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excellent what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware today's video is all about this system that I'm building right here it is currently being called hotbox my wife came up with that name as this is her computer that I am building for her now I want to start off before I get into anything else with a big thank you to my sponsors for this build I would not be able to do this without them so first off ek ek water blocks provided all the water cooling components that are in here also gigabyte provided the z170 n Wi-Fi motherboard that's in there a little mini ITX board as well as the gtx 980ti g1 gaming graphics card which has currently been outfitted with a water block also from HyperX I had three products two SSDs and the 32 gigs of DDR 4 memory and then finally fractal design provided the defined Nano s case that this whole system is housed in now it might be a little obvious to you guys who are familiar with building water-cooled computers but this is a work in progress and for this video this is as far as I'm going to get so I'm going to jump back in time and share with you guys first off all the parts that are in here and then second off my assembly process so far at least as much as it of it as I was able to documents and honestly I am happy to even have gotten this far at this point I had a very late last night last night but I'm excited to move forward once I finish shooting this video right now I'm going to move on to the next step and Lord knows I don't have enough distractions as it is coming in this isn't even the only distraction right here I also need to be continuing my work on benchmarking and doing a review for this card there's other things that I can't even tell you about before I run down any of the parts or anything like that though I want to say two quick things specifically about this build based on some feedback I've already got because I've already done at this build air cooled and did some initial testing and everything like that first is this is not a normal build this is a unique build it is unique to me it is something actually that I have been working on in collaboration with my wife she's had a lot of input and feedback mainly on the color choices and that kind of thing but this is not really a build that I would go out and recommend somebody hey here get all these same parts that I did and build the system because of well many different factors the sponsorship not being least among those but also just the fact that I'm using a motherboard that is not necessarily high-end so about 150 H dollar motherboard from gigabyte but when I told them what I was doing even they were like are you sure you want overclock on that motherboard but I chose it for different reasons the aesthetics was a big reason there's not a whole lot of colors going on also it had both Wi-Fi and I'm too built in there but it's only got a three-phase power delivery system I've helped that out a little bit by adding some of my own heat sinks onto there but it's not going to be the best overclocking motherboard I'm still confident it's going to get me an overclock that's within the realms of what I'm looking for with this chip 6600 K which I'm hoping to get to about 4.6 or 4.7 gigahertz but I guess what I'm saying is if somebody was building a ground-up custom water-cooled system it's not necessarily the motherboard I would have chosen EVGA has some options that I think provide a little bit more power so if you can go for more high-end overclocks but for my purposes I think it act is actually working out just fine the second thing I wanted to point out is that this is an orange build and for anyone who might want to jump in here and say oh you're copying J's to cents with a skunkworks builder Oh obviously this is a Linus tech tips team built I just want to point out I have been building orange themed computers for my wife for quite a few years now in fact her past two systems which I have documented on the channel have all been orange theme so a little bit of history there anyway enough of my rambling let's actually take a look at all of the parts the final parts list for what's going on inside hatbox now since I already built this whole system out with air cooling there are some parts that I am keeping and some parts that I have left behind the parts I'm keeping are of course the core ice I 560 600 K CPU from Intel quad core with hyper threading and I've already overclocked this to a 4.6 or 4.7 gigahertz I also have the gigabyte z170 and Wi-Fi motherboard as well as the gigabyte gtx 980ti g1 gaming GPU the case of course I'm also still keeping that's a fractal define at nano s and then new products that I'm adding are from hyper X the storage configuration of a 960 gig HyperX savage SATA SSD I'm going to be pairing that with a 480 gig HyperX predator MDOT to SSD this one is not nvme but is still very very fast much faster read and write speeds that you get with standard SATA and I think about one-and-a-half terabytes of SSD storage should be plenty for this built for memory I have a 32 gig kits of HyperX ddr4 memory this is 2400 speed 2 sticks 16 gigs each that means I got 32 gigs even though I have only 2 DIMM slots so I'm pretty happy with the memory configuration now those parts as well as the ek stuff was sponsored but I do have some non sponsored stuffs that I've thrown in here as well starting out with the custom paracord sleeved power supply cables these were done by end sourced customs that's en and sourced and he does a fabulous job Joey over there thank you so much for your hard work on these this is a much better option than when I did with the arctic panther where I did it myself and it took several weeks Joey got the order done within a week from when I ordered them I was able to custom choose all the colors and all that kind of stuff and I'm really happy with the work so far again it's paracord and it comes with these little cable guides here that are 3d printed to keep everything lined up really nice and makes it much easier for cable training for Paris why I decided was really important to have as much extra room in the case as possible so I went with the Silverstone Strider platinum this is a 750 watt version basically wanted to make sure I had 140 millimeter length power supply and this one fits the bill they do 550 millimeter length titanium versions that I was considering but honestly I'd much rather have the extra space and I'm already happy that I went with that choice since it came in handy I do have a late product edition that's the NZXT hue plus I decided to throw that in the 3.5 