WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:06.180 sick tired of building giant PCS they're too 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:10.620 big it's stupid just kidding I love all PCS 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:17.400 but sometimes you need to shake things up and that is exactly what we're doing 00:00:13.380 --> 00:00:19.380 today the X32 from x-works is a spine 00:00:17.400 --> 00:00:24.720 style case that promises unique Aesthetics strong GPU compatibility and 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:29.460 a solution to the problems associated with large cases need to reach your rear 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 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:39.300 our sponsor with smart deploy it can deploy Windows apps BIOS updates and 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:43.559 security patches to any device anywhere from the cloud get your exclusive free 00:00:41.100 --> 00:00:47.280 software worth over 570 dollars at smartdeploy.com Linus 00:00:51.840 --> 00:01:00.000 thank you at just 3.2 liters this is the smallest 00:00:58.020 --> 00:01:04.500 chassis that we have ever looked at but it's also not really directly comparable 00:01:02.760 --> 00:01:10.020 to our previous record holder the velcase velka 3 because the X32 doesn't 00:01:07.500 --> 00:01:15.900 feel constrained by crude conventions like side panels just lets it all hang 00:01:13.799 --> 00:01:20.580 out if you know what I mean let's get this thing out of the box 00:01:20.580 --> 00:01:25.259 wow there is really not a lot too it is 00:01:23.939 --> 00:01:30.240 there oh oh hold on there's another piece 00:01:27.540 --> 00:01:36.659 I've got my instructions right here but honestly there doesn't seem to be a 00:01:32.759 --> 00:01:39.659 whole lot to it we've got panel a which 00:01:36.659 --> 00:01:41.820 is the motherboard tray right here then 00:01:39.659 --> 00:01:45.540 we've got panel B they call these side panels 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:51.600 it's technically there on the side this holds our GPU and power supply 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:57.600 PCI Express Riser got a power supply shroud oh speaking of the power supply 00:01:53.939 --> 00:02:00.119 check this thing out this is a flex size 00:01:57.600 --> 00:02:05.399 power supply made by Delta and despite its tiny size it can output 500 freaking 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:08.220 Watts at what sort of efficiency 00:02:07.619 --> 00:02:13.260 um look how cute it is there's also the bag 00:02:10.739 --> 00:02:17.840 of very important Hardware including our power button for the front of the case 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:24.060 for wherever it goes on the case standoffs and screws some little rubber 00:02:21.180 --> 00:02:31.400 feet and these are actually going to be our very first installation step 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:31.400 okay well that doesn't stand on its own 00:02:32.760 --> 00:02:37.920 what could go wrong Brandon 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 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:44.340 all right now we can install the front 00:02:43.140 --> 00:02:48.360 switch so it's got a nice little silicone o-ring here and hopefully this 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 00:02:52.200 --> 00:02:57.379 lettered so that you can't screw up which one you use 00:02:58.260 --> 00:03:03.720 oh balls 00:03:01.319 --> 00:03:09.360 oh non-ferrous screws bad I know it's premium but I hate it 00:03:06.660 --> 00:03:15.239 okay install Four B motherboard standoffs secured with four J screws 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:18.599 I think I did it right I sure like picking up screws with my 00:03:16.920 --> 00:03:23.760 hand like a chimp oh my God honestly I'm a little confused 00:03:21.780 --> 00:03:29.340 by this step they don't show where you're supposed to Route the PCI Express 00:03:25.920 --> 00:03:31.620 ribbon cable for the Riser so so I'm 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 00:03:34.019 --> 00:03:39.120 it's not clear how the whole thing goes together yeah 00:03:37.200 --> 00:03:44.700 and then it immediately becomes apparent that I did not do it right oh 00:03:41.700 --> 00:03:46.920 I wish I'd done the SSD first but now we 00:03:44.700 --> 00:03:53.159 know the next step says attach cables to the power supply if modular and our 00:03:49.799 --> 00:03:55.799 power supply is in fact modular these 00:03:53.159 --> 00:04:02.120 are trippy cables you guys probably can't tell from there but they're like 00:03:58.620 --> 00:04:05.400 super flexible okay so there's silicone 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:10.200 sleeving it's all floppy doodling 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:12.780 the 24 pin comes down to only 14 pins 00:04:10.200 --> 00:04:19.079 because you know what I guess you only live once the eight pin 00:04:15.959 --> 00:04:19.699 comes down to four pins 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:25.199 um the other more different eight pin for 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:28.020 PCI Express gets only six pins on the 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:32.340 power supply and then we get a single peripheral connector or rather a single 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:37.500 peripheral cable with two SATA connectors the whole thing goes into our 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:41.360 shroud a little sorry 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:41.360 cool 00:04:41.699 --> 00:04:47.100 one criticism of the power supply which is part of the kit is that these 00:04:45.180 --> 00:04:52.500 included cable Combs appear to be sized for regular sleeving or sheathing and 00:04:50.880 --> 00:04:55.680 these silicone ones come out really easily so maybe we can try and use these 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 00:04:58.320 --> 