Titan mITX System Performance PROOF
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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more so we built up this system a long
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time ago this is our tiny mini ITX 3570k
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overclocked to 4.5 GHz by the way so
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3570k overclocked and GTX
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Titan little mini ITX system now we had
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a lot of people questioning us when we did the original build um okay lonus so
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you put it in there but Titan's great at dynamically reducing clock speeds in
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order to conserve itself thermally and
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so you know is it actually going to boost up to the same level that you
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advertised in your benchmarks and all that stuff if you put it inside such a
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small enclosure so in order to respond to that we built the system back up we
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actually had taken it apart since the GTX Titan launch other than leaving
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pretty much I think there was just the hard drives and motherboard left in
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there so I want to show you guys what we find in terms of temperatures I've been
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playing Far Cry 3 blood Dragon here so we're going to fire up EVGA Precision
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check this out so we set our power Target to 106% as well as our temp
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Target to 90° which is the same that we used for our overclocking we turned up
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our memory clock offset and our GPU clock offset check this out so we are
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running consistently at anywhere from around um 1,50 MHz
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to as high as 1100 MHz on the GTX Titan
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in a real world gaming scenario and we're seeing power anywhere from around
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92 to around 100 around 100% so it is
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definitely running and our ambient temperatures so we're taking the ambient
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temperatures right at the intake for the case are around 23° so it's not balmy
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hot but it's also not super chilly in here either the way that it was when we
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did our original video back when Titan launched so I'm going to show you guys
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the Close Quarters that you're going to find our Titan system in so this is in
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our Cubit tech oh crap I forget what it's called I believe it's called the
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mini Cube or something like that mini ice uhoh I'm in trouble Cub mini
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something mini Cube yep cubc mini Cube
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and I'm going to go ahead and open it up so it's got your your USB ports we've
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got our sweet green lighting effects going on there so hopefully you can see
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that through the USB ports you can also see a little bit of ground effects going
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on over here um my lav mic is apparently
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an issue so there we go I'm going to turn this around and show you guys at
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the back so there's our there's our lighting inside there is some seriously
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hot exhaust coming out of this system although it's not that loud here I'll
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put the lab next to it it's not something I'd call a silent
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system by any stretch of the imagination but it's not like it sounds like a wind
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tunnel either which is what happens sometimes with these small form factor
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systems um and that's what I mean system builders in particular were really
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excited about when it came to NVIDIA talking about GTX Titan now that's with
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the GK 110 GPU uh so I mean any other
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graphics card such as Teslas that shared that GK 110 GPU sort of uh Heritage
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might be similar so there you go there's
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our Titan inside we're going to go ahead and flip that up so our lighting goes
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all the way around up here that's using bit Phoenix Alchemy strips we've got our
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3 570k clocked at 4.5 GHz with this
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Noctua cooler on there oh that's toasty uh we've got 8 gigs of Kingston hyperx
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memory although there's no reason you couldn't put 16 gigs in there You' certainly got ample cooling for it with
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this fan uh blowing air directly down on top of it our seic power supply our GTX
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Titan which takes up the bulk of the inside of the case you can see it's got
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the lighting on there and then we've got another NF F12 so this is really
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important to have that nice high static pressure directed air flow blowing on
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the the back of the card four SATA cables go around to the back where you
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can have up to I think we had uh two ssds and two hard drives in it when we
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did our original build so just absolute craziness so there you go guys our proof
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that not only can you build a small form factor machine with a GTX Titan but it
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will actually run and it will actually overclock to over a gigahertz as long as
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you allow it to run within the power thresholds and temperature thresholds
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that we specified when we did our original review very very cool and I've
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had a lot of people ask me after the original video that we did in this case
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where can I buy one of those the answer is I have no idea this was a sample they shipped it
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to me I have no idea whatsoever thank
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you for checking out this video on the GTX Titan in a very small form factor
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