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the enter max liquid tech tr4 - all-in-one liquid CPU cooler has a massive contact plate made just for thread Ripper and is rated for 500 watts of heat dissipation high pressure pwm fans mount two rubber channels on the radiator to absorb vibration and the sexy logo and edge lighting on the block is addressable for syncing with your motherboard it comes with an RGB control box - so click the spots or link in the description for more what's up guys how's it going welcome back to Pauls hardware I have been very busy over the past seven month month and a half and as a result I have neglected Riptide Riptide is the build that I did this summer is the most expansive and crazy water cooling build that I have yet put together it all started when Corsair sort of accidentally sent me the 1000 d case and they're like hey Paul we sent you this case you think you could do a video on it I was like well it's already here and it's huge I don't know what else I'm gonna do with it so yes then it evolved into me creating an upper system that is a workstation also gaming capable station and a lower system that is a FreeNAS build and I documented all this in a build series over the summer so feel free to check out the playlist if you want to watch that process and get yourself up to speed most recently I did a lighting test on this where I demonstrated some of the capabilities of the Corsair IQ lighting software and in that video I also revealed that one of my two pumps has failed so today I am going to be upgrading the system swapping out a couple of parts that aren't working anymore I also had this processor just arrived this is the 2970 WX I did not tell them to send this they just sent it and it's here it's 24 Core so it's an upgrade from the 16 core 2950 X that's currently in there both our thread Ripper - of course and then I am planning a follow-up video to this because I need to integrate this into my computer room and I need to build a stand for it so that's coming in the future - but else wise in today's video I will be swapping in of course new alpha cool replacement pump they actually sent me a full replacement pump as well as just the pump unit itself two slots into there so I guess I've got options there we also have and this was all purchased directly from Newegg which is why it's a new egg box I spent like $1,200 on SSD storage for this build specifically we have two one terabyte Samsung 970 evos for some really high speed MDOT - nvme storage and then we've got a couple a SanDisk Ultra - terabyte drives because there's really no space me to add mechanical drives to this upper system and it's supposed to be a video editing system so I need plenty of storage space for some 4k footage so these are probably go gonna go into raid one so that they're going to back each other up and I have a bit of redundancy and these are gonna go into raid zero so I'll have two terabytes of fast but a little bit of dangerous storage there and I'll have four terabytes well two terabytes effectively of redundant storage and these two drives finally I also have an upgraded mono block because as I mentioned when I first put the system together alpha cool makes a very nice CPU block but thread Ripper is a larger CPU it has four rise and dies in there so making a block that's specifically designed for that tends to work a little bit better so to that end I have an ek X 399 gaming RGB mono block so this is a mono block for the full motherboard it's gonna also cover the V RMS and keep those cooler so I'll be integrating this as well the last thing I wanted to point out before I get into this is that this was kind of what the system was designed for this is a water cooled system water cooled systems especially custom articled systems are notorious for being difficult to work with and upgrade my well with this system which I did by including quick disconnects wherever I could was to make sure that the water cooling loop could be disassembled and pull out of there and even if I wanted to do something as crazy as swapping the motherboard out or adding a mono block I could do that hopefully without too much trouble and today's video is probably either going to be a proof of that concept or a proof that's no matter what you do with a custom articled system like this it's going to be a challenge either way so when it comes to taking apart my loop I think I've decided how I want to go about doing this so click this connect so pretty much everywhere there is a connection point so from here to here there's a quick disconnect there down here there's one there one here and up here and so on so I think I can leave my radiators in place and leave them full of liquid to by just using the quick disconnects for that to remove the parts down here and then I'll see if I'm going to need to drain I probably will drain these separately after I get those pieces pulled out so sparked these reservoirs cuz I had noticed and Joe also noticed there's a few spots on them that had appeared since they're all white I was rubbing on those to see if that would come off and it seems like it does there's also though it seems like maybe some rough spots on these these little things here and there so as I'm feeling them some of the rough patches seem like they might be a little bit more inclined to pick up residue like the right here actually is a good example that there is some buildup and that appears to be like the plastic itself is kind of rough right here so I think that's why that buildup occurred this is the pieces of one of the original cold cathodes it goes in the center of these and lights it up I haven't had these installed because I broke one of them when I did the initial installation broke another one of them just now they are quite delicate I think and concerned me too bad because fortunately alpha coal did send me some replacements for these after I broke that first one so hopefully I can use this drop it back down in there and these aren't supposed to just be for lighting though since it's also UV it's also supposed to potentially kill any biological growth in the liquid too so this might actually potentially help from getting buildup on my little helixes so now that I've done this once I think I can present you with the master class on how to replace a cold cathode in one of these alpha cool helix reservoirs drops down in there just like that but bear in mind if you're placing one you will need to retrieve little nubby that came with the original because the replacement doesn't come with that just gonna feed this on the end bear mine there's a little extra wire the goes down the entire length of the cathode tube you do not want to break that it is delicate so be careful now we have our cap caps in two pieces is actually a center unit there and there's an o-ring just beneath that so make sure both of those are in place take your helix of course and drop it down in the center then we can take this cap put it back on top push it down a little bit it will cause the outer sleeve to catch on the threading on the reservoir itself and then by screwing that down it will actually sink these up push that a ring into place get yourself a nice water seal there I do need to rotate this so we'll line up where I want it to be in the actual build I'm just gonna tighten that down good and tight take my cathode drop it down the middle and then just using a little dowel to kind of push that into place haha as I'm working on this upgrade I have another box arrived and it is also from AMD and I have no idea what it is because usually I responds to AMD and say yes send this over or that over or whatever they want to send but I've just I just have it this time purely because I've been so busy this past week but they're sending