Eight years ago, I covered the Kickstarter prototype for this case. And
since then, a lot has happened, including
every person who backed that project getting scammed and Calios eventually
partnering with Streomcom, who helped them finally bring this thing to market.
And now that it's here, I got to
say, it might have been worth the wait.
We're good. Get it? Wait, cuz this thing
is freaking heavy. This is a case that
literally turns your PC into a phase change cooling system. Inside it are
zero moving parts, no fans, no pumps,
just a bunch of science and a gigantic copper heat exchanger to cool down your
system. Now, we have seen products like
this before. It's just that none of them, including this one up until now,
have ever actually made it to market, which is why we are so stoked to finally
see this beast in person. I need this plastic off right
now. It's beautiful. But could anything,
no matter how beautiful, possibly be worth the asking price for this?
Especially when you consider that Streetcom's technology partner, Calios,
hasn't always been the most ethical in the past. I don't know. But what I do
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more. I just can't stop looking at it. I
kid you not. This is probably the most beautiful thing I've seen since my
children were born. These were at the bottom of the box. Mhm. Yeah. That and
the uh easy bend fins at the front. That's the thing with a boutique product
like this. There's going to be some inconveniences. For one thing, the case
before we've even installed anything in it, weighs 31 kg or just shy of 69 lb.
That's only true of the copper edition, which is a one of 500 limited edition,
but even the aluminum one is pretty freaking heavy. As for how we ended up
with one of the coppers, well, ours was originally purchased by a viewer, but at
some point during the 8-year wait, they got fed up and gave us their spot in
line. Did we pay full pop for it then? I believe so. Yeah. Okay, then it better
be good. Oh, look at this. Before we
look too much at that, I did figure out where all these screws came from. Oh,
yeah. This one right here is supposed to be Yeah, like that. And the rest all
were holding this evaporator onto this
piece of acrylic that no longer exists. I mean, it exists. Yeah. In some ways,
it exists twice as much as before. Three times.
Bright side, that gives us much easier access to the evaporator head in what
Calios calls their loop heat pipe cooling system. Inside this evap, R1233
ZDE refrigerant boils. The cold plate
has a really cool design that uses capillary action as the pump for the
entire system. Then that boiling fluid goes up into the heat sink on top where
that thermal energy gets transferred to the air passively with no fans at all
unless you install fans. Then the refrigerant condenses back into a liquid
and flows back to the evaporator or should I say evaporators. There's one
for the CPU and one for your GPU as
well. The small lines are the return which carry the liquid refrigerant down
to the evaporator block and the big ones take the evaporated gaseous refrigerant
up to the radiator. The best part is that as unbelievable as all of that
sounds, it's a fairly proven technology. Calios not only uses this in some of
their more exotic cooling solutions for things like satellites, but they did
ship us that prototype system before and it did work. They just failed to
massproduce it. Thank goodness picked this up. Hey, let's build a system. One
small problem, Lionus. I need you to make a choice here. We haven't quite
decided which power supply we're going to use, right? Do you want to build this
one? Yeah. Okay. Yo, hello. Look, if
we're going to build a fanless system, let's build a fanless system. Really?
850 watts? Oh, yeah. Who makes this?
Cooler Master, huh? PSU Circuit loved it, too. It tested really well. Oh,
well, that's great news, cuz I was going to say Cooler Masters had some winds and
they've had some less wind. There is one thing that is a bit more of a problem,
though. Yeah. You see how this only allows you to put the power supply in on
its side? Yeah. This power supply specifically asks you not to do that,
right? It wants to be like that cuz convection fanless. Oh wow. I was about
to install the power supply and I realized uh I haven't looked at the
accessories yet. There's definitely some stuff in here. GPU riser. That makes
sense given we might have to reposition them a little. Oh my goodness. This is a
lot of hardware. NVIDIA 4000 series kit.
Wait, we're not Oh yes, we are. A 4090
cooled passively. Yeah, it might be a bit hot, but it'll be fine. I kept
thinking, how much this is? Don't worry about it. Talk about that later.
Included 632 thumb screws. Do we have 632 thumb screws? Oh, yes. Oh, yeah.
We're We just are blind. Well, in
fairness to us, the labeling all looks very incomplete. Theoretically, I think
these boxes are supposed to be ticked for what these are for. This whole thing
is going to be a two screwdriver affair because some of it is Allen key and some
of it is Phillips and some of its other Allen key. Cool. I think this is going
to be one of the little inconveniences that building in this thing is a bit of
a nightmare. I see what you mean. But if
we're being real, if I can afford this case, I can afford the allmetal version
of the LT screwdriver coming someday. ltstore.com. Maybe. Maybe. Lining this
up is a pain in the butt. You either move it too far this way and this one
doesn't reach. Or you move it too far that way and this thumb nut interferes.
