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gigabytes horas X $2.99 gaming 7 motherboard is packed with useful features and right now if you buy one you can also get the Auris X $2.99 experience pack with bonus items including a hoodie LED strip and 12-month xsplit subscription click the link in the description for more information hey everybody how's it going and welcome to Paul's hardware I wanted to keep today's video fairly simple mainly to make sure I can get it done without anything going wrong so to that end I've decided to move forward with my arctic panther next step because I finally have a bunch of parts that have arrived from ek ek waterblock ckw B so I'm gonna post links to the stuff at least a lot of the stuff that's arrived here in this video's description and the build I'm going to be doing is going to be an in cell build with an ex 299 chipset motherboard the RG Strix from Asus right here I have two way GTX 1080i is that are gonna go in there to water cooling stuff it's gonna be super exciting yeah I also have two 7820 case that I need to test up and see which one of them is faster because when you get I want to make sure whichever one can overclock better actually goes in so anyway oh that's ed let's dive right into it and start cracking this box open I have done zero prep like this is my first time opening this box so I hope I hope everything I did okay and shipping and they also collected to cut all the tape first in the box we have a err we got a fair amount of air in here step aside and then oh goodness it's like a lot of things in here I when you're getting stuff from ek since it's got a ship overseas you gotta make sure that I account for everything so I went a little overkill with my plans equipment but hopefully hopefully that means that I won't have to order anything that didn't that I forgot to place in its order with the original order that makes sense alright so item number one is gonna be the fans and these are the ek Vardar Evo the next generation of ek far DARS fans and I should using my knife to open these boxes but I'm not these fans are pretty straightforward they're all black and they stay fairly quiet so you know they they've done a good job this is the fans that I had used in or at least a prior version of these is what I used in hotbox my life system and they stay pretty quiet these have a 500 to 2200 rpm range but I'm gonna try to hopefully keep them at the lower end of that range and I have eight yeah I got eight of them total because it's gonna be three in the top two in the front one its weight in two three four five six trying to do meth I have eight of them because I have two intakes at the front rad one I'm taking the bottom that's three four five six one two three four five six seven maybe they just sent me an extra one maybe I'm crazy or what I think I'm just crazy i order to me that's all right you gotta have a spare in case one doesn't work for summer all right here's an extra cap let's get all the fittings out okay now I think I can actually continue so this is all the individually back stuff I'm gonna go over the this stuff that's non individually boxed first first off the the reservoir tube I wanted to be taller I want a nice tall reservoir on there so I got the extended version of that this is a 250 millimeter I'm sorry 204 millimeter vertical variant of that so there's that nice clear tube and this is just an add-on piece you can get which fits in pretty much all of the EK pump reservoir combo or they also have individual reservoir items you can get i'm combining that with this piece which is just a replacement cap that has three inlets on the top because i'm sorry and that's on the top as well as two on the sides here and that's gonna get just give me some more flexibility for how i actually arrange stuff when this is installed in the case since i have to sort of figure out you know the direction the loop goes in and everything and i wanted to maintain flexibility that was the main issue is that like if i need to change something or reroute something or decide that you know this tube should go that way or whatever i want to be able to do that I also got some brackets here so these are the reservoir holder brackets the X rays x3 holder and those can be mounted at the various places to hold the bracket up I'm starting to hold the reservoir up and then this is an actual pump bracket that can mount on to a hundred and twenty millimeter fan mount which is the same basic solution that I had used in the original arctic that they're building however that one is a little bit more official and doesn't involve me just screwing a some screws on to places where they're not typically supposed to be screwed onto this is the internal tube for the reservoir so then the water comes in the top it doesn't splash that's that's for ptg tubing of course I got a bunch of this stuff it all comes individually wrapped from ek to make sure that the PTT tubing itself doesn't get any any scuffs or anything like that on it because let's face it if your water cooling to this level you're probably at least somewhat concerned about aesthetic and making sure that your tubing is nice and pristine it's a good way to go about doing that I hopefully got plenty I do have some spare in the garage as well from the hot box build so there should be plenty of that because I want to I want to try to do a little bit more advanced bending if I can this time I won't have to try to figure out some