Gadgetory

what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware this is hopefully the long-awaited final build log for Riptide the system right here which costs well over $10,000 especially when you include all the water cooling parts I have been building this over the past month or month and a half and it's been a lot of work things haven't all gone smoothly but fortunately I think today I have things all figured out for the final steps the RC 100m vme SSD and XS 700 portable SSD are both powered by Toshiba's advanced 3d BICS flash memory meaning you get solid-state speeds at an affordable price the XS 700 is a wicked fast external drive with USB 3.1 gen2 via a type-c connector and the SE 100 may be small but it's MDOT to nvme interface means sequential read and write speeds at well over 1,000 megabytes per second click the sponsor link in the description to learn more so let's start off by going over some of this stuff I got some stuff arrived in the mail I got a cobalt drill bit set that can easily drill through metal I wanted some smaller ones of these more on that in just a second I also got this little water bottle with a squirter top and this is hopefully to make it a little bit easier to fill on the top since I do not have a dedicated fill port but in the part 4 video where everything went wrong the main issues were in this area with the pumps and the reservoirs I have these cool helix reservoirs from alpha cool alpha cool pretty much provided all of the water cooling parts in this build and these are separate they're not part of the actual pump unit down there so Eadie's a fitting to connect it up and I was figuring out different ways of doing that down here after thinking I had everything figured out I realized that there are actually holes on the bottom of these reservoirs as well and the plugs that I need to put on those or spacing them off from the pumps back here and that made it not sit right but I have a solution for that and I think I also have a solution for the pump for mounting themselves so I got the other reservoir here just like I'm trying to kind of show you guys there's a 90 degree down at the bottom and this is actually the old configuration that I had set up my solution configuration is basically just to flip the 90 degrees so that the rotary parts actually on this side and I'm just using a different rotary extender on this side which gives it a little bit more height and gives clearance so I can put the caps on the bottom and it actually sits on there and that's actually sitting there pretty cleanly but even with it sitting here roughly where it would be vertically the 90 degree at the top too not have clearance and I'm gonna need a ninety-degree coming off at the top of both of these to get liquid back in as part of the loop now fortunately this entire unit can come off because there is a base plate here that it's connected up to that everything is mounted to and I actually really like this base plate I like that everything is contained on it and I like the after everything is set up I should be able to remove this whole combo unit by itself if I need to adjust anything or get behind it or anything like that but here though I can show you the spacing of this adapter up here and this is the solution from the things going wrong in the first build and with those spacers there you can see it's sitting pretty much flush and pretty much vertical and that's really all I wanted was for it to be able to sit like that so I can do that with both of these pumps and both of those reservoirs and then in order to solve my vertical clearance issue I have of course the drill bits that are over here and that is simply to drill some new holes on these metal mounts to alpha cool provided and the goal be to lower the pumps by I'm gonna say about a half of an inch or so so I need to drill new holes right about there I should be able to do that on all sides even this back one here that's holding both of them up and then I will be able to lower these pumps to take advantage of some of the clearance that's down there at the bottom as you can probably see I'll still need to leave enough space so that the wire can come back out of there which it can bend a little bit but that should give me enough space so that up at the top I have enough clearance for that 90 degree if I can get all that set up I think I will be on the homestretch of just doing the final bends that I need to cut and get plumbed up here and there and then I can actually fill things up so all of that said it's time to get to work once again on Riptide well it is next morning so it is an ideal time for a little little pick-me-up a little wakeup juice most delicious actually Joe discovered this is this is just Red Bull without the cool label on it but let's take a look at the system so as you may have seen last night I'm Anna to get both loops all set up and filled it was very fun very challenging was that pretty late so that's why I'm a little tired this morning but thankfully there are no leaks so my paper towel stuff in here didn't pick up anything as far as I could tell so then I'm pretty happy with all of the tubing runs that I have I was trying to keep them relatively simple but like you know I have this idea of how it should look in my head from how hard line goes I wanted everything to be pretty smooth straight curves from here to there the only thing I think I might redo is potentially this one back here I'm actually kind of holding that in place with a couple velcro pieces which I just use a screw to actually screw into the radiator to hold it in place which is okay for now that run is a little bit more challenging because I still have to be able to access the front radiator drawer thingy there and be able to pull that out and push it back in so that needs to be able to kind of come out and move back in with it but for now I think everything's looking pretty good so I have one last major job to do on this before I can sort of finish off this video and maybe give you guys some sexy b-roll and that is the cable management wherever kids don't forget to plug in your SATA cables before you install your graphics cards here's a small dilemma I wasn't quite expecting our SF 600 small form-factor mini ATX power supply needs to provide power to the four hard drives for the NASA build it actually has a peripheral cable here with four SATA cables on it but the cable length between the plug on the power supply side and where our hard drive stop is not long enough this is the only cable the SATA that comes in the kit so I could of course use these molex plugs that comes with one of those as well and just use some adapters but decided to take this old and slightly crappy PCI Express power cable extension from Rosewell I'm gonna snip these off and then use that to extend this far enough to be able to plug those in quite a few people with earlier videos as well as some of the pictures I've posted have complained about this sli bridge which is just the default one that comes with the zenith extreme in there so I'm upgrading to an aftermarket SLI bridge high-bandwidth sli bridge there's a few of them on the market I'm not a huge fan of the aesthetics the looks of a lot of them I've used the Asus one already on an Arctic Panther so I wanted to go something different this is the zotac high bandwidth SLI bridge dual card spacing it's got a nice sort of matte finish it's just plastic and this little Oh lights up in white so even though I have no ZOTAC products in this build I think this will look much better well ok ok ZOTAC what did you do ah ok for reasons unknown to me though Tech has put these little ridges on the top of the SLI things that's conflicting with our blocks you think I like how this looks though so I think I can modify this I'm gonna get the rotary tool out one more time alright guys I have done quite a few builds on this channel and there's always a moment of truth at the end of each one where we power it on for the first time and I have never been more excited / nervous I think than this one right here so I have two systems to power around I'm going to start off with the small system here in the back that will just make sure that my fan configuration is working properly it's already got lights on the motherboard so things are looking good there's a little power alright we've got fans on that we got a rear exhaust fan back here and just as planned we also have two of the front and takes the bottom most ones providing some air intake so that will provide some fresh air for the hard drives there as well as some area to come back here to cool off this system while it's up and running and then of course a little bit of exhaust up at the top now let's power on the big guy it's always more intimidating when it has a special style plug that you can only plug in one-way lights on the motherboard Oh glorious hmm we have water flowing in both pumps hope to god there's no leak still going huh that's that's cool alright guys given how nervous I was about all of the complexity and various parts installed in here and the water cooling loop and everything I'd say this is a pretty successful first boot of course I've got nothing plugged in back here so who knows maybe none of this hardware actually works but things are looking up for now now I know there's a few things that I still haven't handled for example I never swapped in the blue coils here and the helix reservoirs to see how those look that's still a possible thing that I can do though thanks to all the quick disconnects and everything this is not that challenging of a loop to disassemble if I need to get in there to do more stuff the cable management however is fairly challenging but at least everything's wired up and fits in there and everything seems to be working now you might have noticed that there's a couple inserts for these helix reservoirs is actually a UV cathode that goes in there and I broke the one on the left one so right now those aren't connected but I might be adding a little bit more color to that area I'm gonna plug those in once we get a replacement in and see how that looks but I could also of course use more suggestions so if you guys have any feedback for me aesthetically if you think it needs more lights in this area or that area let me know how you think this tubing looks actually now that the lights are on it with the frosted look I think that looks really cool but guys I'm gonna end this video with a bit of a montage of Riptide and it's at least initial finished form thank you so much for sticking with me through this build series and of course the thumbs up button and subscribe because I will have at least one more follow up video on this where I actually get the system up and running test some of the parts and the NASS and all of that good stuff thanks again for watching guys and we'll see you next time