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welcome to the sequel to world's most compact gaming PC the original of which you can check out up there but unlike most sequels which are like bigger and better this one is going to be smaller but still better we are going to be packing a 22 core CPU 64 gigs of RAM a 700 watt power supply and a GTX 1080 all into a case about the size of a shoebox intel skull Canyon Nook features a 6th generation Core i7 processor and Thunderbolt 3 you can learn more at the link in the video description the motherboard was a very carefully considered component for this build the epc 612 d 4i that was generously provided by as rock rack the server and workstation arm of asrock is one of the only two mini ITX motherboards capable of housing this CPU the other one is actually made by a zurich consumer and while I gave up an MDOT to slot for a PCIe SSD along with Wi-Fi onboard audio and really much i/o at all I kept the essentials like USB 3 and a PCIe 16x slot for the graphics card and what I gained is something that I had never seen before quad channel RAM on an ITX board but before we get into that let's talk CPU this is the bee's knees the cat's pajamas the Kobayashi's Meru Intel's Xeon e5 $26.99 v4 a four thousand dollar 22 core 44 thread monster that boasts 55 Meg's of cash more than my first computer had RAM it runs anywhere from two point two to three point six gigahertz using turbo boost 2.0 technology and supports the quad channel ddr4 memory that I mentioned previously speaking of which we're using some pretty badass ram here a data makes the only qualified 16 gig ECC so dim ram for this motherboard so as a reminder this is ECC server memory in a sodium or usually notebook form factor and they were kind enough to provide us with four sticks of it so we could have 64 gigs of quad-channel ddr4 ram running at 21 33 megahertz in our build something that would have been impossible with full-sized imps though even with half-length memory sticks there is not a lot of room left for the CPU socket and the cooler that goes on it we chose the Dyna Tron t3 18 full copper vapor chamber cooler on the advice of Dan cases because the EPC 612 d4 I like its consumer-oriented brother has a narrow aisle and mounting hole layout meaning that there are not a lot of options since the t3 18 doesn't include a fan I pilfered a Noctua NF a 9 X 14 from another cooler that we had on hand but you can buy that fan separately and set to work building a mounting system for it oh my god with borrowed wire hold downs and an angle grinder you can mount the fan with zip ties but this is a little bit more elegant and it ended up working perfectly for thermal compound regular viewers will probably notice I'm using quite a bit more than usual here the reason for that is that the $26.99 v force heat spreader is really big and additionally that died under it the actual processing part of the processor that outputs heat is much larger than a typical CPU meaning that the heat transfer area is much larger now Luke demonstrate it and you can check that video out in the corner there that in a large case anyway cable management won't make much difference to cooling here though everything is packed so tight I want it absolutely perfect so the fact that my case does not include any fans whatsoever won't hurt my components over the longer term why doesn't my case have any cooling fans that's a great question because there's no room this is the Dan cases a for SFX at a mere seven point two five liters it is the smallest case on the market that can accept a full sized enthusiast gaming graphics card like the GT X 1080 that I'm planning to use thanks to its unique layout that uses a flexible PCI Express riser to put the graphics card with a protective plastic sheet right behind the motherboard giving both of them full access to fresh air through the perforated side panels for my boot drive I'll be using a samsung PM 863 3.8 4 terabyte SSD we are giving up some speed compared to a 950 Pro or other nvme SSD but were also almost quadruple in the capacity of the largest readily available SSDs at around the time of our first compact build now there were some cable management challenges but I was able to hide the USB 3 connection and power switch connection behind the motherboard and thanks to one of Silverstone's awesome CP 11 low-profile SATA cables I was able to hide that to our power supply is yet another piece of amazeballs technology last time around we used a full ATX 860 watt unit now in the tiny SF XL form factor silverstone was able to squeeze 700 watts with 80-plus platinum efficiency and a slim 120 millimeter fan that only spins when system load reaches a certain threshold the included cables are a bit bulky and long but using cable mods configurator I picked up colors I liked and had each cable done to the exact length that I needed to reduce bulk and give the system a really clean appearance even with the panels off a last-minute inclusion was a cable mod wide beam RGB LED strip I actually wasn't sure if I'd managed to get that in there since the lighting controller box is a little bulky and even the leads that come off of it take up a lot of space in the context of a build like this but I managed to squeeze it in proving once and for all that RGB is the true herpes of modern enthusiast PC building you just can't get rid of it leading us finally then to the gtx 1080 that will be powering our gaming experience as the king of the hill GPU at the moment it really needs no introduction though I will say that if you're planning a similar build I would strongly suggest that you opt for a rear blower design like a Founders edition card due to the a4 sfx's complete lack of case fans the audio configuration of this machine will rely on the DisplayPort or HDMI output of our graphics card so make sure that your monitor is equipped for that then I plan to use a monitor with a built-in hub or the front USB port with a headset like the HyperX cloud 2 so that's it everything is crammed inside with barely a cubic inch to spare so let's go ahead and throw it on the bench and see how this puppy performs and there you have it she's rock solid stable I'm impressed at how cool the $26.99 v4 runs on that tiny little heatsink and I am really impressed at how much PC hardware has progressed in the last year and how much of it Dan cases allowed us to cram into this tiny little box compared to last time in summary we've got four more CPU cores double the RAM at double the bandwidth eight times the storage capacity a much faster graphics card and to put it in the appropriate context the razor core external GPU box which contains only a graphics card a power supply and some IO is about the same size Wow crunchyroll is a site created by anime fans for anime fans they offer the most current episodes of new shows straight from Japan like re0 or orange and a large collection of the most popular anime series like Naruto Shippuden and Ace Attorney good 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