soen Le's response to me when they got my request for a sample of this case was
wow that's the fastest I've ever gotten a response after sending out a product
announcement PR email I was on it like that and why was I so excited well
because I thought the PC q19 looked like
the closest thing that we've ever gotten to a console killer case that has you
know a very similar form factor to an xgen console actually about the same
width and depth as an Xbox One although it is quite a bit Coller and these great
modern living room friendly looks with
this gorgeous brushed aluminum finish speaking of gorgeous aluminum finishes
by the way we have a video coming on the MSI gs70 stealth 17-inch gaming laptop
beautiful aluminum finish anyway make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss that but back to this guy did it meet my
expectations well I guess you'll have to find out after you watch the
intro The Cooler Master nepton 240m features
an exclusive pump design and their new silencio fans to provide impressive near
silent performance click now to learn more so the PC q19 is the first case in
a while that I haven't actually been able to figure out how to open just by
looking at it I mean it's beautiful it's completely clean looking without a
single screw accessible from the front top bottom and right and left sides it
includes this fantastic aluminum stand that
complements it perfectly and is of such high quality that I would feel
legitimately bad about using the included rubber feet to lay it flat and
then hide it in my TV console this case demands to be shown off upon Consulting
the manual which comes in lots of languages but isn't particularly clearly
written and even contains some errors like instructing you to unscrew the PCI
Express Riser that actually ends up coming in a baggie not screwed in I
discovered that you just pop the side panels off they use a similar mechanism
to the bit Phoenix Pandora and I was ready with my red marker to take off
points for this because with the Pandora we actually had problems keeping the
side panel on until I tried to take these ones off
and realized we are dealing with a whole different grade of push pins here so
full marks for these side panels Le and Lee I mean let me tell you those sockets
you wouldn't want to put your penis in there you'd never get it back inside the
case it's classic and Le everything is made of the usual wonderfully finished
aluminum that keeps the case lightweight and classy looking keeps your fingers
and cable safe from cuts and enables some incredibly creative designs without
the sales volume requirements that cases with plastic chassis components require
motherboard and power supply mounting was pretty simple at first remove both
panels and all the removable bits the power supply takes an air directly from
the side and exhaust it out the back I used a 600 watt Silverstone sfx modular
power supply and the motherboard sits on a nice rigid you know support structure
thing that gives really easy access to the back of the board for easy cooler
installation and then I hit a potential snag and a real one first I noticed that
the ATX connector doesn't fit through the hole into the bottom compartment if
it's a full 24 pin design without the four detachable pins but mine has four
Breakaway pins so that was okay and and then I realized that not one combination
of the Mini ITX boards and sfx power supplies that I own would allow the 24
pin connector to reach the plug so I had to use a 24 pin extension fortunately I
had one lying around and there's a fair bit of room in the front of the case to
store the now extra length that I had to deal with I actually had the opposite
problem as well with the front usb3 header so the cable wasn't long enough
to Route around my CPU Cooler and it had to sit over top but that was that was a
minor issue and everything else here was fine Drive mounting is solid with anti
vibrational mounts in the 3 2 and 1/2 in locations and one 3 and 1/2 in location
and cable management was mostly easy with the only potential snafu being the
spacing of the two stacked 2 and 1/2 in drives you may need an adapter if your
power supply has left or right angle SATA connectors also of note while you
guys are watching the b-roll is that one of the drives is in the correct location
but not actually screwed in don't don't mind that it does screw in there if
you're not lazy I just threw that in after I was done building now I was very
pleased to see these sick magnetic fan filters over the motherboard and plower
Supply areas plower Supply filtered intakes are a very very good thing but I
was pretty disappointed to see how poorly planned the case's airflow
strategy was in general the 120 mm fan
behind the top filter needed to be turned around to keep the case's
internal pressure positive so that you're forcing dust out of the little
gaps in the case rather than into them drawing in dust check out this video to
learn more about this concept and the graphics card mounting while it's super
sweet with this PCIe Riser card and compatibility with up to 24 cm graphics
cards plenty of room for Gigabyte's new ITX GTX 970 by the way it's just kind of
like the cable cutout only being suitable for low-end 20 pin ATX
connectors I mean it's it's in there rather than feeling like it's an
important part of the case design and that like lean Lee actually expects
anyone to put a high-end card in the case any dual slot cooler design is
obviously going to starve for Fresh Air with a blower Style putting the fan
right up against a non-perforated side panel and an open design simply
scattering hot air around at the CPU in the nearby hard drive which leads into
both my conclusion about this case and I guess a bit of a rant it's a beautiful
case I can never fault lean Le craftsmanship but unfortunately it's
more geared towards light and middleweight media PC use and it's not
what I wanted as someone who wants to see a proper console killer case
truthfully even though I like the case that's making it really hard for me to
give it a positive conclusion here because it just feels like such a missed
opportunity given that even the lowly
7850 that I have in there runs at 81° on
the CPU at 80 7% fan speed and we're
talking about 110 TDP card here 110 watt
excuse me and the thing that makes me most upset about all of this is that the
case that I wanted this to be should already exist or be due for release very
soon 10 months ago I met with Nathan
from Cooler Master and I'm calling you out buddy and gave him my idea for how
we could take actually a very similar design to this one obviously before this
came out uh so it was Innovative at the time but with the mother on top No 3 and
1/2 in Drive mounting point so you'll rely on ssds or 2 and 1/2 in hard drives
the graphics card on a flexible PCIe extension on the bottom so the intake
would be on the same side as the CPU intake and an external brick style power
supply setup maybe with dual bricks or something like that I've seen this done
before now as well you know ASUS with their latest Rog thing G20 or something
like that and then so the idea was that we'd be able to get a full custom ad
adequately cooled ITX gaming PC into a
form factor about the size of the PS4 but they've been sitting on their asses
for almost a year now with this idea so I'm putting the idea out in public now
guys let me and Cooler Master know in the comments if you want to see
something like that because if it turned out well that is the kind of thing that
I would love to do like a sick Linus edition case of or something like that
anyway good case not what I expected
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