 So the other day Jake was talking to an annoying client about you know what he wants his PC to be like and at some point in time they decided that instead of being in you know a normal PC case this would be a build that would take us you know day maybe three they want a pyramid PC case so we're going to have to custom make it using you know steel tubing just like this one right here. This should be the last of the supplies that we need for this build right here but holy crap do we have a lot of to do it's what 2 30 on a Monday and by Friday we want for the frame to be built the parts to be ordered and like a test fit to be totally complete. So let's take a look at what we've got going on over here. So I just mocked this up this is basically what we're thinking we need you know probably three GPUs there's only one in here right now but that's fine you get the basic idea of what I'm going for this is going to be tricky to bend and along all of the outside there's going to be illuminati stuff I guess let's get started. In about 15 minutes or so we're not going to be able to change any of this we're going to start cutting and welding and so on so if there's any thoughts that you have now is the time to you know speak. How big is the base? Base is 26 inches. 26 inches can I have a measuring ruler? Measuring ruler. That's still pretty big isn't it? Yep. Do you think the client's going to be okay with that? I think he's going to have to be he asked for a pyramid and this is about as small as a pyramid can get like if you look at this here there are a lot of spaces but not a lot of space that you can put useful things like we're losing so much space just kind of like down in here because it's a triangle it's a dumb shape. Well the customer is always right. Yep he asked for this we're going to give it to him for better floors. There are really three things that you need for a good weld to happen so the first is just well prepared parts so these right here I've now ground and cut and also wiped with isopropyl alcohol so they should be nice and clean you also need the knowledge of how to weld so I took a couple welding classes several years ago but three maybe the biggest one is practice which I don't have I did a tiny bit of practice here yesterday some of them turned out good some of them did not I haven't really touched a table in like three four years I guess this is the practice that we're going to get here whatever can all be solved with a bit of persuasion probably some angle grinding it's not going to be fun for me but at the same time we just got to do it. When you're welding you're basically just melting two pieces of metal and if that molten metal gets exposed to the air really bad things happen so a pretty good example of that is here I still had some good old shielding gas for using argon and this as well looks fine come over here when it started running out it doesn't look quite as good overall though it's starting to come together all that we have to do are make the bits that go you know from here up to here what we have to do for that is use the Cobra Miter Daddy basically the Miter Daddy is just this you know nice piece of cnc I believe it's aluminum that you're able to chuck up in the mill and then set it at kind of whatever angle you want then you have your piece of stock it just goes in here like so you tighten that down and then you take your hole saw which I actually haven't even taken out of the package yet drill down to give yourself whatever angle you want the angles that we need to hit for this all to go together is like half a complex one which is where the good old angle cube is just incredible so you see it's totally level here on the vice and then we're able to take that set the angle in this plane it's supposed to be 26.4 so come on it's not quite there good enough for now and then in the other way it needs to be 42 degrees so that's right about right about there now with those two angles after we tighten it down in 3d this should be in the correct spot let's not look too closely at the welds here but you know the whole things together I imagine even if they're not the prettiest they're going to be pretty strong and I think I learned a lot about welding them it was kind of like you can see here where there's just a lot of weld I sort of blew a hole through it and then in stitching it back together I feel like I really learned how to tig weld pretty well so here's the basic frame but we need to be able to put like the motherboard and the power supply and everything in it and normally I would do that sort of thing out of aluminum but I'm concerned like one about corrosion with just touching the steel and two we need to ship it somewhere and it might just pull out I've seen horrific things happen to pcs and shipping so we're going to try and use steel you don't want to come over here Andy been running a couple little tests on the good old router here with cutting steel and I think I've come up with some pretty successful settings so let's try and cut some steel on the router it's a bit more tricky than you might expect because although there are a lot of calculators out there they're normally based off of something you know kind of like the big old bridge pork here where the limiting factor isn't the rigidity of the machine but just simply you know the power of the motor and how much metal it can mow through that said this has been quite successful I like my test cuts that I have here and I don't know let's cut out some back panels motherboard panels and everything so the power supply and motherboard mounting panel is cut and in and the original plan was to have these supports that went up to this like cross member attached to that and then attached to the power supply support but I just don't really like how it looks so instead I'm thinking that I can come in here and kind of exist flush to the support the only problem is that it looks like it might interfere with where the power supply is going to be so we're gonna have to test that out and see if it actually fits in oh man I should have just not showed anyone this and said this was the plan from the beginning oh this is going to be totally fine heaps of space for the motherboard and you're probably wondering right now GPUs can't