I've NEVER had a PC fight me this hard before! UGH!

okay so today we're gonna water cool a system for my friend AJ you guys have seen him on the live stream because my system of course waiting on some stuff that I was not expecting to have to order as what typically goes AJ says oh no I've got everything we'll ever need for this build so we're gonna see if he's right or wrong the new Sky tube mid tower case from montec features improved direct airflow with fine mesh intakes three pre-installed RX 120 argb fans supports motherboards all the way up to eatx while supporting top mounted 360 radiators and even fits the largest 40 series gpus on the market all while not breaking the bank to see the full list of features follow the sponsored Link in the description below that's what we've got going on here we're doing a rigid tube build on an 011 Dynamic that's okay I can't fault the guy it is like probably the easiest build to do water cooling in um this one has a bits power distribution block for the front as you can see um we actually have to mod the case slightly to use this we have to drill out some rivets so that this can mount to it but this mounts to the front panel where most of the distribution blocks I've ever used have mounted to the motherboard panel so this one will be a first for me um he's got a EVGA at this point now when he got it he didn't know that this was about to be a I don't say a relic but uh definitely a one for the history books because they you're not gonna be able to buy this anymore but this is a for the win three Hydro copper 3080 so it's a pre-installed water block I don't know how I messed this box up how the heck okay there we go pre-installed water block on there got a whole bunch of fittings he got the GSS water block like back when it first came out so this has been sitting in the box for a while it's even got a lot of dirt on it that's actually pre-installed dirt every Jason's water block comes with the dirty box EK cool stream classic sc360 RADS he got these direct from Ek they came from Slovenia he was super shocked at how fast they actually came because I remember when he ordered these he was like oh my God they only they come from Slovenia that's going to take forever and three days later DHL here they are I love the fact that they call these classic because the new RADS as you guys have seen with my build have those covers on the end which have a little bit of color to them but he's got two 360 RADS so oh this is slightly different too because they have this like indentation on the side here kind of a beveled it's funny the classic the true classic definitely shouldn't have had that at all but anyway full Copper rad we got two of those we're gonna go with the bottom mount and a top mount and then let's see oh in terms of fittings and stuff he went with the Primo chill X or SX revolvers these are the same fittings I used for years like in all the skunk work iterations had the revolvers we got a whole bunch of xspc elbows and 90 degree fittings and such got some light Loop 120s to fill out some more fans I think he currently has some light Loops in his current system right now he's in the other room pulling out the CPU which is gonna be a 9900 KS um let's see motherboard is an EVGA z390 dark so this is like already kind of like an EK tribute build we've got plenty of we've got two packs of Primo chill 13 millimeter these are 13 right it should be um 13 millimeter yes well they call it 3 8 ID by one half OD which is funny because it's an American company it is 13 millimeter so we've got everything we need here at least we should need to get this done pretty simple so we're just gonna kind of take you guys along for the ride not really a tutorial not really a fill Montage just sort of kind of talking about it as we go which is what you guys like so we gotta start by getting the components ready while he's pulling the CPU out he's going to reinstall it inside this motherboard I'll get the block on here get the case modded and we'll do things in somewhat of a logical order okay so I gotta drill out this rivet right here and this river right here because on the back side it won't allow the the disco plate to sit flat that's the only reason I would have to do that [Music] make sure you get all those metal shavings out of there you know I think bits power has really come out with some really nice stuff like they get these really nice machined screws because that's supposed to be visible on the front so these three will be mounting to one two three right there the two that we just drilled out we'll go through just like that and mount into that side of the distro plate so you have to drill those out not only because it doesn't allow it does it flat but because we need it to mount it to it so let's go ahead and use my iFix this is the big I fix it this is the let's face it they're not just friends anymore screwdriver anyway try not to touch the acrylic because it can scratch pretty easily and also gets a lot of fingerprints on there they've got a tapered head that will fit perfectly in the hole that already exists in the case see that don't over tighten it's just acrylic it will crack do not over tighten trust me we get in our minds Like It's gotta be so tight but no it doesn't it's a little bit snug until you feel some resistance nice I love stuff like this because this this makes water cooling available to so many more people who might have otherwise never even tried because [Music] this plate gives you so many options for cable or not cable but tube routing and stuff that's why I was trying to do distributes in mine but the thing is my district plate on my build it's more of a universal for the 925 so this one is very like specific height layout and stuff it gives you that super custom look without having to like go out and make it yourself there we go look at that that looks pretty sick I like it I like it a lot we're going to take the lower Drive cage or drive brackets out because we are going to be putting a radiator down there [Music] do not see us using this back wall for the rad that will just add extra complication that's not necessary so our radiator would be down here pulling air in updrafting to here which will be another red exhausting so just be a nice updraft or Inlet to the reservoir fill Reservoir which is the tube or the inlets above the return line which is nice you can get all the air out so you don't have a waterfall effect there and then this right here is just the drain okay very well thought out and then this is our RGB cable here because there's side light RGB shining across it and then we can just run this over here with the rest of our lighting or the rest of our our wire management getting that open out of the way so this is the z390 dartboard he actually got it from me I want to do a boot test to make sure everything's working keep these covers they're important when you swap motherboards and stuff you want to be able to cover them up so I'm not going to actually Mount down the CPU Cooler and I should be doing this technically with his uh 3080 as well because even with the water block on it you can power it up you know passive cool just fine I'm just going to let the weight of this cooler touch the CPU power it's going to do a couple of restarts like this which is normal [Music] this amount of looping right now is not normal now I'll show you guys what I saw and why I am doing this see that one bent pin up here so that's what I think we need to I think that's what our culprit is right now so let me protect everything here we'll take it over to the uh the microscope okay so this pin right here you can see how that one's pushed down and it's like out of alignment that's an easy fix right there [Music] [Music] foreign just a tiny bit more now you can't even tell which one it was by looking at it that seems so impossible to do until you have a microscope this is already paying for itself all right Moment of Truth or not my power button not doing anything restart let go out again here we go one restart second restart [Music] all right couple things one this board it's fine I didn't need to fix that pin uh it's a 900 KS and this board needed a bios update to make it work so as soon as I put a 9900k in there it worked fine and it posted the problem is I just realized that this particular dark motherboard does not have any argb headers on it this is about a generation before they started adding at least one of the three pin argb headers so what that means is his RGB distro plate in there and all that would not have has blocked his GPU as well would not have been able to have any RGB control so I've gone ahead and upgraded his motherboard to the Maximus 11 extreme that I had laying around I I keep at least one motherboard for every generation I have several three z390s so we're going to do we're using that one and right now you can see this flashing yellow light right here um right now I'm doing a bios flashback on it so the nice thing about the Asus boards and even that EVGA Motherboard BIOS flashback so I don't have to have it posted and running to be able to update the bio so it's updating right now then we'll get our bench test going make sure everything's working then we can go forward with the rigid tube build this is more important because imagine if we had dealt with all of this after putting all the tubes and everything in and having the CPU socket and everything move with a different motherboard means we'd be bending those tubes again so it's important to make sure everything's working prior to even starting your rigid tube builds so as soon as this is done which will take a couple minutes uh it should pose for us all right the BIOS flashback is done as you can see we've we're posted in the Bios and for those that have been freaking out that the cooler is literally just sitting on top of the CPU like it's idling at 27c so there's your proof that it's fine right there bios flashback is such an amazing Tool uh when it works so anyway now we can move forward with the build so we'll get the CPU block installed I think maybe we'll just go this way instead of going sideways to make the fittings a little bit easier to access only because of the fact the logo being sideways would totally trigger me had I like you know there's always revisions to every product so like if we do this again I would probably make it so this top piece could maybe like logo wise rotate in some way um that would be neat to have but again things you don't really think about until later so now that we've got the BIOS updated get this guy on there there we go and then remember everything on my block is captive so you don't have to put any standoffs or anything on there just automatic so take off the plastic piece Intel's pre-installed the AMD bracket you would just pop this guy off put the Andy bracket on again all captive and pre-installed start in the opposite Corners just