what's interesting about today's build is not just that it's among the fastest
that money can buy or that it's all AMD
CPU and GPU but also that it manages to
use among the largest CPU coolers on the
market a full-sized atx motherboard and
yet the whole case the whole packaging for
the case is only this big
meet the lien lee 011 dynamic mini the tiny
case that can fit almost anything inside
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given then that the main focus of this build is in fact the case i'm just going
to go ahead and clear all this other stuff off the table
we've got an installation guide you might actually want to check out their
video installation guide as well because it can be a little bit tricky a whack
ton of brackets we've got one for extending the motherboard tray spacing
out the back panel pump mount or something more brackets
that wasn't enough brackets already screws cable ties and all of
that good stuff as we'd expect from liam lee the case is made predominantly out
of aluminium so you can see got my little
magnet here doesn't stick and it being 2020 it uses tempered glass panels in
both the front and side of course that
doesn't mean that they've skimped on airflow was built in collaboration with
renowned overclocker der bauer and leanly advertises
adequate airflow and i tend to believe them
they've got fan mounts over here they've got the ability to mount fans in the top
in the bottom you can basically fill this thing with fans and or radiators
depending on how much other hardware you want to stuff inside it the biggest
reconfigurable portion of the case and this is really innovative is the back
panel so you can see out of the box it's designed to take a full sized atx
motherboard that is freaking cool given the size of
it i mean this the whole case is barely as tall as an atx motherboard but
of course that's going to come with some compromises if you do that you're not
going to be able to easily fit a radiator in the top for example so if
you don't like that option you want to go up let's say m80x you can go ahead
pop these out pop a spacer in here move the whole thing down and now you've got
a ton of clearance at the top for going water cooling so cool look at that we've
got these ferrous metal strips on either side of these perforations that allows
you to mount a magnetic fan filter or if you really wanted to an RGB strip we
won't be using it but despite its diminutive size the case does allow
three and a half inch hard drives to be installed and what's more
they're actually accessible via this cover at the back this is one
of the really nice things about these cube style cases is once you get all the
panels off of them holy smokes do you ever have a ton of
room to work ah
oh that's what happens you got a big nose it could get a little whacked there
when you drop some this is a motherboard tray expansion it's configured by
default for a mini itx motherboard with the assumption that you're gonna fill it
with hardline water cooling hardware or something along those lines but we are
going for as many expansion slots as we
can one of the nice things is that lee and lee considered not just the radiator
element of water cooling but also where to mount the pump and they included a
modular pump bracket a plus good job guys
now before we start installing the rest of the components i want to talk about
the last thing that allows this case to be so compact without compromising
expansion and that's the fact that it takes an sfxl power supply i
am a big fan of these power supplies
they are just as small in the x and y dimension as an sfx power supply but
they're slightly deeper which allows them to take a 120 millimeter fan now
it's still a slim 120 millimeter fan meaning it's not as quiet as a thicker
one because it just can't generate enough static pressure unless it spins
faster but it is a great compromise between sfx and atx and you
can get them in like crazy configurations now look at this this is
an 800 watt fully modular power supply
that's this skinny so that
is what keeps the thickness of the case down slash allows it to have nice tall
graphics cards like you could probably put an rtx 3090 in this thing
if you could find one enough case talk let's move on to the
meat and potatoes you don't have to spend a ton of money to get a fully
featured x570 board that's going to allow you to get the most out of your
ryzen 5000 CPU this one here has four memory slots decent vrm for overclocking
usb 3.1 front panel support it's got two
m.2 slots that both run at pci express gen 4 speeds and it even has support for
NVIDIA sli and crossfire for our CPU we've gone with the sensible but still
very high-end ryzen 9 5900x this is the only one in our entire
office so as soon as i'm done with this build i will be promptly taking it back
apart and giving it back to Anthony so that he can use it on his GPU test bench
for RAM we've gone full bore this is 64 gigs of g skill trident z neo 3600
megahertz cl 16 so that's about as high
as you're going to go before you start getting into pretty darn pricey dram
now as for whether you want to go four sticks or two sticks
if you're going for absolute maximum speeds yeah
two sticks is what you want but this is more of a like
kitted out machine so we're going for capacity
now we can take care of m.2 storage of course we've gone with the ever fancy
rocket NVMe 4.0 this is a two terabyte model from
sabrin's and it comes with a gigantic heatsink
the assembly process for this guy is pretty straightforward you just peel the
thermal tape at the bottom put this puppy right here this is if you
have a double-sided drive like the one that we have so that is there's uh flash
chips on the other side got to keep those not cool but cool enough then
there's already a pre-applied thermal pad on the bottom of the heatsink
