Gadgetory

so I'm actually finally working on it the personal rig is in progress and I'm really going to build it this time you guys so I've got the case back from mountain mods it's got a glorious black wrinkled finish on it you can't really see it too well in this light but oh yeah there you go that's not too bad looks just just beast there's a couple small imperfections on the case but I'm over it I've gotten over it so I'm not over it but there's not a whole lot I can do about it at this point short of Reese tripping and then reap outer coating the case which is probably going to cost me around 500 bucks so it ain't happening so yeah I've got everything scattered like all over the place here's my t-virus res there we go I guess I could actually do something about the exposure level there there you go there's the t-virus res and my soldering iron so I'm using that to solder things like custom cables and whatnot there's my tubing that I'll be using there's my double sided velcro which is freaking awesome it's my backpack them the tools there's some adapters so those are some molex to quad SATA adapters that I may or may not be using to power the drives there's my front bay radiator so it's a dual 120 mil actually it's funny my radiators are about as spread out as anything check this out there's my quad radiator sitting here on the table along with my MCP six five five pump I won't be using that Luna block so that's that's for something else I won't be using that power supply you through that's for something else as well Acer notebook also for something else so oh yeah this TJ 10 also for something else so let's get into the actual personal rig itself I'm still going oh I blocked all the light still going with the XFX 80-plus Platinum 1000 watt power supply for the main reason that the fan doesn't turn on when the system is not using any power like when it's under idle a can really hear my breathing in this mic I'm using a bit of a different mic setup so bear with me here guys the raid card down there you can see the cables are being routed behind the motherboard tray like I had planned the Asus zonar card actually has a custom sleeved connector on it so this is a here we go for pin molex that I've sleeved using MD PCX it's leaving so it's extremely clean looking can't see any color not that there is any color so it's leaving they're making Kate custom cables like this as most of the work of a build like this and I'm probably not going to overdo it so anything that's not going to be seen I don't think I'm going to put this sort of level of detail into it this is keeping with my part of one of the themes for this build which is that I'm not using individually sleeve cables I'm actually leaving two wires per cable for everything so the here you can see the wires that are going to the GTX 590 classified from EVGA so that's again two wires per per sleeve there's the 24 pin so if you count them one two three four five six two wires per sleeve again and same thing up there for the eight pin now this isn't going to be visible but this is one of the digital temperature monitors that I'm gonna be using from the T balancer so that's going to tuck back there so that you don't actually see it so that's the one that I'll be using to monitor air temperatures and that's gonna control these fans and these ones right here because those are the ones that are really going to be cooling the actual chips out here so that way the the temperature sensor directly controls the cooling in the area around the temperature sensor they're actually I guess I'll just use the zoom instead of moving around so there is the custom black wrinkle hold down on the Apogee HD limited edition gold-plated water block and the focus isn't quite right yeah there we go it's a little bit dirty so I'll clean it up before I do the final build and those are ballistics tracers in there right now but those are just a placeholder this painters tape is just to keep the t-virus reservoir from getting ruined what I do test mounts so it's gonna go I had a few people tell me I was crazy for planning to mount the PCI Express cables around it so I'm gonna be I'm gonna be going on this side instead so it's gonna look a little something like that you can see I don't have a lot of clearance here but the SATA cables so I'm gonna have to find myself a low profile left angle SATA power as well to make that even fit in there and then I'm gonna have one of have to rotate a little bit now one of these runs straight down into the bottom which will go to the pump which will be in the basement on the build haven't installed any of the five and a quarter bay connectors are five and a quarter bay adapters yet that'll come later so those are right there I still have to clean out my radiator so I'll be using a 10% vinegar 90% boiling water solution and then most people just flush them shake them out and then use them but what I'll actually be doing is setting up my loop my pump Meads to be cleaned to so I'll be setting up my loop on the kitchen counter in here and then I'm just gonna let it run for a day with the vinegar solution running through it and then I'll just clean all that water out so I'll just set it up next to the sink clean all that water out and then I'll do a couple flushes with distilled to make sure that they're actually clean because I know there was some some junk in my loop before ah LEDs so I'm using UV LED strips you actually won't be able to see the one that's back here so that's the only one I've installed so far and the only reason I installed it is because it's really difficult to get at that spot once the system is built the rest of them are gonna go here to up here and then either one or two here I'm not sure yet it's going to depend what I can get away with without them being seen the trick with lighting is that you should be able to see the light being thrown not the lights themselves because they're extremely bright I may end up putting one or two back here as well I really haven't decided yet one of the challenges is going to be combating the blue LEDs that are also in the system and that was wait were those coming from what was the problem no I think the problem was when I lit this guy up the cathode in there makes the makes the coil and the t-virus glows so bright that it was overpowering anything that I tried to do on the tubing because the tubing wasn't as UV reactive as this so I don't want to end up with a ton of blue light I want to end up with UV blue glow on the appropriate components so that'll be the UV blue tubing the UV blue fans and the UV blue t virus as well as this UV blue cable though you won't be able to see much of that one because it's just gonna sneak in back here and that's about that's about all you're gonna see of it so the quadrats gonna go in the basement dual rads gonna go on the front and overall it's gonna look kind of like this although you can't really get a good feel for it that's the light reflecting off it funny like that there you go the back will look kind of something like that haven't really decided if I'm gonna leave the sound card in there or not because I have an essence one that I'm gonna be using for my headphones uh what else do we have on here well yeah I guess I could show you guys the back that probably should have occurred to me earlier so this is where the tea balancers going to go all the connectors are at the bottom here you see four or three pin connectors molex for power this USB one right here I'll probably unplug at some point but I need it in there just to program it and get it set up with the new profiles these are double stacked so that's eight F 120 SSDs each one or 120 gigs so I was a total of 960 gigs or something stupid like that it's gonna be challenging getting the power in there you can see the sort of the breakout cables have to be coiled around a fair bit so they go here here here here and here and they actually take up a lot of the cable management holes that I made for myself that are not actually stock on the tj7 but I think I'm gonna get away with it because these can pretty much lay flat here all I have to get is some more fan wires run so I'll do some of them up here some of them down here I have to get one inverter in and I have to sleeve this for the cathode that's inside the t-virus and then I'll probably stash that here or here so behind the motherboard tray so basically all I have to get up here is a couple molexes to split out into the quad Sada's for these guys try to keep wiring to a minimum because it's gonna be a real challenge I have to get a molex up here to power this guy I have to have a molex down here for the pump and then I have to figure out how to run extensions and then splitters out to where all the fans go still haven't decided how to power all the LEDs I might use something like a like a three pin a block light comes with Swift xh 220 water cooler where it's like a 1 3 pin or 1 4 pin to like 8 4 pin splitter out so that I can run all the LEDs to one place and then I'll just plug them in like here and have it just run everywhere and I'll just use extensions to get it where it needs to go so cable management coming in handy so cable management here here and here we're all cut this time around actually I think I had a little one here but I made a much bigger one the motherboard tray cutout has been useful if nothing else for making the the t balance or actually fit so for those of you who don't know what a t balance or does it controls all of my fans automatically USB 3 upgrade on the front done this is a fairly unique item right here it's that LG blu-ray and kind of manually focus here yeah there we go that LG blu-ray and HD DVD player so it's just I don't know it's kind of neat I don't use an optical drive much but if I do then I want it to be like a sweet hard to find one I guess that's about it sorry for the breathing throughout this video it sounds really awful but I'm not going to refilm it at this point so good night everyone thank you for checking out my personal rig update don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos