if you've only ever watched our last couple of videos on the subject i'd forgive you for getting a bad impression
of small form factor computers you might think oh man they look like an absolute
nightmare to build and if i want to get anywhere near decent cooling performance
i'm gonna have to go water cooling but that is not actually the case
meet the jolt
not to be confused with the goat it's not the greatest of all time it's just
the jack of all trades yeah
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for starters a little bit of information about the joke it's made by a company
called spy Labs it's not that small at
about 14 liters and it arrives flat pack
with some assembly required but you guys probably figured that out by
now a couple of other things that stand out about it compared to other boutique
small form factor cases are its compatibility with extremely large CPU
coolers like the nhp1 passive CPU cooler
as well as its affordable price it can be configured for anywhere from around
125 to 150 dollars here's an instruction manual let's
see how good this is neat
this is going to take a minute did i say this was going to be easy yes
did i lie maybe based on the fact that i'm 30 seconds in
it i've already needed two kind of unusual tools i was going to criticize
them for user friendliness but they actually include the allen keys that you
need so that's not too bad the only one is the socket to put the standoff in and
that would be true of almost any computer case it can be a little tough to get those in there you can also
tighten them up with a pair of needle nose pliers not everyone's gonna appreciate this
kind of aesthetic with you know big socket head screws hanging off of panels
and stuff like that but personally i've always been partial to it so
i'm kind of liking the look of it so far in four minutes we've gotten three
panels together we've got the power button installed now so it's a simple
uh there you go vandal resistant switch right there a little something like that
and i've managed to find a defective screw
whoops hopefully that doesn't screw us over
what the hell is this did they include this in the box
wait what the is this is this actually like ac mains power
that is just electrical taped it
did did we order this or did they is this a review unit or what
uh good lord is this something they're
actually shipping to real customers
alex don't know
why did they include the chopped off one
this raises so many questions
yeah i mean they're all shrink wrapped
but if you do not have like familiarity
with this kind of stuff um
that's a big that's like an you could easily hurt yourself i mean
steve from gamersnexus wanted nzxt to recall their case over the possibility
that they could have something almost this sketchy if the user modified it
this came out of the box but just to clarify the sketchy cable
you're supposed to get this one right here but of course it's 20 21 and those
are all sold out in the meantime spy Labs will send you a normal power cable
which is why we have this guy right here and you can modify
it yourself into the sketchy thing that we had which will allow you to fit a
large air cooler it's not an ideal solution but it does mean when this case
arrives to you it's technically csa approved marveling at that for a full
minute set us behind a little bit but now i'm ready to put the usb type-c
front panel connector on there you go
not gonna lie alex i'm sketched out
okay i guess we're gonna have to settle for it sticking off a little bit
this one's not tapped properly either you can see the threads only go in halfway
does it say what these are yeah they're on four and four all right i'll go get
an import out okay all right thanks this is kind of clever though they've got
these little plastic spacers on the rubber feet so that on the two that have
a screw right next to them there's no interference
our smallest metric tap is m6 alex can
we get an m4 tap on order please yep
damn it my impress level keeps shrinking here
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
where the intention today was to do a
nice easy normal build without any
random tools being required here we go
oh i think we just scratched it it's one of the dumbest things i've done
today they glued the damn screw in for the GPU
mount
look they have thread locker on it there that's how the GPU mount goes on all
right why is there a rear i o type c thing
in case you don't want to put it on the front there were some challenges but the
good news is that 32 minutes later
we're ready to build oh interesting i just noticed there's an alternate
location for the power button you can also put it here now the keynote among
you will probably have noticed that we went what appears to be completely
overboard with our power supply this is an 850 watt sfx power supply from cooler
master but there is a reason for it small form factor power supplies
generally have much less capacitance than full-size models and what that
means is that if you have any components with high transient loads like say for
example rtx graphics cards which is to say they'll suddenly pull a very large
