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NVIDIA welcome to my unboxing and first
look at the Blackhawk Ultra from Rose
will the case that is actually almost
the size of a grown man at least a
smallish grown man like the one you see before you so we're going to go ahead
and slice this bad boy open Rose will includes almost no information about the
Blackhawk itself on the outside of the box so you can see that it's just a
plain black box this is their Flagship
case and fits pretty much anything according to their uh well according to
everything that I already know about this case which is some wow it's heavy
okay so Rosewell claims the gross weight is around 18.6 kg with the net weight
being 16. 6 kg so folks that at a
conversion of about 2.2 kg per pound is
about 35 lb empty and you can see that
I'm actually going to run into oh I almost ran into a clearance issue with
the ceiling just for moving the box from the case so you initially see a big box
for a case and you go yeah but the case inside Couldn't actually be that big for
the Blackhawk Ultra it it just is it
just actually is they're using an extremely high quality foam which I love
to see check this out more than an inch
of soft durable closed cell foam around
every side which is great their feet sit
in little things here so they're not going anywhere this is expensive foam
guys I cannot uh I cannot overstate that
it costs rosew money to put foam like
that around their case and protect it in the event of shipping however I
understand why they're doing it because with a heavy large chassis like this
especially once you start to load components inside it here's the uh the
other one especially once you start to load components inside it um the risk of
something being damaged in shipping increases a lot compared to smaller
cases all right so here we go the
Blackhawk Ultra which includes all of the cooling
options so we'll start with uh you know what I'm going to remove all this
plastic and then we'll be back in a
moment okay well that actually didn't take as long as I thought it was one
solid piece of plastic which as someone who opens up a lot of products I
actually appreciate because it's frustrating when there's like a billion
different tiny little strips of plastic that you can like peel off with your
nail and you try not to actually scratch the finish on the product itself so the
front of the case pretty bare I like that I like a clean
look they've also gone with a mesh that has kind of a finer mesh behind it so
you're not going to be too worried about a ton of dust getting pulled into the
case by the front air intakes they've got four 5 and a/4 inch Baye one of
which has a 3 and 1 half
in we'll be back in a moment oh there it is never mind we'll say uh one of which
has a 3 and 1/2 in adapter in it so you could put in like a card reader or
something else like that so this is actually intended to be mounted from the
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
that's for a 3 and 1 half in device in the front the sides of the front here
are sort of a glossy plastic that I wish
was matte uh looking at the case you know if it was for my own personal use
however it's at least not a super fingerprint attracting black so you can
see even though I'm touching it here many cases will be a greasy disgusting
mess immediately and especially things like routers have you ever actually like
tried to wipe a fingerprint off a router you go you take your shirt you wipe it
off and you're like oh now it's covered in micr scratches fantastic this doesn't
do that so at least it's a it's a good glossy plastic for for what that's worth
on this side we find a 120 or 140 mm fan
mount on the back of a motherboard tray this is great for motherboards that do
have like heat sinks and cooling components or even power phases on the
back of the board itself so that's really cool to included and on the top
of the case which I have no idea how I'm going to show to you guys here we go
maybe we'll just lean her forward ah there's our IO so a whopping 4 USB 2 2
USB 3 headphone microphone reset power
this is kind of cool because so many times you see motherboards with like a
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
going to plug them into this case so there you have it as well as check that
out that dock right there could be used for either 3 and 1/2 in or a 2 and 1/2
in drive and it's uh it's a little hot swappable dock so you just cheuck your
drive in there and you can use it for sort of mass storage without actually
having a portable enclosure so it allows you to use the native SATA interface for
maximum possible transfer speeds on this side you find that this case is all
about the cooling so there's a 230 mm
fan there but check this out you can put up to
nine 120 mm fans on the outside of this
side panel which is sort of ridiculous
wall of fans I guess you have to have somewhere to put those weird uh 9 by10
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
don't know if you'd get a fan on every slot just because of internal clearance
but uh whatever still be cool look how
big this thing is like it makes me look like a some kind of like homunculus all
right power supply mount in the top water cooling grommets all over the
entire back I've actually never seen one actually Implement an external water
