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using PCS as consoles whether it's with a Windows operating system or with Steam

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OS there has been quite a lot of attention given to very small gaming

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optimized cases that are also capable of

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holding a pretty impressive amount of Hardware so this my friends is actually

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a pre-production unit of one of the ones that people are particularly excited

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about this is the still Silverstone Raven RV zo1 and I apologize for all the

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fingerprints all over it it's because I've actually already done a build

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inside the thing so we'll start with the accessories here you get a few actually

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you get three of these handy dandy little magnetic fan filters Silverstone

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is a strong believer in the idea of having positive pressure inside the case

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with filtered intakes because what that means is dust is filtered on the intake

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and then because you have positive pressure inside it is passively being

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exhausted everywhere else so dust cannot accidentally be sucked into the case so

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we've got one of these for my top fan and then I only needed one additional

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one for the bottom fan right here but it does come with a third all right so then

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let's finish off the accessories we've got actually the accessories are kind of

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neat we have a little uh four pined two other more different two four pins fan

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adapter so that's for those dual fans on the bottom you can see there's an extra PCI bracket cuz I already built in it

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there's a GPU support bracket that's actually kind of clever I just took it

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out because I didn't really I didn't really think I needed it I just have a

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GTX 670 in there and then we've ah this is actually kind of neat so check it out

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we have a raven logo here on the front but you can actually pop that bad boy

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off and you can run this guy in either a

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vertical configuration or a horizontal configuration so it comes with one that

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that's curved like that hopefully you guys can see that and pop that on there

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and then it is meant to be run this way so it comes with optional feet you can

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either use the large feet so they're all

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conveniently label labeled back right uh front right front left all these kinds

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of things and you pop these into the little things here so the whole thing

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sits on nice little rubber feet or it comes with a different set of rubber

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feet there you go just your standard sticky rubber feet that you can put on

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the bottom if you want to run it in a horizontal desktop mode you also get all

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the screws you need to install your system but of course A lot of them aren't in there anymore because I

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already did that so let's go ahead and get this bad boy open oh no I guess

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let's show a view of the sort of the outside first so here you're going to

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see ventilation on the left hand side all

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right here you will see ventilation on the right hand side silverston Raven

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series is known for breaking new ground as well as for uh excellent ventilation

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creative ventilation sometimes here we are going to find a very very small fan

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that looks like a 60 mm I don't remember noticing that when I was ah yeah that's

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from it's from the sfx power supply so

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there's your power supply intake as well as two more fan slots one of which is

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occupied by a slim 120 mm fan that is feeding air flow directly to the

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graphics card underneath it we find at the front two USB 3.0 ports front audio

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ports as well as reset and power switches and finally a slim uh DVD driv

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so you can those have gotten a lot less expensive in the last few years here so

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it's become somewhat of a viable option at the back we see a bit of a unique I/O

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configuration this is actually my first time using a PCI Express Riser card so

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in order to achieve this half height form factor and yet have a full height

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graphics card you can put up to a GTX Titan in here no problem they have

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actually run a riser which you're going to see out of the PCI Express 16x slot

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on the board so you can install the graphics card sideways that's how many of those Boutique systems like the IB

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power Revolt are achieving this same feet of fitting a very very cool system

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into a very small place so on the top you see I actually accidentally

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unplugged that 120 mm fan as I was taking the system apart so this one

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right here sits directly over top of my CPU area so it is providing nice fresh

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air to not only the CPU right here but

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also to my vrm modules as well as to my

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memory modules which are hidden away down there I like the way that cable

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management is done in this case so the power supply itself is actually located

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over here in the front it's actually a modular power supply in there but I

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should try to I should start taking it apart for you guys so you can see how

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the whole thing fits together but the power supply is over here which means that all your cables either Snak through

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here to your uh to your graphics card they go here to your ssds so you can

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actually put two 2 and 1/2 in ssds right here uh there's optical drive bay is

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actually under here yep so under here so you can run another one there and then

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you can also put additional ssds here on

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this piece right here as well as here if you had an SSD instead of a hard drive

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if I recall correctly I could be forgetting something though it was

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actually a few days ago that I built this thing so let's start taking it

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apart this will be a new way of doing a case unboxing for me I'm using a fantex

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cooler there although you could use a stock Intel LGA 1150 cooler if you

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wanted right now I'm not aware of any ITX LGA 2011 cooler so the highest end

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configuration you'll be going with in here will be a COR I 747 70k and then

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that could be paired with as highend a single graphics card as you could

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possibly fit all right so we can pop

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this baby off I'm going to show you the PCI Express 16x Riser right here so it's

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actually a hard PCB so it's a it's a solid PCB and then that has an

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additional Riser card plugged into it here but we're going to we're going to have to release the PCI Express lock

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here and we're going to pull this Riser card out first to take this baby apart

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so there we go we've released it there come on out come on out little little

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guy come on out little guy there we go good job little guy okay sorry I'm done

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that now all right so I'm going to undo this SSD because this is also quite

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quite attached indeed so that reveals how the graphics card goes in there so

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there's a series of I can't imagine that that was the most efficient way to do

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this but there's a series of two more Riser cards maybe the finished product this is an engineering sample we'll have

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a a single piece there but the graphics card plugs in there that support brace I

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showed you before goes on like this so

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you can basically adjust it to pretty much whatever spacing you want you can

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throw that on there it locks in place and then you put a screw in there and a

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screw in the top and it it holds it it's more of a concern if you were going to

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ship the case somewhere as opposed to if you were just going to build it and then

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and then use it in one place the way a normal person would you can see that

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there's actually quite a bit of uh of length here so while you wouldn't

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necessarily be able to install something like an assus GTX 780 direct cu2 due to

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the additional height actually that might even fit that'd be pretty that' be

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pretty borderline though um you can definitely handle the additional length

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just fine and then there's something else that I actually decided not to do

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for my particular build but you can liquid cool the thing so you can

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actually put a dual rad down here liquid cool the graphics card liquid cool the

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CPU and then it has intergrated mounting

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points for a DDC pump so that's a

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popular liquid cooling like DIY grade pump and you would what is it stuck on

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there we go and you would Mount that to this cross brace right here instead of

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mounting an SSD here so that's phenomenally cool good thinking

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Silverstone they really are um they really do push things forward in terms

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of good compact design I mean we've seen this uh with the Fortress series their

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ITX Fortress in particular I think is outstanding all right so now that's that

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side let's go ahead and pull out this hard drive cage so I can show you guys

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how all that went in there all right I've removed the screws sorry to be clear there were two screws on either

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side I would like to show you guys how the cable management works here before I

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pull the whole thing out though so you can see the front panel connectors are

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over here and I was actually able to with a little bit of cramming uh get

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those to go around in front of the power supply and hard drive cage right here

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and then I was able to make very good use of the space here in order to make

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sure that the CPU area stayed quite clear you can also see uh my 24 pin and

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8 Pin motherboard connectors have been

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installed in a very tight space so we're going to go ahead and try to come on you

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can do it there we go all right so I can show you guys how that all worked in

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here we've actually got six SATA ports on this p8 Z8 or z87i Deluxe motherboard

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from isus rather although I'm using a right angle connector here that was just

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stupid I just grabbed the first SATA cables that I could find and sort of

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routed them over the RAM like that don't do that anyway let's go ahead and pull this baby out so first you install uh

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Silverstone has excellent user manuals and they need them because you have to

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do the build in a specific order otherwise it just plain won't work you have to install the power supply before

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the hard drive and then you have to install that whole thing in there so anyway you can see the sfx power supply

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that has an extension cord that runs from the back of the case into the power

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on on the power supply so I'll just show you guys where that is at the back of

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the case there and uh so that runs all the way around the outside of the case

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actually in a very uh tidy Manner and then the hard drive just kind of well it

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screws on there I think that's pretty much it so that my friends is the rvz01

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which we're using for our internal steam machine it actually has Steam OS and

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installed on it already so I'm going to have to put this thing back together now

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thank you for checking out my unboxing and overview of what I think is one of

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the most unique and uh it's an excellent DIY option if you don't want to buy one

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of those pre-done super compact machines

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and uh it's very reasonably priced as well so thank you for checking out this

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unboxing like the video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a

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