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today we've got something pretty cool to take a look at this is the silverstone

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grandia series gd08 this is according to

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silverstone an amazing home theater server case with incredible storage and

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cooling capacity that pretty much sums it up so basically in a similar form

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factor to their previous home theater cases and you know similar form factor

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as well as similar style meaning you've got a nice thick aluminum front bezel

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you've got the slick elegant looks

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they have managed to cram and you know cram is such an inelegant

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word to describe this product which isn't really fair but to cram

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and up to 12 hard drives

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and compatibility for an ssi that is

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like uber eatx motherboard

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and and long expansion slots meaning you can install

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any graphics card pretty much as many hard drives as you want and pretty much

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any motherboard you want in what is basically not much bigger than a regular

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hd pc case so i'm very excited to take a look at this they've actually got a

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warning right here this is a unique product please read the included manual

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before proceeding with installation so i'm guessing they had to make some sort

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of weird arrangements with the internals in order to make all of that stuff fit

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with uh with pretty much yeah zero compromises configuration

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capability without uh without overdoing

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the size you know i mean it's one thing to design the cosmos ii which can fit

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pretty much anything but it's the size of you know

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you know a plane um whereas this is you know i guess a

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little bit more more thoughtful not to you know rag on

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the cosmos too because it definitely has its place uh we see we've got hard

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packing foam usually i prefer to see the softer foams just because they tend to

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take a bit more of a beating before they yield however this one apparently

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arrived without any difficulty it helps that silverstone actually uses a higher

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quality outside carton box than most case manufacturers do

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here i'll show you guys you can see they use a uh a double wall here and then

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they this um this actually improves puncture

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resistance just the finish that they use on the outside as well so

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it's it's less of a concern for me with a silverstone box than it would be with

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someone else gto8 yeah this is really not that big

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compared to something like an lc17 or you know like one of their one of their

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staple products that doesn't have this enormous compatibility

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um sorry about that guys battery died you know the drill so let's start with

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the outside of the case because you know silverstone is certainly well known for

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elegant beautiful cases and this is definitely no extension

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extension it is an extension of that principle and it is no exception so you

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can see here we've got just a gorgeous brushed aluminum front now brushed

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aluminum is a bit of a double-edged sword for me because i'm always afraid to touch it because it tends to get

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gunked up if you get your fingerprints all over it but as long as you put it

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somewhere where it's going to be relatively safe it'll look beautiful for years to come we've got our power and

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reset switches as well as our as well as an led indicator on the front

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we've got two five and a quarter inch bays so you can put up to a couple

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different drives in here if you want two usb 3.0 ports as well as front

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headphones and microphone if you were going to use this as like a desktop

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tower on your case and it looks just wonderful i love the finish that they

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put on their cases on the side we've got two 120 millimeter

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cooling fan slots including as you can see right here

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there uh sorry push

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really push

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give me a sec there we go never mind i got it okay yes you push it

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and then you take it off so including an easily removable

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uh fan filter that has and this is something they explained to me at ces

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this year this is apparently the most

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optimal baffle to place in front of a fan

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in order to have as little impact as possible on airflow while reducing the

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audible noise of the fan so there you go you can see silverstone spent

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the guys i was talking to were like yeah we spent a really really long time on

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this trying absolutely everything so there you go that is the result of

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months of engineering that baffle which apparently will make your fans perform

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better and be less noisy so here you can

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see the 120 millimeter cooling fan slots i'm just gonna go ahead and put this

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back on now you can actually screw it into place if you want so you can see

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there's a couple screw holes there or you can just leave it

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slideable just like that let's move around to the other side

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where we find oh sorry it's not super heavy i was just kind of

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kind of awkward so where we have another 120 millimeter fan so this one you pull

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off including the same baffle uh doesn't include the fans by default but

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i mean most people who are going to be buying high super high end

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cases in my experience are usually finding their own fans that they prefer

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as well so there's not much benefit to including

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basic fans with uh with a case like this

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here we've got three 120 millimeter fans

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now this is also compatible with 100 1 120 380s or six 60 millimeter fans

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should you so desire so i'm going to go ahead and pull these off yeah these just

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snap off so you can see the wide variety of mounting holes that are there on the

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bottom of the case so you can see we have two fans installed out of the factory

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giving you overall positive air pressure inside the case this is one of the

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key concepts that silverstone has really been working on over the last couple years

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actually and that is positive airflow so positive or positive air pressure rather

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so positive air for air pressure keeps

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the keeps it doesn't keep dust from accumulating

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inside your case but it reduces the amount of dust that can get into your case because if you have negative air

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pressure that is to say more exhaust fans than intake fans what happens is

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dust will tend to get sucked in places where there aren't fans whereas if you

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have more intake than exhaust it'll tend to have just a you know a passive little

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bit of airflow out of all those little gaps in the corners of the case which

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can keep dust from being sucked into them as long as your intakes are filtered

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that is on the fans that you're using for intake otherwise it's not helpful at

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all okay so on the back we've got seven plus one configuration for pci slots you

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can use that for a fan controller or whatever else but it means we can't

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support xlatx motherboards in spite of the wide motherboard compatibility we've

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got our standard sort of bottom mounted power supply okay

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and then i o as well as two 80 millimeter fan slots now let's go ahead

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and open it up and i am very very curious to see the inside of this

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especially so that i can know what merits that special warning about uh

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making sure you read the manual before trying to build a system in this case because it must be

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it must be pretty complicated though i mean you know it's probably not

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complicated but it might be a little bit tricky like you know you'll go ahead and

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you'll install all your hard drives to find out that if you install the hard drives first you can't install your

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motherboard or something like that got a couple vibration dampeners here so

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those guys press down on the

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handles when you're holding up to 12 hard drives

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at a time you do need handles even when we did our little build in the array r2

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with the Windows home server six hard drives and one go is precarious you want

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to make sure that you're holding it very securely because if you drop them

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i mean even if they're not dead even if they still work you can never trust them

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with your data again anyway

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so those little pads hold these down in place so that they don't cause any

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vibration you can also see there's anti-vibration padding here as well just

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to keep the hard drive cage here from transferring vibrations to the top panel

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other than that the case is pretty much one solid piece so yeah if you want to

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fit anything wider than standard atx in here it looks like you're going to have

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to play some funny games with removing these fans

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in order to get the extra space for the motherboard it looks like this whole

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mounting system thing for it actually

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comes out so hold on a second let's uh give me a minute with the manual

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actually i'll just i'll be able to tell you guys more about this

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let me start by saying that this case is probably the one of the most confusing

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ones i've encountered but it also has the best manual i have ever encountered

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so in spite of it being a black and white manual and look how thick it is

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this manual is like head and shoulders better than any other case i've ever

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encountered so it tells you there's an installation guide and the installation

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guide isn't just like how to put in a pci express graphics card no no the

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installation guide is step by step one by one what order to install the

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components in to make sure that everything will fit gives you little tips and tricks about make sure that

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there's nothing interfering with this particular spot right here while you're

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putting in this thing so it shows you all the installation guidy stuff it

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explains how to use things like these

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whoops these which are used to mount a hard drive in this little tiny gap over

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here but more on that later um it also it gives you recommendations for

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a bunch of different components so they explain oh okay well if you're going to

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use a dual here how many case manufacturers bother to tell this tell

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you this if you're going to use a dual CPU motherboard use one

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with the CPU socket in the top right corner because that will give you better

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compatibility with this case that kind of tip is fantastic to have as an end

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user and most manufacturers don't really bother to tell you stuff like that they

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expect you to figure it out on your own but it's in here

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very very cool they also tell you you know if you want to put a high-end

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graphics card here you're going to have to not install hard drives here here and

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here and you know just component size limitations they have a whole big swac

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of stuff about this make sure you use this kind of right angle cable as opposed to this kind of right angle

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cable fan configurations what can fit

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according to what kind of a motherboard you're using

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say six by 60 mil fans is for the ssi configuration

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all right recommended coolers graphics cards what direction the airflow should

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go in in order to be optimized for your case this is this is just like great

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stuff okay so let's move on and let's actually look at the case itself so you

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can pull this out with the two handles and it'll be heavier when there are

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drives in it but i want to first explain where all the drives go so

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here you can put three three and a quarter three and a half inch drives

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these won't interfere with anything they're just across from the power

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supply so no matter what kind of graphics cards you have or whatever other hoo-ha that will be just fine you

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can then put another up to four here depending on the orientation you can

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turn them either this way or this way as long as you don't have a super long

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graphics card installed and if this is for like media storage then that's

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probably the kind of configuration you go with you can then and this is awesome

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put a an eighth three and a half inch drive like over here so you actually run

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the SATA connect cables through here so the drive sits like

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uh like this i believe

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uh nope like this sorry guys it's really tricky so it sits

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like this so you can just barely access them and run the cables to it and so

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that's eight three and a half inch drives you can put two two and a half

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inch drives oh yeah and it uses this adapter over there so that bolts to the

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side of the case which then screws into the drive meaning it's not sticking

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right up against the case with a risk of shorting out so we've got two two and a

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half inch drive bays here and you run

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the cables to those up here as well

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and then finally the two five and a quarter inch bays which you can also use

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to install more three and a half inch drives or more two and a half inch drives should you see fit so that is up

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to 12 total drives just with this

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innovative piece of metal so these guys are fully dampened

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these ones are partially dampened you can see there's dampening here but they

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had to cut this out so that there's space for graphics cards and it's fully

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dampened up here so you're still putting in up to four screws per drive which is fine

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these are not damp dampened they're optical drives so that's just fine and this fly over here is not dampened if

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you really need you know ten drives and you've already replaced both of your

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five and a quarter inch drives with hard drives then you can put it in there um

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and you'll be happy i hope with that result because

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that's already kind of ridiculous ha front court front panel connectors so

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here we find pretty much standard fare we've got our internal usb 3 and they do

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include an adapter in case your motherboard does not support usb usb3

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via an internal header just do that alternately you can source one of those

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other adapters which i actually just

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grabbed one i don't know what i did with it so whatever you can source adapters

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that allow you to turn one of these into a pass-through through to the to the

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back of the case as well and you can just run it through pci slot okay we've

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got our front uh power and reset switches as well as

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power led so that front led and then we've also got our hard drive led so two

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leds in the front we've got our front hd audio and then we've got pretty much

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just the connectors for our fans so we include

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three 120 millimeter fans although you can install just a whack load of other

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fans so i made a mistake and i said you could install a 120 millimeter fan here

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at the beginning of the video you cannot that is a filter for the bottom of the

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power supply so you can install up to five 120 millimeter fans if you take

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this guy out and then you can also do right use or you can do

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this is that part where you can do the multiple different configurations so if you want to do the 80s or the 60 mils

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depending on what kind of a motherboard you have in this is your standard atx

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width and your standard atx length so you do have to remove some of this stuff

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or make it more low profile in order to make room for it i think the inside is

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fairly self-explanatory i once you get past this which is not self-explanatory

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at all but now that i get it is actually still fairly easy to use so you install

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everything in it you install your components in here

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you do like kind of a test fit where you look at it really carefully as you as

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you make your way down and then you have successfully crammed

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or while silverstone has successfully helped you cram more hardware than i

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would have even thought possible in a small space as well possible so whether

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you need dual cpus and you know 64 128

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gigs of RAM in your media pc or not now you can thank you for watching this

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