ways of writing stuff to be unique now I have fittings beyond that so these are the hard line fittings that they have these are made for the 16 millimeter external diameter tubes which is what these are tubes go on the end there and then the fittings just unscrew like that and then pop back on the top of course with the o-ring in place to make sure that everything stays water tight also gonna attempt to keep these in their individual wrappers because I don't want those to get scuffed either now I have a ton of fittings and here's where I totally went over kill even ek was like dude you got a lot of fittings you've ordered here but this is gonna be this problem to go towards a couple projects cuz like I said I'm gonna be doing a thread Ripper water-cooled build as well not just the intel-based of article build that I'm working on right now but I have caps fittings of various sizes rotary fittings so that you can attach them and then angle them a little bit to give yourself a little bit more leeway as you're doing the tubing those are super super helpful especially with hard line stuff because sometimes with hard line and you can get it bits where it's almost perfect but you need just that a little bit of wiggle room and that's what a lot of these can help to set you up with I did also get a few specialty pieces like this one which is a fill ports because that is the other thing I want to do besides potentially doing some fancy bins this time is make sure that it's a little bit easier to drain and refill the loop after it's been built because if you saw my arctic panther after like opening it up after a year and a half to two years of use with the minimal amount of maintenance that I should have done with it I'm making the mainly it's a little bit easier I think it's gonna be a good way to go about things this time around so I've got some fill port caps and just a bunch of other fitting series splitters and this will all hopefully allow me to arrange those parts the way I need to so I can have my fill port a drain porch and all that good stuff alright I actually have two blocks that arrived in this shipping to water blocks I should say and because they sent me both they sent me the case supremacy Evo AMD Edition which is just the AMD F fitted am for mount for water cooling and AMD system and this is just going in so allow me to do some water cooling playing around with with AMD which is cool because I have that capability for Intel but this is going to expand my capabilities in that area I'm not going to be using this for this particular build right now but got the potential for some rise in water cooling in the future so that's cool what I'm actually using for this build is this mono block here which I'm kind of excited about because I've never actually built a system with a mono block before so this will be a slightly new experience the mono block is basically a CPU block that expands and there's various types of monoblocks some mono blocks are made like this one where it's gonna basically be covering the CPU on the bottom that contact plate is going to make contact with the CPU and keep it cool and then there's also an additional piece over here that will make contact with the vrm so the power delivery which with X 299 and keeping those cool can be very important Gabara and several others have done tests that show that it can be pretty challenging to keep the vrm equipment cool on an X 299 motherboard of course depending on which one you use now this is also the Strix version which means it comes with an LED lead on it and LEDs in that are built in there too since the Strix has the RGB LED capability this plugs in and the block lights up too so I'm pretty stoked to get that up and running as well also interesting with the monoblock is they you don't know it's like kind of the standard input right there that you do with a with your typical block so it's got their all to the side there so that it can actually make the full circuit there and keep everything cool so that's gonna be fun and this is a this is a brand new part EK just launched the mono block for the Strix X $2.99 and I believe they're working on variants of those for thread Ripper boards as well alright let's let's take a quick look at our pump rizz here we have our pump and our reservoir they come together in the same unit is the EK extras spc BBC version it is a PWM controllable pump and if you might notice it comes with the surety version of the reservoir and that's why I got the extension which will pop on there so make it to much taller dollar yes a side-by-side comparison they're more or less this one is much longer longer theoretically being better in this case beyond that this is roughly the same that's not exactly the same pump that I used in the original Arctic net ability it's close enough these are nice quiet pumps very solid very reliable a lot more reliable than some of the i/o pumps I've been using recently so I'm pretty confident that one's gonna do a good job too alright I am almost done unwrapping all of these things I think I'm getting close these are the reservoirs and I've got a 360 and a 240 240 goes in front the 360 goes on the top and I could be wrong but this might be this one might be too thick this is the cool stream PE and this is the cool stream se which is the slim this one might be the thicker like 38 millimeter thick version of that radiator but we'll double check it and you know worst case scenario we'll swap that out