I told myself this would be a quick fix...

I think I can snip this part off yeah I actually work pretty well you wear the other side man well that was a lot more maddening that I would like to admit further proof that I should never ever start a video by saying the words like hey I'm just gonna do something quick and simple and easy today hey how drives install so at this point the system is pretty much put back together functionally I could turn it back on and use it now we just have the problem of getting this side panel on so basically I just got to place it at the top look through these holes at the heatsink down below there and Mark out where to cut all right the area to be cut has been marked off has been taped off I had supreme confidence and what I'm doing let's move this show outside I've made some progress with my rotary tool already but in the interest of efficiency I'm going to see what my angle grinder can do with this angle grinder a little bit faster and so my initial mod is I want to say complete cuz that's just jinx in myself but at least I managed to cut the hole out and I will say this thing is not as flimsy as I was expecting it to be after doing that so that is a good thing I am not quite ready to take the tape off I'm gonna see if I can do a test fit here first really holy crap it fits like again I just I don't want to get ahead of myself because I'd try to prepare for the worst and everything but the fact that this went on mounted over the top there's barely enough clearance for the fins along this edge I probably went a little wider than was necessary on this side but I didn't want to conflicts with the thermal ends of the heat pipes right there and again just barely enough clearance for the heat pipes around that side as well this makes me happy so I think I can remove the tape now and apply my u channel I have already gone along here once I finished the cuts with the angle grinder which was so much faster and that's a bull rotary tool but he's a rotary tool to go along here and kind of clean and deburr the edges and then I finished it off with just a little bit of hand filing as well all right so I couldn't find a really like Finnish solution for these outside corners you can sort of angle this around corners but like hard 90-degree angles like this is a little bit tougher but not astley that's fine I'm really not going for aesthetics with this build I mainly wanted it to be protected from the rough metal edges that were there but I think we're now ready to do the final reassembly so despite my best efforts I think I can actually call this a successful video I managed to mob the case I managed to fit the upgraded cooler inside the hard drive and is installed as well I opted not to go for the CPU upgrade and adding the graphics card because for one I don't really need the extra CPU horsepower right now but I might do that in the future since I do have a better cooler on there I'll make that decision as I potentially add more cameras to the setup because more cameras equals more CPU horsepower needed what I do have now though is eight times the amount of storage for all of the videos and surveillance footage and of course a nice quiet system now and I know this is anecdotal but the mic is right next to this and since this is an AK 2 and ff12 fan you just can't hear it at all what you're probably hearing right now is the fan I have going over there because it's a little warm today I'm always a little hesitant when I do projects like this because they're not practical hopefully I've mentioned that a few times and it's not something I'd recommend anyone set up for themselves at home it's just me trying to figure out a good solution to get something done with the hardware and equipment that I have here at home so I hope you guys have enjoyed watching hit the thumbs up button if you did enjoy it and I'll post links to the parts that are in this build down in the video description below as well as a link to MN PC tech comm if you guys aren't familiar bill Owen owns that site he has a youtube channel as well does a ton of really really awesome case mods system mods custom builds and he sells a lot of modding accessories and equipment as well I haven't been in touch with them for several years but since I started pulling stuff out and I was like oh yeah bill gave me this he gave me this awesome green scotch tape too so I just wanted to say another thank you to him because I'm still getting use out of that stuff thank you guys again for watching this one though hit the thumbs up button on your way out we'll see you in the next one

I managed to mob the case and fit the upgraded cooler inside the hard drive and is installed as well. I opted not to go for the CPU upgrade and adding the graphics card because for one, I don't really need the extra CPU horsepower right now but I might do that in the future since I do have a better cooler on there. I'll make that decision as I potentially add more cameras to the setup because more cameras equals more CPU horsepower needed. What I do have now though is eight times the amount of storage for all of the videos and surveillance footage, and of course, a nice quiet system now.

The most interesting part of this project was figuring out how to install the side panel without having any tools that were specifically designed for it. I had to use my angle grinder and some tape to get the job done, and while it wasn't the prettiest thing in the world, it got the job done. I also realized that I'm not as good at using power tools as I thought I was. The fact that I managed to cut a hole in the side panel without any issues is a testament to my skill level.

Despite the challenges, I'm really happy with how this project turned out. It's been a fun and rewarding experience, and I learned a lot along the way. If you're thinking of building your own PC or modifying an existing one, I would definitely recommend doing it yourself. Just make sure you have the right tools and some patience.

One of the biggest challenges I faced was trying to find parts that fit together seamlessly. The side panel had to be custom fitted to the case, which was a bit tricky. However, once I got everything lined up and installed, it all worked out in the end. It's amazing how much of a difference a well-fitting part can make.

Overall, this project has been a great learning experience for me. I've learned a lot about PC building and modification, and I'm excited to see what other projects I can tackle in the future.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI need to shoot a video today I'm trying to get back to my regular quota of videos which is typically three or four videos a week depending on whether or not you count the live show I'd like to get something useful done but it can't be too crazy involved or anything like that because I've got other stuff to work on I got 10th Gen Intel stuff I've got some new AMD CPUs that have arrived that I need to start testing this next week is gonna be pretty busy with that kind of thing I want to invest some time out here in the garage it's been kind of a dumping ground for stuff since we had the whole remodel done but maybe maybe if I just kind of close my eyes and meditate for a moments a good project will come to me I hear my daughter out in the other room that's okay ignore that I hear you guys saying Paul you should clean stuff up do some cleaning it's too much too much I said a manageable project weight though I think I think I hear something I think I hear something right over here now what is this what is that horrendous sound oh yeah let's fix this the dark core RGB Pro is a premium wireless gaming mouse from Corsair with a long list of features like an 18,000 dpi low-power picsArt optical sensor for maximum precision with minimal power usage attractive nine zone dynamic RGB backlighting and a comfortable contoured shape with two interchangeable side grips included connect wirelessly via Corsairs sub 1 millisecond slipstream technology via bluetooth for convenience on the go or wired via USB see durable Omron switches up to 50 hours of battery life 8 fully programmable buttons and more so click the sponsor link in the description for details so this slim mini ITX case is the doctor's aber sentry and I built this system in it back in November in December of 2019 the goal is for this to be my home surveillance PC and I wanted to do a DIY home surveillance solution in the first video I made a bunch of mistakes I thought up in the second video and tried to correct my mistakes I also made additional mistakes and the plan was to come back to it to do a little bit further analysis of some of the software solutions I was using as well as try to get a better handle on these smart pol we I P cameras that are really cool and really functional and can offload a lot of the work from a computer that you might be using as a central hub so that the camera does it itself long story short though I haven't done any of that it is now may 20 2014 and running I've just been using the contact cam software because I paid 10 bucks for it and it has been functional I would select to come back to the idea of setting up DIY home surveillance by building a PC to sort of handle everything but I think I will do it once I've done a little bit more research and maybe get a little bit more hands-on experience and I just haven't been able to do any of that over the past few months because of remodel and all the other stuff that's been going on in the world today though I'm gonna crack this system open and try to solve two simple problems the first is what you hopefully heard there in the intro which is that the cooling solution I have on here which is a cryo rig c7 which is right up against the grill over on this side gluing off our CPU which is the AMD rise in 530 400 G and I know dr. Zuber and I believe Cryer rig as well contacted me when I first set this up and was like that's probably not the best cooling solution because in their tests it has to run at a really high rpm on the fan in order to actually cool adequately that has been absolutely true I've come in here to film multiple times and just heard it going off over there where I temporarily set it up and thought to myself I need to fix that so today I'm gonna fix it also I am finally gonna be integrating the sport tire biomechanical hard drive because I purchased this back in November or December right now it's saving all my surveillance camera footage to a 500 gig SSD and I'm just a little bit concerned about the longevity of that 500 gig SSD since NAND flash does have a limited amount of program erase cycles and eventually will run through them and this type of use case is much better suited for something like the WD purple Drive which is made to handle multiple video streams it's very efficient at that and it should last much longer durability wise than the SSD that said let's open this up so here's the build disassembled I just got the couple SSDs up on the top there is that c7 looking pretty dusty and you can tell why this isn't a very effective solution the fins are going this way which means it's gonna push the air one this direction so we're gonna be immediately blocked by the RAM right there over here there's a little bit of space for it to escape but just not a whole lot the temperatures here weren't crazy or anything like that either but the CPU was just getting hot enough that it was having