1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,440 We're at the brand new Micro Center in Indianapolis. Micro Center sponsored us to come all the way down here 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:08,880 to check out the new Corsair 2000D. But if we're going to look at a case, 3 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:12,960 we need computer parts. I wonder where we'll get them. 4 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:14,680 This looks promising. Let's go this way. 5 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:23,440 The Corsair 2000D is Corsair's first mini-ITX case in a long time. 6 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:27,520 And a lot of people were really excited when they heard that Corsair was releasing a new enclosure. 7 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:31,000 I'm thankful that they went for the vertical style enclosure. I really like that. 8 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,800 You have a limited amount of space on your desk. So having this kind of vertical thing instead 9 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,800 of doing something horizontal saves you a ton of room. 10 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:42,040 But the mini-ITX market is getting more and more competitive. So the question is, will this be able to keep up 11 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:46,600 with the competition? Only one way to find out. Let's build in it. 12 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:51,200 Before we take a look at the case, let's take a look at what was in the box. 13 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,640 Just this. We've got some zip ties, some fan screws, 14 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:58,920 and motherboard mount. That's it. Pretty bare bones. Taking a look around the case. 15 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:03,480 The bottom of the case, we've got some rubberized feet. Down here, we have a bottom access. 16 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:06,580 It's going to let us access our GPU, all of our ports, basically. 17 00:01:06,580 --> 00:01:12,000 So you're going to be running your cables down the bottom of the case, going around the side. 18 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,120 This is a cable run. For I'm going to assume a power supply extension, 19 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:21,920 we'll find out in a bit. And on the front, we have our front I.O. Nice big power button with the yellow Corsair accents. 20 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:27,000 For front I.O., we have two USB-A ports and a USB-C that runs at 10 gigabit per second, as well. 21 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,680 As a combo headphone microphone jack. Looking at the design of the case, 22 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:33,920 I do like the triangle pattern that they have continued. 23 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:37,320 This is more of the mesh format, as opposed to like a larger triangle metal grid. 24 00:01:37,320 --> 00:01:40,360 I will say, it feels like a lot of plastic. 25 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:45,720 That's very lightweight. Also weird that it's a mesh fan filter that leads to nowhere. 26 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:49,440 But hey, better to have and not need than to need and not have. 27 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,960 But yeah, every side panel is this perforated mesh. 28 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:56,160 It is very dense, which makes me wonder a little bit 29 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:59,280 about air flow. They have this triangle pattern, 30 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:03,400 as well as further mesh on the inside, all over the case. 31 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:07,440 But they do this annoying thing, where these aren't easily removable mesh filters, 32 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:11,240 they're not magnetic. You can see that they're bent into the case. 33 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:16,640 So if you want to take these out to really give them a good, thorough cleaning, you have to like, bend the metal out. 34 00:02:16,640 --> 00:02:20,320 It's really an elegant. And then also, this mesh doesn't have an easy way 35 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:24,080 to come out. Maybe if I take the screws off and do that, it's a whole lot of work. 36 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:27,680 One thing I do love is that we have captive thumb screws, which is always nice to have. 37 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:30,960 I just realized on the back, we do have a magnetic filter. 38 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:34,320 This is exactly what I'm talking about. That's so much easier to clean. 39 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,600 I'm not sure the front panel comes off. Oh, it looks like it's just detents. 40 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:42,760 I just wasn't giving her, so. We can see our three included slim 120 millimeter fans. 41 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:46,080 Oh, and that's actually really nice. This is something that not enough case manufacturers do. 42 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:50,160 They have included cable guards, which is really nice so your wires don't accidentally hit the back of your fans and make a bunch of noise. 43 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:54,000 That's a really, really great detail. There's a lot going on inside, so we're gonna have to take this thing apart 44 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,960 a little bit further to talk about it. Luckily, I have all of my tools in my tech sack 45 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:03,200 from LTTstore.com. You know, Corsair, I'm gonna call you out. 46 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:07,480 I would have liked thumb screws for this. We have room for three 120 millimeter fans 47 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:11,720 or for two 148 millimeter fans, as well as we have options to mount some fans 48 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:14,960 at the back here. So airflow and radiator supports, actually gonna be really good 49 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:19,040 because you could put a 320 here, a 320 here, or a 280, 50 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:22,600 or you could even put one at the front. And depending on the GPU you have, 51 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:25,680 you can fit up to a 240 millimeter radiator in the back. 52 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:30,960 Being a larger ITX case, we have a little bit more room for compatibility. For example, the case supports triple slot GPUs 53 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:34,880 at 365 millimeters in length, up to a 90 millimeter CPU cooler height, 54 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:38,600 not super tall, but this is an AIO focused case, 55 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:42,120 as well as SFX and SFX L power supplies. No ATX, sadly. 56 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:45,480 Now that we can actually see inside the case, there's a lot of bundled cables. 57 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:48,720 We have a ton of cables just for the RGB. You know, Corsair and their RGB, 58 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:52,400 they're all about it. As well as long IO cables. Honestly, confusingly long, 59 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:56,080 since they only need to get to like here-ish. That's a lot of slack. 60 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:59,800 And here's the extension cable for your power supply. So it'll plug in up here. 61 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:03,440 You'll run it all the way down the back. Couldn't run it inside the case, Corsair. 62 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:06,600 Who knows, it's hiding in the back of the case. Maybe it won't be as ugly as I'm imagining. 63 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:11,280 There's a power supply bracket that comes out to make your power supply installation that much easier. 64 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:14,600 Apparently this can support up to three, two and a half inch drives. 65 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,600 You can do two with drive caddies, but we only got one. 66 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:22,460 Not sure if that's a mistake or not. And you can also mount one to the top right here. 67 00:04:22,460 --> 00:04:25,500 There's also no removable motherboard tray, which is okay. 68 00:04:25,500 --> 00:04:28,940 But it is going to be a little cramped building around this side. There's only one way to figure out 69 00:04:28,940 --> 00:04:31,940 if this is going to be fun to build in. But to do that, we'll need some hardware. 70 00:04:31,940 --> 00:04:35,380 Excuse me, do you know what power supply I should get? What would you recommend? 71 00:04:35,380 --> 00:04:39,300 Corsair's good. Corsair's good? Hey, that's perfect. Cause I'm building in a Corsair case. 72 00:04:39,300 --> 00:04:45,060 SFX-L 1000 Watts. Would you guys help us by choosing a AIO cooler? 73 00:04:45,060 --> 00:04:50,220 So you want the Gala hat? Okay. We're going with the Leon Lee Gala hat. 74 00:04:50,220 --> 00:04:54,500 What's the next thing? The video cards. Do you have a recommendation? 7900 XTX. 75 00:04:54,500 --> 00:04:58,740 700 XTX. We're going AMD today. Okay, which one though? I'd go with this ASUS one. 76 00:04:58,740 --> 00:05:02,580 Excuse me. You look like somebody who knows a thing or two about computers. I can tell by the way you're dressed. 77 00:05:02,580 --> 00:05:06,380 I need a CPU for a computer, but I'm not sure which one. Could you recommend one for me? 78 00:05:06,380 --> 00:05:10,180 Yeah, so I was thinking to go in 7800 X3D. Oh, okay, sweet. 79 00:05:10,180 --> 00:05:13,900 That's a banger of a CPU. Let's get that one. I need a motherboard for AMD, 80 00:05:13,900 --> 00:05:19,020 and I need it to be mini ITX. What about that ROG Strix X670? 81 00:05:19,020 --> 00:05:23,860 Oh, you chose the big money one. It's got the alarm on it. What SSD should I get? 82 00:05:23,860 --> 00:05:28,140 The Evo's a good choice. Okay. That would probably be my choice actually. 83 00:05:28,140 --> 00:05:31,980 The Evo? And what about one of these gumsticks? Probably the P5. 84 00:05:31,980 --> 00:05:35,340 The P5? Yeah. Okay, sweet. Thank you very much. 85 00:05:35,340 --> 00:05:38,620 I need RAM for my system. I need it. It's DDR5. 86 00:05:38,620 --> 00:05:41,620 DDR5? Can you recommend me a kit? 64 GB. 87 00:05:41,620 --> 00:05:44,900 Okay, sweet. The Dominator? Cool, awesome. 88 00:05:44,900 --> 00:05:50,300 Thank you so much. All right, we got all our stuff, and now we can get to building. 89 00:05:50,300 --> 00:05:54,460 We got the ROG Strix X670EI gaming Wi-Fi, 90 00:05:54,460 --> 00:05:59,660 a heck of a motherboard if I do say so myself. It's got pretty much everything you could want 91 00:05:59,660 --> 00:06:04,180 from a mini ITX board, including an incredibly tall daughter board 92 00:06:04,180 --> 00:06:07,380 like scenario thing. This thing's really weird. You have one chipset on the motherboard 93 00:06:07,380 --> 00:06:11,900 and then one chipset right here, specifically so that you can have a PCIe Gen 5 drive here. 94 00:06:11,900 --> 00:06:16,460 Let's get our CPU installed. Let's start there. At 5,200 megatransfer per second, 95 00:06:16,460 --> 00:06:19,700 this isn't the best selection of RAM we could have had. Ideally for Ryzen 7, 96 00:06:19,700 --> 00:06:24,020 you want something that's at 6,000 megatransfer per second to line up with your Infinity fabric. 97 00:06:24,020 --> 00:06:28,500 I just realized, I don't know if I wanna put this RAM in yet because it's so tall that it might make putting the cooler 98 00:06:28,500 --> 00:06:32,980 in kind of a pain. So we're gonna set this aside for now and we're gonna go for our SSD. 99 00:06:32,980 --> 00:06:36,260 The Crucial P5 Plus is a really just solid SSD. 100 00:06:36,260 --> 00:06:39,260 It's a great selection, reliable. Crucial's awesome. 101 00:06:39,260 --> 00:06:43,140 We love them. We have two terabytes on our boot drive so we'll have lots of space for games and stuff like that. 102 00:06:43,140 --> 00:06:49,660 And it's crazy how cheap these drives are getting these days. A two terabyte SSD is like $100 in these days. 103 00:06:49,660 --> 00:06:52,980 Like it's pretty wild. Now that we're at this point in the build, 104 00:06:52,980 --> 00:06:56,060 I do kind of wish I could take one more side panel off. 105 00:06:56,060 --> 00:07:00,620 One of the worst parts about building an any PC is having to like go deep into it. And when you're in an ITX PC, 106 00:07:00,620 --> 00:07:04,380 you don't got much wiggle room, right? Like you take this motherboard and even then 107 00:07:04,380 --> 00:07:07,940 you don't have a ton of extra space. Oh, that's interesting. Okay. 108 00:07:07,940 --> 00:07:13,660 It looks like you would be able to fit full size 25 millimeter fans, but because of the IO shield, 109 00:07:13,660 --> 00:07:18,580 it's going to force you to have to put in a slim fan, at least in the top portion. Up next, we're going to mount our power supply 110 00:07:18,580 --> 00:07:23,300 into the bracket. And because it's of course our power supply, we really get to keep the triangle theme going. 111 00:07:23,300 --> 00:07:27,860 Our power supply bracket goes in here, which gives us two options with the power supply. 112 00:07:27,860 --> 00:07:30,860 We can mount it like this with the fan getting fresher from the outside. 