the incognito gaming pc

 - When Crucial reachedout to sponsor a bill, they didn't just want another gaming PC. They wanted somethingspeedy, subtle and stealthy. We said sure, but like, don'tyou guys just make memory and SSDs, guide oranything else we can use? And boy, did they ever delivered. It turns out Crucial has a case, or at least (laughs) they used to. Yes, my friends, this is theultimate stealthy, sleeper PC. And I managed to break it already. - [Colin] Dammit, Linus. (bright upbeat music) - Okay yes, technicallythis is a Micron case. Yes, they made cases wayback in the before four time. And this little piece ofhistory was one of a handful of designs that Micronput out, in the mid 90s. So, seeing as Micron is theparent company of Crucial, it seemed fitting to useone of their old cases for our ultimate stealth sleeper build. It features not one but, two Zip Drives, a CD drive and just a single fan, that's right. Just one fan in the entirechassis for cooling, like man, they reallydidn't need a lot of cooling back then, did they? That's in spite of the rest of the case, having almost no gaps in it for air flow, and the CPU cooler in theoriginal system being passive. This appears to be the originalhardware from the system. What the hell is this? - [Colin] That's AGP and it's got two, I don't know, phone jackson the back, I guess modem? That's definitely not AGP this predates AGP by a significant margin, but those are definitely phone jacks. This is a modem. Why would you shape your modem like this? You need like a more streamlined internet. - [Colin] Yeah, it's a faster speeds. - S3 ViRGE/DX on board, okay. So this is our graphics card. This puppy got a nice little upgrade with that USB, Universal Serial Bus. And then it's also got, oh look at that. Like why does this not have a back? Did you take the back plates off these? - Yes.- That's a weird thing to do, all right. Thanks Colin, I got probably1,000 LAN right there. Maybe just 10, 10 megabit. This thing is so weird. So you got your EDO memory up in here. You got what appears tobe some kind of slotted in motherboard VRM. Why would you slot that inafter the fact, and then - [Colin] They're probably unreliable. - Wow, this is before IDE even had the like things around it. This is, this is old. You know it's an old motherboard, when every trace on itis like easily trackable, to where it goes and lookslike it could be repaired with a steady hand and a magnifying glass. That's some fine attentionto detail 90s Micron, got your logo right-sideup on your cooler. Lots of companies,still can't handle that. What's the (beep) is this thing? - [Colin] I don't know. - Oh wait, it's an 032-UPG. So it seems to be an upgrademodule for a sound card. And they really did meet oldkeyboards right you know, the oldest keyboard isthe goodest keyboard. See, that's why Crucialdoesn't make gaming keyboards 'cause they know they couldnever surpass the excellence they had already achieved. - [Colin] They already picked. - In the mid 90s. RAM though, RAM has gotten faster. So our second focus with this machine after stealth was speed. So Crucial hooked us up with some of their Ballistix MAXRAM, this stuff is rated-- - Oh, don't, no come on, man. I worked so hard onthis, stand over there. - This stuff is rated at up to 5100MHz. (label pops)5100 It's so fast. You're more likely to hit hardware limits with other components in your system. Like the memory controller on the CPU, before you hit the maxspeed on these dimms. And the reason Crucialis able to get this RAM, so darn fast is hopefully pretty obvious when you account for over a quarter of the global manufacturingoutput for memory, you have both the expertise and the volume to both tune the chipsand then picked them from an enormous pool of memory chips. There's just no other way to do it. Furthermore, Crucial beingunder the Micron umbrella is able to go beyond binning. After the cream of the crop is determined, Crucial puts their chipsthrough a secondary process that physically unlocksthe voltage regulation, taking what was alreadyan outstanding candidate, and opening it up to thebleeding edge of performance. That's why their Ballistix RAM can hit those extreme frequencies. It's literally designed andthen tuned to be gaming RAM. Now, when it came totransforming this beast from a clunker to a sleeper, it wasn't a task for the faint of heart. After gently removing all the old hardware and putting it to bed one last time, sweet bedtime story by theway guys, lttstore.com. Colin started figuring out exactly how to fit our array ofmodern parts into the case. Now it is ATX. So this case was made rightaround that transition. So on paper, the whole transition was supposed to be pretty simple. We chose an AMD Ryzen 3900X 12 core CPU, with an ASUS Strix B550-F Gaming. This is a great balance ofperformance, features and costs. Giving us all the expansion we need today and PCI Express Gen4capabilities for future SSD, and who knows, maybegraphics card upgrades? Then for our SSD, we chose the Crucial P5. It uses the TLC 3D NAND witha dynamically sized SLC cache, along with a gig per terabyte of DRAM to maintain performance under heavy loads. It comes with a five-year warranty, uses Microns own controller supports all the usualencryption standards and is available in up totwo terabyte capacities. We actually put two on there I think. - [Colin] Yep.- Yes we did. Now unfortunately, the motherboard and all the stuff attached to it was where the ease of use ended. While the holes for our powersupply did in fact line up, for whatever reason, 90s Micron saw fit to include this weird support bar that interferes with the power switch on our new Sea Sonic 851Watt 80 Plus Titanium unit, which we definitely needed. Because while our old one was in fact ATX, it used, oh, I just stab myself. It used the older 20 pin connector rather than 24 pin connector, not to mention that it was rated for what, 200 Watts?- [Colin] - 270, somewhere around there. - That would get us maybe our RAM and CPU. So we went with this particular unit for it's super high efficiency, which means less waste heat, in the AC to DC conversion process. The cross-brace problem was solved with a little bit ofpercussive maintenance. And now the switch here works as intended. Note though, that we actually turned off the hybrid mode switch. That's because the air flowis so stifled in this case, that we're kind of countingon our power supply to help push some of thehot air from the inside, out the back of the system. Now at the heart and brains figured out what about the muscle? Well, we weren't the onlyones who got kind of bone and aided by Nvidia

