so about a month ago origin PC did a live stream of building a very special
machine one for me so it's finally here
in a massive wooden crate and
naturally the first thing I'll be doing is tearing it apart welcome to another
unbuild log here on minus Tech tips if I
could only get this on the table
okay so I don't know who came up with Origins premium shipping containers but
this thing is amazing it actually feels
like the stuff inside is worth
$4,000 which in this case is probably
because it is it's quite a high-end config so you start by removing all the
screws from the top of the wooden crate
you can do this by
hand but I would strongly recommend that you whip out an electric drill if you're
not looking to uh beef up those forearms
then the side comes off you slide the cardboard box out of the wooden crate
remove these plastic lock things and lift the whole top of the box up to
reveal the accessory carton with some good stuff like extra power supply
cables uh magnetic Wi-Fi antennas and
ooh an RGB lighting controller and some Le L useful stuff like CDs and a DVI to
VGA adapter as well as the most glorious
Soft Cell foam I have ever laid my hands on I mean I know I'm going on and on
about the packaging at this point but it just keeps getting better the case is
shrouded in this cloth scratch cover and when you lift that off bam more badass
foam this uh bag stuff works by mixing a
couple of expanding chemicals when you break the internal separator kind of
like a glow stick then what it does is it expands to fill in all the nooks and
crannies making it much safer to ship systems with graphics cards
pre-installed I remember looking into these back when I worked for a system
integrator we got a couple of samples and then decided against it due to the
uh ching ching that they were going to cost us now I've seen Origins Millennium
case at shows but I've never really been
handson with it it is surprisingly well thought out mine is a midtower
configuration without the modular bottom piece for more drives or Cooling and
with a beautiful red accent paint job that goes perfectly with the component
choices inside I let them pick the hardware since they're the ones ponying
up for the system here so I removed this back cover this is here because the
motherboard can go in four different ways or something like that so the io
might not always end up going to the rear and fired up the system there's
that RGB lighting it's got the same basic controls as you'd expect so
whatever color you want on the inside uh
sort of front top side accent pieces and the front logo but with a Twist there's
a button on the case that you can push to control a completely separate UV LED
strip I don't have any UV reactive Parts in this machine but it's a nice touch
for those who do with the system fired up I checked out the pre-installed
programs actually nothing too bad in here and then I ran some stress tests to
ensure that system temperatures and performance were as expected one cool
note is that while I took my readings from Ida 64 and software the CPU temp
can also be read from a little display directly on the motherboard cool the
video cards brought about the first challenge in my unbuild even I fix it
couldn't save me from these skinny holes to reach the GPU screws so I needed my
old Jeweler screwdrivers and a pair of pliers to extract them and actually no
not quite I also needed some side Cutters since the PCI Express power
connectors were cleverly cable managed to the fan power for the video card so
they would not move at all speaking of
the video card though these are MSI gaming series GTX 980 TI normally I
prefer rear exhaust cards but this case
has ample air flow between the rear top
and bottom fans for the extra heat that gets blown around inside the case and
these types of coolers do do a better job of keeping the card itself cool and
you can see that in the results from cooling even though it was 32° outside
on the day that I was doing this testing the CPU Cooler is a custom jobby from
acitech you can tell from the design of the hold down with Origins branding on
the Block and the long quinch tubes go over to the front where they're
connected to the radiator before we look at that though we'll pull out the CPU
the core i7 67 100K is pretty much the
perfect choice for a system of this class as long as you don't intend to add
more graphics cards or a ton more PCI Express expansion cards keeping it cool
is a massive triple 120 mm radiator
something I had wished for from the major AI makers for ages with three
origin branded fans running through a clever little Cable Management grommet
to a fan Splitter on a custom PCB near the front of the chassis hiding behind
the 5 and a quarter inch Bay it should be noted that this is one of the few
things on this case that is not symmetrical for power it doesn't get
much more Overkill than a 1,300 watt EVGA G2 and while the
Supernova blows up everything and takes
everything else with it branding of evga's power supplies doesn't make a ton
of sense to me I can't argue with the quality or in this case the cable
management I don't know why more case makers like
people who just make cases not origin
who has their case designed and put systems in it I don't know why more case
makers don't build their products like this there are so many cable management
points they cost nothing extra to manufacture and make life so much easier
for the Builder who wants to do a professional job of cable management
behind the motherboard tray Origins motherboard choice is a little more
Overkill than I would normally opt for for a personal system but I can't fault
the features of the z170a gaming M9 a it's got the onboard
sound isolated from the rest of the PCB dual m.2 slots for up to two m.2 ssds
it's got a ton of IO including USB type-c dual front USB 3 headers for the
four front ports on this case it's got ample Cooling and a flashy thank
goodness I don't have to install anything but the be driver killer
networking solution for RAM it appears
at first that they've gone with plain Jane dual Channel hyperx Fury ddr4 but
wait what's that I want hyperx REM with
my name on it that is freaking awesome
which I guess leads us to mass storage I really liked the hot swap system for
this case one of the weird things is that only three of the bays are plugged
in out of the factory so you might have to guess and check a little to find out
which ones have SATA connections there's no reason that they shouldn't have been
able to run a couple more cables and do them all but overall the 1 TB Seagate
drive that ships in the system should be well protected and well cooled by this
aluminum 5 Bay hot swap cage with expansion being a piece of cake our
optical drive is well you guessed it it's an optical drive woohoo it's one of
those things that used to have sex appeal actually and now is about as
interesting to enthusiasts as a USB powered Jack Lantern probably less there
are a few things that I want to take a closer look at here on the case it took
me a while but I finally figured out the front logo illumination and how that
happens without any power leads going to it there's an LED that comes out of that
custom PCB that they have in the in the front top of the case that handles the
IR receiver for the RGB lighting as as well as all the front IO and front
buttons and all of that good stuff I also figured out how they mount the
motherboard in the different configurations so you just take these
rails unscrew them and there are just a
ton of holes in this baby so depending
on what orientation you want to mount it in let's say we wanted a reverse ATX you
just move them around to where they go and you slide the motherboard tray in
the other way you put some screws back in and there you have it while I was
doing that though I discovered that one of the RGB lighting strips was in the
way of trying to orient the motherboard the other way and it turns out this is
really cool origin actually did up their own RGB lighting strips they've actually
like got their name right on the back of the pcbs so these use a hard PCB rather
than a flexible one and then they are hard mounted with standoffs and screws
to the case rather than rying on adhesive cuz if as you guys probably
know if you've ever used LED strips that adhesive can come off pretty easily
especially over time that's an over-engineered solution to the problem
of LED strips falling off in shipping but I really really like it so there you
have it guys my unbuild treatment of origin PC's Masterpiece
is complete I have reduced it to its
bare components and if you guys were thinking well gee
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