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Modding a tiny PC for better cooling! :D

2018-05-03
hey honey how are you like your mush if I see oh I love it I mean it's pretty much perfect I just wish it was a little smaller that was easy so here ask for my spicy mini oh wow you did something useful for once nice spell check it next time - seriously Heather what kind of request was that you're gonna ruin it for everyone the customer is always right ladies ladies there's no need to fight oh let your voice be heard by visiting the fractal design contact page and making a product suggestion within reason while you're at it you can also check out the new mesh if I see Minnie click on the link below to learn more what's going on guys welcome back today I'm gonna be putting together a very special and miniature sized gaming PC surrounding the new AMD Raven Ridge ap use meaning this system will not feature a discrete graphics card rather we're gonna be using the integrated Vega graphics that come bundled into this Rison 520 400 G which is of course a four core eight thread CPU now since we're not putting a discrete graphics card into this system we actually get to use a pretty tiny case this is the in win show pen I'm guessing named that for the famous composer but look at that it's very nice actually it's got some heft to it for its size that's because there's a built-in or an included 150 watt power supply which would be plenty for our needs very nice brushed aluminum finish on the top and front we have a mesh side panel and mesh on the top for plenty of ventilation now one concern here that Steve from hardware and box 2 also did a build in this very case with the Raven Ridge apu recently ran into was that there was very little clearance for a CPU cooler so he ended up having to use a really slim it was either a cryo rig one of the cryo rig c7s or one of the really tiny Noctua fans I can't member which one but it didn't really fit the bill and he was running into some pretty warm thermals and that probably led to suffer performance guys you should check that video out also if you have it yet I'll put a link in the description so learning from Steve's experience what I'm gonna do today is attempt to mod this case by actually Dremel a section of the mesh panel here so that we can fit and in the included Wraith spire cooler that comes with our 2400 G fantastic CPU it is the hottest apu on the market right now in terms of performance and we're gonna be pairing that with an a/b 350 end gaming Wi-Fi motherboard from gigabyte additionally we'll have 16 gigs of g.skill ripjaws 5 ddr4 3200 to go along with it and finally a 512 gigabyte 960 pro m2 nvme SSD from good old Samsung so that's what we're working with today guys should be a lot of fun let's go ahead and start off the Dremel Inc part I want to get the hard modding stuff out of the way first it should be really embarrassing for me and fun for you guys to laugh at me so let's do that and then we'll carry on with the rest of the build all right here it is there's my dremel work this is the first time again that I've really used a dremel extensively so obviously it's not my finest work but it's it's it's kind of a circle right let's just hope it fits now the circle that I cut had to be quite a bit larger than the cooler the fan itself just because of how this side panel fits on you actually have to start from the left first and then slide it over to the right but hey would you look at that not too shabby the motherboards not actually mounted to the case yet so it might be a little sloppy but I think we're good to move on here so on that note ladies and gentlemen let's go ahead and finish off what's left of this build before closing things out you
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