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It would be 4X the original damage of the water attack. There's no way that I would risk Geodude. I will make this work. So, I'm modifying the cooler to try to make the one side shorter, as you can hopefully see right there. And hopefully that will get over the ram. I do know right now that these heat pipes also go too far out. Okay, so I think it's actually going to work. We've bent the heat pipes back. There's like dents in the heat pipes from where I was pushing, but I don't think we actually ruptured anything. I was able to make the one side taller than the other. Yeah, like it gets over the ram, and it doesn't really push the ram over at all. So now all I need to do is try to get this guy to go back on here, somewhat like that, so that you can't tell that I screwed up. So it's like actually going to size up pretty well. I wonder if I can get the fan back in. Oh, I did not think that would work at all. Oh my goodness, I can't believe this is going on right now. I've almost got the cooler on. I'm bringing it lower by itself. I'm an idiot. I didn't put thermal paste on. That wasn't even planned or scripted. We just started filming. Damn it, I've spent so long trying to screw this up. There you go. So it worked. Everything's on. I actually put freaking thermal paste on it this time. It looks sort of horrible from this angle. You can totally tell that it's wonked out. But when you'll actually be looking at it in the case, it looks fine. Now like two hours later, we're finally continuing on with trying to see if any of the components even work. Great. Wonderful. So all of the RAM is installed. The CPU is installed. The cooler is installed. Now I just need to get a GPU on here, plug things into the power supply, and make sure that we can actually post. Oh. All right, so power supply switch on time. Where is the power switch? Here it is. CPU cooler fan spinning, graphics card fan spinning, and then they turned off because they're supposed to do that. Power supply switch on. So we're going to have to get the CPU cooler fan on here, plug things into the power supply, and make sure that we can actually post. CPU cooler fan spinning, graphics card fan spinning, and then they turned off because they're supposed to do that. Power supply fan did the same thing. I've got a monitor back here, which is not responding. Oh, hey. Okay. Everything does seem to be working. Moving on. Hell yeah. Now to put it in the case. There we go. It's upside down. All right. Oh. I'm excited to work with you again. Okay. So IOTRE. I remember that. I got to do that right now. Okay, so I'm swapping out the default Asus Strix logos. I never checked the manual on how to do this, so hopefully just tearing them off was the approved method of removing them. And I'm going to put on black and silver ones that came in the box because this goes really well with my whole theme. God damn. I can just never touch that again. All right. Into the computer we go. Let me see what this looks like. Oh my God. Even without all the drives and all the amethyst crystals, this thing already has some weight to it. Oh geez. This is going to be one hell of a build. So I got rid of the boring power supply cables and got this plain brown box. Anyways, cable mod stuff. Hopefully this doesn't spill everywhere. Oh my goodness. Okay, so I got a whole bunch of cable combs, which we'll come in use later for organizing cables mainly that are behind the motherboard tray. And I got a bunch of lighting strips. The cables that I went with, I actually collaborated with the forum mod team on their design, are purple, silver, black, and white in different variations depending on which cable you have. And the SATA cables are just purple. It's pretty bright compared to the rest of the build, but I did want them to stand out a little bit because they look beautiful. So yeah. I'm going to do like two more cable runs just for the graphics cards, but everyone else needs to go for the day. So time lapse mode engage. So I had a rough night. We had a lot of issues. I spent like six freaking hours cable managing this thing, and it's not as good as it was, but I'm kind of done with that now. So this is where we're going to be. The power supply was not, things were bad. It was showing LEDs on the motherboard, but I couldn't actually turn the system on, and it was troublesome to figure out how. I ended up swapping out the power supply, trying a different one, eating some pizza and working through it. Figured out that it was the graphics card cables. I think they just weren't seated well enough into the power supply itself. I must have tugged on them or something. I'm not entirely sure, but we're up and operational now. So it is time to add the 18 pounds of amethyst crystals. The whole interesting part of this entire build is finally starting, and I've got to wash some stones. Now that they're all in the bath, it's time to get rid of the caked on dust and grime existing on basically all of them from lingering impurities and the grinding against each other that happened in shipping and storage for so long. I'm going to use some scrubbing tools to get rid of what I can, and hope that what I can't fix just won't show. Now that that's done, I'm going to rinse them all off with distilled water just to ensure that