like you're putting on a wheel started screw it down until it doesn't screw no more because the threads are the exact length they need to be to get the proper tension on the CPU but not too tight okay so we're going to use the dim.2 on this motherboard for the drives which is kind of convenient because he had a Maximus Gene prior to this so he wasn't expecting to be able to use it because we were supposed to use the EVGA board so we took them out but now we got to put them back in anyway before we do that we're gonna get the motherboard installed this is an eatx board I don't know why it goes out I don't need those so it's going to overhang a little bit but it doesn't look bad so check it out when I put it in there and you see how I routed the RGB cable like under the bracket around the back side and up to the top right there so that'll be nice and cleanly hidden to put this in there you can see it overhangs here but it's still even with like the opening right there so although it's a little bit bigger than this case was it really intended for it'll still just be it'll be just fine all right so there we go we got our motherboard in I'm going to go ahead and put the ram in right now we went with I traded out his white sticks of RAM for black just because it'll look better in this build the reason why I'm doing this now and I'm going to put in the dim.2 is because when we're doing our water Loop run we need to take all of these z-axis height items into account so this thing if you're wondering what this is that looks like Ram it's got both of the ssds on there the nvme's see and so that's a heat sink that provides Cooling and such and then it also makes it super easy to access if you need to ever get to them so instead of had them being under down here under tubing and stuff or it's super hard they're right on here so if you ever need to get to your drives you ever want to upgrade them see how easy that was but we need to have all of this in mind when it comes to our Loop layout that way we're not interfering on anything I'm going to go ahead and get the graphics card on here because like for the same reason I just described being able to see everything that will possibly interfere it'll be important so this is the Hydro copper 3080 which he's a little more excited about just because of the fact that he's got a card now that not a lot of people will be able to have these days that so the EVGA cards have multiple port out inlets and outlets on them which is kind of nice so he already took the back he's been touching it he's been playing around with it he's dirty anyway all right um he's not going to be happy this is sticking out past the side of the case uh open air test bench at this point so what would I do if it were me in this situation I just wouldn't run the side panel personally so as with most things we get one step forward and two steps back so we actually had the vertical mount for the dynamic 011 dynamic the problem is the height of this graphics card to get it high enough to clear the red and the fan on the bottom puts like the fittings right in front of the CPU and I've even scooted It Forward because there's two positions here it can be farther back or forward so I move the the Riser forward anyway so there's that if I scoot it down one because it's the way it's designed them out then the radiator and the fans can't clear on the bottom which kind of didn't even matter because here's another problem the bits Power Front distribution plate and pump combo is just thick enough to where if you try and mount it like this well I'd say like this two things happen one the red fits down here right technically but the holes for the mount that are in the bottom don't line up with the rad because it interferes here before going farther far enough forward even if that weren't a problem you can see right here this fitting will interfere with that potentially depending on how high if we were the 90 that's one thing but depending on how high it is the fittings you have I guarantee are going to hit that so that's like that's unfortunate now the only way we're going to probably make this work now with the vertical Mount is I'm going to lower this back down one which will be fine but means now I'm going to have to either mount the radiator right here on this side which those wires that I just zip tied up in there all nice and neat now we're in the way should be able to do that yes that's lining up I could do that and then have the fans on this side but then you have this weird like three intakes there and three exhausts there and how many fans do you have so we have no fans on the bottom which would kind of be okay but then I already started wiring managing this right here so I would have to then put the fans on there and then squeeze all these fans and then once the fans are there it's gonna be very tight to try and get the 24 pin here and make this crazy turn back to the 24 pin because we have the wider eatx board on here so we are just getting all kinds of you know another thing that could potentially happen here is just not even running the fans on this rat at all it just let it be sort of a passive cooled and then leave the fans on the bottom potentially believe it or not there's a lot of passive Cooling in a rad even with no fans moving over it um but this just leads to all sorts of complications so I'm sort of feeling like the right thing to do here go look and see which RADS I have and see if I