So Much Power! Ryzen 9 5950X + 6900XT!

what's happening guys i'm techsource welcome back to the channel so today we're going to be building another custom pc and you know it's been a while since i've done a custom water cooled system so i thought why not do one today what if you were given twenty thousand dollars to build your ultimate dream setup an epic custom gaming pc however many monitors you want the whole nine yards well that's what the prize is over at omaze.com techsource you can enter for a chance to win while helping support a great cause the charity they are working with is gamers outreach who provides recreation to children in hospitals through the power of video games and the gaming community hospitalization can be a lonely and scary experience for young people and gamers outrage brings joy with their gaming kiosk called the gamers outreach cart or go kart for short your donation can help ease the burdens of hospitalization by providing equipment technology and software that help kids cope with long-term treatment you could be the very next tom who was the previous winner so if you guys want to enter make sure to visit omaze.com techsource or click the link down below i'm particularly excited about this build because i've been looking forward to this for months now you guys if you remember my last unboxing video where i opened up the rx 6900xt then you know how psyched i was to begin this build but alas i finally have all the parts i need to do the build and we're gonna be doing a semi water cool system inside the lion lee o11 dynamic mini that's right guys this is gonna be a super tiny micro atx semi watercool system and it's going to be a very challenging build trying to cram all this amazing high-end hardware in such a tiny body and you guys know i'm always up for the challenge because it kind of pushes me out of my comfort zone and sadly i don't get that anymore doing regular pc builds in the channel so that's why i'm always looking forward to extreme i guess i wouldn't really call it extreme but like pretty intense crazy projects like this so with all that said let's take a look at the parts real quick starting with the processor as always we are going with the ryzen 950 950x this is a 16 core 32 thread processor holy bejesus and we are pairing that with the big boy power color rx 6900 xt i'm sure you guys have seen me unbox this a couple unboxing videos ago damn it's been a while um this is actually the only part in the bill that's not going to be water cooled per power colors request they want me to show off the cards thermals and performance using the air coolers so unfortunately that's the only thing i cannot put underwater but yeah everything else will be water cooled speaking of which we are going with this awesome custom digital plate from seal key customs check this thing out you guys it is such a clean distro play we got the custom tech source logo on there the only thing it doesn't come with unfortunately is a built-in pump so that's when i'm going to be installing my own so yeah we're going with the ek xtop revo d5 i'm going for something really small and minimal so i can kind of tuck it away behind the pc kind of like um how i did with the corsair crystal 280x build if you guys remember so yeah that is the pump moving on to memory we're going with 32 gigabytes of ram from hyperx one terabytes or i should say two terabytes of m.2 storage using pci gen4 of course since we are using the b550 platform this case only supports a micro atx or smaller motherboard so that's why i'm going with the tough gaming b550m plus instead of a full atx motherboard uh we are throwing out a block on the cpu so we're going with the corsair xc7 rgb in black and we're throwing a couple of lienly uni fans in black as well in case you guys don't know it is going to be a mostly black build maybe with some rgb accents i haven't really decided on the color scheme just yet oh and one last thing take a look at the tubes we are going with this is a lot thinner longer than i'm used to but let me pull this back real quick this is a very awkward angle but take a look at this you guys i'm going with this frosted or satin black tubes from corsair it is going to look so sick inside the build so the only thing i'm waiting for right now is an sfx power supply which i ordered from corsair it'll be the sf 750 fully modular power supply that is currently on the way i found out today actually that i can't use full size power supplies and i don't really have any um in stock at the office so um by the time we even get to the power supply the build should be halfway done so anyways with that said let's begin so the ryzen 9 5950x is amd's fastest processor on the am4 socket and you guys are probably wondering why the hell am i putting this on a micro atx motherboard with a single 8 pin eps socket the short answer is because i can the long answer is i want to be able to build the most ridiculous high-end system i can using the smallest case i have at the office so there's also that and like i said earlier guys we are doing a semi-water cool system so the cpu is the only thing that's going to be underwater so that cpu is going to get all the cooling it needs to stay nice and cool which obviously will check the benchmarks at the end of the video all right now let's install the m.2 ssd this was actually not done on purpose but i realized the motherboard doesn't have a heatsink cover so luckily the sabrand rocket nvme comes with its very own heatsink so i'll be using that with the pc so i kind of don't like the brass or copper accents on this heatsink it does not go well with the rest of the accents on the board so i think i'm just gonna swap