This is really awesome Paul, I like the incremental vids of the build progress. So far its looking really good, have fun w/ it even when things go wrong, it will all work out.
This has got to be the best build you ever done. You showed that it is OK to make mistakes. We all do. You worked it out and it was a success. You are the best and most real tech out there. Keep up the great work and videos. Shout out to Joe. Great camera work. Never miss a show (video).
"the distro plates are there to make you life easier" lol with my impatience I would have ripped out and ceremoniously burned that unnecessary front plate by now.
I love the build paul it's looking great, I'd like to see you rebend the tube from cpu to gpu and bring the bend up a tad bit higher, giving it more of a straight out and straight in
Ive been doing these types of builds for over twenty years and I can say that these extreme builds with impossible tolerances, never get easier! I do question why you stayed with the rads instead of replacing them? I do believe that if THOSE fittings leak this build series is going the way of the Dodo....LOL Take care my friend!
Excellent indeed- the fact that you DIDN'T go w softer tubing shows once again incredible building skills- looks great and stoked to see the final vid hopefully w the usual testing.
Really love the color theme especially with your custom Cable Extensions. The way you trained the PCI-E & 24Pin Mobo cable is super clean Paul. From one of your previous videos I also got those "Shorty" 4"-Psu Cable Extenders to use for my set of custom extension cables I got for my upcoming build, I never knew they even existed until you used them =). Cheers Paul.
Instead of heatshrink for jobs like the header, try using amalgamation tape instead. cuts into strips and sticks to itself, so it's clean and easy to apply
After seeing many of your (best described) troubled face.. and finally seeing this build complete.. there's only one question that comes in my mind right now and that is - is ALL this worth your time and energy? I have love for IT for gadgets and gizmos - the TECH in general.. but this is the first time I see you soooooooo EXHAUSTED So hence my question.. EXCELLENT job as ALWAYS!
Very entertaining. Love you and Singularity, but this may qualify for a Diminishing Returns subtitle. Glad your'e out there showing the way though, and allowing me to painlessly live it vicariously.
Since you've been building a couple of WC system, just do yourself a favor and get a leak tester kit from Aquacomputer Dr. Drop or EK leak tester. It's a hand pump with a gauge and much more safer and simpler than using liquid to leak test.
My last/latest build was almost as problematic as yours. But, we keep attacking it and it eventually comes together as we planned. Keep up the great work Paul!
Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication in getting this build finished. Definitely worth the trouble. This is one of the sexiest cases on the market.
Congrats!!!! I hope you enjoy the fruit of your labor, lol. Will you be using the Thermaltake coolant you showed us from CES? That was a very cool looking coolant. Good luck & love the shows!
Very nice build. love that you mostly bent the hardline tube instead of using a bunch of fittings to get your bends. Singularity computers used to do the same in the beginning and now doesnt so much which is very disappointing to me. i think it gives a cleaner and more professional look plus you get to see more coolant :D
When the fan on the top rad comes unplugged mid build and you start thinking about all the stuff you now have to take apart to plug it back in......(Cue sound of silence). Hats off to you liquid cooler, rgb folks. I don't have the patience for all that farting around. Glad to be older and run standard builds with air cooling and little to no maintenance required.
For the connector you had to repair, find some heat shrink that a little smaller than the connector and slowly stretch it out, it'll stretch just fine. Don't rip it. Then slide over connector
Perhaps use a bit of conduit along the lower back edge of the case for the cables. Pretty looking build tho, and you'll forget about the birthing pains once you start using it :))
I've always wondered why no one has done a water cooling case with all the water cooling stuff like pre-bent hardline tubes, water blocks and pump included. I'd wager that with proper pre-measured jigs for the hard line tubes they would save a heap compared to an individual doing things themselves since they'd have far less waste and also be able to get bulk discounts on parts/materials, not to mention it would save first time water cooling customers from having to buy tools. So if it was offered at similar cost to buying the parts at retail or even a little more it would offer pretty good value while also increasing margins which could attract more customers who are afraid of doing hardline water cooling themselves and/or who don't want to buy all the tools and practice material to do it. Obviously it would be limited to specific mother-boards and GPUs so the tubes fit correctly, but when it comes to this sort of expense for a case and cooling customers are probably only going to be looking at a pretty limited selection of hardware anyway.
