Gadgetory

so today I built a rather unique PC that I don't recommend any of you build there are a few reasons why we'll discuss those here shortly it's an ITX x99 PC yes that is possible there is a single as far as I know x99 ITX motherboard you may have seen it online as old video it's from asrock and it's rather weird-looking you're looking at it right now I actually painted the motherboard white the heatsink the vrn heatsink just because I wanted to match the other components in the system even though really we'll be able to see much of that in the fragile no 202 when it's all assembled the CPU socket alone consumes half of this motherboards total area it's definitely a feat I congratulate asrock for being able to pull it off but I can see why other motherboard manufacturers didn't follow suit they didn't see the point and I know as arc doesn't want to hear this but it's the truth there's a reason why you shouldn't build what I'm about to show you especially in a small form-factor case like this what x99 cpu is bring to the table those qualities and traits do not line up with what ITX pcs are intended for here are two reasons why and they kind of go hand in hand the first is that anyone looking to build an ITX PC should already know that a single graphics card only one can be used with any modern ITX motherboard because those boards only offers single x16 slots which to insert a graphics card so right there you're limited to one only film reason 2 and this is this falls into the x99 category if you're looking to build that kind of PC chances are you may be some point down the line want to SLI or crossfire two graphics cards and if that doesn't apply to you then maybe you just want to overclock this thing and that's super hard to do in a small form-factor build like the one you're about to see so that's my disclaimer upfront this build makes no sense please please please do not copy this build part 4 part you'll see why at the end of this video you'll be slightly disappointed with the results you could actually build something that is slightly more powerful for a few bucks less and talk about that at the end as well but that said I hope you enjoy this ridiculously nonsensical build Oh Oh so a few things I do want to mention the first is that the cool you're looking at right now is the cooler that comes with the ITX motherboard from asrock and they design a cooler in this way because the socket itself is not a typical 2011 v3 socket it's not a square socket it's actually rectangular that's because they had to fit so many things onto such a small PCB so you can tell the RAM slots are right next to the socket and there's a ton of different components to the right of it and above it and behind it I mean that the socket is huge so they had to design a cooler that could fit a custom if you will 2011 v3 socket and that was actually too tall for the node - of - it just caused the case the bolt and I couldn't secure it on the corners so I had to remove that and use a stock Intel cooler from a Haswell CPU now this right off the bat is obviously a worst case scenario when it comes to CPU coolers and it's not like this cooler was even designed for the CPU the CTO is a much higher TDP than what this cooler was thermally designed for so I didn't overclock the CPU because of that and also something else that's really sketchy I couldn't mount the the cooler right I mean there's there's no way to do that because this is going to square socket so I had to basically break off the clips on the cooler and then just smoosh it down as hard as I could on top of some thermal paste over the CPU and just kind of hold it there and then - you burn in tests let that kind of let that thermal paste set in and just hold that cooler there it sounds really sketchy and on paper you probably wouldn't think it worked well but our idle temperatures weren't bad high 20s at idle and then under load with Cinebench r15 low 70s so expected to be a bit higher under i-264 maybe 80s but I'm not going to be doing any rendering or anything like that on this PC something else that had me doubting this coolers ability to cool the CPU is that I had to orient it in such a way that it was not directly on top of the CPU diet was slightly offset from the heat spread on top of the CPU and I wasn't sure if that contact was going to be good to keep temperatures down under load but I mean as you're seeing right here our temperatures were actually okay this is running its stock this sucks not cool to run an x 99 CPU at stock but it's the best we can do given the components that we have now a consequence of that tying into a price to performance ratio is the fact that I could build them z170 ITX PC in the same case with a 6700 K and overclock to probably 4 point 4 gigahertz and be safe with temps four point five I would say it'd be the highest I'd go with something like a cry or a c7 not with a stock cooler temps would be probably in the mid to upper 90s with a stock cooler at a 67 under K you've had to be at one point three five ish volts four point six gigahertz yeah I would try that four point four let's just say four point four you're going to get at least the same CB score in Cinebench as the 5820k is at stock with two additional cores and four extra threads also consider that you could buy a comparable z170 ITX motherboard for about a hundred bucks less than this four here which means that you could throw the hundred bucks into something else something better for that PC or just pocket it that's my favorite thing to do just pocket the money nevertheless moral of the story is do not build this PC I do hope you enjoyed watching me build it though I'm going to be honest with you I'm just going to disassemble it after I finish editing this video I might try VR with it just to see how well it does being that it's as small form-factor ability can just throw it in your living room and use that as like a you know decent PC to play games with on your TV but it's it's not practical not when you could build something on a z170 AC 270 platform for much cheaper that'll still be just as powerful if not more powerful you need a decent overclock out of it so 250 a 20k is going to go back to my test bench where it belongs we're all six of its course and all 12 of its threads will be utilized much more efficiently if you liked this video be sure to give it a thumbs up give it a thumbs down if you feel like we'd officer if you hate everything about life be strictly to subscribe and if you have already stay tuned for a head to head to head to head comparison between for monolith coolers I showed them all on Twitter follow me on Twitter for more details this is sounds our studio thanks for learning with us you