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my first look at the nzxth1 was as part of a fully integrated gaming system but

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it's actually available standalone or well sort of

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nzxt sponsored this video where we're going to be showing you guys how

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to build your own system inside the nzx th1

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or at least part of your own system unlike most

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cases on the market the h1 comes with some of the parts some of the especially

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trickier parts pre-installed so it's basically kind of like those um

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you know those like uh food delivered to your door things it's like yeah here's

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all the ingredients all you gotta do is kind of slap them together

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oh look at that we've got a disc plate on the door now it's not centered

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the idea of creating small form factor compact sort of bare bones machines has

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been around forever in fact i still remember the

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look on my face when i discovered that so much of ncix's web infrastructure was

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running off of a whole bunch of socket 478 and socket a

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shuttle bare bones machines like this is back probably 15 years ago

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and even the idea of making a gaming machine that is sort of partly

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pre-assembled where the user just adds you know let's say CPU RAM and storage

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is nothing new but what's different here is that nzxt has actually taken out

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some of the things that would traditionally be included in a bare

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bones so all you're getting here is the case

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where is it there it is the power supply

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an all-in-one cooler so that's a 140 millimeter aio cooler that's going to

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handle your CPU and the pci express

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riser cables that can be one of the most finicky parts of building a small form

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factor machine the cool thing about this approach is that it takes some of the

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things that are good about a pre-build like not having to worry too much about

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what things work with what other things and some of the good things about a diy

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pc which is you can use any brand of motherboard you want any graphics card

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you want and you get the satisfaction of putting it together yourself

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so behind that plate we've got the modular interface for our graphics card

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and you can see that our power cables are also pre-routed and

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this is a nice little touch shortened so that you don't have any

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excess wires that you're going to need to tuck away so our graphics card is

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going to go in right around here and these are going to plug in right here

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that's it one thing i confess i had a bit of trouble with last time i looked

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at this was getting this panel off but this one just slides off super easily

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so i don't know what the deal was there but that's good so that exposes the

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actually now that i know how to do it easy to access and easy to clean

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magnetic fan filters there we go a little tab under there

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where you can pull these off super nice so these handle all the

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intake for the system for the all-in-one cooler which is over

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on this side the power supply fan which is also on this side and then of course

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yep that's my graphics card right there no no no so it'll look

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more like that so these are going to be pulling air in directly from outside of

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the computer i always like these kinds of clever little things so the GPU

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placeholder to make sure that nothing's you know rattling around in here

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is also the accessory box there's an extension that's routed down

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to ah here it is on the bottom so we'll plug in

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right there and then we've also got some zip ties

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and cable management stuff how interesting so it's only a single three

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and a half mil jack on the top but it appears to be a combo jack so

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it's a 4-pole jack and they include a splitter so you can split it out to microphone and headphones

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also in here is all the mounting hardware that we're going to need for our CPU cooler whether we swing for the

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Intel or AMD team we've got a back plate that covers us and then here's the hold

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down hardware and i have no idea what this one's for

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we'll figure that out feels like i'm back in the 90s i'm going

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on a road trip i like it start tearing this puppy apart

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i think the pump may be built into the radiator rather than the CPU block for a

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second i'm super confused right now i'm like

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crazy confused this doesn't say anything about that there's an all-in-one liquid

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cooler already installed remove screws pointed at by arrows

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wow that's cool

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i am super into that really does look like there's a pump in there or

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something oh yeah this is super compact this doesn't have a pump in it wow how

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about that that's cool okay well let's just tuck that aside for

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now and then we can take out the dummy motherboard

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and put in our real one so i've got an rog strix z390i gaming we

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could go with something lower end but because we wanted the

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type c connector as well as overclocking capabilities for our 9900k

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this seemed like a pretty good bet i o

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goes down so you're actually going to plug everything in from the bottom of

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the case and oh i should probably put a CPU on it

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now to install the aforementioned 9900k this is going to be the scariest part