have a a thick 360. and just put a 360 on top intake fans on the bottom and call it a day honestly I think that might be the uh the best way to do it and then to make this area right here look neater I would probably just take one of the magnetic fan filters um for the exhaust right here and just set it right in there just to close that off a little bit so let me see what RADS I have and this kind of goes to show no matter how much you pre-plan no matter how much you go with parts that are quote unquote designed for etc etc something always goes wrong and I think I even started this video by saying let's see if he's got everything he needs he's like oh I got everything I need all right so update number 562. [Music] got a fat radiator here problem is when you put it in here once I put the fans on it blocks The Fill port I might we might be able to because this is going to be the kind of this is the kind of uh Reservoir that you have to use a squeeze bottle with anyway with a little straw this might actually be okay now that I think about it because I've got enough room to get at least get my fingers in there right that's slid back as far as it can go if it were like that that's a problem but I think we can actually use the alpha cool red this will be plenty of cooling for the setup that we currently have so I'm gonna get the fans mounted to that the plug will be perfectly fine to get in and out of there and use a squeeze bottle with I'm going to move the start to get stuff everywhere I'm going to move this down all the way to the bottom as low as I can go because I would rather just have this sitting well because the fans are there so we're probably going to do now is lower this as low as we can get it with the fan sitting in there and then we'll 3D print like a maybe out of the TPU or something just a little bumper that can hold the corner Up Against the Cage of the fan that way it's not sagging and then they'll be made out of TPU it'll at least absorb some of that vibration because it's not solid it was solid but it's more of a TP plastic so all right you guys wanted these long formats you're getting it so now we're about to get to the points where we start bending some tubing so as you can see here I've got the bottom fans installed mounted cable managed I had to Cable manage all this first because it'd be hard to get to once the graphics card and stuff is in front panel connectors are in RGB for the front panel is connected to the bottom already I think it's right there actually whatever I forget I digress okay so before I put the graphics card in I gotta plug in the bottom one down there which will be easy Once I remove that and I can get to it right there anyway so here's what we decided like I said I'm going with the 45 mil thick right on top this is going to go up in here like this I've gone ahead and put the plug in the front so that I can make sure it all clears just fine but I'm noticing these two plugs right here that port and that port line up perfectly with the two ports on the radiator so all I need are two 90 tubes to come down and plug straight into those which is pretty convenient that's obviously the return line so that'll be the very last part of the loop so this will be up in there like that we'll have two tubes that come down go across the bottom of the red so that'll be easy I'll just take two tubes do 90 degree bends on them and then I'll trim each end until they get perfectly to the point to where they line up uh with their proper height so they're horizontal and then those will be done and as you can see once this is in there I can still technically get to the port see that that's pretty easy right there so fill Port is still accessible that's not a problem and then from there once the top is in and plumbed then I'll work my way down uh these two ports right here are going to be for the CPU so they'll have to come and then one will probably come up at an angle and over an angle so they'll like come out separately like that and come into here and then these two right here technically or for the graphics card and since the graphics card is going to be a vertical Mount like this like I've already showed you I'll have to get someone created how we get to those that won't be that big of a deal though because I might do double 90s off of that they'll be just be straight lines in terms of sag support now that the I'm not talking about the Screen Actors Guild that was a bad joke I know I'm just going to take this rubber block that comes with the case I can't remember what this rubber block is for but anyway I'm just going to trim it and then shove it right here because see it's got a lot of Flex this this movement that you're seeing look at the metal back here it's actually the metal flexing see this whole back piece so that'll just make me feel a lot better than knowing that to me and they're wobbling around that way when he's getting it home and stuff it's not moving all over the place so this is a pretty heavy block this is a heavy card all right I'll start working on that we'll come back and show you the progress all right so there we go the return line is in so I had to use a spacer which you can't even see up in there and a double 45 not not a double 45 like this which is a swivel 45 or 90 45 double double swivel 90 whatever 245s to space it down just enough to clear the fan but also not interfere well it is touching the motherboard so I tried to do that initially with a bend and