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so hopefully that looked pretty cool because I'm currently at square one all I have right now is a whole bunch of awesome computer parts and 18 pounds of amethyst crystals yep as you may have seen I wasn't just going to have colored light representing the inside of a geode I want it to really feel like you're looking inside of an actual geode that happens to have some wicked looking computer part and in order to make it look like that I must build so without further ado let's get to it HP's new omen ex lineup comes equipped with Intel seventh generation Core i7 processor check it out in the link in the video description hey yo homie G we filled in the computer three first things first I should probably see if this stuff is even going to function I've had some of these things for a while now and they've just been kind of sitting here and I don't even know if they work Wow so right off the bat I need to actually like test all the stuff I've been sourcing the things for this computer for the greater part of 2016 and now it's 2017 so I haven't taken some of these things over there boxes and so long that they have like dust on them the first thing I'm going to install into my Strix x99 gaming motherboard is an i7 69 hundred k which is going to be fantastic because I've been struggling on my twitch stream for a long time now with an i7 2600 and Windows 10 which don't really go very well together I can barely stream rocket League bring it bitch one of the nice things about this motherboard too isn't just that like it's a really great-looking motherboard and it's going to be a solid motherboard is this like RGB header down at the bottom right here not the easiest thing to see ever but I can plug in my like cable mod RGB cables into that and think all the lighting in my system which is going to be rather awesome considering the importance of lighting in this film now I'm going to install some RAM some clev memory I really like this club craft stuff I don't see very many people use it but I just think it looks awesome one thing that was pretty important when I was picking all these computer parts was that they looked nice but rather minimalistic because I didn't want the computer part to visibly take away from the amethyst crystal I wanted them to accent it so white lighting or having lighting in general was rather important and then the rest of it I basically just wanted to black I'm hoping I checked for compatibility with the cooler I did this so long ago that I don't remember but that's some tall memory and this is a big cooler man this looks amazing already if you ever wanted to like stop a build partway through and just be like it can say like this now let's see if this cool is even going to fit how am I supposed to open and can't get Hey look at open I don't want to break it so that's what they want it to look like and in that configuration it would definitely not fit oh man okay okay hopefully my idea for how this should go we'll make it fit let's see come off fan oh my god maybe not the mounting is in a weird spot I think if this was in the middle it would actually fit to the point where I might need to take off like this entire black section in order to make it fit for those wondering why I would use an air cooler and not just go water cooling the rig is called Geodude Geodude is a rock and Ground type in Pokemon both of which are weak to water at the same time I can't put water in this build that wouldn't make any sense at all he would take more than just double damage from that it would be 4 X the original damage of the water attack there is no way that I would risk Geodude I will make this work so I'm modifying the cooler try to make the one side shorter as you can hopefully see you right there and hopefully that will get over the ramp I do know right now that these peopIe Paul so go too far out ok so I think it's actually going to work we've bent the heat pipe back there's like dent in the heat pipe from where I was pushing but I don't think we actually ruptured anything I was able to make the one side taller than the other yeah like it gets over the RAM and it doesn't really push the RAM over at all so now all I need to do is try to get this guy to go back on here somewhat like that so you can't tell that I screwed up so it's like actually going to size up pretty well what if we can get the fan back in oh I did not think that would work hahahaha oh my gosh I can't believe this is going on right now I've almost got the cooler on bringing it lower lights off I mean idiot head enforcer off a stock that wasn't even planned or scripted we just started selling the ham it I spent so much you what there you go so it works everything's on I actually put freaking thermal paste on at this time it looks sort of horrible from this angle you can totally tell that it's walked out but when you'll actually be looking at it in the case it looks fine now like two hours later or finally continuing on with trying to see if any of the components even works great wonderful so all of the rams installed the cpu is installed the cooler is installed now I just need to get a GPU on here plug things into the power supply and make sure that we can actually post all right so power supply switch on time where is the power switch here it is if you're cooler fan spinning graphics card fan spinning and then they turned off because they're supposed to do that power supply a fan did the same thing I've got a monitor back here which is not responding oh hey okay everything does seem to be working moving on heli now to put it in the cake there we go hey it's upside-down oh I'm excited to work with you again okay so I Oh tray I remember that yeah I'll do that right now okay so I'm swapping out the default a suit strict logos I never checked the manual on how to do this so hopefully just tearing them off was the approved method of removing them and I'm going to put on black and silver ones that came in the box because this goes really well with my whole theme goddamn and just never touch that again all right into the computer we go let me see what this looks like oh my god even without all the drives and all of them because crystals this thing already has some weight - oh jeez this is going to be one hell of a building I got rid of the boring cars by cables and got this plain brown box anyways cable mob stuff hopefully it doesn't spill everywhere oh my goodness okay so I got a whole bunch of cable combs which will come in use later for organizing cables mainly that are behind the motherboard tray and I got a bunch of lighting strip the cables that I went with by actually collaborated with the forum mod team on their design our purple silver black and white in different variations depend on which cable you have in the state of cables are just purple it's a pretty bright compared to the rest of the build but I did want them to stand out a little bit because they look beautiful so I'm going to do like two more cable runs just for the graphics cards but everyone else needs to go for the day so time-lapse mode engage plot a rough night we had a lot of issues that's not like six freaking hours cable managing this thing and it's not