just gotta do like computer training oh no it'll be
the next phone today we're gonna be building the fastest gaming pc that
money can buy but we do that pretty often here what's
unusual is cramming a water-cooled rtx
3090 with 16 CPU cores in a case
this size that's right our gaming pc is
going to be so small it makes the new generation consoles blush
wait why do they blush when it's it's so small
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the original plan was actually to make this video months ago with a
pre-production version of winter's first case the aptly named
winter one but one small problem our computer
didn't fit in it but fast forward to today and they've set themselves apart
from other manufacturers by remarkably taking our feedback and integrating it
into version 1.2 of the winter one which i guess would be
the winter 1.2 two Linus please open after the review to avoid bias well too
late i've already got bias get it because two cheeks
so do you want the price info right now full marks for presentation by the way
guys uh sure how much does one of these cost me to build myself so base price is
450 dollars and with all the extras ours is 570.
i mean by the time you're buying this kind of hardware i guess it's not a big
deal but um okay the finish on this one's amazing
oh my goodness like me you might be wondering why at this price the case
can't come pre-assembled for you and fortunately the answer is a good one
if you were to build a water-cooled system in it you actually need to build
the system into the pieces of the case while you
assemble it or there's no way to get them inside
that's why so we will begin with step one oh wow so you install the
motherboard right away and then the graphics card right away warning do not
skip in preparation i've already taken the top brackets off of the CPU mount
and we're just going to put our 5950x in there a little something like that now
obviously to go with the ultimate CPU we need the ultimate RAM so we've gone with
this kit of 5100 megahertz ballistix max
from crucial it actually results in worse performance than using slower
memory with better timings but this rig isn't about making sense
more megahertz and continuing that theme we've gone
with the fastest storage money can buy with the two terabyte samsung 980 pro
SSD this will be running at full pci express gen 4 speed and as you guys can
see even though there's no chunky heatsink on it it has a fan for active
cooling so i would be very surprised if we experienced any kind of thermal
throttling of course speed isn't everything you've also got to have somewhere to store your
call of duties you know what i'm saying so we've got a sabrint rocket q 8
terabyte SSD that we'll be installing in
the back that gives us a total of 10 flippin terabytes of storage baked right
onto our motherboard now i just need to find the motherboard tray there it is
wow it's solid oh this is like thick
freaking solid metal i feel like i'm making a pizza not a computer got my got
my computer just gonna put it in the oven all right let it cook for a little
bit big one thing winter could improve i
know they're technically higher quality but i absolutely hate non-ferrous screws
just makes the assembly process more difficult for no reason that's it that's
here that's your computer right there ladies and gentlemen
do like computer tricks that'll be the next big craze on youtube don't well
it's not going to come out i'm not worried about it falling off the thing
ah now for the warning do not skip they want you to boot up the machine at this
stage for two reasons number one because extracting a defective part at the end
of the build is going to be extremely time consuming and difficult and number
two you need to reconfigure this pci express lot to run at gen 3 speeds
because the riser that they've got is not a gen 4 capable riser
so we've already done that next piece i need this puppy right here get the okay
god the machining is just so clean on this thing oh my goodness this is unlike
any computer i have ever built before and that's really saying something
look at that slides right into the little slot there oh oh interesting
there's actually a big enough gap to like jam my ruler in at the top and the
bottom now it's time for our pci express riser which goes in a little something
like that oh this is really tight they did not waste a millimeter
no they really didn't oh wow
wow okay the next step is installing the graphics card already we've gone with
the ek water blocks edition of ASUS's GeForce rtx 3090 for a handful of
reasons number one because it's a 3090 it's the fastest
freaking card money can buy number two
it is pre-water blocked with this gorgeous block from ek that's gonna save
us some time number three it uses the square version of this piece that goes
at the top of the block instead of the one that's angled like this that's
really important because we're not going to have enough clearance for the other version now you can convert the other
version to this one with a belt sander but in a build like this i don't think
you want to do that how the hell does this work that's a small oversight they
assumed my card would have a double wide pci back plate but it doesn't so now i
just have a gap fortunately i build a lot of stuff and i have a lot of random
stuff kicking around so i've got this double wide pci cover that i'm just
going to chuck in there that shouldn't look too out of place
oh gosh that's tight this seems like a cheesy solution given the otherwise
premiumness of the build but i don't have a better one so i'm just gonna put
a little bit of black tape here to hold this down oh
