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what's up guys welcome back to the channel today I'm going to be doing another build log of course I'm going to be trying my very best not to be super shaky with the camera work this time and though there were several complaints in the last build video that I did some reports of nausea and vomiting as well so hopefully this is a little bit more stable I'm using my steady hand but today's build is going to be what I'm calling a covert sleeper build or a sleeper PC and what that essentially means is I'm going to be using a really craft case in fact my dad's old HP Pavillion which is right there behind me but I'm going to be stocking it full of high-end components you know all current generation skylake stuff as well as 900 series graphics so pretty sweet the purpose of this is not to be practical because it's not you should never do this and the whole point of this I guess is to kind of build a system that looks like crap from the outside but actually rocks and kicks ass on the inside is very capable of handling handling a lot of different workloads for the main purpose of travel so when you're traveling you're going to hotels your any conventions you want to bring your system along with you but you don't necessarily want to attract any unwanted attention so this could actually deter some potential theft if people just take your glance at your crappy system to go out they don't think twice about it when in fact it's rocks so I guess that's the point and I have to give a shout out to somebody on Twitter who gave me this idea I'm sorry I don't know your name or your user name it got buried among the other you know tweets that came after but thank you for this idea that was pretty awesome so on that note why don't we go ahead and check out the hardware so starting off with my dad's old system like I said it's it's a clunker I'm gonna have to take out everything every single component in here is going to be taken out I'm gonna clean the whole thing out make sure it's all nice and pretty on the inside I I kind of do want to leave the disheveled look on the outside I don't know if I'm gonna clean the outside yet let's hold but that's the whole point after all but there are some limitations with an old case like this for example the i/o sucks and you get two USB to firewire who uses that anymore that's that's that's called Thunderbolt now and then you've got audio jacks which sure why not so ya know USB three on the front panel is is kind of a bummer and I'm so used to it now that I couldn't really live without it unless I absolutely had to I mean first world problems after all so I'm going to be doing oh it does have a card reader which is nice but it's USB too but I have the perfect the absolute perfect product to to solve this issue here and it's actually this mighty charger ECR 501 from NR max this thing is great I've actually done a review on this in the past on the channel you can check it out later if you want but you can see here it's got USB 3 first off it's a five and a quarter inch it takes up a five and a quarter inch band it's got USB three just one port which is really all I usually ever need and it's got five USB 2 which all support quick charging and then like an even quicker charging USB port right here if you want to charge your smartphone or something like that as well as a SD card reader at the top which is also USB 3 and finally the last benefit of this of this this this item here is that it can also house a single three and a half inch or two two and a half inch drives in the back and it can't really see it from here but it is it is a dock as well so I'm going to be installing my one mechanical drive in the system it's a 2 terabyte WD black oh yeah that's going to be going right in the back of there mainly because I'm getting rid of this hard drive cage that's that comes installed in this case the reason why is because it's just taking up a lot of room and I and ideally I would like to have some more intake fans just case fans in in this system in general because there aren't really there was an 80 millimeter fan here set to exhaust but I removed that and put it in my dad's new system so right now this has no case fans which is horrible so what I'm gonna be doing is gonna be taking some I'm going to be reusing some old fans have got a silverstone one right here it's a 120 I'm gonna try somehow to mount it to the front of this case and they take up that hard drive cage from out the fan here as an intake and there are no dry there are no fan mounts at the front here so I'm gonna have to MacGyver some shit maybe either zip-tie it or drill some screws or maybe even try to use one of the pre-existing holes on the front mesh here if it if it lines up properly also I've got another 120 here think it's a cooler cooler master I'm going to set this as another intake on the side panel so you've got some ventilation here which goes right above the CPU I'm going to try to mount this on the inside of course so I'm like that's also no dedicate fan mounting holes so I'm gonna have to either drill something or find something to do there so though they're all have two intakes and then I got this picked up this eighty millimeter stark tech fan for like a few bucks on Amazon recently set that as an exhaust and I think that should take care of my my airflow in this in this chassis quite nicely but where did I leave off on I think I was talking about the limitations of this case and other things that I would need to change the other thing that I need to change is the power supply this is obviously the one that it came with