and get a new one all right here's the radiator cool stream se this is the exact same one that I used for the original arctic panther so there's not too much different here copper radiator kind of a medium fenced in density there so nice balance between cooling as well as allowing for air flow and then of course just got the captain's and will integrate that into the loop ASAP let's open this larger one and see if it actually is much thicker if it is much thicker I mean I could I could see if it'll fit I don't know a little extra radiator thermal mass isn't gonna kill me but it's really it's really down to the width of this because I need to make sure have enough vertical space in the case to actually make use of the radiate here make sure it'll fit in there all right this is definitely the thicker version yeah this is the cool stream PE so here's a quick side-by-side comparison of the two of those and you can see a much thicker radiator here so yeah well I'll probably do a test fit in this because this is definitely gonna be a two-stage build and I'll see if it fits fit so go ahead and use it if not we'll stuff that out and we'll get the thinner version this special editions the the PE what is P slim not slim P would be thick no I don't I don't know I don't know what to be maybe just staying I think of synonyms for standard this start with P Paul so the last thing I have to show you guys here well they this is a graphics card one of the two graphics cards I'll be using the 1080 TI now the backplate on this actually has an RGB LED logo that lights up so IRAs originally thinking like oh can I reuse this Strix back plate that Asus is included because it's not bad at all unfortunately you do need to use the ek provided back plates if you're swapping it in with the GPU blocks that I'm using so I'll have to figure out some other something else to do with that RGB LED lead I will be replacing it with this so pretty pretty straightforward back plate there in black it's got a nice shiny finish on it but it does look pretty clean so you know can't complain there all right so here that's how that will sit on there and I don't know if you guys can tell but like all of the all of the screw points they don't match exactly they mostly match uh yeah I think I think it's mostly this one over here that's not mad that's not lining up but anyway we'll we'll check that out more thoroughly when we get to the installation part coming soon I hope finally last bit of kits here to show you guys is the actual GPU blocks these are I'm super excited about because they're made specifically for the asus strix at 1080i and 1080p high esteem card at least Presta this year so that's kind of cool when I built the original arctic panther I use nine 80s and it was supplanted by the 980 TI pretty quickly these also have this new piece on the end that's kind of optional and so these also have this new piece here kind of where the terminal would be a little cover in between terminal cover and that's actually optional so if you prefer just the the more raw look of like the terminal on the end here and the connection points and especially if you're using at doing a dual GPU configuration like I'm doing you can actually pop this piece off and go without it just have that square piece that's internal right there or you can leave it on and it gives you the geforce gtx 980ti logo right there and the ek logo and you know you can have that front facing on your system if you prefer here on the bottom we can again see it's nickel plated copper this is where the waterblock makes contact with the GPU and then there's also contact points for VRMs as well as the gddr5 X memory which of which you have 11 gigs and then 1080i on the other side here we can see the plexi which extends out to cover most of the card although it's clear at either end so you can actually see through that to see parts of the PCB that would be under there and then you've got a panel here that covers I don't know what exactly that's covering but must be important then of course you can see the channels here or at the GPU heat dissipation actually occurs and then when this is installed because I probably am gonna be using some colored fluid again most likely be using light but still working that out you will be able to see that a little bit as well and planning on setting up to the connection points between the graphics cards to where you can see it flow in there - and the final little extra that comes in the box is a wristband so can add that to my collection of wristbands and that is pretty much gonna do it for this video you guys I know it's just been an unboxing but I like unboxing new fancy stuff that comes in the mail and this box had oh my gosh so much exciting stuff from ek so of course I need to get this build underway like really really soon but as luck would have it and actually this happened two years ago - whenever I have a crazy big water-cooling project like this like lined up it's like heatwave hits like right now it's been 105 to 110 degrees Fahrenheit here in Southern California all week it's in another two three days is supposed to cool off a little bit but I hope it's enough that I can actually work on this in the garage because I'd rather not do the whole thing out here the living room again anyway though guys I've spoken a little bit too much already for this video hit the thumbs up button if you did enjoy it thank you so much for watching we'll see you guys in the next one