do you know what I want more than anything in the world a gaming computer with a new
Nvidia graphics card in it so maybe my friends on fortnite won't tease me about my dad leaving me
anymore I know what I'll do I'll guilt my mom into buying me the cheapest one of those off Amazon
I'm sure that won't end terribly
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I saved to me from their terrible PC buying decisions which may or may not be the reason
why their dad left by punching Timmy in their tummy and stealing it from them and in today's
video I'm going to first laugh at it and then turn it into something actually not terrible
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this glorified Nas looking thing which funnily enough shipped with a driver disc it doesn't
have a hole for apparently has an RTX 4070 in it paired with some internal Hardware that wasn't
considered particularly powerful when it first launched several Generations ago so we should be
getting about 30 utilization on our 4070 if we're lucky luckily for the aforementioned Timmy Market
this freakishly endowed Nas does have some plastic RGB crap on the front which is good we also get
buttons on the front and I guess usable front io on this side we've got this brushed metal finish
with ventilation holes cut in it it doesn't look like there's much getting through there but in
all fairness to shuttle I don't think they had a 4070 in mind when they designed this case around
the back there's a lot more going on we've got a suspiciously small power supply next to that
there's some fin stack peeking through I assume that's for the CPU Cooler and below that we've got
very nas-esque IO we even have redundant ethernet very nice and then finally below are hilarious
quality control past sticker we have the back of our 4070 looking a bit out of place back here
oh the first thing you see is the little Zotac RTX 4070 and what's cool about this card is I
think it's the smallest version available of the 4070 so it's great for stuffing and tight holes
and then here we've got the passage where you normally install all of your hard drives with
some cooling for those hard drives as well but because we've only got an SSD in the
front here most of that airflow will be hitting the CPU Cooler which we have further back here
now the CPU Cooler is fascinating because we have our actual fin stack back here and then
our four heat pipes that lead to the CPU a bit further off on the motherboard which is quite a
neat solution but it does present an immediate problem our motherboard is not standard ITX or
matx it's some weird proprietary shape which is gonna make upgrading a bit more difficult
aside from that our power supply is also a bit funky it's a 500 watt unit with three pretty
puny 12 volt rails and it's not sfx so it may be a bit more difficult to swap this out even
without the upgrade I'm curious to see how this 500 watt power supply holds up with the 4070. oh
actually going back to the C CPU this system has an Intel i5 7400 in it a baby quad core
back from the dark ages of gaming CPUs putting a 4070 in here is like putting a doberman heart
in a Chihuahua those two things just anatomically aren't compatible and to top it all off they just
put a single 8 gig stick of ram in here as per the law of physics that dictates this crap so
not only do we have way too loseria CPU in here for the RTX 4070 they also kneecapped it what
like what but on that note let's fire it up to see just how much they've kneecapped it [Music]
whoa that's quite the authoritative startup right there oh that RGB is like being high
beamed in the face wow that's quite the overclocking app we've got there let's see
if it translates to Ram being at the correct speed no it it doesn't they brag about 3 200
megahertz RAM on the box but it's just Santa 2400 megahertz we don't have any bloatware
on here because not even McAfee would pay to be put on this system which tells you a lot
you see to me that's exactly why you gotta you gotta spec your system up properly because you
may have a 600 GPU damn is that what those cost you may have a 600 brand new GPU in
your system but if you pair it with a Nas CPU from 18 years ago you're gonna get 60
frames per second at 1080p High settings now to try and overcome the graphics card falling
asleep while waiting for the CPU to catch up as you can see from the utilization crashing
down to 20 I cranked up the resolution but the CPU was a bottleneck even at
4K I I guess we can try some newer games but this pretty much illustrates my point
graphics card doesn't even really know that gaming is happening at least with a game like cyberpunk
you can see that the CPU isn't a bottleneck at oh no it still is it still is a problem in this
game too and then with the last of us we have a frame time graph that makes it look like we're
mid generation defining earthquake that's less than ideal now after initially testing the Timmy
baiter I did drop a proper kit of ram in there which was not as easy as you would imagine I
had to try a couple of different Ram kits and it took the system a long time to figure out
what to do with the new RAM and because of the useless bios I couldn't set the ram any higher
than 2400 megahertz but once we actually got into a game the performance got a lot better but the
RTX 4070 is still barely hitting 40 utilization so clearly this is just a terrible system but
let's see if we can upgrade this system to unlock the full potential of the RTX 4070 inside [Music]
the first thing I wanted to establish was if I could replace the archaic deformed motherboard in
the system with a modern ITX one not only does the i o line up with the pcie slot for the graphics
card but we at least have two holes that seems to line up so we just need to hope that there's at
least one hole down here that lines up and then we should be good but let's tear it down and see
foreign [Music] it seems like all of the front i o crap in the Tommy baiter is standard [Music]
oh look at our cute little Zotac 4070 about to be liberated from its bottleneck hell