this and use the corsair mp600 again okay so normally this is where i install the ram and toss the motherboard inside the case and continue on with the build but since we're going to water cool it i do want to hook up the block first make sure there's not going to be any clearance issues and then i can continue on installing the ram sticks i find it funny that cpu blocks and all-in-one coolers still come with the intel bracket by default i don't know when they're gonna switch over to having the amd bracket installed because amd is pretty much destroying intel right now i hate how this electric screwdriver sounds like a um one of those dentist tools so one thing i've learned from doing water cool builds with digital plates is that you never want your cpu block to have your inlet and outlet side by side like this for clean runs you always want to position it vertically that way you can have the tubes go straight towards the digital plate for a much cleaner look [Music] all right looking really good i managed to wrap the cable in between the vrm heatsinks and towards the top you can hardly even see it because it kind of blends in with the motherboard so now it's time to hook up the memory [Music] sticks [Music] all right so i think we're pretty much ready to put the motherboard inside the case and start planning our loop there are a few things i want to remove from the back of the case to kind of make room for cables and obviously some additional tube runs if needed we definitely don't need a hard drive cage so let's take this out okay that did not work i guess i was supposed to take out this cable cover first all right off you go now we have way more space to work with in the back which is what i like [Music] uh okay that does not look normal which is weird because this case is supposed to support up to a full atx motherboard but this entire portion is like hanging over what the hell right so i'm an idiot i took apart the case and i completely misplaced this box that came inside the uh the case box so apparently there is a extension bracket in here i think i see it's right here so here's the motherboard extension bracket for full etx and micro atx motherboards this actually hooks up over here on this side and gives me three additional standoffs so okay now now it makes sense all right so you insert this extension bracket in from the side and then you just screw it in from the top okay easy enough so i guess when you do this it kind of covers up the um the cable grommet so that might be a little bit of an issue since i do want to use the leanly skimmers so it's going to be a pretty wide curve into the 24 pin socket of the motherboard so we'll see if i'm going to run into any issues later down the line okie dokie let's try this one more time all right now it's looking a lot better all right so we're making pretty good progress so far um luckily we haven't ran into any major issues as of yet but annoying my luck with water cool systems i'm sure we're gonna run into some very soon um i'm gonna take some time to kind of figure out the radiator situation right now i know the case can support a um up to 240 on the top and a 360 on the bottom district plate is going to go over there so i can use that side but kind of looking at it right now i am doubting that i'm going to be able to fit a radiator with some fans on the top there's barely any space between the top of the case and the top of the motherboard so yeah i am kind of doubting that so i think we might just go with a single 360 rad on the bottom i don't know i'll check it out let me unbox these real quick and see what i'm dealing with [Music] i've also just noticed this but it looks like coarser is the only company or one of the few companies out there that adds this glossy finish to the radiators for a little bit of reflection actually it's more like a semi-gloss but i do prefer this over you know the matte the usual matte finish that i see on other radiators all right so we got a 360 on the bottom super tight fit but i know it's gonna work and then we got our 240. um yeah i don't know about that chief that's gonna be a really close call you know what though i think we can make it work so we should be able to pull this off [Music] all right so i'm gonna have the bottom fan set as intake that is the only logical solution here so i'm gonna place the fans on the top just so we can still see the rgb lighting from inside the case otherwise if i did place the fans on the bottom then it's going to be covered by the radiator so this is the best solution for this so this is what i was afraid of unfortunately the ram sticks are coming in contact with the radiator and i won't be able to mount the top radiator these ram sticks aren't even that high profile like i went with the lowest profile sticks i can find and and apparently it's still not enough that sucks it's such a close fit too we're talking a couple millimeters less than a centimeter for sure here's what it looks like from the top as you can see we're so close ah that's unfortunate i really wanted to put another rat on the top man that is that is so disappointing it's gonna look weird with just a single 360 mil on the bottom i was really hoping this would work but i'm going to see if actually if i have any slim radiators because i really want to make this work all right so i managed to find two more 240 millimeter rads here at the office one is from ragin tech the other one is from alpha cool so i just really hope one of these is thin enough nope exactly the same thickness here's the alpha cool one this one is a little thicker it looks like god damn it well you guys can't say i didn't try so i think what i'm gonna do instead