Gadgetory

I'm sure your day was filled with the risin fives benchmark so how about a change of pace for the end of today I built a custom loop inside the NZXT s340 elite and yes it was as hard as it sounds there were a few compromises I had to make right off the bat most obviously those being the pump mounted on top of the basement rather than inside the basement where it typically goes most of the time you don't want to show off the pump it's just not a very aesthetically pleasing feature of a custom loop but being that the s340 elites are rather stubborn on modular case in that sense I can't just remove the hard drive tray underneath it's actually bolted to the basement I'd have to drill through it if I wanted to remove it which I wasn't willing to do because I don't want to mess up this case and I've never done that before I just decided to put it on top of the basement it actually fits perfectly in the SSD tray on top it's like it was designed for that so I did my best to make it look like it was a part of the aesthetic side of the custom loop even though obviously if I could do it all over again I would try to find another way to hide that underneath it just wasn't much space between the power supply bebe quiet 1000 watt power supply got underneath and the hard drive tray there just wasn't enough room for a pump down there now the other compromise I you know what listen I can say compromise let's say unorthodox methodology I had to wrap the 24 pin around the cable shroud of the SD Foley which is definitely weird most people just kind of stuff it underneath the original opening on the left side closer to the motherboard but I wanted to show off these cables I didn't want a more cramped up and that's one of the issues I had with the s340 elite that I explained in this video right here but Tony made these cables the 24 pin the 8 pin as well as the 8 pin DPS up top which you can't really see but it's still nice to know that it's there he has a third-party vendor that he be happy to share with you can follow him on Facebook on Twitter on Instagram he's got all the same social media accounts that I do and he also has a YouTube account which I encourage you to subscribe to it's linked in the video description but he makes all this stuff by hand he was more than happy to help me out here I really do appreciate it I think it makes the build pop it would look the same without them the red and white accents of the cables definitely matched the case as well as the red fluid which is where will come next I chose red fluid I use the C 1000 per clear which is thermal takes C 1000 opaque clear counterpart remember I had issues with the opaque coolant before but I decide to go with a clear stuff this time haven't had a problem yet I also used the Thermaltake red dye and I'm still doing just fine so we'll see how that goes pretty much everything in here that pertains to the custom loop by the way is sponsored by thermaltake actually recycled much of this from the Rison custom lube bill but you can check out right here the specs of this build are linked in the video description I 760 700 K just a gtx 1070 for now although I will be doing something very special with a 1080 TI here soon but I just wanted another challenge I was frankly challenged by Edie from Texas who but like talking a little smack about my original blueSky build also didn't find my rise in custom loop build too enticing although I mean I built two in the same time that it took him to build well a fourth of one and so I decided to slap him in the face with this third custom new build which took me only a day and a half to put together I didn't film the build process because I wanted to focus solely on the custom loop there were a few bends in here that were very tricky you're looking at this bend right here from the GP to the CPU completely unnecessary but what I call the you bend that's for you ed from tech source and this either been right here it's kind of like a corkscrew it goes up from the CPU to the 120 rad mounted in the back I think both of these bends were just just necessary for the build to look excellent for the build to look different not just I don't ordinary and of course from the 120 the loop flows into the top mounted reservoir which I will admit I was a little uneasy about that's a lot of weight a lot of fluid up top it's only being suspended by a couple of pipes and it's also slightly hanging on to the top of the 240 rod in the front of the case it is fairly stable it will wiggle back and forth if you really force it but as long as your fittings just you could properly shouldn't have any leaks now by this point you might be wondering why on earth my front mounted rad is upside down typically the pipes funnel in from the top right well in this case because the reservoir is where it is on the top of the case there was no other way to make this work so I had to have the pipe from the reservoir feed down into the intake at the bottom where the rat is turned upside down and then have that fluid feed into the pump on top of the basement typically you want your reservoir to feed your pump directly that way when you cycle through and get that fluid moving you don't have air that's trapped somewhere usually it's trapped at the bottom or if you can't get your fluid down from the reservoir initially you can't really cycle your fluid because you have nothing to food there you don't want to turn on your pump when there is no fluid there the pump will just spin way faster than it should heat up usually kill the pump after a few minutes or so so don't do that make sure that you rotate the case a few times especially in a scenario like this where the res is not the reservoir is not feeding the pump directly so that was another compromise I had to make it it mentioned that earlier but I figured by this point we're talking about the custom loop you can kind of see why I did that and from the pump a couple of 90 degree fittings lead directly into the gtx 1070 and this is a thermal take gtx 1070 1080 reference PCB block I did have to remove the thermal take back plate though and fit the Alpha Coulomb which is also a bit weird because these are competing manufacturers when it comes to custom cooling here nonetheless it wouldn't fit the the thermal take one with the asrock supercarriers g27 your motherboard which I'm using in the build you can check out that review right here but the rear i/o shield is just a little too thick and I couldn't fit that backplate underneath that i/o shield the thermal take one so I swapped it for the Alpha Coulomb which is very thin at the rear where that IO shield is and I think it looks ok you can't really tell that it's a thermal take block anyway unless you look at it from the bottom and even then it kind of looks like a lot of other blocks out there if you're wondering what kind of Ram I have in the build this is Galax Hall of Fame ddr4 clocked at 3000 megahertz it's difficult to get your hands on I will admit but if you can do it because these dims look spectacular I've had them for a few months not actually use them in a very old bill which I don't blame me for not knowing about but I think in this case it looks great with the white case as well as the white accents in the cables I've stuck a couple of silent wings three fans from be quiet at the front in front of the 240 rad and a single LED white deep cool I don't know what it's called specifically but it's a fluid bearing fan from the game or storm series it's what you would get if you bought a 240 or 120 mil captain EXO that's where I took that band from if you're wondering a few people have asked about that in previous builds but that is what that is it's not as quiet as the the silent wings three fans in the front not anywhere near as quiet but with a few tweaks to your fan curve and your BIOS you should be okay now the icing on the cake in my book for this build is the Pnyx eller 8 SSD this is 960 gigabyte SSD it's the only drive in the system of course of my operating system wanted all of my games that I benchmark with as well as Adobe Premiere and my footage it's plenty one terabyte is plenty for all that I personally do and the red and the dark kind of grey black accents really do match everything else in the bill especially the motherboard and the red accents in the cables along with the red fluid so that's it this is my third build ever let me know what you think about the Ben's particular what you would do differently if you could build this I understand everyone has different preferences you know this is my PC so I built its way that I want but if you could build your own PC and have the same parts what would you do differently let me know if you are interested in maybe some kind of experiment where we drill through the case and try to mount the pump underneath the basement get rid of that harddrive tray which I'm not using by the way I recommend that we could probably get that done I would say within the next few weeks or so so we might reconstruct this loop if we can fit the pump underneath that's the only thing I would personally change about it it just takes a lot of work you got to drill through and it's a good case the way it is and I don't think it looks that bad if you liked the video be sure to give it a thumbs up thumbs down for the opposite click subscribe on if you haven't already I will catch you in the next video finals week is coming up I'm going to be very busy with stuff other than YouTube so be patient with me this is Salazar studio thanks for learning with us