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now this is something I saw in our warehouse and I had to grab one because

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it is a/x NVIDIA edition case so as you

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guys may or may not know from the extreme buyer guide that I did on my ncx

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tech tips Channel I'm a big fan of the half X case I really like it at

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especially at the time of being released it was one of the more interesting new

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and Innovative cases on the market cuz it was one of the first to introduce

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compatibility for certain motherboards that are longer than standard ATX it was

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also one of the first cases or what it was the first case to take that cool

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half appearance and turn it into something that I would truly consider

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worthy of housing an extreme gaming computer so this um cooler Master's done

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a few NVIDIA Edition cases but this is

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probably the slickest looking one and it is the first high-end NVIDIA branded

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case that we've seen from Cooler Master so you know I'm actually G to get the

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cameraman to no let's do the outside of the box first then I'm going to open it

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off camera because this is going to take a little while it's really heavy okay

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rear retaining holes for water cooling nine expansion slots for increased

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expandability we got cable management grommets tool-free hard drive slots

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front 230 mm green LED fan okay we've

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got NVIDIA SLI certified GPU cooling

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system okay this I haven't seen before support for USB 3.0 looks like we got

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two USB 3.0 slots cable cover for clean

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insides and a SATA do for easy installation without removing the side

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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

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Bays six 5 and 1/4 in Drive

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Bays two of these whatever these are

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okay here's all of our cooling system stuff and let's go ahead and get this thing opened

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up so this is it the half X NVIDIA

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edition if there was any doubt from the color scheme still left in your mind as

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to whether this is an NVIDIA edition case or not you could probably check

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right here and see that there is an NVIDIA logo right on the front of it so

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there let your doubts be uh dismissed

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quite easily okay so here we got our 5 and a/4 inch Bay covers let's do the

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front of the case first we've got all of our front IO and whatnot we've got our

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power switch reset switch as well as an onoff switch that's a toggle switch for

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the fan LED so you can leave the fan on but actually turn the lights off if you

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want to sleep we've got two USB 3.0 ports one eeta one fire wire two USB 2.0

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front microphone as well as front headphon so lots of different IO options

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here at the front I can't remember if this does anything on the half X it

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would appear that it doesn't so that is the front why don't we have a look at

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the top so in the top of the case we've

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got two cooling fans which are each measured at approximately yeah I'm

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checking 200 mm so those are two dual

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those are dual 200 mm fan mounts in the top of the case and I'm going to go

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ahead and uh move it around to this side so on the side we've actually got

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another 200 mm fan Mount here we go okay

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right there and that actually comes with a fan pre-mounted in it so that's going

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to provide all the cooling you could possibly need to your high-end GeForce

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graphics card that you ought to be installing in a case like this you can

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see the window actually has some NVIDIA artwork on it as well and uh it is a

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green tinted window rather than being a straight Clear Window so here if I can

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if I stick my hand in here you can see the color difference between my hand

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behind the Green Glass and my hand not Behind the Green Glass so let's twist it

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around again oh it's heavy though steel construction it weighs I tell you okay

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at the back of the case we find our water cooling grommets we find a 140 mm

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fan with optional 120 mm Mount so that means if you wanted to install something

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like a Corsair h70 you would have the option to do that more ventilation holes

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next to our nine PCI expansion slots and

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a standard bottom mounted ATX power supply make up the back of the case on

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the other side we find a fairly traditional well relatively

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speaking H side panel so it has a/x look

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to it that is the side panel has some shape to it some definition and then we

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find design by Cooler Master which is besides this little tiny logo on the box

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which is way down here at the bottom the only Cooler Master branding on this

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entire product and packaging so next

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thing that we will do is give me a

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second off camera to get these screws loosened okay I got it there we go so

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I'm taking the first side panel off and then in a moment since we can't really

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see a whole lot from this side why don't we do the cable management aspect first

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so we've got a hole here that's going to allow us to take any power supply cables

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we want to run up the back so SATA cables over to the drives SATA cables

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over to the other drives so there's actually here you guys should see this

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because oh the other side panel came off okay well there's the fan and the duct

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that goes on it to make sure that all the air flow is directed at your

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graphics cards all right so we're not going to spend too much time on that but

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I also want to show you this Gap right here so if you want to bring a cable up

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from the bottom you can actually run it up here to your optical drive as well so

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that's going to make sure that cable stays nice and hidden we've got a cutout

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at the back of the motherboard tray that's going to allow us to uh install

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and uninstall any back plate requiring CPU coolers without actually taking the

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motherboard out of the case and we've got a a couple nice silicone grommets

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here you can see these are nice high quality grommets when I go and press on

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them they actually snap right back into place and we've got our yes here we go

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so here's the LED power for our front

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fan so that is controlled by that switch at the top and then here's the actual

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fan power which we can either plug in Via three pin or via the three pin to

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four pin Molex adapter that Cooler Master includes with the case or should

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I say NVIDIA includes with the case very hard to say all right in

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here this looks like it's going to get complicated in a hurry why don't we

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start at the top right and work our way to the back so here we have our toolless

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5 and 1/4 in retention mechanism here we have a

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box which if I can figure out how to

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remove it that would be great there we are so that's probably

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going to contain some accessories here we've got all of our front panel

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connectors so I'm not going to bother taking those out but I think you guys

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get the point there is one thing I do want to see though here ah yes it looks

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like we're still doing usb3 via the uh

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non-he header approach so you're going to have to take your usb3 cables run

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them out the back of the case maybe through a PCI bracket and plug them into

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the back of your motherboard everything else in here the uh front fire wire the

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front audio the front USB is all pretty standard and you can see the colors of

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the cables here front e sat is right there okay so then moving down here are

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our little uh two front SATA Bays okay

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so those are going to be running off a little back plane here there's your power there's your two SATA interfaces

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so I'm going to actually show you guys really quick how that works once I

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figure it out oh there that's how it works so you

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can either Mount You've Got 2 and 1/2 in mounting holes or 3 and 1/2 in mounting

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holes on there and it looks like this Bay also functions in much the same

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manner I want you to hear if you can get in there and you can see that's what

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that little circuit board connects to so I'm going to go ahead and throw these

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back in so remember that's in addition to the

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tooless drive Bays that are located down

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here so we're going to work our way down here closer to the bottom of the case so

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you got those two plus these five now these look flimsy I'll be the first to

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tell you guys that actually it looks less flimsy when you got in here look at

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this they look flimsy as soon as you put a hard drive in here these things

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stiffen right up and once you put it back in with the hard drive you have

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utter confidence that it's not going anywhere you can see this one also comes

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with a 2 and 1/2 in adapter so natively this case can support up to two 2 and

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1/2 in drives here and an additional one with the adapter included with your top

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Drive sled so that's pretty nice to see all right moving closer to the back of

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the case actually here let's have a look up into the top so that's where our 200

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mm fan goes you can see we've got one installed and then one more optional one

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over on the other side there see so you can throw another one in there okay

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here's that little duct thing that was on the outside of the box so I guess the

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theory is that when you have a graphics card installed and I happen to have a

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graphics card handy here

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this H well that that won't necessarily work

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very well if your graphics card is installed on the very top

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of your motherboard so yeah let's not worry too much about that but I think

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the point of that duct is basically to direct as much air flow as possible at

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the graphics cards from this front fan so you intake from the front fan there's

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actually another 120 mm fan built into

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that duct and that's going to blow air directly at your graphics cards here is

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the little cable cover so you install your power supply and you can point your

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power supply with the fan drawing air up from the bottom because this is mesh

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down here so it's not going to suffocate okay and then you've got a little cover

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here so you can route cables up here you can route cables out behind the

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motherboard tray you can route cables out over here and it's going to cover up

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that that little messy portion like this

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that comes right out of your power supply directly so you won't be able to

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see that and you know what I think that actually pretty much covers everything I

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have to say about the half X Invidia Edition there's that 140 m millim fan at

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the back and then other than that we got rubber feet on the bottom and I think

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that's it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the half X Nidia Edition

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don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer

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videos yeah I forgot to show you what's in this box so we've got all of our

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mounting hardware for motherboard drives and other things we've got an adapter to

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turn those two front USB 3s into

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internally header driven USB 2os we've

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got some uh zip ties okay we've got an 8 Pin extension cable

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so if your power supply doesn't have a long enough 8 pin connector which Cooler

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Master has pretty much anticipated it won't they've included an adapter for

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you okay we've also got uh

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this oh yeah I remember what this is so this goes here somewhere and then is

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used to support your graphics cards yeah that's it okay and then we also have

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some included casters so you can install those on the bottom of the case and then

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you can roll it around cuz like I said it's pretty fraking heavy even without

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hardware install there we go now we're actually done