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this is the as a cast and like every

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other pc it's been sitting on a shelf for months waiting for a GPU

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thankfully we finally get to building it and i think this one's going to be a lot

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of fun since this case is crazy unconventional look at this

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there's no thumb screws back here because there's

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no side panels to remove well okay there's one side panel but but

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the most obvious thing about the cast is the delorean-esque hinged lid and

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novelty aside i actually really like how much access you get to

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the case with this thing the only thing that i think would be better is if they

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offered a clear version so you could have like a little kind of pc greenhouse

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in there in terms of front i o we've got usbc usb type a along with audio here in

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the front and the top panel isn't the only trick that the cast brings to the

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table the basement actually unfolds as

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well but clearly we can't do that with it standing up so we got to put it down

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like this wow i mean

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you could just do all the things that is super cool right

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there it goes that's even better you have complete

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360 degree access to the entire internals of the case and hilariously as

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a figured you know what

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not enough access watch this you remove these five screws that are marked with

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little gray areas and watch this now that way

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the whole frame just comes out of the outer shell which

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you can then put away oh thank you for that

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and now you can build it completely open

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and then the whole thing will just clip back into place that way you can put

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stuff like a hard drive here on the back of the motherboard tray and do all your

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cable management look at these awesome cable management loops i am liking this

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thing gotta say aza's one of those companies that i just had always been

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kind of dismissive of because a lot of their earlier stuff was

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not very good uh oh i found a qc error

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jeffrey from qc tried to fix that up for

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us actually that looks like it probably happened during the painting or powder

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coating process now seeing as we're working with a white case we opted for a

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mostly white build for you know that aesthetic but something that we noticed

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while we were getting everything ready is that the case isn't really that white

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see if you look at it next to almost any other white thing

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it looks kind of pink okay see that

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for our motherboard we've gone with a premium but not outrageous model from

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Gigabyte this is their x570s aero g and it's a more creator centric board which

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usually just means it looks stylish but in this case it actually has at least

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one feature that might be more creator-centric so

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i'm not used to seeing a displayport input on the back of a monitor unless

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it's got Thunderbolt because what you would want to do is you'd want to take

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your powerful dedicated graphics card run a little loopback cable into the

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motherboard and then inject that high performance displayport signal into your

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Thunderbolt port if you wanted to you know connect to a a dock that was 50

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meters away or something like that in this case it appears to be injecting

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into one of the regular usb 3.2 type cs

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so in a nutshell if you had a supported monitor or dock it would allow you to

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have both usbc and full fat displayport

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functionality with the performance of your onboard GPU from that single

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connector so it's like kind of like poor man's Thunderbolt you could think of it

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that way it's got two and a half gigabit lan as well as four m.2 slots and i

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think that's about it for creator-centric features oh i guess yeah

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it's got a lot of usb for our CPU we've gone with the ryzen 7 50 800x it's got

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eight cores 16 threads nearly the same gaming performance as its higher end

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brethren but just half as many cores as the top-tier ryzen 5000 and honestly

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it's a great choice if you don't absolutely need a ton of threads for

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your particular workload and we are humming along with this

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access 32 gigs of g skill 3 600 mega

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transfer per second cl 14 memory doesn't quite match the color scheme of the

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build but from a performance standpoint this is

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exactly where you want to be with ryzen 5000. for storage i'm not sure quite

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when or how this happened but m.2 drives have gotten so affordable that you can

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actually take a two-tiered approach to your storage setup with all NVMe devices

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so we're going to be using a p5 plus gen 4 SSD for our boot drive so go ahead and

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throw that in the top slot which is using lanes directly connected to the

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CPU full gen 4 speeds then we're going to throw a p2 2 terabyte drive in one of

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our other three freaking NVMe slots on this

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motherboard under this m.2 heatsink looks like we're pulling all of them off

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at this point check this out brian

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they've just got a socketed wi-fi slot so you actually put another

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SSD over top of that if you want and that's oh that's cool too you can put up

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to four 110 millimeter ssds in this

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board what's interesting about that from a creator standpoint is that the highest

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capacity and in some cases highest performance drives can end up being 110

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millimeters long like we saw with Intel's octane m.2s for our power supply

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we went with a pretty obvious choice for a white themed build this is the prime

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snow silent titanium from sea sonic crazy efficient

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super quiet and white just

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you know what do you want me to say 750 watts which should be enough for our

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system since we're not going to be using a 30 series GPU talk a little bit more

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about that later let's get this installed oh okay so here's how it goes

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in everything about this case is super unconventional i could take this

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basement shroud off or i could put it in here

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is that yup can i do that no i can't do that

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okay it looked like i could do that look i think i can be forgiven for

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thinking that i could do that let's pull this off

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whoa

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i have to have it pointing up oh

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the instructions say fan pointed up well i mean this is one of those situations

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where normally i prefer not to have the power supply fan pointed up because it

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means that it's sucking in hot recirculated air from in particular

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around the GPU but in this case

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i mean it's so open i guess it doesn't really matter

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oops i sincerely regret that this thing ships

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with black cables but that's on seasonic

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that's not on me and then is it ever easy to cable manage this thing got our

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24 pin here got our pre-run cables for the graphics card here got our 8 pin up

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here and check this out they've got these

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giant velcro tie or zip tie loops back here that just make it super super easy

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to get everything strapped down into place so i'm thinking we'll do it kind

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of like that and now it's time to mess it up with all the RGB crap that's going

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to be on our cooler this is the h-150i elite capellix it's

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got super nice RGB and more importantly

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than that it uses Corsair's maglev ml series fans triple radiator so we'll be

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able to keep that 5800x nice and cool

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and we're going to go ahead and install it in this orientation this case can

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accommodate either a 280 or a 360 mil rad at least in theory it

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uh can azam might have just committed a

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water cooling sin here

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there's not enough room for the tank we can get away with this if we put the

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fans here and use them as intakes in

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order to improve the clearance i really don't like doing that because it's worse

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for maintenance but for a show build i guess we can do that and i would like to

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see the revised version of this case with just

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like this much more clearance especially because it's the kind of thing that you could probably fix with a dremel in like

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10 minutes also unfortunately this appears to be

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one of the older style coolers that comes with the clip style mount for AMD

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i mean they're not terrible they're just more finicky than the newer mechanisms

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the thing that's kind of baffling to me is the design of this fan the case is

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quite open air to the point where it it

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could easily be sort of you know pulling air from even outside of the case kind

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of around it so even though it's open there are some serious question marks

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for me in terms of actual real world performance you know what i really would

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have liked to do in this case is one of my classic tricks

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okay so what i used to do back when cable management sucked in most cases

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you didn't have any holes up here or anything like that is i used to take

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this fan and i'd run it right under the motherboard i just kind of pin it under

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the motherboard at the back and then i'd bring it out to the side or the top or

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the bottom or wherever it needed to go and

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seeing this here i really i really wish i had done that now i know this doesn't

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look very nicely cable managed but this is a bit of a different strategy than i

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would usually have what i'm focused on here is

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hiding everything from this side so i'm trying to get everything wrapped up as

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tightly as possible

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so we don't catch it sort of running across these open gaps in the chassis

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all right yeah we finally got the GPU uh i wish i

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could tell you it's something cooler than it is this is actually a 2080 ti

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and the reason that we're using a last gen GPU is because there's even here at

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the office a bit of a shortage of modern high-end gpus especially white

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ones so this was it um

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all of our 30 series stuff of this class is in our editing stations or tied up in

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other projects so that's what we're using

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no no it's fine there this is safe all right now there's a little uh

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there's a little support bracket doodad here that i'm kind of trying to figure

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out right now what is this boy doing

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oh is it a vertical mount oh cool it's a vertical mount oh i like

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it okay sold let's do a vertical mount oh do we have

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a PCIe riser oh we'll just go grab one oh yeah

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that's freaking awesome okay we've got a bit of an interference issue with our

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usb type-c over there okay yeah this is

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great so here's where it goes in right oh well there apparently

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okay now hold on a second wait how the devil are you supposed to

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oh interesting

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you have to do this

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the GPU slides into the case the sequel

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you you can't you can't put this in from this way and you can't screw it in

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unless the GPU is already on it so you

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have to slide it in from the back we just did a video called the GPU slides

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into this case and so now we've now we've done it again

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this is great i was worried that we'd be able to see my mess of cables back here

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through these gaps but actually the GPU is going to cover all of it

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oh and i didn't even put the power supply shroud on yet

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oh there's a oh it's a it's a cable cover shop

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okay all the cable management concerns i had

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were totally invalid 100

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because there's a freaking basement cover

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so clean

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enough to forgive the pink hue it's really noticeable when there's shadows

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cast on it can you see that like how pink it is

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oh no no it's not as pink as that

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oh right i was about to do an lttstore.com

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for the for the tube but you can't actually buy that so you've got to pick

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up the gamer hoodie available in aqua or gray

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let's just see if my cable management is going to survive

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i've got a big thing right where it needs to go

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you know what maybe i can get it

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oh is that it

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oh yeah i think we got it

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one door closed

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two doors closed that's pretty cool

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or you could go with just like the half kind of cocked open

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look this is where a lot of my cooling

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questions come in because you got just this little tiny gap along the side for

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these 320 millimeter fans to bring in air

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great mechanism for attaching to the front but that is

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you can get a mesh there's a mesh front okay well that would almost definitely

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be an improvement still it might get enough to deal with just the CPU and if

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this GPU is just grabbing fresh air

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directly from freaking outside i mean it might be okay now i know you guys want

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to see the thermal results but before i do that

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i want to take a moment to appreciate that a couple of RGB configuration

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issues aside this thing looks freaking awesome

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like if you want the open frame experience but with the aesthetics of a

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closed case and the cable management of a closed case

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this is basically the bee's freaking knees

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which isn't to say that it's without problem first and foremost

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i gotta point out that it is extremely susceptible to the temperature of the

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air around the system even walking past it can generate a measurable change in

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the temperature of your GPU but that's actually good news because GPU temps

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were freaking awesome and our theory that it would mostly pull fresh air from

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this giant gap in the side of the case did

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hold up obviously this is going to have some negative impact on the

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dustiness of your machine but from a performance standpoint it's great

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interestingly one of our compatriots gear seekers who's on Floatplane by the

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way you guys can check them out there also tested this case with the GPU in

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its horizontal configuration and they too found a very small but measurable

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difference between having it open versus having it closed i think this

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orientation ended up being a little bit better but it's also a little bit more

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work and it's going to cost you about 75 to 80 us dollars for a gen 4 riser cable

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what's not great from a performance standpoint is the fact that our CPU was

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up near 90 degrees with a triple 120

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millimeter aio cooler

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i don't know what to say about that other than you better get yourself ah

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a mesh front panel because i'm pretty sure we're going to see a marked

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difference almost immediately here check this out ladies and gentlemen we're at

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90.4 degrees on a 5800x

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give it a sec you like to breathe

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how you liking breathing it's not going down

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is that just how hot this particular chip runs

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90.5 okay well

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ow all right it's back up point one