Good Thing I Used Soft Tubing - Riptide LED Test!

[@iTzDaNiiLo]

My OCD is kicking in SO hard with those 3 fans that aren't spinning. I can't stop starring at them lol

[@paulshardware]

Sorry about that! The fans for those are connected to the FreeNAS system (lower build) which wasn't powered on

[@michaelcornish3858]

Ok

[@busiderbaer]

Sorry Paul, but I am certain that there might be a general problem with the VPP755 pump. As recorded in a bunch of forums (mostly german ones afaik) the failure rate of these pumps is quite high, as it may look like a D5 variant, but it most certainly is not, as the internal contstruction is completely different and it is made in a more "cost effective" way by Alphacool. I would swap those for some real D5s from one of the other brands like EK, Swiftech, Watercool, Aqua Computer ...

[@HotRodHippie]

busiderbaer I've gone through 4 VPP755 pumps. I gave up and went with another brand. My machine is for video editing and dead pumps really left me high and dry. (Pun not intended)

[@emsj86]

If Paul was not a KZbinr I can’t bet money he would not be getting a refund pump

[@emsj86]

Alphacool will blame you in every way before sending you a replacement pump. It’s a shame because they have to know with the massive pump failures. It comes down to he cheap plastic propellers

[@HotRodHippie]

All 4 of my failed pumps were covered under warranty. The first two they sent me two new ones. The second two I got a store credit and both other parts. This was all through Performance-PCs.com though, I didn't deal with Alphacool directly at all.

[@bestbattle]

@@emsj86 it's the electrical part failing from what I know. A pump is able to run with broken propeller - as long as the broken part doesn't block it all.

[@CGamer76]

I like the look of hard tubing, but just as we saw here the benefit of soft tubing is awesome

[@Colaman112]

I think the smoky soft tubing actually looks pretty good.

[@CGamer76]

It's soft tubing, you can order it here www.ekwb.com/shop/accessories/tubing

[@bladactania]

Soft tubing can look good as in this build, but those quick disconnects are a massive eyesore

[@Nyruami]

benefits, plural. The quick disassemble is a major benefit, but you also got the same benefit when assembling it, just watch vids of guys who do hard tubing, the bending over hot air guns, the throwing away tubes when you made it millimeters short, it´s just stupid to use hard tubing.

[@noahewoods]

In my opinion soft tubing looks better and it's much easier to install and change if need be

[@jeanpignondepied]

It's a matter of taste, but we can all agree that soft tubing is easier to install

[@RetroTinkerer]

Hardtubing look to me out of place in a production machine, great for show not for go.

[@noahewoods]

@@jeanpignondepied oh yeah

[@Psittac20]

I hate soft tubing, this is the only system I've seen that I didn't wish it was hard tubing. Something about it is respectable.

[@Captaincj2005]

@@Psittac20 It's because everything else is expensive. LUL

[@Rickbearcat]

Did I just watch a 16 minute commercial for Corsair?

[@Occsei]

I have a Corsair Harpoon and I had to uninstall the CUE software because it would often make the mouse not work at startup. iCUE is the same as CUE just even more bloated, so I'm using X-Mouse Button Control now, although it doesn't allow to configure one of the buttons and has some annoying bugs. But yeah... this PoS software ruined my experience with this perfectly good mouse. I'm going back to Logitech next time.

[@SatomiForward]

@@Occsei 🤔similar to my story with NZXTs software and rgb

[@Rickbearcat]

Joe Dirt...The CAM software is crap. One of their updates from after 2.5 borked the desktop app. It took 2 months of me sending in bespoke e-mails with screenshots and descriptions to get a fix which finally occurred on patch 3.7.2. It still isn't perfect, but it is serviceable. The last update they even sent me a custom driver for my specific machine if that latest update didn't work. Thankfully, I've not needed to use it.

[@Mr_Wh1]

Yes, yes you did.

