WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:08.960 it won't fit what am i gonna do hey there little buddy don't you worry 00:00:05.680 --> 00:00:11.759 that's the sugo 16 a case that opens up 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:16.480 so you can slide your GPU in from the front giving it nearly the performance 00:00:13.759 --> 00:00:20.320 potential of a mid tower but in a tiny little enclosure it's kind of like you 00:00:19.199 --> 00:00:26.480 wow can i help you sure can by listening to this 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:31.359 message from our sponsor graphis graphis is an automated fishing defense solution 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:33.360 for office 365 and g suite emails that 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:36.719 stops current and emerging email threats without you having to lift a finger get 00:00:35.120 --> 00:00:42.920 thirty percent off list price and thirty percent off onboarding at graphis dot a 00:00:39.040 --> 00:00:42.920 i slash Linus 00:00:49.760 --> 00:00:55.680 there have been a number of conflicting trends in the pc building space over the 00:00:53.360 --> 00:01:02.640 last few years consumers want their cases to be smaller and more quiet while 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:04.080 gpus keep getting larger and more power 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:08.880 hungry meaning that they require more cooling now theoretically the solution 00:01:06.240 --> 00:01:13.520 to this is simple just nip here a tuck there get rid of all this dead space and 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:18.080 you're good to go at least as long as you can find a way to get fresh air from 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:21.680 outside the case to your hottest components 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:25.840 on that subject let's have a look at them spread out over our northern lights 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:30.000 desk pad here we've got everything we need starting 00:01:27.360 --> 00:01:33.040 with our aorus x570i pro Wi-Fi motherboard this thing is not cheap at 00:01:31.759 --> 00:01:38.720 210 but it's got PCIe gen4 room for two m.2 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:43.680 ssds and ample cooling for both the chipset and the vrms which we are going 00:01:40.960 --> 00:01:49.920 to need because for our CPU we've gone with the ryzen 9 5900x it runs a little 00:01:46.880 --> 00:01:51.520 toasty but if we can get all 12 cores 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:55.360 boosting up to their maximum we are going to be pushing the limits of what a 00:01:53.200 --> 00:02:00.159 small form factor gaming slash content creation system can do and at least 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:05.280 unlike the alternative from Intel it might be possible to cool this thing 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:07.360 with a single 120 mm radiator we've got 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:13.280 two options for that the master liquid ml 120 lv2 RGB and the arctic cooling 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:18.720 liquid freezer 120 are both worth around 75 us dollars so the question becomes 00:02:16.480 --> 00:02:24.160 which trade-off do we prefer thin radiator 90 millimeter front fan 00:02:21.440 --> 00:02:26.080 and then silent full size atx power supply 00:02:25.200 --> 00:02:33.120 or thick radiator 120 millimeter front fan 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:36.239 and little sfx l power supply 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:39.519 now as an sfxl fanboy obviously i'm 00:02:36.239 --> 00:02:42.000 gonna go with this incredible 1000 watt 00:02:39.519 --> 00:02:46.239 unit from silverstone but it should be noted that we could have easily saved 00:02:43.920 --> 00:02:50.319 over fifty dollars and still gotten something like a seasonic prime tx850 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:56.400 watt titanium which would have been basically silent in this config albeit 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:58.480 at the cost of case airflow and CPU 00:02:56.400 --> 00:03:01.920 cooling capacity for RAM since we've basically given up all pretense at this 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:08.560 being an economical build we've gone with 32 gigs of crucial ballistics max 00:03:05.200 --> 00:03:10.720 4 400 mega transfer per second cl 19 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:14.560 memory gonna be a little bit fast and then 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:20.319 we've gone with a sabrina rocket one terabyte gen four NVMe SSD for our boot 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:25.120 drive optionally we could add something like a two or a four terabyte wd green 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:28.560 three and a half inch hard drive but i'm not sure if we're gonna bother because 00:03:27.040 --> 00:03:32.319 what are we gonna do with that hard drive after you know what 