amount of current and then kind of ease off you can end up blowing these things
up if you don't over respect them even though theoretically they should have
been fine okay well how's the power supply bracket figure
into all this there's no instructions to install the power supply bracket
this is the worst
wait what the hell i just found another spot for the usbc you can also put your
USB-C on the bottom
why is this the top panel did i do this wrong i don't get it
i'm sure someone on reddit was like
put it here and then they were like oh yeah sure we can just put another hole in it that's
legitimately probably how that story goes yeah yeah yeah yeah here we go i got
this so this
goes through the spacer and then into the power supply unit
okay let's plug this in first uh oh that's a good idea i mean
well it's an idea i don't know if plugging this into anything is a good
idea look they've got a space here for the cable to come out
but then they give you a cable that goes this way maybe
also these screws are rusting already the about page on their website says at
spy Labs we are all about function over form never thought elegance mattered
that much to me and then i got rusty
mismatched screws right on the top of my case and i
changed my mind while the power supply is in for better or for worse let's put
the motherboard in i mean whatever i don't think there's any rules
we've gone with an ASUS b550i
yeah it's not quite as balls to the wall as the x570 variant but it's more
affordable and since we're not overclocking it does everything we need
it to do one key feature it has is usb BIOS flashback which for the CPU that
we're using is actually a critical feature since it doesn't support it out
of the box and that CPU we've gone with is the ryzen 5 5600x the theme of the build
today is jack of all trades right and this will do it all for under 300 it's
got six cores it turbos up high enough that it is among the fastest gaming cpus
on the market and it consumes just 65
watts meaning the system is going to be nice and quiet in spite of its small
stature on the subject of cooling the order of operations here is going to
make our build either a lot easier or a lot more difficult so we want to
get our cooler prepared that is get the mounting hardware installed on the
motherboard we want to plug in our 8-pin
eps connector a little something like that
then we're going to install the motherboard and bolt on the cooler
what's frustrating about this one is that compared to the last couple of
nightmare small form factor builds that i've done this one all the challenges feel
unnecessary when i know something's going to be hard i'm mentally prepared
for it when a screw just has the head filled in and
i can't get my screwdriver in it that's
not a good time the reason we ended up with a SATA SSD in our jack of all
trades build is because well simply put we wanted two terabytes
of capacity so that we can put lots of games on our machine and it was
substantially cheaper than going with a two terabyte m.2 which isn't to say we
don't want to boot from m.2 so we went with a separate 500 gig drive
which cost us 80 bucks it's only pci express gen 3 but crucial's p5 has ample
performance for anything that we could want to do in a gaming rig
outside of maybe us needing an upgrade to a gen 4 drive when microsoft direct
storage shows up that is if it makes a difference to performance for usb 3
there's not really enough slack to do anything other than
plug it in like that unfortunately and for RAM
we went with 3200 megahertz cl 16 ballistics from crucial and we went 32
gigs because back to the theme of the system jack of all trades yeah you can
get away with 16 gigs for gaming but it's nice to be able to be a
jack of all trades ass and just leave all your chrome tabs open
and all your background tasks running while you're gaming and for that you can
actually exceed 16 gigs these days so we were like ah we're lazy we're putting in
32 gigs you don't have to though
i love these uh love these
relish mustard ketchup and then whatever you'd put on a hot dog that's blue
colored cables here well if we're going to have funky colored cables i'm
embracing it let's go with a purple SATA cable
this is not what was included with the motherboard i'm just having some fun now
now it's time for the chungus
oh that power uh yes we should do that first
oh balls this has to go in from the other
side and it's fixed
i could really like touch that that mains exposed mains power from here i do
like fireworks the only thing katy perry and i have in common we're both a
firework now that i have this case alex how sure are you that this thing is
going to close this looks extremely
borderline sure go for it
oh my god that's really really good okay yeah fine i've apparently gone with a
founder's edition card the founders edition cards are a great choice for a
build like this because they take all of their air from the bottom and push it
all out the top and that's exactly how the natural convection of this case is
going to work so we do have a problem though with the
back plate we have an interference issue with our ginormous cooler
