Gadgetory

well this is just going to be a short in progress video so I've torn out most of the internal hardware components motherboards out I haven't drained my loop yet so what I'm going to do is I got my bucket here so I'll be using this bucket in order to drain it and then I'll just blow on the end of the tubing to clear out the rest of it until there's enough out that I cannot just start disconnecting tubing and pulling out the components and draining them one at a time you can see my temperature probe for my air fans which are these ones and these ones and then I've got a separate temperature probe down here for my water fans which controls these ones and these ones the ones on the front radiator I've got a better picture in my mind of what I want to do for this particular build I think I want to clean up the tube make our the tubing the tubing's fine I want to clean up the wiring a little bit so here on the back especially it's a total mess and there's a lot of sort of extra there's any way that I can reduce the overall amount of clutter a little bit that would be great especially down in the bottom so that's one of the things I'm going to be trying to do I also desperately I mean I had to do this anyway just to clean out my water loop check out this blog it's not disgusting or what you and I'm going to try and get you guys an angle of it here but do you see this here I don't know how to get it to to focus but there's text there's text on the block's oh shoot this is really hard to to show with it reflecting like that but it's on the other side there we go I think we got it now it's on the other side of the plexi so it's not on the side that I'm touching it's on the other side and there's text that goes like this and then there's a like a black line that runs from here all the way across to here there's a WW something the most bizarre thing I've ever seen so um so that was that was kind of weird Oh what else we got so yeah there's my old motherboard raid card that's one of the other things I have to figure out over the course of this project this fan is really loud but it needs to be on there in order to cool the battery backup unit so I'm either going to pull the battery backup unit off of it or I'm going to figure out a better way to cool it that doesn't involve this a loud obnoxious little tiny fan I made most of the noise in my system so it's got to go the advantage of the battery backup unit is that if my raid array fails in the middle of a write operation or while something is still in the cache of the of the raid card and not yet on my drives it's like partially in both places it can cause the data to be corrupted so the battery backup will flush the cache to remember flushes it somewhere whatever or from Ram to something I don't know anyway it prevents corruption and but what happened was it was overheating so I had to put a fan on it and then it's loud so that's annoying so yeah reservoirs dirty these are really hard to clean I love the MT res micro but I really wish it was easier to clean so that's one of the things I'll be doing I've pulled off half of my SSDs so far so got a pull off the other half of them still going to be sticking with the same SSD configuration I mean when you have 8 SSDs it doesn't matter if there's data - or SATA 3 you're you're going to be limited by other things other than the interface to each individual Drive so um yeah I got to clean up wiring to the key balancer a little bit as well as a lot of extra there so I'll be cutting off some wires and then we re tying them in resawing them in order to clean things up if I if I have the gumption I also want to see these the gray on the insides of these I wouldn't mind spray-painting those black just so that it's a little bit cleaner looking at the front if you get this angle it looks good but then if you get this L'Engle you see the grey so I'd like to like to get that fixed up and I'll think about painting the optical drive just because that's kind of ugly I think that's pretty much it for now so until there are more updates