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hey guys how's it going today's video is pretty important because I have a tool that I use very often on my youtube channel it's my main streaming and capture system and it has been having issues it's still functional but I've been limping it along since it started to have issues several months ago today I'm going to be fixing it refurbishing it and upgrading it hopefully to do even better hold on and hopefully now it will be able to stream and capture even better because I now have a 4k streaming capture card from El Gato so I'm going to be adding this in cleaning the system out and you guys get to come along for the ride yay so this is actually gonna be a precursor to a full cleaning of this entire area out here in my garage because things have gotten really really bad but he was a streaming and capture system side panels off there's cobwebs and other stuff going on in there it's super dusty inside the main thing that failed was my Intel 750 series nvme SSD raid array I had to 400 gig drives in raid one of them died I believe it is died completely and I just kind of let it I kind of let it be I didn't really do much to it to fix it so I'm gonna pull those out as well and see if I can upgrade the storage on this or maybe just get one of those back in there and up and running but I guess let's just get to work I need to pull this thing out of the corner and start tearing it apart so this is a little embarrassing guys but I'm gonna show it to you anyway here is the system so when my Raider a originally started to fail I actually pulled the side panels off to try to get back there and I pulled one of them out and I ended up figuring out which one was going bad and then I was like I will deal with this later and I've just been sort of using the system as is since then but it's been over by the back door and the side panels been off so I have a lot of this kind of stuff going on which looks pretty gross it's not as bad as it looks I want to say but yeah oh that's that's not good so this obviously needs deep clean apart from updating the capture card situation so I supposed to have three capture cards with this system this is the 4k this is a 1080 60 these are both Blackmagic capture cards and then the external which I'd typically use which is a razor rip saw the razor rip saw has recently stopped functioning with the system which is why I'm intending to do a clean install of Windows but I've also figured out that my Blackmagic 4k mini cards here the in works great as a capture for my camera but I can't get it to work with any monitors so capturing like a PC gameplay or directly from a PC monitor isn't working so that kind of limits the functionality of it also the second one which is the 4k mini monitor card which I thought I was going to be able to like use as a pass through is really just made to use as a monitor you can connect the monitor to it and use it for a monitor if you're using like in editing applications like premiere or something like that so for that purpose it works great as a pass-through for 4k no so I don't even need this anymore I'm just gonna pull that out I also marked in and out on all these and I actually looked at the elgato 4k 60 Pro and that already has in an app marked on it so that's gonna have a pass-through for 4k which is gonna work great for the capturing video games and I'll still keep the 4k as an in because this actually works great as a capture for my camera the GH 5 so I ended up working into the evening on this project yesterday and that was very nice because I liked the system I liked the system a lot actually because I don't care what it looks like it is only supposed to be functional and as a result I wasn't worrying about our GB lights or anything there's not even a side window on this or anything I did have to use the be quiet silent basis side fan intakes here so I've popped those on and then on the other side it's just got a little bit of a gap there so you can pop that panel out sooo provide some air intake and that is just again more fresh air internally for all the stuff going on in there and then as you can see I still got the 1080 TI in there and then all the capture cards set up the Blackmagic intensity on top which is just a 1080 60 capture card I've got the 4k Mini below that and still keeping that in there to capture off of the GH 5 because it does a great job with that and then the elgato down by itself and I separated that a little bit cuz these can get a little bit warm from what I have heard beyond that it was just a matter of a lot of cleaning there was a lot of dust built up in here and thankfully I was able to remove a lot of the pieces to get back in and under and get rid of cobwebs or dust or wherever that had built up and then I had to remove of course one of my Intel 750 SSDs a simple blank spot there and I'm probably gonna take my 1.2 terabyte until 750 and drop it in there so I'll have a couple of those for now I've got the 400 gig one working just by itself to three terabyte drives in raid one and that's just for some redundant storage so I can copy footage onto that the main storage drive I'm using the Toshiba ocz Rd 400 and that is a 500 gig version of that and after that it was just a matter of getting all the software set up so I did a clean install Windows 10 on this because I did want that and fortunately before I went wiped everything and removed the old hardware I wouldn't got a list of all the software and applications that were installed backed up everything from my documents and downloads folder and wallpaper and all that good stuff so I could easily reinstall everything and get this system back up and running and it's actually worked out great so the main things that are new is the elgato software so I just went and downloaded that from their website installed it I haven't used it too much but it seems to work just fine and the capture card itself was recognized also download it and install the black magic software which I'm not quite as fond of but it is functional enough for now so that does give me the capability to capture to 4k streams a 1080 stream and then the possible addition of another 1080 stream if I add the razor ripsaw to this as well I tested this last night but I just running another test real quick here's my GH five it's in 4k mode it is piped into the L got so in the back there and then here look it's working there's me hi I'm e I also wanted to check the Blackmagic devices just to make sure they are functional and it looks like on the drop-down list here yes we do have the intensity Pro as well as the Dec link mini recorder 4k those are both being recognized and and yes I do recognize it's kind of silly to build a crazy capture system and then be recording the screen but this video is almost art over so don't worry about it the guys that is gonna wrap it up for this video thank you so much for watching I am really excited to get this new system back into my production workflow and I've decided to change the name before it was the godly streaming and capture system because at the time the 69 50 x10 core CPU from Intel was the best CPU that you could get and when it comes to consumer CPUs now that's not the case anymore so I've changed the name to Captain Stream that's right captain stream or Captain streamer that's that's the name of the system now and the cap in stream because capture and streaming is both it's very super clever anyway thanks again for watching this video guys - thumbs up button if you enjoyed it and we'll see you in the next one