I would really want to see a case with dual chamber design where the radiators and power supply would be in a separate chamber than motherboard and GPU. You would have much cleaner look for the motherboard and front distro plate, and could potentially have distro plates on top and bottom of the case too without getting cramped for space like here. Lian Li 011 is pretty close but even in that case you have to have radiators in the main chamber.
For a water-cooled build this complicated, have you ever thought of doing a vacuum test before leak testing? This would help save potentially risking components.
Great build. I would have used soft tubing to connect the front to the side as seen in the beginning of your presentation. Much, much easier and will look esthetically pleasing as well.
Hey Paul, I have a couple of tips for you if you see this. First, with RGB cables, wrap the connection in electrical tape and possibly heatshrink when installing to prevent disconnection. That has saved me countless hours in builds and also prevents them from coming loose in shipping. I usually do both, but a tight and clean electrical tape install looks perfectly fine without heatshrink. Second, for those top front bends, I love using bitspower d-plug coupler fittings as once I have the tube length correct, I just have to push things together and saves time, labor, and paint jobs. www.performance-pcs.com/water-cooling/fittings-connectors/bitspower-mini-d-plug-set-g1-4-matte-black-finish-bp-mbwp-c28.html
In a nutshell, unless you have the spec info in advance and the patience and money, f**k this case.. Nice build though man! It'll be good in the end. Remember the amount of justified pride in a build is inversely proportional to the amount of pain endured in its construction.
TIP : you can strech out heatshrink ALOT so you dont have to cut it like that, use something to strech it out and make it larger and it will fit. It will shrink down to normal size again with heat.
I had two Sea Hawk X cards Ike two builds past. One of them had the water block installed incorrectly and the PCB was bowed and barely making contact with anything. Fortunately I noticed it, MSI was at fault for botching the assembly, called them up, got permission to tear the card down without risking the warranty and fixed it. It lasted for the year or so I kept them, sold em on EBay.
The screw/nut issue could easily be solved by Singularity doing nutserts or welding the nuts to the back. That would also prevent the paint chipping issue you had.
Hey Paul, Nice Work and nice Setup but i wouldn´t finish a Project like this. I didn´t have that nerve to handle all these complications with Graphig card, to big radiators, the mess with the hard tubing of the front Distroplate and wirering the Fans. I watch the complete series of the Spectre 2.0 Videos and sometimes i sitten here watching and think "God Damn why did he go to this, i would burn down this case and think F**k off". Thumbs up and a lot of respect for you sufferabillity.
This is a great demonstration of when hard tubing becomes IMPRACTICAL. The idea of a distro block is to MINIMIZE tubing runs - you've just made it way too over-complicated than it should be, never mind that it will need a complete disassembly to drain/flush that front section properly AND you risk breaking shit again when you do so. That's not the kind of sacrifice a pro builder does just for the sake of butchering the word aesthetics. I'd gladly invite you over to check out my Shelby workstation if you can get your head out of the clouds to see how a proper open water system is done with 5 rads, 5 blocks and 20+ fans. There's a lot to learn if you listen to those who walk the same road.
Has anyone ever thought to fabricate a fitting so that a HVAC vacuum pump can be hooked to the loop? Then you can leak test without using fluid. I have no idea what the pull down PSI would be but you someone could figure that out. A pump and gauges is very affordable. I have never seen it done. Genius💯
Between you and DerBauer having nightmare level issues with custom builds, make me never want to even attempt hard line tubing or diving into distro plates.
It looks great. I just think ill stick to air cooling and no rgb and windows in my case. To much hassle for no resl benefit but respect to those who make it work,
I own this case, and its not the easiest case to build in (as you have found out). I didn't get the front dristro plate for the same issues you had, also getting inwin daisy chain fans is a must with this build. Its a nice case but I wouldn't recommend it, just not worth the aggravation.
