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okay Welcome Friends to another in my series of unbuild or tear Downs or

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whatever we call these live streams where I put stuff together and take

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stuff apart this time I was inspired to do one by a particularly unique little

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machine this is the Zotac Magnus en980

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it is actually smaller than the MSI

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Vortex that cylindrical PC that I took apart in the past although it only has a

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single GT X 980 inside of it instead of two but what's interesting about this

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guy is they managed to cram a

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full 120 mm liquid cooling system inside

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of it so I want to tear it apart and see just how it all

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ticks the Phoenix vitess features a lightweight design and an optical 3310

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sens check it out and enter for a chance to win down below so let's get to it

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then first things first let's run through the overall specs of this puppy

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it's got a core i5 6400 16 gigs of RAM I

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think actually configured it with 32 it's got a GTX 980 it has an m.2 slot a

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SATA slot and it has no power supply yes

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my friends one of the unique things about this particular system is that

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while they did manage to pull off an impressive ly tiny form factor here in

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terms of the PC itself they went and they did something that I've been saying

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more manufacturers should do for quite some time I've talked to Cooler Master

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about this I've talked to Silverstone about this they went and they took the

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power external so this is two what are

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these I think they're like about 180

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watt power bricks giving this puppy a total of about

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360 wats of total power delivery which

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might explain actually why the CPU is a

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core i5 rather than a core i7 you know 6700k

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or something along those lines because I think they might have run up against a

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power limit otherwise because that 980 graphics card is going to uh really suck

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up some juice unfortunately this isn't something that I was able to evaluate in

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my review of the thing because um Zotac

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basically went well it's not user serviceable and once it's a part it's

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not that easy to put back together so we would recommend you review it as a

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completed unit and I kind of went okay that's fine but you're not going to

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prevent me from taking it apart at some point so without further Ado here we go

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the bottom is pretty pretty simple all you do is undo the four thumb screws

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there pop it off

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and all right let's go ahead and get rid of that one thing I do need is one of my

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trusty magnetic Parts trays that'll help me keep track of all the screws and bits

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and bobles there we are uh the RAM and the

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SSD that you see in here this is stuff that I installed so I've got uh a couple

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of those freaking fantastic intelligent

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memory sodm that I'm so fond of these are

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ddr3l so that's one of the reasons that Skylake has support for both ddr3l and

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ddr4 is that it gives the manufacturers a little bit more flexibility to offer a

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lower cost ution to folks who don't want

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to invest in ddr4 it was more of an issue right at the beginning but um I

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have a feeling this product has been in development for quite some time given

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that it's running a GTX 980 when the GTX

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1080 is most definitely already a thing

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and if you're trying to set that up that is straight up not going to work because I am streaming from that computer I

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really like what a good job they've done of the bare bonness of this um I am

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going to use a tool because I tightened this with a tool so it's actually a

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little bit tight right now but you can do the entire uh memory SSD installation

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with no tools whatsoever out of the box because those bottom feet are thumb

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screws I thought that was really clever um one thing we've got a pretty good

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look at here I'm going to go ahead and switch to my now not broken closeup

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here we can get a good look at oh that's

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kind of an awkward angle unfortunately it's going to be hard for me to adjust

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but basically there's your 2 and 1/2 in SATA there there's your m.2 and so you

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can see they've got uh little standoffs

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here to accommodate a variety of different lengths here and then over

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here is where you've got your two dim slots and other than that you're basically not intended to touch this

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although what's interesting is for some

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reason they went and covered up the wireless module I'm not sure why that is

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but it's right back there and then the other thing that we can see here is a

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CPU back plate right there so we're going to have a we're going to have a

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better look at that once we've been able to take it apart a little bit more so

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step number two is going to be to remove a metric wack ton of screws all around I

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say step number two as though I have some kind of like pre-planned out

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step-by-step guide that I'm following along nope I will be making this up

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entirely as I go along I have had some

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of the uh this to the front and back panel I have had off already but I have

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not removed the side panels yet yet so you guys will be experiencing that with

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me for the very first time overall

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industrial design of this thing not not you know particularly Next Generation or

