Thursday 29 February 2024

The 406 Economy Video is Doing Very Good!

Sneak peak into the first 3 and half hours after live premiere and the video got 4 times more views than the best performing video so far. 👀

This is a really good sign that the video might be on a path to outperform my other 2 best performing videos with 8000 and 4000 views. Can't wait to see how far this one will get... maybe it will just flatten out after some views and that will be it... will post an update if anything interesting happens.


Wednesday 28 February 2024

How I Created The Thumbnails For My 406 Economy Videos.

I have finally finished the 406 extreme economy mini series. To say this was a difficult video to edit would be an understatement. Very heavy on extra graphics throuout I have underestimated how long it's going to take me to finish it. I have not even intended this to be split into 3 separate videos and planned to release just 1 video, but the shear amount of time it took me to edit this changed my mind.

Thumbnail was also quite a journey, it started by a simple shot I pulled out from the video which looked very promising and clean.. and as you can see bellow I was keep adding to it until it became very convoluted mess.. Eventually I realized this and managed to cleaned it up, deleted all the extra elements with the mini map, even the 2000km text.. and was left with pretty clean image similar to the initial screenshot with just me, the car and 2 bubbles of text. I have also added a bit of artistic filter to the whole image which not sure will help the performace but I sure like the colours so I decided to go with it for the final version.. also made the font a bit bolder and zoomed in a little bit to make it bigger. The final full video will be released Tomorrow as a premiere.

Wednesday 14 February 2024

5000 watch time hours, another milestone with my channel.


Hit this today, and in case you are wondering this is lifetime watch time hours. I'm still short of those 4000 that are needed from the last 365 days.

My top 5 videos by watch time hours.

Only 2 videos since the last year made it to the top 5. The rest is older videos.


Peter.

Monday 12 February 2024

My channel celebrates 17th Birthday today!


It's been 17 years since I created my youtube channel on this day in 2007. I have been thinking for long time to start making videos but never actually decided to do it until last year.

1 Day in Bratislava: Tourist in My Hometown! 🏰 - Debrief.


This was quite a difficult video to edit.. It was shot over 2 days as after the first day I was not happy with the footage I got so decided to do a reshoot and basically repeated my tour again and tried to get better footage or the locations that I missed on my first day.. overall, the footage was not great, especially the part when I talk (the important part). That's why there is so much voiceover in the video and that is also what takes so much time when editing.. as well as try to put the semi-random footage from those 2 days together to some kind of coherent content that would have the beggining and the end.. In the end tho, I must say I'm quite happy how it turned out, just not how long it took me to get there.. especially the music choices in this one turned out quite nicely.

I still have quite a leftover footage and there were some drone shots used from a year ago, so maybe I will do a quick short and try to use some of that footage before moving on to the next video. I really need to work on the way how I shoot the videos as it really can be a difference between an easy edit in a day or 2 and one that can take 2 weeks to "save" it 😅


The video is doing quite good. It jumped to the top spot in the first 20 hours.. which is nice, but I don't think it will stay there for long as those car videos are way more popular.

Peter

Monday 29 January 2024

Just reached 1000+ watch hours.

 A little milestone of 1000+ watch hours I have reached last week.



Hopefully the remaining 3000 will not take whole year :-)

Saturday 27 May 2023

My new watercooled PC - build log

10 year anniversary of my build I never published... so let publish it now haha..
I still have the setup, but upgraded GPU several times during those 10 years.. currently rocking RTX 3090 and also added additional enclosure on top of the case and moved all the radiators there.

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In May-June 2013 I have built myself a brand new computer since my old Dell XPS M1730 was over 5 and half years old and that was about the right time to get myself a brand new system. This time I decided to go with a deskop and I was curious about those fancy watercooling systems and if I could possibly build one of those myself...
 
As far as the specs of my new pc goes I wanted to go with the top of the range.. or close to the best of what you can buy today without going bankrupt :)  
 
The whole finished system minus the front doors.
 
Back of the case with 8 drives in total and custom made bracket holding the extra drives :)
 
Front of the Merlin SM8 from Case Labs. Lovely case, worth all the extra £s I had to pay for shipping and taxes!

