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so today marks the release of the CM Storm enforcer so this is a new case

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from Cooler Master it is a a value oriented option so it is a sub $100 case

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and as you may or may not be able to tell right off the bat the front of it

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is stylized kind of like the helmet of a

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knight so that's why they've got this night guy next to it although it seems

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to be some kind of like futuristic night

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because he seems to have technology on him and glowing lights and whatnot

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rather than just armor so here is a picture of the

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case here is a picture of well more

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detailed pictures of the case so we're not going to worry too much about those

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right now since we are going to be opening up the box here we have

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specifications so it's all black that means including the interior it does

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have a black interior here's the dimensions here's the weight it takes

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ATX motherboard so it does have seven PCI expansion slots plus one auxiliary

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one that you can use for fan controllers or anything like that it's made of steel

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plastic and mesh it has uh four exposed

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5 and 1/4 in Bays One external 3 and 1/2 in as well

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as six internal 3 and 1/2 in it has four

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2 and 1/2 in D Bays so I'll show you how those work once we get inside USB 3 this

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is huge USB 3 with a an internal header

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so that means that all those new p67 boards that use internal headers instead

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of goofy like pass throughs to the back of the board this will support it so

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that is a huge selling feature right there a couple USB 2 uh comes with a

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front 200 mm fan a rear 120 mm fan and

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it's got a couple optional fans a 200 in the top and a 120 on the side over your

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graphics card so here we are it accepts

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video cards up to 390 mm with the hard

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drive cage remove well you only have to remove one of them so 390 mm is what

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about 15 in 16 in something like that so

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I wouldn't worry too much about running into any graphics card for the time

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being that will not fit in this case because even the Radeon

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6990 and the uh what is it 5970 6990

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5970 yeah uh even those video cards will

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fit in here without any issues and they're both about 12 in long and

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they're the longest ones on the market so it comes with a an operator's manual

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next we will find flipping it over and removing it

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from the box this is the unboxing portion of our

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video there we

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go all right so we find packing

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material two matched pieces made of a a

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stiff foam so while it's probably not

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the best packing material in the world you prefer the soft closed cell foam it

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is thick enough and this case is light enough that I really wouldn't worry

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about any damage in transit to the CM Storm

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enforcer just going to go ahead and take off the other

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piece there we are and then remove the

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plastic so we can see the case itself

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now so let's just do a little tour of the exterior of the

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chassis here we go all right so first

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thing we see is the front as I mentioned before it has kind of a

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night looking appearance to it so this is um sort of overlapping armor plates

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and then right here we have a grill where presumably the KN would be able to

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speak to others you know battlecries and whatnot all that good stuff you can

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clearly see through the front the 200 mm intake fan so that has a red LED on it

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so it should look quite imposing from the front on this side actually you know

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what let's finish up at the front first before I get ahead of myself so this is

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held closed by magnets and you can see here your four 5 and 1/4 in Bays with

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one optional 3 and 1/2 in external if you got a card reader or something else

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like that that goes in a 3 and 1/2 in external Bay your reset switch is and I

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actually really like this right next to your power switch but safe from you

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accidentally hitting it whenever you have the front door closed and given how

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rarely you need to use an optical drive these days this will pretty much always

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be closed so you won't accidentally hit your reset switch you got your power LED

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here your hard drive activity LED here microphone and headphone ports two USB

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2.0 ports and two USB 3.0 ports and I'll

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show you guys that internal header in a minute you've got a convenient drink

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tray document tray CD tray whatever kind

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of things you happen to need to put there maybe you want to store your manual there maybe you want to put your

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keys there no problem storage area on the top of the case I actually really

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like that then you've got another 200 mm

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fan Mount but it'll also Mount other stuff so by the look of things you can

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throw another two 120 Ms there but it

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does not support a radiator due to clearance issues inside so you'd be

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looking at two just two fans okay in the

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top however it does support a 120 mm rad

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in the back so since we're going around

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talking about the back why don't we have a look at the back so here's your 120

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mil fan in the back that's included it does support a red it has enough

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clearance around the bottom and around the top for that you got water cooling

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grommets if you wanted to do an external radiator setup okay some people do do

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those and you've got your standard back I/O back plate Shield cover missing

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thing well it's not missing but you put it in when you get it with your motherboard then you have the seven PCI

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slots plus the one auxiliary one I mentioned so for example uh some coolers

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come with a little speed adjustment dial for the fan you'd put that there rather

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than using up one of your valuable PCI slots supports standard ATX power

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supplies and you can see it has all eight mounting holes so you can mount

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your power supply either with the fan down or with the fan on top depending on

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whatever you prefer you're not locked down to one way like I've seen with some

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cases in the past so give me a sec to take these screws off and then we'll be

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back now I've been saying this for a long time but what is the point of a

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black interior if you don't have a side panel window to show it off so well I

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mean it's not a complaint about this case obviously because it has a side

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panel window so I've taken off the covers that come to protect it during

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shipping it has also some more of the overlapping armor effect built into the

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side panel you can see the window is quite clean so it is attached via

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grommets here around the outside and it is pretty yeah it's actually flush with

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the steel of the side panel so you just slide that off pretty much the standard

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way to remove any case side panel from any case pretty much ever other than the

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ones that try and get creative about it and inside we will find oh you know what

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I'm actually going to remove this side panel as well so that I can show you

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guys the whole interior of this chassis

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accessories box why don't we do this first for a change I always do this at the end and frequently end up forgetting

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it entirely so we're just going to get this out of the way here so in here we

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find Drive rails all right so these are for

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mounting your 3 and 1/2 in drives in the toolless cages here so you just push

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those into the sides of the drives either side click in and there you go

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Cooler Master actually does a great job of their hard drive mounting mechanisms

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I'm a big fan because they're secure easy to use and I mean is that is there

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really anything else you can ask for when it comes to mounting a hard drive okay we've got some black zip ties we

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have a whoops motherboard speaker so that'll beep if you're having problems

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with your system or whatever else the case may be since it's not built into

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the case and since a lot of people don't want them anyway that's just fine we've

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got screws here as well so there's your motherboard screws any other screws you

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might need as well as a way to lock the side panel should you so desire so you

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can this functionality is not built in but you can throw that on there and then

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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

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you want to protect your valuable Hardware now this feature is another one

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that as far as I can tell and this is a bit of a guess but it's called stormu

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guard it is for safeguarding your gaming peripherals and from what I can see it

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looks like what you do is if you're going to a land or you're using it in a

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public place you put this in the whoops you throw it at the case and then break

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everything you put this in the auxiliary PCI slot here you run your

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cable inside pass it through this hook and

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then run it back outside and plug it into the back of your IO panel so what

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that means is that without and then once you put a padlock on the side panel

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without removing your side panel and removing this no one can take your

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peripherals away because the cable is routed through the inside of your case

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so that they can't steal it pretty much okay so there's that we also have

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this whatever it is it's like

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Christmas just opening things up and not knowing what they are oh that just looks

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like a drive adapter

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okay so that's probably the 5 and 1/4 to

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3 and 1/2 in drive adapter there and finally we

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have is this dual oh how does that work

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neat okay we have a uh 3 and 1/2 in

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to uh 2 and 1/2 in Drive Bay adapter as

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well all right finally the case

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itself so why don't we have why don't we start with let's start at the front so

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here's our six hard drive Bays what how's that the front what's the

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cameraman even looking at oh designed by Cooler Master yes he's looking at the

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stamp here that says designed by Cooler Master that's very good cameraman okay

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why don't we start at the top front so we've got four 5 and a/4 inch Bay these

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are all using tooless mechanisms although should you so desire if you

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want to just back up a sec there should you so desire you can also put screws

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into your drives from the other side so that way you have the convenience of

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toolfree with the security of putting in a screw should you need to ship the

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system or do anything like that moving

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down you have a removable 3 and 1/2 in

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Drive cage so that supports four drives you can remove the whole thing and then

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under that you have a fixed one so you can see this one uses rivets 2x 3 and

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1/2 in Drive cage you have another removable Drive cage this one is for 2

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and 1/2 in drives right here so that one supports too you just take out a couple

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screws here slide it out install your drives and put it back in conveniently

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lined up with the cable management holes here so you can deliver the power and

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SATA cables up to wherever it is that they need to go from those drives okay

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moving down we've got uh four rubber mounts here for your power supply in a

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case like this I would probably recommend using the fan facing down

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because you can see here you've got a filter this is appears to be removable

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although it might be a bit challenging you've got a filtered intake for your

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120 mm fan on the bottom of your power supply that way it keeps the cooling

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Zone separate from the rest of your case rather than sucking up hot air that is

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being exhausted by your graphics card okay the PCI slots we've pretty much

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covered the 120 mil fan in the back we've pretty much talked about you've

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got a a CPU cutout so that means that if you want to mount a CPU Cooler that uses

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a back plate you do not need to remove the motherboard to mount it you can just

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take off your back side panel and mount it that way up here you can see what I

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was talking about cuz the top of your motherboard is going to be right here so

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by the time you install a radiator and a fan you're not going to have enough

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clearance so that is fans strictly up

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here in the top all right Micro ATX ATX

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okay let's have a look at what we've got for included front panel connectors even

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though we've pretty much already talked about them when we looked at the front

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panel itself here we are so there are your

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front switches and LEDs all that good stuff colorcoded next we have our front

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HD audio nice long cable for that so you'll be able to reach you know

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depending what motherboard manufacturer using got like a goofy uh one right here

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for example you'll be able to reach it just fine uh you got your USB 2.0 nice

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black cables and then finally here we are USB 3.0 so that is your USB 3.0

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internal header lots of mother boards have them here or here so you'll be able

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to reach that regardless and I think that pretty much covers everything I

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