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this PC q28 from lean Lee was actually

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sent to me months ago and it accidentally got buried under a pile of

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cases with its Factory tuning and data center DNA an Intel 730 series SSD is an

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amazing choice for gamers and performance enthusiasts speaking of

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which there's a link to our store in the video description if you're logged into

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the forum you can check that out and you can see that we are unloading some

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products that we used for previous videos on the cheap so definitely check

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that out but anyway I finally dug it out

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when I decided that I wanted to game more on my TV and I realized that my PC

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Q7 wouldn't fit the kind of graphics card I wanted for the best possible

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experience the pcq 28 is quite a bit

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larger than my older case but is still small enough to fit in the cabinet under

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my TV and it comes with some updated features that make it both very easy to

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build in and very functional let's start with the outside if you've ever seen a

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Le and Lee case before then I don't need to tell you that the fit and finish of

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their all aluminum cases is exceptional and this one is no exception to the

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exceptional makes it unexceptional I guess no it's good though the brushed

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aluminum finish is beautiful and every joint lines up perfectly at the front

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you can install a 5 and a/4 inch drive and I did I happen to own One Blu-Ray a

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copy of Disney's Enchanted so if I ever feel like watching that I want to make

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sure that I'm prepared true freaking story not even joking about that and

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other than that on the front it's just a little lean Le logo and the power button

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on the right hand side we find the front iio two USB 3.0 ports a headphone jack

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and a microphone Jack and then on the bottom we find a filtered intake right

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there at the front for the front 140 mm

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fan that is going to bring fresh air to the inside of the system on the left

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hand side we find not a whole lot of anything and on the top we find a 120 mm

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exhaust at the back well two expansion

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slots so it supports either ITX or DTX and then power supply so that's pretty

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much it opening up the side panel was refreshingly simple rather than six tiny

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little counter sunk screws lean Lee is doing a sliding system with one screw

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and then little plastic latches for the rest of them much better much less

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tedious to open up and much less likely uh to cause you to lose something now

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the first thing I'd like to say before we get inside is that uh I am using a

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personal build to Showcase this chassis so some of the hardware choices might

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seem a little bit odd trust me I know

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all right so now that it's opened up the first thing I want to show you is actually something that's not in there

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anymore and that is this right here these two thumb screws down here on the

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bottom we're holding in this handy dandy bracket that accepts up to 2 2 and 1/2

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in or 2 3 and 1/2 in drives I don't really need internal drives because I'm

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using a Nas with ice scuzzy to install my games so I went ahead and took this

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piece out in order to give my graphics card a little bit more breathing room

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here at the bottom next up is the top hard drive cage which I also removed to

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give that front 140 mm fan as much room

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to work as I could this one accepts Four

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3 and 1/2 in drives with a 2 and 1/2 in Drive hanging from the bottom so that's

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a total of up to seven mix and match internal drives in this this tiny little

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case now Cable Management won't be super tidy if you do in decide to install all

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that stuff so make sure that your expectations are reasonable but the good

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news is that it doesn't have a windowed side panel so no one will ever see it

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you can see what I did is I removed that so that does give me quite a bit more

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cable management room although I don't have anywhere to actually rote those

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cables to your power supply can be up to 170 mm in length but I'd recommend a

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little bit shorter if you're planning to use that drive cage or if you're

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planning to use a modular power supply and also recommend picking up a short

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cable kit Silverstone has some great stuff for better Cable Management I was

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on a budget when I first built this media PC so I'm actually using an antech

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true power new 550 W power supply that I

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actually hacked all the cables short on and then soldered them back together

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reinsulated and resleeved them uh it does improve cable management but uh

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also makes the extra six pin PCI Express cable that I had to attach for my better

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graphics card with its long wire on it look a little bit out of place and

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really guys that's not something that I would recommend doing it's just

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something that I did for this particular uh build uh speaking of the graphics

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card and the connector for it I've got an open airflow GTX 660 Ti that doesn't

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quite seem to be throttling in this system but runs at 100° underload in Far

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Cry 3 for that reason I would prefer a

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rear exhaust card but this one I was able to trade Luke's friend something

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for so the price was right um there is lots of room in the case to install

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something as big as a GTX 780ti in there but based on how hot this one's running

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even though it is an open airflow design I don't think that that's something that

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I'm going to do without modding another intake or something because that front

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intake does have a 140 mm fan behind it

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but the vent is quite small and uh and

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it's it's definitely going to need more air flow I mean one option would be to

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take like a slim fan or even open up the bottom of the case here to get some

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better air flow and just throw like a like a dust filter or something on there

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and then the other thing to consider too guys is that your media cabinet is going

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to get quite hot especially running games with something like this inside of

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it so um but even now I'm going to have to get like a 120 mm hole saw cut some

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holes and then get some get some air flow going on in there as well if we

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take out the four thumb screws at the back we can slide the power supply back

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which allows us to see the Gigabyte Z87 ITX motherboard that I've got installed

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in here the CPU in there there's a coree i 5 4570 nonk it runs at about 70° in my

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gaming load scenario in Far Cry 3 and 75° Max running Prime 95 small fft with

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the random silent X cooler that I have on there I'm actually happy with those

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results I turned the fan around so that it feeds directly into the power supply

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for exhaust but I would definitely recommend using a thermal probe to

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ensure that your motherboard vrm temps are still okay before doing something

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like that in your own system normally your motherboard should want to benefit

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from the downdraft air flow that's coming from your CPU fan the front

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connectors in this system I don't know if you'll be able to see this very clearly but that USB 3 one in particular

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is pretty taut the the other ones were okay but there's more strain on that

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usb3 connector than I would have liked this is an unusual spot on this

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motherboard for the front header for USB 3 um and the front ports do work but

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another inch would have made a really big difference with the power supply

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popped out you can also see my my super ghetto cable cutting job here

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and how short the cables are on this power supply again I don't really recommend doing that so if we take off

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the other side panel you can see that behind the motherboard tray we find a

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very limited amount of space for cable management and we also find uh my boot

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drive it's a 1.8 in 64 gig SSD from

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Kingston uh this freed up some space for me in the front for better air flow

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which I desperately need given that you saw my GPU temperatures and since I

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don't really need any storage in this machine 64 gigs is lot for my OS and

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like the four internet browsers that I need to have running at all times so in

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conclusion overall I really like this case I'm happy with it but I went in

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knowing that I was trading proper ventilation for physical Beauty don't

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expect to fill the PC q28 up with everything that you can physically pack

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inside and have it function seven drives

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plus like a graphics card and and it should be noted that if you do install

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drives on this bottom sled here you're not going to be able to install a double

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slot graphics card so even five drives plus that graphics card it's just not

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enough ventilation and you would have to make some alterations to make that

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happen so with that said I've definitely still got some work to do on this build

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but I don't really think it's fair to review the case after I've modded it so

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