[@Nyruami]

Sure you did. You didn´t really expect a professional hardware KZbinr who is reliant on free hardware for his videos to do honest and impartial reviews, did you? You won´t see anything but commercials on this channel

[@wbwarren57]

What is needed is algorithmic light displays. Describe what the lights are and where they are located in the box, then let an algorithm actually apply affects that could ripple through the box either left or right right to left forward backward up and down or some combination of those. It really probably would not be that tremendously difficult to create such agreements and then your box would become sort of a a work of dynamic cart that was constantly changing.

[@Zarcondeegrissom]

I could imagine something like DMX being useful for that, and just use stage light control soft to map out where all the lights are in a comp. It would also be sort of funny as well. I'm just not sure how you would control the GPU memory and motherboard LEDs via DMX.

[@wbwarren57]

Great ideas. I think there’s a lot of room here for innovation. Putting together I’d show is based on flipping bits manually just doesn’t seem to be desirable or practical. Nor does it seem to be something that’s going to result in a really interesting light show.

[@Zarcondeegrissom]

agreed, and given how every part of a comp needs it's own soft, GPU, case, keyboard, motherboard, pumps, fans, etc, it's almost as bad as the old days of HP/Dell taskbar bloat when the component control soft isn't kicking not detect errors on boot up, lol. I do agree that setting a profile one bit at a time is tedious and I don't know what DMX soft is better for setting collections of lights, I've never fussed with it myself, it has got to be better than most "RGB" apps I've seen so far. Just a quick Google search, and compared to ProDMX (for example) the RGB soft looks archaic at best. www.chromateq.com/64-chromateq-pro-dmx.htm If RGB soft was that good, and worked with everything via a 'standard' interface, I would not be so cynical about RGB. It would even be better if I could set the RGB to things like memory usage on the DIMMs, CPU load on the CLC pump, GPU load on the graphics card. Or simply trigger off the music I'm listening to for each song with its own effect and colors.

[@FlyingMugen]

I love the half screen overlay with the footage next to it, on both this and your OC battle video. I greatly appreciate the work put in for that!

[@bentcountershaft]

It would really be nice if all the companies got together and made rgb controls universal for everything. I know it will never happen, but I can dream.

[@Dschijn]

A VPP755 from Alphacool failed? What a surprise. ^^

[@anthonyp9591]

so many people mentioned that in his build videos and wow it didn't even take two months and already one is dead

[@flippedstug9517]

I really love the look of the 1000d. I've got a 500d RGB, so it's like this big version of what I have, along with the same gorgeous fans. My favorite feature of iCUE is being able to overlay effects. I personally run two Arc effects over a Static effect on the fans; The top arc is blue/blue, the middle arc is blue/light blue, and the static effect is white. They rotate in opposite directions, both at slow speeds. Alongside all the other RGB lights being blue pulsating to white/light blue, it gives it this great-looking ice effect.

[@deletewin32]

Does the fans in total use more power than the CPU/GPU? 😅

[@KShafe777]

this is a great video. I like when someone does a walkthrough the way you did with software. I don't usually care for corsair software as it assumes that the user just knows how to use it.

[@johntotten4872]

Rip Riptide. Great video Paul. After seeing the quick release setup I may be tempted to run a water cooled system at one point using those.

[@snicketylemon6669]

What tubing is that, the fluid in it makes it look like beautiful sea glass!!! I want it!!

[@SerpentXTech]

Why is the bottom back fan not spinning? Did I miss something, sorry if I did, I a guessing it might be connected to 4 pin pwm on itx system.

[@coitcordery8501]

If the aura sync is anything like msi's lighting controller, I set my MB leds and close the program and corsair usually takes back over. Sometimes I just have to open up corsair and confirm the lighting.

[@ComblessMan]

I'm a little confused, can one set up lighting system where once the machine starts getting warm to hot the light color can change? I'm old and RGB is something that makes me mumble and make unintelligent sounds.

[@KaptainKerl]

You can set it up to display the CPU temp

[@55skull]

Combless Man I have LED strips that I can configure to change colours as the temperatures on my cpu and GPU changes

[@bilghiru1992]

Didn't he add temperature sensors in the first or second part of the Riptide build? I think you can get some output from those and translate them to the RBG lighting software.

[@Allansk1988]

What are the tubing you are using and your reservoir?

