Building the Xbox Series X Rip-off PC

my first look at the NZXT h1 was as part of a fully integrated gaming system but it's actually available standalone or well sort of entity sponsored this video where we're going to be showing you guys how to build your own system inside the NZXT h1 or at least part of your own system unlike most cases on the market the h1 comes with some of the parts some of the especially trickier parts pre-installed so it's basically kind of like those you know those like food delivered to your door things it's like yeah here's all the ingredients all you got to do is kind of slap them together [Music] oh look at that we've got a dis plate on the door now it's not centered the idea of creating small form-factor compact sort of bare-bones machines has been around forever in fact I still remember the look on my face when I discovered that so much of NCI X's web infrastructure was running off of a whole bunch of socket 478 and socket a shuttle bare-bones machines like this is back probably 15 years ago and even the idea of making a gaming machine that is sort of partly preassembled where the user just adds you know let's say CPU ran and storage is nothing new but what's different here is that NZXT has actually taken out some of the things that would traditionally be included in a bare-bones so all you're getting here is the case where is it there it is the power supply an all-in-one cooler so that's a 140 millimeter a i/o cooler that's gonna handle your CPU and the PCI Express riser cables that can be one of the most finicky parts of building a small form-factor machine the cool thing about this approach is that it takes some of the things that are good about a pre build like not having to worry too much about what things work with what other things and some of the good things about a DIY PC which is you can use any brand of motherboard you want any graphics card you want and you get the satisfaction of putting it together yourself so behind that plate we've got the modular interface for our graphics card and you can see that our power cables are also pre routed and this is a nice little touch shortened so that you don't have any excess wires that you're gonna need to tuck away so our graphics card is gonna go in right around here and these are gonna plug in right here that's it one thing I confess I had a bit of trouble with last time I looked at this was getting this panel off but this one just slides off super easily so I don't know what the deal was there but that's good so that exposes the actually now that I know do it easy to access and easy to clean magnetic fan filters there we go a little tab under there you can pull these off super nice so these handle all the intake for the system for the all-in-one cooler which is over on this side the power supply fan which is also on this side and then of course yeah yeah that's my graphics card right there no no so it'll look more like that so these are gonna be pulling air indirectly from outside of the computer I always like these kinds of clever little things so the GPU placeholder to make sure that nothing's you know rattling around in here is also the accessory box there's an extension that's routed down to here it is on the bottom so we'll plug in right there and then we've also got some zip ties and cable management stuff how interesting so it's only a single three and a half mil jock on the top but it appears to be a combo Jack so it's a four pole Jack and they include a splitter so you can split it out to microphone and headphones also in here is all the mounting hardware that we're going to need for our CPU cooler whether we swing for the intel or AMD team we've got a back plate that covers us and then here's the hold-down hardware and i have no idea cuz i come back in the 90s and going on a road trip i like it let's start tearing this puppy apart I think the pump may be built into the radiator rather than the CPU blog I'm super confused right now I'm like crazy confused this doesn't say anything about that there's an all-in-one liquid cooler already installed remove screws pointed out by arrows well wow that's cool I am super into that it really does look like there's a pump in there or something oh yeah this is super compact this doesn't have a pump in it Wow how about that that's cool okay well let's just tuck that aside for now and then we can take out the dummy motherboard and put in our real one so I've got an RG strict Z 390 I gaming we could go with something lower end but because we wanted the type-c connector as well as overclocking capabilities for our 9900 K this seemed like a pretty good bet io goes down so you're actually gonna plug everything in from the bottom of the case and oh I should probably put a CPU in it now to install the aforementioned 9,900 k this is gonna be the scariest part for new builders but it really is this simple you pull the arm away and up okay so that gets this clear so you're not gonna accidentally touch the pins you just lift that up there line up the little golden triangle with the dot or the triangle it's on the socket alright there's also these little notches here it's pretty hard to put it in wrong if you're paying attention to what you're doing give a little wiggle make sure it's actually in there lower this down make sure these are gonna slide over that screw or under it rather and then arm goes out and under and your CPUs installed Ram is even simpler we've done with some vengeance our DP ran from Corsair we go ahead and pop in one making sure that the notches are aligned evenly apply pressure from both sides I'll do that one more time it's crazy to think about it but we're almost done with the motherboard at this point it's that simple we could put our boot drive on the back of the motherboard here but in this case I actually wouldn't really recommend it banan flash doesn't care about hot components nearby but the controller doesn't really like it and our GPU the backplate of it is gonna be right against the back of the board so instead we're gonna go ahead and take this shield off the front and we'll install the SSD there pop it in like a sodium hold it down then screw it in OOP don't forget to pull the protective cover off of the thermal interface material on your heatsink here it's not gonna make a huge difference like it's not gonna affect performance or anything but I mean if you've got it there you might as well at least have it as like a heat spreader or like a heat soak and that really n truly is it let's go ahead and pop the motherboard in check this out so I'm just gonna hold these front panel connectors out of the way and we're gonna slide the board in from this side that's nice too with the i/o shield which is integrated into this motherboard it just sits there where it's supposed to go it's actually held in place by gravity so now all we got to do is put our for motherboard screws in wow this is all the screws we need for assembly that's pretty cool we find motherboard screws and this little baggy and for those the corner braces of the case are in the way a little bit here but it's not the end of the world as long as you've got a magnetic tip screwdriver it should be alright now we're just gonna plug in all our motherboard stuff so there's that PCI Express riser I really like the way they've designed this so you got your protective cover get rid of that and then it's got this nice little like plastic bracket that makes sure that it doesn't curve too much and accidentally kink and also keeps it out of the way of the panels when you're trying to close them the eight pin CPU power connector is pre wire managed so we just go ahead and pop that in and the 24 pin is done up in pretty much exactly the same way now my ram is a little bit high profile but from looking at it here it seems like we should still be able to get in there without cueing the heat spreader off it there we go and it's back in place and that just goes in well something like that front panel connectors can all be done now so here's our USB type-c HD audio is also down here in the corner this one's a little bit long but maybe we should cable manage that a touch when we're done this is like the fastest build ever I like how it stands up like this that means we've still got easy access to the back of our motherboard to put on our back plate just in case we forgot to do that earlier hahahaha well I mean you know that is why they started doing motherboard cutouts right so you could easily in quickly swap a cooler not so in case you forgot that anyway I should put the actual hardware on here first oh yes prep for us you'll we we Oh interesting this is a system I have not seen before so let's cut like this little keyed thing and then you put it in there and then I guess you screw that in looks like the backplate does not go on very easily with these pegs already attached I will take two of them off hey there it is now we're just gonna slip these little spacers over all four of the posts this is really clever so it's like this by default which means you're not gonna be able to get at the screw hole but if you pop them in they've got nice little instructions on here hey make sure you put those back before you close the system otherwise this tube is gonna press up against here and it might kink let's pop this on now for each post we need one more little plastic washer and then one of these some nuts not much left now along the edge here we've got the RPM wire for our all-in-one cooler pump as well as our CPU fan so it's the fan that's connected to the a i/o and we're pretty much ready to close that up Wow hey tubes towards the Sun okay that was the coolest one uh I would recommend using low profile memory we did manage to get these in with just a little bit of flex there see that that's probably still fine but how are you I would I would use something else okay that's it for cable management on that side all the USB and front panel connectors and everything can just sit right here graphics card time wait how did I not install this bracket oh good that's frame D now for the moment you've all been waiting for our TX 2070 super time so these two little tabs will hold the bottom of a card and I really need it to just actually like go in there probably cuz our motherboard tray is bowed then we just even a firm little press and then we can put these spun screws back on the bottom of the card that's it like I want to hear from the novices in the comments does this actually look easier does this still look like kind of overwhelming and complicated um just out of touch Wow look at that it's only 26 steps for our extra PCIe cables up here and that empty two and a half inch drive bay and then can just cover it all up by ugly cables that's it panel time [Music] nice I'm not making the mistake of removing this sticker again I'm just going to leave it there this is one thing that's a bit of a bummer about this case the fact that you gotta dig around and its underbelly in order to plug anything in I mean it does have a type C and a USB type a on the top but it is an improvement for me now that I know that that's a 4-pole audio jack and you can just split it out to a microphone and headphone if you really want let's see if I managed to build a computer that works cuz that's the real trick it can be as easy as it wants until the moment you press the button and it doesn't work like that balls that's fine you don't close the side panels on a rig until you've seen it post plug that in there now I just need to see how it'll go on the screen go ahead and cut let's try a simple receiver fire PCI Express connector okay fine I will reseat the graphics card wait a second wouldn't that be funny you spend all this time diagnosing a dead computer and it turns out it's a bad cable I love that that's my favorite firing this backup well okay then I even talked about how it's best to try to troubleshoot the simplest things first do I not have that you play on here I thought this is my bench drive well Shawn well the Tomb Raider it is then man I love this when you get a fast CPU and it makes your games download faster the thing is you're not just downloading raw data a lot of the time you're unpacking it at the same time so especially having a CPU that can turbo up really high and that handle a single-threaded tasks really well converse ulsan faster game downloads that's great I really got to actually play this game so that I have like some other save games to load because I'm just like right at the beginning and this like stupid forced walking around saying I cannot get motivated to play this one all the way through oh you know what let's just run the benchmark yeah lots of hours in the benchmark lots of hours pimping lct store calm you know got my priorities straight all hi seems like the sweet spot for config like this it's a very sightsee type game so I don't worry too much about getting a hundred plus frames per second but even your lowest dips are still in the low 50s and we've got g-sync on this panel so those get masked a fair bit as long as you're not going down too low in a massive surprise to no one the thermals of our system here behave pretty much the same as the ones in the pre-built they sent over to us because we we never hit higher than about 4550 degrees on the CPU I would expect that to say pretty consistent ended up putting together a pretty similar system so the whole paradigm where it's in taking through the filtered sides and then exhausting just through positive pressure out the back works really well so you've got like a hands warmer back here but here you can really feel the inrush of air over the power supply the CPU cooler and the GPU now that I'm done I can safely say not everyone is going to prefer the NZXT h1 approach with some of the parts pre-configured but if you wanted to dip your toes in the water of custom building a machine I would say this is a much safer way to go then all that case that we covered from singularity a little while ago the easiest water-cooled system that ended up actually being extraordinarily difficult to build I think with some instruction following even a complete novice builder could finish a system in this in a couple of hours and that is really impressive if you're looking for a video to watch maybe actually check out that easiest water-cooled one we had a lot of fun doing that build even if it wasn't as easy or fast as we had hoped

Channel: Linus Tech Tips

Views: 3,020,045

Rating: 4.8991199 out of 5

Keywords: NZXT, Gaming, PC, Build, DIY, Case, Components, Intel, NVIDIA, Desktop, Processor, Liquid Cooling, Airflow, Silent, Glass, Tempered, Do it yourself, games, performance, testing, heat

Id: Sv3Pqb2F_xc

Length: 15min 31sec (931 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 31 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/II_StigZ_II]

The only relation to the Xbox it ended up having was the shape

[u/Matatronk2000]

Dude it would be a X Box ripoff or clone if it were anywhere near the price range. I love some LTT videos but most of their building videos are totally unrelatable to me cos of their pretty much unlimited budget.

[u/StrawberryWizardVamp]

If they were really going for an Xbox rip-off why didn’t they use Zen 2

[u/LocarionStorm]

That video title though, lol.

[u/blankblank]

Clickbait title aside, it's a pretty good look at what it's like building in the H1.

tl;dr: Linus recommends using low profile memory