Troubleshooting the Finicky GPU: A Desperate Attempt to Save the Build

The woes of custom water cooled builds. It's a tale as old as time, and one that I've had the displeasure of experiencing myself on multiple occasions. The latest casualty of my poor luck is a beautiful 6900 XT GPU, which has been rendered useless due to some mysterious issue.

I started by taking out the power supply in question, replacing it with a known good one, and adding the faulty GPU to the mix. To my delight, I managed to coax a video signal out of the system. It was a brief respite from the digital darkness that had consumed our build, but I knew that this was only temporary. The real issue lay elsewhere, waiting to strike at any moment.

With the power supply confirmed to be the culprit, I decided to remove the GPU and reinsert the 6900 XT, which we had previously used for a test boot. To my surprise, the system refused to work again, casting us all back into the depths of despair. It was clear that the problem lay with the GPU itself, but why? Why would this powerful piece of hardware, capable of rendering games in stunning detail, fail so miserably?

As I pondered the mysteries of the universe, I couldn't help but think about the mounting pressure of the GPU block. Had it somehow caused a malfunction? It was a theory that had been floated before, and one that I wasn't too keen on exploring further. The thought of disassembling the system, taking apart the very components that I had so carefully selected and configured, filled me with dread.

But desperation knows no bounds, and I knew that I had to try something. So, I began to brainstorm backup plans, and one solution that kept popping up was using a different GPU altogether. It's not the most elegant solution, but when you're faced with the prospect of spending hours troubleshooting, it can seem like the easiest option.

The hunt for an alternative GPU has been ongoing, with little success so far. I've tried scouring online forums and marketplaces, but even the most sought-after GPUs are proving to be scarce. It's a cruel joke, really – the very components that I need are the ones that everyone else wants too.

As I sit here, staring at the blank screen in front of me, I'm reminded of my previous experiences with custom water cooled builds. There was Prometheus, who had also fallen victim to a mysterious GPU failure. It's as if the universe has a personal vendetta against me, determined to thwart every attempt at building a functional system.

The thought of reassembling the system, draining the loop, and starting from scratch is daunting, to say the least. And for what? So that I can spend hours trying to figure out why this particular GPU won't work? It's a prospect that fills me with anxiety, rather than excitement.

But despite the frustration and despair, I'll soldier on. After all, it's not like I have a choice in the matter. The build may be broken, but I still want to show you guys what we've created – its sleek design, its custom water cooling system, and its ambitious goals.

So, here we are, at the end of another video. I hope that you enjoyed the finished product, even if it's not exactly as planned. And who knows? Maybe one day, this GPU will be fixed, and we'll get to see some actual gameplay. But until then, I'm stuck in limbo, wondering what could have been.

In conclusion, I'd like to ask for your thoughts on the matter. Do you think this build looks as cool as I do? Should I try a different GPU, or is there something else that's going wrong? Let me know in the comments below – I'm all ears. And if you're feeling generous, consider tossing a like on the video before you go. It really means a lot to me.

Lastly, if you enjoyed this video and would like to see more content from me, be sure to subscribe to my channel. I've got plenty of other projects in the works, and I'd love for you to join me on this journey. Until next time, stay cool, and try not to get too frustrated with your own builds.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enokay so last time we left off with this build i hit a roadblock because i needed more fittings i needed more tubing and i needed a new silicone insert that would actually fit inside of the tubing so that we could bend it properly and now i have all those things i got the extra fittings got the silicone insert that's the right size and some pet tubing that's long enough to complete all of our runs so today we are going to finish this build once and for all and it's going to be glorious we're going to fill it up going to fill the loop and everything maybe even do some testing if we get around to it we probably won't get around to mounting it on the wall that'll probably be a follow-up video where i actually start decking out this side of the studio and that'll be really exciting as well as long as my heat gun doesn't break oh thank god it still works okay that would have really sucked today's video is brought to you by slick deals and their super awesome browser extension not only is the extension completely free guys but it automatically finds you the best deals on your favorite retail sites to save you the most money possible and all the deals that it shows you are actually curated by the slik deals community so you only see offers that have been upvoted by other shoppers like you you go to a retailer's website click the slick deals icon and bam you're in deal city population deals i didn't really know what to expect the very first time i used it but literally within seconds i was finding all kinds of offers like there was a b550 motherboard for 30 off or something like that where i was like okay i don't need that but that's a really good deal the extension also automatically adds any site-wide promo codes or coupons at checkout and it lets you create deal alerts with email and mobile push notifications this is like the perfect tool to catch all the deals without doing any of the leg work about 20 million people will be using slick deals to help them save money while shopping so again it's completely free and saves you money on stuff like computer hardware need i continue if you like saving money which is a dumb thing to say because who doesn't click on the link in the description below to start using the slick deals browser extension today okay uh so we're pretty much good to go here we're just gonna like i said pick up right where we left off which was two bending i actually have to backtrack a little bit because if you guys remember in the last video i already had this run