its complete shit so I'm going to go with this g7 50m from coolermaster the reason why I like this is not only because it's partially modular so it helps you know it's conducive to cable tightness and that sort of thing but also because it's the exact same size as the existing power supply which means I won't have I won't be sacrificing any kind of cable clearance once this thing's installed and 750 should be plenty more than plenty to drive the system even when overclocked front and center of our system is the core i7 6700k yes very good quad core CPU high-end skylake stuff good cooling it will be this rows well since RC zz9 tal now this cooler isn't probably the the most suited for overclocking and in my hand it kind of looks around the same size as an Intel stock cooler but just for comparison I have the two side-by-side here and you can see it's actually quite a bit larger not just in terms of the heatsink but the fan as well I think we're going from 80 to a 90 millimeter fan and I have read some reviews on this cooler you can do some moderate overclocking and I think with this 120 millimeter and intake installed right on top of it I think we can get some pretty decent temps despite you know in the face of overclocking this 6700 K so that's kind of nice I'm excited to see how that works out Ram I don't even have eye RAM over here where's my ram you guys get a secret look a secret peek at all the crap that's on on this shelf here I've got some RAM we're using the 16 gigs this is just 16 gigs so we've got 2 8 gig sticks of HyperX savage ddr4 Thank You HyperX for providing this for for this particular build actually I don't think they they have any idea what I was going to use it for but but hopefully they don't mind me using it for this this video so this is actually really nice I like these heat spreaders a lot the speed on here 2666 maybe I don't know I don't know what speed it is it's fast who cares for the motherboard we've got a Z 170 m d 3h from gigabyte thank you to you by for providing this board the they hopped on last minutes and we're so generous as to provide a board for this system it's very nice it's got a black in black and gold aesthetic with some some kind of grey in there as well on the the DIMM slots and the PCIe slots what I like about this board is that it's micro ATX which is obviously what I would need for this case as it is a micro ATX case and you can see actually that it's mounted upside down so I'll be interesting it's kind of different but the other thing that I like here and what appeal to me is that it's got an end to slot that supports not just PCIe but also SATA drives and that's actually what I needed because I've already been holding on to this SP 900 256 gig and 2 SATA SSD from a data for like for like months now like almost in CES and I haven't really found a purpose to use it until now so I'm just going to slum that in there it's gonna save me some space in the chassis and everything is gonna work out there will be no problems there are never any problems when building computers ever and then last but not least we've got a gtx 980ti cuz why the hell not right umm pretty awesome card pretty beefy cooler again it's going in upside-down so what's gonna go something like this you wouldn't think that a card of this size I mean this is one of the larger cards that I have on hand with me on on hand but you can see right there it actually goes into a problem yep I mean hey it works so there you guys go this is going to be an interesting build I'm actually kind of excited but also a little nervous to see what kind of problems are new challenges that arise from trying to build in such an old case that really isn't even designed in any way shape or form to accommodate you know current gen hardware such as all this stuff so now that I've officially run out of things to say why don't we go ahead and put this thing together and we're off ladies and gentlemen and we get this show on the road this thing is nasty is this alright go comfortable with snipping snip snip I'm gonna count to three okay oh one ha all right I'm done being creepy I guess I'll take the power splay out next are you gon leave the body of this chassis power of Christ compels you let's remove let's remove the motherboard I really need how do I not have a flathead screwdriver you know what I do flathead screw am I talking about ha ha too small this is not going to work yet I need something that's really thin and long I am a professional and no I'm not using a ruler to unscrew these screws how are you talking about make sure you always have a steel ruler on hand before you start building your system kids can't tell you how many times I've been like damn if only I had a ruler be able to finish building this computer and out comes motherboard maybe I can put the hard drive in there but no I'm not because I'm gonna need to route some cables through here see where my finger is from the power supply they're going to go through here so I can't have a three and a half inch here which is why I need that card reader from edimax I couldn't just route them here either because the fricken gtx 980ti is going to be taking up this whole space basically cock-blocking all the cables coming from the power supply routing to the motherboard let me take out the hard drive gauge oh thank god regular Phillips head screws my hero ha ha ha this is audio bean and then you choose you like me to you indeed to fire right here movie is desta so it doesn't look like we can remove the built-in card reader it is also riveted so I'm going to do right now guys I'm going to take this outside give it a quick dust off and then I'm going to bring it back inside we'll continue continue with our build all right and we're back did some quick bursts of compressed air just to get all the dust bunnies out was pretty filthy oh I need you I honestly do not need fire wire at all I'm gonna sip that done oh good we'll keep the rest for now so we really decide we don't want and install this damn case fan it's not going to be great the ventilation is not meant to have a fan of the front but it is something and I'll take it without having to do too many modifications if they should use a thinner zip ties the whole thing go oh it's already in here dude yeah let's do a chest see we can put this front panel on it's on yeah that totally worked prep team elbow prep the mouth bone yeah mount this puppet screw this guy down yeah sounds good man all right actually using the oh no no no no no no no no no you do not do that you would not go down you do not do that anymore you will stay in your socket you stay in your mounting hole where you belong let's go ahead and install this guy look good that shit right there first I want to mount the Drina half inch drive just goes in like that see that is beautiful that is just tansy screwing you down boy just crash out of my foot little screws and stuff I don't know which ones go where dinky dinky keen all right so let's go ahead and try fitting this inside of the case that a good angle me just the angle for you guys really quick maybe I won't even have to cut maybe I can just do it real time like man yeah yeah I'm gonna just push all these cables through a little bit more yeah ha and her in she said hi hours plan hours plan one of the easiest parts to install that was the smash hit single sandstorm but I do root now I'm going to start plugging shit in so do I need to change the camera at all ah yeah maybe a little bit I'll change the tag for you guys see you get some tea you like children they're gonna do everything for you suck suck suck yeah shit yells look bomb yeah how do you do it how do you do Ness all right oh that was scary I nicked some of the rubber on the cables there but none of them reached any wire so for good on that end the 24 pin cable and this power supply wasn't able to detach to 20 and 4 I probably would have been able to route it through that little tiny opening right there so that's that's that worked out again this isn't meant to be a pretty build so I've got these nasty stock cables ketchup and mustard it's okay we're gonna make it make it work it ain't meant to be pretty she ain't a looker and man I think I'm just gonna put it in slowly I'm always gentle come on go push push feel like I'm delivering a baby oh come on you're almost there you're on me yeah I feel like I'm delivering and and having a baby at the same time delivering my own babies what I'm doing oh there we go and she's through she's through it's a it's a pcie cable congratulations it's so beautiful your video card must be so proud all right so here's the system all finished yeah looks nice looks real nice yeah this was a pretty smooth build surprisingly I didn't really have too many issues I've had more issues with you know regular chassis these days then than I did with with this HP Pavillion case which is shocking honestly this fan I as you guys could see I had to do some zip tying here I wasn't able to screw in any of the fans except for that 18 millimeter of course because I've already had fan mounts but this one 20 I did swap this out by the way for a be quiet peer wings - I think the cooler master fan that I had initially gone with was a meant for radiators and it's just kind of an older design so I wanted this at this fan also 120 but I ended up having to zip-tie it's because I couldn't screw large enough holes for for the for the fan mats so I just want the a zip-tie route but it seems to work pretty nicely and there's no vibration noise whatsoever at least for now so hopefully it stays that way and I'm getting a lot of nice fresh intake for my CPU cooler right there and you'll notice that the system is a little bit noisy it's on the noisy side right now but that's because I haven't configured any of the fan speeds but I think the culprit the culprit is actually the CPU cooler if you listen quiet pretty silent but then as soon as that starts spinning back up it gets a bit noisy again but that's okay it's four pin PWM header right there so I'm going to be able to configure that maybe adjusted to my my my temperatures my low temps and stuff like that other than that this is I'm pretty happy with with how this turned out the power supply was just a perfect fit getting that hard drive in there again that was the most difficult part was just this five-minute quarter-inch pay but yeah I don't know what else to say really guys um that you should stay tuned for part two because I'm going to be checking out more more officially the the acoustics of the system once I've configured all the fans not just an idle but is lit on at load as well as well as temperatures I'm going to be doing some temp testing as well as just some gaming benchmarks with this thing because I just I want to be able to see I want to be able to see this HP pavilion case just running 4k like a beast I think that be fun so stay tuned for part two there's gonna be a lot of fun stuff in there and thank you guys for watching this this video go ahead and give me a like on it if you enjoyed it to end feel free to subscribe to the channel if you haven't already guys as always I'm Cowell awesomesauce Network thank you for watching I already repeated that repeating myself and I will see you guys in the next video