LTT gear at the iBUYPOWER Suite! - iBUYPOWER Revolt 2 - CES 2016
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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beautiful so we're here in the iby power suite and for the second time in only
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three years they are launching something truly revolting here at the show so if
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you're not familiar with them iby power is a boutique system builder they make
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all kinds of custom Rigs and this is the
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Revolt 2 I didn't actually mean it was disgusting I meant it had Revolt in the
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name what did you think I was talking about three years ago they launched the
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Revolt it had that you know Riser card and it was super tiny it had the GPU
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showing on the through the window in the case there this is this is a totally
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different thing so they've changed pretty much everything about it except
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for that concept of it being a very
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compact machine and one that puts the GPU at the Forefront of the industrial
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design so the first thing you notice looking at it is that GPU it's
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illuminated by RGB lighting so you can go oh I want solid colors I want
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breathing colors I want a rainball over my graphics card and regardless of
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whether you want to go all the way up to something like a gtx980ti or a Titan X
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if you're into spending too much for no additional performance you can put it in
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here and they've got The Thermals all figured out although we'll go over that
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in more detail once we actually open it up inside the other thing I wanted to
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show at the front is they've got two 2 and 1 12 inch mounts for ssds or even
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hard drives I guess if you were really into that sort of thing as well as front
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USB 3 front audio and a front power button that I'm going to try not to
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accidentally press again on the side panels you won't find a whole lot of
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much of anything unless you're cool like me and in addition to the little
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ventilation holes and stuff yeah you showed up for iby power to reveal that
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they had actually done up a custom side panel for you with the Linus Tech tips
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and Wan logos overlaid pretty cool stuff they've actually got a number of of neat
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ones on display here in the suite just to kind of show off what can be done and
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then around the back you'll find well ventilation holes and different IO
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depending on what kind of a configuration you choose because that's
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what IB power is they are a custom system builder and build a system in it
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they did so now that we've got the side panel off we get a pretty good look at
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how this whole thing works inside it's funny because from the top the only
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thing you really see is the graphics card but from the side the first thing
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that really grabs your attention is the power supply so they've inverted the ITX
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standard motherboard that they're using inside this case they have done away
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with the PCI Express extension and they are plugging the graphics card directly
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into the motherboard what that means is that pretty much the only place to put
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the power supply is actually smack in the middle of the chassis over top of
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the CPU area where the fan should actually help draw heated air away from
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the vrm on the CPU because the CPU itself is a nonc concern in this case
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because they've made enough room down in the bottom of the chassis for up to a
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dual 120 mm radiator or even a single
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120 with a single 140 if you're into to having both your CPU and your GPU
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connected to an AI cooling Loop now it
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looks really cramped for this power supply and you might think oh but what
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if I want to expand in the future personally I don't think it's a concern
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they've got a th000 watt power supply in here and realistically for a single
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graphics card system you are unlikely to ever need more than that but of course
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those are always famous last words aren't they I really don't think it is in this case in the front we find a
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single 3 and a half inch hard drive cage if you want something to go along with
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those sexy ssds and quite frankly I
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don't think there's a whole left to say about it that can't be said without
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completely disassembling it and having a look at how they're handling Cable
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Management say for example but the good news is that you may actually have an
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opportunity to see me do that because I by power will be working with us on
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something we've never done before an actual a deconstruction video rather
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than like like a build guide it's going to be like a disassembly guide anyway
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leave a comment letting me know what you want to see me do when I put the Revolt
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2 through the paces a little while from
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