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it won't fit what am i gonna do hey there little buddy don't you worry

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that's the sugo 16 a case that opens up

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so you can slide your GPU in from the front giving it nearly the performance

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potential of a mid tower but in a tiny little enclosure it's kind of like you

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there have been a number of conflicting trends in the pc building space over the

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last few years consumers want their cases to be smaller and more quiet while

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gpus keep getting larger and more power

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hungry meaning that they require more cooling now theoretically the solution

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to this is simple just nip here a tuck there get rid of all this dead space and

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you're good to go at least as long as you can find a way to get fresh air from

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outside the case to your hottest components

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on that subject let's have a look at them spread out over our northern lights

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desk pad here we've got everything we need starting

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with our aorus x570i pro Wi-Fi motherboard this thing is not cheap at

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210 but it's got PCIe gen4 room for two m.2

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ssds and ample cooling for both the chipset and the vrms which we are going

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to need because for our CPU we've gone with the ryzen 9 5900x it runs a little

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toasty but if we can get all 12 cores

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boosting up to their maximum we are going to be pushing the limits of what a

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small form factor gaming slash content creation system can do and at least

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unlike the alternative from Intel it might be possible to cool this thing

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with a single 120 mm radiator we've got

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two options for that the master liquid ml 120 lv2 RGB and the arctic cooling

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liquid freezer 120 are both worth around 75 us dollars so the question becomes

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which trade-off do we prefer thin radiator 90 millimeter front fan

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and then silent full size atx power supply

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or thick radiator 120 millimeter front fan

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and little sfx l power supply

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now as an sfxl fanboy obviously i'm

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gonna go with this incredible 1000 watt

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unit from silverstone but it should be noted that we could have easily saved

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over fifty dollars and still gotten something like a seasonic prime tx850

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watt titanium which would have been basically silent in this config albeit

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at the cost of case airflow and CPU

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cooling capacity for RAM since we've basically given up all pretense at this

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being an economical build we've gone with 32 gigs of crucial ballistics max

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4 400 mega transfer per second cl 19

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memory gonna be a little bit fast and then

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we've gone with a sabrina rocket one terabyte gen four NVMe SSD for our boot

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drive optionally we could add something like a two or a four terabyte wd green

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three and a half inch hard drive but i'm not sure if we're gonna bother because

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what are we gonna do with that hard drive after you know what

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sure screw it we're gonna put in the hard drive

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we lose the front fan we're not gonna put in the hard drive if we need more

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space we'd go with an eight terabyte rocket cue now that our motherboard's

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prepped we're gonna go ahead and open this baby up with any small form factor

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case i can tell you you're going to want to remove as many pieces of it as you

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can in order to get as much access to it as you can because cable managing these

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things is always a bit of a nightmare and in a design that requires the

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motherboard to go all the way to the back of the motherboard tray like this

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one it's especially important this is not a sandwich style case so that means

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that almost all the building is going to be done from one side i'm just going to go ahead and lay it down not like that

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because then you guys wouldn't be able to see what i'm doing motherboard goes in upside down compared to what is

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typical these front panel connectors are sort of unreasonably long considering

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that they're going to go into an itx motherboard and they're only this far

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away but the reason for that is actually a pretty good one and that's because if

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you have a cooler here or power supply here or

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other things that are interfering at the front of the case you need to be able to

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go around them so you just end up with all this extra

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slack unfortunately here's another cool thing silverstone's documentation

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doesn't seem to mention it but this looks like an SSD mount in the bottom

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here and it lines up as an SSD mount maybe

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they intended for you to put something else there but gosh darn it i'm going to put in another

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7.6 terabytes of solid-state storage

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unfortunately this means adding more cables which in the case of our SATA

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data cable is no problem because i managed to find one of these old super

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small form factor friendly silverstone cables but in the case of our power

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cable means adding considerable bulk to the

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build with that plugged into the board side and kind of cable managed down here

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we can talk about a benefit of modular power supplies that doesn't really come

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up with normal sized cases and that is that they allow you to plug in the

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component side of your cables before you

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actually have the power supply itself anywhere near the build this is great

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because it means that if your power supply would have been in the way of

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plugging this stuff in you don't really have to deal with that ah come on

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sideways is considerably more ergonomic and we've

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got eight pin eps oh my goodness i wish

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i had put this on before i even put the motherboard in at this point look how

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deeply buried in there it is and the problem is that as a right-handed person

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i can't even get the hand in there to guide it in

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we're going left-handed ladies and gentlemen okay

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it's all coming together now it's time to talk about fans a conventional

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cooling layout would have us drawing air in at the front bottom and then

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exhausting from the back and the top but we are going to do the opposite today in

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order to get the freshest possible air to our water cooling radiator here and

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to our GPU which is gonna be up here we're gonna draw air in at the back and

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top and then we're gonna blow it all out the front so when this thing's going

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full bore if you were you know having a cold gaming day your hands are cold you

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could put your hands in front of it you'd have about a probably a solid 500

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to 600 watt space heater just blowing

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air on you all right so we want this radiator in a pole configuration that

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just means that cleaning it off is going to be a little bit easier in the future

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so you can see we're using okay there we go this fan to pull air in

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this way um

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one second one nice thing about Noctua nff12 fans is they have these nice

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little airflow guides that keep anything from accidentally bumping into the fan

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blades at least on the backside they don't have anything like that on the

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front however so we're going to grab one of these old-school style

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wire fan grills put that on there

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then mount our front fan because this is going to make it so that when we're

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packing in our power supply and all these cables nothing's going to get in the way and

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prevent that fan from spinning and now you can really see why we weren't able

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to have a full-size exhaust fan here along with an atx power supply so the

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atx power supply would go all the way over to here meaning that we're limited

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to just this but our sfxl power supply

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ah no this guy you know what i think i want

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this to ah we're gonna use this to exhaust air from the system yeah one two

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three go

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yes success so wait what just happened

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oh had it really

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oh interesting so this goes under the

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GPU right because this is the front of the case and you don't want to be

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plugging your power supply into the front of your stupid computer so it just

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chills here oh silverstone you're so creative you

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have to give them credit for that you can't you can never take that away from

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silverstone bringing us finally to the big moment big reveal

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it's true you cannot fit the GPU in because of this power pass through and

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that's why they opened up the front of the case like this

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so you can slide it in from here

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cool right actually before i do that though i never

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even mentioned what card we're using this is an rtx 3070 from zotac that we

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specifically chose for its shorter length at the expense of taller height

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because the case is wide enough to fit a tall card but it's not long enough to

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fit a lot of the full length cards on the market okay

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i mean that's not bad

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this front fan has pretty unimpeded

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access to you know pull air away and

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i just need one cable tie man this is a kind of a sick machine our CPU is being

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cooled by this radiator that's drawing fresh air in fresh brand new ambient air

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from the outside and our GPU is

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okay well our GPU we have some concerns because theoretically it's right up

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against this top intake right here drawing in equally fresh air meaning

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that our hottest components are being cooled by ambient air

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unfortunately this gap here means that the GPU could end up kind of hot boxing

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itself so to speak fortunately

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we have an idea to solve that so we're going to test the thermals in this case

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two ways first like this

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then we're going to pop this front panel back off

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and put a little shroud in here you see that

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like that so that the GPU is sucking in only fresh

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head shots okay because it's got a shroud

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it's a hi mike no lie man i don't think i've

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ever seen anything quite like it in a small form factor build

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this is a really really cool layout and i mean that quite

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literally we haven't quite reached equilibrium yet you can see that each

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run of cinebench here is seeing the CPU temp spike a little bit higher but this

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is a 5900 freaking x

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running at four gigahertz all core that is still

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even when it settles in just looking at the way this curve is flattening out

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not going to reach higher than about 75 degrees

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and our GPU is settling in around

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70 probably around 75 as well that's

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crazy like normally with these kind of small form factor builds we would say

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okay you know in games it doesn't thermal throttle but if you hit it with

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a full synthetic stress test right like

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fully loading the CPU and the GPU you're gonna have to expect it in an

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unrealistic load like that at thermal throttles

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but this just doesn't no matter what we do to it

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and that's exactly where we ended up our highest peak on the CPU is 78 degrees

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78.4 and our GPU ended up at 73 degrees

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with the most impressive part being listen to this

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oh wow the case is freaking hot at the

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front holy crap

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everywhere else though not bad and the internal components not

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bad either now it's time to see if we can kick things up a notch so let's go ahead and

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position our shroud we're not going to go all the way up to the card here

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because as we learned when we tried to make our own janky Noctua edition GPU

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you don't actually want to block off these exhaust fins so we're just going

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to go kind of to here okay so we're trying to block it off so

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that GPU only pulls in fresh air shroud

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works confirmed we dropped from 73 to 71

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71 and a half degrees and we went from around 2100 RPM and change to about

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2070. so

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not as dramatic a difference as i might have hoped and certainly not as good as

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just taking the side panel off and giving it a little bit more room to

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breathe but a lot better than nothing but wait

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there's more what's this this is our this is our GPU isn't it

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no we have gone one step farther and we've

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actually put an AMD Radeon 6800 xt in

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here and it just barely fits and get this we are still

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topped out at 79 degrees

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it's still whisper quiet and our CPU

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still hit a maximum of 78 degrees it's

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like right there

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right there at the front of the case freaking crazy

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they made such efficient use of this thing to the point where if they had

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made it even one centimeter longer 10 millimeters longer

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they would have been able to put a 3080 in it and i think with this design they

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might have actually gotten away with that from a cooling perspective

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10 millimeters wider they would have been able to fit a 120 millimeter fan

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with a full-size atx power supply and if they made it just five millimeters

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taller they could have actually fit triple slot gpus in here honestly though

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even with all those little compromises made i am really

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really happy with this case i think it's super cool and unique and when it comes

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out either in december of this year or early next year i think this thing is

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