1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:11,280 now this is something I saw in our warehouse and I had to grab one because 2 00:00:06,759 --> 00:00:13,240 it is a/x NVIDIA edition case so as you 3 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:19,279 guys may or may not know from the extreme buyer guide that I did on my ncx 4 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:24,199 tech tips Channel I'm a big fan of the half X case I really like it at 5 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:29,000 especially at the time of being released it was one of the more interesting new 6 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:34,480 and Innovative cases on the market cuz it was one of the first to introduce 7 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:39,960 compatibility for certain motherboards that are longer than standard ATX it was 8 00:00:37,239 --> 00:00:45,160 also one of the first cases or what it was the first case to take that cool 9 00:00:42,719 --> 00:00:49,760 half appearance and turn it into something that I would truly consider 10 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:56,120 worthy of housing an extreme gaming computer so this um cooler Master's done 11 00:00:52,559 --> 00:00:59,000 a few NVIDIA Edition cases but this is 12 00:00:56,120 --> 00:01:04,000 probably the slickest looking one and it is the first high-end NVIDIA branded 13 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:08,759 case that we've seen from Cooler Master so you know I'm actually G to get the 14 00:01:05,960 --> 00:01:12,040 cameraman to no let's do the outside of the box first then I'm going to open it 15 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:16,520 off camera because this is going to take a little while it's really heavy okay 16 00:01:14,479 --> 00:01:21,040 rear retaining holes for water cooling nine expansion slots for increased 17 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:28,159 expandability we got cable management grommets tool-free hard drive slots 18 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:31,720 front 230 mm green LED fan okay we've 19 00:01:28,159 --> 00:01:33,640 got NVIDIA SLI certified GPU cooling 20 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:39,600 system okay this I haven't seen before support for USB 3.0 looks like we got 21 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:41,560 two USB 3.0 slots cable cover for clean 22 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:45,560 insides and a SATA do for easy installation without removing the side 23 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:54,719 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 24 00:01:50,799 --> 00:01:57,719 Bays six 5 and 1/4 in Drive 25 00:01:54,719 --> 00:01:59,200 Bays two of these whatever these are 26 00:01:57,719 --> 00:02:06,000 okay here's all of our cooling system stuff and let's go ahead and get this thing opened 27 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:08,280 up so this is it the half X NVIDIA 28 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:12,280 edition if there was any doubt from the color scheme still left in your mind as 29 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:17,440 to whether this is an NVIDIA edition case or not you could probably check 30 00:02:14,879 --> 00:02:23,480 right here and see that there is an NVIDIA logo right on the front of it so 31 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:25,680 there let your doubts be uh dismissed 32 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:29,239 quite easily okay so here we got our 5 and a/4 inch Bay covers let's do the 33 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:33,879 front of the case first we've got all of our front IO and whatnot we've got our 34 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:38,640 power switch reset switch as well as an onoff switch that's a toggle switch for 35 00:02:36,319 --> 00:02:42,319 the fan LED so you can leave the fan on but actually turn the lights off if you 36 00:02:39,959 --> 00:02:48,280 want to sleep we've got two USB 3.0 ports one eeta one fire wire two USB 2.0 37 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:53,080 front microphone as well as front headphon so lots of different IO options 38 00:02:51,159 --> 00:02:56,720 here at the front I can't remember if this does anything on the half X it 39 00:02:54,560 --> 00:03:01,760 would appear that it doesn't so that is the front why don't we have a look at 40 00:02:58,239 --> 00:03:04,680 the top so in the top of the case we've 41 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:10,280 got two cooling fans which are each measured at approximately yeah I'm 42 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:13,040 checking 200 mm so those are two dual 43 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:17,599 those are dual 200 mm fan mounts in the top of the case and I'm going to go 44 00:03:14,799 --> 00:03:25,560 ahead and uh move it around to this side so on the side we've actually got 45 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:27,519 another 200 mm fan Mount here we go okay 46 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:31,920 right there and that actually comes with a fan pre-mounted in it so that's going 47 00:03:30,239 --> 00:03:35,959 to provide all the cooling you could possibly need to your high-end GeForce 48 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:39,920 graphics card that you ought to be installing in a case like this you can 49 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:45,840 see the window actually has some NVIDIA artwork on it as well and uh it is a 50 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:50,560 green tinted window rather than being a straight Clear Window so here if I can 51 00:03:48,239 --> 00:03:55,040 if I stick my hand in here you can see the color difference between my hand 52 00:03:52,760 --> 00:04:00,480 behind the Green Glass and my hand not Behind the Green Glass so let's twist it 53 00:03:57,959 --> 00:04:05,599 around again oh it's heavy though steel construction it weighs I tell you okay 54 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:11,519 at the back of the case we find our water cooling grommets