Mystic Space Warrior PC
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,169 words · ~5 min read
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the first thing i realized about the NVIDIA star wars titan graphics cards
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is that they paired the jedi order with the galactic empire which is just
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you know what though it's fine
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i mean full points for effort at least
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and honestly i barely even care anyway
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hey thank you all for joining me um i understand that
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NVIDIA probably had the best of intentions
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the but there's one fundamental problem here and that is that
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senator palpatine darth sidious whatever you want to call this apple these two
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entities never actually oppose each other
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directly which led me to my second realization
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we had to make a video that showcased
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these bad boys so this my friends is the mystic space
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warrior knowledge cube build
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the 20 liter moss pack features a built-in charging station cable
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management pass-throughs and it's been recently updated to include a few little
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improvements like better straps and a larger laptop pocket check it out at the
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link below now with a warehouse full of computer
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cases you would think that after spending hours searching we could find
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something with the sheer moxie and space
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age energy that we were looking for but alas it was for naught so we set out to
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do something that we've surprisingly never done before here at LTT
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design and build our very own case
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from the ground up so setting out to design this thing we only had a few
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rough guidelines in place we wanted it to look really cool
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and alex has been itching to play with our new fabool laser co2 laser cutter
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from smart diy so our design team immediately came up with some wild and
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crazy ideas for complex polyhedrons and
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ornate acrylic paneling that would fit our overall theme after all when it
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comes to imagination the sky is the limit right
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no actually the limit is something called international copyright law which is why
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our decorative inscriptions are in klingon not aurabesh
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so after much internal debate and many failed attempts
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here's how our final design ended up coming together
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or at least we wish it was that easy we constructed our
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case from the bottom up which meant putting together a wooden frame now
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wood isn't exactly a first choice material when it comes to computer cases
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but we aren't quite ready to try our hands at fabricating a metal frame
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yet so we attached wooden pillars to a small
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sheet of mdf then we made holes for inserts for motherboard standoffs and a
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much larger hole for the GPU next we needed a starter hole for the
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GPU io then to get a nice clean cut we picked
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up a brand new handsaw that totally ended up sucking so the
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hole looks super ragged but since it's on the bottom of the case no one will
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ever see it provided of course that there was nobody standing around with a
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camera filming the whole thing the motherboard standoffs went in a lot
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more smoothly and we elevated them on these big screws so we would have
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somewhere to tuck our cables after putting on the motherboard and rog
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strix z370i mini itx board we added our
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CPU an Intel core i7 8700 six core
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processor pretty much the best of the best for gaming right now and 16 gigs of ddr4 RAM
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then for cooling our first choice was a be quiet! dark rock pro 3 tower cooler
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but unfortunately even with low profile RAM we were unable to successfully mount
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the tower so it looks like it's knocked to it to the
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rescue now the center piece of this build is
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our star wars titan xp graphics card so
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we opted to give it a full frontal mount
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which is not nearly as dirty as it sounds it just means that we used a pci
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express extension to mount it in a vertical position front and center right
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here now let's see how it might look
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with some paneling
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well luckily a hasty modification can rectify
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that problem now we're not going to leave the frame
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showing exposed wood so we also need to give the whole thing a quick coat of
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paint then once we've got all the hardware loaded into our mark ii frame we can get
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to the most important part of any kick-ass case build adding the RGB with
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all the strips in place it's time to close it up
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but first let's get a nice good look at just how awesome that setup is looking
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as mentioned earlier we used our fabool laser cutter to create our
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non-infringing designs and aside from a
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few minor hiccups that process was relatively painless
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so after another finishing touch and some decorative molding around the outside
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yeah now we're looking good
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hmm
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once it was built though we had to put it through the paces
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i mean you have a good idea based on the
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hardware you put in of how something like this is going to perform but what's
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the point of owning a rowboat if you never ride it
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does one ride a rowboat not really the point anyway the thermals
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aren't quite as good as we might expect from an nhd15 so it is a little toasty
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in there but our core i7 8700k still
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managed to turbo to 4 gigahertz on all 6
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cores with temps in the mid 70s and gaming wise this thing is a beast
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churning through even the latest aaa titles as you would expect a titan xp to
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do and remember this is all in a case that
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was really not made with thermals in mind so in the end
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we love the results but we feel like in the future we've
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still got a lot of work to do for as the
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