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so the editing team here asked me for something very specific they want the fastest machine that I can build for exporting videos and they want it in the server room so that they can just remote into it and export their projects directly from Premiere instead of going from premiere to Sena form and then having a separate machine take it to h.264 so I kind of went okay only one small problem with petabyte project coming space in our rack is at something of a premium and if you want the fastest machine I can build I want to overclock it but I've only got to use to do it so what's the solution water cooling Tunnel Bear is the simple VPN app that makes it easy to browse privately and enjoy a more open Internet to Tritonal bear for free check out the link in the video description so believe it or not water cooling servers is actually a pretty common thing but as with anything that we do around here there's a right way to do it and there's a wrong way to do it so the right way to water coolest server is to buy a server or usually server solution that is designed to be water cooled so typically that'll be servers that plug in with quick disconnect fittings to a cabinet or even an entire room or building that has giant heat dissipation units located on the outside the wrong way to do it as the regular viewers have probably already figured out is the way that we're going to go about this is to just grab an off-the-shelf server and juryrigg some liquid cooling into it ah come on out you bastard ok so let's meet our victim then shall we ah I actually threw this box together during our server maintenance weekend yesterday and the day before the day before that it was a long weekend just to make sure that it was all working before I went in water cooled it so in here we've got a sous x99 deluxe - we've got a core i7 69 50 X Extreme Edition 10 core we've got a knock to a cooler that's clearly got to go I mean I love Noctua but not going to be suitable for that CPU we've got 32 gigs of corsair dominator platinum painted orange ram we've actually got a gtx 980 in here that's about all we need for video acceleration and then i wasn't sure what to do on the boot drive I actually have a PCI Express SSD down there just to see if it was going to work in that second slot but I think we're going to go with these two guys in raid one yes I know they're refurbished yes I know they're old but it's rave one it should be okay so now I need some water cooling gear normally I would reach out to all the usual suspects and get them to send over some cool stuff but this project was not planned out at all so what I'm stuck with is just kind of going through the shelves here and seeing what I can find some of this is what I would have used anyway like the Primo chill advanced LRT tubing I found some in red ah but some of this stuff is a very random mishmash of what I had on the water cooling shelf so here's a d5 pump with the top from ek that was from a previous project here's a phobia reservoir that's just the smallest tube reservoir that I have on hand here's an old Alfa cool rad that I found and finally this is an interesting story I take pride in completing the sponsored projects that I asked for hardware for and over two years ago I asked bit's power for a very specific set of fittings for a water-cooled BitFenix prodigy built and I never delivered it for a number of reasons and so I've just kind of shamefully looked at these every time I've gone through the fittings box having not really any use for all these like 45s and right angles that only had two straight fittings in it but that all changes today because I finally have a project that I can use them for so stage one is to kind of tear everything out that I already had in there and have a look at the space for working with this was actually our old router case and as you can see there is a lot of wasted space for like five and a quarter inch drive bays these fans that are just kind of hanging out in the middle of nowhere we're still going to need intake fans but a lot of this space could be utilized for something else but I still have some concerns so we've got an ek supremacy Evo block I'm using the all-metal version we don't want to take any on necessary risks with leaks since this will actually be sitting above petabyte project and I just wanted to make sure that it's actually going to fit in the 2u height with our 90 degree fitting so that's good then same thing metal caps for the end of our tube reservoir I need to find somewhere to put that which looks like it's going to be right about here and then I need somewhere to put my radiator and it looks like we've got a small clearance issue there but nothing we can't resolve so this is great everything came out really easily giving us actually more space what we're gonna do is actually sub in a triple radiator where I had intended to use a dual radiator now the mounting though is going to be a little bit tricky we're actually going to raise it a little bit off the bottom of the case then we're gonna have the fans blowing up this way and we're gonna have these three fans carrying the air through the case as a whole bear in mind guys this is a triple radiator and we don't have enough room to cool the video card anyway so it's only responsible for cooling the CPU so there are a couple of things you're gonna notice me doing about this build that would be a little bit different than normal number one is I'm going to be using everywhere that I can so on the radiator on the CPU block and on the reservoir actually I'm going to be using vice grips to tighten up these knurled fittings like this because I cannot risk a leak and as long as we are screwing into metal there's no danger other than to the finish on the knurled fittings the other thing you're going to notice is that I'm going to be optimizing for the shortest possible tubing runs wherever I can because no matter how good your tubing is it will be slightly porous and that's where water evaporates from a water cooling system so I'm gonna have as little of that exposed as possible now I'm getting really excited I think I finally got a pretty solid plan for how this is going to come together so I need some kind of riser for this reservoir to make sure that it is high enough that the pumps Inlet is going to be easily fed by it then that conveniently gets me right up to the same level as this right angle coming off the radiator that will go back into the res very cool stuff then the CPU is easy this tube looks like it's just going to fit under the graphics card and this one comes right over here giving me a total of only about like two feet and change of exposed tubing mounting everything to the bottom of the case is extremely important and needs to be very precise if I screw up the placement just a little bit for the radiator the pump and the reservoir they aren't all going to fit the other thing that's going to be really tricky down here is the fact that this is a rack mounted case so I can't just have like the head of a screw sticking through here it'll bump on the next one down so what I've got are these sunken tight screws here and the plan is to use what is not a proper bit for metal but I only need a few holes out of it but I'm going to use one of these steps style drill bits to see if I can create a countersunk hole as best as I can yes I know it's not a hundred percent the best way to do it but come on you're watching - tech tips we're gonna pre-drill a hole in the red to tap into Oh Shh went too far hit the tube well hi I'm not sure if I could be more pissed off right now so the bad news is that we punctured the radiator and I don't have another one of the same but the good news is that that hole that I was drilling these screws thread in and kind of self tap perfectly nice solid connection the plan would have worked perfectly if I had just put something back I thought I could control it but it slipped so I have to fix this now which means the best solution we have on hand is marine epoxy claims to bond brass so I have mixed it thoroughly for one minute I have actually done this before with j-b weld that radiator continued to work for years but I've never tried using epoxy so here we go this is how you can tell the difference in my videos between a problem and a problem that will go there for a bit let's get the pump and res mounted we now return to you live from problems Linus was expecting to have to solve okay so when we try and close the lid we're gonna see that there's a bit of a bit of a bulge so to speak I can't have even that little bit of play it's only about this much fortunately this mount for the pump has a little bit of unnecessary thickness at the bottom I think we can just remove bought the sticky kind when we need the velcro cut no problem this is just a finer grit than I had wanted to use it'll just I should have just mounted the radiator with double-sided tape why did I screw through it anyway cart before the horse let's find out if it fits perfect no bulge whatsoever alright I was bound to be successful at something not having a good day today it's ok I always pull it off usually oh man did you see those scissors Bend always pull back before trying to insert yep I am never too mad to make a dick joke maybe we should just call this video problems Linus could solve easily if he had enough time to wait around for a 3d print job I need spacers I need spacers for my screws so I found this old acrylic CPU block hold down and I am cutting it up to get holes these may be the dankest spacers of all time ah shoot just call this video Linus being grumpy for 20 minutes so as long as everything stays in place exactly perfectly the radiator is in making real progress now we're getting close here we are again a 3d printed mount would be a perfect solution for our reservoir but no time so it came to me minecraft boom brick boom another brick oh yes wait is that too high ah back to the drawing board we'll use this square hockey puck okay not my straightest cut we have a big problem we are like done it's time to power it up and this this is how set our epoxy is clearly that's not enough but possibly fractal design to the rescue fractal has removable fittings from the components of their AIO but what I don't know yet is if they're using G 1/4 threads if they are then I can just swap this radiator in it is it is right it's right we have another red love tap love tap now I'm having fun Oh could that have been any easier oh yes in there just fine we've got our tubing run all our fittings are tightened - all that's left to do is throw in our network card throw in our graphics card wait what is this really gonna interfere with this oh come on now vicious bastard okay well this computer doesn't yet ten gigabit networking SSDs and one tape it down and a to tape it on top of the other one power for the SSDs one molex connector over here 24-pin power oh we're close now maybe you got to make sure everything here is nice and flat because this graphic card does not have a lot of clearance here and you go okay that is a primo rat's nest right there moment of truth okay so this is it it's finally done the pump was dead to replace that anyway the project is a success so our hottest core after about 20 minutes of sitting running small FFTs and I 264 is 60 degrees which is pretty darn impressive given how low-profile this sucker is what a project anyway guys thanks for watching if you just like this video do that if you liked it though hit the like button get subscribed maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link in the video description also down there is our merch store and our community forum which you should join now that you're done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering what to watch next so click the video and go watch another one of our videos I can't guarantee they'll be as epic 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