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we are going to liquid cool all five of our editing workstations together so those are like core i7 six cores and GTX Titans then we're going to take that water we're gonna dig it out of the building and then we're gonna put that on a massive radiator so we're actually taking all that heat and dissipating it outside causing not only our systems to run cooler but also our room in which we do our work to be cooler yeah build things all right bill you might want to start on a new case oh yeah um I don't know outside I don't know if they're outside or inside I know that at least I see four of them so then one more summer yes I realized I was using pliers rather than a wrench to tighten the fittings onto the radiators that's what happens when Linus decides that one wrench is sufficient for the seven people working on a project some sacrifices sometimes it's fine we'll probably have to use some extensions to get all these to where they need to go but we have those okay that's not a big deal um and it's going to push through yeah and then once you get all these mounted I might send you and David on a on a field trip to Home Depot to figure out figure out how like you might even have to do it there and just get everything mounted onto something onto something that we can put up there that will be strong enough and disappear if we have to sacrifice airflow to the top fan to put four screws into it or something then that's what we have to do we're realizing now that our idea for hanging the rears might not work we'll see I also have no idea how we're going to get a ladder here does Home Depot deliver if you buy things we could just buy a ladder and then have to deliver it okay possibly either way we should make that happy pretty soon colder yeah I hear you guys so we also need the metal strips and then the tubing will run from the window up here down to here were you planning to take someone with you you still need to let me look at it this way sure old radiators yeah I was just doing the exiting for the camera oh I was that you would anything no okay component selection was something that was really important for us these are the workstations that we're going to be using to do the vast majority of our work so they need to be really fast and they need to be extremely reliable so most of the systems are running the same configuration so they're going to have core i7 49 60 X 6 core processors and though I don't know we may do a little bit of overclocking we'll see it won't be much they're all going to be running on a Susac 79 deluxe motherboards that's another board that we're particularly fond of because it's the one that's been on our graphics test bench since its release and it's been extremely reliable there they are all going to be running 32 gigs of kingston memory just you know nothing super fancy and really fast or anything but just nice reliable ddr3 memory and they're all going to be running and this is where things start to get really interesting NVIDIA GTX Titan black editions now I had originally reached out to Nvidia to get GTX 780 s because Swift Tech was our water cooling provider and they're only full cover water block from this generation supports the 780 the 780 Ti the Titan in the Titan black on the reference PCB and NVIDIA kind of went well you know don't you guys need double precision and all dat video memory so they ended up sending over Titan blacks fortunately because I had already asked for the power supplies from Coolermaster at that point the v7 50 modular power supplies that they're sending over are 80 plus gold and 750 watts is plenty for a 6 core and a Titan black you don't actually want to go that overkill because if you do you can actually lose some of the efficiency that you're trying to gain by going with a highly efficient power supply code for the cases we went with Coolermaster and six hundreds Luke and I actually spent a fair bit of time figuring out a case that was compact lightweight and not professional enough looking that it wouldn't look out a place in an office and yet capable of holding the enthusiast grade Hardware we needed and most importantly was able to mount the reservoir radiator combo unit on the top that we wanted from Swift X so that we could have one fewer component inside each of the individual system water cooling loops for when we wanted to disconnect from the main loop and run the systems on their own we won with 49 60 X's for our workstations because when it comes to video encoding video rendering more cores really does make a difference these aren't gaming rigs these are meant for serious work and having the extra course is going to really help people get their jobs done more efficiently which is very important to me we went with Kingston for the memory just because well it all comes down to your personal experience and none of us has ever had a bad experience with Kingston memory so we reached out to them to sponsor the project and they actually agreed to chip in not only 32 gigs of ram per system but also boot SSD so we've got 240 gig boot SSDs and they also chipped in 64 gigs of HyperX memory for edsel system because he apparently thinks that he actually needs 64 gigs of ram the BC building process was actually kind of fun it takes me back I haven't done a project this big in a long time and you know the camaraderie and the pizza and subway and all that good stuff that's all part of that team-building experience I thought was was pretty entertaining one thing that was a bit of a challenge for me is that I ended up doing the finishing touches on most of the systems because I water-cooled the internals of all five of them I was expecting to have some help but Luke ended up doing a lot of benchmarking on an Intel CPU launch rather than helping me build systems so I had to do all the the finishing moves myself when we finally took all the systems over to a table plugging into a keyboard and mouse and had 30 seconds or so to make sure that they post because they didn't have any water in them it was a huge relief for me when each one of them powered on and displayed that you know all the RAM was detected and all that good stuff I love the wall decals I think they're absolutely amazing I'm extremely pleased with them in spite of our best efforts to measure them out and put them exactly centered I'm pretty sure the when stealth one is about three inches off sure but doesn't really matter the point is I think they look great they were quite a bit bigger than I was expecting I know how big three feet is but I never actually held a tape measure up to the wall and kind of went yeah we're gonna put this one here and this one there because we didn't have the copper piping on the wall yet so I didn't really know exactly where the drops were going to come down or anything like that I left that up to Luke's dad so they're a little big but they're super cool I think the funniest thing about the deckle process was that it apparently takes three people to apply one wall Beckel they came with two different application methods one was with a affront paper piece so you just take the whole thing put it on and then kind of peel that off and the spacing is all right and that one was easy but the other one didn't come with a front piece because it was just a single deckle and that one that one was a three-man job you can support the sticker or actually hear my support the sticker can you go across in that case um capture this moment take it away Nik also does not use drills very often and first was screwing things backwards so that was difficult aside from the things David told me which I wasn't even aware of Nik had additional challenges with the drill he was using a masonry drill bit the first time that I saw him using it and I corrected that little embarassed thing to realize I was using the wrong one but I was I was actually pretty out of my element on this project I don't have much experience with building anything so I think it was just part of the learning process and luckily we got it fixed at the end of the day now the original plan for the radiators on the window was I think three or four triple rads so we were gonna have a total of nine to twelve fans and it wasn't going to be that heavy so the idea was to hang it from the fascia board but we got all the rads and fans assembled and realized that once we filled that with water there was no way that was going to hang from the fascia board we came up with a new plan and it was you know three trips to Home Depot later including one trip where we had to try to buy a ladder which was a challenge because they wouldn't let us even try to put it into the rental van and instead we had to pay some guy in the parking lot to let us just kind of put it in the back of his truck and bring it to the to the office for us but I think the plan we've got now is gonna work with all of the radiators mounted to the frame we did a leak test on it and none of them are leaking I am a little bit worried about the head pressure of the pump I had thought there's a long time since I've used that pump I thought it had over 20 feet of head pressure it looks like it's 12 so I'm really uncertain about whether it's gonna be strong enough and I wonder if we are going to need an additional air bubbles okay that doesn't pass solid water inspect the fittings police calm down can we build a cuz weren't you always hear me come on from December 13th to 20th 2014 you can save on select until CPU Schnucks and SSDs with special holiday rebates from select retailers click now to learn more like North Quay tell me how