they're at the very least clean before trying to secure them all. I don't actually want to tumble them. Tumbling them would make the surfaces smooth, and I want them to be kind of jagged. This is just me like trying some sh**. Okay, so all the rocks are clean. I've laid them out in like somewhat of a size order. So I've got really small, almost pebble size amethysts over here, and then they get really big over here. You can make jokes about how I'm feeling the positive energy of all the crystals because this looks freaking awesome. This section right near the power spot here that hugs all the way up the side, I love that bit. And then the top area here is more just a proof of concept. It definitely needs some work. There's too much gap between some of them, and it's too easy to see the individual LEDs. But if I can get the whole area looking like this, that's what I'm going for. I got a lot of work ahead of me. So let's go. That's the glass fully on. Very nice. So I'm like really sad. Hopefully you guys just watched a really cool time lapse of me putting in a huge amount of amethyst stones, and then I did a whole bunch more work after the camera died and finished up with what we've got right now. As you can tell though, it's off, and the CPU is out of the socket, and I have some other weird RAM in there. The entire right hand side of memory doesn't work. This whole bank of memory, all four sticks, none of it works. It all detects in the BIOS as NA, not applicable, no RAM there. And if they're plugged in at all, it is unstable. It doesn't matter what RAM I use. I swapped out the CPUs. So this is a 6900K. This is a 6950X. I tried both of them. Forget about that, please. That never happened. No, stop. Don't look at it. Anyways, tried both of those. Doesn't work. It's the motherboard. The motherboard is the issue. We have another X99 Strix in the office. I can swap it out. We can RMA this one. Everything's fine, except I just spent all of those hours gluing it in place. So the plan now is to try to do a motherboard rescue. I have to get it out of there. The top part won't be all that difficult to get out, but the lower section is going to be a lot of work. I have to get both the graphics cards out of there in order to get the motherboard out. So in the end, I had to take out all of the amethysts right up here, and most of them coming along this way, but then was able to get away with leaving this big one, which is good, and a couple other little ones as well. But it might be a different story trying to get those graphics cards back inside. Now it's time to put the motherboard in, which I have already prepped with the NVMe drive, my 6900K, and the mounting screws for my radiator. And I've swapped out the colors of the custom Strix logos. So yeah, time to go. Let's get the drives plugged in. Okay, so the motherboard is back in. Now I have to try to get those GPUs back in. The bottom GPU I'm a little bit worried about. So, oh, I think I got it. Oh, right as I was saying that, it popped right there. Oh, that is good. Okay. All right, that went far better than expected. That wasn't too bad. It works! It actually works! All 64 gigs fully detects, and the SLI works. I can verify it on this screen right over here. Everything is fine. All I need to do now is put the amethyst back that I took out, put the glass panels on, do some performance testing, and we're good. So putting all those amethysts back worked fine. It wasn't too hard. I kind of got used to it at that point. It looks great, but we'll look at glam footage of it in a moment. For now, benchmarking. Benchmarking for this was a little bit unique, because what I really cared about was how much better it would stream video games, so I had to benchmark things while streaming using XSplit up to Twitch. Games acted a little bit oddly, but there was pretty huge improvement. It's something like Metro Last Light. I went from seeing an average of 74 frames per second to an average of 120. That's fantastic by itself. Something like Tomb Raider, I went from 65 FPS to still 65 FPS. If I turned off XSplit and didn't stream, I did get 77 FPS, but still. But looking at minimums on the geothermal map, I went from 4.45 FPS to 28, which is pretty substantial. Hitman, DirectX 11, I went from an average of 19 to an average of 50. That's a pretty major improvement. Deus Ex Mankind, I went from an average of 30 with a minimum of 21 and a maximum of 39 to an average of 56, a minimum of 40 and a maximum of 91. But all of those performance improvements aside, the main thing that I like about this computer is what it looks like, so we can stop looking at me. And by the way, I have a huge amount of hair right now and my beard is ridiculous, because when we first started filming this, I decided that I wouldn't get a haircut and I wouldn't shave until we were done, because I knew it was going to take forever. And I'm disgusting. So after this video, I'm going to go take care of this. That'll be a good thing. 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And no, I'm not going to link another video. Actually, no, I'm lying. There will be another video up there eventually. Maybe now, and then we can just keep the glam footage going afterwards. But it'll be the Fallout bomb build that I did, which was another epic video. I'll see you guys next time.