Gadgetory

so if you guys didn't see our last video well we did a video recently of timelines whatever we did a video about the corsair 1i 160 the 9900 k small form-factor that's water cooled with a 20 80 TI that's also water cooled and all crammed into this itty-bitty little package and i said in that video we weren't gonna do a teardown or anything i talked about maybe mentioning alright auch about maybe changing a fan on the top because I thought temps could improve even though they were good and a lot of you guys were like Luigi he didn't know but he didn't tear it down you should gonna tear down even though I said we looked at what the insides look like at CES here's we're gonna do today I'm gonna go ahead and tear it down I'm gonna show you how to upgrade things like the RAM the hard drive which I mentioned I'll probably change with an SSD and we're gonna change out the fan on top to see whether or not changing that out to something a little higher rpm and more static pressure will improve temperatures in this and we're gonna overclock it things I usually wouldn't recommend on a small form-factor PC if she breaks she breaks EVGA offers a full range of components including video cards motherboards power supplies cases and peripherals regardless of your needs EVGA sure to have you covered to see what EVGA can do for your next build head to EVGA comm so the fan I'm gonna be using on here is one of our 140 millimeter Maglev fans from Corsair it's kind of beat up on the edges it was the ones we painted for skunkworks and ended up not using if you haven't seen our review video of what the performance and temperatures and stuff was like at stock without touching anything in this then please go and watch that video first but if you have already seen that or you just like to watch things out of order then by all means continue watching so to open it up basically everything comes apart from the top so there's this button back here in the back this one was not very easy to get off at first so you push this button to make the top come off and it's one of those things where I had to push really hard on this button harder than I thought I needed to but then the more I took it on and off the easier it got so just give that button a nice firm push as you can see that popped up a little bit and there's a little bit of a snap in the front that there we go so it is attached right here it's a little bit of a gap there's the cable and it came right off just like that now the fan that's in here we're pretty sure is actually a maglev fan this one is a 2,000 rpm fan so obviously we're gonna be going for more so performance rather than acoustics this one was very very silent at 1500 rpm so this one allowing us to go a little bit higher should give us a little bit better performance but both our pwm now you can use any family want in here like I'm probably gonna try a few different fans as we as I kind of play around with this system moving forward I've got some Vardar 140 s as the Furious Vardar psych there's even a 3000 rpm not to a fan just for lols we might try out so yeah so we'll be taking that off but in terms of opening up the sides there are some things that you can change in this system to make it a future-proof upgradability whatever now in terms of opening up the sides of these four screws right here so two per side and then the sides basically just open up basically like butterfly wings or something I don't know why so when we open it up you're gonna see both of the independent loops that are in there this side right here being for the GPU and this side right here for the CPU you can also see if you look the GPU radiators a little larger than the CPU rat so this is the GPU right here though this is basically I want to say it's an Nvidia reference card but I'm not so positive anymore because this IO IO is not an Nvidia i/o shield it could be a reference PCB which I'm pretty convinced it is but it's not an actual Nvidia card because the IO shield is much different if you take a look at the way the cooler is on the GPU we've got this fan that pushes down through a heatsink that's touching the VRMs we've got our H 100 I style or even H 150 Pro style pump on here non RGB actually looks like I might be RGB but to have the lighting turned off that's running to the radiator right here this makes me feel like I could potentially put like a Titan RTX in here or something but I'm concerned that the SFX 600 watt power supply from Corsair might not be up to the task I'm also thinking about doing a mod to this case that Phil thought would be neat about stripping all the anodizing off and polishing all of the metal parts and making it just a big shiny like almost like a monolithic but polished monolithic deal but anyway so the graphics card is separate from the CPU because it has that chamber divide plus it's just got a PCIe riser card which is connecting it and all the wires are just running along the side right there so nothing special on this side I'm gonna go ahead and put this side back together before I screwed up if we go ahead and look at the inside of our system now you can see everything that is just crammed in here so we have got right here is where our hard drive is this is the two terabyte hard drive that I was mentioning that I would probably change out to an SSD I'm considering taking this out and just putting in a one terabyte maybe a two terabyte that Mansa but it's gonna be about a $300 upgrade to go the two terabyte SSD for now I think the hard drive would probably be fine but it's basically just a notebook drive now if you want to upgrade this your first inclination or thought might be to undo those screws don't do that there's two screws on the side right here that you undo and when you do that then that slides out as a whole tray and then you can change out the drive creating easily now it's not gonna be a lot of room on that as you can see so make sure once it comes out you rotate it and then you can get to the SATA cable and the power cable so this is the corsair power supply it's a 600 watt and as you can see it's a very standard size it's not the extended sfx basically just regular modular cables that are twisted and tied up off to the side you got USB 3 right here so this power supply could be switched out to something like say my EVGA 650 GM if I wanted so this is a higher wattage higher everything power supply and it basically retains that same form factor so I could upgrade that the cables unfortunately they don't use the same om so the cables I would have to change out all the cables in this and trust me when I say they are routed and tied down in a very specific manner that would make this quite the job so the motherboards nothing proprietary either this is a Z 317 Ozzie 390 we talked about in our review they kind of cheap down on the motherboard and didn't go the the full chipset feature that you would want with 9900 k ninth gen i nine cpu but i'm not sure why they made that decision but if you wanted to change this out you could again it's fully serviceable nothing proprietary nothing custom at all in fact I even took the box for my RG Strix Z 390 I gaming which in my opinion this is the motherboard they should have used in this the concern though is if the ITX layout is very complicated where things go and not all manufacturers tend to use the same logic in that which you have to make sure in the chest like this if you want to upgrade it is where's the USB 3.0 going to land where the power plug is going to land because the routing in this chassis is very specific this was the better board this is the one Corsair should have used can't imagine there being enough of a cost difference about $3,600 for this thing for this not to have made sense there's still profit in there so a little bit of a tangent there but I digress at all I guess they have their reasons maybe they'll make a revision change in the future in terms of ram this is corsair ddr4 2666 LPS it's low profile memory you do have enough height technically to go with higher profile Ram if you wanted to let something RGB or whatever it won't hardly show anyway but I think the reason why they did this is once you fold these tubes down they sort of occupy that space on top of the ramp so I think if you go tall Ram them there won't be clearance for the tubes which is probably why they did that so I'm gonna go ahead and do this so I'm gonna switch out this fan with the Maglev fan we're gonna overclock this a bit and see how much of an improvement we get so if you can't figure out how to upgrade the fan then you probably shouldn't be upgrading anything in this system it's literally these four screws make sure the orientation is you know pulling air out the top so in terms of acoustics with the new fan can you hear it good I mean it's not another fingerprints all over it's not the quietest system in the world it's quieter than skunkworks it's choir to them on the gold build I built because it's just one fan alright so the fan set to default now so it's going to use the same logic and curve which is just a percentage so now because of let's say 60% of 2000 is clearly higher than 60% of 50 hundred over all we're gonna be moving more air through this with the exact same fan curve all right so we've been running now for probably 20 minutes or so we're pretty much dancing back and forth right now between 56 57 that's where it's staying you see our core speed is at 17 55 1740 bouncing back and forth if we look at the IQ software we're only at 1,500 rpm so now what we're gonna do right now is we're gonna go ahead and see what the temperatures do if we put the fan curve at a hundred percent and run the same test I want to see how much farther down those temperatures will come which will kind of show us how far we can go in the overclock okay so with the fan of 100% which is only about 500 more rpm all the factory clocks were dancing between 50 and 51 earlier when we did this we saw 49 but the ambient temp in the room has come up two or three degrees Fahrenheit so that makes sense for the the difference there so we're seeing about a six to seven seed drop that's why I want to put a 3,000 rpm fan in here one day because maybe we'll get it down into the 40s now with a custom loop yeah this would be down into the the more mid 40s no problem because we're going to do we are going to now overclock this and see how far we can actually get out of it so with about another 20 minutes worth of looping here and our overclock that we realize this is wrong and we'll show you an msi afterburner once we're done this is this is showing lower clocks than sexual yet we pushed the memory over a thousand megahertz overclock and we're gonna be running around 2050 maybe 2100 on the actual core max temp at 53 C with the fan at 100% so we've obviously traded some acoustics because it's not completely silent but with the hum of the air conditioner running in here it kind of blends into the sound floor of the actual room environment so it's really not intrusive and our clock speed oh no it did actually stick right around 1985 it started at 20 145 that came down from there that's obviously because of the temperatures but we're sitting just under 2,000 megahertz in this small form-factor that's what makes this absolutely insane is that you can get this level of overclock and these temperatures in this form factor so we've been spending a while now trying to overclock the CPU and it's interesting like no matter what we set the BIOS to on our turbo clock like we have it set to 5 gigahertz right now or 4.8 I mean you can see it hits it for a second that drops down to 45 on all cores we've changed the turbo mode we've changed the logic we changed we put it to a fixed ratio which it boots at 4.8 we've played with the AVX instructions offsets all that sort of stuff and we can't get it to stay at where we're telling it we've even increased the theoretical power limit capability to a thousand watts so it won't power draw a limit unfortunately this is in my opinion having dealt with MSI motherboards MSI has these second worst BIOS in the industry as far as I'm concerned second only to gigabyte being the worst so I hate MSI's BIOS that's why I think I'm gonna probably end up changing out this motherboard quite honestly ii like the asus because it's better in every way as far as I'm concerned okay so line load calibration is now set to mode three which is adding a slight amount of voltage bump so we saw up here that V ID is drooping slightly B core one point two four eight so I mean one point two five that would four point eight should be no problem whatsoever so see what the cores do four point and right back down to four point five instantly so I have no idea why it's doing that if you know put it in the comments below I'll screw around with it but again this is why I absolutely positively hate MSI's BIOS now if we go over to Cinebench Cinebench will just gross those CPUs so if we run that you can see the clock stay at 4.8 4.8 one and our temps are sitting in the 60s and our hottest core hitting 172 so obviously we have a lot of overclocking Headroom if you remember our score previous to this was in the other video was a nineteen hundred and fifty I think and I just got us a 2017 that's simply because they locked in our previous tests with all the factory BIOS settings it was fluctuating the cores as it should all right so we're locked at 5 gigahertz let's see what happens 2160 every type of five one four though what do we have to lose man we're gonna call five gigahertz the feasible overclock on this at least on this particular silicon this could be a silicon dud - it could just lost lost the lottery okay so some of you guys had asked in the review about upgradability and widen to a dare to tear down and stuff so yeah there we go I went ahead and torque down replace the fan and check it out now we got that if the white LED going on in there which we didn't have before you guys can sound off on what mod you think I should do on this chest he'd be pretty simple you just tear it all down take the skins off the side which would just screwed on there and then you can strip the anodizing pretty easily with a chemical bath or paint it pretty pretty easily as well so you guys tell me what you think I should do ultimately I'm gonna make the choice myself though to this it's my computer to look at but that's what makes these little things fun these old projects because you can just kind of go balls to the wall with them and at the end of the day it's whatever makes you happy speaking of what makes me happy if you click like you like you'd be way happier - I love the way you can just like there's like a way uncorrectable error man