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this one oh my God look at this card so hot Fred look this other everywhere oh my gosh navigations River erosion ladies we don't all the way across the country like to tour hey hey hey honey well at least this thing is silent stop talking get out introducing the node 202 from fractal design it's cool compact and quiet check the description below for more details what's up guys welcome back to the channel today I am gonna give you guys a tour of my new and improved land set up that I'm gonna be bringing with me to PDX land this weekend in Portland Oregon it's my second ever land on this scale it's like a 500-person land I think correct me if I'm wrong but it's huge it's supposed to be one of the biggest ones in the country PDX is known for throwing these huge ass land parties and it's my second one ever the first one I ever did was a few months ago actually in Seattle that was Lansing to get hosted by the folks over at tech syndicate I guess formerly Tek syndicate now their crit TV I believe I don't know still a better name than bit wid now not to brag or anything but for my first land party ever I was actually really happy with the amount of hardware that I brought I mean I got a fully fledged desktop gaming PC I had a mechanical keyboard the works pretty much and as satisfied as I was and still am with that setup there were a few little tiny things that I wanted to change or improve to it so that's basically what I'm gonna be sharing with you today starting with a look at my my old setup my current setup that I had at land syndicate and then from there we can work our way forward and check out some of the new things that I've added since then for PDX land alright so here is version 1.0 the OG of the land party and a bag so this is where it all started folks and I'm not going to spend too much time on this because I've already done a video on it but just really quick running down the basics here we've got a G chic monitor honestly the model number escapes me at the moment but I put links to all this stuff in the description below so you can go ahead and check those out if you're interested in picking up any of these products so G chic monitor it's an IPS 15.6 inch display it's actually been a treat to game on however just the size is not exactly where I wanted to be for long periods of gaming if I'm going to be gaming for an entire weekend at a LAN party I would like a little bit more screen real estate especially if I'm going to be doing like some streaming as well having extra screen real estate for that sort of thing for twitch and xsplit would be very handy so this is going to be one room of improvement for our LAN setup also here's the bar mil OVA 87 and mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX brown switches it's also been a really good little keyboard this is actually a wifey sauces daily driver and I do love gaming on at Cherry MX browns are currently and still my favorite switch of all time however this is also going to be swapped out because I wanted something a little bit slimmer as thin as the bezel of this thing already is you know we've got those 60% or 68% keyboards now with mechanical switches that I just wanted to give a shot I've never tried them before so that's going to be replacing this keyboard pretty soon and then we've got the the Logitech g600 wireless gaming mouse this is honestly just one of my favorite wireless mice ever just because it's super precise there's literally zero input lag that I can notice the only problem though is within a big event like P DX I'm a little bit concerned that having a wireless mouse is just a little too easy for someone to walk by this my setup unattended and just slide this into their pockets so I'm going to be replacing that mouse with a wired one of course you can only improve things in terms of performance with a wired connection so that's also on the plus side there but I'm going to be retiring this for land land party in a bag 1.0 I work where as I forget which headphone which headset I was using I think I was using the old-school Corsair hs1 A's which have been out for like five six years now and those were really nice but I'm going to go wireless this time with with with these these are the Sennheiser Sennheiser SteelSeries 8 Wireless and there's some of the nicer kind of more high-end wireless gaming headsets out there it's got a retractable mic somewhere in there it's also got this wireless box it uses its own radio frequency to connect and it's it sounds really good and I really love the hot swappable battery feature you can basically just that's the wrong side but you there's a hot swappable battery somewhere in here I didn't plan this video out very well anytime your battery dies you pop off the side you take that battery out and there's a fresh one that stays charged inside of the unit itself you can just pop that in start charging the old battery and while continue on gaming uninterrupted it's a really really nice solution for battery swapping which means you literally have zero zero downtime and then finally we can move on to the PC itself the note 202 from fractal design still remains one of my favorite mini ITX cases just because it's so portable it's about 10 liters in in capacity but it fits a lot of awesome hardware in there up pun intended whoa but I'm not actually going to be changing this desktop at all I'm still going to be bringing it still still using it for PDX this weekend however I have made one change that was very critical to the health of the PC itself and that was the a i/o liquid cooler that I had stuck in here which was initially a Corsair H 55 oh look that looks like a Corsair age 55 because it is this is actually the cooler that was initially inside of the do go anywhere do anything PC the reason why I took it out is because I was noticing temperatures skyrocket to over a hundred degrees on all cores forcing the PC to shutdown and freak me out so I was like what the hell what's what's going on here so I opened it up cracked it open took a look and noticed that the wire the pump wire is complete was completely fried now I don't know if this is a Coursera thing or maybe something got really hot on the motherboard and was just touching the the cable too closely but it basically cut right through part of the wire and so basically what I was dealing with was a broken pump it was a dead pump there was no water being circulated through the loop and that's what was causing the temperatures to skyrocket and ultimately crash the system so I installed a new one I installed a different one it's the cooler master sided cooler master side in 120 that's what it's called so I installed the side in granted it's actually got a slightly thicker radiator than the aged 55 and it was just they barely fit inside of the note 202 just barely bear in mind this case is not even officially supported with a iOS so I mean I really had to cram that sucker in there but once it finally fit it was working out for a while mind you I was actually using it with this fan 120 millimeter fractal design venturi static pressure fan sorry for the bad focus but the fact that this system is running right now without that fan installed on the side and probably queues you in to believe that something went awry and yes it did for the first half an hour or so it was fine temperatures were all normal in the 6700 K which is overclock mind G 240 400 megahertz but after after that maybe after 45 minutes to an hour I started noticing the temperatures on the CPU getting as hot almost as hot as when we were using the H 55 so I was like what the hell is going on what's with why why can't why can't we cool this CPU down why is it getting so hot so let me go ahead and pop off the the panel here take a look inside and I will show you exactly what was going on and what I did to fix it so here's a look at the innards and really quick for those of you who are unfamiliar with the system so rude of me for not telling you what GPU is in here it's an r9 nano from AMD but more on that later we're going to talk about our non nanos in just a bit but moving on to the topic at hand which is the overheating issue for our overclocked 6700 K over there now if you guys are familiar with this fan that you can see I've installed on the radiator then you probably already have an idea as to what was causing that overheating problem which was with a standard 25 millimeter thick fan like the fractal venturi or any other fan with the same dimensions and a slightly thicker 120 millimeter radiator like the one on the side on here with both of those installed in the no 202 and a side panel closed or the main panel closed there's hardly any breathing room between the fan and the case the side of the case itself which meant whether the fan is in push or pull configuration it's not getting any kind of airflow it's either not exhausting air the way it should be or it's not able to intake air the way it should be so as a result I swapped out the venturi for this 15 millimeter thick side slipstream slim fan it's a slim fan I've had this fan for like ages you can see I actually had to chop off some of the the the mounting holes here so I could get the screws in there because I didn't have any radiator screws that that would fit the 15 millimeter thick fans here so I had to actually cut that cut that part out but anyway that improvement has drastically increased our thermal dissipation and improved thermals quite a bit so I'm really happy about that because otherwise I don't know what I would have done had this slipstream solution not worked I probably would have had to go back to using an air cooler that low profile knock to it that was initially in here which granted isn't bad for what it is but nowhere near the performance as a 120 millimeter a i/o so on that note let's go ahead and fire this guy up again and we'll actually take a look at the thermals we're getting with this new solution alright so we've got the system vitals all queued up oh by the way I also installed an LED strip yeah couldn't resist looks pretty cool though right so since I'm using one of the z170a mini ITX boards from MSI I'm also using their software here super handy the MSI Command Center used that to overclock our 6700 K 240 400 megahertz on all course that's running all nice and good and taking a look at our temperatures here again you did in heaven 4.0 that we're running in the background we've been running this for about 15-20 minutes now so thermals are subject to increase a little bit more if we are to run this test even further but others should give us a good starting off indication on what kind of thermals we can expect so far so on our hottest core we're getting 65 degrees Celsius think about that guys 65 degrees Celsius core i7 overclocked to 4400 in a node 202 like come on I probably have one of the coolest CPUs that's overclocked in in this particular case I I'm pretty proud of that so that's a really really favorable number I think we could probably get it lower if we were to increase the fan speed by the way actually we can't I take that back the scythe slipstream is that a hundred percent fan speed it's just it's maxed out and honestly it's not even that loud you can't really tell right now because my AC is on but that's an indication you can't even hear it over my AC much maybe you can go onto this side I'm wearing a lavalier so that's not really going to do much but it is fairly quiet especially if you're going to be bringing this thing to a land where there's going to be chaos and commotion and ambient noise through the roof and plus you're going to be wearing headphones and stuff so you're really not going to hear the acoustics at all and even when you're not even in a quiet room that that slipstream fan at 100 is not too bad so that's that's pretty much as cool as it's going to get I guess on our 6700 K but I'm happy with those temperatures now as far as the our 9 nano is concerned I've got MSI Afterburner on here and you can see the only thing I've adjusted in the settings is the power limit crank crank that all the way to 50 because if you don't well the r9 Nano is a very power constrained card and without cranking the power limits um you are going to run into some thermal throttling issues which if you can see here we're not we're not getting any of that GPU core clocks at a steady 10,000 I'm sorry tenta whoa that's that's impressive 1045 megahertz not dipping it's not going to a thousandth not going to 980 it's staying straight at 1045 megahertz which means we are not thermal throttling which is something to be happy about I guess and the reason why I'm not cranking up anything else in terms of the the GPU core clock or memory clock is simply because I'm going to be gaming at 1920 by 1080 at the land which is I mean the r9 nano is completely going to crush that resolution with pretty much any game I throw at it max settings more or less across the board sure there's always exceptions and stuff but for the most part I'm not too worried about trying to squeeze every last ounce of performance out of the card at this resolution especially if it's going to mean introducing more heat into our case louder thermals I'm sorry aloud our thermals louder acoustics and things of that nature so I'm pretty happy with how it is right now I'm going to some gaming later on do some testing and if everything checks out I'm probably just going to leave it as is is that if I see that there's some room for improvement or if I'm not happy with the frame rates I'm getting which I really doubt that's going to be the case then perhaps I'll put a moderate overclock on there although I will have to switch from afterburner to Trix because currently Trix I believe is the only overclocking utility that supports HBM overclocking so I would have to do that but um an upset about the hardware everything is running super smoothly oh I didn't tell you the temperatures here temperature is on you probably already saw this though what the freaking hell was that Unigine crashed oh no you didn't crash display driver stopped working Oh God what the Hooten who nanny's wrong with this thing I don't understand we weren't even overclocked I mean other than having the power limit cranked to the max I mean since it crashed I actually took off 5 megahertz on the GPU core clock just to be sure just to be safe but that's weird there's only 76 degrees 76 that's super reasonable for the r9 nano I don't know why a crash it could have been just an anomaly but I'll keep a close eye on it but the show must go on if it happens to crash again I will address it by the end of the video if it doesn't happen to crash again I'll also point that out but moving on the show must go on people so now that we've taken a look at kind of the system and how it performs which is overall good apart from that stupid crash what do we go ahead and take a look at some of the hardware that I'll be replacing this stuff with for PDX this weekend so starting with the monitor look at this look at this this is a bad boy we're moving on from a portable monitor to a full-fledged desktop panel this is a TN panel however it is very high refresh rate 144 Hertz and 1 millisecond response time according to the manufacturer of course it's an AOC g2 4 6 0 PF links to all this stuff in the description below guys in case you're curious want to find out more or maybe purchase one for yourself so this is a free sync panel it's got free sync phrasing panel guess how much I paid for it $200 $200 for a free sync 144 Hertz for a refresh rate panel which is pretty damn cool 24 inches so I'm used to gaming on 27 inches at home except for the predator that's that's a little bit larger than seven inches but up until this point it's usually been 27 inches for me for land obviously I'm going to scale down a bit so 24 inches coming from the fifteen point six inches on that guy holy moly there's going to be a huge improvement when gaming away from home so I'm really excited to use this if you believe it's got both HDMI and DisplayPort outputs or inputs I should say so SuperDuper exciting also I'm going to be replacing the keyboard as I mentioned with this magic force mechanical keyboard it's a 68 key so 68 percent IRR it's a much smaller than than the VAR mill OVA 87 M there which is kind of why I bought it it's just so cute it's just so adorable I did not get it in white it comes in white but I opted for black because I will destroy white keys in a heartbeat if I have them so I got the black version it's got white backlit LEDs we're going to go ahead and plug that in a bit and show you it all lit up and stuff it's very sexy keyboard it does come with the variety of switches you can get it in either you know black blue brown and it also comes in different brands of switches too you can get cherry MX Gator on I believe kale I went with the Gator on cherry imitator on sure what the Gator on Browns which feel freaking fantastic they feel right on par with cherry MX actually just a very very slight difference I can barely hardly tell or distinguish the two but we're going to go ahead and check that out in a bit as well going to actually haul this monitor across and finally you're probably wondering how the hell am I going to actually haul this monitor to the land in Portland I live in California so yes I'm going to be taking a plane there well let me tell you I got this thing this is the row cat tusko or tusko whatever the hell it is it's a carrying bag for an LCD monitor supports monitors from anywhere from 20 to 24 inches wide screen panels what do you know it looks really cool what's very tactical it's got a nice very nice rubber handle carrying handle and stuff and I'm hoping that it fits this this AOC modder like a glove now in case you guys are wondering how exactly I'm going to haul this monitor from California to Portland for PDX this weekend I did pick up this rocket 2 skull I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right at all rocket to scho LCV carrying bag it's pretty cool actually it looks very tactical it's got a carrying handle it supports monitors from 20 to 24 inches in in diameter no.not diameter in in diagonal diagonal dimension there's definitely a word for that that I can't think of right now but anyway it's a pretty cool bag the only thing I'm concerned about is whether or not I'm gonna be able to actually carry it onto the plane as a carry-on I did look up reviews on Amazon and other places online and most everyone there everyone online is saying that they've been able to take it with them on a plane but time will tell I hope that I can bring it on as a carry-on otherwise I'm leaving it behind in my car in the parking lot of LAX because I am not letting someone check this and handle it themselves they will totally destroy it but it's a pretty cool bag it's got some really sturdy or what appears to be sturdy latches here you can even a put your your keyboard inside like that I don't know if I will because that exposes your keyboard and also since I'm using a mini keyboard it might not even fit quite well but it's also got padding on the inside so it protects your screen the screen side I believe there's only padding on that one side though but that's the important side so I'm very very excited to try this out see how it works out and I'll report back to you guys and let you know how it goes so on that note I'm going to go ahead and set all this stuff up on the desk to give us a final look at all the hardware that I'm going to bring in with me to this weekend's land all right here is setup 2.0 of land party in a bag although I guess now that I have a full desktop monitor it's it's more like land party in two bags there's one for the monitor and one for the desktop anyway looking pretty good so far kind of digging how the the red accent on the chin bar there is matching with the red LEDs I just put in the no - OH - fancy also on the gaming mouse this is my Logitech gt500 as many of you know it's my daily driver this is what I will be bringing with me - PDX because it's oh so comfy and I love it so much the only thing kind of killing the the overall theme here is the yellow on the mod met good lord my setup suffers from ketchup and mustard syndrome but apart from that I'm digging it so far the SteelSeries H Wireless looks absolutely perfect resting on the end - OH - there and in case you guys are curious about this monitor again its 144 Hertz TN one millisecond and for $200 or 210 dollars that I paid for it you actually do get quite a bit for your money it is a matte screen and fairly thin - of course it protrudes a little bit more from the back you do get a vase amount the stand itself is really high-quality actually everything about this monitor is much higher quality than you would expect for the price point it does feature like Full Tilt swivel and panning adjustment on the right side of the panel you get two USB 2.0 pass-through ports the orange one on top actually supports fast charging so that's really cool if you're in need of charging a mobile device like a smartphone or tablet there's also two more of these ports on the underside of the panel so you get four word total those ones do not support fast charging though as far as video inputs you get dual link DVI HDMI and DisplayPort however however only the DisplayPort input is going to support free sync I already tried hooking up the HDMI does not work which tells me that it's probably older than HDMI 2.0 it's probably 1.4 or older but that's still pretty cool I mean whatever just use DisplayPort who cares overall I'm digging this set up so far however I haven't even had a chance to game on this monitor yet so why don't we go ahead and fire up some games I'll play for anywhere from half an hour to 45 minutes and then we'll take a look at our thermals to give us a better idea of what kind of temperatures we can expect under a working load in this exact scenario all right so that gives you guys an idea on the kind of performance we can expect with this system and I'm sorry that I didn't use the most intensive games for that test I don't actually have all that all the games that I want to play at PDX loaded up on this PC I have to do that tonight before I board the plane tomorrow but from what we can tell everything is looking really good I mean GTA 5 max that out with the exception of msaa which still ran at 2x no problem was able to hit you know 50 to 650 to 70 FPS on average which is pretty solid in my opinion I really did like the way everything functioned like the setup works really great for a little portable station I think it does really well the only thing that I will say is that this keyboards defective my op Wow I'm serious the WASD Keys are not working like they should in game works perfectly fine for typing when I jumped into GTA 5 the a and the D we're not functioning as they should it was actually kind of reversed sometimes or sometimes just wouldn't work at all so I might have to automate this keyboard guys I know that's probably a very rare sight and doesn't paint a good picture for this magic force board here but I'm hoping that it is just once in a once in a blue moon occurrence for their QA process apart from that everything else works flawlessly the monitor is great too game on the color is actually not even bad for a team panel of course I did have to mess around with some of the settings in the OSD but once I took care of that it looks fantastic the free sync is a-okay it just looks absolutely great so again quite a deal for 200 bucks I'm very excited with the performance so far and I think that's oh let's talk about temps I told you guys I was going to show you the temperatures so let me crank the settings or the the brightness down here so you can see so core i7 6700 K overclocked at 4400 megahertz I played for over an hour guys over an hour and we didn't top 75 degrees Celsius on the hottest core which is just it's just fabulous guys and then for the r9 nano again not overclocked although the power limit was increased maxed out pretty much we got 79 degrees Celsius which I'm I'm happy with I'm totally happy if I can put an AMD card in here in it stay below 80 especially in the Mini ITX case I am a happy happy camper so all things considered I would call this little setup here a huge success I cannot wait to game on it come tomorrow or I guess later this weekend and it should be fun on a final note I'm going to go ahead and pack this stuff up in particular I'm going to actually put the monitor inside of the rocket carrying bag to give you guys an idea of what that looks like all situated and then we'll close this video out and he or she is all suited up there's the monitor in the case and to be honest with you it fits like a glove it fits really well it looks really nice and you definitely get a sense of security with the the padding here on the front it's not super thick which keeps a slim profile however it does feel adequate to protect your your panel your screen from any kind of accidental horrors so to speak one thing I will say though is if you are going to buy a monitor for this bag to get a panel that has a stand that's easily removable or a stand that can fold up flat that way you don't have to actually remove the stand and replace it if you're going to be traveling with it as a carry-on because as a carry-on I don't think that this is regulation here I think I'm gonna have to remove the stand pack that up separately in a different bag and then just bring the monitor itself in in the in the carrying tote but apart from that very nice it even has some some stash some stash room here got a zipper pocket for like your power cables HDMI video cables whatever DisplayPort and yeah little pockets down here as well OOP these two straps here are where your keyboard would go if you were to carry that along as well however you are going to need a lengthier keyboard in order for that to work for example the defective magic force here it's not quite long enough so 10 keyless boards probably not long enough to take advantage of that but all the other ones should be fine alright y'all so hopefully you guys enjoyed this little setup tour of my new land station here I really do enjoy putting these setups together just anything to help improve my gameplay experience on a PC whether it be at home or were on the road or in a different state for a massive land party till next time I'm ed wit thank you all for watching and I will see you in the next video