sea sonic sponsored this video and we're looking at the follow-up to the seasonic
connect something that we already checked out over on the Linus tech tips channel the idea
for the synchro connect so this is the dpc 850
it's an 850 watt power supply the idea
is basically the same so you've got your conventional
looking power supply here a little something like
that oh okay
why is this so tight instead of having
all of the cables and connectors coming off of it like this
you've just got one so to my knowledge
this only carries 12 volt power then
you've actually got a secondary unit and in this case it looks like the secondary
unit has actually gotten considerably bigger so the power supply
connection comes in here right there and then off of it you've
got dual eight pins for your CPU you've got oh interesting fan connector
is that an RGB header very interesting
uh a few SATA and molex connectors
a sync connector and then more fans
more RGB whoa a lot more fans and a lot
more RGB and then SATA and molex well wait what
about your graphics card how are you supposed to connect your graphics card see sonic
they overlook that oh
ah there they are GPU's here and the 24
pin cable is here so the idea here is to address
one of the main complaints that i brought up with the last generation
product and that was that like okay this is really cool but what case
does it go in along with the synchro connect see sonic
is launching
the q7 series
synchro case it's an aluminum
steel tempered glass case that includes
nydec fans and apparently looks good
so they say but i haven't actually seen any evidence of it yet because i have
not yet opened this box so let's go ahead and crack it open
oh boy
got the accessory box for starters user manual
gloves
hopefully they're asian sized they are
my tiny hands won't be a disadvantage today ladies and gentlemen
uh i've got all the screws in a helpfully
segmented little box here but then they don't actually like
divide them up that would be a nice touch for next time see sonic
fantex does it a little cleaning cloth
user manual yeah we probably won't need that i mean how different could it be
now it's pretty heavy
especially for an aluminum case
oh shoot
very solid packaging really like to see that this is a
really firm thick foam
but not rigid that is
a plus foam right there love it
all right all right oh let's
now let's unveil it ah here we go
well you guys got the butt end they're interesting
they've gone with an inverted atx layout
brushed aluminum front panel ah the rest
of the case is steel that explains why it felt heavy for an aluminum case
so what am i looking at here is that
an integrated synchro thing
it kind of looks like it like it looks like that's right there so
wait these ventilation holes
along the outside here are presumably so that
this thing can do the 12 volt to 5 volt and 3.3 volt conversion
in here instead of in the power supply itself actually i can check that really
easily yes that is correct and then it actually
needs some some ventilation so i guess that's why this is open
and then it's got these honeycombs on the back here too
what do you think of the front very very
black very black nicole everyone
this is her first time uh shooting a ShortCircuit with me i think she didn't
realize i was going to ask her opinion
now a lot of the time with a solid front panel you might be concerned that you're not going to get any airflow in there
but actually if you look over here this side
is open and they've got a solid well probably just about an inch
of space so like two centimeters and change in here i
don't expect it to be a concern is that a removable filter
there it is i didn't have to pull the front off at all
is that magnetic it is look at that
cool all right i guess i could put that back on now or no we could just have a
look here so three
three included 120 millimeter fans on the front looks like you could mount
three 140 mils if you really wanted to and all the front i o is done top i o
style so you've got two type a's a type c and your audio
ports as well as your power and reset switches looks like this is another removable
filter yep also magnetic very nice
seven pci slots bottom mounted power supply
and another 120 slash 140 millimeter
mount that's pre-populated with a 120 millimeter fan
interestingly seasonic includes an RGB
connection for every one of the fans so all
six of them but it appears that the synchro case doesn't ship
with RGB fans transportation lock
remove first oh interesting
so you unscrew this piece and then you can decide if you want it to just swing
open all the time yeah for easy access or if you want to put this on to lock it
if i can put this front panel back on
don't actually recommend removing that okay it just pops off like that it's got
a little uh rubber thing on the inside so it doesn't scratch your glass and now i would expect this to just
swing open kind of hard to kind of hard to get in
there oh unless it
ah there we go it's attached to this front piece
okay so it pops off the hinge that's pretty normal
you know opening this up it's kind of crazy how little
the interior layout of a case actually matters anymore these days
because it used to be that you had to really you know examine like oh
how thoughtfully are the drive cages laid out and how's all the cable
management going to work there's like almost no cables in a case anymore you just have
to wire up your fans usually on a brand new machine you're
running an NVMe drive so you just gotta run power to your motherboard and GPU
so let's pull whatever this placeholder is in here out and let's throw in the
synchro
