Shuttle Z77 Barebones PC with Core i7 and Radeon HD 7970 Running Battlefield 3 Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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900 words · ~4 min read
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so this is uh my video about the z77
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shuttle with a radon hd7970 and a 2600k now please note guys
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there is no overclocking and no overclocking will be done but a lot of
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naysayers out there have said blah blah blah lus the 500 W power supply in there
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is not capable of running that kind of a system to which I say f because it can
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um and also this is more of a test than something that I actually know already
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but I wanted to check out what kind of temperatures we're going to
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get on this system if we load up an intensive oh okay apparently CPU that is
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not working properly but whatever there's a 2600k in there that's all I
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really needed to show you guys and I I'm telling you it's not overclocked um you
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let's run some small fft and see what it boosts up to it's on air cooling so it
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should pretty much find its temperature pretty quickly
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here that's probably going to make the GPU run a little bit hotter as well not
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much though I mean they're they're sort of different thermal zones because the
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ventilation holes here are going to be mostly actually I can feel the air
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coming in are going to be intake for the VGA fan which is right here and then
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exhausting air out the back and then the CPU intake area is going to be over here
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on this other side because the video card actually physically blocks off the
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video card cooler from the rest of the internals here okay so there we go our
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load CPU temperatures are in the neighborhood of let's say 60° okay which
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is still acceptable and then let's fire
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up a game and let's find out what our load video card attempts are going to be
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so what we're going to do actually oh let's do it this way we're going to torture test four
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threads so that we are pretty much fully loading this system let's leave uh let's
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leave real temp on actually so that we can uh we can see when we get out of the
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game how how hot it's running and then we are going to launch the campaign of
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Battlefield 3 we're going to leave after burner running so that we can check the
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GPU temps oh yeah idle GPU temps about 40 40 plus degrees which is still
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acceptable yes the system is a touch on the loud side it's not what I would
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consider to be a silent system but it's also not what I would consider to be
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unacceptable either it's what I'd say is kind of you know your typical
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desktop all right um give me a sec here guys I'll
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get in game and then we'll check this out so noise level of the machine here
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I'm just going to get slick to bring the camera kind of close to it so you can
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see you can kind of hear the quality of the noise it's not a super high pitch
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noise which to me makes more difference than the overall noise quality in
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general oh I was about to oh you know what I guess it's okay here I'm going to
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carefully move my steam Drive which is what my games run off
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of just going to open up the uh the Shroud here and then I'll put it back on
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before we take our temperature measurements but I just want to show you
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guys how jam-packed it is in there like yeah I ghetto mounted the SSD whatever
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but got the 2600k running there and the
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7970 is uh installed with not a
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millimeter to spare you can come over here and check out the other side we've
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got some mushkin ridgeback 8 gig memories in there got some cooling for
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the VM okay so we're going to throw this back on I'm not even going to bother
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putting the screws on this time just because the screws do not affect the
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cooling performance of the chassis in any way although having it closed properly
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does there we go okay so I'll show you guys what kind of performance we're
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getting in Battlefield 3 on Ultra yes
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Ultra presets bam and here we go so yes we are getting
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above 30 FPS in intensive scenarios that
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means explosions going on all over the place and I just got knifed oh man okay
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well either way let's check out what kind of load temperatures we get and
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what I would consider to be as far as
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realistic scenarios go a full load
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scenario so here we go so our CPU maxes
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out around 60° even with the graphics card running full bore as well and then
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MSI afterburner shows us that our graphics card is peaking at around 72°
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so very nice so yes you can build a high
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performance system in a shuttle PC if you have the uh you
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know desire thank you for watching lus
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