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for new builders but it really is this simple you pull the ARM away and up

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okay so that gets this clear so you're not going to accidentally touch the pins you just lift that up there

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line up the little golden triangle with the dot or the triangle that's on the

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socket all right there's also these little notches here it's pretty hard to put it

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in wrong if you're paying attention to what you're doing give it a little wiggle make sure it's actually in there

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lower this down make sure these are going to slide over that screw or under

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it rather and then ARM goes out and under

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and your CPU is installed RAM is even simpler we've gone with some vengeance

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RGB RAM from Corsair go ahead and pop in

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one making sure that the notches are aligned evenly apply pressure from both sides

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and we'll do that one more time

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it's crazy to think about it but we're almost done with the motherboard at this

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point it's that simple we could put our boot drive on the back of the

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motherboard here but in this case i actually wouldn't really recommend it

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the nand flash doesn't care about hot components nearby but the controller

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doesn't really like it and our GPU the back plate of it is going to be right

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against the back of the board so instead we're going to go ahead and take this

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shield off the front and we'll install the SSD there

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pop it in like a sodium hold it down

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and screw it in boop don't forget to pull the protective

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cover off of the thermal interface material on your heatsink here it's not

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going to make a huge difference like it's not going to affect performance or anything but

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i mean if you've got it there you might as well at least

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have it as like a heat spreader or like a heat

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soak and that really and truly is it let's go ahead and pop the motherboard in check

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this out so i'm just going to hold these front panel connectors out of the way and

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we're going to slide the board in from the side

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that's nice too with the i o shield which is integrated into this

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motherboard it just sits there where it's supposed to go it's actually held

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in place by gravity so now all we got to do is put our

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four motherboard screws in wow this is all the screws we need for assembly

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that's pretty cool we find motherboard screws in this

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little baggie and four of those

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the corner braces of the case are in the way a little bit here but it's not the

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end of the world as long as you've got a magnetic tip screwdriver it should be all right

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probably won't properly

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now we're just going to plug in all our motherboard stuff so there's that pci

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express riser i really like the way they've designed this so you got your

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protective cover get rid of that and then it's got this nice little like

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plastic bracket that makes sure that it doesn't curve too much and accidentally

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kink and also keeps it out of the way of the panels when you're trying to close them the 8-pin CPU power connector is

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pre-wire managed so we just go ahead and pop that in and the 24 pin is done up in

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pretty much exactly the same way now my RAM

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is a little bit high profile but from looking at it here

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it seems like we should still be able to get in there without

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peeling the heat spreader off it there we go and it's back in place

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and that just goes in or something like that front panel connectors can all be

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done now so here's our usb type c hd audio is also down here in the corner

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this one's a little bit long but maybe we could cable manage that a touch when we're done this is like the fastest

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build ever i like how it stands up like this that means we've still got easy

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access to the back of our motherboard to put on our back plate just in case we forgot to do that earlier

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well i mean you know that is why they started doing motherboard cutouts right

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so you could easily and quickly swap a cooler not so in case you forgot but

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anyway i should put the actual hardware on here first oh yes preparation

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yes oh interesting this is a system i have

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not seen before so it's got like this little keyed thing and then you put it

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in there and then i guess you

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screw that in looks like the back plate does not go on very easily with these

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pegs already attached i will take two of them off

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hey there it is now we're just going to slip these little spacers

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over all four of the posts this is really clever so it's like this

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by default which means you're not going to be able to get at the screw hole but

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if you pop them in they've got nice little instructions on here hey make

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sure you put those back before you close the system otherwise this tube is going to press up against

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here and it might kink all right let's pop this on now for each post we need one more

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little plastic washer and then one of these thumb nuts

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not much left now along the edge here we've got the RPM wire for our

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all-in-one cooler pump as well as our CPU fan so that's the fan that's

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connected to the aio and we're pretty much ready to close

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that up wow okay tubes towards the outside

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okay that was that was a close one uh i would recommend using low profile

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memory we did manage to get these in with just a little bit of flex there see

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that that's probably still fine but uh if i were you i would i would use

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something else that's it for cable management on that

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side all the usb and front panel connectors and everything can just sit

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right here graphics card wait

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how did i not install this bracket oh good that's for AMD

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now for the moment you've all been waiting for rtx 2070 super time

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so these two little tabs will hold the bottom of a card and i really need it to

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just actually like go the in there probably because my motherboard tray is

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bowed then we just give it a firm little press and then we can put these thumb

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screws back on the bottom of the card that's it like i want to hear from the novices in the comments does this

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actually look easier does this still look like kind of overwhelming and

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complicated maybe i'm just out of touch wow look at

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that it's only 26 steps for our extra PCIe cables up here in that empty two

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and a half inch drive bay and then you can just cover it all up buy ugly cables

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that's it panel time

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i'm not making the mistake of removing this sticker again

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i'm just going to leave it there this is one thing that's a bit of a

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bummer about this case the fact that you gotta dig around in its

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underbelly in order to plug anything in i mean it does have a type c and a usb

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type a on the top but um it is an improvement for me now that i

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know that that's a 4-pole audio jack and you can just split it out to a

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microphone and headphone if you really want let's see if i managed to build a

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computer that works

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because that's the real trick it can be as easy as it wants until the moment you

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press the button and it doesn't work like that uh balls

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that's fine you don't close the side panels on a rig

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until you've seen it post plug that in there now i just need to see a

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logo on the screen go ahead and cut

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let's try a simple receipt of our pci express connector okay fine i will reset

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the graphics card

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wait a second wouldn't that be funny

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we spend all this time diagnosing a dead computer and it turns out it's a bad

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cable i love that that's my favorite fire this back up

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well okay then i even talked about how it's best to try

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to troubleshoot the simplest things first do i not have uplay on here i

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thought this is my bench drive well shadow of the tomb raider it is then

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man i love this when you get a fast CPU and it makes your games download faster

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the thing is you're not just downloading raw data a lot of the time you're unpacking it at the same time so

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especially having a CPU that can turbo up really high and that handles single

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threaded tasks really well can result in faster game downloads it's great i

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really gotta actually play this game so that i have like some other save games to load

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because i'm just like right at the beginning in this like stupid forced walking around segment i cannot get

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motivated to play this one all the way through oh you know what let's just run

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the benchmark yeah lots of hours in the benchmark

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lots of hours pimping lttstore.com you know

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got my priorities straight all high seems like the sweet spot for a config

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like this it's a very sightseeing type game so i don't worry too much about

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getting 100 plus frames per second but even your lowest dips are still in

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the low 50s and we've got g-sync on this panel so those get masked a fair bit as

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long as you're not going down too low in a massive surprise to no one the

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thermals of our system here behave pretty much the same as the ones in the

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pre-built they sent over to us because we we never hit higher than about 45-50

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degrees on the CPU i would expect that to stay pretty consistent

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ended up putting together a pretty similar system so

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the whole paradigm where it's intaking through the filtered sides and then

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exhausting just through positive pressure out the back works

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really well so you've got like a hands warmer back here

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but here you can really feel the inrush of air over the power supply

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the CPU cooler and the GPU

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now that i'm done i can safely say not everyone is going to prefer the nzxt h1

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approach with some of the parts pre-configured but if you wanted to

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dip your toes in the water of custom building a machine i would say this is a

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much safer way to go than

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oh that case that we covered from singularity a little while ago the

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easiest water cooled system that ended up actually being extraordinarily

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difficult to build i think with some instruction following even a complete

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novice builder could finish a system in this in a couple of hours and that is

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really impressive if you're looking for a video to watch maybe actually check

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out that easiest water cooled one we had a lot of fun doing that build even if it

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wasn't as easy or fast as we had hoped