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the objective with our ultimate compact gaming build guide was to build an

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extremely powerful basically as good as

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it gets gaming rig within the confines of an extremely small chassis we wanted

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to have the option to overclock this beast we wanted to maintain acceptable

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thermals and we wanted to have it not be too loud this truly is a have your cake

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and eat it too machine as usual we're going to start with the rationale behind

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each of the components why we chose that particular part and some of the other

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considerations that you may want to think about if you're going to undergo a

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similar project and then after that we're going to show you guys the actual

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process of building the machine with nice close-ups of what we're doing so

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you can follow along and then finally we

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are going to show off the finished machine including some performance

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numbers which i think you are going to find to be quite impressive

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before we begin though i would like to take a moment to thank our sponsor thank

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you Intel for making this build guide possible we can't do these videos

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without the support of great companies like Intel they're the ones who are

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actually providing us the budget to set aside a week to plan shoot and edit this

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video so there's ah they're awesome guys over there huge thanks again to Intel

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for making this happen now when you cram a lot of components into a very small

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enclosure the biggest considerations are usually the actual physical size

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constraints and keeping thermals at

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acceptable and safe levels for that reason part selection is absolutely

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critical when the individual components in your system run too hot you are left

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with basically two undesirable options so number one is

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you can just leave them to their own devices and their automatic fan control

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algorithms especially graphics cards will just ramp up fan speeds to

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uncomfortable levels which um i personally find quite offensive although

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it might not matter to you if you're a headphone user so your mileage may vary

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on that one and then option number two is that the components will simply run

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too hot which can cause reliability problems in both the short and in the

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long term now we're going to walk you through each of the parts in the system

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one by one to give you an idea of why we chose it and to give you some tips and

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pointers for how to choose your own whether you are using a small case like

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this or if you're just building a regular non-compact gaming machine

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because remember guys it's not always all about size right

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right the Intel core i7 4770k with a be quiet!

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shadow rock 2 cooler was our weapon of choice for this machine now particularly

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before overclocking Intel's 4th gen core series processors offer unbeatable

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performance per watt so that's the heat output which is necessary for what we're

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trying to achieve here now you could make the argument that there's another

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4th gen processor the 4670k that would be very very suitable for this build but

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we opted for the 4770k with hyper threading just because we're kind of

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going for ultimate here and while most games right now are not going to benefit

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from the additional threads that improvement in the coding of games is

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definitely coming and there are many gamers who also do other things with

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their machines such as video editing or other heavily threaded workloads

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when it came to the memory we actually didn't go full on ultimate here more RAM

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and higher memory speed each deliver very limited performance improvements in

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games so um i mean right now it looks like in

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battlefield 4 there's some benefit to faster memory but that's a bit of an

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isolated case so we decided to go with something pretty standard we went with a

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16 gig dual channel kit of 2133 megahertz memory from a data we could

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have gone all out like 20 400 megahertz or 3000 megahertz or whatever else the

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case may be but the reason we went with this option is that when you go 2133

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you're actually not paying much more than a 1600 megahertz kit so really

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that's the reason why just because it wasn't costing us more once you go past that it starts to get more expensive the

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reason we went with 16 gigs is because it gives us more than enough for now

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with the option to upgrade in the future without totally overspending on the

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memory in comparison to the rest of the system 16 gigs also gives us a little

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bit of flexibility for more memory intensive applications like the video

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editing we mentioned before micro atx performance motherboards often

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actually deliver a pretty compelling value compared to their atx counterparts

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even if you were to use them in a full size case and not an matx case but

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anyway we went with the g1 sniper m5 from Gigabyte because its optimal pci

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express slot spacing allows us to actually install

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two dual slot graphics cards running at PCIe 8x gen 3 which is more than enough

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bandwidth even for 780 ti's and have a

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leftover PCIe forex slot for an additional add-in card of our choice

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down the road whatever we want to put in it that's not bad for matx not to

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mention it comes with all the latest bells and whistles including swappable

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op-amps for the on-board audio one swappable op-amp killer networking

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overclocking options galore and all of that at under 200

