- We were called out recently by Shank Mods
in his super popular Hot Wheels PC modding video
where he invited us to work on a dumb idea.
Put a 3090 in a Hot Wheels chassis he offered as a present.
Well, Christmas come early.
Shank Mods is here and so is the hardware.
There's just one problem.
- This isn't a half-length card.
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- Let's start by going over what we wanna do
versus the constraints of this tiny 9.6 liter case
that's gonna try to stop us from doing that.
First of all, this big graphics card, where's it gonna go?
- So, it's gonna be similar
to how I had it on my other Hot Wheels PC.
So we're gonna cut out a slit right here.
This case is really beat up,
so it's a good candidate for doing lots of work on it.
- Okay, so you have a spot for the 3090,
but I'm guessing that the power supply
that comes with this thing isn't gonna be enough.
- So the power supplies from these Hot Wheels PCs
are kind of infamous for just getting toasted.
We're gonna be using a different setup for the power supply.
We got two of these SFX power supplies,
they're 650 watts each.
So we're gonna take these two power supplies,
and we wanna turn this whole area here
and use it for something else.
So we're gonna take these power supplies
and put 'em right up here along the top.
- That's gonna fit
- Like that.
So they'll fit up top.
- up above?
- [Shank Mods] Yeah, so we'll have these two
at the very top of the case.
Together, we're looking at like 1300 Watts.
- Hopefully that should be enough.
So that brings me to what other parts are we gonna use?
- [Shank Mods] We're gonna using a 5800X3D, the new one,
this gigabyte mini ITX motherboard
along with two sticks of ballistics RAM.
- I couldn't help notice this giant air cooler on here.
- So this is just what we have right now for kind
of testing to make sure the whole thing works,
but we're gonna be running a liquid cooling loop
for everything. - It is gonna be water cooled.
- Yes, so the whole thing, the GPU and the CPU were gonna be
on a single loop.
The case is actually pretty easy to take apart,
you just removed two screws here at the top
and then one in the bottom
with this pretty sweet screwdriver
- lttstore.soon.
- So once you remove these two screws,
the whole chassis--
- Oh my God.
- Nope, it slides right out.
- [James] Oh, she's dusty.
- Ah yes.
Yeah, this one's fresh.
It doesn't work.
- In your last video when you revamped a Hot Wheels species,
you basically just made like a superpower version
of most of the original kind of PC, right?
- Yes, so for mine I tried to keep the optical drive,
the floppy drive and then I stuffed it with two hard drives.
But for this one, because we're cramming
so much more power inside of it,
- We're losing all of that.
- Yeah, the airflow in the original case,
we had two air intakes there and then we had this grill here
and that's all the air intake.
By removing the floppy drive and the optical drive,
we're gonna get a lot more airflow in the front
which will help us cool the much beef here, GPU.
- Is that gonna be enough?
Or should we think about maybe widening these
or maybe putting a hole on the top or what do you think?
- That's something I considered,
but I really want to try to keep the case
as close to original as possible,
kind of keep the same aesthetic.
The airflow you gain versus what you lose,
- Like the spirit of the building.
- I don't think it'd be worth it.
- Being the Hot Wheels connoisseur that Shank is,
he brought multiple.
So let's just use this one
so it's easier to see your plan for the cooling.
Now, we emailed back and forth a bit
and you had an original plan.
- Yeah, so the original plan was this 80,
this right here, we have an 80 millimeter grill,
and this is the only exhaust on the entire PC.
So my original plan was to run
another 92 millimeter custom loop here with a blow e Metron.
There are 12 volt fans that drop out four to five amps.
That should do a good job cooling it.
But the issue is it's really loud.
(blow e Metron whirring)
- There's another problem with it though,
was that Linus was actually really skeptical
that that would even be sufficient cooling.
- So another plan we had was to put more tiny blow e Metrons
up here with another radiator, with another radiator here
and just have radiators everywhere with blow e Metrons.
But that would just be so loud.
Aside from putting radiators all over it,
me and Alex got to work, brainstorming through a video call.
Alex came up with the idea
of trying to fit a bigger radiator
by moving the power supplies.
- How big are we talking, 120?
- So 120 millimeters.
So what I was able to do
was I had those flex ATX power supplies.
And if we mount them to the top,
this clears up where the power supply was.
Rather than using an 80 millimeter exhaust
for the 92 millimeter rad, we can cut this part out
and have a 120 millimeter rad right here.
- There's another thing, at the top we were talking about
how this is longer than a typical 3090.
How are we gonna make this fit?
- Fortunately, the Hot Wheels PC itself has a bit
of dead space.
We're gonna have to cut into the back of the frame
and have a place for it to extrude a bit.