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:36.560 sure screw it we're gonna put in the hard drive 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:39.440 we lose the front fan we're not gonna put in the hard drive if we need more 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:42.879 space we'd go with an eight terabyte rocket cue now that our motherboard's 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:46.879 prepped we're gonna go ahead and open this baby up with any small form factor 00:03:45.440 --> 00:03:52.159 case i can tell you you're going to want to remove as many pieces of it as you 00:03:49.200 --> 00:03:56.159 can in order to get as much access to it as you can because cable managing these 00:03:53.920 --> 00:03:59.439 things is always a bit of a nightmare and in a design that requires the 00:03:57.760 --> 00:04:03.599 motherboard to go all the way to the back of the motherboard tray like this 00:04:00.959 --> 00:04:07.840 one it's especially important this is not a sandwich style case so that means 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:12.799 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 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:19.280 because then you guys wouldn't be able to see what i'm doing motherboard goes in upside down compared to what is 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:22.720 typical these front panel connectors are sort of unreasonably long considering 00:04:21.280 --> 00:04:26.320 that they're going to go into an itx motherboard and they're only this far 00:04:24.400 --> 00:04:29.600 away but the reason for that is actually a pretty good one and that's because if 00:04:28.400 --> 00:04:33.440 you have a cooler here or power supply here or 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:36.479 other things that are interfering at the front of the case you need to be able to 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:41.199 go around them so you just end up with all this extra 00:04:38.479 --> 00:04:45.360 slack unfortunately here's another cool thing silverstone's documentation 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:48.479 doesn't seem to mention it but this looks like an SSD mount in the bottom 00:04:47.520 --> 00:04:52.400 here and it lines up as an SSD mount maybe 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:59.919 they intended for you to put something else there but gosh darn it i'm going to put in another 00:04:55.360 --> 00:05:01.600 7.6 terabytes of solid-state storage 00:04:59.919 --> 00:05:04.960 unfortunately this means adding more cables which in the case of our SATA 00:05:03.440 --> 00:05:08.639 data cable is no problem because i managed to find one of these old super 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:11.759 small form factor friendly silverstone cables but in the case of our power 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:15.759 cable means adding considerable bulk to the 00:05:13.919 --> 00:05:20.639 build with that plugged into the board side and kind of cable managed down here 00:05:18.880 --> 00:05:24.320 we can talk about a benefit of modular power supplies that doesn't really come 00:05:22.080 --> 00:05:29.280 up with normal sized cases and that is that they allow you to plug in the 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:31.520 component side of your cables before you 00:05:29.280 --> 00:05:36.080 actually have the power supply itself anywhere near the build this is great 00:05:33.840 --> 00:05:39.680 because it means that if your power supply would have been in the way of 00:05:37.840 --> 00:05:43.280 plugging this stuff in you don't really have to deal with that ah come on 00:05:41.919 --> 00:05:49.600 sideways is considerably more ergonomic and we've 00:05:45.840 --> 00:05:52.080 got eight pin eps oh my goodness i wish 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:56.080 i had put this on before i even put the motherboard in at this point look how 00:05:54.080 --> 00:06:02.880 deeply buried in there it is and the problem is that as a right-handed person 00:06:00.400 --> 00:06:06.240 i can't even get the hand in there to guide it in 00:06:04.880 --> 00:06:10.479 we're going left-handed ladies and gentlemen okay 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:14.160 it's all coming together now it's time to talk about fans a conventional 00:06:12.400 --> 00:06:18.240 cooling layout would have us drawing air in at the front bottom and then 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:22.240 exhausting from the back and the top but we are going to do the opposite today in 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:27.680 order to get the freshest possible air to our water cooling radiator here and 00:06:25.280 --> 00:06:31.440 to our GPU which is gonna be up here we're gonna draw air in at the back and 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:35.520 top and then we're gonna blow it all out the front so when this thing's going 00:06:33.280 --> 00:06:39.120 full bore if you were you know having a cold gaming day your hands are cold you 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:45.440 could put your hands