WEBVTT 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 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, 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:12.960 we need computer parts. I wonder where we'll get them. 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:14.680 This looks promising. Let's go this way. 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:23.440 The Corsair 2000D is Corsair's first mini-ITX case in a long time. 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. 00:00:27.560 --> 00:00:31.000 I'm thankful that they went for the vertical style enclosure. I really like that. 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 00:00:34.800 --> 00:00:37.800 of doing something horizontal saves you a ton of room. 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 00:00:42.040 --> 00:00:46.600 with the competition? Only one way to find out. Let's build in it. 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. 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:54.640 Just this. We've got some zip ties, some fan screws, 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:58.920 and motherboard mount. That's it. Pretty bare bones. Taking a look around the case. 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. 00:01:03.480 --> 00:01:06.580 It's going to let us access our GPU, all of our ports, basically. 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. 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:16.120 This is a cable run. For I'm going to assume a power supply extension, 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. 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. 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:30.680 As a combo headphone microphone jack. Looking at the design of the case, 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:33.920 I do like the triangle pattern that they have continued. 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:37.320 This is more of the mesh format, as opposed to like a larger triangle metal grid. 00:01:37.320 --> 00:01:40.360 I will say, it feels like a lot of plastic. 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. 00:01:45.720 --> 00:01:49.440 But hey, better to have and not need than to need and not have. 00:01:49.440 --> 00:01:52.960 But yeah, every side panel is this perforated mesh. 00:01:52.960 --> 00:01:56.160 It is very dense, which makes me wonder a little bit 00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:59.280 about air flow. They have this triangle pattern, 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:03.400 as well as further mesh on the inside, all over the case. 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:07.440 But they do this annoying thing, where these aren't easily removable mesh filters, 00:02:07.440 --> 00:02:11.240 they're not magnetic. You can see that they're bent into the case. 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. 00:02:16.640 --> 00:02:20.320 It's really an elegant. And then also, this mesh doesn't have an easy way 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. 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. 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:30.960 I just realized on the back, we do have a magnetic filter. 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:34.320 This is exactly what I'm talking about. That's so much easier to clean. 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. 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. 00:02:42.760 --> 00:02:46.080 Oh, and that's actually really nice. This is something that not enough case manufacturers do. 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. 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 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 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:03.200 from LTTstore.com. You know, Corsair, I'm gonna call you out. 00:03:03.200 --> 00:03:07.480 I would have liked thumb screws for this. We have room for three 120 millimeter fans 00:03:07.480 --> 00:03:11.720 or for two 148 millimeter fans, as well as we have options to mount some fans 00:03:11.720 --> 00:03:14.960 at the back here. So airflow and radiator supports, actually gonna be really good 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:19.040 because you could put a 320 here, a 320 here, or a 280, 00:03:19.040 --> 00:03:22.600 or you could even put one at the front. And depending on the GPU you have, 00:03:22.600 --> 00:03:25.680 you can fit up to a 240 millimeter radiator in the back. 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 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:34.880 at 365 millimeters in length, up to a 90 millimeter CPU cooler height, 00:03:34.880 --> 00:03:38.600 not super tall, but this is an AIO focused case, 00:03:38.600 --> 00:03:42.120 as well as SFX and SFX L power supplies. No ATX, sadly. 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:45.480 Now that we can actually see inside the case, there's a lot of bundled cables. 00:03:45.480 --> 00:03:48.720 We have a ton of cables just for the RGB. You know, Corsair and their RGB, 00:03:48.720 --> 00:03:52.400 they're all about it. As well as long IO cables. Honestly, confusingly long, 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:56.080 since they only need to get to like here-ish. That's a lot of slack. 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. 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. 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. 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. 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:14.600 Apparently this can support up to three, two and a half inch drives. 00:04:14.600 --> 00:04:17.600 You can do two with drive caddies, but we only got one. 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. 00:04:22.460 --> 00:04:25.500 There's also no removable motherboard tray, which is okay. 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 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. 00:04:31.940 --> 00:04:35.380 Excuse me, do you know what power supply I should get? What would you recommend? 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. 00:04:39.300 --> 00:04:45.060 SFX-L 1000 Watts. Would you guys help us by choosing a AIO cooler? 00:04:45.060 --> 00:04:50.220 So you want the Gala hat? Okay. We're going with the Leon Lee Gala hat. 00:04:50.220 --> 00:04:54.500 What's the next thing? The video cards. Do you have a recommendation? 7900 XTX. 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. 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. 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? 00:05:06.380 --> 00:05:10.180 Yeah, so I was thinking to go in 7800 X3D. Oh, okay, sweet. 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, 00:05:13.900 --> 00:05:19.020 and I need it to be mini ITX. What about that ROG Strix X670? 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? 00:05:23.860 --> 00:05:28.140 The Evo's a good choice. Okay. That would probably be my choice actually. 00:05:28.140 --> 00:05:31.980 The Evo? And what about one of these gumsticks? Probably the P5. 00:05:31.980 --> 00:05:35.340 The P5? Yeah. Okay, sweet. Thank you very much. 00:05:35.340 --> 00:05:38.620 I need RAM for my system. I need it. It's DDR5. 00:05:38.620 --> 00:05:41.620 DDR5? Can you recommend me a kit? 64 GB. 00:05:41.620 --> 00:05:44.900 Okay, sweet. The Dominator? Cool, awesome. 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. 00:05:50.300 --> 00:05:54.460 We got the ROG Strix X670EI gaming Wi-Fi, 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 00:05:59.660 --> 00:06:04.180 from a mini ITX board, including an incredibly tall daughter board 00:06:04.180 --> 00:06:07.380 like scenario thing. This thing's really weird. You have one chipset on the motherboard 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. 00:06:11.900 --> 00:06:16.460 Let's get our CPU installed. Let's start there. At 5,200 megatransfer per second, 00:06:16.460 --> 00:06:19.700 this isn't the best selection of RAM we could have had. Ideally for Ryzen 7, 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. 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 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. 00:06:32.980 --> 00:06:36.260 The Crucial P5 Plus is a really just solid SSD. 00:06:36.260 --> 00:06:39.260 It's a great selection, reliable. Crucial's awesome. 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. 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. 00:06:49.660 --> 00:06:52.980 Like it's pretty wild. Now that we're at this point in the build, 00:06:52.980 --> 00:06:56.060 I do kind of wish I could take one more side panel off. 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, 00:07:00.620 --> 00:07:04.380 you don't got much wiggle room, right? Like you take this motherboard and even then 00:07:04.380 --> 00:07:07.940 you don't have a ton of extra space. Oh, that's interesting. Okay. 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, 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 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. 00:07:23.300 --> 00:07:27.860 Our power supply bracket goes in here, which gives us two options with the power supply. 00:07:27.860 --> 00:07:30.860 We can mount it like this with the fan getting fresher from the outside. 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 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, 00:07:40.860 --> 00:07:44.980 you will have to route your power cable like this, which isn't exactly pretty. 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, 00:07:49.100 --> 00:07:52.260 things are looking like they're going to get a little crowded. 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, 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. 00:08:01.700 --> 00:08:05.640 You could hardline cable it. I am curious if this GPU is actually going to fit. 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. 00:08:10.340 --> 00:08:13.540 Why is it so big? Is this a four slot card? 00:08:13.540 --> 00:08:14.900 This legit might not fit. 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 00:08:21.140 --> 00:08:25.060 is that it has to be smaller than this. How about just like a 4070? 00:08:25.060 --> 00:08:28.860 Okay, a 4070, which one should we choose? There's a Spider-Man one. 00:08:28.860 --> 00:08:31.900 I'm not, no influence. Don't listen to me. No, it looks good. 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? 00:08:35.140 --> 00:08:38.500 Yeah. Okay, cool. Thank you very much. Absolutely. 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. 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. 00:08:49.060 --> 00:08:53.540 Spider-Man stickers? A thing? Oh, it's a magnetic back plate. 00:08:53.540 --> 00:08:58.580 It's swappable. And this is a much more logically sized card. 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. 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. 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. 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, 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, 00:09:20.140 --> 00:09:23.580 which is not ideal. What I would do if I had more time, 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 00:09:28.900 --> 00:09:32.420 with fresher going into your CPU. Your GPU is right up against the side, 00:09:32.420 --> 00:09:35.580 pulling in cool air, and then you're exhausting it out the front. 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, 00:09:39.860 --> 00:09:43.100 they have this stick in the way. If you're somebody who prefers function 00:09:43.100 --> 00:09:46.300 a little bit more than form, then maybe you'd turn around. 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 00:09:49.620 --> 00:09:53.340 because I got the cooler in. And then I think it's time for the GPU. 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, 00:09:57.020 --> 00:10:00.060 it doesn't really have a good solution for cable management. 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 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. 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. 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 00:10:16.060 --> 00:10:19.300 and all of these cables out of the way. This is a nightmare. 00:10:19.300 --> 00:10:23.140 What a mess we've made for ourselves. GPU goes in. 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. 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 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. 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, 00:10:41.020 --> 00:10:44.380 which means that it probably just isn't plugged in 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? 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, 00:10:53.100 --> 00:10:56.380 but there's not any sort of life when we press the power button. 00:10:56.380 --> 00:11:00.020 But we just realized that by trying to move all these cables around and manage stuff, 00:11:00.020 --> 00:11:03.500 we accidentally unplugged the 24 pin from the power supply. 00:11:03.500 --> 00:11:06.740 So, if I plug this in, 00:11:06.740 --> 00:11:10.260 we should, this is hard. Okay, okay. 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. 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 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 00:11:22.740 --> 00:11:25.820 building in a form factor case. The extra space, a lot of it for part compatibility 00:11:25.820 --> 00:11:30.020 does kind of help you out, but still, it just feels a little restrictive 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 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 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, 00:11:41.500 --> 00:11:45.740 especially with a longer device. You'd probably wanna consider getting like a USB hub 00:11:45.740 --> 00:11:50.060 if you were gonna use this kind of case. Hey, there we go, we posted everybody. 00:11:50.060 --> 00:11:55.180 We did it, we did it. We did it, we did it. 00:11:55.180 --> 00:11:59.340 That was a close one. This case comes in at $200 US, 00:11:59.340 --> 00:12:02.540 but it's entering into a pretty competitive market where there are great alternatives. 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, 00:12:06.620 --> 00:12:09.660 but I'm just glad to see Corsair embracing the ITX community again, 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. 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 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. 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 00:12:26.180 --> 00:12:29.540 off your purchase of $100 or more. And if you just saw me build this computer 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 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, 00:12:37.180 --> 00:12:40.540 so I guess we don't wanna take this. 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 00:12:44.660 --> 00:12:48.180 join us for this build that we've been doing live in the Indianapolis store, 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 00:12:51.860 --> 00:12:55.300 who's wearing ShortCircuit merch right now. 00:12:55.300 --> 00:12:58.420 So here you go, sir. This entire computer is yours. 00:12:58.420 --> 00:13:02.980 Congratulations. I hope you enjoy your new computer, and yeah, have fun. 00:13:04.660 --> 00:13:06.660 Do you wanna shake? Do you wanna shake me like?