And that will also provide support
for the back of the graphics card.
- Okay, so we've got everything on an open air bench
and right away I'm thinking this 120 millimeter radiator
is looking pretty thick compared
to the tiny chassis that needs to fit into.
But what we're trying to figure out right now is
is this even sufficient cooling?
So we have FurMark running to tax the [James]U,
we've got Prime95 running to tax the CPU,
and we've got hardware info open to monitor our attempts.
And we're gonna see what they end up plateauing at.
Now you might say that this isn't even a relevant test to do
because it's an open air bench and it's gonna be going
into this completely, almost completely closed off chassis.
But what we want to know is,
do we at least have some headroom here?
If it doesn't thermal throttle on this,
that means we have some room to play with.
And maybe there's a chance in hell that it'll work in here.
But if it does thermal throttle on here,
then we have to reinvent the wheel
and think of another solution.
'Cause if it doesn't work here, it's not gonna work here.
Okay, so we have a cooling loop set up,
and the game we're gonna play here is,
does Linus think this is sufficient cooling?
- Oh my gosh, I can already tell you probably not.
- All right, so I'm gonna aim the camera at it.
You've got your water block 3090,
you've got a 5800X3D in there, and--
- Wow, okay.
- There's your rez,
and this is your chungus, thick, 120 millimeter rad.
- That's a crossflow rad,
so I can already tell you you're giving up some there.
- So what do you think the temps are?
We've been running FurMark for about 20 minutes,
as well as Prime95.
- Well, I can tell you I think that [James]U is up
in the 80 degree range.
And then I think the CPU is probably as high as 70 plus.
- We got the FurMark here.
- Shut up!
(crew laughing)
- 51 degrees after 26 minutes.
- Really?
Okay, this might just work then.
Yeah, you might just pull this off.
- (laughs) Daddy's proud.
We're gonna modify this chassis
to fit our 3090 in five steps.
Step one is gonna be to clean out
and empty out this whole thing.
So it's more like this. That means we're gonna have to drill
out these rivets and pull out these cages.
Next, we're gonna have to drill a hole here for the GPU.
That's step two, and step three, the opposite side,
'cause remember the GPU has to stick out
'cause it's too long.
Step four is gonna be cutting a hole for our power supplies
and then step five, cut a hole for our big old radiator.
But I actually have a lot
of other stuff to do in my regular job.
So I'm gonna get Tynan do this for me.
- Oh, what?
(upbeat music) (vacuum cleaner whirring)
(drill whirring)
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- I originally used this motherboard on my previous build,
but there's a few issues we're gonna have to solve
to make this one work.
This bracket right here interferes
with this little extrusion,
so we're gonna need to remove this plate.
The other issue we have is right here
because this is a permanently a fixed IO shield,
this but right against this lip right here.
So in order to make this fit, we're gonna need to cut
into the bed 'cause this is where it's all mounted.
(machine whirring) (upbeat music)
- So after taking out this initial cut
and realizing that this is kind of impractical,
I just spent a little bit of time cutting up
what's going to be our back plate here
with all of the cutouts for power supplies, the [James]U
as well as the IO shield and the radiator.
And I'm about to cut out one of our test pieces
before trying to go on to either our mill or our router
to cut it out of a metal.
I cut out a thicker piece of acrylic that's also clear
so we have an idea of what's going on.
And also it's a lot more structural.
And then the next thing we wanna try to do is fit
in the rad, which we already know is gonna be not fun.
- So the radiator's the biggest thing.
So right here, there's not enough space right here
because of the cap right there is bumping against it.
So the screws posts are barely not able to.
- So we had a thought that maybe we can get away
with taking this cap off, taking it off onto the Tormach
and machining it flatter so we have a lower profile bit,
'cause it has a nailing on it so we can hand tighten it.
And that might just give us enough clearance
to let it fit in.
- Ready for more dumb idea?
- Oh God.
- [Shank] Instead of this, what if this?
- Yeah.
- [Shank] We had it kind of crooked.
- [Tynan] Yep.
- [Shank] So then it was right up against there,
that would give us more clearance
for the [James]U and a little bit more clearance there.
So the only downside is it would look a little crooked
on the back of it, which--
- [Tynan] That's fine.
- [Shank] Which is fine.
- Yeah, we can totally do that. I'll cut out another one.
(upbeat music)
(drill whirring)
- Now that we've cut this hole outta the front of the case
for the back of the [James]U, it should be able to fit.
Can slide right into there and click into place.
And even though it is extruding out of this part
of the case slightly, it's still within the range
of that gap inside of there.
So it'll fit right into the dead space inside this case
but outside of this frame, so fits right in.
