The MOST Compact Gaming PC - Titan X & 18 Core Xeon CPU in a Shoebox

so the objective today is as much power in as little space as possible it'll be a gaming rig sure and graphics card uh cpu right we got an x99 motherboard that's itx that's how this whole thing happened now i remember why we're doing this [Music] the corsair hx 1200i power supply delivers 80 plus platinum efficiency for quiet efficient power and corsair link digital for advanced monitoring and control click to learn more so i guess let's do a quick run through of the parts we've got the highlight of the show is definitely the asrock x99e itx ac this is a surprisingly i guess i might as well just open it it's not like we're not going to do this this is a surprisingly fully featured um x99 motherboard considering that it's an itx board the socket actually takes up a significant portion of the total area of the board like check this out guys the x99 lga 2011 3 socket is massive now one thing you might notice about it is that the socket actually has non-standard mounting holes so we are going to be a little bit limited in terms of what cooler we can use although thankfully asrock does include a cooler in the box so hopefully that'll fit in our case so we're going to be using a silverstone sugo sg13 this is a new case we're actually going to have a review coming probably based on our impressions from this build log it's small for ram we're going to be using not an entire quad channel kit of ddr4 because the asrock board only supports two memory slots so we're going to be running in dual channel which means we're going to be limited in terms of both capacity and bandwidth however if you checked out our memory video which you can click on luke's face or behind the whatever the picture over luke's face now to learn about we determined going from dual channel to quad channel and ddr4 on even an extreme edition processor doesn't make a difference these days finally we've got an ax760i power supply which i have no idea if we're actually going to be able to use because we haven't vetted the compatibility of this build at all yet we'll try it but this power supply would work with cablemod cables which look freaking awesome which is why we chose it so we're going to try and use it hopefully it works who actually really knows for processor we have a 5960x because it's just kind of badass and we're trying to build a small badass rig so it just kind of works we have an intel 730 series processor we can't use their 750 series because yeah we actually don't know if it supports nvme but i'm going to go with no i don't think so and then we have a titan x because it's the fastest single gpu card at least for now we'll see when that new amd stuff comes out but let's cram it in there yeah yeah like in the the box it looks small and then you take it out and it looks even way smaller is the titan axe even going to fit in there i was wondering about that it seems kind of doomed from the outside you know what we'll make it work i mean we could probably eyeball oh dear maybe it depends how they've laid out the inside guts there wow this thing is pretty bare yup well there's not a whole lot of room for anything but the parts i guess so there's that the way the wi-fi card installs in this thing is janky as all balls you just slide it into this slot little things can we cut it wait yeah yeah look look there's a gap brandon look look at the gap look at the gap yeah yeah i think it can get in there that is some tight business oh yeah that's it it works all right we're gonna put a titan x in here we are i have a surprise the 5960x was a throwaway or a red herring or a trojan horse or whatever it was a trick in my pocket oh i have something else entirely which will make this the most powerful mini itx gaming rig ever this is a 2699 v3 18 core 36 thread processor it turbos up to 3.6 gigahertz so you're still gonna get dat gaming performance when you need single threaded performance and it is able to run 18 core sustained at something in the neighborhood and i think it was 2.6 gigahertz or so so it absolutely cleans the clock of the 5960x both in terms of performance and in terms of actual physical size you wouldn't even look at them and think that they fit in the same socket would you look at that it actually overhangs the edge of the socket with extra heat spreader area because they got to put all those cores somewhere oh yeah does this look like it fits an h80i it says specifically in the box specific cooler tapes check this out it looks like asrock thought of this so this plate does specifically fit on this this is an h100i because i don't think we're going to get an h80i in here either way we're not using this stock thing at this point anymore well you know we can try the nvme setup okay this is ready but i'm not actually going to install it yet just so it isn't in the way i wanted to see if we could fit this thing in super junky and like some crazy angle or something myself not going to work yeah uh do you want to figure out if the power supply is going to fit i think it will um but yes will it fit with a thick rad because if