 Won't fit! What am I gonna do? Hey there little buddy, don't you worry That's the Su-Go 16, a case that opens up so you can slide your GPU in from the front giving it nearly the performance potential of a mid-tower, but in a tiny little enclosure It's kind of like you. Wow Can I help? You sure can! By listening to this message from our sponsor, Graphus Graphus is an automated phishing defense solution for Office 365 and G Suite emails that stops current and emerging email threats without you having to lift a finger Get 30% off list price and 30% off onboarding at graphus.ai slash Linus There have been a number of conflicting trends in the PC building space over the last few years Consumers want their cases to be smaller and more quiet While GPUs keep getting larger and more power hungry meaning they require more cooling Now theoretically the solution to this is simple just nip here, tuck there, get rid of all this dead space And you're good to go At least as long as you can find a way to get fresh air from outside the case to your hottest components On that subject, let's have a look at them spread out over our Northern Lights desk pad here at lttstore.com We've got everything we need starting with our Aorus X570i Pro Wi-Fi motherboard This thing is not cheap at $210 but it's got PCIe Gen 4, room for two M.2 SSDs and Ample cooling for both the chipset and the VRMs which we are going to need because for our CPU We've gone with a Ryzen 9 5900X. It runs a little toasty But if we can get all 12 cores boosting up to their maximum We are going to be pushing the limits of what a small form factor gaming slash content creation system can do and at least Unlike the alternative from Intel it might be possible to cool this thing with a single 120 millimeter radiator You've got two options for that the master liquid ml120 lv2 RGB and the Arctic cooling liquid freezer 120 are both worth around 75 US dollars so the question becomes which trade-off do we prefer? thin radiator 90 millimeter front fan and then silent full-size ATX power supply or thick radiator 120 millimeter front fan and Little SFX L power supply now as an SFX L fanboy obviously I'm gonna go with this incredible 1,000 watt unit from Silverstone, but it should be noted that we could have easily saved over $50 and still gotten something like a seasonic prime tx8 50 watt titanium which would have been basically silent in this config albeit at the cost of case airflow and CPU cooling capacity for RAM since we've basically given up all pretense at this being an economical build We've gone with 32 gigs of crucial ballistics max 4400 mega transfer per second CL 19 memory Gonna be a little bit fast and then we've gone with a separate rocket 1 terabyte Gen 4 and VMS SD for our boot drive Optionally we could add something like a 2 or a 4 terabyte WD green 3 and a half inch hard drive But I'm not sure if we're gonna bother because what are we gonna do? With that hard drive after you know what sure screw it. We're gonna put in the hard drive We lose the front fan. You're not gonna put in the hard drive if we need more space We'd go with an 8 terabyte rocket Q now that our motherboards prepped We're gonna go ahead and open this baby up with any small form factor case I can tell you you're gonna want to remove as many pieces of it as you can In order to get as much access to it as you can because cable managing these things is Always a bit of a nightmare and in a design that requires the motherboard to go all the way to the back of the motherboard tray Like this one. It's especially important. This is not a sandwich style case So that means that almost all the building is gonna be done from one side I'm just gonna go ahead and lay it down Not like that because then you guys wouldn't be able to see what I'm doing Motherboard goes in upside down compared to what is typical these front panel connectors are sort of unreasonably long Considering that they're gonna go into an ITX motherboard and they're only this far away but the reason for that is actually a pretty good one and that's because if you have a Cooler here or power supply here or other things that are interfering at the front of the case You need to be able to go around them. So you just end up with all this extra slack, unfortunately Here's another cool thing Silverstone's documentation doesn't seem to mention it But this looks like an SSD mount in the bottom here and it lines up as an SSD mount Maybe they intended for you to put something else there, but gosh darn it I'm gonna put in another seven point six terabytes of solid-state storage Unfortunately, this means adding more cables Which in the case of our SATA data cable is no problem because I managed to find one of these old super small form Factor friendly Silverstone cables, but in the case of our power cable means adding considerable bulk to the build with that plugged into the board side and kinda cable managed down here We can talk about a benefit of modular power supplies that doesn't really come up with normal sized cases and that Is that they allow you to plug in the component side of your cables Before you actually have the power supply itself anywhere near the build This is great because it means that if your power supply would have been in the way of plugging this stuff in You don't really have to deal with that. Ah, come on sideways is Considerably more ergonomic and we've got a pin EPS. Oh my goodness I wish I had put this on before I even put the motherboard in at this point. Look how deeply buried in there it is and the problem is that as a right-handed person I Can't even get the hand in there to guide it in We're going left-handed ladies and gentlemen Okay, it's all coming together now It's time to talk about fans a conventional cooling layout would have us drawing air in at the front bottom and then exhausting from the back And the top but we are gonna do the opposite today in order to get the freshest possible air to our water cooling radiator Here and to our GPU which is gonna be up here We're gonna draw air in at the back and top and then we're gonna blow it all out the front So when this thing's going full bore if you were, you know, having a cold gaming day your hands are cold You can put your hands in front of it. You'd have about a probably a solid 500 to 600 watt space heater Just blow an air on you. Alright, so we want this radiator in a pull configuration That just means that cleaning it off is gonna be a little bit easier in the future So you can see we're using okay. There we go this fan to pull air in this way One second one nice thing about Noctua NFF12 fans is they have these nice little air flow guides that keep anything from accidentally bumping into the fan blades At least on the backside. They don't have anything like that on the front However, so we're gonna grab one of these old-school style wire fan grills put that on there Then mount our front fan because this is gonna make it so that when we're packing in our power supply and all these cables Nothing's gonna get in the way and prevent that fan from spinning And now you can really see why we weren't able to have a full-size exhaust fan here along with an ATX power supply So the ATX power supply would go all the way over to here meaning that we're limited to just this but our SFXL power supply No This guy you know what I think I want this to We're gonna use this to exhaust air from the system. Yeah one two three Go yes success So wait, what just happened? Oh Oh How did Really? Oh interesting so this goes under the GPU right cuz this is the front of the case And you don't want to be plugging your power supply into the front of your stupid computer, so it just Chills here. Oh Silverstone you so creative you have to give them credit for that You can't you can never take that away from Silverstone bringing us finally to the big moment big reveal It's true. You cannot fit the GPU in because of this power pass through and that's why they opened up the front of the case Like this so you can Slide it in from here Cool, right? Actually before I do that though. I never even mentioned what card we're using This is an RTX 3070 from Zotac that we specifically chose for its shorter length at the expense of taller height Because the case is wide enough to fit a tall card But it's not long enough to fit a lot of the full length cards on the market Okay I mean That's not bad This front fan has pretty unimpeded Access to you know pull air away, and I just need one cable tie man This is kind of a sick machine our CPU is being cooled by this radiator That's drawing fresh air in fresh brand new ambient air from the outside and our GPU is Okay, well our GPU. We have some concerns because theoretically It's right up against this top intake right here drawing in equally fresh air meaning that our hottest components are being cooled by ambient air Unfortunately this gap here means that the GPU could end up kind of hotboxing itself so to speak fortunately We have an idea to solve that so we're gonna test the thermals in this case two ways first like this Then we're gonna pop this front panel back off and put a little shroud in here you see that like that So that the GPU is sucking in only fresh headshots okay, because it's got a shroud Hi Mike no lie man. I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like it in a small form factor build This is a really Really cool layout, and I mean that quite literally we haven't quite reached equilibrium yet You can see that each run of Cinebench here is seeing the CPU temp spike a little bit higher, but this is a 5900 freaking X Running at 4 gigahertz all core that is still Even when it settles in just looking at the way this curve is flattening out not gonna reach higher than about 75 degrees and Our GPU is settling in around 70 probably around 75 as well. That's crazy like normally with these kinds of small form factor builds We would say okay, you know in games It doesn't thermal throttle, but if you hit it with a full synthetic stress test right like fully loading the CPU and the GPU You're gonna have to expect that in an unrealistic load like that at thermal throttles But this just doesn't no matter what we do to it And that's exactly where we ended up our highest peak on the CPU is 78 degrees 78.4 and our GPU ended up at 73 degrees with the most impressive part being listen to this oh Wow the case is freaking hot at the front holy crap everywhere else though Not bad in the internal components not bad either Now it's time to see if we can kick things up a notch So let's go ahead and position our strap We're not gonna go all the way up to the card here because as we learned when we tried to make our own Janky knock to edition GPU you don't actually want to block off these exhaust fins, so we're just gonna go Kinda to here Okay, so we're trying to block it off so that GPU only pulls in fresh air shroud works confirmed we dropped from 73 to 71 71 and a half degrees and we went from around 2100 rpm and change to about 2070 so not as dramatic a difference as I might have hoped and certainly not as good as just Taking the side panel off and giving it a little bit more room to breathe But a lot better than nothing, but wait there's more What's this? This is our this is our GPU isn't it no we have gone one step Farther and we've actually put an AMD Radeon 6800 XT in here just Barely fits and get this we are still topped out at 79 degrees It's still whisper quiet and our CPU still hit a maximum of 78 degrees. It's like right there Right there at the front of the case freaking crazy They made such efficient use of this thing to the point where if they had made it even one centimeter longer 10 millimeters longer they would have been able to put a 3080 in it and I think with this design They might have actually gotten away with that from a cooling perspective 10 millimeters wider they would have been able to fit a 120 millimeter fan with a full-size ATX power supply And if they've made it just five millimeters taller they could have actually fit triple slot GPUs in here Honestly though even with all those little compromises made I am really Really happy with this case. 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I don't like it as much as this one, but it's definitely got a more sort of unique look to it from the outside This thing is just awesome