so we just take that plonk it on top
then we pop the m.2 into the slot and
it's a little tricky with that heat pipe in the way i installed it backwards
oh man see there's three heat pipes on this side
and two on this side so it's easier to screw it in now because i don't feel
like putting an os on the you know drive we're using for the build
i'm just going to chuck my test bench drive down here
you never saw anything uh
it's gen 3 oh no boo hiss
time to put a heat sink on this puppy
now you're probably thinking gee Linus an nhd15 chromax black
really in that compact case
and i would reply yes weren't you paying attention before
here's a really important tech tip if you have a heat sink that doesn't use
the original mounting bracket please please keep it safe you'll need
it if you ever are made your motherboard or if you change out your cooler to one
that does use it so we're only using the back plate which means i'm going to put
the rest of this into the box
hi oh that is some good cat but butthole b-roll there he's
happy that you're upset i put too much on i'm only installing one of the fans
here that is purely for looks no other
reason you can also save a buck and get the s version of this heatsink that only
comes with the one fan now we just gotta plug in the fan
now it's time for the moment of truth where we make sure that all this stuff
actually fits the standoffs for the motherboard expansion piece are
pre-installed so you don't even have to deal with that that is sweet
not bad at all okay while my intention was to use 120 millimeter fans the ones
Jake sent me appear to be the ones that were on the roof of the old office as
part of whole room water cooling so they're absolutely filthy
i guess we're going with 140 mils so we can fit two of them as intakes
over here those will also dryer over the power supply and the hard drives and
then two of them and i guess i'll go intakes for those as well down here on
the bottom we do have two more mounts at the top
and these feet are super clever they've got another slot on them over here for
the fan filter to slide in i love it
oops there's definitely a little bit of trickiness getting at the cable
management at the back until
hopefully this is it anyway we removed this two and a half inch
drive mount there we go
it seems like the 24 pin on this silverstone power supply has a second
four pin coming off of it that looks to be like uh for the
secondary CPU power connector
i guess i'll just try it um there's a separate eight pin that's gonna provide
most of the power for the CPU anyway so i'm not worried that it's gonna break
anything mostly it's just a really weird thing to do why
break the standard in that manner
okay this is where the build gets
disorganized i can't have the fan cables up here kind of bent a certain way and
get a 140 ml fan in here but we did get
it in now finally after much waiting and cable management
it's time for the graphics card we've gone with a 6800 xt kind of the second
down from the top of the line to match our CPU making this not a bang for the
buck machine by any stretch of the imagination but
an extreme performance machine without spending
way too much for only a small additional
performance gain this is actually my first hands-on with
an asrock graphics card they became an AMD board partner i want to say a couple
of years ago my goodness this thing is an absolute
monster isn't it HDMI 2.1 dual display
ports usb type c three cooling fans if
it was me i might have just put a bigger cooling fan in the middle
rather than this kind of decorative
fascia piece here but it's not up to me and look at that they've actually got a
built-in switch so you can turn the leds on and off naturally we'll be leaving
the leds on because we want the full performance of this card and everyone
knows you need RGB for that pci express
gen 4 here we go ladies and gentlemen
like they're not short enough for it to be tidy to plug them straight into the
same card and they're not long enough to get them out of the way i'm not
impressed with these cables we done
i wasn't kidding when i said that back plate's not as strong as a
one-piece one
there we go you can peel off the plastic too if you'd like
that's the best part ow working on the setup here naturally
got my lttstore.com northern lights mousepad all right i'm finally in game
the system's not loud and all that time spent fan tuning cost me was
missing marquez's birthday didn't even send a tweet and now he's probably
sleeping it also cost me a lot of time you can see it is dark outside so
happy birthday marquez and i'm sorry my children for not spending any time with
but hey the good news is i'm playing do maternal at 4k ultra details at 170 to
200 FPS on all AMD all right i want to
see what kind of temps we get and then we can call it here i'm just going to
beat all these baddies and leave this running in this room so that it'll heat
up or not heat up see how it goes
i'm back this has been running for a couple of hours now so let's go ahead
and tap out seriously hardware info wasn't running this whole time oh for
crying out loud 67 max
dang huh oh hot spot temperature 85 max oh
that's right that's an AMD feature that allows them to take the temperature of
exactly the hottest point of the die and use that to throttle their turboing
behavior our GPU clock uh
minimum just shy of 2.1 gigahertz dang
as for the CPU we maxed out at 82.6 degrees and that's with the fan speeds
locked so not allowing them to ramp up for maximum cooling all in all not a bad
little machine given how small it is and the fact that we stuck with air cooling
i'd be interested to see what we could do with this thing with a water loop now
the power supply doesn't ramp up too bad while it's
going ham freaking love it
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