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the last time we did a build like this was when I was making fun of an author from motherboard vice.com who said it was painful literally he said he literally bled for his computer and that's by the way I think a direct quote we're very close to it and that it was very difficult to build a computer so we did a speed build in response basically say look this is how quick easy and literally painless it is although I did stab myself and that video did pretty well so today we're doing another speed build it won't be as popular because I'm not insulting anyone but this build we filmed under the guise of I basically said it was for a friend as a mining and production machine and it actually is for Andrew the man behind the camera and the editing but he didn't know that until the end so this bill this is for him and it's going to be used for a 3d animation modeling blender stuff like that Unreal Engine 4 so it has actual real use case we've got a 10-7 TTI that's gonna go in it we already film the build and now we're refilling the intro and rise in 7 1700 cpu which are both very good for these production tasks and we'll get kind of a ground floor established for later upgrades so that's the plan it's still basically a speed build though so you got two and one it's one of those gift type build videos and also see how fast it goes together I'm gonna have to clean up a few things later though so without further ado here's the build actually I lied one more further ado before that this video is brought to you by thermal Grizzly makers of the conductor hot liquid metal that we recently use to drop 20 degrees off of our coffee leak temperatures thermal grizzly also makes traditional thermal compounds we use on top of the IHS like cryo not and hydro not pastes learn more at the link below to give you an idea of what we're upgrading andrew from it's an old Lenovo laptop with a 650 M in it and that's been what's being used for rendering so I'll have to do a comparison of how long it takes to render something on that versus this I think that's gone up like a day at a time for some renders or more so that's what we're coming from we previously tore this laptop apart for new thermal paste and they're all and we'll leave that linked in the description below if you want to see that because it improved performance significantly but now we're going to improve it a few steps more by getting off of a six at the M and a several generation old i7 so let's get started for the components we've got an r7 1700 CPU which is going to be useful for production tasks we also have an ax 370 gaming 5 motherboard that we've had from gigabyte for a while now repurposing that we have an RM 850 X power supply from Corsair Corsair also sent 32 gigabytes of memory and an MP 500 force SSD so we are going to start with the motherboard and we'll throw a timer up on the screen as soon as this box begins to open and then all cuts from here on out will have an updated timer so we're not going to cut the timer as we go but we'll still cut the video down so oh yeah I'm gonna get on the anti-static wrist strap this this doesn't so the adornment of the anti-static wrist strap does not count against time this is a well respected rule in speed building everyone knows this rule for us ok so the timer will begin in three two back plates come off the back plate has come off mr. bit wit Kyle just did one of these and our speed build when we did it was pretty fun I really liked the way he did his most recent on which was basically him burst the intern who had never built a system before as I understand it and Kyle was blindfolded so Kyle if you're watching that was brilliant well done ok sack of cables power supply get the cpu open there's a rise in CPU oh that saw the stock cooler and that was the sound of two pounds of inefficiency hitting the floor we are using a @h 115 eye cooler for this because I had one around and they are easy to install quite frankly so make this even faster alright Rison goes in I'm gonna need don't paste and I'm gonna need case screws I forgot both of those so the mat I'm building on if you haven't heard us talk about it it is our first real like from scratch product design it's a an anti-static mod mat and this has with it a couple of diagrams on it for electrical wiring which we've used for mods and things like that the stick of memory has thrown paste on it maybe I can scrape that off and use it for the CPU it's also got a couple of other it like a ruler and a screw sorting tray for GPU teardown and stuff like that okay so we've got that part done thank you I haven't worked with this case since the end of year 2015 and see if it comes apart in the way I remember yes this was one of my favorite cases when we got it in it's it is an inverted layout 602 C and so the motherboards gonna go on video card will be up here C be cooler be probably bottom mounted I think and I need screws these are technically all motherboard screws but there's different ones okay so this is gonna go in like that that's cool and then this mind you we're losing some time here just by nature of filming stuff as we go got to move the lights around and stuff like that so someone's gonna count and be like you forgot the i/o shield I actually didn't so when we did that motherboard response video some people counted that and they weren't really that serious to be fair but I actually hate IO shield and make it a personal vendetta to never use them so we haven't forgotten it that said the included IO shields are pretty smart I like that manufacturers have done that and I think it makes a lot of sense you do pay a premium for it right now which is unfortunate but that'll stop eventually so I would like this to be bottom mounted damn I'm gonna have to flip those fans around if I do that and if the bottom mounted okay that'll work that's really the bottom mounted over here this will give us some airflow over the BRM that's that's why I want bottom mounted right here so I'm gonna have to flip these two intake that's very annoying so I'm I'm uh doing a pit stop pulling it team member Andrew from behind the camera we before shooting this we put the fans on because I was trying to speed things up but I forgot because we're doing this bottom mounted we're gonna want the fans mounted I want them as Pole not as push all right so it's not the best way to mount it but I think that's the way I'm gonna do it oh it's the case and collide in with a case component hey why isn't it gonna work this time oh the tank is wider they're pretty serious Bend okay I might have to give up on the cool stop the clock wait okay so we've gone back to this setup if we roll back the timer there was a clearance issue with the liquid cooler so this case is old enough where two 80 millimeter coolers don't play too nice with bottom mounting the liquid tank was getting in the way of the i/o the output panel basically the i/o panel was being blocked by the radiator and a big piece of metal that sticks out of it so we've been in that and we could go with 240 liquid but at that point really might as well just use air so we're just gonna use air this is going to be easier to install I chose liquid because last time it was the fastest possible thing to install last time I think we also did an Intel system and it was in a different case so we're gonna go with air for this and I need to remount the SSD anyway so yeah we're just gonna rewinds it before trying the liquid cooler and finding out that there was no way it was gonna work in the exact position I wanted it to so three two one go gonna resume the clock now now it will be much more interesting than 20 minutes of trying to get a couple screws into a cooler it really did not want to fit in this bottom position at all you sure that's the orientation please be correct yes okay good we're in business okay that's a lot better get some thermal grizzly crying out on there but overkill there's a 12-point something watt per meter Kelvin paste someone's gonna complain about thermal compound application and to you I would say you're wrong it's irrelevant what what you think matters does not actually matter okay just you know strictly based on hundreds of hours of testing this screwdriver is tiny you know side benefit of screwing sense simultaneously is that we're not gonna have better distribution of their whole compound it's gonna spend basically perfectly evenly okay that's way better than where we were with the liquid cooler and I have a whole crate full of Noctua fans that were working on testing so we can even put some more in here to get some front intake but we'll worry about that later you kind of got enough to worry about as is so this gonna go up there and I'll just take this opportunity to point out the counts that are always like Steve why are you so abusive to the components why aren't you more gentle why why do you try to hurt them by spinning them in a circle on the table yeah I don't I don't know why people think that these components are so fragile but they can really take a serious beating like spinning them around on the table as I do with motherboards seriously it's not going to hurt the components even work the work we do with video cards we haven't killed one so I just like point out that every one of these are a lot stronger than people in the comments seem to think ok enough screws are in let's do vide power supply I typically try to do power supply next but let's do video cards I already picked it up it's a cool thing about this case it's a bit old now but because of the orientation the video card is gonna get some help from the power supply which will pull air up and out while the video card is using its open face design to move the air around so that will help us out there need some cables so this is the RM 850 X that course are sent over there liquid cooler it's not gonna make it in but power supply is plenty good and will do exactly what we need I don't think I need to say that right now we don't have any SATA drives in there that's kind of the benefit of of MDOT - ok so that's gonna come off this 600 C has one of those power supply mounting plates that NZXT debuted a couple of years ago there's a lot of dust up there this case has been in the attic since we reviewed it a couple years ago along with the H 500 P that recently tried to kill us it became possessed Vega frontier Edition actually possessed it and when we attempted to get rid of the case we got fancier dish and brought it back you don't know what I'm talking about watch our disappointment pills indie film of the year critics say critics say many people like it I remember this I remember criticizing this and they actually said it was a really good point and that they they being course they're we're going to consider the changes for the future can't really route the tables because the hard drive of cages are in the way so you have to basically take a hard drive cage out sacrifice used to one and that'll give you the best cleanest management and you can do it without doing that but you do get much less clean tables 8-pin oh that's right this is kind of I think about it for this yeah motherboards inverted so eight pins actually coming in down here instead you got about that like gigabyte why look flip is facing down and these cables have capacitors in the end of the cables so they're hard to contort that way okay cool it's done this I wanted to cut out here to originally crush the cable I wanted to cut out right there which they also said was an interesting idea we're going to be considering if there's ever a Gentoo of this case but then you could route this way cleaner up straight out of the power supply shroud you know this can come in cleaner too actually now we're just wasting time on visuals but we already got the whole bill done that's really all there is left let's just try out this one over here okay this build is something that we were doing for a friend recently and actually the build is for Andrew that one is you it's yours yeah so post building ran a couple of quick benchmarks on the completed desktop system versus the laptop that andrew is using and on the laptop with a GN logo intro screen render we were seeing about over six minutes on the CPU which is an i7 of some old generation and about 11 minutes are over on the GPU the GTX 650 our GT 650 M for the new system we're seeing about a minute for the GPU for a 1070 TI single card and that will improve once we get a 960 in there just for some backup and we saw about a minute and a half for rise in stock for the 1700 and overclock and we're working on we're having some issues with the gigabyte gaming 5 motherboard where it's increasing the voltage to one point five five volts allegedly software reported which is obviously very high so we're waiting to fix those issues but for now these are the numbers we have stock and once we fix them with an overclock that should see similar improvements what we saw in our CP reviews for the r7 1700 stock force overclocked which tends to be a good couple of percent nearing double digits so that's our quick inverted PC build it's this case I liked a lot when it came out and I hope Corsair does some kind of follow up to it because the the layout is really interesting with a couple fans mounted in the front we'll do some knock to us or something they it really streamlines the airflow straight through the CPU cooler and the cooler is really close to the front of the case so you're not losing much pressure there on the transit to the and then the other one is straight in line with the top the video card to open face cards can breathe and the power supply this is the interesting part and this is all stuff I talked about like two years ago on the review but the power supply because the fan is on the bottom facing the video card it helps pull that hot air out from the video card as it's being ejected the video card any open face design is basically spewing air everywhere so it's coming out kind of all different areas of the heatsink and that means some of it will go out through the rear exhaust that's mounted behind the CPU cooler some of it will go through the power supply some will go through the big ventilated portion of the case right here so all those things mean that you're not dumping too much heat into one component like the power supply also the power supply can definitely take it it's not that much warmer it's you're talking 40 degrees amp in verses you know 30 or something like that so you might have a 10 C delta but that is the quick speed build to start us off for the year couple things could be cleaned up but for a speed build pretty happy with it so we have plenty of other coverage coming for the rest of the week but quick note here we will be at CES for all of next week so make sure you're subscribed if you are not that way you can catch all the news for the hardware 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