we don't generally review Hardware before mass production here for what I
think are fairly obvious reasons so I'm
going to begin this video with a warning that goes a little something like this
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as Steam OS ended up being the box that valve sent out to the press to demo it
showed us that a console sized full fat
gaming rig could be done and served as
the inspiration for the case that I have in front of me at 7 L total volume the
Sentry is still considerably larger than the PlayStation 4 is 4 1/2 lers but it
is actually a little bit smaller than the original Xbox One's 7.22 l making it
truly a console sized PC chassis that
punches way above its size class and
punch it does unlike other Grassroots
tiny case projects that we've checked out the Dan Case A4 sfx and nase M1 come
to mind which are both built in Le and Le's Factory out of anodized aluminum
the Sentry is built out of 1 mm galvanized steel with structural Powder
Coating in Black or white giving it
substantial weight considering its diminutive size as well as an industrial
look that I can personally appreciate but that might be a turnoff for some at
the front is a pair of USB 3 ports and a power button with a colored LED ring the
top is vented the bottom is vented with
a couple extra holes here to secure the regrettably non-optional stand that
allows the power supply and CPU heat sink to breathe when the Sentry is
mounted vertically the left panel is vented over the graphics card and the
right panel is similar with the openings over the power supply and CPU fan area
round back is where folks not familiar with the size of the Xbox one will get
their first real feel for how tiny this
thing is that's your graphics card IO a
pass through power cable and your motherboard IO this case couldn't really
be any smaller without sacrificing over
height video card compatibility let's get it open it really is quite similar
to the steam machine prototype the ITX motherboard goes here CPU heat sink
height is restricted to 47 mm or 37 mm
depending on the layout of your motherboard the video card mounts using
this clever pressure retention system for the PCIe slot extension that is both
easy to align and user replaceable if you had another one that you liked
better or you're stopped working very clever the power supply goes here you
can choose sfx or sfx L depending on
your 2 and a half inch Drive appetite and you know what I could cover every
scenario but the Sentry's Hardware compatibility is much easier to
represent with this awesome little configuration tool on their website that
lets you try out your components ahead of time and see how well they will all
fit together very cool the assembly instructions are surprisingly
straightforward to follow and building in the Sentry only took me about 15
minutes I do have some comments though the
manual suggests flipping the grill on your power supply if it interferes with
the side panel but I just removed mine outright just make sure to keep your
fingers out of it after the fact or you could literally die it also suggests
running cables after installing the power supply but if you're using a
modular sfx L unit like I was you'll
find that this is about as much fun as performing surgery with a butter knife
and you'll risk damaging the wires connected to the front poweron button so
I would suggest plugging in ahead of time and finally what is it with
Europeans and hex screws why are we using hex screws particularly ones with
such low steel content as to make them basically not
magnetic I can live without Philips head but please at least fix the magnetism
and the mass production units if possible anyway you can use the cables
included with your power supply make sure they're long enough to route where
needed and then bunch up the extra length near the end of the video card
that worked pretty well but with that said I quickly swapped those out for
custom length ones from cable mod which made my life and cable management a
little bit easier something that's particularly important for cases like
this one that have no built-in fans whatsoever I mean where would they even
put them I actually wouldn't mind spacing of the vent holes on the right
panel to allow me to squeeze a 40 mm fan
in wherever I wanted like if they just change the spacing so that it kind of
always lined up wherever you go that would be kind of cool but that's about
it I can't find anywhere else and besides does it need them well to find
out I loaded up the entry with a 22 core
145 wat TDP xon CPU 64 gigs of RAM a GTX
Titan XP a 1 TB 850 Pro SSD and a 700
wat sfx L power supply this is about as
fully loaded worst case scenario a configur figuration as you can possibly
get and to be very clear we will not be representative of what most people will
be running though I do plan to follow this up with a more realistic
configuration compared to some other small form factor cases in the future
but let's start with a baseline reading here for our torture configuration so
with the chassis mounted vertically and the panels off to represent how this
Hardware should behave on an Open Bench
the CPU throttles already it was pretty hot that day but but GPU boost clocks
look pretty good with the panels on GPU
clock speeds do fall and Chassis temperatures are very toasty especially
around back where the GPU exhaust is located bear in mind that this is all on
auto with independent synthetic tests running on the CPU and GPU so under a
more gaming like realistic load and with
some tuning of the GPU's fan profile allowing it to ramp poop higher than
default I was actually able to generate these results pretty darn impressive if
you can control CPU heat dump and you don't mind a little bit of noise it's
actually not that bad the Sentry can handle pretty much Whatever video card
you can throw at it flipping the chassis
horizontally does hamper its abilities somewhat making the GPU fan work a
little over 10% harder right off the bed
and I would strongly recommend the vertical orientation with the stand with
high-end Hardware which is all fine and good for
components that have fans but what about the system components that don't have
their own active cooling well here the story gets a little bit less happy
though not impossible to solve my SSD ran at 62° on the surface of the drive
mounted near the video card so I'd strongly recommend using the alternate
Mount that's next to the GPU intake that was pointed out to me by the doctor
abber guys but more alarming than that my RAM chips
and motherboard chipset were well over 70° each this isn't instant death
territory but it's hotter than I think a lot of people would be comfortable with
so bottom line I wouldn't recommend my configuration in here but a more
sensible config with a flower style CPU Cooler like Intel's box cooler would
absolutely Rock in this baby because it would help the RAM and the motherboard
stay quite a bit cooler I mean as long as you're not running multiple synthetic
loads you may still be okay anyway even an open air style ACX 2.0 cooler 980ti
generated better gaming results surprisingly than a blower style
reference card at the cost of CPU temps however and when not using the GPU and a
6950x 10 core managed to stay turboed up
en coding video full bore in adobi media encoder if I wasn't doing anything with
the GPU I think they're going to sell a lot of these although remains to be seen
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