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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 what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware this is arctic panther build longer forbore and if everything goes according to plan this is gonna be the final build log in this series of course I might do more with the system down the line and I'm gonna do another follow-up video with some actual testing and performance and temperature numbers but for today I just have a short list but an important list of final things to take care of with this build before I can do the final fill and give you guys hopefully some sweet sweet b-roll porn well I actually fill up this unit with this primo chill view opaque fluid with the magic inside that makes it look all squishy and gives it some fancy texture beyond filling of course though I have a couple other major important things to take care of one of course it's going to be the cable training which I've done a tad bit of right now with some twist ties I don't have any proper cable combs so I'm gonna be using some at home ghetto methods I have some twist ties on there right now with just the initial shape that they should be in I might actually do some fishing line method on that as well but we'll see how things go cuz I'm limited on space finally one major problem is that as I filled up my reservoir I realized at the top of it which I'm not able to tighten down all the way and still have my outlets pointing back which is where they need to be to get my fill port lined up it's leaking a little bit so for that just gonna add some PTFE tape and hopefully that will seal the leak let's get started I actually had quite a few people ask me how I'm planning to drain this with the drain here at the bottom middle of the case well since I know I'm going to have the system over in the corner my plan the entire time has been to sort of position it right here on the edge of the desk so that I can just drain it straight down so I get a bucket in there my dilemma right now is that this is the same fill drain part on the bottom as the filtering port on the top I discovered in the previous video that that is actually not gee 1/4 that's a much wider gap right there I believe that it might be like a half inch or something like that not entirely sure but I am going to use an old piece of tubing I'm just going to take the cap off and kind of fit it on under there so it can drain out and then get this water out of here yeah that's that's pretty good oh but I barely got it threaded on there so it's there and now top open to a lot air in should be I'll just turn the knob and we should just get a dream we have definite success for the main reservoir over here beyond that lots of spray but we're actually getting a siphon effect for the rest of the loop here and it's even pulling it was pulling some water up and through the radiator and out through the loop so we're not getting a full drain I wasn't expecting that but we did get most of the main chamber out of there it's mainly a few areas of the loop that have some water stuck in them it doesn't want to come out our flow indicator here of course being a major issue as well as the kind of bump behind that radiator up here I've got most of the liquid out of the graphics cards as far as I can tell but yeah introducing an air inlet up in this upper length here is really what's what probably solved most of this but also require a pretty major redesign of the loop so for now we will do our best to get as much of it out of there as we can so our flow indicator here is is where we have most of the fluid it's really not that much it's very small not this trap right there but that's probably where and I could get it out of there but I really should move on at this point and I don't think it's going to be a huge deal and attempting to use the fishing line I point out that there are proper ways of doing this and I have no idea what I'm doing right now this needle might actually work for me it's a it's a leather working needle so the tip is pretty blunt so I shouldn't have to worry about poking through wires or anything I just needed a better way to actually manipulate my fishing line here and possibly give myself a shot at threading these cables so I have given up I made a brief attempt at the cable threading thing I might attack that again with a power supply that I have full access to the cables too but since these cables already halfway installed go the old school get our method of cable training which is basically to use twist ties because they are flexible and somewhat rigid because there's a wire inside you can wrap them around kind of position the cables where you want them to be and all I'm really caring about is the part of the cable that's poking out there and the front that's visible so that's all I'm training up right here everything else as far as excess cable stuff that's not as long as it should be dummy wires it's gonna be pushed back here and hopefully can leave these twist ties on for a few days maybe a week we'll see how long pull them off and the cable should stay where they where I told them to be stay stay it's another issue of me attempting to overcome some of the aesthetic fails of the original arctic panther builds and this group of cables here was always a challenge for me that we're all I'm a it always made it really tough to get the reverse side panel on and everything so I don't I don't think I can make