foreign ERS have been combined into one a
concept that isn't exactly new this case from Cooler Master could have as many as
three modules stacked up each containing its own PC and Corsair's heavyweight
obsidian 10 000d could accommodate both a primary eatx system and a secondary
mini ITX system both with full-size gpus
the issue is both of those Solutions are
heavy and cumbersome not to mention that one of the systems is clearly the beta a
dynamic that won't fly in this relationship we have actually combined
his and hers gaming systems before though using virtualization the issue is
that the cost advantage of sharing components like the motherboard and
power supply ended up being outweighed by the drawback of running up against
anti-cheat solutions that will falsely flag virtualization users for cheating
bringing us to the better solution a fast relatively easy mod that allow The
Cooler Master nr200p to fit two full fat
gaming rigs not fat like like performance gaming
rigs all they need is a little nip and Tuck
ready let's go
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here's the idea we're each going to
disassemble our case in a similar fashion keeping behind only the parts
that we need to mount our motherboard power supply storage Cooling and GPU
then we're going to take the two L-shaped pieces and you guys can see
where I'm going with this two computers will be like this okay yeah oh that's a
little saggy the case it's
the case hey I'm not the only one that sags we're getting old okay I've done
three screws in the time you've taken to find one we're never gonna get done
okay sorry
there's probably gonna be some Floatplane exclusive outtakes and cutting
room floor stuff Floatplane.com that intro is almost certainly going to be in
there it's really cute super cute
there you go wild right obviously a
project like this raises a number of questions with the first one being how
do you turn these things on just I stroke gently
okay no the computer um and we do have the answer to that
because obviously our integrated power and reset switches are no longer part of
our cases we had to pick up a couple of these little owl tree brand external
power and reset switches and just double-sided tape them to the side of
the power supply holder it's not very pretty looking it still needs love
oh I was gonna be like where's my motherboard because I was expecting something so big but it's so tiny that's
what she said as I alluded to before both of these systems need to be
similarly powerful so we're using identical motherboards this is a b550i
gaming from ASUS's Rog strix lineup and
because we have some thermal concerns packing two such systems into a tiny ITX
case that's intended for one we've gone with a reasonable ryzen 5 5600 CPU I
mean to be clear that's still six cores
a lot of performance it's just not a ton of heat compared to something like a 12
or a 16 core variant Yvonne's going to show us how an AMD CPU is installed I
don't think they want to follow my guide I'm pretty sure they want to watch you all right there it's in
are you sure actually it's really hard to tell you have to have to confirm I
can feel that it's in can you yeah you touching us CPUs you can tell
when they're in next up let's do storage we've actually got a number of options
for m.2 SSD installation I am going to
take the lazy route and not bother to access this one down here and I'm going
to install this crucial P5 onto the back
of our motherboard I've never seen this before like the rear mounted kind yeah
yeah now things are about to get really interesting because these are packed in
so tight we can't go just installing our
memory and our heatsink willy-nilly everything has to go together in a very
specific order so we're each going to take our half cases and put the
motherboard in okay I can't get mine in
well not like that what you got to go slow first then fast when you're
screwing I don't know if people should take advice from you about screwing I'm
sorry Brandon you guys make my job very hard next step is power supplies these
don't match strictly speaking but they are functionally the same we're both
using sfx power supplies so these are the slightly shorter version that only
have 92 millimeter rather than 120 millimeter fans but that was necessary
for us because even though we have the
power supply cage in the sfxl position this way there's just not a ton of
clearance for our modular interface here to keep it from interfering with other
stuff so we're stuck with sfxl okay so
do they go in this way you want your fan going towards the open back part here
that way it will draw nice fresh air from the outside of the case because let
me tell you the air inside this case is not going to be nice and not going to be
fresh we've gone with some crucial ballistics 3200 Mega transfer per second
CL 16 modules that you can't even buy
anymore so maybe we'll have some other more different RAM Linked In the video
description along with the rest of the components we're using so I watched
Bella's video did you actually use this to cut open a box yeah is that okay
that doesn't ruin the contacts The Box open