Oh, look at that. She's in there. Next,
it's time for our motherboard. Well, next it's time to put all the things on
our motherboard. We've gone with the MSI Mag X670E Tomahawk Wi-Fi. On it, we've
gone with a Ryzen 9900. Why' we go with a 9900X?
Uh, because that's the CPU that we were able to get. Labs took all the 9800s and
the 9950s. I'm just worried about the thermals. It's 120 watts. It'll be fine.
It's what, 250 for the CPU? She'll be
super cool. While I install our 48 gigs of
DDR5 8000. Okay. Alex is going to prep
the socket for a very custom CPU cooler mount. Huh. Okay, sure. You got this.
This is kind of cool. You can see that the motherboard tray is at a 45° angle
in here rather than being straight up and down. This is apparently to aid with
fluid circulation. So, it goes on a little
something like that. I think they mostly line up. Do they line up? Um, no. But
see, look, there's a bit of flex. You can kind of, you know, Yeah. Another
minor inconvenience. While under normal circumstances, I would probably say,
"Yeah, just use whatever decent thermal paste you have lying around." In this
case, I want the best possible thermal paste. So, in this case, we're using a
nice high quality paste. Cryonaut from Thermal Grizzly. And I think that's
pretty much it. Hey, boys. Oh, no. I didn't take the peel off the bottom yet.
I was just trying to hold it up. The good news is I put on so much thermal paste that I'm not going to have to
reapply it. This is cool. It looks like the hold down plate is set up for an
offset mount. And so what that allows us to do is move the block this way a
little bit so that our coolant goes directly over the compute dies on our
Ryzen CPU. If you want to lean the case ever so slightly, that would give these
a better chance of staying on. No, most computers you can build by yourself, no
problem. This one you kind of want two people. Yep, agreed. Wow. It's got a
very industrial look to it. Hey. Yeah, it looks pretty sick. I was going to say
I kind of like it. Now it's time for the hard part. getting this mounted to our
GPU. I'm sure it'll be easy. Do I just have
to take the whole heat sink off and then I can take off the back plate? Oh, well,
here there's a couple more screws here. Yeah, but those aren't preventing me from taking off the back plate. No, I
think the heat sink has to come off first. Hey, we're discussing whether to use liquid metal or not. Alex wants to
conformal code our GPU. Like just around here. I know what you mean. I don't love
it, but I don't see an alternative. Yeah, we're going to want liquid metal
to have any shot of this thing performing anywhere near maximum. Holy
frig, the GPU cooler install is so
complicated. Look at this thing right here. It is 17 steps. And it seems like
the sort of thing where if you do a single one of these steps out of order,
you need to undo the stuff until the one that you have missed because order of
operations seems very important. This is going to be really
annoying. Now, the GPU cooler is
specific for each individual GPU,
meaning that if you want to upgrade in the future, unfortunately, you need to
get a new this part and many of the other stuff so that it can go into this
case. Fortunately though, they include a voucher for a free GPU cooler upgrade,
which is great because everyone that backed this had to wait a whole GPU
generation for it to arrive. I think I'm supposed to break this off to make it
the right size.
I think it's finally ready to go in here. Something like this. Very nice.
Move the whole thing over. That gets plugged in. All right,
we saved it. GPU is going to live here now, too. Now I just need to attach the
cold plate to the GPU. Oh my god, I almost
forgot. Now I can attach it. That could
have been bad. This is honestly kind of scary. I was expecting there to be like
some springs or something so that you can't overtighten this and crack the GPU
die, but uh they don't have anything like that. Not bad. Now all that I have
to do is cable everything. And wow. Oh, you guys can't see the cool
side. Wow, that looks awesome. Wow, they're
really on there pretty good, hey. Oh, yeah. I'm kind of impressed. For a case
with no cable management provisions whatsoever, it was actually not that bad
getting it to look decent. Yeah, how
about that? But will it run decent? I'm
just so scared Lionus didn't want us to turn it on for an entire week while he
was off doing other things. It has not been tested yet. Look at it. How could
it not work? Go ahead and do the honors.
I don't really know what I was expecting to happen. Yeah, there's no fans. Yeah.
So, is it on? Oh, there's RGB on the RAM. Yeah. Okay.
Nice. Excellent. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa. Can you hear that?
Are we getting a bit of boiling coolant already? The boiling sound seems to come
from the heat exchanger up here. I would have thought you'd hear the boiling in
the evaporator, which is literally called an evaporator,
you know, like it's in the name. How much you want to bet that boiling noise
gets way more annoying under load.
I think it'll probably be quite annoying. Vance said that it sounds a
lot like a toilet when it's like filling, which I think is very accurate.
