1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:06,180 sick tired of building giant PCS they're too 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:10,620 big it's stupid just kidding I love all PCS 3 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:17,400 but sometimes you need to shake things up and that is exactly what we're doing 4 00:00:13,380 --> 00:00:19,380 today the X32 from x-works is a spine 5 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:24,720 style case that promises unique Aesthetics strong GPU compatibility and 6 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:29,460 a solution to the problems associated with large cases need to reach your rear 7 00:00:26,939 --> 00:00:34,559 i o no problem want to bring your PC to visit a friend easy want to hear about 8 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:39,300 our sponsor with smart deploy it can deploy Windows apps BIOS updates and 9 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:43,559 security patches to any device anywhere from the cloud get your exclusive free 10 00:00:41,100 --> 00:00:47,280 software worth over 570 dollars at smartdeploy.com Linus 11 00:00:51,840 --> 00:01:00,000 thank you at just 3.2 liters this is the smallest 12 00:00:58,020 --> 00:01:04,500 chassis that we have ever looked at but it's also not really directly comparable 13 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:10,020 to our previous record holder the velcase velka 3 because the X32 doesn't 14 00:01:07,500 --> 00:01:15,900 feel constrained by crude conventions like side panels just lets it all hang 15 00:01:13,799 --> 00:01:20,580 out if you know what I mean let's get this thing out of the box 16 00:01:20,580 --> 00:01:25,259 wow there is really not a lot too it is 17 00:01:23,939 --> 00:01:30,240 there oh oh hold on there's another piece 18 00:01:27,540 --> 00:01:36,659 I've got my instructions right here but honestly there doesn't seem to be a 19 00:01:32,759 --> 00:01:39,659 whole lot to it we've got panel a which 20 00:01:36,659 --> 00:01:41,820 is the motherboard tray right here then 21 00:01:39,659 --> 00:01:45,540 we've got panel B they call these side panels 22 00:01:42,799 --> 00:01:51,600 it's technically there on the side this holds our GPU and power supply 23 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:57,600 PCI Express Riser got a power supply shroud oh speaking of the power supply 24 00:01:53,939 --> 00:02:00,119 check this thing out this is a flex size 25 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:05,399 power supply made by Delta and despite its tiny size it can output 500 freaking 26 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:08,220 Watts at what sort of efficiency 27 00:02:07,619 --> 00:02:13,260 um look how cute it is there's also the bag 28 00:02:10,739 --> 00:02:17,840 of very important Hardware including our power button for the front of the case 29 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:24,060 for wherever it goes on the case standoffs and screws some little rubber 30 00:02:21,180 --> 00:02:31,400 feet and these are actually going to be our very first installation step 31 00:02:27,599 --> 00:02:31,400 okay well that doesn't stand on its own 32 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:37,920 what could go wrong Brandon 33 00:02:35,819 --> 00:02:43,140 man now that that's so perfect I feel so much pressure putting on the other feet 34 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:44,340 all right now we can install the front 35 00:02:43,140 --> 00:02:48,360 switch so it's got a nice little silicone o-ring here and hopefully this 36 00:02:46,860 --> 00:02:54,420 is long enough to reach wherever it needs to go oh this is really nice everything is 37 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:57,379 lettered so that you can't screw up which one you use 38 00:02:58,260 --> 00:03:03,720 oh balls 39 00:03:01,319 --> 00:03:09,360 oh non-ferrous screws bad I know it's premium but I hate it 40 00:03:06,660 --> 00:03:15,239 okay install Four B motherboard standoffs secured with four J screws 41 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:18,599 I think I did it right I sure like picking up screws with my 42 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:23,760 hand like a chimp oh my God honestly I'm a little confused 43 00:03:21,780 --> 00:03:29,340 by this step they don't show where you're supposed to Route the PCI Express 44 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:31,620 ribbon cable for the Riser so so I'm 45 00:03:29,340 --> 00:03:35,819 doing my best with it here I think it's supposed to go on like this though 46 00:03:34,019 --> 00:03:39,120 it's not clear how the whole thing goes together yeah 47 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:44,700 and then it immediately becomes apparent that I did not do it right oh 48 00:03:41,700 --> 00:03:46,920 I wish I'd done the SSD first but now we 49 00:03:44,700 --> 00:03:53,159 know the next step says attach cables to the power supply if modular and our 50 00:03:49,799 --> 00:03:55,799 power supply is in fact modular these 51 00:03:53,159 --> 00:04:02,120 are trippy cables you guys probably can't tell from there but they're like 52 00:03:58,620 --> 00:04:05,400 super flexible okay so there's silicone 53 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:10,200 sleeving it's all floppy doodling 54 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:12,780 the 24 pin comes down to only 14 pins 55 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:19,079 because you know what I guess you only live once the eight pin 56 00:04:15,959 --> 00:04:19,699 comes down to four pins 57 00:04:19,079 --> 00:04:25,199 um the other more different eight pin for 58 00:04:22,079 --> 00:04:28,020 PCI Express gets only six pins on the 59 00:04:25,199 --> 00:04:32,340 power supply and then we get a single peripheral connector or rather a single 60 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:37,500 peripheral cable with two SATA connectors the whole thing goes into our 61 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:41,360 shroud a little sorry 62 00:04:38,639 --> 00:04:41,360 cool 63 00:04:41,699 --> 00:04:47,100 one criticism of the power supply which is part of the kit is that these 64 00:04:45,180 --> 00:04:52,500 included cable Combs appear to be sized for regular sleeving or sheathing and 65 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:55,680 these silicone ones come out really easily so maybe we can try and use these 66 00:04:54,540 --> 00:05:00,180 later but I'm not going to try and put them on right now I noticed that I've 67 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:05,100 got socketed screws for the power supply that are imperial sized and then this 68 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:11,580 appears to be a metric head hex screw you need too 69 00:05:08,100 --> 00:05:15,600 many tools to assemble this case 70 00:05:11,580 --> 00:05:17,340 oh crap it looks like it is supposed 71 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:21,720 what yep it's not cable managed right it's 72 00:05:19,740 --> 00:05:25,259 supposed to go in here does that even fit 73 00:05:23,100 --> 00:05:28,740 oh my God why don't we just undo everything we've done then this all 74 00:05:27,180 --> 00:05:33,560 could have been prevented by having the instructions be clear so now we're 75 00:05:31,139 --> 00:05:40,199 looking at this side oh cool okay our modular cables go 76 00:05:36,780 --> 00:05:43,440 through here get in there man everything 77 00:05:40,199 --> 00:05:46,860 about this is just not a millimeter to 78 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:49,380 spare storage and Power 79 00:05:46,860 --> 00:05:54,180 just like that and when I saw this thing I was like oh that looks so cool and now 80 00:05:52,080 --> 00:06:00,300 that I'm hands on with it I'm like oh this is so cool we definitely have to 81 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:02,759 add to our list of things to evaluate 82 00:06:00,300 --> 00:06:08,520 how loud it is because the thing about Flex power supplies is um 40 millimeter 83 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:11,820 fans not the greatest in terms of quiet operation 84 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:17,100 okay awesome this is it 85 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:20,220 this is final assembly of the case 86 00:06:17,100 --> 00:06:22,740 this clearly cannot go there 87 00:06:20,220 --> 00:06:27,720 I see why they wanted you to Cable manage down your PCI Express power 88 00:06:24,900 --> 00:06:33,360 connector earlier because once you close these up together you no longer have 89 00:06:30,060 --> 00:06:36,180 access to any of this 90 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:39,660 okay crazy this is the kind of thing I wouldn't recommend for a first-time 91 00:06:37,380 --> 00:06:44,819 Builder just because you have to kind of have some understanding of where all the 92 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:48,419 parts are likely to end up so that you can Envision what you're trying to work 93 00:06:46,620 --> 00:06:54,960 towards here this is all screwed together this comes out for the GPU right see 94 00:06:51,780 --> 00:06:57,240 that okay then over here this is going 95 00:06:54,960 --> 00:07:01,199 to have to kind of squeeze out under the motherboard kind of like that and I 96 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:05,160 don't know this one will end up somewhere this whole thing is so out of 97 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:11,759 order the next thing that we're going to install is the GPU we ended up going 98 00:07:07,919 --> 00:07:14,400 with an EVGA RTX 3060 this is one of 99 00:07:11,759 --> 00:07:18,000 their XC cards got a nice backplate dual fan cooler our main reason for choosing 100 00:07:16,500 --> 00:07:22,259 this is that we wanted this thing to be high performance but not ridiculous and 101 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:30,840 we also have to fit within the constraints of our 500 watt power supply so this is as powerful as you'd be able 102 00:07:27,780 --> 00:07:34,380 to go on a build like this without sort 103 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:36,900 of violating the spirit of building a 104 00:07:34,380 --> 00:07:40,560 super tiny machine right it overhangs the 105 00:07:38,220 --> 00:07:44,220 volume of the case a little bit but not that much you know before we actually 106 00:07:42,419 --> 00:07:48,180 put it on for real though we've got to put on the GPU bracket Mount which is 107 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:53,099 what's going to allow us to screw in the uh the PCI slot cover thing this is one 108 00:07:51,300 --> 00:07:58,620 of those like what way does it go on kinds of things 109 00:07:55,979 --> 00:08:03,840 if you were like man I don't want