Mineral Oil Submerged PC Build Log Part 1 - Puget Systems Kit Case Assembly

[Music] the Coolermaster Knapton 240m features an exclusive pump design and their new Silencio fans to provide impressive near silent performance click now to learn more so the first step would be to wash your rocks then I guess that's kind of always the first step isn't it yep we both have to wash our rocks yeah continue with this without washing the rocks or else someone's gonna complain it's just gonna be bad yeah yeah here so are we sharing rocks well in this situation where there's like two males in one computer I guess we'll be sharing rocks right so these are the rocks that we're talking about of course it's good to rinse them because if you don't then you might end up with some gunk in your mineral oil machine spread that apart just stick to threes and eat some more fingers that's really hot water so hot water on cold rocks is the way I like it [Music] okay so now we're gonna take the freshly cleaned rocks and go ahead and put them outside to dry so it was it was sunny literally an hour ago not even an hour you like 15 minutes yeah totally definitely not sunny Vancouver so we don't want to recontaminate the rocks so we're just passing out these bins well to be honest we are covering the bottoms of the babies into every column yeah but even then how hundred-percent Drive do they need to be mr. mineral oil cooled pcs well the more water content in your computers a higher chance that there's gonna be a problem but the thing is already even just now it'll be fine normally you could just leave these out to dry for you know a couple days and it would be fine but we're in a bit of a hurry for what I did when I did mine was I just used a strainer so they were done drying like almost immediately right and there's no real weight but we don't have a strainer in the office because why would we have a strainer at the office know when you're gonna need a strainer so so when I was doing mine I cleaned all of my components with a mineral oil bath it was in a container similar to this but much shorter and my reason for that was all of my components were in a air-cooled system before they went into mineral cool system so they're all dusty and gross so one thing like this cooler is we're gonna make sure we clean this now I'm not super worried about having it go through a mineral oil bath the only reason why I did that for all my components was making sure that what they were going through wasn't conductive as I was putting them in the system almost immediately afterwards so we can clean this with water alcohol whatever as long as we make sure that it's clean and dry before it goes in and then everything else is pretty much new isn't it everything else is pretty much new but these these little fish things it might not be a bad idea to clean them because they've been sitting on a shelf open right for a really long time but like these closed components are probably firing I don't think those are be a big deal okay so tanks washed bakers wash these I don't know there's so many little pieces and stuff I don't know what goes they know from looking at the picture that the big one will be above the mineral oil but yes the the backing some of it will be submerged definitely the the support braces these guys okay well the first thing we need to do though is peel all the paper off these and then assemble this bad boy because and then we can wash it after assembly right yeah that should be fine okay so motherboard IO plate is actually pretty nice got that brushed finished there the inside is nothing special but you won't see that so yeah it's looking pretty good so far sure what's up with these there's more acrylic inside a bag inside a bag inside of a bag figure that out later so I realized looking at all these pieces I don't know how they all go together and they went right thank you we haven't looked at it yet other than the front cover so assembly instructions dust your hardware before something something X that none of that not allow the oil in everything okay we're gonna have to open this dude thing I think but there we go wow there's a whole like list of all the stuff that you get including a thermal display oh yeah top out oh this is looking good okay this shouldn't be too bad alright I guess we better get started then as there are actually some very very important things no rubber so no wires that use rubber insulation don't let the oil get above 50 degrees clean everything we did manage to figure that out don't power the pump if it's running dry don't overfill it don't over tighten screws use wireless devices when possible this is really important whale will wick along cables then it comes into contact with so that's that's pretty key and choose the correct type of CPU cooler we actually haven't checked this but having it aligned vertically will help the oil circulate through natural conduction also there are evidently some things that we will need so screwdriver got it scissors got it wrench got it okay so it starts with the Rio Rio everything is handily color-coordinated in the instructions it's important not to over tighten the screws into the acrylic because it will crack hundred percent so this next steps a little bit funny because there's an unlabeled bag of screws and then there's a an unlabeled screw in the key everything else has little colored dots so those do correspond to each other so just put all four of these pieces into place and then loosely attach them from the other side we're just showing you where they go obviously when we lift this up they're all gonna fall off skew that's fantastic so Brandon won't let us use our camera anymore and insists on shooting everything in 4k so that's why the sudden change in in quality for the better and no more of this no more of this selfie nonsense so so here we go next step is to attach the evidently white wire and wire handles these are some pretty intense wires they got some wire and that's some wire right there going on okay so Brown screws I mean what what does this mean to you put it into the brown put the via and put the screws in the grants private [Music] [Music] Oh whoa hold on a second these aren't the same I didn't even realize that okay we did a lot of extensive research before undertaking this project Luke Luke hasn't built an oil cooled machine in years and has definitely never used this kit and I've never done either either zoltah Marron machine in like eight years [Music] you got that thang so name the position I think wow that sound oh geez you know it's working okay we're good so this is probably where the wrench consists so this is this hello this is not what they had in mind I don't think but our rent is so big that we can actually clear the entire thing going this way so we need to clean the tubing that came with it because we left it out for a long time we got kind of gross and the idea was using a rod from one of the soft boxes that we have gonna use a rod but it's but it's the for hot now if he decides to use was not long enough really are you sure yeah see I stuffed it in all the way it's it still doesn't know that it's black right yeah so it's thick enough so we're probably not gonna have any other options so our problem is we don't have a long enough rod we already tried the black one and then there's no other options all right we've had our first nut that's it that's yeah so it's a different little different no label ones okay we should roll those guys you want the fine thread and one for your SSD not the coarse threaded no label one for your SSD this not pass [Music] [Music] so we're done part 1 at least we've constructed the case and - now has mineral oil fever I think he now understands what it's like it's this is really cool this kits really cool the hardware we're using is really cool we're going balls to the wall x99 12 under watt power supply GTX 780 we play this a little while yeah EVGA provided us with the graphics card before there were certain other graphics cards available but yeah anyway uh so guys uh stay tuned for parts 2 & 3 make sure you're subscribed like the video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment letting us know if your feelings are more complicated than this and as always check out the link in the video description you can give us a monthly contribution so we can spend it all on things like oil we had to pay for our own oil which was actually like pretty expensive you can buy a cool t-shirt like this one you can change your amazon bookmark to one with our affiliate code so whenever you buy computer hardware oil whatever else the case may be we got a small kickback and I think that pretty much wraps it up thanks for watching and as always don't forget to see you guys next time ah I even knew the right one that time but nope [Music]

