Hey what’s up guys, today I’ll be building my first car themed PC. This is for a client who
really loves Porsches and I decided to upgrade his current gaming rig,
from this… to this. Before we jump into the cinematic build sequence,
I will go over the parts list which will also be listed in the description.
So first off, his now previous gaming rig was centered around a
12700K and 3090 Kingpin from EVGA. For the upgrade, I told him his current core
components are absolutely no joke at all by modern standards. So, we wanted to save
money and retain as many of the parts as we could and upgrade areas that made sense.
The parts we will be keeping will be the Intel 12700K as I saw there was very little benefit
from upgrading to a 12900K unless he was doing something other than gaming which he isn’t.
32GB of Ballistix DDR4 RAM from Crucial, a Samsung 980 PRO 2TB SSD,
and I’ll be adding a second 2TB 980 PRO to that system just in case he wants to
add more games to his library bringing up the total system storage capacity to 4TB.
The motherboard we’ll also be keeping is the ROG STRIX Z690-A Gaming WiFi D4
as well as the Kingpin 3090 by EVGA. The GPU is a hybrid system that has an attached 360mm
AIO liquid cooler along with a fan for air-cooling within the shroud.
Now the Kingpin cards are very rare to get and not many brands actually make waterblocks for them so
one of the few that do is Optimus Watercooling. I went ahead and assembled this block off-camera
because the Kingpin card was somewhat challenging to take apart and I wanted
to focus on that instead of filming the whole process. So here it is ready to go.
Power supply in his previous system was originally an 850 Watt GR-series by EVGA,
but we’re upgrading that to CORSAIR’s HX1200 watts for some extra overclocking headroom.
Custom PSU cables are from SoloSleeving which are sleeved with super flexible paracord material
and colored in plain white to match the build theme as well as being a neutral color
for future reusability with this high-end power supply in any colored theme system.
Let’s dive into the cooling solution. The prebuilt system he had was running an NZXT Kraken
Z73 AIO liquid CPU cooler mounted with LianLi’s white UNI fans on the radiators of the Kingpin
3090 and the Kraken Z73. There were also two case fans mounted up at the top which I can’t
really tell what they are in this picture, but they are not the same. So aesthetically,
everything in this prebuilt system just didn’t line up.
Aside from the Kingpin 3090 waterblock by Optimus, I kept the rest of the cooling
solutions with EK. Going with one of the new Velocity-2 CPU waterblocks,
a PE 360mm radiator which will be mounted at the front panel,
an FLT120 flat reservoir, gold quantum fittings to match the Porsche emblem, 14mm acrylic tubes, and
the three fans cooling this entire open-air case system would be the Noctua NF-A12x25 in black.
The coolant I’m using for the system is EK’s Cryofuel
blood red premix. I didn’t want to use opaque coolants as those tend to have a history
of building up residue and eventually clog loops. Transparent and clear coolants in general
will overall be much easier on maintenance while prolonging the lifespan of the system.
The case itself is going from Lian Li’s Odyssey X tower which I don’t have a picture of
into the AZZA Cast White. One of the feedbacks I got from the client was that the Odyssey X
was too big, so I chose the AZZA case not just out of addressing and reducing the size a bit,
but also for aesthetic themed purposes.
Porsche is not a very flashy luxury car brand. If you look at Porsches,
they’re very subtle on the outside compared to say… Italian cars like Lamborghinis.
Now obviously you can mod a Porsche or any car to look crazy, but that’s not the
point. So I really focused on this idea when building this rig. And I did go to a local
Porsche dealership here in Las Vegas to pick up a car emblem for the PC case.
Additionally, I removed the main front panel on the AZZA case to give unobstructed airflow and
also used the Overkill 360mm fan grill from MNPC Tech which are CNC aluminum in matte black to give
it just a bit more pop with the fans but not quite over the top. Alright, let’s jump into the build.
Okay I do want to wrap this video up by talking about open-air cases vs closed cases.
I get comments all the time about how people won’t go with open-air simply because
of how dusty it can get. This is a huge misconception.
Open-air cases and closed cases get dusty all the same and just as frequent. The difference
and advantage of open-air cases is that cleaning is a lot easier and faster. You just have to
take your PC outside and take compressed air to it in a few directions. That’s it.
Whereas closed cases you have to open up all your panels, clean/blow the components, fans, crevices
and corners inside, clean the panels themselves as well as the dust filters, and then put everything
back. If you have tempered glass, then you probably have to wipe that down of fingerprints
and all since you touched it while taking it off and on. Overall it’s more steps and extra time.
Another advantage of open-air builds like this is you have more freedom of fan orientation.
You don’t have to worry about internal case pressures or which direction air is flowing,
you just have to make sure enough air goes through your radiators or heatsinks, that’s it.
In my honest opinion, I think the only downside of having an open-air case
is if you have certain free-roaming pets like cats, dogs, birds, rodents that like
to stick their paws in things, then that’s when I would recommend a closed case system.
But you all have different living situations so just consider the points I mentioned and use
your best judgement of what’s right for you. I really just wanted to tackle the idea that
open-air cases are harder to maintain or get dustier than closed cases which is not true.
Okay that’s all I have for now, let me know what your thoughts are about anything in
this video down below, thank you so much for watching, and I’ll see you next time.