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welcome back to harbor unboxed today I'm building a very small PC inside the very small in win Chopin computer case now I unboxed this impressive little case on an unboxing box's episode about a month ago now so I thought it was about time I got around to putting this little computer together over the past five weeks I've put together a large amount of Raven Ridge content and we've benchmarked these new ApS from just about every single angle possible the only thing I haven't done is put one inside an ultra compact Mini ITX case so let's correct that be warned though the build that I have planned isn't the most cost-effective and it's certainly not the way to go about things if you wanted to build a cheap budget PC but later in the video I will recommend parts for a budget version of this build this is more what you'd build if you're after sort of the ultimate compact home theater PC you know something that can handle all your multimedia requirements were also capable of pushing over 60fps and title such as overwatch at 1080p for this we're going with the risin 2400 G 16 gigabytes of ddr4 2666 memory from a data the gigabyte a be 350 n Gaming Wi-Fi Mini ITX motherboard a dot is s10 nvm a 256 gigabyte SSD and that'll be used as the boot drive and then we'll have crucial M X 500 one terabyte SSD for secondary storage and I know this isn't the most economical storage configuration but it's all I had on hand and it will work well in this build then cooling the Rison 520 400 G will be the acquiring c7 compact CPU cooler and this of course will be going in the in wind Chopin Mini ITX case which also includes a 150 watt power supply so let's quickly throw all this together and then I'll play a few games on and show you how well it runs all right so we are pretty much done with this build of the SSD in the back that's all secured connected up should be working perfectly fine you will notice that there is a very little room to install this cooler so there the mesh protrudes a little bit but I don't know if it'll be enough let's find out okay I'd say one millimeter with the panel on properly maybe even a half a millimeter that wasn't quite as quick and easy to put together as I had anticipated still there are no major dramas squeezing in the motherboard and then connecting up some of the cables that was probably the trickier things that I encountered during the build but it's probably not overly surprising that squeezing some of this stuff in is a bit difficult given the size of the case now that it's built it looks a very similar to what we've started with and well that's because there's no glass side panels or anything like that that would very heavily restrict air flow in such a small case so we just have the mesh side panel you can of course see the white fan on the c7 but apart from that it all looks pretty similar to what we started with that said though the Chopin is just a fantastic looking case as it is and I really like this silver version I think it looks a bit special it is worth noting though that US shoppers are getting stung quite heavily for this model would cost about 130 dollars u.s. to purchase this thing from eBay and you would be buying it from Australian retailer for whatever reason in when aren't selling this case in the US or at least I can't find it available in the US so if you guys do know of somewhere in the u.s. that's selling this case then let me know I'll put the link in the video description for people who are keen on getting one short of finding someone selling this case in the US unless you're really really desperate and you really want this case it's probably not worth spending a hundred and thirty dollars u.s. to get one from an Australian retailer there certainly are other alternatives that can be purchased locally in the US the cryo reg c7 fits with about a millimeter worth of clearance in this case so depending on how thick your motherboard is and stuff like that it might actually touch it's like a millimeter maybe even half a millimeter if we touch the mesh panel very softly it does rub on the fans there's very little clearance there but anyway we should probably move on to see how the c7 works in the Chopin case and to do that I will be showing you some gameplay footage and f1 2017 and then running a long blender workload to the car in front is ten seconds you overall I have to say I was a bit disappointed with the final product I wasn't expecting any miracles from the cryo reg c7 but I was actually expecting the results to be better than the Box cooler I believe the Wraith self comes with a 65 watt TDP and think that's for the cool or anyway I'm not 100% sure on that I'm sure someone can correct me in the comments if I'm wrong but the c7 that is rated for a hundred watts whatever the situation there though based on my own testing the c7 doesn't actually appear to be any better than the Wraith stealth the temperatures were much the same and this meant that the risin 5 2400 G really had no room for any kind of overclocking in this case you could push the GP up a little bit but it ran very hot even when gaming with everything left stop the system hit 57 degrees when gaming and that's actually pretty good that said though under serious CPU load in our blender stress test it did hit 78 degrees which is I think we got 76 with the Wraith stealth we weren't in a case though so I'd say they're very similar so again this is acceptable but yeah it's not really any better than the Box cooler the c7 also seems quite a bit louder than the AMD Box cooler so that's something I'll have to do in a side-by-side test in the near future but based on initial impressions it doesn't really seem like the c7 is worth the investment I was quite happy with the rest of the system though that was pretty awesome seeing this compact little PC delivering playable performance and a number of popular tiles at 1080p using respectable quality settings not that long ago I did check out the Azeroth desk mini gtx 1068 850 dollars for the bare-bones version it was very costly all up at would cost you at least $1,500 us to outfit the desk Mini and while very impressive for its size I feel the Chopin build is really just as useful as a home theater PC slash gaming console replacement thing it's also much cheaper that said for these Raven Ridge AP used to really make sense you'll want to spend far less the risin 3:22 energy really is the best value choice and as rocks fatality a be 350 gaming ITX motherboard will also save you about another ten dollars personally I feel it's a better board so he might as well get that one instead in the bargain bin you'll also find the in win BP six five five which comes with a two hundred watt power supply for just $60 u.s. you can also save a heap of money by getting eight gigabytes of memory but be aware with just two DIMM slots you will need to get rid of it if you ever want to expand capacity in the future then they aimed a wraith stealth box cooler seems like the way to go on these compact mini ITX builds and then for storage your options well they're almost limitless really I personally really like the crucial MX 500 525 gigabyte SSD for one hundred and forty dollars and you can get that in the MDOT two form factor to save even more space for large and mechanical two and a half inch hard drives coming away from this build I'm actually really keen now to do a cryo ricci 7 vs. Wraith stealth comparison inside of the chopin case that should be quite interesting so keep your eye out for that anyway that's gonna do it for this one if you did enjoy the video then be sure to hit the like button for us subscribe for more content if you appreciate the work we do here at harbor unbox then consider supporting us on patreon thanks for watching I'm your host Steve see again next time