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is nc.com all right guys we just came out
the zigma tech booth and the first thing I noticed was actually this case oddly
enough it's called the midgard 3 that's not the oddly enough part but oddly
enough there's a battery symbol on top I don't currently have the phone that they
used to display it with me but it is a wireless charging station so basically
you come home slap your phone on top of the case it'll instantly start charging
uh that's actually pretty cool I haven't seen any cases here that have that
functionality it's it's closed off so there's no holes for fans except along
the side panels here I know it's going to be really really hard to see in the camera so we're probably not going to
get a good picture of it but there's spacing between the side panel and the
big bezel of the case where the case actually gets its air so there it's it's
still a sample it's not in production yet they might be putting sound dampening on the side panels but there
currently isn't I'm not actually going to show you guys the inside of the case
because like I said it's a sample it's not refined yet in the front flip up
cover right here we've got two USB 2.0 ports two USB 3.0 points front audio
headers reset switch and then up where the wireless parging is where the
wireless charging is there's a power button moving on we've got the nebula
this is more of their home theater angled case it's got a very very sharp
looking power button nice glossy tap uh top on there big thick steel panels and
I'm actually going to get my buddy here to take off the panels so we can see inside the
case big can you knock on that for for me for a sec big thick nice steel panels
it looks great there's actually pretty good space for uh Cable Management you
can fit a big power supply in there they have a really really really low profile
cooler in there which is one of theirs but you can actually put a slightly taller profile cooler in there if you'd
want one of theirs as well if you would like it's not that bad for cable
management I would tidy this one up a little bit but it's actually not that bad sorry about that guys you can fit in
about a 20 cm graphics card in there I haven't tested it but that's what they're telling me and it looks about
right this case looks very very sharp you can fit pretty much whatever you
want in there got hot SWOT based for hard drives two of them uh yeah we're
going to move on anyways this is their silence optimized case and this is my
favorite one so far not the first one that caught my eye but my favorite one
so far I'm going to keep the juicy things for later but their front IO is
actually covered up by this sliding panel so which reveals a reset button
power button front audio 2 USB 2.0 and 2 USB 3.0 fairly standard at this point
what isn't standard though and I've only seen once more of this show but this is
possibly a better implementation of it is having the top covers down turns off
the two top fans but if you raise them
up we it's a sample guys so let it hold
for a sec there we go if you raise them up there we go the fans on the inside
will turn on I what I was doing wrong there is I was pressing on the corner you're supposed to press on both Corners
then it unclips so it turns the fans on if they're open so if you need to do
something like video editing or gaming or anything heavy you can have the top
covers open which turns the fans on if you want it to be quiet! in your room
because now you're trying to go to bed you're done gaming you're done video editing you're done doing all the stuff
you want to do every day you can close the top covers down then it gets very
nice and quiet the inside is quite well
refined this one isn't actually built up so you can't see how it would be when
it's built up there's a little bit of room behind the uh motherboard panel I
would like a little bit more but I can kind of wedge my fingers in there uh 24
pin should be fine there's a definitely enough space back here um there's sound
dampening on each one of the panels as we can see here and then this fan slot
actually has extra foam sound dampening on it so if you're not going to put a
fan there you can keep this stock sitting in there and it won't be a big
deal moving onward we get into there they're very small form factor cases I'm
sure you guys can recognize what case the achilla is going up against because
it looks very similar to it but these crossbars are supposed to be very strong
this is a sample so I'm not going to test it because breaking a sample is a
lot of money but they have very nice Cable Management options down here and
you can fit full-size power supplies so if you do have a fullsize power supply
you can tie everything down here again I might do a little bit better of a job but you can tie everything down here and
it'll look very very nice put a huge cooler in there fit fullsize graphics
cards put a pretty beast machine in here especially with Haswell running very low
power not putting out that much heat if you clock it correctly you can build a
really really beast machine in a system like this thanks for checking out our
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