do you think pre-built laptops are for
cowards what hey boy have I got the
solution for you make the new designed 16.1 in LCD screen industrial Server
Chassis computer case with three PCIe slots on top of such groundbreaking
features as monitor keyboard and handell
it's capable of housing a 260 mm GPU and
a desktop CPU and motherboard and I mean
sure there have been briefcase computers for nearly as long as there have been
forums to brag about them on but this is the first time that I have seen a
ready-made mass-produced briefcase chassis and if you're looking for a
somewhat portable PC that can game out a land handle heavy on-site video editing
or house specialized PCI expansion cards
that your weak friend's laptop just
can't this just might fill that void or
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at the end of this video now I have to confess to you guys when we started to
shoot here I thought we kind of screwed something up because I lifted this thing
up and I went guys the whole video is that I'm supposed to build the computer
in it you can't build it all no it's just that heavy without any of the
actual Hardware in it to its credit though it seems pretty rugged especially
for the price it's got these great rubber corner pieces that should protect
it from incidental bumps and bruises it's got this stamped reinforcing
pattern to help protect the LCD on the other side and it seems to be machined
out of solid aluminum for the most part
that would explain the weight also there's the fact that it's not entirely
empty we've got what appears to be an 80 mm cooling fan a cross brace Power
Supply Mount and okay a scaler some kind of driver
board for the integrated monitor that makes sense there's your HDMI input or
at least it makes more sense than the VGA cable that is hanging out the rear
of it wait really this that's the we're going
to have to find a better way kicking off the build with our CPU we've gone with
the ryzen 7 7800 x3d and what's
remarkable about this choice is how unremarkable it is I recommend this
thing all the time and that's what makes a solution like this so appealing this
is a great CPU and while it is
technically a 120 watt chip going into a
system where we might want to keep power consumption low due to cooling
constraints or in case we ever have to run off battery off grid am D tends to
baby these 3D vcash chips pretty hard
and they keep voltages so low for better reliability that real world power draw
is rarely more than 80 Watts depending on the cooler I think this is going to
perform really well in here of course it can't do anything on its own and we
needed to pair it with an appropriate motherboard we've gone with the Gigabyte
B 650i aorus Ultra now I want to note
that the a620 IX would almost certainly
have been good enough and come with a significant discount however we
preferred the more robust IO of the ultra especially given our limited PCIe
expansion the standout features on this one were the extra USB ports Intel 22
gig Ethernet and the extra m.2 storage slots it's worth noting that not
everything about this board was an upgrade for us v1.1 of this one uses
Intel Wi-Fi and v1.2 shares the same
real Tech chip as the a620 I however we
rolled a natural one and got V1 from our
local computer shop which unfortunately uses an AMD RZ 616 Wi-Fi chipset from
mediatech for our SSD we've gone with a Samsung 980 Pro that's a lie this is
clearly a 970 Evo plus but we would have used a 980 Pro it's just the Labs borrow
them off see we wanted to use something like
this alphacool ice bear Pro es look at
it it's an 80 mm AIO cooler it's so
small and cute but even coolers like
this one designed for lowprofile 2u
chassis are either too long or too thick
to fit in our luggable here so we'll have it linked down below with all the
rest of the hardware that we're using in case there's a cool project that you
have in mind for it but we had to settle for the next best thing the Noctua
nhl12s or more spefic specifically an l12s with the fan mounted on the bottom
that wasn't a step we thought we'd have to take in fact the Alibaba listing says
that it can fit an 85 mm tall cooler while this is only 70 mm it's just that
with the motherboard installed this just
barely fits as it is so I guess they just what didn't account for that before
we put it in there though we'll need some mounting hardware some thermal compound and some figuring out what are
orentation is going to work for us here
wow that is extremely tight we seem to
be getting good contact so I think we're good to go H good to go and make sure we
install our RAM first with a CPU Cooler like this we need lowprofile RAM and the
best options we could find are the rip Jaws S5 and flare X5 both from G skill
we ended up with the S5s running in a 2X 16 gig kit at 6,000 megat transfers per
second CL 36 but none of those speeds and feeds are what really matter to us
what matters is I think they fit oh wow
is that ever tight
uh no no no I'm sure we're going to get it in there we just got to remove this
