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if you've only ever watched our last couple of videos on the subject i'd forgive you for getting a bad impression

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of small form factor computers you might think oh man they look like an absolute

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nightmare to build and if i want to get anywhere near decent cooling performance

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i'm gonna have to go water cooling but that is not actually the case

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meet the jolt

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not to be confused with the goat it's not the greatest of all time it's just

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the jack of all trades yeah

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oh that's a good one is that actually their intention oh that's funny

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for starters a little bit of information about the joke it's made by a company

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called spy Labs it's not that small at

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about 14 liters and it arrives flat pack

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with some assembly required but you guys probably figured that out by

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now a couple of other things that stand out about it compared to other boutique

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small form factor cases are its compatibility with extremely large CPU

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coolers like the nhp1 passive CPU cooler

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as well as its affordable price it can be configured for anywhere from around

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125 to 150 dollars here's an instruction manual let's

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see how good this is neat

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this is going to take a minute did i say this was going to be easy yes

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did i lie maybe based on the fact that i'm 30 seconds in

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it i've already needed two kind of unusual tools i was going to criticize

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them for user friendliness but they actually include the allen keys that you

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need so that's not too bad the only one is the socket to put the standoff in and

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that would be true of almost any computer case it can be a little tough to get those in there you can also

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tighten them up with a pair of needle nose pliers not everyone's gonna appreciate this

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kind of aesthetic with you know big socket head screws hanging off of panels

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and stuff like that but personally i've always been partial to it so

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i'm kind of liking the look of it so far in four minutes we've gotten three

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panels together we've got the power button installed now so it's a simple

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uh there you go vandal resistant switch right there a little something like that

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and i've managed to find a defective screw

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whoops hopefully that doesn't screw us over

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what the hell is this did they include this in the box

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wait what the is this is this actually like ac mains power

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that is just electrical taped it

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did did we order this or did they is this a review unit or what

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uh good lord is this something they're

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actually shipping to real customers

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alex don't know

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why did they include the chopped off one

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this raises so many questions

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yeah i mean they're all shrink wrapped

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but if you do not have like familiarity

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with this kind of stuff um

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that's a big that's like an you could easily hurt yourself i mean

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steve from gamersnexus wanted nzxt to recall their case over the possibility

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that they could have something almost this sketchy if the user modified it

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this came out of the box but just to clarify the sketchy cable

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you're supposed to get this one right here but of course it's 20 21 and those

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are all sold out in the meantime spy Labs will send you a normal power cable

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which is why we have this guy right here and you can modify

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it yourself into the sketchy thing that we had which will allow you to fit a

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large air cooler it's not an ideal solution but it does mean when this case

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arrives to you it's technically csa approved marveling at that for a full

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minute set us behind a little bit but now i'm ready to put the usb type-c

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front panel connector on there you go

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not gonna lie alex i'm sketched out

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okay i guess we're gonna have to settle for it sticking off a little bit

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this one's not tapped properly either you can see the threads only go in halfway

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does it say what these are yeah they're on four and four all right i'll go get

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an import out okay all right thanks this is kind of clever though they've got

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these little plastic spacers on the rubber feet so that on the two that have

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a screw right next to them there's no interference

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our smallest metric tap is m6 alex can

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we get an m4 tap on order please yep

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damn it my impress level keeps shrinking here

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i don't think there were extra screws either so i'm going to have to find a way to drive in that defective one

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where the intention today was to do a

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nice easy normal build without any

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random tools being required here we go

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oh i think we just scratched it it's one of the dumbest things i've done

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today they glued the damn screw in for the GPU

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mount

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look they have thread locker on it there that's how the GPU mount goes on all

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right why is there a rear i o type c thing

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in case you don't want to put it on the front there were some challenges but the

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good news is that 32 minutes later

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we're ready to build oh interesting i just noticed there's an alternate

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location for the power button you can also put it here now the keynote among

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you will probably have noticed that we went what appears to be completely

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overboard with our power supply this is an 850 watt sfx power supply from cooler

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master but there is a reason for it small form factor power supplies

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generally have much less capacitance than full-size models and what that

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means is that if you have any components with high transient loads like say for

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example rtx graphics cards which is to say they'll suddenly pull a very large

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amount of current and then kind of ease off you can end up blowing these things

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up if you don't over respect them even though theoretically they should have

