**The iBuyPower Revolt 2: A Closer Look at Its Components and Design**

The iBuyPower Revolt 2 is a unique system that has generated interest among enthusiasts and reviewers alike. In this article, we'll take a closer look at its components and design, exploring the various aspects of this custom-built machine.

**Hardware Overview**

The iBuyPower Revolt 2 is equipped with three connectors: USB for software control, a three-pin connector for the LED strip, and a DC plug for power. While these connectors provide access to the system's hardware, they don't reveal much about the internal components themselves. The only notable feature on this side of the case is the dual 120mm radiators that are responsible for the system's cool and quiet operation. These radiators play a crucial role in dissipating heat from the system, allowing it to operate at stable temperatures.

**Accessing the SSD Mount**

One of the most interesting features of the Revolt 2 is its SSD mount, which can accommodate up to two drives in the drive sled. The SSDs are pre-wired like a backplane, making it easy to mount and connect them. In this case, the system comes equipped with a single 240GB data SSD, providing ample storage for the user's operating system, programs, and data.

**The Second Side Panel**

When you remove the second side panel of the Revolt 2, you'll gain access to most of its internal components. You'll see the power supply, video card, and hard drive, all neatly arranged in a compact space. The power supply is an RM750 model with a hybrid fan mode, which may seem like overkill for this system given its size and configuration.

**The Power Supply**

The choice of power supply has raised eyebrows among reviewers and enthusiasts alike. With 750 watts of power available, it's clear that the designers wanted to ensure that the system had ample headroom to handle demanding components. However, some argue that a more efficient design would be better, especially considering the fan management in this particular model.

**The Video Card**

One of the most exciting aspects of the Revolt 2 is its video card configuration. The system comes equipped with an EVGA GTX 980 Ti, which is paired with a hybrid air and water cooler. This setup allows for both air and liquid cooling, creating a unique and efficient way to manage heat dissipation.

**The Hard Drive Mount**

The hard drive mount in the front of the case houses a single 1TB WD Blue hard drive. While this may seem like a relatively modest storage capacity compared to some other systems on the market, it's worth noting that the Revolt 2 is designed for more than just raw processing power – it's also meant to be quiet and efficient.

**The Cooling System**

The cooling system in the Revolt 2 is truly impressive. The Corsair H55 CPU cooler features some of the most creative tubing management we've ever seen, with tubes zip-tied into the nooks and crannies around the CPU socket before being crammed under the power supply bracket. Despite its innovative design, the cooler seems to have eliminated kinks in the tubing, ensuring smooth operation.

**The Motherboard**

The motherboard is an MSI Gaming model that supports compatibility for Wi-Fi, M.2 SSDs, and other peripherals. The system also comes equipped with a quad-core Intel Core i7 6700K processor, which is top-of-the-line on the consumer end of Intel's lineup. This combination of hardware provides exceptional performance and flexibility for users.

**Conclusion**

In this article, we've taken a closer look at the iBuyPower Revolt 2, exploring its various components and design choices. From the power supply to the video card, hard drive mount, and cooling system, each aspect of this custom-built machine has been carefully considered to create a unique and efficient system that's both quiet and powerful. Whether you're an enthusiast or just looking for a reliable PC, the Revolt 2 is definitely worth considering.

**What's Next?**

If this article was enjoyable for you, be sure to check out our next video, where we'll be tearing apart the largest mouse pad we've ever seen – it's huge!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enokay so normally when someone comes to us with an idea for a sponsored video about a computer it involves building one up demonstrating the purpose that we built it foreign bippity boppity out comes the video we've pretty much got that down to a science at this point with ibuypower life wasn't really that simple the computer is already built it's stress tested and it's boxed up before we ever get our hands on it so we figured well let's just do the whole thing in reverse welcome to the first ever unbuild log where we take apart the machine rather than putting it together featuring the i buy power revolt 2. drop a like on this video if you guys like this concept and you want to see more of it so it starts then with software i buy power gets full marks for including zero bloat i mean not even a microsoft office trial with the revolt too with two exceptions everything in the ad remove programs menu is a legitimate utility for the hardware in the system or it was installed by me i would personally remove the msi registration utility but the lighting controller software the other one of the two gets to stay since it's very lightweight and enables a variety of cool effects from solid colors to breathing to rainbow two off if you're into the whole simplicity thing performance wise like with any custom built system since you could put a celeron and a gt210 in there if you really wanted to you'll get exactly what you pay for as long as the system builder has effectively managed the thermals of the machine and i buy power seems to have done just that in spite of the revolt 2's diminutive size our cpu never cleared about 65 degrees on the hottest core in ida 64 and our gpu stuck under 50 degrees with unigine having extreme looping all of this while staying exceptionally quiet great results here so let's start tearing her apart then shall we i buy power didn't actually explain what the deal with the peripherals was so apparently sometimes it comes with some and sometimes not but sometimes others the mouse is frankly terrible so i wouldn't worry too much about that but the mouse pad and the mechanical keyboard that they threw in would be nice to have included with the system because they're not too shabby side panel disassembly was pretty straight forward there's two thumb screws and it pops right off an interesting note here though is that you can actually remove the plastic fascia piece revealing actually kind of a slick looking metal panel with what looks like a spot for a window perhaps another like slimmed down version coming down the line next i undid the cable management for the rgb lighting controller it's got three connectors usb for that software control i showed you before a three pin for the led strip and a dc plug for power then there's really not much else that we can access from this side although we do get a look at the dual 120 millimeter radiators that are responsible for that cool quiet operation the ssd mount in the front is accessed by simply lifting the giant window in the front then it can actually be removed with a single thumb screw the sata ports are pre-wired up kind of like a back plane and you can mount up to two ssds in the drive sled then just pop them in very very nice our machine is equipped with a single 240 gig a data ssd the second side panel reveals well most of the rest of the inside so you got the power supply the video card and the hard drive the power supply is a bit of an odd choice to me the rm 750 is a 750 watt power supply so kind of overkill for a system like this although consumers think they need ginormous power supplies for their system so i can't put too much of the blame on i buy power for obliging them but the bigger question mark for me with this one is why choose a power supply with a hybrid fan mode since you're relying on that fan to cool the vrm area of the motherboard and the system memory so i'd recommend that i buy power stick with power supplies that keep their fan engaged even if at a very low rpm to eliminate a potential hot spot there the video card choice reveals why those temperatures were so freaking awesome this is a 2 9 sort of configuration and it's got an evga gtx 980 ti with a hybrid air and water cooler that means fresh air is drawn through the bottom of the case through that radiator then reused again through the air cooler before being exhausted out the top rear of the chassis and you can argue till you're blue in the face about reusing air to cool something twice but the proof is in the pudding and that result is some pretty tasty pudding the hard drive mount in the front contains a one terabyte three and a half inch wd blue but you could put in anything you want um imo boot ssd and mass storage three and a half inch hard drive is still the way to go but that may change in the next couple of years though thankfully because of the dual ssd mounts on the front i buy power is leaving room in the future for mass storage ssds to go along with your boot ssd something that mushkin wants to happen sooner rather than later with that four terabyte drive they announced for 500 bucks with the power supply removed we get a good look at the rest of the guts here itx boards are pretty much universally limited to two dimm slots and ours is equipped with 16 gigs of adata ddr4 2400 megahertz but thanks to ddr4's already improved ram density consumer grade 16 gig sticks are available giving the revolt to up to 32 gigs of capacity for cpu cooling it's handled by a corsair h55 that has actually some of the most creative tubing management that i think i've ever seen the tubes are zip tied into the nooks and crannies around the cpu socket then crammed under the power supply bracket in a way that i would have thought would make it kink but didn't end up doing so leading us finally to the cpu and motherboard so that chip under the h55 cooler is an intel core i7 6700k skylake quad core with hyper threading that's top of the line on the consumer end of intel's lineup and then our motherboard is an msi gaming model that equips our machine with compatibility for wi-fi m.2 ssds and of course all the hardware inside which i guess kind of concludes our first ever unbilled log with the i buy power revolt 2. i hope it was as interesting for you guys as it was for me to tear this baby apart and see exactly how they handled all the cooling and cable management of this unique little system that i first covered a month ago at ces 2016. so thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if it was awesome get subscribed the check mark check mark this way hit that like button or even consider supporting us directly by using our affiliate code to shop at amazon instructions for which are up there buying a cool shirt like this one or with a direct monthly contribution through our community forum now that you're done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering what should i watch next so click that little button in the top right corner to check out holy episode 2 where i check out the largest mouse pad i've ever seen seriously it's like as big as this system is small it's hugeokay so normally when someone comes to us with an idea for a sponsored video about a computer it involves building one up demonstrating the purpose that we built it foreign bippity boppity out comes the video we've pretty much got that down to a science at this point with ibuypower life wasn't really that simple the computer is already built it's stress tested and it's boxed up before we ever get our hands on it so we figured well let's just do the whole thing in reverse welcome to the first ever unbuild log where we take apart the machine rather than putting it together featuring the i buy power revolt 2. drop a like on this video if you guys like this concept and you want to see more of it so it starts then with software i buy power gets full marks for including zero bloat i mean not even a microsoft office trial with the revolt too with two exceptions everything in the ad remove programs menu is a legitimate utility for the hardware in the system or it was installed by me i would personally remove the msi registration utility but the lighting controller software the other one of the two gets to stay since it's very lightweight and enables a variety of cool effects from solid colors to breathing to rainbow two off if you're into the whole simplicity thing performance wise like with any custom built system since you could put a celeron and a gt210 in there if you really wanted to you'll get exactly what you pay for as long as the system builder has effectively managed the thermals of the machine and i buy power seems to have done just that in spite of the revolt 2's diminutive size our cpu never cleared about 65 degrees on the hottest core in ida 64 and our gpu stuck under 50 degrees with unigine having extreme looping all of this while staying exceptionally quiet great results here so let's start tearing her apart then shall we i buy power didn't actually explain what the deal with the peripherals was so apparently sometimes it comes with some and sometimes not but sometimes others the mouse is frankly terrible so i wouldn't worry too much about that but the mouse pad and the mechanical keyboard that they threw in would be nice to have included with the system because they're not too shabby side panel disassembly was pretty straight forward there's two thumb screws and it pops right off an interesting note here though is that you can actually remove the plastic fascia piece revealing actually kind of a slick looking metal panel with what looks like a spot for a window perhaps another like slimmed down version coming down the line next i undid the cable management for the rgb lighting controller it's got three connectors usb for that software control i showed you before a three pin for the led strip and a dc plug for power then there's really not much else that we can access from this side although we do get a look at the dual 120 millimeter radiators that are responsible for that cool quiet operation the ssd mount in the front is accessed by simply lifting the giant window in the front then it can actually be removed with a single thumb screw the sata ports are pre-wired up kind of like a back plane and you can mount up to two ssds in the drive sled then just pop them in very very nice our machine is equipped with a single 240 gig a data ssd the second side panel reveals well most of the rest of the inside so you got the power supply the video card and the hard drive the power supply is a bit of an odd choice to me the rm 750 is a 750 watt power supply so kind of overkill for a system like this although consumers think they need ginormous power supplies for their system so i can't put too much of the blame on i buy power for obliging them but the bigger question mark for me with this one is why choose a power supply with a hybrid fan mode since you're relying on that fan to cool the vrm area of the motherboard and the system memory so i'd recommend that i buy power stick with power supplies that keep their fan engaged even if at a very low rpm to eliminate a potential hot spot there the video card choice reveals why those temperatures were so freaking awesome this is a 2 9 sort of configuration and it's got an evga gtx 980 ti with a hybrid air and water cooler that means fresh air is drawn through the bottom of the case through that radiator then reused again through the air cooler before being exhausted out the top rear of the chassis and you can argue till you're blue in the face about reusing air to cool something twice but the proof is in the pudding and that result is some pretty tasty pudding the hard drive mount in the front contains a one terabyte three and a half inch wd blue but you could put in anything you want um imo boot ssd and mass storage three and a half inch hard drive is still the way to go but that may change in the next couple of years though thankfully because of the dual ssd mounts on the front i buy power is leaving room in the future for mass storage ssds to go along with your boot ssd something that mushkin wants to happen sooner rather than later with that four terabyte drive they announced for 500 bucks with the power supply removed we get a good look at the rest of the guts here itx boards are pretty much universally limited to two dimm slots and ours is equipped with 16 gigs of adata ddr4 2400 megahertz but thanks to ddr4's already improved ram density consumer grade 16 gig sticks are available giving the revolt to up to 32 gigs of capacity for cpu cooling it's handled by a corsair h55 that has actually some of the most creative tubing management that i think i've ever seen the tubes are zip tied into the nooks and crannies around the cpu socket then crammed under the power supply bracket in a way that i would have thought would make it kink but didn't end up doing so leading us finally to the cpu and motherboard so that chip under the h55 cooler is an intel core i7 6700k skylake quad core with hyper threading that's top of the line on the consumer end of intel's lineup and then our motherboard is an msi gaming model that equips our machine with compatibility for wi-fi m.2 ssds and of course all the hardware inside which i guess kind of concludes our first ever unbilled log with the i buy power revolt 2. i hope it was as interesting for you guys as it was for me to tear this baby apart and see exactly how they handled all the cooling and cable management of this unique little system that i first covered a month ago at ces 2016. so thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if it was awesome get subscribed the check mark check mark this way hit that like button or even consider supporting us directly by using our affiliate code to shop at amazon instructions for which are up there buying a cool shirt like this one or with a direct monthly contribution through our community forum now that you're done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering what should i watch next so click that little button in the top right corner to check out holy episode 2 where i check out the largest mouse pad i've ever seen seriously it's like as big as this system is small it's huge\n"