PC system manufacturers like MSI and Gigabyte have released some fantastic
small form factor gaming machines in the last couple of years but they all have
the same disadvantage nonstandard and in many
cases non upgradable components no you
have to leave it to the hardcore enthusiasts Pioneers like Lucas diacon
to break free from what has become the
way to build a small form factor gaming
rig ITX motherboards with a single
graphics card are out natx motherboards
with dual graphics cards are in oh and
did I mention that this thing is liquid cooled and under 15 L making it only
slightly bigger than the corser one so
strap on my friends cuz this going to be
good
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description I feel like we should start with one small problem project orthis
named for the mythological Greek two-headed dog is not for sale yet this
one was actually built by our friends at Proto case they do great work the rack
mount gaming case they built for me is still going strong so it's no surprise
then that Lucas went to them with his
incredible design and they got to work
every component was laser cut inhouse
the front panel details and rear IO not to mention the badass front logo were
milled out the radiator holder was routered out the mother motherboard tray
and SSD holder were bent they pressed in
all the rivets standoffs and threaded nuts routered the side panel and put the
whole thing together with a beautiful coat of their Proto Legacy black powder
coating a couple revisions of that and
this is what landed on our doorstep
still some assembly required though am I right we actually needed two care
packages to assemble our case the one from protoc case that was unidentifiable
as a case other than the main chassis frame and one from Lucas himself that
included among other things a server power supply with custom rerouted 12volt
rails to support our dual graphics cards
and custom shorter cables I mean this thing is already way too cool we haven't
even assembled it yet yours would of course come in a much more finished
State though so we're going to fast forward to System Assembly front IO was
pretty straightforward dual USB 2 and
dual USB 3 with HDMI pass through for VR
and a dope ass capacitive power button
are nice extras then it was time to move
on to core components we chose an Intel
Core i7 6900k for maximum PCIe bandwidth for the
two PCI Express 16x slots on our ASUS
x99m WS motherboard and I'm pretty sure
the Ws stands for West SED cuz this thing is awesome we added a sprinkling
of Corsair Vengeance RGB memory on the side for maximum FPS and our 20040 mm
AIO goes in next but due to width
limitations there is a mere 55 mm of
height available for the CPU block which
is why we ended up using using an older generation Corsair
h100i all right we're getting close now let's pop the graphics cards in the
design comes with brackets to fit a pair of 2 and 1/2 in drives on the
motherboard side and a 3 and 1/2 in drive plus another 2 and 1/2 in to
piggyback on top in the second graphics card tray if you're not using it but we
are using it for twin GTX 1080 TI
Founders editions so there will be no junk in the backside for us these
shielded PCI Express risers go in now
note that one of them is actually more narrow than the other in order for the
SLI Bridges to fit then we install the
cards themselves it is a bit tricky as
the bottom card needs to be installed first then have its custom spliced and
extended SLI Bridges connected wrapped behind the tray and then powered up the
extra length of the SLI cables actually enables them to be hidden behind the
cards so you can show them off in their full SLI Glory now that the key
components are together it's time to Spruce the machine up with mucho RGB and
tidier cabling H looks like a fun task
in such a tiny case let's uh summon the
comrade ah well that looked pretty easy
now let's check her out all tidied up and in her maximum RGB Glory ladies and
gents project orthis revision
3 so from an idea to a 3D model to the
lowest displacement chassis to be able to run GTX 1080 TI
SLI I don't think anything could have prepared me for something this
breathtakingly nerdalicious and the performance is shocking it's
really not that far off having these components on an open test bench and is
basically identical to having them in a
fullsize chassis in fact for the card
that would normally be suffocating in the top PCIe slot it's even better there
is still some more work to be done our Aussie friend cannot hand wire and paint
every power supply for orthus buyers and
I think if we were to do another project with this case we'd probably reverse the
front fans to keep from recycling hot air and uh maybe make use of the
included Reservoir Mount for a custom water loop but uh we'll save that for
another time for now for all intents and purposes mission accomplished you could
even say that uh now that's not a gaming
rig that's a gaming rig so a huge shout out to Lucas and
protocase for allowing us to be the first to make a video on this amazing
case and also for sending us another one
when we lost the first one you can follow this Project's future development
at the link in the video description or on Twitter at luk
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