Building a Powerful AMD System with Main Gear and EVGA

Our latest project is a beast of a machine that's sure to satisfy even the most demanding users. We've got an AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, 12-core CPU, paired with a Radeon RX 5700 XT for graphics processing. But what really sets this system apart is its custom liquid cooling solution from Main Gear.

Installing the GPU

We started by installing our Radeon RX 5700 XT into the case, taking care to gently secure it in place. Once it was all snug and cozy, we had a few screws to add and some cables to route through the system. As you can see, Shawn's been doing some quick plumbing, bending tubes and fitting them together with ease.

Measuring Twice, Cutting Once

Shawn's also been working on measuring up the liquid tubing to fit perfectly into place. And by "perfectly," we mean with just a little bit of wiggle room. As he says, "You've got to finish every cut, even if it cuts around." We can't argue with that.

Adding Liquid Coolant

Now that all the tubes are in place, it's time to add some liquid coolant. And what a beautiful sight this is! The Main Gear Apex cooling system looks stunning, and we're glad we get to show you just how it works. As Brent says, "This is mostly water, but also some anti-corrosive and anti-bacterial antimicrobial stuff." Sounds like a recipe for success!

Getting Ready to Put It All Together

With all the liquid tubing in place, it's time to add the final pieces of our system together. We've got our CPU socket, motherboard, RAM, and GPU, all securely fastened into their respective mounts.

The System Takes Shape

As we start adding everything back together, you can see just how well-designed this system is. The Main Gear Vibe chassis is a work of art, with its sleek lines and clean design making it look like a high-end boutique build. And with the Apex cooling solution in place, we're confident that this system will run quietly and efficiently.

The Final Touches

Once all the components are installed, it's time to add the final touches to our system. We've got a gorgeous Kingston HyperX Predator memory, a Gigabyte X570 motherboard, and an EVGA graphics card to top it off. And with everything securely fastened in place, we're ready to fire up this beast of a machine.

The System is Ready

And now, the moment of truth! Let's take a look at just how well our system performs. As you can see, it's rocking out 4.15 gigahertz across all 12 CPU cores, and scoring a respectable 7,335 on Cinebench R20. This machine should handle even the most demanding content creation tasks with ease.

Gaming Performance

But it's not just about creating content – this system is also built for gaming. We're looking at around 60 frames per second at 4k high image quality settings in titles like Far Cry: New Dawn. That's some serious power right there!

A Job Well Done

We've spent hours slaving over this machine, and it shows just how well everything fits together. Thanks to the good folks at Main Gear for their expert guidance and support throughout this build.

Conclusion

And that's a wrap! We hope you enjoyed watching us build this incredible AMD system from scratch. If you're interested in getting your hands on the Main Gear Vibe chassis and Apex liquid cooling solution, be sure to check out our links below. And don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit that notification bell for more content like this.

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come down here today to build hopefully a killer gaming rig and production content creation rig for our use at hot hardware calm Ron thanks for having us today I'm I'm like super excited about this this is gonna be really cool kind of like a behind-the-scenes look in the way that we build our own Bibles for our customers which i think is gonna be awesome cool yeah so yeah Ron said the vibe the main gear vibe which is the chassis in this box along with some pretty cool liquid cooling and some components from some manufacturers that were good enough to help us out right Marco yes so in addition to main gear hooking us up with some really cool stuff we've got some hardware from from gigabyte an awesome nvme PCIe four SSD and X 570 motherboard EVGA hooked us up with an awesome thousand watt power supply and of course we can't forget AMD with the killer 12 core rise in 930 900 X and the Radeon rx 5700 XT so the current top-of-the-line Navi on top here as well beautiful all the makings for a great production content creation and gaming machine built here in the United States of America Kenilworth new jersey at main gear Computers in the vibe coming up next okay before we get rolling on the build I want to show you some of the really cool hardware that we have going into the rig let's start on this side we'll start with the smallest box first this is the gigabyte ARS nvme gen 4 SSD so this little bad boy is awesome it is a standard m dot 2 2280 SSD with this awesome copper heatsink capable of nearly 5 gigabyte force per second sequential reads the super super awesome SSD there and that is going to get installed into the gigabyte X 570 ARS master motherboard so we showed some of this stuff off in our launch article this guy's got nice beefy cooling on the VRMs plenty of overclocking and gaming related features plus cooling you know on the on the heatsink on all of the MDOT two slots though these guys are going to come off to accommodate the heatsink on the a auras SSD we've also got an awesome Kingston HyperX predator RGB memory kit going in it's all going to be powered by this beefy 1000 watt EVGA power supply I don't think it's going to look too sexy in the box but yeah it's in there and of course we have to show off some of the AMD here now at the heart of the system is going to be the rise in 930 900 x12 for processor now that guy just fits right into the am 4 socket just like previous gen underneath here is a rate prism cooler that is not going to get used main gears hooking up with some hooking us up with some awesome liquid cooling and pushing the pixels we have this guy the Radeon rx 5700 XT the current high-end Navi based GPU sounds like all the gear we need for a great machine definitely alright so in terms of chassis and cooling we got some special stuff here from main gear but I am definitely not the expert on this this guy over here is Ron Reed's gonna tell us a little bit about the main gear vibe chassis that we're going to be working with yeah so let me talk a bit about what kind of the vibe is to so you know traditionally we've sold our systems as customizable pcs so we have custom chassis and you can go on our website and there's a bunch of different components you can select and then we hand-built the PC for you with the vibe we wanted to take a different approach and we've really created like a full ecosystem for the community so the idea is you can buy the vibe from us as a custom PC the traditional way that you always go with main gear we have what we call enthusiast pre-configured pcs and those are basically performance optimized configurations where it's you know it's for your specific use case it's very easy to purchase but you know we have a history of being a DIY guy space that's how almost every person a maker got started at us yeah and so with the vibe we wanted to kind of celebrate that community by releasing a full selection of parts that you can do and and build a vibe your own way yourself people have asked for years and we finally have it available on our website and through micro Center so I'll talk a little bit more now and depth about the chassis itself so with the five we took everything that we learned with our f1 31 that we've released two years ago and wanted to bring it to a more affordable platform so from the start it's a mid sized ATX chassis so it supports an e ATX motherboard you'll notice immediately when you look at it that it's just a really premium build quality for the price so excellent construction really good materials we've focused on ease of building inside so you're gonna notice that cable management is really simple and there's just ample room regardless of what kind of build you want to put inside of it we built it with liquid cooling in mind so it supports a 360 mo meter right here in the front and a 240 on the top it's got a really nice tinted tempered glass side panel that's super clean as far as other stuff on the inside it's got an illuminated RGB front logo so you can control the color it has USB type-c on the side really really good IO in its class and you'll notice it's actually on the side of the PC which I love because you're going to want to show this build off on your desk and so it's in the perfect spot to make it accessible one of the other fantastic features of the case is we designed a custom fan and RGB controller that comes with the chassis so essentially it's got a pwm controller so you could plug all your fans in and easily manage the speed but it's got some secret sauce so it's the custom RGB controller you can connect a all of your RGB fans and all of your RGB lights to the actual controller itself but what's nice is if you have a motherboard that supports software RGB you run a single cable to the motherboard and then you're able to control all the lights via software but if you don't have a motherboard that supports that you flip a switch in the controller and it essentially switches to a remote control which is which is cool because it gives flexibility regardless of how you're building your machine but it's not just about the chassis itself so like the f1 31 we announced our apex cooling solution and we brought it down to the vibe in a more affordable fashion so apex is a fully integrated liquid cooling solution that kind of takes a lot of the secret sauce and what we've learned about liquid cooling over the years and puts it into a single product for your boat so the idea what the apex is that it's an oversized reservoir so you don't have to worry about constantly topping off your belt it's a distribution block and so what that means is it's routing the the coolant through the system so you get much cleaner liquid coin and really clean lines to the build and then it also has an integrated pump on the inside so you kind of you're getting a lot through this and like I said at the beginning I think what's really amazing is this is now the first time ever forming gear that this is available for the DIY audience we partnered with micro centers so you can go into a store today and pick up an apex block or a vibe chassis and do a build yourself and it just gives you all the room to customize it you know to the way that you want it including the fact that we even have four different colors for the vibe black white red and a nice gray so you really can build the system of