iBUYPOWER Revolt 2 "Un-build Log" - Showcase & Teardown
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,379 words · ~6 min read
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okay so normally when someone comes to us with an idea for a sponsored video
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about a computer it involves building one up demonstrating the purpose that we
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built it for and bippity boppity outcomes a video we've pretty much got
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that down to a science at this point with I by power life wasn't really
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that simple the computer is already built it's stress tested and it's boxed
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up before we ever get our hands on it so we figured well let's just do the whole
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thing in Reverse Welcome to the first ever unbuild log where we take apart the
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machine rather than putting it together featuring the iby power Revolt 2 and
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drop a like on this video If you guys like this concept and you want to see
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more of
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it so it starts then with software um I
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by power gets full marks for including zero blo I mean not even a Microsoft
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Office Tri with the Revolt 2 with two exceptions everything in the ad remove
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programs menu is a legitimate utility for the hardware in the system or it was
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installed by me I would personally remove the MSI registration utility but
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the lighting controller software the other one of the two gets to stay since
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it's very lightweight and enables a variety of cool effects from solid
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colors to breathing to Rainbow 2 off if
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you're into the whole Simplicity thing performance-wise like with any
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custombuilt System since you could put a Celeron and a gt210 in there if you
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really wanted to you'll get exactly what you pay for as long as the system
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builder has effectively managed The Thermals of the machine and ibby power
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seems to have done just that in spite of the Revolt 2's diminutive size our CPU
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never cleared about 65° on the hottest core in Ida 64 and our GPU stuck under
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50° with unen Heaven extreme looping all
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of this while staying exceptionally quiet great results here so let's start
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tearing her apart then shall we I by power didn't actually explain what the
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deal with the peripherals was so apparently sometimes it comes with some
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and sometimes not but sometimes others the mouse is frankly terrible so I
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wouldn't worry too much about that but the mouse pad and the mechanical keyboard that they threw in would be
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nice to have included with the system because they're not too shabby side
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panel disassembly was pretty straightforward there's two thumb screws
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and it pops right off an interesting note here though is that you can
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actually remove the plastic fascia piece
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revealing actually kind of a slick looking metal panel with what looks like
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a spot for a window perhaps another like
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slimmed down version coming down the line next I undid the cable management
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for the RGB lighting controller it's got three connectors USB for that software
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control I showed you before a three pin for the LED strip and a DC plug for
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power then there's really not much else that we can access from this side
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although we do get a look at the Dual 120 mm radiators that are responsible
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for that cool quiet operation the SSD
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mount in the front is accessed by simply lifting the giant window in the front
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then it can actually be removed with a single thumb screw the SATA ports are
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pre-wired up kind of like a back plane and you can mount up to two ssds in the
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driv sled then just pop them in very very nice our machine is equipped with a
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single 240 gig ad SSD the second side
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panel reveals well most of the rest of the inside so you got the power supply
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the video card and the hard drive the
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power supply is a bit of an odd choice to me the rm750 is a 750 W power supply
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so kind of overkill for a system like this although consumers think they need
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ginormous power supplies for their system so I can't put too much of the
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blame on IB power for obliging them but the bigger question mark for me with
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this one is why choose a power supply with a hybrid fan mode since you're
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relying on that fan to cool the vrm area of the motherboard and the system memory
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so I'd recommend that iby power stick with power supplies that keep their fan
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engaged even if at a very low RPM to eliminate a potential Hots spot there
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the video card Choice reveals why those temperatures were so freaking awesome
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this is a 2 the9 sort of configuration and it's got an EVGA gtx980 TI with a
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hybrid air and water cooler that means fresh air is drawn through the bottom of
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the case through that radiator then reused again through the air cooler
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before being exhausted out the top rear of the chassis and you can argue till
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you're bleue in the face about reusing air to cool something twice but the
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proof is in the pudding and that result
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is some pretty Tasty Pudding the hard drive mount in the front contains a 1 TB
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3 and 1/2 in WD blue but you could put in anything you want um IMO boot SSD and
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mass storage 3 and 1/2 in hard drive is still the way to go but that may change
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in the next couple of years though thankfully because of the Dual SSD
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mounts in the front I byy power is leaving room in the future for mass
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storage ssds to go along with your boot SSD something that mushkin wants to
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happen sooner rather than later with that 4 tbte Drive they announced for 500
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bucks with the power supply removed we get a good look at the rest of the guts
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here ITX boards are pretty much universally limited to two dim slots and
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ours is equipped with 16 gigs of AD data ddr4 2400 MHz but thanks to DDR4's
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already improved RAM density consumer grade 16 gig sticks are available giving
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the Revolt 2 up to 32 gigs of capacity
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for CPU cooling it's handled by a Corsair h55 that has actually some of
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the most creative tubing management that I think I've ever seen the tubes are zip
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tied into the nooks and crannies around the CPU socket then crammed under the
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power supply bracket in a way that I would have thought would make it Kink
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but didn't end up doing so leading us
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finally to the CPU and motherboard so
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that chip under the h55 cooler is an Intel Core i7 6700k Skylake quad core
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with hyperthreading that's topof the line on the consumer end of Intel's
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lineup and then our motherboard is an MSI gaming model that equips our machine
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with compatibility for Wi-Fi m.2 SDS and
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of course all the hardware inside which I guess kind of concludes
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our first ever unbuild log with the I
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power Revolt 2 I hope it was as interesting for you guys as it was for
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me to tear this baby apart and see exactly how they handled all the cooling
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and cable management of this unique little system that I first covered a
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month ago at CES 2016 so thanks for watching guys if this
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the largest mouse pad I've ever seen seriously it's like as big as this
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system is small it's huge