so I have been asked time and time again lonus where'd you get that like test
bench thing meaning this thing okay so I
have a couple high-speed PC tech stations yes that is what it is called
it is called a high-speed PC tech station this is a standard size so it is
an ATX size top deck tech station I actually have one that's not a top deck
tech station at home and on that one the motherboard goes on the bottom and the
drives and power supply go on the top it's a lot less convenient I prefer the
top deck style so high speed PC noticing
that I use their product in my videos all the time actually contacted me and
offered to send me their new tech station so I am going to be upgrading my
tech station to the top deck tech
station which is the same but this is the XL model so that is going to allow
me and I need another prop here to install
motherboards such as the G1 killer
Assassin from Gigabyte and test things like four-way SLI on my tech station
which I was not able to do in the past so high-speed PC tech stations cost
anywhere from around 100 bucks to up to about $200 for some of the higher end
models but they are incredibly convenient and I have easily gotten my
$100 worth out of my old one and I'm sure I will get my 0 worth thank you
very much highspeed PC out of the new
one I'm really really excited to try this one out so as you can see there is
some assembly required I remember the first time I put one together my my
first one it actually took me quite a long time to figure it out that was a
long time ago that was back when uh when my core 2 extreme 6800 was a really
high-end processor so uh yeah it's
definitely been a while
okay remember that was a dual core extreme Edition it's like crazy okay so
wow okay the first thing I see is three included fans so these are logicist fans
they are black and red and they do not
come with LEDs of any sort which is good because then I probably wouldn't install
them uh what I've gone to for most of my tech station needs is actually the
Noctua P series fans because they provide good static air flow through
radiators or whatever other coolers I use they're not loud cuz I often have
the tech station running behind me at work and I don't want anything loud and
obnoxious because I'm trying to concentrate on things other than my test
PC worrying away in the background so let's have a look at the included Parts
here all right A lot of people have actually asked me if I made my tech
station myself and the answer is um no
although you probably could it is so much more convenient to buy one of these
kits from highspeed PC that comes with all the little bits and and pieces that
you need and instructions on how to assemble them
even things like fanu guards okay so let's show you guys everything that we
got here okay first thing how to get in
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we have the instructions so this just comes on your typical A4 paper it's like
a a laser printed copy so nothing too
sophisticated but they're a fairly small company and there's lots of nice color
pictures here that will help you to put together your tech station without too
much trouble all right I want to show you guys everything that's included so
this is actually here if I show you guys a completed one that might actually make
it a little easier to point out what everything is so this piece right here
you can see it's actually got 10 expansion slot holes on it so
this is the replacement for this so it's just going to be slightly long longer
than my old one all right these two right here these are the upright posts
right here that support the PCI slot
cover this hard drive mounting so on the
bottom of the tech station down here you can see there are rails to mount a hard
drive or two hard drives under the tech station itself all right these are the
four posts that keep the two the top and
the bottom piece uh apart and supported
okay we've got motherboard standoffs I love the motherboard standoffs that they
use because they're awesome I'm going to show you guys how you install a
motherboard on a tech station here
so first you take the motherboard off so basically you've just got these little
rubber pieces right here that go right over where the holes are and then in
order to get it lined up there's a couple that come with little plastic
threaded spikes and the reason those threaded spikes are so great is because
when you get them position push them on it's it takes a little bit
of fussing to actually lift the motherboard back up which is perfect so
holds it in place a little bit but it also doesn't allow it to slide around
like this and it keeps everything from shorting out because you're using rubber
to isolate the motherboard from everything else so that is what we have
in there next we have all of the
mounting hardware required to assemble my new top deck tech station so we've
got things like L brackets for here we've got these caps right here which go
on the tops of your posts we've got various different screws for fastening
everything together uh and finally last but not least we have some fan girls we
have the ATX control kit which for motherboards that do not have built-in
power and reset switches is very convenient because you just throw that on the front panel headers and then boom
you have a built-in power switch or reset switch power LED hard drive LED
and speaker so you can actually buy this separately as well if you don't want a
tech station or if you already have a tech station and you just lost yours or something got a nice little neoprene pad
here so the neoprene pad is uh on my own
personal tech station right here is mounted on the bottom where it belongs
and then I've also supplemented it with some of these uh non-slip things that I
really like as well to just to make sure that my uh optical drive doesn't move
around I don't have one under my power supply cuz my power supply has enough
weight that it's able to not slip on the neoprene pad so the neocam pad is there
this appears to be the bottom piece all right and then this with all of the
motherboard mounting holes in it as well as lots of labels for where to put stuff
is the top piece and I just want to show
you guys one last thing before I finish up my unboxing and showcase here and
that is the overall build quality of the tech station so in spite of having all
this stuff on the bottom of it and this is actually a relatively light load for
this particular one um there is no
chance of it falling apart at any time even though the way these are supported
is with screws so I'm been very very happy with my tech station over the last
couple years and uh big thanks again to highspeed PC for sending me an XL atx1
so I can bring you guys more benchmarking goodness don't forget to
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