i could just use an h8i then that would make my life a little bit easier sure i'll check that there's a white 860i in the in the subzero build the build where the storage cpu and power supply all changed within like 20 minutes cooling don't forget cooling also cooling hey we're good on the power supply okay i found it in your office cool and i found an hdi you must be 3.1 man that's crazy i don't think this is two tubes though actually maybe maybe maybe so if we went tubing this side i'm gonna take this back out here hold on no put it put it back in actually yep um and then if i have a fan so if we can fit the 24 pin then we're probably probably fine where is it at the bottom it's at the top okay hold on new idea for ram i was saving this surprise for later but to go along with my xeon cpu i also have 16 gig sticks of kingston 16 gigs sticks ecc memory oh my god we're going to put 32 gigs of ram in here look at all those chips the module layout i thought you might just line up the ram i was like that's your job i'm not sure yeah i don't think we're going to make it yep no it's not going to fit the threads on this rad are no good so i was going to pull the block off this one and put it onto a single red we have we have single reds they're like horribly tangled so i wanted to use one say the power cable and it almost fits no see it's pulling it out of this one that would actually be doable i think okay my hold down actually can go on any orientation that i want which is nice so the other ones that are really going to be hard is audio okay so rad's on remember the fan has to be here the power supply is here we're going to cover up a fair number of the connectors on the power supply but we still need a fan okay so the 24 pin is going this way okay so we don't need to do the monthly yeah yeah wow okay i think it can make it all right then let's get the power supply out of here and try to more properly mount some stuff yeah if i can find something threaded correctly that i can just screw into the back plate do you think you have anything like that i have no idea okay yeah so here's the random screw we found in a bin yes it totally works do you have four no but it doesn't matter all the rest are fine good call i think cooling is going to be a trick in a system like this let's put on some nice fresh fresh coop oh wow okay oh where'd the map go huh i can't find the washer and we just use a nut in each corner and that can go all the way down now oh there's two other side of ports if they're easy okay front audio um hard drive led is bottom left power led is top left okay cool okay so that's ready now we're graphics card oh oh this is going the wrong way why because there's no grill that's good you know what i'm actually gonna put all four in it's probably not a bad idea yeah so let me get this in real quick it's not great but like there's this yeah it's not gonna kink exactly okay you know we're gonna discover something yeah yeah yeah the whole thing apart right okay wait are you you're going in backwards no derp there we go good call i was not paying attention to the power supply at all you have just looking at the cables i'm not privy to and it's fantastical not a small power supply at all try some more um that doesn't work two drops i think we should do two drives can they fit on the top of the power supply there might just be a little bulge there might be a little bulge but if we're doing it yeah let's just do it velcro wait uh oh that is gonna add additional things a lot of it you know what um my super low profile double-sided tape strips that i collected a bazillion years ago so we'll go just like that oh i'm happy we have these cables yeah they shouldn't affect airflow at all nope actually any of the places nope there that's pretty clean i like braided it could we bring these further back and make it work okay these ones right yep well i don't yeah there we go i have to try and get this front panel in somehow i wouldn't go on uh no i just i have to get all the wires like in there as opposed to around the edges there you go there's screws that that front panel needs to got it what an impressive little case better than either of our computers and like less than a fifth of the size of either of our computers we're done that was fun and it and like despite the incredible amount of things that we owe no no that's from me popping out the things a little bit right you're gonna have a little bit of bulge in the top but it's not bad it's not very noticeable and considering how much hardware is in here i don't know if silverstone could have made it any more it's basically like i love the case i don't mean this in a bad way but it's basically a frame yeah it's a shoebox and it's it's a it's a nicely logically laid out frame but it's yeah it's a shoe box with holes and uh we filled those holes yeah so now all that's left is to find out does it actually work so uh what all i mean what else should we test we gotta throw we gotta find out power consumption yeah we can do power consumption we'll do a bunch of games i'll throw some synthetics at the cpu because that's fun we gotta