[@smashallpots1428]

when you put the monoblock on you can use the one that on there right now for the mini itx system and try and get a slim 240 for the rear and get the smallest pump/res combo you can get and try and stash it in the back

[@Tom-xy7mx]

Love the frosted tint the soft tubing has! Been using white primoflex for the past 2 years now and getting kinda bored of it tbh. I might try this tubing and see how well it goes with the blue lighting in my case.

[@tobydion3009]

What is the downside of the quick connects? More points of a possible failure over time? They look too nice and convenient over the normal tubing. There has to be some reason everyone don't use it.

[@HotRodHippie]

Toby Dion added cost, don't look particularly good, and yes additional points of failure. I think this build is ugly but it makes a ton of sense. My system has soft tubing rather than hard tubing so it's easier to service (workstation) but quick disconnects would make it even better. I just can't bring myself to do it.

[@willkern6]

Well, they do cost between $25 and $40 each... if you are using three in your loop (between CPU and radiator, radiator and GPU, CPU and GPU) you are looking at at least $75 - $120 in QDC "convenience". Most people would rather spend that on something else.

[@Jdmorris143]

This was a very long ad that I had to watch twice just to make sure it was an ad. Great video Mr. Hardware.

[@Grebe90]

really really like that tubing, just a nice change from the normal tubing

[@rake.]

I'm happy for you and your pretty lights. I try to avoid lights on my systems, and no see through panels either. Just simple efficient unassuming sleeper systems that sit quietly in the room cranking out killer FPS. What happens on the screen is the star of the show.

[@broben87]

Sounds like my laptop! =)

[@BuffaloWarrior7]

I hear about pumps failing way to often with water cooling. Seen multiple youtubers systems fail. My H100i died, my roomates EVGA AIO died. Literally 100% of the water cooled systems in my apartment failed in one year. Air cooling is cheaper and much more reliable. Custom loops can out perform air cooling but at the increased risk of leakage and corrosion/buildup/cleaning issues. Air cooling just needs to be blown out to clean.

[@joshua41175]

Just wondering, why didn't you use eiswolf blocks to act as pumps for the GPU loop and mount the CPU pump elsewhere?

[@henryospina8361]

Hello friend Paul, I'm very inexperienced in this custom liquid refrigeration, I really like your work, unlike I prefer rigid tubes, without knowing I bought the 24 fans x18 120 and x6 140 to do pull and push but I do not know exactly what radiators I must choose so that everything enters the correction, I see that you have x2 480 UT60 and x1 420 UT60 but I do not have clear is if you have space to use the other 8 fans of the front in the push and pull please advise me to buy the right thing, since in my country there is no distributor and I have to order from other countries and I'm afraid if something is wrong and then have to manage returns.

[@ph0t0dave]

Im running both the iCue and Aura in a similar setup to yours but on a little smaller scale lol. In the Aura software at the top just disable all the options except for the motherboard and set the colour and effect you want and then close it, then either reboot or go back to iCue and switch to a different profile and back to the one you want and it *should* work. Once I disabled the DRAM in Aura on mine I could control the lights on the memory just fine with iCue and no interference with Aura.

[@Arek_R.]

Biggest issue with RGB - a shitload of software you need to control it... They should ban all of it, and make all manufacturers create something new together that will support everything IN ONE PROGRAM.

[@blitztechz]

Agreed

[@Jack1998d1]

and cross-platform, not everyone uses windows

[@75ur15]

RGZtech Ironically, those who use these products, probably have a higher percentage of Linuxs user than the general average

[@Zarcondeegrissom]

Hmm, well, there is that DMX stuff for stage lights. (grin)

[@hunterlong1820]

Yeah i have CAM, Corsair, Logitech, and ASUS RGB software lol

[@itsdeonlol]

Man, this case is a BEAST!!!

[@RickyLi]

Hey Paul, go look up the reviews of the alphacool D5 pumps on amazon, they DIE they always die. I've had 3 and 2 of the three died, I only have the 3rd one because I RMA'ed one and then was told no need to ship the dead pump back because it wasn't worth shipping from my location.

[@busiderbaer]

That is because they are not real D5s. They might look as if they were, but the internal construction is completely different and made more cheaply.

[@RickyLi]

Agreed, I like the one review that called them overfed DC-LTs, that grew too fat to be DC-Lts but aren't strong enough to be D5s. It's kinda true.

[@HotRodHippie]

Yep I had 4 die. Two never read RPM out of the box. Sigh

[@Tom-xy7mx]

I've always recommended going with swiftech pumps since you always guaranteed to get a read D5 pump instead of a replica/copy. Hell I've been using their inexpensive MCP655-B in my build for years and its super quiet, regardless of the fact that the pump speed is fixed.

[@OhItsThat]

I have 6 Corsair LL fans, H115i Pro RGB, 4x8GB Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB 3200 ram and a K70 RGB MK2. I took me a couple of weeks of spending hours in iCue to figure out what the heck I was doing. There’s so much to learn. Only thing that really sucks is not being able to control the RGBs in my ROG Maximus X Code and Strix 1080ti OC. The Asus software sucks big time compared to iCue.

[@Warren698]

Yes! Can't wait for you to do another carpentry/building vlog! It's been too long since the last garage vlog

[@rageagainstthetoymachine2410]

quick question: on that corsair ram, does the color red actually look like that in person? on video it looks more like an orange..I was considering buying this ram but don't want to if it's going to look orange like that.

[@kaybee1438]

Paul, this is the very kind of thing that I left Bitwit's channel for!

[@19thHour]

Why are you using a White and Gold color scheme for this build?

[@joshua41175]

Because nobody wants to be a lame cloak rebel.

[@Xarraan]

Paul, did you happen to do any video on cable management for this? I have 9 LL's in my case and I cant figure out how to make it look nice when it comes to connecting to the rgb hubs

[@quest791]

have you done any testing with the Aura software and games. I had a few games that would not play with the software. It was causing crashes.

[@blai5e730]

Paul, if you want to stop Asus AuraSync from taking control of your RAM, turn off the "Enable SDK" option in ICUE (under Settings > ICUE Settings > Enable SDK - uncheck it).

[@RexlonXD]

I’m all Corsair so I like how easy it is to use and create awesome effects

[@surajsuresh8945]

Whoaa! Really stoked seeing RIPTIDE

[@slexov3897]

Paul. I have a k55 she keyboard. Love it. But I tried to install firmware on it a while ago and now the software is locked up and doesn't recognise the keyboard( none of the macro keys work or vol. Up or down etc.) Help?

[@gkav8502]

Hey paul,i just bought the coolermaster fans pro 120mm rgb fans and i want to sync the rgb with aura sync but i cant...can you tell exactly how to connect the cables on the headers?my motherobard is asus b350f gaming...thnx

[@robertcox9599]

How do you get the tubing in the pump reservoir like that? I’m a HUGE resident evil fan and it reminds me of the T-Virus design in its container. Kind of gives me an idea for my build that I want to do.

[@emtjim224]

I am curious to know how much system resources the i-Cue software uses in the back ground?

[@kevgwang]

Paul I dont see pumps listed. Did you use the VPP755's?? I've had similar issues with mine. They all of a sudden do not power on with system and then bamm they run. I'm currently using the Eisstation D5 and it stopped working the other day and no amount of fiddling made it start then next day i reseated the molex for a 4th time and whallah it started working again. Needless to say I'm done since I've had this one les than 3 weeks now its getting returned. Still looking at options for a new rez pump combo myself.

[@notchjohnson2540]

In order to maintain the redundancy, couldn't Paul just keep both loops running serial configured, even after he has received and installed the working replacement pump?

[@sageosaka]

Not sure if you saw my comment on your other series of videos regarding the freenas system but if you want to use 10gbps throughout your network, doesn't the freenas system need a 10gbps card too?

[@mjc0961]

8:30 in, I realized I'm watching a video about how to set up LEDs even though I will never put any of this stuff in my computer. I guess Paul is just that good, because I'm still watching instead of leaving. 👍

[@MichaelGalletly]

I see the background screen you have a picture of Castle Hohenzollern. One of my favorite castles in Germany from when I was stationed there. Have you been to it?

[@bijeshamatya8090]

Looking forward to use master liquid lite as a replacement to stock air-cooler on q6600 with 256 GB as primary SSD and 2*2TB as backup for my project.What do you guys think? Looking forward to your reply😀😀😁😉

[@afriendofafriend5766]

I want rgb lighting options to connect to in game sound with higher db equating to brighter colors.

[@mflinn77]

Looking forward to more videos about this build. I'm building a similar system with the 1000d and all ML fans, but with MSI MEG Creation x399 and g.Skill rgb memory. Trying to decide on the loop configuration now without GPU cooling for now. May still do dual 480s just so I don't have to mess around with installing another one later. Whatcha think?

[@iaial0]

I think this PC is in my top 3 builds I've ever seen on the Internet

[@4kGame_R]

The Alphacool VPP755 pumps have a higher failure rate than other pumps plus your using a high resistance cpu block along with 2 high resistance quick disconnects. That setup works best with high pressure DDC pumps, NOT a D5 pump. Soft tubing works fine for the average pc enthusiast but looks awful compared to hardline.

[@ShypaxGaming]

Hey paul , i a quick question, how on earth did you get your aura software to work , i have tried everything and it still wont detect my MB or fans , just my GPU, any solutions? newest bios, newest lighting control software, and im running z370-E

[@Alice_Fumo]

While I find the idea of putting the NAS system in a big system is in general an awesome idea, your mainboard "ASUS RoG Strix X470-I Gaming" does, according to the ASUS page not support ECC memory. Finding mini-itx boards that do support ECC is crazy hard and since FreeNAS does trust the integrity of RAM, this is where you could possibly risk data integrity. Since you listed ECC Ram in your specs (and I was surprised to find that the AMD Processor actually supports it too), this is uh.. y'kno. In reality, you will ->probably

[@John-gp6qr]

Paul, have you experience with black screen of death while using the iCue software? I had have issues with this and it was from iCue. And many forums(reddit, corsair forum, ect) has posts from many users having the same issue.

[@yuheny0]

Where can I find those tubes?? What are they called?

[@natefisk2677]

Is Newegg reliable the prices seem too good to be true for what I am trying to buy

[@surajsuresh8945]

Nate Fisk Yes

[@johntotten4872]

Be sure to check on the seller column. Pick only Newegg otherwise you may have to deal with other sellers. Had no real issue with that except the seller taking much longer to get the product shipped.

[@natefisk2677]

Ok thanks

[@rageagainstthetoymachine2410]

I wouldn't deal with them..here is how my first shopping experience went with them, I created an account (using my real personal information) added my payment method (my OWN real credit card) and proceeded to spend $200 on their website, well 24 hours later I tried to log in to my account to check my order status, and boom, I'm fucking perm banned....I email them asking why I'm banned and they reply "we don't know...we will refund your order in 1-3 days sorry for the issues" so 3 days later I finally got my money back but my account never got unbanned. I asked them to please DELETE my account and they replied "sure, no problem" 7 days later my account wasn't deleted so I emailed them again and they replied "sorry we can't delete your account"....the worst online shopping experience I've ever encountered hands down.

[@rageagainstthetoymachine2410]

by the way, a quick google search will provide tons of stories of this same thing happening to a lot of other people..this wasn't a fluke accident it's a pretty common problem they seem to have. so yeah, shop at your own risk is my advice.

[@Goodfella0982]

Man, that is a bad ass PC! And a BEAST!

[@ottoFRAGGER2]

i want an update or a more indepth video on the NAS! i've been trying to set one up myself and am wondering if you have been running into the same issues i have with 11.2... permissions issues, windows 10 issues, and network issues. all the things, you know haha.

[@itsZiz]

960mm rad space for 2 gpus and 360mm for the cpu???

[@ninjaa003]

I really like iCue, but I have an issue where it slowly uses more and more CPU over time. I've seen it go as high as 34% CPU usage in task manager, after noticing my fans ramp up while my PC was idle.

[@MrBoljangles]

Any alternate place for some good cables? Wazzmodz are gone.

[@dida3510]

what spiral is in? some kind of water cooler?

[@saniwada]

I love that frosted soft tubing.

