remember the good old days when your desktop was in your own room where it
could be as big and bright and loud as you wanted without anybody yelling at
you unfortunately for many of us
life is just not that simple anymore maybe you're in a dorm room or in a
studio apartment with no walls or maybe your wife just never lets up with that
computer is so ugly can't you just use a
laptop it doesn't go with our reimagined
boho aesthetic that's what she sounds like
anyway whatever the reason there are times when
it's beneficial for your gaming rig to be inconspicuous or have an air of
sophistication and if you like the karma jib then i'd
like to introduce you to the volta v
on the outside it's a mature piece for
your space but on the inside it's a
frame rate destroying beast
synergy allows you to share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers
at once check it out now at the link in the video description
the volta v is a 15.6 liter complete
system from computer direct outlet whose custom designed enclosure is made of
domestically sourced selectively cut usa
walnut or if you're more into chao men than apple pie
bamboo in many ways it's a wonderful marriage
of form and function the uninterrupted facade makes it look completely at home
on your desk or entertainment center while the front i o on the side is still
easy to access the rest of the i o is at the back well actually in an effort to
streamline cable management most of the i o is actually inside the box and we
access it simply by lifting off the magnetically held lid no tools required
not all of it though is that easy to get at due to the 92 millimeter rear cooling
fan with that said inside we've got an entire motherboard's worth of
connections our asrock z270m itxac is
equipped with dual gigabit lan ports six usb three five gig ports no type c
though onboard ac wi-fi and three video
outputs but you won't need those because there's an HDMI port and three display
port ports on the back of the what gtx 1080 ti
very nice so what else is in here while there are a ton of options on cdo's site
our unit has a core i7 7700k kb lake
chilled by a 92 millimeter ace attack all-in-one liquid cooler with 16 gigs of
ddr4 RAM and a 512 gig samsung 960 pro
m.2 SSD power is taken care of by a 600 watt sfx
power supply from Corsair with custom length cables to keep everything nice
and tidy inside which is a nice touch because even with a few questionable
decisions like the friction mount for the radiator it looks and feels as
classy and premium inside as it does out
it's little things like the shielded PCIe riser and quiet and efficient
Noctua fans which brings us to thermals air is drawn
in through these easy to clean nylon dust filters then it's exhausted out the
back end in three discrete cooling zones for the power supply
GPU and everything else and even with all of
those high performance parts inside there was no smoke
and no thermal throttling though i will admit that after running synthetic
benchmarks for a while the room did smell a little woody
it even stayed impressively quiet though at idle it's barely louder than the
noise floor in our office and while it does of course get louder under load it
never screamed like some small form factor systems do bottom line then
the volta v can make short work of your favorite games without causing a code
red even if it's sitting on your desk just a few centimeters away and that's a fine
spot to put it since it's designed to support your monitor on top of hide your
keyboard underneath that is unless you have a mechanical keyboard which brings
us to the voltavi's shortcomings the biggest one being the feet
our unit is missing one and the ones that we do have simply roll off whenever
you slide them across the very desk they're meant to protect
so i give them an f-plus furthermore some of the unsanded surfaces and the
roughly cut emi shielding leave the volta v feeling less finished than you'd
expect a fine piece of furniture to be the lack of anything resembling a
deliberate alignment on this end of the case makes my ocd flare up something
fierce and finally there are some problems with
what designers call affordance this recess for example seems to imply
that i should lift from this side but actually i'm required to lift from
here where there is no recess and to me the protruding front piece
looks like a drawer that i should pull on but it doesn't open these might sound
like nitpicky things but considering the cost of this case i have to mention them
our config here came to 3409.
which means that after custom power supply cables air filters and a pci
express extender we are still well over a thousand dollars for the lifetime
service warranty and the chassis so is that worth your money
well depending on what kind of furniture stores you shop in it'll either look
like a rip-off or a bargain so i will leave that up to
you and focus on the stuff that we can quantify
the volta v gets the thermals and noise right and is easily serviceable and
upgradable all while looking subjectively gorgeous the only trick
then is getting some furniture budget allocated to it without also giving up
some of the boy toy budget synergy is a software download that
solves once and for all the problem of having multiple computers
and multiple keyboards and mouse connected to them so you have to like
physically move if you want to go between them you got to remember which one goes to which it's a nightmare it
allows you to share one mouse and one keyboard between two or more computers
over the network so you'll no longer confuse which one goes to which and the
best part is it works cross-platform so
you can have your Windows station for gaming and your mac station for
productivity and your Linux station and you can just drag the mouse across the
screens seamlessly they've got features like clipboard
sharing between the computers drag and dropping files between computers the
ability to set up hotkeys and more so check out their basic and pro options
and save 50 on synergy at the link in the video description
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