Gadgetory

the first thing I realized about the NVIDIA Star Wars Titan graphics cards is that they paired the Jedi Order with the Galactic Empire which is just you know what though it's fine I mean full points for effort at least and honestly I barely even care anyway okay thank you all for joining me I understand that NVIDIA probably had the best of intentions but there's one fundamental problem here and that is that Senator Palpatine Darth Sidious whatever the you want to call this goal these two entities never actually oppose each other directly which led me to my second realization we had to make a video that showcased these bad boys so this my friends is the mystic space warrior knowledge cube build the twenty liter moss pack features a built-in charging station cable management pass-throughs and it's been recently updated to include a few little improvements like better straps and a larger laptop pocket check it out at the link below now with a warehouse full of computer cases you would think that after spending hours searching we could find something with bashir moxie and space-age energy that we were looking for but alas it was for naught so we set out to do something that we surprisingly never done before here at LTT design and build our very own case from the ground up so setting out to design this thing we only had a few rough guidelines in place we wanted it to look really cool and Alex has been itching to play with our new FUBU laser co2 laser cutter from smart DIY so our design team immediately came up with some wild and crazy ideas for complex polyhedrons and ornate acrylic paneling that would fit our overall theme after all when it comes to imagination the sky is the limit right no actually the limit is something called international copyright law which is why our decorative inscriptions are in Klingon not Arabic so after much internal debate and many failed attempts here's how our final design ended up coming together or at least we wish it was that easy we constructed our case from the bottom up which meant putting together a wooden frame now wood isn't exactly first-choice material when it comes to computer cases but we aren't quite ready to try our hands at fabricating a metal frame yet so we attached wooden pillars to a small sheet of MDF then we made holes for inserts for motherboard standoffs and a much larger hole for the GPU next we needed a starter hole for the GPU i/o then to get a nice clean cut we picked up a brand new handsaw that totally ended up sucking so the hole looks super ragged but since it's on the bottom of the case no one will ever see it provided of course that there was nobody standing around with a camera filming the whole thing the motherboard standoffs went in a lot more smoothly and we elevated them on these big screws so we would have somewhere to tuck our cables after putting on the motherboard and ROG Strix Z 370 I mini ITX board we added our CPU an Intel Core i7 8700 k-6 core processor pretty much the best of the best for gaming right now and 16 gigs of DDR for RAM then for cooling our first choice was a bit quiet dark rock pro 3 tower cooler but unfortunately even with low profile ram we were unable to successfully mount the tower so it looks like it's knocked to it to the rescue now the centerpiece of this build is our Star Wars Titan XP graphics card so we opted to give it a full frontal mount which is not nearly as dirty as it sounds it just means that we used a PCI Express extension to mount it in a vertical position front and center right here now let's see how it might look with some paneling well luckily a hasty modification can rectify that problem now we're not going to leave the frame showing exposed wood so we also need to give the whole thing a quick coat of paint then once we've got all the hardware loaded into our mark to frame we can get to the most important part of any kickass case build adding the RGB with all the strips in place it's time to close it up but first let's get a nice good look at just how awesome that setup is looking as mentioned earlier we used our faboo laser cutter to create our non-infringing designs and aside from a few minor hiccups that process was relatively painless so after another finishing touch and some decorative molding around the outside yeah now we're looking good once it was built though we had to put it through the paces I mean you have a good idea based on the hardware you put in of how something like this is gonna perform but what's the point of owning a rowboat if you never ride it does one write a rowboat not really the point anyway the thermals aren't quite as good as we might expect from an NHD 15 so it is a little toasty in there but our core i7 8,700 case still managed to turbo to 4 gigahertz on all six cores with temps in the mid 70s and gaming wise this thing is a beast churning through even the latest triple-a titles as you would expect a Titan XP to do and remember this is all in a case that was really not made with thermals in mind so in the end we love the results but we feel like in the future we've still got a lot of work to do for as the Klingon proverb teaches load up la la da la la love it do pop pop tunnel bear is the simple VPN app that makes it easy to browse privately and enjoy a more open internet with tunnel bear turned on your connection is secured and your online activity is kept private from your internet provider from advertisers and from anyone who's looking to track your online movements or profit from your data tunnel bear has a top rated privacy policy and does not log your activity so Tritonal bear for free with no credit card required at tunnel bear comm /l tt we'll have that linked below so thanks for watching guys if you dislike this video hit that button but if you liked it hit like get subscribed if you feel myself flushing i can subscribe check out where to buy the stuff we featured including the core i7 8700 k at the link in the video description 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