 This custom gaming PC represents over 600 hours of work and the full hardline water cooling setup barely scratches the surface. Look at this. It is beyond a doubt the most beautiful rig we have ever built, which means obviously we had a little help. Nerd Forge is here! And we're going to be showing them how to hardline water cool a system as well as how to thank our sponsor, Seasonic, who made this collaboration possible. Let me put it this way, flights from Norway, not cheap. Shout out Seasonic and shout out Nerd Forge. You guys are going to have a lot of fun with this one because you have only seen two sides of it. It gets so much better! How many hours do you have in this Pelican case? Well, two weeks, 12 hours a day for three people. I don't know, it's a lot of math. How many hours was your flight? Nine hours was the last flight and then two hours for the first one. So it's been shaking nicely. What's it like? A lot of foam. It seems fine so far. This is the front panel. Oh my god. Okay, it seems fine at least on first glance, but I don't know about the lights. And this is the even bigger part. I'm sorry about all the foam. The hotel sign seems to not be doing well. I brought superglue, don't worry. We have a whole week. Yes. Oh, and there's people. Oh, he survived! It seems like most of the things are okay, like even the screen. But we also have to test the lights though to see that they work. Oh, should we do that right now? Yes. So is it all powered off of the SATA connector? Yes, so there's one for each panel. By the way, huge thank you to Seasonic. Plane tickets are not cheap because we're showing off their 1600 watt. We were able to afford it. It's arrived! Oh my god. Oh my god. I'm so happy. Oh, the lanterns. Yes, it's my favorite part. How did you program that? They're just fire LEDs like these prefabricated fire ones. They have the flicker effect. How is this done? It's a photo frame, like a digital photo frame that we just kind of hijacked. Oh. The photo frame ran Android. I just basically bricked it so it continuously runs the boot animation. And the boot animation is what you're seeing. I mean, it works. How does this get to that? I cut a hole in the mesh, as you're not supposed to do. We take the front panel and I've kind of just lured it in there. And then looped it over there. And hopefully we can cover it up with something nice. And then the side panel, we just lured it between here. And then stuck on the inside. And then if this is the same, we can just close it. Oh, it slots together like... Oh my god. It looks better like this when it's like together. Do you want to start building a computer? Yes. Let's go. EK hooked us up with so much stuff for this. Oh my god. I'm sorry, but this is the first thing I see. Yeah, I think we have a couple options. I think they're all slightly different purples. I love purple. We also have all of our cables. I didn't know you can get them in purple. It matches my hair. Reservoir. Radiator. That's also huge. Two more radiators, I think. Thank you. This guy right here, that's the mono block for the CPU. And oh my god, that's heavy. And our GPU block. We also went with acrylic tubing. Your options are PETG and acrylic. PETG is easier to work with. Acrylic looks a little bit better. I went with acrylic. Always for the aesthetics. Yeah. I mean, I'm all for it. First thing we have to do is remove this GPU water block and put on the other GPU water block. I think I found this from Alpha Cool. Should I do it? Yeah, you can do it. To be fair, I have built a PC once. This is the same thing. It's just if you screw it up, it leaks and kills all your stuff. It's really heavy. Yeah, what's on the back? Oh my god, it's a hole in the block. So afraid of ruining it. You cannot do anything worse to this GPU than what's already been done. Ah, very nice. I need that screwdriver because I keep losing my bits. Should I just eyeball it? Yeah, that's fine. That's pretty good. I mean, wow, I managed to cut something. I just need to cover that up. Oh, it's very nice in a weird way. Does it have to be even? I think you're doing a better job than I would have done. So perfect. So pretty. There you go. Your first water block GPU. Are we going to be able to see the cooling liquid? Oh yeah. Motherboard? Yeah. There's a couple of things to note about this. For one, this board is like $1,200. That's like the most expensive motherboard you can buy pretty much aside from like servers. Also I've had my way with the CPU. It's full copper for one. And also the IHS just falls off. Is it supposed to do that? No, it's not supposed to do that. So we just need to like not touch it. And as long as we just like leave it in there, it's fine. Okay. Anyway, this is what needs to go on. That's gorgeous. Okay, it's going to be a bit of pain in the arse. This backplate, all these VRM coolers and stuff have to come off. Then it's similar to the GPU block. Thermal pads stick this on. Oh, is this so scary? It's too little? I have no idea. The comments can tell her. Man, how was that? Oh no, thanks. It's probably too much. I'll know for next time. It's so pretty. We need a it's so pretty counter. Oh no. Oh, you kind of see where this motherboard's been wet before. Kind of see the water coming all along here. That's from when we sub-zeroed it. We have a rough plan for a loop and I think it's going to look freaking sweet. Particularly look at the size of this reservoir that we found. We do have one problem though. The 7000D despite having like, you know, cutouts right here for a