oh looks like we've got a bottom filter
as well nice that that pulls out from the front instead of from the back so you don't
have to pull your computer away from the wall in order to clean it actually all the filters really easily
accessible in this thing really like that only two three and a
half inch hard drive mounts but there's another three two and a half
inch drive mounts on the back so that should cover the vast majority of people
there's a bay for another two hard drives down here
although given that seasonic has a very very
short history of making cases i wouldn't say it's necessarily a
guarantee that you're going to see the kind of long-term support and spare parts
availability that you would from a more established case maker
so i wouldn't i wouldn't count on that i'd say it's got
two three and a half inch drive mounts
all right i'm losing the gloves i don't have enough grip on my shaft
here always make sure you've got proper shaft grip
critical
my panel connectors okay and how does
this attach oh i see screws in from the back so i
actually did not need to do that at all what i just did i got to remove
these screws at the back instead
i forget nicole are you a pc or a mac i'm a pc
you're a pc i got
magnets everywhere on this thing this is like totally unnecessary oh
that's kind of cool if you don't have a
synchro power supply this like placeholder thing that takes
the spot of it you can actually it's got magnets on it
so you can just kind of chuck it on there and without
screwing it in and it'll just cover up your cables so
that's why it has these uh paths in the sides so you can run things
through it okay all right that's pretty neat
so all the connectors that you need for your graphics cards
and for your motherboard here are just
right there kind of built into the panel
that's kind of nice to make cable management a bit easier see sonic includes a
triple pwm adapter for the front three fans so you just plug all three of those
into one spot plug the rear fan into another spot and
dippidy bop it either off to the races and then this is it this is all the
wiring that you do from the power supply to the sea sonic connect
it's actually a similar concept to what Intel is doing with their atx 12 volt
only standard except instead of running
the 12 volt up to the motherboard and then having everything branch off of the
motherboard seasonic is taking what looks like a more realistic approach
and having everything branch off of this distribution piece
and go to a more traditional connector on the motherboard and drives etc etc
that's tidy
theoretically then the included cables should be really short aha
look it's a little baby 24 pin are these fans RGB and they just
really don't look like why is there so much RGB
thought put into this and no included RGB
yeah these look like fan extensions but
to what i'm checking the manual
nope no explanation provided for the
fan and RGB extension jigs
oh wow so they've even
gotten as specific as this is a triple SATA connector
you plug it in here and you run it to
these three drives yep one two three
the whole thing just tucks right there most motherboards consistently have the
eight pin connectors here so that's where these go they've even
got little cable management loops right there and there so we'll just go in like that flipping
around to the other side there's no way to do it wrong because it says connect module here and
then motherboard here
oop that just goes in there like that
and we got a couple of these little short baby six plus two pins
got it two of these are longer and two of them are shorter so if you've got
gpus in different slots or gpus that are different lengths or
heights or whatever else you're definitely going to be able to plug in at least two of them no matter
where you're trying to stretch it to now i'm not saying that a configuration
like this could never run into issues for example if you
were to use an Intel cryo cooler you would need a six pin
that goes over to your CPU socket and actually no that would reach um
okay it's looking pretty good actually
one thing i would like to see see sonic do actually
is include like a reservoir mount or something like that
um some kind of give some thought to reservoir and pump mounting there's
obvious spots for it you've got a nice plain panel right here
that you could just drill pump mounting holes into and same for the res right here but if
they if they pre-drilled some of those holes well then they'd give up some of the
clean aesthetic okay i don't know you can let me know in the comments if you'd like see sonic to give some thought to
to pre-mounted water cooling components but other than that this is like
surprisingly thoughtful for our first attempt is this sea sonic's first case
got another 120 millimeter mount down here if you want to get some more air
flow going to the basement and the power supply area i don't think it's really strictly
speaking necessary especially because our power supply is drawing fresh air in
from the bottom but man this is kind of looking like the way
to have completely clean cable management
not bad seasonic not bad i'm shocked that you guys had the stones to go out
and develop a case to go with this concept but overall i think it works way better
now that you have it instead of just trying to create something that
like should fit in third-party cases
let me know what you guys think in the video thanks for watching and thanks to
seasonic for sponsoring this video we're probably going to do a follow-up
where we do a full build in the case over online as tech tips so make sure you're subscribed to both channels