inch drive base slot behind the motherboard tray and I think it's going to be a great option because it provides RGB lighting and a lot of control via the connection with the operating system and the hue plus software NZXT cam software I believe and finally look at this massive pile of parts from ek all in their colorful ek boxes you're not I'm going to do I'm going to take these out of their boxes one at a time so you can get a closer look because I feel like I haven't really done that with my water cooling parts so far so ek sent me a laundry list of stuff so let's start off with the blocks from ek the CPU block is the ek supremacy Evo and the nickel finish and this also has a clear plexi cap on top so you're going to be able to see the liquid flowing through and the liquid should be orange colored eventually for the graphics card we have the e K FC 980 gtx 980ti wind force 3 version this is specially made for gigabytes one-fourths 3 version custom-designed PCB for the 980 TI got the nickel finish on this also with a clear see-through panel you're probably not going to be able to see much because it's facing downwards but it's still in there and I'll get some low angle shots of it so you can appreciate that a little bit also comes with a back well it comes with a sold separately back plate but you want to get that as well I got it in black because it's nice and clean and it looks sexy you gotta have a reservoir so this is the EK res x3 110 millimeter version very tiny i think this is actually one of the smallest reservoirs the ek sells but hey it's a tiny case for the pump I have an e KX top Revo D 5 PWM this is going to be a very quiet pump and it's also got that plexi cover on it so you can see the liquid flowing through I did get an assortment of fittings and adapters so I have like a tee splitter I got a bunch of fit 16 millimeter fittings that's to go along with the 16 millimeter PE TG tubing that I got several two-piece kits of it's nice and clear and it comes individually wrapped to make sure it will not get scratched up moving on with the fittings though I also have some extenders I got a ball valve for a shutoff so I'm going to use that for a fill port and drain port some angled fittings as well as some extenders and rotary fittings we gotta have airflow over the radiator so I have 5 EK Vardar f4 120 ER 2200 rpm fans 2 for each radiator plus one for exhaust at the back rounding things out I got the DIY kit this is kind of necessary and well they give you a saw in there which is useful for cutting the PTT PTT tubing but you also get the little silicone inserts you got to put that inside the tubing before you bend it and it's very necessary to have the insert that's the right size for the tubing so that was a big reason why I went with this kit and then finally we have two radiators these are EK cool stream SE 240s so they're slim they're only about 27 millimeters thick each one will support 220 millimeter fans and of course I have Justin Froome four booths one at the top and one at the front it is now high time that I get things underway and start assembling the system but before I even do that I need to disassemble the system that the existing system or at least removed the stuff that was there and get it out of the way that includes the old power supply as well as just pulling some of the old components out pretty much I got to strip this down to nothing but for preparation because I want to make sure that I have everything ready to go before I actually start installing anything and you got to do step a and step B before he moves to step C I started with flushing my radiators step that has often forgotten when it comes to new water cooling parts but it's a good idea a good standard practice just to run just standard tap water through the radiators for a good 15 to 20 minutes and then finish off by flushing it out with some distilled water that you would use for your loop Elsa had to prep the psu that included heat gunning off the label on the side as well as the label on the back near the modular plugs and then it has like an all black finish except for these single two PCI Express power plugs the modular plugs on the power supply side for some reason these are blue they're not really going to stand out much but I decided I wanted to cover it up instead I started off by going the quick and get a root by black penning it I wasn't quite satisfied with the results I ended up grabbing some paints and using a paintbrush and just using some matte paint around the edge again this was not the cleanest job at all but fortunately after installation it is blocked a lot by the cables that are above it so it's mainly just there so that you don't see any blue peeking through and turned out okay next I was finally able to get on with installation for this section of installation I'm pretty much doing everything that you have seen here since I started this video except for the fittings and the tubing so the tube bending is what will be coming in part two so I started off by getting the power supply installed down at the bottom which I'm happy to say fits nicely and gives you lots of extra space since it's so short I thought the radiators next I got that front radiator installed first because I needed to determine where I was going to be able to put the fittings wanted to do the fittings at the top because it would make bleeding easier after I fill the loop that wasn't going to leave me enough room though so I ended up putting them the bottom still okay to have them down there it will just make bleeding a bit more of a pain in the ass the top radiator I kind of set there but I left floating because there was some more stuff I needed to install and plug in behind it but this was able to allow me to figure out exactly how much room I had and that yes I would be able to fit both of these radiators as well all as all five fans including this exhaust fan at the back from there I went on to prepare the motherboard that included installing the HyperX memory of course getting that MDOT to predator' SSD installed at the back and the MDOT to slot and then finally the CPU waterblock installation the ek supremacy Evo was fairly straightforward I've only done this a couple times with eks blocks but they have very clear instructions and the hardware is all really top notch so everything fits very flush and very cleanly and I wasn't too worried as I was tightening everything down to get nice compression on my CPU heat spreader with the motherboard prepped and ready to go I have dropped it into the case fortunately my IO shield was already there and then I was able to connect up the top row of