WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:09.200 Welcome to my Cooler Master Elite 110 video. This is a tiny tiny little PC 00:00:05.600 --> 00:00:10.400 case that holds a tiny tiny little well 00:00:09.200 --> 00:00:15.670 piece. I mean, I guess you could put anything in it, but it it's specifically 00:00:12.639 --> 00:00:20.960 designed to hold a PC. 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:26.720 Hotspot Shield service makes your internet browsing safer, more secure, 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:31.359 and fully private. Click now to learn more. Let's start with the packaging. 00:00:28.720 --> 00:00:36.079 fairly straightforward, fairly thin, fairly lightweight hard foam. But 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:39.520 because it is such a small case and you can't really build a computer that's 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:43.760 heavy enough for it to be a problem, I'm okay with that this time around. We'll 00:00:41.680 --> 00:00:49.440 go with an external tour for the start here. At the front you find mesh. On the 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:53.680 side you find mesh. On the top you find mesh. On the other side you find mesh. 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:58.960 And at the back you find well mesh on the power supply, I guess. And then more 00:00:56.320 --> 00:01:05.280 ventilation. When you're trying to cram an entire PC with discrete graphics and 00:01:01.680 --> 00:01:06.880 up to a 4770K CPU into something this 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:11.520 small, you'll need all the ventilation you can get, and the Elite 110 delivers 00:01:08.960 --> 00:01:16.799 here. In terms of front IO, it's pretty standard fair. We've got two USB 3.0 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:21.520 ports, headphone and microphone jacks, a hard drive activity LED, a reset switch, 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:25.520 and then the front Cooler Master logo is actually a power switch. There's no five 00:01:23.759 --> 00:01:29.520 and a quarter inch bay, but most people aren't using those these days, so I'm 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:33.600 not too worried about it. And uh there wouldn't really be room for it anyway, 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:38.000 which you'll see once we open it up. At the back, you can see that even though 00:01:35.280 --> 00:01:41.920 the Elite 110 is a small package, that doesn't prevent it from having a pretty 00:01:39.600 --> 00:01:45.360 decent sized bulge on it. Sorry, it's a the power supply does stick out the back 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:52.079 a little bit. What this does is it gives you about an extra um 20 mm of clearance 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:57.840 internally so that you can fit a fairly normalsiz power supply on the inside. 00:01:54.960 --> 00:02:01.439 Again, even though the case is so small, the top casing comes off with four thumb 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:05.439 screws that I'm just going to go ahead and remove here. 00:02:03.600 --> 00:02:09.039 We'll pull this baby off so you can see it fits on a little something like that. 00:02:07.600 --> 00:02:15.599 And then once we get on the inside, we can see it supports two 80 mm fans here 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:18.400 on the side. However, that's only if you 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:23.280 don't need a dual slot graphics card, which we opted to install. This is 00:02:21.040 --> 00:02:27.440 Lionus tech tips, guys, not Lionus and Nambi Pami tips. We're hardcore. We 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:31.760 won't settle for onboard or single slot graphics cards if we don't absolutely 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:36.239 have to. Now, with that said, on Cooler Master's site, they don't really show it 00:02:34.160 --> 00:02:41.440 being used the way that we're using it. And the case seems optimized for onboard 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:45.440 graphics or a smaller graphics card with more storage as opposed to being 00:02:44.160 --> 00:02:49.840 designed for people who are trying to put a full-on gaming rig inside. But I 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:54.319 guess the only way to find out if this works is to check our temperatures at 00:02:51.840 --> 00:03:00.640 the end and see how it went. In the front, it supports either a 140 mm or 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:06.239 120 mm fan that takes advantage of that mesh. And you have the option to install 00:03:03.200 --> 00:03:08.319 a 120 mm radiator. The manual and 00:03:06.239 --> 00:03:14.480 product page don't specify the thickness that's supported, but I went with a 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:16.640 Siden 120 XL. So, given that that went 00:03:14.480 --> 00:03:21.040 in there just fine with actual actually a fair bit more clearance to go, I would 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:27.599 say pretty much anything should fit. Okay. In terms of CPU cooler support, it 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:29.519 can handle a 76 mm or 3in CPU cooler. 