UNREAL Mini Gaming PC Build - Xbox on Steroids

let's build a gaming PC smaller than an Xbox series X something that you can easily hide behind your monitor be thrown into a backpack and used in a variety of situations it can be upgraded over the years you have more freedom in how you use it and those steam sales now while this is smaller than the Xbox series X it is still going to be more expensive than the Xbox because well it's pretty difficult to beat that $500 price point especially for what you get now how much more expensive is going to depend entirely on what parts you choose now because I'm not not sticking to any particular budget in this build I kind of just want to go all out and see how much performance we can get out of this tiny PC thanks to factor for sponsoring today's video I try to simplify my life as much as possible and aut toate as many decisions as I can and one crucial area I've been able to do that is with food see Finding ways to put your meal decisions on autopilot can help reduce day-to-day decision 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then 20% off your next box that's code Devon j50 factor75.com gets 50% off your first box plus 20% off your next box while your subscription is active start I'm going to go with the fastest gaming CPU available right now which is the ryzen 7 7800 x3d this is a clearly Overkill CPU for the build I think most would be perfectly okay with a 7700 or even a 7600 if you're targeting higher resolutions but this is an incredibly efficient CPU and our cooler should be able to handle it but I guess we'll find that out later pores 16 threads and a boost up to 5 GHz this chip really is a monster and outperforms amd's more expensive 7950 x3d in gaming performance so we're going to be plugging that into a personal favorite of mine the Asus RG STS b650 if you watched any of my past videos you've probably seen this one quite a few times but it's just a great well-rounded board in my opinion nice understated Aesthetics eight USB ports with two of them being type-c Wi-Fi 6E built in and two m.2 slots one is under the included heat sink at the front and the other is hidden away at the back now because of the sandwich style layout of this case I would recommend populating that back slot now if you're planning to use it as it is going to be an effort to do it later once the whole system is built for now though I'm going to be using a 2 tab Drive in the primary front spot the one I have here is a 980 Pro which you can typically find on Amazon for around $160 the two dim slots can also support up to ddr5 8,000 although honestly anything over 6,000 is wasted money on a gaming build so I'm going to go with exactly that 32 gigs ddr5 6000 CL 36 kit from crucial now this is their overclocking Pro Series line they've got these really nice metal heat sinks and a super clean stealthy look to them they're also low enough profile to work for the build there's also an expo memory profile so we can easily get those advertised speeds with one quick setting change in the Bios we've got 47 mm of clearance for our CPU Cooler and that really only leaves us with a few options if we want to maximize that available space I picked up a few of the popular ones as I was kind of planning out the build and after considering the options here I ended up landing on the thermal right A90 x47 but the full Copper Edition it's ugly as hell and it's a little more expensive than the aluminum versions but the pure copper heat pipes should give us the best thermal performance I haven't used this cooler myself yet so I guess we'll find out how it holds up but I'm not going to stand for this Orange fan so I'll be swapping that out with a black one installation is quite straightforward as well we can just swap out these Intel brackets with the ones that fit AMD boards remove the default mounts from the motherboard apply some thermal paste and then place that cooler over our CPU the standoff should go right through the back plate and once we flip our board over we can use the am4 side of the included back plate which still works with this am5 board then once we tighten our cooler with the four nuts we can just plug in the CPU fan and our motherboard is ready to be moved into the case so the case here is the Vela 7 from velc case this is my third Vela build on the channel I built a 460pc in the Vela 3 and then a 470 PC in the Vela 5 now this one is the largest of the lineup as the name implies and it's the only of the three that can actually fit an sfx power supply along with that larger CPU Cooler clearance so let's remove this from the packaging and open it up we have quite a few screws to remove so that we can get into this case first there's two on the top and the bottom to remove so that we can pull up that front face plate and just with this piece alone you can really feel how high the build quality of this case is it's a very thick solid piece of Steel with absolutely no flex to it now to get the side panels off we have two screws for each on the back and then another two at the front under where we just removed that face plate side panels are surprisingly rigid as well especially considering the amount of hole punching in them no flex on them really solid pieces of Steel here I wouldn't be worried about throwing something like this into my backpack next we need to remove the two side panels and then the last thing to do is get out the mother portray so there's one screw on the side and then another two on the back and look we've removed a lot of pieces at this point I would try to keep the screws with their corresponding pieces so that we can easily keep track of them later on when it's time to put everything back together okay now we are finally ready to start installing our components so starting with the motherboard we can secure that to the tray and plug in the Riser cable flipping it over to the other side we also need to remove these three pre-installed brackets so let's put those aside and then we need to Route the Riser cable able add an angle to these mounting points there's two positions here I'm going to be going with the one furest from the edge that way it can allow enough room for an internal display extension cable so