Gadgetory

what's up guys so as promised this is just a quick follow-up video to the original sleeper PC video where I essentially put sixteen hundred dollars worth of hardware inside of a ten-year-old HP Pavillion case don't ask me why I do the things that I do just go watch the video if you haven't seen it yet now putting DIY components in a chassis that's specifically designed for pre build systems presents a lot of challenges like limited hardware support acoustics and airflow and while I've already found ways to cram the case with more PC parts than it's really built for it's time to fire up some games to see if our noise levels and temperatures are workable enough to call this a practical and sustainable system and just to make things more interesting I've gone ahead and overclocked our 6700 K 240 400 megahertz and our gtx 980ti to 14 hundred and 60 megahertz we'll also be running our benchmarks at quad HD and 4k for good measure so with that in mind folks let's kick things off with our acoustics test before rounding things out with a look at performance and thermals enjoy all right so circling back to acoustics while our tests show that the sleeper build is far from silent the system hums quietly at idle and is actually tolerable under load even if it is a tad louder than today's average mid tower use some headphones while gaming and the noise drops out completely performance wise it's pretty clear that this system can handle quad HD gaming in its sleep as we saw the minimum FPS often soar above 60 heck it can probably even scrape by at 4k if you bump some of the settings down though I personally side with the smoother gameplay at 1440 this kind of performance doesn't just bode well for gaming but could benefit an HD editing workflow as well perhaps where the system takes the biggest hit is in regards to thermals not for the CPU as we saw decent temps in the low 60s but our gtx 980ti was topping eighty degrees Celsius in some games putting it closer to reference temps than the aftermarket ZOTAC cooler which by the way capped at a mild 68 degrees Celsius on my open-air testbed since this case isn't designed to accommodate a $700 high end GPU the lack of chassis support for intake fans near the graphics card comes as no surprise and is ultimately the biggest shortcoming of this system let's also not forget that the hotter the GPU gets the more heat it gives off to the other components and it should be pretty evident by now that building in a tight case such as this one might have benefited more from a reference design card that blows air exclusively out the back while this certainly comes with the cost of building an epic sleeper rig it's important to note that these temperatures still fall within safe operating ranges and can be further controlled with the help of fan and monitoring applications overall I am very pleased with how this bill turned out despite the odds and perhaps I'll even bring it with me to CES come January to see how well she lives up to these Sleeper moniker but that's gonna do it for now guys drop me some love in the comments before you go and don't forget to toss me a like on this video if you enjoyed it also be sure to check the description below for awesomesauce shirts or bookmark my Amazon affiliate link and use them you buy stuff as always some cows awesome sales network thank you guys for watching subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and I'll see you all in the next you