my PC to look like everyone else's PC fishing 110 00:08:01,259 --> 00:08:07,620 mucking accomplished this thing is so cool though now that we've basically 111 00:08:05,759 --> 00:08:11,340 assembled the whole computer um why don't we talk about what we're 112 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:15,300 going to put in it starting with the motherboard we had wanted to go 12th gen 113 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:21,120 but unfortunately we haven't been able to get access to any 12th gen it exports 114 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:23,460 yet so we've gone with an RG strix z590i 115 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:28,500 gaming now I understand that we went a little overboard 116 00:08:25,379 --> 00:08:30,599 get it this is by far the highest end 117 00:08:28,500 --> 00:08:35,940 piece of Kit in our build but let me explain because this is a tiny machine 118 00:08:33,419 --> 00:08:40,740 that gives us relatively little in terms of expansion options a board like this 119 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:46,440 gives us as much as possible so whether you want a couple of m.2 ports on a neat 120 00:08:43,919 --> 00:08:50,399 little Riser card or whether you want Thunderbolt 4 for expanded i o that'll 121 00:08:48,839 --> 00:08:55,740 definitely be nice to have once you've used up all of the six USBS on the back 122 00:08:53,279 --> 00:09:00,300 this is going to have you covered then in terms of our CPU we've gone with the 123 00:08:57,899 --> 00:09:04,860 core i5 11600k not exactly the world's fastest most 124 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:09,959 power hungry chip but we wanted to show the most capable machine in this form 125 00:09:07,500 --> 00:09:14,700 factor on the subject of the CPU we actually chose this one for a balance of 126 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:21,240 decent performance six scores 12 threads max turbo 4.9 gigahertz and reasonable 127 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:23,519 heat output because while we could hang 128 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:28,140 a gigantic Tower cooler off of a case like this in fact that is one of their 129 00:09:25,860 --> 00:09:31,980 advertised use cases There's No Limit whatsoever to the size of the cooler you 130 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:36,540 can put on it I think that would be violating the spirit of trying to build 131 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:40,320 our smallest computer ever if we had a dual Tower cooler that hangs this far 132 00:09:38,279 --> 00:09:45,959 off the side of the case so instead we've gone with a Noctua L9 I it's not 133 00:09:44,279 --> 00:09:52,200 the most performant cooler in the world but at least it would fit if the case 134 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:55,740 had side panels and Noctua does say that as long as you have adequate ventilation 135 00:09:53,880 --> 00:10:00,120 this should be able to handle the 11 600k for storage we're using a 136 00:09:57,660 --> 00:10:03,360 combination of the SATA ssds that we install all before those are for more 137 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:08,760 for bulk storage and also just to show the capabilities of the machine and this 138 00:10:06,180 --> 00:10:14,040 crucial P5 plus so this is a Gen 4 and vme SSD that we're going to install in 139 00:10:10,680 --> 00:10:17,339 the topmost of our m.2 sandwich slots 140 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:19,200 here now normally I would take off see 141 00:10:17,339 --> 00:10:23,399 the little little peel on the thermal pad down here but in these circumstances 142 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:28,320 I'm not going to because this particular SSD doesn't have any chips on the bottom 143 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:31,620 so there's not really anything for us to cool down there we are concerned with 144 00:10:30,180 --> 00:10:36,959 the top one here though so let's go ahead and pull that off 145 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:42,300 there we go that leaves only memory so we've got two eight gig sticks of 3600 146 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:45,899 c16 memory from crucial we could put anything we wanted in here obviously 147 00:10:43,860 --> 00:10:49,519 because we're not limited by the height but we went with these 148 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:01,140 and that's it again I really wish we could have gone 12th gen make sure 149 00:11:00,300 --> 00:11:06,839 you're subscribed because we'll definitely do something like that in the future tdr5 small form factor but not 150 00:11:05,519 --> 00:11:11,579 today we're going to plug in our eight pin CPU power connector 24 pin 151 00:11:09,420 --> 00:11:17,700 motherboard power connector I'm gonna do our PCI Express 152 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:20,220 connector here and then lower the whole 153 00:11:17,700 --> 00:11:25,440 thing into place okay these silicone wires very cool 154 00:11:22,560 --> 00:11:30,300 um not necessarily easier to work with we've got a recess down here 155 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:34,200 it's got to get a screw in there and it's almost definitely going to fall off 156 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:37,279 because it's non-ferrous Ferris