Don't wait for the Xbox Series X! - NZXT BLD H1 Gaming System
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·2020-05-05
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- This video is sponsored by NZXT. You can check out their build systems below.
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I, forgot to do the disclosure early enough in the video.
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I have actually already opened it now but (playful music)
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The next gen game consoles are coming, but maybe you're the kind of person who's like,
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(yawning) 'cause the reality of it is,
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you're just going to game on PC anyway. That is exactly who NZXT has in mind with their
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build systems featuring their H1 case.
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Oh, it's got the size and they couldn't have possibly planned this
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because we've only known about the look of the Xbox One Series X for a very short period of time.
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But also the shape of the next gen console experience
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but with the power of a gaming PC.
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(plastic rattling) Alright, let's have a look at this thing.
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Packing material looks pretty good to me. Nice soft foam,
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lots of protection and not the rigid kind, where if it takes one bad hit,
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it's like done the next time someone drop kicks it
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onto your doorstep or whatever the case may be. Tempered glass panel right there.
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And wow, the entire rest of the thing, this is my first time seeing it in person,
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is all just ventilation.
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It draws obvious comparisons to the Corsair One, both in terms of the form factor
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and like, the way the vent holes are configured. But unlike the Corsair One,
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they haven't really tried to gussy up the vents. So they're just like, "Yep, these are vent holes.
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They're everywhere. Don't worry about it."
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On the top, we've got, Oh, that's interesting,
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we've got power, USB 3, USB more different 3,
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that's a type-C port, as well as a 3.5 millimeter jack but only a single audio jack.
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I would have to assume that's a headphone jack rather than a microphone one.
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I guess there is a large scale shift to USB audio solutions
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especially for microphones but hey, there you go, it's not there and then, oh.
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Oh. This is why it's more fun,
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if I don't actually do any prep. I did not know the IO was on the bottom, so that's cool.
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So all your cables come in here at the back plug in just a little, something like that.
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And then you've... That actually that's really clean. It means the whole outside of it is just ventilation.
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Now, let's crack this thing open and have a look at what kind of specs we're dealing with.
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It's always kind of fun for me to look at the people
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that are like salivating over the next gen console like, "Wow, they're gonna be so powerful.
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They're gonna have AMD gen 2 CPUs and they're gonna have like this
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graphics card and studiously..." Yeah, okay, this is gonna be pretty cold people.
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Anyway, so let's have a look at it what the layouts like inside.
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There's some foam packed in here that's pretty standard system integrator fare,
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if they want their systems to survive the journey to their customers.
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And wow, they have done a lot of custom work for this thing.
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So the PCI express riser is actually
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curled. You can see here, it's like kind of bent around this bracket
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that's gonna keep it from shifting at all. That's pretty cool and then we've got a,
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like a reference founder's edition. I believe that's a 2070 Super
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but don't quote me on that yet. We're gonna try and get another panel off here
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and take a closer look at it. Our power supply's up at the top
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drawing fresh air in from this ventilation panel right here
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and exhausting it out the back and then check that out. That is a 140 millimeter all in one liquid cooler.
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So that's handling CPU cooling duty and you can see the motherboard
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has really been squeezed down to exactly as slim as it can be with that
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kind of cooling puck mounted to the CPU over there and then reasonably low profile memory
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although it does still have heat spreaders on it. It's nice that everything's been tool-less so far.
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So if you wanted to add like a two and a half inch drive upgrade or something like that
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you could do that without breaking up the screwdriver but we wanna go a little bit deeper.
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Oh. Alright, well that's how the tempered glass panel comes off.
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Just those little ball and socket joints there. And we've got some more foam that we need to remove
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in order to make sure that our graphics card is getting adequately cooled.
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Cable management is definitely a plus on this thing so far.
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Like it's not a, you know, Mac pro or whatever, so like, we engineered this PC for two years,
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but it's really clean. Everything is tucked away, super nicely
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and they've got little panels like this to hide any excess.
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Oh, does that? Look at that, that's tool-less too.
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Wow. Alright.
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I like it. I really liked the care and attention they've put into
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protecting the PCI express riser cable. It's really easy for these to suffer from
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signal degradation which can cause problems that are not always easy or fast to diagnose.
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So, it's great, they're just taking every precaution here
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to make sure that the panels aren't pressing on them or anything like that.
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I really want to remove these other panels but everything's been so easy so far
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that I'm afraid that if I press too hard on anything...
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And I'm probably doing it wrong. You know? I think it's entirely possible
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that the chassis doesn't come apart without removing these little grommets
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and undoing these screws I think. This is as far as your intended to go
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as someone who's bought a completed system. I mean, it's not the end of the world.
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You can easily access your graphics card for upgrades. They've got a couple of thumb screws here.
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And this is nice the modular interface on the power supply is right next to these power connectors.
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So it's super easy to change one of these out or whatever the case may be.
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But, I think as someone who bought a completed system
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that is about as far as you're expected to go. Power supply could also be swapped without
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too much trouble but there are some screws in there that are kinda hidden away a little bit.
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So you'd really want access to this top panel if you were to try to take that one out.
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So graphics card upgrade that's about all you can really do with it
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but you know what? I guess I'm okay with that. Besides we've got a separate video coming over
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on the Linus tech tips channel where we're going to be building up in one of these
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rather than getting a pre-assembled one. So why don't we just take a look at what we can expect
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from one of these completed systems then? - [Man] Oh my God.
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Oh, no, okay, oh. - Come on NZXT give me a little vinyl sticker, you know?
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No don't cut the camera, this an important tech tip, oh wait, wrong channel.
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It's a, it's a short tip.
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(upbeat music) Man! I got to clean the monitor.
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I peeled the ROG off my monitor. Look at this.
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Now it's not for gaming.
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Like, there it is, it's off. It's only half of gaming now.
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So yeah, I mean, it's just nig, just nig.
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While I load a the game and some benchmarks, so we can make sure the CPU and graphics card
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are working properly, we can load up NZXT's CAM software.
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We've got a 9900K, 16 gigs RAM, RTX 2070 Super.
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Looks like a terabyte of storage.
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Yep, terabyte of NVMe storage, not too shabby.
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It also gives us all of our monitoring information
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so we can see temps, CPU load, fan speeds,
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all that kind of good stuff. And I think, that's pretty darn quite, yeah,
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I would believe 700 RPM. That'll be a good stress test, let's go ahead and fire up Cinebench R20,
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while we're downloading a game. So we should be sitting real nicely at a 100% CPU usage.
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We won't be able to take the score or anything like that but a 9900K is sort of a 9900K.
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I just wanna know what kind of temps we're gonna hit. Normally inside compact cases like this,
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some of the hardware components can suffocate but what's cool is the intake for the CPU cooler
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and the power supply are right along here,
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easy access and happened to be filtered.
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And the intake for the graphics card, same deal, with most of the exhaust coming out at the back here.
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So I would expect, we never hit higher than about
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45-50 degrees on the CPU. I would expect that to say pretty consistent.
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Shoot! This is a very early save game. That's okay, it's runnin' super smooth here.
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This is at 4K all high with motion blur off and just basic anti-aliasing.
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And besides the thing that I wanted to know was just how loud this thing's gonna get in game 'cause
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while it is an advantage for cooling, it means your fans aren't gonna ramp up so high
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to have the intake right next to the graphics card. It also means that the sound can come right out.
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Now, I would put the system to my right, just so that the graphics card is behind the tempered glass
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that will help a little bit. That is pretty darn quiet.
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Well, that's it. Here's one of NZXT's build systems in their H1 case.
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It doesn't do me much good to tell you what the price is because you can configure it.
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