Skunkworks is back with an all new design, and some old school soul!

**Building and Upgrading a Computer**

As someone who enjoys building computers and has experience with using a screwdriver, I've learned to appreciate the little things that can make all the difference in a project. When working on my computer build, I was determined to get everything just right, even if it meant taking some time to figure out how to make adjustments.

As I began disassembling my computer case, I found myself hitting a rivet, which freaked me out, but thankfully, I was able to take a step back and assess the situation. With compressed air, I was able to clear out any debris that may have been obstructing the view. The motherboard was in place, and I made sure it was aligned properly before moving on to the next step.

One of the key components I needed to install was a 30-90 EVGA graphics card, which would serve as the foundation for my build. I had enough room for two cards, but I decided to use only one, which will provide plenty of power for my system. The card itself was in great condition, and I knew that it would be a crucial part of my build.

However, there was another challenge ahead – installing vertical mounting brackets for the graphics card. This was an opportunity to get creative with my build, as I wanted to maximize space and make sure everything looked sleek and organized. The 3090 graphics card was designed to fit in this way, but it also meant that I would need to choose between using it or my Strix card, which already had a block on it.

In the end, I decided to go with the EVGA card, as I wanted the extra space it provided and the ability to add RGB lighting. I knew that I could source blocks for both cards, but I was excited to try out an Ek ACetal block, which would match my existing build aesthetic.

Now that I had my components in place, I began thinking about how I wanted to light up the case. With RGB lighting becoming increasingly popular, I saw this as a chance to get creative and add some extra flair to my build. I decided to add some glow-in-the-dark paint strips to the back of the graphics card, which would not only give it a unique look but also help to make the entire system shine.

As I continued to plan out my build, I couldn't help but feel excited about what was still to come. In the next video, we'll be disassembling the reservoir and tank, as well as the pump, and getting everything clean and ready for a fresh coat of paint or whatever color scheme I've decided on.

**The Future of My Build**

As I continue with my build, I'm eager to see how everything comes together. With the reservoir, tank, and pump already removed, it's time to start cleaning them out and preparing them for their new coats. This will be an exciting part of the process, as I get to work on getting rid of any oils or debris that may have accumulated during the manufacturing process.

Since my new Ek ACetal block has arrived, I'm looking forward to giving it a try-out and seeing how it performs in real-world applications. With its sleek design and matte black finish, it's sure to add an extra touch of elegance to my system.

Throughout this build, I've been thinking about the importance of aesthetics and how it can impact the overall user experience. By incorporating RGB lighting and unique features like the glow-in-the-dark paint strips, I'm hoping to create a build that stands out from the crowd.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eni told you guys when i reviewed the 7000d that i was gonna pull you guys if you wanted me to re-invigorate reinvigorate bring skunk works back to life so we're gonna try and do that 2021 style the inventor of nand flash memory that changed life as we knew it keoksia is a leading provider of flash memory and ssds kioxia offers a line of innovative nvme ssds for many environments including mobile compute high performance gaming pcs and hyperscale and enterprise data centers leading edge pcie gen4 performance ssds for amd epic and intel xeon based servers with pcie 4.0 technology offer extreme speeds with unparalleled reliability making keoksia the obvious choice for those who demand excellence for any use case to see everything that kyoksi america has to offer follow the sponsored link in the description below it's been a long time since skunkworks has actually been used or run uh two years since that system's actually been turned on somewhere around there um it's been sitting there in the background looking sad half drained half corroded looking terrible and a lot of you guys who have been watching the channel for a long time know about skunk work skunk works was when i first started this channel almost nine years ago i wanted to build some crazy over-the-top pc that was just impractical unrealistic overpriced overpowered just stupid it became a centerpiece of the channel and it evolved many i think we had three or four versions of it started with a 4790k devil's cannon and a single uh 680 i think it was in there and then it moved up to two 680s and then it had three 980s and then it had three tight next maxwells and then after that it just turned into um did i have yeah i had three no two tight xps because they didn't do three at the time and then from titan xp's i ended up with two 20 dtis and that's kind of where it was left right there but one of the things that skunk works always retained was pieces of a previous build and it gave me an opportunity to be able to show you guys like how to reuse parts how to clean them you know a lot of people think like oh i'm going to build a new pc i want a new water cooling loop i need all new stuff and a lot of times that can be true if you don't take care of it but what we're going to do today is we're going to kick off this series this is going to be a build series and there's no one to get this all done because one of the things about skunk works too is i always like to take time to do little mods like for instance here this is this is pretty basic this is one of the original pumps out of it i do plan on reusing this because the 7000d is a very square type shape and i've i this has always been one of my favorite ek water block d5 reservoir pump combo deals and what i don't like about it about the new ones is they're round and the fittings come off at weird angles so i love good good tone anyway it's actually got a new reservoir because you could change off the you could change the cylinders and over time they'll start to discolor and stuff this one's actually new but some of the parts look pretty bad if you look down in there and if you can see it there's actually some blue in there which is the old green fluid actually because there's some blue and green um just got to clean all that out the platform though this is going to be interesting because this is going to be the first time skunkworks would be based on an amd system i said a million times if amd ever became on top i would start using amd again and we told you guys recently that amd has been what we've been using exclusively in this studio now for the last two years in fact we did a long-term user report on that recently phil is currently using a 3970x this is a 3960x so phil i need your cpu because we're going to make this one the over the top cool no phil actually uses his for production this one's just going to be more or less about building a badass amd system because skunk works has always been based on intel in fact that's x299 in there right now that's a 9980xe no that's a 7980xe the 9980 is in nebula which was also intel based um we're not using that anymore it's deleted and all that it's uh i think it's a 18 core cpu something like that so this is a 24 core cpu so clearly this is better but i am reusing i am reusing this there's some motherboard screws in it no there's a motherboard standoff screws anyway the cpu is already mounted so i'm not going to be showing that that's uh torx you have to do it in a certain order if you guys are watching about third ripper that'll make sense already this is a zenith extreme motherboard uh phil has been using the exact same combo only with the 3970x now with the latest chipset drivers and the latest bios and all that and a lot of the weird wonkiness stuff that we talked about in our long-term report has pretty much vanished my issue i had with this system when i was using it on aircool this was the same air-cooled one i had that i built was having the random shutdowns when i was gaming we still think that was power supply related but we'll be changing to a 1600 watt power supply because i can so we got some things we need to do today uh probably won't even i might take the 7000d out so that we can kind of start getting some mock-up in there like i gotta figure out where i'm gonna mount this guy but what i wanna start with we will be cleaning this pump i might even be changing this pump entirely i need to order some custom cables from cablemod cablemod is our cable supplier so i've gotta put in an order for that i think i'm gonna go back with the yellow and black which was the original skunk works theme if you guys don't remember we went from yellow and black to orange and gunmetal when we got the uh well it was yellow in there as well but we did orange and then we ended with green as you can see i want to go back to the black and yellow bumble bee look so i want to take this radiator out of the top this is an ekse 480 this is one of the first ones that they had made and they sent it to me i want to reuse this rad so we're going to start cleaning that and getting that flushed out this loop is already drained it's been sitting here like that for a year yeah about a year more than a year actually before the pandemic so a long time so let's get this rat out of here and let's get it over here and let's just start getting some of the parts cleaned up and hopefully by the end of the day we can get some like the motherboard mounted in the 7000d we can start figuring our radiator layout where our pump's going to go it's going to get crammed that's the idea i like big fat cases to have big fat parts i can tell i've become a little jaded because if we look at this rad so take it out carefully look at this there's no bent fins on there you know i feel over time i was like ah rats are built to last and just like smooshing fins inside look at this red has no scratches let's put this in perspective this rat is at least four or five years old let me grab one that's only a year or two old that we use for other projects that size not too bad those smash fin there it's all scratched there's still tape stuck to it because i get lazy and i'm like when we're doing stuff i just like to tape the fans on the thing that sucks is you can see it's taking some of the paint with it and you might be like well jay just grab a new one i don't actually have a new one people think that i've just oh yeah you know he's the original youtube water cooler guy not the original water cooler guy but i'm the one that really kind of made it mainstream and popular and then you know i started bringing attention to a lot of the mining community they've obviously been doing a lot longer than me they think i've got parts just literally coming out the ass i don't most of my stuff's reused like i'm about to do again right here so what i might have to do is obviously i need to flush both of these rads if i use both if not i use a 360 and a 480 it's way overkill for one cpu and one gpu because one of the sad things about skunk works this time around it's gonna be the first time it's only got one gpu it's like a bunch of grapes but fans let's talk about the block real quick before we start taking things apart dropping stuff everywhere i got two tr4 blocks i could use uh these are ek blocks because they're one of the only brands that are actually making specific tr4 blocks that are good so we've got a acetol which is the black one and then we've got the clear plexi i'm not so sure i'm going to go with yellow coolant i want to but do you guys remember everything i went through with the yellow things have changed though the formulas have changed the materials have changed we still believe that one of the reasons why it was changing color so badly was because of how hot the loop gets when you see when i was gaming with three tight next maxwells it was still supported so all three titan x maxwells would go to 100 or 95 load that's a lot of heat i mean we were talking a good thousand watts overclocked into that one loop with a single 560 rad right here this is a 560 so that's four 140 millimeter fans that's a lot of heat and uh well the mayhems was the brand we were using at the time was pretty convinced that it was a combination of the excess heat and then not galvanic corrosion but they they were blaming some of the copper content in the radiator saying well this copper has more oxidation yadda yadda yadda and that's what's causing it the colors to fall out and stuff i'm just really unsure if i want to even take the chance of doing that again with a single gpu or maybe 230 90s for the hell of it and i might just go with the black tubes painted because i still love the way that looks with the black tubes or i had talked about you know the glass tubing that i learned how to bend and maybe do glass tubing stuff the other thing is like the the there was this idea that the petg was reacting to it since all of the drama that i had regarding the yellow coolant turning brown all the time psas have gone out from these cooling brands saying petg and glycol-based stuff interact poorly and i do believe that the mayhem's pastel stuff is has got glycol in it i don't remember if i use glass that's borsilicate it is inert it is not going to react to any fluid that's in it that's why they use it for science but i'm i'm thinking about going with the black here i i think i like the way just the solid black looks so let me go and get this mounted up real quick at least so this is in there that way let's just get that out of the way and then we'll bring the case out here okay if you haven't seen our unboxing and first look at like the features and tear down in this case and you need to do that it's so basic but the top because corsair put the yellow oh hey it's like that's when we go skunk works we showed the unboxing how this is a separate piece from that i have a feeling with this okay this this motherboard that's going to be necessary yup you know why i'm excited about this because here at the studio i've not had a skunk works type computer i've had actually i was sort of keeping it real right i was just using out of the box stuff and something wrong with that it's just i feel like i i lost a lot of my excitement for building because the custom builds are what i love doing and then obviously with the pandemic and everyone being mad they can't buy stuff i stopped doing it unfortunately enough of you out there were like screw the haters just you know build what makes you happy we're in the watch anyway so that's what i'm doing help help it's white cases i'm not quite as delicate with because they don't show scratches but black does so if i can make it through this build without anything getting scratched and torn up that will sort of be uh a miracle and then we can figure it out all right so let me get this guy in there do a little test fit there we go see that what just look at it because we have this big vrm cooler up here with active cooling they have both eps power pci express supplemental power actually no that's for the cpu also because supplemental is down here which is a molex which is odd but i would actually have to use that if i'm gonna do two 30 90s just to be safe especially for overclocked but i like how all the power and stuff is on this side which means the cables will look nice i want to screw with trying to get stuff to squish up here next to a rad which means i can go with a thicker radiator up here if i'd like i'm fairly certain i'm not going to utilize this back area here with any fans i believe having four intake four exhausts both with rads similar grilles and in front of them with perfect enough airflow one thing i'm thinking about doing here though is this i've had this thing for a while now and i've never had a reason to use it so this is a rear distro plate that we actually have showed this and people showing us their builds when we do our little build react series and so that gives us a little distribution plate which i probably would have to remove oh yeah that screws right there just screwing it up so i would just put i would just use my threaded plugs in there not the big fat look like the rubber ones so that paint doesn't get in there and i would just scuff this up and paint it the sem black and i think it would look real good this is the kind of stuff that i spend a lot of time trying to figure out oh wow we're gonna get so lucky with this what is that it's so full i love it and then i'll have to put one of the in fact i have it somewhere see this is why i keep all my crap all the stuff that's like jay why do you keep that garbage i'll show you why so this can mount to here like that right perfect spacing these outer holes line up perfectly with these holes i just lined them up i'm all about the mock-ups if you can tell it's also why i keep every single one of my screws so look at all the screws oh this is only one we've got three containers there's two more on the shelf over there that would actually work well because see how much i get 80d like i'm in the middle of something a middle of a something and then something else distracts me of the something of i'm doing so i'm probably not going to reuse this alpha cool pump either i have a brand new d5 that i'd like to put in here but there we go so i have the singularity computers bracket i might have to find a way to support the top a little bit because i don't want it flopping around but if i oh that's pretty sturdy yeah i wouldn't ship it like that like i would put a bracket on there but i like it to be open and not see a you can kind of see where the bracket was on here see how there's some scuffs so i might still replace this tube um but if i calculated all this correctly you can see i've got the writing on the outside here this is the old d5x res csq csq are the things that have the circles this should be enough height to clear this and there should be enough height here still for tubing and then i you can see i routed the cable to come out the back side so it's like i've done this before so that's how that's gonna look and then the nice thing about the way this case is designed is the fans go on this side so i don't have to deal with extra thickness of the fans being pushed out so this is why i like doing it this way because you can start to see it come together already look at that dude this is like perfect the height square square square right all the angles are 90 in this case but i mean they've got these triangle cut like breather holes and stuff but if i had done the round reservoir here to me it would just look out of place but i use the ek res or the radiator specifically instead of the corsair ones because the corsair ones although very good they've got these designs in the tanks which in my opinion just won't look as good as say that that's gonna interfere with those fittings there and that's specifically because i'm going with a thick rad here and this is why we do the mock-ups so if i put this 240 here but i center it on the motherboard i mean that's going to be a 480 plus a 260 worth of cooling i'd like to point out that so far all of this is being done with my trusty that's the wrong screw trusty i fix it kit if you guys don't know by now we're sponsored by ifixit more or less i should say we sponsor them we allow them to sponsor us look at the description below you guys will find some deals they've got going on all throughout the year and we're constantly updating that so you guys can get the best deals on your ifixit kits look you think i'm kidding you think i'm kidding this is our ifixit drawer so we got all of our ifixit tools here screwdriver kits and stuff magnetic we've got our we got your bags we got your littles where's the big one i like the big one the big oh yeah that's the biggest see you know the guy that's just a friend so this is by far the best gift you can give any tech head especially anyone likes to build computers or has any sort of hobby where they use a screwdriver description down below i fix it explosions i think if i lower this actually i think this will line up with that right there oh wait ah man it's hitting this guy that rivet people get freaked out really see me drilling out there's a motherboard in there it's fine just take compressed air and as you know derrick would say it's the little things that make me happy yeah that's perfect that's perfect height so now what that means is i'd be able to do stuff so i'm going to end up doing like i typically do where i go out from the radiator into the top of the res and then out of the res so only one of these plugs have to be used the lower one here which is kind of seats in the shadow that'll get plugged now i need to make sure we have enough link for our graphics card so this is the 30 90 evg evga 3090 for the win3 you can see we have plenty of room it's close but if i run two of these one will go here and then one will go here like i really want to use two because it's a skunk works type build but it's funny because it's i just know it's gonna be wasted it's a wasted card i mean i'm not going to 3d mark on it none of the games use sli anymore see i could vertical mount it i mean that would definitely fill up the space right if i do that then i'll probably just end up using my strix card that already has a block on it the problem is my strix card hits the corsair so it's the clear and i would want to get a solid block so maybe i'll get a solid block for the evga card but that'll fill up the bottom nicely like that so that's probably we're going to end it because i know i said we were going to clean stuff but that will be in our next video because i had to know what i was going to use before i bother cleaning anything like this card is filthy too you can see this is one that i even lapped a little bit you see i sort of left that die but i need to now source blocks now that i know well whether i use the strix for evga card they are all both those cards are three eight pin connectors so i can get my cables ordered from cablemod to get our our cables for this i need to get our vertical amount uh for the graphics card because i do i do think vertical in this will look nice it's a way to fill up the case with only one card not to mention the face of the card is usually the prettiest part and then if i get a ek block that matches because i know they make them for the for the one three now and i get the acetal version it'll just match it'll be black with silver with the ek logo and stuff i could even potentially add some rgb lighting to the back yes i know stop to the back of it that way it'll add glow to the motherboard so that way if i'm doing yellow lighting because the skunk works see skunkworks had no lighting in it with the exception of like one white led strip to glow to make the yellow parts because i had the painted fan rings and all that to make those glow now i'll be doing a lot of that with rgb which didn't really exist when skunk works first came around so i could theme it with lighting now i can do that it just kind of sucks that's gonna cover up the chrome bit there but i feel like taking this cover off and maybe even painting it the matte black but there is rgb lighting right there which you're not gonna be able to see which is fine i mean we don't want to see too many logos and stuff blowing but i think that's all gonna fit and just it it meets my aesthetic itch it scratches it that makes sense because everything everything's squared like even if this is upright like this it's square square square square square so i like that a lot so anyway that's where we're going to end it make sure you guys check in for the next part where we're going to now disassemble the reservoir and the tank and the pump and get that all cleaned out we'll flush the rads get all that gunk out of there uh this is a brand new block so i have to do anything with that except for maybe an initial flush to get any sort of uh oils or anything out of there from the machining process and i still don't know if we're going to use this so if you guys want to see how this turns out make sure you follow and are subscribed and thanks for watching guys and we'll see you in the next onei told you guys when i reviewed the 7000d that i was gonna pull you guys if you wanted me to re-invigorate reinvigorate bring skunk works back to life so we're gonna try and do that 2021 style the inventor of nand flash memory that changed life as we knew it keoksia is a leading provider of flash memory and ssds kioxia offers a line of innovative nvme ssds for many environments including mobile compute high performance gaming pcs and hyperscale and enterprise data centers leading edge pcie gen4 performance ssds for amd epic and intel xeon based servers with pcie 4.0 technology offer extreme speeds with unparalleled reliability making keoksia the obvious choice for those who demand excellence for any use case to see everything that kyoksi america has to offer follow the sponsored link in the description below it's been a long time since skunkworks has actually been used or run uh two years since that system's actually been turned on somewhere around there um it's been sitting there in the background looking sad half drained half corroded looking terrible and a lot of you guys who have been watching the channel for a long time know about skunk work skunk works was when i first started this channel almost nine years ago i wanted to build some crazy over-the-top pc that was just impractical unrealistic overpriced overpowered just stupid it became a centerpiece of the channel and it evolved many i think we had three or four versions of it started with a 4790k devil's cannon and a single uh 680 i think it was in there and then it moved up to two 680s and then it had three 980s and then it had three tight next maxwells and then after that it just turned into um did i have yeah i had three no two tight xps because they didn't do three at the time and then from titan xp's i ended up with two 20 dtis and that's kind of where it was left right there but one of the things that skunk works always retained was pieces of a previous build and it gave me an opportunity to be able to show you guys like how to reuse parts how to clean them you know a lot of people think like oh i'm going to build a new pc i want a new water cooling loop i need all new stuff and a lot of times that can be true if you don't take care of it but what we're going to do today is we're going to kick off this series this is going to be a build series and there's no one to get this all done because one of the things about skunk works too is i always like to take time to do little mods like for instance here this is this is pretty basic this is one of the original pumps out of it i do plan on reusing this because the 7000d is a very square type shape and i've i this has always been one of my favorite ek water block d5 reservoir pump combo deals and what i don't like about it about the new ones is they're round and the fittings come off at weird angles so i love good good tone anyway it's actually got a new reservoir because you could change off the you could change the cylinders and over time they'll start to discolor and stuff this one's actually new but some of the parts look pretty bad if you look down in there and if you can see it there's actually some blue in there which is the old green fluid actually because there's some blue and green um just got to clean all that out the platform though this is going to be interesting because this is going to be the first time skunkworks would be based on an amd system i said a million times if amd ever became on top i would start using amd again and we told you guys recently that amd has been what we've been using exclusively in this studio now for the last two years in fact we did a long-term user report on that recently phil is currently using a 3970x this is a 3960x so phil i need your cpu because we're going to make this one the over the top cool no phil actually uses his for production this one's just going to be more or less about building a badass amd system because skunk works has always been based on intel in fact that's x299 in there right now that's a 9980xe no that's a 7980xe the 9980 is in nebula which was also intel based um we're not using that anymore it's deleted and all that it's uh i think it's a 18 core cpu something like that so this is a 24 core cpu so clearly this is better but i am reusing i am reusing this there's some motherboard screws in it no there's a motherboard standoff screws anyway the cpu is already mounted so i'm not going to be showing that that's uh torx you have to do it in a certain order if you guys are watching about third ripper that'll make sense already this is a zenith extreme motherboard uh phil has been using the exact same combo only with the 3970x now with the latest chipset drivers and the latest bios and all that and a lot of the weird wonkiness stuff that we talked about in our long-term report has pretty much vanished my issue i had with this system when i was using it on aircool this was the same air-cooled one i had that i built was having the random shutdowns when i was gaming we still think that was power supply related but we'll be changing to a 1600 watt power supply because i can so we got some things we need to do today uh probably won't even i might take the 7000d out so that we can kind of start getting some mock-up in there like i gotta figure out where i'm gonna mount this guy but what i wanna start with we will be cleaning this pump i might even be changing this pump entirely i need to order some custom cables from cablemod cablemod is our cable supplier so i've gotta put in an order for that i think i'm gonna go back with the yellow and black which was the original skunk works theme if you guys don't remember we went from yellow and black to orange and gunmetal when we got the uh well it was yellow in there as well but we did orange and then we ended with green as you can see i want to go back to the black and yellow bumble bee look so i want to take this radiator out of the top this is an ekse 480 this is one of the first ones that they had made and they sent it to me i want to reuse this rad so we're going to start cleaning that and getting that flushed out this loop is already drained it's been sitting here like that for a year yeah about a year more than a year actually before the pandemic so a long time so let's get this rat out of here and let's get it over here and let's just start getting some of the parts cleaned up and hopefully by the end of the day we can get some like the motherboard mounted in the 7000d we can start figuring our radiator layout where our pump's going to go it's going to get crammed that's the idea i like big fat cases to have big fat parts i can tell i've become a little jaded because if we look at this rad so take it out carefully look at this there's no bent fins on there you know i feel over time i was like ah rats are built to last and just like smooshing fins inside look at this red has no scratches let's put this in perspective this rat is at least four or five years old let me grab one that's only a year or two old that we use for other projects that size not too bad those smash fin there it's all scratched there's still tape stuck to it because i get lazy and i'm like when we're doing stuff i just like to tape the fans on the thing that sucks is you can see it's taking some of the paint with it and you might be like well jay just grab a new one i don't actually have a new one people think that i've just oh yeah you know he's the original youtube water cooler guy not the original water cooler guy but i'm the one that really kind of made it mainstream and popular and then you know i started bringing attention to a lot of the mining community they've obviously been doing a lot longer than me they think i've got parts just literally coming out the ass i don't most of my stuff's reused like i'm about to do again right here so what i might have to do is obviously i need to flush both of these rads if i use both if not i use a 360 and a 480 it's way overkill for one cpu and one gpu because one of the sad things about skunk works this time around it's gonna be the first time it's only got one gpu it's like a bunch of grapes but fans let's talk about the block real quick before we start taking things apart dropping stuff everywhere i got two tr4 blocks i could use uh these are ek blocks because they're one of the only brands that are actually making specific tr4 blocks that are good so we've got a acetol which is the black one and then we've got the clear plexi i'm not so sure i'm going to go with yellow coolant i want to but do you guys remember everything i went through with the yellow things have changed though the formulas have changed the materials have changed we still believe that one of the reasons why it was changing color so badly was because of how hot the loop gets when you see when i was gaming with three tight next maxwells it was still supported so all three titan x maxwells would go to 100 or 95 load that's a lot of heat i mean we were talking a good thousand watts overclocked into that one loop with a single 560 rad right here this is a 560 so that's four 140 millimeter fans that's a lot of heat and uh well the mayhems was the brand we were using at the time was pretty convinced that it was a combination of the excess heat and then not galvanic corrosion but they they were blaming some of the copper content in the radiator saying well this copper has more oxidation yadda yadda yadda and that's what's causing it the colors to fall out and stuff i'm just really unsure if i want to even take the chance of doing that again with a single gpu or maybe 230 90s for the hell of it and i might just go with the black tubes painted because i still love the way that looks with the black tubes or i had talked about you know the glass tubing that i learned how to bend and maybe do glass tubing stuff the other thing is like the the there was this idea that the petg was reacting to it since all of the drama that i had regarding the yellow coolant turning brown all the time psas have gone out from these cooling brands saying petg and glycol-based stuff interact poorly and i do believe that the mayhem's pastel stuff is has got glycol in it i don't remember if i use glass that's borsilicate it is inert it is not going to react to any fluid that's in it that's why they use it for science but i'm i'm thinking about going with the black here i i think i like the way just the solid black looks so let me go and get this mounted up real quick at least so this is in there that way let's just get that out of the way and then we'll bring the case out here okay if you haven't seen our unboxing and first look at like the features and tear down in this case and you need to do that it's so basic but the top because corsair put the yellow oh hey it's like that's when we go skunk works we showed the unboxing how this is a separate piece from that i have a feeling with this okay this this motherboard that's going to be necessary yup you know why i'm excited about this because here at the studio i've not had a skunk works type computer i've had actually i was sort of keeping it real right i was just using out of the box stuff and something wrong with that it's just i feel like i i lost a lot of my excitement for building because the custom builds are what i love doing and then obviously with the pandemic and everyone being mad they can't buy stuff i stopped doing it unfortunately enough of you out there were like screw the haters just you know build what makes you happy we're in the watch anyway so that's what i'm doing help help it's white cases i'm not quite as delicate with because they don't show scratches but black does so if i can make it through this build without anything getting scratched and torn up that will sort of be uh a miracle and then we can figure it out all right so let me get this guy in there do a little test fit there we go see that what just look at it because we have this big vrm cooler up here with active cooling they have both eps power pci express supplemental power actually no that's for the cpu also because supplemental is down here which is a molex which is odd but i would actually have to use that if i'm gonna do two 30 90s just to be safe especially for overclocked but i like how all the power and stuff is on this side which means the cables will look nice i want to screw with trying to get stuff to squish up here next to a rad which means i can go with a thicker radiator up here if i'd like i'm fairly certain i'm not going to utilize this back area here with any fans i believe having four intake four exhausts both with rads similar grilles and in front of them with perfect enough airflow one thing i'm thinking about doing here though is this i've had this thing for a while now and i've never had a reason to use it so this is a rear distro plate that we actually have showed this and people showing us their builds when we do our little build react series and so that gives us a little distribution plate which i probably would have to remove oh yeah that screws right there just screwing it up so i would just put i would just use my threaded plugs in there not the big fat look like the rubber ones so that paint doesn't get in there and i would just scuff this up and paint it the sem black and i think it would look real good this is the kind of stuff that i spend a lot of time trying to figure out oh wow we're gonna get so lucky with this what is that it's so full i love it and then i'll have to put one of the in fact i have it somewhere see this is why i keep all my crap all the stuff that's like jay why do you keep that garbage i'll show you why so this can mount to here like that right perfect spacing these outer holes line up perfectly with these holes i just lined them up i'm all about the mock-ups if you can tell it's also why i keep every single one of my screws so look at all the screws oh this is only one we've got three containers there's two more on the shelf over there that would actually work well because see how much i get 80d like i'm in the middle of something a middle of a something and then something else distracts me of the something of i'm doing so i'm probably not going to reuse this alpha cool pump either i have a brand new d5 that i'd like to put in here but there we go so i have the singularity computers bracket i might have to find a way to support the top a little bit because i don't want it flopping around but if i oh that's pretty sturdy yeah i wouldn't ship it like that like i would put a bracket on there but i like it to be open and not see a you can kind of see where the bracket was on here see how there's some scuffs so i might still replace this tube um but if i calculated all this correctly you can see i've got the writing on the outside here this is the old d5x res csq csq are the things that have the circles this should be enough height to clear this and there should be enough height here still for tubing and then i you can see i routed the cable to come out the back side so it's like i've done this before so that's how that's gonna look and then the nice thing about the way this case is designed is the fans go on this side so i don't have to deal with extra thickness of the fans being pushed out so this is why i like doing it this way because you can start to see it come together already look at that dude this is like perfect the height square square square right all the angles are 90 in this case but i mean they've got these triangle cut like breather holes and stuff but if i had done the round reservoir here to me it would just look out of place but i use the ek res or the radiator specifically instead of the corsair ones because the corsair ones although very good they've got these designs in the tanks which in my opinion just won't look as good as say that that's gonna interfere with those fittings there and that's specifically because i'm going with a thick rad here and this is why we do the mock-ups so if i put this 240 here but i center it on the motherboard i mean that's going to be a 480 plus a 260 worth of cooling i'd like to point out that so far all of this is being done with my trusty that's the wrong screw trusty i fix it kit if you guys don't know by now we're sponsored by ifixit more or less i should say we sponsor them we allow them to sponsor us look at the description below you guys will find some deals they've got going on all throughout the year and we're constantly updating that so you guys can get the best deals on your ifixit kits look you think i'm kidding you think i'm kidding this is our ifixit drawer so we got all of our ifixit tools here screwdriver kits and stuff magnetic we've got our we got your bags we got your littles where's the big one i like the big one the big oh yeah that's the biggest see you know the guy that's just a friend so this is by far the best gift you can give any tech head especially anyone likes to build computers or has any sort of hobby where they use a screwdriver description down below i fix it explosions i think if i lower this actually i think this will line up with that right there oh wait ah man it's hitting this guy that rivet people get freaked out really see me drilling out there's a motherboard in there it's fine just take compressed air and as you know derrick would say it's the little things that make me happy yeah that's perfect that's perfect height so now what that means is i'd be able to do stuff so i'm going to end up doing like i typically do where i go out from the radiator into the top of the res and then out of the res so only one of these plugs have to be used the lower one here which is kind of seats in the shadow that'll get plugged now i need to make sure we have enough link for our graphics card so this is the 30 90 evg evga 3090 for the win3 you can see we have plenty of room it's close but if i run two of these one will go here and then one will go here like i really want to use two because it's a skunk works type build but it's funny because it's i just know it's gonna be wasted it's a wasted card i mean i'm not going to 3d mark on it none of the games use sli anymore see i could vertical mount it i mean that would definitely fill up the space right if i do that then i'll probably just end up using my strix card that already has a block on it the problem is my strix card hits the corsair so it's the clear and i would want to get a solid block so maybe i'll get a solid block for the evga card but that'll fill up the bottom nicely like that so that's probably we're going to end it because i know i said we were going to clean stuff but that will be in our next video because i had to know what i was going to use before i bother cleaning anything like this card is filthy too you can see this is one that i even lapped a little bit you see i sort of left that die but i need to now source blocks now that i know well whether i use the strix for evga card they are all both those cards are three eight pin connectors so i can get my cables ordered from cablemod to get our our cables for this i need to get our vertical amount uh for the graphics card because i do i do think vertical in this will look nice it's a way to fill up the case with only one card not to mention the face of the card is usually the prettiest part and then if i get a ek block that matches because i know they make them for the for the one three now and i get the acetal version it'll just match it'll be black with silver with the ek logo and stuff i could even potentially add some rgb lighting to the back yes i know stop to the back of it that way it'll add glow to the motherboard so that way if i'm doing yellow lighting because the skunk works see skunkworks had no lighting in it with the exception of like one white led strip to glow to make the yellow parts because i had the painted fan rings and all that to make those glow now i'll be doing a lot of that with rgb which didn't really exist when skunk works first came around so i could theme it with lighting now i can do that it just kind of sucks that's gonna cover up the chrome bit there but i feel like taking this cover off and maybe even painting it the matte black but there is rgb lighting right there which you're not gonna be able to see which is fine i mean we don't want to see too many logos and stuff blowing but i think that's all gonna fit and just it it meets my aesthetic itch it scratches it that makes sense because everything everything's squared like even if this is upright like this it's square square square square square so i like that a lot so anyway that's where we're going to end it make sure you guys check in for the next part where we're going to now disassemble the reservoir and the tank and the pump and get that all cleaned out we'll flush the rads get all that gunk out of there uh this is a brand new block so i have to do anything with that except for maybe an initial flush to get any sort of uh oils or anything out of there from the machining process and i still don't know if we're going to use this so if you guys want to see how this turns out make sure you follow and are subscribed and thanks for watching guys and we'll see you in the next onei told you guys when i reviewed the 7000d that i was gonna pull you guys if you wanted me to re-invigorate reinvigorate bring skunk works back to life so we're gonna try and do that 2021 style the inventor of nand flash memory that changed life as we knew it keoksia is a leading provider of flash memory and ssds kioxia offers a line of innovative nvme ssds for many environments including mobile compute high performance gaming pcs and hyperscale and enterprise data centers leading edge pcie gen4 performance ssds for amd epic and intel xeon based servers with pcie 4.0 technology offer extreme speeds with unparalleled reliability making keoksia the obvious choice for those who demand excellence for any use case to see everything that kyoksi america has to offer follow the sponsored link in the description below it's been a long time since skunkworks has actually been used or run uh two years since that system's actually been turned on somewhere around there um it's been sitting there in the background looking sad half drained half corroded looking terrible and a lot of you guys who have been watching the channel for a long time know about skunk work skunk works was when i first started this channel almost nine years ago i wanted to build some crazy over-the-top pc that was just impractical unrealistic overpriced overpowered just stupid it became a centerpiece of the channel and it evolved many i think we had three or four versions of it started with a 4790k devil's cannon and a single uh 680 i think it was in there and then it moved up to two 680s and then it had three 980s and then it had three tight next maxwells and then after that it just turned into um did i have yeah i had three no two tight xps because they didn't do three at the time and then from titan xp's i ended up with two 20 dtis and that's kind of where it was left right there but one of the things that skunk works always retained was pieces of a previous build and it gave me an opportunity to be able to show you guys like how to reuse parts how to clean them you know a lot of people think like oh i'm going to build a new pc i want a new water cooling loop i need all new stuff and a lot of times that can be true if you don't take care of it but what we're going to do today is we're going to kick off this series this is going to be a build series and there's no one to get this all done because one of the things about skunk works too is i always like to take time to do little mods like for instance here this is this is pretty basic this is one of the original pumps out of it i do plan on reusing this because the 7000d is a very square type shape and i've i this has always been one of my favorite ek water block d5 reservoir pump combo deals and what i don't like about it about the new ones is they're round and the fittings come off at weird angles so i love good good tone anyway it's actually got a new reservoir because you could change off the you could change the cylinders and over time they'll start to discolor and stuff this one's actually new but some of the parts look pretty bad if you look down in there and if you can see it there's actually some blue in there which is the old green fluid actually because there's some blue and green um just got to clean all that out the platform though this is going to be interesting because this is going to be the first time skunkworks would be based on an amd system i said a million times if amd ever became on top i would start using amd again and we told you guys recently that amd has been what we've been using exclusively in this studio now for the last two years in fact we did a long-term user report on that recently phil is currently using a 3970x this is a 3960x so phil i need your cpu because we're going to make this one the over the top cool no phil actually uses his for production this one's just going to be more or less about building a badass amd system because skunk works has always been based on intel in fact that's x299 in there right now that's a 9980xe no that's a 7980xe the 9980 is in nebula which was also intel based um we're not using that anymore it's deleted and all that it's uh i think it's a 18 core cpu something like that so this is a 24 core cpu so clearly this is better but i am reusing i am reusing this there's some motherboard screws in it no there's a motherboard standoff screws anyway the cpu is already mounted so i'm not going to be showing that that's uh torx you have to do it in a certain order if you guys are watching about third ripper that'll make sense already this is a zenith extreme motherboard uh phil has been using the exact same combo only with the 3970x now with the latest chipset drivers and the latest bios and all that and a lot of the weird wonkiness stuff that we talked about in our long-term report has pretty much vanished my issue i had with this system when i was using it on aircool this was the same air-cooled one i had that i built was having the random shutdowns when i was gaming we still think that was power supply related but we'll be changing to a 1600 watt power supply because i can so we got some things we need to do today uh probably won't even i might take the 7000d out so that we can kind of start getting some mock-up in there like i gotta figure out where i'm gonna mount this guy but what i wanna start with we will be cleaning this pump i might even be changing this pump entirely i need to order some custom cables from cablemod cablemod is our cable supplier so i've gotta put in an order for that i think i'm gonna go back with the yellow and black which was the original skunk works theme if you guys don't remember we went from yellow and black to orange and gunmetal when we got the uh well it was yellow in there as well but we did orange and then we ended with green as you can see i want to go back to the black and yellow bumble bee look so i want to take this radiator out of the top this is an ekse 480 this is one of the first ones that they had made and they sent it to me i want to reuse this rad so we're going to start cleaning that and getting that flushed out this loop is already drained it's been sitting here like that for a year yeah about a year more than a year actually before the pandemic so a long time so let's get this rat out of here and let's get it over here and let's just start getting some of the parts cleaned up and hopefully by the end of the day we can get some like the motherboard mounted in the 7000d we can start figuring our radiator layout where our pump's going to go it's going to get crammed that's the idea i like big fat cases to have big fat parts i can tell i've become a little jaded because if we look at this rad so take it out carefully look at this there's no bent fins on there you know i feel over time i was like ah rats are built to last and just like smooshing fins inside look at this red has no scratches let's put this in perspective this rat is at least four or five years old let me grab one that's only a year or two old that we use for other projects that size not too bad those smash fin there it's all scratched there's still tape stuck to it because i get lazy and i'm like when we're doing stuff i just like to tape the fans on the thing that sucks is you can see it's taking some of the paint with it and you might be like well jay just grab a new one i don't actually have a new one people think that i've just oh yeah you know he's the original youtube water cooler guy not the original water cooler guy but i'm the one that really kind of made it mainstream and popular and then you know i started bringing attention to a lot of the mining community they've obviously been doing a lot longer than me they think i've got parts just literally coming out the ass i don't most of my stuff's reused like i'm about to do again right here so what i might have to do is obviously i need to flush both of these rads if i use both if not i use a 360 and a 480 it's way overkill for one cpu and one gpu because one of the sad things about skunk works this time around it's gonna be the first time it's only got one gpu it's like a bunch of grapes but fans let's talk about the block real quick before we start taking things apart dropping stuff everywhere i got two tr4 blocks i could use uh these are ek blocks because they're one of the only brands that are actually making specific tr4 blocks that are good so we've got a acetol which is the black one and then we've got the clear plexi i'm not so sure i'm going to go with yellow coolant i want to but do you guys remember everything i went through with the yellow things have changed though the formulas have changed the materials have changed we still believe that one of the reasons why it was changing color so badly was because of how hot the loop gets when you see when i was gaming with three tight next maxwells it was still supported so all three titan x maxwells would go to 100 or 95 load that's a lot of heat i mean we were talking a good thousand watts overclocked into that one loop with a single 560 rad right here this is a 560 so that's four 140 millimeter fans that's a lot of heat and uh well the mayhems was the brand we were using at the time was pretty convinced that it was a combination of the excess heat and then not galvanic corrosion but they they were blaming some of the copper content in the radiator saying well this copper has more oxidation yadda yadda yadda and that's what's causing it the colors to fall out and stuff i'm just really unsure if i want to even take the chance of doing that again with a single gpu or maybe 230 90s for the hell of it and i might just go with the black tubes painted because i still love the way that looks with the black tubes or i had talked about you know the glass tubing that i learned how to bend and maybe do glass tubing stuff the other thing is like the the there was this idea that the petg was reacting to it since all of the drama that i had regarding the yellow coolant turning brown all the time psas have gone out from these cooling brands saying petg and glycol-based stuff interact poorly and i do believe that the mayhem's pastel stuff is has got glycol in it i don't remember if i use glass that's borsilicate it is inert it is not going to react to any fluid that's in it that's why they use it for science but i'm i'm thinking about going with the black here i i think i like the way just the solid black looks so let me go and get this mounted up real quick at least so this is in there that way let's just get that out of the way and then we'll bring the case out here okay if you haven't seen our unboxing and first look at like the features and tear down in this case and you need to do that it's so basic but the top because corsair put the yellow oh hey it's like that's when we go skunk works we showed the unboxing how this is a separate piece from that i have a feeling with this okay this this motherboard that's going to be necessary yup you know why i'm excited about this because here at the studio i've not had a skunk works type computer i've had actually i was sort of keeping it real right i was just using out of the box stuff and something wrong with that it's just i feel like i i lost a lot of my excitement for building because the custom builds are what i love doing and then obviously with the pandemic and everyone being mad they can't buy stuff i stopped doing it unfortunately enough of you out there were like screw the haters just you know build what makes you happy we're in the watch anyway so that's what i'm doing help help it's white cases i'm not quite as delicate with because they don't show scratches but black does so if i can make it through this build without anything getting scratched and torn up that will sort of be uh a miracle and then we can figure it out all right so let me get this guy in there do a little test fit there we go see that what just look at it because we have this big vrm cooler up here with active cooling they have both eps power pci express supplemental power actually no that's for the cpu also because supplemental is down here which is a molex which is odd but i would actually have to use that if i'm gonna do two 30 90s just to be safe especially for overclocked but i like how all the power and stuff is on this side which means the cables will look nice i want to screw with trying to get stuff to squish up here next to a rad which means i can go with a thicker radiator up here if i'd like i'm fairly certain i'm not going to utilize this back area here with any fans i believe having four intake four exhausts both with rads similar grilles and in front of them with perfect enough airflow one thing i'm thinking about doing here though is this i've had this thing for a while now and i've never had a reason to use it so this is a rear distro plate that we actually have showed this and people showing us their builds when we do our little build react series and so that gives us a little distribution plate which i probably would have to remove oh yeah that screws right there just screwing it up so i would just put i would just use my threaded plugs in there not the big fat look like the rubber ones so that paint doesn't get in there and i would just scuff this up and paint it the sem black and i think it would look real good this is the kind of stuff that i spend a lot of time trying to figure out oh wow we're gonna get so lucky with this what is that it's so full i love it and then i'll have to put one of the in fact i have it somewhere see this is why i keep all my crap all the stuff that's like jay why do you keep that garbage i'll show you why so this can mount to here like that right perfect spacing these outer holes line up perfectly with these holes i just lined them up i'm all about the mock-ups if you can tell it's also why i keep every single one of my screws so look at all the screws oh this is only one we've got three containers there's two more on the shelf over there that would actually work well because see how much i get 80d like i'm in the middle of something a middle of a something and then something else distracts me of the something of i'm doing so i'm probably not going to reuse this alpha cool pump either i have a brand new d5 that i'd like to put in here but there we go so i have the singularity computers bracket i might have to find a way to support the top a little bit because i don't want it flopping around but if i oh that's pretty sturdy yeah i wouldn't ship it like that like i would put a bracket on there but i like it to be open and not see a you can kind of see where the bracket was on here see how there's some scuffs so i might still replace this tube um but if i calculated all this correctly you can see i've got the writing on the outside here this is the old d5x res csq csq are the things that have the circles this should be enough height to clear this and there should be enough height here still for tubing and then i you can see i routed the cable to come out the back side so it's like i've done this before so that's how that's gonna look and then the nice thing about the way this case is designed is the fans go on this side so i don't have to deal with extra thickness of the fans being pushed out so this is why i like doing it this way because you can start to see it come together already look at that dude this is like perfect the height square square square right all the angles are 90 in this case but i mean they've got these triangle cut like breather holes and stuff but if i had done the round reservoir here to me it would just look out of place but i use the ek res or the radiator specifically instead of the corsair ones because the corsair ones although very good they've got these designs in the tanks which in my opinion just won't look as good as say that that's gonna interfere with those fittings there and that's specifically because i'm going with a thick rad here and this is why we do the mock-ups so if i put this 240 here but i center it on the motherboard i mean that's going to be a 480 plus a 260 worth of cooling i'd like to point out that so far all of this is being done with my trusty that's the wrong screw trusty i fix it kit if you guys don't know by now we're sponsored by ifixit more or less i should say we sponsor them we allow them to sponsor us look at the description below you guys will find some deals they've got going on all throughout the year and we're constantly updating that so you guys can get the best deals on your ifixit kits look you think i'm kidding you think i'm kidding this is our ifixit drawer so we got all of our ifixit tools here screwdriver kits and stuff magnetic we've got our we got your bags we got your littles where's the big one i like the big one the big oh yeah that's the biggest see you know the guy that's just a friend so this is by far the best gift you can give any tech head especially anyone likes to build computers or has any sort of hobby where they use a screwdriver description down below i fix it explosions i think if i lower this actually i think this will line up with that right there oh wait ah man it's hitting this guy that rivet people get freaked out really see me drilling out there's a motherboard in there it's fine just take compressed air and as you know derrick would say it's the little things that make me happy yeah that's perfect that's perfect height so now what that means is i'd be able to do stuff so i'm going to end up doing like i typically do where i go out from the radiator into the top of the res and then out of the res so only one of these plugs have to be used the lower one here which is kind of seats in the shadow that'll get plugged now i need to make sure we have enough link for our graphics card so this is the 30 90 evg evga 3090 for the win3 you can see we have plenty of room it's close but if i run two of these one will go here and then one will go here like i really want to use two because it's a skunk works type build but it's funny because it's i just know it's gonna be wasted it's a wasted card i mean i'm not going to 3d mark on it none of the games use sli anymore see i could vertical mount it i mean that would definitely fill up the space right if i do that then i'll probably just end up using my strix card that already has a block on it the problem is my strix card hits the corsair so it's the clear and i would want to get a solid block so maybe i'll get a solid block for the evga card but that'll fill up the bottom nicely like that so that's probably we're going to end it because i know i said we were going to clean stuff but that will be in our next video because i had to know what i was going to use before i bother cleaning anything like this card is filthy too you can see this is one that i even lapped a little bit you see i sort of left that die but i need to now source blocks now that i know well whether i use the strix for evga card they are all both those cards are three eight pin connectors so i can get my cables ordered from cablemod to get our our cables for this i need to get our vertical amount uh for the graphics card because i do i do think vertical in this will look nice it's a way to fill up the case with only one card not to mention the face of the card is usually the prettiest part and then if i get a ek block that matches because i know they make them for the for the one three now and i get the acetal version it'll just match it'll be black with silver with the ek logo and stuff i could even potentially add some rgb lighting to the back yes i know stop to the back of it that way it'll add glow to the motherboard so that way if i'm doing yellow lighting because the skunk works see skunkworks had no lighting in it with the exception of like one white led strip to glow to make the yellow parts because i had the painted fan rings and all that to make those glow now i'll be doing a lot of that with rgb which didn't really exist when skunk works first came around so i could theme it with lighting now i can do that it just kind of sucks that's gonna cover up the chrome bit there but i feel like taking this cover off and maybe even painting it the matte black but there is rgb lighting right there which you're not gonna be able to see which is fine i mean we don't want to see too many logos and stuff blowing but i think that's all gonna fit and just it it meets my aesthetic itch it scratches it that makes sense because everything everything's squared like even if this is upright like this it's square square square square square so i like that a lot so anyway that's where we're going to end it make sure you guys check in for the next part where we're going to now disassemble the reservoir and the tank and the pump and get that all cleaned out we'll flush the rads get all that gunk out of there uh this is a brand new block so i have to do anything with that except for maybe an initial flush to get any sort of uh oils or anything out of there from the machining process and i still don't know if we're going to use this so if you guys want to see how this turns out make sure you follow and are subscribed and thanks for watching guys and we'll see you in the next one\n"