Have you considered switching out the case RGB strip for an addressable one, if its even possible? Case looks amazing and glad to see you got it done... almost :)
I wouldnt pay 1400$ for that case. Unless he sends me rest of it as well. Its like buying a high end Mercedes and it comes without doors and hood. Add a scratch on that acrilic and you have to order new part which propably cost half of that case. I understand Caselabs (RIP) cases and their prices, but you got load of features.
Great job Paul. This is like a real life build when things go wrong all the time. Question. I have the Rtx 2080 Seahawks - which are similar to the cards you have in sli. I have recently found when you try take the water block off to clean, msi has fused it in such a way that you cannot get to the actual fins to really clean it. Wonder if you have run into that?
I think that front distro should’ve been mounted with soft piping so it can be removed without draining the loop and it would’ve been easier to assemble in general
Damn this build looks sick tho! I only have one complaint: The front distro plate doesn't really match well with the rest of the build in my opinion, maybe you can put some rgb strips behind it? ;)
OK, Hi.I've been watching many of your vids over the months and thought that maybe my case and way of upgrading my PC might interest you and even perhaps serve as an idea for a good vid. I am in the middle of upgrading my PC. I have a 12 year old i5 650 with a GeForce GTX 450, 4 GB of DDR3 ram, 1333hz, NOcase fans and HDD of 2TB. All mounted on an ASUS P7P55-m motherboard. As I said, I’m in the middle of upgrading, so what I’ve done so far is the following: I bought a 1TB SSD from Samsung, EVO 850, the system actually came back to life. The next thing I bought was a GPU, watching all your vids on the subject, I went for the gigabyte Geforce 2070 super. I also had to buy a case, as the one I had was incredibly small, and I had to do some destruction work inside to actually fit the card lolSo obviously I bought a new case. NForceKrater was the choice. I live in southern Europe, Spain, and it’s incredibly hot here. So obviously, right now I have such a bottleneck I’m almost afraid it might actually damage the GPU due to the low-power from the i5 650. Ah, talking about power, I also bought an 850 power supply, real cheap, just to get me out of the mud, and temporary, sorry to say, but it’s a mars gaming lol J Will obviously have to buy a better one before this thing blows up.I’ve been intel all my life, never tried anything else, but looking all the vids you guys have, I’m quite urged to go and this time. I have a small amount of money I can put aside each month, right now I have €400 and will have between 200-400 more again at the end of the month. So here comes my question. I was thinking of getting a 3950x. I would be gaming and stream at the same time, editing videos once I manage to get a capture card to upload. Should I get the CPU and have it sitting in a box waiting for a motherboard, RAM (32GB, 2x16) and cooler, or get a cheap motherboard, 60-90 bucks type, and switch out to a better one later, or wait until the new b550 and x series come out so the prices drop? It’s quite a dilemma, not sure what to do. Would a 3950x be overkill for that use? I want something that would be top-notch and last for quite some time. At the end of this month,I could get the CPU, then go getting other parts as time goes by, I’d also thought of getting a motherboard in the 300-400 buck range, a good one, with USB type 3.2, M.2, PCIe 4 ready. So that would another full month, that’s why I was wondering if it could be put together with cheaper parts and go changing out slowly. I’m sure about the RAM either, could I get some cheap 16GB (2x8) or 8 GB 1 DIMM and then just add the 32GB to it? Or do they have to be all the same? Not sure how this DDR4 works. Cooling is another thing, in the shops here, they all advise against AIO water because when April comes, we have 40ºc+ every day until November, and they say that the water is actually hot even before you turn the PC on. To tell the truth, even with the air-con, the walls inside the house are hot to the touch here for most of the summer. So I’d go air, BeQuiet for Example. Sorry to write such a big post on your feed, and to bother, but thought that maybe it could make a good vid, as this is the real way most of mortals have to deal with upgrading our PC without remortgaging the house or even secretly without having the wife find out :)
Hey Paul, working on my first water cooled build. How long does it normally take you to get all the air out of more complex loops? Everything else in the process seems to have gone fine
it's not the complexity that's the problem. It's needlessly complex due to poor planning and bad design choices, which frankly, makes it anything but superb. It's not that people want easy, they don't want things being needlessly complicated because Singularity never actually took the time to think things through. It'd be like if someone designed a car you needed to pull the engine to do an oil change, and someone complained about how stupid and unnecessary that is, and you were like "pulling engines isn't a problem for me. If you want easy, look elsewhere". Singularity has always acted like they deserve far more success than they've actually gotten, and this is yet another example of why they never will. I doubt Jay will be doing any serious work with them in the future with the whole post malone debacle, and it looks like Paul probably won't either. Singularity keeps showing they're just not with the money or the extra effort.
TheBlackbird37 I do see your point and it’s fair. To me this case does look like a challenge to build in and there seems to be an order in which it has to be done. It may be that singularity is better off just building in it themselves, or if they do give it to reviewers then they really need to be there to guide them. It might make for a better video rather than watch a UA-camr struggle through a build , complaining all the way through, even though the complaints are mostly valid. I wanted to see Paul take an interesting design and push it with his own knowledge and ideas, but that’s not what happened.
This is definitely a unique case but it has a few engineering issues it seems. You shouldn't need to disassemble large sections of a case designed for water cooling every time you need to install a water cooling tube, etc. Cool looking but at $1400 plus the build challenges make it a hard sell. You could achieve most of the same look with a Thermaltake Core P5/3 and a separate distro plate(s). Also for a fraction of the cost.
Paul, this comment is not related to your video (above). I have enjoyed and found your videos very helpful in assembling my new computer system. Thank you! I did find a problem with “Kinguin”, the product key that I received had already been used and unless I am missing something is unusable to me. If you have another solution I would appreciate hearing about it. Again, thank you!
Sick build. Let us know the wonderful state of gaming and sli/ explicit multi GPU. Man I miss the days of cramming in three 8800GTXs in hopes to max out crysis....
Shout-out to Joe the editor because these cuts going with the beat are amazing. Good job Joe!
Thanks homie
I have also seen this happen on some videos from jays2cents and hardware Canucks
Tell Linus to get their music beat game up.
Who’s joe?
@@c0ntrol619 Joe momma
Paul: this kinda build takes days
MicroCenter: Give us till close. yes we close in 5 hours
I want Kyle, Jay, Paul and Linus to OC and test their own personal rigs like this and see which one preforms better.
Awe... Poor Der8auer feels left out from your list. Also Wendell cackles in rack mounts! 😆
This is really awesome Paul, I like the incremental vids of the build progress. So far its looking really good, have fun w/ it even when things go wrong, it will all work out.
15:05 I think I'm gonna be using a D15 chromax for years, then maybe a will get a D16 and then a D17...no watercooling for me!
Anyway, sick build!
This has got to be the best build you ever done. You showed that it is OK to make mistakes. We all do. You worked it out and it was a success. You are the best and most real tech out there. Keep up the great work and videos. Shout out to Joe. Great camera work. Never miss a show (video).
"the distro plates are there to make you life easier"
lol
with my impatience I would have ripped out and ceremoniously burned that unnecessary front plate by now.
I love the build paul it's looking great, I'd like to see you rebend the tube from cpu to gpu and bring the bend up a tad bit higher, giving it more of a straight out and straight in
"Almost" Finished. That's "progress" there Paul
"If you're building in this case, i highly recommend you just dont" is what i would have said at this point
Lmao, I'm glad you're redoing that one bend XD
Ive been doing these types of builds for over twenty years and I can say that these extreme builds with impossible tolerances, never get easier! I do question why you stayed with the rads instead of replacing them? I do believe that if THOSE fittings leak this build series is going the way of the Dodo....LOL Take care my friend!
Excellent indeed- the fact that you DIDN'T go w softer tubing shows once again incredible building skills- looks great and stoked to see the final vid hopefully w the usual testing.
For all the stress and frustration you dealt with in this build, it sure did turn out great... Looks phenomenal!
Thank you for your sacrifice Paul. You've encouraged me to always use a dark rock pro 4 and strix gpu instead of doing something like this lol
So the moral of the story is: "If you are not taking several days to build a system with custom water cooling, you are doing it wrong?"
You would be a brave brave man to put Opaque coolant in that. The nightmare cleaning scenario would exceed human levels of comprehension.
