The Pocket Rocket PC: A Unique Cooling Setup

The PC builder has opted for what they call a "pocket rocket" cooling setup, which is essentially a compact and efficient cooling system that can handle high temperatures. To test this unique setup, we'll be applying pressure to the side panels of the case before finishing up the wiring on the other side.

To get started with testing the PC's performance, we've put together a montage of different games and applications that showcase its capabilities at 1080p and 1440p resolutions. This will give us an idea of how well the system performs in various scenarios.

First, let's take a look at the benchmark results for this unique cooling setup. We've tested out several popular games, including GTA V, Watchdogs Legion, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Apex Legends, and Fortnite.

In GTA V, we achieved 144 fps on average at 1080p high settings, with consistent frame rates that never dropped below 89 fps. At 1440p high, we got around 112 fps on average, which is still quite impressive. Watchdogs Legion performed well at 1440p high with DLSS enabled and ray tracing disabled, delivering over 100 fps on average, while turning ray tracing on dropped us down to 72 fps.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War was another positive story, with 153 fps on average at 1080p high, although our results were slightly lower in the lower percentile ranges. Apex Legends delivered excellent performance at 1440p high, yielding 150 frames per second on average. Fortnite, on the other hand, performed admirably at 1080p competitive settings, delivering 285 frames per second.

Next up is Cyberpunk 2077, a game that's notoriously difficult to run smoothly due to poor optimization. Despite this, our results were still quite good, with 90 fps on average at 1440p medium settings and dropping down to 59 fps when ray tracing was enabled.

Finally, we tested out Warzone, which has become increasingly popular recently. At 1440p high with DLSS enabled, we achieved 119 fps on average, which is a great result for this type of game.

The Pocket Rocket PC: A Performance Review

If you're looking for a PC that can handle demanding games at high resolutions and frame rates, the Pocket Rocket setup might be worth considering. With its efficient cooling system and robust hardware configuration, it's capable of delivering impressive performance in popular titles like GTA V, Watchdogs Legion, and Apex Legends.

However, it's worth noting that this setup may not be suitable for every game or application. Cyberpunk 2077, for example, is notoriously difficult to run smoothly due to poor optimization. In these cases, the system may not perform as well as expected.

Overall, the Pocket Rocket PC is a unique and impressive cooling setup that can deliver excellent performance in popular titles. If you're looking for a compact and efficient cooling solution that can handle high temperatures, this might be worth considering.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat is up guys welcome back to another geeker video and today i'm going to be building an awesome small form factor gaming pc inside of a brand new case from liam lee i've had a bit of a play around with this over the last couple of weeks and honestly i've kind of fallen in love so i've gone ahead and picked up an rtx 3060 ti some absolutely baller af memory and a 240ml cooler in order to put together one hell of a build in this video i'm going to run you through all of the part choices in detail the build process from start right through to finish before booting our system up to see exactly how well it performs in the biggest titles out there let's dive into it though after a quick ad from today's video sponsor the latest range of netgear nighthawk routers are now available at ebuya with support for the latest wi-fi 6 tech which provides incredible network speeds alongside powerful processing and great signal strength it's awesome for staying online with low latency all of the time i've taken a look at the ax6 ax12 and xr1000 over on the ebuya youtube channel i've been super impressed strong signal strength and the legendary doomer os on selected routers make them perfect for gamers out there learn more at the video in the card section now and the links to ebuyer at the top of the description below we're going to kick things off as ever by installing the cpu ram and ssd into the motherboard this is often referred to as building up your motherboard assembly this essentially means doing as much as you can before you get the case involved as this is a much easier way of doing things for the motherboard i've gone ahead and picked up msi's mpg b550i gaming edge wi-fi it's a little bit of a mouthful but it has all the features we could want including wi-fi support for the latest gm4 nvme ssd drives and of course support for our ryzen 5000 cpu to give you an idea just how small this thing is it's basically the size of my head which compared to an atx board is tiny i'll be coupling this up with an amd ryzen 5 5600 x one of the greatest cpus on the market right now for gamers out there it's pretty great value performs really well and won't bottleneck even up to an rtx 3070 locate the little golden triangle on the corner of your processor and line this up with the top left-hand corner of your cpu socket all you then need to do is just pull up the arm on the processor socket drop the cpu into place no fault or pressure is required and pop the arm back down we can then move on to the ram or the memory which for us today is g skills trident z royal elite now this is absolutely overkill in terms of ram for this system and if you want to save a bit of cash you could go for something cheaper but i think it will look awesome in this league league q58 itx chassis and for a 16 gig or 32 gig kit you're actually not going to pay all that much more which is always nice to see we use this in a recent kind of gold and silver build which you can find on the channel and it looked absolutely incredible like out of this world and with that in we can move on to the last component of our motherboard assembly which is of course the storage now this board does support super fast gen 4 ssds like samsung's own 980 pro but this ssd 980 non-pro is still a great