wow that is a really nice power button oh my
god wait it's on a kale blue switch
that is hilarious now it's time for the power supply bracket and this is a cool
story they actually changed the location of the power button based on our
feedback because we wanted to be able to install a crazy 1200 watt not quite
properly sfxl power supply and moving it
just a little bit out of the way made all the difference now it's time for the
first of our two water cooling radiators
somehow we're using dual 120s but this
is really cool if you use the right ones right now Corsair's compatible you can
actually do two millimeter rads in this thing one area
where winter could stand to improve their instructions though is in the orientation of the leads coming off your
fans because the case isn't yet assembled so you have no context for
where this is going to go unless you flip forward so i determined that i
think the best spot for this one is coming off to this side like this and
then we gotta just screw this assembly together with that assembled now it's
time for oh i wish they'd label this stuff which one they are
identical confirmed okay oh my goodness these feet
oh cork bottom solid machined aluminum and
doesn't cost as much as the ones on the mac pro so this whole case costs less
than a mac pro set of wheels take that loser how am i supposed to do this i
need three hands
do you have the whole thing upside down no it's right side up yeah i have the whole thing upside down
that looks super uneven oh fittings oh
goodness oh that's tight
okay
hold on one moment please if this is identical then when this goes here
it must be identical
like that now this puppy is going to go on
here how the f am i supposed to get at
these fittings to tighten them um what did you go fetch just now um
and this will only make the situation worse here's the pass through for our
power supply which is going to make it quite literally impossible to get this
one we have to run this tube now which is a perfect opportunity to show you
guys this incredibly cool swiveling 90
degree angled fitting from coolants now normally
a 90 degree fitting would have about this profile that
will not work in this case so in order
to make this thing they actually made it out of two pieces this block
that's kind of bored out down the center and then this center piece with two
o-rings here so it goes into the top of our GPU like this
and then we're basically just relying on o-ring lube to swivel it so i would
never recommend swiveling it this way although technically it could work i
love it now we just gotta put this on here oh my goodness this is nuts if the fan
wasn't on here it'd be pretty easy just gotta kind of friction
turn it on the one side here just gotta get that
up ah there we go okay that's what we call the old
friction turn we need lower profile compression
fittings as well this is not going to fit
oh crap our regular profile ones are not gonna fit on here either
just don't get your wiener in here all right ah
absolutely perfect now we're in action
do i have the fittings in the right spot route tubing and cables before mounting
power supply wait it wants you to fill the loop now we haven't even put the
other rod in yet but that's the end of the instruction how does that work oh i
guess this is as good a time as any to show you guys this incredibly cool block
pump reservoir combo from barrow it's got a ddc pump which as much as i'm not
a huge fan of the ddc series compared to the d5 is a heck of a lot better than
the generic no-name pumps you often find on these sorts of solutions then you've
got this acetal piece here in the middle and finally a copper cold plate that you
just kind of put on whichever mounting bracket you need and goes on the bottom
and is sealed with an o-ring i guess the rad just like goes on now but then hold
on a second if i have a radiator in here how the devil am i supposed to screw in
the power supply trying to figure out how the mounting hardware goes into the
AMD back plate and we might have a bit of a problem there's a bag for it just
says am4 and used for AMD plateform but
it's empty so i think we've got a solution so let's put some thermal compound on here
and there are going to be those of you who don't like it but basically it's 632
threading we've got tons and tons of 632 bolts so we threw a plastic washer on
there and we're doing a hard mount for better for
worse it's on there and holy crap that
is why we needed to use this low profile aio solution
abc wait what the crap why don't if they're gonna laser you already put the
work into lasering it which one is which do you know a is phil and then b is
sandra wait a minute alex this i
this isn't this is a full-size atx power supply it's yeah it's a small one but
it's it's it's atx so like i was saying
we're using this thousand watt power supply oh wait did we
why is that one here nicholas before we go any further with the water
cooling it's time for us to start plugging in some of our power supply
cables man everything looks so clean until you
start putting the power supply cables in oh my goodness this is so freaking tight
there we go see you later i'm just gonna bend this down so it
doesn't stick into the fan damn
this is ridiculous how many fittings do you want for your CPU block yes we're
going full mad lad today ladies and gentlemen i think i can do it just need
to get it just oh yes okay we're in
oh oh nice
okay how's that look okay i need another right angle actually one
of the ek ones oh no
the other one is over here oh you know what actually i think we can do this i
did another dual 90 over here it's not the greatest thing ever call it a 180.
the main benefit of this approach is flatness and that's it
ah oh my goodness wow
we are getting real close ladies and gentlemen you've got to be kidding me
what the hell is this oh and now we need a molex connector
oh no alex
what do i do no it's for RPM sense so that your computer can automatically
shut down if your pump fails kind of important i can you know what i
give up on RPM sensing on it though
crap no no i got this i got this oh oh my god
i think i got it holy crap they're in all right
we ready i'll use this power supply that totally doesn't fit to prop it up
do we have our funnel handy oh wow look at that
okay my hope is that this will fill
relatively quickly and easily because oh it's already full it's already full it's
already yeah but i mean like we need to be real ready oh uh oh because like we don't have a
reservoir okay sure okay all right yeah punch it
okay
something sounds matter what's whining at us cut cut
turns out this doesn't look exactly like a ddc internally so need to figure out
exactly what it is but before i do that i want to figure out if it works and
i've never done this before so uh yeah be ready to cut this off immediately
alex okay works well now i'm tempted to just
frickin i mean how much water could possibly come out of here
go pumpy boy what the shazbot is going on here
new idea so that tells us there's water there
so what is going on wait i didn't plug it in
okay all right all right all right all right everyone just chill okay just oh oh oh hey there we go
i hear movement oh nice
oh there's a big bubble let's give it a little tip while it's uh
powered off sometimes i find you get really big bubbles that way there we go
i'll maybe try reorienting it a bit
without spending another hour tilting and tipping it around to get these air bubbles out i think this is about the
best we're gonna do if this was my system to daily drive forever i would
just sit and let it run like this for like a few days because you can see
we're just getting these tiny tiny little bubbles coming out of it and once
they're up here in the tube they can't get out we're just gonna call it good enough and uh
get as much of the water out of this tube as we can
pack it with paper towel and do a quick fitting swap here okay
stop yep yep yep that's good that's good
okay oh yeah that's a good stuff let's cable
manage this puppy there we go
oh wow that's really freaking tight uh
oh my goodness they tell you to pre-attach the cables but they don't say
how you're supposed to get it in there with the cables pre-attached what the
crap oh yeah oh yeah hold on
huh oh god
wait are you sure this power supply fits thanks to some movie magic we got it
flipped around and got the power supply in there all we had to do was move this
radiator around the other way shorten this extension shorten all the tubes
and right change these fittings ah i just
got it i'm doing some oh wait not this
oh crap let me just need to kind of you know give it a go
just push on it yeah yeah put that in there
uh-huh ah tighter damn in here oh yeah check it out
brandon it's actually not that terrible and i think both of these fans still
spin oh crap this one doesn't
so ah
all four of them can spin now all we need to do is put
okay okay oh oh wow that's really freaking
tight not even in the way that i thought it would be against the front here holy
crap it is touching it is literally
oh okay no there we go okay it's in this thing is so compact i don't even want
the 280 mil rads you know this is enough
now the only challenge that remains is that part of that process was
draining the loop so we get to do that all over again all right
hold on here we go
this tubing is not like it's not it's not grabbing enough okay pulled
this one out too off off what
i really want is the right size tubing but i will settle for a longer one yes
fortunately we found some quick connects lying around and we're able to take a
page out of aio manufacturer's playbook by doing a little something called
this why are you not oh
the other one's going dry and this is not plugged in alex wait it is plugged
in why is it not going off just spin okay hold on
