Silverstone Raven RVZ01
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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of Rome 2 Total War click now to learn more with all the talk lately about uh
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using PCS as consoles whether it's with a Windows operating system or with Steam
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OS there has been quite a lot of attention given to very small gaming
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optimized cases that are also capable of
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holding a pretty impressive amount of Hardware so this my friends is actually
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a pre-production unit of one of the ones that people are particularly excited
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about this is the still Silverstone Raven RV zo1 and I apologize for all the
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fingerprints all over it it's because I've actually already done a build
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inside the thing so we'll start with the accessories here you get a few actually
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you get three of these handy dandy little magnetic fan filters Silverstone
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is a strong believer in the idea of having positive pressure inside the case
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with filtered intakes because what that means is dust is filtered on the intake
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and then because you have positive pressure inside it is passively being
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exhausted everywhere else so dust cannot accidentally be sucked into the case so
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we've got one of these for my top fan and then I only needed one additional
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one for the bottom fan right here but it does come with a third all right so then
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let's finish off the accessories we've got actually the accessories are kind of
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neat we have a little uh four pined two other more different two four pins fan
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adapter so that's for those dual fans on the bottom you can see there's an extra PCI bracket cuz I already built in it
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there's a GPU support bracket that's actually kind of clever I just took it
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out because I didn't really I didn't really think I needed it I just have a
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GTX 670 in there and then we've ah this is actually kind of neat so check it out
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we have a raven logo here on the front but you can actually pop that bad boy
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off and you can run this guy in either a
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vertical configuration or a horizontal configuration so it comes with one that
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that's curved like that hopefully you guys can see that and pop that on there
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and then it is meant to be run this way so it comes with optional feet you can
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either use the large feet so they're all
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conveniently label labeled back right uh front right front left all these kinds
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of things and you pop these into the little things here so the whole thing
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sits on nice little rubber feet or it comes with a different set of rubber
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feet there you go just your standard sticky rubber feet that you can put on
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the bottom if you want to run it in a horizontal desktop mode you also get all
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the screws you need to install your system but of course A lot of them aren't in there anymore because I
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already did that so let's go ahead and get this bad boy open oh no I guess
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let's show a view of the sort of the outside first so here you're going to
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see ventilation on the left hand side all
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right here you will see ventilation on the right hand side silverston Raven
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series is known for breaking new ground as well as for uh excellent ventilation
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creative ventilation sometimes here we are going to find a very very small fan
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that looks like a 60 mm I don't remember noticing that when I was ah yeah that's
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from it's from the sfx power supply so
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there's your power supply intake as well as two more fan slots one of which is
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occupied by a slim 120 mm fan that is feeding air flow directly to the
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graphics card underneath it we find at the front two USB 3.0 ports front audio
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ports as well as reset and power switches and finally a slim uh DVD driv
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so you can those have gotten a lot less expensive in the last few years here so
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it's become somewhat of a viable option at the back we see a bit of a unique I/O
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configuration this is actually my first time using a PCI Express Riser card so
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in order to achieve this half height form factor and yet have a full height
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graphics card you can put up to a GTX Titan in here no problem they have
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actually run a riser which you're going to see out of the PCI Express 16x slot
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on the board so you can install the graphics card sideways that's how many of those Boutique systems like the IB
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power Revolt are achieving this same feet of fitting a very very cool system
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into a very small place so on the top you see I actually accidentally
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unplugged that 120 mm fan as I was taking the system apart so this one
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right here sits directly over top of my CPU area so it is providing nice fresh
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air to not only the CPU right here but
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also to my vrm modules as well as to my
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memory modules which are hidden away down there I like the way that cable
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management is done in this case so the power supply itself is actually located
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over here in the front it's actually a modular power supply in there but I
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should try to I should start taking it apart for you guys so you can see how
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the whole thing fits together but the power supply is over here which means that all your cables either Snak through
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here to your uh to your graphics card they go here to your ssds so you can
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actually put two 2 and 1/2 in ssds right here uh there's optical drive bay is
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actually under here yep so under here so you can run another one there and then
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you can also put additional ssds here on
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this piece right here as well as here if you had an SSD instead of a hard drive
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if I recall correctly I could be forgetting something though it was
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actually a few days ago that I built this thing so let's start taking it
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apart this will be a new way of doing a case unboxing for me I'm using a fantex
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cooler there although you could use a stock Intel LGA 1150 cooler if you
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wanted right now I'm not aware of any ITX LGA 2011 cooler so the highest end
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configuration you'll be going with in here will be a COR I 747 70k and then
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that could be paired with as highend a single graphics card as you could
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possibly fit all right so we can pop
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this baby off I'm going to show you the PCI Express 16x Riser right here so it's
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actually a hard PCB so it's a it's a solid PCB and then that has an
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additional Riser card plugged into it here but we're going to we're going to have to release the PCI Express lock
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here and we're going to pull this Riser card out first to take this baby apart
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so there we go we've released it there come on out come on out little little
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guy come on out little guy there we go good job little guy okay sorry I'm done
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that now all right so I'm going to undo this SSD because this is also quite
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quite attached indeed so that reveals how the graphics card goes in there so
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there's a series of I can't imagine that that was the most efficient way to do
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this but there's a series of two more Riser cards maybe the finished product this is an engineering sample we'll have
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a a single piece there but the graphics card plugs in there that support brace I
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showed you before goes on like this so
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you can basically adjust it to pretty much whatever spacing you want you can
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throw that on there it locks in place and then you put a screw in there and a
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screw in the top and it it holds it it's more of a concern if you were going to
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ship the case somewhere as opposed to if you were just going to build it and then
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and then use it in one place the way a normal person would you can see that
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there's actually quite a bit of uh of length here so while you wouldn't
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necessarily be able to install something like an assus GTX 780 direct cu2 due to
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the additional height actually that might even fit that'd be pretty that' be
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pretty borderline though um you can definitely handle the additional length
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just fine and then there's something else that I actually decided not to do
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for my particular build but you can liquid cool the thing so you can
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actually put a dual rad down here liquid cool the graphics card liquid cool the
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CPU and then it has intergrated mounting
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points for a DDC pump so that's a
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popular liquid cooling like DIY grade pump and you would what is it stuck on
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there we go and you would Mount that to this cross brace right here instead of
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mounting an SSD here so that's phenomenally cool good thinking
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Silverstone they really are um they really do push things forward in terms
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of good compact design I mean we've seen this uh with the Fortress series their
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ITX Fortress in particular I think is outstanding all right so now that's that
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side let's go ahead and pull out this hard drive cage so I can show you guys
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how all that went in there all right I've removed the screws sorry to be clear there were two screws on either
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side I would like to show you guys how the cable management works here before I
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pull the whole thing out though so you can see the front panel connectors are
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over here and I was actually able to with a little bit of cramming uh get
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those to go around in front of the power supply and hard drive cage right here
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and then I was able to make very good use of the space here in order to make
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sure that the CPU area stayed quite clear you can also see uh my 24 pin and
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8 Pin motherboard connectors have been
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installed in a very tight space so we're going to go ahead and try to come on you
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can do it there we go all right so I can show you guys how that all worked in
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here we've actually got six SATA ports on this p8 Z8 or z87i Deluxe motherboard
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from isus rather although I'm using a right angle connector here that was just
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stupid I just grabbed the first SATA cables that I could find and sort of
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routed them over the RAM like that don't do that anyway let's go ahead and pull this baby out so first you install uh
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Silverstone has excellent user manuals and they need them because you have to
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do the build in a specific order otherwise it just plain won't work you have to install the power supply before
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the hard drive and then you have to install that whole thing in there so anyway you can see the sfx power supply
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that has an extension cord that runs from the back of the case into the power
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on on the power supply so I'll just show you guys where that is at the back of
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the case there and uh so that runs all the way around the outside of the case
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actually in a very uh tidy Manner and then the hard drive just kind of well it
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screws on there I think that's pretty much it so that my friends is the rvz01
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which we're using for our internal steam machine it actually has Steam OS and
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installed on it already so I'm going to have to put this thing back together now
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thank you for checking out my unboxing and overview of what I think is one of
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the most unique and uh it's an excellent DIY option if you don't want to buy one
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of those pre-done super compact machines
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and uh it's very reasonably priced as well so thank you for checking out this
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