is just hook up three fans on the top as exhaust and then one more in the rear for exhaust so we're gonna have three intake and then four exhaust i guess we have a little bit of negative pressure but it's fine at least i'll be able to kind of occupy all the slots that way it doesn't look empty so i just realized i put the fan on backwards that's fantastic all right looking pretty good so far um obviously i'm still a little disappointed i couldn't fit the top rad but it is what it is this show must continue so i guess i'm going to take this time to hook up the distro plate that way i can plan my um my runs that is such a good looking distro plate man all right so i was having a little bit of doubts when i looked at the size of this pump and i was like i don't think this is going to fit inside this tiny little cutout um so naturally i did some research and of course i found out that i need to go with a ddc pump not a d5 this is way too huge so that is our second issue for today um this is the first time i'm working with additional plate that does not come with a um a pump installed so naturally i was going to run into some issues but i've luckily found one on amazon with prime shipping so i ordered it it will be here tomorrow but i guess in the meantime i can still hook this up and kind of figure out what i'm gonna do with the run so i guess we can just do that all right ladies and gentlemen so we have some more problems fantastic so the digital plate unfortunately doesn't align perfectly with the inlet and outlet from the cpu block as you guys can see these two holes are a little more towards the bottom so i can't have a perfect straight run from the cpu block into the digital plate so you know even if i do kind of raise it a little bit it's going to be off by a few inches probably even more actually now the holes on this side of the bishop plate are off by a few millimeters to the in and out of the radiator which i can easily fix using the x cross fittings but the biggest concern is from the cpu block to these two cutouts over here so it's not going to be a super clean run unfortunately the second issue and yes there is more there is barely enough space between additional plate and the motherboard to pass through the 24 pin cable look at this i could barely fit my finger in there that is a super super tight fit so i guess we should just test it out okay so that doesn't work [Music] i guess it technically works i just had to remove the top three fans but damn that is a super super tight fit as you can see but now we have another issue it's blocking off christ's sakes blocking out both of the holes so there's no winning there is no winning with this you know what it can't get any worse than this so let's go ahead and plug in the graphics card just so we can see if there's gonna be any more issues oh my lord that's a triple slot card i think or two and a half at least all right last but not least let's also try out the um triple eight pin pci extension oh my god oh my god i can't believe i made that fit that's insane it's kind of sitting on the middle fan but it's not going to be hitting the fan blades so we should be good to go all right so yeah the only other issue is the digital plate alignment i'm gonna have to figure out alternate ways to kind of do my run so it doesn't interfere with the 24 pin cable but other than that i think we're pretty much done for today i don't have to wait for the pump to come in tomorrow so i can complete the build in the meantime i do need to decompress and get some food in my system and get a good nice rest because this build is kicking my ass i knew it was going to be challenging but i had no idea it was going to be this challenging but yeah i'm pretty much done here i'll see you guys really soon all right guys i'm here back at the office i decided to take the following day off because it was my birthday so i thought i could just come back to the office refreshed and ready to go so the good news is that the power supply did arrive yesterday along with our new pump so we can finally finish off the build today at least i'm hoping to finish this off today so yeah with that said i think let's go ahead and pop in the power supply first oh look how cute this thing is little baby baby we don't have any custom cables so we'll be using the stock cables oh these actually are braided it looks like so it looks like my bag was actually torn it doesn't look like it was returned but this is uh first time i'm seeing a rip bag from corsair power supplies so i actually did not expect this the cables are nicely braided okay this is cool all right here's the final piece for the build before we can start planning our bends uh this portion over here i should say the pump portion plugs into this tiny little cutout in the back of the digital plate so we have to remove this acrylic or plexiglass whatever this is from the pump units and unfortunately they didn't give me any tools for that so i'm going to use my own bits [Music] all right so we now have the pump installed and i even set up the um the drain valve on the bottom we do have our fill port on the top as well so now it's time for the fun part planning the loop and doing the bends guys that is going to be the hardest part of this entire system as i mentioned earlier we do have a little bit of an issue with the holes over here not aligning with the cpu block inlet and outlet and then the second issue which is the biggest one in my opinion is that the 24-pin strimmer is blocking off these two ports so this is kind of what i did to kind of work my way around it i put two 90 degree fittings over here um to kind of run the tube this way a little bit and then