cross brace there we go see you later cross
brace and oh look at this how perfect is
that this intake fan goes right into our little Cavern of wear are can go into
this impenetrable Fortress or at least it would if it was an intake fan it's an
exhaust right now let's get that turned around look at this in there with the
stubby screwdriver got that low ratchet back Force we are going to get that
screw out a yeah strong magnet question for you Tanner have we
considered replacing this extremely generic fan with something a little
better this guy's way ahead of me did bring a NOA this guy's way ahead of me
all right I am worried a little bit about this though noct fans perform well
for their sound profile but they don't necessarily spin that fast and we might
just need to push more air into this thing than that fan will do but I guess
we'll have to see how it goes there we go and wow that looks freaking awesome
and raises a lot of questions like there enough room for a GPU in here and the
answer is yes and not just any GPU
that's right we found it the one case
pun intended where it makes sense to spend Ransom amounts of money on an RTX
47 you see you can hate on the 40 series all you want for good reasons like their
pricing but you can't fault NVIDIA's style when it comes to Performance per
watt and this is Far and Away the most
performant GPU that we could find that is under 260 mm in length that can run
on a 600 W power supply or less oh
speaking of which we are going to be us using this fx600 Platinum from
Silverstone why because it's super cool
it's 600 W cinetics Platinum certified
Flex ATX meaning it should fit in our system with no difficulty whatsoever we
ended up using this cable mod 180°
adapter by the way it's the older one I'd recommend getting the newer one that
has fewer problems and it'll go in a little
something like so but we still have a problem where is
this GPU gonna get any airf flow from these pass through cards where they suck
air in the one side and blow it right out the back are great for small form
factor builds assuming that there's a natural airflow path through the card in
this case there is not all we've got is
this passive what is now an
exhaust pain trains coming into the station
boys
4 hours later and four little holes
success we've got a filtered intake now we won't actually have a fan on it those
holes are just there so we can put a little filter on it but that should give
our GPU much better access to Fresh Air
from the outside oh but I almost forgot
we need to replace that VGA cable with an HDMI cable and before we put the
motherboard in is the best time to do that this is a very long HDMI cable is
our so we have a shorter one with this
yellow one here but I think it might be a little too short that's great much
better here we go now we're talking see
you later VGA oh you hung it did I really yeah I
can't even see it oh where no where'd it go it did definitely didn't hit the
ground oh I see it where did it
go oh yeah oh now I was about to put in
the PCIe riser for our GPU in fact I will just put that in since that won't
interfere with any of this but then I realized I got to deal with all the
front IO the trackpad keyboard and power
button and all that stuff we just put the top panel here and then oh man jeez
this is a very cluggy build process then we just need to add a USB connection for
the trackpad and the keyboard and we're pretty much good to go let's throw this
GPU in now I know you guys are probably thinking G Linus that's a really long
PCIe riser for such a short run and
you're right but the issue was we wanted to run at Gen 4 speeds and there's a
distinct lack of 10 cm Gen 4 risers so
this is what we ended up with and we're pretty sure it'll kind of you
know right this is the thing I love
about new power supply standards it's like yeah we've got this 12 pin high
power it uh does all this other stuff and blah blah blah and at the end of the
day it's just one eight pin with a daisy chain and as long as you have the right
adapter everything's hunky dory little trick though by the way guys it can be
really hard to get in and plug these dual four pins in when they don't lock
together so you can just use a little piece of tape to hold them together while you get them
aligned and with all the cables tucked away are we ready for first boot it kind
of seems like it I just can't believe how easy this was like we've started the
conversation around doing a suitcase PC so many times and every time it goes
something like oh yeah we should totally do one of those okay what would make our
stand out oh it would be like a 3-month
long project because everyone's basically done every idea okay fine
forget it we'll kick it down the road no we don't have
to that's a good sign that's a good
sign delete delete delete delete delete delete oh no way this is so
cool she's done
done yes yes
wow that is pretty
Sleek for a clunky desktop shaped like a
laptop but man oh wow oh that's
heavy wow what does this weigh
