 We are going to liquid cool all five of our editing workstations together So those are like core i7 6 cores and GTX Titans, then we're going to take that water We're going to take it out of the building and then we're going to put that on a massive radiator So we're actually taking all that heat and dissipating it outside causing not only our systems to run cooler But also our room in which we do our work to be cooler We gotta build things Alright, build things You might want to start on A new case Is this one also cute I guess? Um I don't know if they're outside or inside I know that at least I see four of them So there's one more somewhere It's not in that box so... Yes, I realize I was using pliers rather than a wrench to tighten the fittings onto the radiators That's what happens when Linus decides that one wrench is sufficient for the seven people working on a project Some sacrifices have to be made Okay, that seems fine We'll probably have to use some extensions to get all of these to where they need to go But we have those so that's not a big deal And that's going to push through Yeah, and then once you get all of these mounted I might send you and David on a field trip to Home Depot to figure out To figure out how Like you might even have to do it there And just get everything mounted Onto something That we can put up there that will be strong enough And just here If we have to sacrifice Airflow to the top fan To put four screws into it or something Then that's what we have to do We're realizing now that our idea for hanging the radiators might not work We'll see what happens I also have no idea how we're going to get a ladder here Does Home Depot deliver if you buy things? Maybe We could just buy a ladder and then have them deliver it Okay Possibly Okay Either way we should make that happen pretty soon A ladder? Yeah I can go do that like three, seven hours from today So we also need the metal strips And then the tubing will run from the window up here Down to here Alright Were you planning to take someone with you or do you still need to? Uh I don't know Let me look out in a sec Sure, oh uh, radiators Yeah I was just doing the exiting for the camera Oh, I thought you were leaving No I'm sorry Component selection was something that was really important for us These are the workstations that we're going to be using to do the vast majority of our work So they need to be really fast and they need to be extremely reliable So most of the systems are running the same configuration So they're going to have Core i7-4960X 6-core processors And though, I don't know, we may do a little bit of overclocking, we'll see It won't be much They're all going to be running on a SUSE X79 Deluxe motherboard That's a motherboard that we're particularly fond of Because it's the one that's been on our graphics test bench since its release And it's been extremely reliable there They're all going to be running 32 gigs of Kingston memory Just, you know, nothing super fancy and really fast or anything But just nice, reliable DDR3 memory And they're all going to be running, and this is where things start to get really interesting Nvidia GTX Titan Black Edition Now, I had originally reached out to Nvidia to get GTX 780s Because Swift Tech was our water cooling provider And their only full cover water block from this generation supports the 780, the 780Ti, the Titan, and the Titan Black on the reference PCB And Nvidia kind of went, well, you know, don't you guys need double precision and all dat video memory? So they ended up sending over Titan Blacks Fortunately, because I had already asked for the power supplies from Cooler Master at that point The V750 modular power supplies that they're sending over are 80 plus gold And 750 watts is plenty for a 6 core and a Titan Black You don't actually want to go that overkill Because if you do, you can actually lose some of the efficiency that you're trying to gain by going with a highly efficient power supply For the cases, we went with Cooler Master N600s Luke and I actually spent a fair bit of time figuring out a case that was compact, lightweight enough Professional enough looking that it wouldn't look out of place in an office And yet capable of holding the enthusiast grade hardware we needed And most importantly was able to mount the reservoir radiator combo unit on the top that we wanted from Swift Tech So that we could have one fewer component inside each of the individual system water cooling loops For when we wanted to disconnect from the main loop and run the systems on their own We went with 4960Xs for our workstations because when it comes to video encoding, video rendering More cores really does make a difference These aren't gaming rigs, these are meant for serious work And having the extra cores is going to really help people get their jobs done more efficiently Which is very important to me We went with Kingston for the memory just because, well, it all comes down to your personal experience And none of us has ever had a bad experience with Kingston memory So we reached out to them to sponsor the project and they actually agreed to chip in Not only 32 gigs of RAM per system, but also boot SSDs, so we've got 240 gig boot SSDs And they also chipped in 64 gigs of HyperX memory for Edzl's system Because he apparently thinks that he actually needs 64 gigs of RAM The PC building process was actually kind of fun, it takes me back I haven't done a project this big in a long time And, you know, the camaraderie and the pizza and subway and all that good stuff That's all part of that team building experience I thought was pretty entertaining One thing that was a bit of a challenge for me is that I ended up doing the finishing touches on most of the systems Because I water-cooled the internals of all five of them I was expecting to have some help, but Luke ended up doing a lot of benchmarking on an Intel CPU launch Rather than helping me build systems, so I had to do all the finishing moves myself When we finally took all the systems over to a table, plugged them into a keyboard and mouse And had 30 seconds or so to make sure that they post because they didn't have any water in them It was a huge relief for me when each one of them powered on and displayed that all the RAM was detected and all that good stuff I love the wall decals. I think they're absolutely amazing I'm extremely pleased with them In spite of our best efforts to measure them out and put them exactly centered I'm pretty sure the WAN Stealth one is about three inches off center But, uh, doesn't really matter The point is, I think they look great They were quite a bit bigger than I was expecting I know how big three feet is, but I never actually held a tape measure up to the wall and kind of went Yeah, we're gonna put this one here and this one there Because we didn't have the copper piping on the wall yet, so I didn't really know exactly where the drops were gonna come down or anything like that I left that up to Luke's dad So, they're a little big, but they're super cool I think the funniest thing about the decal process was that it apparently takes three people to apply one wall decal They came with two different application methods One was with a front paper piece So you just take the whole thing, put it on, and then kind of peel that off and the spacing's all right And that one was easy But the other one didn't come with a front piece because it was just a single decal And that one was a three-man job If you can support the sticker Or actually, here, if I support the sticker, can you go across? Hold on, ooh Ah, okay In that case, I'm gonna capture this moment and then take it away Take them both Take it and go Nick also does not use drills very often And first was screwing things backwards, so that was difficult Aside from the things David told me, which I wasn't even aware of, Nick had additional challenges with the drill He was using a masonry drill bit the first time that I saw him using it And I corrected that Little embarrassing to realize I was using the wrong one, but I was actually pretty out of my element on this project I don't have much experience with building anything, so I think it was just part of the learning process, and luckily we got it fixed at the end of the day Now the original plan for the radiators on the window was, I think, three or four triple rads So we were gonna have a total of nine to twelve fans And it wasn't gonna be that heavy, so the idea was to hang it from the fascia board But we got all the rads and fans assembled and realized that once we filled that with water There was no way that was gonna hang from the fascia board We came up with a new plan and it was, you know, three trips to Home Depot later Including one trip where we had to try to buy a ladder, which was a challenge Because they wouldn't let us even try to put it into the rental van And instead we had to pay some guy in the parking lot to let us just kind of put it in the back of his truck And bring it to the office for us But I think the plan we've got now is gonna work With all of the radiators mounted to the frame We did a leak test on it and none of them are leaking I am a little bit worried about the head pressure of the pump I had thought, and it's a long time since I've used that pump I thought it had over 20 feet of head pressure It looks like it's 12 So I'm really uncertain about whether it's gonna be strong enough And I wonder if we are going to need an additional pump Little air bubbles There goes the water That is a vast ton of water So now we're gonna go over here And inspect the fittings for leaks They are so good Music Music From December 13th to 20th 2014 you can save on select Intel CPUs, NUCs and SSDs With special holiday rebates from select retailers Click now to learn more Music Music Music Music