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is B quiets follow-up to that one it's a little bit smaller and it's actually it does have a lot of the same features in a smaller footprint smaller profile all around it is a mid tower does have a side panel window but there is sound dampening material on the opposite side I should mention this case also does come with a solid panel option that does have that sound dampening material on the inside so you can get even probably better acoustics that way but honestly I think it's going to be pretty minimal to the naked ear as they don't say let me go ahead and flip this case around really quick so you can see the front of it so on the front of the case it's pretty minimalistic which I actually like a lot yet two USB 3.0 at the top there the top slash front diagonally mounted there with the other i/o and it's kind of like a flat matte black which we've got brushed aluminum finish even though it is made of plastic and it's essentially enclosed at the front but it's got you can see it's got ventilation strips all running down either side of it right there at the front as well so you do get ventilation you get some healthy air flow in there but this is also going to help minimize the acoustic levels in this case which is one of the one of the many things that makes it so silent you can also see there's some fans in there comes equipped with one rear and one front peer wings to fan I believe they're both 120 mil and they do a really good job I've tested fans before personally and they're super quiet they do a good job they move a lot of air and those are pretty much the only two case fans we're gonna be dealing with so all together this should this is a good step in the right direction in terms of making this a quiet little system moving on to our motherboard of choice we've got the MSI z170a gaming pro now obviously motherboards don't really make noise if they do if yours makes noise then send it back or get a new one it's that's not supposed to happen so it really didn't matter too much on the acoustics front which month motherboard we went with but I happen to pick the z170a gaming pro just because it's a newish a newish board it's on the new z1 78 chipset as you can see we're going skylake now this is slightly cheaper than the z170a gaming m5 which is also from MSI but it packs a lot of the same features you get crossfire and SLI support and it's got an m2 slot I believe you lose one turbo m2 slot from this board but most of us are only going to use one if any anyway and you've also got a really nice you know keeping with that black and red theme so you can see we're going with that Christmas direction so far but we also have this weird yellow strip which at first you're like oh that this is really matched and that kinda looks a little awkward next to the red but it's actually there's RG B's in the PCB here RGB LEDs which you can configure to pretty much live up any color you want as the RGB spectrum usually offers so you can see here it's it's blue on the back here so I can only assume that that this can really be any color we want whether it's red or green to match our Christmas theme and obviously like I said this should be quiet in the system moving on to our I should guess I guess I should move on to this guy next this is a 6600 K Core i5 skylake yeah you're old news by now buddy now this is a really good chip for as you can see this is a gaming system I should probably mention that at the beginning of the video this is a mid-range gaming system but quite a capable little system that's going to be a nice little overclocked chip overclockable chip that we can use I should say and then we've also got 16 gigs of DDR 4 memory this is the trade NZ I did a brief a really brief video a couple weeks back on this this particular kit it is from g-scale see what speed it is I can't remember exactly what the speed is 3000 3000 mega transfers per second which is is pretty pretty stinking fast even for ddr4 standard so beautiful sticks this is honestly pretty overkill for a system like this these are not the cheapest sticks in the world you could definitely go for something a little bit more budget oriented but at the same time they do match the motherboard quite nicely and I just happen to have them on hand so they're getting put into this into this rig here next up we've got this power supply from enter max now they are known for having some of the best fanless power supplies around this is their digi fanless 550 watt which is going to be more than enough to drive our video card more on that later this is a fan 'less unit and it's it's completely silent doesn't make any noise just relies on heat sinks and other other kind of fancy technology that enter max is probably patented to really keep thermals down to a minimum but most importantly acoustics and this is this also does come with really cool really cool monitoring software forget what it's called but that's supposed to just be for monitoring real-time current output as well as voltages temperatures things like that and you can also configure a lot of that stuff as well in the program so really cool stuff there also it comes with fully sleeved black cables which is a nice addition especially if you're going to be rocking a side panel window in your case and you don't want any ketchup and mustard business going on there we talked a lot about that on pin my PC so overall this is a really cool unit I've never built with one of these before but I've seen them in tons of builds in it at trade shows and things like that so I'm really excited to use it so moving on to our video card of choice again going with msi this just seemed to make sense for me because we've got you know EMA sideboard all red and black and they make some really nice-looking red and black video cards as well so we've got their gaming 4g gtx 960 4G meaning the four gigs of gddr5 that's right this is a thorough C Edition PCIe three of course so this is a really sweet card and also like many gtx 960 s they do allow the fans to ramp down to zero rpm anytime the cards at idle so again looking for that optimization in acoustics here this is going to be a really nice card and you'll you'll get to see it a bit more once we start the build itself and then let's go ahead and move on to our drives now you can see I've got two SSDs here the Plextor m5 Pro which is a great Drive I've used this for years so this is an older Drive these are both you know kind of they've been in my inventory for a while I'm just happening to use them here and then the the a data s X 900 512 gig they say that this was 256 gig I don't know if I mentioned that but both say two three drives I used this in my last system the black and red xi9 build before hot line back there I use this as my scratch disk for editing it was fantastic like I said I've had a lot of this has gotten a lot of use as well but you can see no mechanical hard drives here so again where we're going with a non-moving solution for our storage and this is going to be again completely silent so I'm really happy to be installing these two guys and finally we've got this little beauty here from thermal right it's they're macho zero now this might not be a very popular cooler but it has gotten a lot of rave reviews from folks like a man Tech and Tom's hardware and things like that but this is a passive cool you can see there's no fan here semi passive I should say so it doesn't come with a fan it's completely passive but it says semi passive so essentially what they're referring to there is this this essentially relies on the airflow going on within your case so case airflow the fins are actually separated a bit wider to it so to prevent less airflow impedance so that way the the airflow that's naturally flowing throughout your case if you've built it properly and you actually do have you know positive air pressure and good air flow going through it will actually dissipate the heat effectively through the fin stack that we have here it's a massive cooler it's not for the faint of heart but it is going to be 100% silent because there is no fan it's just the body itself of the heatsink so also first time building with this guy curious to see what the thermal temperatures will be the the performance and we are going to be installing Windows 8.1 on this guy so I'm going to be doing some testing as well as you know testing for like acoustics and temperatures and and whatnot so wow I've rambled on for way too long looking at this recording here so I'm gonna shut up I'm so sorry I almost forgot something I forgot this little guy here this is really what makes the Christmas magic y'all this is a green LED strip this is one of the alchemy 2.0 magnetic strips from BitFenix these are super handy especially in the case like this made of steel where you can actually stick the the magnets will work and whatnot so yeah it's not going to be really Christmasy if it's just read and maybe a little strip of green here on the edge of the motherboard so we're going to amp it up a little bit more get into the Christmas spirit y'all with a little bit more festivity with with the help of this green LED so that's pretty much it let's build this thing you you all right you crazy party animals the build is complete yeah it's Christmassy it's pretty Christmasy granted the the green on the led oh by the way I'm wearing one of the gloves that came with my CPU cooler the macho zero also came with this awesome screwdriver I posted this on Instagram thermal right you guys are the best magnetic tip a super long hey I love it love it and I don't know why I'm wearing the glove still now I'm only wearing one saying so I'm kind of doing a Michael Jackson here and these are small gloves though I will admit but um damn this is a pretty sex build it's very uh themed thematic I should say the red and green is playing quite nice like I said the green washes out the red on the motherboard a little bit but really it's the the heat sinks on the motherboard the vrm heat sinks are completely covered by that massive CPU cooler they're not that I'm complaining but it does cover up some of the red on the board that you would otherwise see far from that the video card looks fantastic in here hey good job in maasai and even the little blinky lights that I thought might have looked a little bit tacky are are tastefully placed and they're not going berserk or whatever you might be able to configure the pattern I know you can definitely change the color but you might be able to change like you know maybe one solid strip of red maybe had the whole thing breathe I'm not sure I'm gonna have two gloves freaking me out isn't it but again about this power supply I really wanted to point out this is 80 plus platinum I didn't mention that before look at how beautiful these these sleept cables are that come with the power supply I just yeah that's how they should all be but really the main attraction here is there's absolutely no noise coming from it as well as that CPU cooler both dead silent and just here just here I'll put I'll put the camera inside of the computer you gonna get a weird perspective here but just just listen the camera is literally inside its resting on the video card right now just just go ahead and listen to how loud it is in there you can hear anything maybe probably not maybe but I literally cannot hear anything from where I'm sitting right now granted the system is idling so stay tuned for part two where I actually put a load on this guy and see how loud it gets with those GPU fans ramping up as well as the case fans but for the most part this is pretty damn I mean the building named silent night it definitely wears it well because this thing is frickin silent it doesn't make a peep at least for now so stay tuned for part two I don't know if I'm gonna run any benchmarks yet maybe just do thermals and acoustics that's really what this is all about but another few points that I wanted to make about the system you can see that the CPU cooler is kind of mounted to the side that's just the design I could have flipped it but then I would have covered those beautiful sticks right there and I kind of wanted to show those off but here look at this the fan is super close I almost ran out of clearance here with the CPU cooler and the rear exhaust case fan here because there's just a couple millimeters in between but it actually kind of works out nicely because you are getting some coverage of airflow of a pull you're getting some pull airflow coming through this the spin stack right here from that exhaust and that's that's kind of nice even though it's not fully there it is about more than half way covered so I wasn't really expecting that when I was going into the build apart from that I am I don't know what to say this this build rocks and you should like this video if you enjoyed it and let me know what your expectations are for for part two in this video when I do some testing now that's going to pretty much do it for now guys thank you all so much for watching stay tuned for more tech videos coming really soon sorry it's really bright I'll try to turn that down in post and I'm gonna go get this glove off now but hopefully you guys enjoy the rest of your day and week and month and the rest of your life and weekend deep now that's all for now guys see y'all in the next video you