[@kylez9094]

Is there a fix for the gskill lighting software not detecting my trident z? I have an AsRock board by tried Aura and it didn't help.

[@VikingDudee]

Love that SLI bridge! I don't like my Nvidia bridge much because the green throws everything off.

[@saulgoodman2018]

How come the front bottom fan, and the back bottom fan isn't spinning?

[@thomaszoge2540]

What kind of soft tubing is this? Cant find it anywhere.

[@aidenCBR94]

Does anyone know what tubing that is? cant seem to find any results on amazon.

[@leviathanpriim3951]

are you going to be adding 10Gb nic to it for video file transfers when editing ?

[@NearCry91]

Obviously you didn't watch the older videos because it already has one.

[@Dragsliv]

Are those VPP 755 pumps? I had two of those, both died within a year. Loud, fake PWM and nearly cooked my PC twice. Get EK's pumps Paul.

[@Bbreezy3900]

Are you gonna add rtx 2080 tis when ray tracing actually becomes a thing?

[@tony_cgivfx]

wow seeing paul next to the pc makes me realize the scale of that beast... wow!

[@aceeken]

can u get the fans running that now is not working???

[@calebrose5959]

Hey paul will you do more watercooling videos? ❤

[@ModSquad]

Wow. When you said you built it in the summer I just realized how long ago that was!!!

[@matchadwick4392]

What case is that in the sponsored video

[@jpierce1987]

I wish Aura sync had more options and better control. All my stuff is Aura sync, but there's really not a lot of control, so I'm kinda disappointed in the available configurations. Hopefully they'll push better stuff in future updates.

[@hookster8179]

Are you going to link all the sections to this build with one link, in the future?

[@kylez9094]

Do the bottom front fans and the bottom rear fan only run if he's running the nas setup?

[@KaptainKerl]

Yes

[@shinukage8573]

I have a conflict with my mystic lighting and my corsair keyboard. I just didn't choose a lighting effect in icue and let mystic control the lighting

What tubbing are you using on Riptide Paul?

[@av_manager2294]

Cool video Paul

[@longbow0728]

is one of your rear fans dead?

[@drakademik6013]

Started watching this from the beginning. Just a heads up the playlist plays last to first. Should be first to last with a build series like this IMO. On video 3, awesome so far ( I did watch this one first tho oops lol )

[@ccgert]

My OCD has issues with the couple of fans that are not spinning

[@SKNCOOL]

What about aorus b450 Mobo .Please review gigabyte b450 M aourus motherboard

[@jessepaz2346]

Why is it that some of the case fans aren’t running?

[@MrJplovlin]

I was wondering when there was going to be a new video on Riptide.

[@paulshardware]

This won't be the last!

[@MrJplovlin]

That's great...the build is inspiring for my future build over the next few months.

[@F7INN]

When I see you stood next to it I realise how HUGE that case is

[@AdamKlopotowski]

Hey Paul how are you doing on this fine day?

[@paulshardware]

I am quite well, thank you for asking 😁

[@jackielinde7568]

*PAUL! I AM SO DISAPPOINTED!* You didn't cover if the ASUS and the Corsair RGB lighting could be tied into system diagnostics, to make identifying and troubleshooting potential system problems (like thermals and voltage issues). Could either software do something like flash the Escape key Red (or some other color if the color scheme is red) to alert the user that there is an issue, and then flash the RGB on the related part (like graphics card, ram, or RGB enabled CPU water block) to draw attention to the affected device? Can it flash a color code on said affected device to indicate if a problem is thermal or voltage (or some other issue)?

[@thedoc2994]

That intake fan that isn’t spinning is triggering me so badly lol

[@nicolasong50]

Isn’t Corsair entering the custom loop market with Aqua Computer as OEM?

[@BlackDim100]

I need those quick disconnects. Who sells those?

[@y.shaked5152]

I love Riptide vids. A pump died that quickly?

[@Rayhold]

Got this case, and I love it. But hard tube for me, i know it has those quick disconnects but the result is brilliant :P I also got messed around with iCue software. And pretty disappoint I can't control standard rgb strips with commander.