welcome to an unboxing that I've actually wanted to do for quite a while
and I've received a number of requests to do now I know that I unboxed the F3
mini a long time ago and I uh promised
at the time of unboxing it that I would do an ITX build guide in that case and
it took like months to get it done but I would like to remind you guys that I
eventually did get it done so when I'm
committing now to do a Micro ATX build guide in the
sg9 I don't know how soon it'll get done
but it uh will get done at some point so
there you go I I am committing that to you Silverstone has to be one of the
most underappreciated case manufacturers in a lot of ways so number one is you
guys have no idea what it costs in terms
of the tooling and design costs to bring
a new case to Market it is a boatload of
money and Silverstone releases new case
designs all the time trying to constantly innovate and constantly do
things differently they also do a lot of stuff that only has Niche appeal where
they'll be like okay let's build like the craziest smallest ITX enclosure that
can hold a Ballin graphics card like they did with the F3 mini and also cools
exceptionally well like they did with the ft3 F3 mini or they'll take
something they'll be like oh let's turn like the motherboard on its side 90 degrees and so they do like this crazy
stuff and they take they take gambles because it costs them even if they never
actually sell a case it still costs them hundreds of thousands of dollars to
bring that case to Market which has nothing to do with even so so let's say
even they sell a hundred case a 100 cases or a thousand cases like they they
the margin doesn't justify the development cost in a lot of cases
unless it really takes off so they they take gambles they bring things to Market
and I think we have to appreciate that because they do unique stuff so there's
your sort of History lesson on Silverstone and what they do and this
folks is the sg9 which is intended to be
a super small super awesome airf flow
Micro ATX case so you can see airflow is
the name of the game with this guy we've got huge vents on the front huge vents
on the side all down the bottom here all up the top here huge vent on the top
these look like very very large fan fan holes once we get it opened up we'll
have a better idea what's going on and a 120 at the back so this is like an air
cooling box so let's have a look at what Silverstone has to say for themselves
and then we'll move on to the case itself so dual speed fan switch on the
rear pane 120 mil fan included independent hard drive and SSD compartment behind the motherboard tray
love it support supports full size CPU coolers up to 165 Ms air penetrator AP
181 fan is included very nice very good fan slim optical drive bay is included
right up at the top detachable front power supply fan filter so your power
supply goes right in the front fullsize ATX power supply is supported dedicated
triple GPU fan slots with removable filter and four expansion slots
accommodate top end graphics cards up to 13.3 in Long which is about as long as
they get these days guys full graphics card ample fence BL
blah okay yeah let's move on all right the case itself so that is the front
that is your power supply intake so I have a feeling we're going to find a
very very unique internal layout here uh
when I go get my screwdriver and I can take off the thumb screws on the back so
exterior first the front is plastic so that is a plastic bezel however they're
using that brushed plastic that I happen to really like so it's got kind of a
like a brush feel to it the place where it's missing that finish
is up here on that power supply intake as well as here where the slim slot
loading optical drive goes so that's a
little bit disappointing but it's not the end of the world it doesn't look too
bad I'd love it if it was a metal front but this would be very expensive to do
it a metal Silverstone logo here power and reset buttons on the left and the
right two USB 3 front ports as well as front headphones and front microphone I
already kind of showed this but it's okay so this is probably something to do
with the uh the motherboard tray back mounted SSD Mount so you can see how
much room there is behind the motherboard tray so I'm expecting to find pretty good Cable Management in
there this up here looks like it has a
little like uh handle here so you can yeah there you go you can get that uh
get that whoopsy daisies get that out of there so it was an included 180 mm air
penetrator if I recall correctly yeah that's a 180 mm air penetrator that's
blowing air down onto the CPU area as well as down onto the back of the
graphics card where it'll be exhausted this way so they're going for a little bit of a different airflow layout with
this case go ahead and snap that back into place then on this side there's
that triple fan thing that they set up so it looks like a 120 and dual 80s
that's going to be dedicated to cooling the graphics card as well as more
ventilation here so these were a little bit tight from the factory but loosening
them with a screwdriver has got that taken care of and this is something that
I haven't really seen before it looks like we can remove pretty much every
panel except for a little bit down here to almost completely
open up the case for for installations so you know what let's just see if
there's any documentation I mean with the uh uh-oh I think it was the gd8 as
well as the F3 mini a couple Silverstone cases I've looked at recently they
specifically said in the instructions this is a unique case don't even bother
trying to assemble your system in here without some help so yeah something
something carefully prepared by yeah and they do such good manuals so they're
like yep here here's all the different things here's a little addendum this is
how you disassemble it blown up view of it how it goes back together so 80 or 92
mil fans on the side there reset button 180 mil fan okay I'll be back in a
moment baby's crying okay so I removed all the screws from the back but I
realized there's actually one more that you have to remove here to get the top
cover off so we were in the middle of figuring out how the whole thing comes
apart so this is sort of one big
u-shaped piece that all comes off and I see much like the F3 this case could
present some challenges even for experienced Builders because of the
unique way that it all fits together so
this guy is done with two separate screws so you can either take it off or
not take it off it's totally up to you and by two separate screws what I meant
to say was three separate screws cuz there's
one more on the bottom here there we go
so let's take those off and then so we can either remove those or not remove
them and we are going to do that just for the sake of getting this going here
so you can do either a 120 and you can see there's an air penetrator included
120 and 280s or 92s or you can do 380s
or 3 92s it's totally up to you I hope
that I'm correct about that and I'm totally wrong so it's a 120 and
uh 110 blah blah blah blah backwards
compatible with 92 and then 280 yeah it
claims to be yeah okay oh there they are there there I see the holes but it doesn't do 80s so you can do 92 92 92 or
120 92 92 120 80 80 and this case uses
