**The Antec DP505: A Masterclass in Mid-Tower Design**

Like the way that uh just a bit of subtle coloring here can really top off a build, I love the way that CPU block looks. All of this gear for the most part is from corsair's hydraulic hydrax lineup. There is an EK 360 Radiator in here, just a bit thicker you know, you can fit a thicker Radiator in here in the dp505 because the fans are again placed in front of the main chassis so you could actually fit something closer to 35 maybe 45 mil thick up front here which is really nice. Again, just mind where you place your Reservoir and how long your card is. This seemed to work out perfectly around back. You can see unhindered Port access for our graphics cards because we don't have those weird slots that run across with the frame.

Power supply access at the bottom and yeah just your 120mmount up top with your motherboard rear I/O. Also didn't talk about front I/O you can see we've got two USB type A ports, we have a headphone jack, a microphone Jack, the LED button. This is what you can click to cycle the LEDs for the fans all that's integrated by the way. You get it in like an integrated Fan Hub in here which is really nice. Power buttons here, you're going to get your LED lights for hard disk usage and just power and then you have a type c Port as well.

**A No BS Mid Tower Case**

I think you'll be very impressed with the antec dp505. It's just a no BS mid tower honestly it's the perfect size I think I could be a bit smaller yes but then we couldn't have done what we wanted to do here and there are other cases out there for that including from antec but this one is perfect for pretty much anything. It's not overly large, it's not super heavy or anything. I do want to show you very quickly and I just remembered it what the side panel looks like installed because it's actually very clear which I love.

And it does have yeah pardon the mess it's pretty messy it does have white framing as well to blend in with the remainder of the chassis and I think the way this works it just kind of slots in from Below and then clip this in up top that I did. No, nope oh okay, it slots in at the bottom but toward the rear tad and then you just gotta push it like half an inch forward and then it'll clip into place and we'll tighten it at the rear. By the way, we haven't done the peel yet here it comes.

**Unobstructed View**

Oh, anyway, sorry about that as you can see again it is fully transparent there's no tint I freaking love the way that this looks. I love the white border around the tempered glass and the fact that you can see everything very cleanly straight through it's the icing on the cake I think not a bad two days worth of work.

**Conclusion**

Okay, so with that again I want to thank antec for being the product sponsor of this video they've come a long way I think with the with their case designs. They are so much more modern these cases are super super build friendly if I mean if you have even like an eatx project and you want to throw it into a traditional mid Tower which only has seven PCI slots at the rear, this is for you. It's not going to break the bank you can get this in white or black it's got great fan support up front.

You can mount so much up top up front even at the rear here they really didn't restrict you at all when it came to Hardware support and and I really like that because some cases that try to include all this Hardware support end up looking pretty ugly frankly. And well with the exception of the front panel design line which you might like or might not everything else about this case is very modern and just very straightforward.

It'd be difficult to not like what you see on the inside and again, you can find the ntec dp505 linked at the top of this video's description if you want to check it out. Also, maybe put the 503 in there too or a link to at least the 503 video if you want something a bit different and that's also a black version so to give you just something else to compare it to.

**Call to Action**

Although this is the only one that we've done recently that has a custom Loop in it, so let me know what you think about this. I'll try to include all the parts for this build down in the video description check that out. Uh yeah comment down below. Let me know what you think about this. What you do differently? Do you like the color scheme? The pinch of pink that we threw in there? Give the video a like or dislike.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis here is the antec DP 505 and let's go ahead and get something obvious out of the way uh yeah give me a second here yeah my voice sounds like crap and it's because I've been sick for the past two weeks I'm really trying here so just just bear with me please this is a lovely mid tower all white you can get it in all black if you'd like you can see great airflow up front you can see straight through the to these three included 120 millimeter white fans you've also got plenty of room inside for activities you can fit up to ehx motherboards in here and that's just left to right if you have a longer than usual ATX style motherboard that might not fit here but uh you can see I mean you could put a custom Loop in here wait wait a minute you can put a custom Loop in here so that is exactly what we're going to do here I am probably going to regret this these are usually pretty frustrating to put together but I've already pre-assembled some things you can see so uh hopefully it works out antek is the product sponsor of this video so as we'll be building in the dp505 we'll be talking about some of the features some Hardware support things you might expect ways to manage cables all that good jazz I think it's the most organic way to integrate a case and a Style video with a pretty unique PC build which I'm sure a lot of you are interested in seeing and uh yeah custom Loops can go one of two ways it'll be very simple easy to throw together because everything just works perfectly or the more likely outcome it's all devastating and we have to completely rework stuff on the ground up but at least you'll be here to watch all that Mayhem potentially unfold are you ready stay with me introducing kyocsio's new xg8 series in vme ssds featuring 5th generation Big Splash 3D TLC memory and pcie 4.0 compatibility with capacities up to 4 terabytes and support for optional security features like TCG pyrite and opal kyocsia drives are perfect for your next desktop server or workstation sequential reads and writes reach up to seven thousand and fifty eight hundred megabytes per second respectively and are suited for Ultra FAST program OS and VM load times bundled with peace of mind warranties and at affordable price points ux's comprehensive pcie4 SSD portfolio continues to grow with products offered for a wide range of applications check them out including their new XJ8 drives by clicking the link below now if you're new to Modern antec cases they do have the dp503 which you've already recently built in this is the white dp505 which is kind of a more upscale version of the 503 but you'll find they're very similar which is why I don't want to just run through all the basic specs like we did in that one you'll find a pretty common themes throughout this has a GPU bracket holder I need to remove that because we're not going to have room for it with our Reservoir pump combo and other things in here we're gonna go for a white Black and Mild pink color scheme yeah but I don't know how this is going to look I have a a rough idea but screw it let's do it so give you an idea of what we're looking for so these are cable extensions we're going to use in this build and it's all mostly white a bit of black we're gonna have black radiators we'll also have black brackets and then a slice of pink thin slice I think only in the cables pink will be nowhere else in the build we'll go ahead and get started with the platform assembly we're gonna go with Intel's latest 13th gen 13 900k this thing is an absolute Slayer of all we're going to go ahead and pop up this lever here and uh oh my what a beautiful socket and I just realized you can't even see that from your camera angle there we go nice and easy here is it there we go that's better lower this down it's always a little awkward there we go move that out of the way lower this down and there you go CPU install next up is Ram some beautiful t-force extreme argb modules in white of course to match the rest of the aesthetic let's drop these in one by I just realized that's not even aligned you know what doesn't matter how long you've been doing this every now and then you get tripped up on RAM here we go second dim oh yeah love the way this color scheme is vibing last things here for now are the water block for the CPU and storage Drive Let's uh slide these out for Seventeen hundred and eighteen hundred and there we go I think I think we're good now we'll tighten down our CPU water block and at this point with our storage drive also in here we can get the platform in the dp505 and in she goes look at that what a beautiful combination I love white motherboards inside white cases just something so special looking about them obviously I need to tighten this down but uh yeah you get an idea what this is all going to look like you can see there is a plenty of room here for any ATX motherboard if you wanted to go that route it would probably cover up these white rubber grommets here but not to worry you have a couple more up front which you can use for routing fan cables reservoir uh pump cables things like that you've got plenty of room above the motherboard for a fan radiator combo standard thickness for the rad which is really cool I get a 120 mil Mount at the rear ventilation above the basement a cut out four dedicated PCI supplemental power rubber grommets at the base I mean it's all really well thought out I love the fact that the grommets are also white to fit the White theme next I want to take care of our radiator Reservoir assembly I've got the front fans removed and this should just slide or well yeah there we go okay slide in I've got the basic wiring front I own all that taken care of so this will sit kind of like here yep and my goal is to have this soft tubing because we're going soft tubing it's just easier um I'm gonna have the soft tubing hidden as much as possible so similar to how we've done it in a previous custom Loop build video we're going to have two 90 degree fittings over the CPU block pointing upward and then that soft tubing will just simply wrap around and behind the motherboard tray so that's really all you'll see we won't be custom cooling the graphics card I do have a white GPU though it's going to look really good in this build there we go all buttoned up and we're just again reusing the stock case fans these have integrated argb capabilities so I don't want to ditch these we've got the front panel here which is nicely indented so you can fit fans in front of the chassis which is nice saves room for thicker radiators on the other side just clip this back in there we go so now I think you can get a decent kind of approximation of where things are going to go there is still so much space here for a decent link graphics card obviously nothing super chunky you'd need like a full-size I don't know like a full tower for that but the dp505 still gives you plenty of room for uh for this kind of creativity and what we're going to be doing is again running all these tubes behind the motherboard tray I think it's possible we might be pinching the tubes just a bit running them through some of these cutouts but I'm going to try my best to make it work I'm also now that I'm looking at it I'm a bit concerned about how we're going to get the bottom tube to run we're going to need a 90 degree on this so a 90 degree back here and then we'll need a 90 actually a couple 90s for the CPU to run up and into this cutout up top and I think there's a decent enough space again to to minimize pinching and then we're going to turn our graphics card vertically and it's going to have a white shroud so you'll just see white everywhere and white fans I think it's going to look really good what I want to do first is go ahead and take care of the fittings and we'll try running this tubing this is you know just it's a flex tubing so it'll be pretty easy to troubleshoot and mess around with things look at these first two on the block again pointing upward so something like this and then of course for each one we'll need our compression fitting make sure that everything is tightened down properly got our O-rings in there so looking pretty good we'll just repeat the process over on this side oh yeah I like it um yeah maybe white fittings would have been nice here I do I did have some but they weren't the compression style for soft