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Prepping for My First Custom Water Loop PC Build!

2017-01-25
what is up everyone I wanted to show you what is arrived in studio and the plans that I have for the custom Waterloo PC that I've been hinting at a few videos and also talking extensively about on Twitter I'm just super giddy about it because it will be my first custom loop ever and I'll pretty much be building the whole thing myself why I have I have a few mentors who I will mention periodically in the official build log videos but I without them there's no way I could do this I probably won't even know what to buy in terms of parts there are so many things to go through the different fittings just the the tube size decision things like that you would think we're just having you know pretty self-explanatory and simple to do there's a lot of thought that goes into just one custom loop build and there are people on YouTube who do it who do these like you know like nothing like normal PC builds so I am definitely a newb I don't make any secret of that I'm sure I'll do a few things wrong and you guys will yell at me extensively in the comments for that but that's okay this is a learning experience for me and if you guys haven't done this either then you can kind of learn and and I guess experience it as we go so the first things I want to talk about are the two gtx 1080s i have here i purchased these out of my own pocket namely because i don't have any contacts with EVGA at this point and also because the previous plan was to use the 210 70s in heisenberg and these PCBs are pretty much the same there are a few differences on board especially between this and something like the for the win edition but the water blocks are compatible universally with all these AC X cards and so that's good but it did mean that I had to stick with EVGA which I'll have a problem with they're great cards they're very quiet and temperatures are great so I have no problem doing that but I did have to shell out $1200 so that's what you're looking at here two boxes that over 600 bucks each granted you're gonna get some of the best performance possible I think the only thing you could do better maybe he's a upgrade to Titans but at that point you're just you're just spending money just to spend money would you have a look at you know this is the first gtx 1080i have ever owned and just realized that and on i own two of them but I've only ever owned ten 70s because a single 1070 is more than enough for 1080p ultra wide gaming which is this is my monitor of choice right here very budget-friendly ultrawide monitor 20 you can check out the review right here if you're interested and then I had the pixie of 1440p hundred and forty-four Hertz monitor and the second 10:17 that maxed that one out I didn't want to just sell the ten seventy by single 1080 and I think two cards looks way better two cards look way better in there in a single single 1080 wood so we have two of these again for the custom Waterloo build keep in mind the water blocks will require the removal of the entire a CX 3.0 cooler system as well as the backplate so alpha cool is our water cooling sponsor for this entire thing and you'll see all those parts hopefully by the end of this week that's what I want that's what I want to get started it's gonna take a while to do all of this and being that it's my first time I expect I'll be screwing up quite often now if you're wondering where all of these components are going so I'm going to take the core of Heisenberg and then these two gtx 1080s and i'm gonna throw these in to spin around this way that right there that says oh 11 and that's because it's the PCO 11 from Leanne Lee this is a case of cases now you've probably heard of the PCO 9 that's kind of like this thing's older brother this is a bit more refined it's slightly different on the inside as you'll see here shortly now but it still leaves plenty of room for a custom loop as you can see I mean the motherboard is gonna take up probably half of the space inside and everything else is is and I just left bare you want to throw some huge radiators in here you are more than capable of doing that in a case this size and additionally if you can already tell tempered glass surround the front end left side which is also super cool Leoni is kind of like the tempered glass champion at this point so you have plenty of room inside the PCO 11 just for you know kind of a point of reference here that's at 1 G 2 X 1080 the second one will be about here and it will stop plenty space down below for a 360 mo radiator I think I just went for this 60 millimeter thick radiator I want to say maybe 40 mil I don't I don't or what I got and then there will be three fans exhausting down and their spaces below the case for that hot air to escape and I'll also have another 360 ml up top same configuration just exhausting upward and then the reservoir will fit here along with the pump underneath I actually drew this out so this is kind of cheesy yeah I don't see many people doing this I'm just doing this because it's my first time and I'm very nervous about by the way out now this is probably you know kind of having you one edge right here what I did here so this isn't in parallel and I bet that Ben's gonna really suck so we'll see and play some maybe 90 degree fittings to work that out worst case you know we can always change that up and I ordered plenty of tubing by the place a week we can we can afford to screw up more than once and still be comfortable so the plan is from the reservoir down to the radiator here on this side and then the opposite side of that coming up to the first graphics card and then to the second graphics card from there to the CPU and then from the CPU to the top radiator radiator from there all the way back down to the reservoir now a few of you were voicing your concerns about the I guess the configuration the layout how I have it set up here to where the first graphics card will supposedly receive the coolest air and then it's the second card it's or they're not coolest and but the coolest water like would you know what I mean and then the second card then by the time it all gets to the CPU the liquids gonna be pretty hot right because these two graphics cards are gonna be fairly overclocked and yeah just putting out a lot of heat well the thing is this has been tested extensively not by me but by others who I trust and rely on 100% the the order here isn't gonna make a huge difference and it's not like I have to have you know the loop running to the first card and then have you know having a radiator right after that because that water is already gonna be pretty hot that's not really how it works it's just like a picture like one big system so the water as a whole as long as you have enough radiator support will remain relatively cool even with all of these overclock which they will be I'm gonna try to get around four point maybe 4.8 4.9 gigahertz with the 5820k I'm already getting four point seven in Heisenberg and that's what they crackin X 62 so I think I can get a bit more with the custom loop and then these cards here I'll shoot for ya I'd say at least over 20 maybe 20 100 megahertz I have no idea it's just gonna depend on the cards and how far I'm willing to push these voltage wise but yeah that's that's a layout of course this is subject to change and I'm sure that will change once I do start bending these tubes and realizing how hard it actually is but I think the case is beautiful I'm very thankful freely and Lee for sending us over and I think that the 1080s will be a nice upgrade sorry I wasn't pointing the camera in the right direction that needs to be nice to upgrade and I'm very comfortable with the 5820k being that it only has 28 PCIe lanes it's gonna be a bit of a concern that means that both of these cards are gonna be running it at times eight instead of full 16 lanes they'll be running it with eight lanes which I haven't done testing on personally but I do believe that will slightly bottom like the 10 80s the 1080 sendi is a bit more bandwidth than the typical card that would kind of make sense right the 10 70s are fine that way but the 1080 is I think it'll be pushing it so maybe maybe an upgrade to a 68 50k at some point I'm not sure but that will be discussed later on once I do run my tests but that's it I do hope that you are wonderful willing to leave comments suggestions tips tricks anything that you may have personally experienced or seen on other YouTube channels that you trust that you think will help me with us with this building process it's gonna be it's gonna be tough and I don't expect it'll work out completely on the first try if it does yeah but I'm me you know and I can't plug power supply cables into their correct power supplies so there's that by the way here shortly I'll be uploading a review of a pair of wireless Bluetooth in your headphones I received from a company called syllabus I think that's a name the company if that's not they have a company I'm it's not really stupid but yeah I'll give you like a first impressions raw unboxing if you will I'll put them on my ears not tell you how could I think they sound especially for the price and you can kind of we'll go from there I guess this is Salazar's studio thanks for listening thanks for putting up with me thanks for learning with us
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