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is nc.com all right guys we just came out

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the zigma tech booth and the first thing I noticed was actually this case oddly

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enough it's called the midgard 3 that's not the oddly enough part but oddly

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enough there's a battery symbol on top I don't currently have the phone that they

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used to display it with me but it is a wireless charging station so basically

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you come home slap your phone on top of the case it'll instantly start charging

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uh that's actually pretty cool I haven't seen any cases here that have that

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functionality it's it's closed off so there's no holes for fans except along

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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

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get a good picture of it but there's spacing between the side panel and the

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big bezel of the case where the case actually gets its air so there it's it's

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still a sample it's not in production yet they might be putting sound dampening on the side panels but there

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currently isn't I'm not actually going to show you guys the inside of the case

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because like I said it's a sample it's not refined yet in the front flip up

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cover right here we've got two USB 2.0 ports two USB 3.0 points front audio

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headers reset switch and then up where the wireless parging is where the

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wireless charging is there's a power button moving on we've got the nebula

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this is more of their home theater angled case it's got a very very sharp

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looking power button nice glossy tap uh top on there big thick steel panels and

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I'm actually going to get my buddy here to take off the panels so we can see inside the

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case big can you knock on that for for me for a sec big thick nice steel panels

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it looks great there's actually pretty good space for uh Cable Management you

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can fit a big power supply in there they have a really really really low profile

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cooler in there which is one of theirs but you can actually put a slightly taller profile cooler in there if you'd

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want one of theirs as well if you would like it's not that bad for cable

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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

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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

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right this case looks very very sharp you can fit pretty much whatever you

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want in there got hot SWOT based for hard drives two of them uh yeah we're

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going to move on anyways this is their silence optimized case and this is my

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favorite one so far not the first one that caught my eye but my favorite one

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so far I'm going to keep the juicy things for later but their front IO is

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actually covered up by this sliding panel so which reveals a reset button

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power button front audio 2 USB 2.0 and 2 USB 3.0 fairly standard at this point

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what isn't standard though and I've only seen once more of this show but this is

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possibly a better implementation of it is having the top covers down turns off

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the two top fans but if you raise them

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up we it's a sample guys so let it hold

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for a sec there we go if you raise them up there we go the fans on the inside

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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

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then it unclips so it turns the fans on if they're open so if you need to do

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something like video editing or gaming or anything heavy you can have the top

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covers open which turns the fans on if you want it to be quiet! in your room

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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

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you want to do every day you can close the top covers down then it gets very

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nice and quiet the inside is quite well

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refined this one isn't actually built up so you can't see how it would be when

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it's built up there's a little bit of room behind the uh motherboard panel I

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would like a little bit more but I can kind of wedge my fingers in there uh 24

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pin should be fine there's a definitely enough space back here um there's sound

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dampening on each one of the panels as we can see here and then this fan slot

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actually has extra foam sound dampening on it so if you're not going to put a

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fan there you can keep this stock sitting in there and it won't be a big

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deal moving onward we get into there they're very small form factor cases I'm

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sure you guys can recognize what case the achilla is going up against because

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it looks very similar to it but these crossbars are supposed to be very strong

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this is a sample so I'm not going to test it because breaking a sample is a

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lot of money but they have very nice Cable Management options down here and

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you can fit full-size power supplies so if you do have a fullsize power supply

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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

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it'll look very very nice put a huge cooler in there fit fullsize graphics

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cards put a pretty beast machine in here especially with Haswell running very low

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power not putting out that much heat if you clock it correctly you can build a

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really really beast machine in a system like this thanks for checking out our

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