No more FIRES?!? - NZXT H1 V2
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2022-05-05
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2,027 words · ~10 min read
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- I wanna see a beef cake in this. Geez, this is a big...
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(beep) this is the NZXT H1 version two.
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And it has the improvements you'd expect in a, you know, generation of case design.
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More GPU support, more power supply wattages
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and more cooling and also less fires.
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You normally don't expect that to be a selling point but it is so let's get into it.
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Okay, I guess it's one of those cases where they put all the things you need inside of the case.
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Is this a case that we use to make the Noden Xbox one PC.
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Oh, okay. Yeah, this sure looks like an Xbox, but a lot bigger.
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This thing's 400 bucks, 350 when you're not in the US because tariffs to be clear for 400 bucks,
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you are getting the case, the cooler and the power supply.
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So it's not like that's just the chassis. Pull to remove back metal panel.
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(clicks) Okay, so that's off.
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Does this come off? (metal clanks) As you can tell, I don't have experience with this case.
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That's step three. What's step two? Oh, we already did step two.
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What was step one? Were we supposed to do a step one? Oh, step one, pull this off.
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Aha, now does this slide up? Oh yeah.
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Wow who would've ever thought that reading the instructions would be useful.
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There's our box. Oh, that is pretty nice
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having a power supply that's built in. Cause all these cables I am guessing are
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about the right length for where they need to go. Apparently for the GPU, we get eight millimeters
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more of height, which I'm guessing you can
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probably fit a three slot card in here depending on just how tall it is.
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And 19 millimeters of more length. So 30 series cards should be good.
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Oh my God. That's not much space for the motherboard. Look at this.
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So I'm going to cheat a bit and use the manual.
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in the video description. Remove screws pointed by arrows and lift open.
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Okay, I can do that. We've got a nice 140 fan here
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and a reasonably enough sized radiator.
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It's not gonna give you the most performance possible.
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Wow, who would've thought that reading the instructions makes everything way easier.
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Today, it would appear that we're going with an i7-11700K and also an X590 board from ASUS.
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So this is going to be a really fast little system.
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You can probably also overclock the beans off the memory on this.
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When you only have two RAM slots you can run them a lot faster than if you have four
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because of reflections in the signal and crap. Anyway.
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Maybe we'll try that. All the screws are in here I am guessing.
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For RAM, we've gone with Trident Z Royals 4,600 C18.
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So this is probably a brutally expensive kit of RAM.
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It's also really dirty. So it appear that the motherboard goes in this way.
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So your IO is at the bottom. That's going to be kind of nice
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for easily making all of your cable management look good
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but it's gonna really suck when you wanna plug something in. I was afraid for a second that
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I had to attach the cooler mounting beforehand,
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but no you have access from the back so you don't need to worry about it.
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Do you remember how it was like reading the instructions?
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Yeah, that lasted about 10 seconds. Now, one reason to attach the cooler mounting before you go
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into the case is that this is super awkward to get at. Thank you, logistics.
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That sounded kind of sarcastic, but logistics are awesome.
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They picked all the parts for this PC. For storage, we're going with half a Gigabyte
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crucial P5 M.2, that's a little bit under spec
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but we do rate up here have two, two and a half inch drive base.
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So we could add additional storage later pretty easily.
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(clicks) SSDs slot right in.
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Motherboards in, I could attach the cooler right now but I think it's wiser to attach all
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of the cables first and especially stuff
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like don't miss your like front panel and so on.
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I really appreciate how they've pre ran all these cables
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to the spots where they're going to go. I don't have to worry
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about the routing of the CPU power connector.
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It's just there. It's already managed in. This is always the problem with small form factor cases.
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Just getting your hands in there. The final bit to plug
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into the motherboard is the PCEI riser. Now this one right here is Gen four, which is awesome
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because if we use like, you know, a Gen four motherboard gen three ones don't work, but we'll just be flaky.
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It's a huge pain in the troubleshoot. Also, this one's been designed specifically for this case
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and solves the problem that the last generation had where the 12 volt plane could be shorted to, you know,
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ground and burn your house down. I shouldn't say that as a positive, but yeah,
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this one apparently is safe.
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(bell rings) (group cheers) Finally for this side, installing the cooler.
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This is once again, really tight.
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There we go. For tightening down your CPU,
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I always recommend going like half tightness
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on all of them go around in kind of like a a cross and then a cross again pattern.
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And that way you just avoid, you know putting a whole bunch of pressure on one side
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and having a thermal paste kind of squish out. For the GPU,
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we're going with the Founders Edition 3080ti.
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This thing is obscenely fast. It's also obscenely expensive and it's kind
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of small for how powerful it is.
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Okay, Let's have a bit of a gander here. (upbeat music)
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Yeah, I don't think that's gonna work very well. So the problem is this fan
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is blowing out directly into your drives.
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Now they have included, and this is an upgrade for this generation, a 92 millimeter PWM fan in the back.
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So that should help getting some of that out. But quick trip to the warehouse
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has netted us a nice little upgrade. Instead of our 3080ti, we have its bigger brother.
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This huge fricking mass of 3090, if it can cool
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and almost more importantly power this, I'll be quite impressed.
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Geez, this is, this is a big... (beep)
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Oh, I love this. This is so great.
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(laughs) It's all GPU.
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One thing to note is that small Form Factor power supplies are not as good as full fat power supplies.
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Andy learned this the hard way. - [Andy] Yeah, I blew up mine.
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- Andy's... - [Andy] It was Windows updates though. - Windows updates what killed your PC?
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- [Andy] Yeah. - Geez. Yeah, 'cause the problem that you run
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into is not that these small form factor power supplies
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can deliver the current, it's that they can't deliver it really fast.
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So these 30 series cards have really bad habits
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of like having super are quick spikes and then they come down
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and if you have big caps, it's not a big deal,
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but in small Form Factor cases where you can only have smaller capacitors, you can blow it up
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or just shut it down. Ideally have it shut down.
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Yeah, that was really fast, actually. Barely looked at the instructions
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and we're done in what? Like that was under an hour. Okay, apparently 40 minutes according to Andy.
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Now on a normal computer case, you plug in your USB, something like that.
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Here you plug in USB by doing that.
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I feel like one of those stupid infomercials people struggling with something that should be easy,
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plugging everything into this 'cause it is actually kind of difficult.
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Okay, bets that she just works first time.
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- [Andy] 80%?
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Hey. - Okay, all the lights are promising but there's nothing to suggest this shouldn't be working.
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Like none of the lights on the motherboard are on that I can tell.
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Oh, I think I found it. I think I found it. Okay. I've discovered the culprit.
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Right in here, CPU not getting power.
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Hey, it worked. So I swap up the RAM and the GPU,
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but guess what the problem was? The fricking DisplayPort cable.
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Now I think this is NZXT's fault.
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You'll see that the way the GPU's in the slot,
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our DisplayPort cable connectors are kind of squished.
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So I'm suspicious that our DisplayPort cable just wasn't going in all the way.
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And that's why we didn't have a signal. Are you not booting? Like what's on the go here.
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Oh you absolute piece of.. (beep) We did it, she works and it looks pretty great, actually.
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Now we get to do the best part of this video.
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(sticker rustles) Oh.
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This thing looks like an absolute beast. I love how it's just like half of it is GPU.
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The packaging of this machine is really great.
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Oh yeah. And the problems that we're having were just stupid motherboard stuff.
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It was trying to get the CPU to go to gigahertz which didn't work most of the time.
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But sometimes it did, which is why we couldn't figure it out.
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Well, I could do the nice thing to this computer and you know, just play some games
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on it or something and be like, oh yeah, cool, no, we're just going straight to Prime95
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and FurMark at the same time. If it survives that, it'll survive games.
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No problem. This is not being very kind. So 180 Watts on the CPU, GPU is at, oh 400 Watts.
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Excellent. So we have like 150, 180-ish Watts
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to go until the powers supply conks out.
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Good job at not NZXT. That's good.
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Wow, that is kicking off some heat. This is, it's also kicking off some noise.
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Holy Frig. We've been doing this for three minutes
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and the temperatures seem to be about leveling out. So CPU 80 degrees, GPU at 74.
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I'm guessing it would still climb up until about 80 and who knows
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where exactly it's going to land but that's going to be very GPU dependent.
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I'm a little bit disappointed with the power supply fan and how loud it is.
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But at the same time, like we're pulling 600 Watts consistently here.
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Overall though, I'm quite impressed. The temperatures didn't get out of control and like it's a 3090 and 11700 K,
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that's a lot of power for a system of the size
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and just did it. Going in and tweaking the fan curves would probably
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be able to bring the temperatures down a bit. And overall I like it.
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Nice, simple little build and I think it looks great.
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Yeah and no more fires, geez. So huge thanks for watching this video.
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Hit like, get subscribed. If you wanna check out this case, there should be a link in the video description
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and maybe go watch the friend in ST10 video.
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I think that's what it's called. It's mechanical calculator proofed in an excellent job writing it.
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Great video.