they let everyone else bring their laptop to the coffee shop why not
me believe it or not they didn't ask me to leave but they probably should have
the mack case b43 is unlike any other
laptop that we've looked at before for starters it's got three monitors it
weighs nearly 40 lbs fully loaded and it
fits fullsize desktop PC parts or it at
least it kind of does we ran into some unexpected challenges while building it
today so surely with that in mind it must be reasonably price then
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Day just like with our last MA case
briefcase PC build this thing is flipping heavy it's actually really
front heavy too if you look at how it sits when I'm holding in the handle so
putting it on our scale here which I don't even know if it goes as high 12
kilg which is somewhere in the neighborhood of 27 lb so don't expect to
be commuting with this thing that is unless your hobby already happens to be
lifting heavy things and putting them back down now it's worth noting though
that the additional weight does come with some benefits there
is we'll figure that out in a moment we've got the same ruggedized build with
these rubber corner protectors on it and
there is considerably more room to build in here that is actually a pretty real
able amount of space and this time the keyboard folds out away from the tower
which is a very welcome change for my poor wrists I mean imagine if it was
like the last one where you had to sit and use it like this not to mention my
poor hands since the last case had the GPU inside venting directly up at the
keyboard causing it to get hot enough to cook on unfortunately the keyboard
design hasn't changed and it still sucks and so does the teeny tiny little
attached trackpad the good news though is we get a nice monitor upgrade not
only are there three displays now but
they've been sized up from 16.1 in to
17.3 or 18.5 depending on which part of
the product page you believe no 17.3 one
thing the product page makes no mention of one way or the other is the
ergonomics and I got to say at a normal sitting height I sincerely hope that
these are IPS type displays because otherwise I'm not going to be able to
see anything on them also wow these
hinges like most laptop displays these
use embedded DisplayPort or EDP which means they need a controller board in
order to accept desktop signals so those are in here which makes sense but what
doesn't make sense is the manufacturer opting for ancient VGA cables as the
default to connect to them modern gpus
don't support VGA natively at all and
these boards have HDMI inputs also it
would probably just make even more sense to use DisplayPort since EDP is
functionally compatible with it but I guess that would have made things too
easy enough about the case for now though let's turn our attention to the
PC that we'll be building inside it now normally amds 16 core ryzen 9 7950 X 3D
wouldn't be our first choice the 78 100x 3D performs roughly the same in games at
a much lower price however the extra
course should help us in non-gaming tasks like video editing while still
maintaining the same 120 wat TDP besides
we already spent a ridiculous amount of money on this case so we might as well
do it up which is exactly why we went for the ASUS Crosshair x67 genan it's
got two USB 4 40 GB per second ports
Wi-Fi 60 and 2 and2 gig Ethernet allowing highspeed access to everything
from a portable storage drive to a high-capacity network storage Appliance
now look realistically any board with a compatible chipset would have been just
fine but this motherboard happens to have the CPU socket just a little bit
higher up which we hoped would help us fit a better cooler into the system too
bad it didn't cooling ended up being quite the journey for this machine cuz
original we wanted to go for liquid cooling but any radiator that was big
enough to result in an improvement over air cooling stubbornly refused to fit
anywhere and while we could have mounted it to the outside does this thing really
need to be even sillier so we tried to
assassinate our thermal troubles with One of These Fine coolers the problem is
that our case was just barely Too Short
relatable after a bit of searching we came across the RZ 6 20 from PC cooler
they sent this and a few other coolers to us for the all China PC but when we
assembled it in testing it got in the way of our GPU so after all of that we
went with the NHL 12s x77 it's not really designed for a high
powerered chip like ours but according to nocta it is better than its
predecessor while offering higher clearance for RAM so good luck on the
subject of RAM we're going to be using this kit from King Bank of all people
it's a sharp blade 32 GB 6400 megat
transfer per second kit that King Bank explicitly lists the ic's for which can
be really helpful when it comes to compatibility and performance on am5 it
has no issues fitting under the l12s cooler even with a bottom mounted fan
and the white heat spreaders match our SSD even if nothing else in the build is
white on that subject we've gone with the crucial t705 with white heat sink
okay PCI Express Gen 5 makes no meaningful difference to real world
performance but hey under ideal conditions this thing can hit read and
write speeds in excess of 10 gab a second and since we're going Overkill we
might as well include Tom's Hardware's fastest SSD on the planet to go along
with our fastest GPU on the planet I see
fastest I get but is there a reason we went for the biggest GPU on the planet
it's not the biggest the biggest is the Zotac pgf
490d but that one is a China exclusive
and we can't get it out very easily ah I see so I have the second biggest 490 but
this was about more than just eping see our last M case build thermal throttled
pretty spectacularly and we hoped that by having a very large cooler we could
avoid the same issue this time of course we need to figure out how the devil to
get this card packed in here
oh oh good a universal vertical Graphics
call that explains why we couldn't just
use a regular C type downdraft cooler
and we needed the small form factor one
oh things are about to get tight now lonus I can hear you saying why are you
making such a big deal out of this the card fits just fine and that would be
true if NVIDIA in their Infinite Wisdom
hadn't brought us the acclaimed 60 pin 12vt high power connector because at
this case height we either need to plug it in and then put on the side panel and
mash it down and hope for the best or we need to use a 90° adapter either of
which could lead to spontaneous combustion making matters even dumber
remember how our display cables need to connect internally to those little
boards well if we had the GPU here we
would need to run three HDMI cables at least two of them on these DisplayPort
to HDMI adapters through this tiny little hole in the chassis right here
that even one adapter doesn't fit
through absolutely flipping genius without further Ado then let's get our
GPU installed on our Cooler Master vertical graphics card holder
kit guess I got a little carried away talking let's go ahead and get this
motherboard installed real quick here now this bad boy goes in here and
this is going to go in here that is
surprisingly tight you're going to have to take that out what I have to take the
fan out yeah you really got to take the fan
out because what you want to do is get this back a little way so that you can
get the uh cables in there and you don't have to Route them the through the
outside of the case oh no I don't even get a cooling fan for
this thing nope well we we've got some concessions
just like this whole thing is a big concession I'll take a hot dog so we
need to give this a little slide and then my poor one intake fan needs to
come out now we plug in our poror cables that
are about to get mashed uh I need to
move this bracket or this brace this is clearly not going to be staying in yeah
there's going to be a lot of things you're going to have to remove there but what now do we have air intake coming in
no that's where the handle is what's the plan here uh we have a replacement side
panel that we are going to cut a couple holes in and then make look kind of nice
I can see from how the side panel doesn't have holes in it yet that we
have not tested this no no but that's why we have
Justin wow this looks awesome now to
simplify our cable management a little bit we're going to be using these Lee
and Lee fans that clip together a little something like that and then we're able
to power both of them including their RGB with a single lead not going to lie
that actually looks kind of sick and check this out guys we are at least kind
of pretending that this is for a long-term deployment so we're going with
a positive air pressure setup using these filters right here and here and
we'll be using them to bring fresh air okay I promise there's a method to this
madness directly to our CPU Cooler right
here and to our GPU right here and the reason that we didn't put them exactly
vertically mounted is if you take two fans that spin the same direction and
put them one right on top of the other you end up with a ton of turbulence and
noise that can kind of end up working against each other but if we take that
fan and we put it between these other two so the blades are spinning in the
opposite direction the effect shouldn't be as bad in theory not going to lie
this actually looks as powerful as it is now but on the subject of power we're
not powering any of it yet for that we are going to need a power supply now
this case is compatible with full-sized ATX power supplies but now that our GPU
is here you can see that there would be a bit of an interference issue so we've
gone with an sfx power supply from Cooler Master specifically the
V100 one of the most powerful small form
factor power supplies on the market I mean I feel like I say this every time I
open one of these but really 1,00 watts
in the palm of my hand I mean they cheated a little bit this modular
interface is not really inside the chassis but now this is interesting with
the full-size adapter bracket on here you can see that this sits almost right
up against the GPU which hilariously if
you note the feeder here is going to allow our power supply to act as a GPU
support bracket before we plug that in though
probably a good time for us to get these HDMI cables plugged into our little