extremely fine fan filters so they're almost more like a nylon than an actual
plastic you can see there's some like there's some shiftiness to them here so
these should be doing a really good job
of uh sorry just got to check the direction there these should do a really
good job of filtering even very fine particles out of the air that goes into
your case which is important for that con concept of positive air pressure so
you can see the way they've configured these fans this guy's an intake this big
guy up here the big 180 mm is also okay
baby is also an intake and then the only exhaust is this 120 at the back as well
as the power supply itself so that means you're going to have overall positive
air flow combined with filtered intakes you should have a very dust-free
internal environment very solid construction on this guy overall like
you can see there's no there's no flex of the materials given that there's not
a whole lot to speak of here so it's quite a thick steel all the corners are
rounded like that so you're not going to risk cutting yourself or anything I
remember when I used to work with cheap cases all the time I always used to have
the cuts just all over my hands and uh you know people ask me what's going on
and I'd be like no no I'm fine don't worry uh on the back we've got 2 by two
so four total 2 1/2 in Drive mounts then
we have some additional optional accessories which I'm just going to have
to go ahead and cheat and look at the manual and I'll be back in a minute as I
said before the guide included is so detailed it goes through and gives you I
mean it gives you great little tips these are the kinds of things you never
find in installation guides it has a dedicated step called we recommend
deciding whether or not to install the right side fan now and then there's
another one that's like awesome as well because it basically just says this is
this is the point where you need to start thinking about cable routing
before you before you keep going make sure you're doing things tily I don't
remember where it is anyway on the back you mount two 3 and 1/2 in drives here
and you can see they've given ample thought see right there little bit of
air flows coming right over the hard drives so that they're going to be
positioned in such a way that they're going to get Cooling and then the bottoms of the hard drives have a little
bit of space down here where you can route the wires that you need around
here these guys right here hold those 4 2 and 1/2 in and again it doesn't really
matter that much whether you have that much air flow over here so I personally
would I really like this design it's great so you can put that 80 mil fan
here that is not a filtered intake however it's uh yeah is not so that's
probably one that I wouldn't really recommend using let it be like a passive exhaust or install an exhaust fan there
as another option so it gives you instructions for removing the power
supply cage itself so you can see the way the power supply is going to be
positioned we'll have this plug right
here which is a right angle plug plugged into the back of the power supply it'll
intake at the front of the case and then it'll exhaust out the side of the case
right there so it'll come right out the side and none of that air is ever going
to affect the cooling of the internal components your slot low DVD drive goes
up here and guys remember we are going to be doing a build guide in this case
so don't worry if you're if you're missing any of these steps now that it's
down to the bare skeleton you can see our internal connectors so we've got an
internal USB 3 as well as all your usual front panel connectors including front
audio we've got fan connectors for the included fans and you can also see here
just how much space there is they also give you fan fantastic tips like a lot
of people ask me this um and the answer
I usually give is well it depends on your case they say oh I have a I have a
case fan over my graphics card area should I use it as an exhaust or as an
intake Silverstone gives you examples of a variety of different fan
configurations that you can find on graphics cards which hopefully I will
component size limitations they cover all of that as well as here we go more
component size limitations types of caes that are optimal so they recommend using
Straight cables they show you types of CPU coolers that are recommended there you go so they say okay this this is how
you do it this kind or this kind this is how you do it and they let you sort of
make your own best judgment that way they also tell you you know don't use
two cards in SLI or Crossfire that are sandwiched too close
together so the way that they recommend is say for example you got a GTX 590
which is going to exhaust some out the back and out here so you'd want to use a
couple here as an intake and then this one as an exhaust and let the pass mive
exhaust go out the back of the io for that side motherboard tray is fairly
solid about what I'd expect from Silverstone and I think that pretty much
covers it so the idea was for them to do a microatx case which is capable of an
SL or Crossfire configuration within I
think they set out a design spec for themselves of 23 L total internal
capacity remember guys this case is probably smaller internally than a bit
Phoenix Prodigy and actually accommodates a pretty high-end
configuration now it doesn't have those same liquid cooling options available
but you would still be able to get away with a thick 120 mm radiator here and
with some more creativity you could probably do like an 80 mil rad there and
who knows you could even maybe ceiling mount something if you put it sort of
over here on the side and figured out a way to mount it so there's a lot of room
in here for all kinds of cool stuff thank you for checking out my unboxing
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lus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and I'm going to have a hard time
putting this back together and other computer videos I think there's one more
thing I haven't showed you that I would like to show you before we do wrap
things up here is at the back how do you actually connect your power supply via
the outside it goes right there so that's that passer that I showed you
that connects to the internal power supply which goes here and then you can
see from the front so you better make sure you pick a power supply that's not
you know like gray and I actually did end up forgetting a couple things guys
so they even include things like a little duct if you want to use a 25 mm
thick fan on the side um so yeah you can bridge the gap so
that it gets a little bit closer to your GPU delivers the air rate to it includes
uh rubber feet for the bottom so those are super super grippy which is good all
your included screws can't believe I didn't cover this when I did the actual
unboxing uh USB 3 to usb2 adapter if your motherboard doesn't have front USB
3 some cable ties ah this is cool so single Mox to three three pins for those
three fans right there as well as oh
neat it's a bracket for converting from 180 to 140 mm and this is for the slim
opticle okay now don't forget to subscribe oh yeah and
these These are evidently for adhesive spacers for 9 and 1 12 in slim optical
drive installation so you get four of them