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NVIDIA welcome to my unboxing and first

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look at the Blackhawk Ultra from Rose

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will the case that is actually almost

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the size of a grown man at least a

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smallish grown man like the one you see before you so we're going to go ahead

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and slice this bad boy open Rose will includes almost no information about the

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Blackhawk itself on the outside of the box so you can see that it's just a

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plain black box this is their Flagship

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case and fits pretty much anything according to their uh well according to

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everything that I already know about this case which is some wow it's heavy

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okay so Rosewell claims the gross weight is around 18.6 kg with the net weight

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being 16. 6 kg so folks that at a

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conversion of about 2.2 kg per pound is

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about 35 lb empty and you can see that

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I'm actually going to run into oh I almost ran into a clearance issue with

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the ceiling just for moving the box from the case so you initially see a big box

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for a case and you go yeah but the case inside Couldn't actually be that big for

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the Blackhawk Ultra it it just is it

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just actually is they're using an extremely high quality foam which I love

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to see check this out more than an inch

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of soft durable closed cell foam around

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every side which is great their feet sit

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in little things here so they're not going anywhere this is expensive foam

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guys I cannot uh I cannot overstate that

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it costs rosew money to put foam like

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that around their case and protect it in the event of shipping however I

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understand why they're doing it because with a heavy large chassis like this

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especially once you start to load components inside it here's the uh the

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other one especially once you start to load components inside it um the risk of

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something being damaged in shipping increases a lot compared to smaller

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cases all right so here we go the

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Blackhawk Ultra which includes all of the cooling

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options so we'll start with uh you know what I'm going to remove all this

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plastic and then we'll be back in a

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moment okay well that actually didn't take as long as I thought it was one

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solid piece of plastic which as someone who opens up a lot of products I

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actually appreciate because it's frustrating when there's like a billion

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different tiny little strips of plastic that you can like peel off with your

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nail and you try not to actually scratch the finish on the product itself so the

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front of the case pretty bare I like that I like a clean

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look they've also gone with a mesh that has kind of a finer mesh behind it so

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you're not going to be too worried about a ton of dust getting pulled into the

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case by the front air intakes they've got four 5 and a/4 inch Baye one of

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which has a 3 and 1 half

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in we'll be back in a moment oh there it is never mind we'll say uh one of which

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has a 3 and 1/2 in adapter in it so you could put in like a card reader or

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something else like that so this is actually intended to be mounted from the

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back so we're just going to go easy on it this time so that you can get a better pressure mount anyway uh so

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that's for a 3 and 1 half in device in the front the sides of the front here

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are sort of a glossy plastic that I wish

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was matte uh looking at the case you know if it was for my own personal use

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however it's at least not a super fingerprint attracting black so you can

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see even though I'm touching it here many cases will be a greasy disgusting

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mess immediately and especially things like routers have you ever actually like

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tried to wipe a fingerprint off a router you go you take your shirt you wipe it

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off and you're like oh now it's covered in micr scratches fantastic this doesn't

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do that so at least it's a it's a good glossy plastic for for what that's worth

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on this side we find a 120 or 140 mm fan

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mount on the back of a motherboard tray this is great for motherboards that do

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have like heat sinks and cooling components or even power phases on the

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back of the board itself so that's really cool to included and on the top

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of the case which I have no idea how I'm going to show to you guys here we go

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maybe we'll just lean her forward ah there's our IO so a whopping 4 USB 2 2

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USB 3 headphone microphone reset power

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this is kind of cool because so many times you see motherboards with like a

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ton of USB 2 headers and you're like okay that's fine what are you going to plug those into exactly well you're

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going to plug them into this case so there you have it as well as check that

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out that dock right there could be used for either 3 and 1/2 in or a 2 and 1/2

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in drive and it's uh it's a little hot swappable dock so you just cheuck your

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drive in there and you can use it for sort of mass storage without actually

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having a portable enclosure so it allows you to use the native SATA interface for

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maximum possible transfer speeds on this side you find that this case is all

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about the cooling so there's a 230 mm

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fan there but check this out you can put up to

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nine 120 mm fans on the outside of this

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side panel which is sort of ridiculous

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wall of fans I guess you have to have somewhere to put those weird uh 9 by10

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mm radi you know I don't know if you could Mount I bet you could probably ghetto mount it that'd be kind of cool I

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don't know if you'd get a fan on every slot just because of internal clearance

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but uh whatever still be cool look how

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big this thing is like it makes me look like a some kind of like homunculus all

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right power supply mount in the top water cooling grommets all over the

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entire back I've actually never seen one actually Implement an external water

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cooling system though so I think these have a dubious value um 120 mm or 140 mm

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fan in the back it comes with a 140 10 PCI Express slots so you can fit any

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kind of XL ATX form factor even the longest nine slot ones with a dual slot

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card in the bottom you've got another Power Supply Mount this one has a foam

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piece right here which we'll check out once we open it up whereas the top one

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looks like it oh yeah it does too so that'll help um dampen noise a little

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bit there on the top of the case you find

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more grills more mesh it's all about

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cooling up here as well so we're going to open it up and find out exactly what

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kinds of fans are in there but it's a more open mesh and then a much finer

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mesh so if you did decide to use those as an intake which isn't necessarily the

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way I'd recommend using them then you could uh uh you could not worry about

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bringing too much dust into the case that way that looks like an 80 mil fan

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Mount there just because uh on that other power supply plate but uh yeah

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let's go ahead and check out the bottom of the case Oh my legs on the bottom we

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find uh I believe there's a fan filter

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on the bottom somewhere but at any rate there's more mesh and uh this really

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feels like it can be removed yeah I think it can so there's

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there's yeah there we go maybe you're

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supposed to remove it I don't even know let's remove it

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anyway Voyage of Discovery time that's my favorite thing about this

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channel Voyages of Discovery where we're

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just not really sure if we're supposed to do things but we do it anyway yeah

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there you go that's a filter it's probably supposed to REM I have no idea how I'm going to get that back in but

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whatever uh rubber feet on the bottom keep it from going anywhere when you

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don't want it to mind you with how much this thing weighs I don't think it's

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going anywhere if you don't want it to and let's go ahead and open her up so

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the side panel mounts with the uh the classic little latches and you've got

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rubber grommets here that are going to prevent unnecessary vibration on the

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mesh side panel from the fans that are mounted here it should be noted that the

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side panel does have a fair bit of flex you can see that it's hard to avoid that

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when you have such a large mesh window so that doesn't give as much support as

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solid metal and when the panel's so large in general but um I mean one

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strategy that you can use if you do have any vibration of the side panel that

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I've used in the past is's a little bit of blue tack um up here here down here

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down here down here and that'll keep it from vibrating against the case so if

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you do run into trouble then you can do that I'm not I'm not saying that you will but um 2 140 mm fans here on the

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other side of the hard drive cages that looks like two 140 m fans at the front

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of the hard drive cages this is a cool configuration because you see a lot of

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cases that have fans right at the front and at the back of the of the hard drive

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mounts and the reason for that is because these are extremely airflow

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restrictive there's actually not a lot of space I don't know if if you can see

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that but between the heart you have to reinforce these because they're going to be full of what is one of the most

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heaviest component the most heaviest one of the heaviest components of your

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system so if you actually filled this thing up with really 10 two yeah with 10

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3 and 1/2 in hard drives you would have a serious situation if this wasn't

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strong enough and it flexed and your hard drives all fell out so you can't

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leave huge gaps so what they've done is they've used a push pull configuration

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to actually manage to move some air through this keeping your drives cool as

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well as providing more uh cool air to the rest of your system these are using

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a very thick steel construction so you can see there's almost no flex to them

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whatsoever and then they're using a rubber grommeted Mount as well so that

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should reduce vibration as well as noise

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from your drives assuming you're using mechanical drives with ssds it obviously

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won't make any difference inside here things are just kind of ridiculous I

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love this so this is this is appropriate they include not one but two eight pin p

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8 Pin CPU power extensions so you could probably put them together but I think

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what they really intend is if you're using a super high-end motherboard like something like an EVGA sr2 or SRX or

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something like that you can actually extend both of your eight pin connectors

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to make sure that they both reach so that's cool comes with

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wheels which is again appropriate especially with the kind of systems that

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some people will be putting in a case like this little locking wheels are very

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appropriate it'll otherwise be quite difficult to move around there are some

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uh looks like about five black cable ties in there that you can use for cable

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managing your system and it comes with one of the largest bags of screws I

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think I've ever seen any case come with ever and I think a big part of the is

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check out all these huge fan screws see

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that these are the biggest fan screws I think I've ever seen love it so there's

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100 bajillion of those to correspond to the 100 bajillion fans that you can

