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what's up everyone Jays two cents here and I built the smallest PC I have ever built not just in history of my channel but the history we ever building pcs this is the Loki ghost s1 case I did a video on this you guys can go and check it out learn a little bit more about this case it's really neat the way it pulls apart and you can get to all sides of the build and then you put the case back together around it but it has got some pretty powerful parts in there we're gonna talk about why I built this we'll talk about performance and acoustics but before we do that we've got to pay some bills you know in hindsight was probably a bad idea to bet the car I told you never bet on red never bet on red didn't just say he's gonna help us out where is he anyway I don't know all I know is he said that we would know what he was close how are we supposed to fit in this I have actually an idea we can do what's a v12 yeah it's a nice car sir that's what you're saying right now now no it can't be quiet dude I got you covered everything needs in the truck J front of the car what the heck am I supposed to do with a mesh if I see mini dude it's like the mesh if I see mini no it's tough you can fit in there you'll get it figured out you know what I got an idea now the Loki goes to s1 can be a small s 7.1 liters if that tells you just how tiny it is now it'll be bigger than that because I had the top hat on here and obviously we water-cooled this although with an AI oh now I know I promised you guys a custom water-cooled version of this we will be doing that but I have another case coming in silver which is what I wanted to build in and so once they're ready and we see we received that then I will be doing a custom cooled loop or a custom rigid two tubing loop whatever I decide to do I don't know we'll figure it out but before we talk about anything else with this version when we go ahead and see the build which obviously is everybody's favorite part and it was right about here where I realized that this cooler unfortunately is not going to work the Celsius s 24 does not have rotatable fittings on the pump and they point straight up so unfortunately with the extremely small size of this case I could not get the side panel closed or slid back on so I grabbed an NZXT cooler which had rotatable fittings and that fortunately got me going once again now two major components changed on this build from start to finish obviously the cooler which we already talked about but I had to take out the ten atti and put in a ten eighty because I used a 500 watt Silverstone gold rated SFX power supply which unfortunately was not enough to keep the ten atti running even at stock speeds I was getting hard shutdowns because of too much power draw and unfortunately it just wasn't enough some games would crash some would it so perfect example of why you need to test your stability with various games and testing Suites because just one benchmark is never gonna give you the whole story so I had to replace it with a 1080 which was kind of disappointing because I wanted to go with just some of the most high-end hardware you could get especially at this form factor so a 1080 is in there which means my ultimate 4k gaming / portable rig is now an ultimate 1440p gaming rig which is so great I was gonna gain at 4k anyway I just wanted to do it because why not so I've got a 1080 founders card in there now but now I've got a new video to make because I have tested the 1080 TI with a 500 watt power supply and overclocked it with no problems on a full ATX power supply so I have to wonder now if there's a variance in quality or at least drivability with a 500 wide SFX versus a 500 watt ATX now we got something to test in the future and the power supply has plenty of cooling because right where the vent is for the power supply is the exhaust fan so it's pulling air out of it and it's getting plenty of airflow so yeah there's that and that the opening for the power supply is right next to the CPU cooler which is on the other side of the case so it gets fresh air through the sides of this case now speaking of ventilation and cooling there's no problem whatsoever keeping the CPU and the GPU cool both the CPU and the GPU pull fresh air from the sides of the case which are perforated and have very good airflow and there's no air filters anywhere in this case our dust filters so you're gonna probably have to worry about keeping it dust free but when it looks this good I mean that's a trade off that's probably worth making at least I made it I'm okay with that now I chose AMD risin 7 1800 x because Asus actually makes an X 370 ITX Strix motherboards I was able to have overclock ability very robust build quality of the motherboard plenty of fan headers and stuff an m2 slot or socket built on to the motherboard and I could overclock the CPU if I wanted no didn't overclock the cores all I did was sync all cores so any of the factory turbo clocks is being applied to all the cores so technically that's a small overclock but I did overclock the memory the 16 gigabytes of flare X from g.skill which is a rise in certified memory to 3400 megahertz so I wanted to speed up that infinity fabric which obviously rise in games more from memory speed increase then straight up core speed so I left the corazon Factory synched the course and then overclock the memory which is being giving me some pretty good results when it comes to temperatures no problem whatsoever especially with the NZXT kraken X 52 I think it is it's the 100 or the 240 millimeter version and it kept my CPU at a max temperature of 62 C with all of my testing including things like sin invention 3d mark and fire strike and CPU tests no problem whatsoever with temperatures now my 1080 on the other hand is running a bit warm even with my aggressive fan curve I'm still reaching about 74 75 C I don't think something is right in there so I'm gonna be doing a video in the future where I talk about troubleshooting some of the temperature fluctuations and issues I'm having with this card and I know I did one in the past but this is this is going to be applicable to the new Nvidia founders cooler and I'm not trying to upgrade that cooler by maintaining all the founders Edition appearance so that's gonna be a fun video we'll talk about that in the future so again it's a video out of necessity because it's something I learned with this card after switching it when the 1080 TI unfortunately wasn't able to be powered by this power supply now you're probably thinking Jay I want you to get a 600 watt SFX power supply then you'll be fine the problem is the higher the wattage of SFX power supplied the longer they get so in order for me to have room for the modular cables as well as the excess cables that are in this case I didn't want to go with a longer power supply so that's why I'm just sticking with the 500 and stuck in the GTX 1080 but in terms of gaming though it performs exactly as you would expect a GTX 1080 to perform I did a small overclock on it just 50 megahertz to overclock the Rambo 3 50 megahertz and temperatures stay in the mid to low 70s which is acceptable a little bit noisy though because I had to ramp up the fan curve a build like this for me specifically was first and foremost performance and portability with a KU sticks second so cooling in this is actually very good but at the sacrifice of acoustics but it's not intrusive that doesn't sound terrible so it's something I can obviously deal with but I built this case or this build specifically because after going to CES for five years and building big pieces and taking them with me going I don't want to edit on a laptop I want to have a very powerful editing rig so I'll build a desktop and then wheel it all into the hotel room set it up and wheel it out and as i'm tired of that guys I'm tired of that so I wanted a shuttle PC that was as powerful as any desktop I could build and have it be extremely portable I initially wanted it to be a carry-on item I wanted to be able to carry it in a small suitcase on the plane with me because I don't trust the airlines to not just throw this thing around and kick it around like a soccer ball or a football depending on what part of the country or the world you're from I guess anyone else would call it football but whatever I digress I just didn't want to trust the airlines the problem is because once I want to cool it though the chances of it being a carry-on went out the window because TSA does not allow me to carry on this somebody with liquid in it like this so unfortunately now I've got to get myself like a Pelican case and cut out the foam and make it as padded as possible so that this doesn't get beat up but the build quality of this case and just how robust everything is and the fact that it's an AI oh I think it could handle the flights no problem at least if I got somewhere and it was busted well then whatever you guys can say I told you so but while gaming temperatures stayed well in check has no problem playing games at 1440p even the most demanding games even games that aren't that demanding but require you know high refresh rates like racing games shooters rise of the Tomb Raider Metro last light games that are typically pretty demanding no problems whatsoever this computer takes it chews it up spits it out and ask for more which is exactly what I wanted anyway guys I'm gonna go thanks for watching if you have any suggestions on future content you'd like to see make sure you guys sound off in the comments below or hit me up on Twitter I'm at Jay's two cents if you're new around here once you hit that subscribe button and then hit the little bell you guys can't trust YouTube to send you so at least if you guys are subscribed you might actually get a notification but whatever the case may be guys I'll see you in the next one thanks for watching