in front of it you'd have about a probably a solid 500 00:06:41.840 --> 00:06:47.600 to 600 watt space heater just blowing 00:06:45.440 --> 00:06:51.440 air on you all right so we want this radiator in a pole configuration that 00:06:49.840 --> 00:06:55.199 just means that cleaning it off is going to be a little bit easier in the future 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:59.199 so you can see we're using okay there we go this fan to pull air in 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:04.240 this way um 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:08.720 one second one nice thing about Noctua nff12 fans is they have these nice 00:07:06.080 --> 00:07:12.960 little airflow guides that keep anything from accidentally bumping into the fan 00:07:10.400 --> 00:07:15.759 blades at least on the backside they don't have anything like that on the 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:21.759 front however so we're going to grab one of these old-school style 00:07:18.400 --> 00:07:23.759 wire fan grills put that on there 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:26.560 then mount our front fan because this is going to make it so that when we're 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:31.039 packing in our power supply and all these cables nothing's going to get in the way and 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:34.240 prevent that fan from spinning and now you can really see why we weren't able 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:38.639 to have a full-size exhaust fan here along with an atx power supply so the 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:44.240 atx power supply would go all the way over to here meaning that we're limited 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:46.160 to just this but our sfxl power supply 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:51.120 ah no this guy you know what i think i want 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:56.319 this to ah we're gonna use this to exhaust air from the system yeah one two 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:58.400 three go 00:07:57.520 --> 00:08:04.479 yes success so wait what just happened 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:11.919 oh had it really 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:14.080 oh interesting so this goes under the 00:08:11.919 --> 00:08:16.720 GPU right because this is the front of the case and you don't want to be 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:21.039 plugging your power supply into the front of your stupid computer so it just 00:08:19.520 --> 00:08:25.039 chills here oh silverstone you're so creative you 00:08:23.599 --> 00:08:28.879 have to give them credit for that you can't you can never take that away from 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:33.680 silverstone bringing us finally to the big moment big reveal 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:37.839 it's true you cannot fit the GPU in because of this power pass through and 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:41.279 that's why they opened up the front of the case like this 00:08:39.680 --> 00:08:44.959 so you can slide it in from here 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:48.480 cool right actually before i do that though i never 00:08:46.560 --> 00:08:54.160 even mentioned what card we're using this is an rtx 3070 from zotac that we 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:59.839 specifically chose for its shorter length at the expense of taller height 00:08:57.200 --> 00:09:03.839 because the case is wide enough to fit a tall card but it's not long enough to 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:08.399 fit a lot of the full length cards on the market okay 00:09:06.880 --> 00:09:12.080 i mean that's not bad 00:09:10.160 --> 00:09:17.839 this front fan has pretty unimpeded 00:09:14.560 --> 00:09:20.240 access to you know pull air away and 00:09:17.839 --> 00:09:24.959 i just need one cable tie man this is a kind of a sick machine our CPU is being 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:30.800 cooled by this radiator that's drawing fresh air in fresh brand new ambient air 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:34.240 from the outside and our GPU is 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:38.240 okay well our GPU we have some concerns because theoretically it's right up 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:41.760 against this top intake right here drawing in equally fresh air meaning 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:45.760 that our hottest components are being cooled by ambient air 00:09:43.680 --> 00:09:49.279 unfortunately this gap here means that the GPU could end up kind of hot boxing 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:53.839 itself so to speak fortunately 00:09:52.160 --> 00:09:56.640 we have an idea to solve that so we're going to test the thermals in this case 00:09:55.519 --> 00:10:00.640 two ways first like this 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:04.480 then we're going to pop