Building a Custom Liquid Cooling System for My PC

I've decided to build a custom liquid cooling system for my PC, and I'm excited to share the process with you. This project is going to be a bit challenging, but I'm up for it.

First, I need to decide where I want to place the liquid cooler. After some consideration, I've decided to install it on the top side of my case. To do this, I'll need to plug in as the CPU fan. This will allow me to control the flow of coolant through the system.

Next, I need a SATA cable that can be connected directly to the power supply. This is because the liquid cooler needs to pump liquids through these cables and then back to the pump. I've chosen this specific SATA cable for its compatibility with my motherboard.

Now, I need to connect four fans to the cable from the liquid cooler. This will allow me to create a cooling loop that can dissipate heat efficiently. The fans are placed on the front of the case, and I'll connect them to the top side using two fan connectors.

The first step is to connect the cables to the motherboard. I've routed them through the bottom of the case to keep them organized and clean. Next, I need to zip tie all the power supply cables together because I feel like this case is going to be a mess.

I've also connected the cables for the power button and the power on/off LED. These cables will route from the bottom to the back hole, where they'll plug into the motherboard. The fifth case fan needs to be connected to this fan two connector, which I've decided to change the orientation of to keep the cables tidy.

Now that all the cables are connected, it's time to connect the power supply cable for the motherboard. This requires some skill and patience, but I'll get it done. I can add the cables for the GPU too, as they're essential for the system's functionality.

The final step is to connect the cables for the lighting effects. The RGB lights of my ram are already working, which gives me a sense of accomplishment. I also hear the fans of the GPU spinning, and the screen is still blank – but that's normal.

Before testing the system, I need to add all the side panels to complete the build. Once everything is in place, I'll install the PC in my current setup.

Here are some final thoughts:

* The final result of this build looks absolutely stunning.

* You can find more pictures of it on my Instagram page.

* Please tell me in the comments what I should build next – maybe a custom-painted PC?

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WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is a big box a while ago i found this epic pc case called the aza cube and today we're going to move all parts from this pc which is my current one into this amazing unique case now for some reason i thought i was gonna have to build a whole case myself but the only thing it comes with is a few screws and then some cables of the fans on the inside so this is the case we will have to take apart so let's remove all these side panels first so we have a clear view on what we're working with so this case has one two three four five rgb fans and then these strips on the side are also rgb so you have a choice either you link all these cables to your motherboard or you use this rgb controller that comes with the case and can be controlled with this remote i quickly connected an extra cable to my power supply so we just plug it in let's turn on the power supply and now let's see what happens when we start the pc oh there we go the leds definitely work now let's open this case here so we can take everything out of it and then start building this one are you looking for new emotes then the new emo maker from onto tv is perfect for you after choosing your starting character you can customize it further to create a character that looks very similar to you when you're done customizing simply click on generate emote and then you will be able to select the modes you want to buy the more you select the cheaper it gets per emote if you're interested then go to onto tv or click the first link in my description to start creating your own emotes today i'm gonna remove everything from the motherboard including the memory because i want to see if everything is still in a good condition i want to clean some stuff and i also want to reapply the thermal paste of the cpu with the liquid cooler because when i built this pc i did use the pre-applied thermal paste of nzxt and my cpu temperatures also were a bit too high so i think reapplying thermal paste definitely wouldn't hurt as i said before i'm not a pro pc builder so if you see me making any mistakes please put it in the comments i definitely won't be salty i appreciate every help i can get by the way if you want to see end results of any builds i'm doing including this pc here you can follow me on instagram because there i post all my stuff that i built and also stuff that i'm buying most of the products you see right there are products that i used in videos and those are probably on my instagram too so if you're interested in that definitely follow me there i would greatly appreciate it and the last part of this disassembling is taking out the cpu which does need to be clean so the way you do this is by using rubbing alcohol i think that's what it's called in english and that way you can get it extremely clean now next i'm gonna remove the dust from these fans and especially from this radiator then i'm gonna remove the cooling paste from this cooling block and after that we can put everything in the case finally it's a lot more work than expected but it's kind of fun i'm almost ready with cleaning all this stuff all right everything we need to build the pc is on the table except for the cpu i didn't trust myself i thought i would drop it let's start with that so we don't mess up all these spins here one corner of the cpu socket will have an arrow on it and the same thing counts for the cpu itself and you always want to make sure that you align those two when dropping your cpu into the socket the cpu you just saw me install is the ryzen 9 3900 x and it's an amazing cpu for editing the encoding is extremely fast plus because the encoding is fast it's also good for streaming if you're not using your nvn chip however most people do use their mvn chip with their nvidia graphics card so the cpu is not really going to be used for that but the main thing i use it for is editing and gaming it also comes with the ryzen cpu cooler it looks much bigger in real life than it does on pictures but we're going to use this anzat xt liquid cooler which is this one right here but i will talk about this in a minute let's put in the memory now it's g skill trident z neo completely rgb and in total it's 64 gigabytes i think the rgb of the memory sticks is going to complement the rgb of the whole case extremely well and looking at it now i think the all-black design of the motherboard is going to look great in the all-black design plus the rgb of this case i just think cable management is going to be a pain since there's nothing to connect it to the top segment is where your motherboard goes with everything on it and then this is just all for cables you just stuff them all inside and i think that's the strategy here so next it's time for the storage the first one is this aorus nvme gen4 ssd and it's an extremely fast one however the only thing that's a petty is the color since it doesn't really complement my case and my motherboard i know i could probably take it apart and then paint it etc that's a learning journey for another time the read speed is rated up to 5000 megabytes per second and the write speed up to 4400 the other ssd is a samsung 970 evo it's about half as fast as the other ssd since this is not a gen 4 however the speeds are definitely fast enough at 2 500 megabytes per second one of them is going to be my system drive and the other one is the one i'm going to be editing from and then next it's time to put our liquid cooler on top of the cpu there is a back plate that we need to add to the motherboard here and then we can add these two handles on the top side and this will hold the pump so everything besides our gpu is installed on the motherboard so we can start placing everything in the pc finally we've got the problem already i'm just fitting the motherboard here it isn't connected yet but i was scared about the radiator not fitting and i was right this radiator is 280 millimeters long and the maximum you can use with this case is 240 so as a result the screws here and here are further apart than the screws here and here so yeah that's kind of a problem but i'm gonna try something i'm only gonna use the two screws in the middle but those at the bottom there and then i'm gonna see if it's sturdy enough we can always use the stock cooler from the cpu so we're gonna be able to finish this build all right i think it kind of worked as you can see the radiator is still a bit loose on the top side but the bottom of the radiator is connected with these two screws here i'm using quite a bit of force here to be able to move it i'm really happy i can use this radiator look at how sick the inside of this case looks let's connect the motherboard to the case so the motherboard has been attached i'm just gonna take out these two back because now we can connect our gpu it's not going to be easy with this tube sitting in the way and the case being pretty small but it all should fit so let's try if we can make it work i heard the click and maybe we can position these tubes behind the graphics card i think this should be pretty good although it's pushing against the radiator now let's attach this screw again i gotta be honest i was excited for the case but in real life it looks even better even the back is perfect the back plate fades perfectly with the back material of the case let's see how well we can access the inside the power supply is a corsair rm650x i'm gonna connect all the cables now because otherwise when i put this inside of the case it's gonna be very hard okay the last one is the cpu power cable i'm gonna put the power supply inside the case and i think it's gonna float like this because we need to attach it here towards the top so this case consists of two parts the top where you have all the components and then the bottom for the power supply and then the cable management the ansat xt cooler needs two cables to be connected one of them is a simple usb cable and the other cable has three different endings the first one is a very short one that