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welcome back to harbor unboxed for today's video i'm building a pc it's not just gonna be any old pc this one is going to be small while also being very powerful i know i've done small powerful pcs before but this one isn't going to cost more than your car that said i have to admit it was initially going to be a really affordable budget mini ITX build because we haven't really done one of those oh we did in the in wind chopin but that was a bit different didn't have a discrete graphics card you couldn't really do any serious gaming on it so it's meant to be a very capable but affordable pc i'll probably still do that video because i'm very interested in doing it but yeah those plans went out the window when I realized I had these streak um da2 on hand it's a two hundred and twenty dollar u.s. or three hundred and twenty dollar Ozzie Mini ITX case and I have to admit I have been dying to build in it ever since I unboxed it on unboxing boxes a few months ago now so yeah the plan initially was to grab an affordable mini ATX case possibly with a power supply combo or then just throw in an affordable power supply then use the Rison 520 600 processor pretty obvious choice there and then the Radeon rx 570 graphics card so sort of combine my top 5 best bang for your buck CPU with my top 5 best bang for your buck GPU so that would have been a pretty cool system again I do I will do that system so for those of you who are disappointed that I'm not doing it for this video I will do that system at some point in time probably early next year but anyway for this video I want to work with the DA too because I've had it for a while and I have been dying to do some kind of build and I've just been waiting for an excuse and well I've got one now because I've got a few new bits and pieces and they can go in this case nicely but because it is a more expensive case putting a budget on the horizon 520 600 isn't exactly a budget CPU but it is cheaper than the case so I thought well we'll probably put the rise in 720 700 X in there that probably makes a bit more sense for this build asrock also recently sent along their new rx 590 graphics card and this is their phantom in game ex-ira see morale and yeah probably not a perfect fit for this kind of bill just given the price to performance at the RX 590 currently offers when we covered that in depth in our review our day one review but I still remain hopeful that AMD will drop prices on these particular cards and when they do and it'd be good to have a bit of a database of certain models and not just have the one model that we've checked out so far from XFX so yeah the asrock card is going to get a bit of a test in this video I have stuck with my original motherboard choice though the motherboards actually here that's the box you probably work that much out for this build the x4 70 version might be a better fit it's about $50 more but honestly it really isn't that different apart from slightly better USB support though you won't really know notice that on the Mini ITX board they're not exactly brimming with USB port so anyway this board is perfectly fine no real need to spend more money there just because we're using the Verizon 7 2700 X so yeah as rocks be 450 gaming ITX AC will fit the bill nicely for the memory that one was pretty simple I had some of the Corsair Vengeance RGB pro ddr4 4000 stuff available obviously we won't be running it at that speed with the rise in processor but we'll probably get it up to 34 3600 and we'll really be able to tune other timings on that Samsung B die memory so that'll work nicely then for the cooler we have the new corset h1 15 i RGB platinum and this is a really nice cooler Tim use this in a builder recently got some really great results with the core I $9.99 ok so it is no doubt gonna work very well on the rise and 7 processor one of the main reasons I've grabbed this cooler is because it has a 280 millimeter radiator and the da2 is meant to comfortably house a 240 millimeter rad but I want to see if we can squeeze in the 280 millimeter model because be pretty cool if we could if not I will of course fall back on one of the many 240 millimeter options I have laying around the office of course IO is with a 280 millimeter read that on usual but it is pretty unusual to get one in a mini ITX case that's only this big I mean it's not the smallest of mini ITX cases but it's still very small and apparently you can fit a full length graphics card in this which calm down I was moving this on the way as I was saying apparently you can fit a full length graphics card or up to I think it's 27 centimeters which is about what this card isn't as you can see that looks like it would fit quite comfortably so we'll find out in a moment then saving us a little bit of space is the silverstone SX 600 G g4 gold this is an 80 plus gold a certified power supply I've had this just sitting around for a very very long time don't recall what I got up for a while I had it was on the shelf there behind me I spotted it just as I was sort of organizing this build so yeah that's a good pass play 600 watts will be more than enough or it'll it'll be enough to run the horizon 7 2700 x with the RX 590 then for storage I've gone a little crazy on the storage front nothing too ridiculous but a little bit ridiculous so for the boot drive I have the new adata xpg SX 8200 Pro and this is a one terabyte nvme SSD so obviously an MDOT to drive I got that recently again I unbox that our unboxing boxes wasn't expecting it but it is a very high-speed nvme SSD so it has claims sequential read and write speeds in excess of three gigabytes I believe it's three gigabytes for the right 3.5 gigabytes for read so very very fast drive there and although I'm not building this system for any particular purpose it's so well I might I might be I might be depending on how it turns out because last year for Computex Tim and I took a very high-end a massively bulky laptop each with an external I think that were 27-inch 1440p displays because it's much easier to video and it money not limited to turning P and it turns out the monitors were quite easy to fit in our suitcases slim bezel lightweight LCD monitors and it was really great hooking them up to the laptops I made the laptops much better to work from so will do we will be doing that again for come text 2019 and the laptops weren't super-powerful so I had a quad-core I think Tim had the new six core 12 thread models from Intel yeah they take quite some time to render out 4k footage a rise in 720 700 x would be world's better so I could I could get that in my luggage no worries so if this build works out really well like I'm hoping it will then this may be my my mobile editing rig so that's why I've gone with a high-speed nvme SSD is the boot drive I'm a scratch disk so we can use that unfortunately the be 450 board and the x4 70 Mineo exports from asrock only do have a single ultra m2 slot so I currently put one of them in but one terabyte is fine for a portable editing rig and then the most extreme part of the storage would be this 14 terabytes Seagate Barracuda hard drive I'm including this because I suppose I'm including it because I can I had this just just sitting around it was provided by Seagate and I haven't really given it a proper test yet you know I was planning on using it for my editing right here at home but yeah 14 terabytes would be very handy in a single drive for on the go so I'll whack it in here see if we can fit it in there with everything else and yeah that's that's gonna pretty much cover us on the storage front so that's a heck of a lot of PC hardware that we're gonna try and cram into this mini ITX case will be interesting to see how that goes and the good news is we're about to find out just before we get into the build I have never built in one of these cases before I haven't read the manual I haven't seen anyone else do it and I don't plan on reading the manual because well it's the holidays and I shouldn't be working anyway and reading the manual just seems like a whole lot of work they prove to have been worth doing before the end of this build but I kind of like fiddling around working out how things go as we build and make a few mistakes have to take a few steps back to correct them so yeah it should be a whole lot of fun so I think we should probably get into it let's start winging it you okay so that was fairly easy really I only had to change the harddrive orientation once so that I could fit the radiator in properly but yeah considering what we've managed to cram in this small case I think that was pretty good going speaking of the radiator the 280 millimeter version on the H 115 IRG be platinum just fits in there with a few millimeters to spare so very snug really there aren't any case fans installed yet so we're just relying on the two 140 millimeter fans on the other side of the radiator which a push ball sucking air through the system and pushing the hotter air out the side panel so it's probably possible possibly possible to squeeze some case fans there that's not something I've looked into yet but that would definitely help improve thermal performance if you could put a few more fans in here that said for such a compact built with some relatively high end hardware inside I have to say it does run really well running a blender stress tests or the CPU peak adjust 74 degrees which is pretty good really for example using the wraith prism box color and optimal environment you're looking at temperatures of around 90 degrees in this same test after an hour so 74 degrees with a 280 millimeter all-in-one liquid cooler in this tiny case is very respectable in an ATX case with loads of airflow that load temp will drop by 15 or 20 degrees but that's hardly surprising we have no case fans in a case the size of a shoebox removing the case panels did drop temperatures quite significantly so if you can modify these panels for greater airflow than that will make a big difference to check out GPU temperatures I ran f1 2018 on a loop for an hour and this saw the asrock rx 590 phantom gaming OC peak at just 83 degrees which is certainly getting up there but having said that the XFX rx 590 Fatboy hit 80 degrees in our GPU test system which provides loads of airflow removing the side panel saw the phantom gaming OC dropped down to 75 degrees and that's a very respectable temperature for an RX 590 or even an RX 580 graphics card the system was quite loud under nothing extreme but it was generating fifty three decibels with the case panels on when sitting a few feet away from the system so you certainly knew it was running from about a meter away we had a reading of 51 decibels so not too bad but yeah again you'll certainly know that it's running still one at idle it was very quiet at just 43 decibels and the room floor noise was 41 decibels so idle you barely know it's running finally for those of you wondering I took as rocks rx 590 Phantom gaming OC out of the da2 and then stuck it in our GPU test rig inside the crystal the corsair crystal 570 X and that things just filled with fans so it's pretty much an optimal setup for airflow there and under those conditions the peak GPU temperature was just 74 degrees which is just degree cooler than what we saw in this case with the side panels removed as it is at the moment so yeah not a bad result there if you can even open up the side panels on this case perhaps mod them or whatever improve air flow that would help obviously help improve temperatures there as well not necessary it's certainly stable and ran fine but maybe if you want to overclock generate a bit more heat than you need to remove a bit more heat so opening out those side panels would really help with that I would just lastly inside the GPU test system so the the 570 X the asrock rx 590 around 6 degrees cooler than the XFX Fatboy so yeah that's a very impressive result therefore as rocks rx 590 overall I've really enjoyed building inside these 3 come at da 2 it's a awesome little case and now I just have to work out how I'm gonna fit it in my luggage so that I can smuggle it to Computex 2019 this would make for a very awesome editing rig opposed to having to use one of the laptops and I know some people will comment say off 70 80 degree temperatures that's so high but try editing videos on a laptop they pretty much don't drop much below 100 degrees for the entire time the editing and encoding and all that so they run very hot and very very loud those little fans will and make a hell of a lot of noise so this would be a significant upgrade in all aspects possibly not sighs it'll be a little bit harder to fit in but like I said we take 27 inch monitors anyway so what that what's a shoebox size PC anyway I'll work that out at a later date but anyway yeah cool little system I think you guys will agree and oh I should just know lastly how much it costs because I know some people will be wondering how much the whole build came out to wasn't cheap it was 2,200 us but keep in mind five hundred and fifty dollars us of that budget I was sucked up by the massive Seagate Barracuda 14 terabyte hard drive so if you can do with a 2 terabyte hard drive 3 4 terabyte hard drive the build cost will drop below $2,000 u.s. which I think for a you know system of this power you've got your risin 7 2700 X a fairly capable graphics card one terabyte nvme storage all that stuff so I think that's a pretty reasonable price for what you're getting anyway if you liked the video you know what to do I subscribe for more content just like this and if you appreciate we do whole box then consider supporting us on patreon you will gain access to our discord chat and our monthly live streams anyway thank you for watching I'm your host Steve I'll see you next time you