so the objective today is as much power
in as little space as possible it'll be
a gaming rig sure and graphics card and
CPU right we got an x99 motherboard that's ITX that's how this whole thing
happened now I remember why we're doing
this the cors our h 1200i power supply
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let's do a quick run through of the parts we've got the highlight of the
show is definitely the ASRock x99e ITX
AC this is a surprisingly I guess I
might as well just open it it's not like we're not going to do this this is a surprisingly fully featured um x99
motherboard considering that it's it's an ITX board the socket actually takes
up a significant portion of the total
area of the board like check this out guys the x99 LGA 20113 socket is massive
now one thing you might notice about it is that the socket actually has
non-standard Moun holes so we are going to be a little bit Limited in terms of
what cooler we can use although thankfully ASRock does include a cooler
in the box so hopefully that'll fit in
our case so we're going to be using a Silverstone Sugo sg13 this is a new case
we're actually going to have a review coming probably based on our Impressions
from this build log it's
small yay uh for RAM we're going to be
using not an entire quad Channel kit of ddr4 because the asck board only
supports two memory slots so we're going
to be running in dual Channel which means we're going to be limited in terms of both capacity and bandwidth however
if you checked out our memory video which you can click on Luke's face or
behind the whatever the picture over Luke's face now to learn about we
determined going from Dual channel to quad Channel and ddr4 on even an extreme
Edition processor doesn't make a difference these days finally we've got
an ax760i power supply which I have no
idea if we're actually going to be able to use because we haven't vetted the
compatibility of this build at all yet we'll try it but this power supply would
work with cable mod cables which look freaking awesome which is why we chose
it so so we're going to try and use it hopefully it works who actually really
knows for processor we have a 5960x because it's just kind of badass and
we're trying to build a small badass rig so it just kind of works we have an
Intel 730 series processor we can't use their 750 series because Yeah we
actually don't know if it supports NVMe but I'm going to go with no I don't
think so and then we have a Titan X because it's the fastest single GPU card
at least for now we'll see when that new AMD stuff comes out but at cram it in
there yeah yeah like in the the box it
looks small and then you take it out and it looks even way smaller is the Titan X
even going to fit in there I was wondering about that it seems kind of
doomed from the outset doesn't it you know what we'll make it work I mean we
could probably eyeball oh dear oh maybe it depends how
they've laid out the inside guts there
wow this thing is pretty bare yep well there's not a whole lot of
room for anything but the parts I guess so there's that the way the Wi-Fi card
installs in this thing is janky as all
balls you just slide it into this slot little things no can we cut it wait
yeah yeah look look there's a gap Brandon look look at the Gap look at the Gap yeah yeah I I think it can get in
there I that is some tight business
oh yeah that's in it works we're going to put a Titan X in here we are I have a
surprise uh-oh the
5960x was a throwaway or a red herring
or a trojan horse or whatever it was a trick in my pocket oh I have something
else entirely which will make this the most powerful miniitx gaming rig ever
this is a 26.99 V3 18 core 36 thread
processor it turbos up to 3.6 GHz so
you're still going to get that gaming performance when you need single-threaded performance and it is
able to run 18 cor sustained at
something in the neighborhood I think it was 2.6 gigz or so so it absolutely
cleans the clock of the 5960x both in
terms terms of performance and in terms of actual physical size you wouldn't
even look at them and think that they fit in the same socket would you look at
that it actually overhangs the edge of the socket with extra heat spreader area
because they got to put all those cores
somewhere oh yeah does this look like it
fits an H ADI it says specifically in
the Box specific cooler types check this
out it looks like as from thought of
this so This plate does specifically fit
on this this is an h100i because I don't think we're going
to get an H ADI in here either way we're
not using this stock thing at this point anymore or you know what we can try the
NVMe setup okay this is ready but I'm not actually going to install it yet
just so it isn't in the
way I wanted to see if we could fit this thing in super juny in like some crazy
angle or something but it's not going to work yeah uh do you want to figure out
if the power supply is going to fit I think it will um but will it fit with a
thick rad cuz if I could just use an H AI then that would make my life a little
bit easier sure I'll check that there's a white 860i in the in the uh Subzero
build the build where the storage CPU
and power supply all changed within like 20 minutes cooling don't forget cooling
also cooling hey we're good on the power
Supply okay I found it in your office
cool and I found an H
AI you must be 3.1 man that's
crazy I don't think this is going to happen actually maybe maybe maybe so if
we went tubing this side take this back out here hold on no no put put it back
in actually yeah um and then if I have a
fan so if we can fit the 24 pin probably
fine where is it at the bottom it's at the top okay hold on new idea for RAM I
was saving this surprise for later but to go along with my xon CPU I also have
16 gig sticks of Kingston
DDR ECC memory oh my God so we're going
to put 32 gigs of RAM in here look at all those chips the module
layout I thought you just line up the RAM I was like that's your job I'm not
sure yeah I don't think we're going to make
it yeah no it's not going to fit the threads on this rad are no good so I was
going to pull the block off this one and put it onto a single red we have we have
single
Reds they're like horribly Tangled so I
wanted to use one say the power cable
and it almost fits no see it's pulling
it out of this
one oh that will actually be doable I think
okay my hold down actually can go on any
orientation that I want which is
nice so the only ones that are really going to be hard is
audio okay so Rad's on remember the fan has to be here the
power suppes
here we're going to cover up a fair number of the connectors on the power
supply but we still need a
fan okay so the 24 pin is going this
way okay so we don't need to do the ghetto mon yeah yeah wow okay I think it
can make it all right then let's get the power supply out here and try to more properly Mount some stuff yeah if I can
find something threaded correctly that I can just screw into the back plate do
you think you have anything like that I have no idea