00:05:05.100 got socketed screws for the power supply that are imperial sized and then this 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:11.580 appears to be a metric head hex screw you need too 00:05:08.100 --> 00:05:15.600 many tools to assemble this case 00:05:11.580 --> 00:05:17.340 oh crap it looks like it is supposed 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:21.720 what yep it's not cable managed right it's 00:05:19.740 --> 00:05:25.259 supposed to go in here does that even fit 00:05:23.100 --> 00:05:28.740 oh my God why don't we just undo everything we've done then this all 00:05:27.180 --> 00:05:33.560 could have been prevented by having the instructions be clear so now we're 00:05:31.139 --> 00:05:40.199 looking at this side oh cool okay our modular cables go 00:05:36.780 --> 00:05:43.440 through here get in there man everything 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:46.860 about this is just not a millimeter to 00:05:43.440 --> 00:05:49.380 spare storage and Power 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 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 00:05:56.880 --> 00:06:02.759 add to our list of things to evaluate 00:06:00.300 --> 00:06:08.520 how loud it is because the thing about Flex power supplies is um 40 millimeter 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:11.820 fans not the greatest in terms of quiet operation 00:06:09.840 --> 00:06:17.100 okay awesome this is it 00:06:13.320 --> 00:06:20.220 this is final assembly of the case 00:06:17.100 --> 00:06:22.740 this clearly cannot go there 00:06:20.220 --> 00:06:27.720 I see why they wanted you to Cable manage down your PCI Express power 00:06:24.900 --> 00:06:33.360 connector earlier because once you close these up together you no longer have 00:06:30.060 --> 00:06:36.180 access to any of this 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:39.660 okay crazy this is the kind of thing I wouldn't recommend for a first-time 00:06:37.380 --> 00:06:44.819 Builder just because you have to kind of have some understanding of where all the 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 00:06:46.620 --> 00:06:54.960 towards here this is all screwed together this comes out for the GPU right see 00:06:51.780 --> 00:06:57.240 that okay then over here this is going 00:06:54.960 --> 00:07:01.199 to have to kind of squeeze out under the motherboard kind of like that and I 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:05.160 don't know this one will end up somewhere this whole thing is so out of 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 00:07:07.919 --> 00:07:14.400 with an EVGA RTX 3060 this is one of 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:18.000 their XC cards got a nice backplate dual fan cooler our main reason for choosing 00:07:16.500 --> 00:07:22.259 this is that we wanted this thing to be high performance but not ridiculous and 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 00:07:27.780 --> 00:07:34.380 to go on a build like this without sort 00:07:30.840 --> 00:07:36.900 of violating the spirit of building a 00:07:34.380 --> 00:07:40.560 super tiny machine right it overhangs the 00:07:38.220 --> 00:07:44.220 volume of the case a little bit but not that much you know before we actually 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 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 00:07:51.300 --> 00:07:58.620 of those like what way does it go on kinds of things 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 00:08:01.259 --> 00:08:07.620 mucking accomplished this thing is so cool though now that we've basically 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:11.340 assembled the whole computer um why don't we talk about what we're 00:08:08.880 --> 00:08:15.300 going to put in it starting with the motherboard we had wanted to go 12th gen 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:21.120 but unfortunately we haven't been able to get access to any 12th gen it exports 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:23.460 yet so we've gone with an RG strix z590i 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:28.500 gaming now I understand that we went a little overboard 00:08:25.379 --> 00:08:30.599 get it this is by far the highest end 00:08:28.500 --> 00:08:35.940 piece of Kit in our build but let me explain because this is a tiny machine 00:08:33.419 --> 00:08:40.740 that gives us relatively little in terms of expansion options a board like this 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 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:50.399 little Riser card or whether you want Thunderbolt 4 for expanded i o that'll 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 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 00:08:57.899 --> 00:09:04.860 core i5 11600k not exactly the world's fastest most 00:09:02.640 --> 00:09:09.959 power hungry chip but we wanted to show the most capable machine in this form 00:09:07.500 --> 00:09:14.700 factor on the subject of the CPU we actually chose this one for a balance of 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:21.240 decent performance six scores 12 threads max turbo 4.9 gigahertz and reasonable 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:23.519 heat output because while we could hang 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 00:09:25.860 --> 00:09:31.980 advertised use cases There's No Limit whatsoever to the size of the cooler you 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:36.540 can put on it I think that would be violating the spirit of trying to build 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:40.320 our smallest computer ever if we had a dual Tower cooler that hangs this far 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 00:09:44.279 --> 00:09:52.200 the most performant cooler in the world but at least it would fit if the case 00:09:49.920 --> 00:09:55.740 had side panels and Noctua does say that as long as you have adequate ventilation 00:09:53.880 --> 00:10:00.120 this should be able to handle the 11 600k