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the green color scheme will also go very nicely with our green graphics cards and

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green led lighting effects but of course i'm not that shallow so the color had

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nothing to do with it it was all about the technical technological superiority

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phenom m it uses the same internals as the prada gm and while it doesn't have

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the same like hardcore water cooling and

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hard drive mounting options as the itx version does it still has room for a

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large air cooling heatsink for the CPU and the added expansion for pci express

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cards is awesome it features five pci slots at the back

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for future expansion which is a huge benefit if you ever wanted to say for

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example add dual graphics cards or something like that it's also small

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enough to easily pack this sli rig around with you to lan parties or

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wherever else you might need to take an immensely powerful well-cooled little

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rig speaking of cooling it can accept plenty of cooling fans which we can run

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at low rpms when we're idling for quiet operation then ramp up as needed we'll

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be using spectre pro green led fans for this machine spectre pros are one of the

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only really good looking fans out there that also have performance and quiet

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operation on their side so there are a couple of other exceptions but for the

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most part you gotta choose performance or looks well we chose both

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once again guys storage is so personal

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but we're gonna go with something pretty standard for this one which should be

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applicable to many different people an Intel 530 series 240 gig SSD will act as

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our os and key application slash games

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drive while a western digital 4 terabyte black will be our storage powerhouse to

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handle a massive steam library media

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collection and all that kind of stuff and still provide excellent performance

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but with huge storage this SSD plus hard

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drive configuration has grown in popularity over the last couple of years

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a lot and i think we're probably going to be sticking with it for quite a while

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for most high performance users i mean

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until something paradigm shifting happens with respect to SSD pricing and

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capacity or maybe some other new technology comes along it makes a ton of

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sense to go with fast small storage and then slower

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massive storage so you get the best of both worlds well guys for us

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there was really only one ultimate gaming graphics card configuration we've

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gone with two gtx 780 ti graphics cards

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from evga i really don't know what to say about these other than that they're

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the fastest gaming cards on the market

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and they're thermal and acoustic performance made them an obvious choice

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over the red team this time around for this specific build because of the

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constraints we have in terms of space we went with rear exhaust cards versus an

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open cooler like evga's acx cooler because we felt we would rather

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compromise GPU temperatures a little bit we'll have the GPU running a little bit

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hotter for the sake of keeping the rest of the inside of the case cooler

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remember that not every component in your system can be read with a

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temperature monitor so for things like your power delivery components on the

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motherboard lower ambient temperatures inside the system can make a big

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difference to long-term reliability so just because you have a couple graphics

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cards in there and your CPU temps look okay and your GPU temps look okay that

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doesn't mean that an open air cooler is necessarily the best choice for you so

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rear exhaust for very small builds is definitely recommended peripheral wise

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for this rig honestly guys i'm not sure how much sense it makes to keep

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including these since everyone's choices will be so different but tell you what

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let me know if you'd like me to keep featuring peripherals that i think makes

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sense for each build and we'll see if we keep doing it in the

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future anyway we just got our hands on the ducky shine three so for our all-out

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machine we are suggesting this all-out keyboard unfortunately ours are blue

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backlight so they won't match the rest of the green theme here but don't worry

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there's a green one available and it's available in all the main cherry mx key

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switch types and in either a 104 key layout or a 10 keyless layout so you can

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get something to match your rig for sure for our mouse we are going with the

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deathadder 2013. again it's green to

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match our build which isn't the main factor here because the main factor here

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is the fact that it features one of the best sensors on the market as well as

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excellent ergonomics this is an extremely well regarded mouse out there

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right now and i have already recommended it in previous build guides but i have

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no problem recommending it again

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finally for our monitor this is kind of big gotta go get it

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we've gone with the benq xl 2420 te if

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you saw my unboxing you'll already know that for a 144 hertz monitor it is far

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and away the best looking one we've ever

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seen in terms of color and viewing angle the one caveat is that it doesn't

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support g-sync so yeah until monitors that support

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g-sync start arriving i don't know that i can recommend investing in a gaming

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monitor right now but if i absolutely had to then that would be the one