that just wasn't going to work so now you can see it's going straight in to there so that in my opinion was going to be the hardest one as you can see I've already pre-wired my 8-pin EPS because if that wasn't in already that would have been a pain in the butt so the top rat is in plugs are in and then now I've already got the 90 bent right here so I just need to trim this up to speed or to size that way it can come from there to there and then we'll be good to go and then I have to figure out the loop order so technically it's going to go up here out of that into the rad cross flow or not cross flow but uh double pass come back down and that's where it's going to return to there so I figured that to personally be the hardest area of the build everything else should be fairly straightforward if I had to use two of my thinning Zen my extender to make it work because again mister I have everything trust me uh like I said my build is on hold because I didn't have everything all right so the top tubes are in there uh as you can see just a 90 degree Bend right here technically it's like a 91 degree Bend because it's not perfectly flat coming out of the red so I had to match that bend to make this level otherwise it would Point down and then that one already has the double fittings like I showed you plus the extender just to line that one up but that doesn't bother me because it's blocked like you it's so far back up in there you can't even see it uh we've got the little rubber standoff piece down in there now so now we can go ahead and vertically mount well technically the GPU shouldn't go in yet but I'm gonna do it anyway because I want to test our little vertical mount because we need to do the uh that's nice we need to do the CPU next but I guess I should go ahead and have the GPU in there just because of the fact that I need to make sure I'm not going to interfere with the GPU when I'm doing any of that routing so there we go that's way more solid now yeah then we still have to run these three cables through two SATA cables because he has two SATA drives we'll get this all figured out I have a feeling I'm going to use these two ports right here the top part is done at least I have no that's the way that's got to go that can't be any different all right we'll come back with what the next update looks like all right so a lot has happened since the last uh take I've got the tubing in as you can see these these wires kind of suck right here the nice thing is we can change these wires out later in the future if he gets uh extensions or whatever that looks nice I actually had some cable mod uh Corsair cables for the axi HX and RM or RX RM whatever their power supplies unfortunately it only had two eight pin PCI Express and not three so that didn't work um so it kind of bugs me that this is here but this can be addressed in the future without messing up the loop I still take the plastic off the graphics card I'm a little triggered by the fact that these bends are not perfectly parallel it's AJ's build he says he's fine with it it's at least contrasted by the fact that it's got the Red Wave right here so this whole area I guess just kind of works so that's it the loop is done I basically just have to do the drain down here now he's got this drain but if I go to screw it in it hits on the fan so technically I have to take the fan out to get this on there um yeah so there's that and then I think we could technically just put a 90 on there so it points this way whenever we need the drain um don't actually will that even work without hitting the fan right there oh yeah it will then we can fill it up and then I can I can still get to the wire right here this pump uh Reservoir combo actually comes with an adapter as you go from that to like a Molex or whatever so I can actually do the filling and whatnot without having to uh run the actual system and then I'll plug this back into the pump header on the motherboard this motherboard has a header designed for high amp pumps this DDC pump can pull a lot more amps than a a fan wheel but man this I'm telling you right now it is 5 15 PM I started this at 10 AM um there was a lot of things that kind of got in the way in this build and AJ learned firsthand like there there's so many things that you probably thought you accounted for but then you realize you didn't I mean this place is trash right now I went through quite a bit of tubing my fittings right here on my pump which I turned 90 degrees as you can see now or at my pump on my block they're slightly wider than the fittings here so they look like they're going apart but it doesn't look terrible it really doesn't um yeah maybe I'm just telling myself that so I can go ahead and just finish this one up I asked him if he's okay with this right here and he was like yes before I even finished the sentence part of me thinks he just wants to be done but yeah so what I need to do now is get the drain figured out I need to do the air test where I try and you know push air through here there's actually a vacuum pump that you can buy that will pull vacuum through the system and you can just watch the gauge to see if it leaks that's how you know if you have any leaky fittings one of these days I'll actually get one of those they're very handy you just use any available Port I could use the drain Port before I plug it up you know to do that don't have one maybe I'll need to do a video about that someday so anyway let me get the