done which was just a straight shot going down from the radiator to the pump res and i also had this tube done or this run it went up and then left uh left angle or left right angle right into the back of the gpu there but i'm redoing both of those runs because i wasn't perfectly happy with them this one was a little bit too short so i actually had to end up using one of these extenders and so it wasn't perfectly symmetrical with with the other side i didn't like that and this one was just slightly crooked i think it was a little too short i had to use an extender over here um so i didn't like using that either so i'm gonna redo both of those but i repurposed this tube i repurposed this run with uh with this so this only has one bend in it right now but i'm going to create a second bend right about here that's going to go the same direction so it's going to go right just like the top and that tube is going to go right here it's going to come from or i guess it's going to come from the gpu and then go diagonally back into the cpu so we can still use that tube we don't have to waste it but we've got we should have plenty of tubing for the rest of the build oh one more update is that i completely forgot to add a drain valve in all of this so that's obviously really useful whenever i want to drain the system which i'm probably gonna have to do at some point for maintenance or whatever troubleshooting and usually i put it at the pump res but because we've got this really nice symmetrical thing going on here i didn't want to ruin that so instead i decided to relocate or move the drain valve up here so you can see we've actually got a three-way fitting right here so it's connecting to the radiator we've got this going to or it's going to be coming from our cpu mono block and then we've got this cap right here g and a quarter inch cap so if you remove that you can basically drain the system obviously you'd have to rotate the build so that you know this is facing down and all the water comes uh to this point but uh yeah this is going to allow us to drain the the system pretty easily and it makes sense right here at the radiator especially if you're orienting the system the proper way when draining so that's where we're at if i remember to put links for everything in the description i will do that but without further ado let's finish this build off once and for all all right here she is finished product in the flesh pretty beautiful let's start off with the good and then we'll finish off on a really sour note because there's a lot of bad to talk about with this build so far as well and yeah we'll save that to the end so starting with the good stuff which is mainly just how it turned out and how it looks it looks awesome i'm really happy with the tube bends i think it did a pretty good job came out pretty clean let's start with this band and then we'll kind of work our way around so this one's really straightforward this is again just a right angle going straight into the gpu behind the gpu again i could have routed this tube to the front of the gpu so it would be kind of more symmetrical with this one but the reason again i didn't do that is because i really wanted these two tubes to run parallel to each other or just symmetrical in terms of the fittings and the the sort of depth of of those tubes and and that turned out lovely i mean it kind of just frames the reservoir tube perfectly and it looks pretty clean so that's why i went behind the gpu there and then we come out here which also just you know routes perfectly behind uh the actual pcie cables and then we also have this guy which i think is this this whole area actually is is my favorite part of the build in terms of the tube runs uh just because of how symmetrical this turned out and this was all by accident so this one was intentional i had already planned to do this run and this came out really clean um it has that sort of 45 degree angle as you can see but what i didn't expect was to also make this one a 45 degree as well and sort of protrude symmetrically with this one so they kind of i don't know it just flows really well originally i was just going to go straight up so it was just going to be a straight bend you know right angle pointed straight up and then go back but then i i decided last minute that i was gonna tilt it because i wanted it to match this guy if you remember this whole fitting arrangement used to be pointed straight up it was going up and then to the left and and so the tube was actually protruding above the the top line of the case so it would actually go above the glass panel because remember there's a tempered glass panel that goes in front of this case so that this this tube was actually going to be too high i think it would have been fine but i kind of like the idea of having it just below that that case line just to make it more contained within the build itself and and as a result we've got this nice 45 degree roughly 45 degree bend uh as well that matches this tube run perfectly so i think it looks pretty cool it definitely gives it a more unique look looks kind of like uh i don't know a flux capacitor or something i don't know it definitely looks kind of futuristic in a way it just gives a lot of character and it's definitely a bit more visually interesting had we just gone straight up or even worse have we just gone straight up from here and then to the left or to the right that would have been the easy thing to do but not necessarily the sexiest so really really happy with this whole arrangement right here and then of course this was just a straight shot just had to cut tube to size going straight down no bends there i like them easy so that's how the runs went turned out beautifully and the rgb is is there it's definitely present but not overwhelming right i mean i don't think this is very gaudy uh it's not a very gaudy build it's kind of subdued i think most of the rgb is definitely in the fans but it's not like crazy in your face where like all the blades are just dancing around and super bright it's just kind of an accent lighting on the sides which is why i really like these uni fans and this is just very tasteful as well the radeon lighting up here i'm glad it's rgb and not red i wasn't sure if it was or actually i was sure because it had the three pin five volts connector on it but i'm really glad this is rgb looks nice and then you know a little bit more here kind of spread out a little bit but not too in your face you can't really even see that that's actually kind of a bummer that