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welcome back to harbor unboxed I'm here with Matt so hi Matt yup well done still we go and we are about to build Matt's new computer so we've from the previous episode we tested with it just on the bench and got some temperatures they're all quite good we're going to stick it in the case now retest it and see what we end up with so time to get building I'll put the film face on yeah go for it is that what are you doing oh if the people is a comment section see that Matt why not do it again where's the cloth I can't believe you doing yeah I know you'll be happy that's the wrong that's the wrong method as well you serious haven't you you did this for like a year these bills how do you not know the correct method for thermal post try again is it you start here right no no no no no wrong ah I'll do it I'll do it give me the thermal paste yeah that's how it's done see the difference between how you were doing it I mean I did it let me try so just like this no that's still not right it's it's going to be just right a perfect amount you're ready wash yeah okay I can't see what you did there yeah you got it that's one and make sure I can do it alright we'll go with that I'm gonna have to settle alright so the instructions we were given by vet Phoenix was to top mount the 240 millimeter radiator which will work well for extracting the heat from the CPU unfortunately we can't do that because it very clearly hits the top of the motherboard the vom heatsink doesn't even come close to fitting so that's not going to be an option we're going to have to front mount the radiator which means we'll be pushing any hot air generated by it into the case which isn't really ideal and we prefer to exhaust that at the top the only other option would be to sit the fans externally on top of the case and that would have to be pulling through the radiator so anyway we have to relocate that and sort of change the plans we were going with okay so that's where we're at we have many fans in the front the top the back and as a result those are fan headers and RGB connectors that Matt's going to deal with and make really neat in probably the next hour or two yeah all right so when you record Matt looking all right so far I'm pretty pretty black-and-white isn't it yep Matt's pretty happy with the black and white thing we've got going on here it wasn't planned it just seemed to happen that way anyway we've got most of it put together we're just about ready to do the initial test fire it up we've just got to work out a graphics card do we have the graphics cards laying around anywhere oh they're right over the fire desk so the plan initially was to install a gtx 1070 TI why not overclock that 1080 light performance pretty good bang for your buck that was what we were thinking of going with but I'm no longer feeling that generous because graphics card pricing is crazy at the moment not sure Matt deserves a 1080 Ti I'm gonna take a poll on that one I'm guys at affordable alternative right now and not even sure of alternative to a GTX Everett is the right word to use but an affordable graphics Cal at the moment is the RX 560 many leagues different in terms of gaming performance what Matt really only plays games like a rocket League and stuff like that so maybe that is something you can use to tie yourself over till graphics card pricing falls in line so we're gonna try both cards and see if Matt can play rocket League on his rx 560 I think I think he can make do quite comfortably so let me at 725 find out what Matt's opinion is on the matter in a moment all right so you can probably hear the fans they're reasonably loud we haven't done any fan curves or anything like that yet we've just powered on it looks to be working we'll plug an SSD in a moment see if we can fire it up into Windows and we'll run some tests with the front cover off with it on see how much difference that makes on thermals of course what the side panels on as well and yeah we'll run some thermal tests right now to see how it goes okay so we're back up and running and we're about to start stress testing again we have the ambient air temperature in the room is caught by a degree sore at 22 degrees so it shouldn't impact us too heavily we're currently idling at 29 degrees with the overclock so we're gonna let this stress for an hour of course the front of the case is off so we have just boatloads of air flow going through the end zone at the moment so this is an optimal scenario for this case once we've done this test with the front panel off and record the results we're gonna throw the front panel on and see how we get on like that ah back soon okay so let's first get a few things out of the way for testing we're obviously using a 240 millimeter all-in-one liquid cooler and a boatload of fans this isn't a review of the BitFenix Enzo if it were would at least test the case with an air cooler on the CPU and a stock fan configuration I can certainly see how this case would suffer with just a single 120 millimeter front mounted fan in the middle position there it's almost just moving air around itself for this kind of limited airflow design let's say for it to work you really need three 120 millimeter fans mounted in the front thankfully though with the a IO we were forced to do that anyway of course we've also installed two 120 millimeter top mounted fans as well and they really help move air through the case the Enzo is an $80 US case at that price it's reasonably good value given it looks nice and the build quality solid and it's pretty easy to work with performance wise it was great using how configuration which saw three 120 millimeter fans in the front and three in the rear the fans use were the BitFenix Spectre Pro RGB LED 120 millimeter case fans and they cost $17 ush so we have 102 dollars worth of fans in an $80 case this is an extreme example and we were mostly paying for the fancy LED lighting effects BitFenix also sells 120 millimeter case fans for just six dollars and even without the fans from the all-in-one liquid cooler you technically only need an additional four so you could achieve similar levels of airflow for an additional twenty four dollars and that would take the total bill for the case to about a hundred dollars which isn't that bad okay so time for some temperature testing and this is what we're faced with stop the results were most impressive on the bench as seen in the previous episode the rise in seven 1,700 hit 44 degrees with the vrm temp of 60 degrees once installed in the Enzo the CPU load temps increased by just four degrees and we felt that was a very reasonable and well great result the vrm temps though those fell by 10 degrees and I believe this is largely due to those two 120-millimeter top mounted fans then once overclocked we see an increase of just 5 degrees for the CPU once installed inside the Enzo granted with the front panel removed we did see no change in temperature when compared to the open test bed so if the case did offer better airflow the results would have been comparable to that of our best case scenario but I suppose that's not that surprising vrm temps with the front panel removed they were good for the gigabyte motherboard anyway though I'd have to say 97 degrees is still rather horrible still even with the front panel installed we still saw better temps when compared to the open test bed so while certainly hot out once installed inside the end so the results are still very good and not far from our best-case scenario as a side note if BitFenix shipped the Enzo with to 120 millimeter fans in the front then I feel it would perform much better in its out-of-the-box configuration right well I think that went really well what do you reckon yeah it looks awesome it builds really clean really like the colours and coming to start doing some work with it yeah I agree I'm I'm pretty surprised by how little difference we saw with the components installed in this case especially after I'd heard that this is quite a hot case so it was a bit of a toaster a toast a bit it's yeah really surprising I only saw four or five degree difference in the room temperatures gone up a degree or so so very very surprising I'd like to do actually a bit more testing with it but handing it off to you so I don't know no I'm sure we can do about that fit anyway hope you guys enjoyed the build series building Matt's new computer Matt enjoys his new computer and it all goes well for him so thanks for watching and we'll see you again next time