to ramp that fan up quite a bit now the thing I realized is I don't have an alternate solution for this at least in mind right now so I'm gonna just have to hunt down here in the garage and try to find something that can fit in here there's a chance I might even do a mod to the side panel here if I choose something that is a little bit too big well check that out in just a second the other thing that I might do since there is a little bit of space up here I'm going to be mounting the the 4 terabyte drive up there somewhere as I explained my camera setup though there's that trade-off is the CPU going to be doing the heavy lifting when it comes to video transcoding and stuff like that or are your cameras going to be doing it with the setup I have right now the CPU is doing the heavy lifting and that can be desirable if the software you're using can do stuff that you're intelligent security cameras can't so just putting together a bunch of little animations of stuff that have happened over the course of the day or of the week that you can look back to quickly assess if you know anybody who's been messing with your stuff wherever your have you have your security cameras set up to that end if I'm going to keep using the contact camp software then the loads gonna be in the CPU and come to kamme recommends I think something like two cores per camera or two threads per cameras and this is a fork or eight thread CPU that I have in here right now so if I could add a graphics card to give me some video out some some low power that can sit right up there that's also small enough that gives me enough space over here then maybe I could also upgrade the CPU but I may be getting too ahead of myself as it is I need to go check out what I have here in stock and see what I'm working with today so I hope I haven't shot myself in the foot already but I am fortunate enough that I have multiple Noctua coolers here on hand and when it comes to air coolers Noctua tends to make some of the best that are available the simplest solution would be to go with this the Noctua NH l 9i which is sort of the competitor to the cryo rig c7 or maybe the cravaack c7 is a competitor to the NH l 9i but this one's low profile it's meant to fit in a case like this it's really quite ideal but what i have here is the intel version LGA 1150 x because what this is compatible with and you either need to buy the m4 version or buy a different bracket to go along with this in order to be able to mount it so for now can't go with that I do have the NHL 12s this one is aimed for compatible so I'm gonna pop this open and check that out and then I also have an Nhu 12s SE and 4 and this one also comes with a name for mounting bracket so I'm gonna I'm gonna check both of these out and see how far they would actually protrude outside the case because I could pretty easily chop a hole in the side of this case and where I'm planning to have this mounted actually wouldn't mind that it would actually give me access to like clean the fan out which I know is gonna get dusty because it's gonna be on 24/7 but of course then I have to break out the cutting tool and all that stuff so let me pop these out of the box and I'll get back to you guys that I see here is a tower style cooler so obviously that's not gonna work that's that's not a solution that I'm going for but again I am for mounting bracket on here so I gotta check that and see if it's compatible with the NH L 9i probably not but who knows and I found that the answer to that one pretty quick which is no because where you're gonna need for an AM for mount for this CPU cooler is different brackets down here on the bottom and those are not going to be included with this one I guess one thing I can do here is to remove the motherboard need to happen one way or the other there the thing I've got to the point in this project where I feel really silly because there's a lot of impractical stuff going on the case for one is already very overpriced I discussed a lot of this stuff in the video that I did back in December but the fact is I don't have a cooler that will work here without modding the case at least not something that I have here on hand so that's another really silly thing if I had the patience to wait for the am4 bracket for the nock to and hl9 I then I could just install that and move on but I do have this el 12s this el suavo s does have am four mounts although this is a low-profile cooler and I also don't have the fan for it anymore so I'm gonna have to use a standard hundred twenty millimeter fan it's still just a little bit too tall for this case I can get it here and it won't conflict with the motherboard and the heat sinks or anything so that's okay but with the side panel on you can just sort of see the cooler underneath there and obviously that's not gonna close cuz the cooler is is definitely too tall for the case that means I would need to cut a larger than 120 millimeter fan sized hole here so that the side panel could go on all the way the cooler would then stick up through the hole and I would just stick a hundred twenty millimeter fan on top and I had almost convinced myself that this was a bad idea and that I should just cut things off here and go another route but then I told myself you know that if I can find that you channel rubber molding that billowing from em and PC Tech sent me all the way back when I did the case side panel mod on the original arctic panther then perhaps I will feel like this is the way I should go this is basically some some rubber stuff and if you cut steel like a case side panel or something like that you have an unfinished edge you can just use this to sort of mask it go along the edge it helps give it a much nice cleaner finish look in a much more intentional look than if you're just cutting steel and leaving stuff unfinished and it also helps protect that rough edge from cutting you but I think that means I have the ingredients and a path forward to actually accomplish my goal today or maybe tomorrow it already late in the afternoon my next steps though are going to be to mount this cooler to the motherboard with the backplate and everything get all that mounted in the case so I know exactly where it's gonna be get my side panel here and set it on top and get measurements for where I need to cut cut the hole and then problem should be solved I hope nothing goes wrong good thing I saved this original amphora Beckley alright so I have everything secured in here there's there's no thermal paste under there yet or anything I just wanted to get it all lined up with the motherboard mounted properly the cooler mounted properly and I am now very concerned about this left edge and potential clearance with where the case needs to come and kind of wrapper on the corner right here and this this corner of the cooler cuz as you can see that's jetting out a fair bit right there if it was maybe like I don't know a few millimeters or something like that to the right then I would feel a little bit more confident right now if I kind of lower the side panel down which I would need to do in order to mark off where the heatsink is from where I can see it through the side grille here I can just tell that upper left corner there is going to be something that causes me to have to cut way over here and into this side which I'd rather not do mainly because this is a single piece but um if I cut a big hole out right here it's gonna just be left with a thin strip right here kind of holding this section together so I'm worried about the overall integrity of the case I probably should I learned my lesson the while back about starting off of video saying like hey I'm going to accomplish a simple task or something like that because I tend to end up shooting myself in the foot but honestly I started out on the wrong foot anyway because I really should have had a cooling solution in mind for this before I started building what I did have in mind was this NH l 9i which I knew I already had but I completely forgot that Noctua does not always include mounts for both AMD and Intel with all of their coolers and sometimes you need to get a special kits for the AMD side of things so at this point I'm just gonna think about it for a while come up with the solution and you will find out what that's solution is right now all right so I've had some time to think about it and I've decided to go ahead and mob the case I have three reasons for doing so the first I feel a little guilty about which is that if this goes horribly wrong I can make a video title about this going horribly wrong and we all know how those videos tend to do on YouTube they tend to do well I do hope that I can do this successfully though and the second reason is that I think even if I completely managed to destroy this piece I can still run the system in this little setup and I can even wall mount it and everything so I can get by without a side panel and I've been known to do much worse than that in the past and then I guess the third reason is that even if I do manage to mangle and destroy this I can maybe DIY something to operate as a replacement side panel but that's really only a figment of my imagination right now here's what I want to do though I'm gonna reinstall everything here so I'm gonna add thermal paste to the cooler get it mounted get everything plugged back in get the hard drive installed and wired properly then I can get as accurate a measurement is possible for the side panel and where I need to cut it then I can go ahead and cut it with my rotary tool I like to get the hard drive mounted next right up in this space I'm going to remove that SSD so mounting it from the bottom I'm using these little spacer screws because I would like to provide it with a little bit of padding between the hard drive and the case to dampen some vibration from the spinning mechanical mess of this hard drive of course all my spacers are sort of I thought I had these sorted but I've only got two I'd like to use these but I've only got two so I'm gonna try to use these I've been fumbling with this for like 10 or 15 minutes now this is really difficult to mount in here with the spacers in between the screw mounting to this and I've just been fumbling with it I've decided that I'm gonna modify these spacers they're just a little bit too thick so I think I can snip this part off yeah I actually work pretty well you wear the other side man well that was a lot more maddening that I would like to admit further proof that I should never ever start a video by saying the words like hey I'm just gonna do something quick and simple and easy today hey how drives install so at this point the system is pretty much put back together functionally I could turn it back on and use it now we just have the problem of getting this side panel on so basically I just got to place it at the top look through these holes at the heatsink down below there and Mark out where to cut all right the area to be cut has been marked off has been taped off I had supreme confidence and what I'm doing let's move this show outside I've made some progress with my rotary tool already but in the interest of efficiency I'm going to see what my angle grinder can do with this angle grinder a little bit faster and so my initial mod is I want to say complete cuz that's just jinx in myself but at least I managed to cut the hole out and I will say this thing is not as flimsy as I was expecting it to be after doing that so that is a good thing I am not quite ready to take the tape off I'm gonna see if I can do a test fit here first really holy crap it fits like again I just I don't want to get ahead of myself because I'd try to prepare for the worst and everything but the fact that this went on mounted over the top there's barely enough clearance for the fins along this edge I probably went a little wider than was necessary on this side but I didn't want to conflicts with the thermal ends of the heat pipes right there and again just barely enough clearance for the heat pipes around that side as well this makes me happy so I think I can remove the tape now and apply my u channel I have already gone along here once I finished the cuts with the angle grinder which was so much faster and that's a bull rotary tool but he's a rotary tool to go along here and kind of clean and deburr the edges and then I finished it off with just a little bit of hand filing as well all right so I couldn't find a really like Finnish solution for these outside corners you can sort of angle this around corners but like hard 90-degree angles like this is a little bit tougher but not astley that's fine I'm really not going for aesthetics with this build I mainly wanted it to be protected from the rough metal edges that were there but I think we're now ready to do the final reassembly so despite my best efforts I think I can actually call this a successful video I managed to mob the case I managed to fit the upgraded cooler inside the hard drive and is installed as well I opted not to go for the CPU upgrade and adding the graphics card because for one I don't really need the extra CPU horsepower right now but I might do that in the future since I do have a better cooler on there I'll make that decision as I potentially add more cameras to the setup because more cameras equals more CPU horsepower needed what I do have now though is eight times the amount of storage for all of the videos and surveillance footage and of course a nice quiet system now and I know this is anecdotal but the mic is right next to this and since this is an AK 2 and ff12 fan you just can't hear it at all what you're probably hearing right now is the fan I have going over there because it's a little warm today I'm always a little hesitant when I do projects like this because they're not practical hopefully I've mentioned that a few times and it's not something I'd recommend anyone set up for themselves at home it's just me trying to figure out a good solution to get something done with the hardware and equipment that I have here at home so I hope you guys have enjoyed watching hit the thumbs up button if you did enjoy it and I'll post links to the parts that are in this build down in the video description below as well as a link to MN PC tech comm if you guys aren't familiar bill Owen owns that site he has a youtube channel as well does a ton of really really awesome case mods system mods custom builds and he sells a lot of modding accessories and equipment as well I haven't been in touch with them for several years but since I started pulling stuff out and I was like oh yeah bill gave me this he gave me this awesome green scotch tape too so I just wanted to say another thank you to him because I'm still getting use out of that stuff thank you guys again for watching this one though hit the thumbs up button on your way out we'll see you in the next oneI need to shoot a video today I'm trying to get back to my regular quota of videos which is typically three or four videos a week depending on whether or not you count the live show I'd like to get something useful done but it can't be too crazy involved or anything like that because I've got other stuff to work on I got 10th Gen Intel stuff I've got some new AMD CPUs that have arrived that I need to start testing this next week is gonna be pretty busy with that kind of thing I want to invest some time out here in the garage it's been kind of a dumping ground for stuff since we had the whole remodel done but maybe maybe if I just kind of close my eyes and meditate for a moments a good project will come to me I hear my daughter out in the other room that's okay ignore that I hear you guys saying Paul you should clean stuff up do some cleaning it's too much too much I said a manageable project weight though I think I think I hear something I think I hear something right over here now what is this what is that horrendous sound oh yeah let's fix this the dark core RGB Pro is a premium wireless gaming mouse from Corsair with a long list of features like an 18,000 dpi low-power picsArt optical sensor for maximum precision with minimal power usage attractive nine zone dynamic RGB backlighting and a comfortable contoured shape with two interchangeable side grips included connect wirelessly via Corsairs sub 1 millisecond slipstream technology via bluetooth for convenience on the go or wired via USB see durable Omron switches up to 50 hours of battery life 8 fully programmable buttons and more so click the sponsor link in the description for details so this slim mini ITX case is the doctor's aber sentry and I built this system in it back in November in December of 2019 the goal is for this to be my home surveillance PC and I wanted to do a DIY home surveillance solution in the first video I made a bunch of mistakes I thought up in the second video and tried to correct my mistakes I also made additional mistakes and the plan was to come back to it to do a little bit further analysis of some of the software solutions I was using as well as try to get a better handle on these smart pol we I P cameras that are really cool and really functional and can offload a lot of the work from a computer that you might be using as a central hub so that the camera does it itself long story short though I haven't done any of that it is now may 20 2014 and running I've just been using the contact cam software because I paid 10 bucks for it and it has been functional I would select to come back to the idea of setting up DIY home surveillance by building a PC to sort of handle everything but I think I will do it once I've done a little bit more research and maybe get a little bit more hands-on experience and I just haven't been able to do any of that over the past few months because of remodel and all the other stuff that's been going on in the world today though I'm gonna crack this system open and try to solve two simple problems the first is what you hopefully heard there in the intro which is that the cooling solution I have on here which is a cryo rig c7 which is right up against the grill over on this side gluing off our CPU which is the AMD rise in 530 400 G and I know dr. Zuber and I believe Cryer rig as well contacted me when I first set this up and was like that's probably not the best cooling solution because in their tests it has to run at a really high rpm on the fan in order to actually cool adequately that has been absolutely true I've come in here to film multiple times and just heard it going off over there where I temporarily set it up and thought to myself I need to fix that so today I'm gonna fix it also I am finally gonna be integrating the sport tire biomechanical hard drive because I purchased this back in November or December right now it's saving all my surveillance camera footage to a 500 gig SSD and I'm just a little bit concerned about the longevity of that 500 gig SSD since NAND flash does have a limited amount of program erase cycles and eventually will run through them and this type of use case is much better suited for something like the WD purple Drive which is made to handle multiple video streams it's very efficient at that and it should last much longer durability wise than the SSD that said let's open this up so here's the build disassembled I just got the couple SSDs up on the top there is that c7 looking pretty dusty and you can tell why this isn't a very effective solution the fins are going this way which means it's gonna push the air one this direction so we're gonna be immediately blocked by the RAM right there over here there's a little bit of space for it to escape but just not a whole lot the temperatures here weren't crazy or anything like that either but the CPU was just getting hot enough that it was having to ramp that fan up quite a bit now the thing I realized is I don't have an alternate solution for this at least in mind right now so I'm gonna just have to hunt down here in the garage and try to find something that can fit in here there's a chance I might even do a mod to the side panel here if I choose something that is a little bit too big well check that out in just a second the other thing that I might do since there is a little bit of space up here I'm going to be mounting the the 4 terabyte drive up there somewhere as I explained my camera setup though there's that trade-off is the CPU going to be doing the heavy lifting when it comes to video transcoding and stuff like that or are your cameras going to be doing it with the setup I have right now the CPU is doing the heavy lifting and that can be desirable if the software you're using can do stuff that you're intelligent security cameras can't so just putting together a bunch of little animations of stuff that have happened over the course of the day or of the week that you can look back to quickly assess if you know anybody who's been messing with your stuff wherever your have you have your security cameras set up to that end if I'm going to keep using the contact camp software then the loads gonna be in the CPU and come to kamme recommends I think something like two cores per camera or two threads per cameras and this is a fork or eight thread CPU that I have in here right now so if I could add a graphics card to give me some video out some some low power that can sit right up there that's also small enough that gives me enough space over here then maybe I could also upgrade the CPU but I may be getting too ahead of myself as it is I need to go check out what I have here in stock and see what I'm working with today so I hope I haven't shot myself in the foot already but I am fortunate enough that I have multiple Noctua coolers here on hand and when it comes to air coolers Noctua tends to make some of the best that are available the simplest solution would be to go with this the Noctua NH l 9i which is sort of the competitor to the cryo rig c7 or maybe the cravaack c7 is a competitor to the NH l 9i but this one's low profile it's meant to fit in a case like this it's really quite ideal but what i have here is the intel version LGA 1150 x because what this is compatible with and you either need to buy the m4 version or buy a different bracket to go along with this in order to be able to mount it so for now can't go with that I do have the NHL 12s this one is aimed for compatible so I'm gonna pop this open and check that out and then I also have an Nhu 12s SE and 4 and this one also comes with a name for mounting bracket so I'm gonna I'm gonna check both of these out and see how far they would actually protrude outside the case because I could pretty easily chop a hole in the side of this case and where I'm planning to have this mounted actually wouldn't mind that it would actually give me access to like clean the fan out which I know is gonna get dusty because it's gonna be on 24/7 but of course then I have to break out the cutting tool and all that stuff so let me pop these out of the box and I'll get back to you guys that I see here is a tower style cooler so obviously that's not gonna work that's that's not a solution that I'm going for but again I am for mounting bracket on here so I gotta check that and see if it's compatible with the NH L 9i probably not but who knows and I found that the answer to that one pretty quick which is no because where you're gonna need for an AM for mount for this CPU cooler is different brackets down here on the bottom and those are not going to be included with this one I guess one thing I can do here is to remove the motherboard need to happen one way or the other there the thing I've got to the point in this project where I feel really silly because there's a lot of impractical stuff going on the case for one is already very overpriced I discussed a lot of this stuff in the video that I did back in December but the fact is I don't have a cooler that will work here without modding the case at least not something that I have here on hand so that's another really silly thing if I had the patience to wait for the am4 bracket for the nock to and hl9 I then I could just install that and move on but I do have this el 12s this el suavo s does have am four mounts although this is a low-profile cooler and I also don't have the fan for it anymore so I'm gonna have to use a standard hundred twenty millimeter fan it's still just a little bit too tall for this case I can get it here and it won't conflict with the motherboard and the heat sinks or anything so that's okay but with the side panel on you can just sort of see the cooler underneath there and obviously that's not gonna close cuz the cooler is is definitely too tall for the case that means I would need to cut a larger than 120 millimeter fan sized hole here so that the side panel could go on all the way the cooler would then stick up through the hole and I would just stick a hundred twenty millimeter fan on top and I had almost convinced myself that this was a bad idea and that I should just cut things off here and go another route but then I told myself you know that if I can find that you channel rubber molding that billowing from em and PC Tech sent me all the way back when I did the case side panel mod on the original arctic panther then perhaps I will feel like this is the way I should go this is basically some some rubber stuff and if you cut steel like a case side panel or something like that you have an unfinished edge you can just use this to sort of mask it go along the edge it helps give it a much nice cleaner finish look in a much more intentional look than if you're just cutting steel and leaving stuff unfinished and it also helps protect that rough edge from cutting you but I think that means I have the ingredients and a path forward to actually accomplish my goal today or maybe tomorrow it already late in the afternoon my next steps though are going to be to mount this cooler to the motherboard with the backplate and everything get all that mounted in the case so I know exactly where it's gonna be get my side panel here and set it on top and get measurements for where I need to cut cut the hole and then problem should be solved I hope nothing goes wrong good thing I saved this original amphora Beckley alright so I have everything secured in here there's there's no thermal paste under there yet or anything I just wanted to get it all lined up with the motherboard mounted properly the cooler mounted properly and I am now very concerned about this left edge and potential clearance with where the case needs to come and kind of wrapper on the corner right here and this this corner of the cooler cuz as you can see that's jetting out a fair bit right there if it was maybe like I don't know a few millimeters or something like that to the right then I would feel a little bit more confident right now if I kind of lower the side panel down which I would need to do in order to mark off where the heatsink is from where I can see it through the side grille here I can just tell that upper left corner there is going to be something that causes me to have to cut way over here and into this side which I'd rather not do mainly because this is a single piece but um if I cut a big hole out right here it's gonna just be left with a thin strip right here kind of holding this section together so I'm worried about the overall integrity of the case I probably should I learned my lesson the while back about starting off of video saying like hey I'm going to accomplish a simple task or something like that because I tend to end up shooting myself in the foot but honestly I started out on the wrong foot anyway because I really should have had a cooling solution in mind for this before I started building what I did have in mind was this NH l 9i which I knew I already had but I completely forgot that Noctua does not always include mounts for both AMD and Intel with all of their coolers and sometimes you need to get a special kits for the AMD side of things so at this point I'm just gonna think about it for a while come up with the solution and you will find out what that's solution is right now all right so I've had some time to think about it and I've decided to go ahead and mob the case I have three reasons for doing so the first I feel a little guilty about which is that if this goes horribly wrong I can make a video title about this going horribly wrong and we all know how those videos tend to do on YouTube they tend to do well I do hope that I can do this successfully though and the second reason is that I think even if I completely managed to destroy this piece I can still run the system in this little setup and I can even wall mount it and everything so I can get by without a side panel and I've been known to do much worse than that in the past and then I guess the third reason is that even if I do manage to mangle and destroy this I can maybe DIY something to operate as a replacement side panel but that's really only a figment of my imagination right now here's what I want to do though I'm gonna reinstall everything here so I'm gonna add thermal paste to the cooler get it mounted get everything plugged back in get the hard drive installed and wired properly then I can get as accurate a measurement is possible for the side panel and where I need to cut it then I can go ahead and cut it with my rotary tool I like to get the hard drive mounted next right up in this space I'm going to remove that SSD so mounting it from the bottom I'm using these little spacer screws because I would like to provide it with a little bit of padding between the hard drive and the case to dampen some vibration from the spinning mechanical mess of this hard drive of course all my spacers are sort of I thought I had these sorted but I've only got two I'd like to use these but I've only got two so I'm gonna try to use these I've been fumbling with this for like 10 or 15 minutes now this is really difficult to mount in here with the spacers in between the screw mounting to this and I've just been fumbling with it I've decided that I'm gonna modify these spacers they're just a little bit too thick so I think I can snip this part off yeah I actually work pretty well you wear the other side man well that was a lot more maddening that I would like to admit further proof that I should never ever start a video by saying the words like hey I'm just gonna do something quick and simple and easy today hey how drives install so at this point the system is pretty much put back together functionally I could turn it back on and use it now we just have the problem of getting this side panel on so basically I just got to place it at the top look through these holes at the heatsink down below there and Mark out where to cut all right the area to be cut has been marked off has been taped off I had supreme confidence and what I'm doing let's move this show outside I've made some progress with my rotary tool already but in the interest of efficiency I'm going to see what my angle grinder can do with this angle grinder a little bit faster and so my initial mod is I want to say complete cuz that's just jinx in myself but at least I managed to cut the hole out and I will say this thing is not as flimsy as I was expecting it to be after doing that so that is a good thing I am not quite ready to take the tape off I'm gonna see if I can do a test fit here first really holy crap it fits like again I just I don't want to get ahead of myself because I'd try to prepare for the worst and everything but the fact that this went on mounted over the top there's barely enough clearance for the fins along this edge I probably went a little wider than was necessary on this side but I didn't want to conflicts with the thermal ends of the heat pipes right there and again just barely enough clearance for the heat pipes around that side as well this makes me happy so I think I can remove the tape now and apply my u channel I have already gone along here once I finished the cuts with the angle grinder which was so much faster and that's a bull rotary tool but he's a rotary tool to go along here and kind of clean and deburr the edges and then I finished it off with just a little bit of hand filing as well all right so I couldn't find a really like Finnish solution for these outside corners you can sort of angle this around corners but like hard 90-degree angles like this is a little bit tougher but not astley that's fine I'm really not going for aesthetics with this build I mainly wanted it to be protected from the rough metal edges that were there but I think we're now ready to do the final reassembly so despite my best efforts I think I can actually call this a successful video I managed to mob the case I managed to fit the upgraded cooler inside the hard drive and is installed as well I opted not to go for the CPU upgrade and adding the graphics card because for one I don't really need the extra CPU horsepower right now but I might do that in the future since I do have a better cooler on there I'll make that decision as I potentially add more cameras to the setup because more cameras equals more CPU horsepower needed what I do have now though is eight times the amount of storage for all of the videos and surveillance footage and of course a nice quiet system now and I know this is anecdotal but the mic is right next to this and since this is an AK 2 and ff12 fan you just can't hear it at all what you're probably hearing right now is the fan I have going over there because it's a little warm today I'm always a little hesitant when I do projects like this because they're not practical hopefully I've mentioned that a few times and it's not something I'd recommend anyone set up for themselves at home it's just me trying to figure out a good solution to get something done with the hardware and equipment that I have here at home so I hope you guys have enjoyed watching hit the thumbs up button if you did enjoy it and I'll post links to the parts that are in this build down in the video description below as well as a link to MN PC tech comm if you guys aren't familiar bill Owen owns that site he has a youtube channel as well does a ton of really really awesome case mods system mods custom builds and he sells a lot of modding accessories and equipment as well I haven't been in touch with them for several years but since I started pulling stuff out and I was like oh yeah bill gave me this he gave me this awesome green scotch tape too so I just wanted to say another thank you to him because I'm still getting use out of that stuff thank you guys again for watching this one though hit the thumbs up button on your way out we'll see you in the next one\n"