a few short years ago the average Enthusiast would have told you that you
were crazy if you said you wanted to put top-of-the-line Hardware especially
graphics cards in a tiny little box like
this one now the GPU makers are practically begging for it by designing
little tiny Flagship class graphics cards so the only question that remains
then is this AMD or Invidia for your
Elite Flagship class small form factor
gaming PC
vote for turnup it's a shirt I don't have one so we're going to do our best
to demo what it looks like and this is not what the real shirt looks like it
looks a little more like this but we didn't have a sample to show you guys so
this had to do uh you can stay tuned after the outro for bonus footage of the
creation of this masterpiece if you're into that sort of thing now today's
video will focus on thals form factors
and the compromises that we need to make when deciding between the
gtx980ti and the radon R9 Fury X but as
you all know there's actually more to the story than just degrees Celsius and
FPS these days with free sync and gsync
Technology having a huge impact on the gaming experience so drop a like under
the video if you'd like to see us put these two texts head-to-head very soon
to see which one delivers the most responsive Legree gaming experi
experience for now though I'll introduce the test bench inside a Silverstone sg13
case the same one from this video where
we put an 18 core CPU and a Titan X inside it will be cramming not
necessarily the highest End Hardware but rather what I would consider to be a
very reasonable yet premium gaming PC so
we've got a 4670k CPU not overclocked 16
gigs of Corsair Vengeance RAM the rather unique
sx500 uh 500 wat sfx L power supply from
Silverstone and ASUS Maximus 6 impact
then we'll be testing that config in two different ways for the first test we've
got a referenced GTX 980ti actually the
same one we reviewed back here so this isn't a water cooled graphics card which
means we can use the radiator mounting point in the front of the case for our
CPU in our case of course our h80i then for our second configuration I
swapped out the video card which actually was a surprisingly complicated
ordeal that involved removing the power supply removing the graphics card
removing the CPU Cooler removing the motherboard to install an air cooler on
the CPU since we no longer have room for our CPU allinone liquid cooler and
reassembling everything to replace our 980 TI with the fury X whose form factor
I wasn't really sure about until well
now that I've actually used it I mean I still don't know how much sense it makes
for some cases but in the sg13 anyway it
feels like the PCB space that AMD saved
with their on package hbm memory was exactly enough to compensate for the
extra space consumed by the water cooling tubing sticking out the back of
the card and the radiator that needs to be in the front of the case now so let's
run through which of these setups performed better please note that I
consider this testing to be pretty much a worst case scenario for all Hardware
involved since the ambient temperatures are uh significantly over 30 degrees
Celsius in here first up is CPU temps I
used Ida 64 CPU test to load up our
4670k and the gtx980 ti rig thanks to
its CPU liquid cooling is the clear winner here with the CPU topping out at
a frosty 64° by contrast our small form factor
heat pipe cooler had the CPU at a still
not technically dangerous but much less impressive 87° C and that is without the
GPU underload next up is a result that I
actually didn't expect motherboard temperatures are an often overlooked yet
super important part of maintaining a stable PC and while gaming our 980ti
configuration actually ran away with this one but I also wouldn't read too
much into it because both are well within safety margins and depending on
the position of the motherboard's thermal sensor sometimes just a hotter
running CPU can result in a much higher reading for the motherboard even if air
flow around the socket from the CPU heat sink is more than adequate which leads
us to idle noise Impressions none of the
whining that I've heard Tales of online is present in either our old dead Fury X
or our new furyx samples but since both
configurations were equipped with cheap pumps and I mean I'm not saying that to
be mean to all-in-one liquid coolers or anything it's just that you're getting
what you pay for when you spend a $100 on a D5 they both had a little bit of
you know pump noise but both were satisfactorily quiet in my opinion but
what about load while gaming well the fury X and 980ti configs were actually
not noticeably more or less annoying to my ears than each other they're both
cooled by a grade a fan on their radiators in each configuration a gentle
typhoon or an nff 12 that handles most of the air flow through the case and
neither card exhibited any bothersome coil wine for more than the first couple
seconds of gameplay in Crisis 3 on the fury X but this my friends is where
things get really interesting the 980 TI did its usual cap at 83° thing while the
furic stayed at a very cool 67° nothing
unexpected here I mean it is water cooled of course it was going to win that but the interesting thing here is
that the fury X actually managed to score 5% higher in our Crisis 3
Benchmark at 2560 by 1440 with very high textures and system spec with
anti-aliasing disabled and motion blur disabled as well what r980 TI and this
is why I specifically pointed out that it's
the well that was interesting we actually have some new information now
but in the meantime I'm just going to get through the rest of what I wrote
there so r980 TI and this is why I
specifically pointed out that it's the same one we reviewed Turbo's like an
absolute Beast almost matching our Titan X and has no problems beating the fury X
on an open test bench but when you confine both of them to a small form
factor case the story changes somewhat more than we knew which leads us to the
conclusion I came into this video thinking that the fury X's shorter
length and Overkill cooler was a solution to a problem we no longer have
thanks to awesome modern case designs like this one that can keep a long power
hungry graphics card cool but while I
still think an AO liquid cooler is a kind of a cluggy enthusiasts only need
apply solution with a ton of issues
thanks to the fury X's small form factor machines with this card have the ability
to focus their cooling power on the one component that makes the biggest
difference to gaming performance so thanks to that the fury X is able to
Turbo to 1050 me gz it's Max while the
980ti is stuck at a mere 1037 well within its spec I mean it's
not underperforming but not the best it can do in a more ideal situation and
another consideration is that while the furyx machine's aircooled CPU obviously
ran much hotter than it would have with a liquid cooler a typical gamer is only
very rarely going to put a load on all four cores of a quad core chip while
putting a full load on a graphics card is basically a daily occurrence another
argument for focusing your cooling on the GPU so I'm giving the nod to AMD
today in this Edge case the fury X
actually comes out looking like the winner but with an important
consideration if you guys install your
radiator with the fan as an intake
drawing air through the rad you will notice that your inside case
temperatures rise as much as 20 plus
degrees meaning that if your CPU was on the border once you start gaming it no
longer will be so I would highly recommend doing what we've done now off
camera and turning that fan around to
blow out of the case that way your CPU
will not overheat like you saw happen when the screen turned off in the middle
of this video but that's the kind of show this is guys the kind where
anything can happen so these things
what on Earth are those they're either the world's most magnificent dildos or
they're ah yes headphone stands but I
had actually said in a dedicated video about these not that long ago that the
thing I don't like about them is that they sit on the desk and their for take
up desk space and I called on the community to design a wallmounted
headphone stand that could be either 3D printed or one design would be sent to
Silverstone to actually manufacture the
uh designer of which would get a gold colored anodized version of whatever
their design was and that contest is actually closed but the reason that I'm
bringing it up is that all of the designs all eight freaking 100 of them I
can't believe how many of you submitted some pretty amazing designs are up for
voting for which ones are going to be the top 10 on my minifactory
docomo mounted headphone stands the final decision will ultimately be down
to me and Silverstone but uh the more
votes that something has the more closely we will be looking at it so
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some 3D objects I don't know I haven't watched it
yet so this is going to be a long free roll wa is it
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yeah is there a chunky in there there is I don't think this is mixed at all no I
think you have to mix this with like a stick there's a lot of chunky in here
there is a CHS here we go vote for
turnip t-shirt something that was not in your job description no
no oh now I'm smelling it oh okay it's
really drippy I'm going to run out of
space it does drip like crazy so
like kind of tickles there's the second
turnup I'm really surprised anyone volunteered I thought I was going to
have to pick someone to do this I did not know what I was getting myself into
at all I did the bottom of the turn it
was my idea is like that there we go that's the bottom of the turnip what are
you drawing that's the turnip they have a root system there's the root start at
the bottom it's white we we don't have white okay so um that's the uh that's
the design there's really nothing else to it are you covering his entire I'm
enjoy the shirt okay you want me to do the other shoulder sure dude in some
other color you know I thought I was comfortable in my
skin and with you guys this is some Next Level right
here okay so I have that side doing now
star there's open space y
are we good yeah I think so