Upgrading my Mini 4090 PC

all right so this is the tiny pieces that I built myself a few months ago it's actually my personal editing and gaming system and it's been absolutely insane it's got an RTX 4090 and a ryzen 5800x 3D at least it did because now it is completely empty and the reason for that is because today we're making it even more powerful and also finally preparing this thing for liquid cooling remember that insanely small 4090 water block that we tested out well this is where we're putting it and the first thing that we're going to be upgrading is the CPU and this build previously used a ryzen 5800x3d and you guys already know I absolutely love this CPU like you know if it wasn't for Content I would probably still use it it's like just one of the best it feels like one of the first CPUs in a long time where you actually get top tier gaming performance without having to like crank up the power to ridiculous amounts however since this build is going to be you know just completely over the top it only makes sense that we switch to the new stuff while we have the opportunity so enter ryzen 7 so look we're not getting Monumental gains here in terms of gaming performance but these are more efficient than ryzen 5000 and if we're going to be hooking this thing up to the same loop as a 4090 in an ITX case I want to be saving as much power and heat load as possible even saving 20 watts 30 Watts that could be a few degrees on our GPU so here we're going with the new 7800x 3D which just came out gaming performance looks to be about even with a more expensive 7950x3d in fact it's even faster in some scenarios with a 7800x3d it's just a straight 8 cores single CCD every core has access to that extra L3 cache and it just makes more sense and another thing that I've noticed with ryzen 5000 coming from my 12900k system is that it just doesn't pair as well with gaming mice that have higher polling rates so 4 000 Hertz 8 000 Hertz especially just notice higher CPU usage you know FPS drops frame time spikes and stuff like that it's not super serious you know I can get by with say 2000 Hertz quite fine but hopefully you know ryzen 7000 is an improvement in this area as well of course we do need a new motherboard to plug this into and we're upgrading to probably the most stacked ITX board that I've ever used and that's the Asus x670i strix one of those boards where they just straight up run out of PCB space so they start building vertically instead you've got this additional breakout here for the front panel connector Sada and USB and then flipping over to the rear you've just got the most jacked rear IO that you'll ever find on ITX in fact I count 10 USB ports two of them being usb4 type c this board does also have two of those small on-board fans which some people are not a big fan of one is for the chipset and m.2 stack at the bottom and the other is for the vrm however these both can be controlled configured and completely disabled also pretty rare to see but it's definitely nice are that two pin temperature sensor at the bottom which we will be using to monitor the temperature of our coolant now as for things like bios flashback audio ports the usual thing you'd find on a rear i o you'll actually find those on this thing right here you plug it into the rear USB and it gives you those extra features if and when you need them and I mean if you don't have a separate audio interface or volume control this is actually pretty damn cool the volume dial and extra USB port at least is a nice to have for those simpler setups and since we're on a ddr5 platform now I'll be switching to this kit here from g-skill it's 32 gigs 6800 megahertz rcl34 it's honestly nothing too crazy but I will be doing some mild tuning to this to see what we can squeeze out of it now something that I did not expect to be upgrading was the 4 terabyte m.2 drive that I bought for the initial build you know I need that extra space I've been filming longer videos I've been working on you know multiple projects at a time it was really nice to have that extra capacity at first but man after using it a couple of times I realized that I just made the wrong choice the specific Drive I bought was The crucial P3 and I mean the sustained write speeds of this thing just fall off a cliff if you're are transferring really large amounts of data which is something I do a lot of so for gamers you know I still think it's okay it's definitely a decent value pick if you need like a massive game library or something like that but for video awarenesses definitely steer clear I'll be replacing this thing with the WD black sn850x which is also four terabytes but a lot more expensive and after comparing the specs you know this should give me the sustained right performance that I'm after alright but this next part though is super super sick this is the mod Ultra Lobo and it is the lowest profile CPU pump block on the market even with a heatsink and a DDC pump on top of this thing it is just 45 millimeters tall that actually makes it smaller than the tiny air cooling heatsink that we were using in this build initially and I've got to say the quality on this thing is just ridiculous like the cooling elements of course is just pure copper but everything else is cerakoted brass and aluminum so yeah it's literally a ceramic coated and cnc'd housing and yeah I've got to tell you it feels amazing in the hands just doesn't really get higher quality than this and here's a size comparison to the EK version of the same product which I'm also a big fan of the reservoir on that thing is massive and the port versatility is a lot better but we do save about 15 millimeters in height and effectively for this build that means that we gain that clearance for one of our radiators which should mean extra airflow now the cooling performance of course remains to be seen but I mean if it's anything like the quality and feel of the product and the effort that they've put into that then I'm guessing there won't be any problems [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] so this for sure has to be one of the most dense ITX builds that I've ever done I mean it's more dense than the end case it's more dense than the triple rad and r200 that I've built and so the clearances between all the parts are extremely slim I mean at least when we get that second Radiator in there it's just going to be absolutely insane something that I did here which I don't usually do even for super compact builds like this is a set of completely custom cables so here is the stock 24 pin cable that comes with the Corsair sf750 you know it's not bad it's a nice sleeved cable but here is the custom one that I'll be using instead so yeah size difference absolutely insane with this custom one it basically means that we don't have to fold the original cable or route it longer than we need to in fact the way that I made this Custom 24 pin was by actually inserting the empty plugs and just by measuring the minimum distance for each wire so that way we kind of get the shortest cable possible I use the original cable as a reference for the pin out and just hand measured each wire one by one and I know it's not sleeved or anything fancy like that you know there's no cable Combs or anything but I actually love the clean kind of factory look that it gives in a way it actually looks more stock than the cable that the power supply ships with I also made a custom 8 Pin for the CPU and similar approach to this one there's no sleeving and it basically is as short as possible but the way that I've routed it underneath the top radiator the cable becomes completely hidden so yeah pretty happy with how these turned out it's kind of like the icing on the cake and it should make the two routing and airflow a little bit better and as always I'll leave links down below to the exact parts that I've used and I've got to say this thing is so so heavy already even without like tubing or liquid or fittings or anything man it's going to be an absolute brick once we get those in there but here's a closer look of like the top radiator situation we've got enough room for a slim XS PC Rod this is the tx240 which I've used in previous builds and we've got enough room for a pair of full-sized 120 mil fans at the top don't worry about the exact ones that I've used here these will be swapped out for some nocturnal 120s and then in addition to that we've also got another fan at the bottom here which sits above the power supply so three fans on a slim 240mm Rod that should allow for some pretty decent heat dissipation as for the second radiator which is also an xspc tx240 uh slim fans on this one this is where things get a little bit tricky and honestly it's why I haven't done a dual Rod build in the T1 yet as you can see it's an extremely tight fit not only is the clearance between the fans and the GPU barely a few millimeters but there's no mounting bracket to support it at all from all the builds that I've seen online people just suggest to hook up your tubing close the side panel and that's it the radiator just pretty much sits there now mounting the second Rod is actually possible on the other side of the case you know over the motherboard and the power supply they do actually provide a bracket for you to do that but again from the existing builds out there that have it this way the tube routing just looks a lot more difficult and it just doesn't look as good and there are some other problems too with five fans in this system but only two spare headers after I plug in the pump I need to figure out a clean way to get them all hooked up instead of just using a bunch of Y Splitters the top panel as well doesn't fully close with the radiator screws that I've used so I'll need to figure out a solution for that too and we also haven't even started with the tubing or the fittings having said that this is shaping off to be a really extreme build and I honestly can't wait to be using this as my own personal system like 40 90 7800 X 3D liquid cooled in this form factor with custom cables like are you kidding me that is going to be absolutely nuts thank you

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Keywords: formd t1, formd t1 v2, tiny itx build, tiny 4090 build, optimum tech, 7800X3D, AMD Ryzen 7800X3D, custom watercooling ITX

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Length: 10min 57sec (657 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 29 2023