We’re getting there! Lol progress is progress, keep up the great work love the channel
Glad I'm using a test bench.
Really love the color theme especially with your custom Cable Extensions. The way you trained the PCI-E & 24Pin Mobo cable is super clean Paul. From one of your previous videos I also got those "Shorty" 4"-Psu Cable Extenders to use for my set of custom extension cables I got for my upcoming build, I never knew they even existed until you used them =). Cheers Paul.
the B-roll of your cable management gave me a huge headache. props to you, Paul; you've done what I do not want to do ever.
Singularity is the reason I have a Shapeoko waiting to be built. Took a while but distro plates are all over the place now. Love em. Awesome build.
Instead of heatshrink for jobs like the header, try using amalgamation tape instead. cuts into strips and sticks to itself, so it's clean and easy to apply
That rig looks sick Paul! Great job! Looking forward to the next part.
After seeing many of your (best described) troubled face.. and finally seeing this build complete.. there's only one question that comes in my mind right now and that is - is ALL this worth your time and energy? I have love for IT for gadgets and gizmos - the TECH in general.. but this is the first time I see you soooooooo EXHAUSTED
So hence my question..
EXCELLENT job as ALWAYS!
You could use some spacers for the front distro to get better airflow to the rad.
Good looking build.
Very entertaining. Love you and Singularity, but this may qualify for a Diminishing Returns subtitle. Glad your'e out there showing the way though, and allowing me to painlessly live it vicariously.
Always love the videos, Paul! Do you feel it was worth the effort for the final product?
Thank you! I will speak on that in the final video
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This build has been a struggle, but the result will be so worth it. Beautiful machine when its done, I think. Thanks for sharing the build with us.
This has been a fun series to watch. Glad you muscled through this build!
Since you've been building a couple of WC system, just do yourself a favor and get a leak tester kit from Aquacomputer Dr. Drop or EK leak tester. It's a hand pump with a gauge and much more safer and simpler than using liquid to leak test.
For those really tight spaces this little toolkit is awesome Bosch 2607017160 Screwdriver ratchet set. You can find it on amazon
My last/latest build was almost as problematic as yours. But, we keep attacking it and it eventually comes together as we planned. Keep up the great work Paul!
I give you props for keeping your cool cause I can tell the frustration in your face. I would of been like fuck this I'm getting a different case.
Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication in getting this build finished. Definitely worth the trouble. This is one of the sexiest cases on the market.
That is absolutely nuts!!! I LOVE IT!!! Good work dood!!
Congrats!!!! I hope you enjoy the fruit of your labor, lol. Will you be using the Thermaltake coolant you showed us from CES? That was a very cool looking coolant. Good luck & love the shows!
Very nice build. love that you mostly bent the hardline tube instead of using a bunch of fittings to get your bends. Singularity computers used to do the same in the beginning and now doesnt so much which is very disappointing to me. i think it gives a cleaner and more professional look plus you get to see more coolant :D
When the fan on the top rad comes unplugged mid build and you start thinking about all the stuff you now have to take apart to plug it back in......(Cue sound of silence).
Hats off to you liquid cooler, rgb folks. I don't have the patience for all that farting around. Glad to be older and run standard builds with air cooling and little to no maintenance required.
Looks awesome Paul! Can't wait to see the final look!
3:37 it is in that moment i go back to aircoolers :D
For the connector you had to repair, find some heat shrink that a little smaller than the connector and slowly stretch it out, it'll stretch just fine. Don't rip it. Then slide over connector
Perhaps use a bit of conduit along the lower back edge of the case for the cables.
Pretty looking build tho, and you'll forget about the birthing pains once you start using it :))
great vid Paul, awesome camera work as always Joe
I've always wondered why no one has done a water cooling case with all the water cooling stuff like pre-bent hardline tubes, water blocks and pump included. I'd wager that with proper pre-measured jigs for the hard line tubes they would save a heap compared to an individual doing things themselves since they'd have far less waste and also be able to get bulk discounts on parts/materials, not to mention it would save first time water cooling customers from having to buy tools. So if it was offered at similar cost to buying the parts at retail or even a little more it would offer pretty good value while also increasing margins which could attract more customers who are afraid of doing hardline water cooling themselves and/or who don't want to buy all the tools and practice material to do it.
Obviously it would be limited to specific mother-boards and GPUs so the tubes fit correctly, but when it comes to this sort of expense for a case and cooling customers are probably only going to be looking at a pretty limited selection of hardware anyway.
That applause made my blood run cold, thought it was watter shooting out onto the floor.
I would really want to see a case with dual chamber design where the radiators and power supply would be in a separate chamber than motherboard and GPU. You would have much cleaner look for the motherboard and front distro plate, and could potentially have distro plates on top and bottom of the case too without getting cramped for space like here. Lian Li 011 is pretty close but even in that case you have to have radiators in the main chamber.
I know you can't leave the resivor half full, God I wish you could. That pouring effect was gorgeous
For a water-cooled build this complicated, have you ever thought of doing a vacuum test before leak testing? This would help save potentially risking components.
Great build. I would have used soft tubing to connect the front to the side as seen in the beginning of your presentation. Much, much easier and will look esthetically pleasing as well.
"A Setback Is a Setup for a Comeback."
Those shots of the first fill are great.
Hey Paul, I have a couple of tips for you if you see this. First, with RGB cables, wrap the connection in electrical tape and possibly heatshrink when installing to prevent disconnection. That has saved me countless hours in builds and also prevents them from coming loose in shipping. I usually do both, but a tight and clean electrical tape install looks perfectly fine without heatshrink. Second, for those top front bends, I love using bitspower d-plug coupler fittings as once I have the tube length correct, I just have to push things together and saves time, labor, and paint jobs. www.performance-pcs.com/water-cooling/fittings-connectors/bitspower-mini-d-plug-set-g1-4-matte-black-finish-bp-mbwp-c28.html
Really enjoying this series Paul!
I was waiting for you to Linus it off the table with how close it was to the edge.
Wow. Just.... wow. I had a few doubts early on in this build as to if I would like it or not.
But good God man! That thing is glorious!
In a nutshell, unless you have the spec info in advance and the patience and money, f**k this case.. Nice build though man! It'll be good in the end. Remember the amount of justified pride in a build is inversely proportional to the amount of pain endured in its construction.
Look at Joe getting all fancy with the transitions!
Paul was using a lot of tweezers for the cables - the Verge approves!
My personal view: looks awesome, but will be a nightmare to service ...
TIP : you can strech out heatshrink ALOT so you dont have to cut it like that, use something to strech it out and make it larger and it will fit.
It will shrink down to normal size again with heat.
I had two Sea Hawk X cards Ike two builds past. One of them had the water block installed incorrectly and the PCB was bowed and barely making contact with anything. Fortunately I noticed it, MSI was at fault for botching the assembly, called them up, got permission to tear the card down without risking the warranty and fixed it. It lasted for the year or so I kept them, sold em on EBay.
The screw/nut issue could easily be solved by Singularity doing nutserts or welding the nuts to the back. That would also prevent the paint chipping issue you had.
Hey Paul,
Nice Work and nice Setup but i wouldn´t finish a Project like this. I didn´t have that nerve to handle all these complications with Graphig card, to big radiators, the mess with the hard tubing of the front Distroplate and wirering the Fans. I watch the complete series of the Spectre 2.0 Videos and sometimes i sitten here watching and think "God Damn why did he go to this, i would burn down this case and think F**k off". Thumbs up and a lot of respect for you sufferabillity.
This is a great demonstration of when hard tubing becomes IMPRACTICAL. The idea of a distro block is to MINIMIZE tubing runs - you've just made it way too over-complicated than it should be, never mind that it will need a complete disassembly to drain/flush that front section properly AND you risk breaking shit again when you do so. That's not the kind of sacrifice a pro builder does just for the sake of butchering the word aesthetics.
I'd gladly invite you over to check out my Shelby workstation if you can get your head out of the clouds to see how a proper open water system is done with 5 rads, 5 blocks and 20+ fans. There's a lot to learn if you listen to those who walk the same road.
Has anyone ever thought to fabricate a fitting so that a HVAC vacuum pump can be hooked to the loop? Then you can leak test without using fluid.
I have no idea what the pull down PSI would be but you someone could figure that out. A pump and gauges is very affordable.
I have never seen it done. Genius💯
Great video! The build looks awesome!
Between you and DerBauer having nightmare level issues with custom builds, make me never want to even attempt hard line tubing or diving into distro plates.
These make for interesting videos. And it is educational. It shows my why I am NEVER going to water cool. Thanks Paul!
dude looks awesome !! nicely done
It looks great. I just think ill stick to air cooling and no rgb and windows in my case. To much hassle for no resl benefit but respect to those who make it work,
I too like the black monolith look. R6, no tempered glass and all cooled by Noctua. 🤗
This is a situation where shortening your fan connector cables, and then making custom length fan extension cables would be ideal.
That build looks far too painful! Thanks for doing it and showing us so we get to enjoy its looks and not go through what you have! :)
Awesomeness looking build. Thank you for posting this..
Love your videos Paul. Built my first pc based on your guide videos 🙂
I own this case, and its not the easiest case to build in (as you have found out). I didn't get the front dristro plate for the same issues you had, also getting inwin daisy chain fans is a must with this build. Its a nice case but I wouldn't recommend it, just not worth the aggravation.
Rooting for you man. Such a mission this one.
Just makes me want a Specter case even more, even if it is a challenging case to build in.
Have you considered switching out the case RGB strip for an addressable one, if its even possible? Case looks amazing and glad to see you got it done... almost :)
"Watch people die inside subreddit " lolol
Paul, this build is a sick looking machine. 👍
I wouldnt pay 1400$ for that case. Unless he sends me rest of it as well. Its like buying a high end Mercedes and it comes without doors and hood. Add a scratch on that acrilic and you have to order new part which propably cost half of that case. I understand Caselabs (RIP) cases and their prices, but you got load of features.
Videos like this make me love my Noctua D14!
"Most Expensive Headaches tutorial"
Great job Paul. This is like a real life build when things go wrong all the time. Question. I have the Rtx 2080 Seahawks - which are similar to the cards you have in sli. I have recently found when you try take the water block off to clean, msi has fused it in such a way that you cannot get to the actual fins to really clean it. Wonder if you have run into that?
I think that front distro should’ve been mounted with soft piping so it can be removed without draining the loop and it would’ve been easier to assemble in general
Those darn actual screws!
Damn this build looks sick tho! I only have one complaint: The front distro plate doesn't really match well with the rest of the build in my opinion, maybe you can put some rgb strips behind it? ;)
OK, Hi.I've been watching many of your vids over the months and thought that maybe my case and way of upgrading my PC might interest you and even perhaps serve as an idea for a good vid. I am in the middle of upgrading my PC. I have a 12 year old i5 650 with a GeForce GTX 450, 4 GB of DDR3 ram, 1333hz, NOcase fans and HDD of 2TB. All mounted on an ASUS P7P55-m motherboard. As I said, I’m in the middle of upgrading, so what I’ve done so far is the following: I bought a 1TB SSD from Samsung, EVO 850, the system actually came back to life. The next thing I bought was a GPU, watching all your vids on the subject, I went for the gigabyte Geforce 2070 super. I also had to buy a case, as the one I had was incredibly small, and I had to do some destruction work inside to actually fit the card lolSo obviously I bought a new case. NForceKrater was the choice. I live in southern Europe, Spain, and it’s incredibly hot here. So obviously, right now I have such a bottleneck I’m almost afraid it might actually damage the GPU due to the low-power from the i5 650. Ah, talking about power, I also bought an 850 power supply, real cheap, just to get me out of the mud, and temporary, sorry to say, but it’s a mars gaming lol J Will obviously have to buy a better one before this thing blows up.I’ve been intel all my life, never tried anything else, but looking all the vids you guys have, I’m quite urged to go and this time. I have a small amount of money I can put aside each month, right now I have €400 and will have between 200-400 more again at the end of the month. So here comes my question. I was thinking of getting a 3950x. I would be gaming and stream at the same time, editing videos once I manage to get a capture card to upload. Should I get the CPU and have it sitting in a box waiting for a motherboard, RAM (32GB, 2x16) and cooler, or get a cheap motherboard, 60-90 bucks type, and switch out to a better one later, or wait until the new b550 and x series come out so the prices drop? It’s quite a dilemma, not sure what to do. Would a 3950x be overkill for that use? I want something that would be top-notch and last for quite some time. At the end of this month,I could get the CPU, then go getting other parts as time goes by, I’d also thought of getting a motherboard in the 300-400 buck range, a good one, with USB type 3.2, M.2, PCIe 4 ready. So that would another full month, that’s why I was wondering if it could be put together with cheaper parts and go changing out slowly. I’m sure about the RAM either, could I get some cheap 16GB (2x8) or 8 GB 1 DIMM and then just add the 32GB to it? Or do they have to be all the same? Not sure how this DDR4 works. Cooling is another thing, in the shops here, they all advise against AIO water because when April comes, we have 40ºc+ every day until November, and they say that the water is actually hot even before you turn the PC on. To tell the truth, even with the air-con, the walls inside the house are hot to the touch here for most of the summer. So I’d go air, BeQuiet for Example. Sorry to write such a big post on your feed, and to bother, but thought that maybe it could make a good vid, as this is the real way most of mortals have to deal with upgrading our PC without remortgaging the house or even secretly without having the wife find out :)
Love all the content no matter what.
Hey Paul, working on my first water cooled build. How long does it normally take you to get all the air out of more complex loops? Everything else in the process seems to have gone fine
15:44 Deathmatch of the bubbles
It’s expensive but superb. Complex to build isn’t a problem for me. People who want easy look elsewhere.
it's not the complexity that's the problem. It's needlessly complex due to poor planning and bad design choices, which frankly, makes it anything but superb. It's not that people want easy, they don't want things being needlessly complicated because Singularity never actually took the time to think things through. It'd be like if someone designed a car you needed to pull the engine to do an oil change, and someone complained about how stupid and unnecessary that is, and you were like "pulling engines isn't a problem for me. If you want easy, look elsewhere".
Singularity has always acted like they deserve far more success than they've actually gotten, and this is yet another example of why they never will. I doubt Jay will be doing any serious work with them in the future with the whole post malone debacle, and it looks like Paul probably won't either. Singularity keeps showing they're just not with the money or the extra effort.
TheBlackbird37 I do see your point and it’s fair. To me this case does look like a challenge to build in and there seems to be an order in which it has to be done. It may be that singularity is better off just building in it themselves, or if they do give it to reviewers then they really need to be there to guide them. It might make for a better video rather than watch a UA-camr struggle through a build , complaining all the way through, even though the complaints are mostly valid. I wanted to see Paul take an interesting design and push it with his own knowledge and ideas, but that’s not what happened.
Cable management is on point🤩😍
This is definitely a unique case but it has a few engineering issues it seems. You shouldn't need to disassemble large sections of a case designed for water cooling every time you need to install a water cooling tube, etc.
Cool looking but at $1400 plus the build challenges make it a hard sell. You could achieve most of the same look with a Thermaltake Core P5/3 and a separate distro plate(s). Also for a fraction of the cost.
Also that gpu tube from the distro to the block, maybe an extension between the two fittings there?
Build looks amazing 😍😍
But u gotta use the x570 aqua😭
Strong work! One of the cleanest open air builds I've ever seen. You have earned a whiskey or 3 sir.
Paul, this comment is not related to your video (above). I have enjoyed and found your videos very helpful in assembling my new computer system. Thank you!
I did find a problem with “Kinguin”, the product key that I received had already been used and unless I am missing something is unusable to me. If you have another solution I would appreciate hearing about it. Again, thank you!
for the next time, you could just tap the holes, and use screws to screw right into the frame instead of nuts ( should be an easy diy fix )
Dude always love your builds they always look clean and sick Asf!!! I just build my first PC with tips from your channel bro!
Sick build. Let us know the wonderful state of gaming and sli/ explicit multi GPU. Man I miss the days of cramming in three 8800GTXs in hopes to max out crysis....