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by an Intel NOC bare-bones PC and get a limited edition t-shirt and in-game items for planetside 2 click now to learn more so finally personal rig update time it's actually been done for kind of a while so I have my glass window on there you can actually even tell in video hi slick you can actually even tell in video how much clearer that makes the side panel window so I'm doing a couple small upgrades number one and the people ask me why I use such a ghetto water cooling setup with curved tubes and you know like it's not it's not the nicest looking water cooling in the world the reason is because I do things like this I'm going to swap a motherboard without actually changing any of my tubing and without making my life more difficult than it has to be mine is upgradable which if you have a really really tight runs and you have like you know perfect you know curved fittings and then straight tubing runs or whatever else you can't really you don't really have that same flexibility so I'm also upgrading my graphics card so I'm going to be going from the GTX 590 that's in there to this GTX Titan and that is for one reason and one reason only because 590 is still a beastly card great performance but the thing that's missing is support for streaming to Nvidia shield which is something that I want to be able to do so we can go ahead and pull the side panel off oh yeah these are something that I actually added since the last update so these are just little decorative Hey focus he's a junkie yeah there we go little decorative knobs they don't actually hold anything on the glasses held on by an industrial-strength adhesive in here so yeah those don't do anything they just are for looks and they're like the cheapest possible thing that I could find at Home Depot that didn't look absolutely terrible so there's a there's a look at the insides so I've got Crucial Ballistix tracer tactical whatever the with the LEDs memory there's that gold CPU block so boss and then there's the graphics card that I'll be pulling out alright so I rope slick into holding the camera for me for a minute here so I'm just on the last screw to pull out the motherboard here so I just got to find somewhere to hold it by I'm gonna go with this heatsink there we go and this my friends is why I do things the way I do them because I can extract my motherboard just like this and probably what I've been doing this maybe what six seven minutes maybe yeah then you got all those cards out to when I got all the cards out so I can extract another board just like that that's not a curly blue and that reveals the offshoot okay there's one thing I missed let's say the cable yeah come on a SATA cables love that alright so we can go ahead and put that down okay now this is where things are going to get a little bit tricky because I got a drain this graphics card in order to swap in this graphics card and that's one thing I haven't looked back closely at is how well the barbed positions are going to line up between these two cards because I don't want to redo my tubing if I can get away with it so let's just kind of try to try to visually line these up then can I go that's pretty good yeah yeah that's going to be okay so we're going to use this bucket right here as a drain bucket we're just going to pop one of the fittings off of the graphics card again and do it and then just drain into here I don't have to fully drain the loop which is great because I just have to drain the part that I need to swap in the new graphics card put that in and then it means that it's going to be much quicker to bleed bleed the air out of when we're done in fact I may not even need to top up the reservoir in order to get it back up and running so this is extremely unorthodox I don't really recommend doing this but what I'm doing right now is I'm loosening one of the plugs here and we're just going to drain just the card and anything that would sit above it while we swap it out for a different one now they know the funny funny conversation slick and I just had about GTX 590 he's all like hey I'll take that card off your hands I'm all like hey are you sure and he's like yeah sure and I'm like no shadow plays I got that GTX 590 is probably the best card that just makes absolutely no sense right now from a features perspective performance wise if you're not planning to stream to a shield or use shadowplay so a game streaming on Twitch or anything like that man is such a beast I've actually kind of forgotten I was looking it up the other night this thing owns the 680 I'd completely forgotten about that it just stomps all over it in terms of actual FPS performance so still a good card just kind of move over to something else I mean Shrive PS I don't think Titan is going to be that much faster it might not even be at all and having the bigger frame buffer will help them because GTX 590 is going to be held back by each of the GPUs having only one and a half gigs so if you wanted to go higher than two and a half K probably or even higher than 1080p and some of the more modern titles then that might hold you back a little bit I think that was pretty much all the water we're getting it out of it only oh pretty payments might be speaking too soon here then never know I've been known to do that from time to time oh this is gonna be tricky here's something to watch out for guys so if you're ever trying to do I get a water cooling loop upgrade like this watch out for this so when I disconnect this I'm going to have to secure it above the u-bend down here somehow because otherwise all the water from that reservoir will come dumping out of it and that'll be a problem so I'm just going to watch out for that so the crazy Russian gave me this a little while ago and I had kind of a nostalgia moment just for lols I mean remember guys between the best decent thermal compound on the market and the worst decent thermal compound on the market we're talking a few degrees so just for lols I'm going to be using ocz Ultra 5 plus thermal paste on my 39 70 X and I've decided to change the order of operations a little bit here so I was going to do the video card swap first but instead I think I'm going to put the motherboard in first because that'll allow me that will give me where to put the video card once I'm done so that it doesn't just kind of flop all over the place so I'm going to get that put in right now this is a relatively small upgrade but I'm actually ditching the killer Nick it's just causing driver issues again even though it has a really cool red LED on it and stuff and I'm throwing in and until server Nick so I'm going to go go that route instead it's a bit of an older one but it supports everything that I need it to support and at least take some of the processing load off of the CPU not that it doesn't have plenty to spare but you know every little bit counts right putting the raid card back in for those of you who haven't seen it before that's running to eight Corsair SSDs that are running in raid 0 giving you a total of around 900 gigs of SSD based storage mmm how this always happens but like my build blog videos always end up with things I don't recommend in them like jamming a pen in a piece of tubing to keep it from spraying water all over the place I used to have proper tubing plugs that I used to use for this stuff but I don't really have them anymore then like twist tying the block up here so that this doesn't drain into the rest of the system anyway here's the new graphics card that's going to be going in and yeah GTX Titan coolants block looks absolutely beautiful here we go so as you may or may not have noticed the computer is now upside down we have a bit of a problem I dropped my backplate behind the motherboard so I got a go home see my family and stuff so we're going to call that it for for today but it's like I flipped it upside down and I did manage to get it to come back so that's good news I don't have to pull the motherboard out other good news is the graphics card is now installed the fittings are on and we're going to be pretty much ready to rock as soon as I get that CPU block mounted and get these expansion cards put in very very excited alright so I cut it sorted out a fair bit of picking away at the back I also had to completely destroy what little I had done in terms of cable management back here in order to access the back plates so that's going to be a bit of a mess to fix now but the expansion cards are all in there we go well that one needs to be cleaned zone ours ends from a soos with that Sennheiser co-branding on it there we go maybe that's a little bit better now ah that gleam there we go alright so there's the LSI 9268 I where's my Intel whatever it is that Gigabit Ethernet card as well as sound card and graphics cards the last thing left here is - oh this is something I did not think of oh I don't need one of the two pins anymore so this extra two pins I do not need that's fascinating I'll have to figure out somewhere to hide those good thing I still have that other side panel off and I haven't done anything with the wires alright so there she is with the board swap done get a bit of a better angle what I love about this board is it has tons of PCI Express expansion so you can still add like another PCIe 16x card potentially something else down here if I was willing to move this down a little bit I wanted to give it a bit more room to breathe and it had before though so yeah I can still put a couple more PCIe 8 X cards in here which is pretty darn impressive so now I just gotta fix things up at the back a little bit close it up and then we're good to go sure do so the ultimate first world problem is like having too many SSDs piled up behind your motherboard tray so you can't close your chassis anymore see that they actually stick out quite a bit from here you got to get a mushroom down flat there so what I have to do with my system is basically lay it down on its side this is why I don't like taking up this side panel you can see there's quite a bulge here and I just got a and it's quite a tight fit now that I had it painted because it changes the tolerances a little bit fitting together oh then I got slider shot like that in order to contain everything but other than that oh whoa now you did a now she's done and that is what the inside is in theory supposed to look like that's a little bit gimpy right there say the cable I guess that's not too bad I feel bad it was like backs of the cards are dusty and stuff but it's not exactly a new build in the same way that it was new when I put it together like months ago so how to take it home and fire it up and get some shield streaming gaming going on here alright friends this is the moment where we find out if she boots off Bob boots up or powers on and boots on all right let's see how that water levels doing in the res Oh looks like she's not bleeding perfectly okay so let's oh looks like it decided to take another crack at things itself that's interesting okay come on pump come on postcode keep doing things whoa that's a good sign all right so she boots but I don't see anything that looks like particularly good water flow in there so we're going to shut her down see if we can let some of that the air bubbles that are stuck in the pump bleed out all right so I'll be back when we try this again and that my friends is why I always recommend a variable speed pump and not cheeping out in getting the B version of the d5 because I'm able to tweak the speed in order to just jar loose the bubble so I'm able to get things running so looks like I didn't even lose enough fluid during the refill to completely drain my res so all I got to do is top this baby up and we're pretty much ready to rock I hope she boots up I guess bull might as well find out together right I think that's the whole point of this vlogging thing well that doesn't look like an F Drive so there they are okay good normally it's something one on the second page so I guess this board does it differently for some reason that freaked me out a little so you can see my raid zero has been found nine hundred gigabytes okay please boot up please moved up hmm oh it might not be set to the correct order well okay well the rams detective that's good because officially on paper this Ram is not compatible f1 tender set up yeah spare you guys the suspense and there she goes booting up into Windows with the fresh changes to the hardware it looks like we are good so thank you for checking out build blog number I guess this is part 16 of the personal rig update that I guess is finally sort of done I still want to do kind of a you know like a glam video showcase of the rig or something but I'm not quite done with my setup yet because as you can see I'm still running an older monitor this is an like an ancient BenQ 1920 by 600 thing I've got a new monitor that I've had on order for a while I've got people asking me also for a little while here what i use for peripherals so this is my replacement of khari lasers my third one now so that I mean I guess I use it a lot but you know they I guess they die but I can't get used to anything else I've tried this is a me on accessible 60 is cherry MX blacks which are not generally my favorite switches but I like this particular keyboard these are my steel series 7hs that I use for when I'm sitting here and when I don't have something else to plug in to the essence one external USB soundcard and DAC I use coarser SP 2500 speakers and just to show my my total non-biased miss I balance out my Intel swag with AMD swag and this is actually a ruby sword so he he sits here with all that stuff if I think is kind of funny it's my little swag guy there's my star citizen citizen card or whatever they're called and I guess that's ah that's pretty much it full tour proper tour and some glam of the system coming when I get around to it thanks guys for 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