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hello good people Ibraheim with hardware connects and I'm here in Mike's house in Montreal and we're actually working on a fun little project I mean I really want to thank him for inviting me over here to work on it and help him out with that but as you're probably aware the title of this video it is build related and it's an exciting one so why don't we invite Mike here to talk about a little bit more about that in this experience and of course yeah just see how things are Michael the last time you saw me was actually probably sleeping on the couch Computex yes I'll make sure to leave that or probably the link is up here somewhere over there but how are you doing man I'm very good I'm good we want to get this build under ways yes so what has been in your history like for your pc's like what are you permanent primarily using as your main system the history of hardware canucks is that I do a lot of the testing behind the scenes and then sometimes I give the results to you sometimes we give them to Dimitri that means I have a lot of test systems here yeah and I'm a practical guy so I ended up using the test systems as my own personal assistant okay right work as an architect on a contract basis as well so what ends up happening if something goes wrong with that system I sometimes lose my project I lose time that I'm spending on a different professional career as I do the testing so I wanted to get away from that but I also wanted to sort of give us a little bit of a challenge to see how we could put together a relatively compact high-performance system for myself with components that I want to carry over from my personal test system yeah and also make sure that it's high powered enough that I'm covered for both the professional and gaming life that I also lead yeah because he does gain - so just in case if you didn't know what I have time when you have the time so why don't we take a look at the parts in the components list right after this hello I'm looking for some fans well are you married uh yeah I have a ring what is your favorite number I would say 3 do I have the perfect fan for you this is the new thermal tech ring trio 12 fans with good static pressure for radiators it is a beautiful frame with double side and center ring illumination with soft and super brights bill with razor chrome and compatibility control it through your smartphone the RGB plus software on the PC or Amazon Alexa well I'm gonna take these home perhaps you should to check them out in the description below okay so let's not go over the components for this bill starting off with the CPU so with that we decided to go with the core I $9.99 ATX II the most expensive CPU that Intel can offer for the enthusiast platform so Mike can you can you explain to me why you decided to go with this be the CPU well for me the decision was easy because a we had it on hand from testing okay let's be honest we don't recommend this i9 processor for gamers or even for enthusiasts because there with the solder Tim it actually gets hotter under overclocking so the amount of headroom is really limited but for my use so where where I need a ton of threads a ton of cores is in my rendering so in the professional side so with that 36 threads I'm ripping through renders in some cases even faster than CUDA can accomplish them for example in v-ray and in blender as well at least in some areas I'm actually seeing better performance with this CPU than I am with an RT x-series car now so the other thing that I really wanted to do in a little bit disappointed that I couldn't is you thread Ripper I was hoping that asrock at some point in time nude do something crazy and release a thread Ripper ITX board yeah but that's that's not gonna happen because the socket by itself takes the entire board so exactly we were looking into that yeah so I guess that leads us to the motherboard we decided to go with as rocks X 299 ITX and this is a really interesting motherboard just for the fact that it's ITX and it's extra 9 but it's the features at this board packs so for starters it's got three MDOT to nvme slots which is which are PCI gen3 two of which are located on the back and then you have another one that's kind of located it's it's a dim kind of it's it's a dim slot application right it looks like it did it looks like a dinner so you just pops into the motherboard and you've got six SATA 6 gigabits per second ports it's got support for Quantrell memory the only drawback for that is that it can only support soda memory and if you look at soda memory prices it's ridiculous expensive we didn't really have a choice yeah because this asrock where is the only X 299 ITX board on the market that's right that's right so the next thing i want to talk about is VRMs because obviously we are planning on doing a little bit of overclocking to see if it'd be arms are capable of doing that but it's it's gonna be interesting to see how cooling takes place or just how well this board can handle an 18 core monster now speaking of memory we chose G skills rib jaws sodium a quad shell memory kit clocked at 3800 megahertz it's pretty fast for its size moving on to the GPU Auriga x20 atti i know it's an RT x series card but it is also the fastest card on the market and from a personal perspective I have found not only does it play games at super high frame rates but it the extra CUDA cores or the GTX 1080 T I really do help with certain applications that I use on a daily basis to do rendering not to mention if you're using programs like octane those those CUDA cores can come in really beneficial if you have plans to go with another r-tx card to compensate for that green logo so what did you so I really really wanted to use this so gigabyte sent this over a couple weeks ago we are going to do a review on it and this is the RT X xx atti from Oris its massive I don't know if this is actually gonna fit in the case that I chose so speaking of the case Ebert you like this case I love this case it's the NZXT CH 200 Mini ITX case it's it's just compact its minimalistic its simple is cute a good word to use I don't think so but there were a couple of comments that we got when we posted a picture of this case on both Twitter and on Instagram yeah it's it's an m-80 exercise case why are you using this for an ITX system and the reason for that is pretty simple we want to maximize airflow and there's so few ITX cases on the market right now that can allow for dual 120 millimeter intake fans and also 120 millimeter top and exhaust fans so because of the amount of power that we're putting into this case I wanted to make sure that there was adequate air flow so to balance the size versus air flow this is what I want was Plus it's that really nice black and blue color that I wanted yeah now you talked about carrying over some components from your test bench towards your main workstation PC yeah whatever exactly are those so there's a couple things the the first thing that I really wanted to look at was storage I didn't see the need to update my storage solution I just wanted to bring it over it's already on annex 299 system right now so there was the samsung 960 512 gigabyte that i ended up bringing over and there was also it's a little bit of an older drive but the Intel 730 series SSD for 80 gigabytes those are also probably gonna be the first things that I'm gonna update not necessarily on the OS drive but on my Steam library Drive I'm probably gonna start needing more space there's also the Corsair ax 1200 watt power supply which I'm not which I'm not sure is gonna fit in this case technically according to Adams NXT it will but it's an extremely large power supply but it's a thousand Twitter watts which is a little bit of overkill but I had it on hand yeah it's 80 plus gold I didn't see I need to update it so we're gonna try to make it fit if not we're sort of screwed because we don't have another person that's right all right I think the last thing to cover here is of course the cooling solution for the processor so we decided to go with an AI you quoted from NZXT it's the X 52 to 40 minute cooling solution we're gonna experiment on this thing so we're gonna go with an AI of cooler see what the temperatures I like and if we're not happy with it we will definitely switch to an air core and see if that actually improves which I'm sure would be interesting to look at or possibly a custom loop so finally a custom loop sometime in the future so let's get to building min let's do it alright guys so here is the final build as you can see it looks absolutely beautiful and cute I mean look at how small that Bane's it's just I want one so bad now but but anyways like what do you what are you thoughts in this build are you happy with the way it turned out it was a challenge it was probably the most challenging build and that's what we wanted to do right we wanted to give ourselves a challenge the worst challenge was actually connecting those cables because since given how small the motherboard is and given I mean either obviously had to make some compromises when it comes to placing those you know fan headers and stuff like that it was really difficult I mean my hands wouldn't work because I have big hands but we needed my Pistons reach those little spots there to connect those cables so all I wanted was a simple look with maybe a couple little splashes of that blue color that I loved so much and in addition to that we had some problems with the amount of fans that were running in here so we're running four fans that's right and there wasn't enough headers on the asrock motherboard for that so we need to use one fan splitter I know at the beginning of the video that we actually said that we would be using the founders Edition that's right but I did try to fit this into the case and because of the proximity between that ITX PCIe slot and where the power supply shroud is this thing wouldn't fit because it is higher than three slots it's almost like 3.25 slot yeah and that's just not gonna cut it exactly but to mention also on the H 200 case if you want to do a two point five slot graphics card that causes a problem to because it's so close to that shroud it's just gonna completely choke it out yeah so we end up going at the founders Edition because from a twenty eight ETI perspective it's actually the slimmest card out there it's only two slots alright umm so should begin to performance performance and acoustics and acoustics now moving on to temperatures we were both expecting them to be much higher than this especially during a hybrid CPU and GPU render in v-ray which really stresses the entire system even the acoustics under load were really good at around 39 decibels of where Mike sits and as for overclocking we were only able to achieve around 200 megahertz higher since the temperatures on the VRMs and CPU core became a problem so we reverted back to Intel stock settings so now that you've taken a look at the benchmarks okay I think it's time to wrap up our thoughts on this build so Michael what are your final thoughts to me what's the next evolution to this build so first of all as we were running the benchmarks and I was using a couple of programs that are used on a daily basis and gaming I realized that it's actually a little bit more than I need so the the next couple of steps I do need to upgrade my storage game especially as we get into 4k more 4k and 8k video rendering I get into high resolution projects on a rendering basis and these game files keep on getting bigger and bigger so I'm gonna start looking into that I've got a couple of ideas primarily because we set it up to look this way but the Intel 730 with the little skull look on there yeah it I thought it was gonna look relatively cool but I think it takes away from the whole blue and black color scheme improve your workflow it's stream deck mini by Elgato giving you six fully customizable LCD keys for macro commands hotkeys app launches media control and the full array customization for OBS Twitch xsplit and more check out the stream deck mini down below so that pretty much wraps up this build hope you guys enjoyed it let us know in the comments down below what you think about this build in fact if you're planning out an ITX system what will be the configuration like unlocked in your thoughts as well I'm Eber I'm Mike thank you so much for watching make sure to check out some relevant content over here subscribe to our boot sequence Channel and we'll see you in the next one