**The PC Building Montage: A Journey to Customization**

As I embark on this PC building journey, I'm excited to explore the possibilities of customization and self-expression. The build itself is going smoothly, with all the components coming together seamlessly. However, I've decided to take a detour from the original plan and add some extra flair to the project.

**The NZXT H700 IP Case: A Unique Challenge**

One of the key components that caught my attention was the NZXT H700 IP case. This case comes with a built-in smart controller, known as the Q+ Plus Smart Controller. I've always been fascinated by this feature and decided to salvage the smart controller from the original case and integrate it into the new build. The challenge lies in disassembling the old case and extracting the smart controller without damaging any of the surrounding components.

**Disassembling the NZXT Case**

I carefully removed the tempered glass side panel, revealing the internal structure of the case. My initial thought was that removing the smart controller would be a straightforward process, but as I began to disassemble the case, I realized it might not be as easy as I had anticipated. The metal piece behind the smart controller was securing it in place, making it difficult to access the screws that held it together.

**Accessing the Smart Controller**

After removing the metal piece, I found myself facing a significant obstacle: accessing the screws that held the smart controller in place. With all three screws out, I finally managed to remove the smart controller, and my worries began to dissipate. However, as I examined the device more closely, I realized that there were only two screws holding it together – a far cry from the initial expectation of multiple screws.

**Salvaging the Smart Controller**

I was thrilled to discover that the smart controller was functional and could be salvaged for use in the new build. Along with the salvaged smart controller came an array of extra LED strips, including extension cables and LED strip kits. I quickly realized that these components would be essential in adding an immersive RGB experience to the PC.

**Adding Extra LED Strips**

As I examined the salvaged components, I was excited to explore the possibilities of customization. The extra LED strips allowed me to create a unique lighting effect around the case, with the strip running along the edges and bottom of the PC. However, as I attached the strip to the case, I encountered an unexpected challenge: the LEDs were not designed to be screwed into plastic.

**Overcoming Technical Challenges**

To overcome this hurdle, I employed some creative problem-solving skills. By applying electrical tape to cover the gaps between the LED strips and the case, I was able to create a more cohesive look without compromising the overall design of the PC. As I worked on this project, I realized that sometimes the most unexpected challenges can lead to innovative solutions.

**The Final Touches**

After completing the majority of the build, I took a step back to assess my progress. The LED strips were now in place, and the underglow effect created an immersive atmosphere around the PC. As I powered on the system, the lights came alive, illuminating the case with a mesmerizing display of colors.

**The Future of Customization**

As I conclude this build, I'm excited to explore new possibilities for customization and self-expression. The addition of extra fans will further enhance the cooling capabilities of the PC, while the RGB effects will create an immersive experience that sets my PC apart from others. With the completion of this build, I'll be embarking on a journey to explore different lighting effects, software configurations, and hardware upgrades.

