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so the objective today is as much power in as little space as possible it'll be a gaming rig sir and graphics card at CPU rate we've got an X 99 motherboard that's ITX that's how this whole thing happened now I remember why we're doing this the coarser HX 1200 I power supply delivers 80 plus platinum efficiency for quiet efficient power and corsair link digital for advanced monitoring and control click to learn more so I guess let's do a quick run through the parts we've got the highlight of the show is definitely the ass rock x99 e ITX AC this is a surprisingly I guess I might as well just open it it's not like we're not going to do this this is a surprisingly fully-featured x99 motherboard considering that it's an ITX board the socket actually takes up a significant portion of the total area of the board like check this out guys the x99 LGA 2011 3 socket is massive now one thing you might notice about it is that the socket actually has non-standard mounting holes so we are going to be a little bit limited in terms of what cooler we can use although thankfully asrock does include a cooler in the box so hopefully that will fit in our case so we're going to be using a silverstone Sugo SG 13 this is a new case we're actually going to have a review coming probably based on our impressions from this bill long it's small yeah a fir Ram we're gonna be using not an entire quad channel kit of ddr4 because the ask for rock board only supports two memory slots so we're gonna be running a dual channel which means we're going to be limited in terms of both capacity and bandwidth however if you checked out our memory video which you can click on Luke's face or behind the whatever the picture over Luke's face now to learn about we determined going from dual channel to quad channel and ddr4 on even an extreme edition processor doesn't make a difference these days finally we've got an ax 760i power supply which I have no idea if we're actually going to be able to use because we haven't vetted the compatibility of this build at all yet we'll try it but this power supply would work with cable mod cables which look freakin awesome which is why we chose it so so we're going to try and hopefully it works so who actually really knows for a processor we have a 59 60 X because it's just kind of badass and we're trying to build a small badass rig so it just kind of works we have an Intel 730 series processor we can't use their 750 series because yeah we actually don't know if it supports nvme but I'm gonna go with no I don't think so and then we have a Titan X because it's the fastest single GPU card at least for now we'll see when that new AMD stuff comes out but at least Ram it in there yeah yeah like in the the box it looks small and then you take it out and it looks even way smaller it's a Titan ax even gonna fit and I was wondering about that it's seems you're gonna do from the outset of what you know what won't make it work I mean we could probably eyeball OD needy it depends how they've laid out the inside guts here oh this thing is pretty bare yep well there's not a whole lot of room for anything but the parts I guess so there's that the way the Wi-Fi card installs in this thing is janky as all balls you just slide it into this slot hmm little things no can we cut it wait yeah yeah look look there's a gap Brendan look look at the gap look at the gap yeah yeah I think it can get in there but that is some tight business oh yeah that's in it works alright we're gonna put a tight necks in here we are I have a surprise oh the 59 60 X was a throwaway or a red herring or a Trojan horse or whatever it was a trick in my pocket oh I have something else entirely which will make this the most powerful mini ITX gaming rig ever this is a 2699 v3 18 core 36 thread processor it turbos up to 3.6 gigahertz so you're still going to get that gaming performance when you need single threaded performance and it is able to run 18 core sustain that's something in the but I think it was 2.6 gigahertz or so so it absolutely cleans the clock of the 59 60 X both in terms of performance and in terms of actual physical size you wouldn't even look at them and think that they fit in the same socket would you look at that it actually overhangs the edge of the socket with extra heat spreader area because they got to put all those cores somewhere oh yeah does this look like it fits an H ATI it says specifically in the Box specific cooler types check this out it looks like asrock thought of this so this plate does specifically fit on this is this is an H 100 I because I don't think we're going to get an H a DI in here either way we're not using a stock thing at this point anymore well you know we can try the nvme set up okay this is ready but I'm not actually gonna install it yet just so it isn't in the way I wanted to see if we could fit this thing in super Genki and like some crazy angle or something oh not going to work yeah I do you want to figure out the power supply's gonna fit I think it will um will it fit with a thick rad cuz if I could just use an H ATI then that would make my life a little bit easier sure culture there's a white 860 I in the in the sub-zero build the build where the storage CPU and power supply all changed within like 20 minutes cooling don't forget cooling also cooling hey we're good on the power supply okay found it in your office cool and I found an H Adi must be 3.1 then that's crazy I don't think this is into - actually maybe maybe maybe so if we went tubing this side check this wacko hold on I'll put it put it back in actually yeah um and then if I have a lamp so if we can fit the 24 pin then we're probably fine where is it at the bottom it's at the top okay hold on new idea for RAM I was saving this surprise for later but to go along with my Xeon CPU I also have 16 gig sticks of Kingston singin sticks ECC memory Oh 32 gigs of ram in here look at all those cheetah module layout did it I thought you know just line up the RAM oh my god that's your job I'm not sure yeah I don't think we're gonna make it yeah no it's not gonna fit the threads on this router no good so I was going to pull the block off this one and put it on to a single read we have we have single rads like horribly tangled so I wanted to use one SATA power cable and it almost fits no see it's pulling it out of this one Oh nicely be doable I think okay my hold down actually can go on any orientation that I want which is nice so the other ones that are really going to be hard is audio okay so Bad's on remember the fan has to be here the power supplies here we're going to cover up a fair number of the connectors on the power supply but we still need a fan okay so the 24 pin is going this way okay so we don't need to do the get a month yeah yeah Wow okay I think it can make it alright then let's get the power supply out of here and try to more properly note since those yeah if I can find something threaded correctly that I can just screw into the backplate do you think you have anything like that I have no idea okay so here's the random screw we found you've been yes totally worried before no but it doesn't matter all the rest are fine good cool I think cooling is gonna be a trick in a system like this let's put on some nice fresh fresh coupe oh wow okay Oh where'd the mat go huh ah ba ba ba SATA cables I can't find the washer I mean just to use a nut in each corner and that can go all the way down now oh there's two other SATA ports if they're easy yep okay front audio harddrive led is bottom-left para ladies top left okay well okay so that's ready now we're graphics card oh oh this is going the wrong way why because they've no grill you know what I'm actually going to put all four in know about it is yeah so we get the same real quick it's not great but like there's this yeah yes what kind of King exactly okay you know we're gonna discover something yeah yeah yeah wait are you you going in backwards no derp Maria good call I was not pay attention to cars my oh you had a slide and I'm not privy to and it's fantastical not a small power spot oh nice more um that doesn't work - drew I think we should do two drives can they fit on the top of the power supply there might just be a little bulge there might be a little bulge but if we're doing it yeah let's just do it go go wait uh oh that is gonna add additional to a lot of it you know what um my super low profile double-sided tape strips that I collected a bazillion years ago so we'll go just like that oh I'm happy we have these cables yeah they shouldn't affect airflow at all no and actually any of the places nope there that's pretty clean I like braided it could we bring these further back and make it work okay these ones right yeah oh I don't yeah there you go I have to try and get this front panel and somehow I wanted one no I just I have to get all the wires like in there as opposed to around the edges there you go there's screws that that front panel needs to got it what an impressive little case better than either of our computers and like less than a fifth of the size of either of our computers we're done that was fun and it like despite the incredible amount of things that we oh no that's from me popping out the things a little bit Raddatz you're gonna have a little bit of bulge on the top but it's not bad it's not very noticeable and considering how much hardware is in here I don't know if Silverstone could have made it anymore it's basically like I love the case I don't mean this in a bad way but it's basically a frame yeah it's a shoebox and it's it's it's a nicely logically laid out frame but it's yeah it's a shoebox with holes and we filled those holes yeah so now all that's left is to find out does it actually work so well I mean what else should we test we got throat we got to find out power consumption yeah the power consumption we'll do a bunch of games out throw some synthetics at the CPU cuz that's fun we got a seat amps on you on everything everything no I mean it should be fine like if you guys look it's intake on the side for the graphics card exhaust right out the rear with some supplementary exhaust at the top here right there I'll do some like spot thermal testing sure figure out where some zones are the entire front of the case is mesh so that's going to take care of cooling your CPU which is going to be liquid cooled and then the power supply itself is going to take heat away from the motherboard area and push it out the back we should actually have reasonably balanced airflow I'm really curious to see just how loud this sucker is as well yeah I don't think it's going to be that loud if we were smarter we wouldn't have had to put SSDs on the top and I'm not too SST would have made a lot of sense and I major we could have also there's enough space here that we might have even be able to just stack them right there right on the side instead of them being on the top but what's I think it looks really cool let's cool on the top yeah so uh yeah well here you go all right wow that weighs a lot more than you expect performance time all right so let's start with thermals it's always an important question with a small powerful contained system like this one I mean loads of people buy full tower cases just for the juicy airflow and we have a lot of power under the hood including a Titan X which is a hot running card the Titan X performs pretty much just as expected in terms of thermals which was really hot the Titan X is normally quite hot and not much changed here to be completely honest as it was able to breathe fairly easily through the side of the case but the CPU on the other hand was a little more surprising yeah we already knew it was pretty low temperature running processor but it really didn't have the card stacked in its favour overclocked a bit and with next to no air to breathe due to the confined space the fact that it went under a full-size power supply and cables running freakin everywhere etc I honestly wasn't expecting much but it pulled through at a very low temperature under load which was damn impressive and made me believe in this setup just that much more speaking of overclocks our Titan X had its core cranked up to about 1375 which is about the same as we had it when we reviewed it if you want to see our actual review of this card click here the processor had a base clock increase of 3 megahertz and no voltage increases across the board this little black box of Awesome crushed our 4k gaming benchmarks for Crysis 3 BioShock Infinite and grand theft auto 5 running all of them without a hitch and getting well over 60 frames per second despite the 4k setting and never having any of the presets below hi pretty badass for a machine that you could easily fit in a backpack but this didn't really flex the muscles of the CPU I mean it barely even has to try they see if you use utilization throughout these tests was pretty crazy low so let's take it for a spin first up we've got Cinebench r15 a good standard for CPU benchmarks and as always I'd like to give a show - the awesome Cinebench community on the Alana's tek-tips forum our 36th red power house was very fun to watch as I've never seen that many little yellow squares racing around the picture anyways as expected it crushed but it wasn't done there w prime a multi-threaded benchmark that calculates super crazy numbers that take a long time to calculate the idea here was to show the difference between the ever-popular fourth red CPU and a 36th red insanity CPU so I set w prime to four threads and 36 threat obviously the 36th third processor smashed through the benchmark and I know you're probably not going to be sitting there all day trying to calculate crazy numbers with your processor so it probably doesn't matter to you unless your name is whaler underscore 99 or happened to be a member of the best day and folding team in the world on the Linus 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