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what's up guys welcome back to the channel today we are assembling February's pc of the month this is gonna be insane the objective of today's build is to cram just about as much power and speed into a small small tiny little itty bitty footprint and we're gonna be doing that by way of the end case m1 a chassis that I've had my eye on since the day it ever arrived on the internet I saw this a couple years back and I was like I need it but I never got a chance to actually get one it was just very hard to find by the time I tried looking for one and I just I just never I just never got around to building them unfortunately my good old buddy and PAL crafty hack offered to send me his as a loaner so that I could do a build with one so that's very nice of him thank you so much crafty go ahead and follow him on Twitter he'll totally send you any case you want crafty also sent me the replacement panel so that you can actually make the case either black or silver to your liking and I really couldn't decide so I threw up a poll on Twitter and even though it was really close in the end you guys voted for black so we're gonna be building in a black and case m14 today our CPU of choice that we're rocking today is none other than the Intel Core i7 7700 K KB Lake processor this is a quad core chip that is hyper threaded so we got eight threads on this bad boy which is not going to be just great for gaming but also multi-threaded applications like video editing as well this is almost chalking up to be a 2.0 version of the go anywhere do anything PC that I did not too long ago sometime last year with the fractal design no 202 this this system that we're building today is definitely gonna give that one a run for its money on top of that we're also slotting that CPU into a beautiful motherboard this is the Asus Strix Z 270 I gaming Mini ITX mobo and this is one of the boards that I saw at seus that I was just super super fond of I was like this is a nice board I want one Gary and Gary was like I'm gonna give it to you and then now I have one so now I get to build with it I'm very excited features RGB or a lighting all that sort of thing that's got an RGB header on it as well even the USB 3.1 header which is really nice for a mini ITX board for sure it's also got m2 nvme support so this is a full-featured board that looks really nice as well it's got a kind of a neutral color scheme with some silver accents so it's sure to match all the other components in our system moving right along I've got to give a huge shout out to the folks over at OCC for hooking it up with a killer storage selection for today's build will be used their flagship m2 nvme drive which is their Rd 400 and that's in a one terabyte capacity this thing is an absolute beast it gets up to 2600 megabytes per second sequential reads and 1.6 or I should say 1600 megabytes per second sequential writes which is absolutely awesome so we're gonna be using that today for mainly our scratch disk if we are gonna be editing it's nice to have really fast sequential writes for sure and then on top of that we're also rocking one of their VX 500 drives this is just a SATA simple two and a half inch drive but still does a really good job as a boot drive and just loading up basic applications in our operating system for memory we've got 16 gigs or a 2 by 8 gig kit of corsair dominator Platinum's at 3000 megahertz these is actually the same sticks that I used in January's PC of the month but I just thought I would carry them over for this month because they're gonna look really nice with this motherboard and the other component that we've got in here plus they're just really reliable and fast sticks next up we've got the coarser H one hundred-eyed GTX v2 which is a 240 millimeter liquid AO that we are gonna be stuffing inside of the end case m1 I am super excited to do this if we're gonna be overclocking the 7700 K which can hit easily 5 gigahertz and get fairly hot by doing that we are gonna need some nice cooling potential in there so this is gonna be keeping thermals in check hopefully and allowing us to hit some decent overclocks without throttling random things out here we've got a 600 watt SFX series power supply from good old silverstone this is an awesome unit that's 80 plus gold and fully modular with flat black cables so no no none of that nasty ketchup and mustard that we're used to seeing sometimes on my PC and things like that this is a really solid and very reliable units I've never had any issues with the 500 watt model that I used in my wall-mounted overkill console killer build that I did a few years back so very excited to be using this one today and last but certainly not least is our graphical weapon of choice which is the gtx 1070 mini from gigabyte now I specifically wanted this card because it's super short the PCB on it is probably no more than 6 inches long and yet it has a very decent cooler on it for the size it only has one single fan but as we'll probably see in part 2 of this video when I do thermal testing and things like that I've read several reviews that have all praised how effective this little cooler is for being the size that it is and being able to pack in that much horsepower allow the gtx 1070 is exactly what we're going for for today's build so those are all the parts guys there's no cable sleeping in this one because it's already pretty cramped in the m1 plus the matte black cables on the sfx unit are just fine but all that aside I'm just super pumped to be building this little tiny rig featuring the phenomenal lineup of hardware behind me by the way I'll put links in the description below for all the stuff that's there if you want to check it out and yeah that's pretty much it guys sit back relax maybe say a prayer to the PC gods for me as I build this thing and I'll see you all on the other side you so here she is here's the bailed pretty straightforward and I got the beer bottle out there just for scale so you can really get a feel for how tiny this case really is it was surprisingly easy to work in despite being such a tiny compact area you can see here this is probably the most cramped angle cramped looking angle of the entire build is from the top down you can see that the radiator went in no problem there's still actually a bunch of clearance for the fans but what I overlooked was that the H one hundred-eyed GTX v2 has some really thick tubes that I didn't account for so it was actually really hard trying to press down this the side panel radiator bracket and get that all screwed in properly because those tubes were just so thick and of course they're long they're long for a case this size so I'll have to take that into consideration next time I'm building in something like this but other than that everything went pretty smoothly you can see I've got actually an allen wrench that's just being used as a crutch right now to prop up one of those tubes because it was pushing down on the PCB of the graphics card and actually pressurizing a little bit more flex than I would have liked it to so Helen wrench is just there as a temporary fix to keep things upright and then you can see I've also and I also edited in a cougar fan this is just 120 millimeter cougar fan these are really quiet and very well performing had this fan for like five years but I haven't used it in probably four but that's just provided as an intake getting some fresh air flow to the graphics card just to hopefully lower the thermals a bit more than otherwise and everything else was good the m2 SSD went in there no problem everything went in just very smoothly so I'm happy how this went guys let me know if you would like me to try my hand at custom water cooling inside of this thing I know it's been done before I've looked up the Google Images and it seen some pretty nice-looking builds and actually crafty sent me this along with the along with the case which is a dedicated reservoir that is tailor-made for the in case m1 and it actually mounts to the outside of the case on the back like so and then you can run some tubes through the water cooling grommets there I guess the only challenge then would be finding places for the radiator which I would imagine would go at the bottom of the case and then of course the pump the pump would probably maybe have to mount at the front somewhere I'd have to get creative with it or you can get one of those water blocks that have a built-in pump that could be a solution too but you can see there's really minimal space here for radiator I mean this is just a 120 fan right here we've already got like just a couple millimeters of clearance between the fan and a graphics card but bear in mind if we put a custom block on the 1080 or any card for that matter for the most part you're gonna be minimizing or lessening the width of that card so it actually be a single slot card more or less and that would give us a little bit more clearance at the bottom for a radiator and maybe some slim fans so I'll have to I'll have to go back to the drawing board for that one but let me know if that's something you'd like to see but I think that's pretty much gonna do it for now guys be sure to stay tuned for part two where I test acoustics thermals and of course gaming benchmarks with this guy I think it's gonna be pretty exciting to see how much power we can drive out of this little tiny tiny little system here so this was a lot of fun thank you all so much for watching be sure to LIKE the video hold on whoa hold on I really need the camera man be sure to like the video if you guys enjoyed it and also feel free to subscribe to the channel for more tech stuff coming at you really soon I promise have a good one guys and I'll see y'all in the next video