suddenannouncement of a graphics card that's hey, actually fasterthan the old one, gotcha! So the machine as it isright now was actually built, with an RG Strix 20 ADTI,which barely squeezes in there leaving what I would callthe absolute minimum amount of space for some semblance of airflow. Like, look at this, comecheck this out Andy. These power cables are actually squished against the side panel. It's that friction that makes it so hard to get the pedal off (laughs). Now, to try to cool it, wewanted to take advantage of the natural tendencyof warm air to rise. So our goal was taken coolair from the front and bottom, and exhaust warm air from the back, where this knock to a PWN fan replaced the old three pin unit. And hopefully it's good. Like I said before we'regonna get some help for the power supply. So that's fine. But the case didn't comewith any intake holes. Fair warning guys, thisis gonna get graphic. ("Rock It Out") (driller whirring)("Rock It Out") - With a bit of adrenaline massaging. The front panel was trimmedopen for more airflow and to allow a single 120 millimeter all-in-one liquid coolerto be mounted that way. At least our poor CPU getsnice fresh air (laughs). And we used a hole saw to add a second, not to an 80 millimeter fan. Now I know that it's not quite factory, but we did allow ourselves to add a couple of 3Dprinted elevating feet so that the new fan canactually draw in air. And then hopefully that'sthe ventilation sorted. So it's definitelystealthy, but is it enough? Did it work? I have to confess Colin,I'm a little skeptical. It really does not looklike enough cooling. Oh my God, I love this vintagePentium with MMX designed for windows 95 stuff we got going on here. See, when Alex builds a sleeper PC, he usually water close it. - That sounds like work.- That's true. He does do seem to do a lot ofunnecessary work, doesn't he? I love that guy. All right, we're firing up. What are we doing? We're firing up some reddead redemption here. - [Colin] Yeah, whatever you want to do. - All right. - [Colin] I think I got a tombright around there as well. - Wow, look at that. Look at that snow falloff that branch there. Cool, all right we're goingto go stand by the fire there. Okay, but seriously, whyis this not loud yet? You're breaking the rules here, Colin. - [Colin] Your hand by the fan though. - You took all the PCIplates out of the back too. - [Colin] Of course. - That's where you got somemore ventilation from you. - [Colin] Pulled out all the stops, man. - You sneaky guy. - [Colin] Yeah, you want to know, you want to know what else is sneaky? - It's toasty, all rightwhat else is sneaky? - There's a little sneaky trick up here. You know, when you're, you'rehungry and you're gaming. There's where there's, youknow, the old man candy? - Got where there's a fridge. How much time did you spend on this? - [Colin] Too much? - The craziest part is thatthis isn't just, you know, a three minute test here. Colin actually stresstested this thing in 3DMark over an extended period without running into thermal throttling issues. Right?- Yup. - Are you sure? - Yeah, I ran the can stress test ran, ran all the way through andpassed with 98%, so wow. - Okay then. But can it run an RTX 3080? Now I saw you brought down the 3090, but surely you weren't hopingto actually put this in there. - It was optimistic like, like real yeah. (both laughing) - Yeah, by the time wegot the 1210 plugged into the top of it, there's no way. Now let's see if this boy will fit. If you want to grab that 12 pin adapter. - Yeah try here. - Oh, you got it, all right. - Okay, we're going to run, the same thing I ran on the 20 ADTI. So the time spy, the long stress test. So this will take, I thinkit's 10 or 15 minutes and it's going to get real hotand we'll be able to see it. I'm actually expecting this to be better because the new cards are more efficient and the exhaust that's goingto be coming out of the back that will hopefully help me. - [Andy] What was the FPS on 2080 Ti? - I think it was around 6570. So we're pulling over 107 right now. You hear the fans ramping up. The amount of heat thisthing is thrown out the back is kind of astonishing. We passed. And if we look at the actualdata, our CPU hit a peak of 70 degrees and our GPU rode 74degrees, the whole way there. There's the odd blip, but like97 1/2% I'll call it good. - No way, I can't believe that worked like it's significantlymore power than the 2080 Ti. But that goes to show youthe strength of Nvidia's new, like flow through cooler, right? Because that's exactly howthey designed it, right? To have cool air comingin from the bottom front. I mean, that's the ATX standard obviously, but like to assist that natural convection and like, this is the samething we saw in our review, where even though it draws more power, it actually managed betteroverall system cooling. I'm absolutely freaking loving it. Just like I'm lovingtelling you one more time. Thanks to Crucial forsponsoring this video. Go check out their high-speedmemory and storage products at the link in the video description. And if you guys enjoyed this video and you're looking for one ofour other sleeper machines, hey, we've got a whole playlist, absolutely chock full of them. So don't miss it. (soft upbeat music)