for storage we're using a 00:09:57.660 --> 00:10:03.360 combination of the SATA ssds that we install all before those are for more 00:10:01.800 --> 00:10:08.760 for bulk storage and also just to show the capabilities of the machine and this 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 00:10:10.680 --> 00:10:17.339 the topmost of our m.2 sandwich slots 00:10:14.040 --> 00:10:19.200 here now normally I would take off see 00:10:17.339 --> 00:10:23.399 the little little peel on the thermal pad down here but in these circumstances 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 00:10:26.040 --> 00:10:31.620 so there's not really anything for us to cool down there we are concerned with 00:10:30.180 --> 00:10:36.959 the top one here though so let's go ahead and pull that off 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 00:10:39.680 --> 00:10:45.899 c16 memory from crucial we could put anything we wanted in here obviously 00:10:43.860 --> 00:10:49.519 because we're not limited by the height but we went with these 00:10:56.600 --> 00:11:01.140 and that's it again I really wish we could have gone 12th gen make sure 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 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:11.579 today we're going to plug in our eight pin CPU power connector 24 pin 00:11:09.420 --> 00:11:17.700 motherboard power connector I'm gonna do our PCI Express 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:20.220 connector here and then lower the whole 00:11:17.700 --> 00:11:25.440 thing into place okay these silicone wires very cool 00:11:22.560 --> 00:11:30.300 um not necessarily easier to work with we've got a recess down here 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 00:11:31.800 --> 00:11:37.279 because it's non-ferrous Ferris grueler's Day Off 00:11:39.560 --> 00:11:45.959 it's pretty funny and that's it the whole freaking 00:11:44.820 --> 00:11:52.019 computer that is pretty cool how transportable is 00:11:49.140 --> 00:11:56.100 this thing extra six cores nearly five gigahertz I mean you could put up to 64 00:11:54.720 --> 00:12:00.300 gigs of RAM in it if you really wanted to 3060 we have five terabytes of 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 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 00:12:08.459 --> 00:12:13.019 he wanted to eat them all oh man I was 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 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:24.899 we're getting anywhere between around 200 to 300 frames per second in CS go 00:12:20.820 --> 00:12:25.680 all cranked 1440p and like look at this 00:12:24.899 --> 00:12:30.959 thing this is our little banana plushie LTT 00:12:28.079 --> 00:12:38.220 store for scale here got a little apple for scale it's freaking tiny with that 00:12:34.079 --> 00:12:40.380 said it's not that quiet one of the 00:12:38.220 --> 00:12:45.720 things that your side panels do is reflect noise from your fans back into 00:12:43.560 --> 00:12:49.079 your case and kind of muffle them you will get no such functionality out of 00:12:47.459 --> 00:12:54.060 this the other thing that contributes to this is that while the GPU 00:12:51.839 --> 00:12:58.440 and CPU fan are both near silent 00:12:56.519 --> 00:13:04.260 this 40 millimeter fan on the power supply yeah it's 00:13:01.500 --> 00:13:08.700 it's not this is cool we're not even getting any thermal throttling our CPU 00:13:06.180 --> 00:13:15.300 is sitting up at around 90 degrees with our GPU at a chilly 60 degrees because 00:13:12.959 --> 00:13:18.720 all of the heat that is being kicked off the GPU is just 00:13:16.920 --> 00:13:25.519 able to dissipate into the surrounding air however CS go not exactly the 00:13:22.920 --> 00:13:30.480 world's most CPU intensive application and if we were to run something that is 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:36.959 a little bit heavier like say for example Cinemas 00:13:32.279 --> 00:13:36.959 are we thermal throttling bummer 00:13:37.100 --> 00:13:42.600 yeah that's the answer 00:13:40.560 --> 00:13:47.700 um if you happen to have it's like ironically choosing such a high-end 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:53.459 motherboard actually hurt our ability to cool the CPU with this particular style 00:13:49.980 --> 00:13:56.700 of cooler because it packs so many ssds 00:13:53.459 --> 00:13:58.500 and big IO Shield you know aesthetic 00:13:56.700 --> 00:14:02.519 things around the CPU socket that there's no room for the air to come out 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:05.459 of the fins and be dissipated into the surrounding air so with this motherboard 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 00:14:07.139 --> 00:14:12.600 with the motherboard that's a little more sparse but even if we did upgrade the 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 00:14:15.779 --> 00:14:23.160 necessarily recommend building your daily driver in the X32 it's certainly 00:14:19.800 --> 00:14:24.420 cool but it comes with some trade-offs 00:14:23.160 --> 00:14:28.680 remember how I said it was super transportable I mean that's true it is 00:14:26.940 --> 00:14:33.720 look at this freaking thing but you're going to run the risk as you 00:14:31.260 --> 00:14:38.220 transport it of accidentally knocking the memory slot out of your motherboard 00:14:35.760 --> 00:14:43.980 or accidentally scuffing your GPU the other thing is airflow yes it has 00:14:41.100 --> 00:14:47.519 effectively unlimited case ventilation but there's nothing standing in the way 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 00:14:49.199 --> 00:14:57.240 with filters are often the best way to maintain your Hardware the last concern 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:59.959 is price especially considering it's 00:14:57.240 --> 00:15:07.260 steel powder coated Construction 180 US dollars is not exactly affordable 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 00:15:08.940 --> 00:15:14.880 saving measures that a large-scale manufacturer might 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