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what's up guys how's it going and welcome to my build of the month for August 2018 this is a mini ITX build with a be 450 motherboard so it's built for reisen processors and the focus for today I think is going to be not on the build process itself I just recently did a how to build video so check that out if you want the actual step-by-step procedures but I want to focus on the flexibility of this build as I go through stuff because there are parts you could swap in or out for more or less money and more or less performance so there's a lot of things that could be changed I'm going to start by going over the parts that I chose at the beginning of this month on my monthly builds video and I'll focus on sort of the options that you have in each category the inner max liquitex er for - all in one liquid CPU cooler has a massive contact plate made just for thread Ripper and is rated for 500 watts of heat dissipation high pressure pwm fans mount two rubber channels on the radiator to absorb the vibration and the sexy logo and edge lighting on the block is addressable for syncing with your motherboard it comes with an RGB control box - so click the spots or link in the description for more so based on the feedback I got last months the first choice for this build was the case and that is because everyone wanted to see a mini ITX build I chose the Rio Toro CR 280 because it costs around 55 or 60 dollars it's mini ITX and it is small there's a lot of mini ITX cases that are on the larger size there's also thin mini-itx cases that are a little bit more limited on expansion capabilities this one is small still has the same layout that most standard ATX cases has and it fits full sized ATX power supplies which means we have a little bit more flexibility in our choice there power supply I'm using today is the EVGA 650 gq-- it's not the exact one I chose in the builds video but the primary requirements were 550 to 650 Watts 80 plus bronze or gold rated and then I also chose one that was partially modular and has all black cables so we won't have any nasty ketchup and mustard cables going on messing with our color scheme other than the mini ITX form factor i knew i wanted to go with the Rison with this build not simply because i feel like you get the most bang for your buck when you're actually buying rise in main stream processors right now I'm going with the Rison 2700 X today which is the fastest second gen rising processor but my recommendation was just to find the cheapest 8 Corizon that you could if you're going for a higher-end build like this one just gonna cost you around $1,200 total for all the parts there's also a lot of newbie 450 motherboards that have just launched and this is the slightly more budget option when it comes to rising processors you can still overclock so nope there and I was recommending AV 450 Mini ITX motherboard in the 110 220 dollar range this is a brand new board from gigabyte the B 450 I horas pro Wi-Fi I think I'm one of the first to be able to build in it it has an MDOT two expansion slot for high speed SSDs it has the B 450 chipset which means it's overclockable it's also got 802 that 11 AC Wi-Fi and USB 3.1 gen2 what memory kits use is often one of the biggest question with the rise in built because they can be finicky about running memory at faster speeds but you do want faster speed memory in order to get all of the performance out of Rison so this is the Corsair Vengeance lpx kit I've used for quite a few builds it's ddr4 3000 speed it's also low profile and no flashy blingy RGB LEDs or anything like that it's just solid memory that gets the job done and if you get this kit it will be compatible with the XMP setting with Rison so it's pretty easy to set up and get your rated speeds for storage I recommended a 480 to 512 gigabyte class SSD and I definitely recommend an SSD for your main operating system this is a Toshiba OC ZTR 200 which is available for about 90 to 95 dollars right now but there are definitely other 500 gig Class SSDs done in that range to double check and find one has a good price because there they go on sale a lot and prices have been dropping last component here is a graphics card and I recommend a geforce gtx 1070 or 1070 TI or 1080 right now and this is very much depending on the prices because the prices again are in flux if you're spending $400 or more on your graphics card you can definitely get a gtx 1070 but for a 435 or so you can get a gtx 1070 TI which will be faster and for 450 or so you might be able to get a gtx 1080 and those prices maybe even have gotten a little bit better but any one of these cards you go with will be fast just find the one that maybe is on sale right now or of course the one that will match your color scheme this one is black and red and since there are some black and red accents on the case i think it will fit in just perfectly this is my first rio toro case actually I've heard of them but I have not actually worked with one of their cases before for about $60 on first glance looking again like I just I like the site elected it's small there's two thumb screws on the back that I've already removed which is why the side panels are falling off there's a little T embossed on the side I don't know what the T is for is that the T in Rio Tora yeah but it does have a small plexi window on the side there is some plastic on it to keep it protected I'm gonna leave that on until I finish the build also the T stamped on that side but it does give you a little bit of a look at the internals and we got a couple horizontally oriented drive cages there it looks like 3.5 inch for both of those gonna have to do some more figuring out to figure out how these drive trees actually work they're held on from the bottom with some thumb screws but if you're looking down here you might notice there is a bit of a dust filter not a fancy one but this is a relatively inexpensive case there's also a dust filter across the front there's a dust filter across the top area behind the motherboard tray here has a reasonable amount of space for some cable management's tucking it away down here there's a little bit less space in the top than in the bottom there's also a couple 2.5 inch drive mounts back here as well also tucked right down in here is another 3.5 inch drive mount it's just got a release here on the top that would hold it from the sides so actually three 3.5 inch drive mounts and two 2.5 inch drive mounts in this case and the front panel is actually all-metal as well which is kind of nice actually not just a plastic facade and it's got these little catches that hold it in place there's a real Toro logo with just a piece of red backing on it and I guess a red accents here just kind of this little piece of tape that goes around the edge it's enough to give it a highlight but that doesn't look gaudy or anything like that oh these fronts dust filters do appear to be removable to front dust filters individually removable so that's it's not bad they're not the easiest to get back into place but I'd rather have them there than not front panel IO here you got a couple USB 3.0 ports as well as mic headphone jacks power and reset buttons and then I appreciate the fact that 220 millimeter fans are included and then just comparing this to some other like lower end budget cases that I've worked with you know it's not like super thick steel or anything but it doesn't seem like it's too flimsy and then I do like the fact that there's some little details like for instance the rear fan here does have some rubber gaskets in there that it's mounted to just to prevent some vibration from affecting the case I will say that your expansion slots down here one of these is a breakaway that one this one's a breakaway so that's one time use this is trash now and then this one is replaceable that's that's a little weird to me but wonder how much money they saved by doing that I tweeted a picture of this little motherboard yesterday and I got a lot of positive feedback on it I like what gigabyte has done with the design there's silver accents on the heatsinks this also feels like a pretty substantial heatsink right there I'm not going to speak to the power delivery or anything right now but I do want to point out that they fixed the location of the eight plans supplemental CPU power it used to be like over here on there be 350 board in this range and that was kind of annoying to get to you got a couple fan headers a CPU fan over there and then another fan header down here for case fans and then they also have both digital LED output right there so that's your 5 volt 3 pin LED and then there's also a 4 pin 12 volt standard LED output there as well since I chose to use a 2700 X I'm going to be installing the Wraiths prism cooler which is the highest end stock AMD cooler for Rison this actual install straight to the plastic brackets that are pre-installed on the socket if you get a lower end CPU you might have the standard rates fire cooler like this though still a very adequate cooler just doesn't have the fancy RGB and stuff this one mounts directly through to the backplate so you may have seen me mounts these coolers before which involves removing these two plastic brackets this one just has a little clips on either side that clip around it and that's not exactly how you do it but you'll see in a second there's constant debate about applying thermal paste in CPU cooling situations I most often go with a method of just putting a little blob in the middle a little little smaller than the size of a pea this time I opted to spread the thermal paste around though and that is because there are actual direct heat pipes on the bottom of this thing and they have grooves in between them with direct heat pipe contact if it's not a uniform flat plate in the middle sometimes the thermal paste can slip into the grooves and go side to side instead of this way and basically you won't get the maximum amount of contact between the heat pipes and the thermal paste and the heat spreader on the CPU that you want so I remove this drive cage it's got four thumb screws on the bottom that hold it in place to the case and I was trying to figure out because there's some other like little tabs on here that mount in different places and will catches and these little standout things I think that's just so you can actually fit those together like that which kind of makes sense and then you could secure it with screws if you wanted I feeling like maybe Rio Toro uses this cage and maybe other cases as well I was trying to forget if they have locations in there to move it to other locations or something but there is no manual that ships with the case there's just a little card with the QR code on it that takes you to the Rio tour website which I found to be not the best experience trying to figure how these work but I don't have a 3.5 inch drive anyway so here are these little drive trays that come with it just so you guys can get a look and I'm going to not use this just looking at our 2.5 inch drive mount here they give you these little spacer screws and these are the mounting points these are little rubberized inserts here so I do appreciate that again although you have the issue here where you have to mount the drive through the actual backplane and there's nothing to remove as far as a tray goes so this probably something you want to plan out earlier in the build process but it does seem like you also have the ability if you wanted to there's just enough space to fit the drive on that way so if you had a drive it was blinking here and you know lit up or something like that it does seem like you can mount it here and have it be more visible so that's kind of nice things are coming together here if you saw when I went over the motherboard there are two fan headers and we have three fans we need to plug in the CPU heatsink fan and then the two fans from the case so if you are thinking about putting this build together I'd recommend getting a little fan splitter just as a simple pwm guy this will allow me to plug a single plug into the motherboard fan header which is right down here and then I can take both of my two fan headers and wrap them down to that area and plug them both into that same header alright guys so after building extensively in the Corsair 1000d with my Riptide builds I am been very happy to build a nice small computer that I can pick up and move around without too much difficulty has also made it easier in the building process as you can see I was able to get all the cables tucked back here pretty nicely there's plenty of tie down points Bekir which I definitely appreciated single foreign aid a SSD currently installed there but again expandability options here we get out of second SATA a 2.5 inch SSD we can add a 3.5 inch drive down here in the bottom we could add two more 3.5 inch drives up here via those cages but I will point out that if you do want to max out this case with drives you probably want to opt for a smaller power supply this one's a little bit long so it would conflict with those drive cages consider a power supply that's maybe 140 to 160 millimeters in length this one is a little bit longer I also want to point out that the graphics card here just barely fit I was able to kind of get it in there at an angle but it's long enough that it's conflicting with the front second hundred and twenty millimeter intake so I would not be able to add another fan there if I wanted to unless it was a slim one so if you're looking at graphics cards maybe up for ones that are a little bit smaller if this card was three slot or any bigger like some of these Asus cards and it would definitely conflict with the power supply at the bottom as well so even though this is a very small build everything fit in there quite nicely but there were some parts where I was like wow this barely fits like the space up here for CPU coolers if this was much wider or fatter it would probably conflict with this rear hardened 20 millimeter fan all this is to say if you're not using these exact parts that I'm using today double-check some of the sizes that you're going to be using just to make sure that everything will actually fit in the system if you're putting together in this case but now ladies and gentlemen I have plugged in the system slipped the power switch on and let's have a quick moment of truth it works well like really quiet too like right out of the gate like I can I can barely hear anything all the fans are spinning so now is the point in time where traditional builders if they have put everything together done the initial boots to make sure everything is working can do a quick little peel from our plexi and replace our side panels so there you have it guys my tiny little build in the Rio Toro CR 280 about $1,200 gets you an 8 core CPU a gtx 1070 with eight gigs of video memory overall a really fast system with an SSD for a boot drive as well as a ton of expandability for adding more drives more SSDs in the future and yes you could easily use this system to game to game and stream at the same time to edit video as well as a ton of other stuff too but guys thank you so much for watching this video if you enjoyed it definitely hit the thumbs up button I'll put links to all the parts I used down in this video's description and we'll see you guys next time have a good one