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Project 'Blue Sky' Custom Loop PC Build Log (Part 1 of 4)

2017-02-07
what is up everyone this is the water cooling gear sent straight from Germany straight out of Germany this is all the aqua tuning stuff alpha cool components primarily actually I think everything is from alpha cool they were super generous and sent over pretty much everything that I wanted they just told me to have at it just pick what I wanted and then they send it over so huge shout out to them they are the biggest sponsor by far in this series of videos by the way I think I'm only going to break this into probably three parts so today will do the unboxing will run through the components I'll be using and then we'll probably just put the water blocks onto the graphics cards and the CPU and call it a day and then in part two we will install the radiator put everything in the case as well as the fittings kind of plan out the loop although we do already have a plan you can check that out where it can be over here filled and then a part 3 will be the bends and fluid in molten fluid insulated the bends and then pipe insulation or the PE GG tubing that we'll be using and then fill in that bad boy up with the fluid all righty have a look inside here okay so there were they're sending over everything so hey we even get a heat gun hard our tube heat gun pro 2000 watt that's what I'm talking about so I'm just probably more stuff in here than I'm honestly going to need I don't know what's in this is there something in here let's see what this is all anti-static mat they actually send one leave an anti-static mat so we can actually work on everything properly by convention here Oh Oh there's a coolant I mean obviously I'm trying to figure out what brand it is I guess this is just alpha cool generic brand of a coolant another one of those that's good so I'm expecting to have tons of these boxes here these are fittings of course then you know vital component for any custom loop tons of those here I also got some very cool-looking Bionic loops fans that are going to be blue I hope that's the high-end fitting series so tons check these out tons of fittings in here like I said they hooked us up so we should have a surplus I'm hoping we have a surplus buddy of mine water cools builds all the time touch some loops and that he told me that it's more than likely you'll end up with not enough that's why I went overboard here is our reservoir and I think our pump is in here too if I'm not mistaken check this out so one three 60ml radiator full copper that's my metal of choice I recommend copper and another one so this want to go on top that want to go on the bottom here's your vice-versa so you get the point more fitting now here is the tubing so this is a PE TG tubing I believe and I think it is it might be I'm pretty sure that it's UV reactant if it's not another big deal we'll just put some UV fluid in it but I think I'm going to go for a blue UV look this is another let's say that's a 90 degree sitting there wow that is so heavy just one sitting there expenses but you get what you pay for now this here is a rubber insert this is what you insert into the tube to keep it from bending that's good to have more PE TG more PU TG more few TG more PPG more PEP ya over-prepared definitely more PEP G yep you guys can judge me all you want I bought more than I think I'm ever going to need because I think it's going to take me a while to get these bends right woo all right so this is the bridge between both graphics cards you guys told me to run this in parallel so that's why it's here and it also lights up to lights of blue kind of bluish UV here's an LED ring that we can place around our reservoir which is pretty cool so that will light up the fluid inside the reservoir itself let's see oh here's the pump okay so that the pump is boxed separately but this is compatible with the reservoir which is somewhere over there so this just snaps onto the bottom of it and there we go and at the CPU block this is very cool they said they were going to send me the new or the newer one so I'm assuming this is the newer one that looks pretty dope if I do say so myself okay but what I am not seeing are the graphics card water blocks so I think we'll have to wait on those yeah I don't see them in this box maybe they just forgot them I'll send them an email you get those out here okay and I already ran into my first problem so you have the bottom 360 mo right here I have this as an intake I took your advice so air will be pulled in from the bottom and then it will move this way and then be pushed out the top which is nice because that's how heat naturally behaves anyway but the issue I have involves the size of this reservoir and pump combo with respect to the rest of the case so there's plenty of space over on this side other words let me come about here so I have all of this room to make use of with the reservoir but the problem is I ordered this bracket this bracket was supposed to be like the support beam but you can see there are two problems with this the first problem is that this is actually configured for both 140 ml and 120 ml our radiator which means that this looks retarded look at there's a little dorky thing sticking out of the ends of the radiator so that's not cool I don't have any tools to cut this kind of metal not on hand anyway maybe in the shop in the engineering department I don't know anybody over there which let me do this for the heck of it and also up talk you can see we have virtually no space to funnel our fluid into into the reservoir oh maybe there's some bracket that I can buy that that will work for 120 only that I can just fit right on top of this and that won't be raised by with 3/4 of an inch or so that's just good I don't understand why they did that okay so nevermind scratch that I actually combined two separate mounting kits as you can see here just a few screws and a few nuts to hold those in place and then this bracket here is compatible with 120 and 140 millimeter mounts so the inner circles and it was not focusing to the inner circles are the ones we'll be using to mount this reservoir atop of the radiator right there so it actually works out and we're not going to have a really large just incline for absolutely no reason whatsoever but I'm going to go ahead and mount that second bracket and I'll flip this thing around and mount it to the radiator we'll be good to go okay and there we go as you can see I had to provides here the brackets were still a bit too wide for the the length of the reservoir base so I had to throw a few washers in I think four washers on each side so if it's the only thing that looks a little weird I mean from far away it looks like that's kind of how it's supposed to be but obviously this was just something that I came up with on a whim and I think that it will do okay the reservoir I mean it's sturdy it's not going anywhere and it's fastened securely to the radiator I think we're good to go you see these cables here are for powering the pump on the bottom there these will of course be run through the back panel and the only other thing that I think I might do is just get my first it's not going to be a bend but just my first tube what I'm going to do is run both these radiators together so I'm going to have probably I don't know which direction the flow is going to go yet I think I want to start with a kind of come from here and then it's going to go through the graphics cards picture graphics cards here and it's going to go straight up to the CPU it's okay to run that loop in that way it's okay to have the fluid running straight from the graphics cards the CPU not a problem and then from the CPU and I'm going to try to run it like that I want to get it out of the way the RAM that way to it that's what it looks like over there so I'm gonna try to run the tubing over the ramp so that I can remove dims if I need to at any point and then that tubing is going to pop up in here I think oh well if it does that then I guess I have to run the front tubing down here through this one Oh in which case I need to start from here to the ground I don't know know how it's going to work so this will probably this isn't in nuts the out so this is where the fluid will be pushed out from the pump so maybe from here that's what we'll do so from here to the graphics cards up through and then I guess hmm you know it would look dope because we're going to have the case like this is the side panel here so the case will be sitting like that like the s3 for you it is so we'll see the front right here so what I might do instead of just doing a straight pipe down which I wouldn't be able to do anyway unless I routed the pipe from the CPU up to this first hole here on the radiator I might just do like a kind of like a zigzag sort of methods exact but it's going to come down now you can't tell and it's going to cross over but it's going to do it you know slanted nothing it's not going to be an abrupt 90 degree so I think that'll look kind of cool you'll be able to see that through the front here so that's just kind of what I have going on in my head right now the next part of course will be motherboard and graphics card installation and then we'll do the tubing last but I think I will tackle just one tube just to get used to the bent I think that'll be it fairly easy Bend to do just that maybe a 45 or so and then a 45 back to get it from up here to down here sorry about the weird filming and this first person that's pretty cheesy but it's very difficult to film you know solid b-roll for custom loop stuff absolutely I sit now I don't see how the big guys do it I really don't need some tips from them but that's it part one is over this is just you know just kind of wetting my feet at this point next up will install all the components make sure the computer is still running fine and then we'll tackle the bends in part three so that's it thanks for watching this is Zelizer studio thanks for learning
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