so in 2005 Silverstone created the
perfect chassis the tj07 and I okay it's
not quite perfect my tj07 the tj07 is the case I use for my personal machine
my tj07 has the interior painted black
it has some modifications I've taken out the hard drive cages I have used the
back of the motherboard tray for mounting ssds I've taken out the front
Bay covers and I've replaced them with mesh um I've dremeled out some of the
back for cable routing basically I've made some some changes but the chassis
itself with its all aluminum unibody design is in my opinion the finest case
ever made now when Silverstone launched the
tj1 I was very curious to have a look at
it because the tj1 is something of a spiritual successor to the TJ tj7 with
some key improvements in technology that have been made in The Last 5 Years so
the tj11 is actually larger than the tj07 the tj07 has seven front Bays tj11
has nine so it's quite a bit taller it's also wider and so what are they using
that extra height for well for one thing the tj7 is great for liquid cooling
that's what I do with mine I actually have a quad 120 mil Radiator in the
bottom the tj11 allows up to a quad 140
mil r radiator so you got more space in the bottom they've also implemented the
concept that was introduced with the Raven series of chassis with the rv1
which is the 90°
altered um motherboard mounting so the
cards actually have their IO ports at the top of the chassis rather than the
back of it and I than that yeah we've
increased the size we've put in the 90°
mounting and I think that is pretty much
it for what I had to say so I'm going to let silverstone's packaging and
documentation here do the rest of the
talking okay so looks like my my packing
came off while I was taking it out of the box but give me a second to get this
unwrapped and then I will show you guys the tj1 so we've got the tj11 extracted from
the box you can clearly see that with me standing next to it the case appears
very large pretty with pretty much anyone standing next to it the case is
going to appear pretty large so let's just go through what Silverstone has to
say for themselves on the outside of the box which we haven't quite done yet so
not content with its past achievements Silverstone Engineers aim to set another
Benchmark okay so beautifully crafted all aluminum tj11 is a pleasure to work
with it's free of rivets now this is part of what allowed me to make the
modifications that I was able to make to my tj7 it can be completely
deconstructed and reconstructed very easily even if if you need to take it
apart paint it and put it all completely back together it's also easier to clean
for that reason as well I've taken it apart a few times so they have kept with
this uh proud tradition with the tj11 you can completely take it apart bigger
lower compartment to house even the largest radiator available talked about
that as well potential and flexibility are truly unrivaled um okay 1,000 wat
plus cooling capacity on air you can build an impressive storage server with
its plethora of Drive Bay options or even an amazing piece of technology
artwork with liquid cooling so this has all been covered so far plenty of
ergonomic touches such as quick access filters a hot swappable hard drive Bays
which is the tj07 did not have removable motherboard tray which the 07 did have
CPU black back plate cutout which the 07 my 07 doesn't have but I believe the
newer ones do and an optimized cable routing path to enable easy maintenance
and upgrades for efficiency awesome okay
let's move along here so the 90 degree motherboard mounting I've already talked about it includes two air penetrator air
AP 181 fans to Aid stack Cooling so that
is their uh cooling design with the motherboard rotated 90° extra large
venting area for the 10th expansion slot which will'll have to show you later
rivet Fe free construction room for powerful water cooling equipment dual
power supply support that's another thing that it carries over from its uh
predecessor the tj07 all aluminum construction with anodized sand blasted
finish now this I'm really glad to see check this out so on the tj07 we had the
anodized sand blast finish which is kind of a rough finish I don't want to touch
it cuz I don't want to leave fingerprints um and then on the sides we
had a brushed finish now brushed finishes I love them they look beautiful
but they're a fingerprint disaster you touch them and it it actually etches
into the aluminum from your fingerprints and you can't even rub it off if you let
that those oils sit there for long enough whereas with the um with these
sand blasted finishes they're actually far more durable in terms of being um
well they're harder to scratch they're more difficult to damage with your fingers etc etc so for the side panels
mine particularly have um IR removable
marks indelible marks at the back from from taking it off and putting it on so
you should be able to avoid that with this case all right a Silverstone
exclusive dual extruded aluminum unibody frame with thickness of up to 4.5 mm so
the unibody frame here they're talking about a single piece that here where are
they saying yeah the single piece that runs through the entire front curve of
the chassis so that is something that's been carried over from the tj7 9 5 and
1/4 in Bay twin removable hard drive cages with built-in cpo5 hot swapable
adapters we'll have to show you that in a minute six 3 and2 in hard drive trays
with uh you can look at this picture over here so that they can see for now
um six 3 and half in hard drive base built using industrial grade nylon very
cool okay and then massive lower compartment we've talked about that
before power supply housing area for up to two power supplies dual see-through
air intake vents with removable filters
okay uh P air penetrator fans y yep top
mounted slide out motherboard tray system to facilitate installation 9
plus1 expansion slots enable support for XL ATX motherboards and multi-GPU
configuration so that's a big one as well the tj11 is actually one of the few
cases on the market that can accept something like a Gigabyte G1 assassin
motherboard natively with no modifications
whatsoever all right let's take the side panel off oh we can have a look at the
accessories that are included as well so we've got three
SSD adapters so that's uh 2 and 1/2 to 3
and 1/2 inch adapter oh look at this they let you decide if you want to put
on the Silverstone badge or not so it just comes with a double-sided tape on
it so you can either put that on your case or you can not is there a
particular place it goes no you decide excellent all right uh dual power supply
adapter just a relay so that they'll both turn on at the same time fan
filters two of them oh they're magnetic nice all right tj11
manual screws another Silverstone uh
badge this one's not made of metal it's more of a sticker but it's smaller it's
also nice yeah this is a metal sticker by the way it's very very nice okay
we've got a Molex to three 3 pin adapter
for your fans and then finally we have the single uh redundant power supply
option here if you're building like a high-end workstation and you're going to
put that in a Silverstone tj11 here's the side panel oh there's that extra
screw I was wondering where that went okay here is the side panel it's very
thick look at that piece of aluminum right there it's incredibly thick heavy
duty construction that's what makes this case even remotely workable with though
the fact that it's made of aluminum if this was made of steel it would weigh more than I can carry I'll tell you guys
that much so you can see here this is completely free access for the air air
pen pator fans here to fresh air flow from the outside and then down here
these grills are all opened up so that for people who are going to remove the
lower hard drive cages and mount a large radiator down there they will have all
the access to air flow that they need for the cooling fans on the radiator
itself so since this is a uh sort of a
like a backwards case I've actually opened up well it's like backwards and
then rotated 90° so I've actually opened up what would normally be the correct
side to see the motherboard tray itself but in this case it's not oh yeah and it
comes with uh an anodized aluminum mouse
pad as well which is just gorgeous all right so let's open up the
other side give me just a minute here won't make you guys sit through that so
I opened it up but I realized we're not really done with the outside so up here
on the top of the case we've got an enormous grilled area so this is
actually the main exhaust for the case the back of the chassis itself actually
has no room for exhaust at all because that is not the function of the back of
this case so let's go ahead and take this off it's just held in place by
Clips all right now you can see what would normally be the back of a computer
case so there's your IO here's where you can plug in the front USB if you're not
using the internal headers all right and there are your
9 + one okay what does that mean so 9
plus oh just this is just ventilation space for that 10th spot so there's your
9+ one uh uh PCI slots as well for your
XL ATX motherboards lots of ventilation space around the sides and the bottom as
well and a 120 mil fan here at the back
the power button is also here on the top and then on this side we've got two USB
3.0 ports as well as a reset switch and
then on the other side we have two USB 2.0 PS as well as our front audio ports
on the front I want you guys to have a close closer look you can see the 5 and
1/4 in Baye as well as oh another power
switch so they've actually built in two power switches so whether you want to
turn whether you want to have it sitting on the floor next to you and be able to
reach the power switch here or whether you want to have it up on your desk and
reach the power switch here you will have easy access to turn on the computer
H it's kind of neat all right moving around to the other side this case does
include a side panel window so you can see the uh sexy Hardware that you have
hopefully installed in it because if you're going to buy this case and put in
like a you know Micro ATX motherboard and like Onboard video and yeah then
we'll just have to you Stone you to
death okay so there you go that's what it looks like with the window on and now
off and let's have a look at the internal features so here we can install
all of our 5 and 1/4 in devices here we can see the hot swappable 3 and 1/2 in
Bay you can also see that oh I don't even know why it included in SSD
adapters because it looks like we can probably just screw ssds natively onto
these right there like that maybe there's ones that uh that don't have
that piece I'm not sure not 100% sure how these work there we go nice
excellent okay let's have a look at these other ones it looks like they're all the same yep those are all the same
so that's how the hard drives go in here are the enormous AP 181 fans so these
are going to be blowing up at your components which will be inst called
this way so your video cards are going this way lengthwise here see
that all right here is the motherboard tray which as I mentioned before
supports up to XL ATX so that's where
you have those longer motherboards like the G1 assassin okay here's our front
USB 3.0 hookups let me just see where
those cables come from yeah it looks like if you wanted to hook those up to
internal adapters for the time being you're going to need to get an adapter
from these to an internal header but since on this case you're hiding all of
these cables anyway it's not nearly as big of a deal all right oh speaking of
the back actually there's a cutout right
here which is going to allow you to run things like your uh your display cables
up into the case without being obstructed by this piece
right here okay there's so much to this case I'm
sorry this video is so long guys but there's really nothing I can do about it
so the AP 1881 have filters on them which are removable and cleanable there
you go they have free access to all of the outside air as I mentioned around on
the other side but that goes for both sides all of the internal cables are
black black black so they're sleeved
there's your uh there's your dual power switch right there see how it has two
cables going into it there's your power LED hard drive LED reset switch your uh
front USB and your front HD audio is all
there uh here are the SATA cables for
those hot swap Bays so you can either leave those in plug all these into your
motherboard and then leave them as hot swap or in my case what I would be doing
is I'd be removing them all finding somewhere else to put my drives like uh
like I did on my tj07 is I bolted all my
sists on the back of the motherboard tray so I might do something like that or Mount them on the back of the 5 and
1/4 inch Bas whatever the case may be
and uh I think that pretty much covers everything that I have to say
about the tj11 for now I'm actually going to be doing a new extreme buyer
guide featuring The tj11 so I invite you
guys to stay tuned for that I'm going to be finally updating my liquid cooling
howto with some higher performance Part Parts I did kind of a liquid cooling
Essentials guide way back when as episode number two of ncx tech tips so
this time we're going to do it right we're going to do it with the G1 assassin and the tj11 with some cool
swifttech water cooling parts and I'm definitely very excited about that so
stay stay tuned and uh let's see what the tj11 has in store I've never built
an it before but on the surface it looks like it addresses pretty much any
complaint I could have possibly had about my ideal case the tj07 we've got
the black interior we've got better Cable Management it's roomier for more
water cooling goodness and other than that I mean what else what else is there
to change thanks for checking out my unboxing and first look don't forget to
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