you know i know it's gonna be a good day because
we just got a giant pelican case full of
unreleased hardware and every time that happens it's a freaking good day inside
here is the kamino auto a computer that i've never seen
from a manufacturer that i have never heard of and
see these are always good signs too when there's a gigantic adapter on just the
power plug i mean it's gonna be exotic my friends
let's go ahead and pull this thing out oh wow
apparently in this tiny thing there's an eight core core i9 9900k and an rtx 2080
ti not to mention of course liquid cooling this is going to be fun
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all right well they're serious about it getting here in one piece i guess yeah i
think it's one of the only ones in the world it's very engineering sampling oh
in spots wow yeah i can see that have you had
this out i mean it's like it's nicely cut and
everything but i will say that that is a little raw
looking uh honestly i love the design though the concave top looks super kind
of futuristic looking the convex front with the reservoir
built into it i am really excited to see what this looks like once we turn it on
that better be uv green fluid power button right here usb type-c they
built that into their auto yeah it is also worth noting that all of
the colors can be changed like completely custom
so if you want it like black here or red here or whatever
pretty simple so they intend to sell this thing do that yeah all right how
does it come apart oh wow that's pretty straightforward
magnetic side wow so they just actually glued magnets to the side panel
okay it's a little engineering sampling a little bit of history on these guys
they have a lot of experience when it comes to server cooling and building
servers and we're actually seeing some very server builder design sensibilities
here well as long as all the cables are you know
all together and they're out of the way the airflow then that should be good
enough and so they've actually got
things like cable combs installed
but but the function of them is sort of they missed the point somewhere along
the line um no wait
hold on a second what is this connected to i'm so curious
because it looks like a 16x slot it looks like a 16x to dual 8x ribbon
adapter but also like these fittings i have never seen anything like that
before in like consumer hardware oh
wow so these are like a dual 90 degree
yeah this is this is like not soldered what's the uh
braised yeah braised these fittings are braised so they've
done like a braised probably brass fitting and then they've plated it
that's incredible so and check this out this type of hose clamp is like a very
um like building
style of hose clamp so they actually take like a big ring
and then put like a a crimp
sort of thing on it and like crimp it so they bend the metal in order to put the
hose clamp on the barb so that the tubing will come off like that thing
ain't it's never coming off okay so hold on hold on hold on we're getting we're
getting distracted here we're getting distracted i don't remember the last
time i saw a simple desktop computer made out of what is essentially
commodity hardware like ASUS motherboard you know ASUS graphics card
that was this different like look at this airflow
shroud that they've built here why did they do that well separate cooling zone
for the power supply so they've actually cut a little
slice in it so that they can run this tube up to the reservoir in the front
and then not compromise the individual cooling zones that's freaking awesome
again very servery stuff yeah i don't think i've ever seen a small form factor
pc like this that hasn't had two zones where it's like
CPU and like motherboard on one side and GPU
on the other they've all done that since i think was it Dan that did it first i
think it was the Dan case that did it first oh that's nice they've got a
temperature sensor going into the reservoir up here i guess that's what happens when you build your own
reservoir from scratch you have all these cool features
okay i really do not understand what i'm looking at here ah this is a splitter of
some sort so this piece right here made out of
like delrin or something like that goes in
through the graphics card so it goes out that way up from the graphics card out
here then it also goes
down to the CPU and then back to the res and then this goes over to the radiator
and over to the res got it one thing i will say they didn't do an
amazing job of is the power cable so it uses a system we've seen many
times on small form factor builds where the power supply is actually internal
and then it runs an extension out the back of the case they've gone under this
little cover for it here but then they just have it come out like a
like a tail so that's why it has to use this adapter
because now that it's assembled there is no way for us to change the power cable
usually you get like a receptacle on the back of the machine you want to do the
honors uh sure hit it
and of course it is RGB af oh that is a
really nice effect on the perforations i like that you know maybe there's
something to be said for letting server manufacturers play with our gaming
machines this res is so
cool like how did they make this i actually have no clue
like there's no machining marks i know right
honestly the back's almost as impressive to me as the front and oh yeah look
there's definitely cnc marks there oh yeah yep so that's definitely how
they're doing it they just have a way better cnc than we do
so that's all there is to it are we supposed to take it apart
i have no clue they didn't really tell us anything about not taking it apart
okay cool because i do kind of want to see what makes it tick the max on all of
the cores has been 50 degrees so far they're sitting more around like 33 to
45 though cool 30 degrees max temps so
far we have oh yeah we haven't done much but still that's very promising
what is the temperature in here anyway if we're going to say that the numbers are real good we might as well actually
know what they are yeah it's 18 degrees in here so that
helps a bit you know normally you get like you're you're super micros of the world and
they try and do something gamery and it's just like yeah it's like you read a
book about what gamers like once you know yeah this is just
cool the big thing i want to know here is not necessarily what temps we're
going to see but whether those fans get any louder because if they don't then i
think we could easily tune them to come down quite a bit quieter at idle
yeah and if the temperatures that we're getting are still like 50 degrees we can
probably get this thing to all core five gigahertz no problem
we're still only at about 70 degrees which is very reasonable
but it's a 4.7 though yep so that's what we
would expect for a well-cooled 9900k and
as far as i understand i'm pretty sure that all of the vrms and stuff are
cooled also so we should be able to get
it really fast why does this thing feel so snappy like
even just installing you know microsoft vc redistributable whatever when we
launched the game it's just 3 200 megahertz RAM not nothing crazy
yeah like you guys know what i'm talking about right like when you have a machine
that's got great specs but like you go to launch Windows explorer and it takes
forever to you know load in all the drive information or
whatever like it just i know it's a fresh install i've seen a
lot of fresh installs in my day all right anyway i've seen enough of this
let's go ahead and see if we can overclock this thing yeah it didn't get
to 70 degrees there we have lots of room
well should we just go right for the load five gigahertz oc profile
i'm i'm not a huge fan of it but sure
screw it wait does all it do is just do single cores five zero
and set everything out oh she's hot
really hot not too hot 91. hey for the form factor are you not
still impressed oh yeah totally i kind of forgot about that actually
it's literally half the volume of the kind of machine that you would normally
say has enough cooling to just be like yeah sure five gigahertz all on full
auto like these are not optimized voltages i'm sure we could turn it down
and have it run cooler our render finished without incident it took two
minutes and 39 seconds that's about what we'd expect for a five gigahertz all
core overclock yeah max temp was 96 degrees which is
you know that's hot but also it did it and this is probably a horrible
overclock so let's hit it again this time CPU
and GPU what we're finding out here is whether the GPU heating up the water
pushes our CPU over the thermal throttling threshold CPU seems to be
doing the same basic thing as last time one core did hit 98 but that still
doesn't exceed Intel's safe spec and you wouldn't be doing this
very often still 43 44 i think that's as
high as it's gotten yeah it's still only about 65 70 usage
and we've got a core that hit 99 now loudness wise one thing i think they
could optimize right out of the gate is you can see how there's the perforations
on the top but there's also a fine mesh under it
oh yeah i think that's a big mistake for them from an airflow and an acoustics
perspective i think just by making that small tweak even switching it from like
a metal grille like they've got in there to something like a uh
like a like a fan filter type material like a finer mesh
i think could make a big difference there and there's no doubt that it's not
particularly quiet when you're really hitting it but from a cooling standpoint
i would say this is the most impressive small form factor machine that i've seen
yet these are 140 ml fans too no wonder
it's handling it like a champ even with that restrictive grille on it i just
assumed it was 120 mil so we're here 1440p
high settings not the highest like we don't have rtx on but it is this has to
be like 150 FPS easy especially when combined with like this
is the one millisecond monitor it's just oh that looks really really good
and of note is that this is still running at kind of idle noise levels
yeah so it didn't crank up the way that it did when we hit it with a really
heavy CPU load like that blender render do you really want to take this thing
apart yeah it feels like
it feels like disassembling the mona lisa a little bit that's
that's a bit of an exaggeration i think i really want to look at the fins
you're going to take all the way down to the blocks all the way down to the blocks
do we have to i really like it i want to use this as the vr gaming rig
it's so nice we can put it back together you never will
we're not taking it apart i like this thing too much and the one thing i was
really curious about i actually figured out for myself the reason i was confused
by the positioning of the GPU was that actually they removed the bracket at the
back so they just screwed the GPU directly into the back panel so that's
why it looked like the thing was too close to this it's just a normal PCIe
slot it's connected here you've got two of these 8x
connectors because they couldn't fit one of those big chunky ribbons in here and
that's all there is to it that's all we need to know this thing is freaking
awesome and i don't want to take it apart because i want to use it as a vr
gaming rig because it is freaking awesome yeah so i guess i do have the
prices here oh okay what is one of these gonna run you like how does it compare
to a Corsair one that's that's really the question because compared to diying
something obviously for this level of integration you're going to be paying a
premium so this one right here that we have in our hands with the i9 and the 2080 ti
is 3 600
us yeah yeah they also have a super version for twenty one hundred dollars
that has a ryzen five thirty six hundred and a twenty seventy that's too much for
a ryzen five based machine yeah um and they have a diy version
that's 450 bucks that's just chassis
reservoir riser radiator RGB strips
okay so if you want to just completely build it on your own you can good luck
yeah good luck it can it could be done we could do it
it's actually harder now that we would have to disassemble theirs because i
wouldn't assemble mine with crimps on the
on the tubing they also have a version for 1050
that has like everything that you need including like water blocks and crap you
just don't get like you know the actual components okay so you only have to buy
CPU GPU motherboard RAM storage and coolant that's not actually that far out
there compared to the uh spectre that we looked at recently yeah very similar i
would say i like it i do too i declare it to be
good i honestly i came into this thinking like
just another small form factor i really like it too you know what else i really like
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