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thick rad as well as a liquid cooled 3770k and the liquid cooled GTX 660 in the same Luke so hmm sorry I said 660 I meant 670 we're also going with a gigabyte thunderbolt ready board this is a z77 xup 5 th so this is pretty much state of the art as far as features get it actually has dual thunderbolt ports for memory we're gonna go with 16 gigs of Corsair Dominator platinum 24 hundred megahertz memory so this is just I mean honestly this is a showcase piece we want it to look awesome it's also got the blue light bars in it so this is going to be a blue themed build hence the use of blue LED fans for our radiators as well as a high yes to Samsung 840 pro 256 gigs in raid zero and of course the centerpiece the silverstone TJ 10 and we're pretty much ready to go so this isn't going to be an exact step-by-step how to put cpu in socket that kind of build guide but it's just going to be kind of following along with us as we build up this sweet looking liquid cooled machine oh yeah we're using blue tubing as well now one of the first thing we're gonna do because we have to expand our swift tech age to 20 is we're gonna loosen there you go the included hose clamps and we're actually going to drain the system completely and swap out the fluid for something else so we're also going to swap out the tubing because we don't have more of Swift ex-black tubing on hand and for our blue theme to build we wanted to use blue tubing anyway so step one is to loosen there you go that clamp which holds the tubing in place now you want if you're gonna reuse these clamps you want to use 3/8 inch ID 5/8 inch OD tubing so you go there's the swift tech high Drex water that's inside so we're gonna take the whole thing apart then what we're going to do to simplify the filling procedure for ourselves is we are going to put it back together with all the additional components in the loop we're gonna kind of measure where the tubing is going to go and then we're going to fill it then we're gonna put the whole assembled thing back into the system this will allow us to fill it as thoroughly as possible without trapping any air bubbles in it now the plastic brackets that allow for tooless installation of 120 millimeter fans have to be removed from the top of the case so you just take out the 8 screws here here here and here and then you can just pull those brackets out just like that we're gonna replace them with the rad support bracket that is available as an add-on for the TJ o 9 and TJ 10 case from silverstone so we've made some changes now we've actually gone ahead we figured out that we can mount the rad bracket directly to the fans rather than mounting it to the rad as it says in the instructions so this gives us the ability to use the reservoir that's built into the VH 220 which means we don't have to pre assemble the loop if we don't want to because we'll be able to pull it out top it up and then put it back in if the need should arise so we can just go ahead and show you guys where this is going to go so it screws in sort of here somewhere something like that there we go just like that so it's gonna sit in the top then our thick red is going to go back here we've also installed the power supply I'm just going to pull this back out so we've installed the power supply with its sleeving and we're trying to figure out what we're gonna do in terms of cable management because this case is a little bit dated and it doesn't have the best cable management out there oh yeah last thing so this is an important step at this stage in the build so you can see where the cables are running out of the fans so you have to plan for we're planning to plug all the fans into our motherboard so this one's going to go here this one's going to go here the pump is going to go to the CPU fan the rear fan is going to go to the bottom one here and the front fan is going to go here that way we can use the motherboards utility to control all the fans in this system so we ended up scrapping the black ice extreme I remember what I hated about these radiators and that's that the mounting holes are 120 mil but the actual radiator is quite wide so we weren't able to fit it in our case the bad news is that we had to use a thin radiator to replace it and it's a bit of an older one but I'm going to show you guys my magic trick for fixing beat-up radiators and sharpie marker and sharpie marker it actually works surprisingly well you have to look at it pretty close to realize that it's been touched up with with a permanent marker so there you go guys there's a line of tech tips for you draw on your computer if there's anything about it that you don't like it even works for little places where the fins are bent you just throw some sharpie in there and it becomes a lot less noticeable there you go just thinking disappears like that it's awesome we've also mounted the motherboard into the case so there you go that's what it's going to look like this is for some kind of like server thing or something like that once we get the black the black of the other side panel on there should look a little bit better but I would have preferred if Silverstone had stuck with the older revision which didn't have this hole in it and I think that's pretty much our status update for now alright so we're about to load our drives in which is on these convenient rails with padding for anti-vibration however we won't have to worry about that because we're using two new half inch drives on three 1/2 inch adapters don't mind the OCZ adapters the the drives are Samsung still so there we go clicks in just like that and I'd also like to take a moment to show you guys our CPU block installation so that's done so these three and a three-eighths inch tubes are gonna route to this radiator that radiator and that GPU block also the cable management although it's not perfect in this case because we're using individually sleeve cables we did manage to get the pin behind the motherboard and have it come up individually so it's nice and thin back there and go behind the board also the 24 pin is gonna look pretty decent right here I think and then we've got all of our front panel ones are routed behind the motherboard tray in a bit of a tricky way so I'm gonna go ahead and flip this around so you guys can check it out well it's getting heavy already Wow okay so there you go so these have to come between this support