we need to use the spacers along with some long screws and secure that down the piece that we secured the Riser cable to can also be shifted if you shift that and use these included standoffs you can create a little bit more room for your display inputs if you were to need it all right now we can rescure all of those brackets so let's rescure the bar piece that goes right over the Razer cable then then let's grab the GPU bracket and attach it as well so that we can install our GPU this is where we'll be installing our Founders Edition RTX 470 super so we're only able to fit a two slot GPU in here cards like the Asus dual 470 super aren't going to fit that one in example is 2 and a half slots there are a few options if you want or can't get a Founders card velc case does have a compatibility list on their website that can help so I'll link that in the description if you want to take a look blow through style coolers aren't usually ideal in a sandwi style layout like this one but I've actually found that the temps of the founders 470 to be better than the PNY 470 I did in my Vel 5 video a few months back and temps are looking great in this build with the super as well under 70° C after an hour of playing Horizon forbidden West at 1440p performance is looking good as well at over 100 frames per second using the high preset with dlss quality cyberpunk 2077 looks really good as well using the r tracing Ultra preset and still getting over 90 frames per second running around night City and and GPU temps in this game are still sticking around that 70° Mark pulling around 200 Watts if we want to push this further we can pull that full 220 WTS using the furry butthole test for 10 minutes and we're still maxing out at only 75° C the 4070 super is probably best paired with a 1440p high refresh rate monitor but I wouldn't be disappointed hooking this up to a 4K display especially if you plan to utilize things like dlss and frame generation now let's take our GPU and install it into our PCI Express Riser cable from there we can secure the GPU with that last angle piece that we removed earlier at the top and then there's one more piece that we can secure at the bottom with a single screw and last here is I'm going to plug in this internal display extension cable that I picked up from Amazon I'll have it linked if you're interested in using one it really does clean up the build quite a bit and there are dedicated holes on the back of the case for up to four of them all right so that's the hardest part complete now it's time to actually start putting it all back together now something I really like about the Vela 7 over the three and the five is that it can use a standard sfx or this makes it so much easier to find quality and quiet power supplies so I'm going to be going with the gold standard here the SF 750 I've talked about this power supply and what feels like every single video at this point and that's because it's easily my favorite and it's just one of the best that you can get right now so first I'm going to install the 24 pin motherboard CPU and the GPU power cables then we can just slide the whole thing right into the case with no problems and secure it from the back now we can connect our three power cables to the board and the GPU then put our case back together now let's also not forget to plug in the power button to the front panel connectors and that's the build complete so not the simplest build process and you really have to keep track of all the pieces and screws as you take the whole thing apart but the end result is pretty worth it in my opinion there just really isn't a lot of cases out there quite like the velas incredible build quality I would be perfectly comfortable with my parts in here knowing that they wouldn't get damaged if you need to move this thing around frequently and that extra CPU Cooler clearance really pays off in the 7 having the ability to use a 47 mm cooler can really open up more CPU options in your tiny build the full Copper x47 is pretty impressive actually the 7800 x30 is already a power efficient CPU but still 65° C in game is very comfortable and I'm just using an out of the-box standard fan profile that comes with the Asus Armory software here after a 10-minute multicore stress test in cinebench we're still only maxing out at 81° C so I'm quite happy with this little cooler system noise when using a standard fan profile is quite low as well 42 DB which is honestly unnoticeable in my opinion and without any noticeable turbulence now with that said if you do manually set the fans to full speed it is obviously going to be much more audible at 45 DB but worse is the pitch due to the turbulence now I really haven't had the need to run that fan at full speed the cooler seems more than adequate keeping temps low without going to the tire fan speeds at the standard preset so overall I think this is pretty impressive for such a small package I've been using it with a portable monitor that I've attached with a magnetic Mount so the back of this Asus monitor has a threaded hole that can work with a lot of different camera and lighting equipment I'm using this one that came with one of my lights it has a rubber protector over the magnet so that it also keeps it from scratching up the case from there I can attach it to wherever really it's surprisingly strong now I've done a bit of researching and from my understanding there shouldn't be any risk to damaging the components inside the case when you're using a magnet on the outside like this now I would still extracise some common sense here try not to block any fans or place it anywhere that might interfere with something I place mine at the top corner and it makes for a pretty comfortable ergonomic position a surprisingly good experience here from there you can connect it with a short USBC to display port cable or micro HDMI then power it with a short USBC cable if the battery in the monitor is drained so this isn't the smallest 4070 build I've done if you don't mind using a smaller CPU Cooler and going with a flex ATX power supply instead you could also check out my Vel 5 video I did thanks for watching

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Published: Mon Apr 29 2024