option with some decent speeds and it's a good piece cheaper it installs underneath the heatsink on the motherboard which also cobbles up as a little fan little cooler to keep your drive nice and chilly go ahead and take this off whack the drive into place and return it down it literally is as simple as that and once we've done that we are ready for our case today now this was basically the impetus the reasoning behind this whole build in the first place it is liam lee's brand new q58 they very kindly sent me an email ages ago offering to send this out and after a bit of toying about i've been really impressed it's got these cool glass and mesh panels on either side support full super long gpus which we're going to push to the absolute limit with a gaming x trio card and it has a really nice form factor it is a little cutesy little thing i mean it's absolutely tiny but also looks super sleek and it's typical to lee lee's design language now i'm gonna go ahead and just take off the top panels and both our side panels the side panels are actually in two separate pieces so you've got the glass portion at the top and then the mesh portion at the bottom which provides the perfect balance between airflow temperatures and aesthetics once we've gone ahead and taken off the top and side panels you'll be able to understand the layout of the case that little bit better so give me two minutes and i'll be right back with you we've got room over on the left hand side for an sfx power supply to the right of that is your mini itx motherboard you've then got room for a 240mm radiator at the top of the chassis while spinning it round gives you a whole side for your massive gpus i'll pop exact specs as far as clearance go on your screen now but one of the huge bonuses of this case is the fact it's triple slot now i know most gpus nowadays only use two of the lanes but they often take up three once inside of the case so having three lanes means you've definitely got enough width shall we say for the fattest of gpus combined with the length we should be good to go as far as airflow clearance all that good stuff and your riser comes included as standard either pcie gen 3 or gen 4 depending on the case that you pick up i'd go for the gen 4 version personally just to future-proof yourself and save any hassle later we need to go ahead and remove as well this little protective plate on the top i'm not actually sure what this is for maybe like an ssd or watercolor or something like that in order to make way for the 240mm radiator before we do that though we can screw the motherboard in and the motherboard actually goes in on the other side of the case just here with the i o poking out of the rear the board of course does need to go upside down as well to make sure our riser cable can reach quite nicely but otherwise it's a simple process screw it in as you normally would and then we're good to go moving on to the cooler and the next component today i've picked up msi's core liquid mag240r now for a system like this you could get away with sticking with the amd stock cool app after all there's enough airflow for it but in a recent video we looked at the differences between a good caller and a cheaper cooler given how small the case is we haven't got room for a large tower air cooler and any solution that will fit a won't be ideal b won't look very good and c will probably be a bit expensive so let's leverage the 240 mil radiator mount it could be a little bit tight especially with our fans on here but i guess there's only one way to find out this cooler actually leverages the stock included amd plastic brackets that come pre-installed on the motherboard for mounting the callout as you'll see in just a second i really like msi's range of coolers actually these were the coolers we used for our testing back in that video i just mentioned with rgb fans a nice water block design and some pretty flexible tubes they work well plus the water block actually isn't too massive which for us is important you can see here if you just look carefully at the water block we've got these two d-shaped brackets these are what we're going to pop over the plastic mounting hardware that comes pre-installed in the case once you've done this it's a simple case of screwing the radiator in popping those fans on and then we're pretty much good to go as far as cooling is concerned for this build the cpu corner is often the most complicated part take it slow and don't be afraid to refer to the instruction manual if you get just a little bit confused i appreciate that right now the build looks just a bit of a mess really but that's often the case with an itx system it's a more complicated build process and if you're a first time builder or you want an easy experience a small form factor case might not be the one for you the next component we need to install though is the power supply this right here is cooler masters v850 it's an sfx unit meaning it's small form factor and will fit inside the case this chassis does include a bracket for bigger power supply but if you use that you lose the 240mm radiator mount and have to drop down to 120 something i personally would not recommend you do with that being said i probably should have installed the power supply before putting the radiator in so let's see if there's a way of taking out this power supply bracket to pop in the psu out the case and then wire up some of our cables in terms of the cables and wiring we need for this system we've got a motherboard power connector and a cpu power cable we'll deal with the gpu power side of things a little bit later all in all though this is a great power supply that ticks all the boxes for the build today oh my goodness that was a bit of a squeeze but it did fit in absolutely no problem so props to leon lee for that one and making the case super modular and super kind of tool friendly that moves us on to the last component today the graphics card now theoretically you could actually spinning the case around fit a pretty large 3080 maybe even certain 1390s in here especially a founder's edition 3080 actually i thought they would go a bit more modest today this case comes in at a pretty friendly price point and i thought actually why not make a build people can actually afford as opposed