brace here and the motherboard tray then there's a little bit of room here because this support brace actually prevents you from routing cables across it I would have liked for Silverstone to have somehow somehow improve that but there you go so we did manage to get most of our cable routing done and of course a sleeved modular power supply makes a really big difference because we only have to have these cables connected to it which is going to keep the bottom much tinier than it would have otherwise being we've actually disconnected quite a few of the cables here so we're getting close to the end of our water cooling adventure as with any liquid-cooled build you can make whatever plans you want but a lot of the time you end up changing little things here or there so we actually rotated the swift tech block hold on which sides threaded on you here there we go that's right inside we rotated at 90 degrees so that we'd have our inlet on the top so that we could get an easier run to the what will be the outlet on our reservoir so it's going to go up above the dominators there then that also gives us a nice clean straight run from this guy to this guy this one was really tight and was kind of hard to get in there but overall I think it's gonna look really really sharp so here we are putting our hose clamps down on the very base of the Barb there and then what we're gonna do is we're gonna grab the swift tech screws right here and we're gonna clamp those babies down so those will look just black and stealthy with the included fittings on the radiator as well as the pump and then we're using compressions on the other ones to make those ones look really clean as well and looks like we actually haven't found that yet other than that oh yeah so we've routed the cables for the video card itself so those are going to go here again nice and stealth cables we've also started cable tying things make them a little bit more clean and we're getting really close to the end of this build here the liquid cooling tubing's have been routed so you can see one of the things to be really careful of is when you're using these clamp while these plant clamps you want to make sure only one side is threaded so you want to make sure that you're gonna be able to access it with the screwdriver so we had to take the dominators out to get at the ones on the CPU block / pump unit we have some very tight runs here I don't like to cross to being a liquid cooling build it's just one of those like it's one of those faux pas type things where it doesn't quite look as clean but I think overall it kind of worked in here because we do have very very short runs which is part of what makes a water cooling build look optimal as well you want very very short short runs and I mean I think the only things that I could complain about with this particular machine or maybe the short graphics card I wish we had kind of a longer graphics card so it looked a bit more a bit more beastly but other than that I mean it's it's really really really sharp and I'm very very pleased with it so we're gonna go ahead and fill it now we did change our minds about filling it first then putting the whole thing in there I'm glad we did because that did make it a little bit easier to deal with overall so filling it is just going to involve taking out this rad and then setting up a power cord here so that we can power cycle in order to circulate water through the loop and then keep topping up the radiator as we go we also still have to run SATA cables but other than that we're pretty much done so guys this is it this is where we reveal what this project was actually for here's a little tour of our steel series themed gaming dens set so we're gonna be doing some steel series on boxing's as you can probably tell from all the boxes that are here so we've got a bunch of cool stuff we've never looked at before like some variations of the Siberia v2 s a new sensei as well as their apex raw that's something I'm actually really excited to check out we saw that for the first time at CES I've also hinted on Twitter about this so we actually got a steel series vinyl wrapped custom gaming desktop sort of table here that I think is absolutely stunning you can get this done for about 500 bucks to get a custom printed vinyl and then have it wrapped around a table if you can find someone you know who does it which i think is just freakin sick and just you know I mean you don't have to put SteelSeries logos on it but you can put whatever you want it would just kind of actually the look it makes the overall desk look so much cooler so right so our rig is done I meant to mention this before but we never installed an optical drive because we intend to use an external optical drive for our optical needs because we don't really use it all that often and then it's time to power it up so I want to add some more lighting effects still but oh I forgot to plug it in but this is what it looks like for now just with the Dominator light bars in there as well as some glow from the LED fans that are that are around the edges there can you see that okay try and get a little bit less less glare maybe from this angle a little bit but yeah overall I'm extremely pleased with this build it's a wicked looking like gaming den build and oh is it still charging now let's tilt all right it's still recording oh here why don't we move that alright oh we can't move it much so that was all the moving it alright so that gives you guys a pretty good look at what it looks like inside we've also got a really sweet glow coming out of the top grills here because those LED fans are right up against the grilles and the rads are on the inside if you wanted to see the finished insides which I don't remember if I showed you in the last shot or not looks pretty good in there - I know I said a lot about how the cable management of the TJ 10 isn't really optimal but I think you guys will find that in spite of that we ended up with a very very clean looking interior aided in a big way by these sleeved cables here that are available as an upgrade for the strider 1000 evolution so stunning build actually this is a really good angle - from slightly over more that way there you go so big thanks to Silverstone for helping us with this TJ o7 build and I'm looking forward to bringing you guys lots of cool videos from our new steel series gaming den don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos