This Prototype PC Blew our Minds

you know i know it's gonna be a good day because we just got a giant pelican case full of unreleased hardware and every time that happens it's a freaking good day inside here is the kamino auto a computer that i've never seen from a manufacturer that i have never heard of and see these are always good signs too when there's a gigantic adapter on just the power plug i mean it's gonna be exotic my friends let's go ahead and pull this thing out oh wow apparently in this tiny thing there's an eight core core i9 9900k and an rtx 2080 ti not to mention of course liquid cooling this is going to be fun with glasswire you can see what's going in and out of your pc to monitor and block badly behaving apps use offer code linus to get 25 off at the link in the video description [Music] all right well they're serious about it getting here in one piece i guess yeah i think it's one of the only ones in the world it's very engineering sampling oh in spots wow yeah i can see that have you had this out i mean it's like it's nicely cut and everything but i will say that that is a little raw looking uh honestly i love the design though the concave top looks super kind of futuristic looking the convex front with the reservoir built into it i am really excited to see what this looks like once we turn it on that better be uv green fluid power button right here usb type-c they built that into their auto yeah it is also worth noting that all of the colors can be changed like completely custom so if you want it like black here or red here or whatever pretty simple so they intend to sell this thing do that yeah all right how does it come apart oh wow that's pretty straightforward magnetic side wow so they just actually glued magnets to the side panel okay it's a little engineering sampling a little bit of history on these guys they have a lot of experience when it comes to server cooling and building servers and we're actually seeing some very server builder design sensibilities here well as long as all the cables are you know all together and they're out of the way the airflow then that should be good enough and so they've actually got things like cable combs installed but but the function of them is sort of they missed the point somewhere along the line um no wait hold on a second what is this connected to i'm so curious because it looks like a 16x slot it looks like a 16x to dual 8x ribbon adapter but also like these fittings i have never seen anything like that before in like consumer hardware oh wow so these are like a dual 90 degree yeah this is this is like not soldered what's the uh braised yeah braised these fittings are braised so they've done like a braised probably brass fitting and then they've plated it that's incredible so and check this out this type of hose clamp is like a very um like building style of hose clamp so they actually take like a big ring and then put like a a crimp sort of thing on it and like crimp it so they bend the metal in order to put the hose clamp on the barb so that the tubing will come off like that thing ain't it's never coming off okay so hold on hold on hold on we're getting we're getting distracted here we're getting distracted i don't remember the last time i saw a simple desktop computer made out of what is essentially commodity hardware like asus motherboard you know asus graphics card that was this different like look at this airflow shroud that they've built here why did they do that well separate cooling zone for the power supply so they've actually cut a little slice in it so that they can run this tube up to the reservoir in the front and then not compromise the individual cooling zones that's freaking awesome again very servery stuff yeah i don't think i've ever seen a small form factor pc like this that hasn't had two zones where it's like cpu and like motherboard on one side and gpu on the other they've all done that since i think was it dan that did it first i think it was the dan case that did it first oh that's nice they've got a temperature sensor going into the reservoir up here i guess that's what happens when you build your own reservoir from scratch you have all these cool features okay i really do not understand what i'm looking at here ah this is a splitter of some sort so this piece right here made out of like delrin or something like that goes in through the graphics card so it goes out that way up from the graphics card out here then it also goes down to the cpu and then back to the res and then this goes over to the radiator and over to the res got it one thing i will say they didn't do an amazing job of is the power cable so it uses a system we've seen many times on small form factor builds where the power supply is actually internal and then it runs an extension out the back of the case they've gone under this little cover for it here but then they just have it come out like a like a tail so that's why it has to use this adapter because now that it's assembled there is no way for us to change the power cable usually you get like a receptacle on the back of the machine you want to do the honors uh sure hit it and of course it is rgb af oh that is a really nice effect on the perforations i like that you know maybe there's something to be said for letting server manufacturers play with our gaming machines this res is so cool like how did they make this i actually have no clue like there's no machining marks i know right honestly the back's almost as impressive to me as the front and oh yeah look there's definitely cnc marks there oh yeah yep so that's definitely how they're doing it they just have a way better cnc than we do so that's all there is to it are we supposed to take it apart i have no clue they didn't really tell us anything about not taking it apart okay cool because i do kind of want to see what makes it tick the max on all of the cores has been 50 degrees so far they're sitting more around like 33 to 45 though cool 30 degrees max temps so far we have oh yeah we haven't done much but still that's very promising what is the temperature in here anyway if we're going to say that the numbers are real good we might as well actually know what they are yeah it's 18 degrees in here so that helps a bit you know normally you get like you're you're super micros of the world and they try and do something gamery and it's just like yeah it's like you read a book about what gamers like once you know yeah this is just cool the big thing i want to know here is not necessarily what temps we're going to see but whether those fans get any louder because if they don't then i think we could easily tune them to come down quite a bit quieter at idle yeah and if the temperatures that we're getting