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here at LTT we're all about pushing

boundaries far beyond what anybody asks

for like when we brought you the PC made

of radiators cooling insane hardware

with zero fans what ever since then

we've wondered what would it look like

if some actually smart people tried to

achieve the same thing well today we get

to find out because the good people over

at Monster labo have done just that

creating a case that supposedly is

capable of cooling up to an intel eight

core ninety nine hundred K and an RT X

27 T completely passively but don't pass

by private Internet access private

Internet access gives you a safe and

protected IP and it's got loads of other

features as well check it out at the

link below

with this being monster lavas first

product actually it's even called the

first we were naturally a little bit

skeptical but now that we've built an

entire system inside it there actually

is some truth to their claims but more

on that later starting on the outside

the first has an understated look well I

mean ours does have a custom paint job

so it's visually a lot louder but

normally it's painted in either black or

white satin metal finish along with a

metallic accent piece which kind of to

me makes it look like a mini-fridge

but I'm not mad because with everything

else these days turning towards rainbow

barf I personally appreciate this a more

subdued look up top we get dual USB 3.0

audio and a British power button that

frankly just loves to get stuck around

back there is access to the psu and

that's about it with the motherboard i/o

relying on pass through cables limiting

you to five ports max on this oddly

unfinished backing piece it seems like

this was kind of an afterthought

especially since the included

DisplayPort pass food doesn't have

mounting holes and the HDMI pass-through

didn't come with screws but enough of

the boring stuff inside is where things

get interesting

after removing all three outer

clamshells and their accompanying 14

screws we finally get to get a glimpse

of the internals and right about now it

also starts to become apparent that this

case isn't for first-time builders or

even pretty experienced ones since we

ourselves were kind of lost at this

point but okay we're humble why not just

consult the manual because there is no

magic no monster labo instead opted for

a series of assembly videos which are

way more annoying to scrub through than

a regular print manual but nevertheless

they did help us find a few more screws

that were hiding behind this weird

fabric tape that we quickly introduced

to the trash bin once it is open up

though man is it ever cool-looking I

mean literally look at that heck and

heat sink its massive and the heat pipes

the head pipes oh he piped

both the CPU and the GPU each get six of

their own evenly spread throughout the

heatsink now I'm starting to think their

claims might actually have some merit

alright so time to throw some hardware

in it and boot it up right well because

of the first totally non-standard

mounting and form factor planning ahead

is kind of a must

thankfully monster lava has vetted a

bunch of hardware already with

compatible parts listed on their site

including what motherboards and GPUs

worked and what brackets or

modifications are necessary in our case

the triple found our TX 2070 we chose

was supposedly a non-issue all we should

have to do is remove the cooler and

strap-on monster llamas provided BRM

heatsink but it wasn't that easy the

screws for the vrm cooler weren't long

enough so we ended up having to use zip

ties to hold it all together it is worth

noting though that this accessory isn't

yet available so hopefully they'll have

all that ironed out by launch and then

again maybe quirks like this are to be

expected in this wacky realm of custom

cooling as for our X 470 motherboard it

to call for some minor modifications but

thankfully both went to subscribe first

it requires the use of their custom

riser which is only included on the

premium model so watch out for that and

second the audio chipset had to be

removed as on this board it's installed

on a riser and would otherwise block the

heat pipes this sucked so again plan

ahead don't be like us

we suck hopefully on Monster Lobos

second case the heat pipes are

positioned to better comedy boards like

this as daughter boards aren't uncommon

on ITX motherboards things did start to

look up though when it finally came time

to put all the pieces together that is

until we went to mount the motherboard

and found that there was no mention

anywhere of which bracket to use for

AMD's a.m. for socket fortunately though

monster lavas customer service was

pretty quick to respond and they

informed us that a.m. for boards

actually used two of the brackets in

tandem which was easy enough after we

figured it out once that was out of the

way the rest of the assembly was pretty

straightforward you might have to bend

the heat pipe just a little bit and

slide the motherboard and GPU mounts

back and forth in order to make sure

everything lines up properly but that's

apparently pretty normal installing

Coursera's SF 600 sfx power supply was a

walk in the park and if fan doesn't even

spin up at full load with this setup

nice storage wise we opted for a Samsung

m2 SSD for the first does advertised

support for three two and a half inch

drives along with one three and a half

inch drive if that butters your biscuit

just above the PSU is where the included

140 millimeter fan can be mounted or it

can be removed to accommodate full ATX

power supplies a nice touch but who

cares about all that we want to know

about performance and as you can imagine

with a high-end set up like what we

chose temperatures are simply not going

to be as low as with a fan cooled setup

but for something that's entirely

passive this is pretty impressive we did

notice when running without the fan the

2700 X loses some boost o'clock while

hitting 84 degrees Celsius under an eye

264 CPU load but if you remove the top

cover panel like they recommend it's

really competent monster Lavo does

mention that the actual passive TDP

rating on the first is only 215 watts

but you'd be hard-pressed to find an

application that would actually load

both parts to 100% power drop

consistently hence why you could run a

higher end config like we did once the

fan is added into plate temps are a lot

more comfortable

we sat hours to run at 700 rpm which was

inaudible even as close to a foot away

from the case speaking of inaudible the

coil wind from the GPU is not because of

the way it's positioned the GPUs power

distribution is right near the big fat

opening on the top of the case and

without the higher noise floor of a

typical fan cooled build the video cards

high-pitched whine is surprisingly

irritating even from a sitting distance

it sucks and I guess that's kind of

where the concept of these passive cases

starts to fall apart for me

coil whine IMO is actually way more

annoying than the low hum of a fan and

frankly with a decent a i/o on your CPU

and the gargantuan GPU coolers of today

most regular rigs

tend to be pretty inaudible anyway so if

it were me I'd stick to the a prevention

fan setup but if you're not an audio

file or just hate hearing your PC you

can find a GPU that doesn't suffer for

much coil whine and if you don't mind

your hardware running a little hotter

than most

this can be an awesome way to achieve a

nearly silent PC as for the first itself

for a $400 plus case it's kind of a hot

mess but honestly I love it I just like

it I don't know that I'd recommend it

full-on clearly one or two corners were

cut but it's just so freakin cool I kind

of looks like a like a build-your-own

horse or one so yeah I want it fresh

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here at LTT we're all about pushing

