Gadgetory

excellent what's up guys welcome back to the final stage of the build of my wife's new computer we're calling it hotbox there it is right there in its current stage of being built sniffs if you missed part one check it out I'll link it down in the description that's where I kind of did all the assembly that you see here as well as some preparation for stage 2 which is going to be bending some tubes for the liquid cooling loop the custom liquid cooling loop and those those tubes are all right there and then I also have a few other things so this is the part of the video where I'm going to say the things that I'm going to do and then a few moments I'll move on and show you me actually doing it that'll be exciting but a big thank you to ek of course for their help and support with this build I'm going to be using their DIY kits for 10 and 12 millimeter inner diameter tubing here right there and that will help me with the cutting it open and also Scout the little silicone insert that you put in there while you bend it also going to be doing some work on the lighting for this stage so I've got the NZXT hue I've already attached it here to the little 3.5 inch and 2.5 inch drive mount in the fractal define NOS and i'm already got the wiring set up for this internally as well as far as the power goes so fortunately that's good to go I do need to place these LEDs in there though these are all magnetic which is really an help they just they're magnetized they just stick to things so I'm going to put those inside of the windowed side panel and of course get that all wired up and then play around with some of the lighting options the Nutini run some power so fortunately I'm just going to be able to get away with a single molex connector here with three plugs on the end two of these are going to be for the pump as well as the fan splitter that's in there and then the last one I'm going to use this little adapter I am going to have some ketchup and mustard back there in the kill management area sorry but this is to plug in the 2.5 inch Kingston HyperX savage SSD so the tubing is ready to go if I managed to get through and Bend all the tubes the directions that they're supposed to go I have I think five total bends to do so one's going to be from the reservoir down to the pump Inlet from the pump Inlet to the this radiator here is already taken care of down so out of that radiator and over and into the graphics card then out of the graphics card and up into the top radiator out of the top radiator and into the CPU and then out of the CPU block into the reservoir again and then of course I can use a little guy here to fill everything up now around on the back I have already installed that savage SSD and I do have a little bit of cable management still to do but I think what I'm actually going to start out with is a very slight repositioning of my reservoir because I think if I just got to drill one hole in here and I will be able to basically take the reservoir and ever so slightly shift it just ever so slightly up and ever so slightly that way so I think that will help out and from there I can go ahead and start bending my tubes I do have a few more fittings still to put in place those are all lined up right here and I think the last part of this story to tell you is well now to two last things one is I don't think I'm going to use this flow indicator I was maybe gonna put it vertically like right there coming down and then and then that would attach up to this one but I don't know it just the the finish isn't the same it's not a nikkei part and it doesn't have the same finish on the fittings so I don't know it doesn't blend in quite as well so I think I'm just going to skip that anyway assuming I get all that done we'll move on to the actual liquid so I'm going to just do straight up distilled water first to like test it and leak leak test and everything from there I'll be using some of these dies that I got and I picked these up from performance pcs this is primo chills intensifier bright orange and this is Mayhem's orange dye so folk have a couple options I might do one or the other or might mix them both together who knows I think that's enough introduction though I hear the heat gun calling my name so let's get it on the final phase building hot box this DIY kit saw two sandpaper in case you need to sand the tube if it's too thick I hope I don't have to sand my tube the soapy water has proved ineffective this is as far as I as I was able to shove it in there so like I'm gonna have to sand the tube my first Bend is the new thicker tubing it's a bit of a challenge I think I might actually switch to high heat for this turned out okay but I'm not going to use it at this little warps in the outer part of the bend not quite up to standards oh wow this is literally like two three hours into this this is my first usable Bend I tried to go with what I thought was going to be the easy one first that's this thicker tubing really is pretty challenging to work with especially on a tight space with tight curves so it took me a lot to get what I wanted to anyway it's going up they on the top left time to install it time to move out from right on top of this hot heat gun you lauric is it is the morning after and I have good news and bad news well mostly just good news and then some other news we'll start with the good news first I got all these tube bends done and the tubes installed and it has now been running the pumps running right now full speed and it's been going on overnight or at least yeah for good I don't know 14 16 hours now it's hard wired up or hot wired up in the back to that power supply and everything is great so leak testing is a go I don't have any leaks that is to say and you know that that's all good news now the other news is that I've made a decision to sort of extend this project because ultimately there's a few things that I'm just not a hundred percent happy with now this is going to involve getting some additional hardware because I think I'm going to need maybe another extension or two another little bendy piece or two to go in there fittings that that is and I'm going to need to get those and I'm not going to be able to get those before Computex so I'm going to need to follow up this video again and a couple more weeks at least so I will have you know kind of a final version of it for now um but let me go and talk about what I actually want to change and that is really almost all of the actual tube bends that I did what happened last night was I spent the first probably two and a half three hours failing pretty much over and over again I was trying to get this first been done up in there in the back usually you want to start with something that is either further back so you know it won't be blocked by the other tubing or something that is you know fairly simple I thought that one would be fairly simple it wasn't just because this is 16 millimeter tubing it's thicker it's a little bit harder to work with I found I needed to use more heats that or just I was pulling too much wattage from this entire circuit in general so the heat gun wasn't getting as hot on the low setting anyway it was just a fair amount of trial and error to start out with as you might be able to see down here there's a lot of my failed attempts many over there that's not even all of them I have more I have more right here um you know it was it was a learning experience like this one this one came so close except for that crappy part right there this one was an attempt for that right there and it actually turned out quite good I think it actually turned out a little bit better than what today right now because the one that's there right now I think goes too far that way this isn't straight up and down so this this Bend you know I wish was more straight up and down I might want to do a kink in it here to get it to go more straight into the radiator this one also could be a little bit more vertical here it comes out further than I wanted this one I'm actually fairly happy with it does have kind of a bulge right there but you know I kind of like the way this one turned out that was a kind of a last-minute decision to I was just going to go more straight across into here and I realized that just the proximity of this was going to make that really difficult to do the bends properly and so I put the fitting on there and was able to do this you bend out there in it I thought that turned out pretty good well in the back was the first one and I was just like oh thank god I finished this so I put it in there and it's just it's a little bend and McTwist job and you know it's also just a little warped and then this one here is just kind of lazy you know it doesn't really go that way in that way and it doesn't really go intentionally that way it just kinda yeah it's like yeah move over there it's straight here in here but anyway it is something that takes a lot of practice and I did learn from a very good teacher in js2 sense but um you know this was definitely challenging so the other thing I wanted to do is figure out a better drain situation and I actually think that with those fittings that I have back here I can set that up I can pop out a drain maybe straight down through the bottom of the case so that's another thing that I want to do again maybe in a couple weeks after I get back from Computex so for now I will close off this video by showing you some initial testing with the orange dye some closing off of the cable management in the back and closing things up and then you know the kind of finish built oh you know what I didn't I didn't talk about LEDs my NZXT hue is installed I got it in the back at least right turn over there so he's installed right there and it's all wired in so I got power to it and all that good stuff comes out right here and I'm just using the magnets right now to go along this side and then it's connected up to another one that goes along the base which you probably can't see very well but there it is that goes along there and then I'm going to use this little cable here to attach that to the bottom of the one in the actual side panel and then I'm going to put that on the side panel for the rest of them it goes up to the top I'm gonna I have a weird way of kind of pushing that into the case but it's actually not very visible so that will go up this the left side and across the top of the case so I will be able to have the full wraparound experience that you get with the NZXT hue which does some pretty cool effects you can do when it when it's all up and running anyway that's all for me at least for talking portion of this video thanks for watching guys and here's the rest of the build for now you're a bro