**Parting Words**

As I conclude this article, I'd like to thank all the viewers who tuned in to watch this build come together. It's been an incredible journey, filled with unexpected challenges and innovative solutions. I hope that my experiences will inspire you to explore the world of PC customization and self-expression. Stay tuned for part three of this series, where we'll delve into the final touches and complete the build with all its trimmings.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enall right so through the powers of playing all right I'm taking out the power supply I can't access any of the ports because the power supply is screwed into the case and I can barely see what I'm actually plugging into all right so let's take the housefly out plug everything in and then screw it back in all right so here we have the 24 pin motherboard connector next we have a four plus four pin EPS ATX connector here as well so this is for the CPU power so that'll just plug into there this is what I'll do is I'll connect this into my sleeved extension cable which looks much nicer we're also gonna need power for the graphics card so let's just use this one here I guess for PCIe so I'm only gonna need one of these single a pin connector that connects to the power supply splits into 2 6 plus 2 pin connectors here as well so I get my extension cables will extend these cables make them look much nicer as you can see all white sleeve cables looking good then we'll do the same for the other one as my graphics card is is 2 6 pin power cables then I've got the 24 pin motherboard extension cable as well so this will plug into here and then this will plug into my motherboard then I've got a 6 pin SATA power connector so these a girl down here I'll probably need quite a few of these so this one here not only splits into Saturday also has a molex connector as well so I think we'll need this to power a few components for the actual PC so this is useful and then I've got another one here but this fits into two 4-pin molex connectors as well as I guess a a floppy drive connector as well but I don't think we're going to be using a floppy drive in this build so this will just plug into the IDE or SATA port there and then this 6-pin SATA power connector splits into four SATA power connectors that will plug into our hard drives or SSDs to give them power alright that should be everything really so everything's plugged in we've got all the extension cables plugged in as well so let's go ahead and actually through the power supply back in and as for the hard drives they can be swapped into this and I think you can just put them into the PC case without any problem maybe alright that was pretty easy let's do the same for the other hard drives so you don't have to actually screw anything in they just kind of align all the little screw holes there and that's it you just align all the screw holes really and you just pop it into the case cool I will of course also need quite a few SATA cables for all the hard drives and SSDs so I've got a five here and these are all sleeved as well very nice SATA cables that I bought on Amazon so I'm going to plug a SATA cable into each of the SSDs as well as each of the hard drives right so that's pretty much only PC building footage I had but as most you probably know if you've been keeping up with the uploads on the channel things didn't really go to plan somehow during the process of me building this my all-in-one look hood cooler somehow malfunction I'm not entirely sure if it was the pump that kind of like died or something else went horribly wrong in the liquid cooler as the moment I finished this VC build-up I plug everything back in I press the power button and the PC just begins power cycling it sounds on for a second turns off tango and turns off turns on turns off and it just kept repeating that which was very strange but I've encountered quite a few problems with this PC before I had a few ideas on how I can actually bypass this whole power cycling thing so I unplugged the bunch of USB devices the PC ended up beating in two BIOS I check the CPU temperature and the temperature went from like 70 to 100 degrees real quick and I guess the pump at that point was just completely dead and here's the sound that the pump was making as well yes I see heard that the pump was making a horrific sound and I was convinced that it's about to experience and before and I was like oh god I better like not turn this PC on anymore but I kept turning it back on eventually I managed to get into Windows a few times but once again I trade the CPU temperature was like 100 degrees the PC blue screen and I think at that point I just left it alone I'm like right I need to get a new CPU cooler so I bought an NZXT crack in x52 all-in-one liquid cooler it's calling a solid PC the PC is back up and running I posted on boxing video all about it you can check you by pressing the card on the top right hand corner there it's a pretty cool liquid cooler a big upgrade I guess over my Corsair one it just looks so pretty well it's RGB lies and it kind of fits in with the build quite nicely as well but of all that said let's continue on with the PC building montage or actually PC build is almost done there's a few things I didn't want to add like some extra RGB fans and I've got an interesting idea so as some of you may know the NZXT hate 700 IPC case comes with NZXT Peaks like Q plus smart controller thingy built into the case now what I want to do now this might sound crazy and I don't know if it's even possible but I want to try salvage the smart controller from the NZXT case and put it in the game ax case and then add a bunch of NZXT q + LED strips into the case but I don't know if that's going to be possible I'm gonna give it a try now so we've got the case here I'm gonna open it up we can try to salvage the smart controller I have a feeling that it will not be possible at all but I'm willing to try I don't know if anyone else has tried this I haven't googled anything so I'm just gonna go ahead and try yes so we're not even is I think it's like damn it it's on the other side I need to take out the tempered glass side panel right so the Smart Hub is right here behind this white metal piece here so I can't actually access any of the screws to unscrew the Smart Hub so what we have to do is we have to take off the metal piece first and then access all the screws we've got all three screws out this should just be able to there we go we can take it off now nice right I mean there's only two screws holding it in there we go we can actually take it out dude I think okay we've got to the screws out there we go we've got it boys we've got it I thought this was gonna be a whole lot more difficult but I guess that's not the case right this one cable ends it all right can we salvage this that's the real question there's like an LED strips screwed into the top of the case here but I think we can take it off what I was expecting that to happen just gonna fall oh yes yes it did to sport cool so we've salvaged it I've also got some extra LED strips here I think I got like one or two more there like a whole bunch of extension cables as I did by an NZ XP like extension LED strip kit once right so yeah LED strips in total I've salvaged everything guys we've got like some free on table these Eddie's disarming netting so we're probably not gonna need to take oh yeah we got do you like stiff LED strip that's like built into screwed into plastic really no I did not think it's gonna work this is taped 700 LEDs yeah this is the hape 700 I don't worry about that this totally isn't a game X case right what I've done is I put the LED strip like here goes all the way around goes here then I think this like I can't die I don't know what to do with this all right so it's all done now the LED strips have been applied also you may be wondering why is there like a dangling piece right there well we're gonna be adding some underglow to the pc they work right I did a mini boot test this the LED lights turned on okay there it is oh my god it works and so does the already the county all of the LED lights are sets of white we have to go into in these camps software and configure everything okay we're NZXT scam software I'm getting tons of emails please stop oh my god right the mono truth will this work apply it works perfectly oh and we even have under block all right I found all the monitors off I want all the focus to be on this RGB PC build it's not entirely done I think there are some things I need to improve on like as you can see right here these little slots I think if I add like some an electrical tape here to cover those up that'll help a lot as you can kind of see the LEDs to shining through them and that's not really a good thing but apart from that I think that's going to be it for this episode I think we're gonna have a part three where we finish up everything add some extra RGB fans and then I'll be going through all of the different like RGB effects for the case and stuff so I think I'm going to be in the video here part three should hopefully come out of the next week or two as I do want to get some extra fans put them in the case and stuff and hopefully that'll look even nicer anyway thank you very much for watching as always and hope to see you in another one soonall right so through the powers of playing all right I'm taking out the power supply I can't access any of the ports because the power supply is screwed into the case and I can barely see what I'm actually plugging into all right so let's take the housefly out plug everything in and then screw it back in all right so here we have the 24 pin motherboard connector next we have a four plus four pin EPS ATX connector here as well so this is for the CPU power so that'll just plug into there this is what I'll do is I'll connect this into my sleeved extension cable which looks much nicer we're also gonna need power for the graphics card so let's just use this one here I guess for PCIe so I'm only gonna need one of these single a pin connector that connects to the power supply splits into 2 6 plus 2 pin connectors here as well so I get my extension cables will extend these cables make them look much nicer as you can see all white sleeve cables looking good then we'll do the same for the other one as my graphics card is is 2 6 pin power cables then I've got the 24 pin motherboard extension cable as well so this will plug into here and then this will plug into my motherboard then I've got a 6 pin SATA power connector so these a girl down here I'll probably need quite a few of these so this one here not only splits into Saturday also has a molex connector as well so I think we'll need this to power a few components for the actual PC so this is useful and then I've got another one here but this fits into two 4-pin molex connectors as well as I guess a a floppy drive connector as well but I don't think we're going to be using a floppy drive in this build so this will just plug into the IDE or SATA port there and then this 6-pin SATA power connector splits into four SATA power connectors that will plug into our hard drives or SSDs to give them power alright that should be everything really so everything's plugged in we've got all the extension cables plugged in as well so let's go ahead and actually through the power supply back in and as for the hard drives they can be swapped into this and I think you can just put them into the PC case without any problem maybe alright that was pretty easy let's do the same for the other hard drives so you don't have to actually screw anything in they just kind of align all the little screw holes there and that's it you just align all the screw holes really and you just pop it into the case cool I will of course also need quite a few SATA cables for all the hard drives and SSDs so I've got a five here and these are all sleeved as well very nice SATA cables that I bought on Amazon so I'm going to plug a SATA cable into each of the SSDs as well as each of the hard drives right so that's pretty much only PC building footage I