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which leads us finally to our operating system we went with Windows 8 because

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that's all you can really get right now for gaming maybe at some point here

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steam os is going to be an option but that is still very much in beta right

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now in fact we have it running upstairs very much in beta not ready yet Windows

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8 for this particular machine when it comes to pre-build safety and

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setup basically what you want is to start with a safe static free

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workstation and anti-static strap i like to keep mine on my ankle to keep it out

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of the way you also want to make sure there's no unnecessary clutter around so

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that you can lose screws or trip on something and knock something over

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because that would be disastrous next up all we really need for assembly these

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days is a multi-bit screwdriver and the last thing is i always recommend

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doing your first build and powering it up outside the case to ensure that

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everything works while it's nice and easy to reach in case something goes

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wrong and you have to take it back to the store or send it back to the manufacturer the motherboard box makes a

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very handy non-conductive test bench for this outside the case installation

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we'll start with CPU installation after carefully removing the CPU from the

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package align the little golden triangle on the corner of the CPU with the

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triangle on the plastic cover then what you're going to do is lift the retention

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ARM by pushing away then up without

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removing the plastic cover that protects the delicate pins inside the socket just

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leave that in place for now then what we're going to do is gently place the

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CPU in the socket the risk of damage to your system is highest at this point in

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the build process so be extremely careful if you're forcing it then there

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is definitely a problem once the CPU is in place pull down the retention cover

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then pull down the retention ARM lift it out away a little bit and then

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lock it under that little clamp right there once you've done that there it goes the

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plastic cover will pop itself right off put that in the motherboard box for safe

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keeping if you ever need to return your motherboard they will require you to

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send it in with this cover because once again those pins inside that socket are

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extremely fragile ddr3 installation is

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simple pull back the tabs on your motherboard

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align the notches on your memory with the notches inside the sockets then

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insert it gently and finally press firmly down on the memory on both sides

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until the latch clicks back into place on its own

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then you're done always install matched memory sticks in

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the color matched slots on modern motherboards for dual channel operation

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this gives you better performance when it comes to heatsink installation

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everyone is a little bit different and

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be quiet! mounting systems are not always my favorite but they do have solidly

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built products at good prices so that's why we went for it in this particular

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case because it's going to fit quite well with the rest of our hardware but

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still give us maximum cooling on the CPU so don't be intimidated by all the

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little tiny bits and screws and pieces right here we're going to show you how

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exactly it all goes together on the board so we start

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with the back plate you position the back plate so that the screws on the

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back of the little back plate that's already on the motherboard poke through

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the much bigger back plate then you're going to take each of these four longer

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screws and put them through the board so that we can access them on the top

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the next step is to take the little plastic washers

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and clip them from the top so that they stay in place and don't fall back

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through the board so now they're going through the back plate and they are

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stuck in place now that the back plate is securely in

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place we can thread on the nuts that will support the CPU hold down use the

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included wrench to hold them in place from the front of the board while

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tightening them from the back of the board with a phillips head screwdriver

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now we're done with our board for a little bit and it's time to work on the heatsink itself simply use the four

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countersunk screws to attach the hold downs to the bottom of the heatsink

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that's how we're actually going to well hold it down onto the CPU now this next

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step is optional but to maintain the awesome looks of this system we are

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going to swap out the stock fan which is actually a very good fan with a spectre

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pro just remove the metal clips on the stock fan and then put them back onto the new

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fan exactly the same way it's actually quite quite simple and now it's looking

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good oh yeah next up put a line of thermal compound

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which is included with your heatsink onto the CPU and then position the

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heatsink with a sensible fan orientation

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so we're going for kind of a pseudo push pull configuration so once the

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motherboard's in the case the rear exhaust will actually help the fan that

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we installed as a push van pull air through that massive heat sink also

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don't forget to orient the fan when you're installing it so that the power

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lead reaches to the CPU fan header without any extra cable mess you know

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lying around all over the place solid cable management starts at every step

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making sure that you're maintaining it so you can you can actually plug that in

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now we're ready for that i think at this point you'll start to see why we went

