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fractal design cases have inspired modders all over the world who have built some amazing systems like this Darkseid themed case by George priscilla's showcasing the spacious internals in the define s or metallic acid a mini ITX system by Justin Olson featuring a white black and red color scheme and a super clean layout in they define Nano s there are a ton more awesome builds like these on fractal designs modding series page so check it out via the sponsor link in this video's description and get inspired for your next project everybody welcome back to Pauls hardware this is one of the smaller builds I've done in quite some time too so much that I kind of need to crouch down here just to kind of bring myself down to the level of all of the parts the cute little boxes that I have right here arrayed in front of me this is effectively one of my monthly builds although this project was initially conceived of in last month's August builds but then for this month I've decided to put together because this is going to be a portable mini ITX gaming streaming multi-purpose system that you could pack into a piece of carry-on luggage take with you on the go so they're going around the world or across the country you should be able to fit the system into a carry-on piece of luggage to take with you on the go I'm not going to tell you guys how to get a monitor with you as well because that's a little bit more of a challenge but this is a Rison v 1600 based system so you got a 6 core processor gtx 1070 so very power powerful whether you're gaming or doing other stuff with it and let's get started by going over the rest of the parts so other than our processor which is of course the Rison 5 1600 extremely popular 6 core processor with 12 threads is only about 200 bucks and although this does count with a cooler in the box I wanted a cooler that was maybe a little bit cooler haha so I won with a cry rag c7 this has only just recently gotten support for the am 4 socket and you do need the aim for upgrade kit type C at least for now until they start hopefully doing retail packaging that includes that upgrade kit bracket as well but it's a low profile cooler and it's air-cooled and since this is a pretty small case I needed something that was a low profile enough to fit in there since it is a very small case in a small build wheel with is a very small power supply you need an SFX form-factor power supply which is a little bit smaller to fit in our case this is the xxx 500 - LG from silverstone 500 watts is actually on the low end of what I would recommend for a build like this with a 6 core risin 5 and a gtx 1070 but for our purposes should you do just fine and since it's a mini ITX motherboard without very much expansion I'm not too concerned about long term additional power for adding on additional components and stuff our memory is the Corsair Vengeance lpx kit that I've used many times before I use this kit because it's low profile it's very unassuming it blends in doesn't conflict with CPU coolers that I have worked with at least so far and this is actually a three thousand sweet kid I raised this bucks from a different kit because I couldn't find the kit that memory actually came in but ddr4 3000 and 2 by 8 gig kits so should get more performance out of our arrays in platform with the higher speed memory our motherboard is the a/b 350 M - gaming Wi-Fi from gigabyte which is a tiny little board super cute one of the first mini ITX boards for this platform to come out and this one features Wi-Fi as well which is one of those things it's pretty useful especially with the portable system that you might be moving around to get easy access to Internet so I'll give you got a wireless router of course our graphics card is the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 this is actually the mini one it does have dual cooling fans though and open-air design so it should keep things nice and cool and since there's plenty of ventilation on the side of the case we should actually be able to take advantage of that style of cooler normally with a more enclosed case I might recommend a blower style cooler like with the bounders Edition but I think for these purposes this should do just fine for an SSD I have the old-school Kingston HyperX as one of their original 240 gig SSDs but this one hasn't seen very much use and this one actually has a better programmer a cycles than the replacement that they did with this that has the gray instead of blue on the outside so this one still has plenty of life left in it and it's still nice and responsive so 240 gig for your operating system and maybe some games and stuff and then of course you're going to want some additional storage so when I parted out the system in the builds video that I did just a few days ago I recommended grabbing an old hard drive to use and that is exactly what I've done here if you're building in a mini ITX system then laptops are great sources to harvest old hard drives from this is a 640 gig Drive that actually came in my Asus laptops that I've been using for a while I swapped it out and replace it with an SSD so let's get some use out of this drive and add an extra 640 gigs of storage bringing the grand total on the system up to just under a terabyte and finally our case from silverstone is the ML zero eight one of the tall and thin style cases for Mini ITX it does have the riser card for the graphics so the motherboard goes in the lower area and then you've got the adapter for the graphics card to go up in the upper area which is great for saving space and keeping things very trim this case was actually slightly larger than I was expecting at least from the pictures but I did double check and it does thankfully fit in the carry-on bag so that's a very good thing and then the other nice thing about this model is it actually comes with a handle well it's not installed yet but this will go right up on top secures the four screws and then you can use it to carry the entire system once it is put together speaking of the system being put together let's do that next so here we are paused at the midpoint in the build as you can see CPUs installed I got the cry rig c7 installed - that wasn't too tough it was a little bit more involved than installing the stock heatsink fan but it wasn't too bad at all now I'm dealing with the case and as you might have seen the case section there's two side panels that kind of wrap around the top and wrap around the bottom which is kind of interesting nice interior all painted black and some of the complaints actually read about this case as I was reading over some of the reviews and stuff was about cable management now there's a definite difficulty with this particular motherboard because the front panel connectors are up here in the top left whereas in most motherboards you'd expect them to kind of be down here and these cables are only so long they're definitely long enough to get over there but I'm doing it gracefully might be a little bit of a challenge there's also a bracket that goes right in there to hold the power supply so and then there's a power supply extension cable because that kind of goes all the way over here actually where the plug is so that I kind of have been moving around to try to figure out where it's best to connect it so the cable management is gonna be challenging I'm gonna try to do some under the motherboard there's also a little bit of space under the power supply for routing some stuff there too so I'll get back to it and I'll see what I can come up with and I completely agree with anyone who said the cable management is a challenge in this case however I think I have found what is the solution especially if you're using this motherboard I removed the power supply again and I'm using the little bit of space to get sits under the power supply to route the USB 3.0 cable for example so you get it out and around there to use up some of the excess length from it and then it has just enough to loop down and actually plug in right there I've also taken the front panel connectors and just kind of wired them underneath where the power supply will be fans gonna be pointing up so no need to worry about about blocking anything there and that then I also routed them underneath this corner of the motherboard so the motherboard is not fully screwed in right now to do that the front panel audio HD audio I just read read it straight back there and also kind of lifted the motherboard up to widget right along the edge right there so I think that's allowed me to get at least my front panel cables connected in and then I'm also like I got a zip tie going right here although it's not done up yet because I do still need to get the actual power cables and I need a 24 pin over here and I need a SATA cable over here and I need an 8 pin mic right there dear God this is this is like the worst possible layout given the motherboard end case but well we get it all plugged in just a few more notes here guys before I kind of close things off I wanted to point out the graphics cards installed that wasn't too difficult and affair the riser card is a two-piece affair that actually bolts to the side of panel here which keeps things a bit more sturdy and you can't actually fit much longer graphics cards than this one we got this one because it was the least expensive of the GTX 10 70s that were available when we actually purchased it so because this is this was purchased as a brand new card so yeah feel free to install a longer one although this does leave some room for expansion here potentially I could imagine a 3.5 inch drive installing in there pretty easily either just drilled directly through the back here or potentially with a little custom-made mount or something like that beyond that this is a bit taller of a graphics card so that did nearly present a pretty difficult situation up here because just getting it installed was conflicting with this piece but fortunately this case is not riveted and this support piece right here just has three screws so I was able to remove those give me a little wiggle room to actually get it popped in and installed so that was a very good thing too speaking of expansion space there's a little bit more expansion space even in here so there is still room for a slim optical drive which we're not opting to install right now but we could and then the last thing I want to show here is since this motherboard has presented its share of inconveniences due to some of the placement of things there's a nice convenient aspect here which is that the nvme MDOT two slot is accessible through the cutout here so if Rachel decides to add an nvme drive in the future she can drop that in there pretty easily as well so guys this build is pretty much completes and I'm just gonna wrap things up with some final notes here in case you're wondering I don't think I printed it out yet but there's actually a little sliding panel here on the front and that is where the USB 3.0 and mic and headphone jacks are tucked away so pretty easily accessible and you can also cover them up it's also where the power and reset buttons are incidentally beyond that everything fit in snugly enough granted this is a mini ATX build so there's plenty of things that are a little bit different from a full-sized build and I already went over some of the potential expansion options that might be available here in the future there's the on the back looking pretty clean and then of course together a couple drives motherboard and the main components and the power supply down here now probably the biggest difficulty in here is definitely going to be the cable management's and in particular I'm very glad that I had enough cable lengths on several of these cables for the 24 pin for the 8 pin to reach over because this is actually a slightly shorter set of cables that comes with this power supply it should normally be a good thing because in a mini ATX build you're not going to have a lot of space to tuck away excess unused cables now the parts that you haven't really seen as much yet is is putting the actual side panels back on and since they have this kind of wraparound thing that goes around over the top and then kind of tucks around and curves under the bottom both side panels are actually pretty much identical you could swap them if you wanted however the plastic covers that go on them do present some potential difficulties we're gonna have to I might be able to do some testing on this I hope I have some time still left today before I need to deliver this but that will be in a follow-up video but I've heard that the dust filters here can reduce the airflow pretty significantly so here I've popped on one of the panels and you can see I've also added the feet at the bottom which keeps a lot more stable if you're keeping it vertically here now you can't actually also set this case on its side and it does come with some little rubber rubber ball things that will give it a little bit of spacing off the ground as well as the Silverstone logo that they didn't apply themselves so you can apply that yourself and make sure that it's facing the right way which is kind of nice and here I've gone ahead and installed the top handle as well as those bottom feets by the way the handle is installed on top and that does a pretty good job pretty stable pretty sturdy it is plastic but it does have some nice structural integrity to keep things that pretty solid as you're lifting and moving the system around even with a full complement of hardware installed and there you have it guys my Mini ITX verizon build a lot of power in a tiny little footprint and a pretty portable package as well this case of course was a little bit quirky but I hope I have clarified some of those issues for you guys in case anyone's actually planning to build the system in this case just as I have shown you guys today I will hopefully very much hopefully be coming back with a bit of testing on this I do have to deliver it to Rachel soon so I'm not sure how much time I'll have that but of course subscribe to my channel if you want to see that video as well as a couple more builds coming up very soon this month thank you guys so much for watching this one hit the thumbs up button on your way out and we'll see you next time