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what up Tec peeps glad to see you guys here once again few folks who follow the channel you guys know that a couple of weeks back I did the unboxing and the first look of the DG 77 case by the people at EVGA and there are a lot of mixed feelings from people about that case and obviously you know there are a couple things about it that really kind of really don't make that much sense but with that said we did a full build inside of the DG 77 now I want to say that this particular video is not about the build we mean that it's not about the parts inside the build this video is strictly about all the different aspects of building a system inside of the EVGA DG 77 case that's what it's about because a lot of the parts that we use are very high-end that I'll tell you why a friend of ours is Mart poppin he runs this site called babel tech reviews and men it's crazy this guy has been hit by a bus not once but frickin twice and he can barely walk man his hip his knee or almost to be as I can and everything but this guy loves to test stuff so we matched up our test system exactly like his so that we could share that scores back and forth between us so this system was really built to match exactly the parts that he has in his test bed so instead of building a test bed we figured hey let's just build it inside the DG 77 because there's plenty of room for any video cards we've got the power power supply hey what the heck let's roll with it so real quick let's check out the parts that we use in the build and then let's show you guys a time-lapse video as I talk about the different aspects about this build the pros the cons and the hey whatever let's go the EVGA DG 77 alpine white mid tower case was the case we used the motherboard this build was also provided by EVGA wanted to get as many EVGA parts inside of as possible so they provide us with one of their brand new Z 370 motherboards this is the FTW edition the 8th generation Core i7 87 Eric a processor is powering this baby and we also use 16 gigabytes of Patriot ddr4 memory that we have clocked at 3300 megahertz keeping that CPU running cool is the corsair hydra series h a div to extreme now this did not come with an RGB fan but we change it up for the ll series just to make it look cool for the boot drive I wanted something that was very very fast so I chose a really fast SSD this is a four Navy gigabyte one from Corsair it's called the neutron XT now for the storage drive I also wanted something very fast so I chose one of those hybrid SSD drives from Seagate it's a 2 terabyte fire CUDA this is made for gaming 64 megabytes of cache all in all it's pretty fast and was honestly pretty well prices on the 89 bucks when I got it beyond the fan located on the radiator there are also five other fans inside this system now on top we have two of course there's LL series RGB fans on the front we have three the fans that we got from EVGA I know that video card prices right now are almost a joke but we still have to put a video card in the system so we chose a pretty good one we used a Founders edition GTX 10 atti from the people at EVGA powering up this system is the EVGA supernova 750 g3 power supply now this is the center and 50 watts it's gold plus certified and is fully modular so those are the parts and yes we'll have a link down below for you check them out and let me just tell you right now these parts are really expensive in this build it's not really meant as such as a build for us like I told you the very beginning this is our test system as well so all the video card testing and stuff that you'll see in the future will all be done in this system now another thing is you can buy these parts at different places we'll have links to Amazon I think we'll have some links to new way but I'm sure if you look around and scrounge you can probably find stuff for a little bit cheaper that it will almost match this system but with that said though let's check out the time-lapse video let's check out Anthony putting together the system and let's talk about the good and the bad about putting this system together in the DG 77 one of the first things that we noticed when we started doing this build is that the lights weren't working at all there's a light in the front which I'll talk about a minute which is kind of weird and then there's the side light a lot of you people actually when I did the unboxing so that you guys did not like this light whatsoever you can remove it or like Anthony was saying you could make your own modification and change it so we're actually going to be changing that logo to t ot in the future we'll bring that video guide to you guys as well but those two things are there so right off the bat these lights from working we got the system finally built and everything and I install the software and they still weren't working we found out though that even after our buddy at EVGA send us replacement parts we found out that it actually neither one of these lights was actually connected to the controller don't ask me why they just weren't connect to the controller so right off the bat that was kind of the first thing that was kind of a pain the but he was like hey why aren't these lights working but we did finally figure that out and get past that now the front panel is kind of in a way ridiculous I will totally admit this to you guys that we did the build because there's an EVGA logo behind that that the solid glass you can't even see it so what's the point of even having a light there it's kind of just like wasted wasted electricity because it makes absolutely no sense it would have been better if they would have had it less so that the bottom where the fans were at had kind of a mesh so it had better airflow and then left that part wide open so that people could have seen the logo so that in itself is kind of like an also the back window is also completely nice glass but they colored it which means if