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using PCS as consoles whether it's with a Windows operating system or with Steam
OS there has been quite a lot of attention given to very small gaming
optimized cases that are also capable of
holding a pretty impressive amount of Hardware so this my friends is actually
a pre-production unit of one of the ones that people are particularly excited
about this is the still Silverstone Raven RV zo1 and I apologize for all the
fingerprints all over it it's because I've actually already done a build
inside the thing so we'll start with the accessories here you get a few actually
you get three of these handy dandy little magnetic fan filters Silverstone
is a strong believer in the idea of having positive pressure inside the case
with filtered intakes because what that means is dust is filtered on the intake
and then because you have positive pressure inside it is passively being
exhausted everywhere else so dust cannot accidentally be sucked into the case so
we've got one of these for my top fan and then I only needed one additional
one for the bottom fan right here but it does come with a third all right so then
let's finish off the accessories we've got actually the accessories are kind of
neat we have a little uh four pined two other more different two four pins fan
adapter so that's for those dual fans on the bottom you can see there's an extra PCI bracket cuz I already built in it
there's a GPU support bracket that's actually kind of clever I just took it
out because I didn't really I didn't really think I needed it I just have a
GTX 670 in there and then we've ah this is actually kind of neat so check it out
we have a raven logo here on the front but you can actually pop that bad boy
off and you can run this guy in either a
vertical configuration or a horizontal configuration so it comes with one that
that's curved like that hopefully you guys can see that and pop that on there
and then it is meant to be run this way so it comes with optional feet you can
either use the large feet so they're all
conveniently label labeled back right uh front right front left all these kinds
of things and you pop these into the little things here so the whole thing
sits on nice little rubber feet or it comes with a different set of rubber
feet there you go just your standard sticky rubber feet that you can put on
the bottom if you want to run it in a horizontal desktop mode you also get all
the screws you need to install your system but of course A lot of them aren't in there anymore because I
already did that so let's go ahead and get this bad boy open oh no I guess
let's show a view of the sort of the outside first so here you're going to
see ventilation on the left hand side all
right here you will see ventilation on the right hand side silverston Raven
series is known for breaking new ground as well as for uh excellent ventilation
creative ventilation sometimes here we are going to find a very very small fan
that looks like a 60 mm I don't remember noticing that when I was ah yeah that's
from it's from the sfx power supply so
there's your power supply intake as well as two more fan slots one of which is
occupied by a slim 120 mm fan that is feeding air flow directly to the
graphics card underneath it we find at the front two USB 3.0 ports front audio
ports as well as reset and power switches and finally a slim uh DVD driv
so you can those have gotten a lot less expensive in the last few years here so
it's become somewhat of a viable option at the back we see a bit of a unique I/O
configuration this is actually my first time using a PCI Express Riser card so
in order to achieve this half height form factor and yet have a full height
graphics card you can put up to a GTX Titan in here no problem they have
actually run a riser which you're going to see out of the PCI Express 16x slot
on the board so you can install the graphics card sideways that's how many of those Boutique systems like the IB
power Revolt are achieving this same feet of fitting a very very cool system
into a very small place so on the top you see I actually accidentally
unplugged that 120 mm fan as I was taking the system apart so this one
right here sits directly over top of my CPU area so it is providing nice fresh
air to not only the CPU right here but
also to my vrm modules as well as to my
memory modules which are hidden away down there I like the way that cable
management is done in this case so the power supply itself is actually located
over here in the front it's actually a modular power supply in there but I
should try to I should start taking it apart for you guys so you can see how
the whole thing fits together but the power supply is over here which means that all your cables either Snak through
here to your uh to your graphics card they go here to your ssds so you can
actually put two 2 and 1/2 in ssds right here uh there's optical drive bay is
actually under here yep so under here so you can run another one there and then
you can also put additional ssds here on
this piece right here as well as here if you had an SSD instead of a hard drive
if I recall correctly I could be forgetting something though it was
actually a few days ago that I built this thing so let's start taking it
