Gadgetory

so this little PC rig you see beside me is the in wind Chopin and it's going to host a really awesome build I'm gonna be using it for editing 4k footage while I'm on the road and also since I'm leaving for pax Isles in literally less than 12 hours I need something to build quick I need it to be small and even smaller than some of those mini ITX pcs are built in the past and they've been really small but this thing is extremely small it's almost the size of my hand it's just that small so let's find out what we've got in this PC and how it performs as well welcome back to tech yeah City this is brian coming to you guys today with another mini ITX build and first of all I'm gonna say ddr4 memory prices are just ridiculously expensive at the moment I couldn't believe it the kid that I bought last year at PAX America for $159 this was - 16 gigabyte sticks of Crucial Ballistix got it for a really good deal at Myra center this memory is now three hundred and fifteen dollars on Amazon I couldn't believe it $200 price hike from what I originally paid for it now this build would have came to about nine hundred dollars if you guys paid the same what I pay for some of the parts along the way that makes any sense but this build will now cost you eleven hundred and sixty three dollars to build it is quite expensive of course on that note I will put some cheaper alternatives in the description below if you want to build something similar but you want it to be for a home theater PC for example but what we have here today is strictly a video editing PC so there's actually no graphics card installed and you're probably wondering don't you need CUDA support and the answer is yes and no CUDA support I find generally works when you're putting in effects your color balancing and it also does speed up the final render time but since I'm traveling usually I'm doing long interviews and also showing off the latest products and you don't really need a lot of color balancing and fancy effects for that so something like this with the six core i5 8400 will do an excellent job now I recently tested this six core CPU from the coffee leg lineup and it's really good value for money not only that it just sips power doesn't use much power at all especially compared to the overclockable i7 8700 K and even its bigger variant the i5 8600 K when they're both overclocked they use considerable amount more power now since this case only has a 150 watt power supply in it I want to keep the power consumption low but I also need the power so the i5 8400 is perfect for this build and as rocker as you can see behind me they've sent out to Z 370 mini ITX motherboards I also bought 2 i5 8400 s and also 2 in wind chopping so I will be doing a giveaway of one of these in wind chop ins to you guys in the next week or so it's coming in early November I'll be teaming up with three other tech channels so stay tuned for that stay subscribed with notifications on because you're not gonna want to miss this giveaway of one of these little sexy cases here now getting back on topic with the parts the i5 8400 187 dollars that's what I paid for it and it should be back in stock pretty soon so definitely worth the money it also comes with a cooler does a pretty good job you can hear it beside me it's currently on and it's really quiet now the in wind choppin which is the best part of this build I absolutely love this case I saw it online the photos I got recommended it by a friend and then I got it in the flesh and it was even better than what I thought it would be in the photos and what I heard about it all metal construction absolutely love this case it's got the mesh on the sides on the top and also it's gotten USB 3 at the front audio in and out ports and a 150 watt power supply which is bronze rated included at the bottom this is a small form-factor power supply and the cables are all black as well and the cable management in this case is so easy which really surprised me for a mini ITX case also the rear you can mount a 3.5 inch hard drive and an SSD or two SSDs if you wish now the Z 370 Mini ITX bought from asrock this comes included with an nvme slot so you can mount one of those it's also a feature pack board three fan headers four pin fan headers two RAM slots and a USB three front out it's also got a seven phase vrm and wireless bluetooth included the for the pricing with the in wind chop and this is where things get a little bit tricky I couldn't find this for sale anywhere in the US and in fact the cheapest price you could get it for in the US was getting it shipped from someone on eBay in Australia which came to around 100 35 USD which actually isn't too bad now if you're in a straight you can pick this up from PC case gear like I did for a hundred and nine Australian dollars this is the black version they also have the silver version too though I do prefer the black version and they include the green orange and blue I think and red colour bands that you can use to change the build up a little bit if you so wish now touching on the pricing with the Mini ITX z3 70 motherboard this is the fatality version really good vrm as I said before and it comes in at a hundred and eighty dollars so it is feature pack but it is a little bit expensive especially for a Mini ITX board they do have the cheaper ITX AC version which comes in at 135 dollars you can also get a $10 rebate so at 125 dollars that motherboard is definitely representing pretty good value for money even on an 8400 because you can then overclock the memory and even little things like the B clock are bump that up 3% and that will give you a little performance boost especially compared to the B 360 motherboards which will be more expensive than standard B 360 motherboards if they're in the Mini ITX format there was for the last component in this build the storage we're going with a one terabyte SSD from Corsair now this is a lot of storage for an SSD although if you're on the road like me editing 4k video footage with a hundred megabits per second a one terabyte SSD can quickly fill up before you know it you're juggling space and it's just a nightmare if you don't have enough storage on your hands though you can step it down of course for much cheaper there are 240 gear by des SDS for around $75 especially if you're making a home theater PC something like that will come in a lot cheaper now this brings the total cost of this build to eleven hundred and sixty three dollars which is really expensive for what it is the ddr4 memory prices just simply make this build exorbitantly expensive it come in at around nine hundred and something dollars if it wasn't for that price hike on the ddr4 memory but keep in mind I need something like this for editing 4k footage on the road I can't compromise any more than I have there's a little bit of good news to come out of this if you are an Aussie you can pick this whole build up for around thirteen hundred and seventy four Australian dollars which brings it in a 1059 us in relative prosperity purchasing terms that just simply means if you were to convert the Australian dollars into US dollars that's what the price would be in USD though we do pay 10% GST tax as well so the builds looking pretty good in Australia I mean the prices in the US has built something like this is just simply a ripoff at the moment but err guys enough talking about the price of this thing let's talk about the performance the 8,400 we can get this thing to around 950 Cinebench score out of the box I will be tuning it a little bit more and of course under vaulting it to see the best settings that I can get on this current setup though what about gaming of course I'm using the onboard Intel graphics which isn't that good though the performance actually surprised me when it came to 1080p gaming dota 2 at 1080p on the lowest settings but with a hundred percent resolution scale was pulling around 60 to 80 frames per second which was absolutely fine for an enjoyable experience and also on that note it was extremely snappy moving over to csgo this is where things got a little bit weird 1080p was kind of like 60 frames per second it was okay but it was stuttering in clutch battles so I did have to drop it to 720p and it was at that stage that the FPS did boost a little there was still some - stutters going on so it was a little bit weird in csgo though I did manage to get some frags at 720p settings and of course I know you guys would get angry if I didn't test out pub G how does it perform in player unknowns battlegrounds well it was terrible to say the least 720p lowest settings very low and now even dropped it down to 70% resolution scale I think and we got around 15 to 20 frames per second and it was funny because even though the frame rates were horrible there are actually pastes out extremely well this was the if I dare say it the smoothest 15 to 20 fps I've ever had in my life I could actually frag some people on these settings though when it came to the end game I really couldn't see the players that well amy was so hard because it was just literally pixels on my screen it was just a horrible picture to begin with I'd like to play at least at 1080p very low settings to actually do well at this game and of course the main task at hand video editing this thing is going to perform really well when I'm using it for Adobe Premiere Pro and of course Adobe Audition it is extremely small as well I'll be able to put into my bag with my camera gear 4 packs oz and also next month for the event in Bangkok anyway guys I hope you enjoyed this little video on the in wind choppin it is a fantastic case and it's actually been released for quite some time now I just was unaware of it but honestly with the new coffee lake chips the six cores the 8400 in particular with this case in a mini ITX board it is going to be an absolutely amazing combo for someone who needs it for what I need it for and that's mobile video editing so powerful so small can highly recommend it though the prices really keep your eyes out for deals especially on ddr4 memory anyway guys if you have any questions about the in wind choppin then let me know in the comment section below what do you think of it and also if you like the silver version better love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and also stay tuned because there's going to be a big giveaway coming which I'll be giving away here on the channel and also teaming up with three other tech channels and they'll all be giving away a PC of their own it should be an international giveaway so stay tuned for that and also if you're going to pax Australia in Melbourne let me know I look forward to seeing you there having a chat catching up and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye