- Sick, tired of building giant PCs.
They're too big and Stupid.
Just kidding, I love all pieces.
But sometimes you need to shake things up.
And that is exactly what we're doing today.
The X32 for X-Box is this
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(upbeat music)
At just 3.2 liters.
This is the smallest chassis that we have ever looked at,
but it's also not really directly comparable
to our previous record holder, The Velkase Velka 3,
because the X32 doesn't feel constrained
by prude conventions like side panels.
Just lets it all hang out, If you know what I mean.
Let's get this thing out of the box.
(metal crack sound)
Wow. There is really, not a lot to it, is there?
Oh, hold on, there's another piece.
I've got my instructions right here,
(metal scrap sound)
but, honestly there doesn't seem to be a whole lot to it.
We've got panel A, which is the motherboard tray right here.
Then we've got panel B, I call these side panels, ha ha.
'Cause technically they're on the side.
This holds our GPU and power supply.
PCI express riser, got a power supply shroud.
Oh, speaking of the power supply, check this thing out.
This is a flex size power supply made by Delta.
And despite its tiny size, it can output 500 freaking Watts.
At what sort of efficiency, look how cute it is.
There's also the bag of very important hardware,
including our power button for the front of the case,
or for wherever it goes on the case,
standoffs and screws, some little rubber feet.
And these are actually going to be
our very first installation step.
Okay, and a lot doesn't stand on its own.
(metal scrapping sound)
What could go wrong, Brendan?
Man, now that that's so perfect,
I feel so much pressure, putting on the other feet.
All right.
Now we can install the front switch.
So it's got a nice little silicone O-ring here
and hopefully this is long enough
to reach wherever it needs to go.
Oh, this is really nice.
Everything is lettered so that you can't screw up.
Which one you use?
Oh, balls.
(murmurs from distance)
Oh, non-ferrous screws bad.
I know it's premium, but I hate it.
Okay.
Install four B motherboard standoff secured with four J
screws.
I think I did it right.
I sure like picking up screws with my hand, like a Chimp.
(dog whimps)
Oh my God.
Honestly, I'm a little confused by this step.
They don't show where you're supposed to route the PCI
express ribbon cable for the riser.
So I'm doing my best with it here.
I think it's supposed to go on like this so.
It's not clear how the whole thing goes together.
And then it immediately becomes apparent that I did not do
it right. Oh, I wish I'd done the SSD first,
but now we know.
The next step says attach cables to the
power supply if modular and our power supply is in fact
modular,
these arch trippy cables.
You guys probably can't tell from there,
but they're like super flexible. Okay.
So they're silicone sleving. It's all floppy doodling.
The 24 pin comes down
to only 14 pins,
because you know what, I guess you only live once.
(chuckles) the eight pin, comes down to four pins,
(chuckles)the other more different eight pin,
for PCI express gets only six pins on the power supply.
And then we get a single peripheral connector or rather a
single peripheral cable with two SETA connectors.
The whole thing goes into our shroud, a little.
Sorry.
Cool all.(whispering)
One criticism of the power supply,
which is part of the kit is that these included cable Combs
appear to be sized for regular sleving or sheathing,
and these silicone ones come out really easily.
So maybe we can try and use these later,
but I'm not going to try and put them on right now.
I noticed that I've got socket and screws for the power
supply that are Imperial sized.
And then, this appears to be a metric head hex, screw.
You need too many tools to assemble this case.
Oh crap. It looks like it is what?
Yap. It's not cable managed rate.
It's supposed to go in here.
Does that even fit?
Oh my God.
Why don't we just undo everything we've done then that's all
it could have been prevented by,
having the instructions being clear.
So now we're looking at this side.
Oh cool. Okay.
Modular cables go through here.
Get in there, man.
Everything about this is just not a millimeter despair,
storage and power, just like that.
And when I saw this thing, I was like,
oh, that looks so cool.
