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more boxes taking over the office let me show you so here here here but today I mostly care about this guy the street on TV for beautiful aluminum cube now you might recall me doing this whole abstract thing of filming this case inside a park wow that was actually pretty fun except for a very close call with a bicyclist who almost knocked out my camera but the point of this video is this the lh6 but the point of this video is the lh6 cooling upgrade kit so I have extra heat pipes in here so we can connect the CPU to two walls instead of one let's get started every day treat yourself for the best quality sounds to compliment any lifestyle your ears deserve at some Heiser momentum products move freely with the gorgeous momentum in ears or styler dock with the momentum India Wireless with the leather neck band and up to 10 hours battery life or fully zone out with active noise-cancelling momentum Wireless available an over ear or on to your pairs enjoy your music with San Heiser move with the momentum full details in description below yeah pretty cute see this box I can hide easily but what do I do with this so we get extra key pipes extra mounting brackets looks like we have extra aluminum bases and hopefully this amounts of thermal paste old enough and so the whole premise of the TV for let me remind you is for it to be a completely famous profile so there are no fans in this system and so therefore we're actually utilizing the case itself as he thinks so in the original we connected our 4690k to one side panel so that's the default configuration but this would with this lh6 kit I'm allowed to route those heat pipes onto two side panels allow me to you know give me BB the heating capacity so that I can actually overclock that chip come on gang inside here isn't easy now my initial idea with this upgrade video was to put an SFX power supply and GPU so I could turn this into a proper gaming station but because there's zero airflow the GPU would get really hot I decided to just stick with a CPU we're going to overclock it and see just how good the side panels can cool it now for the CPU I'm using a 4690k which is an i-5 it's like quite a cold CPU but still it's very capable and the reason why I'm using it is because it's an 88 watt CPU or TDP where it's one of these side panels is rated 65 watts so with this upgraded lh6 kit I'm able to increase the cooling capacity of this case to 105 Watts so I'm still within the limits of the CPU CDP and hopefully give me a little bit of overclocking Henry so this is the original heatsink design so you can see the CPU block there are four copper heat pipes connected directly to this another aluminium block that connects the side panel but so we will be restructuring this to add two more heat pipes in total to make 6 so that we can cover two side panels trying to arrange all the systems in the correct order but also having to deal with thermal paste and I think my motherboard does not have the proper CPU socket orientation it is a very messy process and you can see and just as I thought the CPU socket on this motherboard actually does not align with the lh6 upgrade kit because these heat pipes are supposed to sort of exit and go below the motherboard like so but they're not long enough on this so if the CPU socket was closer to the top area that that's that would have been optimal but I'm gonna have to see I can rotate the heat pipes to come out from this and luckily I can just simply take out the heat pipes without needing to remove the entire block wow I did not expect them to be this soft like I can seriously look at this okay so there we go this is how it's supposed to melt now I just have to make sure that the distance from the motherboard to the side panel is correct and then it's not I can sort of insert them a little bit further into the CPU block so that I can have everything mounted but in this case we are blocking that PTI plot and the moment of truth good thing the motherboard tray is removable simply slides in there without any problems damn alright so the model goes in now what I have to worry about is the distance from this from these aluminum blocks to the side panel and from what it looks like it seemed like it was yeah actually touch so we're good this is one of my least favorite motherboards to work with because the i/o connections are not labeled so you have to always look in the manual on where everything goes and just such an awkward layout man so this is quite frustrating and we'll be honest because these heat pipes are so soft and I guess when I was placing them inside the block the bent and so these these parts that have to enter this aluminum block are not exactly straight so I cannot cool the aluminium block beyond a certain point unless I really sort of you know push is really hard and in the process it straightens out these heat pipes and you've really got to be in the right state of mind trying to work with these little brackets and everything being so tight inside but the SSDs installed I just have to apply thermal pads and put some more thermal paste on this panel close them up and hopefully let's begin overclocking and my only concern here is the power delivery because the power supply only has a four pin for the motherboard which usually accepts an eight pin so I'm hoping that will not be a problem when we tried to push the CPU and because of this particular layout on the motherboard with the cables coming out at this end this is where the lh6 get upgrade supposed exit not possible we have to rotate it to the GPU area you know beside the PCI slots and stuff and so therefore there's no way I can install a GPU here now because yeah the smaller board doesn't allow it so we have two of these heat pads or thermal pads the one advantage with these thermal pads they don't cause any mess but with this place they do recommend using a thermal paste as you can see it's a little messy but that with the thermal paste we get a much better cooling dissipation wait no wrong side there see one advantage of using thermal pads BAM thermal paste first BAM alright so now the system is finished let's set it up all right so let's turn this system on it is so weird not hearing any fan noise nothing spinning up no beeps absolutely quiet would be bb4 so we're and you can see temperatures of idle are pretty good we're hovering you're like around 35 with lower 30s this is a 3.9 3.9 gigahertz so pretty good I want to stress that this now and now let's see how far we can push it when you overclock all right so now we're starting to stress test and temperature is a little bit toasty as you can see we're reaching almost a hundred degrees on one the cores but the other cores are relatively cool in the mid 80s to the touch all heat pipes are warm so that's that's very good both aluminum plates here and they are really hot along with the main plate right here that's also really hot but I'm assuming that the actual socket plate on the CPU isn't aligned properly because you know the the discrepancy or the variation between the CPU temperatures between these cores it's quite significant so I might have to remount it just to make sure that that CPU block is on the CPU entirely all right so I did wiggle the CPU block down a little bit so hopefully that covers more of the CPU or potentially you know have a bit more consistency across the entire block let's put the memory back in and retest all right yet so after doing more stress testing CPU temperatures remain pretty much exactly where they were around a hundred degrees on the hottest core and I'm running W prime right now so my theory behind this hotness is well this panel you know the main key pipes are attached here and they're connected via thermal paste versus thermal pads on this side and this panel is significantly harder to the touch versus that one however both or all heat pipes inside are very very hard to touch so my thinking is that the heat dissipation from the heat knives from the aluminum plate doesn't translate very well to here right so I'm going to do is I'm going to put thermal paste instead of the thermal pads and we'll see if that does anything now the one really interesting thing I've discovered with these side panels is that heal yourself with ice cold chains can dissipate some of the heat this is accumulating on this side panel so after washing my hands on the ice cold water I applied both of them onto the side panel and I noticed a slight decrease in temperatures in real temp on all course so that's pretty interesting of course once my hands got really warm temperatures went back up again where they were hovering around like high 90s but it was still quite interesting to see things a drop by two degrees or simply by touching the case all right so let's peel these off no problem with thermal passes you know they how they store them after you use them good thing in there don't leave much of a mess so now the thermal paste is in there interestingly we did drop a few temper a few degrees on the seat on the course not sure if that's because the top is open or the thermal paste is actually you know acting up but the main thing to feel here would be the side panel after is some load to see how warm it gets because it wasn't getting really warm not as much as this panel and even after applying a thermal paste while it looks like we're reaching a hundred degrees and you know what that's understandable because the CPU is quite hot plus the side panel can only hold so much heat and there's nothing removing that heat away from the actual side panel so you know astrodome has done a fantastic job of removing the heat away from the CPU but how do you handle cooling of the actual chassis so yeah all right I came in I installed a fan in my family system it is on the exterior and it's running very quietly at 500 rpm and just a tiny bit of airflow delivered from the exterior dropped my low temperatures by 10 degrees so we go from high 90s to hovering just under 80 degrees Celsius which is actually so amazing and proves my theory of having this really excellent you know delivery to the side panels but if there is nothing to dissipate that heat away from the side panels themselves then you're stuck with a hot CPU especially be constantly running an app load so it's pretty interesting to discover this tiny bit of airflow and how much heat dissipation and how much extra cooling you get with just one additional fan on the exterior and finally we can all talk a little bit CPU ratio at 42 voltage is 1.2 hopefully that's not too hot for the system especially now with your fame at it let's see how how it handles so right now at the four point two with the 1.2 volts and yeah already reaching a hundred degrees very quickly so the overclock is not it's not going to this this case cannot handle such high temperatures so you can see we're throttling already maybe 1.2 volts is too much and so now I lower the voltage to one point one two hopefully that has its stable so far no crashes I mean they're still rising to 90s but let's see if it reaches the 100 well it seems like we're approaching back to the 100 degrees mark so regardless of the voltages I think that you know this this case have a lot of potential for lower water to CPUs maybe I threes and the more efficient Skylink stuff and maybe Kb like - but it's really really an interesting ride trying to find what's the optimal thing to do with this case and having a single fan to cool the exterior husband has proven to be very useful I'm very happy with that but this case is really not meant to be for enthusiasts overclockers anyway so but i'm glad that i went ahead and tried to figure out with what this case is really you know squeeze out all the potential so I hope you guys enjoy this video make sure to subscribe and stay tuned for more coverage of everything that's coming from this office thanks so much for watching we'll see 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