 Today's video involves taking this, and this, and this, and like these boxes are like they're not empty, you know, they're full of stuff, and this, and this, and this, and putting them all in here. Yes, my friends, we are going to make a full custom gaming rig that is small enough that you could conceivably shoplift it in your hoodie. LG, LTTstore.com, stealth hoodie, it's awesome, check it out. And while you're at it, check out our sponsor for today's video. The Anker PowerPort Atom Slim Wall Charger fits in your pocket and charges your devices in a snap. Learn more at the end of the video or at the link in the video description. Let's kick this off with a look at the case that we're using to perform this feet. This is the Velcase VK3, and the whole thing is actually shockingly simple, at least on the surface. So we've got our front panel, which is just brushed aluminum with a power button here, and this is all one solid piece all the way from the back. It's bent here and then down to the bottom. Okay, then we've got two side panels that are fully perforated. On the top they've got two 80 millimeter fan mounts. They've actually got their own fan that they made, which seems to be just sourced from some fan company. But what's special about it is that it is super slim. Then on the bottom, they've got what looks like kind of some mounting stuff. I don't know, I've never built in it before, so we're gonna find out what that is. And then finally at the back, that gives you an idea of the scale of the project we're looking at. That is a motherboard I.O. cutout. So I have no idea how all this stuff, including an RTX 2060, is supposed to go in here. This thing's 80 bucks though, so hopefully they've given it some $80 worth of thought. I don't stand a chance of doing this without the manual. I'm quite certain of that. We'll probably use the shortest... the shortest standoffs. So now that the panels are off, we're getting a look at one of the first lies that I've told you guys in this video. So that is not actually the size of a standard I.O. shield, and the reason that it's bigger is because it includes multiple sizes of motherboard standoffs so that you can actually change exactly where the motherboard is mounted depending on whether you have like a larger CPU cooler, or you have a thicker graphics card. So that is how we are getting a dual slot graphics card into this thing. And in fact, if you need to accommodate a longer expansion card, you see these slots here? The case can actually be extended or retracted. Well, the manual says to start by assembling your motherboard and CPU and RAM and all that good stuff. So we are using... Just comes in a white box because this is an engineering sample board, but this is a SUSES X 570 ROG Strix Mini ITX motherboard. And this is a truly special little piece of kit because it's got full support for up to AMD's upcoming 16-core processor. Now, we're not going that extreme. We actually just went for a 3700X 8-core processor because that was the most heat that we could handle with this right here. The NH-L9A AM4 from Noctua, which is the biggest cooler that we can fit in this case, with a dual slot graphics card, but the capabilities of this thing are freaking sick. So why don't we start by getting our CPU installed here? Everybody loves that CPU insertion point. Now we're gonna go ahead and throw on our M.2 SSD. So there's just the one slot on this board right over here. You can see they actually had to build up this crazy, like, riser thing so they could put a cooler in there for the motherboard chipset. Freaking bananas. This thing feels more like working on a laptop than a desktop. And this can go... We're gonna miss out on this RGB. It's just clearly not gonna fit. This build is beyond stupid already. It is going to be great, I'll give you that. Now we've got some Vengeance LPX low-profile memory. This is a 3200C16 kit, so nothing special, but pretty close to unlocking our CPU's full potential there. And now we got to install our cooler. It's crazy. This motherboard is so small, they don't even have to put all the fan headers in different places because you'd be able to reach them from anywhere. So there's our CPU fan header. And then we're gonna go ahead and cable manage it. Kind of like that, I guess. So we're gonna put it on that way. We're gonna put our graphite thermal... Oh lordy. Oh, oops. Oh, look at that. I lied to you guys again. There's a second M.2 slot on this board. It's on the back. So do I even use the I.O. shield? I guess not then. You do. That is one freaking dense bit of computer performance. Although I have noticed a potential problem. We know that this cooler is as thick as this thing can handle, but our SSD actually peaks out above it a little bit. So we might run into a clearance issue here. So here's where it gets real, ladies and gentlemen. Wait, what? Normally you would take your motherboard standoffs and you put them into your backplate or motherboard tray and then you put the motherboard on there. Not today. Today we take the motherboard, we put it straight against the backplate, and then we drive the tallest, a 30 millimeter standoff through the motherboard and then into the backplate. What is going on here? My world is upside down. You can see the backplate of the motherboard is like bowed now. So we're hoping that it still fits without bending it too much. So this is adorable. Next up is our PCI Express riser because obviously if that's our maximum clearance, we're not getting a graphics card sticking, you know, way out of the thing here. So the riser goes in here at the bottom and then immediately