Extreme Gaming Machine Build in Fractal Design Define XL Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,154 words · ~5 min read
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so the point of this video is going to be twofold first of all I'm giving you
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guys an update on that prototype machine that crazy Russian was working on so
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this is the Define XL with our dual GTX 580s we've got the core i7 950 processor
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and now you can see I've got the h70 water cooling installed because in order
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to keep doing our benchmarking testing validation all that good stuff we had to
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go ahead and put the system together as intended so the first thing I want you
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guys to notice is that the temperatures even though we are running Linux are
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still around 60° on this CPU now we're
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not overclocked yet but even at stock
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speeds that is stock speeds and voltage on that CPU we managed to drop 20° off
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the low temperature of the CPU now bear in mind as soon as you start
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overclocking that difference between the stock cooler and a good solid
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aftermarket cooler like the h70 is going to be a lot more because that heat load
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will overwhelm the stock cooler whereas the h70 can keep it under control
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so I just want to show you guys some of the features of the Define XL and why we
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chose it for this uh for this particular build first of all check out these side
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panels I mean these must weigh like uh wow this must weigh like a few pounds
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each like no no problem I mean I think the case uh empty with no Hardware in it
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with all the sound dampening materials and the steel construction weighs about
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30 lbs so it's very very heavy so that also means it's very very solid there's
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absolutely no flex to it whatsoever in terms of features going to go ahead and
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remove that so this is the Black version of the case it's also available with a
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titanium which is kind of like a like a gunmetal gray front Okay so I want to
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show you guys all of the features I know I've been promising to show you features
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this whole time but what I've really been doing is killing time so that I can
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get around to the back of the case and show it to you so you can cable things a
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little bit more tidily at the back than uh than we've done here the uh the
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reason for this is that we're basically throwing it together to do some
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prototype testing this is not a finished production machine so we'd have all
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these zip tied together and we'd have them all sort of tucked out of the way
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but speaking of tucking cables out of the way look how much space you have at the back like you see so many cases with
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space designed so that you can cut cables around the back but then there's
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actually no Gap like we've actually here here get around a little bit further
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even you can see there's more than an inch of space between these Drive cages
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and the side panel you can tuck any cables back there same thing behind the
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hard driv you've got like 2 in of space to actually put your cables in the back
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of the drives and then tuck any extra cabling away out of sight and out of
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mind so that's pretty cool and so they've also got the removable
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motherboard back plate I did a full unboxing of the Define XL uh once
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already so you can see all the features of it there so we're just going to go
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through like really quickly here so the Dual 140 mm front fans uh we still have
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to install this one this is just an in progress shot uh because we took the 140
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mil fan from the back where the H7 70 is now installed so it's here and we're
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going to go ahead and throw that in the front for this build and speaking of
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places to tuck cables we've also got a really cool place like you wouldn't be
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able to tell that this power supply isn't modular looking at this build from
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any angle other than like way down here
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where you can see that we've tucked a bunch of cables up here so you've got a
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ton of space to hide away your cables on your power supply even if you're using a
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non- modular power supply overall spec of the machine so I'll show you where we
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mounted everything we've got our SSD here in one of the uh Drive sliders so
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you can hold up to 10 hard drives or 10 ssds then we have our storage drive here
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remember this is the performance Edition so it has a storage drive it has the
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bigger power supply it has the Dual GTX 580s it has the faster RAM it has the
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h70 instead of the H50 and there's a bunch of advantages to getting the
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performance Edition uh build so um yeah
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I mean cable management is uh mostly been shown you've got these little
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silicone guys here you can see that unlike the Define R2 they've been
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dramatically improved on the Define X XL as well as the Define R3 so they're much
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more flopsy for lack of a better word
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and uh because with the old ones basically as soon as you put something
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through it they were kind of like stuck in that position whereas these ones are much easier to uh not like damage and
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bend so there that was a long drawn out way of saying that they're a higher
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quality uh higher quality grommet and I think that covers pretty
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much everything I wanted to say I mean you can check out the huge fan here on
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the top of the case so you've got a ton of exhaust going out the back of the
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case here all of that hot air from the uh from the CPU Cooler as well as any
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air coming from around the mosfets you've got nice air flow over the RAM
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it's just taking all that and blowing it out the back of the case so thank you for checking out this little video about
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the Vesta 6050 in progress build as well
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as a sort of an extreme gaming machine build in the fractal design Define excel
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hope you sort of got a pretty good idea of what kind of cooling features and
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