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the master case each 500 M by Coolermaster sports dual tortor millimeter addressable RGB fans a USB 3.1 gen2 type-c port and 4 tempered glass side panels both sides top and front and the front can swap out for a mesh panel if you want maximum airflow it has a plethora of cable routing covers to keep things tidy too so click the sponsor link in the description to learn more welcome everyone to part 4 of my Riptide build series Riptide is my absolutely massive system actually 2 systems building the corsair 1000d case featuring the AMD 1950 x thread ripper processor and it's water-cooled hence the name Riptide also has a small system down in there in the bottom that suck at a m4 with an AMD 2400 g processor that's going to be a FreeNAS build with 32 gigs of hard drive storage down there as well there's a ton of stuff in this system so if you haven't already check out the initial build videos where I put it together as well as one where I started to work on the water cooling stuff it was just posted a few days ago for today though we are continuing that water cooling experience we already have the blocks installed today where you're going to be installing the pumps as well as the reservoirs as well as the tubing and I am doing soft tubing for this build supplemented by these little alpha cool quick-release connectors because I want this system to not just be a crazy over-the-top system with dual 1080p eyes and everything but I want it to be functional I want to be able to take it apart when I need to I want to be able to upgrade it if I need to and I don't want to have to worry about completely disassembling a hard-line water cooling loop if I'm doing that now there are still some decisions to be made today the main ones are gonna be how and where specifically am I going to be mounting my 2 D 5 pumps as well as these alpha cool reservoirs with the helix inserts also should I go with both blue helix inserts both white helix inserts or one blue and one white I will probably decide that one way or another by the end of this video but if you're watching right now go ahead and leave me with comments in the comments and let me know which of these color combinations for the helix inserts you prefer for starters Here I am installing the ice block HDX - - from alpha cool this is an MDOT - riser card as already mentioned and this is going to go in the lower system the FreeNAS build and I can't use the MDOT two on the back of this board because of the CPM using the 2400 G so the HD x2 is installed and I'm liking how it looks it matches very nice with the finish on the GPX and coolers on the GPUs and I also want to clarify something here I mentioned this 120 gig Corsair & p500 SSD was going to be the boot drive that's not true I'm actually gonna be using this as a cache drive under here is the Intel obtain 32 gig drive and that is what I'm using as a boot drive so 32 gig boot drive 120 gig cache for the 30 2 terabytes 3.5 inch hard drive array so at that point the builds where you just got to kind of stare at it and try to figure out exactly what's position orientation and direction the loop is going to go if I didn't already mentioned in this video the top right here is gonna be for the CPU two front rads are gonna be for the graphics cards and then I have two pumps and two reservoirs so I need to position these all in here the pumps are separate from the reservoir so I'm gonna need to have the reservoirs up and above them and the reservoirs come with two different brackets here this one's plastic and I can grip it in the middle which is a little bit more flexible because you can move it up or down I don't really like the finish on this though it is just black plastic and it doesn't really match quite as nicely with the finish on the rest of the system in general now these are metal and actually shipped with brackets that are made to be able to mount on hundred and twenty or hundred and forty millimeter fans so if you already have a radiator setup you can mount these on that mount this to your radiator and you're pretty much good to go I could even mount one of these to the front grab but I want them to be side-by-side there and look a little bit more symmetrical so these actually just go on the top and bottom of each reservoir like that and it does look like this bottom piece can be removed so I'm gonna see if I can just take this little circular mount part remove this larger bracket and mount each one to the back to position them on that back wall which should be easier on the right side because it's got all these cutouts for drilling through on the left side I have a bunch of grommets so I might need to drill some holes there we'll see how things laugh so here's where we're at right now we spent a decent amount of time figuring out how to get these pumps mounted on this little bracket here the brackets convenient because with just a couple of thumbscrews right here you can remove the whole thing so the pumps should have been easy to mount to that because there's a bunch of rails down in here however they're all kind of offset and staggered so I found that they were actually mounting and they'd be a little bit sideways so eventually we tried different methods here and then Joe suggested mounting one of the brackets on the back so that's what we actually did when they were side-by-side with the brackets on either one they were pushing each other apart and that wasn't working so now we have just one on the side of this one and then one on the back that's mounted to both of them that is holding this whole unit together and from there it was just a matter of getting these reservoirs mounted up here so right now these are just held on by these two fittings right here with just little 90-degree rotaries and we had a rough time kind of trying to figure out a mounting method for the top of it there are these little brackets that come with it and they have different mounting pieces on the back we were trying to hack one of those together we had various whole things like this going on and eventually it just really didn't work out and I decided you know it even though these are slightly loose on the top there resting very well on the base down here so I think it's gonna be okay I'm gonna go without brackets on the top and I'll just have fittings up there going off with tubing so those set up on there it was time to figure out how my actual loop was gonna go so here's how it's gonna go the left pump here is gonna be for the CPU I'm gonna go vertically up on this one with one of these quick disconnects and actually need more little male-to-male fittings to actually connect this on so not gonna be able to finish today I have more of those in the mail though so quick disconnect from there and then the tubing is just going to go up to the pump out from there and into the top reservoir and I have a quick disconnect on that right there so I'll be able to disconnect two CPU block if I want to and then at the back here I've got a couple fittings coming down and this tubing is just gonna go straight across here and then back