Gadgetory

good morning Hiro good boy and good morning to all you guys as well hope you're having a good day today I am excited because I am actually finally going to finish up my video for my monthly builds for January so that technically this is January is build back behind me although I didn't really finish it till the end of the month I'm just going to call up my my super epic and classy RGB built because it's classy and it's RGB it's also supposed to be a pretty fast computer to normally these videos this is the third part of that video I already planned it and I built it and I'll post links to those videos in the description if you want to check it out normally right now I just say hey here's the build and I'm going to test it and everything but actually have a little bit more work to do because I have a couple sort of late parts that arrived I'm going to be integrating into the build first before I move on to testing so first off here I of course have the G skill tried NZ r gb memory this has arrived already be lighting five LEDs across the top of each dim and G scale has their own software for this but I'm actually going to be using the updated ACS Ora software which can control these so we'll be checking that out and giving you a little taste of what is capable on that this is a 32 gig kit so a huge thank you of course to 2g skill for sending these over and those would be installed ASAP I also contacted EVGA because there was I don't know the cabling on the power supply that I use the 750 g2 supernova from EVGA is nice it's all black it blends in pretty well but since this build is a little bit more fancy I'm going to say when it comes to aesthetics I did want to I just want to you know hopefully hopefully finish things off and give it a nice completed look at the end and I think these will help out with that I also haven't really used a cable kit directly from EVGA yet but it seems like they're doing a pretty good job here no no heat shrink visible on the on the connectors anything like that and I think these should blend in pretty well I thought this was going to be the 24 pin that I pull up this just appears to be a bunch of peripheral SATA cables in that kind of thing anyway I'll give you a closer look at that once it's all installed but here's a quick montage just get the build up to date so I got the radiator swapped around with fans two front fans are now on the front for the intake so you can no longer see the business end of them and I think that definitely looks better and now I want to show you my super ghetto method for suspending my tubing for the all-in-one for the Kraken X 62 basically I used a really long post site and like I can't in focus okay okay he's really long twist tie which is right there at the top you can only only just barely see that part of it right there then I just fed that through in between directly in between the two top fans comes around here at the top so I need to do now is use a little clip tuck that away and then no one will be the wiser after you guys of course well guys this is the point in the video where my plans sort of start to change mainly because I am out of time I am so torn I'm so torn about the situation with this build right now because I'm in one hand everything is looking great like the build has come together if it wasn't for the lighting situation I'd be letting this is sweet everything's perfect here's your end results here's all my testing and all that kind of stuff but everything is perfect like except for the RGB lighting and I would normally just say like oh whatever like we'll deal with that later but the RGB was kind of a key part of this build that's been in the title of the whole time so don't really feel like I can say it's completely finished unless the RGB lighting is there as well so what I'm going to do right now is give you guys a rundown of the build as it stands because I have made some improvements and some upgrades that I think are pretty key and are making a pretty significant difference I'm going to give you just a little bit of a taste of the lighting situation right now but unfortunately I can't show you like all the different functionality and everything because I'm dealing with really early software versions of the software for RGB lighting control that have been sent by Asus as well as said directly by g.skill I can't install both of them at the same time they overwrite each other because they're very similar software's I can't show you the g.skill software because they have made me promise not to show anyone until it's completely finished and the UI is working so there it is I'm going to have to do a third or I guess maybe a fourth video for this particular series to come back and take a look at that and give you guys a full rundown of the lighting options for now here is everything that I've gotten done acceptable in its just lighting first of all I have RGB LEDs on the motherboard of the Maximus 9 hero lights up here by the IO as well as down underneath here by the chipset and that's controlled by asus aura software asus or software can also of course control the graphics card which is not even being lit up at all right now again this is this is an issue of the complex with the software that I'm going back and forth between and you know if this is very much early adopter problems none of the software is even publicly available yet because they know that it's not ready so I'm not necessarily saying that the software sucks or anything like that it's just it's a little too early for it to be completely out there and available in the market my other dilemma is that I'm leaving actually shortly in like an hour or so to go on a trip with my wife so I would like hit up Asus I'm sorry well actually I need to hit up ESG skill and fantex because the coordination with the case isn't quite working as it should either but it's Saturday they're probably going to get back to me till Monday and I need to get this video posted by hopefully Monday maybe Tuesday the latest all right so the RGB on the case is right here down in this bar across the front and then it's also connected with