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been fine okay well how's the power supply bracket figure

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into all this there's no instructions to install the power supply bracket

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this is the worst

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wait what the hell i just found another spot for the usbc you can also put your

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USB-C on the bottom

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why is this the top panel did i do this wrong i don't get it

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i'm sure someone on reddit was like

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put it here and then they were like oh yeah sure we can just put another hole in it that's

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legitimately probably how that story goes yeah yeah yeah yeah here we go i got

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this so this

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goes through the spacer and then into the power supply unit

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okay let's plug this in first uh oh that's a good idea i mean

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well it's an idea i don't know if plugging this into anything is a good

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idea look they've got a space here for the cable to come out

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but then they give you a cable that goes this way maybe

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also these screws are rusting already the about page on their website says at

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spy Labs we are all about function over form never thought elegance mattered

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that much to me and then i got rusty

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mismatched screws right on the top of my case and i

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changed my mind while the power supply is in for better or for worse let's put

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the motherboard in i mean whatever i don't think there's any rules

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we've gone with an ASUS b550i

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yeah it's not quite as balls to the wall as the x570 variant but it's more

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affordable and since we're not overclocking it does everything we need

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it to do one key feature it has is usb BIOS flashback which for the CPU that

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we're using is actually a critical feature since it doesn't support it out

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of the box and that CPU we've gone with is the ryzen 5 5600x the theme of the build

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today is jack of all trades right and this will do it all for under 300 it's

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got six cores it turbos up high enough that it is among the fastest gaming cpus

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on the market and it consumes just 65

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watts meaning the system is going to be nice and quiet in spite of its small

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stature on the subject of cooling the order of operations here is going to

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make our build either a lot easier or a lot more difficult so we want to

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get our cooler prepared that is get the mounting hardware installed on the

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motherboard we want to plug in our 8-pin

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eps connector a little something like that

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then we're going to install the motherboard and bolt on the cooler

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what's frustrating about this one is that compared to the last couple of

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nightmare small form factor builds that i've done this one all the challenges feel

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unnecessary when i know something's going to be hard i'm mentally prepared

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for it when a screw just has the head filled in and

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i can't get my screwdriver in it that's

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not a good time the reason we ended up with a SATA SSD in our jack of all

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trades build is because well simply put we wanted two terabytes

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of capacity so that we can put lots of games on our machine and it was

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substantially cheaper than going with a two terabyte m.2 which isn't to say we

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don't want to boot from m.2 so we went with a separate 500 gig drive

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which cost us 80 bucks it's only pci express gen 3 but crucial's p5 has ample

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performance for anything that we could want to do in a gaming rig

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outside of maybe us needing an upgrade to a gen 4 drive when microsoft direct

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storage shows up that is if it makes a difference to performance for usb 3

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there's not really enough slack to do anything other than

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plug it in like that unfortunately and for RAM

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we went with 3200 megahertz cl 16 ballistics from crucial and we went 32

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gigs because back to the theme of the system jack of all trades yeah you can

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get away with 16 gigs for gaming but it's nice to be able to be a

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jack of all trades ass and just leave all your chrome tabs open

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and all your background tasks running while you're gaming and for that you can

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actually exceed 16 gigs these days so we were like ah we're lazy we're putting in

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32 gigs you don't have to though

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i love these uh love these

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relish mustard ketchup and then whatever you'd put on a hot dog that's blue

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colored cables here well if we're going to have funky colored cables i'm

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embracing it let's go with a purple SATA cable

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this is not what was included with the motherboard i'm just having some fun now

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now it's time for the chungus

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oh that power uh yes we should do that first

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oh balls this has to go in from the other

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side and it's fixed

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i could really like touch that that mains exposed mains power from here i do

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like fireworks the only thing katy perry and i have in common we're both a

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firework now that i have this case alex how sure are you that this thing is

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going to close this looks extremely

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borderline sure go for it

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oh my god that's really really good okay yeah fine i've apparently gone with a

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founder's edition card the founders edition cards are a great choice for a

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build like this because they take all of their air from the bottom and push it

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all out the top and that's exactly how the natural convection of this case is

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going to work so we do have a problem though with the

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back plate we have an interference issue with our ginormous cooler

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oh okay we did get a non-back plated card in there see

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that'll go in but the back of the card is actually

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touching the cooler which is terrible because that's going to mean

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that we're going to ShortCircuit the back of the card definitely destroy it

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at some point we could jam some electrical tape in there just put it

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along the back of the card we could install it but it wouldn't be ideal anyway because

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uh once we put a larger card in here it's gonna cover most of the bottom part

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of a passive convection-based cooler which means that it's not going to get

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airflow that it's expecting and it's not going to perform like we would want it

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to so we're going to pull this out and we're going to swap it out for an

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hd15 thanks alex

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you know what it's probably just as well the p1 didn't fit because for its price

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it's really not that practical this is really tight now i got to get

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this fan clip on for an october i'm sure they're watching this going uh what is

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he doing got that clip on given that it is right up against the top panel that

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was really tricky but the cooler's on now which means we are ready to put our

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originally planned 3060 ti GPU so this

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was chosen because there we go it's a good card and it's

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fast but without being at a completely ridiculous price

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there's a little clippy doodle to hold it in the right spot

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um these screws don't really fit through here i mean this is

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not surprising to me at this point there we go this is crazy

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this bolt has a lock washer a regular washer and then the nut that they're

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using is a lock nut with like that uh

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plastic material nylock there you go thanks they really do not want your GPU

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going anywhere i mean given how much you must have paid for it these days i guess

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i get it there we go uh we can i don't

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know i mean the cable management of this thing is a nightmare regardless of what we do at this point so that's a pretty

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sick little machine though let's get it closed up i'm gonna go like that

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oh my god this one's not threaded all the way in again any screws a

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self-tapper if you press hard enough let's go ahead and fire this up you know

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now that the paint is over it only really took an hour and a half

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to build i um

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would like for it to turn on though okay i installed the front panel

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connectors on a usb header here's a little tech tip for you

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when it's really really hard to get at the front panel connectors and you're

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not going to be able to put them all on individually you just put a little

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strip of tape across them there

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now they're all one header okay i think we got it

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i feel like i shouldn't be putting this on yet but i'm going to do it anyway the

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only things we really need to change in here are to enable docp so that's going

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to put our memory at its like overclocked faster speed

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and if we were installing Windows 11 we're obviously going to have to tweak

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our tpm as well as our secure boot settings but we're not so we're not

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going to worry about that you know oh you know what you said this cooler master power supply didn't have a silent

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mode it does the fan's off and then the GPU

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has a fanless mode i believe it's not balanced right now though

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they're spinning too but where they're quiet this is freaking awesome

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i do like the look am i weird

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is it weird that i think this looks cool i mean obviously you're not going to get

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a lot of dust filtration going on

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that's true you wouldn't even have to take off the side panel just

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of course the real question is

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can it run crisis i'm cheating a little we're using dlss but that's not really

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cheating that's a feature of this GPU the total cost for this build is around

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seventeen hundred and fifty dollars which is not cheap by any stretch of the

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imagination but when you consider that this does basically

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everything that a top of the line gaming machine would do

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is darn near silent we're running crisis

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remastered at 1440p very high at around 60 FPS not much to

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complain about is there i guess it makes sense that the GPU is given completely

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unrestricted access to fresh air and

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just goes right out of the case the fans don't have to ramp up as much

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it's kind of like running your system as like an open air test bench

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of course we want to know the worst case scenario so i'm firing up eight threads

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of small ffts in prime95 here we're gonna hit that CPU a little bit harder

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we're gonna get back into crisis and we are monitoring our temps with hardware

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info in the background we're also screen recording um so this

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is this is pretty brutal

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in fact this is too brutal you can see that our GPU is only about 60 utilized

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because we don't have enough CPU resources left let's run a few fewer threats

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yeah this poor GPU does not get

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does not get the data's it needs while we're running prime95 in the background

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so this is basically the worst case scenario for what we could do with an

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actual game and this thing is

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almost completely silent holding it up to my microphones

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that's incredible our maximum temp on the CPU hit about 65 degrees

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yeah not too shabby and our GPU managed yeah 82

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but it's also turboing up pretty darn nice

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for us around 2 gigahertz on a 30 60 ti

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the build quality of the case might have been a little bit poop but overall i

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like it just like i like our sponsor thanks to

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sculpted and dropped signature mt3 profile which features scooped keys and

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video and you're looking for more me trying to build small form factor

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