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so this is more like a typical gaming rig in fact this isn't even that big this is just a standard case with seven expansion slots an ATX board and you know it accepts a couple of graphics cards but this build guide with the GeForce GTX Titan and I'm going to just ground myself there before I touch it the GeForce GTX Titan is going to focus on a different sort of gaming rig the Titan because of its incredible acoustic performance that is to say low noise low power consumption compared to something like a GTX 690 and outstanding performance enables a new class of small form-factor gaming machines so we're going to be using a 3770k which is about as fast as it gets for a gaming CPU and a Suzy 77 Ida luxe WiDi motherboard 16 gigs of Corsair Dominator platinum memory and ocz vertex 4 SSD and a/c Sonic 550 watt power supply and last but not least a low profile CPU cooler from thermal write this is the a XP 100 all of this in a nineteen point two liter cuba tech mini cube case now we could have fitted in our FTO three mini with a little bit of modification of one of the brackets but we opted not to do that so instead we're going to go with a case that natively supports that once we're done we're going to show you I mean performance numbers later but once we're done this we're going to show you how it sounds compared to a 79 70 when it's installed in a small form-factor chassis like this all right so it's update time guys there was no way those Dominator Platinum's were going to fit in this rig unfortunately because there's a slight overhang with the memory slots from the CPU cooler itself so we went with a low-profile Kingston HyperX memory kit that just barely touches the heatsink so it should get some you know incidental cooling from the downdraft CPU cooler I could have installed a larger CPU cooler in fact you can see if I put this down in the case I haven't installed the standoffs yet but if I put this down in the case you can see that my CPU cooler could have gone up to here but I like using a downdraft CPU cooler in a build like this and I like giving you titin and cable management some some rooms so I'm going to go this route and see how it sort of turns out here speaking of the Titan I'm going to go ahead and put the GeForce GTX Titan inside the case just to show you guys what this is going to look like once it's all be stood out here and we've made some more changes so instead of the sort of failed thin low-profile fan that we were going to use I'm not going to use that anymore we've done away with it and gone with some Noctua and ff12 fans instead so there's our intake at the bottom front here nice high pressure optimized fan so we're going to be able to draw air under the case around the feet and then up inside that'll go straight to the Titan GPU then I've added another one on the CPU with an adapter that gives more incidental airflow to the vrm as well as the memory we've also added our power supply so this is in an 80 plus gold see Sonic 550 watt power supply with a modular interface you can see I've run my SATA cables so just for lols I've changed the scope of the build again and we are actually going to install all of the I will not all but we're going to do two two and a half two and a half inch drives and two three and a half inch drives just for the lawls to show you guys what kind of an insane super gaming computer you can fit inside this kind of an enclosure alright here's the moment you've all been waiting for guys assuming you're still with us this far into the video where we squeeze the ten and a half inch tighten graphics card into this extremely narrow narrow spot where it hopefully will fit okay we're putting a little bit of strain on those front panel connectors but I think it's okay and I think that we are in let me just double check there's no PCIe lock on this particular card because it's a it's a reference board but I think we're in there so let's go ahead and screw it in whoopsie daisies and let's go ahead and screw it in if I was smart I would have done the bottom screw first so that it would hold it in place well it's okay that one worked here we go all right that is one dense system very dense not not dense in a stupid way I'm tired it's late made quite a few videos today so there's not much to say other than I'm really trying to try to get this graphics card in here and thumb screws are both a blessing and the bane of my existence at times because sometimes they're just more awkward to put in actually and right now I'm having one of those moments and you guys are getting to enjoy it with me there we go ah yes so we are tightened out now but obviously the system won't boot because tighten does require external power so you can see here this intake fan is going to bring fresh air directly to that graphics card and then the CPU is going to be able to hopefully sort of somewhat fend for itself up there and here I vzi Express connectors so these ones I didn't realistically think I was going to be able to run them from the back which is fine anyway because the the GPU itself is right here so I'm just going to run those down here again if I was smart and less tired I would have run these before the important thing to note about this build guys is that no shortcuts have been taken no special parts have been used you can build your own extremely small form-factor gaming machine for the well however much this costs I don't even know at this point it's not cheap but it'll be awesome and that's the most important thing so we'll be back once I figure out how to do this so here we go guys this is the insanity that is the back of this machine so I ended up going with two Samsung 840 pros so that would be 512 gigs of raid zero SSD storage then I went with to Western Digital 3 terabyte hard drives so in theory you could have dual 512 gig SSDs and then 2 4 terabyte hard drives back here now there was no hope and using the actual mounting points for the SSDs which is fine because the SSDs have no moving parts so I'm not really worried about them randomly busting anyway now we've tried pressing this flat and we're pretty sure it's going to close but I guess you guys are going to find out with us no no it's ok I got it whether it will actually close or not this one yep looks like it so we haven't added the tighten to the system yet but that's coming next that's actually the last step we also have not yet added the PCI Express power cables needed to power the Titan however I've made sure that there is room to install it so this this computer will have four cores 8 threads up to 16 gigs of ram of the most powerful single GPU graphics card it'll be pretty much near-silent because we're using all Noctua coolers and the titan itself is extremely quiet check that out that actually did close Wow look at that see look at that just awesome so that is what she looks like from this side with the cable management available in this cuba tech case which is actually not bad so we'll be back in a moment once I've screwed in the power supply which I just realized I forgot to do and we're going to show you guys the moment where we put the Titan inside so basically that's it guys check it out these cables are managed back here so they're just kind of wrapped around this nock to a fan here at the bottom the Knox with fans are both plugged into the motherboard so we can use motherboard control to control that fan GPU boost to will control the GPU temperatures the fan rpm as well as the GPU clocks and we are pretty much ready to boot this bad boy up I mean I think the only way we could actually stuff more technology in here is if we didn't even worry about connecting it to anything and we just kind of you know there there's a there's a pile of SSDs and like there there's some more SSDs and they're the phone and like some memory like many more different phone there you go that's the only way we could actually make this more densely packed it's all polling we'll be back our Titan machine is done so we'd love for you guys to join us for the moment of truth where we actually try and boot this bad boy up so let's go ahead and press the button hmm okay give it a sec and there we go oh that's beautiful and let's try that one more time did it go oh that looks so good does that look as good in the camera that does it all okay she's up she's awake overclocking failed yeah don't worry about it it's all good I don't think we have any overclocking running on this board so you got my like late night building computer snacks okay give me a sec here guys so we're going to get into the OS and we'll be back in a moment okay guys so I've actually switched to this microphone so that we can take some audio levels now we haven't actually closed the system up yet but we're running Far Cry 3 I can't show you any benchmarks right now just so you guys know but we're going to do a couple of reference sounds for you guys so you can get some idea of how a system like this might run the first thing we have to write oh yeah I need to be over here the first thing we have to do is actually put the side panel on just to demonstrate that Titan can run in a configuration like this so let's just get some more let's get a couple more glam shots of what the system looks like inside I've got some LED lighting courtesy of a bit phoenix alchemy strip up there I mean if you were worried about the sort of perfect aesthetics and you might go with something other than Noctua fans but I love the performance of these fans and this rig is all about performance so we've readjusted our microphone because we couldn't actually pick up the noise of the system when it was at idle but we're under full load now so running prime95 small at 50 on the 3770k and running far cry 3 looking at a fire ah to stress the Titan now I can't tell you guys any exact numbers or benchmarks yet as of the time of filming this video but what I can tell you is that GPU boost is still working very well more than the promised GPU boost clock significantly more and actually that's a good idea and just for reference we're going to make some different noises here to show you guys just how quiet this system is so we're going to drop a coin onto a wooden table I'm going to call a galaxy s3 that's set to vibe right and then we're going to show you a me and it's funny because old Nvidia cards used to get compared to hair dryers so let's do the old hair dryer test so this is on low there's the system again for reference we're really impressed with the system here the say here's their dryer on high so temperatures I'll say this much temperatures for the GPU are very comfortable so it's still boosting alright I need to be closer to Mike temperatures for the GPU are very comfortable is still boosting like I said past the rated minimum sort of boost clock that you should see and temperatures for the CPU I can allowed to talk about those are at about eighty degrees so this system is very functional very well within its operating sort of specifications and ambient temperatures though are a little bit on the low side in this room slip could you go ahead and press that green button for me so I can just see what the temperatures aren't here so it's about eleven degrees in here so you'd probably hit let's say in a normal room you'd hit more like ninety degrees on the CPU which is still you know this is during an unrealistic load prime95 small FFT plus a game running and then that GPU probably wouldn't boost quite as high but the system would work thank you for checking out this build log and sort of mini ITX Titan guide on Linus tech tips don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos