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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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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

00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:25.919
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

00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:20.600
they've done here remember Zotac is an actual manufacturer of graphics cards so

00:22:18.080 --> 00:22:25.880
it wouldn't be um that big of a deal for them to do something like

00:22:22.320 --> 00:22:27.960
that there's the GPU itself and then

00:22:25.880 --> 00:22:33.919
there is your either four or 8 gigs of RAM depending ing on your GTX 980 so

00:22:30.679 --> 00:22:37.039
this one has 4 gigs of RAM okay and then

00:22:33.919 --> 00:22:38.679
here we've got pretty much every part of

00:22:37.039 --> 00:22:43.120
that graphics card is cooled by the water block through the use of thermal

00:22:40.559 --> 00:22:47.520
pads or this copper slug in the middle so again they've gone with mixed medals

00:22:45.760 --> 00:22:51.480
for their block design here it's such a rookie mistake um you know like if you

00:22:50.159 --> 00:22:57.320
guys have been following along with ASUS's Rampage series of motherboards

00:22:54.640 --> 00:23:01.320
over the years or is it Maximus whatever I don't know the one that's had water

00:22:58.720 --> 00:23:04.440
cooling integrated onto the North Bridge for years and years and years now they

00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:09.880
went from what was the first one like like

00:23:06.919 --> 00:23:13.360
tiny little Barb fittings and aluminum to like I think they did mixed Metals at

00:23:11.640 --> 00:23:17.240
some point to they included these weird adapters to get the barbs to different

00:23:15.600 --> 00:23:23.440
sizes and like there's all this like stupid stuff and it's very simple water

00:23:20.360 --> 00:23:26.559
blocks are made of copper and they use

00:23:23.440 --> 00:23:29.640
G1 qu threads now in this case I can

00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:32.000
forgive not using an industry standard

00:23:29.640 --> 00:23:36.520
threading um that that's fine because you don't intend for anyone to actually

00:23:33.440 --> 00:23:38.080
use these outside of this one system but

00:23:36.520 --> 00:23:43.240
water blocks are made of copper yes it costs more yes it is more difficult to

00:23:40.559 --> 00:23:50.440
machine but the benefit of your system not corroding and having the block fall

00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:51.799
apart is a pretty compelling one all

00:23:50.440 --> 00:23:55.159
right so let's go ahead and have a quick look at this guy from overhead so now

00:23:53.919 --> 00:24:01.200
that we've got the video card out there's our mxm slot there's our DC

00:23:58.440 --> 00:24:06.640
power in there's where that eight pin is going over to the graphics card over

00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:10.600
here here is our vrrm for the

00:24:06.640 --> 00:24:14.000
CPU actually over here as well oh that's

00:24:10.600 --> 00:24:17.279
interesting okay uh there's our

00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:18.440
chipet so wow that's a Kind of a Funny

00:24:17.279 --> 00:24:25.080
layout so ioab is here which means that this is

00:24:22.960 --> 00:24:28.399
communicating with this and then pretty much everything here is going to be

00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:35.720
using another layer of the PCB to go all all the way back over here where the USB

00:24:31.399 --> 00:24:37.799
ports um and at least no Ethernet is

00:24:35.720 --> 00:24:42.120
probably using yeah that's a there's a here I'm going to go ahead and switch to

00:24:40.440 --> 00:24:46.240
my other angle that I didn't have for a bit there

00:24:43.640 --> 00:24:53.480
again I need to see that that's okay um so we've got where

00:24:50.559 --> 00:24:59.760
did it go Ethernet yeah okay so there's a real Tech chipset right there so that

00:24:56.000 --> 00:25:02.240
should be handling this uh we've got

00:24:59.760 --> 00:25:09.760
yeah basically just USB then I guess running off of that because the two HDMI

00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:13.600
ports and two DisplayPort ports should be running off of the gtx980m so I guess

00:25:12.159 --> 00:25:18.159
that's why they put that there because those are much higher bandwidth

00:25:16.200 --> 00:25:23.480
connections than really anything else on the back here which is just a wireless

00:25:20.200 --> 00:25:26.120
module which is running off PCI Express

00:25:23.480 --> 00:25:31.520
which is over here around on the back right

00:25:27.159 --> 00:25:33.159
there and and then power in that's it so

00:25:31.520 --> 00:25:38.760
I guess that does actually make a fair amount of sense so right here is for the

00:25:36.399 --> 00:25:44.360
CPU fan so that's running the fan for the radiator as well as oh there's

00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:49.880
a okay this is interesting so this is something Luke actually told me while I

00:25:46.320 --> 00:25:53.039
was working on my review of the en980

00:25:49.880 --> 00:25:55.039
there is another version that's very

00:25:53.039 --> 00:26:01.440
similar to this that's actually air cooled and Zotac was using as like a VR

00:25:58.760 --> 00:26:06.799
backpack thing so that would explain why there's not one but actually two fan

00:26:04.960 --> 00:26:11.360
headers here so one of these is for the mxm fan and one is for CPU fan so that

00:26:09.360 --> 00:26:17.919
would be if they are air cooling this monster very interesting this says motor

00:26:15.480 --> 00:26:21.679
P motor power so that's going to be for the pump and then other than that

00:26:20.039 --> 00:26:27.440
there's really not a ton of connectors here this is just for the front LED and

00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:29.039
power button and let's go ahead and uh I

00:26:27.440 --> 00:26:32.840
can let you guys have a look at the back again now that my camera angle is

00:26:30.760 --> 00:26:38.240
actually a little bit better good work Brandon um yeah oh well this is kind of

00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:44.399
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

00:26:43.159 --> 00:26:52.120
are things are about to get kind of interesting here so this daughter board

00:26:47.320 --> 00:26:53.559
right here is plugging into an m.2 slot

00:26:52.120 --> 00:26:59.039
for some reason why would they do it that

00:26:56.360 --> 00:27:03.600
way so oh huh well if you ever had to pull your seos

00:27:01.200 --> 00:27:08.720
battery on this puppy you would be basically doing a full disassembly so

00:27:06.880 --> 00:27:12.360
that's kind of a pain in the ass way to go

00:27:10.240 --> 00:27:16.120
Zotac can think of a fair number of reasons why doing that might be

00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:23.000
convenient um

00:27:17.919 --> 00:27:26.120
wow so interesting there's an m.2 slot

00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:31.159
here that appears at least on the

00:27:26.120 --> 00:27:33.840
surface to just be a normal normal m.2

00:27:31.159 --> 00:27:38.559
slot yeah it's keyed the same as the one on the

00:27:34.840 --> 00:27:39.720
front so it's not a mini PCIe forx slot

00:27:38.559 --> 00:27:46.080
which it could have easily been depending on what they were doing on

00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:50.080
here and then it looks like oh yes okay

00:27:46.080 --> 00:27:53.039
so basically they are using it though as

00:27:50.080 --> 00:27:56.960
just a like just a small PCI Express connection because they've gone and

00:27:54.159 --> 00:28:02.279
they've put an asmia chipset to handle the front USB connection

00:27:58.919 --> 00:28:03.960
so that would be that USB um I believe

00:28:02.279 --> 00:28:08.720
these are USB 31 but don't quote me on that I'm just

00:28:06.159 --> 00:28:14.039
going to go ahead and pull an old Linus trick here and consult the packaging

00:28:11.320 --> 00:28:20.080
when I can't remember something who uh blah blah blah yep so there you

00:28:17.519 --> 00:28:25.399
go that's why they did it that way it's a USB 3.1 controller from as media so

00:28:23.240 --> 00:28:30.240
that those front ports can be USB 3.1 this drives me crazy though the industry

00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:36.039
cannot decide what to do it's supposed to be as far as I can tell white or

00:28:32.519 --> 00:28:39.200
black on the inside for USB 2 blue for

00:28:36.039 --> 00:28:43.200
USB 3.0 is what we used to call it but

00:28:39.200 --> 00:28:44.919
now it's called 3.1 gen 1 so 5 gabit and

00:28:43.200 --> 00:28:52.240
then it's supposed to be pale blue or like like this green for USB 3.1 as we

00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:54.240
used to call it or USB 3.1 Gen 2 10

00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:57.760
gigabit and then you got Razer who's running around putting like green

00:28:56.080 --> 00:29:01.960
plastic on all of their USB ports so no one knows what the heck is going on I

00:28:59.240 --> 00:29:06.360
blame Razer for this there let's go with that the last thing that's really left

00:29:04.120 --> 00:29:11.039
here then is to go ahead and pull out the CPU so it's a completely standard

00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:16.919
desktop LGA 1150 socket covered in thermal goop of course

00:29:14.159 --> 00:29:16.919
thank you for

00:29:17.320 --> 00:29:23.440
that there you go that gives us a nice

00:29:20.399 --> 00:29:25.679
look at that and that is our mountain of

00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:30.039
thermal paste on the CPU that I just pulled out see if I can get you guys a

00:29:27.720 --> 00:29:30.039
good look at

00:29:36.080 --> 00:29:41.720
that so that was actually surprisingly

00:29:39.320 --> 00:29:47.480
straightforward zot tax claims that this thing is not user serviceable and very

00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:51.159
difficult to reassemble once it's taken apart okay I haven't actually tried to

00:29:49.120 --> 00:29:55.840
reassemble it yet it could be very very difficult still but I don't think it is

00:29:53.240 --> 00:30:00.320
their claims seem to be pretty much baseless I think I'll be able to put

00:29:57.760 --> 00:30:05.000
this together and uh maybe I'll like I have no idea in what context I would do

00:30:03.039 --> 00:30:10.559
this in a video but I would really like to try a 6700k in here and see if it can

00:30:08.720 --> 00:30:17.039
handle the extra power that's required for that I'm very very

00:30:15.120 --> 00:30:20.039
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