Lamptron FC5 fan controler.

Most of the 'big' parts.. not all of them as I was ordering things as I needed them.



Some of the fittings...
 
Second Samsung 840 series SSD and 2x 4TB Seagate Desktop HDDs plus some leds and red Monsoon fitting
 
Specs:
 
CPU: Intel Core i7 3970X
Motherboard: Asus RAMPAGE IV EXTREME Intel X79 Socket 2011
GFX: EVGA GeForge GTX Titan Hydro Copper
Memory: Crucial 32GB DDR3 1600MHz Ballistix Tactical LP Kit (CL8 @1.35V)
Case: Caselabs Merlin SM8
PSU: 1200W Corsair Digital AX1200i Full Modular
SSD: 2x 500GB Samsung 840
HHD: 2x 4TB Seagate Desktop
+ other older SSDs and HDDs from previous system
 
Watercooling blocks: 
XSPC Razor Asus Rampage IV X79 Motherboard Waterblock Set
XSPC RayStorm CPU WaterBlock (Intel)
 
Other watercooling parts:
Pump: XSPC Laing D5 PWM Pump Single Edition
Pump cover mod: Bitspower D5 Mod Kit
Pump top: Bitspower D5/MCP655 Mod Pump Top V2 POM BP-D5TOPP2-BK
Reservoir: Bitspower Z-Multi 250mm Water Tank
Tubes: Tygon R3603 1/2" ID - 3/4" OD (13-19mm) Tubing : Clear
Fittings: various Bitspower, Koolance, EK, Monsoon fittings and adapters
Coolant: 5 Ltr Ultra Pure H20
Radiators: Alphacool NexXxoS UT60 Full Copper 480mm Quad Radiator
                  Phobya G-Changer V2 360mm Triple Radiator : G-Changer 360 V2 Full Copper 
Fans: 15x Noiseblocker Multiframe S-Series M12-S1 Fan - 120mm
Fan controler: Lamptron FC5 v2 black
 
lots of other stuff like led lights, cable sleeving, temp sensors, thermal compounds and various other bits and bobs.
 

 
Ok, lets start with the caselabs merlin SM8 case.. since it arrived flat packed I had to put it togerther...

I was pretty easy.. I only made one mistake a flipped the central part where the motherboard goes.. heh, but realized and fixed that quickly.
I went with the upsidedown setup for the motherboard since this was the best option for where the computer will be on my desk.

With the powersuply installed.

Final assembled case.
 
Rampage IV Extreme mobo on the caselabs removable tray.

Installed memory and put the cpu in place.

i7-3970x inside the socket

applying the thermal compound

Installation of the XSPC Raystorm CPU Waterblock.

All in place with the temporary graphics card as I had a huge problem with getting my hydro copper titan at the time (was sold out eeeverywheeere)

Installed one of the dust filters at the back as the test but I was very happy how it looked so I decided to go with this setup!

Installing more of the dust filters on the front radiators. It was all the trials and errors here... as I had no idea how I am going to dust proof the radiators and the whole system.

Here I hit the problem with the middle fan cover as it was too large.

But if I could cut 3-4mm from each side... this should fit nicely....

..and here we go using a small saw to mod this dust fan cover...

this should be enough to fit

not bad and almost straight :D

both sides done

sand it a little bit with sanding paper to softern the edges

and it fit exactly as I needed!

Trying to fit the whole radiator with fans in place to see how it looks.

next to the PSU.. I did not like the gap between the bracket and the bottom of the case..

so I decided to isolate it with foam insulation..

just cut some of the foam that came with one of the components (I think motherboard)

stick it with doublesided tape to the psu bracket

and that should do the trick

nice!

view from another angle

and with the psu in place

view from the bottom of the case
 
Next I was trying to attack the USB3.0 cables that came with the caselabs case.

They were quite sturdy and hard to bend which caused the problem...

this was the best I could do with the default cables that came with SM8 using a cable tie to bend them as much as possible without breaking them.

Trying to find a good position for the reservoir. This should be about the right spot.
 
Samsung SSD 840 series.. the kit version one.. I was already over my budged and later I decided to ignore this fact completely and order another one with 2x 4TB HDDs :D