today I have an unboxing for you this is
caseman if anyone actually remembers
where that reference is from in one of my previous NC Tech tips episodes then
you get three gold stars of approval or disapproval I'm not really
sure because that was ter terrible that was one of the most shameful NC Tech
tipped moments of all time the cameraman tried to talk me out of it but he did
not succeed this is my unboxing of the
level 10 GT so the first thing we're going to see on here
is driving inspiration this is the snow
Edition featuring internal USB 3.0 super
speed so internal means it uses the internal headers not those goofy around
the back reaching through the case coming up behind the back of the io
shield and plug in ones all right we have some specs here so front speed 2
USB 3 super speed Pit Stop five easy swap hard drive Bays triple Max ready
for extra long graphics cards even up to 36 CM which is quite long let me tell
you uh quad fan maximum ventilation and cooling guessing it has four fans triple
color shift adjustable fan Ambience colors neat cable clear Advanced Cable
Management SSS Smart Lock security system and cool flux liquid cooling
ready this is a a very slick looking case if the pictures are anything to go
by why don't we go ahead and get it out of the
box and then we will see if it looks as good in person as it does in photos so
the first thing we find is a very very thick packing foam so we've got about an
inch of foam around the case itself and then an additional inch of puncture
prevention space which means even if something were to you know be sharp and
like go through the box it would actually have to go this far yes I
punched the Box they would have to go this far and then through the
foam in order to reach the case and do any damage so it's quite clear to me
that thermal T takes the safety of their products during Transit very very
seriously I haven't actually unboxed many thermal take products in the past
so this will be a bit of an adventure for
me on the bottom we found another pretty
similar piece of foam and finally here we have a black shroud so this is
scratch prevention for the case also very handy to have if you're ever
transporting the case around I'd recommend holding on to that cuz then
you can throw it in there with your system in it go to your land party or
wherever you happen to be going and your case will not get scratched because if
you have a slick looking case like this odds are you want it to stay slick
looking and not look stupid because it has a big old scratch all the way across
the side of it so I have never actually seen a level 10 GT in person which means
this is going to be a slightly more challenging unboxing for me but let's go
ahead and let's start walking through the features so we'll start at the front
on the front we find a few things we find four 5 and 1/4 in Bays which are
convenient and easy to remove by the look of things yes they
are we have one 3 and 1/2 in front Bay
which is more than enough these days you throw your card reader in there or whatever the case may be we
have a lock for the front panel which is
currently locked as far as I can tell we have 1 2 3 4
five buttons oh neat
te and maybe that's what's locked that is apparently what's locked right now so
these buttons probably do something okay also on the front we have four front USB
2 we have our front audio ports we have
our hard drive indicator our reset switch and our power switch up at the
top we have settings for the fans high and low as well as the fan LED Ambiance
Ambiance colors we have super speed USB 3.0 so that is a total of six yes six
front USB ports and finally we have an eat Port which the cameraman is no
longer interested in he is interested in what appears to be a strip of LED
lighting and my guess is that the reason
there is no power LED included for this particular particular case is that that
lighting is done here and here at the front so I have found
the key it was strapped to the back I'm going to I already talked about that
he's trying to point out things I forgot he loves that you know uh so here I have
unlocked the hard drive cages so check that out so all you got to do is Mount
either a 2 and 1/2 in drive or a 3 and 1/2 in drive into this removable sled
lock that back in place or press the button and then you can see here on the
bottom is actually a little flat so that allows you to get your fingers in there
and pull it out all right so here let's take let's take those all out here I'm
just going to press those buttons unlock them there you go this shows you how
easily and how quickly you can actually take out all five of the hard drives in
your system which is why it features a lock because that is how quickly
somebody at a landan could take out all of the hard drives in your system
all right moving around to the side we have a small window here at the top
showing you the CPU and RAM area which is a great area to show you because
that's likely where your liquid cooling is probably located okay we also have
some ventilation over here including a
headphone hanger I guess that's something that you
can attach to that spot oh neat okay and
then here we have a cooling fan which is
going to be blowing nice cool air and it is filtered actually there's your
removable filter aha push it in unclick it push it
back in to lock it back in place so that you've got a removable filter blowing
cool air over your graphics card there's a security systems lock so I'm using
that same key same key very convenient to unlock the side panel which I'm not
going to open up just yet let's have a look at the back of the case first where
we have those grommets for liquid cooling if you're using an external
radiator setup we've also got a rear
140/120 mil fan Mount we've got our other security key so there's two just
in case you lose one and we have 1 2 3 4 5 6 78 PCI expansion slots very nice to
see I really like to see high-end cases Having Eight because even with a 7even
PCI slot board sometimes you've got a bottom PCI e6x slot so that way you can
install a dual slot card in it moving
along to the other side we see that thermal take has done an excellent job
matching the white finish on the metal parts of the case to the white finish on
the plastic parts of the case that is a very challenging thing actually come
check it out right here so here's the Front plastic top plastic and the side