daughter boards here and then oh maybe
hide them behind the GPU man now that we got a window it's going to be tough to
make this look good now there was some debate about the orientation of our
power supply and honestly both ways have Merit if we had
the fan facing this way right here it would be drawing fresh air in through
our speed holes which is obviously good for having lower temperatures in our
power supply but I wanted to try it this
other way and see if that would be okay because then the fan could help
contribute to exhausting some of the hot air that is otherwise going to be I mean
what basically just kicked out by this tiny little fan right here and then
passively through the holes in the case all right time to wire this thing up now
you might have noticed that our GPU power cable doesn't match the rest of
our power cables that's kind of the theme of the build isn't it random white
components that don't match the rest of the black ones I'm just going to put two
screws in for a quick power on test but I got to say man the fit of this acrylic
panel is awesome awesome considering all Justin did was what 3D scan the case we
got life in there oh yeah buddy did I plug the power
supply side of that MOX Cable in I did
not okay that my friends is why you
never close a side panel before you've actually verified that the system posts
any luck yep you got power nice oh hey
look at that there we go
freaking awesome all right let's lose
this WOW let's turn on our memory
overclocking profile give it the old save and reboot how glorious is it you
guys it's pretty glorious when I was doing a test run of
it I also set up NVIDIA
surround they're not the brightest
monitors um but hey this isn't the brightest computer the SAG
is very noticeable I got frame view launched with the trackpad so we can
monitor our frame rates and temperatures but I did notice a small problem this
trackpad is even worse than I remember it being so I was like oh I'll just plug
in my m u where is the front iio ah how
convenient there we go and what's great about this design is
that it's not like you could just use the middle display on its own and not
have these hanging out nope nope whole thing deploys or
nothing no HDR these do not support HDR
in fact we haven't really talked about this yet but they are IPS type which is
nice so the viewing angles are okay but they are 1080p 60 HZ only conceivably
you could replace the panels with something else but my goodness would that ever be a lot of work tenner quick
question for you is that oh uh is there
an on-screen display for the monitors so
theoretically there should be one for the actual controller boards that are in
there I looked at the spec sheet for the
chip that's on there and yeah it seems like there should be a couple of buttons for some sort of OSD but we don't have
access to it so no there's a button at
the front I think that this bezel presses the buttons and tells it that
hey the monitor should be off is that a reset button maybe it's just a reset
button that a reset button would make a lot of sense let's see what the uh oh
yeah yeah no that computer is definitely restarting oh okay what I want to know
is how our temperatures are going to hold
up I think the best part of those thermal results is we could totally do
better if we managed to squeak a bigger cooler in there maybe a couple more fans
Not only would our GPU manage to Turbo to 2.7 GHz I think we could prevent it
from Thal throttling on the CPU as well though if we were to actually deploy the
system for real there's another major consideration and that's that we would
need to work in some kind of bracket to support that GPU we had the system
restart not once but twice while just moving it around on the set from being
on that PCIe Riser pretty minor issues overall though
good proof of concept now one thing that I missed is we actually screwed in the
holes for these little rubber Corner reinforcement pieces so we don't even
have to give up a ton of ruggedness let's go ahead and pop these on and then
I think we're ready for our little trip to Starbucks of course you guys already
saw that that didn't really go so well so you've got to be wondering what is
this thing for well at about
$1,500 with shipping and that's just for the chassis the peripherals and the
monitors it's obviously a niche device
but for the folks who need something kind of portable it ended up
just shy 40 lbs fully built um and with
this kind of performance like an onlocation film crew or a scientific
Expedition it's actually surprisingly price competitive with pre-built
solutions from specialty companies like this one just be aware you're going to
have to be ready for some compromises like the ergonomics completely suck
unless you tilt it up about this much otherwise you're looking down at the
monitors and unless you're willing to get a little bit Jank like we did you're
almost certainly going going to have to be dealing with overheating unless you
go with a more basic spec at which point
you've got to be asking yourself why didn't you just buy a
laptop so yeah it's kind of bad like
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