are still like 50 degrees we can probably get this thing to all core five gigahertz no problem we're still only at about 70 degrees which is very reasonable but it's a 4.7 though yep so that's what we would expect for a well-cooled 9900k and as far as i understand i'm pretty sure that all of the vrms and stuff are cooled also so we should be able to get it really fast why does this thing feel so snappy like even just installing you know microsoft vc redistributable whatever when we launched the game it's just 3 200 megahertz ram not nothing crazy yeah like you guys know what i'm talking about right like when you have a machine that's got great specs but like you go to launch windows explorer and it takes forever to you know load in all the drive information or whatever like it just i know it's a fresh install i've seen a lot of fresh installs in my day all right anyway i've seen enough of this let's go ahead and see if we can overclock this thing yeah it didn't get to 70 degrees there we have lots of room well should we just go right for the load five gigahertz oc profile i'm i'm not a huge fan of it but sure screw it wait does all it do is just do single cores five zero and set everything out oh she's hot really hot not too hot 91. hey for the form factor are you not still impressed oh yeah totally i kind of forgot about that actually it's literally half the volume of the kind of machine that you would normally say has enough cooling to just be like yeah sure five gigahertz all on full auto like these are not optimized voltages i'm sure we could turn it down and have it run cooler our render finished without incident it took two minutes and 39 seconds that's about what we'd expect for a five gigahertz all core overclock yeah max temp was 96 degrees which is you know that's hot but also it did it and this is probably a horrible overclock so let's hit it again this time cpu and gpu what we're finding out here is whether the gpu heating up the water pushes our cpu over the thermal throttling threshold cpu seems to be doing the same basic thing as last time one core did hit 98 but that still doesn't exceed intel's safe spec and you wouldn't be doing this very often still 43 44 i think that's as high as it's gotten yeah it's still only about 65 70 usage and we've got a core that hit 99 now loudness wise one thing i think they could optimize right out of the gate is you can see how there's the perforations on the top but there's also a fine mesh under it oh yeah i think that's a big mistake for them from an airflow and an acoustics perspective i think just by making that small tweak even switching it from like a metal grille like they've got in there to something like a uh like a like a fan filter type material like a finer mesh i think could make a big difference there and there's no doubt that it's not particularly quiet when you're really hitting it but from a cooling standpoint i would say this is the most impressive small form factor machine that i've seen yet these are 140 ml fans too no wonder it's handling it like a champ even with that restrictive grille on it i just assumed it was 120 mil so we're here 1440p high settings not the highest like we don't have rtx on but it is this has to be like 150 fps easy especially when combined with like this is the one millisecond monitor it's just oh that looks really really good and of note is that this is still running at kind of idle noise levels yeah so it didn't crank up the way that it did when we hit it with a really heavy cpu load like that blender render do you really want to take this thing apart yeah it feels like it feels like disassembling the mona lisa a little bit that's that's a bit of an exaggeration i think i really want to look at the fins you're going to take all the way down to the blocks all the way down to the blocks do we have to i really like it i want to use this as the vr gaming rig it's so nice we can put it back together you never will we're not taking it apart i like this thing too much and the one thing i was really curious about i actually figured out for myself the reason i was confused by the positioning of the gpu was that actually they removed the bracket at the back so they just screwed the gpu directly into the back panel so that's why it looked like the thing was too close to this it's just a normal pcie slot it's connected here you've got two of these 8x connectors because they couldn't fit one of those big chunky ribbons in here and that's all there is to it that's all we need to know this thing is freaking awesome and i don't want to take it apart because i want to use it as a vr gaming rig because it is freaking awesome yeah so i guess i do have the prices here oh okay what is one of these gonna run you like how does it compare to a corsair one that's that's really the question because compared to diying something obviously for this level of integration you're going to be paying a premium so this one right here that we have in our hands with the i9 and the 2080 ti is 3 600 us yeah yeah they also have a super version for twenty one hundred dollars that has a ryzen five thirty six hundred and a twenty seventy that's too much for a ryzen five based machine yeah um and they have a diy version that's 450 bucks that's just chassis reservoir riser radiator rgb strips okay so if you want to just completely build it on your own you can good luck yeah good luck it can it could be done we could do it it's actually harder now that we would have to disassemble theirs because i wouldn't assemble mine with crimps on the on the tubing they also have a version for 1050 that has like everything that you need including like water blocks and crap you just don't get like you know the actual components okay so you only have to buy cpu gpu motherboard ram storage and coolant that's not actually that far out there compared to the uh spectre that we looked at recently yeah very similar i would say i like it i do too i declare it to be good i honestly i came into this thinking like just another small form factor i really like it too you know what else i really like segways to our sponsor ifixit mahi driver kit that we actually opted not to use today oh wow 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i fix it sparks i think it's fine i think they'll forgive us thanks for watching guys if you're looking for another crazy water cooled uh why don't you check out the one where we partnered up with steve to subzero liquid cool a laptop sure that was fun

Channel: Linus Tech Tips

Views: 2,925,159

Keywords: Small form factor, Comino, OTTO, Nvidia, RTX 2080Ti, i9

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Length: 15min 17sec (917 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 01 2020