Gadgetory

nearly six years ago this case here the Lindley PCT u-100 was released for around a hundred USD now I think it was definitely ahead of its time it was a small form-factor had a suitcase handle and the build quality was phenomenal but I think they never intended for someone to cram in six years later a ninety nine hundred K a water cooler and also in RTX twenty sixty which is exactly what we're gonna be doing here today and in ways it's all coming about because we're using the AUSA SF power supplies these are really small but in this case we're gonna be using a 750 watt gold power supply that has over 60 amps available on this 12 volt line this thing is pretty much half of an AS 1500 yet that power supply is so much bigger and for the motherboard we're using a Z 390 from as Roberts got funderbolt of the front it's got all the expansion you'd want as well as the ability to overclock the 9900 k and then we're using a gigabyte r-tx 2060 mini which will fit inside this little case here so this build is gonna pack a serious punch however you probably noticed that we've taped out at the bottom here and we've also taped out the top that is because if we don't drill some holes in this thing it is seriously going to overheat and in fact I'd say the design was never intended for something like this with this much power going through it but regardless my need for this is the fact that when I travel I need a mobile 4k video editing powerhouse and I needed to be small and I need to be able to carry it so this fits the bill perfectly and without aside let's drill this thing out and see if we can put it together properly without any hiccups so here we are now we've finished the top here we've smooth that off as a lot of work actually even though it doesn't look like much and then we got the bottom we got some bigger holes drilled in there because that's just for the graphics card and so we've got air flow for the graphics card we've got out take here now for the radiator and fan then we got intake at the front so hopefully now we can start installing these PC parts and have a build that won't overheat that also still carry such a small size and footprint here it is it's finished we're gonna boot it up and of course see if it works but after that we're also gonna start tuning this thing I'm just off the top of my head I'm going to go for around four point four gigahertz because with the 9900 k after those levels it just starts to hitting an efficiency curve where you're using up a lot more power and those extra 600 megahertz will end up costing you probably double the power consumption which in this case like literally we have to keep the power consumption down as much as possible so we'll be going for efficiency curves based on the GPU and the CPU and let's get the show started I've kind of got to turn the thing on first so there's the results in now we've been stress testing for over ten minutes and we've Gus 73° max which I am super happy with these temperatures in this little box pound consumption is about 158 watts I think that's the max I measured at the wall and so now we're still gonna add the GPU into the loop which I'm a little bit scared about but we're gonna do that and then come back and see the total power consumption and also the temperatures this time around so now we've finished up with the GPU tests added on so everything's being stressed CPU and GPU and we're getting about 300 watts power draw from the wall and the fan speeds are going up to about 92% grabba Scott is hard locked at 83 degrees so it looks like it will be slightly throttling in this case by the CPU the temperatures are very well controlled still 76 degrees Maxim very happy with the CPU at the moment but the GPU is getting a little bit hot so we're gonna try something a little bit different because this case does enable you to quickly release the side panel here and that will be beneficial when we are editing videos because I don't really care too much about the aesthetics this thing has one purpose and that is to travel and then put on a desk and then get the most out of it so let's leave this side panel off now for another 10 minutes and come back with the temperatures and see how it fared so leaving the side panel off unfortunately didn't do much to change the total outlook the CPUs pretty much hovering around these same temperatures the noise of course a little bit louder now coming outside the case and the GPUs still getting pretty hot but ultimately I believe this thing is still going to be able to edit videos absolutely fine as the thermal imaging camera is showing that it's still inside near the motherboard CPU things are pretty cool the radiator at the front is remaining very cool and also the outtake is pretty damn awesome but now there's only really one thing left to do but actually two things I'm going to check the lowest voltage I can use for the CPU at 4.4 gigahertz and see if that drops the power consumption even just down by a little bit then we're gonna run some gaming benchmarks and see how this little beast box the yes Mini performs oh yeah so all the gaming numbers are in and what an impressive display by this little yes mini box here we've got in Apex legends of high settings we got 123 average FPS seventy-seven one percent low 70 point one percent load dota 2 was over 200 average FPS at max settings at 1080p 91 percent lows and 40.1% lows and the good thing here the GPU wasn't still being stressed at near 100% moving over to shadows of the Tomb Raider the latest and greatest title high settings 1080p people getting over a hundred FPS and all these three games were using about 200 to 250 watts while we were playing them they're still under that max limit of I to 64 is 300 watts that we saw before and now it's time to talk about all the components in this bill because I'm honestly just blown away by this thing it is gonna be an absolute powerhouse when I travel overseas and in fact I think a lot more people who are traveling and doing video work for events like Computex and CES and stuff like that will definitely want one of these because it's so unique to the point where you've got the handle and carry it around it's lightweight and it's also got the 9900 K inside and the r-tx 2060 and the balance is just so good now we did manage to under vaulted to about 1.0 5 volts at 4.4 gigahertz we dropped the 110 watt figured down to about 95 watts and suddenly I learned about the 9900 K is I think that 5 gigahertz setting it's really past its efficiency curve I think actually around 4.4 gigahertz is where you're gonna get the best performance per watt out of this CPU and it's still going to be a beast of a CPU of these speeds but this is really one of those things where the past meets 2019 a 2013 case I just honestly couldn't think of a better candidate in fact these things are getting so rare that I only managed to get the silver version but I just checked on eBay and there's a guy in Italy selling them for about a hundred and ten euro knee actually isn't charging too much for shipping he's only got seven available with the black one and I actually might buy the black version because I think it'll look better than the silver version and I got the idea from this when I was over at Christopher years place in the you when we're in Vegas doing that competition if you haven't seen that video already I put the link up here but he had this case with different older hardware in it and he said take a look at this thing and I took a look and I thought wow straight away I saw the potential so I started researching up about it and I thought well why don't we just try to do a magical build in this thing and this is where I'm gonna really put an emphasis on this things literally just fit like just fit it was a massive pain in the bum to build in it was it was just crazy how much effort it took to get this thing right and get everything packed in but the end product is all that matters it's something that works really well it's something that's so small so portable but at the same time it wouldn't be possible with all these components inside so for the water cooler we had the h-60 and then we changed that around to to light lu-fans and you might be thinking okay why do you need the RGB bling it's actually for functionality as well so I've got these with the front one set up to a temperature of the CPU the top set up to the GPU so if they go red that's when I know they're both entering the danger zone and I might want to save my work turn the PC off try and diagnose some things so they actually offer functionality in this purpose of the Mini ITX PC here but moving on with some other components the SF 750 watt power supply would put in this is Corsairs and you line up a new refreshment of their small form-factor power supplies now the cables are about half the length of your normal cables that would come with other power supplies and so this really made it possible because we needed shorter cable runs and we also had to get in a small form-factor power play with enough juice to power everything the thing about this bounce blade was it so overpowered even for this little build that when we were on full load the fan wouldn't spin up for literally like 10 minutes until the benchmark and then it just decided to turn on a little bit so it was whisper quiet I even tested it on the other rig when I was overclocking the 99 hundred K and the twenty eighty I and getting six hundred watts and these power supplies really hold up they've also got an FS 600 which would do absolutely find this build and an SF 450 even though the prices vary they go from ninety five dollars to a hundred and eighty US on Amazon at the moment honestly the SF 4/5 would do absolutely fine in this build despite it having such high-powered components now for the motherboard we're using the asrock mini ITX z 390 chipset here and this thing is phenomenal had no hiccups whatsoever of course with as rocks bias it's so easy to use yet it's so detailed I had no hiccups whatsoever getting all the hardware inside to work we're also using two 16 gigabyte 2400 lpx sticks from Corsair this was actually super important to have low profile memory in this case because we had to mount the radiator at the front and if we didn't have the RAM this shallow then we would have came into a problem where the build we would had to do some serious hacking to get that radiator working in the front then came the graphics card at the bottom the our TX 2060 mini this was the only card I could imagine in the our TX 2060 series that would fit inside this case and in fact when we're installing the radiator we had to push that up and then get the graphics card in and then pushed the radiator back down it was such a tight fit but in the end it all worked out everything performs phenomenally well the graphics card does get up to 83 degrees when we are gaming at 100% load but even when we saw the heaven benchmark numbers with the side panel off we had just over 2900 points and then with a side panel back on we're getting 2800 95 points so basically also happens with the GPU is once it hits 83 degrees it just starts throttling the megahertz down so it's nothing to worry about this GPU will perform phenomenally well especially since I'm not gonna be using this PC all the time it's mainly a travel rig and/or a gaming rig in my spare time and honestly I don't get much time to game nowadays because I'm constantly hassling I'm constantly making videos and doing other things non gaming related although I do love playing a bit of dota 2 every now and then and this thing just absolutely smokes to it it's too very responsive amazing experience and it's just so damn good hey guys if you enjoyed this tu 100 build right here then be sure to slap that like button also let us know in the comments what do you think would look better the silver or the black version I think the black version would be more sleek the silver version kind of looks like the musical carry case which I guess would be good in the case of traveling but this is the reason I built this I don't want much attention I want that portability I want something that's going to be out as five a bit of a beating and this thing has it all the build quality is phenomenal everything inside is just really good components big thanks to as rock and also Corsair for sending out the cooler pounce blame the motherboard wouldn't be possible without these components if you guys want to check out something like this and build something similar then I'll put some links in the description below but this thing here in 2019 is easily the best mini ITX case out there at the moment especially for what I want to do with it and that is just a mobile powerhouse that is still very small and with all that said I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye