this is the as a cast and like every
other pc it's been sitting on a shelf for months waiting for a GPU
thankfully we finally get to building it and i think this one's going to be a lot
of fun since this case is crazy unconventional look at this
there's no thumb screws back here because there's
no side panels to remove well okay there's one side panel but but
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the most obvious thing about the cast is the delorean-esque hinged lid and
novelty aside i actually really like how much access you get to
the case with this thing the only thing that i think would be better is if they
offered a clear version so you could have like a little kind of pc greenhouse
in there in terms of front i o we've got usbc usb type a along with audio here in
the front and the top panel isn't the only trick that the cast brings to the
table the basement actually unfolds as
well but clearly we can't do that with it standing up so we got to put it down
like this wow i mean
you could just do all the things that is super cool right
there it goes that's even better you have complete
360 degree access to the entire internals of the case and hilariously as
a figured you know what
not enough access watch this you remove these five screws that are marked with
little gray areas and watch this now that way
the whole frame just comes out of the outer shell which
you can then put away oh thank you for that
and now you can build it completely open
and then the whole thing will just clip back into place that way you can put
stuff like a hard drive here on the back of the motherboard tray and do all your
cable management look at these awesome cable management loops i am liking this
thing gotta say aza's one of those companies that i just had always been
kind of dismissive of because a lot of their earlier stuff was
not very good uh oh i found a qc error
jeffrey from qc tried to fix that up for
us actually that looks like it probably happened during the painting or powder
coating process now seeing as we're working with a white case we opted for a
mostly white build for you know that aesthetic but something that we noticed
while we were getting everything ready is that the case isn't really that white
see if you look at it next to almost any other white thing
it looks kind of pink okay see that
for our motherboard we've gone with a premium but not outrageous model from
Gigabyte this is their x570s aero g and it's a more creator centric board which
usually just means it looks stylish but in this case it actually has at least
one feature that might be more creator-centric so
i'm not used to seeing a displayport input on the back of a monitor unless
it's got Thunderbolt because what you would want to do is you'd want to take
your powerful dedicated graphics card run a little loopback cable into the
motherboard and then inject that high performance displayport signal into your
Thunderbolt port if you wanted to you know connect to a a dock that was 50
meters away or something like that in this case it appears to be injecting
into one of the regular usb 3.2 type cs
so in a nutshell if you had a supported monitor or dock it would allow you to
have both usbc and full fat displayport
functionality with the performance of your onboard GPU from that single
connector so it's like kind of like poor man's Thunderbolt you could think of it
that way it's got two and a half gigabit lan as well as four m.2 slots and i
think that's about it for creator-centric features oh i guess yeah
it's got a lot of usb for our CPU we've gone with the ryzen 7 50 800x it's got
eight cores 16 threads nearly the same gaming performance as its higher end
brethren but just half as many cores as the top-tier ryzen 5000 and honestly
it's a great choice if you don't absolutely need a ton of threads for
your particular workload and we are humming along with this
access 32 gigs of g skill 3 600 mega
transfer per second cl 14 memory doesn't quite match the color scheme of the
build but from a performance standpoint this is
exactly where you want to be with ryzen 5000. for storage i'm not sure quite
when or how this happened but m.2 drives have gotten so affordable that you can
actually take a two-tiered approach to your storage setup with all NVMe devices
so we're going to be using a p5 plus gen 4 SSD for our boot drive so go ahead and
throw that in the top slot which is using lanes directly connected to the
CPU full gen 4 speeds then we're going to throw a p2 2 terabyte drive in one of
our other three freaking NVMe slots on this
motherboard under this m.2 heatsink looks like we're pulling all of them off
at this point check this out brian
they've just got a socketed wi-fi slot so you actually put another
SSD over top of that if you want and that's oh that's cool too you can put up
to four 110 millimeter ssds in this
board what's interesting about that from a creator standpoint is that the highest
capacity and in some cases highest performance drives can end up being 110
millimeters long like we saw with Intel's octane m.2s for our power supply
we went with a pretty obvious choice for a white themed build this is the prime
snow silent titanium from sea sonic crazy efficient
super quiet and white just
you know what do you want me to say 750 watts which should be enough for our
system since we're not going to be using a 30 series GPU talk a little bit more
about that later let's get this installed oh okay so here's how it goes
in everything about this case is super unconventional i could take this
basement shroud off or i could put it in here
is that yup can i do that no i can't do that
okay it looked like i could do that look i think i can be forgiven for
thinking that i could do that let's pull this off
whoa
i have to have it pointing up oh
the instructions say fan pointed up well i mean this is one of those situations
where normally i prefer not to have the power supply fan pointed up because it
means that it's sucking in hot recirculated air from in particular
around the GPU but in this case
i mean it's so open i guess it doesn't really matter
oops i sincerely regret that this thing ships
with black cables but that's on seasonic
that's not on me and then is it ever easy to cable manage this thing got our
24 pin here got our pre-run cables for the graphics card here got our 8 pin up
here and check this out they've got these
giant velcro tie or zip tie loops back here that just make it super super easy
to get everything strapped down into place so i'm thinking we'll do it kind
of like that and now it's time to mess it up with all the RGB crap that's going
to be on our cooler this is the h-150i elite capellix it's
got super nice RGB and more importantly
than that it uses Corsair's maglev ml series fans triple radiator so we'll be
