#EVGA RTX 3070 XC3 Black Graphic Card

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So I may or may not have gotten sidetracked from the ToolGun and started making a PC case.

Yeah.

So my good pal Juice is wanting to build his own PC soon, because right now all his gaming, streaming, work, etc. is on his old laptop, rocking an older quad-core i7 CPU and a GTX 1060 GPU. It's not great, but it works for him in everything except streaming. I wanted to help him save some money, so I decided to help out and said I'd give him my old PC case when he eventually builds his PC. I've got some time until he gathers the money, so I need to get a new case in order for myself to have a usable PC.

But then I realized, "What if I just printed my own case? I need one with a handle anyway with how often I move back and forth between my dorm and home."

TI drew this in about 20 minutes at about 1 AM. I'm a night owl. The idea was that the IO plane for the motherboard, the power supply (PSU), and graphics card (GPU) and capture card (CC) would all be relatively close and compact. The CPU is cooled by a radiator AIO, and the PSU and GPU would have access to air with circular holes on the side of the case. The CC and GPU would have PCIe risers that would wrap around the motherboard to connect them, which is what those black lines are in the bottom right portion.

The nice thing about PC parts is that they're all pretty standard sizes, or have standards for sizes for things like mounting holes. This makes throwing together concepts real easy when I can't pull out parts from my PC to test with. The unfortunate bit is that they like to mix units like inches and millimetres a lot, which can be frustrating to work with.

I recreated the two essential bits of a PC in case I needed to print them to test fit, but also just so I had the dimensions sketched up in my CAD program (Autodesk Inventor 2021).

I don't have pictures of when i was designing the case over time unfortunately. By this point, the case was well over 400x300x200mm and was not very easy to print and assemble even the top half. It required you to also print circle brackets and arrow brackets that were pressure fit. The bottom half would've fit into the top half with 4 circular fits into the PSU housing. The motherboard would've been on top, the PSU sliding into the housing below it with a single circle cutout for airflow. The top was measured to fit my specific radiator cooler for my CPU. The front panel also wouldve been pressure fit, I hadn't even gotten around to designing it before I scrapped it. The side panel would have had magnets to fit it on. The GPU/CC housing also did not have a cutout for PCIe brackets to go, as I could not find good drawings of them or even just basic measurements of how a case should have them.

While doing this, I did inevitably have to take out certain PC parts and measure them. I did these in an hour, so I apologize for the poor handwriting. The GPU is an EVGA RTX 3070 XC3 Black, the radiator is a CoolerMaster 240mm AIO. What a mouthful.

So I decided that that PC was too bulky to print, what now? Well, I had to figure out where I wanted things to go this time.

Here is my "V2" design. The PSU will sit above the CPU on the motherboard, and the CC and GPU will not have to use risers, saving me some money, at the cost of needing space for fans (which isn't difficult to work with, with standard sizes and all, and fans are generally cheaper). I also put some thought into the front panel this time as well! May as well make it look nice if I'm going to make my very own case.

Side panel will be what actually holds the PSU, and maybe a few 2.5inch drives like an SSD or something, or another fan. Ideas ideas ideas! The bottom portion of the case will be dedicated to just sucking in air for the GPU and CPU radiator (which will still be at the top). The fan on the back will have to be some 80mm one due to spacing, but the front panel fans can be a couple of nice 120 or 140mm fans.

I stayed up pretty late working on the revision. I even made a bunch of prototype fits for PCIe brackets, and found dimensions that work well enough for 3 slots. I still need to add mounting holes for fans, the radiator, and some front panel IO (like USB, headphone jacks, and power/reset switches). I also need to add something for the handle, which I have designs for but tumblr is limiting how many pictures I can have per post. I also just need some more airflow holes, and a way to mount the PSU to the case cleanly and safely. It'll be a few weeks till I can properly print and test the design, but I will absolutely show it off when I can, I've got plenty of old parts at home I can use to test fit!

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EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 XC3 8GB GDDR6 Black Gaming Graphics Card

EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 XC3 8GB GDDR6 Black Gaming Graphics Card

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This petite PC is a 4K gaming monster

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This petite PC is a 4K gaming monster

There’s lots of wide-open space in the Chronos, but no extra slots, typical of these small-form-factor desktops. The black box next to the CPU is the power supply.

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The Origin PC Chronos is one of those systems you feel the need to invent a performance metric for, like frames per second per cubic inch. Capable of housing up to an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 and overclocked Ryzen 9 or Intel Core i9 processors, this small-form-factor gaming PC punches well above its weight. It’s not the most gracefully proportioned system, though, squat and chunky with minimalist illumination. And unlike the tall, slim MSI MEG Trident X, which uses the same motherboard, it looks like it should be able to accommodate more than just a single card.

Like

Fits a lot of power in a small space

Relatively quiet given its power

Surfaces don’t get hot

Don’t Like

Really need to use the external Wi-Fi antenna

Like most mini-ITX motherboards, there’s only one slot, occupied by the graphics card

This case is new for Origin PC, and it’s actually a bit smaller than before. We’ll be seeing a lot more of these small desktops with 3080 and 3090 cards — it’s amazing how much power you can cram onto a corner of your desk these days — and they’re a perfect size for weekday-work-from-home-game-on-weekends people in a cramped space.

Like all Origin PC systems, you can pay extra to jazz it up with a custom paint or etching job. In this case, that’s extra above the $3,225 of our test configuration (directly converted, about £2,530 and AU$4,585), equipped with a 10-core Intel Core i9-10900K, EVGA XC3 GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card, a total of 1.5GB SSD and 16GB 3.2GHz DDR4 memory.  If you opt for the aluminum mesh side panels instead of the tempered glass we got, you can get a bigger CPU cooler and custom overclocking. The Chronos can be configured starting as low as $1,449 (about £1,135 and AU$2,060).

