today we'll be unboxing a case from centi and their slogan is building
dreams so evidently this is a dream
actually it's not a dream this is from the arvina extreme Division and it is
the GS 6400b so I'm going to go ahead and
assume that uh GS is some kind of say
for example gaming series and uh b means
that it's probably black all right there's some uh notes here about the
case but we're actually going to take it out of the box so we don't need to look
too closely at that I have once again done absolutely zero preparation for an
unboxing so we will be discovering as we
go along all of the things that are important to know about the GS
6400b
now this is not a brand new case it is a
demo unit so I feel like I'm cheating a little bit on the unboxing but I guess
that's kind of life so yeah there are no
seals to break and it's not going to be quite new hopefully you guys will
forgive me and we can move past
this okay now I think I put it right side up but I'm not actually sure I
think so the only way to find out oh b stands for blue now we know we learn
something every day all right so I'm going to put this here as a cheat sheet
and that's the English side excellent so let's have a look at this case
actually it's kind of neat it reminds me a little bit of the uh the old alien
wear chassis just a little bit not very much not very much at all actually okay
let's start with the front of the case so at the front of the case we have uh
ventilation and you can see that we are actually perhaps missing one of these I
guess that's what happens when you have a demo unit case maybe it came off with
the
uh okay well we'll just have to continue on this Voyage of Discovery without the
5 and 1/4 in Bay cover so as you can see these are all mesh but they do have have
a foam filter behind them so you're not going to get a ton of uh dust buildup in
these you can see we have two stealth 5 and 1/4 in Drive Bay
covers okay there you are we have a
compact flash reader SD and then a bunch of stuff that doesn't really matter and
then on the top we have the power switch which appears to
have a blue LED light under it and then we have some fan buttons under there we
have a little eat oh that's kind of a neat idea so what kind of a cable yeah
you just use like a standard internal to internal cable and then you could plug
that into your drive that's kind of neat and then there's a regular ESAT Port 4
USB front audio hard drive LED as well as a reset switch are all hidden down
there more ventilation in the top on
this side we find just a plain panel cameraman watch your angle so you don't
get spotted there and then we have a release latch uh back here which we will
need to undo the thumb screws in order to access so we'll do
that two thumb screws on this side two
thumb screws on this side and then all the thumb screws will
be released and then we can use the
toolless mechanism aha there we are oops so we'll go ahead
and put that that side panel down I'm going to go ahead and remove the other
side panel you can see here has a little
button that you just press on and then you pull back so that's pretty
straightforward all right and we'll
check out the interior layout a little bit here so you can see the 120 mil fan
at the back 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 PCI expansion
slot so that's fairly standard and then we've got uh this is one of the features
that's mentioned on the side of the Box this is kind of an exclusive exive well
they call it exclusive coolers for video card Refrigeration but what I call it is
fans to blow down on your video card which is also very useful so these are
two 80 mm fans they just mount on this little swing ARM that uh conveniently
has little uh built-in wiring so while
that would make the fans a little bit hard to replace it does mean that it's
uh no hassle set up as far as if you wanted to use the stock fans these are
probably yeah these are LED fans alth I don't know what color they are I would
guess blue based on that we have a blue case and that the picture here says well
doesn't say anything but seems to have blue fans inside it all right
accessories hopefully I didn't just break that so here's all of your screws
it even includes a screwdriver that's kind of neat as well as a little microfiber cloth for getting
fingerprints off the finish of the case so here we can see if there's anything
else in here of note an extra
PCI cover okay I'm very
given that the ones in here are vented PCI and they are black and not gray like
the extra one that's provided that's okay I won't complain hey extras are
extras right all right so let's see what else we got here as you can see this is
a standard ATX case so while it is a little bit wide there aren't any extra
eatx mounting holes so what that means is that you can't mount a huge eatx
server board but you can mount something like a rampage 3 Extreme which uses
standard ATX holes but it's a little bit wider so give you that extra space up in
the top you can see we have two 120 mm fans which unfortunately aren't spaced
correctly for mounting a radiator but it looks like there wouldn't be space to
mount a radiator in here anyway because the top of the motherboard would be right here and then if you have any Moss
fet cooling or anything it would probably interfere with it anyhow okay
Cable Management we've got our typical Cable Management holes so your power
supply mounts on the bottom you can see that there is a uh a dust filter over
the intake for the power supply so that's a separate Cooling zone for your
power supply you can also Mount another fan here either 120 mil or 140 mm and
then we've got front panel connectors Gore to go with all of the front panel
stuff that we showed you before and then let's talk a little bit about the
tooless mount oh this is good yes CPU cutout nice big one that means you can
swap your CPU Cooler even if you have one that requires a back plate without
taking the motherboard out of the case all right let's have a look at the
toolless mounting for the optical drive
okay so that's pretty straightforward so there's two little spikes in there you
press that in locks your drive in place you press this button it opens it up
okay that was easy and then oo that's kind of fancy look at that so
this is how the whole hard drive cage comes out so you can take this whole thing out assemble your hard drives onto
these little uh rails so you can see you can install either 3 and 1/2 in or 2 and
1/2 in drives they have million mounting
and ventilation holes on the bottom of them although they are quite sturdy feeling and then you can slide the whole
thing back you can see this is a 140 mm cooling fan here in the front and then I
can go ahead and slide that whole thing back in to
open up the hard drives all you do is slide them just to the left and then you
can pull them out and pop them back
in that's kind of neat actually I don't know how shipping proof it is but it's
uh definitely different and then on the back of the
case we find not a whole lot to speak we do have some cable management spots here
so you can use these tie downs to uh take some of the cables that you routed
around the back and make sure that they don't cross each other when you're trying to close your uh your other side
panel but I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about
the centi GS
6400b oh yeah hey there's the adapter cable you need for that front SATA thing
cool just in case you were wondering let me just see if there's anything that
I've forgotten hidden cable system removable hard drive base front cooler
Refrigeration card reader okay looks like I talked about everything so thank
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