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with a low profile memory kit from adata for this build tall memory modules can

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interfere with large CPU heat sinks in some cases

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get it in cases they can interfere because this is a computer and we're

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going to put it in a case and oh man i cracked myself up

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okay no but seriously we're we actually aren't quite done with this yet uh we'll

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use that wrench again from the front and then the screwdriver again from the back

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but this time we are tightening nuts onto the top of the hold down

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again this isn't my favorite CPU mounting mechanism in the world but the

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good news is that once they're all on there it is extremely solid and it's not

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going anywhere now my friends it is time to start

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working on the case so we're going to begin by taking off both side panels by

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removing the four thumb screws at the back what i really recommend doing is

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taking these side panels and putting them back into the case box for now

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because we won't need them until a bit later the phenom m is a little bit

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different from most cases though in that we will need it at some point during the

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assembly process here because you can see that the front i o is actually

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located on one of the side panels where we have our power and reset buttons as

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well as our front audio ports and our usb 3 ports one little trick for this

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case as well that we're going to actually do is we're going to switch

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sides and we're going to put the side panel with the i o on the left hand side

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of the case and we're going to take this side panel move it over to the other side i found that when i was working on

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this case recently that it was a little bit easier to do cable management that

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way and the only drawback is that the logo on your power and reset buttons

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will be upside down in the finished product

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now that the case is open undo the twist tie that's holding the accessory box in

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place that box contains all the screws you need to assemble your system so um

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please don't lose it and for that matter don't lose that twist tie twist ties are

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a handy dandy reusable way of doing cable management later on you can even

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cut them to size according to what you need if you have nice long ones like

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this next you'll need to remove the brace that's across the side panel just

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take out the four countersunk screws and pull that out and put it somewhere safe

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make sure you also put those screws somewhere safe i recommend the accessory

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box that already contains all of your other screws

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now it is time to replace all the fans that came with your case if you want to

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the ones that come with it are decent but we're throwing inspector pro so yeah

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it'll be much more difficult to try and do this later so make sure you do fans pretty much first we'll start at the

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bottom by removing the air shield that comes on the case i don't plan to

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reinstall this because we're going to need that airflow space next we'll

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remove the four screws that are holding in the bottom fan

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take off the stock fan and then we're going to reuse those screws to replace

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it with our spectre pro i also changed the orientation to turn this one into an

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intake to bring fresh air to both my CPU heatsink and also up to my graphics

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cards we then repeat that same procedure for the rear fan replacing it this time

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with a 140 millimeter spectre pro just to get a little bit more airflow just a

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reminder here guys make sure you're checking your fan orientations as you're

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installing each of them it's nice to have logos the right side up in the

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finished build but it's even nicer to have short easy to manage runs to the

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fan headers on your motherboard once everything's installed now we would have

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liked to install more fans in the top of this case two 120 millimeter fans up

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there would have been absolutely perfect for fresh air for those graphics cards

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but unfortunately the fans don't quite fit between the metal of our chassis and

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the plastic outer layer and when given the choice between a board with tight

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spacing between the graphics cards which would cause one of the cards to be

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starved for airflow but it allow top fans to be installed for even better

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airflow to the other card and then going with this board which offers much better

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graphics card spacing but doesn't allow for those top fans to be installed on

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the other side um i think we that was a sacrifice we were

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willing to make not to mention of course having the graphics card spaced out like

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that gives us a future expansion and the ability to install another pci express

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card here power supply installation starts by taking out the thumb screw that holds in

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the power supply bracket here at the front of the case

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the holes on this bracket do allow for the fan on the power supply to face

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inward towards the components or outwards towards the front of the case

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where it can take in air from these little vents on the side at the front

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here but the design of the case favors

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inward facing for my build however i don't have much air intake because i

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wasn't able to install those top fans so in order to keep my intake and exhaust

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as balanced as i can which is optimal for cooling i wanted to install the

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power supply with the fan facing towards the front of the case so it could pull

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in its own fresh air then exhausted out the bottom of the chassis without

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affecting the pressure of the inside of the case the air pressure

