so I'm in the process of rearranging my personal workspace and that includes
getting a new tabletop installing new shelving units and so on but most
importantly I wanted to upgrade my existing personal workstation PC that's
sitting right over here that consists of an 8700 K and an RT X xx atti now don't
get me wrong the GPU is great it's the fastest that's available in the market
right now but the cpu and the platform deserve an upgrade but I wanted to
challenge myself basically I wanted to cram as much as power as I can into a
small form-factor chassis without sacrificing on performance thermals and
acoustics so why don't we get started right after this the Sound Blaster x3 is
the USB DAC I've been waiting for that brings a fantastic audio experience to
your desk when the clean mic input and powerful headphone amplifier it connects
via type C and brings a new super x5 sound profile that beautifully recreates
multi-channel speaker setup for movies at an affordable price alright so this
idea was inspired by AMD's recent launch of the Ryzen 9 3950X this cpu exceeded
our expectations in terms of its raw CP performance it even puts Intel's highest
10 core i9 1080XC which costs way more than this processor to
shame with 16 cores and 32 threads this is the fastest aim for CPU that's
available to date provided you can actually find one because literally this
thing is out of stock everywhere by the way if you're interested in our full
performance review of the 3950X you can check it out right over here now housing
the 3950X is the asus rog Strix x570i gaming ITX motherboard that's right guys
I'm going ITX this time and this board offers everything I need for a perfect
workstation PC in a compact form factor first of all I love the design of this
motherboard everything from the matte black PCB to the conveniently placed
power connectors should make cable management easier the heatsink placement
is well-thought-out as it covers both the VRMs and the chipset
plus it's actively cooled by two fans there are 2 m 2 PCI Gen 4 slots one of
which is directly placed above the chipset heatsink and another one behind
the motherboard it also has Wi-Fi 6 support and the
is loaded with four USB 3.2 gen1 ports and another for USB 3.2 gin two ports
and memory speeds can be overclocked up to 48 hundred megahertz seriously this
motherboard screams rainbows sunshine lollipop whatever you want to call it
it's it's crazy to see so many features packed into a compact motherboard
now speaking of memory I'm one with corsair dominator platinum 32 gigabyte
kit clocked at 3600 megahertz this kit looks gorgeous and I love the
matte black finish as it gives a really cool stealthy vibe and on top of an
Corsair escape HELOCs RGB LEDs look fantastic now to cool the 3950X I went
with NZXT Kraken X 60 to 280 mm eia cooler you don't necessarily need 8 to
80 mm solution to coldest processor because when we ran our benchmarks it
went perfectly fine with an air cooler but since I am going ITX a IO seems to
be the better option and the case seems to fit that cooler just fine for storage
we're embracing AMD's PCI Gen 4 capabilities with X570 and so I decided
to go with the saber and 1 terabyte rocket nvme Drive the name rocket
certainly fits this Drive as it's insanely fast claiming read speeds up to
5 gigabytes per second and writes up to 4 point 4 gigabytes per second yep
what a great time to be alive now check this out Saban actually includes this
dryer with a heatsink and it looks ridiculous it features an
aluminum heatsink with copper heat coils and a top heat spreader this thing is
legit guys but unfortunately I won't be able to use it in my PC because it's
just too big to fit inside the motherboard plus a motherboard does come
with a heatsink on top of the chipset so it should get the job just fine in fact
I think I might just end up using that heatsink as a display showcase and one
of the shelving units that I plan on installing in my office so yeah it'll be
cool I've also added an extra terabyte SSD
from hynek's this will be my secondary drive for games and for my footage
archiving the GP of choice is none other than the ROG Strix rtx 2080 Ti OC I
chose this card for a few reasons one its
Matlack and I love the aggressive look of this GPU secondly it runs a lot
cooler compared to the founders Edition and given that I'm cramming this inside
an ITX case means thermals had to be under
control and this certainly delivers it's got a triple fan layout and Asus has
implemented axial tech fans that shifts more air into the heatsink while
maintaining lower noise levels it's also a 2.7 slot card which should fit the
case that I'm using for this build and it's also got Asus aura support which
means I can sing the colors with a motherboard with just one piece of
software now to power the entire build I chose Corsair's SF750 small form-factor
power supply this should be plenty enough to power the 3950X and the RTX
2080 TI as well as run efficiently since its 80-plus Platinum certified and on
top of that it's fully modular now one of my favorite features of this PSU is
that courser includes premium individually slave cables that should