boundaries far beyond what anybody asks

for like when we brought you the PC made

of radiators cooling insane hardware

with zero fans what ever since then

we've wondered what would it look like

if some actually smart people tried to

achieve the same thing well today we get

to find out because the good people over

at Monster labo have done just that

creating a case that supposedly is

capable of cooling up to an intel eight

core ninety nine hundred K and an RT X

27 T completely passively but don't pass

by private Internet access private

Internet access gives you a safe and

protected IP and it's got loads of other

features as well check it out at the

link below

with this being monster lavas first

product actually it's even called the

first we were naturally a little bit

skeptical but now that we've built an

entire system inside it there actually

is some truth to their claims but more

on that later starting on the outside

the first has an understated look well I

mean ours does have a custom paint job

so it's visually a lot louder but

normally it's painted in either black or

white satin metal finish along with a

metallic accent piece which kind of to

me makes it look like a mini-fridge

but I'm not mad because with everything

else these days turning towards rainbow

barf I personally appreciate this a more

subdued look up top we get dual USB 3.0

audio and a British power button that

frankly just loves to get stuck around

back there is access to the psu and

that's about it with the motherboard i/o

relying on pass through cables limiting

you to five ports max on this oddly

unfinished backing piece it seems like

this was kind of an afterthought

especially since the included

DisplayPort pass food doesn't have

mounting holes and the HDMI pass-through

didn't come with screws but enough of

the boring stuff inside is where things

get interesting

after removing all three outer

clamshells and their accompanying 14

screws we finally get to get a glimpse

of the internals and right about now it

also starts to become apparent that this

case isn't for first-time builders or

even pretty experienced ones since we

ourselves were kind of lost at this

point but okay we're humble why not just

consult the manual because there is no

magic no monster labo instead opted for

a series of assembly videos which are

way more annoying to scrub through than

a regular print manual but nevertheless

they did help us find a few more screws

that were hiding behind this weird

fabric tape that we quickly introduced

to the trash bin once it is open up

though man is it ever cool-looking I

mean literally look at that heck and

heat sink its massive and the heat pipes

the head pipes oh he piped

both the CPU and the GPU each get six of

their own evenly spread throughout the

heatsink now I'm starting to think their

claims might actually have some merit

alright so time to throw some hardware

in it and boot it up right well because

of the first totally non-standard

mounting and form factor planning ahead

is kind of a must

thankfully monster lava has vetted a

bunch of hardware already with

compatible parts listed on their site

including what motherboards and GPUs

worked and what brackets or

modifications are necessary in our case

the triple found our TX 2070 we chose

was supposedly a non-issue all we should

have to do is remove the cooler and

strap-on monster llamas provided BRM

heatsink but it wasn't that easy the

screws for the vrm cooler weren't long

enough so we ended up having to use zip

ties to hold it all together it is worth

noting though that this accessory isn't

yet available so hopefully they'll have

all that ironed out by launch and then

again maybe quirks like this are to be

expected in this wacky realm of custom

cooling as for our X 470 motherboard it

to call for some minor modifications but

thankfully both went to subscribe first

it requires the use of their custom

riser which is only included on the

premium model so watch out for that and

second the audio chipset had to be

removed as on this board it's installed

on a riser and would otherwise block the

heat pipes this sucked so again plan

ahead don't be like us

we suck hopefully on Monster Lobos

second case the heat pipes are

positioned to better comedy boards like

this as daughter boards aren't uncommon

on ITX motherboards things did start to

look up though when it finally came time

to put all the pieces together that is

until we went to mount the motherboard

and found that there was no mention

anywhere of which bracket to use for

AMD's a.m. for socket fortunately though

monster lavas customer service was

pretty quick to respond and they

informed us that a.m. for boards

actually used two of the brackets in

tandem which was easy enough after we

figured it out once that was out of the

way the rest of the assembly was pretty

straightforward you might have to bend

the heat pipe just a little bit and

slide the motherboard and GPU mounts

back and forth in order to make sure

everything lines up properly but that's

apparently pretty normal installing

Coursera's SF 600 sfx power supply was a

walk in the park and if fan doesn't even

spin up at full load with this setup

nice storage wise we opted for a Samsung

m2 SSD for the first does advertised

support for three two and a half inch

drives along with one three and a half

inch drive if that butters your biscuit

just above the PSU is where the included

140 millimeter fan can be mounted or it

can be removed to accommodate full ATX

power supplies a nice touch but who

cares about all that we want to know

about performance and as you can imagine

with a high-end set up like what we

chose temperatures are simply not going

to be as low as with a fan cooled setup

but for something that's entirely

passive this is pretty impressive we did

notice when running without the fan the

2700 X loses some boost o'clock while

hitting 84 degrees Celsius under an eye

264 CPU load but if you remove the top

cover panel like they recommend it's

really competent monster Lavo does

mention that the actual passive TDP

rating on the first is only 215 watts

but you'd be hard-pressed to find an

application that would actually load

both parts to 100% power drop

consistently hence why you could run a

higher end config like we did once the

fan is added into plate temps are a lot

more comfortable

we sat hours to run at 700 rpm which was

inaudible even as close to a foot away

from the case speaking of inaudible the

coil wind from the GPU is not because of

the way it's positioned the GPUs power

distribution is right near the big fat

opening on the top of the case and

without the higher noise floor of a

typical fan cooled build the video cards

high-pitched whine is surprisingly

irritating even from a sitting distance

it sucks and I guess that's kind of

where the concept of these passive cases

starts to fall apart for me

coil whine IMO is actually way more

annoying than the low hum of a fan and

frankly with a decent a i/o on your CPU

and the gargantuan GPU coolers of today

most regular rigs

tend to be pretty inaudible anyway so if

it were me I'd stick to the a prevention

fan setup but if you're not an audio

file or just hate hearing your PC you

can find a GPU that doesn't suffer for

much coil whine and if you don't mind

your hardware running a little hotter

than most

this can be an awesome way to achieve a

nearly silent PC as for the first itself

for a $400 plus case it's kind of a hot

mess but honestly I love it I just like

it I don't know that I'd recommend it

full-on clearly one or two corners were

cut but it's just so freakin cool I kind

of looks like a like a build-your-own

horse or one so yeah I want it fresh

books is the small business accounting

software custom-built for how you want

to work it's the simple way to be more

productive organized and get paid

quickly fresh books lets you create and

send professional-looking invoices in

less than 30 seconds set up online

payments with just a couple of clicks so

you can get paid up to four days faster

and see when your client has viewed your

invoice to put an end to the guessing

games for your unrestricted 30-day free

trial just go to fresh books comm slash

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Linus tech tips is over 10 years old now

so it's easy for us to forget that many

viewers may be encountering the world of

PC building for the first time and while

there's lots of great PC building

tutorials out there there are also some

that verge on misinformation so in this

video we are going back to basics with

episode 2 of how to basics installing a

CPU

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so let's start then from the very

