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hey what's up guys Jase $0.02 here and I'm going to do something that's a pretty new and unique to my channel because I'm going to be reviewing a pre-built system we're going to be taking a look here at the Zeus mini from cyber PowerPC and I want to point out that this is not available on the market yet this does not launch until February 28th and I've been given full NDA disclosure and ability to go ahead and talk all about this product so I don't know if this is an exclusive or not but I can tell you that we're going to go ahead and talk about it and be one of the first to show you about this super tiny mini ITX built here from cyber PowerPC so don't go away now you guys might be wondering why the hell does J have a z87 I gaming ITX motherboard box here on his desk I may have already reviewed this thing we're taking a look at this well two reasons one this is the motherboard that is powering this system and 2 it is basically holding a lot of the stuff that comes with your system here you've got your driver disks and you got your windows 8.1 disk and you know manuals cables the antennas because it says a Wi-Fi wireless system so they pretty much just put everything in the motherboard box which is pretty typical when it comes to system integrators and builders that are already dealing with pre-built systems now this is really small and the dimensions of this actually you know guys I'm gonna bring up the website because and the link to more information about the system is down the description so please don't forget about the description make sure you guys check that out the dimensions on this are seventeen point four inches long four point four inches wide and 13 inches tall so as you can see that is a very compact system in fact it's about the size of a old-school VHS like cassette tape I know you guys are like what the hell is a VHS J what are you talking about I'm aging myself guys but the size of a VCR yeah video cassette recorder there you go uh let's go and talk about the specs before we talk about like the case because the case itself is really unique I'm have already torn this thing apart and take a look at it I've always get concerned about cooling in such small cases so I have already torn this thing apart and put it back together this is featuring the Intel i7 4770k it is not overclocked and I kind of don't really recommend it in this configuration and I'll tell you why a little bit later Windows 8.1 64-bit it's got a 240 gigabyte Intel 520 series SSD it's the green Zeus 100 Mini ITX case which we're looking at right here it does come in other colors black red it's all on the website check it out it is the EVGA 500 Y 80 watt bronze power supply it's the cooler master side in 120 M cooler and that's kind of why I don't really recommend and overclocked in the 4770k 4770k too much because 120-millimeter coolers of really any brand and with Intel's uh you know the has real cooling is just really difficult because of the bad internal heat spreader at the hole in the video it does have an eight-time slim our 8 X slim drive in here does have an optical does have a GTX 780 superclocked and the MSI is 87 I which we've already talked about now the case you can see it lifts out of this little stand here to make sure that you don't knock it over now some of these cases that are of this style allow you to lay them flat or stand them up I don't recommend you lay it flat because this is designed with cross flow in mind it pulls from one side of the case and goes out the other same thing with a ventilation on the top you don't want to if you plug one side of this you're not going to get the flow that you need in this case which could lead to overheating on the front we've got the slim drive right there we've got our power button LEDs that are in here and light up got some cyber power branding right there and you've got your green mesh which is also on the side on the side right here we have a single USB 3.0 Jack our input and output for audio and a USB 2.0 you've got your Windows key right there we'll make sure we don't zoom in on that and our core i7 on the back for i/o you can see we've got the same IO shield that is on the z87 I already reviewed with the wireless adapters right there the power plug is in the middle of the back of the case and you can see the orientation of the graphics card makes it pretty obvious that they're using like a PCI Express ribbon adapter to kind of relocate the graphics card to a location in the case that makes sense on the case you've got one thumb screw that holds on each side panel so we'll go ahead and remove these guys right now and you can see basically what you have here is it's kind of difficult actually with a little bare feet on there so there's our side panel with our grill on they're very basic not a whole lot to show there and same thing on the other side you have got your grill and you can see they just change the color of the grill based on the case that you get now let's go ahead and talk about the inside and I think the layout of this case is really well-thought-out as you can see it's very compact here's the slim drive the hard drives are under that here is your power supply here here is a exhaust fan and wires are pumping that because I kind of that's my fault and then you've got the sytem 120m cooler right there with a green LED fan because they put an LED fan that matches whatever color option that you go with on the case and our graphics card you can see mounted this way and our motherboard is down there now I'm gonna do some I'm gonna basically include some b-roll this guy and I need to move this wire out of the way here because when I took it apart and put it back I didn't make sure that wire was clear so oh I forgot to mention what the memory is hot dirt it is a patriot 20 133 megahertz 4 gigabyte x 2 kit so it's a dual channel kit 4 gigs to 4 gig sticks for 8 gigs total ram 2133 and XMP profile now um the cable management of CyberPower pc is actually really good in a case like this you have to have that type of cable management I mean you have to have it really well thought out you can't just be blocking all the air ways here because of you know being lazy with your wiring because you're going to block air flow which is very important in this case now the sided 120mm fan is pushing air out of the radiator so it's pulling it from this side of the case the backside which I guess would be the left side to the right side for cross flow you have this exhaust fan right here which is helping pull air across from the motherboard and then your power supply here is pulling air in from you can see right here this side it pulls the air in and then exhausts it I guess kind of out of the front inside of the case and the graphics card right here as you can see this is a reference blower style card is going to be taking the air in through one of the vents that are see it at the other side so we pull in the air in through one of these got get it right Jay oh my god I already had it right okay so as we pull in the air in through one of these vents and pushing out of the back so the graphics card kind of has its own dedicated path for air to flow so it doesn't really affect the ambient case temps too much here's the backside of the motherboard so it's easy to access the cooler tray and what I think is really unique about this case and this is the part where I'm going to introduce some b-roll to show you this is the way that everything is mounted they have this really nice proprietary kind of a bracket design wherever they have these cross beams and everything mounts to that now inspecting the cross beam here for the cooler it looks to me like you could go with a 240 millimeter radiator in here I don't have I mean the bad side is it gets really really close to the graphics card which could block some of the air flow and so I don't know how well it would perform unless you had slim maybe slim fans it's a little bit iffy but the backside of this fan is perfectly fine when it comes to air flow I mean all the hard drives are down in here but you've got these these cross members here which hold everything in and as you unscrew these screws you can take out particular components to make things really easily accessible like the graphics card is sitting here with the ribbon connector here that allows you to lay the card flat and then it's got this bracket in the back that kind of holds everything down the cooler has its own mount which is mounted to the case directly you have this exhaust fan which again has its own mount and everything is just so well thought out the only thing I think would have maybe made a little bit more sense to me this is just me personally though is maybe instead of having this fan right here that pulls air of the motherboard maybe flip it around so that it's blowing air on to the motherboard components that way you have more active cooling of the motherboard itself because it's directly on top of the motherboard this kind of case tells me though that you have two cooling options when it comes to the CPU either water cooling like they've already included like this or a very low-profile CPU cooler which I'm not sure the 4770k would be too friendly with because we all know that is a very hot chip now when it comes to performance numbers and stuff I'm not going to be hooking this up and giving you guys any real performance numbers because we already know how the components are we already know how the 780 performers we know how the 4770 performs the Patriot memory is really really fast I just kind of wanted to open this up take it apart show you guys what the construction is like and what the build quality is like when it comes to cyber PowerPC so here is Jay's unboxing and overview of the Zeus mini here from cyber PowerPC so what do you guys think about this case design I personally think it's really well thought out thermally I don't really see there being any you know too many issues with it especially since I recommend running this at clock speeds and not really overclocking it too much unless you're able to go with more higher-end cooling in this but I think it's perfectly well thought out looks like you can even go with a larger power supply if you needed not much room left in there so probably not recommended I'm sure cyber PowerPC knows what they can and can't fit in there but guys you guys always ask me about pre bought systems and what I recommend cyber PowerPC is is a company that's been around for a long time I got the chance to talk with Eddie over at cyber PowerPC great guy seems to be really on top of things communicates well and I can't talk about price on this because honestly I have no idea guys it's not even launched yet so you will be looking for this here on cyber powers cyber power pcs website February 28th the information is down in the description and hope you guys like what you saw tell me what you think as always I will see you guys in my next video you