we were called out recently by shank mods in his super popular Hot Wheels PC
modding video where he invited us to work on a dumb idea put a 3090 in a Hot
Wheels chassis he offered as a present well Christmas come early shank mods is
here and so is the hardware there's just one problem this isn't a half length
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Linus let's start by going over what we want to do versus the constraints of
this tiny 9.6 lit case that's going to try to stop us from doing that first of
all this big graphics card where's it going to go so it's going to be similar
to how I had it on my other Hot Wheels PC so we're going to cut out a slit
right here this this case is really beat up so it's a good candidate for doing
lots of work on it okay so you have a spot for the 3090 but I'm guessing that
the power supply that comes with the thing isn't going to be enough so the
power supplies are from these Hot Wheels PS are kind of Infamous for just like
getting toasted we're going to be using a different setup for the power supply
we got two of these sfx power supplies they are 650 each so we're going to take
these two power supplies and we want to
turn this whole area here and use it for
something else so we're going to take these power supplies and put them right
up here along the top that's going to fit like that so they'll fit up top
above yeah so we'll have these two at the very top of the case together we're
looking at like 1300 WTS hopefully that should be enough so that brings me to
what other parts are we going to use we're going to using a 5800 X 3D the new
one this Gigabyte mini ITX motherboard along with two sticks of ballistics RAM
I couldn't help notice this giant air cooler on here so this is just what we
have right now for kind of testing to make sure the whole thing works but
we're going to be running a liquid cooling Loop for everything it is going
to be water cooled yes so the whole thing the GPU and the CPU are going to
be on a single Loop the case is actually pretty easy to take apart the you just
remove two screws here at the top and then one at the bottom with this this
pretty sweet screwdriver LTT Store. soon so once you remove these two screws the
whole chassis just no it slides right out and
she Dusty a yes this yeah this one's fresh it doesn't work in your last video
when you revamped a Hot Wheels PC you basically just made like a superp powered version of mostly the original
kind of PC right yes so for mine I tried
to keep the optical drive the floppy drive and then I stuffed it with two
hard drives but for this one because we're cramming so much more power inside
of it we're losing all of that yeah the airflow in the original case we had two
air intake there and then we had this Grill here and that's all the air intake
by removing the floppy drive and the optical drive we're going to get a lot
more air flow in the front which will help us cool the much beefier GPS is
that going to be enough or should we think about maybe widening these or
maybe putting a a hole on the top or what do you think that's something I
considered but I really want to try to keep the case as close to original as
possible kind of keep the same aesthetic the airf flow you gain versus what you
lose the I don't think it' be worth it being
the Hot Wheels connoisseur that shank is he brought multiple so let's just use
this one so it's easier to see your plan for the cooling now we emailed back and
forth a bit and you had an original plan
yeah so the original plan was this this right here we have an 80 mm Grill and
this is the only exhaust on the entire PC so my original plan was to run
another 92 mm Uh custom Loop here with a
with a blow Metron they're 12vt fans that drave out four to 5 amps that
should do a good job cooling it but the issue is it's really
loud there's another problem with it though was that lonus was actually
really skeptical that that would even be sufficient cooling so another plan we
had was to put more tiny blue metrons up
here with another radiator with another radiator here and just have radiators
everywhere with blue metrons but that would just be so loud aside from from
putting radiators all over it me and Alex got to work brainstorming through a
video call Alex came up with the idea of trying to fit a bigger radiator by
moving the power supplies how big are we talking 120 so 120 millim so what I was
able to do was I had those Flex ATX power supplies and if we Mount them to
the Top This clears up where the power supply was rather than using an 80 mm
exhaust for the 92 mm rad we can cut
this part out and have a 120 mm rad
right here 's another thing at the top we were talking about how this is longer
than a typical 3090 how are we going to make this fit fortunately the Hot Wheels
PC itself has a bit of dead space we're going to have to cut into the back of
the frame and have a place for it to extrude a bit and that will also provide
support for the back of the graphics card Okay so we've got everything on an
open air bench and right away I'm
thinking this 120 mm radiator is looking
pretty thick compared to the tiny
chassis it needs to fit into but what we're trying to figure out right now is
is this even sufficient cooling so we have furmark running to tax the GPU
we've got prime95 running to tax the CPU and we've got Hardware info open to
monitor our attempts and we're going to see what they end up plateauing at now you might say that this isn't even a
relevant test to do because it's an open air bench and it's going to be going
into this completely almost completely closed off chassis but what we want to
know is do we at least have some Headroom here like if it doesn't thermal
throttle on this that means we have some room to play with and maybe there's a
chance in hell that it'll work in here but if it does thermal throttle in here
then we have to reinvent the wheel and think of another solution cuz if it
doesn't work here it's not going to work here okay so we have our cooling Loop
set up and the game we're going to play here is does lonus think this is
sufficient cooling oh my gosh I can already tell
you probably not all right so I'm going to aim the camera at it you've got your
water block 390 you've got a 5800 x3d in
there and wow okay there's your resz and
this is your chungus thick 120 mm rad
that's a cross flow rad so I can already tell you you're giving up some there so
what do you think the temp tempts are we've been running furmark for about 20
minutes as well as Prime 95 well I can
tell you I think that GPU is up in the
like 80° range and then I think the CPU
is probably as high as like 70 plus we
got the fur Mark here shut
up 51° after 26 minutes really okay this
might just work then yeah this you might just pull this
off Daddy's proud we're going to modify this chassis to fit our 390 in Five
Steps step one is going to be to clean out and empty out this whole thing so
it's more like this that means we're going to have to drill out these rivets