grueler's Day Off 157 00:11:39,560 --> 00:11:45,959 it's pretty funny and that's it the whole freaking 158 00:11:44,820 --> 00:11:52,019 computer that is pretty cool how transportable is 159 00:11:49,140 --> 00:11:56,100 this thing extra six cores nearly five gigahertz I mean you could put up to 64 160 00:11:54,720 --> 00:12:00,300 gigs of RAM in it if you really wanted to 3060 we have five terabytes of 161 00:11:58,980 --> 00:12:06,060 storage on here right now and you could go even higher than that if you really wanted to it's not let's fire it up and 162 00:12:03,779 --> 00:12:11,820 see if it actually runs properly oh man my teammate got in the way of my bullets 163 00:12:08,459 --> 00:12:13,019 he wanted to eat them all oh man I was 164 00:12:11,820 --> 00:12:17,760 kind of hoping to be alive at the beginning of this shot but I guess it doesn't really matter check this out 165 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:24,899 we're getting anywhere between around 200 to 300 frames per second in CS go 166 00:12:20,820 --> 00:12:25,680 all cranked 1440p and like look at this 167 00:12:24,899 --> 00:12:30,959 thing this is our little banana plushie LTT 168 00:12:28,079 --> 00:12:38,220 store for scale here got a little apple for scale it's freaking tiny with that 169 00:12:34,079 --> 00:12:40,380 said it's not that quiet one of the 170 00:12:38,220 --> 00:12:45,720 things that your side panels do is reflect noise from your fans back into 171 00:12:43,560 --> 00:12:49,079 your case and kind of muffle them you will get no such functionality out of 172 00:12:47,459 --> 00:12:54,060 this the other thing that contributes to this is that while the GPU 173 00:12:51,839 --> 00:12:58,440 and CPU fan are both near silent 174 00:12:56,519 --> 00:13:04,260 this 40 millimeter fan on the power supply yeah it's 175 00:13:01,500 --> 00:13:08,700 it's not this is cool we're not even getting any thermal throttling our CPU 176 00:13:06,180 --> 00:13:15,300 is sitting up at around 90 degrees with our GPU at a chilly 60 degrees because 177 00:13:12,959 --> 00:13:18,720 all of the heat that is being kicked off the GPU is just 178 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:25,519 able to dissipate into the surrounding air however CS go not exactly the 179 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:30,480 world's most CPU intensive application and if we were to run something that is 180 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:36,959 a little bit heavier like say for example Cinemas 181 00:13:32,279 --> 00:13:36,959 are we thermal throttling bummer 182 00:13:37,100 --> 00:13:42,600 yeah that's the answer 183 00:13:40,560 --> 00:13:47,700 um if you happen to have it's like ironically choosing such a high-end 184 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:53,459 motherboard actually hurt our ability to cool the CPU with this particular style 185 00:13:49,980 --> 00:13:56,700 of cooler because it packs so many ssds 186 00:13:53,459 --> 00:13:58,500 and big IO Shield you know aesthetic 187 00:13:56,700 --> 00:14:02,519 things around the CPU socket that there's no room for the air to come out 188 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:05,459 of the fins and be dissipated into the surrounding air so with this motherboard 189 00:14:03,839 --> 00:14:08,160 we'd have to go with something a little bit higher profile or we'd have to go 190 00:14:07,139 --> 00:14:12,600 with the motherboard that's a little more sparse but even if we did upgrade the 191 00:14:11,100 --> 00:14:17,639 CPU Cooler addressing any of the performance concerns I might have about this machine that doesn't mean I would 192 00:14:15,779 --> 00:14:23,160 necessarily recommend building your daily driver in the X32 it's certainly 193 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:24,420 cool but it comes with some trade-offs 194 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:28,680 remember how I said it was super transportable I mean that's true it is 195 00:14:26,940 --> 00:14:33,720 look at this freaking thing but you're going to run the risk as you 196 00:14:31,260 --> 00:14:38,220 transport it of accidentally knocking the memory slot out of your motherboard 197 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:43,980 or accidentally scuffing your GPU the other thing is airflow yes it has 198 00:14:41,100 --> 00:14:47,519 effectively unlimited case ventilation but there's nothing standing in the way 199 00:14:45,959 --> 00:14:51,779 of all the dust and hair that's floating around in the air which is why cases 200 00:14:49,199 --> 00:14:57,240 with filters are often the best way to maintain your Hardware the last concern 201 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:59,959 is price especially considering it's 202 00:14:57,240 --> 00:15:07,260 steel powder coated Construction 180 US dollars is not exactly affordable 203 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:10,260 yes it's a very low volume product and you know they can't use the same cost 204 00:15:08,940 --> 00:15:14,880 saving measures that a large-scale manufacturer might but in terms of bang 205 00:15:12,779 --> 00:15:19,620 for the buck other than the uniqueness as a conversation piece I don't know I 206 00:15:18,180 --> 00:15:24,720 kind of struggle with it it's definitely cool though just like my Segways to our 207 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:28,560 sponsors extra smart wallets are 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