your dreams like main gear does and I'm really excited that you guys are going to be building in this today let's do it awesome all right now but before we get into the bill we got to take quick tour of main gears facility because it's been what maybe seven eight nine years since we were here I don't think that long but it's been a couple of years for sure yeah it's been a while and while it's gonna show us around this house hey welcome to the nerdery once again a couple of things changes this time around and we're gonna take you for a quick tour let's go process is still pretty much basically the same but better so it's a one man one machine and here essentially we assign a system or an order to a builder and the Builder will be getting will build it from beginning to end okay once that system is built we line it up in the inspection station here where system needs to be inspected by a second technician okay once that system is suspected visually that's when it goes to our testing station okay so here we have Nicole she's she's really tests and all sisters I believe last time we had like ten monitors assigned for a rack now we have a KDM switch with the ten monitors being shown at the same time here so it's better visually for her so she can be able to see catch any artifacts anything that might happen during the testing as you know benchmarking is not just getting that final number but also ensuring that you're getting a visual representation of how it's gonna systems gonna perform at the customer's house so in this case here we have the systems lineup and you're just going through a battery of tests right a lot of these tests are you know custom batch files that we've created in-house and combining like you know different benchmark 3dmark Heaven etc Prime and we're basically trying to stress test the system here to make sure that we catch any issues at the factory before ships out Nicole also does the Netflix and beers after-hours right on that nice big panel baby cool so once the systems are built they get parted over to the shipping station here and run away from the camera dan can hide man yeah so we have two guys here Danny Gore and they're doing the final preparation and the computers we're basically you know basic things like where will waxing the computer if there's any types of paint jobs we'll making sure that there's no fingerprints or anything like that and we're finishing the packaging process now once we package the computer new percent so we want that experience to be cool so like we kicked out of box experience very seriously here and everything from the way the box looks like to the way it smells when you open it right to sort of chats keys that we include in there that little extras bracelets things like that it just makes you more part of the brand and makes it feel like we're building it which being built by people right here in New Jersey I'm sorry in this case assembled by people right here in New Jersey and assembled with a lot of love so that's the idea cool thanks buddy cool so we're about ready to dive into the building as much as I would love to rip up on all these boxes and do it all myself because building pcs is my favorite thing in the world we're here with Brent the community manager from being here he's gonna help us with this build Brent why don't you talk about what's gonna happen here so we're gonna build in the making in the vibe case here the way that main gear normally does it now this case is very flexible and you can build it in any way you like but I wanted to show you the special way that we've learned to build this over the years so we're gonna get started with the build I am NOT going to pretend to be as good as the guys that main gear as much as I love building pcs these guys are the experts but I can handle some of the simple stuff and then we'll hand things off to Brent just gonna pop the CPU memory and SSD into the gigabyte motherboard that we have here so start with CPU super easy just gonna open up the zip zip socket and line up via the tab on the CPU with a little triangle on the socket it should just drop right in that guy is all set now I took the liberty of removing this shield on this m2 slot and put in the proper mount for a 2280 SSD this guy is literally just gonna plug right in here and I have one screw to install let's see if I can do this quickly on camera or maybe I should do it later with these big gorilla hands nope we got it okay you're two for two so that's right we're rocking so large the memory goes in slots ax a 2 and B 2 first on this motherboard so we're gonna just pop that right in this is the Kingston the RGB HyperX Ram that's one and typically they're in farther slots but you want to yeah absolutely we were lucky enough to actually have it printed right on the board here so nice and easy now this guy is basically prepped you know makes it super easy with em not to SSDs for the the water cooling block that's gonna go in but there's some prep that has to happen there oh and I forgot to mention we have the static protection going to the first time I think I've worn one in 30 years but you know we're doing it right here with me here alright Brett so what are you gonna do next so we're gonna install the water block so I use the power screwdriver here and when you're using a power screwdriver you want to on the lowest setting so it's similar to Android and so we're gonna just pull the defender or socket don't break it rent Wow so this particular water block bioethical actually uses the back plate there and then we have because of its universal mounting so you can get the same water block no matter what chipset you're using or what process are using so we're gonna leave that plastic on there right yeah first so we're gonna prep the screws here kind of an insulator there maybe you can help me with this so washer then spring then washer and nut so washer spring washer nut yep you better wash something mark oh yeah my wife says okay so we're gonna take off our plastic guards there and then apply a thermal paste multiple different ways to do this I like the two grains of rice for a risin processor like this that's plenty thread rippers a little bit of bigger of a chip you might need quite a bit more and then we want our flow to be correct so this is our intake and our how take for the water cooling tubes and then I'm just gonna hand tighten this down to the socket and then the spring is basically once you crank the screws down or then apply the enough contact pressure yeah yeah you don't want to apply too much or you'll start bending the PCB under the chip just to where it's snug so there's a custom milled water bog and what's it made out of acrylic so this would be the top would be acrylic the brackets steel and then top of the actual would be a nickel-plated never they go plated copper so it has that silver look which in this built a raw copper might have actually looked nicer but you have all the precious metals down and did we have good clearance with the SSD that fit in there yeah so it's a little bit tight but you'll make good so you can feel that it's hand tight it's not going to go down anymore yep and then I kind of like to just look at the board and make sure we're not bowing it and it looks pretty straight so I think we are ready to put it in the case okay so take off our side panel and I usually like to just take all the panels of the panel okay so you had one room and we're gonna lay down so that while we're screwing our mother for dinner doesn't fall out now this motherboard we got lucky and they already installed it or pre-installed IO shield so we don't have to forget about that I think everybody's first build you've forgotten the IO shield and you have to rebuild the whole thing all over again then our screw in the vibe is raised a little bit on the edges so you can use that to mount the motherboard in the right place it'll kind of hold all the other parts in there and then our screws are in a hard drive buddy just a quick interlude to show you where we are with the build so the gigabyte X 570 ARS master is mounted in the case right now CPU and water block installed memory is installed SSD is installed all the screws holding the motherboard are in place so I think at this point we're going to put in the power supply this is the EVGA one supernova 1003 fully modular PSU what's great about a fully modular power supply is you only use the cables that you need so less clutter inside the chassis we're gonna need the ATX power connector we have a couple of EPs 12-volt connectors I should say cables a couple of PCI Express graphics card power cables and we're gonna add a SATA power cable because when Dave gets this guy back in the lab he's probably gonna add some some big storage with all those video files he's gonna be working with so with a modular PSU I like to plug the cables in the power supply before you put it in there just because it's harder to reach and so just undo cable here and then this is the 24 pin side so that's going to go to the motherboard and then you just line it up with the designation on the power supply we'll just snap in just going to do that six more times cables okay so I've got all my cables plugged in in the vibe the ventilation is on the bottom so you want to make sure the fan goes facing downward we'll just slide it in here and then it's just a simple applying this screws so hold it up against it when we did the first one in just until the screwdriver city's tighten up pretty simple just four screws is a kick I don't mean to screw you up but down here is the filter too right does it just light out yes so all the time you just pull the filter out the back clean that out and a fresh intake to your power supply pull the dog hair up yep so now the favorite part of everybody's build cable management which I mean here we pride ourselves at being very few children cable management but it doesn't make it any less of a pain but so we're gonna start with our 24 pin here which will bring through this top grommet and then just rotate our table like okay sorry losing screws everywhere and that just goes in to the motherboard little power on the whole motherboard and pull that back clean it up and then I'm gonna grab our EPS connectors which this motherboard requires two of them just actually a quick mention you can get by with just one on this motherboard but if you want to enable that precision boost overdrive and make sure you're getting max power to the board for overclocking that's the half both of those installed yeah especially with this Verizon 9 right you don't want all that power so these ones are kind of tricky because it's so close to the edge of the face so I like to kind of pull them through more than you need to and then they kind of combined into one connector and you can install both halves at a time if that's easier just what I was going to do alright another quick progress update with the build so far we have a bunch of cables in and a bunch of hardware mounted so front panel audio the RGB lighting control plugged in here a couple of USB three headers front panel switches and the LED right over here we have the USB see front panel connected as well this is going out to the fan controller on the back and of course the big ATX power and up here the two EPs 12 volts are plugged in as well okay so now we've got all the wiring done we're going to add the first parts of our water cooling so we've pre-mounted our fans onto a radiator block this 360 no meter radiator just goes right there in the front and that is a big boy yeah we're gonna have plenty of cooling potential here and just screw it onto the front of the chassis and you may have noticed we removed the front panel of the chassis here just with the vibe there's a lot of wiring so you want to be a little careful when pulling that off and once I get two screws in it pretty much holds itself but we'll put the remainder of the screws in here grab our top radiator here which is 240 so a front-facing 340 front through 63 12 to 23 60 to 40 and we've got really big mounting rails up here so if we need to move this backwards afford or doing our bends we have a little bit of forgiveness there which is really nice it's one of my favorite parts of this case this case also supports obviously the 120 fan spec but also the 140 so you could put a 280 up here to a few hundred so we're gonna install our apex block here which is fairly simple we've pre-installed our mouth here which comes with the apex block and you just slide it up and in and I've loosened our radiator off the front so we can connect the spinning in the back take your screwdriver you notice it imarco hands or you're good and then we're just gonna fix it to the top your distribution block is in place we'll tighten up this radiator again and then we're ready to do tubes and water cooling so that's the apex it's is it made out of acrylic yes acrylic distribution block reservoir and pump combo which you can see the pump here so it helps keep all the lines really clean we'll just have two pipes coming off or CPU there and then be able to manage all the liquid cooling between the parts there in the back so that distributes liquid between the two radiators both between the two radiators and then we'll probably have one incoming from the CPUC and then pushing out of the CPU and we'll have our fill port here so we can fill it very easily from our large reservoir nice all right time to install the GPU we have our Radeon rx 5700 XT right here let's get this guy gently into the case okay she is in time for a couple of screws in cables and she's ready to go Shawn's doing some quick plumbing bending tubes and fitting them that's the CPU feed in there measure twice cut price is that it something like that they don't deny that Brent is inserting the last of the liquid tubing it's in the CPU block no instructions on which way is which no manual for that Brent okay so we're gonna need to take a little bit more off on this side it looks like yeah just because that's under stress so I just shave that off a bit and we should be good to go like your parties you have to finish every time even if it cuts around Oh sue brick yeah the last of the liquid tubing yet again this is the tricky one but I think we get the angle now Brent's got the angle we should say yes that'll work that'll work so we'll put the fittings on so you get if you've got a feed to the reservoir and a return back from it yeah into the radiator into the top radiator through the distribution block and then to the other radiator and then back into the reservoir and the moment of truth here we're now adding the liquid coolant we leaking yet buddy yeah good signs so this is mostly water but also some anti corrosive and anti bacterial antimicrobial yeah so like a biocide or anti elgin got you do you know how hard it is for me to holding this here goes cpu and then at this point we'll have to start the pump push some of the water through and then fill up some more we're just chopping off the reservoir here really getting some milk through those tubes baby squeeze it Brent this is this is a wholesome system and then Marco I'll have you tilt the system for it just so it can really good stuff don't drop it Marco and there'll be a little bit of air in the tubes but as the pump runs it will force it back into the reservoir here and then we can add the last bit of all right so here she is system is basically done the only thing left is to install the side panel and to install windows on the SSD you take a peak all the way back there there's that gorgeous gigabyte X 570 motherboard and in that CPU socket behind all that nice piping rise in 930 900 X 12 core CPU you got that nice Kingston HyperX predator memory blinging along can't forget the Radeon rx 5700 XT in the graphics lot you know if you take a peak around everything the the beautiful main gear vibe chassis holds all of this stuff nicely and that apex cooling system that just looks awesome especially with the the white coolant matching the case the whole setup just vibes really well if you ask me our AMD Rison 930 900 X and Radeon rx 5700 XT build with main gear gigabyte and EVGA turned out to be spectacular thanks to the clean easy to work with layout of the vibe chassis and the expert guidance we had with main gear along the way the system is rock-solid stable with AMD's precision boost overdrive maxed out at 4.15 gigahertz across all 12 of the cpu cores and it scores seven thousand three hundred thirty five on Cinebench r20 this machine should serve as a seriously powerful content creation rig with this kind of multi-threaded horsepower and of course on the gaming side of things we're pulling down around 60 frames per second at 4k high image quality settings and titles like Far Cry new dawn so kicking back for some fast pace the leisure time will be handled with ease as well so there you have it it's been a long hard working day here in New Jersey in the hot summer time building a great machine with the good folks at main gear the main gear vibe which you can pick up now do it yourself at micro Center the main gear vibe with Apex liquid cooling Brent thanks very much for your help my goodness spend lots of time working and slaving over this machine we've got great AMD technology onboard gigabyte EVGA all the good stuff Marco what you think how'd we do today I think we did great actually you know you're gonna watch it a few minutes short video Brent spent hours literally cutting cables and making sure everything fit well I think it came out great and all we did was feed him pizza you know it was great stuff but hey thanks very much for checking this out check out the build a little bit more hot hot work on where you can find us on the web youtube.com slash hot hardware hit thumbs up subscribe or you can get notified when we go streaming or we give the additional event coverage or reviews all that good stuff and yeah thanks very much main gear and thanks everybody for stopping byhey so we're here in scenic kenilworth New Jersey we're at the headquarters of main gear computers and a couple of knuckleheads with me and we've got a whole lot of gear here in the car and I believe the objective here today is to build an awesome killer gaming rig with the good folks at main gear say hi Ron what's up excited to have you guys here that's Ron Reed and there's Marco Chiappetta I'm Dave Alta villa of everybody and this is gonna be fun hey everybody Dave Alta Villa for a hot Hardware here with my compatriot this guy Marco Chiappetta Marco Chiappetta also for hot hardware go figure and we are here in Kenilworth New Jersey if you've ever heard of that place but if you haven't gorgeous it's gorgeous yes and at least for our purposes today it's gorgeous and we're here in Kenilworth New Jersey at the headquarters of main gear computers with this guy and his name is Ron Reedy is the marketing director for main gear and he was so nice to let us come down here today to build hopefully a killer gaming rig and production content creation rig for our use at hot hardware calm Ron thanks for having us today I'm I'm like super excited about this this is gonna be really cool kind of like a behind-the-scenes look in the way that we build our own Bibles for our customers which i think is gonna be awesome cool yeah so yeah Ron said the vibe the main gear vibe which is the chassis in this box along with some pretty cool liquid cooling and some components from some manufacturers that were good enough to help us out right Marco yes so in addition to main gear hooking us up with some really cool stuff we've got some hardware from from gigabyte an awesome nvme PCIe four SSD and X 570 motherboard EVGA hooked us up with an awesome thousand watt power supply and of course we can't forget AMD with the killer 12 core rise in 930 900 X and the Radeon rx 5700 XT so the current top-of-the-line Navi on top here as well beautiful all the makings for a great production content creation and gaming machine built here in the United States of America Kenilworth new jersey at main gear Computers in the vibe coming up next okay before we get rolling on the build I want to show you some of the really cool hardware that we have going into the rig let's start on this side we'll start with the smallest box first this is the gigabyte ARS nvme gen 4 SSD so this little bad boy is awesome it is a standard m dot 2 2280 SSD with this awesome copper heatsink capable of nearly 5 gigabyte force per second sequential reads the super super awesome SSD there and that is going to get installed into the gigabyte X 570 ARS master motherboard so we showed some of this stuff off in our launch article this guy's got nice beefy cooling on the VRMs plenty of overclocking and gaming related features plus cooling you know on the on the heatsink on all of the MDOT two slots though these guys are going to come off to accommodate the heatsink on the a auras SSD we've also got an awesome Kingston HyperX predator RGB memory kit going in it's all going to be powered by this beefy 1000 watt EVGA power supply I don't think it's going to look too sexy in the box but yeah it's in there and of course we have to show off some of the AMD here now at the heart of the system is going to be the rise in 930 900 x12 for processor now that guy just fits right into the am 4 socket just like previous gen underneath here is a rate prism cooler that is not going to get used main gears hooking up with some hooking us up with some awesome liquid cooling and pushing the pixels we have this guy the Radeon rx 5700 XT the current high-end Navi based GPU sounds like all the gear we need for a great machine definitely alright so in terms of chassis and cooling we got some special stuff here from main gear but I am definitely not the expert on this this guy over here is Ron Reed's gonna tell us a little bit about the main gear vibe chassis that we're going to be working with yeah so let me talk a bit about what kind of the vibe is to so you know traditionally we've sold our systems as customizable pcs so we have custom chassis and you can go on our website and there's a bunch of different components you can select and then we hand-built the PC for you with the vibe we wanted to take a different approach and we've really created like a full ecosystem for the community so the idea is you can buy the vibe from us as a custom PC the traditional way that you always go with main gear we have what we call enthusiast pre-configured pcs and those are basically performance optimized configurations where it's you know it's for your specific use case it's very easy to purchase but you know we have a history of being a DIY guy space that's how almost every person a maker got started at us yeah and so with the vibe we wanted to kind of celebrate that community by releasing a full selection of parts that you can do and and build a vibe your own way yourself people have asked for years and we finally have it available on our website and through micro Center so I'll talk a little bit more now and depth about the chassis itself so with the five we took everything that we learned with our f1 31 that we've released two years ago and wanted to bring it to a more affordable platform so from the start it's a mid sized ATX chassis so it supports an e ATX motherboard you'll notice immediately when you look at it that it's just a really premium build quality for the price so excellent construction really good materials we've focused on ease of building inside so you're gonna notice that cable management is really simple and there's just ample room regardless of what kind of build you want to put inside of it we built it with liquid cooling in mind so it supports a 360 mo meter right here in the front and a 240 on the top it's got a really nice tinted tempered glass side panel that's super clean as far as other stuff on the inside it's got an illuminated RGB front logo so you can control the color it has USB type-c on the side really really good IO in its class and you'll notice it's actually on the side of the PC which I love because you're going to want to show this build off on your desk and so it's in the perfect spot to make it accessible one of the other fantastic features of the case is we designed a custom fan and RGB controller that comes with the chassis so essentially it's got a pwm controller so you could plug all your fans in and easily manage the speed but it's got some secret sauce so it's the custom RGB controller you can connect a all of your RGB fans and all of your RGB lights to the actual controller itself but what's nice is if you have a motherboard that supports software RGB you run a single cable to the motherboard and then you're able to control all the lights via software but if you don't have a motherboard that supports that you flip a switch in the controller and it essentially switches to a remote control which is which is cool because it gives flexibility regardless of how you're building your machine but it's not just about the chassis itself so like the f1 31 we announced our apex cooling solution and we brought it down to the vibe in a more affordable fashion so apex is a fully integrated liquid cooling solution that kind of takes a lot of the secret sauce and what we've learned about liquid cooling over the years and puts it into a single product for your boat so the idea what the apex is that it's an oversized reservoir so you don't have to worry about constantly topping off your belt it's a distribution block and so what that means is it's routing the the coolant through the system so you get much cleaner liquid coin and really clean lines to the build and then it also has an integrated pump on the inside so you kind of you're getting a lot through this and like I said at the beginning I think what's really amazing is this is now the first time ever forming gear that this is available for the DIY audience we partnered with micro centers so you can go into a store today and pick up an apex block or a vibe chassis and do a build yourself and it just gives you all the room to customize it you know to the way that you want it including the fact that we even have four different colors for the vibe black white red and a nice gray so you really can build the system of your dreams like main gear does and I'm really excited that you guys are going to be building in this today let's do it awesome all right now but before we get into the bill we got to take quick tour of main gears facility because it's been what maybe seven eight nine years since we were here I don't think that long but it's been a couple of years for sure yeah it's been a while and while it's gonna show us around this house hey welcome to the nerdery once again a couple of things changes this time around and we're gonna take you for a quick tour let's go process is still pretty much basically the same but better so it's a one man one machine and here essentially we assign a system or an order to a builder and the Builder will be getting will build it from beginning to end okay once that system is built we line it up in the inspection station here where system needs to be inspected by a second technician okay once that system is suspected visually that's when it goes to our testing station okay so here we have Nicole she's she's really tests and all sisters I believe last time we had like ten monitors assigned for a rack now we have a KDM switch with the ten monitors being shown at the same time here so it's better visually for her so she can be able to see catch any artifacts anything that might happen during the testing as you know benchmarking is not just getting that final number but also ensuring that you're getting a visual representation of how it's gonna systems gonna perform at the customer's house so in this case here we have the systems lineup and you're just going through a battery of tests right a lot of these tests are you know custom batch files that we've created in-house and combining like you know different benchmark 3dmark Heaven etc Prime and we're basically trying to stress test the system here to make sure that we catch any issues at the factory before ships out Nicole also does the Netflix and beers after-hours right on that nice big panel baby cool so once the systems are built they get parted over to the shipping station here and run away from the camera dan can hide man yeah so we have two guys here Danny Gore and they're doing the final preparation and the computers we're basically you know basic things like where will waxing the computer if there's any types of paint jobs we'll making sure that there's no fingerprints or anything like that and we're finishing the packaging process now once we package the computer new percent so we want that experience to be cool so like we kicked out of box experience very seriously here and everything from the way the box looks like to the way it smells when you open it right to sort of chats keys that we include in there that little extras bracelets things like that it just makes you more part of the brand and makes it feel like we're building it which being built by people right here in New Jersey I'm sorry in this case assembled by people right here in New Jersey and assembled with a lot of love so that's the idea cool thanks buddy cool so we're about ready to dive into the building as much as I would love to rip up on all these boxes and do it all myself because building pcs is my favorite thing in the world we're here with Brent the community manager from being here he's gonna help us with this build Brent why don't you talk about what's gonna happen here so we're gonna build in the making in the vibe case here the way that main gear normally does it now this case is very flexible and you can build it in any way you like but I wanted to show you the special way that we've learned to build this over the years so we're gonna get started with the build I am NOT going to pretend to be as good as the guys that main gear as much as I love building pcs these guys are the experts but I can handle some of the simple stuff and then we'll hand things off to Brent just gonna pop the CPU memory and SSD into the gigabyte motherboard that we have here so start with CPU super easy just gonna open up the zip zip socket and line up via the tab on the CPU with a little triangle on the socket it should just drop right in that guy is all set now I took the liberty of removing this shield on this m2 slot and put in the proper mount for a 2280 SSD this guy is literally just gonna plug right in here and I have one screw to install let's see if I can do this quickly on camera or maybe I should do it later with these big gorilla hands nope we got it okay you're two for two so that's right we're rocking so large the memory goes in slots ax a 2 and B 2 first on this motherboard so we're gonna just pop that right in this is the Kingston the RGB HyperX Ram that's one and typically they're in farther slots but you want to yeah absolutely we were lucky enough to actually have it printed right on the board here so nice and easy now this guy is basically prepped you know makes it super easy with em not to SSDs for the the water cooling block that's gonna go in but there's some prep that has to happen there oh and I forgot to mention we have the static protection going to the first time I think I've worn one in 30 years but you know we're doing it right here with me here alright Brett so what are you gonna do next so we're gonna install the water block so I use the power screwdriver here and when you're using a power screwdriver you want to on the lowest setting so it's similar to Android and so we're gonna just pull the defender or socket don't break it rent Wow so this particular water block bioethical actually uses the back plate there and then we have because of its universal mounting so you can get the same water block no matter what chipset you're using or what process are using so we're gonna leave that plastic on there right yeah first so we're gonna prep the screws here kind of an insulator there maybe you can help me with this so washer then spring then washer and nut so washer spring washer nut yep you better wash something mark oh yeah my wife says okay so we're gonna take off our plastic guards there and then apply a thermal paste multiple different ways to do this I like the two grains of rice for a risin processor like this that's plenty thread rippers a little bit of bigger of a chip you might need quite a bit more and then we want our flow to be correct so this is our intake and our how take for the water cooling tubes and then I'm just gonna hand tighten this down to the socket and then the spring is basically once you crank the screws down or then apply the enough contact pressure yeah yeah you don't want to apply too much or you'll start bending the PCB under the chip just to where it's snug so there's a custom milled water bog and what's it made out of acrylic so this would be the top would be acrylic the brackets steel and then top of the actual would be a nickel-plated never they go plated copper so it has that silver look which in this built a raw copper might have actually looked nicer but you have all the precious metals down and did we have good clearance with the SSD that fit in there yeah so it's a little bit tight but you'll make good so you can feel that it's hand tight it's not going to go down anymore yep and then I kind of like to just look at the board and make sure we're not bowing it and it looks pretty straight so I think we are ready to put it in the case okay so take off our side panel and I usually like to just take all the panels of the panel okay so you had one room and we're gonna lay down so that while we're screwing our mother for dinner doesn't fall out now this motherboard we got lucky and they already installed it or pre-installed IO shield so we don't have to forget about that I think everybody's first build you've forgotten the IO shield and you have to rebuild the whole thing all over again then our screw in the vibe is raised a little bit on the edges so you can use that to mount the motherboard in the right place it'll kind of hold all the other parts in there and then our screws are in a hard drive buddy just a quick interlude to show you where we are with the build so the gigabyte X 570 ARS master is mounted in the case right now CPU and water block installed memory is installed SSD is installed all the screws holding the motherboard are in place so I think at this point we're going to put in the power supply this is the EVGA one supernova 1003 fully modular PSU what's great about a fully modular power supply is you only use the cables that you need so less clutter inside the chassis we're gonna need the ATX power connector we have a couple of EPs 12-volt connectors I should say cables a couple of PCI Express graphics card power cables and we're gonna add a SATA power cable because when Dave gets this guy back in the lab he's probably gonna add some some big storage with all those video files he's gonna be working with so with a modular PSU I like to plug the cables in the power supply before you put it in there just because it's harder to reach and so just undo cable here and then this is the 24 pin side so that's going to go to the motherboard and then you just line it up with the designation on the power supply we'll just snap in just going to do that six more times cables okay so I've got all my cables plugged in in the vibe the ventilation is on the bottom so you want to make sure the fan goes facing downward we'll just slide it in here and then it's just a simple applying this screws so hold it up against it when we did the first one in just until the screwdriver city's tighten up pretty simple just four screws is a kick I don't mean to screw you up but down here is the filter too right does it just light out yes so all the time you just pull the filter out the back clean that out and a fresh intake to your power supply pull the dog hair up yep so now the favorite part of everybody's build cable management which I mean here we pride ourselves at being very few children cable management but it doesn't make it any less of a pain but so we're gonna start with our 24 pin here which will bring through this top grommet and then just rotate our table like okay sorry losing screws everywhere and that just goes in to the motherboard little power on the whole motherboard and pull that back clean it up and then I'm gonna grab our EPS connectors which this motherboard requires two of them just actually a quick mention you can get by with just one on this motherboard but if you want to enable that precision boost overdrive and make sure you're getting max power to the board for overclocking that's the half both of those installed yeah especially with this Verizon 9 right you don't want all that power so these ones are kind of tricky because it's so close to the edge of the face so I like to kind of pull them through more than you need to and then they kind of combined into one connector and you can install both halves at a time if that's easier just what I was going to do alright another quick progress update with the build so far we have a bunch of cables in and a bunch of hardware mounted so front panel audio the RGB lighting control plugged in here a couple of USB three headers front panel switches and the LED right over here we have the USB see front panel connected as well this is going out to the fan controller on the back and of course the big ATX power and up here the two EPs 12 volts are plugged in as well okay so now we've got all the wiring done we're going to add the first parts of our water cooling so we've pre-mounted our fans onto a radiator block this 360 no meter radiator just goes right there in the front and that is a big boy yeah we're gonna have plenty of cooling potential here and just screw it onto the front of the chassis and you may have noticed we removed the front panel of the chassis here just with the vibe there's a lot of wiring so you want to be a little careful when pulling that off and once I get two screws in it pretty much holds itself but we'll put the remainder of the screws in here grab our top radiator here which is 240 so a front-facing 340 front through 63 12 to 23 60 to 40 and we've got really big mounting rails up here so if we need to move this backwards afford or doing our bends we have a little bit of forgiveness there which is really nice it's one of my favorite parts of this case this case also supports obviously the 120 fan spec but also the 140 so you could put a 280 up here to a few hundred so we're gonna install our apex block here which is fairly simple we've pre-installed our mouth here which comes with the apex block and you just slide it up and in and I've loosened our radiator off the front so we can connect the spinning in the back take your screwdriver you notice it imarco hands or you're good and then we're just gonna fix it to the top your distribution block is in place we'll tighten up this radiator again and then we're ready to do tubes and water cooling so that's the apex it's is it made out of acrylic yes acrylic distribution block reservoir and pump combo which you can see the pump here so it helps keep all the lines really clean we'll just have two pipes coming off or CPU there and then be able to manage all the liquid cooling between the parts there in the back so that distributes liquid between the two radiators both between the two radiators and then we'll probably have one incoming from the CPUC and then pushing out of the CPU and we'll have our fill port here so we can fill it very easily from our large reservoir nice all right time to install the GPU we have our Radeon rx 5700 XT right here let's get this guy gently into the case okay she is in time for a couple of screws in cables and she's ready to go Shawn's doing some quick plumbing bending tubes and fitting them that's the CPU feed in there measure twice cut price is that it something like that they don't deny that Brent is inserting the last of the liquid tubing it's in the CPU block no instructions on which way is which no manual for that Brent okay so we're gonna need to take a little bit more off on this side it looks like yeah just because that's under stress so I just shave that off a bit and we should be good to go like your parties you have to finish every time even if it cuts around Oh sue brick yeah the last of the liquid tubing yet again this is the tricky one but I think we get the angle now Brent's got the angle we should say yes that'll work that'll work so we'll put the fittings on so you get if you've got a feed to the reservoir and a return back from it yeah into the radiator into the top radiator through the distribution block and then to the other radiator and then back into the reservoir and the moment of truth here we're now adding the liquid coolant we leaking yet buddy yeah good signs so this is mostly water but also some anti corrosive and anti bacterial antimicrobial yeah so like a biocide or anti elgin got you do you know how hard it is for me to holding this here goes cpu and then at this point we'll have to start the pump push some of the water through and then fill up some more we're just chopping off the reservoir here really getting some milk through those tubes baby squeeze it Brent this is this is a wholesome system and then Marco I'll have you tilt the system for it just so it can really good stuff don't drop it Marco and there'll be a little bit of air in the tubes but as the pump runs it will force it back into the reservoir here and then we can add the last bit of all right so here she is system is basically done the only thing left is to install the side panel and to install windows on the SSD you take a peak all the way back there there's that gorgeous gigabyte X 570 motherboard and in that CPU socket behind all that nice piping rise in 930 900 X 12 core CPU you got that nice Kingston HyperX predator memory blinging along can't forget the Radeon rx 5700 XT in the graphics lot you know if you take a peak around everything the the beautiful main gear vibe chassis holds all of this stuff nicely and that apex cooling system that just looks awesome especially with the the white coolant matching the case the whole setup just vibes really well if you ask me our AMD Rison 930 900 X and Radeon rx 5700 XT build with main gear gigabyte and EVGA turned out to be spectacular thanks to the clean easy to work with layout of the vibe chassis and the expert guidance we had with main gear along the way the system is rock-solid stable with AMD's precision boost overdrive maxed out at 4.15 gigahertz across all 12 of the cpu cores and it scores seven thousand three hundred thirty five on Cinebench r20 this machine should serve as a seriously powerful content creation rig with this kind of multi-threaded horsepower and of course on the gaming side of things we're pulling down around 60 frames per second at 4k high image quality settings and titles like Far Cry new dawn so kicking back for some fast pace the leisure time will be handled with ease as well so there you have it it's been a long hard working day here in New Jersey in the hot summer time building a great machine with the good folks at main gear the main gear vibe which you can pick up now do it yourself at micro Center the main gear vibe with Apex liquid cooling Brent thanks very much for your help my goodness spend lots of time working and slaving over this machine we've got great AMD technology onboard gigabyte EVGA all the good stuff Marco what you think how'd we do today I think we did great actually you know you're gonna watch it a few minutes short video Brent spent hours literally cutting cables and making sure everything fit well I think it came out great and all we did was feed him pizza you know it was great stuff but hey thanks very much for checking this out check out the build a little bit more hot hot work on where you can find us on the web youtube.com slash hot hardware hit thumbs up subscribe or you can get notified when we go streaming or we give the additional event coverage or reviews all that good stuff and yeah thanks very much 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