so this is more like a typical gaming rig in fact this isn't even that big
this is just a standard case with seven expansion slots an ATX board and you
know it accepts a couple graphics cards but this build guide with the GeForce
GTX Titan and I'm going to just ground myself there before I touch it the
GeForce GTX Titan is going to focus on a
different sort of gaming rig the Titan because of
its incredible acoustic performance that is to say low noise low power
consumption compared to something like a GTX 690 and outstanding performance
enables a new class of small form factor gaming machines so we're going to be
using a 3770k which is about as fast as it gets for a gaming CPU an ASUS p z77 i
Deluxe y die motherboard 16 gigs of
Corsair Dominator Platinum memory an ocz vertex 4 SSD and a cic 550 W power
supply and last but not least a lowprofile CPU Cooler from thermal right
this is the ax 100 all of this in a
19.2 L cubc mini Cube case now we could
have fited in our F3 mini with a little bit of modification of one of the
brackets but we opted not to do that so instead we're going to go with a case
that natively supports it once we're done we're going to show you I mean
performance numbers later but once we've done this we're going to show you how it
sounds compared to a 7970 when it's installed in a small form
factor chassis like this all right so it's update time guys there was no way
those Dominator platinums were going to fit in this rig unfortunately because
there's a slight overhang with the memory slots from the CPU Cooler itself
so we went with a lowprofile Kingston hyperx memory kit that just barely
touches the heat sink so it should get some you know incidental cooling from
the downdraft CPU Cooler I could have installed a larger CPU Cooler in fact
you can see if I put this down in the case I haven't installed the standoffs
yet but if I put this down in the case you can see that my CPU Cooler could
have gone up to here but I like using a downdraft CPU Cooler in a build like
this and I like giving uh you know the Titan and cable management some some
room so I'm I'm going to go this route and see how it sort of turns out here
speaking of the Titan I'm going to go ahead and put the GeForce GTX Titan in
inside the case just to show you guys what this is going to look like once
it's all beasted out
here and we've made some more changes so
instead of the sort of fail thin low
profile fan that we were going to use not going to use that anymore we've done
away with it and gone with some Noctua NF F12 fans instead so there's our
intake at the bottom front here nice high pressure optimized fan so we're
going to be able to draw air under the case around the feet and then up inside
that'll go straight to the Titan GPU then I've added another one on the CPU
with an adapter that gives more incidental air flow to the vrm as well
as the memory we've also added our power supply so this is an an 80 plus gold cic
550 W power supply with a modular interface you can see I've run my SATA
cables so just for laws I've changed the
scope of the build again and we are actually going to install all of the
well not all but we're going to do two 2 and 1/2 um 2 and 1/2 in drives and two 3
and 1/2 in drives just for the laws to show you guys what kind of an insane
super gaming computer you can fit inside this kind of an
enclosure all right here's the moment you've all been waiting for guys
assuming you're still with us this far into the video where we squeeze the 10
and 1/2 inch Titan graphics card into
this extreme extremely narrow narrow spot where it hopefully
will fit um okay we're putting a little bit
of strain on those front panel connectors but I think it's okay and I
think that we are in let me just double
check there's no PCIe lock on this
particular card because it's uh it say a reference board but I think
we're in there so let's go ahead
and screw it in we whoops see
daisies and let's go ahead and screw it
in if I was smart I would have done the bottom screw first so that it would hold
it in place oh that's okay that one worked there we go all right that is one
dense system
very dense not not dense in a stupid way
I'm tired it's late made quite a few videos today so
there's not much to say other than I'm really trying to trying to get this
graphics card in here and uh thumb
screws are both a blessing and the bane of my existence at times because
sometimes they're just more Awkward to put in actually and right now I'm having
one of those moments and you guys are getting to enjoy it with me there we
go ah yes so we are tightened out now
but obviously the system won't boot because tighten does require external
power so you can see here this intake fan is going to bring fresh air directly
to that graphics card and then the CPU is going to be able to hopefully sort of
somewhat fend for itself up there and uh here my PCI Express connectors so these
ones I didn't realistically think I was going to be able to run them uh from the
back which is fine anyway because the the GPU itself is right here so I'm just
going to run those down here again if I was smart and less tired I would have
run these before the important thing to note about this build guys is that no
shortcuts have been taken no special Parts have been used you can build your
own extremely small form factor gaming
machine for the well however much this
costs I don't even know at this point it's not cheap but it'll be awesome and
that's the most important thing so we'll be back once I figure out how to do
this so here we go guys this is the
insanity that is the back of this machine so I ended up going with two
Samsung 840 Pros so that would be 512
gigs of raid zero SSD storage then I
went with two Western Digital 3 tbte hard drives So in theory you could have