uh the gpu mounted vertically kind of blocks that the heatsink area because that does look pretty cool but you can definitely see it when you're standing up and stuff all together happy with the lighting i would love to play around with the lighting and change the colors around and stuff but that's where we get in to the bad stuff so oh where do i begin today's video is brought to you by the corsair 5000x rgb experience a premium mid tower case surrounded by four tempered glass side panels for a crystal clear aesthetic enjoy ultimate flexibility with support from multiple 360 millimeter radiators three included sp rgb elite fans and an iq lighting node core for full customization within the iq software to learn more about the corsair 5000x rgb click on the link in the description below i would love to play around with the lighting and change the colors around and stuff but that's where we get in to the bad stuff so oh where do i begin for starters i'm not getting a video signal i have not been getting a video signal from this system yeah yeah i know we did i know we did a test boot we did a test boot with the motherboard and the cpu and the memory but i was using a different power supply than this one and i was also using a different gpu than this one so let's talk about the power supply first this this is ordinarily supposed to be a really good unit it's from fantex who sources uh their units from sea sonic is the oem for phanteks power supplies but it's not working properly so this is actually a dual system psu it's got hookups it's got connectors for two systems it's a dual system power supply of course we're only using it for one system here but uh you can see it's got its individual respective connectors so system one is at the top system two you plug in uh to those connectors on in the second row and it has to be that way but the connectors for system one are finicky so sometimes the power supply will not turn on or the system won't even turn on i'll be hitting the power button left and right even tried the one on the motherboard and nothing absolutely no power whatsoever the lights on the motherboard will turn on even when it's off letting me know that there is power flowing to it but for some reason it doesn't actually turn on but then again sometimes it does so what i tried to do was i plugged these cables into the system two connectors and it turns on every time it turns on perfectly every time although i'm not sure and the manual is not super clear about this if the second system supports pcie or if it's just meant to be a system without a discrete gpu because i still wasn't getting a video signal so to troubleshoot some stuff i took a second power supply that i know works and i connected it to the whole system except i added a different graphics card i used the one that we used for the test boot which was this guy i had to use a riser cable a riser cable in order to get it in there because obviously it wouldn't just fit normally without one since the vertical gpu is in the way and i can't just remove that since it's uh being water cooled currently so that worked with that power supply and that gpu and that motherboard we got we got a video signal you know it was it was good we got into the bios and stuff so i knew for a fact that it either had to be the gpu or the power supply in this build that was causing our issue so what i did next was i removed that gpu and reconnected our water cooled 6900 xt and still used the same power supply over there and it did not work black screen no video signal again which tells me that not only is our power supply finicky and weird and not super reliable and i'll have to replace that but our gpu is not outputting a video signal at the moment and i'm not sure why it could be the mounting pressure of the gpu block i've had that happen before but i'm pretty certain that i actually did a test boot with this gpu in a completely different at a completely different time it wasn't even on camera i just connected it i didn't even have it water cooled because you know if you just boot it for a couple seconds it's fine and i remember it working i remember the gpu working so something happened between then and now to make this not work i don't and i haven't it's driving me crazy i have no idea i would actually have to drain the system take this thing apart and uh and really play with it for a long time in order to figure out what might be wrong with it so right now it's a really really pretty and expensive brick that's how we're closing this one out guys that that's that's what this is and until further notice and until i i actually do some more digging i cannot use this system now while i don't want to have any expectations on how this is all going to pan out i do want to have some sort of backup plan if for whatever reason i cannot get this gpu to work what do you guys suggest i do part of me thinks that i should just use a different card because that would be honestly the simplest solution if it really is the gpu that's the issue um you know it's kind of hard to get a 6900 xt these days even even for me right now so instead of trying to replace it with another one i'd probably just use a different graphics card whether it's amd or nvidia i have no idea but i'm just i'm just spitballing ideas here guys because at this point everything's up in the air i don't know what's going to happen next why does this always happen to me this this is the same thing that happened to prometheus i finished the build it looked awesome and it wouldn't post it wouldn't even give me a video signal because the gpu uh was dead for whatever reason somehow i've just been plagued with the absolute worst luck when it comes to custom water cooled builds lately and i don't like it it's very frustrating i was supposed to do benchmarks i wanted to do some testing and show you guys temperatures and that sort of thing but in order to do that in this video i would have to take this apart drain the loop take it apart troubleshoot the gpu which i might not even fix by the way and then i definitely wouldn't be able to really do any of that stuff but if i did fix it then i'd have to reassemble it refill the loop install windows install the games then test it i would be here till five in the morning um so i got i'm hungry i gotta eat dinner so i'm gonna call it off here guys at least at the very least i got to show you guys the finished product let me know what you think is this does do you think this looks as cool as i do i think this looks really cool and i think it'll look even cooler once i configure the lighting to be a bit more stylized and thematic with what i had in mind but yeah give me your two cents on that if you have any ideas on why this gpu isn't working also feel free to share your thoughts on that but i'm gonna get out of here guys so thank you very much for watching this video i do appreciate it if you enjoyed it and you like the build toss like on the video before you go get subscribed for more tech content on the way and i will see you guys in the next videookay so last time we left off with this build i hit a roadblock because i needed more fittings i needed more tubing and i needed a new silicone insert that would actually fit inside of the tubing so that we could bend it properly and now i have all those things i got the extra fittings got the silicone insert that's the right size and some pet tubing that's long enough to complete all of our runs so today we are going to finish this build once and for all and it's going to be glorious we're going to fill it up going to fill the loop and everything maybe even do some testing if we get around to it we probably won't get around to mounting it on the wall that'll probably be a follow-up video where i actually start decking out this side of the studio and that'll be really exciting as well as long as my heat gun doesn't break oh thank god it still works okay that would have really sucked today's video is brought to you by slick deals and their super awesome browser extension not only is the extension completely free guys but it automatically finds you the best deals on your favorite retail sites to save you the most money possible and all the deals that it shows you are actually curated by the slik deals community so you only see offers that have been upvoted by other shoppers like you you go to a retailer's website click the slick deals icon and bam you're in deal city population deals i didn't really know what to expect the very first time i used it but literally within seconds i was finding all kinds of offers like there was a b550 motherboard for 30 off or something like that where i was like okay i don't need that but that's a really good deal the extension also automatically adds any site-wide promo codes or coupons at checkout and it lets you create deal alerts with email and mobile push notifications this is like the perfect tool to catch all the deals without doing any of the leg work about 20 million people will be using slick deals to help them save money while shopping so again it's completely free and saves you money on stuff like computer hardware need i continue if you like saving money which is a dumb thing to say because who doesn't click on the link in the description below to start using the slick deals browser extension today okay uh so we're pretty much good to go here we're just gonna like i said pick up right where we left off which was two bending i actually have to backtrack a little bit because if you guys remember in the last video i already had this run done which was just a straight shot going down from the radiator to the pump res and i also had this tube done or this run it went up and then left uh left angle or left right angle right into the back of the gpu there but i'm redoing both of those runs because i wasn't perfectly happy with them this one was a little bit too short so i actually had to end up using one of these extenders and so it wasn't perfectly symmetrical with with the other side i didn't like that and this one was just slightly crooked i think it was a little too short i had to use an extender over here um so i didn't like using that either so i'm gonna redo both of those but i repurposed this tube i repurposed this run with uh with this so this only has one bend in it right now but i'm going to create a second bend right about here that's going to go the same direction so it's going to go right just like the top and that tube is going to go right here it's going to come from or i guess it's going to come from the gpu and then go diagonally back into the cpu so we can still use that tube we don't have to waste it but we've got we should have plenty of tubing for the rest of the build oh one more update is that i completely forgot to add a drain valve in all of this so that's obviously really useful whenever i want to drain the system which i'm probably gonna have to do at some point for maintenance or whatever troubleshooting and usually i put it at the pump res but because we've got this really nice symmetrical thing going on here i didn't want to ruin that so instead i decided to relocate or move the drain valve up here so you can see we've actually got a three-way fitting right here so it's connecting to the radiator we've got this going to or it's going to be coming from our cpu mono block and then we've got this cap right here g and a quarter inch cap so if you remove that you can basically drain the system obviously you'd have to rotate the build so that you know this is facing down and all the water comes uh to this point but uh yeah this is going to allow us to drain the the system pretty easily and it makes sense right here at the radiator especially if you're orienting the system the proper way when draining so that's where we're at if i remember to put links for everything in the description i will do that but without further ado let's finish this build off once and for all all right here she is finished product in the flesh pretty beautiful let's start off with the good and then we'll finish off on a really sour note because there's a lot of bad to talk about with this build so far as well and yeah we'll save that to the end so starting with the good stuff which is mainly just how it turned out and how it looks it looks awesome i'm really happy with the tube bends i think it did a pretty good job came out pretty clean let's start with this band and then we'll kind of work our way around so this one's really straightforward this is again just a right angle going straight into the gpu behind the gpu again i could have routed this tube to the front of the gpu so it would be kind of more symmetrical with this one but the reason again i didn't do that is because i really wanted these two tubes to run parallel to each other or just symmetrical in terms of the fittings and the the sort of depth of of those tubes and and that turned out lovely i mean it kind of just frames the reservoir tube perfectly and it looks pretty clean so that's why i went behind the gpu there and then we come out here which also just you know