vertical GPU does not have an included PCIe riser for the GPU. You want to cut some holes in the case? Sure. Why not? No, not quite. That is terrifying. Okay, it did work. Nice. Okay. Safety glasses. Did you save the glasses for drilling? I'll follow the rules. Do I look cool now? Yeah, you look more cool. Thank you. Cool points added. Let's go. Always scary. Okay, easy. Nice. Do you know something that's really dumb that I realized after you tapped it? This has a little bit on the top that's not threaded. So you didn't need to tap it at all. All right, we have a functional vertical mount now. PCIe brackets in there, nice and good with their standoffs. You want to know the plan? Is the plan to have this actually screwed in all the way? Well, it was pretty screwed in, but now it's screwed up. Yeah, we've got a couple pretty fun runs in this. So from here, the outlet of the pump up over and into the GPU right here is going to be pretty fun. What the hell, Alex? And then from here up over the RAM and into this one also will be pretty fun. What the hell, Alex? Oh my God, they're totally not aligned, Alex. They're off by like at least six, seven mils. You don't need the computer to look good, do you? I mean, well, I guess let's get started, shall we? You should have gone to Jay's two cents. It might have taken four years to get the finished build, but boy would it ever look nice. You're going to have a lot of difficulty making a 90 that's that tight. It would be way easier to freehand bend it from here up to there. Oh my God, it would not. How many PCs have you watercooled in the last couple of years? Really? You're going to go there? Yeah. On camera. Yeah. Where does this demo go? I feel like I'm observing a married couple. You really think you can do that 90? Oh, I can do that. All right. First one we're doing that 90. Pro PC building tip. This is an excellent switch. So if he's bothering you, you just grab one of these. This is a practice bend. This is going to take me two attempts. Basically what we're doing is we are taking the hard tubing and we are making it soft. So we're showing it a picture of its grandma. Okay, when we can see that it's starting to get a little bit flexible, we want to make sure that we heat up more than just the exact area. And then we're going to go ahead and give it a little 90 degree bend here. Oh God, I screwed it up so badly. You got to make sure you heat it evenly on all sides and you don't want to get any bubbles in it. Alex may be right about the bend radius here. So you can see the tubing is still curved when it's going in. So we're not going to get a good seal because it's been deformed. It's no longer perfectly round. But hold on, hold on. Everybody just calm down for a second here. Okay. This is a lot more stressful than I thought. Relax. There is another option. See, if we do that, it fits. And then we can have a perfect 90 degree, well, not perfect, but we'll make a better one. Then though, we could just make this one even bigger. Yeah. What if that goes up and then down? Well yeah, that could work. All right, I got to do this again, but slower. Oh yeah. Oh, we're definitely going to need higher temperature later. Crap, I really wish this bend wasn't like front and center. Whose idea was it to start with this one? It's also like one of the easiest ones. That's fair. Yeah, it kinked a little. Let's put it in and see if you notice. Yeah, when you see it from the front, you can't even see it. I kind of want to take one more stab at it. Okay, Linus, we get that one in there. We see if we still have tubing left. So it needs to be a little shorter here. I would take this off and I would put it on the belt sander, take off maybe a couple of millimeters. How's this side? It's pretty bad. Oh God. Oh, this side's much worse. Well, you can't do any worse than me. Let's go. Are you? I'm not so sure, but okay, which one do I do? Okay, so what do we do? One bend first. We do the bend for right here. So we know that it's clear. We get it in the correct spot. Then we do the second bend. It comes down to this. And then cut it? Yeah. Sure. Sorry. All right. Just remember, you couldn't possibly do any worse than me. As long as it's 45-ish, you're in pretty good shape. Make sure you get the underside too though, otherwise it'll crumple up. That's looking pretty 45-ish to me. Yeah, you can really see the flaws when you pull out the thing. Oh, yeah. See, it's perfect. Oh, I'm so relieved. Now our bend here is also quite flexible in terms of where we put it. It just determines how tight the angle will be. If we put it here, then it would need to be like a 90 degree. Makes sense. So basically what you want is somewhere in between. So somewhere around here, down like that. What we should also do at this stage is we can cut the piece. So we can cut it like here. It's an awful sound. Truly. Okay, it's starting to loosen. Now remember, same plane. Yeah, time to commit. This is less good than your last one, but still better than mine. Okay. Can I borrow this for just a second? Yes. We're just going to give her a little kind of... A little wiggle. Yeah, a little wiggle. Wiggle it right in there. We're trying. Okay. Good enough. If it's good enough for you, it's good enough for me. Look from... No, no. You'll never look at it that way, right? That is true. See? So how's that? Yeah, it's nice. So now all we need to do is we just play around with exactly where we want it to kind of land. We are pretty darn close. Do you want to just double check? Yeah, that looks pretty