tubing I think the black contrast it works okay now there's a bit of a trick with soft tubing that I'll talk to you about here so objectively I think that hard line rigs just look better I mean you get the perfect 90s and things left and right to get the really nice tight bends and turns soft tubing you just kind of have to go with the flow you get a lot of weird curves and things so nothing really looks symmetrical or super clean but you can get around that by reducing the uh the distance and trying to align things with 90 fittings and 45 fittings as best you can so if you look at that tube there you might think at first glance it's a hard line tube it's a you know it's a rigid tube but it's not it's actually Flex tubing and the way I was able to do this was yeah to just get the two endpoints one on top of the other almost perfect and then you just keep a really tight tube and get it to where it fits just perfectly over each fitting and there you go you get something like that so pretty sweet now these next two runs will require uh quite a bit more tubing tubing length so I'm going to keep it all as one reel so I don't want to short myself and let me go ahead and push this onto the Barb one side sure it's all the way down compression fitting nice and tight and yeah so I think there's actually enough slack here that we can safely angle this down behind the motherboard tray without the tubing pinching at all so that's really nice we'll get the other one doing the exact same thing and we'll run both of these into the radiator and the pump want to mind the direction of fluid flow in the block though I have to get that right okay this one tightened down and this one is to feed the reservoir from below this is running from the CPU block and then we've got our second CPU entry so everything gets tucked away up top and just kind of disappears I like that these are parallel more or less at the start and then they kind of merge together and then they disappear behind the motherboard trick and also took about 20 minutes here to run a quick pressure test you can see that we are still well within the green which is where I had it haven't really seen the needle drop at all and this is basically just pumping a bunch of air into the closed loop to make sure there aren't any leaks so this is just a piece of mind and I'm happy to proceed so this is what she looks like so far and yeah again I think it looks pretty clean the only thing I'm not really too excited about is this bin here which definitely reveals that it's a soft tube build this one here you might be able to get away with it looking just like a really wide hard-line Bend but uh I think this one just it gives it away the other two though I mean if you look at it from the side like that one's pretty straight up and down and so is that one in the back so I'm pretty proud of the way those turned out we could have drilled into the case and made like official G quarter fitting you know slots for these tubes but you know for a quick end uh for us I was gonna say quick and dirty but it's actually a pretty quick and clean solution I don't think this is too bad at all and I spent nowhere near as much time as I would have if I was hard line bending so with that let's go ahead and get the power supply in here and the graphics card will cable manage a bit and then we'll fill this Loop up and try to turn the system on oh my and these custom cables are just the icing on the cake I gotta say really like the way that the slight pink in these pops it's just a it's a nice change of pace because everything else is pretty monochromatic so this looks really good might finagle with that a bit more later but for now yes I love it another really cool thing about the dp505 is that if you want to vertically Mount your card as we're doing here you don't have annoying PCI bracket uh little frame pieces I don't really know what they're called just little pieces of the frame you know that stretch across so when you remove all these slots you still have bits to work around here when you remove two side by side covers you can see it is wide open which means you can pretty much use any vertical mount kit without issue when it comes to connecting your HDMI and DisplayPort cables that didn't go in the way I thought it would it's a little tough there we go something like that okay and getting the rest of the bracket in here oh yeah looking nice and clean and here we go I know you're wondering what card we were going to use this is the Zotac gaming amp White Edition RTX 3060 isn't she a freaking Beauty we're working with a neutral white here so nothing crazy no eggshell colors yellowish bluish any of that zotek did a really good job with the neutral white paint and the fans all that match the card looks and to be in really good shape actually I bought this used on eBay for a really good price I think around like 200 bucks or something like that it does use two eight pins which um that's okay and we're gonna Bridge our 8-pin uh Pink cables anyway so I'm ready to get this in the rig let's see what it looks like we can just gently lower it in since we've already got our bracket installed oh look at that what a perfect fit we have just enough space between the reservoir pump combo and the card to be comfortable again just thanks to how compact this card is it's a bit dirty I probably should have cleaned it a tad before throwing it in here but other than that I mean this is just wow all these components feel like they've been made for each other awfully tight Bend here on these uh supplemental cables running right in front of our Ram but it'll do and it looks pretty darn good yeah as you can tell still pretty sick I'm really trying to work through this I'm sorry if it's annoying you guys I'm trying my best to suppress this I really need to get back into making videos again we're getting behind schedule so this one has to go up soon but I wanted to take a minute before we add the fluid which will happen actually tomorrow in in my time because I I need to I need to relax I'm losing it energy wise but I wanted to just yeah show you a few shots of what the rig looks like pre-fluid because I think this is a really clean space for the system the graphics card I think is the icing on the cake the cables with the just pinch of pink is really nice I might actually call this build pinch of pink I think that's that's I actually like that because I mean you look at it it's like oh he built a white a white rig but you call it pinch of pink and it it just it draws your eyes inward to the cables and uh you know you follow the cables to all the the pertinent components in the rig it just it really works the only thing again I'm really not a fan of is this one tube bin it's not even a Bend it's just it kind of naturally bends in but other than that for a soft tube custom Loop this is a pretty swell looking one I'm excited to see what it looks like with fluid in there and well that's going to take place tomorrow but for you it'll only take place in a matter of seconds are you ready three two one hey there we are day two uh my voice still sounds pretty awful sorry about that let's get this filled up with some fluid for that we'll be using EK cryofuel this is Mystic fog which again it's like a slightly opaque coolant I actually haven't seen this in person before so it'll be interesting to see how it turns out we'll also be using a small fill bottle and that's pretty much it now I imagine it will take a good while to Prime this Loop because the reservoir is first off kind of in the middle of the system and it's also not at the highest point no matter how we turn the rig it's always going to be somewhere in the middle so it will mean that it's it's yeah gonna be difficult to fully top off we'll try to get as much of the air out of the system as we can throughout this process all right here we go three two one took a good little minute there yeah it went down pretty fast that's okay again we've got to continue filling this until all the air is out more bubbles you know especially in this radiator I really want to make sure all the air is out of that and uh the best way to do that is to have the radiator at the bottom so that all the air trapped in there can migrate upwards because I think we have most of it out let's go ahead and give it an official go then I'm uh I'm not too nervous again no leaks so at this point it's just going to come down to whether or not we wired things correctly at the all the uh the RGB up front I didn't really bother with the RGB in the uh in the blocks and things I think we'll be okay just noticed one of these fans is like clicking really loud of course I bet I used 3060 and it's got a clicky fan maybe we can like lube it up or something other than that I can feel the fluid churning fans up front are working LED in the card up top LEDs in the dram this is looking really sweet of course the zero stop function in the graphics card which means that if it's not under heavy stress it just won't bother spinning them at all and that's preferred at this point because golly this fan is really freaking loud I'm not sure what is wrong with it definitely needs to be cleaned though that's for sure this looks really nice I love how subtle the LEDs are here actually everything's just white are the fans up front wait yeah fans up front are white as well you can change the colors of those fans not sure if you can see them on camera that's just the you know the rainbow effect but I'm really digging it it's a nice simple looking build it definitely wasn't simple to build but uh it it doesn't really look I don't know it doesn't look super super cluttered I think everything looks like it belongs here and I'm really happy with the parts that we chose you can see the fans through the front how nice they look I think the the white LEDs are just that's the best way to go or at least uh I think what they do to simulate white here is just the RGB all shining at Max brightness but it looks really good it looks neutral and it actually matches the other uh white-ish variants of the LEDs in the build you can see the white Zotac label on the graphics card and the two white dims from Team group The Pump needs to be recalibrated just a bit because it is a tad week I think I ran it into one of the chassis fan headers so that'll be pretty easy to do once we hop into the BIOS and uh yeah again I'm not seeing any leaks or anything that's really good the pink the pink is just I'm really glad I added that again I know I said that before but uh I really like the way that uh just a bit of subtle coloring here can really top off a build I love the way that CPU block looks all of this gear for the most part is from corsair's hydraulic hydrax lineup there is an EK 360 Radiator in here just a bit thicker you know you can fit a thicker Radiator in here in the dp505 because the fans are again placed in front of the main chassis so you could actually fit something closer to 35 maybe 45 mil thick up front here which is really nice again just mind where you place your Reservoir and how long your card is this seemed to work out perfectly around back you can see unhindered Port access for our graphics cards because we don't have those weird slots that run across with the frame power supply access at the bottom and yeah just your 120mmount up top with your motherboard rear i o I also didn't talk about front i o you can see we've got two USB type A ports we have a headphone jack a microphone Jack the LED button this is what you can click to cycle the LEDs for the fans all that's integrated by the way you get it in like an integrated Fan Hub in here which is really nice power buttons here you're going to get your LED lights for hard disk usage and just power and then you have a type c Port as well cute little type c Port here at the top all in all I think you'll be very impressed with the antecdp505 it's just a no BS mid Tower honestly it's the perfect size I think I could be a bit smaller yes but then we couldn't have done what we wanted to do here and there are other cases out there for that including from antec but this one is perfect for pretty much anything it's not overly large it's not super heavy or anything I do want to show you very quickly and I just remembered it what the side panel looks like installed because it's actually very clear which I love and it does have yeah pardon the mess it's pretty messy it does have white framing as well to blend in with the remainder of the chassis and I think the way this works it just kind of slots in From Below and then clip this in up top that I did nope oh okay it slots in at the bottom but toward the rear Tad and then you just gotta push it like half an inch forward and then it'll clip into place and we'll tighten it at the rear uh by the way we haven't done the peel yet here it comes oh anyway sorry about that as you can see again it is fully transparent there's no tint I I freaking love the way that this looks I love the white border around the tempered glass and the fact that you can see everything very cleanly straight through it's the icing on the cake I think not a bad two days worth of work okay so with that again I want to thank antec for being the product sponsor of this video they've come a long way I think with the with their case designs they are so much more modern these cases are super super build friendly if I mean if you have even like an eatx project and you want to throw it into a traditional mid Tower which only has seven PCI slots at the rear this is for you it's not going to break the bank you can get this in white or black it's got great fan support up front you can mount so much up top up front even at the rear here they really didn't restrict you at all when it came to Hardware support and and I really like that because some cases that try to include all this Hardware support end up looking pretty ugly frankly and well with the exception of the front panel design line which you might like or might not everything else about this case is very modern and just very straightforward it'd be difficult to not like what you see on the inside and again you can find the ntec dp505 linked at the top of this video's description if you want to check it out also maybe put the 503 in there too or a link to at least the 503 video if you want something a bit different and that's also a black version so to give you just something else to compare it to although this is the only one that we've done recently that has a custom Loop in it so let me know what you think about this I'll try to include all the parts for this build down in the video description check that out uh yeah comment down below let me know what you think about this what you do differently do you like the color scheme the pinch of pink that we threw in there give the video a like or dislike consider consider subscribing yeah am I missing anything join our public Discord server um yeah all that stuff's down there anyway thanks so much for watching this far into this one my name is Greg thanks for learning with methis here is the antec DP 505 and let's go ahead and get something obvious out of the way uh yeah give me a second here yeah my voice sounds like crap and it's because I've been sick for the past two weeks I'm really trying here so just just bear with me please this is a lovely mid tower all white you can get it in all black if you'd like you can see great airflow up front you can see straight through the to these three included 120 millimeter white fans you've also got plenty of room inside for activities you can fit up to ehx motherboards in here and that's just left to right if you have a longer than usual ATX style motherboard that might not fit here but uh you can see I mean you could put a custom Loop in here wait wait a minute you can put a custom Loop in here so that is exactly what we're going to do here I am probably going to regret this these are usually pretty frustrating to put together but I've already pre-assembled some things you can see so uh hopefully it works out antek is the product sponsor of this video so as we'll be building in the dp505 we'll be talking about some of the features some Hardware support things you might expect ways to manage cables all that good jazz I think it's the most organic way to integrate a case and a Style video with a pretty unique PC build which I'm sure a lot of you are interested in seeing and uh yeah custom Loops can go one of two ways it'll be very simple easy to throw together because everything just works perfectly or the more likely outcome it's all devastating and we have to completely rework stuff on the ground up but at least you'll be here to watch all that Mayhem potentially unfold are you ready stay with me introducing kyocsio's new xg8 series in vme ssds featuring 5th generation Big Splash 3D TLC memory and pcie 4.0 compatibility with capacities up to 4 terabytes and support for optional security features like TCG pyrite and opal kyocsia drives are perfect for your next desktop server or workstation sequential reads and writes reach up to seven thousand and fifty eight hundred megabytes per second respectively and are suited for Ultra FAST program OS and VM load times bundled with peace of mind warranties and at affordable price points ux's comprehensive pcie4 SSD portfolio continues to grow with products offered for a wide range of applications check them out including their new XJ8 drives by clicking the link below now if you're new to Modern antec cases they do have the dp503 which you've already recently built in this is the white dp505 which is kind of a more upscale version of the 503 but you'll find they're very similar which is why I don't want to just run through all the basic specs like we did in that one you'll find a pretty common themes throughout this has a GPU bracket holder I need to remove that because we're not going to have room for it with our Reservoir pump combo and other things in here we're gonna go for a white Black and Mild pink color scheme yeah but I don't know how this is going to look I have a a rough idea but screw it let's do it so give you an idea of what we're looking for so these are cable extensions we're going to use in this build and it's all mostly white a bit of black we're gonna have black radiators we'll also have black brackets and then a slice of pink thin slice I think only in the cables pink will be nowhere else in the build we'll go ahead and get started with the platform assembly we're gonna go with Intel's latest 13th gen 13 900k this thing is an absolute Slayer of all we're going to go ahead and pop up this lever here and uh oh my what a beautiful socket and I just realized you can't even see that from your camera angle there we go nice and easy here is it there we go that's better lower this down it's always a little awkward there we go move that out of the way lower this down and there you go CPU install next up is Ram some beautiful t-force extreme argb modules in white of course to match the rest of the aesthetic let's drop these in one by I just realized that's not even aligned you know what doesn't matter how long you've been doing this every now and then you get tripped up on RAM here we go second dim oh yeah love the way this color scheme is vibing last things here for now are the water block for the CPU and storage Drive Let's uh slide these out for Seventeen hundred and eighteen hundred and there we go I think I think we're good now we'll tighten down our CPU water block and at this point with our storage drive also in here we can get the platform in the dp505 and in she goes look at that what a beautiful combination I love white motherboards inside white cases just something so special looking about them obviously I need to tighten this down but uh yeah you get an idea what this is all going to look like you can see there is a plenty of room here for any ATX motherboard if you wanted to go that route it would probably cover up these white rubber grommets here but not to worry you have a couple more up front which you can use for routing fan cables reservoir uh pump cables things like that you've got plenty of room above the motherboard for a fan radiator combo standard thickness for the rad which is really cool I get a 120 mil Mount at the rear ventilation above the basement a cut out four dedicated PCI supplemental power rubber grommets at the base I mean it's all really well thought out I love the fact that the grommets are also white to fit the White theme next I want to take care of our radiator Reservoir assembly I've got the front fans removed and this should just slide or well yeah there we go okay slide in I've got the basic wiring front I own all that taken care of so this will sit kind of like here yep and my goal is to have this soft tubing because we're going soft tubing it's just easier um I'm gonna have the soft tubing hidden as much as possible so similar to how we've done it in a previous custom Loop build video we're going to have two 90 degree fittings over the CPU block pointing upward and then that soft tubing will just simply wrap around and behind the motherboard tray so that's really all you'll see we won't be custom cooling the graphics card I do have a white GPU though it's going to look really good in this build there we go all buttoned up and we're just again reusing the stock case fans these have integrated argb capabilities so I don't want to ditch these we've got the front panel here which is nicely indented so you can fit fans in front of the chassis which is nice saves room for thicker radiators on the other side just clip this back in there we go so now I think you can get a decent kind of approximation of where things are going to go there is still so much space here for a decent link graphics card obviously nothing super chunky you'd need like a full-size I don't know like a full tower for that but the dp505 still gives you plenty of room for uh for this kind of creativity and what we're going to be doing is again running all these tubes behind the motherboard tray I think it's possible we might be pinching the tubes just a bit running them through some of these cutouts but I'm going to try my best to make it work I'm also now that I'm looking at it I'm a bit concerned about how we're going to get the bottom tube to run we're going to need a 90 degree on this so a 90 degree back here and then we'll need a 90 actually a couple 90s for the CPU to run up and into this cutout up top and I think there's a decent enough space again to to minimize pinching and then we're going to turn our graphics card vertically and it's going to have a white shroud so you'll just see white everywhere and white fans I think it's going to look really good what I want to do first is go ahead and take care of the fittings and we'll try running this tubing this is you know just it's a flex tubing so it'll be pretty easy to troubleshoot and mess around with things look at these first two on the block again pointing upward so something like this and then of course for each one we'll need our compression fitting make sure that everything is tightened down properly got our O-rings in there so looking pretty good we'll just repeat the process over on this side oh yeah I like it um yeah maybe white fittings would have been nice here I do I did have some but they weren't the compression style for soft tubing I think the black contrast it works okay now there's a bit of a trick with soft tubing that I'll talk to you about here so objectively I think that hard line rigs just look better I mean you get the perfect 90s and things left and right to get the really nice tight bends and turns soft tubing you just kind of have to go with the flow you get a lot of weird curves and things so nothing really looks symmetrical or super clean but you can get around that by reducing the uh the distance and trying to align things with 90 fittings and 45 fittings as best you can so if you look at that tube there you might think at first glance it's a hard line tube it's a you know it's a rigid tube but it's not it's actually Flex tubing and the way I was able to do this was yeah to just get the two endpoints one on top of the other almost perfect and then you just keep a really tight tube and get it to where it fits just perfectly over each fitting and there you go you get something like that so pretty sweet now these next two runs will require uh quite a bit more tubing tubing length so I'm going to keep it all as one reel so I don't want to short myself and let me go ahead and push this onto the Barb one side sure it's all the way down compression fitting nice and tight and yeah so I think there's actually enough slack here that we can safely angle this down behind the motherboard tray without the tubing pinching at all so that's really nice we'll get the other one doing the exact same thing and we'll run both of these into the radiator and the pump want to mind the direction of fluid flow in the block though I have to get that right okay this one tightened down and this one is to feed the reservoir from below this is running from the CPU block and then we've got our second CPU entry so everything gets tucked away up top and just kind of disappears I like that these are parallel more or less at the start and then they kind of merge together and then they disappear behind the motherboard trick and also took about 20 minutes here to run a quick pressure test you can see that we are still well within the green which is where I had it haven't really seen the needle drop at all and this is basically just pumping a bunch of air into the closed loop to make sure there aren't any leaks so this is just a piece of mind and I'm happy to proceed so this is what she looks like so far and yeah again I think it looks pretty clean the only thing I'm not really too excited about is this bin here which definitely reveals that it's a soft tube build this one here you might be able to get away with it looking just like a really wide hard-line Bend but uh I think this one just it gives it away the other two though I mean if you look at it from the side like that one's pretty straight up and down and so is that one in the back so I'm pretty proud of the way those turned out we could have drilled into the case and made like official G quarter fitting you know slots for these tubes but you know for a quick end uh for us I was gonna say quick and dirty but it's actually a pretty quick and clean solution I don't think this is too bad at all and I spent nowhere near as much time as I would have if I was hard line bending so with that let's go ahead and get the power supply in here and the graphics card will cable manage a bit and then we'll fill this Loop up and try to turn the system on oh my and these custom cables are just the icing on the cake I gotta say really like the way that the slight pink in these pops it's just a it's a nice change of pace because everything else is pretty monochromatic so this looks really good might finagle with that a bit more later but for now yes I love it another really cool thing about the dp505 is that if you want to vertically Mount your card as we're doing here you don't have annoying PCI bracket uh little frame pieces I don't really know what they're called just little pieces of the frame you know that stretch across so when you remove all these slots you still have bits to work around here when you remove two side by side covers you can see it is wide open which means you can pretty much use any vertical mount kit without issue when it comes to connecting your HDMI and DisplayPort cables that didn't go in the way I thought it would it's a little tough there we go something like that okay and getting the rest of the bracket in here oh yeah looking nice and clean and here we go I know you're wondering what card we were going to use this is the Zotac gaming amp White Edition RTX 3060 isn't she a freaking Beauty we're working with a neutral white here so nothing crazy no eggshell colors yellowish bluish any of that zotek did a really good job with the neutral white paint and the fans all that match the card looks and to be in really good shape actually I bought this used on eBay for a really good price I think around like 200 bucks or something like that it does use two eight pins which um that's okay and we're gonna Bridge our 8-pin uh Pink cables anyway so I'm ready to get this in the rig let's see what it looks like we can just gently lower it in since we've already got our bracket installed oh look at that what a perfect fit we have just enough space between the reservoir pump combo and the card to be comfortable again just thanks to how compact this card is it's a bit dirty I probably should have cleaned it a tad before throwing it in here but other than that I mean this is just wow all these components feel like they've been made for each other awfully tight Bend here on these uh supplemental cables running right in front of our Ram but it'll do and it looks pretty darn good yeah as you can tell still pretty sick I'm really trying to work through this I'm sorry if it's annoying you guys I'm trying my best to suppress this I really need to get back into making videos again we're getting behind schedule so this one has to go up soon but I wanted to take a minute before we add the fluid which will happen actually tomorrow in in my time because I I need to I need to relax I'm losing it energy wise but I wanted to just yeah show you a few shots of what the rig looks like pre-fluid because I think this is a really clean space for the system the graphics card I think is the icing on the cake the cables with the just pinch of pink is really nice I might actually call this build pinch of pink I think that's that's I actually like that because I mean you look at it it's like oh he built a white a white rig but you call it pinch of pink and it it just it draws your eyes inward to the cables and uh you know you follow the cables to all the the pertinent components in the rig it just it really works the only thing again I'm really not a fan of is this one tube bin it's not even a Bend it's just it kind of naturally bends in but other than that for a soft tube custom Loop this is a pretty swell looking one I'm excited to see what it looks like with fluid in there and well that's going to take place tomorrow but for you it'll only take place in a matter of seconds are you ready three two one hey there we are day two uh my voice still sounds pretty awful sorry about that let's get this filled up with some fluid for that we'll be using EK cryofuel this is Mystic fog which again it's like a slightly opaque coolant I actually haven't seen this in person before so it'll be interesting to see how it turns out we'll also be using a small fill bottle and that's pretty much it now I imagine it will take a good while to Prime this Loop because the reservoir is first off kind of in the middle of the system and it's also not at the highest point no matter how we turn the rig it's always going to be somewhere in the middle so it will mean that it's it's yeah gonna be difficult to fully top off we'll try to get as much of the air out of the system as we can throughout this process all right here we go three two one took a good little minute there yeah it went down pretty fast that's okay again we've got to continue filling this until all the air is out more bubbles you know especially in this radiator I really want to make sure all the air is out of that and uh the best way to do that is to have the radiator at the bottom so that all the air trapped in there can migrate upwards because I think we have most of it out let's go ahead and give it an official go then I'm uh I'm not too nervous again no leaks so at this point it's just going to come down to whether or not we wired things correctly at the all the uh the RGB up front I didn't really bother with the RGB in the uh in the blocks and things I think we'll be okay just noticed one of these fans is like clicking really loud of course I bet I used 3060 and it's got a clicky fan maybe we can like lube it up or something other than that I can feel the fluid churning fans up front are working LED in the card up top LEDs in the dram this is looking really sweet of course the zero stop function in the graphics card which means that if it's not under heavy stress it just won't bother spinning them at all and that's preferred at this point because golly this fan is really freaking loud I'm not sure what is wrong with it definitely needs to be cleaned though that's for sure this looks really nice I love how subtle the LEDs are here actually everything's just white are the fans up front wait yeah fans up front are white as well you can change the colors of those fans not sure if you can see them on camera that's just the you know the rainbow effect but I'm really digging it it's a nice simple looking build it definitely wasn't simple to build but uh it it doesn't really look I don't know it doesn't look super super cluttered I think everything looks like it belongs here and I'm really happy with the parts that we chose you can see the fans through the front how nice they look I think the the white LEDs are just that's the best way to go or at least uh I think what they do to simulate white here is just the RGB all shining at Max brightness but it looks really good it looks neutral and it actually matches the other uh white-ish variants of the LEDs in the build you can see the white Zotac label on the graphics card and the two white dims from Team group The Pump needs to be recalibrated just a bit because it is a tad week I think I ran it into one of the chassis fan headers so that'll be pretty easy to do once we hop into the BIOS and uh yeah again I'm not seeing any leaks or anything that's really good the pink the pink is just I'm really glad I added that again I know I said that before but uh I really like the way that uh just a bit of subtle coloring here can really top off a build I love the way that CPU block looks all of this gear for the most part is from corsair's hydraulic hydrax lineup there is an EK 360 Radiator in here just a bit thicker you know you can fit a thicker Radiator in here in the dp505 because the fans are again placed in front of the main chassis so you could actually fit something closer to 35 maybe 45 mil thick up front here which is really nice again just mind where you place your Reservoir and how long your card is this seemed to work out perfectly around back you can see unhindered Port access for our graphics cards because we don't have those weird slots that run across with the frame power supply access at the bottom and yeah just your 120mmount up top with your motherboard rear i o I also didn't talk about front i o you can see we've got two USB type A ports we have a headphone jack a microphone Jack the LED button this is what you can click to cycle the LEDs for the fans all that's integrated by the way you get it in like an integrated Fan Hub in here which is really nice power buttons here you're going to get your LED lights for hard disk usage and just power and then you have a type c Port as well cute little type c Port here at the top all in all I think you'll be very impressed with the antecdp505 it's just a no BS mid Tower honestly it's the perfect size I think I could be a bit smaller yes but then we couldn't have done what we wanted to do here and there are other cases out there for that including from antec but this one is perfect for pretty much anything it's not overly large it's not super heavy or anything I do want to show you very quickly and I just remembered it what the side panel looks like installed because it's actually very clear which I love and it does have yeah pardon the mess it's pretty messy it does have white framing as well to blend in with the remainder of the chassis and I think the way this works it just kind of slots in From Below and then clip this in up top that I did nope oh okay it slots in at the bottom but toward the rear Tad and then you just gotta push it like half an inch forward and then it'll clip into place and we'll tighten it at the rear uh by the way we haven't done the peel yet here it comes oh anyway sorry about that as you can see again it is fully transparent there's no tint I I freaking love the way that this looks I love the white border around the tempered glass and the fact that you can see everything very cleanly straight through it's the icing on the cake I think not a bad two days worth of work okay so with that again I want to thank antec for being the product sponsor of this video they've come a long way I think with the with their case designs they are so much more modern these cases are super super build friendly if I mean if you have even like an eatx project and you want to throw it into a traditional mid Tower which only has seven PCI slots at the rear this is for you it's not going to break the bank you can get this in white or black it's got great fan support up front you can mount so much up top up front even at the rear here they really didn't restrict you at all when it came to Hardware support and and I really like that because some cases that try to include all this Hardware support end up looking pretty ugly frankly and well with the exception of the front panel design line which you might like or might not everything else about this case is very modern and just very straightforward it'd be difficult to not like what you see on the inside and again you can find the ntec dp505 linked at the top of this video's description if you want to check it out also maybe put the 503 in there too or a link to at least the 503 video if you want something a bit different and that's also a black version so to give you just something else to compare it to although this is the only one that we've done recently that has a custom Loop in it so let me know what you think about this I'll try to include all the parts for this build down in the video description check that out uh yeah comment down below let me know what you think about this what you do differently do you like the color scheme the pinch of pink that we threw in there give the video a like or dislike consider consider subscribing yeah am I missing anything join our public Discord server um yeah all that stuff's down there anyway thanks so much for watching this far into this one my name is Greg thanks for learning with me\n"