see temps on on everything no i mean it should be fine like if you guys look it's intake on the side for the graphics card exhaust right out the rear with some supplementary exhaust at the top here right there i'll do some like spot thermal testing sure figure out where some zones are the entire front of the case is mesh so that's going to take care of cooling your cpu which is going to be liquid cooled and then the power supply itself is going to take heat away from the motherboard area and push it out the back we should actually have reasonably balanced airflow i'm really curious to see just how loud this sucker is as well yeah i don't think it's going to be that loud if we were smarter we wouldn't have had to put ssds on the top an m.2 ssd would have made a lot of sense and then we just we could have also there's enough space here that we might even be able to just stack them right there right on the side instead of them being on the top but i think it looks really cool it looks cool on the top yeah so uh yeah well here you go all right wow that weighs a lot more than you expect performance time all right so let's start with thermals as that's always an important question with a small powerful contained system like this one i mean loads of people buy full tower cases just for the juicy airflow and we have a lot of power under the hood including a titan x which is a hot running card the titan x performed pretty much just as expected in terms of thermals which was really hot the titan x is normally quite hot and not much changed here to be completely honest as it was able to breathe fairly easily through the side of the case but the cpu on the other hand was a little more surprising yeah we already knew it was pretty low temperature running processor but it really didn't have the card stacked in its favor overclocked a bit and with next to no air to breathe due to the confined space the fact that it went under a full-size power supply and cables running freaking everywhere etc i honestly wasn't expecting much but it pulled through at a very low temperature under load which was damn impressive and made me believe in this setup just that much more speaking of overclocks our titan x had its core cranked up to about 1375 which is about the same as we had it when we reviewed it if you want to see our actual review of this card click here the processor had a base clock increase of three megahertz and no voltage increases across the board this little black box of awesome crushed our 4k gaming benchmarks for crysis 3 bioshock infinite and grand theft auto 5 running all of them without a hitch and getting well over 60 frames per second despite the 4k setting and never having any of the presets below high pretty badass for a machine that you could easily fit in a backpack but this didn't really flex the muscles of the cpu i mean it barely even has to try the cpu's utilization throughout these tests was pretty crazy low so let's take it for a spin first up we've got cinebench r15 a good standard for cpu benchmarks and as always i'd like to give a shout out to the awesome cinebench community on the atlantis tech tips forum our 36 thread powerhouse was very fun to watch as i've never seen that many little yellow squares racing around the picture anyways as expected it crushed but it wasn't done there w prime a multi-threaded benchmark that calculates super crazy numbers that take a long time to calculate the idea here was to show the difference between the ever popular four thread cpu and a 36 thread insanity cpu so i set w prime to 4 threads and 36 threads obviously the 36 thread processor smashed through the benchmark and i know you're probably not going to be sitting there all day trying to calculate crazy numbers with your processor so it probably doesn't matter to you unless your name is whaler underscore 99 or happen to be a member of the best damn folding team in the world on the linus tech tips forum anyways guys i hope you enjoyed this crazy build log let me know what you guys think in the comments down below or preferably over on the forum while you're here like dislike favorite subscribe share follow and check the description for links to shirts that we have and any of our sponsors or affiliates and the discussion topic for this video over on the forum you can see the discussion topic for this video where you should comment on the video also you can see our helpline is media group section where we have all of our sponsors and affiliates and all that kind of stuff but the best thing to do is become an affiliate or a contributor on the forum as that contributes directly to us anyways guys thanks for watching and i'll see you next time [Music] you

Channel: Linus Tech Tips

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Keywords: Titan X, Gaming, PC, Gaming Computer (Literature Subject), Personal Computer (Video Game Platform), Intel Xeon, Central Processing Unit (Computer Peripheral), Nvidia, Extreme, CPU, Core i7, build, guide, diy, compact, tiny

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Length: 17min 46sec (1066 seconds)

Published: Sun May 17 2015