ever seen anything like it where's the cable there's no cables what the 24 pin
8 Pin GPU power connectors they're gone
and yet it's working that's amazing it is amazing and to find out how it came
to be we're going to have to go back in time in
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Linus top to bottom back to front I'm
expecting every aspect of the project stealth kit from Gigabyte to be an
interesting one starting of course with the PC DIY kit right here unlike a
normal be bones it only includes a case
and a motherboard pre-installed in the Box no cooler and no power supply and
also unlike a normal Bare Bones it includes one of the components that most
Gamers really prefer to choose for themselves rather than being locked into
one option A GPU that means you can have
any GPU you want as long as it's this RTX 3070 that's included in the box but
what's special about it this right here here the 8 Pin and six pin PCI Express
power connectors are actually on the bottom of the card where the PCI E slot
is now under normal circumstances these would be impossible to get at but in
this particular chassis which is specifically designed with this GPU in
mind there's actually a cut out here to plug in the power which raises another
question where the devil are all the other power connectors on
here there they are not only are our power connector on the back of the board
but even our front USB our fans our
front like power switch and reset switch and all that stuff everything is
actually on the back of this motherboard it's such a cool and honestly obvious
idea that it raises the question why didn't anybody do this before you see
main gear actually patented this concept
and pitched it to multiple PC component manufacturers back in 2011 including
Gigabyte so when they saw Gigabyte
release ask you how you are and you just have to say that you're fine so when
they saw the project stealth kit announced with them conveniently cut out
of the equation they were understandably mythed thankfully it seems as though the
two have patched up their differences since the kid is available either
Standalone from Gigabyte or as a pre-built from main gear and I'm really
stoked on that because it means hopefully we can see more of this kind
of innovation I mean who doesn't like tidier builds with better air flow I
think the people want to see the board while I'm pulling this out I realized I
don't actually have to speculate about what happened between Gigabyte and main
gear yo Wallace how you doing I got my hands on a project stealth and it seems
to me that you guys kind of like patented this concept do you have any
comments on that at all there's a lot of challenges in building a motherboard
whenever the connector on the opposite side like that yeah but they figured it
out and I'm just really happy that able to Mar basically everything's good it's
all good man all right well I'm glad to hear that there was some conversations
that took place a couple months ago but we're excited to be working with them on
so well there you have it Gigabyte licensed the patent and everything is
good to go glad to hear it they thought I was going to build a computer but
actually I'm going to take apart a computer today oh yeah there we go wow
this just makes my brain hurt I mean it it's good that they went and they moved
everything to the back you know even SOS clear jumper and the battery here so you
don't need to access the front of the board after you built the computer which
is kind of crazy but it must have involved some pretty unique PCB layout
changes one question with respect to development is did they build this board
from scratch or did they kind of repurpose an existing design the closest
PL found in a couple of minutes was the z690 Aeros Elite ax there are some
differences this is only a ddr4 board
and this one's ddr5 which is our next kind of funny and interesting story here
Gigabyte sent over all the parts for us to do this build and they included some
ddr4 memor so we're going to be popping that out for something else now I kind
of want to pull off the shield and just see what's under it it's like a Twilight
Zone thing or something you know or I guess the more upto-date reference would
be like a stranger things there you have it everything's just through holes but
they go the opposite way man from I mean
I guess they already do rearm mounted some stuff you'll see rearm mounted m.2
slots for example so they wouldn't have had to completely retool a manufacturing
line in order to run it through one way and then run it through the other way
but I'd still imagine there was some it took some kaj jiggering to do this it's
possible this is totally normal and I'm only noticing because I'm looking so
closely at the construction of this board but the two PCIe gen 4 slots down
here are using through holes for soldering and the Gen 5 slot is actually
surface mounted for now I want to take a closer look at this chassis because as
cool as project stealth is if it locked you into these components that would be
a huge hit against its repair ability
and its upgradeability so I want to make sure that we're also compatible with
standard components and just from a quick glance it looks like we are
because other than these extra cutouts down here which realistically could just
be used as Cable Management under other circumstances there's nothing about this
that would prevent you from putting a completely standard motherboard and
standard graphics card in it Kos Gigabyte there in fact they've even got
an upright PCIe GPU Mount um if you
wanted to use a riser and like do that thing which you obviously wouldn't for
project stealth unless do they have another hole that corresponds to they do
not that's a missed opportunity Gigabyte to have a cutout right here then you
could have your PCI cables go up and you could do like a a vertical Mount as well
Jake's in charge of making sure I reach our production quota this week he's not
telling any stories about paint is he not yet so far I've managed to
disassemble
it all right goodbye let me just get
this thing back to original state here as I was looking up the front panel
connectors I got to thinking in an industry where you can't even get
everybody to agree how much spacing there should be between the positive and
negative connectors for the front power LED it's very unlikely we're going to
get all the major motherboard and case manufacturers to come together on that
CPU fans should go here and the 24 pin connector should go kind of somewhere in
here so even though the case might be able to be brought forward to a new
system I think if you want to take advantage of this stealthy feature that
you presumably paid extra for I actually don't know how much the Bare Bones costs
you could end up vendor locked which I'm never a huge fan of I'd rather see