we find a 140 mm 55 00:04:08,879 --> 00:04:15,480 fan with optional 120 mm Mount so that means if you wanted to install something 56 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:22,160 like a Corsair h70 you would have the option to do that more ventilation holes 57 00:04:18,639 --> 00:04:25,000 next to our nine PCI expansion slots and 58 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:29,800 a standard bottom mounted ATX power supply make up the back of the case on 59 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:35,759 the other side we find a fairly traditional well relatively 60 00:04:32,280 --> 00:04:38,479 speaking H side panel so it has a/x look 61 00:04:35,759 --> 00:04:43,080 to it that is the side panel has some shape to it some definition and then we 62 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:49,600 find design by Cooler Master which is besides this little tiny logo on the box 63 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:55,600 which is way down here at the bottom the only Cooler Master branding on this 64 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:59,880 entire product and packaging so next 65 00:04:55,600 --> 00:05:02,000 thing that we will do is give me a 66 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:07,280 second off camera to get these screws loosened okay I got it there we go so 67 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:10,240 I'm taking the first side panel off and then in a moment since we can't really 68 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:14,560 see a whole lot from this side why don't we do the cable management aspect first 69 00:05:12,479 --> 00:05:17,880 so we've got a hole here that's going to allow us to take any power supply cables 70 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:22,319 we want to run up the back so SATA cables over to the drives SATA cables 71 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:27,039 over to the other drives so there's actually here you guys should see this 72 00:05:24,319 --> 00:05:30,880 because oh the other side panel came off okay well there's the fan and the duct 73 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:34,400 that goes on it to make sure that all the air flow is directed at your 74 00:05:32,199 --> 00:05:37,639 graphics cards all right so we're not going to spend too much time on that but 75 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:41,759 I also want to show you this Gap right here so if you want to bring a cable up 76 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:45,800 from the bottom you can actually run it up here to your optical drive as well so 77 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:50,120 that's going to make sure that cable stays nice and hidden we've got a cutout 78 00:05:48,639 --> 00:05:55,319 at the back of the motherboard tray that's going to allow us to uh install 79 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:59,319 and uninstall any back plate requiring CPU coolers without actually taking the 80 00:05:57,919 --> 00:06:02,759 motherboard out of the case and we've got a a couple nice silicone grommets 81 00:06:01,639 --> 00:06:07,360 here you can see these are nice high quality grommets when I go and press on 82 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:13,520 them they actually snap right back into place and we've got our yes here we go 83 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:15,280 so here's the LED power for our front 84 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:19,039 fan so that is controlled by that switch at the top and then here's the actual 85 00:06:17,199 --> 00:06:24,240 fan power which we can either plug in Via three pin or via the three pin to 86 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:28,800 four pin Molex adapter that Cooler Master includes with the case or should 87 00:06:26,199 --> 00:06:33,840 I say NVIDIA includes with the case very hard to say all right in 88 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:38,560 here this looks like it's going to get complicated in a hurry why don't we 89 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:44,120 start at the top right and work our way to the back so here we have our toolless 90 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:50,800 5 and 1/4 in retention mechanism here we have a 91 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:53,120 box which if I can figure out how to 92 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:56,840 remove it that would be great there we are so that's probably 93 00:06:55,120 --> 00:07:00,199 going to contain some accessories here we've got all of our front panel 94 00:06:58,280 --> 00:07:03,240 connectors so I'm not going to bother taking those out but I think you guys 95 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:09,199 get the point there is one thing I do want to see though here ah yes it looks 96 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:10,919 like we're still doing usb3 via the uh 97 00:07:09,199 --> 00:07:14,599 non-he header approach so you're going to have to take your usb3 cables run 98 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:18,759 them out the back of the case maybe through a PCI bracket and plug them into 99 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:23,560 the back of your motherboard everything else in here the uh front fire wire the 100 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:27,199 front audio the front USB is all pretty standard and you can see the colors of 101 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:35,800 the cables here front e sat is right there okay so then moving down here are 102 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:37,240 our little uh two front SATA Bays okay 103 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:42,919 so those are going to be running off a little back plane here there's your power there's your two SATA interfaces 104 00:07:41,199 --> 00:07:45,560 so I'm going to actually show you guys really quick how that works once I 105 00:07:44,639 --> 00:07:51,360 figure it out oh there that's how it works so you 106 00:07:48,479 --> 00:07:56,240 can either Mount You've Got 2 and 1/2 in mounting holes or 3 and 1/2 in mounting 107 00:07:54,159 --> 00:08:01,080 holes on there and it looks like this Bay also functions in much the same 108 00:07:59,039 --> 00:08:05,400 manner I want you to hear if you can get in there and you can see that's what 109 00:08:03,159 --> 00:08:07,560 that little circuit board connects to so I'm going to go ahead and throw these 110 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:14,680 back in so remember that's in addition to the 111 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:16,319 tooless drive Bays that are located down 112 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:20,639 here so we're going to work our way down here closer to the bottom of the case so 113 00:08:18,199 --> 00:08:24,479 you got those two plus these five now these look flimsy I'll be the first to 114 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:29,639 tell you guys that actually it looks less flimsy when you got in here look at 115 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:32,839 this they look flimsy as soon as you put a hard drive in here these things 116 00:08:30,879 --> 00:08:36,240 stiffen right up and once you put it back in with the hard drive you have 117 00:08:34,599 --> 00:08:41,200 utter confidence that it's not going anywhere you can see this one also comes 118 00:08:38,279 --> 00:08:45,560 with a 2 and 1/2 in adapter so natively this case can support up to two 2 and 119 00:08:42,919 --> 00:08:49,519 1/2 in drives here and an additional one with the adapter included with your top 120 00:08:47,279 --> 00:08:53,560 Drive sled so that's pretty nice to see all right moving closer to the back of 121 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:57,959 the case actually here let's have a look up into the top so that's where our 200 122 00:08:55,600 --> 00:09:02,800 mm fan goes you can see we've got one installed and then one more optional one 123 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:07,800 over on the other side there see so you can throw another one in there okay 124 00:09:05,399 --> 00:09:13,640 here's that little duct thing that was on the outside of the box so I guess the 125 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:20,000 theory is that when you have a graphics card installed and I happen to have a 126 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:21,880 graphics card handy here 127 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:26,800 this H well that that won't necessarily work 128 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:31,959 very well if your graphics card is installed on the very top 129 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:35,800 of your motherboard so yeah let's not worry too much about that but I think 130 00:09:33,519 --> 00:09:39,920 the point of that duct is basically to direct as much air flow as possible at 131 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:44,880 the graphics cards from this front fan so you intake from the front fan there's 132 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:46,760 actually another 120 mm fan built into 133 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:51,519 that duct and that's going to blow air directly at your graphics cards here is 134 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:56,240 the little cable cover so you install your power supply and you can point your 135 00:09:53,839 --> 00:10:00,839 power supply with the fan drawing air up from the bottom because this is mesh 136 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:06,040 down here so it's not going to suffocate okay and then you've got a little cover 137 00:10:03,079 --> 00:10:09,320 here so you can route cables up here you can route cables out behind the 138 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:15,000 motherboard tray you can route cables out over here and it's going to cover up 139 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:16,440 that that little messy portion like this 140 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:20,839 that comes right out of your power supply directly so you won't be able to 141 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:25,480 see that and you know what I think that actually pretty much covers everything I 142 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:32,279 have to say about the half X Invidia Edition there's that 140 m millim fan at 143 00:10:30,279 --> 00:10:35,839 the back and then other than that we got rubber feet on the bottom and I think 144 00:10:33,959 --> 00:10:39,760 that's it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the half X Nidia Edition 145 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:44,600 don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer 146 00:10:42,519 --> 00:10:48,399 videos yeah I forgot to show you what's in this box so we've got all of our 147 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:53,880 mounting hardware for motherboard drives and other things we've got an adapter to 148 00:10:50,839 --> 00:10:57,560 turn those two front USB 3s into 149 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:59,800 internally header driven USB 2os we've 150 00:10:57,560 --> 00:11:03,320 got some uh zip ties okay we've got an 8 Pin extension cable 151 00:11:01,959 --> 00:11:07,440 so if your power supply doesn't have a long enough 8 pin connector which Cooler 152 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:13,959 Master has pretty much anticipated it won't they've included an adapter for 153 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:13,959 you okay we've also got uh 154 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:23,519 this oh yeah I remember what this is so this goes here somewhere and then is 155 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:28,200 used to support your graphics cards yeah that's it okay and then we also have 156 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:31,600 some included casters so you can install those on the bottom of the case and then 157 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:35,399 you can roll it around cuz like I said it's pretty fraking heavy even without 158 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:38,600 hardware install there we go now we're actually done