113 00:07:30,860 --> 00:07:35,620 But what I'm going to do is I'm going to mount it like this and that way it's going to be taking air away 114 00:07:35,620 --> 00:07:40,860 from our components and blasting them out at the top. If you want to use this as an exhaust, 115 00:07:40,860 --> 00:07:44,980 you will have to route your power cable like this, which isn't exactly pretty. 116 00:07:44,980 --> 00:07:49,100 I'm going to still going to do it. So now that I'm putting this power supply in, 117 00:07:49,100 --> 00:07:52,260 things are looking like they're going to get a little crowded. 118 00:07:52,260 --> 00:07:57,460 We chose an SFXL power supply. So it's a bit longer than your typical SFX power supply, 119 00:07:57,460 --> 00:08:01,700 which means you could probably make do with the world's shortest 24 pin cable. It's just going to go from here to here. 120 00:08:01,700 --> 00:08:05,640 You could hardline cable it. I am curious if this GPU is actually going to fit. 121 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:10,340 So we're going to check right now because we might have to resort to getting the new one. 122 00:08:10,340 --> 00:08:13,540 Why is it so big? Is this a four slot card? 123 00:08:13,540 --> 00:08:14,900 This legit might not fit. 124 00:08:16,580 --> 00:08:21,140 We got to get a new GPU. So we need any GPU. The only thing, the only requirement 125 00:08:21,140 --> 00:08:25,060 is that it has to be smaller than this. How about just like a 4070? 126 00:08:25,060 --> 00:08:28,860 Okay, a 4070, which one should we choose? There's a Spider-Man one. 127 00:08:28,860 --> 00:08:31,900 I'm not, no influence. Don't listen to me. No, it looks good. 128 00:08:31,900 --> 00:08:35,140 I think it's Spider-Man one. I think you should go with that one. That's the Spider-Man 4070? 129 00:08:35,140 --> 00:08:38,500 Yeah. Okay, cool. Thank you very much. Absolutely. 130 00:08:38,500 --> 00:08:43,580 We've swapped from team red to team green and we're now using the GeForce RTX 4070. 131 00:08:43,580 --> 00:08:49,060 Hopefully it's a little bit smaller. Fits in the case a little bit nicer. So, oh, look at that. 132 00:08:49,060 --> 00:08:53,540 Spider-Man stickers? A thing? Oh, it's a magnetic back plate. 133 00:08:53,540 --> 00:08:58,580 It's swappable. And this is a much more logically sized card. 134 00:08:58,580 --> 00:09:03,380 Thank you, Zotec, for going to the more compact route. That's going to fit in there much nicer. 135 00:09:03,380 --> 00:09:07,660 So I guess I don't need to do the test fit anymore, which is why I opened the GPU in the first place. 136 00:09:07,660 --> 00:09:11,420 But we should get to next, putting our AIO in and then wiring up the power supplies. 137 00:09:11,420 --> 00:09:15,100 I'm going to be set to exhaust because I don't want to change out the front fans. We would have, if this was an intake, 138 00:09:15,100 --> 00:09:20,140 we would have all of this air just kind of rushing in and then all trying to exhaust through our power supply, 139 00:09:20,140 --> 00:09:23,580 which is not ideal. What I would do if I had more time, 140 00:09:23,580 --> 00:09:28,900 and if I was Corsair, I would actually switch these front fans to an exhaust and then you can have like an actual reasonable flow path 141 00:09:28,900 --> 00:09:32,420 with fresher going into your CPU. Your GPU is right up against the side, 142 00:09:32,420 --> 00:09:35,580 pulling in cool air, and then you're exhausting it out the front. 143 00:09:35,580 --> 00:09:39,860 I get why they didn't do that because RGB make computer look good. And if you put them as exhausts, 144 00:09:39,860 --> 00:09:43,100 they have this stick in the way. If you're somebody who prefers function 145 00:09:43,100 --> 00:09:46,300 a little bit more than form, then maybe you'd turn around. 146 00:09:46,300 --> 00:09:49,620 We're like mostly wired up at this point. I'm going to put in my RAM finally 147 00:09:49,620 --> 00:09:53,340 because I got the cooler in. And then I think it's time for the GPU. 148 00:09:53,340 --> 00:09:57,020 And I think we're almost there. I will say for the amount of space it has, 149 00:09:57,020 --> 00:10:00,060 it doesn't really have a good solution for cable management. 150 00:10:00,060 --> 00:10:03,180 You're really kind of on your own here. You're going to be wanting to zip tie 151 00:10:03,180 --> 00:10:08,220 a lot of things, bundling them together because there's not much by the way of mounting points. 152 00:10:08,220 --> 00:10:11,580 This is like the shortest cable in the case. And they know I need to plug it in over here. 153 00:10:11,580 --> 00:10:16,060 I have not tested any of this yet. We also have to get this guy in there 154 00:10:16,060 --> 00:10:19,300 and all of these cables out of the way. This is a nightmare. 