dual 512 gig ssds and then two 4 tbte
hard drives back here now there was no
hope in using the actual mounting points
for the ssds which is fine because the ssds have no moving parts so I'm not
really worried about um them randomly busting anyway now we've tried pressing
this flat and we're pretty sure it's going to close but I guess you guys are
going to find out with us um no no it's okay I got
it whether it will actually close or not
this one Yep looks like it so we haven't
added the Titan to the system yet but that's coming next that's actually the
last step we also have not yet added the PCI Express power cables needed to power
the Titan however I've made sure that there is room to install it so this this
computer will have four cores eight
threads up to 16 gigs of
RAM of the most power powerful single GPU graphics
card um it'll be pretty much near silent
cuz we're using all Noctua coolers and the Titan itself is extremely quiet
check that out that actually did close wow look at
that see look at that just awesome so that is
what she looks like from this side with the cable management available in this
cubc case which is actually not bad so we'll be back in a moment once I've
screwed in the power supply which I just realized I forgot to do and we're going
to show you guys the moment where we put the Titan
inside so basically that's it guys check it out these cables are are managed back
here so they're just kind of wrapped around this noct to a fan here at the
bottom um the noct fans are both plugged into the motherboard so we can use
motherboard control to control that fan GPU boost to will control the GPU
temperatures the fan RPM as well as the
GPU clocks and we are pretty much ready
to boot this bad boy up I mean I think the only way we could actually stuff
more technology in here is if we didn't even worry about connecting it to
anything and we just kind of you know there there's a there's a pile of ssds
and like there there's some more ssds and there's a phone and like some memory
like other more different phone there you go that's the only way we could
actually make this more densely packed it's all falling we'll be back our Titan
machine is done so we'd love for you guys to join us for the Moment of Truth
where we actually try and boot this bad boy up so let's go ahead and press the
button okay give it a
sec and there we go oh that's
beautiful and let's try that one more time just checking around we go
did it go oh that looks so good does that look
as good in the camera as it does oh okay she's up she's awake overclocking failed
yeah don't worry about it it's all good um I don't think we have any
overclocking running on this board see got my like late night building computer
snacks uh okay give me a sec here guys so we're going to get into the OS and
we'll be back in a moment okay guys so I've actually switch
to this microphone so that uh we can take some audio levels now we haven't
actually closed the system up yet but we're running uh Far Cry 3 I can't show
you any benchmarks right now just so you guys know but um we're going to do a
couple of reference sounds for you guys so you can get some idea of how a system
like this might run the first thing we have to right oh yeah I need to be over
here the first thing we have to do is
actually put the side panel on just to demonstrate
that Titan can run in a configuration
like this so let's just get some more let's get a couple more Glam shots of
what the system looks like inside got some uh LED lighting courtesy of a bit
Phoenix Alchemy strip up there uh I mean if you were worried about the sort of
perfect Aesthetics then you might go with something other than knock to a fans but I love the performance of these
fans and this rig is all about
performance so we've readjusted our microphone because we couldn't actually
pick up the noise of the system when it was was at Idol but we're under full
load now so running Prime 95 small fft on the
3770k and running Far Cry 3 looking at a
fire uh to to stress the Titan now I
can't tell you guys any exact numbers or benchmarks yet as of the time of filming
this video but what I can tell you is that GPU boost is still working very
well more than the promised GPU boost
clock significantly more and actually that's a good idea and just for
reference we're going to make some different noises here to show you guys just how quiet the system is so we're
going to drop a coin onto a wooden
table I'm going to call a Galaxy S3
that's set to
Vibe okay and then we're going to show you I mean it's funny because old NVIDIA
cards used to get compared to hair dryers so let's do the old hairdryer
test so this is on
low there's the system again for reference we're really impressed with
this system here this here's the haird drawer on
high so temperatures I'll say this much
temperatures for the GPU are very
comfortable so it's still boosting oh right I need to be closer to the mic
temperatures for the GPU are very comfortable it is still boosting like I
said past the rated minimum sort of boost clock that you should see and
temperatures for the CPU I'm allowed to talk about those are at about 80° so
this system is very functional very well within its operating sort of
specifications and uh ambient temperatures though are a little bit on
the low side in this room slick could you go ahead and press press that green button for me so I can just see what the
temperatures are in here so it's about 11° in here so you'd
probably hit let's say in a normal room you'd hit more like 90 de on the CPU
which is still you know this is during an unrealistic load Prime 95 small fft
plus a game running um and then that GPU probably wouldn't boost quite as high
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