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so

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ah yeah collector's edition graphics card scrolling text intro whatever you

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guys get it so anyway the Dan case's a4

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sfx was a great if imperfect step in the

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direction of ultimate compact gaming it

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allowed a full-size GPU which is great but it forced you to compromise on CPU

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cooling meaning that our xeon e5 2699 v4

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last time around wasn't able to reach quite its full potential

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well stay tuned because with the a4 sfx v2

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we were able to one-up every small

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form-factor pc we've ever built again

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okay so step one was to outfit our build with the fastest

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and sweetest gaming card on the market the jedi order star wars collector's

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edition titan xp step two then was to actually trade some

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cores from our xeon last time around for

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the much higher clocks on an Intel core

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i9 7980xe this thing runs at up to 800

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megahertz higher so we already know from our

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review that the core i9 7900x outperforms the 2699v4

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in many workloads so the 7980xc

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we're expecting that to totally smoke it

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there's one small problem though

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the area for the CPU cooler on this case it's right here it is literally

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small and that CPU is a

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165 watt part putting it at roughly 12

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to 13 percent higher thermal output compared to our last ultimate compact

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build and if you guys recall the all copper dynatron vapor chamber

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cooler that we used previously hit around 80 degrees under load so

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we're gonna get to the real solution in a minute here but first let's walk

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through the process we started by breaking out the dare

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bauer x299 d-litting tool popping the ihs and applying some

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thermal grizzly conduct-a-knot we're going to need every advantage we can get

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here so yes my friends you've been begging us to do it and here it is

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a liquid metal infused 7980xe

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but what to put on it ah how about an

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nhl 12. this this looks pretty good right

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just put that on there and uh oh temps are good too

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but that's outside the case and uh

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it's also nowhere even close to fitting and it can't be cut to

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fit so back to the drawing board well

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we had some success with our dynatron cooler last time so how about we just

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grab the square ilm version of what is

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essentially the same cooler so you can just see it has a different screw layout

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and success

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sort of see while we were able to get reasonable

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temperatures with this thing we also had to use a knock to a 120 millimeter

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industrial fan in order to get them which wouldn't be so much of a problem

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if we didn't also need this 92 millimeter adapter to ensure proper air

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flow over the CPU heatsink and around the socket and that whole arrangement

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just won't fit and our low profile fans didn't cut it

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so by this point we had completely exhausted our stock of compatible

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coolers before finally coming to a realization the a4sfx v2 has a mount for

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a 92 millimeter radiator so that's why

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this video ended up delayed there are very few aios out there this size none

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of which we had on hand so after a trip to asatech's website and another week of

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waiting our 545 lc arrived

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this thing is not much to look at honestly and we weren't really expecting

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it to perform much better than our dynatron cooler did but when we fired it

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up for a dry run not bad

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after two and a half hours at stock voltage under full synthetic load our 18

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core 7980xe hit a maximum of 68 degrees

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celsius on any one core

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d litting man what a drug

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on a 92 millimeter cooler

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anyway next order of business then is to get it

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all together and this is no small task

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the asrock x299e itx ac motherboard with

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its 64 gigs of g-skill ripjaws memory

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and Corsair NVMe ssds in raid 0 are easy

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enough as is the GPU but the cooler required us to remove the

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front usb 3 port the lower drive tray and the side panel clips at the front of

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the case in order to get it mounted properly and to make matters worse

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even with the 14 millimeter variant of the Noctua a9 fan

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getting an sfx power supply in there

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is an absolute nightmare

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with some determination though and a healthy serving of elbow grease

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we got it all in so we just need one final check to make

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sure that everything is bolted in correctly and nothing's obstructed and

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our fan spins moment of truth time

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oh damn it did we leave the power supply switch off

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oh oh crap yep

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yay all right moment of truth time

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i wonder what that is no i don't have time for this

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so this is not bad like it is not

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elegant to get the cooler in there at

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all and uh like you could even potentially

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damage stuff trying to cram all of that in there but the results we can't really

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criticize running a CPU and GPU synthetic load

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it's topping out at just over 90 degrees celsius on the hottest core like that's

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hot but it's also not thermal throttling

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now let's look at some GPU specific tests so we've had the unigen

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superposition stress test running for almost 10 minutes now

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i'm wearing my microphone here so you can hear it's actually pretty quiet

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and check this out we're seeing turbo speeds up around

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15 80 16 20 16 30 megahertz

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not freaking bad and as for the rest of the benchmarks both synthetic and real

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world this thing has absolutely chewed

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through them we are really seeing the hardware not just work but actually flex

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its muscle so in the end then

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the success that we saw here goes to show you just how much power you can

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pack into a tiny space like the a4 sfx

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v2 without making any compromises on

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performance i mean halfway through this project we flat out didn't expect it to

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work but we're really glad that it did this

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