WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:04.400 - This video is sponsored by NZXT. You can check out their build systems below. 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:07.490 I, forgot to do the disclosure early enough in the video. 00:00:07.490 --> 00:00:11.410 I have actually already opened it now but (playful music) 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, 00:00:16.931 --> 00:00:21.010 (yawning) 'cause the reality of it is, 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 00:00:26.030 --> 00:00:30.623 build systems featuring their H1 case. 00:00:31.500 --> 00:00:36.300 Oh, it's got the size and they couldn't have possibly planned this 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. 00:00:41.030 --> 00:00:45.900 But also the shape of the next gen console experience 00:00:45.900 --> 00:00:50.103 but with the power of a gaming PC. 00:00:51.284 --> 00:00:55.310 (plastic rattling) Alright, let's have a look at this thing. 00:00:55.310 --> 00:01:00.110 Packing material looks pretty good to me. Nice soft foam, 00:01:00.110 --> 00:01:03.910 lots of protection and not the rigid kind, where if it takes one bad hit, 00:01:03.910 --> 00:01:07.190 it's like done the next time someone drop kicks it 00:01:07.190 --> 00:01:12.010 onto your doorstep or whatever the case may be. Tempered glass panel right there. 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, 00:01:17.160 --> 00:01:21.080 is all just ventilation. 00:01:21.080 --> 00:01:25.150 It draws obvious comparisons to the Corsair One, both in terms of the form factor 00:01:25.150 --> 00:01:28.670 and like, the way the vent holes are configured. But unlike the Corsair One, 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. 00:01:34.210 --> 00:01:36.847 They're everywhere. Don't worry about it." 00:01:38.360 --> 00:01:41.400 On the top, we've got, Oh, that's interesting, 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:45.080 we've got power, USB 3, USB more different 3, 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. 00:01:50.240 --> 00:01:53.770 I would have to assume that's a headphone jack rather than a microphone one. 00:01:53.770 --> 00:01:58.770 I guess there is a large scale shift to USB audio solutions 00:01:59.060 --> 00:02:04.093 especially for microphones but hey, there you go, it's not there and then, oh. 00:02:06.510 --> 00:02:10.850 Oh. This is why it's more fun, 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. 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. 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. 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. 00:02:31.480 --> 00:02:34.900 It's always kind of fun for me to look at the people 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. 00:02:40.140 --> 00:02:44.480 They're gonna have AMD gen 2 CPUs and they're gonna have like this 00:02:44.480 --> 00:02:50.700 graphics card and studiously..." Yeah, okay, this is gonna be pretty cold people. 00:02:50.700 --> 00:02:53.744 Anyway, so let's have a look at it what the layouts like inside. 00:02:53.744 --> 00:02:57.300 There's some foam packed in here that's pretty standard system integrator fare, 00:02:57.300 --> 00:03:01.180 if they want their systems to survive the journey to their customers. 00:03:01.180 --> 00:03:06.180 And wow, they have done a lot of custom work for this thing. 00:03:06.550 --> 00:03:10.650 So the PCI express riser is actually 00:03:10.650 --> 00:03:15.220 curled. You can see here, it's like kind of bent around this bracket 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, 00:03:20.410 --> 00:03:24.270 like a reference founder's edition. I believe that's a 2070 Super 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 00:03:27.640 --> 00:03:31.110 and take a closer look at it. Our power supply's up at the top 00:03:31.110 --> 00:03:34.340 drawing fresh air in from this ventilation panel right here 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. 00:03:41.730 --> 00:03:45.260 So that's handling CPU cooling duty and you can see the motherboard 00:03:45.260 --> 00:03:50.250 has really been squeezed down to exactly as slim as it can be with that 00:03:50.250 --> 00:03:54.590 kind of cooling puck mounted to the CPU over there and then reasonably low profile memory 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. 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 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. 00:04:08.397 --> 00:04:11.640 Oh. Alright, well that's how the tempered glass panel comes off. 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 00:04:15.450 --> 00:04:19.200 in order to make sure that our graphics card is getting adequately cooled. 00:04:19.200 --> 00:04:24.200 Cable management is definitely a plus on this thing so far. 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, 00:04:32.220 --> 00:04:36.990 but it's really clean. Everything is tucked away, super nicely 00:04:36.990 --> 00:04:39.940 and they've got little panels like this to hide any excess. 00:04:41.480 --> 00:04:44.640 Oh, does that? Look at that, that's tool-less too. 00:04:44.640 --> 00:04:47.720 Wow. Alright. 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:51.780 I like it. I really liked the care and attention they've put into 00:04:51.780 --> 00:04:55.730 protecting the PCI express riser cable. It's really easy for these to suffer from 00:04:55.730 --> 00:05:01.010 signal degradation which can cause problems that are not always easy or fast to diagnose. 00:05:01.010 --> 00:05:05.100 So, it's great, they're just taking every precaution here 00:05:05.100 --> 00:05:08.740 to make sure that the panels aren't pressing on them or anything like that. 00:05:08.740 --> 00:05:12.850 I really want to remove these other panels but everything's been so easy so far 00:05:12.850 --> 00:05:16.060 that I'm afraid that if I press too hard on anything... 00:05:16.060 --> 00:05:20.020 And I'm probably doing it wrong. You know? I think it's entirely possible 00:05:20.020 --> 00:05:24.030 that the chassis doesn't come apart without removing these little grommets 00:05:24.030 --> 00:05:28.020 and undoing these screws I think. This is as far as your intended to go 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. 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. 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. 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. 00:05:45.420 --> 00:05:48.750 But, I think as someone who bought a completed system 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 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. 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. 00:06:04.300 --> 00:06:07.540 So graphics card upgrade that's about all you can really do with it 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 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 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 00:06:20.350 --> 00:06:25.370 from one of these completed systems then? - [Man] Oh my God. 00:06:25.370 --> 00:06:32.560 Oh, no, okay, oh. - Come on NZXT give me a little vinyl sticker, you know? 00:06:33.330 --> 00:06:37.250 No don't cut the camera, this an important tech tip, oh wait, wrong channel. 00:06:37.250 --> 00:06:40.683 It's a, it's a short tip. 00:06:41.756 --> 00:06:47.320 (upbeat music) Man! I got to clean the monitor. 00:06:47.320 --> 00:06:50.753 I peeled the ROG off my monitor. Look at this. 00:06:52.200 --> 00:06:53.633 Now it's not for gaming. 00:06:55.550 --> 00:06:59.650 Like, there it is, it's off. It's only half of gaming now. 00:06:59.650 --> 00:07:02.960 So yeah, I mean, it's just nig, just nig. 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 00:07:07.280 --> 00:07:10.630 are working properly, we can load up NZXT's CAM software. 00:07:10.630 --> 00:07:14.510 We've got a 9900K, 16 gigs RAM, RTX 2070 Super. 00:07:14.510 --> 00:07:17.523 Looks like a terabyte of storage. 00:07:18.710 --> 00:07:22.010 Yep, terabyte of NVMe storage, not too shabby. 00:07:22.010 --> 00:07:25.410 It also gives us all of our monitoring information 00:07:25.410 --> 00:07:29.320 so we can see temps, CPU load, fan speeds, 00:07:29.320 --> 00:07:33.610 all that kind of good stuff. And I think, that's pretty darn quite, yeah, 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, 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. 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. 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, 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 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:01.490 and the power supply are right along here, 00:08:01.490 --> 00:08:04.980 easy access and happened to be filtered. 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. 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:14.790 So I would expect, we never hit higher than about 00:08:14.790 --> 00:08:19.400 45-50 degrees on the CPU. I would expect that to say pretty consistent. 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. 00:08:25.270 --> 00:08:29.810 This is at 4K all high with motion blur off and just basic anti-aliasing. 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 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 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. 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 00:08:49.270 --> 00:08:52.680 that will help a little bit. That is pretty darn quiet. 00:08:52.680 --> 00:08:56.580 Well, that's it. 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