1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:04,400 - This video is sponsored by NZXT. You can check out their build systems below. 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,490 I, forgot to do the disclosure early enough in the video. 3 00:00:07,490 --> 00:00:11,410 I have actually already opened it now but (playful music) 4 00:00:11,410 --> 00:00:16,931 The next gen game consoles are coming, but maybe you're the kind of person who's like, 5 00:00:16,931 --> 00:00:21,010 (yawning) 'cause the reality of it is, 6 00:00:21,010 --> 00:00:26,030 you're just going to game on PC anyway. That is exactly who NZXT has in mind with their 7 00:00:26,030 --> 00:00:30,623 build systems featuring their H1 case. 8 00:00:31,500 --> 00:00:36,300 Oh, it's got the size and they couldn't have possibly planned this 9 00:00:36,300 --> 00:00:41,030 because we've only known about the look of the Xbox One Series X for a very short period of time. 10 00:00:41,030 --> 00:00:45,900 But also the shape of the next gen console experience 11 00:00:45,900 --> 00:00:50,103 but with the power of a gaming PC. 12 00:00:51,284 --> 00:00:55,310 (plastic rattling) Alright, let's have a look at this thing. 13 00:00:55,310 --> 00:01:00,110 Packing material looks pretty good to me. Nice soft foam, 14 00:01:00,110 --> 00:01:03,910 lots of protection and not the rigid kind, where if it takes one bad hit, 15 00:01:03,910 --> 00:01:07,190 it's like done the next time someone drop kicks it 16 00:01:07,190 --> 00:01:12,010 onto your doorstep or whatever the case may be. Tempered glass panel right there. 17 00:01:12,010 --> 00:01:17,160 And wow, the entire rest of the thing, this is my first time seeing it in person, 18 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:21,080 is all just ventilation. 19 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:25,150 It draws obvious comparisons to the Corsair One, both in terms of the form factor 20 00:01:25,150 --> 00:01:28,670 and like, the way the vent holes are configured. But unlike the Corsair One, 21 00:01:28,670 --> 00:01:34,210 they haven't really tried to gussy up the vents. So they're just like, "Yep, these are vent holes. 22 00:01:34,210 --> 00:01:36,847 They're everywhere. Don't worry about it." 23 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:41,400 On the top, we've got, Oh, that's interesting, 24 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:45,080 we've got power, USB 3, USB more different 3, 25 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:50,240 that's a type-C port, as well as a 3.5 millimeter jack but only a single audio jack. 26 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:53,770 I would have to assume that's a headphone jack rather than a microphone one. 27 00:01:53,770 --> 00:01:58,770 I guess there is a large scale shift to USB audio solutions 28 00:01:59,060 --> 00:02:04,093 especially for microphones but hey, there you go, it's not there and then, oh. 29 00:02:06,510 --> 00:02:10,850 Oh. This is why it's more fun, 30 00:02:10,850 --> 00:02:17,010 if I don't actually do any prep. I did not know the IO was on the bottom, so that's cool. 31 00:02:17,010 --> 00:02:21,260 So all your cables come in here at the back plug in just a little, something like that. 32 00:02:21,260 --> 00:02:27,820 And then you've... That actually that's really clean. It means the whole outside of it is just ventilation. 33 00:02:27,820 --> 00:02:31,480 Now, let's crack this thing open and have a look at what kind of specs we're dealing with. 34 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:34,900 It's always kind of fun for me to look at the people 35 00:02:34,900 --> 00:02:40,140 that are like salivating over the next gen console like, "Wow, they're gonna be so powerful. 36 00:02:40,140 --> 00:02:44,480 They're gonna have AMD gen 2 CPUs and they're gonna have like this 37 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:50,700 graphics card and studiously..." Yeah, okay, this is gonna be pretty cold people. 38 00:02:50,700 --> 00:02:53,744 Anyway, so let's have a look at it what the layouts like inside. 39 00:02:53,744 --> 00:02:57,300 There's some foam packed in here that's pretty standard system integrator fare, 40 00:02:57,300 --> 00:03:01,180 if they want their systems to survive the journey to their customers. 41 00:03:01,180 --> 00:03:06,180 And wow, they have done a lot of custom work for this thing. 42 00:03:06,550 --> 00:03:10,650 So the PCI express riser is actually 43 00:03:10,650 --> 00:03:15,220 curled. You can see here, it's like kind of bent around this bracket 44 00:03:15,220 --> 00:03:20,410 that's gonna keep it from shifting at all. That's pretty cool and then we've got a, 45 00:03:20,410 --> 00:03:24,270 like a reference founder's edition. I believe that's a 2070 Super 46 00:03:24,270 --> 00:03:27,640 but don't quote me on that yet. We're gonna try and get another panel off here 47 00:03:27,640 --> 00:03:31,110 and take a closer look at it. Our power supply's up at the top 48 00:03:31,110 --> 00:03:34,340 drawing fresh air in from this ventilation panel right here 49 00:03:34,340 --> 00:03:41,730 and exhausting it out the back and then check that out. That is a 140 millimeter all in one liquid cooler. 50 00:03:41,730 --> 00:03:45,260 So that's handling CPU cooling duty and you can see the motherboard 51 00:03:45,260 --> 00:03:50,250 has really been squeezed down to exactly as slim as it can be with that 52 00:03:50,250 --> 00:03:54,590 kind of cooling puck mounted to the CPU over there and then reasonably low profile memory 53 00:03:54,590 --> 00:03:59,180 although it does still have heat spreaders on it. It's nice that everything's been tool-less so far. 54 00:03:59,180 --> 00:04:02,993 So if you wanted to add like a two and a half inch drive upgrade or something like that 55 00:04:02,993 --> 00:04:07,163 you could do that without breaking up the screwdriver but we wanna go a little bit deeper. 56 00:04:08,397 --> 00:04:11,640 Oh. Alright, well that's how the tempered glass panel comes off. 57 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:15,450 Just those little ball and socket joints there. And we've got some more foam that we need to remove 58 00:04:15,450 --> 00:04:19,200 in order to make sure that our graphics card is getting adequately cooled. 59 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:24,200 Cable management is definitely a plus on this thing so far. 60 00:04:24,610 --> 00:04:30,543 Like it's not a, you know, Mac pro or whatever, so like, we engineered this PC for two years, 61 00:04:32,220 --> 00:04:36,990 but it's really clean. Everything is tucked away, super nicely 62 00:04:36,990 --> 00:04:39,940 and they've got little panels like this to hide any excess. 63 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:44,640 Oh, does that? Look at that, that's tool-less too. 64 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:47,720 Wow. Alright. 65 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:51,780 I like it. I really liked the care and attention they've put into 66 00:04:51,780 --> 00:04:55,730 protecting the PCI express riser cable. It's really easy for these to suffer from 67 00:04:55,730 --> 00:05:01,010 signal degradation which can cause problems that are not always easy or fast to diagnose. 68 00:05:01,010 --> 00:05:05,100 So, it's great, they're just taking every precaution here 69 00:05:05,100 --> 00:05:08,740 to make sure that the panels aren't pressing on them or anything like that. 70 00:05:08,740 --> 00:05:12,850 I really want to remove these other panels but everything's been so easy so far 71 00:05:12,850 --> 00:05:16,060 that I'm afraid that if I press too hard on anything... 72 00:05:16,060 --> 00:05:20,020 And I'm probably doing it wrong. You know? I think it's entirely possible 73 00:05:20,020 --> 00:05:24,030 that the chassis doesn't come apart without removing these little grommets 74 00:05:24,030 --> 00:05:28,020 and undoing these screws I think. This is as far as your intended to go 75 00:05:28,020 --> 00:05:32,110 as someone who's bought a completed system. I mean, it's not the end of the world. 76 00:05:32,110 --> 00:05:36,480 You can easily access your graphics card for upgrades. They've got a couple of thumb screws here. 77 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:40,930 And this is nice the modular interface on the power supply is right next to these power connectors. 78 00:05:40,930 --> 00:05:45,420 So it's super easy to change one of these out or whatever the case may be. 79 00:05:45,420 --> 00:05:48,750 But, I think as someone who bought a completed system 80 00:05:48,750 --> 00:05:54,610 that is about as far as you're expected to go. Power supply could also be swapped without 81 00:05:54,610 --> 00:05:59,430 too much trouble but there are some screws in there that are kinda hidden away a little bit. 82 00:05:59,430 --> 00:06:04,300 So you'd really want access to this top panel if you were to try to take that one out. 83 00:06:04,300 --> 00:06:07,540 So graphics card upgrade that's about all you can really do with it 84 00:06:07,540 --> 00:06:11,280 but you know what? I guess I'm okay with that. Besides we've got a separate video coming over 85 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:14,720 on the Linus tech tips channel where we're going to be building up in one of these 86 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:20,350 rather than getting a pre-assembled one. So why don't we just take a look at what we can expect 87 00:06:20,350 --> 00:06:25,370 from one of these completed systems then? - [Man] Oh my God. 88 00:06:25,370 --> 00:06:32,560 Oh, no, okay, oh. - Come on NZXT give me a little vinyl sticker, you know? 89 00:06:33,330 --> 00:06:37,250 No don't cut the camera, this an important tech tip, oh wait, wrong channel. 90 00:06:37,250 --> 00:06:40,683 It's a, it's a short tip. 91 00:06:41,756 --> 00:06:47,320 (upbeat music) Man! I got to clean the monitor. 92 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:50,753 I peeled the ROG off my monitor. Look at this. 93 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:53,633 Now it's not for gaming. 94 00:06:55,550 --> 00:06:59,650 Like, there it is, it's off. It's only half of gaming now. 95 00:06:59,650 --> 00:07:02,960 So yeah, I mean, it's just nig, just nig. 96 00:07:04,090 --> 00:07:07,280 While I load a the game and some benchmarks, so we can make sure the CPU and graphics card 97 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:10,630 are working properly, we can load up NZXT's CAM software. 98 00:07:10,630 --> 00:07:14,510 We've got a 9900K, 16 gigs RAM, RTX 2070 Super. 99 00:07:14,510 --> 00:07:17,523 Looks like a terabyte of storage. 100 00:07:18,710 --> 00:07:22,010 Yep, terabyte of NVMe storage, not too shabby. 101 00:07:22,010 --> 00:07:25,410 It also gives us all of our monitoring information 102 00:07:25,410 --> 00:07:29,320 so we can see temps, CPU load, fan speeds, 103 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:33,610 all that kind of good stuff. And I think, that's pretty darn quite, yeah, 104 00:07:33,610 --> 00:07:38,290 I would believe 700 RPM. That'll be a good stress test, let's go ahead and fire up Cinebench R20, 105 00:07:38,290 --> 00:07:43,750 while we're downloading a game. So we should be sitting real nicely at a 100% CPU usage. 106 00:07:43,750 --> 00:07:48,850 We won't be able to take the score or anything like that but a 9900K is sort of a 9900K. 107 00:07:48,850 --> 00:07:53,400 I just wanna know what kind of temps we're gonna hit. Normally inside compact cases like this, 108 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:58,480 some of the hardware components can suffocate but what's cool is the intake for the CPU cooler 109 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:01,490 and the power supply are right along here, 110 00:08:01,490 --> 00:08:04,980 easy access and happened to be filtered. 111 00:08:04,980 --> 00:08:10,920 And the intake for the graphics card, same deal, with most of the exhaust coming out at the back here. 112 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,790 So I would expect, we never hit higher than about 113 00:08:14,790 --> 00:08:19,400 45-50 degrees on the CPU. I would expect that to say pretty consistent. 114 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:25,270 Shoot! This is a very early save game. That's okay, it's runnin' super smooth here. 115 00:08:25,270 --> 00:08:29,810 This is at 4K all high with motion blur off and just basic anti-aliasing. 116 00:08:29,810 --> 00:08:34,980 And besides the thing that I wanted to know was just how loud this thing's gonna get in game 'cause 117 00:08:34,980 --> 00:08:39,050 while it is an advantage for cooling, it means your fans aren't gonna ramp up so high 118 00:08:39,050 --> 00:08:44,190 to have the intake right next to the graphics card. It also means that the sound can come right out. 119 00:08:44,190 --> 00:08:49,270 Now, I would put the system to my right, just so that the graphics card is behind the tempered glass 120 00:08:49,270 --> 00:08:52,680 that will help a little bit. That is pretty darn quiet. 121 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:56,580 Well, that's it. 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