good. Does that look pretty good? Yeah. I'm going to mark it. And half a centimeter extra if you'll even be able to see that. I got it. I got it. I got it. I got it. Oh, nice. Okay. So you can see right now they're both seated and it goes down that way a little bit. Yeah. Right? Yeah. So this is a perfect opportunity for us to make fine adjustments with the belt sander. Yeah. Let's just take off like that. Right. So when that's gone, we're done. You should probably try to keep it as straight as possible. Ideally. Beautiful. That's all. So now we'll just pick the bits off. There. That's much better. What? Perfect. Freaking nailed it. Nice. You know what? I think her screwing up the plane of the bend actually worked in your favor. It comes out. I think it corrects it a little bit. It was the plan all along. Can I take another crack at my 90? Do I get another shot? I really think we should just not do it that way. Think about how hard this one's going to be if we have to go up and over. Hear me out. A 90 and a 90 and we just go straight over and we do another extension here. Then we only have to do one 90. Sure. Basically, this is what I have in mind though. Then we just come out like that. So let's see if I can put all I've just learned to use there and then add a couple extra centimeters. Nice. Make sure to keep moving horizontally as well. Close. It is looking very good. I think it's slightly more than 90. You can really tell it's not 90 degrees. Oh, that looks so much better. This is why you save the scraps. I think that's good. It's a little bit leaning, but close enough. You can't see it from the front. Not bad. You think it leaks? I don't know. We haven't probably tightened everything yet, but I am kind of curious if we just pump it up a little bit. Will it stay? Well that was fast. We'll try it again with less pressure. Just leave it. This has gone a lot better than I expected. We have a water-cooled system that doesn't leak. That's pretty good. What should we do? We could do some painting, like this part maybe, make it match the outside. Can I learn how to paint? Yeah. We did an LMG paint night and mine was definitely the worst. I know. All right. We have the insides of the computer figured out. We took them all out and now we're going to make this fit with the rest of all the stuff that they've done. What's really exciting is we can finally use our sandblaster for something. Yes. We have a little test piece here. It looks freaking sweet. By opening up the top, we can fit this whole case inside. It's going to look awesome. Turn it on up there. You have two gloves in here. Foot pedal to spray the sand around. It just simply recirculates. Spray the thing. Sand collects down below. And then you just blast everything. Yeah. These gloves are way too large. There we go. That is so satisfying. Oh my God. In hindsight, sandblasting that was a terrible idea. We have finished beads. They take forever to strip paint. Also the painting on there, powder coating, really good and durable. Thank you, Corsair. Also, our air compressor, not able to just flat out sandblast for a while, especially when you're laser cutting at the same time. And those five hours later, totally worth it though. It looks so much better. I don't know why, but it looks so violent. Now that we have it nice and shiny, let's make it dirty again. Beautiful. Yes. What is this? It's just a mix of black paint and water. Spray the whole thing. Grab some paper towels and dab it off again. Cover it just completely. Completely. Yeah. But we just made it not black. Yes. And now we're going to make it black. We're going to take it off again. I know this seems very wrong, but it's going to be nice. This does seem very wrong. So now just grab a bunch of this and then we can just dab it off again. We're going to take off almost everything, but just give it some nice texture. It's kind of like a time attack thing too, because you've got to get it off before it dries completely. I kind of like this level. Yeah, I kind of like it there. Because it's like if we go too much darker, it just becomes black again. Yeah, it becomes white and we spend five hours sandblasting it. What was the paint we used? The super matte black paint from Stuart Sample. While we were doing the sandblasting, we also had another thing in the oven. This right here is our cable management cover. We know that all of you are going to be commenting, oh, Cyberpunk, the game, the game's not fair. Cyberpunk's a whole aesthetic, not just a game. So we wrote three paragraphs about it. Final step, dry brushing. It's super simple. You just grab a brush and apply as little paint as possible. And then you just like dab it on, on like the high points. Then you get some nice like edge lighting. The only like scary part is getting too much paint, because then you get streaks and you don't want streaks. Kind of work it in to your brush, get it off and make sure there's almost nothing on it. I can't even tell. Oh, is that too much streaks? It's still a little bit. But if it gets streaked, you can also just like wipe it off with your finger. It's the best tools. Like that? Yeah, perfect. Just like really brim it in. And don't use a brush you like for this, because it's going to be... Oh, nice. The highlights help so much, even though they're so subtle. I have a bit too much in here somewhere. Yeah, just wipe it. If you don't have paint all over your hands after this, you've done it wrong. Just look at this. That looks awesome. I think you did a great job. Oh, thank you. Yeah. Oh, geez, there's a lot to do here. Today, all that we have to do to get this done is reassemble the case, install the components, put fancy washers on the radiators, wire the Corsair RGB, engrave the side panel, reinstall the hard line, do the cables, cable management, fill the loop, post the computer, update windows, do the RGB software. While the computer is working just fine, we went to plug in the RGB header on the inside, which just fell off. And that's a lot of water. That is a lot of water. I guess, did it disconnect right here? Yeah, it did. That's the outlet of the pump. So what we've done, we've swapped out some of the fittings. Unfortunately, these ones are Alpha Cool. They aren't quite color matched, but they do have two O-rings. I want to be clear here that Alpha Cool's fittings are inherently better than EK's. I just spec'd at these super low profile ones because I thought that they looked cool. And I was a bit concerned that they wouldn't be as good at holding tubes in, and I was correct. Only use these if you really need to. Everything's dried off now though, so all that we have to do is a bit of cable management. That's not as tidy around here. I absolutely hate RGB. This is all RGB, that's all RGB, this is RGB, that's RGB. We filled the loop last night, let it go for a while, came back, pump wasn't working. Fortunately, when I went to go and drain it, I did one last little click of the pump and it sprayed water all over the place. You can see the water on the ground right here, which means the pump's working and we can finally put this together for once and for all. Say your tagline, please. Let's have a look at the final result. Finally. Nano fight. Appreciate the power of nanoflight. Hyperion lights, made for speed. That looks so good. Did you make this? It's 3D printed, but it's hand painted, yes. How did you paint the ones in the back? Okay, please tell me you took some shortcuts, like all these air conditioners, right? Like did you hand paint every fan blade? Everything is hand painted, yes. Why? I mean, it's incredible, don't get me wrong, but like, aesthetics. It's still the aesthetics. Oh my God, it goes around the front too. This is so cool and this is not a display. You just, I guess, have a technique for, oh yeah, okay. It's just printed plastic. You've just got like a nice diffuser layer in there, I guess. It loops around, it loops around. Of course it does. I love these nice little touches to give it that kind of true to life look, like the little aluminum foil bits here. Excuse me, aluminum foil, European. How did your tubing bins work out? Not too bad. I mean, if you go around, yeah. Okay, okay. Well, should I turn it or should we walk around? How fragile is it? It's more fragile. Like this is old car stock, so you can like, you can hit it. What did you just like carve this or what? This is just takeaway boxes. Shut up. Like the pattern here, yeah. Oh, I love the side panel. Right. We left the peel on though, is that on purpose? It's for you. Oh, okay. All right, here we go. This looks awesome. How are you so much better at bending tubing than me? You've done it like four times. Wow. I love the dye color. You know, there's a lot of really talented PC modders out there. It's like this micro niche. Whereas if you take the miniature scene, which is much bigger and are like, okay, you super talented people build a PC. I guess this is what you end up with. Well, we combine our powers, right? Next level, man. It wouldn't have been this good on the inside without Alex. This is like the coolest computer I think I have ever seen. That is the biggest compliment. The essay? Yes. As much as I respect, I already agree with you. CD Projekt Red and their ambitions with Cyberpunk 2077. I dislike how the game has become the de facto standard for the cyberpunk aesthetic. I'm sure this would be okay if the game wasn't a steaming pile of experiment on release, but unfortunately it was. Did you write this? The bottom part, Alex wrote the rest. How the hell are you guys going to take this back with you? We're not. It's staying here forever. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh my God. You guys are so generous. So why don't we just hold on to it until we do LTX 2023 and then why don't we auction it for charity? Sure. Does that work for everybody? That's amazing. You guys are invited, of course. We'll be happy to cover your airfare. Because this is like a piece of PC building history. I think it would be really, really cool. And by the way, don't feel any pressure. If you can't make it out, that's fine. I'm sure we'll be able to. Whatever works for you, but I'd be honored if you came out and were there to kind of see us send it off in style. That'd be amazing. Okay. You know what else is amazing? This message from our sponsor. Hey, got him. It's a full sponsored video by Seasonic. Oh, right. Seasonic. Man, how cool is Seasonic? These folks are all the coolest stuff lately, man. They offer up to 12 year warranties, up to 80 plus titanium efficient power supplies. And you can check them out at the link down below. It's a new power supply, 1600 watts. Oh, wow. They have a 1600 watt unit now. Is that the unit that's featured in here? Yeah. I'm excited about it because with the rumored power draw of upcoming GPUs, we need something that's going to be ready for them. Thank you so much for building this. This is incredible. Are you a hugger? Yeah, I am. You are. Okay. This has been so much fun to build. And yeah, I'm just super happy to be a part of this. I love it.