wraps around the back of the motherboard and then Why is this so long? Wait a minute. What the hell? No, I know what the extra is for. Holy crap. It's got to go all the way around and then flip back over. That is the sketchiest thing I have seen today and today has been a sketchy day already. So next up, we remove two screws here and here and we pull out this like like blocker piece, like a spacer piece because if we didn't have an expansion slot, we could actually put it here and then you could install the I.O. shield normally, but we do. So our graphics card I.O. needs to be over here. This case is so very different from anything that I have ever used before. There you go. It's in there. Just empty space now. So now we're ready for one of the coolest party tricks of this thing. Remember I said that the spacers kind of affect where the motherboard is positioned in the case. So you see this little tiny hook on the bottom of the motherboard tray here? That can actually go into either this one or this one depending on where the motherboard goes. So I guess we're going to go with the top one. So then the next thing is to put an M3 countersunk screw in here, which brings the whole package actually kind of together and it mostly lines up. Like I'm legit having a lot of fun right now. This is like the most unique computer build I have done in quite some time. And I mean unique in like an endearing way. So now we go ahead and wait, we unscrew the riser. Why did we screw it in? Unscrew the riser, then connect the card to the riser, then slide it into the back. So we go ahead and we put this on here. Jake, I'm like mashing this PCI express riser. I feel bad. Okay, so then we slide it through the back like that. This is so ridiculous. I just don't, I just can't even. It's actually in there surprisingly securely. It's amazing to think that these are all standard components. It's time for our power supply and this is something a little special. Silverstone, if there's a weird thing that almost no one could possibly want, Silverstone probably makes it. So this is the SST FX350G. This is a flex ATX power supply and it's about as thick as a single server U. It's got like a little tiny, what is that? 40 millimeter fan? 30 mil? 40 mil. Yeah, it doesn't even have an 8-pin PCI express connector. Just has a 6-pin. So we're gonna need a 6-pin to 8-pin adapter, which is perfectly fine. So that needs to go, wait, what? Even, no, it's not wide enough. Oh my god. No, I see it. You, you just wrench this down here and put thumbs screws in there. That is the worst power supply mount I have ever, ever seen. You mash it down and then these slots, they're not even holes. That's where you put the screws in and then you just have to, I guess, wrench them tight enough that they don't shift. It's getting heavy considering the size. This is a a lot of computer. What the crap? How is this supposed to work? So now it's time for cable management. So our 24-pin has to some friggin, oh, get over here. Oh lordy. So that can go there. Yeah, okay. So now our 8-pin connector goes up here. So we're just gonna stash the extra GPU power cable over here. That's gonna hurt our airflow a little but I think that ship sailed a long time ago. And now it's time for the front shell installation. Okay, apparently you can mount drives to this. Now we don't need to because we're using m.2. Okay, we do want to put a fan or two in here though. Do you know which way is right side up? Okay. So No, the fan's not gonna fit in there. No way. I am calling it now. No fan is fitting in there. There's no way. I think we might get a fan in here. I'm like stressed out. So warm. Okay, Jake insists that we go for full points and put in the second cooling fan. I think we're gonna need it. I don't think I really have a choice. The amount of hardware that is packed in here like yeah, the sides are perforated. Sure, but jeez. I both love and hate this at the same time. It's like I love it, but it makes me really uncomfortable. So theoretically everything is lined up. I've got all my fan connectors installed. So now in velcase fashion the way to fit it is to just mash it. Oh Oh Oh, that makes me so uncomfortable. How are we gonna do this? Anchor one side? So right now I'm jamming the fan power down alongside the fan so it'll stay out of the blades. This is dumb and this is crazy. I think I can lock it in place here, but do the fan spin. That one's scraping. That one seems to be spinning. Damn it down. I think I forgot to plug in my front panel power. Yeah. Okay, they're both spinning now, so I gotta keep these cables down like on the downside of here. Okay. Okay. Okay. Let's see if the side panels close. You know what? I'm uh, I want to see it boot first. It's bad GBS to close up the side panel before you actually see it turn on. Go ahead and cut. For me, the big thing is how quiet is it going to be or rather how loud? All right, I gotta put on some little feet here. Some assembly definitely required for this one. It's still cold from yesterday. Nice. Honestly, looking at this setup on the table, I'm like, where's the computer? It's more like an accessory. Like this is smaller than most external GPU boxes. All right. Moment of truth time. That's a good sign. Lights are on. We've got fan spin. Hey, we got a video output though. All right, so everything looks good. We got our eight core processor, 16 gigs RAM. Now our RAM speed is still low, but it looks like it's applied the DOCP automatic overclocking to the 3200 megahertz profile. So let's try it. Let's give it a shot. See if it works. All right. One thing that I want to get altered here is that fan noise. Wow. Okay. So both my CPU and chassis fan are set to silent, but one of those headers is actually an AIO pump control header. And they've got a bit of a different approach to control of that one. Be nice if you could just set it to fan mode. So we're just going to set it to the CPU as a source. Auto. Let's see if it'll turn down a little bit. Because right now this thing is pretty freaking loud. Really? That's controlled? Yeah, these things are ripping. Okay. I've got ASUS's software fired up and it looks like that AIO pump header has a 100% fan curve on it. 30 degrees. We'll go down to 30%. At like 70, we'll ramp up to 55 or so. Okay. That's better. So it was that one fan that was killing us. To be clear, this is still not a silent system, but we need to have realistic expectations. At least this is not horrendous. All right. Let's go ahead and close it up. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to just not quite put these in all the way so that our side panel isn't too bowed. There's going to be a bit of a gap, but hey, if it's good enough for Tesla owners, it's good enough for me. Is that noticeable, Andy? I can't tell. You can't tell? No. So let's tune the other fan curves and then do some testing here. I think I found a profile that kind of works. So I've got my two top fans, which are by far the most obnoxious, set to 25% until we hit a fairly critical temperature of about 60 degrees. So that's where we're loading the system. And then my knock to a CPU cooler, I've gone ahead and set a more aggressive curve on that because even when it's running at a fairly high RPM, it's pretty quiet and a non obnoxious sound. Unfortunately, you guys can probably hear that even with my two fans at the top running very low or stopped and my knock to a fan not being annoying, the system's still kind of whiny and there's just nothing we can do about that because of the 40 millimeter fan and the power supply. That's one of the challenges with these super small form factor cases is that you're stuck with unconventional power supplies that just require weird tiny fans to cool them. Anyway, I'm pretty happy with this. So let's go ahead and hit it with a load, shall we? So let's start by firing up the classic BMW blender test. And what I'm looking for here is what kind of CPU turbo speeds we're observing. So let's start with the classic turbo speeds we're observing as well as what kind of noise thresholds do we reach here. So it's going to take a couple seconds for our system fans to kick in because I configured them that way. But you can hear them ramping up now as our CPU approaches 75, 80 degrees. We're still turboing to just shy of four gigahertz though. 81 degrees. How's our turbo doing? 3.94 gigahertz still looking pretty good. Okay, let's get AI suite open and see just how hard we have to hit it with this CPU cooler in order to tame it. I mean, we still haven't turboed down yet. Oh, we've got a couple cores at 3.917. Oh, wow, Windows search, you are so damn useless. HW info. Oh, a web result. You know, I bet with a slightly better thermal compound instead of a thermal pad that would probably break us through this threshold. Honestly, it's not bad though. We're still turboing to 3.9 plus, which is respectable, if not amazing for a 3700X. So CPU performance is looking pretty good. I mean, we didn't hit maximum boost speeds, but we didn't fall down to base clocks either. And considering the form factor, even with the noise, I am pretty darn happy with this thing. But life is about to get a little bit more difficult because this is only a 65 watt CPU. So if it's kicking a bunch of heat out into the chassis, these fans have a pretty good chance of removing it. Our graphics card, that's over 150 watts. So they're going to be working a little harder and less of the fan actually overlaps with the graphics card side of the enclosure. So this is going to be interesting. Now let's move on to games. So let's get the games. Okay, well I can definitely hear our power supply working harder now. Oh, that fan is going, ladies and gentlemen. In a computer that you can hold one-handed, we have got Metro Exodus running at over 60 frames per second, 2560 by 1440. Like basically all high details. I mean, do you need a punch line? Like kick him, kick him in the mouth. Good, good job. Take that spiders. Oh, I figured out why we don't like the webs. These are very, very bad spiders. Well, there is definitely a lot more heat radiating off this thing. Let's go ahead and have a look at how our GPU is doing. You know, we maxed out at around 73 degrees. That is not freaking bad. And that's actually without even one of our top fan spinning. So one thing that I would tune about this configuration is that I would definitely add like a separate temp sensor of some sort and then tie my case fans into that instead of tying them into my CPU temps. Because while I was gaming, I was actually hitting max turbo, so well in excess of four gigahertz on my CPU. And it wasn't even running that hot because, you know, obviously most games only use anywhere from sort of two to four ish or maybe six threads. Freaking awesome. I really like this thing. I mean, not in an I'd use it sort of way. I'm more of a silence freak than a small form factor freak. But I think the merits of a system like this basically pitch themselves. You want to, you know, go to a friend's house or let's say your parents are split up and you go between mom and dad's house or something like that. You want to bring your computer. Boom. I'm walking out of the frame. Dang it, Andy. 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