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yeah collector's edition graphics card scrolling text inch or whatever you guys get it so anyway the Dan cases a for SFX was a great if imperfect step in the direction of ultimate compact gaming it allowed a full-size GPU which is great but it forced you to compromise on CPU cooling meaning that our xeon e5 2699 v4 and last time around wasn't able to reach quite its full potential well stay tuned because with the a4 s FX v2 we were able to one-up every small form-factor PC we've ever built again speaking of one-upping today's video is brought to you by Mac Weldon one up your style with their smart design premium fabrics and simple shopping use offer code Texan get 20% off your next order at the link below okay so step one was to outfit our build with the fastest and sweetest gaming card on the market the Jedi Order Star Wars collector's edition Titan XP step two then was to actually trade some course from our zeal and last time around for the much higher clocks on an Intel Core i 979 ATX II this thing runs at up to 800 megahertz higher so we already know from our review that the kora 970 900 X outperforms the $26.99 v4 in many workloads so the 79 80 XC we're expecting that to totally smoked it there's one small problem though the area for the CPU cooler on this case is right here it is literally small and that CPU is a 165 watt part putting it at roughly 12 to 13% higher thermal output compared to our last ultimate compact build and if you guys recall the all copper dinah tron vapor chamber cooler that we used previously hid around 80 degrees under load so we're gonna get to the real solution in a minute here but first let's walk through the process we started by breaking out the dare bauer x 299 d living tool popping the IHS and applying some thermal grisly conduct a not we're gonna need every advantage we can get here so yes my friends you've been begging us to do it and here it is a liquid metal infused 79 80 XE but what to put on it ahh how about an NHL 12 this this looks pretty good right just put that on there and o temps are good too but that's outside the case and it's also nowhere even close to fitting and it can't be cut to fit so back to the drawing board well we had some success with our Dyna Tron cooler last time so how about we just grab the square ilm version of what is essentially the same cooler so you can just see it has a different screw layout and success sort of see while we were able to get reasonable temperatures with this thing we also had to use a knock to a 120 millimeter industrial fan in order to get them which wouldn't be so much of a problem if we didn't also need this 92 millimeter adapter to ensure proper airflow over the CPU heatsink and around the socket and that whole arrangement just won't fit and our low-profile fans didn't cut it so by this point we had completely exhausted our stock of compatible coolers before finally coming to a realization the a4 s FX v2 has a mount for a 92 millimeter radiator so that's why this video ended up delayed there are very few a iOS out there this size none of which we had on hand so after a trip to ASA Tech's website and another week of waiting our 545 LC arrived this thing is not much to look at honestly and we weren't really expecting it to perform much better than our Dyna Tron cooler did but when we fired it up for a dry run not bad after two and a half hours at stock voltage under full synthetic load our 18 core 79 80 XE had a maximum of 68 degrees Celsius on any one core d living man water drug on a 92 millimeter cooler anyway next order of business then is to get it all together and this is no small task the ass rock x2 990 ITX a/c and other board with its 64 gigs of g.skill ripjaws memory and coarser nvme SSDs and raid zero are easy enough as is the GPU but the cooler required us to remove the front USB 3 port the lower drive tray and the side panel clips at the front of the case in order to get it mounted properly and to make matters worse even with the 14 millimeter variant of the knot to a 9fen getting an SFX power supply in there is an absolute nightmare with some determination though and a healthy serving of elbow grease we got it all in so we just need one final check to make sure that everything is bolted in correctly and nothing's obstructed and our fan spins moment of truth time oh damn it did we leave the power supply switch off oh crap yep Hey all right moment of truth time I wonder what that is no I don't have time for this so this is not bad like it is not elegant to get the cooler in there at all and like you could even potentially damage stuff trying to cram all of that in there but the results we can't really criticize running a CPU and GPU synthetic load it's topping out at just over ninety degrees Celsius on the hottest core like that's hot but it's also not thermal throttling now let's look at some GPU specific tests so we've had the Unigine super position stress test running for almost ten minutes now I'm wearing my microphone here so you can hear it's actually pretty quiet and check this out we're seeing turbo speeds up around 1580 16 2016 13 mega Hertz not freaking bad and as for the rest of the benchmarks both synthetic and real-world this thing has absolutely chewed through them we are really seeing the hardware not just work but actually flex its muscle so in the end then the success that we saw here goes to show you just how much power you can pack into a tiny space like the a4 s FX v2 without making any compromises on performance I mean halfway through this project we flat out didn't expect it to work but we're really glad that it did this video is brought to you by the arctic freezer eSports one it's part of their freezer series with other products including the freezer eSports Edition with two fans and freezer eSports tr4 thread ripper it comes in four different color variations red white yellow and green and it's at our CPU cooler with a push-pull fan configuration their new 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