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Now back to the video.
(car engine roaring)
- This aluminum back plate represents the crossing off
of every list item.
We've done it.
- Yeah.
- We've finished-- - At this point, yes.
- Okay. - Pretty much, yeah.
- So now we have everything sitting
like a pile of meat in the case loose.
And once we put this on,
then it'll all be mounted and secure.
Then we can fill the loop
and pray to whatever existence is beyond us
that this thing actually still boots and works.
So let's get this on.
- All right, ready?
So I'm gonna lift this up and then push this part in.
So then it fits then.
- [David] Nice.
- Okay.
- Slides right in.
- Okay, we got FurMark going, Prime95 going.
We're two minutes into this test,
and we do not have the fan set to 100%.
So we're hoping that's gonna be fine.
- If not, we'll try setting it
to a hundred and see how it goes then.
- And how loud it is.
- Yeah.
- 23 minutes in, temps are stabilized.
Tynan can you remind us what the numbers were before?
The CPU max before was?
- So CPU max before was 68.8 degrees.
- Now it's 81.6.
The [James]U temp before was?
- 52 degrees.
- 52, the max now 64.
- So hotter, but not technically throttling
- The CPU could be cooler.
- Yeah.
- I wouldn't wanna daily drive at 82,
but I'm pretty happy with the [James]U temp at 64.
That's not that good.
So let's ramp it up.
- Yeah, so let's restart it, - And do this all again.
- go into the BIOS, crank the fan
and see if it runs any better.
- It's been 20 minutes with the radiator found max
and we dropped 10 degrees.
lttstore.com ladies and gentlemen.
70 degrees on the CPU, and what is it?
Bouncing around 54 on the [James]U.
- Wow. - Damn.
- Yeah, not bad for so much power in such a little case.
In what, 9.4 liters, 9.6?
- 9.6.
- Less than 10.
- [David] I can drink that in a day.
- Oh yeah. - But this is a gaming rig.
So let's play some games.
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- I feel terrible that I missed all of this,
but at least I get to see it now.
- All right, you ready for this?
- I'm ready to feel greater.
Oh my God, it's amazing.
You guys did up the Ostendo.
What did you even do?
Is this just the electrical tape?
Oh, oh (beep) dog.
Shut up.
This might be the greatest retro-themed gaming set up
of all time.
No, I'm serious.
What could be better?
We've got the Ostendo, basically what?
How many of these even exist anymore?
You have rear projection ultra wide, the first ultra wide.
We've got the one and only Hot Wheels PC.
That's interesting.
Well, it's Hot Wheels.
Wait, the radiator's...
You guys managed to get everything inside?
Holy crap, is it ever?
Can I open it up?
It doesn't open up the old way anymore, does it?
- [James] Well, the problem is you'll see
that these are rivets and not screws.
- [Linus] Yes, I see that.
- And the reason for that was
because it's so tight in there that if we use screws,
we wouldn't be able to hold the nuts
so that the nut didn't spin.
And we couldn't even put nuts in.
It's nutless.
- No-nut Hot Wheels PC.
I have to game on it.
Oh Oh, okay, it's the actual Hot Wheels.
I was hoping we had a modern mouse with vinyl decals
like you guys did on these, but wait, what?
You guys spray painted an entire keyboard for this.
- [James] Yeah, he didn't even take the keys off,
just bombed it
- Just went for it.
It took me this long to notice though.
So stealthy.
This is absolutely insane.
What could be more glorious?
Oh, I see.
Ooh, that's actually pretty sleek.
Oh my gosh.
The only thing I've ever seen that gets close
to this is Luke's Fallout Bomb PC.
It's packed so tight, front to back RTX 3090,
fricking flex ATX power supply.
- [James] There's two of them.
- There's two.
There's two?
There's two!
This may be the greatest computer in existence.
What, you don't believe me?
Fine, show me a greater one.
Prove it is greater.
Is this custom?
Did shank do this?
Well, this is my favorite Xbox controller.
Is it mine?
- [David] No, I think he wants it back.
- Oh crap, okay.
Oh, that's fine.
I would too.
The maximum noise of it isn't even that ridiculous.
To be clear, it's not quiet, but it's not loud in the ways
that I might have expected.
For example, those flex ATX power supplies
are barely even contributing.
It's just that knock to a air mover industrial PPC fan
that we've got in there.
Kids, can you say 130 FPS
at whatever weirdo resolution this is?
It looks like garbage 'cause the image is
so soft on this monitor, but it's running great.
I was big into the just black frames around everything.
Nah dog, I want a blue, orange and yellow monitor now.
There's just no other way to put it.
This build absolutely slays.
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