 This is the ASIC past and like every other PC it's been sitting on a shelf for months waiting for a GPU Thankfully we finally get to build in it and I think this one's gonna be a lot of fun since this case is crazy Unconventional look at this There's no thumb screws back here because there's no side panels to remove Well, okay, there's one side panel, but but you don't remove it What you do remove is my segue to our sponsor from my mouth This video is brought to you by build redux Build redux creates PCs for gamers who want to win and to want high frame rates without breaking the bank It's backed by a two-year parts and labor warranty So you're covered and you can click the link in the description to start creating your PC today The Most obvious thing about the cast is the DeLorean esque hinged lid and novelty aside I actually really like how much access you get to the case with this thing The only thing that I think would be better is if they offered a clear version So you could have like a little kind of PC greenhouse in there in terms of front IO We've got USB C USB type A along with audio here in the front and The top panel isn't the only trick that the cast brings to the table the basement actually unfolds as well But clearly we can't do that with it standing up. So we got to put it down Like this Wow, I mean You could just do all the things That is super cool, right? Oh, there it goes that's even better you have complete 360 degree access to the entire internals of the case and Hilariously as a figured you know what? Not enough access watch this you remove these five screws that are marked with little gray areas and watch this that way the whole frame just Just comes out of the outer shell which you can then Put away. Oh, thank you for that and now you can build it Completely open and then the whole thing will just clip back into place That way you can put stuff like a hard drive here on the back of the motherboard tray and do all your cable management Look at these awesome cable management loops I am liking this thing gotta say as one of those companies that I just had always been kind of dismissive of because a lot of their earlier stuff was Not very good. Oh, I found a QC error Jeffrey from QC tried to fix that up for us Actually, that looks like it probably happened during the painting or powder coating process now seeing as we're working with a white case We opted for a mostly white build for you know that aesthetic But something that we noticed while we were getting everything ready is that the case isn't really that white See if you look at it next to almost any other white thing It looks kind of pink. I see that For a motherboard we've gone with a premium but not outrageous model from gigabyte This is their x5 70s aero gene. It's a more creator centric board, which Usually just means it looks stylish But in this case it actually has at least one feature that might be more creator centric So I'm not used to seeing a display port input on the back of a monitor Unless it's got Thunderbolt because what you'd want to do is you'd want to take your powerful dedicated graphics card Run a little loop back cable into the motherboard and then inject that high performance Display port signal into your Thunderbolt port if you wanted to you know connect to a Dock that was 50 meters away or something like that in this case It appears to be injecting into one of the regular USB 3.2 type C's So in a nutshell if you had a supported monitor or dock it would allow you to have both USB C and full fat display port functionality with the performance of your onboard GPU from that single connector So it's like kind of like poor man's Thunderbolt. You could think of it that way It's got two and a half gigabit LAN as well as four m.2 slots And I think that's about it for creator centric features. I guess yeah, it's got a lot of USB for our CPU We've gone with the ryzen 7 5800 X. It's got eight cores 16 threads Nearly the same gaming performance as its higher-end brethren, but just half as many cores as the top tier Ryzen 5000 And honestly, it's a great choice if you don't absolutely need a ton of threads for your particular workload And we're humming along with this access 32 gigs of gskill 3,600 mega transfer per second cl14 memory Doesn't quite match the color scheme of the build but from a performance standpoint This is exactly where you want to be with Ryzen 5000 for storage I'm not sure quite when or how this happened But m.2 drives have gotten so affordable that you can actually take a two tiered approach to your storage setup With all NVMe devices, so we're gonna be using a p5 plus gen 4 SSD for our boot drive So go ahead and throw that in the top slot Which is using lanes directly connected to the CPU full gen 4 speeds Then we're gonna throw a p2 2 terabyte drive in one of our other three freaking NVMe slots on this motherboard Under this m.2 heatsink looks like we're pulling all of them off at this point check this out Brian They've just got a socketed Wi-Fi slot so you actually put another SSD over top of that if you want and that's it Oh, that's cool, too. You can put up to four 110 millimeter SSDs in this board What's interesting about that from a creator standpoint is that the highest capacity and in some cases highest performance drives? Can end up being 110 millimeters long like we saw with Intel's Optane m.2s for our power supply We went with a pretty obvious choice for a white themed build. This is the prime snow silent titanium from sea sonic crazy efficient super quiet and white You know what do you want me to say? 750 watts which should be enough for our system since we're not gonna be using a 30 series GPU Talk a little bit more about that later. Let's get this installed. Oh, okay So here's how it goes in everything about this case is super unconventional I could take this basement shroud off or I could put it in here Yep, can I do that? No, I can't do that. Okay. Look like I could do that Look, I think I can be forgiven for thinking that I could do that. Let's pull this off whoa, I Have to have it pointing up Oh The instructions say fan pointed up well I mean this is one of those situations where normally I prefer not to have the power supply fan pointed up because it means that it's sucking in hot recirculated air from in particular around the GPU, but in this case I I mean it's so open. I guess it doesn't really matter oops, I Sincerely regret that this thing ships with black cables, but that's on see sonic That's not on me and man Is it ever easy to cable manage this thing got our 24 pin here got our pre-run cables for the graphics card here Got our 8 pin up here and check this out They've got these Giant velcro tie or zip tie loops back here that just make it super super easy To get everything strapped down into place So I'm thinking we'll do it kind of like that and now it's time to mess it up with all the RGB crap That's gonna be on our cooler This is the h150 I elite Capellix it's got super nice RGB and more importantly than that it uses Corsair's maglev ml series fans triple radiator So we'll be able to keep that 5800 X nice and cool and we're gonna go ahead and install it in this orientation This case can accommodate either a 280 or a 360 mil rad at least in theory it can oh Oh as I might have just committed a water cooling sin here There's not enough room for the tank We can get away with this if we put the fans here and use them as intakes in order to improve the clearance I really don't like doing that because it's worse for maintenance, but for a show build I guess we can do that and I would like to see the Revised version of this case with just this much more clearance Especially because it's the kind of thing that you could probably fix with a dremel in like 10 minutes Also unfortunately this appears to be one of the older style coolers that comes with the clip style mount for AMD I mean, they're not terrible. They're just more finicky than the newer mechanisms The thing that's kind of baffling to me is the design of this fan. The case is quite open-air to the point where It could easily be sort of you know pulling air from even outside of the case kind of around it So even though it's open there are some serious question marks for me in terms of actual real-world performance You know what I really would have liked to do in this case is one of my classic tricks Okay, so what I used to do back when cable management sucked in most cases You didn't have any holes up here anything like that is I used to take this fan and I'd run it right under the motherboard I just kind of pin it under the motherboard at the back And then I'd bring it out to the side or the top or the bottom or wherever it needed to go and seeing this here, I really yeah, I really wish I had done that Now I know this doesn't look very nicely cable managed But this is a bit of a different strategy than I would usually have what I'm focused on here is Hiding everything from this side, so I'm trying to get everything wrapped up as tightly as possible So that we don't catch it sort of running across these open gaps in the chassis All right Yeah, we finally got the GPU. I wish I could tell you it's something cooler than it is this is actually a 2080 Ti and the reason that we're using a last-gen GPU is because There's even here at the office a bit of a shortage of modern high-end GPUs, especially white ones, so This was it All of our 30 series stuff of this class is in our editing stations or tied up in other projects, so That's what we're using No, no, it's fine there. This is safe All right. Now. There's a little there's a little support bracket doodad here that I'm kind of trying to figure out right now What is this boy doing? Oh? Is it a vertical mount? Oh Is it a vertical mount oh? Cool, it's a vertical mount. Oh, I like it Okay sold Let's do a vertical mount. Oh, do we have a PCIe riser? Oh, we'll just go grab one. Oh, yeah That's freaking awesome. Okay. We've got a bit of an interference issue with our USB type-c over there. Okay. Yeah, this is great So here's where it goes in Right. Oh well there apparently Okay, now hold on a second wait how the devil are you supposed to oh Interesting you have to do this The GPU slides into the case the sequel You you can't you can't put this in from this way and you can't screw it in unless the GPU is Already on it, so you have to slide it in from the back We just did a video called the GPU slides into this case and so now we've now we've done it again This is great I was worried that we'd be able to see my mess of cables back here through these gaps But actually the GPU is going to cover all of it Oh, and I didn't even put the power supply shroud on yet. Oh There's oh, it's a great. It's a cable cover shop Okay, all the cable management concerns. I had were totally invalid 100% Because there's a freaking basement cover so clean Enough to forgive the pink hue it's really noticeable when there's shadows cast on it Can you see that like how pink it is? No, it's not as pink as that Oh, right. I was about to do an LTT store.com for the for the tube But you can't actually buy that so you've got to pick up the gamer hoodie available in aqua or gray Let's just see if my cable management is gonna survive I've got a big thing right where it needs to go. You know what maybe I can get it That is oh, yeah, I think we got it One door closed Two doors closed that's pretty cool Or you could go with just like the half kind of cocked open look This is where a lot of my cooling equipment is. I'm not sure if I can get it out I'll just open look this is where a lot of my cooling questions come in Because you got just this little tiny gap along the side for these 320 millimeter fans to bring in air Great mechanism for attaching to the front, but that is There's a mesh front Okay, well that would almost definitely be an improvement Still it might get enough to deal with just the CPU and if this GPU is just grabbing fresh air Directly from freaking outside. I mean it might be okay Now I know you guys want to see the thermal results But before I do that I want to take a moment to appreciate that a couple of RGB configuration issues aside This thing looks freaking awesome Like if you want the open frame experience But with the aesthetics of a closed case and the cable management of a closed case This is basically the bees freaking knees Which isn't to say that it's without problem First and foremost I got to point out that it is extremely susceptible to the temperature of the air around the system Even walking past it can generate a measurable change in the temperature of your GPU But that's actually good news because GPU temps were freaking awesome And our theory that it would mostly pull fresh air from this giant gap in the side of the case did hold up Obviously this is going to have some negative impact on the dustiness of your machine But from a performance standpoint, it's great Interestingly one of our compatriots, GearSeekers, who's on floatplane by the way, you guys can check them out there Also tested this case with the GPU in its horizontal configuration And they too found a very small but measurable difference between having it open versus having it closed I think this orientation ended up being a little bit better But it's also a little bit more work and it's going to cost you about $75 to $80 US dollars for a Gen 4 riser cable What's not great from a performance standpoint is the fact that our CPU was up near 90 degrees with a triple 120 millimeter AIO cooler I don't know what to say about that other than you better get yourself a mesh front panel Because I'm pretty sure we're going to see a marked difference almost immediately here Check this out ladies and gentlemen We're at 90.4 degrees on a 5800X Give it a sec You like to breathe? 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