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so i had to do a quick double check to make sure that all of my cables would

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reach with acceptable cable management to the places that they needed to go and

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then i was ready to commit and screw the bracket into the power supply in my

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chosen orientation now i'd like to take this opportunity to point out that the

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pure power 700 watt power supply we're using is by no means the only option for

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this build in fact it's not even really that high end for something that's like

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an ultimate build i was just trying to make a point that modular power supplies

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like this Corsair ax860i aren't always

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the best option especially when you're planning to use all of the connected

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cables anyway because modular power supplies tend to be larger to

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accommodate that modular interface so as long as we can manage the cables or use

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them all we're not really getting any benefit out of the modular interface the

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other point i was trying to make is about the power efficiency of the

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components we're using this 700 watt power supply will handle it i'll show

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you guys that at the end of the video but with all that said it's only an 80

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plus bronze power supply and all that so an ax860i or something similar would

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also be a great choice for this particular build i guess the other thing

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is whoops excuse me we always use modular power supplies so i'm shaking

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things up a little bit anyway to finish up the power supply installation we

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align the little notches on the bracket slide the power supply now connected to

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the bracket back in put the thumb screw back in place and then flip the case

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over so that we can plug in the pass-through

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cable that allows the power supply to be installed in the front of the case it's

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a little bit tricky it's a little bit of a tight fit but uh we managed to get it

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in there now is also a good time to flip that power supply switch to the on

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position if it has one to save yourself some headache later when you finish the

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build press the power button on the front of the system and it doesn't turn

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on and you're like oh what's wrong with that it's just the power button on the bottom

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of the power supply but you didn't think of it because it's on the bottom of this case

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so before putting in the motherboard there are a few things that we're going to need from the motherboard box grab

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your i o shield your sli bridge and your SATA cables we'll need the i o shield

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now but the other two you can put aside for later installing the i o shield is a

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little bit tricky in this case remember that the motherboard is 180 degrees off

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the normal upright orientation so your io shield will go in upside down

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compared to normal make sure you get that right at this stage

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next find the motherboard standoffs in your box of case screws they look a

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little something like this then grab the little included tool that

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adapts your phillips head screwdriver to a standoff socket there are four

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standoffs already installed but you'll need to use that little tool to install

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four additional ones here here here and here

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now guys you can see that our power supply is actually already in from our

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test fit but don't worry we're going to show you the whole installation process

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in just a moment in really small cases like this it can

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be handy to pre-connect some of the cables to your motherboard before

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actually lowering the motherboard into the case particularly the 8-pin CPU

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connector is going to be hard to reach with that large CPU heatsink nearby so

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we pre-connected the 8-pin and the 24-pin atx connector it's important here

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though to note that we aren't able to fully install the power supply until

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after the motherboard is screwed in place due to space constraints

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particularly with that large heat sink screwing in the motherboard is pretty

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easy but make sure guys that you're using a long enough screwdriver and i

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would highly recommend using a magnetic one so just put the eight screws into

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the eight different places where they go and again please use a magnetic

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screwdriver because otherwise screws can fall into little nooks and crannies in

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the case where they're extremely difficult to retrieve a magnetic

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screwdriver will not damage your components the magnets are not nearly

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strong enough we'll take this chance now to put our

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power supply back in but don't worry guys the details for that are coming in

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in a second so just sorry don't don't mind the power supply don't mind the man

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behind the curtain um and now is also a good time to connect our fans to the

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appropriate headers we could plug them directly into the power supply but i

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prefer using the onboard connectors on the motherboard to enable BIOS and

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software level fan control once the system is up and running

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now normally we do cable management as a finishing touch but the way we're doing

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this build forces us to do it now while we can actually still get it anything

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the first step is to figure out exactly which connectors we're going to need

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from the power supply and jam all the extra ones behind the power supply where

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it can be completely out of sight and out of the way of our airflow we'll use

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some zip ties to keep them in place because they're so tight that i don't

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think twist ties will do the trick in this case next we'll position the side panel with

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the front connectors next to the case on the left hand side

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remember not the side it came on then we'll pass all those cables through to