I don't think I can unhear that now. Yeah, this is definitely the right
screwdriver to build this with. needlessly expensive and hopelessly
impractical, but it just feels so good. You know, our
GPU is already sitting at about 40° and our
CPU is over 50. This is while drawing
about 50 watts on each of them, which is probably fine. Oh boy, did you see that
temperature spike before the game launched? I did not. Dude, CPUs at 81.
You know what's pretty impressive? how low our GPU temps are. Oh yeah, just
at 60 degrees and it's at 90% load. What
are our graphics settings? Because this looks great. Uh pretty much cranked. I
am using DLSS upscaling, but I'm set to
quality and I have rateracing on and
everything. Like this is how I would play the game if I had a 4090. She's
quiet. Eerily quiet. And surprisingly,
the boiling doesn't seem to be any louder. It's still kind of annoying.
It almost sounds quieter now that it's actually doing stuff. The GPU side where
it's working harder, it's like instead of like drip drip drip, it's like a
drizzle. So, it's like lighter raindrops almost on the tin
roof. Wa! She's kicking, dude. Anyone want
marshmallows? Oh, should we take off the protective plastic on the sides?
Okay.
Oh, back of the CPU is pretty hot.
Everything's hot. I wonder if we're harming the cooling of some of the other
components in here by not having the side panels on because that's what
creates convection up through the bottom and potentially, you know, cools all the
other little bits and bobs. Maybe we should put them on. Sure. Wow. I don't
know if I would have thought it possible, but it looks even better with
the glass on, dude. Oh, yeah. That is sick. Now, what I want to know is, can I
feel the current? I mean, I'd have to.
It's got to be moving all this heat out. Wait, no way.
That can't be. Look up, Alex. I think that's just
from the HVAC. You think so? Yeah. So theoretically, if we block this, right?
See, it stops. Oh, it does. It stops. Wow. Okay, now we move the hoodie. Dude,
she moves. Yeah, that's a lot. That's so
cool. We didn't even set this up as an
experiment to see how much air it moved, but it there it
is. That's so high above the system. Of
course, this video would be incomplete if we didn't pull out the thermal camera. I'm already finding areas on our
4090 board that are in excess of 80°.
How's our SSD doing down there? Casual
50°. Oh. Oh, I think there's hotter
areas underneath. 56. She's hot in there. She's a hot SSD.
The good news is that NAND doesn't really benefit from running colder, I
guess. Are those cool or is it just reflective? Okay. able here. I could touch it, dude. It's like Yeah, it's
like skin temperature a little bit higher, which checks out perfectly. So,
this coolant must really be ripping around in there then.
You can actually feel it. You can feel the boiling. Oh, yeah. It feels like
there's a pump in there, which there sort of is. Yeah. Not a, you know, pump
with actual moving parts in it. Just like a
suction physics
pump. How's our poor power supply doing? Oh yeah, she's a little toasty. Ah, it's
50°. That's fine. Yeah, on the outside. Oh yeah. How's the other side doing? Oh,
dude. Oh, dude. I got 90° under this
heat sink here. What? 93.3 on this chip right here. That chip
has thermal compound on it. Oh, these little ones. Yep.
Yeah, they did miss a couple of the GPU, whatever the heck those are.
There's a couple of them here that had heat sink. This one's at 94. Oh, NVIDIA
probably doesn't measure those either. Oh, yeah. You can really see up here
just how much toastier the GPU side is.
Look at that. Oh, wow. Yeah, that is very apparent.
The CPU is running hotter because it's a little tiny die and the thermal transfer
is not as good. But that GPU is kicking out a lot more heat. Our GPU is
definitely getting a little less cool, though. We're sitting at 73 74° now. And
that's normal for a system like this to take a little while to fully heat soak.
So, let's give it some time and see how it goes. Not only is the system still
running, but our temps haven't changed much, and especially our FPS hasn't
changed. Both our CPU and GPU are still
turboing pretty well. She's still kicking out heat. And look, I can't
promise that you'd get results like this in a room that's a little higher than
room temperature. And I can't promise anything with respect to the long-term
longevity of these components. But what I can say is, damn, it works. Did you
tell them this is after like 4 hours? I didn't. It's been running all day, you
guys. And the best part is that while I did have my initial disagreement with
Calios's leadership about their handling of the original system, they ultimately
did step up and offer people the opportunity to get a refund if they
weren't happy with how long they waited. It took a while, but now that it's here,
coolest case of the year of the year of the 8 years. I'm really glad I got a
copper one. The performance is not supposed to be meaningfully better, but
it looks so cool. Oh, yeah. Have we told them how much it costs yet? No. Oh, you
want to be the one to break it to them? It's two grand. This thing's two grand.
Yeah. The not copper version is $1,000,
but like you want the copper one, man. I love this thing. And I love telling
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