able to keep that 5800x nice and cool
and we're going to go ahead and install it in this orientation this case can
accommodate either a 280 or a 360 mil rad at least in theory it
uh can azam might have just committed a
water cooling sin here
there's not enough room for the tank we can get away with this if we put the
fans here and use them as intakes in
order to improve the clearance i really don't like doing that because it's worse
for maintenance but for a show build i guess we can do that and i would like to
see the revised version of this case with just
like this much more clearance especially because it's the kind of thing that you could probably fix with a dremel in like
10 minutes also unfortunately this appears to be
one of the older style coolers that comes with the clip style mount for AMD
i mean they're not terrible they're just more finicky than the newer mechanisms
the thing that's kind of baffling to me is the design of this fan the case is
quite open air to the point where it it
could easily be sort of you know pulling air from even outside of the case kind
of around it so even though it's open there are some serious question marks
for me in terms of actual real world performance you know what i really would
have liked to do in this case is one of my classic tricks
okay so what i used to do back when cable management sucked in most cases
you didn't have any holes up here or anything like that is i used to take
this fan and i'd run it right under the motherboard i just kind of pin it under
the motherboard at the back and then i'd bring it out to the side or the top or
the bottom or wherever it needed to go and
seeing this here i really i really wish i had done that now i know this doesn't
look very nicely cable managed but this is a bit of a different strategy than i
would usually have what i'm focused on here is
hiding everything from this side so i'm trying to get everything wrapped up as
tightly as possible
so we don't catch it sort of running across these open gaps in the chassis
all right yeah we finally got the GPU uh i wish i
could tell you it's something cooler than it is this is actually a 2080 ti
and the reason that we're using a last gen GPU is because there's even here at
the office a bit of a shortage of modern high-end gpus especially white
ones so this was it um
all of our 30 series stuff of this class is in our editing stations or tied up in
other projects so that's what we're using
no no it's fine there this is safe all right now there's a little uh
there's a little support bracket doodad here that i'm kind of trying to figure
out right now what is this boy doing
oh is it a vertical mount oh cool it's a vertical mount oh i like
it okay sold let's do a vertical mount oh do we have
a PCIe riser oh we'll just go grab one oh yeah
that's freaking awesome okay we've got a bit of an interference issue with our
usb type-c over there okay yeah this is
great so here's where it goes in right oh well there apparently
okay now hold on a second wait how the devil are you supposed to
oh interesting
you have to do this
the GPU slides into the case the sequel
you you can't you can't put this in from this way and you can't screw it in
unless the GPU is already on it so you
have to slide it in from the back we just did a video called the GPU slides
into this case and so now we've now we've done it again
this is great i was worried that we'd be able to see my mess of cables back here
through these gaps but actually the GPU is going to cover all of it
oh and i didn't even put the power supply shroud on yet
oh there's a oh it's a it's a cable cover shop
okay all the cable management concerns i had
were totally invalid 100
because there's a freaking basement cover
so clean
enough to forgive the pink hue it's really noticeable when there's shadows
cast on it can you see that like how pink it is
oh no no it's not as pink as that
oh right i was about to do an lttstore.com
for the for the tube but you can't actually buy that so you've got to pick
up the gamer hoodie available in aqua or gray
let's just see if my cable management is going to survive
i've got a big thing right where it needs to go
you know what maybe i can get it
oh is that it
oh yeah i think we got it
one door closed
two doors closed that's pretty cool
or you could go with just like the half kind of cocked open
look this is where a lot of my cooling
questions come in because you got just this little tiny gap along the side for
these 320 millimeter fans to bring in air
great mechanism for attaching to the front but that is
you can get a mesh there's a mesh front okay well that would almost definitely
be an improvement still it might get enough to deal with just the CPU and if
this GPU is just grabbing fresh air
directly from freaking outside i mean it might be okay now i know you guys want
to see the thermal results but before i do that
i want to take a moment to appreciate that a couple of RGB configuration
issues aside this thing looks freaking awesome
like if you want the open frame experience but with the aesthetics of a
closed case and the cable management of a closed case
this is basically the bee's freaking knees
which isn't to say that it's without problem first and foremost
i gotta point out that it is extremely susceptible to the temperature of the
air around the system even walking past it can generate a measurable change in
the temperature of your GPU but that's actually good news because GPU temps
were freaking awesome and our theory that it would mostly pull fresh air from
this giant gap in the side of the case did
hold up obviously this is going to have some negative impact on the
dustiness of your machine but from a performance standpoint it's great
interestingly one of our compatriots gear seekers who's on Floatplane by the
way you guys can check them out there also tested this case with the GPU in
its horizontal configuration and they too found a very small but measurable
difference between having it open versus having it closed i think this
orientation ended up being a little bit better but it's also a little bit more
work and it's going to cost you about 75 to 80 us dollars for a gen 4 riser cable
what's not great from a performance standpoint is the fact that our CPU was
up near 90 degrees with a triple 120
millimeter aio cooler
i don't know what to say about that other than you better get yourself ah
a mesh front panel because i'm pretty sure we're going to see a marked
difference almost immediately here check this out ladies and gentlemen we're at
90.4 degrees on a 5800x
give it a sec you like to breathe
how you liking breathing it's not going down
is that just how hot this particular chip runs
90.5 okay well
a little bit neat case
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