and pull out these cages next we're going to have to drill a hole here for
the GPU that's step two and step three the opposite side cuz remember the GPU
has to stick out cuz it's too long step four is going to be cutting a hole for
our power supplies and then step five cut a hole for our big old radiator but
I actually have a lot of other stuff to do in my regular job so I'm going to get
TI and do this for me oh what
I originally used this motherboard on my previous build but there's a few issues
we're going to have to solve to make this one work this bracket right here
interferes with this little Extrusion so
we're going to need to remove this plate the other issue we have is right here
because this is a uh permanently fixed IO Shield this buts right against this
lip right here so in order to make this fit we're going to need to cut into the
bed because this is where it's all
mounted so after taking out this initial cut and realizing that this is kind of
Impractical I just spent a little bit of time catting up what's going to be our
back plate here with all of the cutouts for the power supplies the GPU as well
as the io shield and and the radiator
and I'm about to cut out one of our test pieces before trying to go on to either
our Mill or our router to cut it out of metal I cut out a thicker piece of
acrylic that's also clear so we have an idea of what's going on and also it's a
lot more structural and the next thing we want to try to do is fit in the rad
which we already know is going to be not fun so the radiator is the biggest thing
so right here it's not there's not enough space right here and because of
the the cap right there is bumping against it so the screws posts are
barely not able to so we had a thought that maybe we can get away with taking
this cap off taking it off onto the torok and machining it flatter so we
have a lower profile bit cuz it has knurling on it so we can hand tighten it
and that might just give us enough clearance to let it fit in ready for
more dumb idea oh good instead of this what if this
uh yeah we had it kind of crooked yep so
then it was right up against there that would give us more clearance for the GPU
and a little bit more clearance there so the only downside is it would look a
little crooked on the back of it which that's fine which is fine yeah we can
totally do that I'll cut out another
one now that we've cut this hole out of the front of the case for the back of
the GPU it should be able to fit can
slide right into there and click into
place and even though it is extruding out of this part of the case slightly
it's still within that the range of that
Gap inside of there so it'll F fit right into the Dead Space outside inside this
case but outside of this Frame so fits right in
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video this aluminum back plate represents the crossing off of every
list item we've done it yeah we finished at this point yes pretty much yeah so
now we have everything like sitting like
a pile of meat in the case loose and
once we put this on then it'll all be mounted insecure then we can fill the
loop and pre to whatever existence is
beyond us that this thing actually still boots and works so let's get this on all
ready so I'm going to lift this up and then push this part in so then it fits
then nice okay it slides right in okay
we got fur Mark going Prime 95 going we're 2 minutes into this test and we do
not have the fan set to 100% so we're hoping that's going to be fine but if
not we'll try sending it to 100 and see how it goes then and how loud it is yeah
23 in temp are stabilized tining can you remind us what the the numbers were
before the CPU Max before was so CPU Max
before was 68.8 de now it's 81.6 the GPU
temp before was 52° 52 the max now 64 so
hotter but not technically throttling the CPU could be cooler yeah I wouldn't
want to like daily drive at 82 um but
I'm pretty happy with the GPU 10 at 64 that's not that bad so rrap it up yeah
so let's restart it go into the BIOS uh
crank the fan and see if it runs any better it's been 20 minutes with the
radiator fan Max and we dropped 10°
lore.com ladies and gentlemen 70° on the
CPU and what is it bounced around 54 on
the GPU wow damn yeah not bad for so
much power in such a little case and and
what 9.4 L 9.6 L 9.6 L than 10 I can
drink that in a day oh yeah but this is a gaming rig so let's play some
games I feel terrible that I missed all of this but at least I get to see it now
all right you ready for this I'm ready to feel greater oh my God it's amazing
you guys did up the EST stendo what did you even do is are is this just the
electrical tape oh
oh dog shut up this might be the
greatest retro themed gaming setup of all time no I'm serious what could be
better we've got the atendo like basically but how many of these even
exist anymore you know rear projection Ultra wide the first Ultra wide we've
got the one and only Hot Wheels PC uh
that's interesting well it's Hot Wheels
wait the radiators you guys manag to get everything
inside holy crap is it everen can I open
it up it doesn't open up the old way anymore does it well the problem is
you'll see that these are rivets and not screws uhhuh yes I see that and the
reason for that was because it's so tight in there yeah that if we used
screws we wouldn't be able to hold the nut so that the nut didn't spin we
couldn't even put nuts in it's nutless no nut Hot Wheels PC I have to game on
it oh oh okay it's the actual Hot Wheels Mouse I was hoping we had a modern Mouse
with uh vinyl decals like you guys did on these but wait what you guys spray
painted an entire keyboard for this yeah
I didn't even take the keys off just bombed it just went for it I love it
took me this long to notice though so
stealthy this is absolutely insane what
could be more glorious oh I see oh I see
ooh that's actually pretty Sleek oh my
gosh the only thing I've ever seen that
gets close to this is Luke's Fallout bomb PC it's packed so tight front to
back RTX 390 freaking Flex ATX power
supply there's two of them there's two there's two there's two this may be the
greatest computer in existence what you don't believe me fine show me a greater
one prove it is greater is this custom did shank do this well this is my
favorite Xbox controller is it mine no
you want oh crap okay H that's fine I would too the maximum noise of it isn't
even that ridiculous to be clear it's not quiet but it's not loud in the ways
that I might have expected for example those Flex ATX power supplies are barely
even contributing it's just that KN to a air mover industrial PPC fan that we've
got in there kids can you say 130 FPS at
whatever weirdo resolution this is it looks like garbage cuz the image is so
soft on this monitor but it it it's running great I was big into the just
you know black frames around everything no dog I want a blue orange and yellow
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