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mount in this chassis all right more features inside so we've got a large CPU

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cutout honestly not that large given the size of the of this motherboard tray but

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think about it this way guys an ATX board is actually going to go from

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here down to here that's how big an

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actual you know what I'm going to go get one we'll be back in a second so here's

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what an a normal ATX motherboard I brought an Intel board because these are

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going to be a a sort of dinosaur soon uh

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that's what a normal ATX board's going to look like in this case so it'll support pretty much any motherboard out

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there look at that you can get form factors all the way over to here I believe it supports

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hptx um but here's what this just for LS

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this is what ITX which is the sort of sort of the smallest mainstream board

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form factor will look like in here so the CPU cutout alone will actually be

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wider than an ITX board so that's one PCI Express expansion slot so xlx it

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usually refers to boards that are longer than normal so they'll still be about this width but can go down to about here

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and then eatx will be about here and are

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maybe a touch longer than that I think somewhere over here and then you can go

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all the way way over here if you want so

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Cable Management this is kind of neat rather than having these bang around

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inside the case they're secured with a little velcro strap here uh you've got

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usb3 for the front USB 2 for the front

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more usb2 for the front front panel audio Molex to power that um that SATA

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Bay up there as well as a SATA cable that you can plug into your motherboard

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and finally your front panel connectors for power reset and all of that other

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good stuff the case doesn't have a built-in fan controller but what it does

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have that I think is kind of cool are a couple of little Fan Hub station things

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so you can plug five fans into each of them and this is just a convenient power

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um redistribution sort of method I I

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wish I'd I wish it was a little bit um I

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wish it was a little bit more cleverly implemented though because some kind of

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uh speed control built into the power Distribution Hub would be great and the

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other thing is particularly this one looks like it's going to be an issue to plug a Molex connector in here without

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having clearance issues with this fan so there'll there be a little bit of kaj

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jiggering that'll go on in order to actually finish a build in this case

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Cable Management holes I wish as as well were a little bit um a little bit clever

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because they've got quite a small hole here so you can take some of your cables up through here so it's going to be your

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24 pin your eight pin your a couple of

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six pins for your graphics cards and then that's pretty much going to be full

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by the time you also bring up you know there's your motherboard connectors and

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stuff like that so I wouldn't have minded seeing this whole Space down here

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open to bring cables up cuz it's it's one toone relationship at some point

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right so if you've got all of these holes that means that it all had to come

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out again somewhere else and there isn't really enough space for that so there's

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same same thing here so if a normal motherboard is going to be about this width you're going to have to run your

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SATA cables away from the board all the way out to here in order to hide them

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and bring them back around to the uh to the hard drive cages there's your

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tool-free mounting mechanism for your 5 and 1/4 in Bay you don't have to use it

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though there's mounting holes behind it and two 230 mm fans Adorn the top of the

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case neither of which are plugged into these power distribution hubs so again

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there's going to be a little bit of configuration that goes on before you

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can finish with uh your your system

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setup um motherboard tray I would have liked to see it a little bit more stiff

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but by the time you actually load components on it I think some people

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make too much um make too much of the

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strength of a motherboard tray being a huge deal because especially once you

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throw a board on it it actually does stiffen up a Fair bit so we're going to

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go ahead and pull the other side panel off

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here all right see how much room we got for cable management because if the

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intention is to mount a massive system with all the fixings then they better

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have enough room for massive cables with all the fixing so you got probably about

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an inch of space back here um it it cuts

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off a little bit near the bottom but that's fine you shouldn't be running any cables there anyway and there should be

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plenty of space to run things like here here's an example SATA cable you could

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run like an actual bundle of SATA cables probably about four thick by the time

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you run out of space between this and the edge of the side panel here um lots

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of here we go H maybe not as many as i'

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actually okay yeah no there's a fair number of them so lots of mounting points so these little anchors these

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Loops right here where you can route cables more permanently um there's

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there's enough of them I'd say to bring everything over here keep it nice and

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tidy bring your 24 pin up see you can see they thought of that as well as to

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secure your eight pin in the correct place so this will run across the back of the board here that uh 140 mm fan was

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going to go right on the back of the motherboard tray there and other than that the other side of the case is

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fairly nondescript so I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for

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three there's a little actually hold on there's one more thing there's a little

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note here if your power supply is equipped with a single fan you have two

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ways to install it oh really you mean

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