Gadgetory

it's time this is the finale the conclusion the culmination of like months of plans and hard work DIY desk PC will be complete before this video is over so don't go anywhere to begin with honestly all I could really do was stand around and gather my thoughts for a few minutes I legitimately like really have no idea where to start between my dad's heart surgery and Jake's school schedule it had been so long since I touched this project that I wasn't sure where half the tools materials or even computer components were so a little mental and physical organization was in order first up was the final installation of the motherboard inserts I had pre done some of these and then put in screws so that I could paint over them and I really wish I had done them all this way it is much scarier mashing away at a finished product with a hammer than an in-progress one the power button was a piece of cake using a couple of cable mod extensions that we spliced together and then it was time to start on the hardware naturally of course we've gone with a nickel-plated ek supremacy Evo on a top-of-the-line core i7 Xtreme 69 50x call it what you will deca core 10 core I call it nothing but the best my friends and in that vein we've gone with two kits of Corsairs Dominator platinum special edition memory which was limited to only 500 units worldwide we ended up with kit zero zero four and by special request zero six nine giving us 64 gigs of 32 hundred megahertz quad channel ddr4 installed on the baddest assest motherboard that I have yet to lay my hands on yes I would choose this over a rampage the x99 e 10 GW s Brock's eight memory slots seven PCIe expansion slots and dual 10 Gigabit LAN ports running on an Intel X 550 82 Nick buh-buh-buh lid moving on to the video card I scavenged this PCIe extender from a lien leo series case then fastened my NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card using the sketchy Jam a six and three-quarters screw through slightly too small hole in the PCB and secure it using a threaded insert method and shockingly it worked very secure then it was time for the Intel 750 series 1.2 terabyte nvme PCIe SSD that I'll have on the receiving end of the full 10 gig file transfers I'll be doing to and from our server room ah the power supply might seem like an odd choice given the overkill nosov a 1500 watt unit for this hardware but come on did you really expect any less than top of the line with custom length and terminated individually sleeved cables from cable mod also the fan will never need to spin which is great I guess and on the subject of overkill yes my friends you read the label right that is 40 terabytes of 7200 rpm spindle speed Barracuda Pro goodness filled with helium for optimal efficiency we screwed these into standoffs from the bottom raising them up a little bit gives me enough clearance for the front bank of drives to have the connectors for my custom length SATA cables run under the rear ones and plug into the motherboard the reservoirs were mounted using a slight modification to the stock mount to accommodate the thickness of my case the plan for filling is to leave some slack in the tubing lines on the bottom to allow the reservoirs to be pulled up then tipped and filled from the end cap leading us then to pumps one of the trickiest parts of the build I had to break out the pencil and paper and double check my flow diagram before beginning here since the pump fittings lead directly through the table meaning they need to be hooked up before I bolt them down and I couldn't find my damn cables leaving supplies so I had to improvise to get the power lead sleeved for maximum sexiness the end result is worth it though these ekx top Revo d5s have built-in anti vibration rings and threaded holes in the bottom for easy as pie mounting for my radiators like the rest of the liquid cooling it's the EK water block show with two of their cool streams slim edition 360s each configured in a push configuration with three LTT edition Noctua n ff12 fans we've knocked to his chrome axe anti-vibration quarter pieces in white added for a little bit of extra flair I'm really proud of the power solution for these which involves removing the connectors running the sleeved wires through perfectly sized holes and plugging them into fan hubs on the underside of the table onto tubing dear Lord this took forever but I stuck to my plan and I think I ended up with tight enough runs but for the most part they won't be visible unless you get your head pretty low down looking under the table using flexible tubing started out as a compromise because I hate dealing with hardline but I think it actually ended up being what makes this build look so striking power for the underside of the table is one wrinkle that I was already planning to deal with after painting and installing most of the hardware but first RGB W LED strips from cable mod the W here is for white so if you want white lighting you don't have to deal with the weird rainbow effect of mixing red green and blue the included adhesive clearly won't stick to my paint at all but the lengths all came out great so time to break out the drill do a test hole and to avoid making a mess inside the desk all while being painfully aware that the exit hole is usually not as tidy as the entrance hole start drilling up through the bottom so I can have the controller on the outside oh no terrible oh boy time for some primer and touch-up paint then while I wait for that to dry I'll get back to the LED strips this permanent 3m adhesive should do the trick back to the paint now that it's dry actually it looks not that bad so let's run all the wires then time for some cable management I was going to drill down zip tie loops to hold everything in place up the right side of the board but actually since everything was built to size it ended up looking great and running straight up the side of the motherboard exactly as I planned without it it's kind of like a bad guy from the matrix Sentinel sentry whatever they're called looking thing and I like it so then we finish off the LEDs with some zip tie anchors so they can't be seen on the extensions along the left side and finally it's time to fill this puppy paper towels for safety particle board does not like moisture some distilled water and a funnel and we're ready for action and oh crap we ran into a slight problem with some sediment in the radiators that we forgot to flush so three hours and an overnight run later and here we are back in the studio ready for the finishing touches some cable and tubing management on the bottom with zip ties and anchors and a few Silverstone fan filters on the front and we are ready to call this puppy cooked now there are a few things that I still plan to improve over time I want to cable manage a power bar a blade power adapter and a USB hub under the desk I'm going to add some cutout furnace filters to the aisle holes with slits down the middle for cables to pass through and framing around them similar to the inside so they look really clean and I won't have to deal with any dust buildup inside the system and I'm going to replace the legs with pad now I'm just kidding hate on them all you want but the legs have held up very well all these weeks including one time Brandon dragged the table across the carpet from one end there just fine and I like how they look so all that's left then is putting the glass down on the top and moving this sick rig to my office upstairs thank you for coming along for the ride thank you for your patience and thanks to Intel for sponsoring this build it has been a lot of fun so thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but it was awesome get subscribed hit that like button check out the link to where to buy the stuff we feature to dammuz on in the video description and also linked in the description is our merch store which has cool shirts like this one in our community forum which you should 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