beginning it's a good place to start

what do you install the CPU into the CPU

socket where's the socket on the

motherboard where's the motherboard well

here's where we get to step 1 on top of

a non metal non conductive surface like

the box that it came in now if you don't

have the motherboard you're gonna want

to go back a few steps and pick one of

those up first that's pretty important

now there are two main types of CPU

sockets that you should probably know

about in 2019 and actually for years to

come

LG a style sockets and PGA style sockets

Intel primarily uses land grid array or

LG ace

meaning that the socket itself is made

up of a grid of pins so these touch

gold-plated flat contacts or pads on the

bottom of the CPU and that is what

allows your PC to run all of your

spreadsheet simulators AMD on the other

hand uses more commonly a pin grid array

or PGA configuration that means that the

pins are on the CPU instead of on the

socket so PGA sockets are simply a grid

of holes that the CPU drops into with no

force required now this makes it much

safer to handle the motherboard without

worrying about damaging the pins which

can be pretty much the end of your CPU

installation endeavor but it also means

that you have to be extra careful with

the CPU Intel actually originally used

PGA's but they switch to LGA around 2002

presumably because processors are

generally more expensive than

motherboards and if you're going to

accidentally bend or break a pin you

want your new paperweight to be as cheap

as possible with that said it's not

impossible to repair socket pins it's

just extremely difficult and extremely

easy to cause even further damage to

other pins while you try to fix the one

that's bent so your best bet is to send

it to an experienced technician if you

run into this no pressure but anyway you

aren't just concerned with the type of

socket but also the number of pins so

Intel's main consumer socket LGA 1151

has 1151 pins while they're 2066 socket

which is geared more towards enthusiasts

has 2066 pins on the AMD side a m4 has

1331 so if AMD was using the same naming

scheme as Intel it would be pga 1331 i

guess and then there tr4 socket which is

actually an LGA well that one has 4,000

94 pins which is where things get pretty

confusing because sometimes AMD does use

LG ace now some of these sockets have

been around for a few years and may

continue to be used by Intel and AMD so

something you need to note is that just

because a CPU physically fits into a

particular socket does not necessarily

mean it will be compatible and this was

a lesson that Riley who prepared this

episode learned all too well in our

cheapest Amazon PC video now sockets are

different from chipsets a specific

configuration of hardware and software

that allows the processor memory and the

peripherals in a system to communicate

with each other processors often launch

alongside compatible chipsets but

sometimes they'll be forwards or

backwards compatible with the next or

previous generation the thing though is

this might require a BIOS update in

order to work so you will need to

consult your motherboard manufacturers

website in order to know 100% for sure

which CPUs work in which motherboards

and if a BIOS update is required okay so

now that we've done our homework we know

our processors compatible with our

motherboard it's time to drop that

sucker in except don't actually drop it

because

as I said the pins regardless of what

they're attached to are extremely

fragile and susceptible to damage

now these following steps apply broadly

to both of Intel sockets and to AMD's a

m4 socket while tr4 AMD's enthusiasts

socket for thread Ripper does do things

a little bit differently

before you begin you're gonna want to

grab an anti-static wrist strap that's

connected to a ground or you're going to

want to keep your feet stationary and

touch a metal part of your case or power

supply with your power supply plugged

into the wall to discharge any static

buildup on your body now if you're

upgrading your CPU on an existing system

the first thing you're going to need to

do is unplug your CPUs cooler so find

where the fan cable plugs into the

header on the motherboard and just pull

it off for Intel systems it's pretty

common to see these two lists plastic

pins installed around the socket simply

rotate them in the direction indicated

pop them open and pull the CPU cooler

off on the AMD side of things you should

find a little lever like this on one

side of the processor socket pull it up

and the latches on either side of your

CPU should loosen so you can pull them

off the little hooks on the side and

remove the cooler be careful though it's

not uncommon for the CPU to get pulled

off with the heatsink exposing its

fragile pins it's not a huge problem as

long as you don't bend anything though

if you're doing a new installation

rather than upgrading though Intel LGA

sockets will have a socket cover in

place

leave this where it is is it will come

off by itself when you lock in the CPU

instead lift up the retention arm or

arms on the side of the socket this will

allow you to lift up the socket lid next

hold your processor being careful to

only touch the edges if you touch the

contacts on the bottom not only can this

interfere with electrical contact but it

can actually cause corrosion over the

long term next look for an arrow in one

corner of the CPU this will line up with

a similar mark

on one of the corners of the socket

there may also by the way be notches on

the sides of the CPU these should line

up with tiny nubbins in the side of the

socket if you're not a hundred percent

sure about your arrows once you've

determined the correct orientation lower

the CPU into the socket gently there's

no need to push or apply any force

though I do recommend giving it a tiny

wiggle just to make sure that it's

seated properly and to let it know that

you still love it no matter what next

lower the socket lid over the CPU making

sure that it fits back under the screw

or bracket that held it in originally

then push the retention arm down and

under the hook so it stays into place if

you've got two arms

they'll be designed so that one goes

down first and then the other just like

this now that process is pretty similar

for most consumer boards and CPUs for

the last ten almost 20 years but AMD's

TR for socket that one's a little more

involved your thread Ripper CPU will

actually come with the Torx screwdriver

that you need to install it first loosen

the three screws holding down the socket

lid it'll say which order to loosen them

in so don't just unscrew them all

willy-nilly once you've got them

loosened those screws will stay inside

the socket lid which will pop up on its

own because it's spring-loaded

so that's pretty fun under the lid you

will find another lid which has a

plastic tray inside lift this lid up

holding it by the sides then slide the

plastic tray upward and then put it away

to the side next is the actual socket

cover which protects the pins we're just

going to leave that there for the moment

now thread Ripper CPUs come

pre-installed into an orange plastic

housing do not try to remove it it is

supposed to be there holding it by the

tab on one side slide the CPU into the

rails in that second lid with the bottom

facing the socket until it kind of

clicks into place

then you can remove the socket cover

from the actual pins by pinching the

grab points in the middle and then lower

the second lid containing the CPU now on

to the socket gently push and it will

secure itself into place at which point

you can then lower the first lid and

start screwing the screws back into

place now that Torx screwdriver that's

included is designed specifically for

these screws so once they're threaded in

a little you can tighten them in the

order that's specified on the socket lid

until the tool clicks and that's it your

CPU is installed but it won't last very

long without a CPU cooler now if you

have a third party cooler that's

probably gonna come with its own

instructions detailing how exactly to

mount it if it has no pre applied

thermal paste you're going to need to

add your own to the top of the CPU

before installing just remember guys

that when it comes to thermal paste less

is more you only need to fill the small

imperfections between the CPU and the

heatsink there's no mystical pentagram

of thermal paste required to summon the

PC Gamer gods that's only gonna end up

with a whole bunch of thermal compound

all over your motherboard which probably

won't damage it but it'll be really

messy to clean up gamers Nexus as mod

matte actually has a great guide for how

to apply thermal compound to most modern

CPUs so consumer chips just the small

ones a simple line down the middle is

perfect for Intel enthusiasts CPUs for

smaller dots in each corner will do your

wonders and for thread Ripper you want

to make an X with four dots in between

the lines to help fill in the gaps the

thing is that the larger the actual CPU

die under the heat spreader on top is

the more thermal compound you need to

make sure that you get full coverage

because any die area that doesn't have

thermal compound is going to result in

hot spots on your CPU which at the very

least can limit your overclocking

potential now main line processors

usually come with the cooler while

enthusiast ones sometimes do not now

many coolers come with pre-installed

thermal paste on the bottom in which

case there's no need for extra if you do

have a stock cooler

simply line up the four mounting pins

with the four holes on the motherboard

socket if you're using it by the way you

will need to reset those pins back to

their original location and then push

down on the opposing sets of pins until

they click into place as for AMD it's

the same process in Reverse from removal

where we simply hook the side of the

cooler without the latch first then the

latch side and close the arm now it can

sometimes take a little bit of force but

if you feel like you're overdoing it

then you should probably check the

bottom side and make sure that nothing's

interfering after your cooler is secured

you can connect your fan plug in to the

closest four pin header on your

motherboard which will usually be

clearly labeled CPU fan now that we've

got our CPU installed we could just say

ah that's great let's call it a day but

we won't because we're professional

technicians it's good practice to make

sure that your CPU is actually seated

correctly and just because the system

boots doesn't mean that it is so you're

gonna want to go into your motherboards

BIOS which is normally accessed by

pressing delete or f2 when you first

power on your system to make sure that

all of your RAM sticks show up it is

very common especially on thread Ripper

CPUs for some of the pins to not make

perfect contact which can cause one or

more of your memory slots not to

function correctly if you do run into

this it's okay probably nothing is

damaged just go ahead and take it out

reinstall it and try again and then

that's really it your CPUs installed the

brain of your system some might call it

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