hopefully it doesn't catch on fire now and now that we've got the graphics card
out we get a better indication of the screw situation down here which is not
looking very good for our ITX motherboard I'm pretty sure we're not going to have
more than two screws holding that board in place that's fine you know it's as long as
we're not going to go throwing this out of airplanes it shouldn't be a problem
and then with the power supply it becomes an even weirder angle look at that [Music]
but after having unplugged the hordes of cables I couldn't get the motherboard out I am at least
60 sure that the CPU Cooler is also a mounting point oh there we go oh that is some bone dry
thermal paste okay never mind that was not what was keeping it in place but it's
nothing a quick shimmy couldn't fix oh there we go such an unnecessarily long motherboard
oh so they used a bunch of thermal pads between the motherboard and the case that's interesting
one thing that is very promising is we do actually have standoff mounts in the bottom of this case
for normal motherboard shapes so without amazing news I'm gonna go prep a new core system [Music]
okay it's snuck under there so that's good so we can just kind of
I'll even test footed and everything but because of this dude power supply placement
I got the alignment wrong so it doesn't fit which means I need to use a much smaller CPU
Cooler it's annoying well I guess my next option is this little cooler that
be quiet sent over which is apparently good for a hundred Watts worth of TDP
feels very very unbelievably tight I can't imagine combining this tiny cooler with a
12 600k and that case isn't going to end in a house fire but let's see what happens
it fits but I immediately ran into another problem the standoff I used was a recovering victim of
cross threading and all of the other ones I had lying around had a different issue so the problem
with every other standoff I have is that they're taller than the stock ones so the motherboard is
going to be at a little bit of an angle but I didn't have any other options so I just
powered ahead okay there we go the standoff you mounted Tron works yes this is a bit of a high
difference but it's not that bad let's see what happens when we drop a graphics card in [Music]
oh that's not ideal but a bit of a panel gaps never hurt anyone comfortable with
the knowledge I fixed all the problems I powered ahead reassembling the system now
the next problem that I'm very excited about running into is that the connector for the
power button doesn't reach the motherboard oh that came off real fast oh that may actually
be really easy to fix so what they've done is routed the front panel connectors underneath
this little daughter board thing so I undid all of the cable routing they did hoping I
could just get a little bit more cable length to reach the motherboard oh it reaches yay oh
okay very good after which I immediately ran into yet another problem oh no come on we're so close
the CPU power doesn't reach luckily I have sleeved extension cables that we can use
very convenient and with that I finished reassembling the significantly upgraded Timmy
baiter 9000 and installed a fresh copy of windows so I could get to some gaming which went well
oh no this has not gone well at all look at those CPU temperatures I mean it's still clocked okay
but a hundred degrees Celsius is way too high now if you ignore the fact that the CPU is hovering
around 100 degrees Celsius the performance is way better with Battlefield 5 at 1080p we're getting
double the frame rate with the same graphics card which is also now running very hot but I
think if we can reign in those CPU temperatures we can do even better which hopefully won't lead
to spontaneous GPU combustion oh oh that is all concerningly hot in here and after burning my
hand on the inside of the PC I had a genius idea I may not have official mounting for a 120mm AIO but
what if I just kind of rest it on the inside no it's super not gonna work is it super not
gonna work it's gonna be a lot of effort to see oh I after I have to try clearly Overjoyed at
the prospect of tearing the system down again I powered ahead anyway so I could Mount the AIO to
the CPU and see if I could finangle even more performance into the timovator this feels like
there's no way it's gonna work why does it fit less than it did when I test fit it what
in the world but despite my whinging the motherboard is in the more stuffing I did
the more it looked like this was actually gonna work until I tried closing up the case I don't
know if I consider that bulging fitting does that count I don't think that counts oh that
is so close it's just bumping up against this damn power supply beam that's been
in the way the whole time at this point I guess there's nothing left for it [Music]
oh
that was not the sound of a of a Dremel falling on the ground due to negligence so now after my
very professional drilling job which definitely didn't break a drill bit uh I think I should just
be able to yay satisfied with a job well done I reassembled the Tommy baiter with great excitement
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and we didn't even break this QC sticker which means the manufacturer will have no
way of knowing we tampered with the system smart
oh yes that's so much better we're hovering around 60 degrees Celsius on the CPU and we're close to
a hundred percent utilization on our RTX 4070 and this is at 1080p we even got another healthy dose
of more performance especially in the one percent lows so what I'm going to do now is game for a
while so that we heat up all of the liquid in the AIO to see where the temperatures top out [Music]
okay well it's been a while and while on the CPU we're getting close to 70 degrees Celsius
it does sound like there's a jet turbine on the desk next to me but at least we're not
sitting at 100 degrees Celsius on the CPU so I'd say yeah at the end of the
day we didn't a pretty good job making the Tommy baiter an actual proper gaming system
that is very noisy thank you for watching and until the next video bye-bye [Music]