oh okay we did get a non-back plated card in there see
that'll go in but the back of the card is actually
touching the cooler which is terrible because that's going to mean
that we're going to ShortCircuit the back of the card definitely destroy it
at some point we could jam some electrical tape in there just put it
along the back of the card we could install it but it wouldn't be ideal anyway because
uh once we put a larger card in here it's gonna cover most of the bottom part
of a passive convection-based cooler which means that it's not going to get
airflow that it's expecting and it's not going to perform like we would want it
to so we're going to pull this out and we're going to swap it out for an
hd15 thanks alex
you know what it's probably just as well the p1 didn't fit because for its price
it's really not that practical this is really tight now i got to get
this fan clip on for an october i'm sure they're watching this going uh what is
he doing got that clip on given that it is right up against the top panel that
was really tricky but the cooler's on now which means we are ready to put our
originally planned 3060 ti GPU so this
was chosen because there we go it's a good card and it's
fast but without being at a completely ridiculous price
there's a little clippy doodle to hold it in the right spot
um these screws don't really fit through here i mean this is
not surprising to me at this point there we go this is crazy
this bolt has a lock washer a regular washer and then the nut that they're
using is a lock nut with like that uh
plastic material nylock there you go thanks they really do not want your GPU
going anywhere i mean given how much you must have paid for it these days i guess
i get it there we go uh we can i don't
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
sick little machine though let's get it closed up i'm gonna go like that
oh my god this one's not threaded all the way in again any screws a
self-tapper if you press hard enough let's go ahead and fire this up you know
now that the paint is over it only really took an hour and a half
to build i um
would like for it to turn on though okay i installed the front panel
connectors on a usb header here's a little tech tip for you
when it's really really hard to get at the front panel connectors and you're
not going to be able to put them all on individually you just put a little
strip of tape across them there
now they're all one header okay i think we got it
i feel like i shouldn't be putting this on yet but i'm going to do it anyway the
only things we really need to change in here are to enable docp so that's going
to put our memory at its like overclocked faster speed
and if we were installing Windows 11 we're obviously going to have to tweak
our tpm as well as our secure boot settings but we're not so we're not
going to worry about that you know oh you know what you said this cooler master power supply didn't have a silent
mode it does the fan's off and then the GPU
has a fanless mode i believe it's not balanced right now though
they're spinning too but where they're quiet this is freaking awesome
i do like the look am i weird
is it weird that i think this looks cool i mean obviously you're not going to get
a lot of dust filtration going on
that's true you wouldn't even have to take off the side panel just
of course the real question is
can it run crisis i'm cheating a little we're using dlss but that's not really
cheating that's a feature of this GPU the total cost for this build is around
seventeen hundred and fifty dollars which is not cheap by any stretch of the
imagination but when you consider that this does basically
everything that a top of the line gaming machine would do
is darn near silent we're running crisis
remastered at 1440p very high at around 60 FPS not much to
complain about is there i guess it makes sense that the GPU is given completely
unrestricted access to fresh air and
just goes right out of the case the fans don't have to ramp up as much
it's kind of like running your system as like an open air test bench
of course we want to know the worst case scenario so i'm firing up eight threads
of small ffts in prime95 here we're gonna hit that CPU a little bit harder
we're gonna get back into crisis and we are monitoring our temps with hardware
info in the background we're also screen recording um so this
is this is pretty brutal
in fact this is too brutal you can see that our GPU is only about 60 utilized
because we don't have enough CPU resources left let's run a few fewer threats
yeah this poor GPU does not get
does not get the data's it needs while we're running prime95 in the background
so this is basically the worst case scenario for what we could do with an
actual game and this thing is
almost completely silent holding it up to my microphones
that's incredible our maximum temp on the CPU hit about 65 degrees
yeah not too shabby and our GPU managed yeah 82
but it's also turboing up pretty darn nice
for us around 2 gigahertz on a 30 60 ti
the build quality of the case might have been a little bit poop but overall i
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