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gigabytes X $2.99 motherboard lineup features a range of options with support for Intel's Core x-series CPUs boards like the Auris X 299 gaming 7 are packed with useful features and support obtain memory Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.1 gen2 click the link in the description for more information arctic panther huh part 2 alright basically here's where we are where we left off last time and first off I have to mention my back plates for my graphics cards I got a ton of feedback on that ton of people said they really liked the idea of going with it which which I was kind of stoked on too but I also had feedback from several people including an emergency message from Steve from gamers Nexus some messages that he was relaying from people who were getting in touch with him to try get in touch with me that this is not the best idea if I can't do all the proper mounting points with the screws for the blocks underneath and that this will end up leading to potentially overheating VRMs in particular because there's not enough pressure going on there so I thought I considered very soon I'm going to be switching over to these ek back pleats so I'll get started on that but beyond that the next steps for today down here we have some examples of hardware I'm going to be installing starting off with fittings these are the ek HDC fitting 16 millimeter as far as the PT G outer diameter that they work with G 1/4 of course just like pretty much all the major fittings you use on the market and those are going to be everywhere that I need fittings on the builds such as the inlet and outlets of my monoblock right here now the inlet has to be right here the center because the inlet has to be pushing the the fluid directly down over the CPU because that's where the CPU is everything else is cooling like the V RMS up here and that kind of thing and this is going to be the outlet that means I can't quite do the same layout or configuration that I have with the original ap build so that's gotten me thinking about how to do things a little bit differently the other things that I wanted to do differently this time was make sure that I had a built in Inlet as well as a drain port so to add those I'm gonna use these the UK AF fill port given quarter black and these are basically two piece things I actually had to pry this one off with some pliers because it on there pretty thick but basically make a hole in the case pop that through its and then secure it from the other side with the string that goes around the outside and then you have a built in porch that you can use to easily fill or drain I'll be pairing that up with the ball valve the guy right here and that's basically just a ball belt can let it flow or turn it off and that will allow me to turn the fill ports on or off now for the drain I think the best part is gonna be a story if you can't see very well but right here at the bottom it's a solid piece of the case that I can drill through it doesn't conflict with that it doesn't conflict with the dust filter underneath and it's clear underneath there as well so I'll be making a hole right there to put that on - and would that be fun and from there all either use just a fitting to go on there and then tubing off of that or I might potentially just do this this guy right on there you might do that on the side over there we'll see another thing I discovered just as I've been looking at stuff is I want to put an exhaust fan here at the back it wasn't able to do that with the original version because it wasn't enough clearance for the outlets here and I need to put something on for the tubing and the flow fluid to go through that radiator and it would conflict with the 120 millimeter fan here I tried a few things with like putting adapters directly on the outlet ports and stuff and even potentially shifting the fan down as low as possible because you can fit it below where the actual mounting points are but even with that it wasn't enough so what I actually did was the top radiator right now I have shifted over so basically the two mounting points like here at the middle that each Center one has instead of being there and there I shifted them over here so it's missing several screw holes down at the further end and at this end so I will have to screw through there but unfortunately that fits in there and there's clearance for everything there's also space at the back through the top right here or I can add a fill port and so that's where I'm also going to be doing a little bit more case modding so what I need to do in the near future rather than swapping out those back plates is get this guy here set up so I can kind of get a gauge on where my pump reservoir everything is gonna be so this is the bracket that's gonna go on the radiator also I have decided not to go with the slim radiator I want as much cooling performance as possible so I'm not going to use a slim addition I'm going to use the original performance edition 240 rad for the front that I had with the original bills so that's gonna go in the front there this bracket on it and that brackets gonna hold the pump so see that's gonna work I think I figured out how I want the loop to go you guys might have noticed I got this assembly with the 240 millimeter front radiator it's it's just kind of hanging in there right now I did mount it from the other side but it's got the bracket on the bottom of the Dec pump and then put the taller reservoir on it with a special head with the multiple outputs as well as outputs at the back so because the reservoir is kind of tall and wouldn't conflict with the inlet outlet of the rasie radiator up here has some double 45-degree angled joints that I put on either one of those just so they can get around that and there's there's enough clearance it gets by there and it's not actually touching so these are dual rotary fittings so it means they have a decent amount of play in them which will be helpful as that'll be probably some of the tighter bends I need to do to get that worked out so starting from where the pump pushes water out right here I think I'm gonna go up and then into this front 240 millimeter radiator out the other side of that and then I actually have this little thing that I put together and this is actually this is just a bracket like you'd used to actually hold up a reservoir like that one but I instead have used it to attach this primo chill flow indicator so I think I'm gonna pop that on the side yeah like like so or there abouts and it's I can move that up or down if I need to because I want to use a flow indicator but it's actually also in a good spot because when I need to come out of this front radiator I'm gonna go over and then into the top of this and then out the side and into the CPU or into the monoblock for the CPU right there out of the monoblock and then up into the top 360 rad out of the top 360 red and down over to my GPU configuration right here as an inlet I'm going to put these both in parallel so the outlet will be down here that will come down like hereabouts and go into this little T splitter so this is actually a 3-way T splitter it's good to two on the sides and then also goes at the bottom so bottom will come down I'll need to do some some in-betweens here's some male-male adapters but then got my shutoff right there drain port down at the bottom and then this would go just straight back into the the pump right here but I actually have to cross over because the inlets over here so I'm probably actually going