the first thing i realized about the NVIDIA star wars titan graphics cards
is that they paired the jedi order with the galactic empire which is just
you know what though it's fine
i mean full points for effort at least
and honestly i barely even care anyway
hey thank you all for joining me um i understand that
NVIDIA probably had the best of intentions
the but there's one fundamental problem here and that is that
senator palpatine darth sidious whatever you want to call this apple these two
entities never actually oppose each other
directly which led me to my second realization
we had to make a video that showcased
these bad boys so this my friends is the mystic space
warrior knowledge cube build
the 20 liter moss pack features a built-in charging station cable
management pass-throughs and it's been recently updated to include a few little
improvements like better straps and a larger laptop pocket check it out at the
link below now with a warehouse full of computer
cases you would think that after spending hours searching we could find
something with the sheer moxie and space
age energy that we were looking for but alas it was for naught so we set out to
do something that we've surprisingly never done before here at LTT
design and build our very own case
from the ground up so setting out to design this thing we only had a few
rough guidelines in place we wanted it to look really cool
and alex has been itching to play with our new fabool laser co2 laser cutter
from smart diy so our design team immediately came up with some wild and
crazy ideas for complex polyhedrons and
ornate acrylic paneling that would fit our overall theme after all when it
comes to imagination the sky is the limit right
no actually the limit is something called international copyright law which is why
our decorative inscriptions are in klingon not aurabesh
so after much internal debate and many failed attempts
here's how our final design ended up coming together
or at least we wish it was that easy we constructed our
case from the bottom up which meant putting together a wooden frame now
wood isn't exactly a first choice material when it comes to computer cases
but we aren't quite ready to try our hands at fabricating a metal frame
yet so we attached wooden pillars to a small
sheet of mdf then we made holes for inserts for motherboard standoffs and a
much larger hole for the GPU next we needed a starter hole for the
GPU io then to get a nice clean cut we picked
up a brand new handsaw that totally ended up sucking so the
hole looks super ragged but since it's on the bottom of the case no one will
ever see it provided of course that there was nobody standing around with a
camera filming the whole thing the motherboard standoffs went in a lot
more smoothly and we elevated them on these big screws so we would have
somewhere to tuck our cables after putting on the motherboard and rog
strix z370i mini itx board we added our
CPU an Intel core i7 8700 six core
processor pretty much the best of the best for gaming right now and 16 gigs of ddr4 RAM
then for cooling our first choice was a be quiet! dark rock pro 3 tower cooler
but unfortunately even with low profile RAM we were unable to successfully mount
the tower so it looks like it's knocked to it to the
rescue now the center piece of this build is
our star wars titan xp graphics card so
we opted to give it a full frontal mount
which is not nearly as dirty as it sounds it just means that we used a pci
express extension to mount it in a vertical position front and center right
here now let's see how it might look
with some paneling
well luckily a hasty modification can rectify
that problem now we're not going to leave the frame
showing exposed wood so we also need to give the whole thing a quick coat of
paint then once we've got all the hardware loaded into our mark ii frame we can get
to the most important part of any kick-ass case build adding the RGB with
all the strips in place it's time to close it up
but first let's get a nice good look at just how awesome that setup is looking
as mentioned earlier we used our fabool laser cutter to create our
non-infringing designs and aside from a
few minor hiccups that process was relatively painless
so after another finishing touch and some decorative molding around the outside
yeah now we're looking good
hmm
once it was built though we had to put it through the paces
i mean you have a good idea based on the
hardware you put in of how something like this is going to perform but what's
the point of owning a rowboat if you never ride it
does one ride a rowboat not really the point anyway the thermals
aren't quite as good as we might expect from an nhd15 so it is a little toasty
in there but our core i7 8700k still
managed to turbo to 4 gigahertz on all 6
cores with temps in the mid 70s and gaming wise this thing is a beast
churning through even the latest aaa titles as you would expect a titan xp to
do and remember this is all in a case that
was really not made with thermals in mind so in the end
we love the results but we feel like in the future we've
still got a lot of work to do for as the
klingon proverb teaches
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