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what's up guys welcome back to the channel today I am building yet another computer shocker I know this time it's for my beautiful wife Heather who's in the other room right now her system currently is well I had to gut her system actually about a month or two ago because I had to use some of the parts for my dad's PC at the time and she wasn't really using her desktop all that much so I felt it would be appropriate to kind of rob her of the computer I had initially given her two Christmases ago but shortly after that she started indicating that she was missing her old desktop and so now it's time that I finally built her a proper new one so that's what we're doing today I've actually compiled a list of new and used parts including everything that's on this table and I'm just going to start off with the case here this is brand new I just bought this I picked it up off of new egg was kind of an impulse buy but I thought it would kind of match the dimensions of the BitFenix prodigy it's actually shorter and slimmer than the prodigy but it's a I think it's like an inch or two longer but more or less it's about the same dimensions I just think it looks a little bit sleek the other thing about the BitFenix prodigy it's got those rubber handles on the top and bottom those tend to get dirty pretty quickly over time and they get more more and more difficult to clean because of the rubbery material it can just you know go over with a like a wet wipe or a paper towel or anything you got to get like one of those magic erasers it's just kind of a hassle also I thought I'd bling it up a little bit with a side panel window which the prodigy did not have so we get to be a little bit more fancy this time around so it should be nice power supply is also brand new it's a sea Sonic m12 - I've actually never used this before but I found our new egg it is fully modular 520 watt power supply you guys should definitely check this out if you're on a budget and you're looking for a fully modular unit because this was only 60 or 70 bucks which I thought was a killer deal especially see Sonic is a great brand for power supplies so I'll be using that as well we've got bit phoenix alchemy LED strip just a simple this is the alchemy 1.0 i might be using a 2.0 that i've got tucked away in the closet somewhere if i can find a good place to put it inside of the case we've also got more BitFenix cables here the white extension sleeves these are the original sleeves that i've used for my very first pc i bill in the 600 tee and don't don't confuse this build with the all-white belt that I was teasing earlier in previous videos guys are on social media because this is not it this is just a wife a wife build if you will on the white the all-white themed PC is coming soon I guarantee it probably pop up sometime in November and I'll be using these again for that build as well but I thought it would go really nice of course with the white enclosure here and then moving on to CPU and motherboard this is actually used this is another used parts two very main used parts including the the H 105 that's already on here the reason why it's already installed is because I just took this out of a different system it was in the half 912 one of the the half stackers that I use currently I have stripped it out as you can see for this 2600 K and the PhD 77 I deluxe motherboards so we are rocking an older generation of chipsets as well as a generation of Intel CPU but 2600 K is still a great CPU we shouldn't have too many issues with that especially for the you know limited workload that Heather's going to be using for on a day to day basis should be just fine it's still a great CPU we've also got 8 gigs of ram this is Corsair Vengeance matches in blue of course very nice 1600 speed that should do the job just fine and for graphics we have this GTX 970 now you shouldn't worry about any kind of bottlenecking the the with the CPU because oh by the way its EVGA this is their for the win Edition there you go so it comes factory overclocked please you can worry about any kind of bottlenecking issues the 2600 K again even if it's stock and not overclocked shouldn't be an issue other than that we've got these two venturi HP fans these are 120 s these are just going to be slapping onto the H 105 because the Corsair fans that it comes with can get a little bit louder than than I'd like and these venturi fans have been really happy with how they've been performing in hot line back there so I had two extras that I would slap him in also I think the the sleek black look would kind of match the overall aesthetic a bit more proper and then we've got this other fractal fan it's a vinter no it's not a venturi this is one of the case fans that I got off of the define r5 I believe it's just a 140 and 140 mount at the back of the end to evolve ITX I don't even know if I even mention the name of this case at the end to evolve ITX right there and I think that's pretty much those are all the parts for this build hopefully go smoothly and why don't we just go ahead and jump into it and start building this thing it's just a quick update did kind of want to log or document some of my experiences that I've been having so far when building in the the evolve I TX so first off this case does feature a pullout bracket for a 240 or 280 millimeter radiator on top so you can do a quick and easy installation kind of outside of the case first you know mount the radiator and fans to the bracket and then slide it in but what they don't tell you is that you can't have the motherboard installed first otherwise the tubing isn't really long enough to get the radiator and the brackets slid into place into the the grooves of the metal frame up here so and then and then alternately you can't really have the motherboard uninstalled and then install the radiator first because then you can't reach the top two screws very easily to mount down the motherboard in fact this one you can't reach at all you can you can get by with this the screw over here so what I ended up having to do was remove the top panel entirely and leave the radiator bracket installed and just mount the radiator to the top like you would in any other normal case that supports 240 rads up top so that was kind of inconvenient the other thing is that and I already already knew this going into the bill that I forgot to mention it is that the motherboard only has two fan headers one for the CPU and only one other system fan header there there on the top left corner you can kind of see them so what I'm going to do is a little bit of splitter action I've got some some wise players they are PWM thanks to the venturi fractal fans which which each fan comes with a fan splitter and I have like like twelve of these fans for hotline and other things so I'm basically just doing a kind of like I don't know adapter frenzy here gonna be plugging this into one of those system fan headers and I've got two more splitters coming off of each of those one one fan header should be enough to drive all four of these fans it shouldn't be an issue so I've got four case fans or let's say I've got two of these I've got one 200 millimeter that the case comes with at the front and then slowing this one for you see I've got four case fans in here for the most parts and then I'm going to need one for the the pump for the H 105 so that should be good I'm gonna be set for that the other thing that I forgot to mention is storage you probably like what happened to the storage why do you mention storage well it's because I actually don't have a good reason for that other than I completely forgot to put it on the table so I forgot to talk about it what am I going to be using this is kind of just I haven't even given it this any forethought I'll probably use this vertex for it's 128 gig SSD from OCZ it's an older SSD but it should be fine for Heather and then I've got see how this hard drive from Toshiba this is a 1.5 terabyte I believe now it's 2 terabyte so she gets 2 terabytes of storage mechanically and I'm just gonna leave this out right here so don't forget it a second time so she gets 1 SSD in one mechanical and she should be happy with that she's not then she can suck it I know I'm just kidding honey I love you but yeah so let's pretty much all I wanted to say give you a little update now let's go back to the build go all right bill complete ladies and gentlemen here it is feast your eyes on this beauty as you can see I did try to color coordinated as best I could you know as you slide with the white cables and kind of the blue the blue on the video card the blue Ram the the CPU cooler and motherboard and things like that um I wasn't able to get the LED in there just because there wasn't any good place to put it even though the shorter 12-centimeter when I had just wasn't able to fit anywhere reasonably you can't really put it on the side panel because the windows so damn huge and even if I were to kind of put the LED strip maybe on the edge here even the really outer edge you could still see the LEDs quite easily through that big-ass window so I think it still looks good without it you know that just would have been a nice cherry on top but what can you do apart from that everything else went well building in the system was absolutely fantastic for a mini ITX I granted it is fairly large for a mini ITX compared to like an SG zero five or something like that but obviously you can do a lot more here you know custom water cooling and things like that but one thing I did not like about this case other than the radiator bracket not being able to to go in with these the you know the tube length on this h 105 which I expressed earlier but this top panel here which I had to remove to again install the radiator it has like sixteen screws that you have to remove before you can take off that damn front panel or that top panel which is really annoying I actually had to pop it off one more time unexpectedly because I had to route the USB 3.0 cable right above there because it wasn't long enough to go the other way and I just had to like undo like 16 screws again and it was just a huge pain in the ass so I'm not sure what's up with that but apart from that this is a really nice little mini ITX case and hopefully my wife get some good performance out of this thing hopefully it serves her well I know she isn't gonna be gaming on it too much but if she does when she does she'll be well equipped I would imagine with the hardware that I've given her today so is there anything else I wanted to say about this system build before we close out no I don't think so that's gonna do for now guys be sure to toss me a like on this video if you enjoyed it feel free to subscribe to my channel if you haven't already I've got a lot of more a lot more good content coming very soon so be sure to stay tuned for that as always I'm Callan awesomesauce Network and I will see 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