Dare Me to Take This "Laptop" to Starbucks?

they let everyone else bring their

laptop to the coffee shop why not

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me believe it or not they didn't ask me

to leave but they probably should have

the mack case b43 is unlike any other

laptop that we've looked at before for

starters it's got three monitors it

weighs nearly 40 lbs fully loaded and it

fits fullsize desktop PC parts or it at

least it kind of does we ran into some

unexpected challenges while building it

today so surely with that in mind it

must be reasonably price then

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Day just like with our last MA case

briefcase PC build this thing is

flipping heavy it's actually really

front heavy too if you look at how it

sits when I'm holding in the handle so

putting it on our scale here which I

don't even know if it goes as high 12

kilg which is somewhere in the

neighborhood of 27 lb so don't expect to

be commuting with this thing that is

unless your hobby already happens to be

lifting heavy things and putting them

back down now it's worth noting though

that the additional weight does come

with some benefits there

is we'll figure that out in a moment

we've got the same ruggedized build with

these rubber corner protectors on it and

there is considerably more room to build

in here that is actually a pretty real

able amount of space and this time the

keyboard folds out away from the tower

which is a very welcome change for my

poor wrists I mean imagine if it was

like the last one where you had to sit

and use it like this not to mention my

poor hands since the last case had the

GPU inside venting directly up at the

keyboard causing it to get hot enough to

cook on unfortunately the keyboard

design hasn't changed and it still sucks

and so does the teeny tiny little

attached trackpad the good news though

is we get a nice monitor upgrade not

only are there three displays now but

they've been sized up from 16.1 in to

17.3 or 18.5 depending on which part of

the product page you believe no 17.3 one

thing the product page makes no mention

of one way or the other is the

ergonomics and I got to say at a normal

sitting height I sincerely hope that

these are IPS type displays because

otherwise I'm not going to be able to

see anything on them also wow these

hinges like most laptop displays these

use embedded display port or EDP which

means they need a controller board in

order to accept desktop signals so those

are in here which makes sense but what

doesn't make sense is the manufacturer

opting for ancient VGA cables as the

default to connect to them modern gpus

don't support VGA natively at all and

these boards have HDMI inputs also it

would probably just make even more sense

to use display port since EDP is

functionally compatible with it but I

guess that would have made things too

easy enough about the case for now

though let's turn our attention to the

PC that we'll be building inside it now

normally amds 16 core ryzen 9 7950 X 3D

wouldn't be our first choice the 78 100x

3D performs roughly the same in games at

a much lower price however the extra

course should help us in non-gaming

tasks like video editing while still

maintaining the same 120 wat TDP besides

we already spent a ridiculous amount of

money on this case so we might as well

do it up which is exactly why we went

for the Asus Crosshair x67 genan it's

got two USB 4 40 GB per second ports

Wi-Fi 60 and 2 and2 gig ethernet

allowing highspeed access to everything

from a portable storage drive to a

high-capacity network storage Appliance

now look realistically any board with a

compatible chipset would have been just

fine but this motherboard happens to

have the CPU socket just a little bit

higher up which we hoped would help us

fit a better cooler into the system too

bad it didn't cooling ended up being

quite the journey for this machine cuz

original we wanted to go for liquid

cooling but any radiator that was big

enough to result in an improvement over

air cooling stubbornly refused to fit

anywhere and while we could have mounted

it to the outside does this thing really

need to be even sillier so we tried to

assassinate our thermal troubles with

One of These Fine coolers the problem is

that our case was just barely Too Short

relatable after a bit of searching we

came across the RZ 6 20 from PC cooler

they sent this and a few other coolers

to us for the all China PC but when we

assembled it in testing it got in the

way of our GPU so after all of that we

went with the NHL 12s

x77 it's not really designed for a high

powerered chip like ours but according

to nocta it is better than its

predecessor while offering higher

clearance for Ram so good luck on the

subject of ram we're going to be using

this kit from King Bank of all people

it's a sharp blade 32 GB 6400 megat

transfer per second kit that King Bank

explicitly lists the ic's for which can

be really helpful when it comes to

compatibility and performance on am5 it

has no issues fitting under the l12s

cooler even with a bottom mounted fan

and the white heat spreaders match our

SSD even if nothing else in the build is

white on that subject we've gone with

the crucial t705 with white heat sink

okay PCI Express Gen 5 makes no