cooling system though so I think these have a dubious value um 120 mm or 140 mm
fan in the back it comes with a 140 10 PCI Express slots so you can fit any
kind of XL ATX form factor even the longest nine slot ones with a dual slot
card in the bottom you've got another Power Supply Mount this one has a foam
piece right here which we'll check out once we open it up whereas the top one
looks like it oh yeah it does too so that'll help um dampen noise a little
bit there on the top of the case you find
more grills more mesh it's all about
cooling up here as well so we're going to open it up and find out exactly what
kinds of fans are in there but it's a more open mesh and then a much finer
mesh so if you did decide to use those as an intake which isn't necessarily the
way I'd recommend using them then you could uh uh you could not worry about
bringing too much dust into the case that way that looks like an 80 mil fan
Mount there just because uh on that other power supply plate but uh yeah
let's go ahead and check out the bottom of the case Oh my legs on the bottom we
find uh I believe there's a fan filter
on the bottom somewhere but at any rate there's more mesh and uh this really
feels like it can be removed yeah I think it can so there's
there's yeah there we go maybe you're
supposed to remove it I don't even know let's remove it
anyway Voyage of Discovery time that's my favorite thing about this
channel Voyages of Discovery where we're
just not really sure if we're supposed to do things but we do it anyway yeah
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
whatever uh rubber feet on the bottom keep it from going anywhere when you
don't want it to mind you with how much this thing weighs I don't think it's
going anywhere if you don't want it to and let's go ahead and open her up so
the side panel mounts with the uh the classic little latches and you've got
rubber grommets here that are going to prevent unnecessary vibration on the
mesh side panel from the fans that are mounted here it should be noted that the
side panel does have a fair bit of flex you can see that it's hard to avoid that
when you have such a large mesh window so that doesn't give as much support as
solid metal and when the panel's so large in general but um I mean one
strategy that you can use if you do have any vibration of the side panel that
I've used in the past is's a little bit of blue tack um up here here down here
down here down here and that'll keep it from vibrating against the case so if
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
other side of the hard drive cages that looks like two 140 m fans at the front
of the hard drive cages this is a cool configuration because you see a lot of
cases that have fans right at the front and at the back of the of the hard drive
mounts and the reason for that is because these are extremely airflow
restrictive there's actually not a lot of space I don't know if if you can see
that but between the heart you have to reinforce these because they're going to be full of what is one of the most
heaviest component the most heaviest one of the heaviest components of your
system so if you actually filled this thing up with really 10 two yeah with 10
3 and 1/2 in hard drives you would have a serious situation if this wasn't
strong enough and it flexed and your hard drives all fell out so you can't
leave huge gaps so what they've done is they've used a push pull configuration
to actually manage to move some air through this keeping your drives cool as
well as providing more uh cool air to the rest of your system these are using
a very thick steel construction so you can see there's almost no flex to them
whatsoever and then they're using a rubber grommeted Mount as well so that
should reduce vibration as well as noise
from your drives assuming you're using mechanical drives with ssds it obviously
won't make any difference inside here things are just kind of ridiculous I
love this so this is this is appropriate they include not one but two eight pin p
8 Pin CPU power extensions so you could probably put them together but I think
what they really intend is if you're using a super high-end motherboard like something like an EVGA sr2 or SRX or
something like that you can actually extend both of your eight pin connectors
to make sure that they both reach so that's cool comes with
wheels which is again appropriate especially with the kind of systems that
some people will be putting in a case like this little locking wheels are very
appropriate it'll otherwise be quite difficult to move around there are some
uh looks like about five black cable ties in there that you can use for cable
managing your system and it comes with one of the largest bags of screws I
think I've ever seen any case come with ever and I think a big part of the is
check out all these huge fan screws see
that these are the biggest fan screws I think I've ever seen love it so there's
100 bajillion of those to correspond to the 100 bajillion fans that you can
mount in this chassis all right more features inside so we've got a large CPU
cutout honestly not that large given the size of the of this motherboard tray but
think about it this way guys an ATX board is actually going to go from
here down to here that's how big an
actual you know what I'm going to go get one we'll be back in a second so here's
