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did you ever pine for the good old days when computers had character

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i mean these days we've got flashy RGB

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and tempered glass but is it not all the same standardized

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parts and standardized operating systems running off a standardized box

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you who don't recognize it this

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is actually a one-to-one design copy of

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the original apple ii the steve wozniak

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designed machine that was ubiquitous in the united states in the 80s and 90s

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to give you a bit of context for how important this computer was the apple ii

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was produced for over 17 years starting

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in 1977 meaning that

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this may well have been the first computer for a literal entire generation

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of students during that time so

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the successful funding of xiaofeiwang's

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indiegogo campaign to revive it as a

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modern full atx computer case shouldn't raise too many eyebrows

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but is this thing any good well why don't we take a quick tour of it our

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unit is a prototype made primarily from 3d printed resin but it has all of the

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features that are going to go into the final design the most prominent of which

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being an integrated 68 key poker cherry mx

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blue keyboard which looks satisfyingly

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authentic but i do have to ask was anybody really

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asking for the elevated keyboard design

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to make a comeback here fortunately you don't have to use it

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just do that so let's move on then

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we've got a power button and a actually somewhat difficult to reach front usb 3

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and headset jack set on the lower right here and then just like on the original

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on the top we've got this removable panel giving us a look

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there we go under the literal hood

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of the chassis itself so in here we find six 60 millimeter

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fans for exhaust along this side and

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this side and then we've got two 120

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millimeter fans over here as intake which i would think should be more than

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adequate getting it open right up here

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hardware compatibility is a bit of a mixed bag

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though so we've got full atx support for our

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motherboard here you can you can see that here the length is right

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but we're confined to small form factor

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territory for expansion so that means a single dual slot opening on the rear for

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our GPU and then

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just two two and a half inch drive mounts which on this revision of the

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design are mounted right here directly under the keyboard

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cooler clearance is another consideration for this case it's got 82

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millimeters of total clearance and

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yet another thing to keep in mind it supports only sfx

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not sfxl power supplies meaning that the best that we can cram in there is a

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Corsair sf600 or a silverstone sx 600 so

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installing the motherboard is pretty straightforward we just need to remove

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this cable management shroud at the bottom right of where the board goes

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and our ryzen test bench complete with a knock to a low profile cooler with a 92

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millimeter fan on the bottom should slot in a little something like

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shalamo you've got an extra standoff in here

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Anthony that's like Intel boards only when's the

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last time anybody put one of those in well it's okay as long as the board

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didn't die depending on who you asked it's been too long

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as long as a prime doesn't edit this that's probably what we could enter the video for the power supply we ran into a

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small issue though in the default configuration which would

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have had it mounted

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like this using this grille right here as an intake for the power supply our

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power connector coming out the back was going to interfere

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with our RAM slot see now one remedy would be to use a right

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angle connector but honestly we thought it made more sense to just

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carve out this little area in the bracket right here

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so that we could mount the power supply the other way around

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this gives it lots of clearance something that i'm sure will be fixed by

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the time you guys deal with it is the weird coloring for the front wires this

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is the kind of stuff we deal with when it comes to early units sometimes it's

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like white black and red yellow and then which one's positive negative it's kind

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of a just flip a coin moving on to the GPU to keep the form

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factor low profile enough to maintain the original computer's dimensions

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uh we needed a pci express riser for our graphics card this is another thing that

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i would like to see improved in the final design

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right now it just kind of sits here so you

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kind of slot the bottom of the card in over here

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which doesn't fit spectacularly well then at

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the back you've just got this like two pieces that you gotta kind of

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screw together to clamp it on there kind of thing

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and it just kind of hangs there but maybe they can

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do some work on that later i mean overall though looking at it the

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layout's not bad let's get it wired up i don't know what they were thinking with

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this cable shroud what's the point of it

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oh i think i think that makes sense yeah

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got to install our SSD we actually had to remove this mount

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because we had trouble closing the case with it in place but you know there's

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still time to fix those kinds of things in future hardware revisions

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okay this wire is a problem ow

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that's that'll reach

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oh just about lost my screwdriver bit in

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there

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okay powering it on

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as expected with the 60 millimeter fans it is a little noisier than i'd like

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and that is even without the included fan controller that made them louder

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than just using splitters and then headers off the motherboard so let's get

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a stress test fired up in summary

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building in this thing is a lot easier than finding and then

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modding an old apple ii for modern hardware

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but it's still kind of a pain and as expected the 60 millimeter fans

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combined with the authentic but

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not super effective slot design back

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here means that pretty much as soon as you start up a 3d load

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you're going to be generating a fair bit of noise

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so for cooling our CPU hit 74 to 75

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degrees under load so you can expect to see a little bit of boost

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but our GPU hit its thermal threshold at 84 degrees and dialed back its boost

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clocks now considering we're using a low profile CPU cooler with its 120

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millimeter fan removed this isn't too shabby but i have seen better results in

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smaller cases which brings us then neatly to the

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conclusion if it wasn't clear from the start

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let me spell it out for you here this is a niche product with niche

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appeal absolutely not

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for everyone and i guess that's reflected in its

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small but enthusiastic community that allowed it to be funded over on

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indiegogo the product needs some tweaking before it hits mass production

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especially when it comes to ease of use and acoustics but if you can live with

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the cost and the compromises and

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