go here because power supply but that's because we have these wonderful PCIe extenders from Kamino so you probably saw them in the Kamino RM video that we have but they look like this this is the end that the GPU will be on and on the other side we have just this little guy here so that slots in just like so and then our data is carried over these cables here so the plan is for our GPUs to be mounted right up here on the same plane as this like panel that's going to be here and we'll cut a nice big hole in it so that you can see all three of them just in all of their glory to support them I stole this PCIe bracket from an in-win case it came with two of them I'm not sure why but it makes my life way easier so you'll be able to put four GPUs right in there we'll only have three but like upgrading is cool I think it's going to be sweet for this to not look dumb a really crucial part is that the GPUs have to be at the correct angle I could grab it from SolidWorks but who knows what exactly it is so we're just going to come in here got this wonderful angle finder thing I absolutely love these things and it is 50.25 degrees or 52.5 degrees hey Linus do you want to see a computer oh I'd love to so this is what we have so far this is actually not bad yeah given the uh initial plans that I saw this greatly exceeds my expectations yeah I was kind of concerned that it would just be garbage if I'm honest the only thing is the GPUs need to go in and we have a bit of a problem and they need to be like placed correctly so if you kind of look here um we have conveniently two plates here so that you can easily access them because it's going to be just an absolute pain if you couldn't do that so they're going to be going in something like this and you position something like that the only problem is I can't weld this in and make sure it looks correct at the same time oh so you brought me for that yeah okay so what we're looking at here is a Threadripper 32 core processor probably 256 gigs of ram because the client is insane uh he has no need for it whatsoever but you can't talk reason with him you know he just wants to flex right so we're going to have either 1500 or six probably a 1500 watts he sonic right that way yeah okay so the GPUs are all going to be like sitting here in the pyramid and basically we're going to have like an illuminati eye here in the front and uh there's going to be like that's going to be like a window and it's going to look on to four quadro GPUs because again the client has an unlimited budget and you can't talk sense into them so yeah the customer is always right except when they're wrong and you just have to do what they say anyway right yeah i was thinking like we originally said we're going to do three i think because it just makes more sense yeah then you can do nv link and then like a quadro four display it which is ridiculous yeah but at least kind of makes sense but i think it's going to look so much better if you have four of them like just the window and four GPUs straight oh so am i just eyeballing this or what well one one second here one second here mr linus so first of all do you think this is fine right now i have it mounted in three spots like for the motherboard we can pretty easily add in some stuff out here it's probably not necessary i don't think it's necessary by the time you put a motherboard on it that will also serve to add extra rigidity i really don't think it's a problem yeah like this is thick yeah i think it's fine are the panels actually going to go on here the plan is to just stand it off like an inch or so so there's going to be a gap along each side and then we have a steel mesh that goes along here you sort of tack weld that on and then super glue some magnets to it so you put like the side panel on it has the gap that for one is going to look cool and allow for airflow and also allow for us to just ignore that this is not square yeah yeah and then you have the sweet mesh below it and it's gonna be great so we just pull a tesla we're like yeah the gap is a feature yeah okay so now we need those in here oh this is awesome oh my god that seems terrible the key to a good weld is making sure that you have a good position this is this is not all right do you want to come look at the alignment you didn't even check it before we went it's probably fine what do you think yeah seems good to me because we've got enough i kind of checked i made sure this line was parallel with this one and then here there's enough clearance for them to pop out if we really need to yeah i think it's okay actually with this tacked in place we've actually got a pretty good look at what the finished system is going to look like in terms of the internal layout so i think we're going to get away with adding one more fan here so we're going to have a total of eight fans the whole frame is going to be on feet here so these fans are going to be able to suck air up through filters yeah through filters so we're going to have filtered intakes coming in on the bottom and then passive exhaust out these vents that are going to go down the the corners of our pyramid and then for the cooler we were going to use that thermosiphon prototype right yeah now that i'm looking at it here uh looks a little kg i don't think it's gonna fit yeah we might end up with something else so okay we're gonna have some kind of cooler over here and then graphics is here and because storage is going to be just m.2s on the motherboard you don't actually have to account for any additional storage i mean really it's just the only reason this is going to take up a two foot by two foot space on this person's desk is because they want a pyramid computer oh that's the table not the computer yeah the table is really not square it's actually pretty good if you guys are enjoying this build so far maybe you'll enjoy uh i don't know should we throw to one of our sleeper pcs sure yeah sure actually let's throw it a playlist playlist of sleeper pcs yeah they're sick and get subscribed it's alex's jank engineering at its finest yeah the workshop's going away for construction in a week so part two will be very soon actually yeah we have to get part two done or we will never get it done and then our client will be very sorely disappointed