to something so ridiculous you'll never be able to buy it the 30 60 ti though is an incredible gpu it outpaces the 2070 and 2070 super from last generation by a really really big margin and performs well at 1080 and 1440p as you'll see from the benchmarks later if you'd like a bit of a spoiler on your screen in just a second will be a summary of all the numbers we were able to gather as i say hold tight for the dedicated benchmark section where we'll be looking at this in much more detail i wanted to push this case though to its size limits with a gaming x trio card from msi which is technically a couple of meters over the rated why did i do that that was so why did i just throw that on the floor while i was speaking telling just over the rated clearance of this case however as you know here on the geekbox channel we like to push things to the limit we like to break boundaries and push through barriers and that could be like a corporate video here at geeky media we break barriers we push down walls we open doors and we install graphics cards in slots that are just too small you can see here that it should in theory just about fit however it's going to be incredibly tight the only thing i'm slightly worried about is the slight overhang of the gpu here the plastic shroud just kind of gets very slightly in the way but a little birdie tells me that it might just fit with a bit of creativity so let's go ahead and remove the rear two pci panels the ones on the left hand side then get that gpu hopefully just about into place and here we go so let's feed it through the rear pcie lanes first of all oh my goodness that is ridiculous and it does just about fit of course with the mesh side panel as well it will just nicely hold the card into place and we haven't got to worry about undue strain or anything like that in fact let's whack the side panels on this side before finishing up the wiring on the other side and seeing how well the system performs with of course detailed temperature metrics for this really unique cooling setup we've actually opted to go for what a little pocket rocket let's go ahead and take a look at how good this system looks when it's all powered up and then of course how well it performs in the biggest titles in the benchmark section in a moment first though roll that montage let's now go and take a look at just how well this pocket rocket of a pc performs running through our usual benchmark suite here on the geeker channel and if there's any games you'd like to see us include that aren't currently there let us know and we'll definitely add the most popular ones on your screen now though is a kind of a summary of all the games we tested out we'll be taking a closer look at most of these games in a moment so don't go anywhere but this should give you a nice kind of overall bird's eye view of the performance you're able to expect from this system at 1080 and 1440p the first of our focus titles is gta 5. here at 1080p high settings we managed to achieve 144 fps on average our 1440p numbers were also good around 12 fps lower but 1080p is where we're really aiming for with this system the frame rates were great and we measured these as usual with both nvidia's frame view and msi afterburners river tuna the next game on the list today is watchdogs legion here we tested at 1440p high settings with dlss enabled and ray tracing disabled to begin with we managed to achieve just over 100 fps on average with consistent frame rates that never really dropped below at the 89 fps mark turning ray tracing on and keeping all of our other settings the same did drop us down just a smidge to 72 frames per second but still gave us well in excess of 60 fps with ray tracing on which is a really impressive result call of duty's black ops cold war at 1080p high with dlss on was another positive story this is of course the big zombies game that everyone's playing right now perhaps more than warzone at the moment here we've got 153 fps on average with 127 and 97 for the 90 and 99 percent our results definitely talk a little bit of a hit on the lower end but that's because uh cold war is a bit inconsistent when it comes to frame rate throughout the duration of the title we also tested out warzone but we'll come back to that later because first apex legends a much more popular game at the moment 1440p high yielded 150 frames per second on average with more consistent 90 and 99th percentile results in this title thankfully if framerate is what you're after though valrant is the game for you 1440p high gave us 288 frames per second and of course if you were gaming at 1080p not high settings your frame rate would climb even further visually though the game looked great and the frame rate was absolutely superb cyberpunk 2077 is the next title today in a game i've deliberated taken off this list due to how inconsistent some of the performance figures are how tricky it is to run it's just a poorly optimized title but it does give you a worst case scenario every game you play on this machine is going to perform better than cyberpunk so to have this as kind of a good benchmark it's actually quite useful at 1440p medium settings with dlss on we got 90 frames per second while turning ray tracing on dropped us down to 59. so 90 fps with no ray tracing is pretty good and nearly 60 fps with ray tracing is also not too shabby fortnite then is the next total today and as ever we tested this at 1080p competitive settings tune everything down to low set your render distance to fire and have a great old time with 285 frames per second wow the game actually looks really impressive as well i think at 1080p competitive settings despite tuning lots of the visual fidelity options down to low finally then the last game today is a little bit of call of duty's warzone it's fallen out of favor just a bit recently but it's still pretty popular and at 1440p high with dlss enabled we got 119 fps on average so some really great results from this little build inside lee lee's q58 if you enjoyed today's video give it a big old lie rating make sure to get subscribed so you never miss another geeker video in your entire life and as always thanks for tuning in and we'll see you in the next onewhat is up guys welcome back to another geeker video and today i'm going to be