did the RAM work yeah yeah and it's okay all right
okay do as I say not as I do and I'm saying don't do that you can see here
why we were going to have a pretty hard time plugging in those front panel
connectors if we had the RAM installed already that you're getting pretty tight in here
no not like that no why why what's wrong yeah yeah like that that's good yeah
that's good I don't know if I want to talk to you anymore after this
oh you don't need to talk oh I love it
with modern systems you don't have to run SATA data and say to power at all
your drives anymore so we only need three cables for these builds our 24 pin
for the motherboard are eight pin for also the motherboard but it Powers the
CPU and then PCI Express for the GPU that's it it makes these kinds of small
form factor builds so much easier to
Cable manage for our CPU Cooler we've actually got a newcomer to the channel I
had never heard of ID cooling before but thanks to those helpful very helpful
lists that the sff community have compiled that tell us the exact Heights
of like basically every cooler on the market we found that this was as close
as we could get to our 70 millimeters of clearance while still having a little
bit of room to actually draw in some fresh air and I guess we'll give it a
shot we did replace the stock slim fan with a knock to a fan just to get a
little bit more performance out of it and in terms of orientation we're going
to have our heat pipes up toward the top of the board which
just kind of put it on there for now puts our fan right over top of our RAM
sticks giving them a little bit of extra cooling which they will need yeah do you want to goop
me yeah I thought it was supposed to be a grain of rice it's more good you can
never have too much goop I'm pretty sure you can have too much Coop she was so
innocent when I met her just defiled me oh
profile so there's three of them doesn't matter
when it goes in the green one why is it the gray one why not the black one
because if you put it in the wrong one it'll complain
that is actually the answer if you turn it on it'll say CPU fan speed zero press
F1 to whatever now we plug things in let's go ahead and do our 24 pin
connector oh boy we are going to want to keep this as tight as we possibly can
it's kind of like that this is a cool feature of this case it has little Cable
Management anchors on the side of the power supply cage here not that I think
I can even get in there well enough to actually use them but it's a neat idea
in theory now we're going to plug in one
of the gpus so who goes first
no there's no rock paper scissors no no
you just said who goes first and I said me we've gone with an RTX 3060
Accelerate from PNY and the main reason for that is that it's tiny super cute
it's got a large what appears to be 110
millimeter fan on it wow that's awesome for a tiny little mini ITX card also
this is a nice little benefit all of the i o is in a row here which means that
we're actually going to kick a substantial amount of the heat from this GPU out of the case though we will be
kicking some of it into the case which means we're going to have to deal with
that with some case fans it's nice that this case uses all the same screws for
absolutely everything so we just have a pile of them and when it's time to put
it all back together there's no fussing about with like oh what kind of
countersunk there Phillips number one Phillips number two yeah this is great
every screw head actually does have a purpose except slot slot but you can use
like a dime to turn them no you should just always have a screwdriver in your
back pocket lttstore.com you don't necessarily have to use
exactly this GPU if you were to try to recreate this build as long as you find
one that is exactly the length of the motherboard or I mean less would be fine
then you should be good to go this is
where things start to get a little bit tricky you ready uh your Cable's in the
way okay this is no no the cable no no
no it was working the cable at the bottom right there was in the way
no no we got this okay um oh it's definitely the best way
something sounded bad we're good I mean have we merged good is a strong word oh
my God okay well the thread has to actually catch though oh no no you're
what it's you're cross-threading it oh
my gosh they're all over the place here look how well look at that is no get the
close-up don't let her hide this no if you would hide it straight then maybe it
would go in straight no what are you doing
fine how am I supposed to be helping with this or not I don't know it's hard
for me to tell quite honestly okay we can tighten them now okay
oh oh yes right there okay so you just
need to hold it in the right spot nice
screws are in all right GPU time and
then this goes in but they butt right up
against each other wow this is compact
uh yep it really does not get much
tighter than that which is why we need some cooling fans one tricky thing at
this stage is that because we used two
halves of the case there's no longer anywhere for this to clip in and we
can't use a bottom panel anymore so we
have to make a bottom panel out of one of our top panels and the quickest and
easiest way to do that is to just bend
these little mesh tabs here and this is
going to go on a little something like
that what's really nice is that because there's no spare random cables here
while we are going to use fan grills we're actually going to use them facing
outward we don't need to worry about any of the cables you know sticking in our
spinning fan blades or anything like that we can plug this in now Boop
that'll power both of our fans off of my motherboard so uh that is one slight
downside both of the systems should be powered on to ensure that both of them
will be adequately cooled and that's basically just providing intake air for
these gpus wow like that's it they completely block off that airflow from
really any other part of the system which means that when it's time to
install our slim fans on our second panel we're actually going to want those
as intakes as well and then we're counting on the open ends of the case to
help us passively push out all the extra air this time we get to keep our mesh
which is a little nicer for keeping dust out of the system okay
Brown oh
pretty cool oh yes we did screw up one
little thing um the bottom needs feet because otherwise these fans are not
going to be in taking much of anything again for the three of you who are
planning to replicate this build these little rubber feet are from Amazon
they're the 13 millimeter tall feet and they're available for just a few bucks
uh one thing that I would like to do if I did this again is maybe add some mesh
in front of these of some sort like instead of using just regular grills
maybe use uh filters that'll help keep a little bit of the dust out of the case
there we go it's like a two-headed goat you know and you're just like what is it
from it's confusing the confusing PC out of the gate we're going to start with my
favorite game BIOS updating what could
go wrong if you multiply your risk it's great this CPU was running about six
degrees hotter but also turboing about 500 megahertz higher I mean technically
that's fine you play more games than I do so I could just take this one and we
don't have to do this well yeah but we specifically went out of our way to make
this system one and this system a so nobody has to feel
like number two you know I don't care I just want it to work well it isn't
working but it is working no if it's not working optimally it's not working oh my
gosh and this is why nothing ever gets done
we are gonna play Halo infinite let's do
team doubles okay okay we got this right
well I don't know what I'm doing I don't even know what this game is it's a
shooter you point at the bad guys and they fall down okay you ready okay so
just stay close to me okay and if someone kills me I shoot at them I don't
actually know the objective of this oh there's a hill what's this did I just
what just happened I don't know did you just die what do you mean die no I didn't die I
was disconnected oh multiplayer is unavailable try get
and you wonder why nobody is playing this game oh I
don't I'm not wow I killed someone no not now sorry oh
surprisingly it's not really any worse than a typical gaming system if anything
I'd say it's probably on the quiet side that's really impressive one small note
by the way we ended up reversing these top fans we're using them as an exhaust
now the difference in temperatures was a few degrees but the way it ended up
working out our intake at the bottom ended up being a lot more effective in
getting air past those gpus than I expected so we ended up not needing to
draw more fresh air in but rather just get rid of some of the heated air I've
got blender set to use both CPU and GP
okay here we go three two one
and they're off okay CPU is at 100 gpus
at about 90. this should give us a pretty good idea of what the system will
look like under full synthetic load realistically in game are
you actually going to get to full load like this no then why would you test it
you want to make sure that it is prepared for the worst case scenario my
CPU is running a lot lower than yours
ah 75 to 68. uh yeah it's also not
turboing as high still which is weird I wonder if you just got a not as good
chip we'd have to actually take the CPU out and put it in my board and see if
it's maybe just slightly better Behavior out of my board to know for sure but
okay you did end up with the beta system after all our efforts sorry entirely
unintentional for real though does anyone need to save space that badly
yeah what are you talking about the apartments and condos nowadays like
super tiny you could just build two regular ITX
systems and put one on top of the other you know you already had to buy two
cases anyway it's super cute though it
is cute oh and when you go to a LAN party now you just take one computer
with you yes that assumes that your so
actually goes to the LAN party with you otherwise it's an inconvenience because
now I've taken your computer away that that's true hey I came to your LAN party
okay I think we can pretty much call that good these are not going to
overheat unlike our relationship and
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