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welcome back to harbor unboxed today i have a quick little sunday video for you though I always say quick and they never end up being that quick anyway I have a video for you and yeah it's a follow-up to the unboxing video that we did earlier in the week if you missed it on Monday we've got to unbox the new 2nd gen and thread Ripper CPUs along with MSI's x3 900 and creation motherboard this one here the heat sinks are off but I'll talk about that more later and we got the absolutely massive Wraith Ripper cooler in the unboxing video I suggested that if I had time I could create a build video with the thread Ripper 2990 WX the msi extra 9 creation and of course the wraith ripper by making that suggestion it seems I'd pretty much committed myself to the build video giving the overwhelming response that I got from that suggestion a lot of you guys wanted me to make it happen so yeah here I am making it happen so you might have noticed that the complete system is actually right here behind me on the ground I filmed this kind of the wrong way around a different order to how we normally do the process but I was up late last night putting the building together it's about the only time I had and I don't really want to film the intro and talk about it late last night so I've built it but I filmed the process so we can check that out and then after that I will talk a bit more about the final product before we get to that though please note as you can see here well some of you might not actually recognize what this is if you especially if even watch any Computex coverage but I have built inside the thermal take at level 20 GT case which was announced during the Computex trade show and you got to see builds and things on that depending on who you watched but it will be officially released to the public I believe this week so yeah something to look out for sand we can have a bit of a look at it and see how the thread refer processor goes in it so anyway since I've had this case sitting around the studio taking up quite a bit of space I thought what better time to put together a build we can take advantage of the twenty nine ninety WX and the Wraith River and stick it all in there actually look pretty good I think it looks pretty good but we'll get to that in a moment so yeah time to cue up a smooth tune and show you guys the build process okay so there you have it my first 32 core 64 thread workstation build and arts a bit awkward here I couldn't really fit me and the computer in that well so hopefully this shot doesn't look too bad and hopefully the microphone isn't picking up too much noise from the fans I'm not super loud but this close to the microphone there might be louder than you would expect them to be otherwise anyway another issue I realized that the RGB lighting is a bit hippie dippie bit rainbow festival I was going to synchronize them all and go with one or two colors but I just ran out of time to do that so with limited time we have the thread Ripper rainbow build speaking of time are massive and I do mean massive review of the 2990 WX and 2950 x and will be online at this time tomorrow so yeah make sure you check that out it is our longest ever day 1 video I've spent every waking hour and they haven't been many hours where I was asleep so yeah it's been a busy week I easily put in over 100 hours as crazy as that sounds I definitely put in over 100 hours on this content piece so it's very long it's a very in-depth I hope you guys enjoy it anyway getting back to this build video I did attempt to configure the RGB lighting although I was tight on time I quickly did an install of Windows and set it all up unfortunately I couldn't get thermaltake string + software working on the MSI x3 and I'm bored so not sure if that was just an issue that I ran into something that could have been overcome with a bit more time or if there's a fundamental problem there that needs a new version not quite sure on that one I don't know if I have I don't think I have the software to control the right the Ripper so that's something I have to get from probably Coolermaster not sure on that one and the other problem I ran into with hi GB lighting was the asou or a sync lighting only worked for the top Vega 64 graphics card and not the bottom one so I could only yeah sync up the lighting on the top one so that I just bailed on that idea because it wasn't really worth it if only one card was synced up and then what else did I run into with the RGB lighting it was one thing actually it wasn't any I ran into it was a suggestion I think Thermaltake it would be wise to include a hardware controller like an inline optional control that you can put in instead of connecting the USB cable to the motherboard because if it doesn't work and you can't use the software you're stuck with rainbow fans and although it's kind of annoying and if you just want a red or blue or whatever solid color with maybe some basic effects and inline controller would be awesome as far as I know they don't include that I could be wrong I know deep cool include that I didn't see anything like that in the package that said there were a few things missing from my package but anyway if they don't include it an inline like Hardware controller for the RGB lighting would be much appreciated as for the build itself it was pretty straightforward as you can see the level 20 GT is a large heavy case I think there's really no other way to put it it's a nice looking case but it's very large and heavier with the glass panels pretty much on every side so you're the left and the right the front and the top has a glass panel so it makes the case very heavy considering its dimensions but oh yeah nice looking case I've got a few notes on the build so I'll share those now and yeah go there some feedback some constructive criticism let's say well on that note though of course this was just a build video I'm just adding a few extra bits of information it's in no way a review so yeah don't expect a full in-depth review or anything like that I can do that later on but yeah this isn't that one of the issues I ran into with the build it's not a big issue but it was one of the smaller issues I ran into was the cable management there is a reasonable amount of quite a large amount of room really I mean probably not as much as you'd expect for such a massive case but there is still this ample room in the back for cable management the problem I've sort of had with it the there's not enough anchor points and things like that to cable tie cables to and sort of separate things so yeah I was a bit disappointed with the lack of management let's say in the the cable management section that makes sense not a big issue that one but one that was well certainly a bigger issue is it there's really no cable routing in the motherboard tray there are three grommets I believe there was Sorrenti where I covered them up quite quickly with the x3 anion Croatian motherboard that's the thing with an extender ATX motherboard despite the fact that this is a truly massive case you cover all the cable management with that motherboard so there's simply no way to connect things like the 24 pin power cable luckily in my situation I had some individually sleeved cables which can pack down quite flat so I was able to put them under the motherboard and then wrap them around certainly not a traditional way of installing the 24 pin power cable or even really a recommended one but I got away with it in this instance via the complete lack of cable routing when using a large motherboard is very disappointing especially in such a massive case another issue I ran into though this one should just be a problem for my early sample I don't imagine that the production cases will have this problem but anyway it is the key so you need a key or you should have a key to unlock the doors and my sample there's this that's the left and the right door mind you my sample didn't come with the keys so I had no way of opening the case up so yeah I got the case out already to build and I spent about 20 minutes of time that I did not have looking for a key that I did not have so that was a bit frustrating so I either had the option of bailing on this case I'm not using at all I didn't have another case to you so that was the reason why I persevered with this one in the end I shoved a screwdriver in there turned it made a couple of crunching noises nothing to do with the glass thankfully and it opened up and now I can turn it I can open and close it quite easily with a screwdriver and it does stay in place so yeah not great for security if you were intending on using the locking mechanism for security purposes basically it's just to stop really these panels pop open if I can get my hand under there so they've got quite strong magnets so that's nice so that should that grabs it like that so they work very well the magnets are very strong I just saw they're quite hard to pull open so they don't swing open easily that's good but if you do tilt the case or move it or you're carrying it you don't want such a heavy case with the doors flying open while you're trying to carry it so you can lock them but yeah as far as security purposes go anyone with a small screwdriver can just break them with it's very little strength is required so not great for security but good for holding the doors in place and that being the case I'd rather you didn't have a key because even if I had the keys and I owned this case I don't want to be rooting around for 20 minutes every time I've locked the door I need to find the keys because you know you're never gonna find those things whenever you need them so if that was just a little screwdriver thing that would be kind of cool so maybe ditch the keys and make it a little screwdriver thing finally the last spot of bother are the feet those bloody sticks they just make a complete mess of your desk the black mark so they're easy enough to wipe away but every time you put the case down a movement it leaves some black well four black circles on your desk it was pretty funny after I'd finished the actual build it looked like I'd hosted an RC car burnout competition on my desk a disappointingly I hadn't but yeah there was a lot of black rounder circles and skid marks and things everywhere so those are all the annoying and somewhat disappointing aspects of the level twenty GT and my particular build everything else though went really smoothly the Wraiths Ripper that's really nice cooler extremely easy to install and remove so that's nice so anyone that gets that you won't have any problems there's just this full of screw holes on the top so for such a massive cooler really is extremely quick and easy to install installing the tr4 see people stalling CPUs and the tr4 socket rather that's not that straightforward but if you haven't done it before it's probably a bit nerve-wracking especially with an $1,800 u.s. CPU I made a joke on Twitter about that but once you've done it a few times it's really quite simple as for thermals on the Wraith Reaper I can't disclose anything at least with the 2990 WX at the moment because the ladies under NDA but that'll all be included in tomorrow's video the MSI X 399 creation obviously looks great you probably can't see it that well I won't open the door now but yeah that looks absolutely fantastic in there with the Wraith Ripper on it and of course that board has just an absolutely massive verum so you can see it on this second board I have here that I'm about to go do some very informal temperature testing with so that will be fun and that'll be some content you'll see probably later on the week there's the big heat sink that cools down the vrm and then the plastic shroud that goes over that in the i/o but anyway no need to get into that right now now speaking of the VRM on the crashing Motherwell quite a few of you have asked me if it's a real 16 phase of e Corvair M and yes it is well it's an eight phase-- vrm but there are double as creating 16 phases I created this block diagram that better illustrates the design of the vrm but you know go into more detail about that in a future content piece MSI say it should have no trouble delivering 720 watts and I'll dive into again the thermal performance of the vrm when it's under quite a lot of load can't specify how much just yet but quite a lot alone and I'll also compare it to flagship boards from as Rock a Seuss and gigabyte well that's really all I have time for this probably wasn't that quick I do to rattle on a bit there as I tend to do when I do these builds but anyway I hope you guys enjoyed the build sequence stay tuned because tomorrow you are getting hit with the mother of all CPU review so hopefully you enjoy that and thanks for watching I'm your host Dave say again next time cameras really too far away for that snake anyway