 So I'm actually finally working on it. The personal rig is in progress and I'm really going to build it this time you guys. So I've got the case back from Mountain Mods. It's got a glorious black wrinkle finish on it. You can't really see it too well in this light but yeah there we go. That's not too bad. Looks just beast. There's a couple small imperfections on the case but I'm over it. I've gotten over it so I'm not over it but there's not a whole lot I can do about it at this point. Short of restripping and then repowder coating the case which is probably going to cost me around $500. So it ain't happening. So yeah I've got everything scattered like all over the place. Here's my T-Virus res. There we go. I guess I could actually do something about the exposure level there. There's the T-Virus res. There's my soldering iron so I'm using that to solder things like custom cables and what not. There's my tubing that I'll be using. There's my double sided velcro which is freaking awesome. My backpack with all my tools. There's some adapters. So those are some Molex 2 quad SATA adapters that I may or may not be using to power the drives. There's my front bay radiator. So it's a dual 120 mil. Actually it's funny my radiators are about as spread out as anything. Check this out. There's my quad radiator sitting here on the table along with my MCP655 pump. I won't be using that Luna block so that's for something else. Won't be using that power supply either. That's for something else as well. Acer notebook also for something else. So oh yeah this TJ-10 also for something else. So let's get into the actual personal rig itself. I'm still going. Oop I blocked all the light. Still going with the XFX 80 plus platinum 1000 watt power supply for the main reason that the fan doesn't turn on when the system is not using any power. Like when it's under idle. I can really hear my breathing in this mic. I'm using a bit of a different mic setup so bear with me here guys. The RAID card down there. You can see the cables are being routed behind the motherboard tray like I had planned. The ASUS Zonar card actually has a custom sleeved connector on it so this is a 4 pin molex that I've sleeved using MDPCX sleeving. So it's extremely clean looking. Can't see any color. Not that there is any color. So there's some sleeving there. Making custom cables like this is most of the work of a build like this and I'm probably not going to over do it. So anything that's not going to be seen I don't think I'm going to put this sort of level of detail into it. This is keeping with my part of one of the themes for this build. Which is that I'm not using individually sleeved cables. I'm actually sleeving two wires per cable for everything. So the here you can see the wires that are going to the GTX 590 classified from EVGA. So that's again two wires per sleeve. There's the 24 pins so if you count them 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Two wires per sleeve again. And same thing up there for the 8 pin. Now this isn't going to be visible but this is one of the digital temperature monitors that I'm going to be using from the T balancer. So that's going to tuck back there so that you don't actually see it. So that's the one that I'll be using to monitor air temperatures and that's going to control these fans and these ones right here. Because those are the ones that are really going to be cooling the actual chipset here. So that way the temperature sensor directly controls the cooling in the area around the temperature sensor. There actually I guess I'll just use the zoom instead of moving around. So there is the custom black wrinkle hold down on the Apogee HD limited edition gold plated water block. And the focus isn't quite right yet. There we go. It's a little bit dirty so I'll clean it up before I do the final build. And those are ballistics tracers in there right now but those are just a placeholder. This painter's tape is just to keep the T-virus reservoir from getting ruined when I do test mounts. So it's going to go... I had a few people tell me I was crazy for planning to mount the PCI Express cables around it. So I'm going to be going on this side instead. So it's going to look a little something like that. You can see I don't have a lot of clearance here with the SATA cable so I'm going to have to find myself a low profile left angle SATA power as well to make that even fit in there. And then I'm going to have one of these. I'm going to have to rotate it a little bit. And one of these runs straight down into the bottom which will go to the pump which will be in the basement on the build. I haven't installed any of the 5 1 1⁄4 bay connectors or 5 1⁄4 bay adapters yet. That will come later so those are right there. I still have to clean out my radiator so I'll be using a 10% vinegar, 90% boiling water solution. Most people just flush them, shake them out and then use them. But what I'll actually be doing is setting up my loop. My pump needs to be cleaned too. So I'll be setting up my loop on the kitchen counter in here. And then I'm just going to let it run for a day with the vinegar solution running through it and then I'll just clean all that water out. So I'll just set it up next to the sink, clean all that water out and then I'll do a couple flushes with distilled to make sure that they're actually clean. Because I know there was some junk in my loop before. Ah LEDs! So I'm using UV LED strips. You actually won't be able to see the one that's back here. So that's the only one I've installed so far and the only reason I installed it is because it's really difficult to get at that spot once the system is built. The rest of them are going to go here, two up here and then either one or two here. I'm not sure yet. It's going to depend what I can get away with without them being seen. The trick with lighting is that you should be able to see the light being thrown, not the lights themselves because they're extremely bright. I may end up putting one or two back here as well. I really haven't decided yet. One of the challenges is going to be combating the blue LEDs that are also in the system. Where are those coming from? What was the problem? I think the problem was when I lit this guy up, the cathode in there makes the coil in the T-virus glow so bright that it was overpowering anything that I tried to do on the tubing. Because the tubing wasn't as UV reactive as this. So I don't want to end up with a ton of blue light. I want to end up with UV blue glow on the appropriate component. So that will be the UV blue tubing, the UV blue fans and the UV blue T-virus as well as this UV blue cable. You won't be able to see much of that one because it's just going to sneak in back here and that's about all you're going to see of it. The quad rad is going to go in the basement. Dual rad is going to go in the front. Overall it's going to look kind of like this. Although you can't really get a good feel for it with the light reflecting off it funny like that. There you go. The back will look kind of something like that. Haven't really decided if I'm going to leave the sound card in there or not because I have in essence one that I'm going to be using for my headphones. What else do we have on here? Oh yeah, I guess I could show you guys the back. That probably should have occurred to me earlier. So this is where the T-balancer is going to go. All the connectors are at the bottom here. We've got four or three pin connectors, molex for power. This USB one right here I'll probably unplug at some point but I need it in there just to program it and get it set up with the new profiles. These are double stacked so that's eight F120 SSDs. Each for 120 gigs. So that's a total of 960 gigs or something stupid like that. It's going to be challenging getting the power in there. You can see the breakout cables have to be coiled around a fair bit. So they go here, here, here, here, here and here. They actually take up a lot of the cable management holes that I made for myself that are not actually stock on the TGF7. But I think I'm going to get away with it because these can pretty much lay flat here. All I have to get is some more fan wires run. So I'll do some of them up here, some of them down here. I have to get one inverter in and I have to sleeve this for the cathode that's inside the T-virus. Then I'll probably stash that here or here. So behind the motherboard tray. So basically all I have to get up here is a couple of molexes to split out into the quad SATA's for these guys. Try to keep the wiring to a minimum because it's going to be a real challenge. I have to get a molex up here to power this guy. I have to have a molex down here for the pump. And then I have to figure out how to run extensions and then splitters out to where all the fans go. Still haven't decided how to power all the LEDs. I might use something like a three pin block. It comes with Swift-Tax H220 water cooler where it's like a one four pin to like eight four pin splitter out. So then I can run all the LEDs to one place and then I'll just plug them in like here and have it just run everywhere. And I'll just use extensions to get it where it needs to go. So cable management is coming in handy. So cable management here, here and here. We're all cut this time around. Actually, I think I had a little one here, but I made a much bigger one. The motherboard tray cut out has been useful, if nothing else, for making the T-balancer actually fit. So for those of you who don't know what a T-balancer does, it controls all of my fans automatically. USB 3.0 upgrade on the front, done. This is a fairly unique item right here. It's that LG Blu-ray and... Can I manually focus here? Yeah, there we go. That LG Blu-ray and HD DVD player. So it's just, I don't know, it's kind of neat. I don't use an optical drive much, but if I do, then I want it to be like a sweet, hard to find one, I guess. That's about it. I'm sorry for the breathing throughout this video. It sounds really awful. But I'm not going to re-film it at this point. So good night, everyone. Thank you for checking out my personal rig update. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.