a incredible this track pad though what is
this from 1998 I didn't even notice before
fantastic how's the
keyboard h very awful you know
considering how much total depth they have in this machine you'd think they
might have been able to keep the keyboard from having so much flex and
before you ask no that's not what that brace was for
uh this is almost certainly 60 HZ 1080p
yep never mind that a few more Hertz wouldn't have hurt them too much on the
bottom line but this is what we got at least it's not TN like it would have
been in the old days though the viewing angles are fine and the brightness
is very usable I mean everything about this feels ridiculous I like I have no
idea what I'm cleaning right now it looks pretty cool it does look
pretty cool and it has okay maybe not all the ADV vages of a laptop you know
not having a battery and all that but just the fact that it's just so so
packable and it has all the advantages of a desktop pretty much if I didn't
want to use this monitor because it wasn't suitable for whatever I was doing
I don't have to I could plug into my ample desktop class rear IO and just use
a whole different set of peripherals wao what just happened everyone just flipped
out anyway the point is clearly the game's running okay I'm at the ultra pre
preset at 1080P and I'm running at 120
FPS with 1% lows at 855 this is
smooth someone is anyone chasing me oh sorry sorry oh my goodness I'm so sorry
my hand though no lie getting freaking
uncomfortable hey look we got a thermal camera let's quantify
this
WOW 48 de shut up
49 can we read
50 over 50° on the keyboard that is hot enough
to hurt you meanwhile the wrist rest is at a frigid
442 since I've got it out you can really see we are not exhausting much hot air
over here there's no real track on the desk pad next to it Meanwhile by the GPU
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's where all the heat is leaving the system we're
drawing cold air in over here oh okay some exhaust is just being thrown out
this side too interesting this vent's
pulling double duty the GPU is drawing air from the bottom of it and then
exhausting air out the top of it I don't even know if this thing is peaked yet
well I was measuring the back yeah the keyboard got up to
53 and the wrist rest has reached 46
this wouldn't be legal to release at least in this configuration
as for why I'm still trying to do it well I couldn't explain that to you
ow okay how hot is the part of my ARM that I had on there 42 it's already
cooling a little bit but it's over 40 just from having my wrist on it that's
normal you know what's not running hot though is our CPU and GPU we're sitting
at around 80° on both of them which is
okay not the best temperatures I've ever seen before but far from the point of
thermal throttling that is flipping awesome and it goes to show you like
what we got in here 180 mm fan power
supply fan and then repurposing our GPU
fan as an intake that's it it's not about how much air flow you've got it's
about how you use it with that said I think there's more we could do to stress
this thing let's hit it with fur Mark and cinch at the same time here we
go it's pretty loud though what I think
it's pretty okay it is definitely getting louder now but I think it's pretty reasonable
whoa I think it's gotten even
hotter yep the wrist rest has cracked
50 the keyboard has whoa whoo did I did I see
60 still though our GPU is just shy of
2.5 GHz and our CPU hasn't thermal
throttled yet for the price I'd be
thrilled with this thing 400 bucks for chassis keyboard trackpad and monitor I
mean yeah it's not a real laptop and if
you wanted to run it off grid you would have to bring along a portable battery
bank or solar generator or whatever the case may be but given that it's probably
rugged enough to travel a little bit
some reasonable use cases for something like this could be uh I mean sure gaming
like we showed before but that's not the intention I'm thinking more along the
lines of compute intensive on location work like you might encounter in film
making or scientific Endeavors similar portable workstations are available as
pre-builts to serve these industries but if you have to ask how much they cost
you can't afford them like seriously guys the ones we found from next
computer start at $88,000 and that's
without a professional GPU in them yet and they go up past 25 Grand our machine
weighs in at around $2,000 it does have some drawbacks I
mean one is that MA case the seller doesn't include a jacket to protect it
from the elements so if you're carrying it around briefcase style and it starts
to rain your system's going to end up water cooled in all the worst ways but
for the amount of money you'd have left over you could probably track down a tailor to Fashion a suit for it out of
fine Italian leather and still have enough money left over to fly business
class to Milan with your super stylish
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any hotter it just keeps going it's at 55 on
the trackpad now