the two LED strips which I have sort of fixed with magnets and a couple twists ties here as well as up the front side of the case these LED strips and actually the lights on the case themselves are not properly reflecting the Lighting's that is being sent by the motherboard and I really am confused by that one I can get it to represent blue but if I try to make it do red it's more of a pink and if I try to have a do green it becomes more of a greenish whitish yellow type thing so it seems like the it's trained like it's got a white instruction that's coming through there along with everything else but anyway I need to contact fan text and figure that out a little bit better the memory the g.skill memory is looking pretty nice I mean it looks it looks really cool it comes default out of the box with the rainbow effect and then there's several effects I've been trying but again I can basically install the software so I can control that memory but everything else can it goes weird like right now I try to just turn all the lights off and like everything turned off except for that nice trips but everything should be off the NZXT Kraken is functioning perfectly thankfully but it has its separate piece of software to control so I am working with two bits of software the ACE is for a suite as well as the NZXT cam software which seem to play nice together for the most part but again you can't really synchronize between them so I was having to figure out something that would match with this particular lighting it wouldn't match up this one anyway that's that's the lighting situation right now and again guys I'm gonna have to come back to this and show you guys the full demo once everything is working properly let's talk about like everything else alright so cabling I'm really glad that I swapped out for these EVGA custom sleeved cable kit are like the this specialty sleeve cable kits that they can they sell to go along with their fully modular power supplies you know it's not like the nicest sleeve cabling but it's definitely pretty clean that's a little bit thinner and it's not like it's not like paracord but I was able to do a little bit of training with it I put some twist ties around here just to hold it in place so it was sort of stay like that and I think overall turned out pretty nice and definitely a nice upgrade from the defaults leaving that came with it performance-wise I have done some quick overclocking I just used a I suite software from Asus and the 7700 K got to 4.9 yogurts I don't think I have like a golden ship or anything because a lot of people are hitting size this one doesn't seem to want to do five but I'm happy with 4.9 GPU it's a 1080 of course so I got about two thousand fifty two thousand thirty five megahertz with my basic overclocking that I did so far I'll come back with some additional gaming benchmarks later on and then of course cable management was was a big challenge here because it's a dual tempered glass side panel case so the cable management was very messy at first I really wanted to make sure so if I was looking down in this direction at this gap here in the power supply shroud but I wasn't going to see cables looped back there and everything and I think I managed to do that pretty well because it looks pretty clean from this angle also really glad that I did this little thing to tie it up on the top to keep the tubing from the Kraken from from from falling down too much I think it looks a little bit better that way and now let's look at the cable management side over here and boom there's for cable management super happy with how this turned out again one of the nice things about coming back and redoing cabling first off you realize that this very nice case when it comes kill management because I was able to sort of rewire the entire power supply without very much difficulty at all the sleeves cabling just looks a lot better here since it is visible with the side panel on on the other side and then I was able to tie up a bit of the excess down here use a lot of zip ties in here after I got the velcro to hold everything in place I use a zip ties to cinch things down just a lot more to keep things cleaner and you know it's not like everything's completely completely 100% clean but I think it's about as good as I could get it without doing any like custom cutting of cables or rewiring of things and stuff like that my ocz drive back here does stand out quite a bit but I think again since it's on the opposite side of the case it's not a big deal at all but very clean a very very happy that's how this all turned out down here there's even plenty of space down there in the basement for additional stuff if I wanted to shove additional stuff in there and oh and I did keep the sticker on the power supply on you guys can let me know if you think that was a good idea and I just it's blended in with everything and I wasn't going for like a completely clean D labeled build with this so I don't mind keeping that on there too so people could see that you know to get good power supplies I have installed anyway though guys I am going to wrap up this video because I need to hit the road ASAP I hope you have enjoyed this I hope you don't mind that it's still a bit of a work in progress but I will be coming back and doing one more follow-up video very specifically for the lighting Oh Oh the one last thing I did want to mention is noise this system is very very quiet and that's a key factor for for me I would say the noise is more important than the lighting I think a lot of you would agree with that but even when this is under load staying very quiet the most you can hear is like when you get right up in there you can hear just the tiniest bit of pump boys from the crack in X 62 so not bad not bad at all anyway guys thanks for watching this video really appreciate it the thumbs up button if you enjoyed it links to all the parts I used or down in the video's description and stay tuned for more comment on this build as well as my February build which I'm also going to be assembling very soon thanks for watching pauls hardware we'll see you next time