into the reservoir for the pump down there that's pretty much the whole loop I will do one more quick disconnect back there and I might tie it down somehow or figure out how I can get it to actually rest up there but I'll figure that out in the future and then for the second for the GPUs the out is gonna come out right here and that's just gonna just kind of kind of loop down and hang down a little bit with quick disconnect right there in the middle and back up to the inlet there it'll come out of that and it crosses back to the inlet here then out of that and then another kind of loop down here also into the first front front reservoir and then out of that and into it again and then out of that and all the way up to the inlet on there and then that is the second loop so I got my soft tubing ready to go and fortunately even though I need more of those male-to-male fittings I do have plenty of these just little simple 90-degree ones actually one of these boxes was all 90-degree fittings and then one of them here is also all Murray 45s those are two very important types of fittings for this type of work so I got my first tube installed I'm happy about that this is nice to have flexible tubing it's a little bit easier to work with in the hardline stuff but I'm actually kind of liking the blue sort of frosty blue look of the tubing too I think it'll look okay here but I'm sure there will be aesthetic opinions on that speaking of aesthetic opinions I got lots of feedback on the brown noctua fan that's on top of the NHL 9a that's right there so I've decided to upgrade that or it's more of a sigh grade or maybe even slightly a downgrade when it comes to performance but it's at least still a knock to a fan this is the NFB 9 it's part of the Redux series which means it is gray and darker grey and - won't stand out like that Brown fan I - it was nice enough to also include long mounting screws with the cooler so I need to probably pull this whole thing out - and I've been dreading doing that because I'm gonna need to probably even remove one of these graphics cards to do that nothing's actually plumbed up with tubing down here yet so I need to do that probably sooner than later also I've had the ECC memory 16 gig dims arrive I am not sure if this is actually gonna work in ECC mode on this motherboard it's kind of a shot in the dark but I wanted to get something that I could test with so that's a maybe to preserve aesthetics for now I'm going to stick with the Corsair kit that I have in there because I have determined even though it's not that easy I can reach back here to unclip the memory so I can swap that out even with stuff installed right there so even though I'm excited to do some more tubing right now I think I need to pull that out and get that fan swapped in first and then I can proceed so I managed to get the new fan swapped in I only had to sort of slightly remove this power supply shroud / motherboard tray at the bottom to get at that and while I'm here an important thing that I've realized as I've been looking at this whole system the main system here is actually going to be off most of the time I'm only going to turn that on for gaming and video editing the lower system will be on all the time however and it has four eight terabyte hard drives there at the front I need to have some air flow in here when this main system is not connected so I think I'm going to take just the fan sides of just a couple of the front intakes and then maybe one or even both of these rear exhausts here and connect it up to the mini ITX board there's only two other fan headers on here though and they're all tucked way back here kind of the CPUs there and then there's a couple case fan headers back there so I'm going to use this little splitter just a little few but PWM splitter position it back behind the motherboard tray and that way I'll have a much easier way of plugging and additional fans to make sure I get some airflow for the mini ITX system when the main rig is turned off well guys I realize just a few minutes ago that I need to end this video it is Saturday it is once again getting incredibly hot in my garage and I'm way past the point where I should have finished to this week's video and I just realized thanks to this reservoir right here I guess both of them technically I cannot continue right now without a few more pieces now I still haven't gotten the mail to mail extension bits that I need to finish off just a few of the connection points for some of the quick disconnects but needless to say there have been tons of things that have gone wrong during this video there is a trouble with the mounting of the pumps fortunately we were able to get around that there was the trouble getting at this down here there was a bit that I didn't even show you with regards to the wire and cable management back here with getting this out and put back in and lining up the actual screws on that screw back in that was kind of painted of a pain in the butt but I was really excited to actually put water in at least one of the loops I thought the CPU loop was gonna be not too difficult and after doing this first one I was like alright quick run across the top to get over to the reservoir and then just this little blooper right here and then that will be one of the loops all done but fortunately I flipped the reservoir over and actually took a closer look at the bottom which I hadn't really done yet I guess and realize there's three more outlets on the bottom just like there's three and let's on the top that means that all of these need caps and all the caps I have add at least a millimeter and a half or two millimeters of space so that means that this can no longer sit flat on the pump right here it also means that there's not enough clearance for this a 90 degree Bend at the top which is kind of necessary 90-degree bends at the top actually doesn't even have enough clearance even without that spacer there so that's a problem in and of itself but basically I don't have enough space for everything I need you now Dave showed me some flush caps that he had at Computex and I don't know if that's a new product that's still in development or what but I need to get some of those I need to get a few other pieces still it's obvious so point being I cannot finish for right now the good news though is that at least the FreeNAS system down at the bottom is pretty much good to go and I've even got the memory which I swap in without too much difficulty so I can get moving with a video on that so I'm gonna follow up this one with a video on that and then I will have to do a part five of the build itself where I finish off the actual water cooling loop hey guys thank you for bearing with me I agree with all of you guys out there who are like oh my gosh that's cool but it's so insane and so much work in so much trouble and it's a stupid idea and Paul's stupid for doing it I agree with you you're totally right but regardless hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed this video and I'll be back next week with more content thanks again for watching guys and we'll see you next time