had but as most you probably know if you've been keeping up with the uploads on the channel things didn't really go to plan somehow during the process of me building this my all-in-one look hood cooler somehow malfunction I'm not entirely sure if it was the pump that kind of like died or something else went horribly wrong in the liquid cooler as the moment I finished this VC build-up I plug everything back in I press the power button and the PC just begins power cycling it sounds on for a second turns off tango and turns off turns on turns off and it just kept repeating that which was very strange but I've encountered quite a few problems with this PC before I had a few ideas on how I can actually bypass this whole power cycling thing so I unplugged the bunch of USB devices the PC ended up beating in two BIOS I check the CPU temperature and the temperature went from like 70 to 100 degrees real quick and I guess the pump at that point was just completely dead and here's the sound that the pump was making as well yes I see heard that the pump was making a horrific sound and I was convinced that it's about to experience and before and I was like oh god I better like not turn this PC on anymore but I kept turning it back on eventually I managed to get into Windows a few times but once again I trade the CPU temperature was like 100 degrees the PC blue screen and I think at that point I just left it alone I'm like right I need to get a new CPU cooler so I bought an NZXT crack in x52 all-in-one liquid cooler it's calling a solid PC the PC is back up and running I posted on boxing video all about it you can check you by pressing the card on the top right hand corner there it's a pretty cool liquid cooler a big upgrade I guess over my Corsair one it just looks so pretty well it's RGB lies and it kind of fits in with the build quite nicely as well but of all that said let's continue on with the PC building montage or actually PC build is almost done there's a few things I didn't want to add like some extra RGB fans and I've got an interesting idea so as some of you may know the NZXT hate 700 IPC case comes with NZXT Peaks like Q plus smart controller thingy built into the case now what I want to do now this might sound crazy and I don't know if it's even possible but I want to try salvage the smart controller from the NZXT case and put it in the game ax case and then add a bunch of NZXT q + LED strips into the case but I don't know if that's going to be possible I'm gonna give it a try now so we've got the case here I'm gonna open it up we can try to salvage the smart controller I have a feeling that it will not be possible at all but I'm willing to try I don't know if anyone else has tried this I haven't googled anything so I'm just gonna go ahead and try yes so we're not even is I think it's like damn it it's on the other side I need to take out the tempered glass side panel right so the Smart Hub is right here behind this white metal piece here so I can't actually access any of the screws to unscrew the Smart Hub so what we have to do is we have to take off the metal piece first and then access all the screws we've got all three screws out this should just be able to there we go we can take it off now nice right I mean there's only two screws holding it in there we go we can actually take it out dude I think okay we've got to the screws out there we go we've got it boys we've got it I thought this was gonna be a whole lot more difficult but I guess that's not the case right this one cable ends it all right can we salvage this that's the real question there's like an LED strips screwed into the top of the case here but I think we can take it off what I was expecting that to happen just gonna fall oh yes yes it did to sport cool so we've salvaged it I've also got some extra LED strips here I think I got like one or two more there like a whole bunch of extension cables as I did by an NZ XP like extension LED strip kit once right so yeah LED strips in total I've salvaged everything guys we've got like some free on table these Eddie's disarming netting so we're probably not gonna need to take oh yeah we got do you like stiff LED strip that's like built into screwed into plastic really no I did not think it's gonna work this is taped 700 LEDs yeah this is the hape 700 I don't worry about that this totally isn't a game X case right what I've done is I put the LED strip like here goes all the way around goes here then I think this like I can't die I don't know what to do with this all right so it's all done now the LED strips have been applied also you may be wondering why is there like a dangling piece right there well we're gonna be adding some underglow to the pc they work right I did a mini boot test this the LED lights turned on okay there it is oh my god it works and so does the already the county all of the LED lights are sets of white we have to go into in these camps software and configure everything okay we're NZXT scam software I'm getting tons of emails please stop oh my god right the mono truth will this work apply it works perfectly oh and we even have under block all right I found all the monitors off I want all the focus to be on this RGB PC build it's not entirely done I think there are some things I need to improve on like as you can see right here these little slots I think if I add like some an electrical tape here to cover those up that'll help a lot as you can kind of see the LEDs to shining through them and that's not really a good thing but apart from that I think that's going to be it for this episode I think we're gonna have a part three where we finish up everything add some extra RGB fans and then I'll be going through all of the different like RGB effects for the case and stuff so I think I'm going to be in the video here part three should hopefully come out of the next week or two as I do want to get some extra fans put them in the case and stuff and hopefully that'll look even nicer anyway thank you very much for watching as always and hope to see you in another one soon\n"