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the front first we'll plug in the front panel hd audio then the front usb 3

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these connectors are both keyed and or missing pins so they'll only go in one

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way just be gentle with them and then finally the front power and reset

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switches as well as the front power and drive activity leds now bitfenix doesn't

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color their positive wires which gives it a very clean look but also makes it a

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little bit difficult to figure out which one's the positive wires so you will

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need to match up the wire indicated in your manual where it needs the positive

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one with the tiny little arrow on the

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corresponding front header so guys look

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really carefully at it and make sure you get these right in fact at

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this stage even though there's no graphics card in here you can do a quick power on test and make sure that the

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leds illuminate because if you get this wrong now you'll be tearing out your

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graphics cards if you need to fix it in order to get at that little spot

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speaking of graphics cards next we can tuck our pci express cables out of the

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way we will need those soon though when we install the video card so just a

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twist tile do the trick to to make sure that you know they're just out of our

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way so we can figure out what we're doing and then the next bit is just

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one way of doing this okay so if we were using the included cross brace with the

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case we could simply install our three and a half inch drive and our two and a

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half inch SSD on here throw that into the case and that would work just fine

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that's the way it's intended to be used we came up with a bit of a different

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idea though i wanted a cleaner look to the internals so i had to grab a couple

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of longer SATA cables and i'm going to be running them down to the bottom of

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the case where i'll be kind of ghetto mounting the SSD on top of the hard drive i'll show you all that in a minute

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but it's up to you which way you want to do it one other thing i like about this

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approach with not having the cross brace in there is that it gives me the option

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to add a side panel window as like a diy mod later on in the future so it's

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totally up to you anyway i grabbed those data cables plugged them into the

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motherboard one little trick that i use is because i can never remember for

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stacked SATA cables for stacked right angle SATA cable connectors which one is

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zero and which one's one like which is the first port is i'll usually plug them

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into completely different stacks so that it's easy to

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figure out which one is the first one in the boot order by default in the BIOS

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and i'll plug my SSD into that one so that if i ever reset my BIOS i don't

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have to remember to go and manually reset my SSD as the boot device it's

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just a nice little building trick for you anyway once that's done you've got

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pretty much everything plugged into the board and it's time to tuck everything

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nicely behind that left side panel and close it up don't force this if it's not

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closing check what it's stuck on readjust and

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try again clean cable management is not worth damaging something so just take

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your time and go slow once you do get great cable management going on though

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it's very satisfying and having the pci express slot area nice and tidy is great

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for airflow for your graphics cards and will help them run cooler and last

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longer all right so here it is guys the

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not really recommended way that i'm installing my drives into the machine i

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am going to put both of them rather than here

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right down there under the CPU heatsink there's

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lots of airflow from the fans around there but obviously there is a problem

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there aren't enough mounting points for two drives more on that later anyway

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first we're going to mount our hard drive these rubber grommets and screws

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will do nicely for that so just put the grommets in from the bottom of the case

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then position the drive in place with the SATA connectors towards the side

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panel then screw it in from the bottom alright so there wasn't really any

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trouble there well no this is where the magic starts guys i'm going to put my

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SSD right here on top of the hard drive how

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you might ask well with a very famous canadian invention

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velcro just put this stuff on the back of the SSD stick it to the top of the

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hard drive and you are ready to rock next install the SATA power cables and

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say the data cables onto both drives and then run them along the bottom of the

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case for better cable management now that we've done so much work to

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prepare ourselves for GPU installation it's actually pretty straightforward all

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we do is turn the case around and we find oh this has a tool-less pci slot

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mounting mechanism so just undo the screw there lift it up you're going to

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have to remove the pci slot covers that are already in there because they're in

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the way for us to install our graphics cards then

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grab one graphics card i'd probably recommend doing the top one first and

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then carefully maneuver it into the case what you'll probably have to do is put

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it kind of butt end in first into the five and a quarter inch bay that of

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course we can't use because our system is so full of other gear in spite of the

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fact that it's in there and in spite of the fact that the front of the case

