okay so normally when someone comes to us with an idea for a sponsored video
about a computer it involves building one up demonstrating the purpose that we
built it for and bippity boppity outcomes a video we've pretty much got
that down to a science at this point with I by power life wasn't really
that simple the computer is already built it's stress tested and it's boxed
up before we ever get our hands on it so we figured well let's just do the whole
thing in Reverse Welcome to the first ever unbuild log where we take apart the
machine rather than putting it together featuring the iby power Revolt 2 and
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it so it starts then with software um I
by power gets full marks for including zero blo I mean not even a Microsoft
Office Tri with the Revolt 2 with two exceptions everything in the ad remove
programs menu is a legitimate utility for the hardware in the system or it was
installed by me I would personally remove the MSI registration utility but
the lighting controller software the other one of the two gets to stay since
it's very lightweight and enables a variety of cool effects from solid
colors to breathing to Rainbow 2 off if
you're into the whole Simplicity thing performance-wise like with any
custombuilt System since you could put a Celeron and a gt210 in there if you
really wanted to you'll get exactly what you pay for as long as the system
builder has effectively managed The Thermals of the machine and ibby power
seems to have done just that in spite of the Revolt 2's diminutive size our CPU
never cleared about 65° on the hottest core in Ida 64 and our GPU stuck under
50° with unen Heaven extreme looping all
of this while staying exceptionally quiet great results here so let's start
tearing her apart then shall we I by power didn't actually explain what the
deal with the peripherals was so apparently sometimes it comes with some
and sometimes not but sometimes others the mouse is frankly terrible so I
wouldn't worry too much about that but the mouse pad and the mechanical keyboard that they threw in would be
nice to have included with the system because they're not too shabby side
panel disassembly was pretty straightforward there's two thumb screws
and it pops right off an interesting note here though is that you can
actually remove the plastic fascia piece
revealing actually kind of a slick looking metal panel with what looks like
a spot for a window perhaps another like
slimmed down version coming down the line next I undid the cable management
for the RGB lighting controller it's got three connectors USB for that software
control I showed you before a three pin for the LED strip and a DC plug for
power then there's really not much else that we can access from this side
although we do get a look at the Dual 120 mm radiators that are responsible
for that cool quiet operation the SSD
mount in the front is accessed by simply lifting the giant window in the front
then it can actually be removed with a single thumb screw the SATA ports are
pre-wired up kind of like a back plane and you can mount up to two ssds in the
driv sled then just pop them in very very nice our machine is equipped with a
single 240 gig ad SSD the second side
panel reveals well most of the rest of the inside so you got the power supply
the video card and the hard drive the
power supply is a bit of an odd choice to me the rm750 is a 750 W power supply
so kind of overkill for a system like this although consumers think they need
ginormous power supplies for their system so I can't put too much of the
blame on IB power for obliging them but the bigger question mark for me with
this one is why choose a power supply with a hybrid fan mode since you're
relying on that fan to cool the vrm area of the motherboard and the system memory
so I'd recommend that iby power stick with power supplies that keep their fan
engaged even if at a very low RPM to eliminate a potential Hots spot there
the video card Choice reveals why those temperatures were so freaking awesome
this is a 2 the9 sort of configuration and it's got an EVGA gtx980 TI with a
hybrid air and water cooler that means fresh air is drawn through the bottom of
the case through that radiator then reused again through the air cooler
before being exhausted out the top rear of the chassis and you can argue till
you're bleue in the face about reusing air to cool something twice but the
proof is in the pudding and that result
is some pretty Tasty Pudding the hard drive mount in the front contains a 1 TB
3 and 1/2 in WD blue but you could put in anything you want um IMO boot SSD and
mass storage 3 and 1/2 in hard drive is still the way to go but that may change
in the next couple of years though thankfully because of the Dual SSD
mounts in the front I byy power is leaving room in the future for mass
storage ssds to go along with your boot SSD something that mushkin wants to
happen sooner rather than later with that 4 tbte Drive they announced for 500
bucks with the power supply removed we get a good look at the rest of the guts
here ITX boards are pretty much universally limited to two dim slots and
ours is equipped with 16 gigs of AD data ddr4 2400 MHz but thanks to DDR4's
already improved RAM density consumer grade 16 gig sticks are available giving
the Revolt 2 up to 32 gigs of capacity
for CPU cooling it's handled by a Corsair h55 that has actually some of
the most creative tubing management that I think I've ever seen the tubes are zip
tied into the nooks and crannies around the CPU socket then crammed under the
power supply bracket in a way that I would have thought would make it Kink
but didn't end up doing so leading us
finally to the CPU and motherboard so
that chip under the h55 cooler is an Intel Core i7 6700k Skylake quad core
with hyperthreading that's topof the line on the consumer end of Intel's
lineup and then our motherboard is an MSI gaming model that equips our machine
with compatibility for Wi-Fi m.2 SDS and
of course all the hardware inside which I guess kind of concludes
our first ever unbuild log with the I
power Revolt 2 I hope it was as interesting for you guys as it was for
me to tear this baby apart and see exactly how they handled all the cooling
and cable management of this unique little system that I first covered a
month ago at CES 2016 so thanks for watching guys if this
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the largest mouse pad I've ever seen seriously it's like as big as this
system is small it's huge