towards the case and then towards the cpu block but i don't know if i'm going to stick to that obviously it depends on how clean or how easy the rest of the runs are but i'm going to plan that out real quick and i'll see you guys really soon [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] all right guys a little bit of an update on the loop planning i thought about it a little bit more and i figured out a much better alternative to do the runs from the cpu block to the digital plate so i went ahead and removed the uh x cross fittings from the cpu block and i added two 40 millimeter i think these are 40 millimeter extension fittings and then we got a 90 degree fitting over here at the edge so basically i'm gonna run the tubes straight across it's gonna look uh straight for you guys and into these uh two x-cross fittings for the digital plates so even though these fittings are kind of like at a 40 degree angle the tube runs are gonna be straight and parallel to the gravis card it's gonna look a lot cleaner at the end and you guys will see what i'm talking about so here's what's gonna happen with the coolant we got the outlet from the cpu block going inside the digital plate coolant is going to run over here top additional plate out from the top and into the bottom red out from the bottom red back into the digital plate we've got a little bit of a bridge going on here so we can transfer the fluid back inside the digital plate and then out from this fitting back into the cpu block [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] all right guys after four full hours man we are finally done with the tube runs and i gotta say i'm actually falling in love with these black satin tubes from corsair they look incredible unfortunately um i'm not gonna be putting a block on the card i feel like it would look a lot cooler with you know some more twos running out from the gpu block it also would have been a lot slimmer too obviously without this massive heatsink on there but like i said earlier in the video red devil wants me to use the stock cooler so that i can test the thermals on it and performance so it is what it is maybe i'll come back to this bill later on and do a complete custom loop so here are the two horizontal tubes from the cpu block going into the reservoir i made it as straight as possible and then we got two more runs on the side here from the bottom red into the digital plates so overall looking really good before i start pouring in the coolant we got a test for leaks so obviously i'm not going to pour in liquid in there and test for leaks the old-fashioned way i'm going to be plugging in this ek leak tester kit from the back and test for leaks this way all right so in order to test for leaks we just got to plug this gauge in from the back and then we just pump air inside the system i like to get the lever between green and red and then i'm going to close the valve and come back in 15 minutes if the lever still is still in the green zone that means there are no leaks so we can proceed to pour in liquid so i'll see you guys in 15 minutes all right so 15 minutes later looks like we're still in the green zone which is really great news that means there is no major air leak detected in our loop so we can continue and pour in our liquid it's completely normal by the way if the lever goes down a few lines that is completely natural for some air to leak out of your system it's happened multiple times my previous uh builds but it's nothing to be concerned about if the lever dips all the way down into the white zone that's when you should be concerned about that means there is major leak or air leak detected in your system but anyways we're going to disconnect this and continue with pouring in the coolant all right so the coolant we're going to go with is ek's new rgb coolant i forgot the name of this was i'll list somewhere on the screen but basically it's like this white coolant that's very reactive to lighting and since we're gonna have rgb lighting from the streamers and the fans i thought this would look really great inside of our system you guys have seen this actually before in a previous water cool system that i did in the uh i believe it was a quarter the crystal 280x from corsair and that build turned out amazing with those frosted tubes so same concept here obviously instead of the frosted tubes they're going with black satin tubes instead so [Music] all right that is all the cool and i have hopefully it's enough after i only have one radiator and one block so it should be it should be plenty all right guys now comes the fun part filling in our system now when you're building a water cooled pc you never want to turn on the system until your entire loop is filled with coolant and the best way to do this the safest way to do this is by hooking up an external power supply and connecting it to the molex connector of your pump this way you can control when to shut off the pump if you need to i'll show you guys what i mean by this later on so i also have a 24 pin jumper hooked up to the 24 pin atx cable and as soon as i turn on the power supply from the back it's going to activate the pump and it's going to start circulating the coolant inside the loop all right so i'm going to start filling in the coolant from the back i want to do it slowly and even though i know there's not going to be any leaks in there i'm just always like super cautious about it and you always want to double check it's also a good idea just to be on the safe side to put some paper towel underneath the fittings just in case but i'm not going to put any in mine just because yolo i wonder the tech source logo will still be visible or will it oh whoa that's so cool oh it kind of goes around it okay that's awesome actually that is pretty cool alright so we are almost topped off now i'm gonna do is turn on the power supply so that the pump can cycle through some of this coolant inside the loop and i'm gonna shut it off when it gets uh when it gets close to empty there we go nice i'm gonna shut it off for now and continue pouring in some coolants so far so good i don't think the coolant has reached the cpu block yet so that will be the ultimate final test i'm just going to continue to pour more coolant in as it gets empty that way i don't have to keep shutting off the power supply all right i think we're good so obviously one of the downsides of using blacked out tubes like this is that you can't really see the coolants going through your entire system i feel like installing a flow meter would have been a good idea but it's a it's a bit too late for that you can kind of see the coolants being pushed out of the pump so that's pretty much the only indicator that the coolant is flowing through your system but yeah looking pretty good so far no leaks we are good to go i'm going to do the cable management in the back plug in all the cables and the fans and i'll see you guys very soon for the montage all right guys build is finally complete let's see what it looks like powered on [Music] [Music] [Music] oh yeah that coolant was definitely a good choice damn that is gorgeous so yeah guys this is pretty much the build um i think it turned out absolutely stunning this is the most powerful micro atx system i have built on the channel let me know in the comment section below what you guys think so far i definitely love these black satin tubes from corsair first time i've been working with them they're a little difficult to work with because they crack so easily because how thin they are but i kind of figured out you know the proper way of shaving off the ends so i'm not going to run into that issue anymore definitely going to work with those more in future custom builds because i i just think they look incredible shout out to steel key customs by the way for that awesome custom dish show plate you guys are awesome for setting that over i've worked with a lot of digital plates in the past before and i gotta say this is definitely the top five in terms of build quality and just the aesthetics fantastic work you guys over there um i don't think they're based in us but if you guys want to check out their additional place i'll drop a link to them below they do one obviously for the o11 mini but they do have other additional plays for different cases you guys definitely want to definitely have to check them out what's interesting is that this digital play is actually designed by youtuber it goes by the name of zen chili's hardware i think if that's how you say it he was actually featured in a couple episodes of cytopours if you guys remember but he was pretty much the mastermind in designing this digital plate for the o11 mini and then steelkey customs was the one who built it but i'll drop a link to both of their channels and websites below if you guys want to check them out for sure all right guys so all that said i think it's time to run some benchmarks and check the performance on this beast of a card from power color so let me hook up everything and i'll see you guys very soon all right so um we kind of have an issue with the system it doesn't seem to be displaying anything like i can't even get into bios and um this is this is actually very unusual it's the first time it's happening and a long time where the system is fully powered on and the fans are spinning but i'm getting nothing on the actual display i plugged in a second display just in case and i swapped the hdmi cable just to make sure but unfortunately that is not the issue there's something going on with the system i'm gonna spend some time to diagnose the system and i will be right back alright guys so after an hour of trying to figure out what's going on with the system i think i'm pretty much given up here it's definitely not the graphics card i swapped out to three different cards and we still have the same issue the pc boots all the fans are spinning it's not a power supply issue it's not a memory issue which means that it's most likely a cpu issue and to test the cpu is going to take actually a lot more time that i unfortunately don't have if this was not a water cooled system it would be easy to kind of disconnect the cooler and pop in a different cpu but um i guess my biggest mistake was i didn't test the cpu before doing a loop out of 100 systems the one time i don't test my components and then this happens that's just fantastic um yeah i mean it can't be any other issue guys it's not a bios issue it's not a motherboard issue i am using a zen 3 compatible motherboard so it should be able to boot the 5950x at least into bios but i'm not even getting that but uh anyways i'm gonna try and come back to this system maybe a different time if you guys want to see a follow-up video i guess let me know in the comments section but um i think i'm just gonna wrap up things here thanks again to omaze for sponsoring today's video make sure to visit omaze.com techsource for a chance to score twenty thousand dollars to build your dream pc and support a great cause

Channel: TechSource

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Keywords: pc build, watercooling pc build, gaming pc, ryzen pc, water cooling, custom loop, lian li mini, lian li o11 dyanamic mini, ryzen 9 5950x, rx 6900xt, amd, nvidia, gaming

Id: jdNHLSLjkZQ

Length: 38min 47sec (2327 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 23 2021