeah I like the arc MIDI case it's my favorite case that's what I want my PC in but she doesn't like this big dust thing going on here so there's a filter on the front of the case but you can see it accumulates quite a lot of dust not very attractive also I've been having some problems with overall dust buildup inside the case as well and what I realized since due to the negative airflow on the case so while the intakes are filtered we so we can keep a lot of the dust out that way it's still better to maintain positive air pressure inside the case so what I'm going to be doing is I'm actually going to take this fan out entirely so I'm not going to have any intake fans whatsoever and then what I'm going to do well okay oh sorry sorry sorry so I'm not going to have any intake fans in the front so that'll mean that I won't have that that ring of dust in the front and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn all of these are round and I'm going to use the ones at the top and the back as intakes so what I'm hoping that will help me achieve is to have overall positive air pressure inside which means that dust is less likely to get sucked in on little cracks in the case and also by having all the intakes higher up I'm hoping that less dust will be brought in in general because it won't be sitting right on the floor so we'll see how this goes so the purpose of this video was several fold so number one was to talk about positive air pressure a little bit with respect to keeping dust out of your case so you want to use filtered intakes and then have overall positive pressure inside the case so that it blows up little cracks number two was because several of you had asked about my my wife's machine so I figured I'd show you guys the finished build know that it's done and number three was if since I was taking it apart anyway because look at this color scheme I mean yeah yeah if you guys are wondering why I would have downgraded the motherboard the reason is that this just doesn't go with the overall look of this particular case hold on just blow out this you can see the dust ring right not really no okay well whatever it's there I wish I had compressed air but I don't I'll call that good enough okay throw that on there and now the properly finished build now that the color scheme has been corrected so I've got my special signature Linus edition RAM in there which is blue and black and then everything else see there's a couple little blue accents there's some blue accents on the heatsink of the yeah on the heatsink so the motherboard itself and then other than that we've got a black and gray and white sort of grayscale overall theme going on in here all these are just stock parts I haven't done anything particularly special because let's face it it's important to me but it's still not my machine um so uh so yeah oh yeah so these are all intakes and then this CPU cooler doesn't need any kind of additional cooling since I swapped out the g1 sniper - is it what was it a g1 saber - something like that yeah it's knife or - I had to throw in a sound card so that's just an older ah syntax sound card just because I don't have that awesome onboard audio anymore so go ahead and close this up oh yeah overall so we got a 2600 K 8 gigs of Linus edition around P 67 gigabyte board MSI GTX 560 hawke with the Twin Frozr 3 cooler we've got a PC power and cooling silencer MK 3 modular power supply ocz agility 120 gig SSD um that's a 2600 K already I'm not sure I write Thermaltake silver arrow heatsink and then obviously all of that is in the fractal design arc MIDI mid tower case there we go so it's time to put this back and then I can have my computer back because that is apparently how this works when this computer is down i forfeit the right to use mine so thank you for checking out this little episode and don't forget subscribe - tech tips for unboxings reviews and other computer videos