routes perfectly behind uh the actual pcie cables and then we also have this guy which i think is this this whole area actually is is my favorite part of the build in terms of the tube runs uh just because of how symmetrical this turned out and this was all by accident so this one was intentional i had already planned to do this run and this came out really clean um it has that sort of 45 degree angle as you can see but what i didn't expect was to also make this one a 45 degree as well and sort of protrude symmetrically with this one so they kind of i don't know it just flows really well originally i was just going to go straight up so it was just going to be a straight bend you know right angle pointed straight up and then go back but then i i decided last minute that i was gonna tilt it because i wanted it to match this guy if you remember this whole fitting arrangement used to be pointed straight up it was going up and then to the left and and so the tube was actually protruding above the the top line of the case so it would actually go above the glass panel because remember there's a tempered glass panel that goes in front of this case so that this this tube was actually going to be too high i think it would have been fine but i kind of like the idea of having it just below that that case line just to make it more contained within the build itself and and as a result we've got this nice 45 degree roughly 45 degree bend uh as well that matches this tube run perfectly so i think it looks pretty cool it definitely gives it a more unique look looks kind of like uh i don't know a flux capacitor or something i don't know it definitely looks kind of futuristic in a way it just gives a lot of character and it's definitely a bit more visually interesting had we just gone straight up or even worse have we just gone straight up from here and then to the left or to the right that would have been the easy thing to do but not necessarily the sexiest so really really happy with this whole arrangement right here and then of course this was just a straight shot just had to cut tube to size going straight down no bends there i like them easy so that's how the runs went turned out beautifully and the rgb is is there it's definitely present but not overwhelming right i mean i don't think this is very gaudy uh it's not a very gaudy build it's kind of subdued i think most of the rgb is definitely in the fans but it's not like crazy in your face where like all the blades are just dancing around and super bright it's just kind of an accent lighting on the sides which is why i really like these uni fans and this is just very tasteful as well the radeon lighting up here i'm glad it's rgb and not red i wasn't sure if it was or actually i was sure because it had the three pin five volts connector on it but i'm really glad this is rgb looks nice and then you know a little bit more here kind of spread out a little bit but not too in your face you can't really even see that that's actually kind of a bummer that uh the gpu mounted vertically kind of blocks that the heatsink area because that does look pretty cool but you can definitely see it when you're standing up and stuff all together happy with the lighting i would love to play around with the lighting and change the colors around and stuff but that's where we get in to the bad stuff so oh where do i begin today's video is brought to you by the corsair 5000x rgb experience a premium mid tower case surrounded by four tempered glass side panels for a crystal clear aesthetic enjoy ultimate flexibility with support from multiple 360 millimeter radiators three included sp rgb elite fans and an iq lighting node core for full customization within the iq software to learn more about the corsair 5000x rgb click on the link in the description below i would love to play around with the lighting and change the colors around and stuff but that's where we get in to the bad stuff so oh where do i begin for starters i'm not getting a video signal i have not been getting a video signal from this system yeah yeah i know we did i know we did a test boot we did a test boot with the motherboard and the cpu and the memory but i was using a different power supply than this one and i was also using a different gpu than this one so let's talk about the power supply first this this is ordinarily supposed to be a really good unit it's from fantex who sources uh their units from sea sonic is the oem for phanteks power supplies but it's not working properly so this is actually a dual system psu it's got hookups it's got connectors for two systems it's a dual system power supply of course we're only using it for one system here but uh you can see it's got its individual respective connectors so system one is at the top system two you plug in uh to those connectors on in the second row and it has to be that way but the connectors for system one are finicky so sometimes the power supply will not turn on or the system won't even turn on i'll be hitting the power button left and right even tried the one on the motherboard and nothing absolutely no power whatsoever the lights on the motherboard will turn on even when it's off letting me know that there is power flowing to it but for some reason it doesn't actually turn on but then again sometimes it does so what i tried to do was i plugged these cables into the system two connectors and it turns on every time it turns on perfectly every time although i'm not sure and the manual is not super clear about this if the second system supports pcie or if it's just meant to be a system without a discrete gpu because i still wasn't getting a video signal so to troubleshoot some stuff i took a second power supply that i know works and i connected it to the whole system except i added a different graphics card i used the one that we used for the test boot which was this guy i had to use a riser cable a riser cable in order to get it in there because obviously it wouldn't just fit normally without one since the vertical gpu is in the way and i can't just remove that since it's uh being water cooled currently so that worked with that power supply and that gpu and that motherboard we got we got a video signal you know it was it was good we got into the bios and stuff so i knew for a fact that it either had to be the gpu or the power supply in this build that was causing our issue so what i did next was i removed that gpu and reconnected our water cooled 6900 xt and still used the same power supply over there and it did not work black screen