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when crucial reached out to sponsor a build they didn't just want another

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gaming pc they wanted something speedy subtle

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and stealthy we said sure but like

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don't you guys just make memory and ssds got anything else you can use

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and boy did they ever deliver it turns out crucial has a case

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or at least

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they used to yes my friends this

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is the ultimate stealthy sleeper pc

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and i managed to break it already damn

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it Linus

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okay yes technically this is a micron

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case yes they made cases way back in the

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before four time and this little piece of history was one of a handful of

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designs that micron put out in the mid 90s so seeing as micron is the parent

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company of crucial it seemed fitting to use one of their old cases for our

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ultimate stealth sleeper build it features not one but

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two zip drives a cd drive and just a

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single fan that's right just one fan in

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the entire chassis for cooling like

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man they really didn't need a lot of cooling

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back then did they that's in spite of the rest of the case having almost no

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gaps in it for airflow and the CPU cooler in the original system being

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passive

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this appears to be the original hardware from the system what the hell is this

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well it's agp and it's got two uh i don't know phone jacks on the back i

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guess modem that's definitely not agp this predates agp by a significant

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margin but those are definitely phone jacks this is a modem why would you

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shape your modem like this you need like a more streamlined internet yeah it's

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for faster speeds s3 verge dx on board okay so there's our

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graphics card this puppy got a nice little upgrade with that usb universal

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serial bus and then it's also got oh look at that like why does this not have

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a bat did you take the back plates off these yes that's a weird thing to do all

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right thanks colin uh got probably 100

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lan right there maybe just 10 10 megabit

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this thing is so weird so you got your

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edo memory up in here you got what appears to be some kind of slotted in

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motherboard vrm why would you slot that

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in after the fact and then they're probably unreliable wow this is before

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ide even had the like things around it this is this is old you know it's an old

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motherboard when every trace on it is like easily trackable to where it goes

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and looks like it could be repaired with a steady hand and a magnifying glass

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that's some fine attention to detail 90s micron got your logo right side up on

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your cooler lots of companies still can't handle that what the [ __ ] is

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this thing i don't know oh wait it's an aw 32 upg so it seems to be an upgrade

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module for a sound card

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and they really did made old keyboards right you know the oldest keyboard is

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the goodest keyboard see that's why crucial doesn't make gaming keyboards

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because they know they could never surpass the excellence they had already

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achieved they already peaked in the mid 90s RAM though

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RAM has gotten faster so our second focus with this machine after stealth

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was speed so crucial hooked us up with some of their ballistix max RAM this

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stuff is rated no don't no come on man i

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worked so hard on this stand over there

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this stuff is rated at up to 5100 megahertz

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it's so fast you're more likely to hit hardware limits with other components in

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your system like the memory controller on the CPU before you hit the max speed

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on these dimms and the reason crucial is able to get this RAM so darn fast is

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hopefully pretty obvious when you account for over a quarter of the global

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manufacturing output from memory you have both the expertise and the volume

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to both tune the chips and then hand pick them from an enormous pool of

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memory chips there's just no other way to do it furthermore

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crucial being under the micron umbrella is able to go beyond binning after the

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cream of the crop is determined crucial puts their chips through a secondary

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process that physically unlocks the voltage regulation taking what was

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already an outstanding candidate and opening it up to the bleeding edge of

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performance that's why their ballistics RAM can hit those extreme frequencies

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it's literally designed and then tuned to be gamingram now when it came to

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transforming this beast from a clunker to a sleeper it wasn't a task for the

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faint of heart after gently removing all the old hardware and putting it to bed

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one last time sweet bedtime story by the way guys lttstore.com

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colin started figuring out exactly how to fit our array of modern parts into

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the case now it is atx so this case was

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made right around that transition so on paper the whole transition was supposed

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to be pretty simple we chose an AMD ryzen 3900x 12 core CPU with an asustrix

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b550f gaming this is a great balance of

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performance features and cost giving us all the expansion we need today and pci

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express gen 4 capabilities for future SSD and

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who knows maybe graphics card upgrades then for our SSD

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we chose the crucial p5 it uses their tlc 3d nand with a dynamically sized slc

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cache along with a gig per terabyte of dram to maintain performance under heavy

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loads it comes with a five year warranty uses micron's own controller supports

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all the usual encryption standards and is available in up to two terabyte

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capacities we actually put two on there i think yep yes we did now unfortunately

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the motherboard and all the stuff attached to it was where the ease of use

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ended while the holes for our power supply did in fact line up

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for whatever reason 90s micron saw fit

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to include this weird support bar that interferes with the power switch on our

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new seasonic 850 watt 80 plus titanium

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unit which we definitely needed because while our old one was in fact atx

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it used oh i just stabbed myself

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it used the old 20 pin connector rather than 24 pin connector not to mention

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that it was rated for what 200 watts 270

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somewhere around there that would get us maybe our rem and CPU so we went with

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this particular unit for its super high efficiency which means less waste heat

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in the ac to dc conversion process the cross brace problem was solved with a

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little bit of percussive maintenance and now the switch here works as intended

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note though that we actually turned off the hybrid mode switch that's because

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the airflow is so stifled in this case that we are kind of counting on our

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power supply to help push some of the hot air from the inside out the back of

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the system now with the heart and brains figured out what about the muscle well

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um we weren't the only ones who got kind of boninated by NVIDIA's sudden

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announcement of a graphics card that's hey actually faster than the old one

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gotcha so uh the machine as it is right now was actually built with an rog strix

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2080 ti which barely squeezes in there

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leaving what i would call the absolute minimum amount of space for some

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semblance of airflow like look at this come check this out andy these power

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cables are actually squished against the side panel it's that friction that makes

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it so hard to get the pedal off

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now to try to cool it we wanted to take advantage of the natural tendency of

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warm air to rise so our goal was take in

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cool air from the front and bottom and exhaust warm air from the back where

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this knocked to a pwm fan replaced the old three pin unit and hopefully like i

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said before gonna get some help from the power supply so that's fine

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but the case didn't come with any intake

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holes fair warning guys this is gonna

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coming at get like yeah

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little kids who ain't never been taught yet i'm about to show you how a real pro

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lay it down show you how to hit a figure

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with a bit of dremel massaging the front panel was trimmed open for more airflow

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and to allow a single 120 millimeter all-in-one liquid cooler to be mounted

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that way at least our poor CPU gets nice fresh air

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and we used a hole saw to add a second

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knock to a 80 millimeter fan now i know that it's not quite factory but we did

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allow ourselves to add a couple of 3d printed elevating feet so that the new

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fan can actually draw in air and then

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hopefully that's the ventilation sorted so it's definitely stealthy

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but is it enough did it work

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i have to confess cole and i'm a little skeptical

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it really does not look like enough cooling oh my god i love

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this vintage pentium with mmx designed for Windows 95 stuff we got going on

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here see when alex builds a sleeper pc he usually water cools it that sounds

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like work that's true he does do seem to do a lot of unnecessary work doesn't he

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i love that guy all right we firing up what are we doing we're firing up some red dead redemption here yeah whatever

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you want to do all right i think i got a tomb raider on there as well wow look at

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that look at that snow fall off that branch there oh we're gonna go stand by

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the fire there okay but seriously

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why is this not loud yet you're breaking the rules here colin put your hand by

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the fan though you took all the pci plates out of the back too of course

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that's where you got some more ventilation from you pulled out all the

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stops man sneaky guy yeah

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you want to know what you want to know what else is sneaky it's toasty all right what else is sneak there's a

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little sneaky trick up here you know when you're you're hungry and

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you're gaming there's where there's

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you know the old man candy got were there's originals how much time did you

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spend on this too much

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the craziest part is that this isn't just you know a three minute test here

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colin actually stress tested this thing in 3dmark over an extended period

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without running into thermal throttling issues right yep are you sure yeah i ran

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the can stress test ran ran all the way

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through and passed with 98 so wow

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okay then but can it run an rtx 3080

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now i saw you brought down the 30-90 but surely you weren't hoping to actually

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put this in there it was optimistic like like real yeah

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yeah by the time we have the 12 pin plugged into the top of it there's no

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way now let's see if this boy will fit

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um do you want to grab that 12 pin adapter

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yeah it's right here oh you've got it all right look at that

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okay we're gonna run same thing i ran on the 2080 ti so the time spy the long

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stress test so this will take i think it's 10 or 15 minutes and it's gonna get

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real hot and we'll be able to see it i'm actually expecting this to be better

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because the new cards are more efficient and the exhaust that's going to be

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coming out of the back of it will hopefully help me

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i think it was around 65 70. so we're pulling over

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107 right now you hear the fans ramping up the amount of heat this thing is

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thrown out the back is kind of astonishing

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we passed and if we look at the actual data

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our CPU hit a peak of

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70 degrees and our GPU rode 74 degrees

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the whole way there there's the odd blip but like 97 and a

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half percent i'll call good no way i can't believe

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that worked like it's significantly more power than the

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2080 ti but that goes to show you the strength of

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NVIDIA's new like flow-through cooler right because that's exactly how they

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designed it right to have cool air coming in from the bottom front i mean

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that's the atx standard obviously but like to assist that natural convection

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and like this is the same thing we saw in our review where even though it draws

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more power it actually managed better overall system cooling i'm absolutely

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freaking loving it just like i'm loving telling you one more time thanks to

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