155 00:10:19,300 --> 00:10:23,140 What a mess we've made for ourselves. GPU goes in. 156 00:10:23,140 --> 00:10:27,540 This back plate's making things harder to put in because it's like slides around a little. 157 00:10:27,540 --> 00:10:30,980 I really do think this build would have been a little bit easier if I could have had access 158 00:10:30,980 --> 00:10:35,100 from one more side panel. Taking the front out would have made my life a lot easier. 159 00:10:35,100 --> 00:10:41,020 There's a light, so it's getting power. But the power button isn't causing it to turn on, 160 00:10:41,020 --> 00:10:44,380 which means that it probably just isn't plugged in 161 00:10:44,380 --> 00:10:49,540 on the I-O board, on the front panel I-O. I did plug it in, but did I plug it in wrong? 162 00:10:49,540 --> 00:10:53,100 We've had a big struggle trying to figure out why this thing wouldn't turn on. We're seeing lights on the motherboard, 163 00:10:53,100 --> 00:10:56,380 but there's not any sort of life when we press the power button. 164 00:10:56,380 --> 00:11:00,020 But we just realized that by trying to move all these cables around and manage stuff, 165 00:11:00,020 --> 00:11:03,500 we accidentally unplugged the 24 pin from the power supply. 166 00:11:03,500 --> 00:11:06,740 So, if I plug this in, 167 00:11:06,740 --> 00:11:10,260 we should, this is hard. Okay, okay. 168 00:11:10,260 --> 00:11:14,180 Oh, we had it. Let's go, we're on. We're good, okay, I'm good. 169 00:11:14,180 --> 00:11:18,940 This honestly, I'm not gonna say that this was the best building experience I've had 170 00:11:18,940 --> 00:11:22,740 in a small form factor case, but it is far from the worst experience I've had 171 00:11:22,740 --> 00:11:25,820 building in a form factor case. The extra space, a lot of it for part compatibility 172 00:11:25,820 --> 00:11:30,020 does kind of help you out, but still, it just feels a little restrictive 173 00:11:30,020 --> 00:11:34,780 because you can't take off a lot of the side panels. Also something that's gonna be a little bit inconvenient 174 00:11:34,780 --> 00:11:37,940 is that your motherboard iOS all at the bottom. So, if you have like a USB key 175 00:11:37,940 --> 00:11:41,500 or something that you need to plug in, that can be a little bit hectic and problematic, 176 00:11:41,500 --> 00:11:45,740 especially with a longer device. You'd probably wanna consider getting like a USB hub 177 00:11:45,740 --> 00:11:50,060 if you were gonna use this kind of case. Hey, there we go, we posted everybody. 178 00:11:50,060 --> 00:11:55,180 We did it, we did it. We did it, we did it. 179 00:11:55,180 --> 00:11:59,340 That was a close one. This case comes in at $200 US, 180 00:11:59,340 --> 00:12:02,540 but it's entering into a pretty competitive market where there are great alternatives. 181 00:12:02,540 --> 00:12:06,620 It's a good looking case, even if it's missing a few of the creature comforts that have been found in other cases, 182 00:12:06,620 --> 00:12:09,660 but I'm just glad to see Corsair embracing the ITX community again, 183 00:12:09,660 --> 00:12:13,740 and I really hope to see what they do next in the space. Thanks so much to Micro Center for sponsoring this video. 184 00:12:13,740 --> 00:12:17,900 Fun fact, they're opening a store in Charlotte in early 2024, and if you sign up at the link below 185 00:12:17,900 --> 00:12:21,700 in the description and then you go there, you'll get a free 128 Gigabyte flash drive. 186 00:12:21,700 --> 00:12:26,180 And if Charlotte's a little too hard to get to, you can visit any Micro Center for $25 187 00:12:26,180 --> 00:12:29,540 off your purchase of $100 or more. And if you just saw me build this computer 188 00:12:29,540 --> 00:12:33,060 and you went, that doesn't look like a ton of fun, well good news, Micro Center can build it for you 189 00:12:33,060 --> 00:12:37,180 at their knowledge bar. Now check it out in the link below. So we have to go back to Canada, 190 00:12:37,180 --> 00:12:40,540 so I guess we don't wanna take this. 191 00:12:40,540 --> 00:12:44,660 Should we give it away? I think we should. Thankfully we've had so many wonderful people 192 00:12:44,660 --> 00:12:48,180 join us for this build that we've been doing live in the Indianapolis store, 193 00:12:48,180 --> 00:12:51,820 but I think I know who I'm gonna give this to. We're gonna give it to the guy 194 00:12:51,860 --> 00:12:55,300 who's wearing ShortCircuit merch right now. 195 00:12:55,300 --> 00:12:58,420 So here you go, sir. This entire computer is yours. 196 00:12:58,420 --> 00:13:02,980 Congratulations. I hope you enjoy your new computer, and yeah, have fun. 197 00:13:04,660 --> 00:13:06,660 Do you wanna shake? Do you wanna shake me like?