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:34.400 Not much space between the socket and the power supply up here. So, using a 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:38.879 stock cooler is an option, but not many aftermarket CPU air coolers will fit in 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:43.760 there, which to me made that liquid cooler in the front a no-brainer for our 00:03:41.040 --> 00:03:46.959 Core i7 processor. I was easily able to cram the tubing in here between the 00:03:45.440 --> 00:03:53.920 power supply and the motherboard, even though there wouldn't have been much space for air flow otherwise. You can it 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:55.599 can handle up to a 180 mm power supply. 00:03:53.920 --> 00:04:01.840 That's in terms of length. Other than that, it's a standard PS2 form factor, 00:03:57.760 --> 00:04:04.319 but shorter is much better. I used a 160 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:08.159 mm power supply and this is a modular one which gives me a little bit more 00:04:06.239 --> 00:04:12.560 flexibility in terms of using less cables and not having to cable manage as 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:16.880 much and this was about right for me. I think trying to do a 180 mm power supply 00:04:15.040 --> 00:04:20.160 in there would be quite a bit more challenging in terms of cable 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:23.199 management. Now it's a miniITX case which means that even though there are 00:04:21.359 --> 00:04:26.400 two expansion slots back here, there's only one internally. So, this is just 00:04:24.960 --> 00:04:30.639 for if you have something like a dual slot card. Cooler Master does support 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:34.639 dual slot graphics cards than as you know, but not as long as you might 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:40.080 normally see in a case that's a little bit bigger. So, it supports up to a 210 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:43.680 mm graphics card, but there are a couple of things that you'll have to consider 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:48.000 if you want to get a 21 cm card in there. Number one is that you're going 00:04:45.919 --> 00:04:52.320 to want a card that has a top-mounted PCI Express connector or you're going to 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:55.280 have to factor that in when you're taking your measurements because if it 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:59.040 has a rear one, you're going to need a little bit of extra space for that cable 00:04:57.120 --> 00:05:04.160 at the back of the card. Number two is you're going to want to make sure you have a strategy for what to do with all 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:07.440 of the cables and wires that you're going to have to hide in the front from 00:05:05.840 --> 00:05:12.080 the front panel connectors like the front USB 3. So, what I did was I kind 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:17.199 of crammed them into this corner, but I found that that ate up a little bit of the space that I would have had for a 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:20.880 graphics card that took up the entire length inside. And a big part of the 00:05:19.520 --> 00:05:24.560 reason for that is because I'm using a radiator. If it wasn't for the radiator, 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:28.160 I could put a fan grill on that front fan and then not have to worry as much 00:05:26.400 --> 00:05:31.520 about the uh the space available in the front. So, I squeezed the graphics card 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:36.160 in at the end. I didn't have too much trouble with it. I mean, it all it all worked just fine. Just make sure as 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:40.320 you're building you're managing your cables correctly to ensure that you're 00:05:38.400 --> 00:05:44.400 able to get everything in there. Um either way, what whatever you're doing, 00:05:42.320 --> 00:05:48.240 I recommend leaving the front bezel actually detached. You can just pull it 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:51.360 off at the front right here until the very end because that'll give you a 00:05:49.520 --> 00:05:55.360 little bit more room to work with and install all those cards as you're 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:59.840 building the system. Now, in terms of hard drive support, I wanted a challenge 00:05:57.840 --> 00:06:05.440 when it came to hard drive installation. So, I well, okay. I I guess I actually 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:09.600 just kind of did it wrong. And to go back and do it over, I might turn the 00:06:07.840 --> 00:06:12.800 drives around. So, you can see I have the mounted connectors towards the back, 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:16.479 and they're supposed to be mounted connectors towards the front. So, I 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:20.800 would I would turn the drives around and put the cables on the other side. And I 00:06:18.400 --> 00:06:26.400 would definitely install drives in the top slots before populating the side, 00:06:23.919 --> 00:06:30.560 especially if I have a mid-range graphics card in here. It's a 260x in 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:34.240 there. the way that I do because that's putting a lot of that graphics card heat 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:38.479 next to my drives which is going to be bad for them in the longer term. In the 00:06:36.479 --> 00:06:43.360 end, it worked. And the fact that this case supports up to two 3 and 1/2 in 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:48.160 drives and two 2 and 1/2 in drives or three 3 and 1/2 in drives or four 2 and 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:51.919 1/2 in drives is pretty darn impressive given the size. And when we see our 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:58.800 temperature tests, you're going to see that even with the hard drives in sort of their worstc case scenario locations, 00:06:56.400 --> 00:07:02.880 it actually performs all right. After finishing my build, I did have one piece 00:07:00.960 --> 00:07:06.160 of criticism. I wish the manual was a little bit better. I've already brought 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:09.520 this up with Cooler Master, but step-by-step build instructions and some 00:07:08.080 --> 00:07:13.599 useful guidance in terms of part selection would go a long way towards 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:16.479 making the build process more enjoyable. The manual is well written and 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:21.120 professionally made, but I would just like to see it go a little bit deeper. 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:24.319 But to be frank, if that's what I have to complain about rather than things 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:27.599 like, you know, what was the overall build quality like? Then I guess they're 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:31.919 doing pretty well. There were no rough edges, no things that could have cut me, 00:07:30.080 --> 00:07:34.800 no things that that really bothered me or I looked at and I went, really, what 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:38.800 were they thinking when they did that? But I've come to expect this from Cooler 00:07:36.400 --> 00:07:42.639 Master, so it's hard to remember to mention that kind of stuff. And in fact, 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:47.360 it's not even in my script. So there you go. I just remembered now. So, with all 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:53.440 that out of the way, let's talk results. Playing Far Cry 3 with the GPU usage 00:07:49.919 --> 00:07:56.400 pinned at 100% yielded 90 degree temps 00:07:53.440 --> 00:08:00.160 on the R seven260X that I have tucked away in that little corner in there. 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:04.800 That might sound high, but remember guys, these modern GPUs are actually 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:10.879 designed to ramp their fan speeds to target a specific temperature. And that 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:13.440 card was reaching about 72% fan speed to 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:17.599 maintain that 90°. Yeah, it's a little bit on the loudish side, but it's not 00:08:15.440 --> 00:08:20.800 unreasonable by any means. And when you consider the stupid way my drives were 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:25.039 installed, such that my graphics card really doesn't have much access to fresh 00:08:22.960 --> 00:08:29.280 air, it's obvious it could do a little bit better with more forethought. CPU 00:08:27.280 --> 00:08:34.240 temperatures of course were much better at an impressive 55 degrees max, but 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:39.919 that makes sense because it's liquid cooled and access to fresh outside air 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:43.519 for the radiator does wonders here. It's drawing that fresh air right in from the 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:48.399 outside. So overall, the system is extremely small, extremely compact, runs 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:52.240 quiet at idle, but of course gets a little bit louder under gaming load. And 00:08:50.560 --> 00:08:55.920 I'd say the Elite 110 if you're trying to build a tiny little system with good 00:08:53.920 --> 00:09:00.000 ventilation gets a definite thumbs up from me. Guys, thank you for watching 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:03.839 this video. Like it if you liked it, dislike it if you disliked it. Leave a 00:09:01.920 --> 00:09:07.120 comment and let me know. Do you prefer small cases like this or would you 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:12.480 rather we do more coverage of things like the half stacker for example? Like 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:16.560 large, more maybe more versatile, but certainly less uh spaceconscious 00:09:14.800 --> 00:09:19.760 solutions. I guess there's a couple more things to mention, guys. Uh, we do have 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:23.360 a link to support us in the video description. 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