1 00:00:00,719 --> 00:00:08,920 so today marks the release of the CM Storm enforcer so this is a new case 2 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:13,799 from Cooler Master it is a a value oriented option so it is a sub $100 case 3 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:19,960 and as you may or may not be able to tell right off the bat the front of it 4 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:21,560 is stylized kind of like the helmet of a 5 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:26,080 knight so that's why they've got this night guy next to it although it seems 6 00:00:23,039 --> 00:00:28,160 to be some kind of like futuristic night 7 00:00:26,080 --> 00:00:32,759 because he seems to have technology on him and glowing lights and whatnot 8 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:37,600 rather than just armor so here is a picture of the 9 00:00:34,480 --> 00:00:40,480 case here is a picture of well more 10 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:43,039 detailed pictures of the case so we're not going to worry too much about those 11 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:46,680 right now since we are going to be opening up the box here we have 12 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:50,680 specifications so it's all black that means including the interior it does 13 00:00:48,879 --> 00:00:54,760 have a black interior here's the dimensions here's the weight it takes 14 00:00:52,480 --> 00:00:59,039 ATX motherboard so it does have seven PCI expansion slots plus one auxiliary 15 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:04,920 one that you can use for fan controllers or anything like that it's made of steel 16 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:06,320 plastic and mesh it has uh four exposed 17 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:12,720 5 and 1/4 in Bays One external 3 and 1/2 in as well 18 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:15,040 as six internal 3 and 1/2 in it has four 19 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:21,439 2 and 1/2 in D Bays so I'll show you how those work once we get inside USB 3 this 20 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:23,360 is huge USB 3 with a an internal header 21 00:01:21,439 --> 00:01:27,439 so that means that all those new p67 boards that use internal headers instead 22 00:01:25,079 --> 00:01:31,360 of goofy like pass throughs to the back of the board this will support it so 23 00:01:29,960 --> 00:01:37,600 that is a huge selling feature right there a couple USB 2 uh comes with a 24 00:01:34,159 --> 00:01:39,520 front 200 mm fan a rear 120 mm fan and 25 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:47,079 it's got a couple optional fans a 200 in the top and a 120 on the side over your 26 00:01:43,159 --> 00:01:50,280 graphics card so here we are it accepts 27 00:01:47,079 --> 00:01:51,759 video cards up to 390 mm with the hard 28 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:58,960 drive cage remove well you only have to remove one of them so 390 mm is what 29 00:01:54,840 --> 00:02:01,039 about 15 in 16 in something like that so 30 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:04,799 I wouldn't worry too much about running into any graphics card for the time 31 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:11,920 being that will not fit in this case because even the Radeon 32 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:15,239 6990 and the uh what is it 5970 6990 33 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:17,120 5970 yeah uh even those video cards will 34 00:02:15,239 --> 00:02:20,200 fit in here without any issues and they're both about 12 in long and 35 00:02:18,519 --> 00:02:26,239 they're the longest ones on the market so it comes with a an operator's manual 36 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:31,480 next we will find flipping it over and removing it 37 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:34,160 from the box this is the unboxing portion of our 38 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:37,720 video there we 39 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:47,040 go all right so we find packing 40 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:51,280 material two matched pieces made of a a 41 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:52,800 stiff foam so while it's probably not 42 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:57,560 the best packing material in the world you prefer the soft closed cell foam it 43 00:02:55,360 --> 00:03:01,879 is thick enough and this case is light enough that I really wouldn't worry 44 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:05,280 about any damage in transit to the CM Storm 45 00:03:02,879 --> 00:03:07,879 enforcer just going to go ahead and take off the other 46 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:16,319 piece there we are and then remove the 47 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:16,319 plastic so we can see the case itself 48 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:22,440 now so let's just do a little tour of the exterior of the 49 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:30,120 chassis here we go all right so first 50 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:34,319 thing we see is the front as I mentioned before it has kind of a 51 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:39,200 night looking appearance to it so this is um sort of overlapping armor plates 52 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:43,360 and then right here we have a grill where presumably the KN would be able to 53 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:47,879 speak to others you know battlecries and whatnot all that good stuff you can 54 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:53,200 clearly see through the front the 200 mm intake fan so that has a red LED on it 55 00:03:50,879 --> 00:03:57,159 so it should look quite imposing from the front on this side actually you know 56 00:03:55,640 --> 00:04:01,120 what let's finish up at the front first before I get ahead of myself so this is 57 00:03:58,879 --> 00:04:05,400 held closed by magnets and you can see here your four 5 and 1/4 in Bays with 58 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:09,040 one optional 3 and 1/2 in external if you got a card reader or something else 59 00:04:07,079 --> 00:04:13,959 like that that goes in a 3 and 1/2 in external Bay your reset switch is and I 60 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:18,479 actually really like this right next to your power switch but safe from you 61 00:04:16,759 --> 00:04:22,360 accidentally hitting it whenever you have the front door closed and given how 62 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:25,800 rarely you need to use an optical drive these days this will pretty much always 63 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:30,400 be closed so you won't accidentally hit your reset switch you got your power LED 64 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:36,120 here your hard drive activity LED here microphone and headphone ports two USB 65 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:37,680 2.0 ports and two USB 3.0 ports and I'll 66 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:43,199 show you guys that internal header in a minute you've got a convenient drink 67 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:44,680 tray document tray CD tray whatever kind 68 00:04:43,199 --> 00:04:49,720 of things you happen to need to put there maybe you want to store your manual there maybe you want to put your 69 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:54,520 keys there no problem storage area on the top of the case I actually really 70 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:56,440 like that then you've got another 200 mm 71 00:04:54,520 --> 00:05:01,400 fan Mount but it'll also Mount other stuff so by the look of things you can 72 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:03,280 throw another two 120 Ms there but it 73 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:09,320 does not support a radiator due to clearance issues inside so you'd be 74 00:05:05,039 --> 00:05:13,080 looking at two just two fans okay in the 75 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:16,280 top however it does support a 120 mm rad 76 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:17,759 in the back so since we're going around 77 00:05:16,280 --> 00:05:21,680 talking about the back why don't we have a look at the back so here's your 120 78 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:24,400 mil fan in the back that's included it does support a red it has enough 79 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:28,240 clearance around the bottom and around the top for that you got water cooling 80 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:33,520 grommets if you wanted to do an external radiator setup okay some people do do 81 00:05:30,639 --> 00:05:37,680 those and you've got your standard back I/O back plate Shield cover missing 82 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:41,880 thing well it's not missing but you put it in when you get it with your motherboard then you have the seven PCI 83 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:46,759 slots plus the one auxiliary one I mentioned so for example uh some coolers 84 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:50,240 come with a little speed adjustment dial for the fan you'd put that there rather 85 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:55,039 than using up one of your valuable PCI slots supports standard ATX power 86 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:58,840 supplies and you can see it has all eight mounting holes so you can mount 87 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:03,639 your power supply either with the fan down or with the fan on top depending on 88 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:07,360 whatever you prefer you're not locked down to one way like I've seen with some 89 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:11,240 cases in the past so give me a sec to take these screws off and then we'll be 90 00:06:09,039 --> 00:06:15,720 back now I've been saying this for a long time but what is the point of a 91 00:06:13,599 --> 00:06:20,120 black interior if you don't have a side panel window to show it off so well I 92 00:06:18,840 --> 00:06:23,639 mean it's not a complaint about this case obviously because it has a side 93 00:06:22,039 --> 00:06:27,479 panel window so I've taken off the covers that come to protect it during 94 00:06:25,639 --> 00:06:31,360 shipping it has also some more of the overlapping armor effect built into the 95 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:36,479 side panel you can see the window is quite clean so it is attached via 96 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:41,479 grommets here around the outside and it is pretty yeah it's actually flush with 97 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:46,240 the steel of the side panel so you just slide that off pretty much the standard 98 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:50,240 way to remove any case side panel from any case pretty much ever other than the 99 00:06:48,319 --> 00:06:54,400 ones that try and get creative about it and inside we will find oh you know what 100 00:06:52,120 --> 00:07:01,520 I'm actually going to remove this side panel as well so that I can show you 101 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:02,879 guys the whole interior of this chassis 102 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:09,039 accessories box why don't we do this first for a change I always do this at the end and frequently end up forgetting 103 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:13,120 it entirely so we're just going to get this out of the way here so in here we 104 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:17,680 find Drive rails all right so these are for 105 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:22,360 mounting your 3 and 1/2 in drives in the toolless cages here so you just push 106 00:07:20,879 --> 00:07:26,680 those into the sides of the drives either side click in and there you go 107 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:31,160 Cooler Master actually does a great job of their hard drive mounting mechanisms 108 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:36,240 I'm a big fan because they're secure easy to use and I mean is that is there 109 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:43,280 really anything else you can ask for when it comes to mounting a hard drive okay we've got some black zip ties we 110 00:07:40,599 --> 00:07:46,280 have a whoops motherboard speaker so that'll beep if you're having problems 111 00:07:44,919 --> 00:07:49,960 with your system or whatever else the case may be since it's not built into 112 00:07:48,039 --> 00:07:53,280 the case and since a lot of people don't want them anyway that's just fine we've 113 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:58,400 got screws here as well so there's your motherboard screws any other screws you 114 00:07:55,599 --> 00:08:03,280 might need as well as a way to lock the side panel should you so desire so you 115 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:06,080 can this functionality is not built in but you can throw that on there and then 116 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:10,680 all of a sudden you can put a padlock on the side panel if you want if you're going to landens or whatever else and 117 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:15,400 you want to protect your valuable Hardware now this feature is another one 118 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:19,479 that as far as I can tell and this is a bit of a guess but it's called stormu 119 00:08:17,199 --> 00:08:23,319 guard it is for safeguarding your gaming peripherals and from what I can see it 120 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:27,280 looks like what you do is if you're going to a land or you're using it in a 121 00:08:24,919 --> 00:08:31,759 public place you put this in the whoops you throw it at the case and then break 122 00:08:29,759 --> 00:08:36,479 everything you