And now that I'm hands-on with it, I'm like, Aw,
so cool.(sniffs)
We definitely have to add to our list of things to evaluate
(clears throat) how loud it is.
Because the thing about flex power supplies is a
40 millimeter fans.
Not the greatest terms of quiet operation.
Okay. Awesome.
This is it.
This is final assembly of the case.
This clearly cannot go there.
I see why they wanted you to see cable manage down your PCI
express power connector earlier because,
once you close these up together,
you no longer have access to any of this.
Okay? Crazy.
This is the kind of thing I wouldn't recommend for
first-time builder.
Just because you have to kind of have some understanding of
where all the parts are likely to end up
so that you can, envision what
you're trying to work towards here.
This is all screwed together.
This comes out for the GPU. Right?
See that, okay then over here,
this is going to have to kind of squeeze out under the
motherboard, kind of like that.
And I don't know, this one will end up somewhere.
This whole thing is so out of order,
the next thing that we're going to install is the GPU.
We ended up going with an EBJ RTX 30, 60.
This is one of their XC carts.
Got a nice back plate, dual fan cooler.
Our main reason for choosing this is that we wanted this
thing to be high performance, but not ridiculous.
And we also have to fit within the constraints of our 500
watt power supply.
So this is as powerful as you'd be able to go on a build
like this, without sort of,
violating the spirit of building a
super tiny machine, right?
It overhangs the volume of the case a little bit,
but not that much,
you know,
before we actually put it on for real though,
we've got to put on the GPU bracket Mount,
which is what's going to allow us to screw in the,
the PCI slot cover thing.
This is one of those like, well,
where does it go on kinds of things,
if you were like, man,
I don't want my PC to look like everyone else's PC.
fishing, mucking accomplished.
This thing is so cool though.
Now that we've basically assembled the whole computer.
Why don't we talk about what we're going to put in it?
Starting with the motherboard. We had wanted to go 12th gen,
but unfortunately we haven't been able to get access to any
12th gen it exports yet.
So we've gone with an ROG STRIX Z590-I GAMING now,
I understand that we went a little overboard, get it.
This is by far the highest end piece of kit in our bill.
But let me explain,
because this is a tiny machine, that gives us relatively
little in terms of expansion options,
a board like this gives us as much as possible.
So whether you want a couple of MDOT 2 ports on a neat
little riser card, or whether you want funder bolt for,
for expanded IO,
that'll definitely be nice to have once you've used up all
of the six USBs on the back,
this is going to have you covered. Then in terms of our CPU,
we've gone with a core i5-11600K.
It's not exactly the world's fastest,
most power-hungry chip,
but we wanted to show the most capable machine in this form
factor.
On the subject of the CPU,
we actually chose this one for a balance of decent
performance, 6-core, 12 threads, Max Turbo,
4.9 gigahertz and reasonable heat output.
Because while we could hang a gigantic tower cooler off of a
case like this,
in fact that is one of their advertised use cases.
There's no limit whatsoever to the size of the cooler you
can put on it.
I think that would be violating the spirit of trying to
build our smallest computer ever.
If we had a dual tower cooler that hangs this far off the
side of the case.
So instead, we've gone with a Noctua NH-L9i
it's not the most performant cooler in the world,
but at least it would fit if the case had side panels and
knocked to a does say that as long as you have adequate
ventilation,
this should be able to handle the 11600 core.
For storage we're using a combination of the
SEDA SSDs that we installed before.
Those are for more for bulk storage and also just to show
the capabilities of the machine, and this crucial 1TBP5
plus. So this is a GEN4.
NBME SSD that we're going to install
in the topmost of our end of two sandwich slots here.
Now, normally I would take off,
let's see the little blue appeal on the thermal pad down
here, but in these circumstances,
I'm not going to because this particular SSD doesn't have
any chips on the bottom.
So there's not really anything for us to cool down there.
We are concerned with the top one here though.
So let's go ahead and pull that off.
There we go.
That leaves only memory.
So we've got two eight gig sticks of 3600C16 memory
from crucial. We could put anything we wanted in here,
obviously, because we're not limited by the height,
but we went with this.
(upbeat music)
(closing nuts)
And that's it. Again I really wish we could have gone 12th.
GEN, make sure you're subscribed because we'll definitely do
something like that in the future to the small form factor.
But not today.
We're gonna plug in our eight pin CPU park connector and the
four pin motherboard power connector.
We're going to do our PCI express connector here and then
lower the whole thing into place.
Okay. These silicone wires, very cool.
Not necessarily easier to work with.
We've got a recess down here.
We've got to get a screw in there and it's almost definitely
going to fall off cause it's non-ferrous Ferris.
Bueller's day off.
(dripping sound)
It's pretty funny.
And that's it. The whole freaking computer.
That is pretty cool. How transportable is this thing?
Extra like six cores, nearly five gigahertz.
I, you could put up to 64 gigs of RAM in it
if you really wanted to
30, 60, we have five terabytes of storage on here right now.
And you could go even higher than that.
If you really wanted to, it's not,
let's fire it up and see if it actually runs properly.
Oh man, my teammate got in the way of my bullets.
He wanted to eat them all. Oh man.
I was kind of hoping to be alive at the beginning of this
shot, but I guess it doesn't really matter.
Check this out.
We're getting anywhere between around 200 to 300 frames per
second and CS go all cranked 1440 P and like,
look at this thing.
This is our little banana plushy LTT store for scale here
got a little apple for scale.
It's fricking tiny with that said it's not that Wyatt.
One of the things that your side panels do is reflect noise
from your fans back into your case and kind of muffled them.
You will get no such functionality out of this.
The other thing that contributes to this is that while the
GPU and CPU fan,
are both near silent,
this 40 millimeter fan on the power supply.
Yeah, it's, it's not,
this is cool. We're not even getting any thermal throttling.
Our CPU is sitting up at around 90 degrees with our GPU at a
chili 60 degrees because all of the heat that is being
kicked off the GPU is just able to dissipate into the
surrounding air.
However CS go.
Not exactly the world's most CPU intensive application.
And if we were to run something that is a little bit
heavier, like say for example, cinnameg,
are we thermal throttling bomber?
Yeah, that's the answer.
If you happen to have ironically choosing such a high end
motherboard, actually hurt our ability to cool the CPU with
this particular style of cooler because it packs so many
SSDs and big IO shield, you know,
aesthetic things around the CPU socket that there's no room
for the air to come out of the fins and be dissipated into
the surrounding air.
So with this motherboard,
we'd have to go with something a little bit higher profile,
or we'd have to go with the motherboard.
That's a little more sparse,
but even if we did upgrade the CPU cooler,
addressing any of the performance concerns I might have
about this machine,
that doesn't mean I would necessarily recommend building
your daily driver in the X 32.
It's certainly cool. But it comes with some trade-offs.
Remember how I said it was super transportable. I mean,
that's true. It is.
It's got this fricking thing,
but you're going to run the risk as you transport it of
accidentally knocking a memory slot out of your motherboard
or accidentally scuffing your GPU.
The other thing is, air flow.
Yes, it has effectively unlimited case ventilation,
but there's nothing standing in the way of all the dust and
hair that's floating around in the air,
which is why cases with filters,
are often the way to maintain your hardware.
The last concern is price,
especially considering it's steel,
powder-coated construction,
180 US dollars is not exactly affordable.
Yes, it's a very low volume product. And you know,
they can't use the same cost saving measures that a large
scale manufacturer might.
But in terms of bang for the back,
other than the uniqueness as a conversation piece,
I don't know. I kind of struggle with it.
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Enjoyed this video.
Maybe go check out our previous best the Vel case Belkin
three.
Yeah, it was a little bigger,
but it was also actually contained being that's sort of,
it's shared some of the same drawbacks,
but definitely a fun build.
I just 32 liters. This is the same.