okay so here's the random screw we
found in a bin yes it totally works do you have
four no but it doesn't matter all the rest are fine good call I think cooling
is going to be a a trick in a system like this let's put on some nice fresh
uh fresh goop a
wow okay oh where' the map
go uh save cables I can't find the
washer we just use a nut in each
corner and that can go all the way down
now oh there's two other side of ports if they're easy yep okay front
audio um hard drive LED is bottom left power LED is top left okay cool okay so
that's ready now we're graphics card oh oh this is going the wrong way why
because there's no Grill that's
good you know what I'm actually going to put all four in it's probably not a bad
idea yeah so let me get this in real
quick it's not great but like there's
this but I think it's going work it's not going to Kink exactly okay you know
we're going to discover something the whole thing apart right wait are you're
going in backwards no derp there we go good call
I was not paying attention to the power at all just looking at the cables that I
am not privy too and it's Fantastical
not a small power spy at
all try some
more uh um that doesn't work two D I
think we should do two drives can they fit on the top of the power supply there
might just be a little bulge there might be a little bulge but we're doing it
yeah let's just do it vro wait uh oh that is going to add additional
thickness a lot of it you know what um my super low profile double-sided tape
strips that I collected a bazillion years ago so we'll go just like
that oh I'm happy we have these cables
yeah they shouldn't affect air flow at all in actually any of the places nope
there that's pretty clean I like braided it could we bring these further back and
make it work okay these ones right
y well I don't yeah there we go thing
you were coming up with by the
people I have to try and get this front panel in
somehow why wouldn't go on uh no I just I have to get all the wires like in
there as opposed to to around the edges there you go there's screws that
that front panel needs to got it what an
impressive little case better than either of our computers
and like less than a fifth of the size of
either of our computers we're done that was fun and it
and like despite the incredible amount of things that we oh no no that's from
me popping out the things a little bit yeah it's going to have a little bit of
Bulge on the top but it's not bad it's not very noticeable and considering how
much Hardware is in here I don't know if
Silverstone could have made it any more
dense it's basically like I love the case I don't mean this in a bad way but
it's basically a frame yeah it's a shoe
box and it's it's a it's a nicely logically laid out frame but it's yeah
it's a shoe box with holes and uh we filled those holes yeah so now all
that's is to find out does it actually work so
uh what all I mean what else should we test we got to throw we got to find out power consumption yeah we'll do power
consumption we'll do a bunch of games I'll throw some synthetics at the CPU
cuz that's fun we got to see temps on on everything just know I mean it should be
fine like if you guys look it's intake on the side for the graphics card
exhaust right out the rear with some supplementary exhaust at the top here
right there spot thermal testing fig out where some
zones are the entire front of the case is mesh so that's going to take care of
cooling your CPU which is going to be liquid cooled and then the power supply
itself is going to take heat away from the motherboard area and push it out the
back we should actually have reasonably balanced airf flow I'm really curious to
see just how loud this sucker is as well
yeah I don't think it's going to be that loud if we were smarter we wouldn't have
had to put ssds on the top an m.2 SSD would have made a lot of and then we
just we could have also there's enough space here that we might have even been able to just stack them right there
right on the side instead of them being on the top what what I think it looks
really cool it looks cool on the top yeah so uh yeah well here you go all
right wow that weighs a lot more than you
expect performance time all right so let's start with thermals as that's
always an important question with a small powerful contained system like
this one I mean loads of people buy full tower cases just for the juicy airflow
and we have a lot of power under the hood including a Titan X which is a hot
running card the Titan X performed pretty much just as expected in terms of
thermals which was really hot the titanex is normally quite hot and not
much changed here to be completely honest as it was able to breathe fairly
easily through the side of the case but the CPU on the other hand was a little
more surprising yeah we already knew it was pretty low temperature running
processor but it really didn't have the card stacked in its favor over clocked a
bit and with next to no air to breathe due to the confined space the fact that
it went under a full-size power supply and cables running freaking everywhere
Etc I honestly wasn't expecting much but it pulled through at a very low
temperature underload which was damn impressive and made me believe in this
setup just that much more speaking of overclocks our Titan X had its core
cranked up to about 1375 which is about the same as we had
it when we reviewed it if you want to see our actual review of this card click
here the processor had a base clock increase of 3 MHz and no voltage
increases across the board this little black box of awesome crushed our 4K
gaming benchmarks for Crisis 3 BioShock Infinite and Grand Theft Auto 5 running
all of them without a hitch and getting well over 60 frames per second despite
the 4K setting and never having any of the presets below High pretty badass for
a machine that you could easily fit in a backpack but this didn't really Flex the
muscles of the CPU I mean even has to
try the CPU's utilization throughout these tests was pretty crazy low so
let's take it for a spin first up we've got cinebench R15 a good standard for
CPU benchmarks and as always I'd like to give a shout out to the awesome cine
bench community on the alliance Tech tips Forum our 36 thread Powerhouse was
very fun to watch as I've never seen that many little yellow squares racing
around the picture anyways as expected it crushed but it wasn't done there W
prime a multi-threaded benchmark that calculate super crazy numbers that take
a long time to calculate the idea here was to show the difference between the
ever popular four thread CPU and a 36
thread Insanity CPU so I set W Prime to
four threads and 36 threads obviously the 36 thread processor smashed Through
The Benchmark and I know you're probably not going to be sitting there all day
trying to calculate crazy numbers with your processor so it probably doesn't
matter to you unless your name is wher 99 or happen to be a member of the best
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