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actually doesn't even have a spot for it you know that's the that's the phenomenon for you anyway uh so you go

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ahead and put that in and then press it down firmly then follow up with the

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second card pressing it down firmly then go around to the back put that last pci

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cover in unless you have another expansion card such as a sound card or

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raid card or you know i don't know like a red rocket

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card or whatever you want to do with this awesome little machine that is

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aside from putting in additional slot covers put the screw back in place and

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then just plug those bad boys in since you

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put the pci express power cables exactly

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where you were going to need them earlier on in the build they're right there so one eight pin and one six pin

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connector for each of the graphics cards and we are pretty much done here folks

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okay well we're not quite done we're finished the hardware which brings us to

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software number one is in a system with two drives i've seen Windows do this

447
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stupid thing enough times that i recommend physically unplugging the

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drive you don't want any of your Windows files on so go ahead and unplug the hard

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drive from time to time it stores the boot manager on one drive and then the

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actual os on the other drive so the system can't boot without both of them

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in which is ridiculous so that's just one little tip for you guys then when we

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get into the BIOS there's a couple little configuration tips that are just

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even just basic stuff like not overclocking or anything like that so just make sure that hci mode is enabled

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for all of your SATA ports and ensure that all of the components are detected

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correctly your memory is running at the correct speed and all of that good stuff

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next up Windows installation is a snap if you know how don't worry about the

457
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lack of a disk drive in this machine you can just grab all the files off of a

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disk copy them to a blank usb drive and boot from that it's faster and more

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convenient in fact most of the techies i know just have a dedicated usb drive for

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doing os installations just like that drivers are the next thing and there's

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something that many people struggle with but it's not too overwhelming if you

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break it down even devices that already have drivers

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installed so Windows update will grab drivers automatically for a lot of this

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stuff i would recommend grabbing the latest ones directly from the

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manufacturer website so you can start with Gigabyte they make your motherboard

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so they should have the latest Intel chipset drivers lan or network drivers

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and sound drivers but then when you're finished with that you can just do a

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double check and you know head over to Intel's site bigfoot site real tech site

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or whoever else manufacture might manufacture the actual chips on the

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board itself but as a catch-all the Gigabyte website should be fine and then

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you'll also need to go to NVIDIA's website to get the latest drivers for your graphics cards you can pick up

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GeForce experience and it'll continue to keep them up to date on its own now if

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there's something that you're having trouble finding a driver for here's a

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little trick that i use go to the device manager right click the component in

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00:34:27,839 --> 00:34:37,040
question then just go to details and use the drop down box to go to hardware id

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then google the then underscore number

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00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:42,800
number number and device underscore number number number string and it will

478
00:34:40,879 --> 00:34:46,560
usually tell you exactly what that device is so then you can google that

479
00:34:44,399 --> 00:34:50,320
and you can find a driver for it so now it's conclusion time guys i'd

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00:34:48,639 --> 00:34:55,280
like to talk about a couple things so one is some performance numbers and some

481
00:34:52,960 --> 00:35:00,880
temperature numbers for our system small systems no longer need to perform

482
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any differently from big systems this right here has a core i7 4770k perfectly

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00:35:04,240 --> 00:35:12,880
capable of overclocking it also has two gtx 780 ti's it will perform as well as

484
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:17,520
a much larger system that has that same hardware and in terms of temperatures

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honestly considering the size of this little beast i think you guys will be

486
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pre quite impressed by the numbers that we're showing you right now this is

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under a gaming load so a real world load

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scenario so let's talk about an overall trend as

489
00:35:29,839 --> 00:35:35,440
well aside from this is a great performing reasonably quiet actually

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that kind of impressed me i'm quite impressed by that you want to go into the BIOS and configure fan control if

491
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:44,240
you want to make it this quiet but you know even running at full speed i

492
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:47,760
think it probably won't bother most people anyway very very quiet so aside

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from the performance and the quiet and the compactness let's talk about the

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trend towards comportability and smaller

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00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:59,920
size in the industry in general i think the mac pro is a very interesting

496
00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:05,119
comparison here now this isn't as powerful as a mac pro particularly one

497
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:09,280
with a 12 core CPU in it i mean the mac pro is more um

498
00:36:07,359 --> 00:36:13,520
workstation oriented it supports quad channel memory it's got dual workstation

499
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:16,960
grade graphics cards in it as opposed to consumer grade graphics cards although

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00:36:15,119 --> 00:36:21,119
we could put workstation grade graphics cards in here but it's also

501
00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:25,520
very very very small on the other hand this system is a

502
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little bit bigger it's a very heavy hitter for its intended use which is

503
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heavy gaming and light video editing or other content creation and in my mind

504
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:38,480
it's much more flexible it's much more

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upgradable especially right now this is this is another trend that may

506
00:36:40,240 --> 00:36:48,079
or may not take off but apple's certainly banking on it

507
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:52,320
less internal expansion and more external expansion i talked a lot while

508
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:56,720
we were doing this build guide about why i liked this particular board for its

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ability to allow us to expand and put dual graphics cards in it and then even

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00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:05,520
expand further and add an additional pci express slot in it

511
00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:11,119
apple has not given the option at all to expand either

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via pci express or even the internal

513
00:37:11,119 --> 00:37:17,440
drives of the device you can just get a bigger single pci express SSD and that's

514
00:37:15,359 --> 00:37:23,200
pretty much all you can do they want you to use Thunderbolt an external expansion

515
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:28,560
option in order to get things like high throughput storage uh professional grade

516
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:33,520
expansion cards like capture cards or red rocket cards or other devices um and

517
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:37,680
they want you to do all that outside the the case so you can actually get like

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00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:41,680
Thunderbolt to pci express enclosures and things like that and i just have to

519
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:46,240
wonder a little bit if this isn't a better middle ground because we're

520
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:50,320
getting that compactness although so it's small enough to sit next to your

521
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:53,760
monitor without being so small that it's you know really really tiny and

522
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:58,880
impressively small but we actually get some internal expansion i gotta wonder

523
00:37:56,000 --> 00:38:02,960
if the person who wants a tiny little mac pro

524
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:06,480
wants an octopus of Thunderbolt cables coming out of it connected to their

525
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:09,760
monitor and then you know external storage box one and two and three and

526
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:13,280
four as they end up needing more things i mean we could still put a couple more

527
00:38:11,359 --> 00:38:16,560
drives in this thing without even resorting to anything external

528
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:19,839
whatsoever just by putting this bracket back into the machine so

529
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:26,160
there you go guys this to me is a fantastic option it's a pc of course you

530
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:32,480
could probably find a way to hack and tosh it if you really wanted to run os 10 and i'll be interested to see where

531
00:38:30,240 --> 00:38:37,200
we go from here now we focused a lot throughout this build

532
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:42,480
guide as well on the high end potential of this system how it's got 4770k and

533
00:38:39,839 --> 00:38:47,119
like dual 780 ti's and it ended up being very expensive but i want to also talk

534
00:38:44,720 --> 00:38:52,160
about some recommended ways to scale back and get better bang for the buck

535
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:55,839
out of it by going with a 4670k

536
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:58,160
a single gtx 770 or 780 and a smaller

537
00:38:55,839 --> 00:39:02,160
SSD and hard drive you could actually build a system quite like this but push

538
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:05,920
the price point down to the point where it really doesn't cost any more than a

539
00:39:03,599 --> 00:39:09,200
regular desktop machine and still offers great expandability for the future so

540
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:13,680
maybe it's not the kind of thing where you're going to chuck your current pc in the garbage and go buy one of these but

541
00:39:11,839 --> 00:39:17,359
next time you're shopping for a pc whether you move it around a lot and

542
00:39:15,359 --> 00:39:21,440
attend lan events or you don't it just sits in one place you may want to

543
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:25,280
consider a small machine do you need all that expansion or is this the

544
00:39:23,839 --> 00:39:29,280
interesting middle ground between something like the mac pro and something

545
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:33,440
like a full-fledged atx desktop tower anyway guys until next time thank you

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00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:36,640
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so

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you