you're trying to do a build and show off all your cable management and stuff well if you're not gonna really be able to do that Plus this stuff's also very expensive some of the things that could have been cut corners of this could have brought this case probably from one hundred and $69 down to around probably the hundred dollar level and I think people would have been a lot more receptive to that you know if it would have been that price point a lot of people like $169 for this case and there's all kinds of different things going on with it that are just like yeah I don't really think I would want that now the airflow through the case I have to say it the way we built it it actually does have really nice airflow through the case everything's running really nice the CPU even under full load is barely getting over 32 Celsius so it's running very very cool the liquid core obviously is doing its job another thing that kind of made me a little uh was that it says that you can mount a radiator on the top well let me just tell you unless you've got some really SuperDuper thin radiator it's not gonna work it's going to hit the motherboard that's what we were gonna originally put the radiator and we couldn't put the radiator up on top because of that fact so it was like uh okay fine so we moved it to the very back we used a single a single one that we used like you know we could have used a bigger one a dual 240 or even the triple but for some reason the way this particular case was made I couldn't really do that unless I wanted to put it in the very front and we needed that airflow so we built that particular way now under weird thing a lot of people said that the you know the airflow was completely restricted well the airflow is not completely restricted there are vents on the side for the air to blow through and with those fans all blowing air out of the system the air really does flow through there kind of nice another thing you guys were saying that because the card was kind of lip up against the glass that would get no airflow whatsoever no is crazy well actually there's about I don't know almost in probably out three quarters of an inch distance between the glass and the card so there is room for the air to circulate through there plus there's all that air circulating through the system to also keep that card running cool I've seen other reviewers say that they really didn't think that the cable management ability on this case was very well whatsoever and honestly I have to disagree with that now maybe it's not just like you know really super childishly easy to do it but with the right time and taking care you can see that Anthony was able to get the cable management very easily those little rubber slots and all the stuff in there sometimes those things are a little bit hard to work with but if you spend the time and energy and you pay attention to what you're doing you can see that really good cable management can be achieved in the D g77 without a problem look we did it if we did it you can do it you guys can see that this bill does look very nice we've actually tested a lot of different video cards in the system unfortunately for SLI there's no way to do the vertical card so we have to move the vertical card out when we're doing SLI testing but it does power to 1080 is without a problem so that's pretty cool so that means we'll be able to do all of our testing inside of the case without issue so let's just go over a few things I like you know I know people like me to sum everything up at the end of the video so and a hundred and $69 I feel that the DG 77 is a little overpriced for what you get like I said the glass black panel it doesn't need to be colored it should be clear it doesn't need to be that high-quality for this unless you know especially if it's not going to be clear the front panel makes no sense there could have been some design things to make the air flow a little bit better through the case like I said you cannot mount any type of you know big sized radiator on the top whatsoever or it hits your motherboard so you're kind of limited you're either to using that you know the back place we did it with with a single you know a IO or you're talking about using the front depending on how you want to do your bill but if you put it in the front well then obviously your airflow is gonna be different you're only gonna have like a single thing and then two fans on top to get the air to move through so I think the way that we did it with the three fans pushing the air in and the other fans taking the air out I think that's a much better way for building the system and keeping the airflow going through it honestly as far as the build goes and working inside of the case you won't cut yourself up or anything like that at all everything is you know it's made so that you're not gonna like rip your hands up and all that stuff so those the things about it that I think you guys I want to hear you guys opinion below and see what you think also I know it's a lot of people said they really hated the DG 77 marking on the case I personally don't have a problem with that in a way I think it kind of looks kind of cool like almost like robotic I know other people disagree but if you really want it off of there you can just scrape it off easily with the razor blade and it's done and gone and it can be you know off the case same thing with the EVGA logo that's down there on the side you either take that off or what it'll be really cool if you just to modify something and make it your own personal thing that way it's not the EVGA logo it's your own logo so I'm a lark you guys been watching Tekken tomorrow like usual all the parts that we use this bill will be down below like I said in the very beginning this is just our particular build you can build whatever you want inside of it this video was about using the DG 77 and it's fun facts of building a system in it so peace out we'll see you back here on the channel