now this is something I saw in our warehouse and I had to grab one because
it is a/x NVIDIA edition case so as you
guys may or may not know from the extreme buyer guide that I did on my ncx
tech tips Channel I'm a big fan of the half X case I really like it at
especially at the time of being released it was one of the more interesting new
and Innovative cases on the market cuz it was one of the first to introduce
compatibility for certain motherboards that are longer than standard ATX it was
also one of the first cases or what it was the first case to take that cool
half appearance and turn it into something that I would truly consider
worthy of housing an extreme gaming computer so this um cooler Master's done
a few NVIDIA Edition cases but this is
probably the slickest looking one and it is the first high-end NVIDIA branded
case that we've seen from Cooler Master so you know I'm actually G to get the
cameraman to no let's do the outside of the box first then I'm going to open it
off camera because this is going to take a little while it's really heavy okay
rear retaining holes for water cooling nine expansion slots for increased
expandability we got cable management grommets tool-free hard drive slots
front 230 mm green LED fan okay we've
got NVIDIA SLI certified GPU cooling
system okay this I haven't seen before support for USB 3.0 looks like we got
two USB 3.0 slots cable cover for clean
insides and a SATA do for easy installation without removing the side
panel let me just see if there's anything else we're missing here yep okay so we got five 3 and 1/2 in Drive
Bays six 5 and 1/4 in Drive
Bays two of these whatever these are
okay here's all of our cooling system stuff and let's go ahead and get this thing opened
up so this is it the half X NVIDIA
edition if there was any doubt from the color scheme still left in your mind as
to whether this is an NVIDIA edition case or not you could probably check
right here and see that there is an NVIDIA logo right on the front of it so
there let your doubts be uh dismissed
quite easily okay so here we got our 5 and a/4 inch Bay covers let's do the
front of the case first we've got all of our front IO and whatnot we've got our
power switch reset switch as well as an onoff switch that's a toggle switch for
the fan LED so you can leave the fan on but actually turn the lights off if you
want to sleep we've got two USB 3.0 ports one eeta one fire wire two USB 2.0
front microphone as well as front headphon so lots of different IO options
here at the front I can't remember if this does anything on the half X it
would appear that it doesn't so that is the front why don't we have a look at
the top so in the top of the case we've
got two cooling fans which are each measured at approximately yeah I'm
checking 200 mm so those are two dual
those are dual 200 mm fan mounts in the top of the case and I'm going to go
ahead and uh move it around to this side so on the side we've actually got
another 200 mm fan Mount here we go okay
right there and that actually comes with a fan pre-mounted in it so that's going
to provide all the cooling you could possibly need to your high-end GeForce
graphics card that you ought to be installing in a case like this you can
see the window actually has some NVIDIA artwork on it as well and uh it is a
green tinted window rather than being a straight Clear Window so here if I can
if I stick my hand in here you can see the color difference between my hand
behind the Green Glass and my hand not Behind the Green Glass so let's twist it
around again oh it's heavy though steel construction it weighs I tell you okay
at the back of the case we find our water cooling grommets we find a 140 mm
fan with optional 120 mm Mount so that means if you wanted to install something
like a Corsair h70 you would have the option to do that more ventilation holes
next to our nine PCI expansion slots and
a standard bottom mounted ATX power supply make up the back of the case on
the other side we find a fairly traditional well relatively
speaking H side panel so it has a/x look
to it that is the side panel has some shape to it some definition and then we
find design by Cooler Master which is besides this little tiny logo on the box
which is way down here at the bottom the only Cooler Master branding on this
entire product and packaging so next
thing that we will do is give me a
second off camera to get these screws loosened okay I got it there we go so
I'm taking the first side panel off and then in a moment since we can't really
see a whole lot from this side why don't we do the cable management aspect first
so we've got a hole here that's going to allow us to take any power supply cables
we want to run up the back so SATA cables over to the drives SATA cables
over to the other drives so there's actually here you guys should see this
because oh the other side panel came off okay well there's the fan and the duct
that goes on it to make sure that all the air flow is directed at your
graphics cards all right so we're not going to spend too much time on that but
I also want to show you this Gap right here so if you want to bring a cable up
from the bottom you can actually run it up here to your optical drive as well so
that's going to make sure that cable stays nice and hidden we've got a cutout
at the back of the motherboard tray that's going to allow us to uh install
and uninstall any back plate requiring CPU coolers without actually taking the
motherboard out of the case and we've got a a couple nice silicone grommets
here you can see these are nice high quality grommets when I go and press on
them they actually snap right back into place and we've got our yes here we go
so here's the LED power for our front
fan so that is controlled by that switch at the top and then here's the actual
fan power which we can either plug in Via three pin or via the three pin to
four pin Molex adapter that Cooler Master includes with the case or should
I say NVIDIA includes with the case very hard to say all right in
here this looks like it's going to get complicated in a hurry why don't we
start at the top right and work our way to the back so here we have our toolless
5 and 1/4 in retention mechanism here we have a
box which if I can figure out how to
remove it that would be great there we are so that's probably
going to contain some accessories here we've got all of our front panel
connectors so I'm not going to bother taking those out but I think you guys
get the point there is one thing I do want to see though here ah yes it looks
like we're still doing usb3 via the uh
non-he header approach so you're going to have to take your usb3 cables run
them out the back of the case maybe through a PCI bracket and plug them into
the back of your motherboard everything else in here the uh front fire wire the
front audio the front USB is all pretty standard and you can see the colors of
the cables here front e sat is right there okay so then moving down here are
our little uh two front SATA Bays okay
so those are going to be running off a little back plane here there's your power there's your two SATA interfaces
so I'm going to actually show you guys really quick how that works once I
figure it out oh there that's how it works so you
can either Mount You've Got 2 and 1/2 in mounting holes or 3 and 1/2 in mounting
holes on there and it looks like this Bay also functions in much the same
manner I want you to hear if you can get in there and you can see that's what
that little circuit board connects to so I'm going to go ahead and throw these
back in so remember that's in addition to the
tooless drive Bays that are located down
here so we're going to work our way down here closer to the bottom of the case so
you got those two plus these five now these look flimsy I'll be the first to
tell you guys that actually it looks less flimsy when you got in here look at
this they look flimsy as soon as you put a hard drive in here these things
stiffen right up and once you put it back in with the hard drive you have
utter confidence that it's not going anywhere you can see this one also comes
with a 2 and 1/2 in adapter so natively this case can support up to two 2 and
1/2 in drives here and an additional one with the adapter included with your top
Drive sled so that's pretty nice to see all right moving closer to the back of
the case actually here let's have a look up into the top so that's where our 200
mm fan goes you can see we've got one installed and then one more optional one
over on the other side there see so you can throw another one in there okay
here's that little duct thing that was on the outside of the box so I guess the
theory is that when you have a graphics card installed and I happen to have a
graphics card handy here
this H well that that won't necessarily work
very well if your graphics card is installed on the very top
of your motherboard so yeah let's not worry too much about that but I think
the point of that duct is basically to direct as much air flow as possible at
the graphics cards from this front fan so you intake from the front fan there's
actually another 120 mm fan built into
that duct and that's going to blow air directly at your graphics cards here is
the little cable cover so you install your power supply and you can point your
power supply with the fan drawing air up from the bottom because this is mesh
down here so it's not going to suffocate okay and then you've got a little cover
here so you can route cables up here you can route cables out behind the
motherboard tray you can route cables out over here and it's going to cover up
that that little messy portion like this
that comes right out of your power supply directly so you won't be able to
see that and you know what I think that actually pretty much covers everything I
have to say about the half X Invidia Edition there's that 140 m millim fan at
the back and then other than that we got rubber feet on the bottom and I think
that's it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the half X Nidia Edition
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videos yeah I forgot to show you what's in this box so we've got all of our
mounting hardware for motherboard drives and other things we've got an adapter to
turn those two front USB 3s into
internally header driven USB 2os we've
got some uh zip ties okay we've got an 8 Pin extension cable
so if your power supply doesn't have a long enough 8 pin connector which Cooler
Master has pretty much anticipated it won't they've included an adapter for
you okay we've also got uh
this oh yeah I remember what this is so this goes here somewhere and then is
used to support your graphics cards yeah that's it okay and then we also have
some included casters so you can install those on the bottom of the case and then
you can roll it around cuz like I said it's pretty fraking heavy even without
hardware install there we go now we're actually done