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ideas we all do turn them into something real today with your own website from Wix and get started by clicking the link below what's going on guys welcome back to the channel today I am assembling august's PC of the month which I'm really excited about because it's a system that I'll be using personally for editing and gaming while I'm away at events obviously it's gonna need to be very small we have a small form factor case a very special case of deed now of course I do bring my laptop everywhere I go as well which is super convenient but every now and then I just feel like hooking up a basic old desktop to a monitor and a keyboard and a mouse just to have the full functionality of a desktop PC so that's what we're gonna be assembling today you could almost call this a spiritual successor to the go anywhere do anything PC that I assembled a while back in the note 202 from fractal design we're gonna be using the dann case a for sfx case today which is the brand spankin new model v3 okay this just came out it just arrived and so that's another reason why I'm really excited I've never done a build inside of any of the dann cases the first this is the first one I've ever had got my hands on so again I'm just really excited you guys know that I love small form-factor builds the biggest new feature that comes with this case is support for a 92 millimeter yo you guys might be thinking dude those even exist I thought the same thing but apparently they do because I managed to get one this is the ASA tech 5 for 5 lc9 look at how cute you can fit the whole radiator in your hand right and you got a standard ASA tech waterblock as you might expect tubing is like nice and short because they're expecting you to put this inside of a tiny case and so yeah this is apparently supposed to mount natively now inside of the dann case a for v3 along with a 92 millimeter fan that we'll be needing for this it didn't come with a fan so I actually pulled the Noctua NF a 914 off of the CPU cooler that it's included with of course you can buy this fan by itself ala carte or whatever but since I had the cooler around I'm just I'm doing a long-term borrow I guess so it's gonna mount boom like that or like that or like that or like that I've decided yet but these two things going in this case it should be pretty glorious now let's get into the core specs shall we with that 92 millimeter a IO I will be cooling the rise in 7 2700 x8 core 16 thread CPU this seems like a good contender for this build I was thinking about going skylake X with that as Rock Mini ITX board and just going balls to the wall but I don't want to have to worry about heat and the skylake X chips are not known to stay the coolest the Rison 7s stay relatively cool for the amount of horse power that they're packing so I think this is gonna be a safer smarter bet for this particular system overall it's gonna be less headache less worry and all that so excited to be using that along with the ROG Strix x4 70 I gaming motherboard I recently did a video on the B 450 version of this board almost identical except for the chipset itself which gives you a bit more connectivity which I won't really be needing honestly the B 450 version would have worked perfectly for my needs but since I have the x4 70 board lying around might as well use it will be pairing that with a kid of g.skill tried nzr GB ddr4 at 3200 speed and this is actually a 32 gigabyte kit because I wanted to max out the memory as much as I could on our Mini ITX board here since I will be doing 4k video editing and 16 gigs just doesn't really cut it for me at the for the amount of editing that I do when I'm on the go so hopefully this will get the job done it also looks pretty so so it's a win-win next to that we have our samsung 970 Pro it's a 500 gig nvme and to SSD you can see I didn't have any retail packaging this is actually a sample that AMD sent me along with their thread Ripper 2 kit earlier this week this is one of two drives though that I'll be putting inside of the system I'm still waiting on a 2 terabyte WD blue which is a SATA based m2 Drive and since this motherboard supports 2 m2 drives because it has 2 m2 slots we're gonna be able to connect just about two and a half terabytes of SSD storage without ever having to bust out a SATA cable so that's really exciting powering the system is the corsair SF 450 which has an 80 plus gold certification it's fully modular and of course it's sfx so that it'll fit just fine inside of our Dan case here excellent unit and that should be enough power to drive all the things you see here and finally our graphics card is the zotac GTX 10 atti mini this thing's an absolute animal for its size and to be honest I could have fit a longer graphics card inside of the Dan case because it's just so well designed to house full-sized hardware but I wanted to go the mini route anyway to leave a bit more breathing room because when you max out the space in a case this small it really does harm your airflow in my experience and it's also just more difficult to do your cable routing more tightly if that's if that's a word it's probably not but all things considered I think this is gonna be a phenomenal build can't wait to get it started so wide why don't we do that right now all right the builds done and it definitely took me a lot longer than I anticipated this is certainly one of the more challenging small form-factor builds that i've assembled in recent memory but I think that's because we're dealing with such a tiny case there's hardly enough clearance to get all the various components installed and they're just kind of just barely touching and rubbing rubbing up against each other but that's sort of the point right is to is to cram as much hardware into as little of a footprint as possible but it looks great looks really nice there were definitely some challenges that I encountered along the way so let's talk about those for starters the radiator fan that I snagged from that knock to a cooler the screws that it came with were not long enough to actually thread into the radiator the threaded part of those screws is shorter than the width of the fan and that's because the heat sink that comes with this cooler has raised threads or raised mounting points that kind of go into the fan holes just enough for those screws to thread but they certainly don't work on a standard radiator so what I ended up having to do is take a pair of scissors and chisel away at the four mounting holes of the fan just so that the screws would sit a little bit lower and thus protrude from the other side allowing us to thread into the radiator so that's how we solved that problem it could have been a lot worse but luckily we found a pretty easy solution another obstacle once again stems from the AO in some way the power supply was interfering with the radiator fan with that knock to a fan the cables were just sticking out a little too far and even though they're flat cables they were still just rubbing up against the fan and the blades weren't able to spin at all at all so what I ended up having to do was kind of rout half the cables this way towards the motherboard and the other half the cables towards the other side of the case on the graphics card side that sort of split the the width split the load and I was able to get everything in there without interfering with the fan the problem at that point was having excess cabling on the GPU side and so if I turn this around actually I'll give you guys look at it right now so here you can see our 24 pin ATX cables that I've sort of routed upwards and flat against the power supply as much as possible and I actually zip-tied them to the PCIe cables up top to encourage that that way it's just further away from the radiator fan and also really flat as to not interfere with the graphics card backplate so there you go that's the system I cannot wait for part 2 personally because we're dealing with an AO of a very particular size that I've never worked with before I have no idea how it's going to behave with the 2700 X I'm not exactly sure what to expect with our GPU temps it's gonna be quite interesting we have a lot of questions that or should be answered in part two so stick around for that guys that's gonna do it for me toss like on the video if you enjoyed it also get subscribed for more tech videos on the way and check that out on floatplane if you want to watch my videos a week early without ads for 3 bucks a month I'll put a link for that in the video description as always thank you guys for watching have a good one and I'll see you all in the next video