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well hello the people look with just a ride fred is already on this guy the in wind a1 you see I love me a good quality ITX enclosure hopefully this is one of them let's unbox Wow so that thing is looking pretty sweet let me show you through view all right so now that's out of the way I know you guys like and of course I do too my take of b-roll but in this video I won't talk about five reasons of why I love ITX and why that low a one is replacing my current large tower so let me tell you why I love ITX so much right after this the new master keys MK 750 keyboard comes with a comfortable magnetic wrist rest beautiful RGB light bar on the perimeter and perky lighting control with a variety of Cherry MX switches and the bottom type-c connection Coolermaster doing it right check it out the low so the first obvious advantage with ITX is size don't get me wrong I love my PC Oh 11 dynamic it's a beautiful you know glass enclosure I can fit a lot of things in there but it requires its own little pedestal so it's kind of on the same level as my desk but look at this guy he's tiny and you can definitely put it on the desk itself and not occupy another piece of furniture so relocating this case is really not an issue if you decide to move it around a little bit in your space plus you can potentially put it in some form of a duffel bag if you're going to a LAN event or just want to carry this thing wherever you go and for size comparison here's the H of hundred i from NZXT the latest mint tower this thing is pretty compact but look at how much smaller the a1 is here's the GPU right next to it for a little size reference this has a glass top which is awesome so you can accessorize obviously the perfect space for Fred and by the way the glass top has a Qi charger built-in which is awesome so you can charge your smartphone or and in my case I can charge my mouse on top of the case a really unique feature for the a1 reason number two potentially the less obvious one aside from the much smaller form factor would be the unique designs that we have with ITX cases for example take the shift X from fantex are really unique towering ITX case make sure to check out our review over here the MKS m1 is a really popular format the new streak on da2 that we checked out the Computex that's a really unique one here and the a1 sort of fits within that same formula of being compact space efficient and doesn't have any hardware compromises in terms of what you can in terms of GPU some storage and cooling there is a lot of happening with the a1 in terms of design so like the curvature of the front panel different materials you know that transparent section the bottom is not something that we have seen but the only thing that kind of stands out to me is the in wind text at the front it's not my thing but at least it's not too intrusive whereas with ATX case designs they all feel too similar to each other so there is less differentiation in the ATX space versus what you can get with ITX which brings me to my third point and that is size does not matter for powerful hardware you can still have an incredibly powerful and capable machine without it occupying much space and to prove that point I'm going to relocate my main system from this giant full tower into the tiny a1 without changing any of my main hardware components so that is an 80 600 K inside this ITX motherboard I have had no issues overclocking into 5 gigahertz which is awesome the titanic's piece again going here the m-dot to drive which is my OS drive is gonna go underneath this heatsink and I have three other snow SSDs which is perfect because this motherboard has four SATA connections the only thing that's different will be memory capacity which is cut in half because I only have two RAM slots instead of 4 but still 32 gigs of ram is totally fine in some aspects this motherboard is far superior versus my z3 7080 X prime because this one has a type C front IO connection and a 5 volt addressable RGB header which is perfect for this case it also has built-in Wi-Fi excellent so now that the system swap assembly into the a1 begin so there she is fully assembled everything's working fine which brings me to my fourth point the satisfaction of building something like this because you know it's more challenging everything is more cramped there's less space to work with you have to approach it from like a strategic point of view and when you're routing the 24 pin cable the 8 pin cable for example here I had to insert the CPU tower after the motherboard that all the cables were pre routed because otherwise it would just not fit and so you kind of have to go around a certain way to work around the limitations of such a tiny space but in the end if you're doing it the right way it is super rewarding now the underglow of this skirt is actually pretty cool as long as you have a 12 volt RGB header on your motherboard otherwise it's just simply blue if you power it via eSATA now the a1 comes with a built-in 600 watt bronze certified power supply so it's not that efficient but 600 watts should be enough for my system the thing is it only has three SATA connections so for my three SSDs that's fine but the lighting control here also requires SATA power so just keep that in mind and check this out there is this plastic cover that goes over the cable exit hiding that stuff really nice but it isn't physically attached the power supply via a screw so if you were to replace the power supply maybe pop in your SFX or another ATX power supply in here you will not be able to install the bracket back so be nice if this thing was installed to the frame and not on the power supply itself now this whole situation where the power supply cover is unfortunate because this is a terrible design and when come on because you have to slide it from the side but that's where my CPU tower is you know be nice if this was just like a little clip on from the top you don't have to worry about like passing any cables to it really bad because I cannot install this now and you can see the cables exiting from the power supply now I will say I'm pretty proud of my cable management job you know nothing is sticking out the front so there is no restrictions for air flow and like I can remove components without cabling being on the way but I'm also pretty happy at the cable management job at the back so both us as these are connected and you know no cabling is sticking out so I can close the panel nope but now you may be thinking hey Demetri what's up with the airflow you went from a 360 all-in-one cooler and potential to install six more fans inside the Leonie case to something like that where you have one intake fan from the side and just the CPU tower fan doing all the exhaust for you and that brings me to my fifth point of why I love ITX if configured correctly for airflow you're looking at less volume of air that needs to be replaced every second and therefore you don't need to cram that enclosure with so many fans because one intake from the side and one exhaust will definitely do the trick for cooling with my CPU tower that does a pretty decent job at 5 gigahertz on the CPU and the GPU is thing pretty nice and cool too and the only real compromise I have with my ITX motherboard is that I only have two fan headers which means that I cannot connect more fans without splitters which I don't have but I would potentially install one intake at the bottom to deliver a cool air for the GPU and one additional exhaust vent at the back so that you can create this nice channel of airflow and these the fans are super quiet anyway so I wouldn't worry about noise now sure in mid towers you have more radiator space and space for fans and just general emptiness inside the enclosure so things can feel like you know you're not crammed in but with a proper set up in a tiny space you're looking at the same temperatures if not better alright so those are all my reasons of why I love ITX and potentially encourage you guys to move into that direction because you know there is some challenge that is involved in working with such tight quarters but it is a rewarding experience as long as you approach it from that mentality it's not like a giant food tower where you have a lot of space to maneuver you know it's a it's a compact space and you have to approach it accordingly now the one split point one comes to ITX systems art visuals you know it's not really about how the hardware looks on the inside instead it's all about the exterior visuals so I'm using the Titanic speed the collector's edition it looks beautiful but it's almost semi wasted on the interior because you can't see it and so I was gonna use the T for steam group memory the knifehog because the lighting on here is fantastic plus this is a white module so it kind of fits in with the white theme of the case and the silver motherboard majority of the time with ITX you'll have to steer away from beautiful hardware into something that there's just functional and non visible and by the way you can check out the team group Emery down the description below now aside from having fewer fan headers on the motherboard because of ITX for this case in particular we only have two USB ports on the i/o which is fine for ITX but that is one of the advantages of larger mid towers and full towers that normally come with four but I would say the main deterrent or the disadvantage when it comes to ITX for most people would be price regardless of the difficulty of working and something like this this Z 370 motherboard inside there is more expensive than my z3 7080 ex-prime motherboard which is you know definitely more future-proof more expansion stuff so yeah but aside from more expensive hardware you're also looking at more expensive enclosure so this one sells for $169 and while it has that unique underglow and just the entire format that's pretty cool plus the Qi charger the power supply built in you know it's more expensive than my D&D encoder and I love this thing it's also quite unique or the H 500 for example the new ones from NZXT that thing is 79 or 69 bucks and sure it's much larger but the experience I would say is definitely a lot more pleasing to most people but yeah that is what you have to deal with when you go towards the ITX route I don't know maybe we should call it the Mini ITX tax because all the hardware is generally more expensive you know the process of assembly is more difficult however you can't ignore the fact that it's much smaller and the end result is rewarding satisfying at least to me I don't know what about you alright good people so those are my five reasons why I love ITX perhaps you should try the same direction as well pretty happy how this turned out you know I'm keeping all the same hardware as I have on mid towers that I've had that are what at least three times in volume and the cooling capacity in here with just two fans is actually pretty awesome and so let me know if you're also considering downsizing because it's not bad at all join the wireless club with Corsairs new dark core Mouse play the way you want with nine programmable buttons aligned in the comfortable shape and fantastic sensor you can trust and crazy-good wireless performance + qi wireless charging built-in focus on the game the dark core will do the rest alright so make sure to check out this other relevant content links for parts are in the description below if you're interested in anything that we've shown here today I'm a Dmitry we'll see you in the next video it probably a full Tower if I look into my crystal ball