LGR - The Metalfish Aquarium PC
Added 2022-12-29 23:35:42 +0000 UTCHere we are, the final LGR episode of 2022. Already! What a whirlwind of a year it's been, I can hardly believe we're hitting 2023...
And what a sendoff to the year we have here: the Metalfish Y2. It's a 3.5-gallon fish tank PC case that fits a Mini-ITX motherboard, a GPU, some fans and a little SSD, and that's about it. As soon as I saw it online it looked like prime LGR material. And it's built to house real living fish, unlike the Lian Li case I've shown before! Whether or not any of this is a good idea, well, I'll let you be the judge. But dang, it sure does look neat when assembled, whether or not it's filled with critters.
Also, I still don't have running water hahaaaa. I really can't believe that of all the possible days in the year I could've chosen to begin a fish tank project, I picked the ONE day where the water is cut off to most of the city... As mentioned in the video and on Twitter, the water system in much of Asheville has gone haywire and it's been bone dry in my house since Monday. Here we are approaching Friday and there's still no sign of its return, at least in my general vicinity. A few neighborhoods on the other side of town are slowly getting it back today but I have no idea when it'll be back for me.
Anyway! Thankfully I was able to travel about 45 minutes south and grab a good load of bottled water, which I've been subsisting on all week. With a few gallons set aside for aquarium PC shenanigans, heh. I really was not sure if this would end up getting done this week or not, there was a moment during filming where enough things went wrong in succession that I seriously almost gave up on the whole video for a while. But hey, here we are, and it was a lotta fun in the end :)
On that note, I hope you've had a nice set of holidays these past couple weeks and have yourself a happy new year! See you soon in '23.
Comments
I do indeed, it came back over the weekend! Still, almost six days without was quite a hassle.
LGR
2023-01-05 04:55:33 +0000 UTCI hope you've got your water back by now - that gives new meaning to a "dry" town!
CharlieVictor
2023-01-05 03:58:16 +0000 UTCI thought this was great and a lot better than I'd have expected when I first saw the news reports! Still far from ideal though of course. I think a good use for the tank would be a diorama with some cool lighting, maybe something from Monkey Island or even one of the amazing creations of Bobby Fingers :-p
Gareth P
2023-01-02 13:44:38 +0000 UTCThanks man, this brings back good memories!
Johannes
2022-12-31 07:13:52 +0000 UTCThis is what I came to say. Nice work side-stepping the thermal paste argument completely. I was kind of hoping for the inevitable heated youtube debate that normally devolves into name-calling and insults.
Nachts
2022-12-31 04:33:36 +0000 UTCI would not be surprised! It isn't sold in the US for a reason I imagine 🤔
LGR
2022-12-31 02:22:18 +0000 UTCSereneScreen Marine Aquarium! An XP-era classic :)
LGR
2022-12-31 02:21:47 +0000 UTCWhat was the Aquairiam/Fish screensaver on the PC toward the end of the video? Had the LGR logo in a clam.
Richard Goodley
2022-12-30 20:29:20 +0000 UTCThis has to violate some kind of electrical safety standards.
JennaKay
2022-12-30 17:06:52 +0000 UTCThat looks awesome!
Adam Lynn
2022-12-30 14:15:07 +0000 UTCYeah that... really makes me uncomfortable. But the Duke Nukem bust makes for a surprisingly decent aquarium decoration.
Alyxx the Rat
2022-12-30 13:23:02 +0000 UTCYou are really bad at these youtube reviews stuff.. Breaking everything, no water, not long enough cables :D
SantaClaw
2022-12-30 08:16:41 +0000 UTCOh man that's nifty as heck. I've bemoaned that there aren't new dumb cases like there were in the 2000's, but I have been surprised recently!
Jamie Pilkey
2022-12-30 05:33:34 +0000 UTCYeah I don’t believe I’d trust that build to hold too much more water weight and density!
LGR
2022-12-30 03:52:03 +0000 UTCTo be fair, I do have it drained currently. It’ll likely stay that way unless I plan to have it in a future video, or I find a lid :)
LGR
2022-12-30 03:51:05 +0000 UTCAlways! The perfect application of paste is the one you can’t see
LGR
2022-12-30 03:03:48 +0000 UTCLoved how you obscured your thermal paste application :D
John Covil
2022-12-30 02:52:49 +0000 UTCI was surprised you kept it up after the demo. I was expecting you to drain it. I'd like it a lot more if it had a lid, but it's kind of cool regardless.
Vaggumon
2022-12-30 02:52:12 +0000 UTCQuality puns in the intro
John Covil
2022-12-30 02:39:53 +0000 UTCOh wow, that wound up being a lot smaller than I expected it to be - but given the quality, that's probably for the best, yikes.
Valora Inverse
2022-12-30 01:59:06 +0000 UTCIf you had tropical fish in there, you'd have a heater running anyway, so it ALMOST makes sense that you could use it as a water-cooling reservoir... but think about pumping fishtank water through your expensive GPU waterblock... yech.
moosemaimer
2022-12-30 01:50:33 +0000 UTCDefinite mid-2000s Lian Li vibes!
LGR
2022-12-30 01:02:49 +0000 UTCfeels like something lian li would have made, I'm sure they would have done a much better job of it though lol
Zachary Outen
2022-12-30 01:00:53 +0000 UTCYeah it always kinda makes me sad seeing fish stuck in such small tanks. Crazy that there are plenty of aquariums far smaller, that just seems like asking for a cruelly brief lifespan.
LGR
2022-12-30 00:56:30 +0000 UTCI appreciate you mentioning the "small tanks are bad for fish" issue! Too many people think that fish don't need a large tank.
aetherspoon
2022-12-30 00:46:46 +0000 UTCI made a shameless tanking pun in the video so I understand ;)
LGR
2022-12-30 00:22:25 +0000 UTCIt's too bad about your water situation, I hope it'll be fixed soon. At least you were able to do your video, it would have been disappointing if it had "tanked". I'll get my coat...
Frederic St-Georges
2022-12-30 00:18:27 +0000 UTC
