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speed up your rig with the Toshiba OC ZTR 200 SSD experience ultra fast performance packaged in a slim two-and-a-half inch form factor using 64 layer 3d NAND flash memory now available in 240 480 and 960 gig capacities click on the link below for more info alright guys so this is part 2 the follow up to the Dan case bill that I assembled for August PC of the month I'm really excited to actually get this on the testbed or not on the testbed but this is the test bed I'm excited to test it today run some benchmarks take a look at thermals and stuff like that but first I want to give you guys a quick update on the system itself because some things have transpired since part one but I think are worth talking about in case you guys plan to build something like this yourself for starters when I first put this system together everything fit more or less perfectly but shortly after the side panel that goes on the side of the the CPU here started to pop off at the top because there are no physical screws at the top of either of these side panels they're just these pushpins lammles pushpin technology that I'm not gonna call it technology they're just little pushpin tabs or little plastic key things but they started to pop off mainly because of the a i/o tubes they were they were causing clearance issues they're actually protruding from from this right side of the case a bit too far and that pressure was just causing the the side panel to pop open the reason why the tubes are sticking out so much however was because of the tried NZ heat spreaders being so tall they were forcing this part of the tube area to push out even more so you can see I've actually swapped out that memory kit for some rip jaws five sticks of the same capacity and speed but even these sticks are too tall however so I'll probably have to swap these out for something even more low-profile like Corsairs vengeance lpx or maybe Crucial Ballistix sport or something like that in the meantime the side panel does fit on if I put a small piece of tape at the top it's definitely an eyesore and quite literally a bandaid on the situation on the problem but it's the best I can do for now until we get that memory swapped out the other issue a little quirk here let me go ahead and turn this system around for you so on this side we clearly have our graphics card and a better look at the 92 millimeter AO with a knock to a fan right there the issue here and you guys probably saw this if you watch my best buy Coolermaster vlog video which you should check out definitely if you haven't seemed to get it's pretty cool is the the power supply cable says the way that the power supply is oriented the cable is actually plug in from the bottom of the unit and in transport sometimes those cables get jostled around and will actually hang a little bit lower than they should and that'll actually interfere with the fan blade on that fan causing it to not spin up which is obviously detrimental to our CPU temperatures so what I'm thinking here is swapping out the cables for some custom cables and just kind of redoing the whole thing with some some nice sleeved cabling and that'll also clean up the look inside the system even though it doesn't matter too much it's just an aesthetic thing but I think that'll probably solve our issue once and for all once we get some custom cables that are also maybe a bit more flexible than these stock cables here so perhaps we'll do a part three you know usually four pin my PC or what usually for a PC of the month will have a two part thing going but maybe we'll do a part three just so I can swap out the memory fix the side panel issue and the cable issue and maybe a couple of the things that we'll talk about in a moment but with that said why don't we talk about the actual testing that's what we're here to discuss mainly today starting with the testing methodology I decided to run both the CPU and the GPU fully stuck my reasoning is pretty obvious here it's a small case there isn't a whole lot of cooling potential even though we've got an a i/o which sounds great on paper it's still just a 92 millimeter AO and the CPU the 2700 X is 105 watt TDP chips so it it's definitely not the coolest of the bunch and we've got a whole eight cores and sixteen threads on there after all so I decided to run stock the CPU is pretty much at that point just being handled by the sense of my technology I'm kind of leaving it in in AMD's hands here with exa far to precision boost too and what I was typically seeing during gameplay was an all core boost to 4 gigahertz thereabouts which is perfectly fine for me temperatures however were not so ideal we were actually getting around 79 to 80 degrees Celsius on average that was kind of where we were hovering within GTA 5 after about you know half an hour to 45 minutes but it actually spiked up to 88 C at one point which had to have caused some amount of throttling even if it was just for a second or two because the maximum rated temp for this chip is 85 degrees Celsius if you look on AMD's website so that's please something that I want to keep a closer eye on and it also leads me to believe that perhaps the risin 7 2700 nan X would have been a better fit for this system now that I'm looking at the low temperatures and stuff and had a chance to play with it that's that's a 65 watt TDP chip it runs at a lower clock speed out of the box slower turbos and all that so perhaps that would be better suited for a rig like this again something that we can explore in part 3 our GPU on the other hand did a pretty nice job in comparison we saw temperatures range anywhere from 79 to 83 degrees Celsius with a max of 84 it's definitely not the coolest I'll admit however this is the smallest cooler I've ever seen a manufacturer put on to a GP 102 so still very impressive we're getting a lot of performance out of this thing nonetheless the other thing to note is that 84 degrees Celsius is still well under the t.j.maxx for this particular card and we were still seeing a GPU core clock of 1835 at those temperatures whereas the the official rated goose clock for this particular card is 1600 and 20 megahertz sister so we were not only not thermal throttling but we were actually getting a much higher boost clock than what this cards read for on the box our GPU and CPU pairing however might not be a 100% match made in heaven I did notice GPU utilization was hovering anywhere from 87 to 92 percent as opposed to you know the ideal 99 or 100% that could be indicative of some CPU bottlenecking don't get me wrong the 2700 X is a fantastic CPU but the 1080i is a blazing fast GPU that requires pretty much cream-of-the-crop CPU performance in order to keep up with it we'd probably see less bottlenecking had repaired this card with something like Intel's Core i7 8700 K but at the same time that chip runs a lot hotter on average than the 2700 X and in the case this thermally constrained that'd probably be a bad idea so all that considered I'm actually ok with taking the minor performance hit especially since we're able to cram all this high-end hardware into a relatively tiny footprint moving right along here I was able to post our memory at it's rated 3200 mega Hertz speed why am i pointing the memories on the other side and at the time of testing we use the latest wiffle driver from Nvidia that's three nine eight 8/2 i tested six games at three different resolutions giving you a total of 18 benchmarks today and all the titles were pretty much run at Ultra settings across the board so but now further ado let's go ahead and see what this little guy's made up here are the benchmarks all right so I don't think any of us are surprised to see this thing absolutely murder 1080p gaming in fact all of our titles got 60fps or higher on average in fact a lot higher in most titles I would say three of the six games were 144 Hertz ready even ranging anywhere from 1 to 200 frames per second we actually hit the the FPS cap I believe in Doom and overwatch this also leads us to believe that this thing is fully capable of handling ultra wide resolutions like 34 40 by 1440 since that's really not a huge pixel jump over its sixteen by nine counterpart and finally at 4k we saw 60 FPS on average in all but one title that one title being ashes of a singularity because it's kind of a dick but for the most part 4k 60fps ultra settings in the size of literally half a shoebox I am absolutely floored by the performance and just sexiness of this mini ITX PC it's definitely my favorite small form-factor build that I've ever assembled personally to date and you guys let me know if you agree or if you think it sucks and why and all that stuff comment like subscribe blahdy blahdy blah check me out on flo playing for 3 bucks a month if you'd like to watch all my videos a whole week early without ads I'll put a link for that in the video description and thank you so much for watching this video have yourselves a good one guys stay tuned for more stuff on the way and I'll see you all in the next video