off
yeah that pump is not working where is it did it do something yeah
it's working it's working how's that even possible hello
hello um
it's leaking what is right here
oh alex
the thing the thing that's part of the red this
it's not in no that doesn't seal why would it not seal because it doesn't
so we're going to turn the machine off swap the pump
take off oh god why is this quick
connect not working what the heck that's really not what it's supposed to do
these quick connects are dead dang it stop stop stop stop stop stop stop
freaking really you know well i still don't think we lost enough
water that it's gonna be a huge problem and i still recommend this method for
filling a reservoir-less system like this uh you just
need to make sure you get new quick fittings connect fittings that work okay
here we go you piece
if you turn it off and turn it back on do you think the bubbles will leave or
like just get trapped somewhere that's not a problem why
and we can't use the colder ones because
the fitting size is not correct right oh
come on after spraying the fittings with fluid film i think this is going to work
so we're going to we're going to pop it you have got to be
kidding me well this one worked so that's a good sign okay so this is it
then the moment of truth put it hard no it's fine it's fine we got
oh gosh it's fine i just need to know david up here up here i got to put the
thing in the thing oh oh
here here it comes we're pumping there's still a little bit of bubbles going but
like i said if you ran this for like a week it would bleed out even all these
little bubbles and you'd have a perfectly full loop as it is we are
closing it up and we're gonna get some thermal results now it's finally built
put on like side panels and stuff right yeah oh
oh yeah this thing is absolutely sick oh so good
wow that is sick i love it
okay let's do another one hit's not enough
this is this is the drug that is like addictive you know look sometimes i talk
without thinking about talks words okay this little oh no you bastard
i won't damn
this is a super cool case
even just launching the game we put Noctua industrial ppc fans in here and
we haven't tuned the fan curves so these fans are just they make uh they make a
breeze under the case here yeah what are attempts right now just idle ah like 43
degrees on the CPU all right not bad we are in good shape ladies and gentlemen
we got cyberpunk 2077 notoriously
heavy to run at 1080p with ray tracing
set to ultra and we are running at over 60 frames per second okay i know it's
1080p but but ray tracing ultra look at the lighting
it's crazy look at this guy oh poor guy
oh that's awful the humanity like how is
this game still a meme i mean they did fix the bug where the cops just
literally apparate behind you when you break a law or whatever they said they
did oh oh okay well whatever i don't
actually play this game because no one plays this game
here our gpus at 43 degrees
did the water cooling work i think that's a big fat heavy yes and our CPU
is at 67 degrees which is actually a little higher than i might have expected
but still easily respectable i don't know too much about the actual design of this barrow
CPU block so it might just not be an amazing block and that might be
perfectly normal you know what else is perfectly normal me getting little
adorable handwritten notes from the manufacturers who send us review samples
that's actually not normal so let's let's see what they were worried was
going to bias me dear Linus it's a really unique feeling to have the
creator of a channel that taught me so much about building pcs review a case
that i created thank you for being a source of inspiration
forever does that say forever fuzan aw
thank you you did a great job by the way
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Linus tech tips if you guys enjoyed this video and you like watching us cram
crazy gaming rigs into tiny tiny cases
it wasn't water cooled but there's an even smaller one we did a while back
where i actually had to like put all my weight on it in order to close the case
maybe go watch that one it's pretty funny