apart this will be a new way of doing a case unboxing for me I'm using a fantex
cooler there although you could use a stock Intel LGA 1150 cooler if you
wanted right now I'm not aware of any ITX LGA 2011 cooler so the highest end
configuration you'll be going with in here will be a COR I 747 70k and then
that could be paired with as highend a single graphics card as you could
possibly fit all right so we can pop
this baby off I'm going to show you the PCI Express 16x Riser right here so it's
actually a hard PCB so it's a it's a solid PCB and then that has an
additional Riser card plugged into it here but we're going to we're going to have to release the PCI Express lock
here and we're going to pull this Riser card out first to take this baby apart
so there we go we've released it there come on out come on out little little
guy come on out little guy there we go good job little guy okay sorry I'm done
that now all right so I'm going to undo this SSD because this is also quite
quite attached indeed so that reveals how the graphics card goes in there so
there's a series of I can't imagine that that was the most efficient way to do
this but there's a series of two more Riser cards maybe the finished product this is an engineering sample we'll have
a a single piece there but the graphics card plugs in there that support brace I
showed you before goes on like this so
you can basically adjust it to pretty much whatever spacing you want you can
throw that on there it locks in place and then you put a screw in there and a
screw in the top and it it holds it it's more of a concern if you were going to
ship the case somewhere as opposed to if you were just going to build it and then
and then use it in one place the way a normal person would you can see that
there's actually quite a bit of uh of length here so while you wouldn't
necessarily be able to install something like an assus GTX 780 direct cu2 due to
the additional height actually that might even fit that'd be pretty that' be
pretty borderline though um you can definitely handle the additional length
just fine and then there's something else that I actually decided not to do
for my particular build but you can liquid cool the thing so you can
actually put a dual rad down here liquid cool the graphics card liquid cool the
CPU and then it has intergrated mounting
points for a DDC pump so that's a
popular liquid cooling like DIY grade pump and you would what is it stuck on
there we go and you would Mount that to this cross brace right here instead of
mounting an SSD here so that's phenomenally cool good thinking
Silverstone they really are um they really do push things forward in terms
of good compact design I mean we've seen this uh with the Fortress series their
ITX Fortress in particular I think is outstanding all right so now that's that
side let's go ahead and pull out this hard drive cage so I can show you guys
how all that went in there all right I've removed the screws sorry to be clear there were two screws on either
side I would like to show you guys how the cable management works here before I
pull the whole thing out though so you can see the front panel connectors are
over here and I was actually able to with a little bit of cramming uh get
those to go around in front of the power supply and hard drive cage right here
and then I was able to make very good use of the space here in order to make
sure that the CPU area stayed quite clear you can also see uh my 24 pin and
8 Pin motherboard connectors have been
installed in a very tight space so we're going to go ahead and try to come on you
can do it there we go all right so I can show you guys how that all worked in
here we've actually got six SATA ports on this p8 Z8 or z87i Deluxe motherboard
from isus rather although I'm using a right angle connector here that was just
stupid I just grabbed the first SATA cables that I could find and sort of
routed them over the RAM like that don't do that anyway let's go ahead and pull this baby out so first you install uh
Silverstone has excellent user manuals and they need them because you have to
do the build in a specific order otherwise it just plain won't work you have to install the power supply before
the hard drive and then you have to install that whole thing in there so anyway you can see the sfx power supply
that has an extension cord that runs from the back of the case into the power
on on the power supply so I'll just show you guys where that is at the back of
the case there and uh so that runs all the way around the outside of the case
actually in a very uh tidy Manner and then the hard drive just kind of well it
screws on there I think that's pretty much it so that my friends is the rvz01
which we're using for our internal steam machine it actually has Steam OS and
installed on it already so I'm going to have to put this thing back together now
thank you for checking out my unboxing and overview of what I think is one of
the most unique and uh it's an excellent DIY option if you don't want to buy one
of those pre-done super compact machines
and uh it's very reasonably priced as well so thank you for checking out this
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