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the redesigned mastercase h 500 p by Coolermaster now features a mesh front panel for maximum airflow to the 200 millimeter RGB fans improved mounting for the front and top panels and the same distinct looks and helpful features of the original like cable routing covers 360 rad support and a tinted tempered glass side panel it's available in white and gunmetal gray so click the sponsor link in the description to learn more what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware next to me here I have Riptide my epic $10,000 plus custom PC actually two pcs in one in the Corsair 1000 d case and I'm excited for phase 2 of this build in fact alpha cool has confirmed that parts are on their way like as of today to outfit this with a custom articling loop however before I get into all that I really need to take a look at arctic panther right here behind me my original og custom water-cooled build it has been eight months since I did the final video in this build series and it is high time for arctic panther to get a flush of liquid as well as maybe just look in there to make sure everything is working just fine I know it's working good because I just did a live stream with this system on Sunday but maintenance is important for liquid cooled systems so that's what we're going to be tackling today but before we even get to that I need a little bit more space to work with the past month has been pretty chaotic with travel and everything and I've also built several systems and since I can't continue to use these systems as is I need to disassemble them so that's what we're gonna do right now let's see how fast I can get this done taking those computers apart took a little bit longer than expected one thing I did notice about arctic Panther back here somehow we have rehabilitated our flow indicator yes Remo chill flow indicator is now flowing so I guess when I did the live stream on Sunday and kept it warm for an extended period of time maybe that loosened that up it is time to shut this down though and move on to the maintenance portion of today's video off comes our og tempered glass side panel rockin tempered glass on a define r5 before it was cool and now what are things looking like inside o others maybe there's maybe some stuff to be concerned about here so it does seem like I have plenty of flow in here still as indicated by the previously moving flow indicator although there is some buildup so if you guys are call.when pretty much he'll launch the view fluid which is very pretty looking it's opaque fluid with some texture stuff in there to make it actually noticeable as the fluid is flowing through it and various people like myself and J and others who have tried it have had varying experiences I should point out that what I got was one of the earliest original batches of the white fluid so they have made some updates and some changes to it since then and they've also come out with like a system prep kits which is like a biocide some cleaning stuff that you add to your existing loop to make sure that you're cleaning out any old parts that might have old dye or something like that in it now from the original original arctic panther builds from like four years ago I did have some old opaque white fluid that was still possibly kept in some of the parts so up here specifically in the model block is where I'm seeing the most amount of buildup and it's mostly white stuff in there so obviously not good we don't want too much of that in there but again I can't be totally sure if this is residue from the og opaque white fluid that I had in the og arctic Panther build or the newer view fluid that I had since then but whatever the case may be I'm going to drain this Loup today and we'll see if just cycling through some fluid can help clean some of that gunk out so file this under your best laid plans can all go awry I have a fair amount of flexible tubing I got some replacement from from primo chill here there remember flex advanced what I've discovered though is that while I do have lots of fittings they're all hard line fittings I have been I've done like all hard line water cool builds so far so my plan of setting up a little loop off of this thing to cycle stuff is really going by the wayside and I don't want to do any tube bending to set that up so I'm pretty much stuck with this as far as my drain goes I do have a funnel for the top so I can refill stuff but I think based on the buildup of residue inside this is gonna need a scrub out anyway so this is gonna be a two-part video gonna disassemble Arctic fans are completely an attempt to do a complete restoration of the water cooling loop I was missing this key piece which is a little reducer for G 1/4 2g three-eighths don't worry this is perfectly safe and then all I should have to do is turn that like you can still see some of the view stuff in there a tiny little bathroom spider spider must have crawled through here at some point it was proud panther talk abouts oh she's supposed to show that everyone needs a little TLC from time to time nice to see this kind of thing this shows me that the the flush would not have done much for us because I'm running water directly over that caked on residue and it is not it's not going away it needs active active scrubbing it's probably that as clean as I'm gonna get it it's also a bit of cloudiness in there that I don't think is just fog I think that's cloudiness residue so this might need some actual cleaner to go through there there rather than just a rinse and which means I probably need some cleaner and I'm not exactly sure what I should use for this I could just read Bend all my tubes but I don't want to do that yeah so here's our primo chill flow indicator so I'm not entirely sure why this stopped up meanwhile inside ooh some nastiness so centerpiece here can actually be removed the Curt the build-up the residue actually got in between there and then built up against the bearing itself and that's what caused this to get gummed up stop spinning alright guys as predicted this is going to be a two-part video because I ended up disassembling this whole thing in fact this whole video has pretty much been about me taking all my computers apart so I guess that's what I'll call this video but I hope you've enjoyed it and I have hopefully learned some stuff in this process as well now the blocks are the main reason why I need to make this a two-part thing as you can see they have filled up with some gooey gooey residue buildup in there and that is a result of the pretty coolants that I use which is opaque but which also leads to build up over time and remember it's not just the view stuff that I used in here for the arctic panther rebuild but I also had some white opaque coolants that I had for the original arctic panther build and I did reuse at least a radiator from that build so chemically the makeup that I had going on in this loop was not ideal and that has been proven by the build up that you can see I did try to clean out some of the tubes to get that residue out and there was um some cloudiness still so I think I'm gonna need to actually attack this with some actual cleaning agents but I'm not a hundred percent sure what I'm gonna use for that yet so if you guys have any suggestions for me leave them in the comments I might go with that or I'm probably gonna actually check with Jay to and see if he has any suggestions for me but to close out this video have I learned anything well yes one is that if you're going to use an opaque coolants or anything that's pretty you should probably flush your loop fairly often especially with the opaque stuff it's just really a good idea to leave it in there long-term so if you're building a show build it's okay but if you're looking for something that you're gonna use I would recommend just going with clean distilled water perhaps with a little bit of biocide in it and that's definitely what I'm going to be using for Riptide once I move on with that build a second thing would be my drain system here I do like that I have the fill port at the top and the drain at the bottom and actually most of this loop did drain just fine but I think because of some of the radiator setups as well as some was the aesthetic trickiness I had going on up here with the flow indicator and some of those Lukie loop bends made it so that it didn't actually all flush out so I did have to sort of take it apart a piece at a time and there still was a decent amount of fluid up in those radiators so again with the Riptide build my plan is to go with quick disconnects so that if I do need to flush the system I can take it off a piece at a time like I can take the block off as one complete thing or I can take the GPUs off as one complete thing and then flush those individually but that's all the time I have for this video guys so of course leave me comments in the comment section below I imagine you guys have some feedback like how silly it is for me to have built this high end of a system and then do what I did to it with the opaque coolant maybe some commentary on my overripe bananas I don't know just just let me know anything you have to say thumbs up button too of course if you enjoyed it and subscribe to my channel if you want to see more videos as well as the rift I built as well as the follow-up to Arctic Panther rehabilitation again thanks again for watching guys and we'll see you next time