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welcome back to our unboxed today we are PC building not just any old PC as I'm sure many of you are painfully aware of by now building a new PC or even upgrading an old one is no easy task with heavily inflated memory and graphics card prices we've covered the situation in quite a bit of depth on the channel over the past few weeks and the only real solution that we've been able to come up with for would-be buyers is to wait just wait that's really all you can do now and while it seems a bit hopeless mmm yeah okay I'm not even gonna try and sugarcoat it and maybe next week I'll try and devise a few cunning strategies for viewers but for now I think I'm just gonna employ the Lynas technique this involves creating a hideously overpriced computer that almost no one on the planet is ever going to build safely that turns out to be a lot of fun I should note that although I'm not gonna even bother trying to attempt to pass this off as a serious build a number of the components are we using are genuinely good or at the very least unique and interesting so what we're building today is an extreme and I mean extreme sky like X Mini ITX system and if it wasn't obvious the title was a bit of a joke this would be a ludicrous home theater PC but it could certainly be used for that purpose if you wanted what you would use it for well that's up to you and your imagination to work out okay so as for the specs at the heart we are of course using the Intel Core I 979 ATX II it seems like the go-to option for youtubers making ridiculous builds at the moment so I wanted to get in on that action for those of you unaware this is an 18 core 36 thread high-end desktop processor that costs a cool $2,000 us and well that's probably all you really need to know making it possible to cram this beast into a mini ITX enclosure is the highly unique as rock X 299 II ITX AC the only X 299 Mini ITX motherboard in existence priced at $400 us it's all so the most expensive mini ITX motherboard to ever exist however this niche product is very awesome offering extreme horsepower in a small form factor and when compared to almost all micro ATX boards it's actually better stopped as rocks manage to include a 7 phase power design sporting 165 watt TDP processes which of course includes the 18 core monster that will be using quad channel memory support also exists and the board can support up to 64 gigabytes of memory jewel band wireless AC jewel Gigabit LAN six SATA ports and three m2 ports along with loads of USB 3 ports can be found on board as well when it comes to overclocking this little attacker has plenty of headroom as well you'll get a 10 core 20 thread core on own 1700 X to around 4.5 gigahertz without much trouble that said there if you want to overclock the big boys as rock has come up with a solution and that solution was to team up with bits power this partnership has developed the ASR X 299 AI RGB nickel mono block and what a thing of beauty is as you would expect this mono block not only cools the CPU but also replaces the small vrm heatsink offering far better cooling performance the massive block is constructed from copper so it is quite heavy the block has been given a durable nickel finish in silver while the top cover is made from acrylic though much of that cover is covered by a thin aluminium panel which looks quite good for those of you wondering the mono block costs one hundred and seventy dollars EOS along with the mono block we were also provided the bits power Leviathan slim at 240 millimeter all-in-one liquid cooler kit valued at $190 us now we could have gone with some crazy custom liquid cooling bits here and spent significantly more money and time but for now this powerful yet simple all-in-one solution will do nicely it makes for a quick and easy install or at least I hope it will in our case which is the fantex and through evolve shift X I'm not entirely sure how we'll go stuffing all this hardware into this stretched out mini ITX tower but we're certainly going to find out in a moment also provided for this build is G skills new Ripjaws ddr4 3800 laptop memory because the asrock mini ITX x2 iron board still supports quad-channel memory operation it had to use laptops odom modules typically this would limit you do lower frequency memory but not in this case of course you can't expect to pay a pretty penny and we found online for $515 us for the 32 gigabyte kit that's the very same kit that we'll be using the awesome thing about this stuff though is that you can simply load up the XMP profile on the ASRock x29 8i TX AC and you're away the 79 80 XC can now enjoy memory read and write speeds well in excess of 80 gigabytes per second pretty incredible stuff so I can't wait to get building before I do though here is a quick look at the full specs breakdown of everything going in to this wallet-friendly rig that's an eye-watering total build cost there and that's assuming that the RX vega 64 liquid graphics card was purchased at the $700 u.s. MSRP which obviously isn't going to be possible right now and in fact since release seeing one selling at the MSRP has been an extremely rare occurrence since some 1080 T eyes are selling for around $1,000 u.s. right now it's fair to say for a high-end video card you can tack at least another thousand dollars onto the total build cost and that would push us over $7,000 us in total anyway enough talk about crazy high prices let's just get building you okay so time for a quick pause as I run into my first page of problem I don't believe there's an easy way around it at least not with keeping the components that I definitely want to feature in this build it is possible to fit a 240 millimeter rat along with a 120 millimeter rat in the shift X case but there's only enough room if I believe the rads could probably be up to about 25 millimeters thick and not the 30 millimeters thick that we have on the bits power all in one liquid cooler you'd also need to use an SFX power supply or not a full-size ATX power supply well when I say full size it's an ATX form power supply but it is only the 160 millimeters tall that is supported by the case so technically it does fit but it's far from ideal and you can't really use the cases cable management features with a power supply that length because it covers the hole here in the case whether the cables were out up through here and then come in so I'm just got as you can see here an absolute mess so that was a mistake I should have got an sfx power supply I do have plenty of them laying around and I could change that out to an sfx unit if I wanted to but it's not really going to matter because I can't fit this guy in there no matter what power supply you use and that is because of the radiator I cannot physically fit this guy down here so obviously with an SFX power supply that would afford me a bit more distance here so that would fit in but it's not going to fit under this unit here it's simply too thick to get in there so I could move this up a little bit more but then I have the problem of the pump and reservoir which is ultimately the biggest problem I have here because if you put in a full length graphics card like this you can see that it's going a hit quite clearly the pump and reservoir I can move this bracket over here a bit to put the card here so it'll go past the radiator but it's going to hit the pump and resevoir there so there's just no way to get that in there unfortunately so that's left me with a bit of a problem of how I get a graphics card in this system because my main concern is getting the cooling in there because it's really all about that 18 core CPU but I still wanted to have a decent graphics card coming just before I do get to the graphics card some of you guys are probably saying well you could flip this upside down and yeah the reservoir would be upside down you have to flip the whole case over to it if you ever wanted to top it up one option would be there to flip this upside down have the pump and reservoir down here which would be ideal and I hadn't thought of doing that but unfortunately the tubing on the other side doesn't reach and yeah you can get other tubing and put the fittings on that and then it will reach but I don't have tubing in that diameter so I can't do that it's not a quick and easy thing about have the tubing so for the moment this is how does this stay if I could turn it around that might be a way to go about it and then I could if it longer graphics cards you know not ones with their own radiator but certainly an air-cooled graphics card would fit so in the meantime I've pretty much got no option but to use the r9 nano so haven't actually used this thing in a build really so yeah finally got a purpose for the r9 nano and that will fit up there quite snug so you can see that fits with plenty of room to spare so with that being the case let's stick the r9 nano in there finish the build and then take a look at it all complete and yeah please try to ignore the mess of cables I have here it was definitely a mistake using a full-size power supply well sort of I wanted that in there because I do plan to overclock the hell out of the 18 core CPI didn't really want to do that with a you know 500 to 600 watt power supply seat under what - might boot oh okay if I probably know if I was going to stick this in there anyway that's the situation let's get back to building well that looks pretty fancy doesn't it man I'd love to put some hard to be custom liquid cooling setup and they're cooling the CPU and GPU that'd be nice might be something I'm gonna have to do pretty soon I think anyway it's a bit of a disappointment that I couldn't fit the Vega 64 liquid cooled graphics card in there are perhaps even a 1080i this liquid cools but for now I really want to be able to test out that bits power monoblock so this is a setup I've had to go with speaking of which in a follow up video I will be overclocking this 18 core beast I'll be running a few benchmarks and of course I'll be monitoring things like temperatures and reporting that is back so that should be very interesting to say the least before that though here's some b-roll of the system complete hope you guys enjoy that I'm your host Steve say again sir