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our first sleeper PC we nicknamed Danny Hubert rocked dual GTX 1080s and Intel

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Core i 9 processor and hardline liquid

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cooling crammed into a pretty old antic case so how do we one-up something like

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that haha meet Hubert's brother Dale

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sure Dale is a bit smaller and way older

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but don't let his outward appearance fool you because this build sponsored by

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Intel is about as fast as a gaming PC

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can be in 2017

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we knew that for a small form-factor sleeper we needed a really unique case

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as a starting point and our good friends over at free geek Vancouver were able to

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provide just that they have everything there this Morrow designs md3 hails from

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1982 making it older than literally

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everyone in our office and it has

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clearly seen better days with its dual

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floppy bass and 8-bit operating system this puppy would have cost about three

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thousand dollars back in its day but it hasn't worked in years and even if it

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did it is basically useless now cracking

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it open other than this massive dust bunny it's really not that bad though

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all things considered so with the internals removed it was time to do some

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test fitting now unfortunately a full sized high end GPU is just a bit too

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long to fit but ZOTAC had exactly the

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right medicine this mini GT X 1080 Ti

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with a water cooling block so I guess

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we'll have to water cool the system now then that's not gonna be easy in such a

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small space and we're gonna be limited to a thick single radiator but we're

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hoping that that's going to be enough which brings us to the best part of

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every mod angle grinding from the factory there's mounting for literally

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no modern hardware so all of the cutouts

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for i/o and mounting had to be created from scratch for the motherboard here it

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was basically a case of cut a bunch out

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with the angle grinder then come in with the dremel for a while and finally

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finish off with a hand file this one

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hole here actually took close to four hours since there was no going back if

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we slipped up now in 1982 120 mil fans

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for PCs were not a thing at all so we needed a new fan hole with some help

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from this cable management tie we cut it out using the cannibal and then at this

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stage we also drilled lots of holes for everything to mount on the bottom we

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decided to position the GPU above the motherboard this ended up be a bit

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tricky because originally we were going to use this 3d printed bracket but it

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was really ugly and not in like a cool

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vintage way so we opted to very slowly

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create mounting points for the backplate and holes for the i/o to fasten it

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directly to the back of the chassis instead bringing us to test fit time and

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it looks good now for the front of the

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floppy drives just to be sure and oh crap oh I guess that interferes with the

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radiator no worries though just a little

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bit of hole and viggen mint and Dale is off to get a fresh coat of paint but

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only on the inside on that topic let's

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talk about what's under the hood for the CPU we went with Intel's Core i7

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8700 K making dáil as good as it gets

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for gaming for our motherboard we chose an ASUS z3 70 I gaming with a Samsung

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NVMe SSD underneath this sexy heatsink then to keep the CPU cool we're using an

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ek supremacy full nickel block we decided against an acrylic block since

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it'll actually have to help hold up the graphics card and also because you won't

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be able to see it anyway for our radiator we went with a 120 millimeter

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single rad from alpha cool that is a massive 60 millimeters thick and then

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for our pump we're using an ek SPC 60

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with a built in cylindrical reservoir we went with these super sexy white

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fittings and black acrylic tube both provided by bits power for a sleek

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monochrome look the first Bend was one

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of the hardest since it needs to come around our PCI Express extender and then

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make a funky Bend too so we ended up

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just making a little steak out of black fittings in hopes that nobody would

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notice right here the bending wasn't finished yet though next this 90 degree

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from the pump to the res and after that a nice long tube from the GPU back to

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the radiator both of which were made the perfect length with a bit of help from

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the bench sander now we just need to do a bunch of little touch-ups to make it

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perfect like splicing together the led for the drives so they can be attached

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to the hard drive header soldering on the front panel connector that we

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borrowed from another case so that the og power button and LED would still work

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gently removing the print and modem ports massaging them with the sander

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before inserting them and then finally screwing and double-sided taping the

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Front's to the floppy drives back in their original positions the insides we

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finished off with this sweet purple cathode from bits power and

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unbelievable 800 watt 80-plus titanium

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SF XL modular power supply from silverstone and some cleanup from ivan

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the cable management king perfect now let's fill the loop making

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sure to use a secondary power supply so that in the unlikely event that we have

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a spill seriously you guys forgot a plug on the

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radiator oh man I mean it at least it

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wasn't out in the open

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I'm an idiot yes but now you're not

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alone my friend so my team of skilled

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boaters remove the rad added a plug and

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tightened everything down aha no I leaked it dad what are you guys even

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doing this time the tubing is full no veries though what you're looking at

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right now is a perfectly legitimate strategy for emptying a loop by the way

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yes perfectly legitimate totally not weird so after swapping out some of the

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fittings third time's a charm we were finally leak-free to see how Dale runs

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and performance wise oh it runs idle

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temps are in the 20s and then under full synthetic load on the CPU and GPU for

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half an hour with the lid closed Dale

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held steady at 80 degrees with the CPU still turbo Eng - 4 gigahertz on all six

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cores though it should be noted that he did get a little loud in this scenario

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as for games though here things got even

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more impressive Dale in spite of his looks can drag race with it any

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Challenger he is one of the fastest small form factor computers on the

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market with frames per second in the hundreds on ultra and even during heavy

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extended gaming sessions he stayed reasonably quiet with GPU temperatures

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maxing out at 53 degrees so let's bask then in the glory of Dale

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and look out for our next addition to

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the sleeper family Margaret

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