Channel: Linus Tech Tips

Views: 3,230,407

Rating: 4.92665 out of 5

Keywords: mineral oil, pc, case, aquarium, build, log, guide, evga, hyperx, gtx 780, x99, ddr4, Computer

Id: 2V06LLTNxc4

Length: 12min 18sec (738 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 30 2014

Reddit Comments

[u/JaskaJii]

Those are faces of guys who really love their job. This video finally made me subscribe to Linus's channel. :)

[u/Arxidomagkas]

I didn't know mineral oil rigs were a thing until a few weeks ago. i am glad now Linus made the decision of building one.

[u/Chapalyn]

Oh so much dirty jokes!

[u/Neoslineur]

I've seen the video and it's very cool to see and learn how to make those builds, waiting for the part 2

[u/Shrubberer]

I'm still undecided, whether I should build my 4k HTPC as tiny as possible or if I should replicate this glorious machine.

[u/hikariuk]

Now I'm wondering how many people have built systems using Fluorinert.

Also, that's not a wrench: it's an adjustable spanner.

[u/Zapablast05]

Linus- "Yes, I'd like to buy this apartment to house all my studio equipment to review hardware."

Landlord- "Okay.....just don't spill any oil."

Linus- "ಠ‿ಠ"

[u/RandomOink]

Why does it read "Cats" for a millisecond in the text that flashes by in the intro?

[u/[deleted]]

Linus is so freaking hilarious. I don't know if it means I have the sense of humor as a 12 yr old. But the black was hilarious.