Origin PC Chronos

Price as reviewed $3,225 Size Mini ITX (11 x 7 x 15.5 in/27.9 x 17.8 x 39.4 cm) Motherboard MSI MEG Z490I Unify and Corsair SFX 750 watt PSU CPU 3.7GHz Intel Core i9-10900K Memory 16GB DDR4 SDRAM 3,200MHz (2 slots) Graphics 10GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 (EVGA XC3) Storage 500GB SSD (1 NVMe slot), 1 x 1TB SATA SSD; 1 open bay for 3.5-inch storage Ports 6 x USB-A, 2 x USB-C (1 x Thunderbolt 3); on GPU 3 x DisplayPort 1.4, 1 x HDMI 2.0b, on motherboard 1 x DisplayPort, 1 x HDMI) Networking 1 x 2.5Gb Ethernet, Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 (802.11ax) Operating system Windows 10 Home (2004)

There’s a lot of empty space in the case and, of the Mini ITX systems I’ve seen recently, it’s one of the easier to open and upgrade: there are thumbscrews on the back, the sides slide out, there’s a pressure plate with outside screws holding the graphics card in place and there’s a bottom slide-out filter tray. Everything’s easily within reach, visible and accessible. The liquid cooling systems are pretty, too, but they can make quick swaps and upgrades a pain.

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The Chronos has a Thunderbolt port in the back — a nice motherboard feature since the RTX 30-series cards don’t have USB-C connections like the 20-series did. I wish it had more connections in the front like the Trident X rather than the single USB-A, USB-C and audio jack, but at least you have a USB-C connector to hang a hub off of.

As with a lot of desktops, the Wi-Fi can be a bit sketchy — the antenna locations frequently don’t handle 5GHz signals very well — and you’ll definitely have to use the bundled external one. The antenna’s base is magnetized, though, and it attaches more sensibly to the base than other’s I’ve seen.

The i9-10900K processor in the Chronos isn’t the fastest I’ve tested in a small form factor, though it does take the single-core-speed crown, if only by a slim margin in some cases. The Ryzen 9 3900XT in the Maingear Turbo outperforms it for multicore speed, which is in part attributable to the Ryzen’s 12 processing cores compared to the i9’s 10. (You can see how it measures up in the benchmark results at the end of this review.)

The lip on the bottom is a pull-out filter.

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Surprisingly, the RTX 3080 isn’t unambiguously faster than the 2080 Ti; it’s plenty fast, but it looks like it’s (unsurprisingly) optimized for Nvidia’s own CUDA programming interface and Windows DirectX rather than Vulkan. That’s likely temporary, though, since the 30-series cards have some new algorithms and architectural changes that software needs to catch up with.  

For many games, though, it generally seems to be about 10-20% faster than the RTX 2080 Ti, its spiritual predecessor, and about 30-40% faster than the RTX 2080 Super, it’s price-equivalent predecessor. Perhaps more important, though, those gaps increase significantly when playing games in 4K using DLSS (Nvidia’s upscaling technology) in a way they never did in the 20-series cards, as well as 4K without it.

All this speed doesn’t heat up the system’s surfaces or overheat its components, but the hot air venting out the top does seem to raise the temperature in my room by about two degrees. Still, it’s small enough that I might actually be able to squish a third monitor on my desk and fast enough to make it worth putting up with the heat.

Geekbench 5 (multicore)

Origin PC Big O (PS4 Edition)

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Longer bars indicate better performance

Geekbench 5 (single-core)

Origin PC Big O (PS4 Edition)

Note:

Longer bars indicate better performance

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan)

Origin PC Big O (PS4 Edition)

Note:

Longer bars indicate better performance

Geekbench 5 (CUDA)

Note:

Longer bars indicate better performance

Cinebench R20 CPU (multicore)

Origin PC Big O (PS4 Edition)

Falcon North West Talon 20th AE

Note:

Longer bars indicate better performance

3DMark Fire Strike Ultra

Falcon North West Talon 20th AE

Origin PC Big O (PS4 Edition)

Note:

Longer bars indicate better performance

Shadow of the Tomb Raider gaming test

Origin PC Big O (PS4 Edition)

Falcon North West Talon 20th AE

Note:

Longer bars indicate better performance (FPS)

3DMark Port Royal (RTX)

Origin PC Big O (PS4 Edition)

Note:

Longer bars indicate better performance

System configurations

Corsair One Pro Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (1909); 3.3GHz Intel Core i9-10940X; 64GB DDR4 SDRAM 2,667MHz; 11GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti; 2TB SSD Falcon Northwest Talon 20th Anniversary Edition Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (1909); 3.8GHz AMD Ryzen 9 3900X; 32GB DDR4 SDRAM 3,200MHz; 8GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super; 2TB SSD RAID 0 Maingear Turbo Microsoft Windows 10 Home (2004); 3.8GHz Ryzen 9 3900XT; 32GB DDR4 SDRAM 3,600; 11GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti; 1TB SSD + 4TB HDD MSI Trident X Microsoft Windows 10 Home (1909); (oc) 3.8GHz Intel Core i7-10700K; 32GB DDR4 SDRAM 2,932; 8GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super; 1TB SSD Origin PC Big O (PS4 Edition) Microsoft Windows 10 Home (1909); 3.8GHz AMD Ryzen 9 3900X; 16GB DDR4 SDRAM; 8GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super; 1.5TB SSD (2TB SSD for console) Origin PC Chronos Microsoft Windows 10 Home (2004); Intel Core i9-10900K; 16GB DDR4 SDRAM 3,200; 10GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 (EVGA); 1TB SSD + 500GB SSD