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so you guys might have seen a video I did recently where I had this

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ginormous passively cooled gaming slw

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workstation Grade box back at the studio here but a lot of you pointed out that

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ah that solution wasn't necessarily that practical for most people and the fact

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that it's so big and so heavy means that

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a lot of folks wouldn't be that interested in it well right here in the

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super micro Suite they are showing off something pretty unique so they've got

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their new lineup of z270 motherboards including a high-end one with two u.2 2

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m.2 for PCI e16 as well as overclocking

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features all the way down to a more basic one but this this is where I

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headed in fact this one doesn't even have one of their desktop boards in it

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because they're still working on a Mini ITX consumer one this is

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Project kubu I'm just going to make up a name for it because it actually doesn't

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even have a name this is so early stages that they're basically just bringing

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like a like a a a custom you know

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machine shop made prototype here to get

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customer feedback what do you guys think of the color what do you think of the

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size what do you think of the orientation what do you think of the performance well you can't tell me

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anything about that unless I tell you what exactly it is so inside inside this

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box is a 100% passively cooled core

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i56500 and GTX 106 3 gig gaming box and

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when I say passively cooled I mean

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100% passive so you'll see on the top

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we've got nothing but a whole lot of mesh going on on all the sides you've

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got pretty much not a whole lot going on other than mesh and there's a very good

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reason for that when we flip it over on the bottom we get a look at the I/O and

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we also get a look at the massive now I

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would call them heat sinks but what these actually are are condensers

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because just like that system that I showed off in the recent video this is

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using one of those passive phase change cooling systems from calos so let's get

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it opened up so here it is we've got an 1151 motherboard from their embedded

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lineup we've got a couple of sodm slots so that would give us support for up to

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32 gigs of memory which is in fact they have in here we've got an NVMe SSD

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running uh nowhere for a 2 and 1/2 in drive yet but hey let us know if you can

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see a spot where that would make sense I'm sure they would love to find more

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room for expansion and ah yes there it

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is right there the heart of one of the

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two cooling engines so this is pretty neat once you take off the black mesh

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around the top you can see there are actually two separate condensers so

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think of it kind of like a uh like a dual Loop liquid cooling system don't

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pay too much attention to the io or the placement of the power button because

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all of that stuff is very much a placeholder moving around to the other

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side we get a look at the GPU so there we've got one of those super short GTX

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10603 gigs cooled by yet another one of

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those cooling block cooling engine type things that through some black magic

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allows the fluid to actually circulate

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within the loop without any pump or any other noise whatsoever another fun thing

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over here is this aluminum foam so I

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actually hadn't been able to figure out exactly what that was on the previous

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system it is for Passive convection Cooling and it's just an off-the-shelf

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thing that you can buy pure aluminum foam Go free configure also over here is

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a 250 wat 80 plus Platinum power supply

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also passive and back to Performance for

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a minute here or getting to Performance you can expect CPU temps in the

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neighborhood of 4 5 to 50° 55 yeah

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that's about where we're at across all the four cores and on the GPU we never

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saw higher than 77° in a 22° c room so

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well within reasonable temperatures

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right now there is no um clear sort of

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ETA for when something like this would be available but as a concept goes this

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looks pretty cool and super micro estimates pricing would be in the $4.99

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range for configuration like this so let us know in the comments what you guys

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