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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 hey guys how's it going welcome to Paul's hardware I am super excited about this video I'm super super excited for today because I have a day of building and I have a ton of hardware here in front of me so much so that I was like barely able to even keep it all just in this one shot so I can start this video a video out but this is arctic panther this is the resurrection the rebuild of arctic panther with martin modern hardware and i'm gonna be water cooling it and this is going to be the part 1 video no no two ways about it this is definitely going to take more than just a single video to cover so I'm gonna start with initial installation start getting the water cooling stuff set up I need to start out by saying a huge thank you to a soos as well as ek ek water blocks for sponsoring a lot of the parts for this build and I've already done enough teasing about this entire project so I'm gonna get right to it and start off by going over as quickly as I can all the parts that I'm going to be attempting to install in my custom modded define our 5 so the define our five from fractal is the standard ATX case and I'm going to be housing everything in and again this has been custom modded starting out when I first did this initial build in this case a couple years back I did a tempered glass side panel window before that was cool and I also just recently have added a USB type-c plug to the top for a USB 3.1 gen2 connectivity 10 10 gigabits per second and that's pretty sweet so keeping that case modern and up to date alright so for the core of my system and probably going to cause the most controversy is this i7 78 20x CPU there's plenty of arguments to be made as to why I should or should not use this processor but for my purposes I have two of these right now which means I can install one into this system and then I'll still have another one to use for further testing because it's nice to have a floater one that I can pop into another test bed or something like so that's actually a big reason why I'm going with this right now also I did some testing just to see with dual gtx 980ti is what the best solution would be for getting the most bang for the the most performance out of them and the Intel platform does still seem to be the case right now granted yes there's more testing to be done and all that stuff I'm not ruling out swapping the CPU out at some point in the future but for now that's what I'm going with it's got eight cores 16 threads and it is somewhat limited on PCIe lanes as well so my 1080p areas are going to be running it by 16 and by 8 so we'll hopefully do some testing with that and see how things play out but this is going to let me get the system up and running for now and feel free to argue in the comments about whether or not this is an actual good decision and then I'll also say for anyone who's like oh you should totally be doing this on thread refer guys I do have a thread Ripper water cooled system planned coming soon so I haven't named that one yet though so I can't tell you exactly what that is the motherboard though is the RG Strix X - 99 - gaming chose this one because it's a very nice clean looking motherboard it doesn't have quite the full black and white aesthetic like I had with the original x99 deluxe board that I used an RQ Panther but it does have a nice subtle somewhat subtle set of RGB features on it that I can turn on and off and control the RGB is going to match up and work with the Asus Ora software so that's another key aspect of this this is going to be a black and white build but my plan is to be able to engage RGB mode when I want to and of course as always keep things classy so for memory I got the G scale Trident xik it's the standby it's kind of been the initial foray into RGB memory and it works really well and it looks really cool when it's sort of black white and grey otherwise so it's still gonna match with everything else well I'm down here might as well point out my storage for now I'm just installing this for storage a one terabyte ocz Toshiba nvm er D 400 SSD one terabyte should be plenty for games and storage and and if I need another assist I'll probably pop one in there but for now that's what we're going with the power supply is another carry over from the original build and this one you can't really see it very well right now but it is custom sleeved I did the sleeving on this myself as hours and hours and hours of work into it it's 80 plus platinum thousand watch fractal design at Newton power supply which is perfectly adequate and gets everything done so I have no reason to swap this out with anything else also it's got that nice imprint of the snowflake on the top which which I think looks pretty cool for GPUs I have to Asus GTX 1080 tea ice and these are the Strix version they're overclocked out of the box I'm going to overclock a more of course once I get them water-cooled and NVIDIA has said they're not launching anything beyond the 1080i this year so for the remainder of 2017 this is the top dog when it comes to at least practical consumer graphics cards if you don't have spend well over $1000 for a Titan Exel P still gives you 11 gigs of memory gddr5 X memory per card these are really nice cards they're quiet running they have custom PCBs designed by asus and therefore we need specialized water blocks so those are under here the e KF C 1080 GTX TI Strix so these are made specifically for the PCB design of these Strix graphics cards I should be able to get those installed today I also have back plates for those which I ordered because the ek website tells you those it required but I'm still very strongly considering just sticking with what it's got on there which allows me to have that RGB ROG logo on the back which I think looks pretty cool and I don't mind this back plate for the tricks at all so we'll see how things play out today and maybe I'll just leave that on there and and and pass on the ek ones for now but speaking of ek stuff that's kind of the majority of the rest of the things I have here barring a primo shell product right there but starting with the monoblock really excited about this one the Asus Strix X $2.99 - a monoblock again it's designed specifically for this motherboard in order to provide cooling for the CPU and also the power delivery up top there and keeping the power delivery cool in Ex 299 is a bit of a challenge depending on what motherboard manufacturer you speak to so I'm glad to be water cooling that I've got an ek x-rays 100 D DC pump and I have a pump reservoir extension for this to make it taller take a little bit more space hopefully look pretty cool and then I've got ek Vardar Evo fans a total of six of those so I'm hopeful gonna be doing three in the top two in the front one in the bottom down there may or may not add one more for exhaust in the back we'll see if I have room I didn't in the original build for radiators actually have a thicker one and a thinner one I've got the slim addition and the performance addition here 360 performance addition 240 slim addition should give you a little bit of extra room in there and again I'm just going to kind of play around with that and see what we're doing as far as space once those are actually installed for hard line tubing because this is a hard line water-cooled build this is PE TG tubing so I will be doing some bending with this later on that will probably come in a second video by the time I get to that but we'll see how things go today this is PE TG and this is 12 millimeter inner diameter and 16 millimeter outer diameter so this is the thicker style of tubing like I used in hotbox my wife's build that I did last year so I think it looks pretty cool I kind of like the thicker tubing you know I mean it just gets the job done so I've got effects we got tons of these and I like the DK wraps them up individually so that the tubing doesn't get scratched in transit there's actually more water cooling stuff besides what I have here and so I'll be sort of bringing that out over time I have a bunch of fittings and everything I've have the hard line tubing compression fittings and then I got a few extra products here like this one order from primo chill which is a vortex visual flow indicator I like the flow indicator so I'm gonna see if I can pop that in there and get that to work and then I got a few other extra pieces of gear that I am gonna be given a shot at using here so this is an ex SPC cutter that's specifically made for PE TG tubing so maybe that'll make the tubing cutting a little bit easier too but I'll sort of I mentioned this these things as I go along for now let's get to building I'm ready I'm ready to build let's go [Laughter] so step one with any build should be an outside-of-the-box test I have skipped that a lot in a lot of my recent builds but when I'm planning to a water pool something it's not something that you can pass up so I've set everything up out here I'm actually using my stock heatsink fan or an LGA 2011 and 12 2011 f3 so that's kind of nice and let's give her the old college try and see how things work this motherboard doesn't have a okay there it is all right new soup you installed also yes this is the 78 20x step that was I was pretty sure I do have I do have an engineering sample 7900 x2 but so cool not a full test but we got the basic to go in here so I think we're good to go and move on with the water cool stuff so part of the attempt to use the existing Asus back plates is securing them on there properly which I can did for the most part the central screws that holds the holder Dunne's over the GPU and over the MOSFETs that still works it's still functional so those still tighten through the back here the main issue is there's there's screw holes that hold this back plate on which are accessible from this side which are blocked by the block once it's on there and also I seem very limited on the number of screws I have that actually work for that and most of the screws that came out of it are fairly long they're a little bit lengthier so if I try to screw that just straight through the board even if I use a little washer sticks out the back and doesn't look very good so I am gonna try to shorten some of these and just just trim the end off see how this kids I'm not sure if I have high hopes or not this is making me really think that I should get advice yeah whole screw just popped off in it not the right tools or the right method to do something like this doing a terrible job hey you can take him over this all right k so I kind of promise you that this was going to be a part one video and I think we've reached a point right now where I'm going to cut it off and say this is the end of part 1 we've faced some challenges we've overcome some obstacles the first of course was just to get the system set up and do a test boot if you're setting up a water-cooled system I highly highly recommend you do that because you do not want to get all the stuff in there especially if you're doing a hard line and then suddenly find out that your motherboards bad or something like that so fortunately we had a good test boot that went pretty well beyond that it was mainly installing these blocks so the monoblock went in fairly easily for installing the mono block we actually had to poke through the motherboard and install it with screws on the back and that's the first time I've done this high-end desktop motherboard actually discovered that there's just a basically sheet of plastic there that you poke through and then that allows you to get through and mount from the back but that installed pretty easily beyond that all the hardware of course was included in the ek kit that came with it then installing the blocks on the graphics cards and here's where I was doing my best to see if I could maintain and keep these back plates that came with asus strix gtx 980ti s because they have a nice brushed metal finish and they also have an RGB logo on there which I feel like losing that since it's kind of one of those little features it comes to the graphics card was something I was going to see if I can do with that now the biggest dilemma there is that you have some screws that are supposed to screw into the backplate from this side of the card you have other screws that are supposed to screw into the block from this side of the card and when you use the backplate that doesn't come with the ek waterblock you don't have access to all of those screw points fortunately I had a very very tiny actual screwdriver bit and I was able to fit through the tiny hole and screw in the screws even while screwing down through the backplate that came with the 1080i so right now that's installed I am probably gonna keep it as is but let me know in the comments what you guys think it's not a completely clean installation if you look at it directly from the side you can see a few parts where the backplate doesn't necessarily sit as flush or a straight as it could but I think it's fairly not noticeable so if you guys have any feedback for me on that what you think should do please go ahead and leave that in the comment section down below the next steps are going to be of course getting the radiators installed in the front and in the top getting the pump and reservoir installed and mounted to the front as well I need to get the radiators first because the pump is actually going to install on a bracket that mounts to that I can then actually start installing my fittings in various places like I can probably hear this one in right now I'm getting distracted though and then of course getting the tubing installed bending it getting the loop figured out I'm also going to figure out where I'm going to put my fill port and my drain ports so all that is coming very soon I know I am NOT as far as long as I could be so I hope you guys have liked this part one video hit the thumbs up button if you did enjoy it and stay tuned for part two coming out very soon arc panther is on the way let me see you guys next time