building an awesome small form factor gaming pc inside of a brand new case from liam lee i've had a bit of a play around with this over the last couple of weeks and honestly i've kind of fallen in love so i've gone ahead and picked up an rtx 3060 ti some absolutely baller af memory and a 240ml cooler in order to put together one hell of a build in this video i'm going to run you through all of the part choices in detail the build process from start right through to finish before booting our system up to see exactly how well it performs in the biggest titles out there let's dive into it though after a quick ad from today's video sponsor the latest range of netgear nighthawk routers are now available at ebuya with support for the latest wi-fi 6 tech which provides incredible network speeds alongside powerful processing and great signal strength it's awesome for staying online with low latency all of the time i've taken a look at the ax6 ax12 and xr1000 over on the ebuya youtube channel i've been super impressed strong signal strength and the legendary doomer os on selected routers make them perfect for gamers out there learn more at the video in the card section now and the links to ebuyer at the top of the description below we're going to kick things off as ever by installing the cpu ram and ssd into the motherboard this is often referred to as building up your motherboard assembly this essentially means doing as much as you can before you get the case involved as this is a much easier way of doing things for the motherboard i've gone ahead and picked up msi's mpg b550i gaming edge wi-fi it's a little bit of a mouthful but it has all the features we could want including wi-fi support for the latest gm4 nvme ssd drives and of course support for our ryzen 5000 cpu to give you an idea just how small this thing is it's basically the size of my head which compared to an atx board is tiny i'll be coupling this up with an amd ryzen 5 5600 x one of the greatest cpus on the market right now for gamers out there it's pretty great value performs really well and won't bottleneck even up to an rtx 3070 locate the little golden triangle on the corner of your processor and line this up with the top left-hand corner of your cpu socket all you then need to do is just pull up the arm on the processor socket drop the cpu into place no fault or pressure is required and pop the arm back down we can then move on to the ram or the memory which for us today is g skills trident z royal elite now this is absolutely overkill in terms of ram for this system and if you want to save a bit of cash you could go for something cheaper but i think it will look awesome in this league league q58 itx chassis and for a 16 gig or 32 gig kit you're actually not going to pay all that much more which is always nice to see we use this in a recent kind of gold and silver build which you can find on the channel and it looked absolutely incredible like out of this world and with that in we can move on to the last component of our motherboard assembly which is of course the storage now this board does support super fast gen 4 ssds like samsung's own 980 pro but this ssd 980 non-pro is still a great option with some decent speeds and it's a good piece cheaper it installs underneath the heatsink on the motherboard which also cobbles up as a little fan little cooler to keep your drive nice and chilly go ahead and take this off whack the drive into place and return it down it literally is as simple as that and once we've done that we are ready for our case today now this was basically the impetus the reasoning behind this whole build in the first place it is liam lee's brand new q58 they very kindly sent me an email ages ago offering to send this out and after a bit of toying about i've been really impressed it's got these cool glass and mesh panels on either side support full super long gpus which we're going to push to the absolute limit with a gaming x trio card and it has a really nice form factor it is a little cutesy little thing i mean it's absolutely tiny but also looks super sleek and it's typical to lee lee's design language now i'm gonna go ahead and just take off the top panels and both our side panels the side panels are actually in two separate pieces so you've got the glass portion at the top and then the mesh portion at the bottom which provides the perfect balance between airflow temperatures and aesthetics once we've gone ahead and taken off the top and side panels you'll be able to understand the layout of the case that little bit better so give me two minutes and i'll be right back with you we've got room over on the left hand side for an sfx power supply to the right of that is your mini itx motherboard you've then got room for a 240mm radiator at the top of the chassis while spinning it round gives you a whole side for your massive gpus i'll pop exact specs as far as clearance go on your screen now but one of the huge bonuses of this case is the fact it's triple slot now i know most gpus nowadays only use two of the lanes but they often take up three once inside of the case so having three lanes means you've definitely got enough width shall we say for the fattest of gpus combined with the length we should be good to go as far as airflow clearance all that good stuff and your riser comes included as standard either pcie gen 3 or gen 4 depending on the case that you pick up i'd go for the gen 4 version personally just to future-proof yourself and save any hassle later we need to go ahead and remove as well this little protective plate on the top i'm not actually sure what this is for maybe like an ssd or watercolor or something like that in order to make way for the 240mm radiator before we do that though we can screw the motherboard in and the motherboard actually goes in on the other side of the case just here with the i o poking out of the rear the board of course does need to go upside down as well to make sure our riser cable can reach quite nicely but otherwise it's a simple process screw it in as you normally would and then we're good to go moving on to the cooler and the next component today i've picked up msi's core liquid mag240r now for a system like this you could get away with sticking with the amd stock cool app after all there's enough airflow for it but in a recent video we looked at the differences between a good caller and a cheaper cooler given how small the case is we haven't got room for a large tower air cooler and any solution that will fit a won't be ideal b won't look very good and c will probably be a bit expensive so let's leverage the 240 mil radiator mount it could be a little bit tight especially with our fans on here but i guess there's only one way to find out this cooler actually leverages the stock included amd plastic brackets that come pre-installed on the motherboard for mounting the callout as you'll see in just a second i really like msi's range of coolers actually these were the coolers we used for our testing back in that video i just mentioned with rgb fans a nice water block design and some pretty flexible tubes they work well plus the water block actually isn't too massive which for us is important you can see here if you just look carefully at the water block we've got these two d-shaped brackets these are what we're going to pop over the plastic mounting hardware that comes pre-installed in the case once you've done this it's a simple case of screwing the radiator in popping those fans on and then we're pretty much good to go as far as cooling is concerned for this build the cpu corner is often the most complicated part take it slow and don't be afraid to refer to the instruction manual if you get just a little bit confused i appreciate that right now the build looks just a bit of a mess really but that's often the case with an itx system it's a more complicated build process and if you're a first time builder or you want an easy experience a small form factor case might not be the one for you the next component we need to install though is the power supply this right here is cooler masters v850 it's an sfx unit meaning it's small form factor and will fit inside the case this chassis does include a bracket for bigger power supply but if you use that you lose the 240mm radiator mount and have to drop down to 120 something i personally would not recommend you do with that being said i probably should have installed the power supply before putting the radiator in so let's see if there's a way of taking out this power supply bracket to pop in the psu out the case and then wire up some of our cables in terms of the cables and wiring we need for this system we've got a motherboard power connector and a cpu power cable we'll deal with the gpu power side of things a little bit later all in all though this is a great power supply that ticks all the boxes for the build today oh my goodness that was a bit of a squeeze but it did fit in absolutely no problem so props to leon lee for that one and making the case super modular and super kind of tool friendly that moves us on to the last component today the graphics card now theoretically you could actually spinning the case around fit a pretty large 3080 maybe even certain 1390s in here especially a founder's edition 3080 actually i thought they would go a bit more modest today this case comes in at a pretty friendly price point and i thought actually why not make a build people can actually afford as opposed to something so ridiculous you'll never be able to buy it the 30 60 ti though is an incredible gpu it outpaces the 2070 and 2070 super from last generation by a really really big margin and performs well at 1080 and 1440p as you'll see from the benchmarks later if you'd like a bit of a spoiler on your screen in just a second will be a summary of all the numbers we were able to gather as i say hold tight for the dedicated benchmark section where we'll be looking at this in much more detail i wanted to push this case though to its size limits with a gaming x trio card from msi which is technically a couple of meters over the rated why did i do that that was so why did i just throw that on the floor while i was speaking telling just over the rated clearance of this case however as you know here on the geekbox channel we like to push things to the limit we like to break boundaries and push through barriers and that could be like a corporate video here at geeky media we break barriers we push down walls we open doors and we install graphics cards in slots that are just too small you can see here that it should in theory just about fit however it's going to be incredibly tight the only thing i'm slightly worried about is the slight overhang of the gpu here the plastic shroud just kind of gets very slightly in the way but a little birdie tells me that it might just fit with a bit of creativity so let's go ahead and remove the rear two pci panels the ones on the left hand side then get that gpu hopefully just about into place and here we go so let's feed it through the rear pcie lanes first of all oh my goodness that is ridiculous and it does just about fit of course with the mesh side panel as well it will just nicely hold the card into place and we haven't got to worry about undue strain or anything like that in fact let's whack the side panels on this side before finishing up the wiring on the other side and seeing how well the system performs with of course detailed temperature metrics for this really unique cooling setup we've actually opted to go for what a little pocket rocket let's go ahead and take a look at how good this system looks when it's all powered up and then of course how well it performs in the biggest titles in the benchmark section in a moment first though roll that montage let's now go and take a look at just how well this pocket rocket of a pc performs running through our usual benchmark suite here on the geeker channel and if there's any games you'd like to see us include that aren't currently there let us know and we'll definitely add the most popular ones on your screen now though is a kind of a summary of all the games we tested out we'll be taking a closer look at most of these games in a moment so don't go anywhere but this should give you a nice kind of overall bird's eye view of the performance you're able to expect from this system at 1080 and 1440p the first of our focus titles is gta 5. here at 1080p high settings we managed to achieve 144 fps on average our 1440p numbers were also good around 12 fps lower but 1080p is where we're really aiming for with this system the frame rates were great and we measured these as usual with both nvidia's frame view and msi afterburners river tuna the next game on the list today is watchdogs legion here we tested at 1440p high settings with dlss enabled and ray tracing disabled to begin with we managed to achieve just over 100 fps on average with consistent frame rates that never really dropped below at the 89 fps mark turning ray tracing on and keeping all of our other settings the same did drop us down just a smidge to 72 frames per second but still gave us well in excess of 60 fps with ray tracing on which is a really impressive result call of duty's black ops cold war at 1080p high with dlss on was another positive story this is of course the big zombies game that everyone's playing right now perhaps more than warzone at the moment here we've got 153 fps on average with 127 and 97 for the 90 and 99 percent our results definitely talk a little bit of a hit on the lower end but that's because uh cold war is a bit inconsistent when it comes to frame rate throughout the duration of the title we also tested out warzone but we'll come back to that later because first apex legends a much more popular game at the moment 1440p high yielded 150 frames per second on average with more consistent 90 and 99th percentile results in this title thankfully if framerate is what you're after though valrant is the game for you 1440p high gave us 288 frames per second and of course if you were gaming at 1080p not high settings your frame rate would climb even further visually though the game looked great and the frame rate was absolutely superb cyberpunk 2077 is the next title today in a game i've deliberated taken off this list due to how inconsistent some of the performance figures are how tricky it is to run it's just a poorly optimized title but it does give you a worst case scenario every game you play on this machine is going to perform better than cyberpunk so to have this as kind of a good benchmark it's actually quite useful at 1440p medium settings with dlss on we got 90 frames per second while turning ray tracing on dropped us down to 59. so 90 fps with no ray tracing is pretty good and nearly 60 fps with ray tracing is also not too shabby fortnite then is the next total today and as ever we tested this at 1080p competitive settings tune everything down to low set your render distance to fire and have a great old time with 285 frames per second wow the game actually looks really impressive as well i think at 1080p competitive settings despite tuning lots of the visual fidelity options down to low finally then the last game today is a little bit of call of duty's warzone it's fallen out of favor just a bit recently but it's still pretty popular and at 1440p high with dlss enabled we got 119 fps on average so some really great results from this little build inside lee lee's q58 if you enjoyed today's video give it a big old lie rating make sure to get subscribed so you never miss another geeker video in your entire life and as always thanks for tuning in and we'll see you in the next onewhat is up guys welcome back to another geeker video and today i'm going to be building an awesome small form factor gaming pc inside of a brand new case from liam lee i've had a bit of a play around with this over the last couple of weeks and honestly i've kind of fallen in love so i've gone ahead and picked up an rtx 3060 ti some absolutely baller af memory and a 240ml cooler in order to put together one hell of a build in this video i'm going to run you through all of the part choices in detail the build process from start right through to finish before booting our system up to see exactly how well it performs in the biggest titles out there let's dive into it though after a quick ad from today's video sponsor the latest range of netgear nighthawk routers are now available at ebuya with support for the latest wi-fi 6 tech which provides incredible network speeds alongside powerful processing and great signal strength it's awesome for staying online with low latency all of the time i've taken a look at the ax6 ax12 and xr1000 over on the ebuya youtube channel i've been super impressed strong signal strength and the legendary doomer os on selected routers make them perfect for gamers out there learn more at the video in the card section now and the links to ebuyer at the top of the description below we're going to kick things off as ever by installing the cpu ram and ssd into the motherboard this is often referred to as building up your motherboard assembly this essentially means doing as much as you can before you get the case involved as this is a much easier way of doing things for the motherboard i've gone ahead and picked up msi's mpg b550i gaming edge wi-fi it's a little bit of a mouthful but it has all the features we could want including wi-fi support for the latest gm4 nvme ssd drives and of course support for our ryzen 5000 cpu to give you an idea just how small this thing is it's basically the size of my head which compared to an atx board is tiny i'll be coupling this up with an amd ryzen 5 5600 x one of the greatest cpus on the market right now for gamers out there it's pretty great value performs really well and won't bottleneck even up to an rtx 3070 locate the little golden triangle on the corner of your processor and line this up with the top left-hand corner of your cpu socket all you then need to do is just pull up the arm on the processor socket drop the cpu into place no fault or pressure is required and pop the arm back down we can then move on to the ram or the memory which for us today is g skills trident z royal elite now this is absolutely overkill in terms of ram for this system and if you want to save a bit of cash you could go for something cheaper but i think it will look awesome in this league league q58 itx chassis and for a 16 gig or 32 gig kit you're actually not going to pay all that much more which is always nice to see we use this in a recent kind of gold and silver build which you can find on the channel and it looked absolutely incredible like out of this world and with that in we can move on to the last component of our motherboard assembly which is of course the storage now this board does support super fast gen 4 ssds like samsung's own 980 pro but this ssd 980 non-pro is still a great option with some decent speeds and it's a good piece cheaper it installs underneath the heatsink on the motherboard which also cobbles up as a little fan little cooler to keep your drive nice and chilly go ahead and take this off whack the drive into place and return it down it literally is as simple as that and once we've done that we are ready for our case today now this was basically the impetus the reasoning behind this whole build in the first place it is liam lee's brand new q58 they very kindly sent me an email ages ago offering to send this out and after a bit of toying about i've been really impressed it's got these cool glass and mesh panels on either side support full super long gpus which we're going to push to the absolute limit with a gaming x trio card and it has a really nice form factor it is a little cutesy little thing i mean it's absolutely tiny but also looks super sleek and it's typical to lee lee's design language now i'm gonna go ahead and just take off the top panels and both our side panels the side panels are actually in two separate pieces so you've got the glass portion at the top and then the mesh portion at the bottom which provides the perfect balance between airflow temperatures and aesthetics once we've gone ahead and taken off the top and side panels you'll be able to understand the layout of the case that little bit better so give me two minutes and i'll be right back with you we've got room over on the left hand side for an sfx power supply to the right of that is your mini itx motherboard you've then got room for a 240mm radiator at the top of the chassis while spinning it round gives you a whole side for your massive gpus i'll pop exact specs as far as clearance go on your screen now but one of the huge bonuses of this case is the fact it's triple slot now i know most gpus nowadays only use two of the lanes but they often take up three once inside of the case so having three lanes means you've definitely got enough width shall we say for the fattest of gpus combined with the length we should be good to go as far as airflow clearance all that good stuff and your riser comes included as standard either pcie gen 3 or gen 4 depending on the case that you pick up i'd go for the gen 4 version personally just to future-proof yourself and save any hassle later we need to go ahead and remove as well this little protective plate on the top i'm not actually sure what this is for maybe like an ssd or watercolor or something like that in order to make way for the 240mm radiator before we do that though we can screw the motherboard in and the motherboard actually goes in on the other side of the case just here with the i o poking out of the rear the board of course does need to go upside down as well to make sure our riser cable can reach quite nicely but otherwise it's a simple process screw it in as you normally would and then we're good to go moving on to the cooler and the next component today i've picked up msi's core liquid mag240r now for a system like this you could get away with sticking with the amd stock cool app after all there's enough airflow for it but in a recent video we looked at the differences between a good caller and a cheaper cooler given how small the case is we haven't got room for a large tower air cooler and any solution that will fit a won't be ideal b won't look very good and c will probably be a bit expensive so let's leverage the 240 mil radiator mount it could be a little bit tight especially with our fans on here but i guess there's only one way to find out this cooler actually leverages the stock included amd plastic brackets that come pre-installed on the motherboard for mounting the callout as you'll see in just a second i really like msi's range of coolers actually these were the coolers we used for our testing back in that video i just mentioned with rgb fans a nice water block design and some pretty flexible tubes they work well plus the water block actually isn't too massive which for us is important you can see here if you just look carefully at the water block we've got these two d-shaped brackets these are what we're going to pop over the plastic mounting hardware that comes pre-installed in the case once you've done this it's a simple case of screwing the radiator in popping those fans on and then we're pretty much good to go as far as cooling is concerned for this build the cpu corner is often the most complicated part take it slow and don't be afraid to refer to the instruction manual if you get just a little bit confused i appreciate that right now the build looks just a bit of a mess really but that's often the case with an itx system it's a more complicated build process and if you're a first time builder or you want an easy experience a small form factor case might not be the one for you the next component we need to install though is the power supply this right here is cooler masters v850 it's an sfx unit meaning it's small form factor and will fit inside the case this chassis does include a bracket for bigger power supply but if you use that you lose the 240mm radiator mount and have to drop down to 120 something i personally would not recommend you do with that being said i probably should have installed the power supply before putting the radiator in so let's see if there's a way of taking out this power supply bracket to pop in the psu out the case and then wire up some of our cables in terms of the cables and wiring we need for this system we've got a motherboard power connector and a cpu power cable we'll deal with the gpu power side of things a little bit later all in all though this is a great power supply that ticks all the boxes for the build today oh my goodness that was a bit of a squeeze but it did fit in absolutely no problem so props to leon lee for that one and making the case super modular and super kind of tool friendly that moves us on to the last component today the graphics card now theoretically you could actually spinning the case around fit a pretty large 3080 maybe even certain 1390s in here especially a founder's edition 3080 actually i thought they would go a bit more modest today this case comes in at a pretty friendly price point and i thought actually why not make a build people can actually afford as opposed to something so ridiculous you'll never be able to buy it the 30 60 ti though is an incredible gpu it outpaces the 2070 and 2070 super from last generation by a really really big margin and performs well at 1080 and 1440p as you'll see from the benchmarks later if you'd like a bit of a spoiler on your screen in just a second will be a summary of all the numbers we were able to gather as i say hold tight for the dedicated benchmark section where we'll be looking at this in much more detail i wanted to push this case though to its size limits with a gaming x trio card from msi which is technically a couple of meters over the rated why did i do that that was so why did i just throw that on the floor while i was speaking telling just over the rated clearance of this case however as you know here on the geekbox channel we like to push things to the limit we like to break boundaries and push through barriers and that could be like a corporate video here at geeky media we break barriers we push down walls we open doors and we install graphics cards in slots that are just too small you can see here that it should in theory just about fit however it's going to be incredibly tight the only thing i'm slightly worried about is the slight overhang of the gpu here the plastic shroud just kind of gets very slightly in the way but a little birdie tells me that it might just fit with a bit of creativity so let's go ahead and remove the rear two pci panels the ones on the left hand side then get that gpu hopefully just about into place and here we go so let's feed it through the rear pcie lanes first of all oh my goodness that is ridiculous and it does just about fit of course with the mesh side panel as well it will just nicely hold the card into place and we haven't got to worry about undue strain or anything like that in fact let's whack the side panels on this side before finishing up the wiring on the other side and seeing how well the system performs with of course detailed temperature metrics for this really unique cooling setup we've actually opted to go for what a little pocket rocket let's go ahead and take a look at how good this system looks when it's all powered up and then of course how well it performs in the biggest titles in the benchmark section in a moment first though roll that montage let's now go and take a look at just how well this pocket rocket of a pc performs running through our usual benchmark suite here on the geeker channel and if there's any games you'd like to see us include that aren't currently there let us know and we'll definitely add the most popular ones on your screen now though is a kind of a summary of all the games we tested out we'll be taking a closer look at most of these games in a moment so don't go anywhere but this should give you a nice kind of overall bird's eye view of the performance you're able to expect from this system at 1080 and 1440p the first of our focus titles is gta 5. here at 1080p high settings we managed to achieve 144 fps on average our 1440p numbers were also good around 12 fps lower but 1080p is where we're really aiming for with this system the frame rates were great and we measured these as usual with both nvidia's frame view and msi afterburners river tuna the next game on the list today is watchdogs legion here we tested at 1440p high settings with dlss enabled and ray tracing disabled to begin with we managed to achieve just over 100 fps on average with consistent frame rates that never really dropped below at the 89 fps mark turning ray tracing on and keeping all of our other settings the same did drop us down just a smidge to 72 frames per second but still gave us well in excess of 60 fps with ray tracing on which is a really impressive result call of duty's black ops cold war at 1080p high with dlss on was another positive story this is of course the big zombies game that everyone's playing right now perhaps more than warzone at the moment here we've got 153 fps on average with 127 and 97 for the 90 and 99 percent our results definitely talk a little bit of a hit on the lower end but that's because uh cold war is a bit inconsistent when it comes to frame rate throughout the duration of the title we also tested out warzone but we'll come back to that later because first apex legends a much more popular game at the moment 1440p high yielded 150 frames per second on average with more consistent 90 and 99th percentile results in this title thankfully if framerate is what you're after though valrant is the game for you 1440p high gave us 288 frames per second and of course if you were gaming at 1080p not high settings your frame rate would climb even further visually though the game looked great and the frame rate was absolutely superb cyberpunk 2077 is the next title today in a game i've deliberated taken off this list due to how inconsistent some of the performance figures are how tricky it is to run it's just a poorly optimized title but it does give you a worst case scenario every game you play on this machine is going to perform better than cyberpunk so to have this as kind of a good benchmark it's actually quite useful at 1440p medium settings with dlss on we got 90 frames per second while turning ray tracing on dropped us down to 59. so 90 fps with no ray tracing is pretty good and nearly 60 fps with ray tracing is also not too shabby fortnite then is the next total today and as ever we tested this at 1080p competitive settings tune everything down to low set your render distance to fire and have a great old time with 285 frames per second wow the game actually looks really impressive as well i think at 1080p competitive settings despite tuning lots of the visual fidelity options down to low finally then the last game today is a little bit of call of duty's warzone it's fallen out of favor just a bit recently but it's still pretty popular and at 1440p high with dlss enabled we got 119 fps on average so some really great results from this little build inside lee lee's q58 if you enjoyed today's video give it a big old lie rating make sure to get subscribed so you never miss another geeker video in your entire life and as always thanks for tuning in and we'll see you in the next one\n"