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beautiful so we're here in the iby power suite and for the second time in only
three years they are launching something truly revolting here at the show so if
you're not familiar with them iby power is a boutique system builder they make
all kinds of custom Rigs and this is the
Revolt 2 I didn't actually mean it was disgusting I meant it had Revolt in the
name what did you think I was talking about three years ago they launched the
Revolt it had that you know Riser card and it was super tiny it had the GPU
showing on the through the window in the case there this is this is a totally
different thing so they've changed pretty much everything about it except
for that concept of it being a very
compact machine and one that puts the GPU at the Forefront of the industrial
design so the first thing you notice looking at it is that GPU it's
illuminated by RGB lighting so you can go oh I want solid colors I want
breathing colors I want a rainball over my graphics card and regardless of
whether you want to go all the way up to something like a gtx980ti or a Titan X
if you're into spending too much for no additional performance you can put it in
here and they've got The Thermals all figured out although we'll go over that
in more detail once we actually open it up inside the other thing I wanted to
show at the front is they've got two 2 and 1 12 inch mounts for ssds or even
hard drives I guess if you were really into that sort of thing as well as front
USB 3 front audio and a front power button that I'm going to try not to
accidentally press again on the side panels you won't find a whole lot of
much of anything unless you're cool like me and in addition to the little
ventilation holes and stuff yeah you showed up for iby power to reveal that
they had actually done up a custom side panel for you with the Linus Tech tips
and Wan logos overlaid pretty cool stuff they've actually got a number of of neat
ones on display here in the suite just to kind of show off what can be done and
then around the back you'll find well ventilation holes and different IO
depending on what kind of a configuration you choose because that's
what IB power is they are a custom system builder and build a system in it
they did so now that we've got the side panel off we get a pretty good look at
how this whole thing works inside it's funny because from the top the only
thing you really see is the graphics card but from the side the first thing
that really grabs your attention is the power supply so they've inverted the ITX
standard motherboard that they're using inside this case they have done away
with the PCI Express extension and they are plugging the graphics card directly
into the motherboard what that means is that pretty much the only place to put
the power supply is actually smack in the middle of the chassis over top of
the CPU area where the fan should actually help draw heated air away from
the vrm on the CPU because the CPU itself is a nonc concern in this case
because they've made enough room down in the bottom of the chassis for up to a
dual 120 mm radiator or even a single
120 with a single 140 if you're into to having both your CPU and your GPU
connected to an AI cooling Loop now it
looks really cramped for this power supply and you might think oh but what
if I want to expand in the future personally I don't think it's a concern
they've got a th000 watt power supply in here and realistically for a single
graphics card system you are unlikely to ever need more than that but of course
those are always famous last words aren't they I really don't think it is in this case in the front we find a
single 3 and a half inch hard drive cage if you want something to go along with
those sexy ssds and quite frankly I
don't think there's a whole left to say about it that can't be said without
completely disassembling it and having a look at how they're handling Cable
Management say for example but the good news is that you may actually have an
opportunity to see me do that because I by power will be working with us on
something we've never done before an actual a deconstruction video rather
than like like a build guide it's going to be like a disassembly guide anyway
leave a comment letting me know what you want to see me do when I put the Revolt
2 through the paces a little while from
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