so the point of this video is going to be twofold first of all I'm giving you
guys an update on that prototype machine that crazy Russian was working on so
this is the Define XL with our dual GTX 580s we've got the core i7 950 processor
and now you can see I've got the h70 water cooling installed because in order
to keep doing our benchmarking testing validation all that good stuff we had to
go ahead and put the system together as intended so the first thing I want you
guys to notice is that the temperatures even though we are running Linux are
still around 60° on this CPU now we're
not overclocked yet but even at stock
speeds that is stock speeds and voltage on that CPU we managed to drop 20° off
the low temperature of the CPU now bear in mind as soon as you start
overclocking that difference between the stock cooler and a good solid
aftermarket cooler like the h70 is going to be a lot more because that heat load
will overwhelm the stock cooler whereas the h70 can keep it under control
so I just want to show you guys some of the features of the Define XL and why we
chose it for this uh for this particular build first of all check out these side
panels I mean these must weigh like uh wow this must weigh like a few pounds
each like no no problem I mean I think the case uh empty with no Hardware in it
with all the sound dampening materials and the steel construction weighs about
30 lbs so it's very very heavy so that also means it's very very solid there's
absolutely no flex to it whatsoever in terms of features going to go ahead and
remove that so this is the Black version of the case it's also available with a
titanium which is kind of like a like a gunmetal gray front Okay so I want to
show you guys all of the features I know I've been promising to show you features
this whole time but what I've really been doing is killing time so that I can
get around to the back of the case and show it to you so you can cable things a
little bit more tidily at the back than uh than we've done here the uh the
reason for this is that we're basically throwing it together to do some
prototype testing this is not a finished production machine so we'd have all
these zip tied together and we'd have them all sort of tucked out of the way
but speaking of tucking cables out of the way look how much space you have at the back like you see so many cases with
space designed so that you can cut cables around the back but then there's
actually no Gap like we've actually here here get around a little bit further
even you can see there's more than an inch of space between these Drive cages
and the side panel you can tuck any cables back there same thing behind the
hard driv you've got like 2 in of space to actually put your cables in the back
of the drives and then tuck any extra cabling away out of sight and out of
mind so that's pretty cool and so they've also got the removable
motherboard back plate I did a full unboxing of the Define XL uh once
already so you can see all the features of it there so we're just going to go
through like really quickly here so the Dual 140 mm front fans uh we still have
to install this one this is just an in progress shot uh because we took the 140
mil fan from the back where the H7 70 is now installed so it's here and we're
going to go ahead and throw that in the front for this build and speaking of
places to tuck cables we've also got a really cool place like you wouldn't be
able to tell that this power supply isn't modular looking at this build from
any angle other than like way down here
where you can see that we've tucked a bunch of cables up here so you've got a
ton of space to hide away your cables on your power supply even if you're using a
non- modular power supply overall spec of the machine so I'll show you where we
mounted everything we've got our SSD here in one of the uh Drive sliders so
you can hold up to 10 hard drives or 10 ssds then we have our storage drive here
remember this is the performance Edition so it has a storage drive it has the
bigger power supply it has the Dual GTX 580s it has the faster RAM it has the
h70 instead of the H50 and there's a bunch of advantages to getting the
performance Edition uh build so um yeah
I mean cable management is uh mostly been shown you've got these little
silicone guys here you can see that unlike the Define R2 they've been
dramatically improved on the Define X XL as well as the Define R3 so they're much
more flopsy for lack of a better word
and uh because with the old ones basically as soon as you put something
through it they were kind of like stuck in that position whereas these ones are much easier to uh not like damage and
bend so there that was a long drawn out way of saying that they're a higher
quality uh higher quality grommet and I think that covers pretty
much everything I wanted to say I mean you can check out the huge fan here on
the top of the case so you've got a ton of exhaust going out the back of the
case here all of that hot air from the uh from the CPU Cooler as well as any
air coming from around the mosfets you've got nice air flow over the RAM
it's just taking all that and blowing it out the back of the case so thank you for checking out this little video about
the Vesta 6050 in progress build as well
as a sort of an extreme gaming machine build in the fractal design Define excel
hope you sort of got a pretty good idea of what kind of cooling features and
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