our first sleeper PC we nicknamed Danny Hubert rocked dual GTX 1080s and Intel
Core i 9 processor and hardline liquid
cooling crammed into a pretty old antic case so how do we one-up something like
that haha meet Hubert's brother Dale
sure Dale is a bit smaller and way older
but don't let his outward appearance fool you because this build sponsored by
Intel is about as fast as a gaming PC
can be in 2017
we knew that for a small form-factor sleeper we needed a really unique case
as a starting point and our good friends over at free geek Vancouver were able to
provide just that they have everything there this Morrow designs md3 hails from
1982 making it older than literally
everyone in our office and it has
clearly seen better days with its dual
floppy bass and 8-bit operating system this puppy would have cost about three
thousand dollars back in its day but it hasn't worked in years and even if it
did it is basically useless now cracking
it open other than this massive dust bunny it's really not that bad though
all things considered so with the internals removed it was time to do some
test fitting now unfortunately a full sized high end GPU is just a bit too
long to fit but ZOTAC had exactly the
right medicine this mini GT X 1080 Ti
with a water cooling block so I guess
we'll have to water cool the system now then that's not gonna be easy in such a
small space and we're gonna be limited to a thick single radiator but we're
hoping that that's going to be enough which brings us to the best part of
every mod angle grinding from the factory there's mounting for literally
no modern hardware so all of the cutouts
for i/o and mounting had to be created from scratch for the motherboard here it
was basically a case of cut a bunch out
with the angle grinder then come in with the dremel for a while and finally
finish off with a hand file this one
hole here actually took close to four hours since there was no going back if
we slipped up now in 1982 120 mil fans
for PCs were not a thing at all so we needed a new fan hole with some help
from this cable management tie we cut it out using the cannibal and then at this
stage we also drilled lots of holes for everything to mount on the bottom we
decided to position the GPU above the motherboard this ended up be a bit
tricky because originally we were going to use this 3d printed bracket but it
was really ugly and not in like a cool
vintage way so we opted to very slowly
create mounting points for the backplate and holes for the i/o to fasten it
directly to the back of the chassis instead bringing us to test fit time and
it looks good now for the front of the
floppy drives just to be sure and oh crap oh I guess that interferes with the
radiator no worries though just a little
bit of hole and viggen mint and Dale is off to get a fresh coat of paint but
only on the inside on that topic let's
talk about what's under the hood for the CPU we went with Intel's Core i7
8700 K making dáil as good as it gets
for gaming for our motherboard we chose an ASUS z3 70 I gaming with a Samsung
NVMe SSD underneath this sexy heatsink then to keep the CPU cool we're using an
ek supremacy full nickel block we decided against an acrylic block since
it'll actually have to help hold up the graphics card and also because you won't
be able to see it anyway for our radiator we went with a 120 millimeter
single rad from alpha cool that is a massive 60 millimeters thick and then
for our pump we're using an ek SPC 60
with a built in cylindrical reservoir we went with these super sexy white
fittings and black acrylic tube both provided by bits power for a sleek
monochrome look the first Bend was one
of the hardest since it needs to come around our PCI Express extender and then
make a funky Bend too so we ended up
just making a little steak out of black fittings in hopes that nobody would
notice right here the bending wasn't finished yet though next this 90 degree
from the pump to the res and after that a nice long tube from the GPU back to
the radiator both of which were made the perfect length with a bit of help from
the bench sander now we just need to do a bunch of little touch-ups to make it
perfect like splicing together the led for the drives so they can be attached
to the hard drive header soldering on the front panel connector that we
borrowed from another case so that the og power button and LED would still work
gently removing the print and modem ports massaging them with the sander
before inserting them and then finally screwing and double-sided taping the
Front's to the floppy drives back in their original positions the insides we
finished off with this sweet purple cathode from bits power and
unbelievable 800 watt 80-plus titanium
SF XL modular power supply from silverstone and some cleanup from ivan
the cable management king perfect now let's fill the loop making
sure to use a secondary power supply so that in the unlikely event that we have
a spill seriously you guys forgot a plug on the
radiator oh man I mean it at least it
wasn't out in the open
I'm an idiot yes but now you're not
alone my friend so my team of skilled
boaters remove the rad added a plug and
tightened everything down aha no I leaked it dad what are you guys even
doing this time the tubing is full no veries though what you're looking at
right now is a perfectly legitimate strategy for emptying a loop by the way
yes perfectly legitimate totally not weird so after swapping out some of the
fittings third time's a charm we were finally leak-free to see how Dale runs
and performance wise oh it runs idle
temps are in the 20s and then under full synthetic load on the CPU and GPU for
half an hour with the lid closed Dale
held steady at 80 degrees with the CPU still turbo Eng - 4 gigahertz on all six
cores though it should be noted that he did get a little loud in this scenario
as for games though here things got even
more impressive Dale in spite of his looks can drag race with it any
Challenger he is one of the fastest small form factor computers on the
market with frames per second in the hundreds on ultra and even during heavy
extended gaming sessions he stayed reasonably quiet with GPU temperatures
maxing out at 53 degrees so let's bask then in the glory of Dale
and look out for our next addition to
the sleeper family Margaret
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