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welcome to a personal rig update that will be sort of in the form of an unboxing because this inside here is my package it's pretty big takes a lot of tape to wrap it up but you know what can I say it's you know you don't get to pick your package you just have to make do with the one you've got and this is what sent to me by mountain mods it is mighty jo7 inside here and I had underestimated how difficult it was going to be to cut this box open it has been powder-coated and it is ready for assembly so I'm so stoked because as slick is so fond of reminding me it has been a year since I have actually had a properly built working gaming desktop over a year thank you slick we'll be back once all right there we go I managed to get all the tape removed and oh wow there is another box with more tape says black wrinkle which is the finish that I opted for for my TJ o7 there's a lot of you guys who have questioned why I'm sort of staying loyal to this TJ o7 that between the initial cost and having it painted twice now and having the original paint stripped off so that I could repaint it and make it look all gorgeous and fresh again has probably cost me nearly a thousand dollars I was a gift from my wife it was one of the first gifts she ever got me and also I liked it I it's cheaper than buying a new TJ o7 and getting that powder coated so there's a number of reasons why I would want to do it this way so Mountain mods charged me two hundred and fifty bucks for getting everything powder coated and shipped back to myself and they have wrapped everything in their customary sort of what this would be called cling-wrap like giant industrial clean wrap their black wrinkle finish is so gorgeous like out of all the paint finishes that I've encountered on computer cases or just sort of in general this has to be my favorite I did think about doing something like an automotive finish on the outside but like I said few things compared to sexy black wrinkle black wrinkle finish so these are the anodized aluminum side panels and I'm just going to go ahead and for that oh I'm not going to go ahead and sort of anything but let's see how quickly we you know what we're just going to have to unpack this off-camera here guys and we'll be back alright so we unboxed it and other than a few blemishes which I am of course going to show you all of because this system is my baby and so I was a little bit disappointed to find any of them although with a project this big with no do-overs what what powder coaters would normally do is they would just throw out the blemished piece because it's so expensive to strip powder coating and then they just redo another one but they don't have that option because this is sort of all one-shot deal so there's a small blemish here on the bottom left corner I don't know if you can see that diesel yeah Diesel's got it there's a blemish on the top which is here where there's a little bit too much paint buildup you got that one okay diesel can't even see it so that should give you guys some idea how much of a nitpicker I'm being about this the oh the grills turned out fantastic so these are an tech 900 grills and I had them powder coated black wrinkled so that they're going to match the case perfectly now whereas before they just had the stock non wrinkle powder coating and then I had an anodized finish here so now these are going to look extremely sharp so there will be radiators or there will be a radiator and fans behind that so that's going to look really really clean right there I had the I had the back piece done all as one piece so the screws are all installed I'm never going to install two power supplies in it installing two power supplies in a modern system is totally pointless because you can get like 1500 watt power supplies and you'd be hard-pressed to to build a system that sucks more than 1500 watts in a standard ATX form factor okay so here there's a there's some some blemishes like this one here probably one of the ones that bothers me most I think is the one on this side panel where yeah it's this one you can see here that there's some like something going on here yeah but again like I say not the end of the world and from some angles you can't even really see it and at least it's the other side panel the windowed side panel is quite clean slick asked me why send it to mountain mods why not just get any shop to do it learn the reasons I like having Mountain mods do it is their PC guys so they understand that standoffs need to be masked they understand which holes don't need to be masked so you can see one of the things they do is there's uh there's a rubber piece here that they put in in order to prevent any kind of paint from getting into the threads here so they put these all over the place and they just they know what they're doing they know their way in or in and around a PC so that's why I'm more comfortable having them work on it but so you can see the motherboard tray has been modernized with a CPU cutout as well as cable management holes and I think that's pretty much it so hopefully the next time you guys see a video for me about my personal rig I will be doing either either a live stream or of just a video of me building it oh this is one little finishing touch that I'm really really pleased about so I had them do the hold-down plate for my limited edition gold-plated Apogee HD in black wrinkle as well so that's going to be just a kind of an awesome centerpiece to have on the in the middle of the motherboard thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos