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so part four came a little early and that is thanks to Thermaltake so we were waiting on the graphics card blocks to get here from alpha cool they've had some issues they were moving warehouses and a bunch of other crap went on so I went ahead reached out to Thermaltake and Jack over a Thermaltake said that he could send these over overnight they sent these via UPS they some 5tn yesterday and we have them now these are beautiful thermal take water blocks for reference reference PCB GTX 1080s of which our EVGA cards are using we have two of them we also have an SLI bridge here if we want to use that but we might not but these are just gorgeous I actually think these look better than the optical blocks just saying that there you can see through them and you know the intricacy here is beyond belief I love the way they look so we're going to put these on we're gonna install these and then we're going to run the tube and should be good to go with starting up blue sky for the first time running some leak tests and yes that's it go ahead and start assembling the water box I'll also do a review of the PCO 11 for those interested that will be up after we actually finish assembling project blue sky this case is I mean it has a lot of space in it I think it's very strategically laid out it is on the expensive side but you get me pay for tempered glass aluminum steel construction and obviously plenty of room for a custom loop like this one there's one GT X 1080 it is extremely dirty in here right now alright and there's our second GT X 1080 so now we're going to pull off the ACX cooler here and install that acrylic I think it's acrylic an acrylic block on the PCB so you know what we're doing here right no you don't are you wondering where this is going to go okay so this this HDX cooler here there's a bunch of a fin and their fans here so the fins basically conduct the heat generated from the GPU the VRMs vram stuff like that and then these fans help dissipate the heat from those fins we're taking off this entire thing down to just the search bored which is this lighter color strip here and then we're going to smack this block like right where the cooler or the air cooler is now hmm and we go see that now the thermal pads here gave this bag played a bit of function so it hope to absorb a bit of the heat okay so you can see here this is the GTX 1080 reference PCB down to a just a bare board here and next comes thermal take water block installation you so kind of at the halfway point here for part four say I've got the the tubes running from the reservoir to the GPU block and they're been running from here to the CPU block everything else was pretty much good to go before and I did redo this bend and I also did this bend over again as well so that one's much smoother as are these a kind of like 30 degree bends up top so I'm going to double check everything make sure that the settings are on secure everything is just good to go that I can see up front and then I'm going to add some cool it now I was I was really debating going with something opaque like this or going with the stuff I showed in the last video in this video right here that UV coolant this I think is going to match better but it's not going to look as crystalline oh there's supposed to be like crystal meth that's what blue sky is named after in Breaking Bad the blue sky was the street name for the methamphetamine a Heisenberg cooked but I think I think for aesthetic purposes I'm going to go with the opaque coolant I think it's just going to be a better choice in terms of what it's going to match it's kind of a good blend between other CPU block up top and the light blue cables and the graphics card backplate so that's what I'm going to go with and this you know this is just something that I think will pay off in the long run worst case I'll flush but the fluid out and I'll replace it later on but I think this is going to be a better bet so now I'll have to do instead of lining UV strips I'll just line probably just a single white LED strip going down this little corner post here and that'll be it worst case other one up top if it's to them but I want kind of like a minimalist lighting perspective being that this will be the corner that'll be closest to me to be equivalently right here I think it would be cool just kind of see how the light spreads out over the case so I'm going to turn the PC around for a bit I'm going to kind of wire I get a fan hub here going to wire all these fans for the radiators up make sure everything else is good to go and we will add the coolant and I'll try to get as much slow-mo footage as possible because I know that's what you folks are looking forward to you okay so it's like 2:45 a.m. I'm talking with my man Tony over there on the PC say hi Tony oh yeah that's Tony so we've been kind of conversing about this this custom loop here of course you just saw the leak that we had with this fitting right here and then on top of that once that was finished and Tony can be my witness here the power supply stopped working just out of nowhere I was kind of switching it on and off getting the pump a disciple through the fluid and I turned it on once and the pump wouldn't turn on I thought it was just a bad cable or something swap it out still nothing so then I bring over the testbench thermal take test bench and this is a 800 850 watt RGB a B+ cooled power supply this thing works perfect and pump is on right now you see the fluids a turning through the loop so we just had a thousand watt p2 power supply from EVGA died on us I'm going to call it quits this is still going to be the end of part four and the end of the series of the blue sky billed part for project blue sky did not end the way I thought it would but uh I mean she finished she's just not looking pretty right now it's like a car without paint basically or without that it's like a car without wheels tires that's more like it this is Salazar studio I'm going to sleep thanks for building with us I think we'll go with that one you