put this in the auxiliary PCI slot here you run your 123 00:08:34,919 --> 00:08:40,919 cable inside pass it through this hook and 124 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:44,959 then run it back outside and plug it into the back of your IO panel so what 125 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:48,080 that means is that without and then once you put a padlock on the side panel 126 00:08:46,680 --> 00:08:52,200 without removing your side panel and removing this no one can take your 127 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:57,200 peripherals away because the cable is routed through the inside of your case 128 00:08:54,279 --> 00:09:03,440 so that they can't steal it pretty much okay so there's that we also have 129 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:05,680 this whatever it is it's like 130 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:10,880 Christmas just opening things up and not knowing what they are oh that just looks 131 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:14,240 like a drive adapter 132 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:16,519 okay so that's probably the 5 and 1/4 to 133 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:21,560 3 and 1/2 in drive adapter there and finally we 134 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:25,320 have is this dual oh how does that work 135 00:09:21,560 --> 00:09:28,640 neat okay we have a uh 3 and 1/2 in 136 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:32,519 to uh 2 and 1/2 in Drive Bay adapter as 137 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:35,040 well all right finally the case 138 00:09:32,519 --> 00:09:39,440 itself so why don't we have why don't we start with let's start at the front so 139 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:42,519 here's our six hard drive Bays what how's that the front what's the 140 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:45,920 cameraman even looking at oh designed by Cooler Master yes he's looking at the 141 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:49,720 stamp here that says designed by Cooler Master that's very good cameraman okay 142 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:53,640 why don't we start at the top front so we've got four 5 and a/4 inch Bay these 143 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:57,320 are all using tooless mechanisms although should you so desire if you 144 00:09:55,160 --> 00:10:02,120 want to just back up a sec there should you so desire you can also put screws 145 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:05,680 into your drives from the other side so that way you have the convenience of 146 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:10,839 toolfree with the security of putting in a screw should you need to ship the 147 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:13,839 system or do anything like that moving 148 00:10:10,839 --> 00:10:15,839 down you have a removable 3 and 1/2 in 149 00:10:13,839 --> 00:10:19,959 Drive cage so that supports four drives you can remove the whole thing and then 150 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:24,839 under that you have a fixed one so you can see this one uses rivets 2x 3 and 151 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:29,399 1/2 in Drive cage you have another removable Drive cage this one is for 2 152 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:32,640 and 1/2 in drives right here so that one supports too you just take out a couple 153 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:37,079 screws here slide it out install your drives and put it back in conveniently 154 00:10:35,279 --> 00:10:41,680 lined up with the cable management holes here so you can deliver the power and 155 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:47,200 SATA cables up to wherever it is that they need to go from those drives okay 156 00:10:44,839 --> 00:10:50,480 moving down we've got uh four rubber mounts here for your power supply in a 157 00:10:49,079 --> 00:10:54,880 case like this I would probably recommend using the fan facing down 158 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:59,000 because you can see here you've got a filter this is appears to be removable 159 00:10:57,399 --> 00:11:03,079 although it might be a bit challenging you've got a filtered intake for your 160 00:11:00,959 --> 00:11:06,720 120 mm fan on the bottom of your power supply that way it keeps the cooling 161 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:11,120 Zone separate from the rest of your case rather than sucking up hot air that is 162 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:14,639 being exhausted by your graphics card okay the PCI slots we've pretty much 163 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:19,160 covered the 120 mil fan in the back we've pretty much talked about you've 164 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:22,839 got a a CPU cutout so that means that if you want to mount a CPU Cooler that uses 165 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:26,720 a back plate you do not need to remove the motherboard to mount it you can just 166 00:11:24,959 --> 00:11:30,160 take off your back side panel and mount it that way up here you can see what I 167 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:34,040 was talking about cuz the top of your motherboard is going to be right here so 168 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:38,639 by the time you install a radiator and a fan you're not going to have enough 169 00:11:35,279 --> 00:11:42,120 clearance so that is fans strictly up 170 00:11:38,639 --> 00:11:43,680 here in the top all right Micro ATX ATX 171 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:48,200 okay let's have a look at what we've got for included front panel connectors even 172 00:11:46,079 --> 00:11:51,839 though we've pretty much already talked about them when we looked at the front 173 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:58,040 panel itself here we are so there are your 174 00:11:55,240 --> 00:12:03,200 front switches and LEDs all that good stuff colorcoded next we have our front 175 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:06,399 HD audio nice long cable for that so you'll be able to reach you know 176 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:10,760 depending what motherboard manufacturer using got like a goofy uh one right here 177 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:15,760 for example you'll be able to reach it just fine uh you got your USB 2.0 nice 178 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:21,680 black cables and then finally here we are USB 3.0 so that is your USB 3.0 179 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:26,760 internal header lots of mother boards have them here or here so you'll be able 180 00:12:24,519 --> 00:12:30,920 to reach that regardless and I think that pretty much covers everything I 181 00:12:28,399 --> 00:12:35,920 wanted to say about the enforcer don't forget to subscribe to lonus Tech tips 182 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:39,360 for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos