Custom Water Cooled Sleeper PC Build - HP Pavilion 6736

The HP Pavilion 6736 was a small, low-power desktop from the year 2000. Originally powered by an ancient Intel Celeron processor with sub-1 GHz clock speeds, and featuring memory and storage with less than a hundredth of the capacity of what is in a modern system, it was just begging to be upgraded.
The goal was not to make any changes to the outside of the Pavilion 6736 case. However, the small-form-factor case presented difficulties. Numerous modifications were made to the case to fit and cool much faster hardware, including integration of a custom softline water cooling loop.
PC parts:
- Case: HP Pavilion 6736 (circa 2000).
- Motherboard: Gigabyte B450 I Aorus PRO WIFI.
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X.
- Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super Founders Edition.
- Memory: 16 GB of Dual-Channel Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200MHz C16.
- Storage: Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe solid state drive.
- Power supply: be quiet! BN639 SFX L Power 600W 80 Plus Gold.
- Radiator: Alphacool ST30 Full Copper X-Flow 140mm.
- Fittings: Alphacool HF G1/4 to 10mm ID, 13mm OD chrome compression fitting, 0° and 90° variants.
- CPU water block: Phanteks Glacier C360a for AMD AM4 CPUs.
- Graphics card water block: Corsair Hydro X Series XG7 RGB for 2070 Founders Edition cards.
- Tubing: Corsair Hydro X Series, XT softline, 10/13mm ID/OD, clear.
- Pump/reservoir: Corsair Hydro X Series XD5 RGB pump/reservoir combo.
- Fans: Corsair QL Series, QL140 RGB, 140mm RGB LED.
- Pump/fan controller: Corsair Commander PRO.
- Coolant: Corsair Hydro X Series XL5, clear.
- Fan Filter: BQLZR Black 14cm 140mm.
- USB Front Panel: E-sds USB 3.0 2-Port 3.5 Inch.
Music:
- 0:08 A Himitsu - Icy Vindur ( • A Himitsu - Icy Vindur... )
- 2:45 A Himitsu - A Himitsu - Cease ( • A Himitsu - Cease [Cre... )
- 6:34 Digital Math - Hop Up ( • Digital Math - Hop Up ... )
Inspiration for this project comes from the Linus Tech Tips video series. See part 1 of the series here: • The ULTIMATE Sleeper P...

[@SUBEGAP]

i've been looking for more sleeper pc builds on youtube, which there arent a lot really. and i enjoy unique pc builds like this one in general. this was good. and great build

[@robertroy1878]

I'm 27.

[@JosueHernandez-nu5cp]

For though kinda sucks how their aren’t very many of them since I really enjoy them :(

[@chrish1695]

I saved all summer and bought this pc when I was 19…. Back then it was a powerhouse and now it is timeless 🤣 beautiful

[@captaineldeezee1336]

Got pretty much the same Pavilion, and I want to do something similar. I will probably use this as a loose sort of guide. Nice!

[@Youngthunder7]

my first computer that ever browsed youtube. had the 667Mhz model and 512MB ram so cool to even see another one just like the one I had, and very cool build bringing it into 2021!

[@jarell1092]

Really cool concept mate!

[@alexoliver5649]

Great build!

[@alin3836]

I love sleeper builds. Planning to make one myself with an apex PC-115 case. Great video!

[@thecakeone]

This is awesome!

[@srvfan454]

My first pc was a pavilion from around that time period. Had a pentium 4 with a 1.5. I always thought those old cases looked cool. Nice job!

[@finnjakdmore2027]

My recommendation has been blessed

[@seanwilliams4087]

Pity about the external PSU - not so stealth! :)

[@bamcorpgaming5954]

nice. you deserve more than two subs, consider me no. 3

[@dreamshooter90]

I love all about it except the RGB. Excellent build. ^^

[@willemc1958]

Nice done

[@a21npilot91]

I will be your sub 26. Nice content!

[@robertchamberlin2362]

Awesome!!!!

[@Tekillyah]

Dang Logan you got style man. Keep it going please :)

[@Eddy-rr7db]

Wow great build!

[@unix1033]

Epic build! But what happened to the plastic panel on the top?

[@brightshadowdenmark]

an SFX PSU might fit ;-) and why is the frontpanel not all the way on ?

[@jjohnson71958]

some of these hp models had the 5.25 bigfoot tx hdd

[@tanasmckenda6442]

Good job bro

[@JosueHernandez-nu5cp]

Ahhh I remember when this only had 30 views

[@tj71520]

you really shouldnt exaust hot air from the underside of the case. I really hope you gave it a black sata dvd drive, that would be so awesome

[@drewwilson45]

Beautiful bro just beautiful ❤️

[@jm8080ful]

Instead of an external psu you should have just opted for an external radiator instead, that single 120 rad is just not enough for that thing.

[@jawye]

Nice

[@2011jaydog]

got same case just a diff modle number but size is same...wanna fo a r7 2700...2060 sleeper in..hreat job..

[@playertoe206]

Pretty Awesome!!

[@greedisgood5928]

Expect corrosion with liquid metal in a year. Nice sleeper though.

[@shoking9825]

wdym

[@greedisgood5928]

@@shoking9825 liquid metal is doing bad things with aluminium over the time

[@shoking9825]

@@greedisgood5928 yeah and i think you mean gallium

[@arial4464]

Where did he use liquid metal?

[@paklekj4429]

@@arial4464 the gpu part maybe

[@supersubpls64]

im a tiny bit sad because im trying to find one of these :I

[@NeverthelessPh]

youre shaking

[@robertroy1878]

Great video, but the music!🤢