meaningful difference to real world

performance but hey under ideal

conditions this thing can hit read and

write speeds in excess of 10 gab a

second and since we're going Overkill we

might as well include Tom's Hardware's

fastest SSD on the planet to go along

with our fastest GPU on the planet I see

fastest I get but is there a reason we

went for the biggest GPU on the planet

it's not the biggest the biggest is the

Zotac pgf

490d but that one is a China exclusive

and we can't get it out very easily ah I

see so I have the second biggest 490 but

this was about more than just eping see

our last M case build thermal throttled

pretty spectacularly and we hoped that

by having a very large cooler we could

avoid the same issue this time of course

we need to figure out how the devil to

get this card packed in here

oh oh good a universal vertical Graphics

call that explains why we couldn't just

use a regular C type downdraft cooler

and we needed the small form factor one

oh things are about to get tight now

lonus I can hear you saying why are you

making such a big deal out of this the

card fits just fine and that would be

true if Nvidia in their Infinite Wisdom

hadn't brought us the acclaimed 60 pin

12vt high power connector because at

this case height we either need to plug

it in and then put on the side panel and

mash it down and hope for the best or we

need to use a 90° adapter either of

which could lead to spontaneous

combustion making matters even dumber

remember how our display cables need to

connect internally to those little

boards well if we had the GPU here we

would need to run three HDMI cables at

least two of them on these display port

to HDMI adapters through this tiny

little hole in the chassis right here

that even one adapter doesn't fit

through absolutely flipping genius

without further Ado then let's get our

GPU installed on our Cooler Master

vertical graphics card holder

kit guess I got a little carried away

talking let's go ahead and get this

motherboard installed real quick here

now this bad boy goes in here and

this is going to go in here that is

surprisingly tight you're going to have

to take that out what I have to take the

fan

out yeah you really got to take the fan

out because what you want to do is get

this back a little way so that you can

get the uh cables in there and you don't

have to Route them the through the

outside of the case oh

no I don't even get a cooling fan for

this thing

nope well we we've got some concessions

just like this whole thing is a big

concession I'll take a hot dog so we

need to give this a little slide and

then my poor one intake fan needs to

come

out now we plug in our poror cables that

are about to get mashed uh I need to

move this bracket or this brace this is

clearly not going to be staying in yeah

there's going to be a lot of things

you're going to have to remove there but

what now do we have air intake coming in

no that's where the handle is what's the

plan here uh we have a replacement side

panel that we are going to cut a couple

holes in and then make look kind of nice

I can see from how the side panel

doesn't have holes in it yet that we

have not tested this no no but that's

why we have

Justin wow this looks awesome now to

simplify our cable management a little

bit we're going to be using these Lee

and Lee fans that clip together a little

something like that and then we're able

to power both of them including their

RGB with a single lead not going to lie

that actually looks kind of sick and

check this out guys we are at least kind

of pretending that this is for a

long-term deployment so we're going with

a positive air pressure setup using

these filters right here and here and

we'll be using them to bring fresh air

okay I promise there's a method to this

madness directly to our CPU Cooler right

here and to our GPU right here and the

reason that we didn't put them exactly

vertically mounted is if you take two

fans that spin the same direction and

put them one right on top of the other

you end up with a ton of turbulence and

noise that can kind of end up working

against each other but if we take that

fan and we put it between these other

two so the blades are spinning in the

opposite direction the effect shouldn't

be as bad in theory not going to lie

this actually looks as powerful as it is

now but on the subject of power we're

not powering any of it yet for that we

are going to need a power supply now

this case is compatible with full-sized

ATX power supplies but now that our GPU

is here you can see that there would be

a bit of an interference issue so we've

gone with an sfx power supply from

Cooler Master specifically the

V100 one of the most powerful small form

factor power supplies on the market I

mean I feel like I say this every time I

open one of these but really 1,00 watts

in the palm of my hand I mean they

cheated a little bit this modular

interface is not really inside the

chassis but now this is interesting with

the full-size adapter bracket on here

you can see that this sits almost right

up against the GPU which hilariously if

you note the feeder here is going to

allow our power supply to act as a GPU

support

bracket before we plug that in though

probably a good time for us to get these

HDMI cables plugged into our little

daughter boards here and then oh maybe

hide them behind the GPU man now that we

got a window it's going to be tough to

make this look good now there was some

debate about the orientation of our

power supply and

honestly both ways have Merit if we had

the fan facing this way right here it

would be drawing fresh air in through

our speed holes which is obviously good

for having lower temperatures in our

power supply but I wanted to try it this

other way and see if that would be okay

because then the fan could help

contribute to exhausting some of the hot

air that is otherwise going to be I mean

what basically just kicked out by this

tiny little fan right here and then

passively through the holes in the case

all right time to wire this thing up now

you might have noticed that our GPU

power cable doesn't match the rest of

our power cables that's kind of the

theme of the build isn't it random white

components that don't match the rest of

the black ones I'm just going to put two

screws in for a quick power on test but

I got to say man the fit of this acrylic

panel is awesome awesome considering all

Justin did was what 3D scan the case we

got life in

there oh yeah buddy did I plug the power

supply side of that MOX Cable in I did

not okay that my friends is why you

never close a side panel before you've

actually verified that the system posts

any luck yep you got power nice oh hey

look at that there we go

freaking awesome all right let's lose

this WOW let's turn on our memory

overclocking profile give it the old

save and reboot how glorious is it you

guys it's pretty

glorious when I was doing a test run of

it I also set up Nvidia

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surround they're not the brightest

monitors um but hey this isn't the

brightest computer the SAG

is very noticeable I got frame view

launched with the trackpad so we can

monitor our frame rates and temperatures

but I did notice a small problem this

trackpad is even worse than I remember

it being so I was like oh I'll just plug

in my m u where is the front iio ah how

convenient there we

go and what's great about this design is

that it's not like you could just use

the middle display on its own and not

have these hanging

out nope nope whole thing deploys or

nothing no HDR these do not support HDR

in fact we haven't really talked about

this yet but they are IPS type which is

nice so the viewing angles are okay but

they are 1080p 60 HZ only conceivably

you could replace the panels with

something else but my goodness would

that ever be a lot of work tenner quick

question for you is that oh uh is there

an on-screen display for the monitors so

theoretically there should be one for

the actual controller boards that are in

there I looked at the spec sheet for the

chip that's on there and yeah it seems

like there should be a couple of buttons

for some sort of OSD but we don't have

access to it so no there's a button at

the front I think that this bezel

presses the buttons and tells it that

hey the monitor should be off is that a

reset button maybe it's just a reset

button that a reset button would make a

lot of sense let's see what the uh oh

yeah yeah no that computer is definitely

restarting oh okay what I want to know

is how our temperatures are going to

hold

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up I think the best part of those

thermal results is we could totally do

better if we managed to squeak a bigger

cooler in there maybe a couple more fans

Not only would our GPU manage to Turbo

to 2.7 GHz I think we could prevent it

from Thal throttling on the CPU as well

though if we were to actually deploy the

system for real there's another major

consideration and that's that we would

need to work in some kind of bracket to

support that GPU we had the system

restart not once but twice while just

moving it around on the set from being

on that pcie

Riser pretty minor issues overall though

good proof of concept now one thing that

I missed is we actually screwed in the

holes for these little rubber Corner

reinforcement pieces so we don't even

have to give up a ton of ruggedness

let's go ahead and pop these on and then

I think we're ready for our little trip

to Starbucks of course you guys already

saw that that didn't really go so well

so you've got to be wondering what is

this thing for well at about

$1,500 with shipping and that's just for

the chassis the peripherals and the

monitors it's obviously a niche device

but for the folks who need

something kind of portable it ended up

just shy 40 lbs fully built um and with

this kind of performance like an

onlocation film crew or a scientific

Expedition it's actually surprisingly

price competitive with pre-built

solutions from specialty companies like

this one just be aware you're going to

have to be ready for some compromises

like the ergonomics completely suck

unless you tilt it up about this much

otherwise you're looking down at the

monitors and unless you're willing to

get a little bit Jank like we did you're

almost certainly going going to have to

be dealing with overheating unless you

go with a more basic spec at which point

you've got to be asking yourself why

didn't you just buy a

laptop so yeah it's kind of bad like

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