this is the Corsair one and even though i'm usually more
shall we say into custom-built systems
pre-built or not this is an impressively stout piece of kit given its size
cooling and noise level so much so that it's something that i've
always wanted to replicate with a custom built pc
and today might be the day behind me is the loc
raw s1 it's not exactly a Corsair one
for instance it relies on air cooling rather than aio liquid coolers and it's
actually just a case that you can fill with whatever hardware you want
but it's apparently got the kahunas to
fit full fat top of the line gear and today we're
going to do pretty much exactly that 5900x 3080 this tiny package
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i am really excited to see this honestly for how good the Corsair one looks and
for how well it works i'm surprised it's taken this long for someone to make a
Corsair one alight
now how close did they get in terms of the size though because that's what
Corsair did that's pretty freaking magic
wow darn close almost as though their
engineers set out with the target of building something the size of the
Corsair one whatever resemblance they bear to each other externally though
these are very different products make no mistake the Corsair one even though
Corsair is a case manufacturer is not
available as a case and a big part of the reason for that is that it is not
very user friendly to build in so even though loki i've been told it's
pronounced did go and build something that obviously achieves a very similar
form factor whether or not they manage to make it user-friendly is an entirely
separate matter i will say this much it definitely doesn't have the
fit and finish of the Corsair one but the corser one's also really expensive
also doesn't have the i o of the Corsair one you got your front usb 3 you got
your front HDMI for that vr revolution that's definitely about to happen
be nice david whereas on the low key there's just a power button in the front
and then you've got two usb type cs only one of which is actually connected to
anything and they're at the back wait a minute where the hell is my motherboard
oh it's one of those it's on the bottom
that worked great i fixed it being the sponsor today and uh
loki making a case that you need a torx to open
thank you for that in fairness loki does include this so that you can open the
torx screws but like it would be better to just have
a phillips head like every other computer case on the face of the planet
so it's 329 but it comes with a gen 4
riser which means you can run your gen 4 graphics card at full speed which is
anywhere from a 60 to a 90 value
so it's still pretty expensive but these
small run small form factor cases are often priced
higher than you might think this is pretty cool the reason you've got these
clips here is that this is actually a modular i o system you could also
replace your power button i mean at least if something broke you can
you can replace it like as long as the power button isn't like glued oh there
we go i'm happy all right
got a nice orange accent are you guys sucking up jokes about infinite FPS
aside this thing is freaking sweet so it
uses a high temp extruded jacket with a twin ax shielding silver plated solid
copper conductors inside that as a complete package can apparently exceed
the pci express gen 4 spec never mind meet it i like the high temp resistance
because we're going to put an rtx 3080 in here so
i'm going to need that nice and low profile too that's really nice enough
about that though let's meet the rest of our components starting with the rg
strix x570i gaming now this isn't technically speaking the flagship small
form factor board in ASUS's lineup for socket am4 but the reason we went with
it is that the crosshair 8 impact is actually dtx or like a longer version of
itx so it's about this much longer which in a case like this as you can plainly
see would not freaking fit of course being
an enthusiast board with an 8 plus 2 phase not to mention surprisingly
well-cooled power delivery and support for pci express gen four we wanted to
take full advantage of that with an AMD ryzen 9 5900x
12 freaking course 24 freaking threads basically the best performance for
gaming on the market and assuming you can get one at msrp it's more than a
hundred dollars cheaper than Intel's 12 core 10920x
but then again Intel has yet to release an 11th gen extreme edition are they
even gonna bother at this point i don't know
i don't know it's a little awkward for RAM we've gone with a relatively unusual
choice for us a lot of the time we like to go you know RGB blinged out all over
the place but instead we've gone with Corsair's lpx 3600 megahertz cl 16 in a
2 by 16 gig configuration and the reason
for that is the lp in lpx stands for low
profile this way we get all the speed that we need without compromising on
clearance for our CPU cooler this is the nhl 12s this is knocked to a solution
for people who need a slim cooler that can fit in a really low profile case but
still want that big chungus cooling performance so it uses a slim version of
their popular nfa series fan and then this is interesting by default it
actually comes with the fan configured to take air from around the CPU socket