to go back here and then into the pump Inlet that's on the back and then for my fill I'm just gonna use one of the parts from the cap here it's got inlets on the back of the cap and then that's just gonna go up to my fill port which I'm gonna put right up there so we have a plan and now I have work to do so yesterday actually went really well just because I was able to kind of buckle down and put my head down and get a bunch of work done so I was very satisfied with with the work I got done during the day however looking at it this morning I realized like it kind of looks as far as the system exactly the same as it did when I started yesterday morning but that is not to say that I didn't get a lot done a lot of it had to do with planning so figuring it out I figure out exactly how Luke was gonna go where the you know from point A to point B to Point C and all that what direction it was gonna flow and that was all really important and figuring out exactly where the reading ears we're gonna be how many fans that's gonna be able to fit in there shifting some stuff around and then of course very importantly the fill port at the top and the drain port at the bottom and some extra little case mods just to make sure I came out the radiators properly and everything so it's all that took some time but turned out really well especially the fill in the drain ports I'm really really happy with that now my attention has turned back to the power supply which you guys might have seen in the first video I did a little bit of modification on I'm just sanding the side of it and painting it all black just to kind of black it out and make it look a little bit cleaner it doesn't turn out exactly how I wanted and I need some better sandpaper I need some really fine grit sandpaper so I can sand that down a little bit better and get rid of some of the streaks that are on there I have some really nice edging primer paints that was recommended by Bill Owen it's made for like automotive work and stuff so now that'll do a good job covering it up I just need to make a quick run to the store to get some some better sandpaper also I've realized that whereas the original Arctic Panther had the right 24 pin and 4 8 pin connectors that I had sleeved for the power cables coming from the power supply for the video cards and the motherboard the supplemental CPU power is only a 8 pin on the original an X 99 version and now I need 8 plus 4 so I'm gonna need to figure out how to get an extra 4 pin supplemental CPU power cable which shouldn't be too tough but hopefully I won't have to mod things up too much anyway I'm gonna get over to the store even start off the 320 and hit it with the 600 - yeah alright guys here it is I am gonna do a once-over of the system in its current state because I think I've gotten to the point where I do is getting too long there's too much going on and I've discovered other things that still need to be done so it's a good time to probably cut it off now the good news is all of the elements of the water cooling loop are pretty much installed where I where I want them to be and I've even gone ahead and at least for the sake of not lying to you guys in the last video done my first bit of tubing installation although I think I'm going to slip it up swap it out because it's a little too long and I might have scuffed it while I was installing it but that's it the loop as already mentioned starts from the pump down there goes up through that first tube that's already put in into this radiator it's going to come out the back of that radiator and it's going to do a little little several turns over there to go on the top of this primo chill flow indicator which is going to be holding onto the vertical reservoir right there I have the Primo chill flow indicator into the monoblock out of the monoblock into the top 360 red out of the top 360 red into the two GPUs in parallel and then out of that into this little assembly which I kind of put together last night I popped a 90-degree angle on the on the top of that and I think it actually makes it line up a little bit better with this guy and just looks a little bit cleaner like that so that will come out of there and go into here drains at the bottom and then out of here and into the back of the pump so I got to work that out too so several bends that will be a little bit challenging but overall nothing too terrible oh and then of course the drain or I'm sorry the fill port on the top of there is going to go into the top of the reservoir so so that's planned out I was able to fit all seven fans in so three on the top got my exhaust in the back I got the two intakes that are there in the front and so that's cool I also probably going to do one in the bottom still as well though I got to figure out where exactly I can fit that where it will be the most functional and that kind of thing I can go without that tube with them a little worried that I have too much negative pressure so that's all well and good but you're probably noticing that the main piece that's missing right now is my power supply and that is presenting a few more just last minute challenges for me now you probably saw me do of repainting I which turned out ok I think I I'm just going to go with it as is there's a little bit of texture there as far as where I sanded it but it's doing okay but I am an in need of an additional four pin supplemental CPU power connectors so I had salvaged or basically stolen this CPU lead from an EVGA sleeve to power supply cable kit which I figured well it's sleeved enough it'll it'll it's not gonna be very visible so it'll be okay I was gonna rewire that and I'd have to probably pop the cap off here and swap one of those on and whatever yeah I love this stuff in my garage because I save things including the fractal Newton $1,000 modular cable kits but then I went in here and I was like oh good there's an EPS 12-volt supplemental CPU power connector there yeah it's got its gate eight pin plugs on both sides so actually the white plug will probably be fine that's the power supply this plug will not fit under the motherboard cuz it's a four pin and there's capacitors on either side so that I would need to pop this off either way so so I got to figure that out I might actually sleeve one of these either the sleeve this one it's still up in the air but I've also figured that um the cable from the pump comes back here check surely goes off in the two 1/4 PWM control plugs into the motherboard 1/4 power directly to the power supply and that's all yellow and blue and green and there's no way to hide it right there so I'm pretty sure I'm going to pull that off sleeve it to so combine that cabling stuffs that I need to work out the details for with the fact that I still have all the tubing installation and two bending to do and I think we're in for part three for the arctic panther videos I kind of decided when I embarked on this project that I was just gonna put about a day to a day and a half of work into each video kind of cut it off where I'm at and then give you guys a video for it so hope you're bearing with me through the multi-part stuff and I'm trying to do at least one of these a week until it's done thank you guys so much for watching though hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed this one and part three coming hopefully very very soon if you guys have any feedback comments questions whatever leave them in the comment section down below and I'll try to take a look at those and give you guys some responses too and we'll see you guys in the next video