as good as it was but I'm kind of done with that now so this is where we're going to be the power supply was not that things were bad it was showing LEDs on the motherboard but I couldn't actually turn the system on and it was troublesome to figure out how I ended up swapping out the powers by trying a different one eating some pizza and working through it figured out that it would be graphics card cables I think they just weren't seated well enough into the power supply itself must have tugged on them or something I'm not entirely sure but we are up and operational now so it is time to add the 18 pounds of amethyst crystals the whole interesting part of this entire build is slightly starting and I've got a washing stone now that they're all in the bath it's time to get rid of the like caked on dust and grime existing on basically all of them from lingering impurities and the grinding against each other that happened in shipping and storage for so long I'm going to use some scrubbing tools to get rid of what I can and hope that what I can't fix just won't show now that that's done I'm going to rinse them all off with distilled water just to ensure that they're at the very least clean before trying to secure them all I don't actually want to tumble them tumbling them would make the surfaces smooth and I want them to be kind of jagged this is just me like trying some okay so all the rocks are clean I've laid them out in like somewhat of a size order so I've got really small almost pebble sized amethyst over here and then they get really big over here you can make jokes but how I'm feeling the positive energy of all the crystals because this looks freaking awesome this section right near the power spot here that hugs all the way up the side I love that bit and then the top area here is more just a proof of concept just definitely make them work there's too much gap between some of them and it's too easy to see the individual LEDs but if I can get the whole area looking like this that's what I'm going for I got a lot of work ahead of me so let's go that's the glass fully on today so I'm like really sad hopefully you guys just watched a really cool time-lapse of me putting in a huge amount of amethyst stones and then I did a whole bunch more work after the camera died and finished up with what we've got right now as you can tell though it's off and the CPU is out of the socket and I have some other weird ram in there the entire right hand side of memory doesn't work this whole bank of memory all four sticks none of it works it all detects in the bio says na not applicable no RAM there and if they're plugged in at all it is unstable doesn't matter what Ram I use I swapped out the CPU so this is a sixty nine hundred K this is a 69 50 X I tried both of them oh forget about that please that never happened don't no stop don't look at it anyways try both of those doesn't work it's the motherboard the motherboard is the issue we have another x99 Strix in the office I can swap it out we can RMA this one everything's fine except I just spent all of those hours gluing it in place so the plan now is to try to do a motherboard rescue I have to get it out of there the top part won't be all that difficult to get out but the lower section is going to be a lot of work I have to get both the graphics cards that are there in order to get the motherboard out so in the end I had to take out all of the amethyst right up here and most of them coming along this way but then was able to get away with leaving this big one which is good and a couple other little ones as well but it might be a different story trying to get those graphics cards back inside now it's time to put the motherboard in which I've already prepped with the envy me drive my 69 hundred K and the mounting screws for my radiator and I've swapped out the colors of the custom Strix logos so yeah time to go let's get the drives plugged in okay so the motherboard is back in now actually try to get those GPS back in the bottom GPU I'm a little bit worried about oh I think I got it oh right is no saying that it prospected oh that is good okay alright that went far better than expected that wasn't too bad it works it actually works all 64 gigs fully detects and the sli works I can verify it on this screen right over here everything is fine all I need to do now is put the amethyst back that I took out put the glass panels on do some performance testing and we're good so putting all those amethyst back worked fine it wasn't too hard I kind of got used to it at that point it looks great but we'll look at glam footage of it in a moment for now benchmarking benchmarking for this was a little bit unique because what I really cared about was how much better it would stream video games so I had to benchmark things while streaming using xsplit up to twitch games acted a little bit oddly but there was pretty huge improvement it's something like Metro last light I went from seeing an average of 74 frames per second to an average of 120 that's fantastic by itself something like 2 writer I went from 65 FPS to still 65 fps if I turn off xsplit and didn't stream I did get 77 fps but still but looking at minimum on the geothermal map I went from 4.4 5 fps to 28 which is pretty substantial hit man DirectX 11 I went from an average of 19 to an average of 50 that's a pretty major improvement Deus Ex mankind I went from an average of 30 with a minimum of 21 and a maximum of 39 to an average of 56 a minimum of 40 and maximum of 91 but all of those performance improvements aside the main thing that I like about this computer is what it looks like so we can stop looking at me and by the way I have a huge amount of hair right now and my beard is ridiculous because when we first started filming this I decided that I wouldn't get a haircut and I wouldn't shave until we were done because I knew it's going to take forever and I'm disgusting so after this video I'm going to go take care of this that'll be that'll be a good thing fresh books is a simple way to be more productive organized and get paid quickly by creating and sending professional-looking invoices in less than 30 seconds if you even set up online payments with just a couple clicks and get paid up to four days faster you can see when your client has seen an invoice and put an end to the guessing games when you're going to get paid for your unrestricted 30-day free trial just go to fresh book Stockholm slash tech tips and enter line of tech tips and how did you hear about us section but anyways look at gland footage of my computer and yeah while you're looking at gland footage of my computer I guess if you check the link down below there's a links to Amazon where you can buy some stuff that you saw in this video there's a place where you can buy some shirts there's the like and dislike button so you can press the one that says like on it you can get subscribed because this video was so freakin cool and no I'm not going to link another video actually now I'm lying there will be another video up there eventually maybe now and then we just keep the gland footage going afterwards but it'll be the fallout bomb build that I did which was another epic video I'll see you guys next time