metal all in one shot so the Finish is very very similar between all of those
parts of the case so give me a oh and
cameraman wants to look at the level 10 GT logo down there which is very nice
cameraman you did a good job you did good okay give me a second to get this
opened up and and I'll be back now my initial thought was to open the side
panel we would actually flip this switch but that didn't do it nope there's an
eject button on the bottom you can see it's labeled with a little eject thing
and you go ahead and swing the door open so that is how you worked on your level
10 GT so what was this switch for well
that will actually redirect the side panel fan air flow either up to the top
or down to the bottom depending where your cooling
needs are so if you have your
uh video cards mounted in the bottom you put it there mounted in the top you put
it there oh yeah also you have what I
think is a very cool feature right here you have little contacts here little
contact pads here so that's how this side fan is powered you actually don't
have to worry about routing a cable from the side panel into your case because
it's always very difficult to manage that cable because well the case has to
be closed in order for you to Route it and once the case is closed very
difficult to do that so I like this that's a good solution okay
moving right along we have our accessories which are in a box right
here so we'll go ahead you know what why don't we look at the accessory package first and then we'll move
on Accessory package first thing we find
is some cable ties along with the mounting screws for all of our hard
drives and all of our other drives next we find a four eight pin CPU
power extension cable very handy if you have a shorter power supply go ahead and
include that haha there's the headphone hanger so this is actually kind of a
neat feature I need one of these uh I
mean this one obviously won't fit on my case but there you go you throw that on there boom hang your headphones on there
no big deal oh yeah I have matching headphones check this
out I have cameraman Siberia
headphones yeah yeah does that match or what you buy
steel series headphones throw them on there then you're the wi are okay so
let's go ahead get the next accessory thing out so here we have a uh guide
manual thing okay that's it still fairly complete accessory
package so we've got uh protective covers on the front what front oh that's
the eata plug there's your internal HD audio plug front USB 1 front USB 2 your
front switches including your power
switch hopefully somewhere here power switch there you go and uh you also got
our front USB 3 cable so that goes to your front panel header we've got some
fan connectors for the internal fans so let's go ahead and I'll show you guys
those fans we got a big old guy in the top we've got a big old guy on the side
panel we've got our 140 mm fan here in the back so that's where you're going to
be able to mount your uh liquid cooling
single 120 mil rad now if you look up here on the top if you take that 230 mil
fanof you've actually got mounting holes for a dual 120 rad as well so this is a
fully liquid cooling ready case very good thinking thermal take all right
we've got grommet holes for our 8 Pin CPU connector gromet holes for anything
that goes up near the top of our motherboard which is pretty much nothing grommet holes for our 24 pin grommet
holes for our PCI Express and finally
grommet holes for our front panel connector so I'd take these put them
right back out that hole where they came from and bring them up in the most convenient places at the bottom of my
motherboard next we have our power supply mounting which includes a
removable uh filter so that means you can
comfortably Mount your power supply with the fan facing down and it will be held
far enough off the ground in order to draw air in appropriately and it will be
filtered finally we have power for the that's I'm assuming the front something
or other front I don't know something power
for the case oh yeah I know what that's for come around with back with me
cameraman and I will show
you that is not for this actually that's
for something okay I don't know what that's for let's find out let's follow
it follow it follow it oh that's
probably for the fan controller okay there we go mystery
solved I don't know okay I'm not going to worry too much about it here we have
what is one of the best features of this case the hot
swap interface so that has five SATA
power connectors there you've got five SATA data connectors here so this is one
of the smartest hot swap interfaces I have yet seen it is something that can
be very easily taken out if you don't want it you just take out these screws
you take them out you don't want it fine no big deal no hot swap you lock it up
done throw away the key no big deal okay then there's no PCB these are straight
passrs so you don't run into any problems where you have say for example
a compatibility conflict between SATA 2 and SATA 3 because it's just a straight
pass through Copper to Copper no complications involved next you relies
on your own cables so you can actually route the cables however you want you
can plug in the power however you want it is fully modular that way and last
but not least it is incredibly cheap to implement like this so you're not going
to have to pay a ton extra for engineering that you don't
need there you go it's just a smart way to do it as for the 5 and 1/4 in base
the mounting devices are here so these are toolless you go ahead unlock lock
unlock lock pretty standard Fair these days but there you go last but not Le Le
I didn't see these before there are feet so look at that you can get a
little bit more stability for your Tower by letting out the
four feet that are along the bottom I'm
just going to go ahead and pull all those out there we go and that is it
that is my level 10 GT unboxing and first look and I'm actually pretty
impressed big thanks to Thermal take for sending this for us to check out and
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other computer videos yeah after we finished I found
another uh secret compartment so to
speak you just press a button at the back you pop this up so there that's how you take out the included fan and you
install the Dual 120 Ms that you would need for your radiator for something
such as a Corsair h100 something like that