make cable management a breeze and now on to the case of choice and this one
was definitely an interesting one because cramming all this power inside a
small form-factor chassis isn't easy and I had to spend a lot of time looking for
the ideal solution and so I decided to go with this lease tiger SM 750 it's
roughly a 14 litre mini ith a C that's entirely made out of galvanized steel
and then powder coated in black and I love the design of this thing it's
minimalistic and it doesn't scream gamer e on the outside although the components
going on the inside are I watery I'm sacrificing a little bit on the front IO
coming from the define r6 as it only has one USB 3.1 type A and one type C port
this case does support radiators up to 280 millimeters at the top so I
shouldn't have any issues mounting the kraken X 62 and the side panels are
windowed and they attach to the case via pegs so now that you're aware of all the
components that's going inside my ITX system let's put it together
so the system booted and it's running just fine but it took me a while to get
there guys you see I learned a few things from this whole building process
one I learned patience because building an ITX rig requires a lot of patience
and that's something that I learned secondly I wish I planned it a little
bit earlier as in planning the whole process a little bit earlier before
approaching the building process because I ended up uninstalling a lot of the
hardware and then reinstalling it back just to make sure that the cables routed
appropriately things like your power supply cables fan
cables all of those things required a lot of trial and error but it ended up
working out just fine I use zip ties to secure the power
supply cables to the chassis to make sure that they don't make any contact
with the fan frames because I don't want them being caught by the fan blades
because I'm using two 140 millimeter be quiet sound wing fence as intake and
then the two radiator fans as exhaust for the CPU I'm pretty happy with the
airflow configuration because it's drawing cool air from the bottom and
then exhausting the hunt air for the top one of the things that surprised me the
most was the clearance between the PCI riser card and the fan attached to the
radiator because it's so close but it all worked out just fine the fan blades
didn't catch anything so I'm glad that it's you know working out just fine in
fact I'm really happy with the way how this build looks the RGB lighting looks
great I love the RGB Dominator platinum memory and the NZXT cooler but at the
same time the motherboard lighting the GPU lining all just looks so uniform now
I certainly want to improve a few things in the future and one of them is cable
management because I feel like I could do a little bit of a better job inside
and secondly I do want to replace those two and 60 fans but some knocked off
ends because they are bent louder than I thought they would so yeah that aside
from that it's it's a pretty good-looking system I love it and now on
to performance and hand this thing flies so I'm gonna compare this system to my
current workstation PC which features an 80
okay overclock to four point eight gigahertz and an RTX 1080 Ti
let's get started now writing some synthetic benchmarks I was completely in
shock to see B performance improvement over my Hades sound under K overclocked
at 4.8 gigahertz as you can see when Cinebench are 20 or 15 and even blender
this thing just flies now I did take our standard 10-minute 4k project and
rendered them in results to do on both these machines but interestingly enough
I didn't notice a difference between them because as we all know resolve
loves GPUs and it just the more GPUs are throught it the faster it renders it out
although we are planning on investigating that a little bit later on
I'm really looking for a video editing machine as well as a little bit of
gaming on the side so both these systems are great but I'm
really happy to see that thing run just as fast as this guy so you know that's
awesome now I was really interested to test the thermals on my ITX rig and
so I took our standard blender test and a rennet on the loop and the 3950X
only averaged around 63 see with the kraken X 62 aia cooler but my 8700k
overclocked to 4.0 gigahertz averaged or maxed out at 73 c so it ran hotter
compared to my 1350 yes that's just that's crazy guys that really is finally
I ran some gaming benchmarks on both these systems at 4k as that is my
desired resolution when it comes to gaming since I have a 4k monitor and
both these systems ran similarly which makes sense because they both Rock RTX
2080 ti's and when you're gaming at 4k it's more taxing on the GPU than the CPU
so if you're looking for a gaming system and an ITX form factor you don't have to
go for a 3950X you're actually better off with a lower core comp
processor and a faster GPU so that's my new workstation PC and I hope you guys
enjoyed this one in fact if you have any cable management tips definitely let me
know in the comments down below because this is my first ITX rig and I would
love to get feedback in terms of improvements for this PC
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