standards and this is almost certainly a non-standard motherboard ATX in addition
to you know where all the holes go into it and stuff has a maximum depth I'm
pretty sure that this has got to be exceeding it having all this stuff
hanging off the B the labels actually on all these headers are super clear which
really goes to show how much easier building or pairing a computer could be
if you had the major players cooperating anyway plof wanted to talk about this
internal HDMI cable are they just reusing a
chassis that used to have this as a
feature and then they just didn't want to pay to retool this plastic bezel cuz
I don't even think it's long enough to go up the back of the case on the
surface it appears that this GPU uses a super special layout like the
motherboard with these power connectors on the bottom but what's actually going
on here is that it's a short PCB card
see the card actually ends here and then there's a couple of little pigtails a
couple little leads coming from these flat PCIe connectors that we first
encountered on a Gigabyte RTX 390 on that Chino system recently and then they
come out to standard connectors that are just mounted to the back plate so you
see there's little cables there totally standard PCB other than that it's got
that weird flat connector what is the deal with that we figured out the HDMI
cable issue but it seems to be part of a deeper problem it's that Gigabyte mostly
just repurposed their C300 chassis which
was not actually designed in the first place for this project case in point
we've got a 3 pin fan connector here that you can either plug into the CPU
fan header which is not optimal or you can run down the front of your board
completely defeating the purpose of project stealth oh wow this cut out is
not actually quite big enough it puts a bunch of strain on the
plastic and that's not because this fan header there's not a CPU fan header it's
just because it's just really tight finally time to build we've gone with a
12700 whoop DDR5 memory 32 gigs 5600
megat transfers per second aora sent over their Gen 4 7,000 is that a model
or is that a read speed oh no it has a
big heat sink on it I can make it fit plof you ready
watch this oh yeah that brings us perfectly to the most exciting part of
our build Gigabyte had a scandal recently with power supplies blowing up
this one probably won't but dang it why
am I taking these screws out by hand when I have a trusty LT store.com
screwdriver you're going to end up with really long cables for how short these
runs are I could see people definitely going for something like a cable mod kit
and getting shorter cables for a build like this I mean it's not that you will
actually see the extra cable lengths but because this chassis wasn't really
designed with project stealth in there is not a ton of cable management space
on the back of the motherboard tray could be a bit of a challenge I'd like
to see main Gear's take on a chassis for this does this case actually fit a 360
mm radiator wait where's the air come from
it just has no air flow dang it Gigabyte what's the point of a fan filter with no
airflow what the hell so you can't even
get Co through it I what the hell no no
how are you going to cool the damn GPU there's a fan here doing nothing is this
why they said don't use a 12900 K what an utter disappointment you can air cool
it with what air ploof where's the air
what the heck I'm mounting it in the front and if Gigabyte doesn't like it
then they can design a better case imagine designing a whole product around
getting all the cables out of the way of the airf flow and then without having
any air flow so avoidable you know I'm
reminded of the antec dark Fleet 85 and I mean that as the scathing insult that
it is it was like they never actually bothered to build a computer in the case
before productizing it that's what this is you have to actually try your product
before you release it like what is this thing 200 Watts
thanks thanks for all the fans to move around my hot air run it with the side
panel off yeah cuz I can't get enough of looking at my gorgeous complete lack of
cables I love how gigabytes design is
just an ace attack cooler and then they just put like a giant tumor on top of it
wait is this even going to go in there I don't think I can refund this hard
enough to get this in here oh it goes all right okay it doesn't sit well how
the hell is that supposed to work oh wow
they stamped the front so the fans kind of come forward a little bit and what
that means here is that you can't even get the cables threw to the front
because of the tank Brandon can you see this these cables are mushed no no no no
I don't like putting the fans the other way I know you don't it's bad for
maintenance cuz you're going to be doing so much maintenance on this piece so
much maintenance got another clearance issue here 5vt addressable RGB header
doesn't seem to have enough room around it to get this plug into it yeah oh wow
this is not even close to being able to fit didn't expect to take up whittling
today I was having so much fun with this I was sitting here thinking wow this is
going to be so easy to build and instead
it's the not best the GPU is actually
kind of the coolest part of all of this the GPU connector is the one that really
looks awful that's pretty cool okay
maybe I'm back to being excited again plof it's just so clean okay are all
these cables through enough that I can actually close it yes thank you it's
clean as hell wait this OS was not set
up by you no I did a Windows 11 install and it hooks into all the uh aorus
software and that auto downloads a bunch of like Norton and stuff like that I
don't want layered protection I want to unin this is an uninstall wizard if you
have a window without an X you're doing it
wrong oh my God this is really bad and I
don't even have ssds in here and an SSD
here okay come take a side dude we got it yeah screw it down like if I went to
the gym and I had a bulge like that it was freaking G Gigabyte last time too a
freaking solid front panel freaking
gaming kit have youall learned nothing
we're up to 80° already you can see we've been running our Benchmark for
just over 1 minute we've touched 92° now
after Just 4 minutes package just hit 96
maximum remember too the GPU is just running my OBS screen recording right
now here it is package ring thermal throttling and core thermal throttling
took place time 6 6 and2 minutes with a
triple water cooling
radiator I ask you how you are and you just have to say that you're fine when
you're not really
fine okay so ciner bench is still
running and we are now down to 86° on
the CPU package it's also still quiet man now I really do wish I'd gone like a
like a 3/4 of an inch higher and we just had like a nice uh tidy tidy holes here
just put some moders mesh on there and boom done and that's all we had to do to
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