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sea sonic sponsored this video and we're looking at the follow-up to the seasonic

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connect something that we already checked out over on the Linus tech tips channel the idea

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for the synchro connect so this is the dpc 850

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it's an 850 watt power supply the idea

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is basically the same so you've got your conventional

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looking power supply here a little something like

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that oh okay

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why is this so tight instead of having

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all of the cables and connectors coming off of it like this

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you've just got one so to my knowledge

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this only carries 12 volt power then

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you've actually got a secondary unit and in this case it looks like the secondary

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unit has actually gotten considerably bigger so the power supply

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connection comes in here right there and then off of it you've

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got dual eight pins for your CPU you've got oh interesting fan connector

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is that an RGB header very interesting

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uh a few SATA and molex connectors

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a sync connector and then more fans

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more RGB whoa a lot more fans and a lot

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more RGB and then SATA and molex well wait what

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about your graphics card how are you supposed to connect your graphics card see sonic

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they overlook that oh

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ah there they are GPU's here and the 24

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pin cable is here so the idea here is to address

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one of the main complaints that i brought up with the last generation

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product and that was that like okay this is really cool but what case

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does it go in along with the synchro connect see sonic

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is launching

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the q7 series

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synchro case it's an aluminum

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steel tempered glass case that includes

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nydec fans and apparently looks good

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so they say but i haven't actually seen any evidence of it yet because i have

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not yet opened this box so let's go ahead and crack it open

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oh boy

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got the accessory box for starters user manual

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gloves

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hopefully they're asian sized they are

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my tiny hands won't be a disadvantage today ladies and gentlemen

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uh i've got all the screws in a helpfully

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segmented little box here but then they don't actually like

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divide them up that would be a nice touch for next time see sonic

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fantex does it a little cleaning cloth

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user manual yeah we probably won't need that i mean how different could it be

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now it's pretty heavy

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especially for an aluminum case

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oh shoot

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very solid packaging really like to see that this is a

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really firm thick foam

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but not rigid that is

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a plus foam right there love it

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all right all right oh let's

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now let's unveil it ah here we go

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well you guys got the butt end they're interesting

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they've gone with an inverted atx layout

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brushed aluminum front panel ah the rest

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of the case is steel that explains why it felt heavy for an aluminum case

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so what am i looking at here is that

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an integrated synchro thing

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it kind of looks like it like it looks like that's right there so

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wait these ventilation holes

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along the outside here are presumably so that

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this thing can do the 12 volt to 5 volt and 3.3 volt conversion

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in here instead of in the power supply itself actually i can check that really

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easily yes that is correct and then it actually

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needs some some ventilation so i guess that's why this is open

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and then it's got these honeycombs on the back here too

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what do you think of the front very very

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black very black nicole everyone

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this is her first time uh shooting a ShortCircuit with me i think she didn't

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realize i was going to ask her opinion

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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

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but actually if you look over here this side

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is open and they've got a solid well probably just about an inch

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of space so like two centimeters and change in here i

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don't expect it to be a concern is that a removable filter

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there it is i didn't have to pull the front off at all

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is that magnetic it is look at that

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cool all right i guess i could put that back on now or no we could just have a

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look here so three

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three included 120 millimeter fans on the front looks like you could mount

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three 140 mils if you really wanted to and all the front i o is done top i o

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style so you've got two type a's a type c and your audio

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ports as well as your power and reset switches looks like this is another removable

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filter yep also magnetic very nice

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seven pci slots bottom mounted power supply

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and another 120 slash 140 millimeter

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mount that's pre-populated with a 120 millimeter fan

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interestingly seasonic includes an RGB

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connection for every one of the fans so all

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six of them but it appears that the synchro case doesn't ship

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with RGB fans transportation lock

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remove first oh interesting

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so you unscrew this piece and then you can decide if you want it to just swing

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open all the time yeah for easy access or if you want to put this on to lock it

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if i can put this front panel back on

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don't actually recommend removing that okay it just pops off like that it's got

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a little uh rubber thing on the inside so it doesn't scratch your glass and now i would expect this to just

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swing open kind of hard to kind of hard to get in

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there oh unless it

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ah there we go it's attached to this front piece

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okay so it pops off the hinge that's pretty normal

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you know opening this up it's kind of crazy how little

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the interior layout of a case actually matters anymore these days

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because it used to be that you had to really you know examine like oh

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how thoughtfully are the drive cages laid out and how's all the cable

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management going to work there's like almost no cables in a case anymore you just have

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to wire up your fans usually on a brand new machine you're

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running an NVMe drive so you just gotta run power to your motherboard and GPU

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so let's pull whatever this placeholder is in here out and let's throw in the

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synchro

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oh looks like we've got a bottom filter

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as well nice that that pulls out from the front instead of from the back so you don't

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have to pull your computer away from the wall in order to clean it actually all the filters really easily

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accessible in this thing really like that only two three and a

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half inch hard drive mounts but there's another three two and a half

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inch drive mounts on the back so that should cover the vast majority of people

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there's a bay for another two hard drives down here

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although given that seasonic has a very very

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short history of making cases i wouldn't say it's necessarily a

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guarantee that you're going to see the kind of long-term support and spare parts

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availability that you would from a more established case maker

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so i wouldn't i wouldn't count on that i'd say it's got

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two three and a half inch drive mounts

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all right i'm losing the gloves i don't have enough grip on my shaft

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here always make sure you've got proper shaft grip

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critical

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my panel connectors okay and how does

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this attach oh i see screws in from the back so i

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actually did not need to do that at all what i just did i got to remove

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these screws at the back instead

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i forget nicole are you a pc or a mac i'm a pc

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you're a pc i got

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magnets everywhere on this thing this is like totally unnecessary oh

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that's kind of cool if you don't have a

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synchro power supply this like placeholder thing that takes

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the spot of it you can actually it's got magnets on it

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so you can just kind of chuck it on there and without

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screwing it in and it'll just cover up your cables so

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that's why it has these uh paths in the sides so you can run things

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through it okay all right that's pretty neat

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so all the connectors that you need for your graphics cards

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and for your motherboard here are just

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right there kind of built into the panel

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that's kind of nice to make cable management a bit easier see sonic includes a

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triple pwm adapter for the front three fans so you just plug all three of those

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into one spot plug the rear fan into another spot and

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dippidy bop it either off to the races and then this is it this is all the

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wiring that you do from the power supply to the sea sonic connect

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it's actually a similar concept to what Intel is doing with their atx 12 volt

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only standard except instead of running

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the 12 volt up to the motherboard and then having everything branch off of the

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motherboard seasonic is taking what looks like a more realistic approach

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and having everything branch off of this distribution piece

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and go to a more traditional connector on the motherboard and drives etc etc

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that's tidy

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theoretically then the included cables should be really short aha

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look it's a little baby 24 pin are these fans RGB and they just

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really don't look like why is there so much RGB

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thought put into this and no included RGB

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yeah these look like fan extensions but

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to what i'm checking the manual

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nope no explanation provided for the

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fan and RGB extension jigs

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oh wow so they've even

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gotten as specific as this is a triple SATA connector

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you plug it in here and you run it to

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these three drives yep one two three

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the whole thing just tucks right there most motherboards consistently have the

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eight pin connectors here so that's where these go they've even

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got little cable management loops right there and there so we'll just go in like that flipping

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around to the other side there's no way to do it wrong because it says connect module here and

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then motherboard here

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oop that just goes in there like that

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and we got a couple of these little short baby six plus two pins

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got it two of these are longer and two of them are shorter so if you've got

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gpus in different slots or gpus that are different lengths or

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heights or whatever else you're definitely going to be able to plug in at least two of them no matter

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where you're trying to stretch it to now i'm not saying that a configuration

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like this could never run into issues for example if you

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were to use an Intel cryo cooler you would need a six pin

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that goes over to your CPU socket and actually no that would reach um

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okay it's looking pretty good actually

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one thing i would like to see see sonic do actually

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is include like a reservoir mount or something like that

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um some kind of give some thought to reservoir and pump mounting there's

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obvious spots for it you've got a nice plain panel right here

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that you could just drill pump mounting holes into and same for the res right here but if

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they if they pre-drilled some of those holes well then they'd give up some of the

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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

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to pre-mounted water cooling components but other than that this is like

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surprisingly thoughtful for our first attempt is this sea sonic's first case

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got another 120 millimeter mount down here if you want to get some more air

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flow going to the basement and the power supply area i don't think it's really strictly

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speaking necessary especially because our power supply is drawing fresh air in

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from the bottom but man this is kind of looking like the way

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to have completely clean cable management

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not bad seasonic not bad i'm shocked that you guys had the stones to go out

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and develop a case to go with this concept but overall i think it works way better

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now that you have it instead of just trying to create something that

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like should fit in third-party cases

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let me know what you guys think in the video thanks for watching and thanks to

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seasonic for sponsoring this video we're probably going to do a follow-up

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where we do a full build in the case over online as tech tips so make sure you're subscribed to both channels