fan and power plugs for the motherboard really important to get this stuff in there first because once the radiator is installed in front of it it's really difficult to get at those with finished radiators installed I went on to doing some initial cable routing specifically for these fans I got a swift tech fan hub that I've installed at the back here so I can have all fans read it over that and then that single fan plug just for rpm is plugged into the CPU fan header on the motherboard that way all the fans in the system will ramp up or down based on the CPU temperature after that it was time to get the GPU water block and backplate installed again ek has very clear instructions here if you've never done this before I recommend checking out some adjacencies videos because he has quite a few videos on disassembling and reassembling these again not very difficult and thankfully the g1 gaming graphics card from gigabyte also wasn't too hard as far as removing the air cooling assembly on that it also shaves a lot of size off of the card it makes it a couple inches shorter and it made me realize finally like oh yes this might actually work after getting that on because there's just a lot less space taken up by the the liquid cooled graphics card and it's going to give me a lot more room to work with over in this area for actually routing those ptg tubes for the GP waterblock setup is able to drop that assembly into the case and get it securely fastened in place and that kind of moved me on to the final stage of planning which was well one getting these custom sleeve cables actually installed and routed to where they're supposed to be so I could kind of figure out where I have room for those and where they're going to be routed to the 24 pin up at the top actually had a very very tight squeeze up against the fans from the radiator but fortunately I was able to get it in there and everything else I'm super happy with how it looks so that moved me on to getting the reservoir and the pump set up where they should be so I could actually figure out my tubing is gonna go from here to here and here to here and all that good stuff so let me grab the camera and show you guys a closer look and tell you some of my thoughts on this build since we're so close to it being finished so here's hot box in all of her glory at this particular point in time and again 240 at the top 240 at the front to intake fans here at the front as well as to exhaust fans here at the top one exhaust fan there at the balk at the back mini ITX board 980ti everything is looking pretty pretty now apart from the cabling which again I think is looking pretty damn nice this is I wish I had more space for this one at the top because I would have liked that one to have a little bit more flourish to be honest but you know I think it's getting the job done and actually what ended up happening is this this the two four pins for the CPU I'm sorry the two eight pins for the two eight pins for the graphics card are much more visible but I think it looks pretty nice this is a big swoosh right here some folks were saying this might have done better if I gone back behind the pump but honestly the pump I didn't even have in there I didn't know it was going to be exactly where it is until now we're late last night so I it was difficult to plan that so had to make this long enough that I have enough for him to go back behind the motherboard tray and then come back back out again and connect to the power supply so there that is now the kind of last minute or not last minute but the solutions I had to find last night for a couple things were involving well first off this pump down here because it has an inlet which is actually right there at the center and the outlet which was originally up here on top fortunately I read the documentation and I discovered that you can rotate you can kind of loosen the housing that this is in and rotate the whole thing so I was able to have that outlet come out the side here and using a couple fixed fittings I have already connected that up to this radiator that was one of my biggest problems to deal with was this tight fit down there and how I was going to get the in into the in on here that the heads it has to come from the the reservoir up top where the out was going to go and how it was going to get over here and then how I was going to manage this that this radiator had to have an in-and-out whereas it's down here wedged in the corner with the pump and everything so by rotating that is able to connect that up directly the reservoir that out is going to come from out here and go down here you know with an angle in it or something and then from this reservoir from this radiator it's going to come out and go up around and into the the graphics card out of the graphics card into the top radiator out of that top radiator into the CPU now the CPU and over into the reservoir now my other dilemma was with this reservoir because I had it oriented vertically like is you probably see a little bit more commonly and I was basically gonna have these two fittings on the Front's like here in here but I decided you know what I really was having a difficult time figuring out where I was going to put a fill port a fill port or a drain port and that's specifically why I got this little cut off this little ball valve here I realize you know I can flip this do ninety degrees that allows me to use the top Inlet as an actual Inlet so that's going to come from the CPU that's going to fill this here and then the outlet is going to be right here and that's like I said going to go down to the pump and then that allows me to have this little capped off thing right here which is going to be a fill port so I can just you know twist that to turn it off uncap this put a little fitting on there with some tubing whatever fill up my reservoir and then fill up the loop draining is probably to be a bit more of a challenge I'm gonna have to like tilt it forward towards me to put it on its side but again I'm hoping since it's so tiny and boxy that that will anyway guys I better shut up and actually get to work on the next step of this stay tuned for that coming soon stay tuned for other wonderful videos that I can't even tell you about coming soon thank you guys so much for watching this video I'm so excited to be actually getting work done on this build and yeah hey don't forget to hit the thumbs up button to give me a like if you enjoyed this video if you're excited to see the final bill and we'll see you next time on pulse hardware you got to have a reservoir side of the EK this 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