this front panel back off 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:07.120 and put a little shroud in here you see that 00:10:05.680 --> 00:10:11.920 like that so that the GPU is sucking in only fresh 00:10:09.920 --> 00:10:14.880 head shots okay because it's got a shroud 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:18.720 it's a hi mike no lie man i don't think i've 00:10:16.880 --> 00:10:22.640 ever seen anything quite like it in a small form factor build 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:27.279 this is a really really cool layout and i mean that quite 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:31.279 literally we haven't quite reached equilibrium yet you can see that each 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:36.560 run of cinebench here is seeing the CPU temp spike a little bit higher but this 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:39.360 is a 5900 freaking x 00:10:36.560 --> 00:10:42.560 running at four gigahertz all core that is still 00:10:40.800 --> 00:10:47.200 even when it settles in just looking at the way this curve is flattening out 00:10:45.040 --> 00:10:51.920 not going to reach higher than about 75 degrees 00:10:48.800 --> 00:10:55.120 and our GPU is settling in around 00:10:51.920 --> 00:10:57.600 70 probably around 75 as well that's 00:10:55.120 --> 00:11:01.519 crazy like normally with these kind of small form factor builds we would say 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:06.079 okay you know in games it doesn't thermal throttle but if you hit it with 00:11:02.959 --> 00:11:08.959 a full synthetic stress test right like 00:11:06.079 --> 00:11:11.920 fully loading the CPU and the GPU you're gonna have to expect it in an 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:15.839 unrealistic load like that at thermal throttles 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:20.079 but this just doesn't no matter what we do to it 00:11:18.079 --> 00:11:26.560 and that's exactly where we ended up our highest peak on the CPU is 78 degrees 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:28.160 78.4 and our GPU ended up at 73 degrees 00:11:26.560 --> 00:11:30.880 with the most impressive part being listen to this 00:11:31.040 --> 00:11:36.160 oh wow the case is freaking hot at the 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:40.560 front holy crap 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:44.399 everywhere else though not bad and the internal components not 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:49.600 bad either now it's time to see if we can kick things up a notch so let's go ahead and 00:11:47.920 --> 00:11:53.839 position our shroud we're not going to go all the way up to the card here 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:58.320 because as we learned when we tried to make our own janky Noctua edition GPU 00:11:56.560 --> 00:12:00.800 you don't actually want to block off these exhaust fins so we're just going 00:11:59.760 --> 00:12:08.560 to go kind of to here okay so we're trying to block it off so 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:13.279 that GPU only pulls in fresh air shroud 00:12:08.560 --> 00:12:16.160 works confirmed we dropped from 73 to 71 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:21.839 71 and a half degrees and we went from around 2100 RPM and change to about 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:24.720 2070. so 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:28.399 not as dramatic a difference as i might have hoped and certainly not as good as 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:30.800 just taking the side panel off and giving it a little bit more room to 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:34.480 breathe but a lot better than nothing but wait 00:12:32.959 --> 00:12:39.279 there's more what's this this is our this is our GPU isn't it 00:12:38.480 --> 00:12:46.639 no we have gone one step farther and we've 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:48.560 actually put an AMD Radeon 6800 xt in 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:55.519 here and it just barely fits and get this we are still 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:58.639 topped out at 79 degrees 00:12:55.519 --> 00:13:02.079 it's still whisper quiet and our CPU 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:03.600 still hit a maximum of 78 degrees it's 00:13:02.079 --> 00:13:09.200 like right there 00:13:06.720 --> 00:13:12.959 right there at the front of the case freaking crazy 00:13:11.040 --> 00:13:15.519 they made such efficient use of this thing to the point where if they had 00:13:14.079 --> 00:13:19.519 made it even one centimeter longer 10 millimeters longer 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:23.360 they would have been able to put a 3080 in it and i think with this design they 00:13:21.920 --> 00:13:26.720 might have actually gotten away with that from a cooling perspective 00:13:25.279 --> 00:13:31.200 10 millimeters wider they would have been able to fit a 120 millimeter fan 00:13:28.639 --> 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