Gadgetory

a few short years ago the average enthusiast would have told you that you were crazy if you said you wanted to put top-of-the-line hardware especially graphics cards in a tiny little box like this one now the GPU makers are practically begging for it by designing little tiny flagship class graphics cards so the only question that remains then is this AMD or Nvidia for your elite flagship class small form-factor gaming PC vote for turnip it's a shirt I don't have one so we're gonna do our best to demo what it looks like and this is not what the real shirt looks like it looks a little more like this but we didn't have a sample to show you guys so this had to do you can stay tuned after the outro for bonus footage of the creation of this masterpiece if you're into that sort of thing now today's video will focus on thermals form factors and the compromises that we need to make when deciding between the gtx 980ti and the radeon r9 fury x but as you all know there's actually more to the story than just degrees Celsius and fps these days with free sync and gsync technology having a huge impact on the gaming experience so drop the like under the video if you'd like to see us put these two Tech's head-to-head very soon to see which one delivers the most responsive a lag free gaming experience for now though I'll introduce the test bench inside a silverstone SD 13 case the same one from this video where we put an 18 core cpu and a Titan X inside it will be cramming not necessarily the highest end hardware but rather what I would consider to be a very reasonable yet premium gaming PC so we've got a 4670 case EP you not overclocked 16 gigs of Corsair Vengeance Ram the rather unique sx 500 500 Watts s FX L power supply from silverstone and the seuss Maximus 6 impact then we'll be testing that config in two different ways for the first test we've got a reference gtx 980ti actually the same one we reviewed back here so this isn't a water-cooled graphics card which means we can use the radiator mounting point in the front of the case for our CPU in our case of course our H ATI then for our second configuration I swapped out the video card which actually was a surprisingly complicated ordeal that involved removing the power supply removing the graphics card removing the CPU cooler removing the motherboard to install an air cooler on the CPUs as we no longer have room for our CPU all in one liquid cooler and reassembling everything to replace our 980 TI with the fury x whose form-factor I wasn't really sure about until well now that I've actually used it I mean I still don't know how much sense it makes for some cases but in the st 13 anyway it feels like the PCB space that AMD saved with their on package HBM memory was exactly enough to compensate for the extra space consumed by the water cooling tubing sticking out the back of the card and the radiator that needs to be in the front of the case now so let's run through which of these setups performed better please note that I consider this testing to be pretty much a worst-case scenario for all Hardware involved since the ambient temperatures Ihara significantly over 30 degrees Celsius in here first up is CPU temps I used I 264 CPU tests to load up our 46 70 K and the gtx 980ti rig thanks to its CPU liquid cooling is the clear winner here with the CPU topping out at a frosty 64 degrees by contrast our small form-factor heat pipe cooler had the CPU at a still not technically dangerous but much less impressive 87 degrees Celsius and that is without the GPU under load next up as a result that I actually didn't expect motherboard temperatures aren't often overlooked yet super important part of maintaining a stable PC and while gaming our 980ti configuration actually ran away with this one but I also wouldn't read too much into it because both are well within safety margins and depending on the position of the motherboards thermal sensor sometimes just a hotter running CPU can result in a much higher reading for the motherboard even if airflow around the socket from the CPU heatsink is more than adequate which leads us to idle noise impressions none of the whining that i've heard tales of online is present in either our old dead fury acts or our new fury act samples but since both configurations were equipped with cheap pumps and I'm not saying that to be mean to all in one liquid coolers or anything it's just that you're getting what you pay for when you spend $100 on a d5 they both had a little bit of you know pump no but both were satisfactorily quiet in my opinion but what about load while gaming well the fury EXO 980ti configs were actually not noticeably more or less annoying to my ears then each other they're both cooled by a great a fan on their radiators in each configuration a gentle typhoon or an n ff12 that handles most of the airflow through the case and neither card exhibited any bothersome coil whine for more than the first couple seconds of gameplay in Crysis 3 on the fury X but this my friends is where things get really interesting the 980ti did its usual cat that 83° thing while the fury acts stayed at a very cool 67 degrees nothing unexpected here I mean it is water-cooled of course I was going to win that but the interesting thing here is that the fury acts actually managed to score 5 percent higher in our Crysis 3 benchmark at 2560 by 1440 with very high textures and system spec with anti-aliasing it disabled and motion blur disabled as well what our 980ti and this is why I specifically pointed out that it's the well that was interesting we actually have some new information now but in the meantime I'm just going to get through the rest of what I wrote there so are 980ti and this is why I specifically pointed out that it's the same one we reviewed turbos like an absolute beast almost matching our tight necks and has no problems beating the fury acts on an open test bench but when you confine both of them to a small form-factor case the story changes somewhat more than we knew which leads us to the conclusion I came into this video thinking that the fury axes shorter lengths and overkill cooler was a solution to a problem we no longer have thanks to awesome modern case designs like this one that can keep a long power-hungry graphics card cool but while I still think an a IO liquid coolers are kind of a kludge II enthusiasts only need apply solution with a ton of issues thanks to the fury exa small form factor machines with this card have the ability to focus their cooling power on the one component that makes the biggest difference to gaming performance so thanks to that the fury X is able to turbo to 10 50 mega Hertz it's max while the 980ti is stuck at a mere 1037 well within its spec I mean it's not underperforming but not the best it can do in a more ideal situation and another consideration is that while the fury X machine's air-cooled CPU obviously ran much hotter than it would have with a liquid cooler a typical gamer is only very rarely going to put a load on all four cores of a quad-core chip while putting a full load on a graphics card is basically a daily occurrence another argument for focusing your cooling on the GPU so I'm getting the nod to AMD today in this edge case the fury X actually comes out looking like the winner but with an important consideration if you guys install your radiator with the fan as an intake drawing air through the read you will notice that your inside case temperatures rise as much as twenty plus two meaning that if your CPU was on the border once you start gaming no longer will be so I would highly recommend doing what we've done now off camera and turning that fan around to blow out of the case that way your CPU will not overheat like you saw happen when the screen turned off in the middle of this video but that's the kind of show this is guys the kind where anything can happen do these things what on earth are those they're either the world's most magnificent dildos or they're ah yes headphone stands but I had actually said in a dedicated video about these not that long ago that the thing I don't like about them is that they sit on the desk and therefore take up desk space and I called on the community to design a wall-mounted headphone stand that could be either 3d printed or one design would be sent to Silverstone to actually manufacture the designer of which would get a gold colored anodized version of whatever their design was and that contest is actually closed but the reason that I'm bringing it up is that all the designs all eight freaking hundred of them I can't believe how many of you submitted some pretty amazing designs are up for voting for which ones are going to be the top ten on my mini factory comm so check out that link in the video description and vote for your favorite wall-mounted headphone stands the final decision will ultimately be down to me and Silverstone but the more votes that something has the more closely we will be looking at it so check that out now thanks for watching if the video sucked then you know what to do but if it was awesome get subscribed hit that like button or even consider supporting us directly by using our affiliate code to shop at Amazon buying a cool t-shirt like this one or through a direct monthly contribution in the community forum now that you're done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering what to watch next so click that little button in the top right corner to check out the video where Luke takes a 3d scanner and presumably scan some 3d objects I don't know I haven't watched it yet oh is it oh oh what is that stink so bad oh oh yeah is there a chunky in there is I don't think this is next at all oh I think you have to mix this just like a stick there's a lot of chunky there is look at this blue house here we go vote for turnip t-shirt something that was not in your job description oh well okay it's really drippy over space does drip like crazy so like kind of tickles there's the second turn up I'm really surprised anyone volunteered I thought I was gonna have to pick someone to do this I did not know what I was getting myself in hahaha at all I did the bottom of the turn it was my idea is like that there we go that's a bottom of the turn what are you dry as the turnip if they have a root system there's the root start at the bottom it's white it's white we don't have a white okay so that's the that's the design there's really nothing else to it are you covering his entire I'm drawing the shirt okay you want me to do the other shoulder sure if do didn't the other some other color you know I thought I was comfortable in my skin and with you guys this is some next-level right here okay so I have that side doing that what do you notice over here there's open space are we good