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that's twice in two days actually that I am building something so huge that I don't even fit next to it welcome to personal rig 2015 upgrade part 4 so if you've been following along up till now I've introduced the hardware I have introduced the I don't remember what the second video was about I have introduced yes my friends the birth of the case right the second one was designing it and now I am finally going to build it freshbooks is the super simple invoicing solution that lets you get organized save time and get paid faster check out the link in the video description to try it for free so this was a bit of a rollercoaster of a build for a variety of reasons it started out actually like I was really excited because I have this great concept I've designed the case from scratch with help from Tarun and proto case and like it finally arrived and I'm like yeah I've got this new concept for picking my system and putting in a completely different room to achieve true silence and then I looked at my old Rick and I was like it's actually kind of hard to say goodbye I've been using that case that tjo 7bw for nine years it was a gift from my then girlfriend now wife I have polished it I have dremeled it and cut it I have painted it I have stripped all the paint I have painted it again and we have been through a lot and between that and the radiator in the front that's my first ever water cooling radiator that I've been using for 12 years I'm leaving behind some of the pieces of like my PC enthusiast history that actually ended up meaning a little bit more to me than I had originally thought that they did but hey the builds got to go on so it started with carefully extracting the motherboard being really careful not to chip that extremely fragile paint job that I gave it way back in this controversial video here and grabbing some of the components that I'm gonna carry with me so the CPU the 59 60 x8 core that's coming with me so is that gold-plated Apogee block from Swift Tech and actually this is a funny one my optical drive is coming with me because it handles CDs DVDs HD DVD and blu-ray all in one drive not to mention it has LightScribe yes I'm sure someone somewhere on earth cares about LightScribe one thing that won't be coming with me is these UV LEDs these are the worst lighting solution I have ever encountered they stopped working within one two weeks and then the UV light actually causes the resin to turn to like stone and crack it's ridiculous so the Rams new here we've got 64 gigs of corsair dominator Platinum's I installed them the way that I do install Ram not a whole lot to say about that the radiator was a whole other story this was a tight fit at the front and it actually took quite a while to get the cables for the front panel connectors as well as front USB kind of out of the way enough to get it just barely wedged in there and then I equipped it with three of those LTT addition knocked when ff12 fans now these are pretty quiet fans but honestly I'm the kind of person where if this system was actually sitting next to my head on my table I would be fan controlling them but I ended up not carrying the T balancer forward and I'm just using two of these little molex to three fan connector cables that cable wad made up for me with turns out they actually kind of screwed them up a little inadvertently they didn't screw them up they're fine but they're three pin whereas the fans are four pin so they didn't fit so I had to cut them and then hot glue them together to secure the cables anyway it's all fine it's all good so my point is that I would normally use a fan controller but I didn't have to because the whole point of this build is to have it in a room away from me the SSD was the next thing I tackled while I was waiting for the glue gun to warm up and this was a bitch I could not get the stock cooler off I even tried a heat gun finally I resorted to a hobby knife to cut the thermal adhesive on the NAND chips I mean damn even then it was hard to pry the thing off the good news though is that the results are technically worth it Ek you never cease to amaze me liquid cooling and SSD who'da thunk it the other front radiator was I thought going to be the hardest part of this build it needed to be precisely cut for the hard line tubing to get exactly the right length to sit in between them I'm running them in parallel and even once I got that right tightening down the callers on the fittings was a freaking nightmare the good news is that monsoon tubing kit that was provided by performance pcs is freakin awesome so I used it to cut the tubing to exactly that right length it did take a couple tries even so then with some very careful and tedious fussing around with the mounts cuz the rad had to be slid into place from front to back and then the tubing had to be pushed in from back to front and basically I learned a valuable lesson about if I were to design this case again I would definitely not do it this way but I eventually got it in there and by the end of it it was not leaking speaking of not leaking and awesome freakin stuff recommended by performance pcs this monsoon reservoir I mean I could talk to you guys about mounting it or whatever with screws but instead I'm just going to talk about how balls-to-the-wall amazing it looks it uses monsoons modular system so you can actually configure it any number of different ways and they kind of asked me what I wanted to do and I went gee that looks complicated you figure something out and send it to me so they sent it with cathodes for the bottom but I actually ended up taking out since I didn't really have anywhere to put an inverter and I wanted to go with UV LED lighting anyway so I took those out but even then holy crap it looks so cool there's a ton of options for inlets and outlets there's a lot of flexibility sort of once I get to my tubing and the d5 pump goes right into the end with this like sick metal cover on it and it all comes together really nicely and saves me another tooling run at the same time freaking sick I didn't think anything was going to impress me more than my old t-virus reservoir this one definitely did on the subject of tubing though this was a disaster from the start complete disaster the original plan was to hard pipe water cool this thing so I broke out the monsoon kit again I got the heat gun I got the fancy fittings I started cutting to the flank except for one small problem the block for the 750 SSD so much lower profile than the GPU block that the bend here ended up being impossible at least for me so I had to start evaluating other options even going as far as to dig up some red angled fittings that were earmarked for a project I never ended up completing and man that would have looked awful but I was desperate trying to come up with some way to plumb that card fortunately by some miracle I found enough between the random fittings been in my old system 90-degree fittings and straight compressions to complete the build if I was willing to go back to flexible tubing which I mean sure the runs aren't just perfect and beautiful and clean looking as they would be with hardline but there are a lot of benefits to flexible tubing it is harder for it to leak it is easier to work with if you ever want to upgrade and honestly I'm ok with it it ended up looking in my opinion pretty sick anyway and if I'm being entirely honest with myself it's going to be installed on a server cabinet in a closet anyway so I'm unlikely to ever see the guts unless I'm working on it which leads us finally to the conclusion where I guess a lot of Brandon's sexy b-roll is going to go I learned a lot about a lot of things I especially learned a lot about designing a case it is not as easy as the case designers out there like George from Corsair make it look I did a lot of things right actually this was monsoons idea having a fill port on the side of the system in order to make this thing so easy felt freakin awesome I personally like the front panel that was painted by our neighbor over here at Linus Media Group he does like helicopter repair and apparently airbrushing on the side I love the front panel I loved the concept of the water cooled rack mount case but then there were a lot of little things I could have done to make my life easier in terms of planning out the tubing runs better in terms of planning out the radiator installation better but the good news is now that system is actually built I think it looks fantastic I can't wait to install it and it and my wife system and the new nas and all that stuff so there is going to be a part five of personal rig update 2015 but it is not this day today is done it's 2:40 in the morning I am ready to go home today is done and it is finally built and I am actually very happy with it and I hope you guys are happy too so thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if it was awesome get subscribed hit 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