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anything like that um you know it feels like like quality but not like wow we

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did a massive amount of R&D to figure

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out how to assemble this thing like this um because it's just basically an

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aluminum box but it's nice thick anodized aluminum that's got a a pretty

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durable finish on on it so I'm not going to criticize Zotac for it it just

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doesn't stand out as like like an amazing feat of of art um in addition to

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just being a functional and sturdy you know computer

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covering so this gives us a pretty good look at the front panel here so

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basically there is a little power PCB that plugs into four

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wires so that's going to be basically your front switch as well as your front

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power LED since the LED is actually built into the switch here everything

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else is just uh an aluminum cutout and then this is kind of interesting so this

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is a solid aluminum piece and then this uh this black part here is like a a

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plastic uh insert that appears to be just kind of glued on to give it a give

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it an accented look at the front if I was going to have one of these in my

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living room I'd probably want to paint it like do some kind of a more

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performance lookie finish to it because honestly that's one of the things that I

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think is really missing from this it is a

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$1600 us barebones machine and then it's

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got like this weird trying to give you guys a closer look at it it's got like

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this weird powder blue color mesh on the

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top and then it's otherwise white and silver and black it doesn't have like a

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like a high performance Vibe like I get trying not to do the overdone

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gamery oh it's red and black and those

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are the only colors that exist for some reason because ASUS R OG said so like I

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get that but um I don't know that powder

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blue would have been the route I would have gone especially when you're zot and you already have kind of a a black and

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orange color scheme that I personally think looks pretty good so I've taken

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out all the screws around the outside

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let's go ahead and pop off the rear panel that's one that I've already had

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off before so again it's like a nice thick

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very rigid piece of aluminum here um not

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really a whole lot to say about that so let's go ahead and put it down there we

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go then let's have a look at our side panels here see if we can oh there's

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more screws well that explains why I couldn't get it off before Oh

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okay the top completely fell away when I

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went and tried to remove that piece oh it's very

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shiny Mass drop is currently hosting a drop for the amazing Cher custom sa

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keycap set which is designed by zambumon

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the more people that buy something or commit to buying something the lower the

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price will go even if the product you're buying is a chocolate keyc cap set you

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can check this and other drops at the link NVIDIA description down

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below one of Zac's biggest boasts about

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this machine is how small it is and justifiably so it's however many liters

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very few liters uh let's go ahead and take this off as well but they go and

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they do things like cover the entire

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outside in actually a surprisingly thick

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outer shell when it the actual Hardware

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inside is considerably smaller um I'll

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give you guys a better look at that sort of baby blue color that I am not that

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fond of you can't see it on camera through here very well for some reason

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but it's quite visible in person it looks about like that very very strange

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choice and I will also give you guys a

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better look at the machine itself all

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right so that's the top so that's a full 120 mm radiator that they managed to put

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in there and not only that but while it's not a super thick one or anything

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it's also by no means the SL one that

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I've ever seen it's like a like a standard full-size PC radiator that

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they've managed to cram into this tiny little space

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here on the bottom it still looks

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largely the same on this side we actually get our first look at the

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custom GPU block so that's an mxm form

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factor gtx980 the same kind that you would see used in those GTX 980 laptops

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uh devices like the MSI Vortex all that

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kind of stuff and then uh over

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here yeah see this panel is solid for some reason not quite sure why uh but

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the CPU block would be behind there there's a vibration dampening mount for

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the pump right here oh I guess that's why this is I guess that's why this is

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one solid piece because that's where they did all the mounts for there and then if we look at this side we get a

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pretty good look at front IO which is on a little daughter board as well as the

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fan for the radiator and you can kind of see the CPU block but this rear shot

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gives us a bit of a better angle on it so there's the CPU block there's the

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Dual DC powerin there's the I believe

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this is for the graphics card I want to say yeah so there's the PCIe 8 Pin for

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the graphics card and then here's all of our all of our IO and that stuff so

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what's interesting about external power supplies to me is that the conversion

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from DC to DC is a lot more efficient

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than the conversion from AC to DC so

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what that means is even though unless you had like a very

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complex uh power brick you can only feed

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one voltage in so in the case of these ones it's probably 19 A2 would be my

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guess yeah 19 1 12 volts converting that

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to 12vt 5vt 3.3 volt all the different

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voltages that you need for a computer doesn't generate a ton of heat and so

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can and can be done very very efficiently so and it doesn't take up a

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lot of space so remember those Pico psus

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actually not remember I'm sure they're probably still around but Pico psus

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basically take an external power brick and they do all that splitting out and it's on like it's on a PCB that's

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probably about like this size like it's very very small so that's effectively

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what they're doing is they've created a completely custom motherboard here that

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includes all the power conversion circuitry that's needed to take that 192

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volts and turn it into what all of the other components inside need so this

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bottom plate here just pops right off just a couple screws there it's actually

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really easy to disassemble compared to the MSI Vortex even though the size is

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very similar I guess because they went with a more traditional square shape so

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the only thing that that really reveals is a better look at the CPU back plate

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here as well as a look at our wireless

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card so that could quite easily be swapped out if we really wanted to let's

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just go ahead and uh switch to our closeup here so that could be swapped

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out quite easily as an end user if we wanted to but it should be noted I think

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actually no I don't think we have broken

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any warranty void if removed seals yet so you're in good shape as long as you

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don't start taking out the motherboard it looks like that's where you start to

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get into trouble that's okay we'll be voiding that warranty before this video

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is over Pop the wireless card off 3165

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ngw in case anyone on Earth car okay so there's some debate about the GTX 980

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card that is inside this system we've got some people saying that it performs

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on par with a 980m due to its probably

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due to its mxm form factor and then we've got others among you saying that

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it does not it actually performs the same as a desktop 980 which is the

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correct answer it performs identically to a desktop

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gtx980 it's just mounted on a much more

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compact PCB and requires there's

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probably some binning involved in making sure that it'll operate within the

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thermal and power limits but um no it

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performs exactly the same as long as it doesn't thermal throttle so wow there

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you have it that's actually uh whole thing just kind of comes out like that

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so there's the other main piece of the chassis let's go ahead and switch to our close-up camera here see if I can get

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you guys a bit of a better look at this

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so there's our anti vibrational pad on

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the bottom of another black aluminum plate here there we go that's bit of a

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better angle for you guys mounted on that this I thought was just such a

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weird weird implementation of this system

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so yeah that is so just so bizarre so

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the pump is here and then they've actually got a tube coming out to a

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completely separate Standalone Reservoir and then they've got another tube coming

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out to the radiator the radiator bone

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is connected to the GPU bone right over here the GPU bone is connected to the

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CPU bone oh no wait yes yep so GPU is

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connected to CPU and then CPU comes back to the pump most of the time with a

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compact water cooling system the reservoir gets combined with some other

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component um either the radiator or if

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you want to deal with asex legal team with the CPU block so it's very strange

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to me that they went and they it's like it's such a weird little part here it's

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this tiny little Reservoir but I guess

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for some reason that was easier for them to do or cheaper or or something either

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way I mean they didn't compromise on the compactness of the system so I can't

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really fault them for it one thing's for sure though this

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disassembly is about to get a little bit more complicated so let's go ahead and I

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think I'm just going to try and remove the water cooling system system as one

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piece here so we can get a better look at it cuz that will have to come off if

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I want to swap out the

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CPU okay yeah with all these tubes kind of

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zip tied and cable managed together it's actually kind of hard to get at anything

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I guess this is what they were warning me

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about it's hard with this overhead shot for you guys to see anything with this

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radiator constantly in the way so here are my options I can either

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remove one two 3 four five screws uh

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here I'll point with something that's a little bit easier for you guys to follow along with so I can either remove this

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one and one two 3 four around this

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fitting here or I can try and remove one

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two three and see if the whole video card

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will come off so I'm going to try that what a cool little

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machine there it goes all right let's give you guys a better angle of this so

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now CPU is

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free

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GPU seems like I can just tilt it

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up along with this whole assembly and pop it

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out okay now being very very careful

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with that let's go ahead and switch angles

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here the whole thing should

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basically peel away so let's pop that off pop that

