sick tired of building giant PCS they're too
big it's stupid just kidding I love all PCS
but sometimes you need to shake things up and that is exactly what we're doing
today the X32 from x-works is a spine
style case that promises unique Aesthetics strong GPU compatibility and
a solution to the problems associated with large cases need to reach your rear
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thank you at just 3.2 liters this is the smallest
chassis that we have ever looked at but it's also not really directly comparable
to our previous record holder the velcase velka 3 because the X32 doesn't
feel constrained by crude conventions like side panels just lets it all hang
out if you know what I mean let's get this thing out of the box
wow there is really not a lot too it is
there oh oh hold on there's another piece
I've got my instructions right here but honestly there doesn't seem to be a
whole lot to it we've got panel a which
is the motherboard tray right here then
we've got panel B they call these side panels
it's technically there on the side this holds our GPU and power supply
PCI Express Riser got a power supply shroud oh speaking of the power supply
check this thing out this is a flex size
power supply made by Delta and despite its tiny size it can output 500 freaking
Watts at what sort of efficiency
um look how cute it is there's also the bag
of very important Hardware including our power button for the front of the case
for wherever it goes on the case standoffs and screws some little rubber
feet and these are actually going to be our very first installation step
okay well that doesn't stand on its own
what could go wrong Brandon
man now that that's so perfect I feel so much pressure putting on the other feet
all right now we can install the front
switch so it's got a nice little silicone o-ring here and hopefully this
is long enough to reach wherever it needs to go oh this is really nice everything is
lettered so that you can't screw up which one you use
oh balls
oh non-ferrous screws bad I know it's premium but I hate it
okay install Four B motherboard standoffs secured with four J screws
I think I did it right I sure like picking up screws with my
hand like a chimp oh my God honestly I'm a little confused
by this step they don't show where you're supposed to Route the PCI Express
ribbon cable for the Riser so so I'm
doing my best with it here I think it's supposed to go on like this though
it's not clear how the whole thing goes together yeah
and then it immediately becomes apparent that I did not do it right oh
I wish I'd done the SSD first but now we
know the next step says attach cables to the power supply if modular and our
power supply is in fact modular these
are trippy cables you guys probably can't tell from there but they're like
super flexible okay so there's silicone
sleeving it's all floppy doodling
the 24 pin comes down to only 14 pins
because you know what I guess you only live once the eight pin
comes down to four pins
um the other more different eight pin for
PCI Express gets only six pins on the
power supply and then we get a single peripheral connector or rather a single
peripheral cable with two SATA connectors the whole thing goes into our
shroud a little sorry
cool
one criticism of the power supply which is part of the kit is that these
included cable Combs appear to be sized for regular sleeving or sheathing and
these silicone ones come out really easily so maybe we can try and use these
later but I'm not going to try and put them on right now I noticed that I've
got socketed screws for the power supply that are imperial sized and then this
appears to be a metric head hex screw you need too
many tools to assemble this case
oh crap it looks like it is supposed
what yep it's not cable managed right it's
supposed to go in here does that even fit
oh my God why don't we just undo everything we've done then this all
could have been prevented by having the instructions be clear so now we're
looking at this side oh cool okay our modular cables go
through here get in there man everything
about this is just not a millimeter to
spare storage and Power
just like that and when I saw this thing I was like oh that looks so cool and now
that I'm hands on with it I'm like oh this is so cool we definitely have to
add to our list of things to evaluate
how loud it is because the thing about Flex power supplies is um 40 millimeter
fans not the greatest in terms of quiet operation
okay awesome this is it
this is final assembly of the case
this clearly cannot go there
I see why they wanted you to Cable manage down your PCI Express power
connector earlier because once you close these up together you no longer have
access to any of this
okay crazy this is the kind of thing I wouldn't recommend for a first-time
Builder just because you have to kind of have some understanding of where all the
parts are likely to end up so that you can Envision what you're trying to work
towards here this is all screwed together this comes out for the GPU right see
that okay then over here this is going
to have to kind of squeeze out under the motherboard kind of like that and I
don't know this one will end up somewhere this whole thing is so out of
order the next thing that we're going to install is the GPU we ended up going
with an EVGA RTX 3060 this is one of
their XC cards got a nice backplate dual fan cooler our main reason for choosing
this is that we wanted this thing to be high performance but not ridiculous and
we also have to fit within the constraints of our 500 watt power supply so this is as powerful as you'd be able
to go on a build like this without sort
of violating the spirit of building a
super tiny machine right it overhangs the
volume of the case a little bit but not that much you know before we actually
put it on for real though we've got to put on the GPU bracket Mount which is
what's going to allow us to screw in the uh the PCI slot cover thing this is one
of those like what way does it go on kinds of things
if you were like man I don't want my PC to look like everyone else's PC fishing
mucking accomplished this thing is so cool though now that we've basically
assembled the whole computer um why don't we talk about what we're
going to put in it starting with the motherboard we had wanted to go 12th gen
but unfortunately we haven't been able to get access to any 12th gen it exports
yet so we've gone with an RG strix z590i
gaming now I understand that we went a little overboard
get it this is by far the highest end
piece of Kit in our build but let me explain because this is a tiny machine
that gives us relatively little in terms of expansion options a board like this
gives us as much as possible so whether you want a couple of m.2 ports on a neat
little Riser card or whether you want Thunderbolt 4 for expanded i o that'll
definitely be nice to have once you've used up all of the six USBS on the back
this is going to have you covered then in terms of our CPU we've gone with the
core i5 11600k not exactly the world's fastest most
power hungry chip but we wanted to show the most capable machine in this form
factor on the subject of the CPU we actually chose this one for a balance of
decent performance six scores 12 threads max turbo 4.9 gigahertz and reasonable
heat output because while we could hang
a gigantic Tower cooler off of a case like this in fact that is one of their
advertised use cases There's No Limit whatsoever to the size of the cooler you
can put on it I think that would be violating the spirit of trying to build
our smallest computer ever if we had a dual Tower cooler that hangs this far
off the side of the case so instead we've gone with a Noctua L9 I it's not
the most performant cooler in the world but at least it would fit if the case
had side panels and Noctua does say that as long as you have adequate ventilation
this should be able to handle the 11 600k for storage we're using a
combination of the SATA ssds that we install all before those are for more
for bulk storage and also just to show the capabilities of the machine and this
crucial P5 plus so this is a Gen 4 and vme SSD that we're going to install in
the topmost of our m.2 sandwich slots
here now normally I would take off see
the little little peel on the thermal pad down here but in these circumstances
I'm not going to because this particular SSD doesn't have any chips on the bottom
so there's not really anything for us to cool down there we are concerned with
the top one here though so let's go ahead and pull that off
there we go that leaves only memory so we've got two eight gig sticks of 3600
c16 memory from crucial we could put anything we wanted in here obviously
because we're not limited by the height but we went with these
and that's it again I really wish we could have gone 12th gen make sure
you're subscribed because we'll definitely do something like that in the future tdr5 small form factor but not
today we're going to plug in our eight pin CPU power connector 24 pin
motherboard power connector I'm gonna do our PCI Express
connector here and then lower the whole
thing into place okay these silicone wires very cool
um not necessarily easier to work with we've got a recess down here
it's got to get a screw in there and it's almost definitely going to fall off
because it's non-ferrous Ferris grueler's Day Off
it's pretty funny and that's it the whole freaking
computer that is pretty cool how transportable is
this thing extra six cores nearly five gigahertz I mean you could put up to 64
gigs of RAM in it if you really wanted to 3060 we have five terabytes of
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
see if it actually runs properly oh man my teammate got in the way of my bullets
he wanted to eat them all oh man I was
kind of hoping to be alive at the beginning of this shot but I guess it doesn't really matter check this out
we're getting anywhere between around 200 to 300 frames per second in CS go
all cranked 1440p and like look at this
thing this is our little banana plushie LTT
store for scale here got a little apple for scale it's freaking tiny with that
said it's not that quiet one of the
things that your side panels do is reflect noise from your fans back into
your case and kind of muffle them you will get no such functionality out of
this the other thing that contributes to this is that while the GPU
and CPU fan are both near silent
this 40 millimeter fan on the power supply yeah it's
it's not this is cool we're not even getting any thermal throttling our CPU
is sitting up at around 90 degrees with our GPU at a chilly 60 degrees because
all of the heat that is being kicked off the GPU is just
able to dissipate into the surrounding air however CS go not exactly the
world's most CPU intensive application and if we were to run something that is
a little bit heavier like say for example Cinemas
are we thermal throttling bummer
yeah that's the answer
um if you happen to have it's like ironically choosing such a high-end
motherboard actually hurt our ability to cool the CPU with this particular style
of cooler because it packs so many ssds
and big IO Shield you know aesthetic
things around the CPU socket that there's no room for the air to come out
of the fins and be dissipated into the surrounding air so with this motherboard
we'd have to go with something a little bit higher profile or we'd have to go
with the motherboard that's a little more sparse but even if we did upgrade the
CPU Cooler addressing any of the performance concerns I might have about this machine that doesn't mean I would
necessarily recommend building your daily driver in the X32 it's certainly
cool but it comes with some trade-offs
remember how I said it was super transportable I mean that's true it is
look at this freaking thing but you're going to run the risk as you
transport it of accidentally knocking the memory slot out of your motherboard
or accidentally scuffing your GPU the other thing is airflow yes it has
effectively unlimited case ventilation but there's nothing standing in the way
of all the dust and hair that's floating around in the air which is why cases
with filters are often the best way to maintain your Hardware the last concern
is price especially considering it's
steel powder coated Construction 180 US dollars is not exactly affordable
yes it's a very low volume product and you know they can't use the same cost
saving measures that a large-scale manufacturer might but in terms of bang
for the buck other than the uniqueness as a conversation piece I don't know I
kind of struggle with it it's definitely cool though just like my Segways to our
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our previous best the velcase velka 3 yeah it was a little bigger but it was
also actually contained I mean that's sort of
shared some of the same drawbacks but definitely a fun build
at just 32 liters this is the small