me stuff anyway so you guys get to find out what it is along with me hey there it is that was a large box for a single processor well there it is this is the 29 20 X I have no immediate use for this but thank you Andy for sending this over this is the 12 core version so this is the lowest end processor you can get when it comes to threader / - that's all I really have to say about it for now let's let's move on things are actually moving along pretty steadily now and the thing I was most happy with was the removal of the motherboard I don't know if you guys saw that in the time-lapse but just taking the graphics cards out all as one units removing this whole pump and reservoir assembly allowed me to easily get at the motherboard pull that out of there get the block installed plugging back in reinstall it I also really like that the dim dot 2 slot that's available on the motherboard just allows you to take the MDOT 2 drives put them in that little adapter and and slot it right in it's an a very convenient place up here and it's not blocked by any of these graphics cards down here so that's cool too beyond that I wanted to give a test of my newly assembled pump reservoir combos here so if we assembled that looped it in with itself and then this is actually an AC adapter that was sent by a fan - awesome hardware to our p.o box actually sent to Kyle's Pio box just a lacy adapter with a molex plug and a button so that allows me to really easily test these pumps turn them on enough and fortunately we have no leaks appearing thus far so I think I'm really quickly going to test those cold cathodes as well and then we'll drop this back into oh thanks Joe sorry after all my warnings I completely I'm gonna need to air-dry it so now because that happens I cannot do a test food I just had a major brain fart again just flaky water everywhere so all that was left one last little piece to connect from the monoblock up to here the model block is positioned a little bit differently when it comes to my connectors there so that's trying to get the tubing lengths to be the right length to look okay and everything I had it like functional in there but I was trying to cut this a little shorter and then I wanted to measure the length of this and get an idea of how short it be to go from here to here and I forgot that the top radiator is completely full of liquid still so when I connected the connector it started to drain out and now we have some liquid back there between the graphics cards and the motherboard so I would need to pull these GPUs out dry it off as much as I can let it sit at least overnight depending on how much water is back there and I'm gonna have to come back to you guys in just a minute it'll be just a minute for you guys but it'll be tomorrow for me and actually get hopefully a test boot on this thing ah that was so stupid I was warning joe about that happening earlier and then I completely blanked on it potentially happening just now ah that's right all right pulling the graphics cards Beckett it has transition all right guys it's now two days from the last shot where I tragically spilled water inside here and I've just been waiting for stuff to dry out I think everything is good to go now graphics cards there have had plenty of time and internally now I just have a couple things really left to do I'm gonna use some barrel extenders here to provide a little bit of extension for the monoblock to give me a little bit more flexibility with where these tubes are going need to apparently this one hasn't tried out completely I need to cut this one a little bit shorter in order to make that a little bit smoother up there honestly I'm just so close to being done and then of course the last thing is gonna be some wiring up in the back hooking up my little UV cold cathodes in there and then of course getting the SSDs all wired and then should be finished and fire this up and make sure everything is hopefully still working that said though I have plenty of paper towels here so I'm going to once again get into the risky phase of trying to work with these tubes and hopefully not lose too much fluid along the way alright guys the system has been reassembled I was about to power it all on and then I realized you know it always be safe rather than be sorry so let's do some pump testing and see if we can figure out if there are any leaks going on also I will probably need to be topping off these pumps as they're filling with air pretty quickly does seem to have enough fluid in it so that's good for now all right I'm gonna leave this running for just a minute or two top it off then I'll cycle through check the second one - alright CPU loop is looking good so I'm gonna switch over and tried the GPU loop he goes to the GPU loop yeah we have they could flow this one doesn't have as much air to work out a loop either because didn't drain these front rads very much alright so again just gonna let this run for a few minutes double check for leaks and then I can do a repower back on and hopefully everything I install this functional alright guys I think it is about time to do an actual test boot on the system upgraded all the new parts integrated looks like we got power I sure hope I rewired the power button up properly I sure hope there are no leaks I sure hope I'll shoot I don't think the power button is wired up properly I'll shoot that's inconvenient alright I'll have to worry about that later for now we use the surface mounted power button this is promising initially both pumps working yeah look at that excellent progress beautiful this your pretty common just swapped the CPU message new CPU installed and oh it's also giving me a fan speed area because nothing's plugged in to the fan header processors recognize 29 70 WX 24 core processor when it comes to onboard devices under SATA configuration I can see both of my course airforce le 480 gig SSDs as well as the two SanDisk 2 terabyte so that's good too and finally here under boot devices I can see my two samsung 970 evos also being recognized that is fantastic alright guys that is gonna pretty much wrap it up for this video I have the system back up and running I don't appear to have any fingers crossed on that of course I'm gonna keep a close eye on it for the time being and I have rebooted into Windows and the IQ software is loaded back up I still need to synchronize the Asus software with the Corsair software to get all the colors matching but functionally everything's working and I would say that given all of the stuff that I did in this video to this system including swapping in a CPU swapping in a water cooling monoblock swapping out a busted pump adding in the SSD storage that I did and the fact that this is a very complex system with lots of moving parts in it I don't think it was all that difficult relatively speaking of course let me know what you guys think if you think it's worth it to build a system like this with all the complexity involved I of course will be following up with more because I need to build a computer off floor stand for this to go on in the computer room and then of course I am planning on using this system still so I do plan to follow up once I get it's integrated into my workflow and into my computer room and show you guys some of the performance especially with the upgraded CPU kind of curious how that's gonna work especially when it comes to gaming but that's gonna wrap it up for this video guys I really hope you enjoy it the thumbs up button if you did I'll put links to as much of this stuff as possible in the description down below and while you're down there consider subscribing too so you can see my follow up videos on this as well as lots of other videos coming at you real soon thanks again for watching guys and we'll see you next time