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off

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and okay um

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sure

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awesome so let's have a look at the water cooling stuff

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first wow that is a lot of thermal

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compound jeez

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zotek like what the heck is going on

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here the good news is it didn't leave a whole lot of goop on the actual CPU so I

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can deal with that relatively easily this is cool though so they've actually

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opted to make the completely their own custom block I do have to wonder about

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the wisdom of using aluminum and copper within the same block design um if

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swifttech couldn't do it I don't know how much faith that I have in Zotac

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ability to pull this off without corrosion given Swift Tech's um vastly

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Superior experience in water cooling the apple G gtz GTX I want to say which is

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total total disaster for them um but this is cool by designing their own

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block and machining their own block they were able to have the vrm so the actual

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uh voltage regulation modules on the motherboard cooled by this block as well

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so that's kind of the other component on

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a motherboard that's going to run quite hot and might be a concern in a system

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that doesn't have a lot of air flow something that I actually was a little

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bit worried about when I did my review of this thing which will be up later but

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I have filmed it already because pretty much the only exhaust is out the top

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here so the exhaust is all here and then

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the only intake that I could find was actually above the

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io in the back panel here I mean yes

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there are intakes in the very bottom here and the SSD down there did actually

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manage to stay pretty cool but what's interesting about those is that they

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basically sit here and are are pretty

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much here if I can give you guys a better look at this they are pretty much

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cut off see they're

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covered by the by these plates here like

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they're only only a little bit of it is exposed and even then it's kind of

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closed in by the um by the by the way

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that this shell sits here so I don't know it was something I was a little

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concerned about and I'm really glad to see that the vrm is being taken care of

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by a water block there because that means that will definitely be

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okay all right let's go ahead and pull

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the GPU block off here

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looks like it should be just four screws this is the first time that I have ever

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laid hands on a water cooled mxm

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card there's a first time for everything

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right water cooled

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mxm theoretically I could use this block to

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jury rig some kind of like water cool video card

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nonsense although there would be no need because ASUS is already kind of been

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there there and done that gx700 or something I think they call

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it okay has this unscrewed yet how how long

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do you have to turn these for

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jeez I can't even tell if they're still coming

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out no screws in the bottom going into it all right let's see if I can get you

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guys a good look at this as it comes

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apart

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okay is that still holding on no okay there we

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go here we

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go okay off it comes

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there so

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here here is our mxm

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gtx980 so there's your power delivery

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here's the 8 Pin power in just like that

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it looks like I I don't

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remember you know what I haven't looked that closely but I can't imagine that

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most notebooks are using an 8 pin PCIe

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connector like that so I would imagine that's something slightly custom that

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they've done here remember Zotac is an actual manufacturer of graphics cards so

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it wouldn't be um that big of a deal for them to do something like

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that there's the GPU itself and then

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there is your either four or 8 gigs of RAM depending ing on your GTX 980 so

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this one has 4 gigs of RAM okay and then

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here we've got pretty much every part of

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that graphics card is cooled by the water block through the use of thermal

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pads or this copper slug in the middle so again they've gone with mixed medals

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for their block design here it's such a rookie mistake um you know like if you

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guys have been following along with ASUS's Rampage series of motherboards

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over the years or is it Maximus whatever I don't know the one that's had water

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cooling integrated onto the North Bridge for years and years and years now they

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went from what was the first one like like

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tiny little Barb fittings and aluminum to like I think they did mixed Metals at

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some point to they included these weird adapters to get the barbs to different

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sizes and like there's all this like stupid stuff and it's very simple water

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blocks are made of copper and they use

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G1 qu threads now in this case I can

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forgive not using an industry standard

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threading um that that's fine because you don't intend for anyone to actually

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use these outside of this one system but

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water blocks are made of copper yes it costs more yes it is more difficult to

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machine but the benefit of your system not corroding and having the block fall

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apart is a pretty compelling one all

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right so let's go ahead and have a quick look at this guy from overhead so now

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that we've got the video card out there's our mxm slot there's our DC

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power in there's where that eight pin is going over to the graphics card over

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here here is our vrrm for the

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CPU actually over here as well oh that's

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interesting okay uh there's our

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chipet so wow that's a Kind of a Funny

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layout so ioab is here which means that this is

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communicating with this and then pretty much everything here is going to be

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using another layer of the PCB to go all all the way back over here where the USB

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ports um and at least no Ethernet is

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probably using yeah that's a there's a here I'm going to go ahead and switch to

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my other angle that I didn't have for a bit there

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again I need to see that that's okay um so we've got where

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did it go Ethernet yeah okay so there's a real Tech chipset right there so that

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should be handling this uh we've got

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yeah basically just USB then I guess running off of that because the two HDMI

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ports and two DisplayPort ports should be running off of the gtx980m so I guess

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that's why they put that there because those are much higher bandwidth

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connections than really anything else on the back here which is just a wireless

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module which is running off PCI Express

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which is over here around on the back right

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there and and then power in that's it so

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I guess that does actually make a fair amount of sense so right here is for the

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CPU fan so that's running the fan for the radiator as well as oh there's

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a okay this is interesting so this is something Luke actually told me while I

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was working on my review of the en980

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there is another version that's very

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similar to this that's actually air cooled and Zotac was using as like a VR

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backpack thing so that would explain why there's not one but actually two fan

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headers here so one of these is for the mxm fan and one is for CPU fan so that

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would be if they are air cooling this monster very interesting this says motor

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P motor power so that's going to be for the pump and then other than that

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there's really not a ton of connectors here this is just for the front LED and

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power button and let's go ahead and uh I

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can let you guys have a look at the back again now that my camera angle is

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actually a little bit better good work Brandon um yeah oh well this is kind of

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neat why don't we have a why don't we have a quick look at this one that's oh that's weird okay okay no no no things

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are things are about to get kind of interesting here so this daughter board

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right here is plugging into an m.2 slot

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for some reason why would they do it that

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way so oh huh well if you ever had to pull your seos

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battery on this puppy you would be basically doing a full disassembly so

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that's kind of a pain in the ass way to go

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Zotac can think of a fair number of reasons why doing that might be

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convenient um

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wow so interesting there's an m.2 slot

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here that appears at least on the

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surface to just be a normal normal m.2

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slot yeah it's keyed the same as the one on the

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front so it's not a mini PCIe forx slot

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which it could have easily been depending on what they were doing on

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here and then it looks like oh yes okay

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so basically they are using it though as

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just a like just a small PCI Express connection because they've gone and

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they've put an asmia chipset to handle the front USB connection

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so that would be that USB um I believe

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these are USB 31 but don't quote me on that I'm just

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going to go ahead and pull an old Linus trick here and consult the packaging

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when I can't remember something who uh blah blah blah yep so there you

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go that's why they did it that way it's a USB 3.1 controller from as media so

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that those front ports can be USB 3.1 this drives me crazy though the industry

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cannot decide what to do it's supposed to be as far as I can tell white or

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black on the inside for USB 2 blue for

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USB 3.0 is what we used to call it but

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now it's called 3.1 gen 1 so 5 gabit and

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then it's supposed to be pale blue or like like this green for USB 3.1 as we

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used to call it or USB 3.1 Gen 2 10

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gigabit and then you got Razer who's running around putting like green

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plastic on all of their USB ports so no one knows what the heck is going on I

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blame Razer for this there let's go with that the last thing that's really left

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here then is to go ahead and pull out the CPU so it's a completely standard

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desktop LGA 1150 socket covered in thermal goop of course

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thank you for

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that there you go that gives us a nice

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look at that and that is our mountain of

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thermal paste on the CPU that I just pulled out see if I can get you guys a

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good look at

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that so that was actually surprisingly

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straightforward zot tax claims that this thing is not user serviceable and very

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difficult to reassemble once it's taken apart okay I haven't actually tried to

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reassemble it yet it could be very very difficult still but I don't think it is

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their claims seem to be pretty much baseless I think I'll be able to put

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this together and uh maybe I'll like I have no idea in what context I would do

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this in a video but I would really like to try a 6700k in here and see if it can

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handle the extra power that's required for that I'm very very

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interested so I guess that pretty much wraps it up thank you guys for watching

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