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It will all make much more sense when you know what you are reading about.
I have always been interested in building computers. I built my first gaming PC in high school. The good ol’ days of Age of Empires, Call of Duty, and Battlefield 1942. Lately, my computer system is less geared toward gaming, and more towards editing videos. (For my YouTube Channel: JerryRigEverything.) Luckily, rendering HD videos and playing video games use almost the same high powered components. Win/Win for everyone!
I decided it was time to ditch the laptop (which took 2 hours to render a 10 minute video), and drop $1500 bucks on a high powered rendering rig. (Which takes 5 minutes to render a 10 minute HD video.) And saves even MORE time by not lagging while working with HD clips. And if I am going to build a PC I might as well wall mount and water cool it, right? Go big or go home…
I am running two monitors, as well as this relativly inexpensive 50 inch 4k TV
Here are the parts I used for the computer:
Motherboard: Asrock AMD 990FX Extreme9
Processor: AMD Fx-9590 Fx-series 8-core Black Edition
16 Gigs of RAM: DDR3 2400 PC3 19200 (8GBx2) Kit
Graphics Card: MSI AMD Radeon R9 280, 3GB GDDR5
6 terabytes of storage: Seagate Desktop 3 TB HDD SATA
250gigs for Windows 8.1 on an SSD: Crucial M500 240GB SATA SSD
Water Cooled CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 120M – PC CPU Liquid Water Cooling System
Power Supply (If I had to do it again, Id get one that lights up.): Corsair CS Series 650 Watt Power Supply
LED Lights: 5050 Waterproof 300LEDs RGB Flexible LED
The Carbon Fiber Vinyl Sticker can be found by clicking that link. It is way better to get the BIG sheets than try and fit together the smaller sheets like I did.
Information on the shielded PCI riser can be found here: I bought the DigiKey cable.
Some basic computer building knowledge would help when watching this video… As I mostly explain how the case was made. The actual component assembly is pretty straight forward. If you can play with Lego’s and read a manual, putting the parts in the right place isn’t too complicated.
This was a fun first build. I already have big plans in mind for my next computer. Subscribe and you’ll be sure not to miss it.