this functional but I'm hoping I can do a little bit more of cinching down and stuff to at least be able to put that side panel on without too much trouble I can't forget the LED strip I have a single RGB strip here I'm gonna go it's gonna kind of curve up the edge here and I've already brought the showed that in the last video how I brought the lead for it over here just gonna go around the bottom I'm gonna fix it with some glue gun glue with my super ghetto glue gun this does have some adhesive on the bottom that the adhesive the 3m adhesive that comes on LED strips like this is notoriously unreliable so we're gonna switch that out so make sure I'm plugging this end in correctly all right I'm gonna go without the glue gun done because honestly I might need to I might want to reposition this a little bit let's we light it up and see how it looks it's also a chance that I might add an extension to this LED and bring it up over here as well right now that is connected to the RGB logo here on the sli bridge and then that strip across the bottom I'm pretty sure I could add the top one as well because I'm out of our GB headers on the motherboard now we're gonna fill it again main main issue for me right now is making sure there's nothing coming out around the edge of this which we appear to be okay with thank God for that PT GT I guess moving on to a very important moment which is actually powering on the system with the loop with its own power supply I've been running the pump off of an external power supply um out just to make sure if there's a leak we don't lose any components in there so yeah I got the cap on with the ptg wrap on there it does appear to be holding water no leaks come in there so let's let's go oh wait oh look we have standby power so SLI bridge and the RGB strip down here are plugged in the same but the colors aren't the same the SLI bridge here and the RGB strip aren't syncing up that means two of them are probably swapped ASIS or actually I think this comes with cable mod LED strips a little adapter and this will allow me to theoretically switch over all right so it's flip flop the G in R the R and the B or whatever was flipped now we're getting the same color here as we are an RGB strip down at the bottom so that's pretty cool rest of the RGB LEDs are gonna be controlled by the software and I need to get that installed and up and running of course but for now I think work to the point where we can actually do the fill with this stuff from primo chill the view coolant and actually pretty excited to get this installed and see how it all looks that's really cool so guys my fluid has turned blue that's right view is now blue and I have to point out here that I'm using some parts that were used in the previous arc Panther build and that this stuff that primo Jill sent me is not ready for public consumption yet this is not the stuff that they're going to be selling when it's finally done and I imagine white might be a little bit tougher to handle than maybe some of the other pastel colors that they might go with however chemicals being difficult to handle when you're dealing with the loop inside a computer with different temperatures and all that I am not at all surprised that there was some color shift although it did happen fairly quickly overnight we have now a sort of nice ice blue color in there although if you can tell compared to the original fluid which is still fairly white since I do have some leftovers but I do think it is about time to call it quits for arctic panther build block number four and although there are some aesthetic quibbles still left to be worked out the actual build is complete and functionally everything is working even if aesthetically it's not all quite exactly where I want it to be I have started to remove some of the ties that I used for the cable training over here and they're mostly staying where they should I'll probably remove some more of those after a few more days have gone by and I do some finishing touches shifting stuff into place there's a couple other things I might still do but I think for now I'm gonna leave you guys with the montage of the system as is because since I do have our GB LEDs in there and I have gotten the operating system installed and the AC source software up and running I've also done at least some BIOS adjustments for the fing speed and that kind of thing everything's working really good so so that's good I might figure out something to do with the fluid at a later date if you guys have any suggestions for me leave those in the comments as you can tell it just got nice and quiet since the fans and stuff kicked into gear and I am getting some nice texture out of that view fluid so I will say that even running overnight it's still staying nice and and texture II and soapy or whatever you want to call it in there so that's cool it is getting the job done when it comes to the looks department just wish it was all white because then I would have a little bit more flexibility when it comes to the lights in here the lights are looking pretty good when I have like blue and pink in but I'm talking too much already so guys don't forget that the thumbs up button on your way out if you enjoyed this video share it with your friends if you think they might enjoy it too and subscribe to my channel because I got more stuff coming on this although the build part is complete for now here is a montage of the final Arctic Panther probably you