Gadgetory

you know there's something really special about being able to potentially pack so much computational power into such a small volume we're talking not much larger than an Xbox 1x console which is about as big as you'd ever want to take anything with you right if it's any bigger than that it's an inconvenience to carried in your backpack assuming you can even fit it in there if it's larger and then bring it with you it's like a check-in bag or carry-on you got to worry about people throwing stuff if you have to ship it with ups trust me don't do that so the idea of an ultra portable PC is really entertaining to me my goal is to be able to take this PC with me to Computex in Taiwan in June and edit on this rig using like the hotel TV or whatever we're gonna have at our disposal there I'll bring a mouse in keyboard and boom we're good to go because trust me editing on a macbook it's much better than editing on like a Dell XPS 13 but it still has its severe limitations so what I'm gonna show you in this video is the sweet tech porn the b-roll the construction of this PC and then afterwards we're gonna talk about what I plan to do in part 2 to make this PC even more unique than it probably already is if someone else already has this exact build out there dang it I'm sure many of you have like similar builds but the custom sleeve cables I think or just like the icing on the cake here the scythe cooler looks sweet and I think that just all of this kind of came together so perfectly and beautifully in the fractal design node - OH - then I'm excited for part two so I'll stop rambling here is the build log now run off the top I want to discuss a few things you might be wondering about the build first off the CPU cooler has literally perfect clearance so this is like a textbook definition of perfect when it comes to just the idea of two different components that don't you know that aren't manufactured by the same company working together so beautifully so the the cooler itself actually touches the bottom of the dust filter on the top panel of the Franklin Oh - OH - at first I was kind of disappointed there but it's not actually touching the fins of the fan because those are slightly recessed inside the fans frame so this is perfect I don't mind it touching the the frame you know it's not like I have to force the top cover on there it is a textbook fit and I would recommend this this cooler in particular to anyone looking to build in the fractal design note 202 something else I'm disappointed in myself for because I didn't plan far enough ahead and think about this in advance was the the fact that there is no 1070 TI for the wind - card in this build even though it's linked down below I recommend you get that thing over a Founders Edition car like this because I think the price is starting to come down now you usually can get like a package deal with an EVGA card so you can check those out below and I was really glad that Jakob was able to send one of these cards out to slot 1070 TI for the win - the problem is though it requires to 8-pin VGA cables and I only had one 8 pin and one 6 pin made in the cable mod configurator so that was my fault I didn't realize that the card required to a pin so I was stuck with just 1/8 and 1/6 and that meant that I had to use the founders vision 1070 that I purchased myself from Best Buy a while back so it doesn't fill the entire like graphics card compartment of the node - OH - the 1070 TI for the 1/2 would have that's the only thing I wish I could still change at this point in time another thing I'm sure he of you're wondering is why I only chose a 250 gig em to SSD this is a Samsung 860 Drive and it's a pretty sweet one for what it is but it's pretty small as well right most people would prefer at least a 500 like a half terabyte to a terabyte with the storage is pretty mainstream nowadays if you're gonna go with only an SSD and not something like a hard drive to complement your storage space I was just actually a little impatient I didn't want to wait for the 500 gig drive coming from a data that's gonna be here Saturday but this build I was just I wanted to put it together he was so excited to see how it would turn out so I'm gonna head in through the 860 Evo which is what I had on hand into the rig and if I need to upgrade later not a big deal lastly I want to mention the icing on the cake the Corsair SF 600 fully modular sfx power supply paired with cable mod cables these are custom sleeve pro cables i got them in all silver because i figured it would match the accents on both the graphics card as well as our a suzie 170 i ITX motherboard which is a great board by the way you can find all these parts linked down below if you want to build something similar for yourself but the cables you know you might be wondering why I chose custom sleep cables in a build that you can't see inside of and that has to do with part 2 which is coming soon I'm not gonna say too much about it but I think you'll really enjoy the case mod we're gonna conduct here the other thing though is the power supply you got to have her I'm fully monitoring the power supply if you want to use these cables because if you're gonna use extensions you might not have the space to use extensions in a case like the node - OH - it's pretty restrictive even using like the stock power supply that came with a node 202 it's gonna have a bit of like cable mumbo-jumbo because it's just there's not enough space in there right so having custom length custom sleeve cables was a priority for me in this build and I think I got everything almost perfect I just kind of eyeballed stuff is like yeah it's like you have 200 millimeters that seems like enough for this one and this cable might need 300 millimeters now it's kind of just eyeballing it and it actually worked out pretty well I didn't have any excess cabling anywhere but anyway for interested in putting together cables like I did you can check out cable much configurator linked in the video description and you can either design some sleeving extensions which are good for power supplies that don't have modular support or you can have cables that plug directly into your power supply as long as it's supported on the configurator a website huge thanks to cable Mon for putting the icing on the cake with this one these cables are just perfect and the idea of like you know specifying the lengths of cables it was so good for a build like this because there again there's not much space in this case for excess cabling but anyway everyone I hope you guys enjoyed at least watching the tech porn if not me talking I totally get it I'm not offended and I had a lot of fun building this one because again it was a challenge in a sense that it was really you know compact but at the same time I think it pays off because it there's just no wasted space in here and I wait for part two stay tuned for that it's not already the card above that's because I'm still working on it as of filming this of course I'm still working out of it I think it's really gonna pay off so stick around for that give us one a thumbs up if you thought it was cool thumbs down for the opposite you can be critical in the comments it's totally fine and I stay tuned for the next one this is science studio thanks for building with us