and blow it up which on many of these types of cases is typically intended to
be used as an exhaust but for us we're actually going to turn it around so
it'll act as an intake for the case but not yet first we actually need to remove
a couple of pieces of the motherboard it's all minor stuff just this little
cosmetic fascia piece right here and that should be good enough now
unfortunately loki didn't release it in time for us to request parts for this
video but fortunately for you they actually did a grand CPU cooler test for
this case and it turns out the Noctua l12 ghost s1 edition was actually made
for one of their other cases is the best cooler for this case as well and the
main difference with that one is that it's a little bit shorter and then uses
a 92 millimeter on the bottom and then you can add a slim 120 millimeter to the
top so you get that push pull action but this one is still
pretty darn good so we're not too worried about it let's get some thermal
compound on here so is your b is your new place's backyard big hold on we're
video making just a sec we're just like chit chatting here i
bought a new place so Jake's like hey you know when koben's done we could like
we could all have like a backyard barbecue there and yes i'm super down we
could totally do that for our christmas party we haven't had our christmas party
yet we might be able to do it like august it'll be my birthday christmas party what are you turning
42. let's get our fan in here
there we go now you might be wondering well gee Linus if it performs better if
you have another slim on the top why don't you just do that okay we thought of that unfortunately
because of how low profile the case is you can't fit another one now let's
throw in our SSD just like the rest of the system we've gone pci express gen 4
here with severance rocket 4 plus
wait a minute this isn't the qlc one is it no this is the like ball or fast one
yeah that's the one that has the new controller oh sick it's fully capable of
saturating a gen 4 link and because it uses high quality nand and a newer
controller it's going to perform well in basically any situation wow i didn't
even notice the second fan down here for the chipset what the hell i love it yeah
it's a super cool board our weird motherboard screws they're like super
long even though the standoffs are kind of a normal length but they go deep yeah
it works fine and that's it
like that's how much space you got ladies and gentlemen it's freaking tight
of course since Corsair makes basically everything even when you don't buy their
system they still find a way to get you we're using a Corsair sf750 power supply
it's 80 plus platinum certified it's fully modular it's
super small at 750 watts did i mention
that already we're gonna go ahead and pop this bad boy right about
yeah Jake informs me that i put the power supply in too early because my
exhaust fan goes here and that i will have to take the power supply out in
order to install it i reject his reality and i substitute my own so i'm going to
take this bracket off
and try to mount the fan and put it back in you gotta have fun you build enough
computers you gotta find your own you know new challenges um yeah this puppy
can probably go back here oh i like that actually so the way the power supply is
mounted it goes right up against the side which means it's a little easier for it to grab that nice fresh air and
it gives you some space behind the power supply to stash these cables the bad
news is i'm gonna have a real hard time accessing the front panel connectors you
know for the power switch power led hard drive led reset switch the good news is
there's only a power switch there's literally not even a power led on the
case so let's go ahead and see if we can get this in here just got
to kind of give it a little bendy bend and then i just realized i was thinking
where's the front panel usb 3 right like we have a front panel connector
no no no no this cable just plugs into the back your motherboard if you have a
type c and then it's a pass-through that's
not amazing now let's find out if i can install this fan on this thing and then
somehow it feels like one of those like brain teaser things wait which
goes on first this way
is it set up as an exhaust did you do that properly i don't know are you
exhausted yet no i can handle a little more
wait crap did i put this on the right way yeah i did oh jesus not bad eh
graphics card time sure as for why we went with an rtx 3080 tough from ASUS
loki has a list of cards that fit this 3080 and actually the tough 39d fit
oh i'm sorry did you want more of a story there if it fits it sits
is that good enough okay but in all seriousness the reason
we went 3080 was because we were trying to match the spec of the Corsair one
that actually was just released with ryzen 5th gen and an rtx 3080 as the top
spec you know what's kind of crazy about this thing
while the build quality is just
not up to par with the Corsair one the ease of use
great this was such an easy build for a
small form factor right yeah i love it they did just a bang-up job of
it i mean even this this weird little like thumbnail thing
down here that i was trying to figure out earlier i was like oh what the heck is this thing for
check this out so you just slide the card into the pci express slot and there
it goes tighten this down boom your card's sort of held in place
that's awesome all right my pants walking home one time
i'm just gonna go ahead and plug this in we've gotten a little off topic here we
got to turn on the power supply now because once the case is slid over here
we're not going to have access to that button anymore and that's it that's the computer that's
dense look at this it's like this feels like a sci-fi movie or some
crap it's like you gotta pull it out and you gotta
and put it in this way and then
of course we gotta take a look at the thermals before we declare this thing of
victory here because while the case does have a pretty
similar amount of speed holes compared to the Corsair one it kind of seems like
there's more aluminum left
and it's air-cooled so let's give it a shot here so i guess it
goes in this way because that's the power button there yep and there's like rails and
slides um um
um oh wow i nailed that and then just be careful of
and it's not just easy to build
it's easy to build without it being just like impossible to have the cable
sticking into the frame oh my god oh is the power button a
little okay so there are some um quality of
life improvements they could make i guess it just rested the weight of the
entire computer on the power button yeah and look how well it
oh no it's good it's good i think it's good okay so we'll plug that in there
until here i'm showing you the ingenious
front i o system
good price try the other side in there okay we're good there's our super good
ease of use uh front io access
there you go i mean it doesn't look bad from the back we've
seen cases like this before i mean back silverstone's first raven had the
motherboard rotated 90 degrees and he plugged everything in on the top and it went down a thing and out the back so i
mean it's all right i think the color could be a little bit
better in terms of you know look on the desk compared to the Corsair one
but full marks full marks ease of use if we hadn't just been like bullying around
for the last three hours we could have been done this in i don't
know what 45 minutes yeah like it's a pretty easy build if
you had everything mounted to the motherboard you would be done in like five minutes if you really tried i can't
tell if it's on or not yet do you break it or something let me just tilt this
down on my you know nice soft place to rest at lttstore.com
suffocate the GPU a little bit ah oh there's your problem
i know how to build a computer well i did this isn't building a computer this
is plugging in the display connector to a computer here we go ladies and
gentlemen 32 gigs RAM CPU is picked up
SSD's picked up great news let's just go ahead and set the docp 3600 megahertz
firing up our game now one key difference between the low-key raw s1
and the Corsair one that we're kind of sort of comparing it to
is the airflow path so with the Corsair
you're drawing everything in these two radiators on the side okay and then it
all goes up the top kind of probably maybe inspired by the trashcan mac pro
with the raw s1 it's a totally different airflow path because the top is actually
mostly enclosed so you've got these open sides so your
graphics card pulls in this nice fresh air from outside mostly because it's
kind of kicking that hot air around inside and it's going to intermingle a
little bit and then over on the other side we're using our CPU and our power
supply as an intake and then we've got this single Noctua fan exhausting out
the back so i'm expecting a lot of heat to come out here and that could be a bit
of a cooling bottleneck for us is it getting louder ah it's not bad at all
actually oh i suck change out tunes i suck i suck
insufficient fuel wait what just happened you might have to wait a little
bit does it it recharges oh does it do
there we go yeah change up the first one
coach david coach david's helping me out
i thought i got it i'll make a curse you oh no i'm in trouble now come on come on
come on nice nice we are maxed out
at 78 degrees 79 just just over 80 on our
hottest ccd CPU reported temperatures are just over 80. that is extremely
respectable for a game that runs at such a high FPS like do maternal as for our
GPU wow not bad 87 tops for our hot spot
that's super respectable memory up around 90. dang damn it's not even crazy
loud oh it's warm though
wow that exhaust is
as anticipated pretty toasty but other
than the kind of green color i think i'd love to see some different editions of
this case in different finishes and different colors i think this thing's a
win so easy to build though yeah like nothing else quite like it it's a great
job loki and great job me for telling
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LTT if you guys enjoyed this video and you're looking for the polar opposite of
an easy small form factor build maybe check out i don't know you could check
out andy's uh Intel extreme tech upgrade
uh that that was something else or you can check out that crazy water cool
build that Jake did like a thousand years ago i was sick build that was sick
build i know i know that one it had titan rtx