no video signal again which tells me that not only is our power supply finicky and weird and not super reliable and i'll have to replace that but our gpu is not outputting a video signal at the moment and i'm not sure why it could be the mounting pressure of the gpu block i've had that happen before but i'm pretty certain that i actually did a test boot with this gpu in a completely different at a completely different time it wasn't even on camera i just connected it i didn't even have it water cooled because you know if you just boot it for a couple seconds it's fine and i remember it working i remember the gpu working so something happened between then and now to make this not work i don't and i haven't it's driving me crazy i have no idea i would actually have to drain the system take this thing apart and uh and really play with it for a long time in order to figure out what might be wrong with it so right now it's a really really pretty and expensive brick that's how we're closing this one out guys that that's that's what this is and until further notice and until i i actually do some more digging i cannot use this system now while i don't want to have any expectations on how this is all going to pan out i do want to have some sort of backup plan if for whatever reason i cannot get this gpu to work what do you guys suggest i do part of me thinks that i should just use a different card because that would be honestly the simplest solution if it really is the gpu that's the issue um you know it's kind of hard to get a 6900 xt these days even even for me right now so instead of trying to replace it with another one i'd probably just use a different graphics card whether it's amd or nvidia i have no idea but i'm just i'm just spitballing ideas here guys because at this point everything's up in the air i don't know what's going to happen next why does this always happen to me this this is the same thing that happened to prometheus i finished the build it looked awesome and it wouldn't post it wouldn't even give me a video signal because the gpu uh was dead for whatever reason somehow i've just been plagued with the absolute worst luck when it comes to custom water cooled builds lately and i don't like it it's very frustrating i was supposed to do benchmarks i wanted to do some testing and show you guys temperatures and that sort of thing but in order to do that in this video i would have to take this apart drain the loop take it apart troubleshoot the gpu which i might not even fix by the way and then i definitely wouldn't be able to really do any of that stuff but if i did fix it then i'd have to reassemble it refill the loop install windows install the games then test it i would be here till five in the morning um so i got i'm hungry i gotta eat dinner so i'm gonna call it off here guys at least at the very least i got to show you guys the finished product let me know what you think is this does do you think this looks as cool as i do i think this looks really cool and i think it'll look even cooler once i configure the lighting to be a bit more stylized and thematic with what i had in mind but yeah give me your two cents on that if you have any ideas on why this gpu isn't working also feel free to share your thoughts on that but i'm gonna get out of here guys so thank you very much for watching this video i do appreciate it if you enjoyed it and you like the build toss like on the video before you go get subscribed for more tech content on the way and i will see you guys in the next videookay so last time we left off with this build i hit a roadblock because i needed more fittings i needed more tubing and i needed a new silicone insert that would actually fit inside of the tubing so that we could bend it properly and now i have all those things i got the extra fittings got the silicone insert that's the right size and some pet tubing that's long enough to complete all of our runs so today we are going to finish this build once and for all and it's going to be glorious we're going to fill it up going to fill the loop and everything maybe even do some testing if we get around to it we probably won't get around to mounting it on the wall that'll probably be a follow-up video where i actually start decking out this side of the studio and that'll be really exciting as well as long as my heat gun doesn't break oh thank god it still works okay that would have really sucked today's video is brought to you by slick deals and their super awesome browser extension not only is the extension completely free guys but it automatically finds you the best deals on your favorite retail sites to save you the most money possible and all the deals that it shows you are actually curated by the slik deals community so you only see offers that have been upvoted by other shoppers like you you go to a retailer's website click the slick deals icon and bam you're in deal city population deals i didn't really know what to expect the very first time i used it but literally within seconds i was finding all kinds of offers like there was a b550 motherboard for 30 off or something like that where i was like okay i don't need that but that's a really good deal the extension also automatically adds any site-wide promo codes or coupons at checkout and it lets you create deal alerts with email and mobile push notifications this is like the perfect tool to catch all the deals without doing any of the leg work about 20 million people will be using slick deals to help them save money while shopping so again it's completely free and saves you money on stuff like computer hardware need i continue if you like saving money which is a dumb thing to say because who doesn't click on the link in the description below to start using the slick deals browser extension today okay uh so we're pretty much good to go here we're just gonna like i said pick up right where we left off which was two bending i actually have to backtrack a little bit because if you guys remember in the last video i already had this run done which was just a straight shot going down from the radiator to the pump res and i also had this tube done or this run it went up and then left uh left angle or left right angle right into the back of the gpu there but i'm redoing both of those runs because i wasn't perfectly happy with them this one was a little bit too short so i actually had to end up using one of these extenders and so it wasn't perfectly symmetrical with with the other side i didn't like that and this one was just slightly crooked i think it was a little too short i had to use an extender over here um so i didn't like using that either so i'm gonna redo both of those but i repurposed this tube i repurposed this run with uh with this so this only has one bend in it right now but i'm going to create a second bend right about here that's going to go the same direction so it's going to go right just like the top and that tube is going to go right here it's going to come from or i guess it's going to come from the gpu and then go diagonally back into the cpu so we can still use that tube we don't have to waste it but we've got we should have plenty of tubing for the rest of the build oh one more update is that i completely forgot to add a drain valve in all of this so that's obviously really useful whenever i want to drain the system which i'm probably gonna have to do at some point for maintenance or whatever troubleshooting and usually i put it at the pump res but because we've got this really nice symmetrical thing going on here i didn't want to ruin that so instead i decided to relocate or move the drain valve up here so you can see we've actually got a three-way fitting right here so it's connecting to the radiator we've got this going to or it's going to be coming from our cpu mono block and then we've got this cap right here g and a quarter inch cap so if you remove that you can basically drain the system obviously you'd have to rotate the build so that you know this is facing down and all the water comes uh to this point but uh yeah this is going to allow us to drain the the system pretty easily and it makes sense right here at the radiator especially if you're orienting the system the proper way when draining so that's where we're at if i remember to put links for everything in the description i will do that but without further ado let's finish this build off once and for all all right here she is finished product in the flesh pretty beautiful let's start off with the good and then we'll finish off on a really sour note because there's a lot of bad to talk about with this build so far as well and yeah we'll save that to the end so starting with the good stuff which is mainly just how it turned out and how it looks it looks awesome i'm really happy with the tube bends i think it did a pretty good job came out pretty clean let's start with this band and then we'll kind of work our way around so this one's really straightforward this is again just a right angle going straight into the gpu behind the gpu again i could have routed this tube to the front of the gpu so it would be kind of more symmetrical with this one but the reason again i didn't do that is because i really wanted these two tubes to run parallel to each other or just symmetrical in terms of the fittings and the the sort of depth of of those tubes and and that turned out lovely i mean it kind of just frames the reservoir tube perfectly and it looks pretty clean so that's why i went behind the gpu there and then we come out here which also just you know routes perfectly behind uh the actual pcie cables and then we also have this guy which i think is this this whole area actually is is my favorite part of the build in terms of the tube runs uh just because of how symmetrical this turned out and this was all by accident so this one was intentional i had already planned to do this run and this came out really clean um it has that sort of 45 degree angle as you can see but what i didn't expect was to also make this one a 45 degree as well and sort of protrude symmetrically with this one so they kind of i don't know it just flows really well originally i was just going to go straight up so it was just going to be a straight bend you know right angle pointed straight up and then go back but then i i decided last minute that i was gonna tilt it because i wanted it to match this guy if you remember this whole fitting arrangement used to be pointed straight up it was going up and then to the left and and so the tube was actually protruding above the the top line of the case so it would actually go above the glass panel because remember there's a tempered glass panel that goes in front of this case so that this this tube was actually going to be too high i think it would have been fine but i kind of like the idea of having it just below that that case line just to make it more contained within the build itself and and as a result we've got this nice 45 degree roughly 45 degree bend uh as well that matches this tube run perfectly so i think it looks pretty cool it definitely gives it a more unique look looks kind of like uh i don't know a flux capacitor or something i don't know it definitely looks kind of futuristic in a way it just gives a lot of character and it's definitely a bit more visually interesting had we just gone straight up or even worse have we just gone straight up from here and then to the left or to the right that would have been the easy thing to do but not necessarily the sexiest so really really happy with this whole arrangement right here and then of course this was just a straight shot just had to cut tube to size going straight down no bends there i like them easy so that's how the runs went turned out beautifully and the rgb is is there it's definitely present but not overwhelming right i mean i don't think this is very gaudy uh it's not a very gaudy build it's kind of subdued i think most of the rgb is definitely in the fans but it's not like crazy in your face where like all the blades are just dancing around and super bright it's just kind of an accent lighting on the sides which is why i really like these uni fans and this is just very tasteful as well the radeon lighting up here i'm glad it's rgb and not red i wasn't sure if it was or actually i was sure because it had the three pin five volts connector on it but i'm really glad this is rgb looks nice and then you know a little bit more here kind of spread out a little bit but not too in your face you can't really even see that that's actually kind of a bummer that uh the gpu mounted vertically kind of blocks that the heatsink area because that does look pretty cool but you can definitely see it when you're standing up and stuff all together happy with the lighting i would love to play around with the lighting and change the colors around and stuff but that's where we get in to the bad stuff so oh where do i begin today's video is brought to you by the corsair 5000x rgb experience a premium mid tower case surrounded by four tempered glass side panels for a crystal clear aesthetic enjoy ultimate flexibility with support from multiple 360 millimeter radiators three included sp rgb elite fans and an iq lighting node core for full customization within the iq software to learn more about the corsair 5000x rgb click on the link in the description below i would love to play around with the lighting and change the colors around and stuff but that's where we get in to the bad stuff so oh where do i begin for starters i'm not getting a video signal i have not been getting a video signal from this system yeah yeah i know we did i know we did a test boot we did a test boot with the motherboard and the cpu and the memory but i was using a different power supply than this one and i was also using a different gpu than this one so let's talk about the power supply first this this is ordinarily supposed to be a really good unit it's from fantex who sources uh their units from sea sonic is the oem for phanteks power supplies but it's not working properly so this is actually a dual system psu it's got hookups it's got connectors for two systems it's a dual system power supply of course we're only using it for one system here but uh you can see it's got its individual respective connectors so system one is at the top system two you plug in uh to those connectors on in the second row and it has to be that way but the connectors for system one are finicky so sometimes the power supply will not turn on or the system won't even turn on i'll be hitting the power button left and right even tried the one on the motherboard and nothing absolutely no power whatsoever the lights on the motherboard will turn on even when it's off letting me know that there is power flowing to it but for some reason it doesn't actually turn on but then again sometimes it does so what i tried to do was i plugged these cables into the system two connectors and it turns on every time it turns on perfectly every time although i'm not sure and the manual is not super clear about this if the second system supports pcie or if it's just meant to be a system without a discrete gpu because i still wasn't getting a video signal so to troubleshoot some stuff i took a second power supply that i know works and i connected it to the whole system except i added a different graphics card i used the one that we used for the test boot which was this guy i had to use a riser cable a riser cable in order to get it in there because obviously it wouldn't just fit normally without one since the vertical gpu is in the way and i can't just remove that since it's uh being water cooled currently so that worked with that power supply and that gpu and that motherboard we got we got a video signal you know it was it was good we got into the bios and stuff so i knew for a fact that it either had to be the gpu or the power supply in this build that was causing our issue so what i did next was i removed that gpu and reconnected our water cooled 6900 xt and still used the same power supply over there and it did not work black screen no video signal again which tells me that not only is our power supply finicky and weird and not super reliable and i'll have to replace that but our gpu is not outputting a video signal at the moment and i'm not sure why it could be the mounting pressure of the gpu block i've had that happen before but i'm pretty certain that i actually did a test boot with this gpu in a completely different at a completely different time it wasn't even on camera i just connected it i didn't even have it water cooled because you know if you just boot it for a couple seconds it's fine and i remember it working i remember the gpu working so something happened between then and now to make this not work i don't and i haven't it's driving me crazy i have no idea i would actually have to drain the system take this thing apart and uh and really play with it for a long time in order to figure out what might be wrong with it so right now it's a really really pretty and expensive brick that's how we're closing this one out guys that that's that's what this is and until further notice and until i i actually do some more digging i cannot use this system now while i don't want to have any expectations on how this is all going to pan out i do want to have some sort of backup plan if for whatever reason i cannot get this gpu to work what do you guys suggest i do part of me thinks that i should just use a different card because that would be honestly the simplest solution if it really is the gpu that's the issue um you know it's kind of hard to get a 6900 xt these days even even for me right now so instead of trying to replace it with another one i'd probably just use a different graphics card whether it's amd or nvidia i have no idea but i'm just i'm just spitballing ideas here guys because at this point everything's up in the air i don't know what's going to happen next why does this always happen to me this this is the same thing that happened to prometheus i finished the build it looked awesome and it wouldn't post it wouldn't even give me a video signal because the gpu uh was dead for whatever reason somehow i've just been plagued with the absolute worst luck when it comes to custom water cooled builds lately and i don't like it it's very frustrating i was supposed to do benchmarks i wanted to do some testing and show you guys temperatures and that sort of thing but in order to do that in this video i would have to take this apart drain the loop take it apart troubleshoot the gpu which i might not even fix by the way and then i definitely wouldn't be able to really do any of that stuff but if i did fix it then i'd have to reassemble it refill the loop install windows install the games then test it i would be here till five in the morning um so i got i'm hungry i gotta eat dinner so i'm gonna call it off here guys at least at the very least i got to show you guys the finished product let me know what you think is this does do you think this looks as cool as i do i think this looks really cool and i think it'll look even cooler once i configure the lighting to be a bit more stylized and thematic with what i had in mind but yeah give me your two cents on that if you have any ideas on why this gpu isn't working also feel free to share your thoughts on that but i'm gonna get out of here guys so thank you very much for watching this video i do appreciate it if you enjoyed it and you like the build toss like on the video before you go get subscribed for more tech content on the way and i will see you guys in the next video\n"