should be plugged in as the cpu fan the second one is a sata cable so that has to be connected directly to a cable from the power supply as this will supply the cooler with power to pump liquids through these cables and then back to the pump now the third part of this cable is this right here and this will allow us to connect four fans to it i'm going to connect the four fans on the front to it and there are only two ways for the cables to go from there to the top side one of them is this hole here and the other one is the same hole here but you can't really see it so the cable needs to go to the bottom and then come up through this hole here and then it needs to be plugged into one of these usb sockets we can just stuck the cable under the motherboard here for some clean cable management this is one of the parts i'm still kind of struggling with when it comes to pc building because now four of these fans will be connected to the pump so i guess my cpu temps will decide how hard these are working but then this fan will be connected to the motherboard so i'm not really sure how the controlling of all the fans will work exactly maybe you can tell me in the comments or i will find out afterwards these two fan connectors are from the two fans on the top here and i'm going to try to hide them here on the top of the liquid cooler maybe i will need to use some tape later and then they can come down like this to the bottom segments let's connect these fans to the cable from the liquid cooler because now we can start connecting all the power supply cables to the components i'm going to zip tie these all together because i feel like this case is going to be a mess these cables here are for the power button and for the power on and off led and i'm also going to route them from the bottom to the back hole here and then plug them in then the other one is the cable for the power button and then i guess my fifth case fan is going to have to be connected to this fan two connector i'm going to change the orientation of this one fan because that way the cables coming out of the fan are towards the back of the case which will allow for much cleaner cable management next i'm gonna route the big power cable for the motherboard through this first hole and now like always awkwardly try to connect it to the motherboard while we are at it we can add the cables to the gpu too so let's try to connect it here now the last thing we need to connect is the cables for the lights of the fence because the cables we connected before was for rotating the fans themselves all these cables and the controller are for the lighting effects so let's connect them to the power supply and now i realize we forgot to connect the cpu cable so let's connect it like this we can just do it through here because this cable will be hidden when we connect this back plate back here again speaking of the back plate we can just attach it right away because i think we are done with all the cables i really hope i didn't forget anything now before attaching the side panels and looking at the final result i want to make sure that everything is working i'm not going to lie i'm kind of scared to turn it on but here we go i can hear the eye open already the rgb of the ram is working so that's good too the fans of the gpu are spinning so far nothing is happening on the screen but i'm hearing a few beeps you know what before doing any more troubleshooting i'm just gonna restart it oh never mind the starting screen just showed up so it seems like everything is working now before testing the lights we need to add all the side panels and then i can install this pc in my current setup guys the final result of this build looks absolutely stunning you can find more pictures of it on my instagram and please tell me in the comments what i should build next i'm thinking about building a pc where i custom paint all the parts if you enjoyed this video then please hit the like button because it helps a lot for the algorithm subscribe to the channel for more content and i will see you in the next video have a nice daythis is a big box a while ago i found this epic pc case called the aza cube and today we're going to move all parts from this pc which is my current one into this amazing unique case now for some reason i thought i was gonna have to build a whole case myself but the only thing it comes with is a few screws and then some cables of the fans on the inside so this is the case we will have to take apart so let's remove all these side panels first so we have a clear view on what we're working with so this case has one two three four five rgb fans and then these strips on the side are also rgb so you have a choice either you link all these cables to your motherboard or you use this rgb controller that comes with the case and can be controlled with this remote i quickly connected an extra cable to my power supply so we just plug it in let's turn on the power supply and now let's see what happens when we start the pc oh there we go the leds definitely work now let's open this case here so we can take everything out of it and then start building this one are you looking for new emotes then the new emo maker from onto tv is perfect for you after choosing your starting character you can customize it further to create a character that looks very similar to you when you're done customizing simply click on generate emote and then you will be able to select the modes you want to buy the more you select the cheaper it gets per emote if you're interested then go to onto tv or click the first link in my description to start creating your own emotes today i'm gonna remove everything from the motherboard including the memory because i want to see if everything is still in a good condition i want to clean some stuff and i also want to reapply the thermal paste of the cpu with the liquid cooler because when i built this pc i did use the pre-applied thermal paste of nzxt and my cpu temperatures also were a bit too high so i think reapplying thermal paste definitely wouldn't hurt as i said before i'm not a pro pc builder so if you see me making any mistakes please put it in the comments i definitely won't be salty i appreciate every help i can get by the way if you want to see end results of any builds i'm doing including this pc here you can follow me on instagram because there i post all my stuff that i built and also stuff that i'm buying most of the products you see right there are products that i used in videos and those are probably on my instagram too so if you're interested in that definitely follow me there i would greatly appreciate it and the last part of this disassembling is taking out the cpu which does need to be clean so the way you do this is by using rubbing alcohol i think that's what it's called in english and that way you can get it extremely clean now next i'm gonna remove the dust from these fans and especially from this radiator then i'm gonna remove the cooling paste from this cooling block and after that we can put everything in the case finally it's a lot more work than expected but it's kind of fun i'm almost ready with cleaning all this stuff all right everything we need to build the pc is on the table except for the cpu i didn't trust myself i thought i would drop it let's start with that so we don't mess up all these spins here one corner of the cpu socket will have an arrow on it and the same thing counts for the cpu itself and you always want to make sure that you align those two when dropping your cpu into the socket the cpu you just saw me install is the ryzen 9 3900 x and it's an amazing cpu for editing the encoding is extremely fast plus because the encoding is fast it's also good for streaming if you're not using your nvn chip however most people do use their mvn chip with their nvidia graphics card so the cpu is not really going to be used for that but the main thing i use it for is editing and gaming it also comes with the ryzen cpu cooler it looks much bigger in real life than it does on pictures but we're going to use this anzat xt liquid cooler which is this one right here but i will talk about this in a minute let's put in the memory now it's g skill trident z neo completely rgb and in total it's 64 gigabytes i think the rgb of the memory sticks is going to complement the rgb of the whole case extremely well and looking at it now i think the all-black design of the motherboard is going to look great in the all-black design plus the rgb of this case i just think cable management is going to be a pain since there's nothing to connect it to the top segment is where your motherboard goes with everything on it and then this is just all for cables you just stuff them all inside and i think that's the strategy here so next it's time for the storage the first one is this aorus nvme gen4 ssd and it's an extremely fast one however the only thing that's a petty is the color since it doesn't really complement my case and my motherboard i know i could probably take it apart and then paint it etc that's a learning journey for another time the read speed is rated up to 5000 megabytes per second and the write speed up to 4400 the other ssd is a samsung 970 evo it's about half as fast as the other ssd since this is not a gen 4 however the speeds are definitely fast enough at 2 500 megabytes per second one of them is going to be my system drive and the other one is the one i'm going to be editing from and then next it's time to put our liquid cooler on top of the cpu there is a back plate that we need to add to the motherboard here and then we can add these two handles on the top side and this will hold the pump so everything besides our gpu is installed on the motherboard so we can start placing everything in the pc finally we've got the problem already i'm just fitting the motherboard here it isn't connected yet but i was scared about the radiator not fitting and i was right this radiator is 280 millimeters long and the maximum you can use with this case is 240 so as a result the screws here and here are further apart than the screws here and here so yeah that's kind of a problem but i'm gonna try something i'm only gonna use the two screws in the middle but those at the bottom there and then i'm gonna see if it's sturdy enough we can always use the stock cooler from the cpu so we're gonna be able to finish this build all right i think it kind of worked as you can see the radiator is still a bit loose on the top side but the bottom of the radiator is connected with these two screws here i'm using quite a bit of force here to be able to move it i'm really happy i can use this radiator look at how sick the inside of this case looks let's connect the motherboard to the case so the motherboard has been attached i'm just gonna take out these two back because now we can connect our gpu it's not going to be easy with this tube sitting in the way and the case being pretty small but it all should fit so let's try if we can make it work i heard the click and maybe we can position these tubes behind the graphics card i think this should be pretty good although it's pushing against the radiator now let's attach this screw again i gotta be honest i was excited for the case but in real life it looks even better even the back is perfect the back plate fades perfectly with the back material of the case let's see how well we can access the inside the power supply is a corsair rm650x i'm gonna connect all the cables now because otherwise when i put this inside of the case it's gonna be very hard okay the last one is the cpu power cable i'm gonna put the power supply inside the case and i think it's gonna float like this because we need to attach it here towards the top so this case consists of two parts the top where you have all the components and then the bottom for the power supply and then the cable management the ansat xt cooler needs two cables to be connected one of them is a simple usb cable and the other cable has three different endings the first one is a very short one that should be plugged in as the cpu fan the second one is a sata cable so that has to be connected directly to a cable from the power supply as this will supply the cooler with power to pump liquids through these cables and then back to the pump now the third part of this cable is this right here and this will allow us to connect four fans to it i'm going to connect the four fans on the front to it and there are only two ways for the cables to go from there to the top side one of them is this hole here and the other one is the same hole here but you can't really see it so the cable needs to go to the bottom and then come up through this hole here and then it needs to be plugged into one of these usb sockets we can just stuck the cable under the motherboard here for some clean cable management this is one of the parts i'm still kind of struggling with when it comes to pc building because now four of these fans will be connected to the pump so i guess my cpu temps will decide how hard these are working but then this fan will be connected to the motherboard so i'm not really sure how the controlling of all the fans will work exactly maybe you can tell me in the comments or i will find out afterwards these two fan connectors are from the two fans on the top here and i'm going to try to hide them here on the top of the liquid cooler maybe i will need to use some tape later and then they can come down like this to the bottom segments let's connect these fans to the cable from the liquid cooler because now we can start connecting all the power supply cables to the components i'm going to zip tie these all together because i feel like this case is going to be a mess these cables here are for the power button and for the power on and off led and i'm also going to route them from the bottom to the back hole here and then plug them in then the other one is the cable for the power button and then i guess my fifth case fan is going to have to be connected to this fan two connector i'm going to change the orientation of this one fan because that way the cables coming out of the fan are towards the back of the case which will allow for much cleaner cable management next i'm gonna route the big power cable for the motherboard through this first hole and now like always awkwardly try to connect it to the motherboard while we are at it we can add the cables to the gpu too so let's try to connect it here now the last thing we need to connect is the cables for the lights of the fence because the cables we connected before was for rotating the fans themselves all these cables and the controller are for the lighting effects so let's connect them to the power supply and now i realize we forgot to connect the cpu cable so let's connect it like this we can just do it through here because this cable will be hidden when we connect this back plate back here again speaking of the back plate we can just attach it right away because i think we are done with all the cables i really hope i didn't forget anything now before attaching the side panels and looking at the final result i want to make sure that everything is working i'm not going to lie i'm kind of scared to turn it on but here we go i can hear the eye open already the rgb of the ram is working so that's good too the fans of the gpu are spinning so far nothing is happening on the screen but i'm hearing a few beeps you know what before doing any more troubleshooting i'm just gonna restart it oh never mind the starting screen just showed up so it seems like everything is working now before testing the lights we need to add all the side panels and then i can install this pc in my current setup guys the final result of this build looks absolutely stunning you can find more pictures of it on my instagram and please tell me in the comments what i should build next i'm thinking about building a pc where i custom paint all the parts if you enjoyed this video then please hit the like button because it helps a lot for the algorithm subscribe to the channel for more content and i will see you in the next video have a nice day