drain plug in here and then we'll get some video of it filling up as long as it's not leaking air anywhere and then we can finally call this one done whoa theoretically he gets to install Windows on his own time back home and then we still have to put the power supply in the back and his two uh drives but this is the bulk of the build yes all the cables are hanging out the back because you know that part's easy versus everything else we've done all right we're ready to fill it I've got everything wired in the back side I've got well I have to power this through okay so we have the power plug we're good there I had the 24 pin unplugged and I have the pump plugged in directly to a Molex connector um that's going to get power from the power supply and then I already did my pressure test through the drain valve and did find that I forgot to put the O-ring on that fitting right there where the tube is so that would have been a massive leak now it holds air so now we get to do this and this is where the squeezy bottles really come in handy because it's not a there's definitely no way to get a fitting and tubing right there and this is just the clear fluid but it is a pre-mix don't squeeze it too hard it'll come right back out the hole all right so I gotta stop right there now once I turn this on I'm about to turn it back off pretty quickly because it's gonna pull all that out pretty quick all right here we go we got pretty good I'm not a fluid in there already pump is just moving very slow because it is a pwm pump that's not seen pwm circuit so the pwm pump when you run it off a power supply and not something with a pwm sense why or signal going some pumps will go full speed when they don't sense pwm because they go oh no we don't see anything so just in case let's run full speed some pumps in their controller go slow with speed and slowest speed is not enough to fill a system and get all the air out so but knowing that there was enough liquid in here to not overheat the system the system is actually booted right now it says uh detect hard drive which means it's sitting right now in the Bios um we're going to tell it which hard drive has the bootloader because it's a different motherboard but we'll get the monitor and stuff hooked up here in a second but there's no leaks I'm just kind of moving the system around to try and get as much air see all the air that just moved through the pump so I'm just trying to get all the major air bubbles out you just kind of move it in each Direction hold it there for five to ten seconds until you stop seeing the air move to keep kind of moving around in different directions this one's actually bleeding itself pretty quickly so I'm going to go ahead and top off the reservoir again and make sure the uh the fill Port is plugged when you do that otherwise if you're too close to the top you'll just leak it everywhere and then over time AJ will probably top this off too because there's still going to be air in the blocks and the radiator and such have to work their way out which will make the level drop but we should be able to get a drop quite a bit right now before he even leaves so yeah it's RGB on the front because it took up to the motherboard and it has to be programmed and same thing with the uh the ram that's in here we got to get to the desktop and get IQ to see all these new devices that way it'll work the graphics card won't light up I don't think until it sees Precision X because it actually controls itself softer wise to the pcie and I I think anyway there's no RGB wires that come off of this card so it's got to get its lighting from somewhere all right let's get a keyboard and mouse hooked up okay there we are we had to go in here and enable the dim.2 to be uh to be able to register the devices and make sure all of our drives are showing up he has four drives total one two three four one of them's nearly full as he said and all right everything's good to go so IQ is automatically rainbow puking he's gonna have to go and change that although he seemed excited about RGB puke he's got to re-enable the front one now because uh in the Bios Aura automatically goes and then once it goes into the OS if there's nothing controlling it the motherboard basically turns it off it's just the weird way Asus works so AJ is definitely capable of doing that himself so we were able to get the system up and running and not have to reinstall Windows which is going to be nice for him and since it was the same chipset same CPU just updated graphics card essentially um no weirdness should happen with the OS so there we go too bad that's not rgbing at the moment let me go ahead and shut this down put the side panels back on and uh yeah I think it should just go all white lighting I think it would look really cool in there but anyway there you go it is 6 40 P.M this is you know I would say it didn't take me a year to build it it just took me a year to find the time to do it for him so anyway anybody want me to build them a computer start putting in your applications now I'm taking orders for 2025.

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Keywords: pc build, gaming pc, custom pc, personal computer, gaming rig, custom watercooled pc, water cooled pc, custom computer, intel, 9900k, is the 9900k still good, rtx 3080, 3080, 3090, 2080, 2080ti

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Length: 33min 41sec (2021 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 21 2023