what an a normal ATX motherboard I brought an Intel board because these are
going to be a a sort of dinosaur soon uh
that's what a normal ATX board's going to look like in this case so it'll support pretty much any motherboard out
there look at that you can get form factors all the way over to here I believe it supports
hptx um but here's what this just for LS
this is what ITX which is the sort of sort of the smallest mainstream board
form factor will look like in here so the CPU cutout alone will actually be
wider than an ITX board so that's one PCI Express expansion slot so xlx it
usually refers to boards that are longer than normal so they'll still be about this width but can go down to about here
and then eatx will be about here and are
maybe a touch longer than that I think somewhere over here and then you can go
all the way way over here if you want so
Cable Management this is kind of neat rather than having these bang around
inside the case they're secured with a little velcro strap here uh you've got
usb3 for the front USB 2 for the front
more usb2 for the front front panel audio Molex to power that um that SATA
Bay up there as well as a SATA cable that you can plug into your motherboard
and finally your front panel connectors for power reset and all of that other
good stuff the case doesn't have a built-in fan controller but what it does
have that I think is kind of cool are a couple of little Fan Hub station things
so you can plug five fans into each of them and this is just a convenient power
um redistribution sort of method I I
wish I'd I wish it was a little bit um I
wish it was a little bit more cleverly implemented though because some kind of
uh speed control built into the power Distribution Hub would be great and the
other thing is particularly this one looks like it's going to be an issue to plug a Molex connector in here without
having clearance issues with this fan so there'll there be a little bit of kaj
jiggering that'll go on in order to actually finish a build in this case
Cable Management holes I wish as as well were a little bit um a little bit clever
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
24 pin your eight pin your a couple of
six pins for your graphics cards and then that's pretty much going to be full
by the time you also bring up you know there's your motherboard connectors and
stuff like that so I wouldn't have minded seeing this whole Space down here
open to bring cables up cuz it's it's one toone relationship at some point
right so if you've got all of these holes that means that it all had to come
out again somewhere else and there isn't really enough space for that so there's
same same thing here so if a normal motherboard is going to be about this width you're going to have to run your
SATA cables away from the board all the way out to here in order to hide them
and bring them back around to the uh to the hard drive cages there's your
tool-free mounting mechanism for your 5 and 1/4 in Bay you don't have to use it
though there's mounting holes behind it and two 230 mm fans Adorn the top of the
case neither of which are plugged into these power distribution hubs so again
there's going to be a little bit of configuration that goes on before you
can finish with uh your your system
setup um motherboard tray I would have liked to see it a little bit more stiff
but by the time you actually load components on it I think some people
make too much um make too much of the
strength of a motherboard tray being a huge deal because especially once you
throw a board on it it actually does stiffen up a Fair bit so we're going to
go ahead and pull the other side panel off
here all right see how much room we got for cable management because if the
intention is to mount a massive system with all the fixings then they better
have enough room for massive cables with all the fixing so you got probably about
an inch of space back here um it it cuts
off a little bit near the bottom but that's fine you shouldn't be running any cables there anyway and there should be
plenty of space to run things like here here's an example SATA cable you could
run like an actual bundle of SATA cables probably about four thick by the time
you run out of space between this and the edge of the side panel here um lots
of here we go H maybe not as many as i'
actually okay yeah no there's a fair number of them so lots of mounting points so these little anchors these
Loops right here where you can route cables more permanently um there's
there's enough of them I'd say to bring everything over here keep it nice and
tidy bring your 24 pin up see you can see they thought of that as well as to
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
going to go right on the back of the motherboard tray there and other than that the other side of the case is
fairly nondescript so I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for
checking out this unboxing and first look at the Blackhawk Ultra from Rose
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guys how many ITX systems Could you
actually fit in here one
two
three there's a little actually hold on there's one more thing there's a little
note here if your power supply is equipped with a single fan you have two
ways to install it oh really you mean
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