last time we worked on a sponsored video with dyson you guys complained that a
vacuum had nothing to do with building pcs
so we took all your feedback and this time around
we built the dysonator the first gaming pc that also
cools down the gamer it's a cooling fan it's a heater it's an
air purifier and it's a noob fragging monster and thanks to dyson i'm gonna
show you guys how we built it
when we began this project the goal was to put everything inside the dyson hot
plus cool purifier why well because it seemed like a really cool way to hide a
pc
and i think we can all agree gamers need cooling
and probably an air purifier it seemed possible at first since all of
the big pc parts do actually fit in this
open area inside the unit and an extra
neat thing about this idea is that the pc would sit directly in the path of the
purifier's intake cooling down our hardware but once we got into the
finicky bits like routing cables making sure that our adapters fit and trying to
avoid cooking our lattepanda alpha single board computer on the 1500 watt
heating element it quickly became apparent that without sacrificing major functionality like the
350 degree oscillation the tilt or the
hepa filter effectiveness we simply weren't going to be able to do it
thankfully there's always a plan b so we kept the spirit of the idea
stealthily integrating a pc into your living area and we also managed to get a
nice boost to performance so this new design moves the pc from inside the
purifier to well underneath it and hold on wait
i i know that's probably been done before but
this is different because we completely 3d printed our own case for the first
time so it ended up being a bit of an adventure as a starting point we pulled out the
desktop that fits in your palm from that video we did a while ago and got rid of
its outer casing because of its mini stx
form factor it could easily fit under the dyson without any adapters and with
excellent clearance for its cooling fans but putting square components in round
enclosures still comes with its share of challenges we wanted the finished
product to be as stealthy as possible so we simply extended the base so that we
could stay true to the design language that dyson originally used and only
raised the profile of the cooler by about four inches the saying measure
twice cut once definitely rang true for
us here except it was more like measure four times and print once for us because
we 3d printed the case as a side note the remote for this thing is super handy
and stays on top with magnets
we wanted the case to be usable not just a one and done for the video so it was
designed to have the bottom come off revealing all the components inside we
settled on four of these little tiny knock to a 40 millimeter fans in a
push-pull configuration to help with dissipating the heat from the computer
the fan grills were designed in such a way that from most angles you wouldn't
be able to see the fan blades spinning at all but they still allow more than
enough airflow and make sure that the fresh air is moving directly across our
heatsinks the last bit we had to figure out was our i o shield we ended up going
with a custom one that still allows access to most of the i o while
minimizing the footprint of a cutout when it came time to print though we ran
into a bit of a problem the build plate of our ultimaker 3 just
isn't big enough now we could have cut up the model and printed in chunks and
then reassembled them once we were done but that could have compromised the
strength of the pedestal as you can see guys right now it's actually quite
strong it doesn't move around at all and besides more points of failure is just
generally bad so we looked around for a local company to print this for us but
it would have cost between 500 and a thousand dollars to get it done
no bueno although it would have looked pretty cool in carbon fiber
luckily i have great employees snuck that in there i like that that
have a printer at home that can handle the task with nearly four days of print
time for these bits any mistake would have been costly and thankfully we only
had one and at least we ended up with this wonderful
you know 20 bucks worth of filament dinner plate
yeah thank you very much for that by the way if you guys like fabrication
projects we have a really cool one coming for a subzero CPU cooler make
sure you subscribe so you don't miss it man 3d printed stuff is ugly out of the
gate isn't it so it's sand fill sand fill and repeat
till it's smooth as a baby bee's bottom
throughout this part of the process nicholas actually used the dyson to push
air while painting and priming doing so cuts down on overspray on the parts and
then white paint came on few coats will do us plus a clear coat to protect and
then in between the coats using it as a heater to speed up the drying process
handy right now just to be clear the dyson pure hot plus cool is not meant to
be a shop fan these filters are designed for lighter home use but for like you
know a couple hours it really worked out pretty great
so now it's time to try it out isn't it i gotta give you credit
it's very stealthy
all right turn on my gamer cooling oh my god it's one of those silver stone
you know i gave them such a hard time about this thing when they first
launched i was like who needs that someone who buries their power switch
inside the computer perfect all right let's power this sucker up
that is hilarious
ah come on you'll probably notice we haven't talked
a ton about the hardware we're using it's actually based on an older machine
that we already had so it's only a 7th gen core i7 processor but the 7700k is
still a very competent gaming chip and our gtx 1080 should be more than enough
for a decent living room gaming experience and all without thermals that
are going to overwhelm our poor little 40 millimeter fans over there so we're
actually running a blender render in the background right now and you can see
that in the reduced turbo profile that this board actually comes with we have
not even reached 80 degrees so i am pretty darn comfortable with those temps
now let's switch over to some gaming so i'm just gonna
focus the airflow on myself crank it up a little bit you need that
cooling one of the really cool features of this is that it can direct the airflow
creating a strong breeze even really far away or if you don't like that you can
put it in a backflow mode so that it'll just clean the room without blowing on
you what can i do max not bad not bad at all too much for now
in the summer that's fine though wait are they still going are they still
alive oh oh oh oh oh there we go yeah mvp well
the good news nicholas is that the computer is very stealthy
until we actually start gaming on it
so that's like one third of the battle another fun fact
we found out why the pure hot plus cool is
rather on the pricey side for what kind of looks like a fan
uh it's actually got an air purification and air quality testing system built
into it that is pretty fancy so check this out you just press the i
button and it actually gives you this neato
little informational graphic of what the air
quality is like and you can look at things like pollen and vocs
and our building alarm just went off i thought
it was an air quality emergency it was like oh no what did we do
in addition to that it can also heat the air that's coming through it i mean that
ended up being one of the problems we ran into
because we couldn't put a pc right next to a heating element
but hey if you're not trying to build a
computer in it that's great it also has a companion app and alexa
integration so you can well i think that's fairly
self-explanatory use alexa to adjust your purifier look at this i'm the mvp
four times sucker so there you have it neither the pc nor the fan are as small
as they were on their own but hey at least the computer is stealthier and
that's the whole point of the build to have our computer blend in with its
surroundings more than it would if it was you know your classic
black or beige box would we recommend doing it this way
well i mean i guess if you or your significant other has a strict aesthetic
that you want to stick to but you still want a game that might not be a terrible
idea as long as you happen to have a dyson pure hot plus cool or you're
planning to get one which you will of course be able to do at the link in the
video description and we're gonna have the print files for uh the base here
down there as well so thanks for watching guys and thanks again to dyson
for sponsoring this build we had a lot of fun with this one
looking at this like fan design i'm like you reinvented fans