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Digital we're here in The Cooler Master Suite with a couple of case Concepts
that Cooler Master would really like to get your feedback on in a couple of
different ways so first up behind me we've got the half stacker this is that
modular case idea where they've got the 925 and then they've got the 9915 and
then you can put another 915 on the bottom or but 2 915s or even 3 915s
together and you slide them all together but they want to go beyond that in terms
of customizability and start offering upgrade kits whether it's things like oh
I don't know you know USB 3.1 comes out in the future and you need like a new
you know module here or whether okay here's a mockup for a Slimline optical
drive maybe you want to add that to one of the 915s so you don't care about
front USB but you want one of these okay cool go ahead have one of those they've
also got a mockup here for a windowed side panel for the 95 maybe you want to
just build a dedicated system just inside that case you want to upgrade
that piece maybe you want like you know I don't know hard drive cage addons okay
these are these are pretty standard these are pretty straightforward those are available for lots of cases but the
point of all of this is guys they want to hear your feedback in terms of what
kind of upgrades you can think of that you'd like to see for the half stacker
Series so that they can continue to develop their products around the needs
of the people who are interested in this very unique and very flexible chassis
and here's an interesting one this is very much pre-production engineering
sample whatever you want to call it and the key here guys is Cooler Master wants
to hear from you what you like and what you dislike about their prototype of the
half XC so the first thing that's going
to stand out to you guys is of course this wraparound windowed side panel this
is pretty much a finished idea but of course it doesn't hurt to let them know
what you think about it the idea is that most of the hardware is on this side so
you've got your motherboard CPU memory graphics card and then all of the cable
management is actually wrapped around the back now it's not like we haven't
seen this before but who came up with the internal layout first is one of
those things where if you dig around enough you'll be able to settle the
debate on your own anyway we're not going to get into that here but the overall features are it does support a
360 mm Radiator in the front in fact the
one that's installed in there right now is an upcoming Glacier Series so that is
The swifttech Cooler Master collaborative product with a
360 mm radiator as well as of course the
integrated highquality CPU block and pump and all that good stuff that we
found on the 240 mm Glacier series cooler now a bit of a tour of the rest
of this case the top has kind of a 3D mesh as does the front it kind of
reminds me of the jam box by Jawbone except that it's not nearly as bad
sounding although they do have some kind of loud fans in there right now your
front IO is taken care of right here here with two USB 2 2 USB 3 and front
panel audio the switch is kind of a a large switch that you can press of
course it's a switch anyway okay you've got two 5 and a/4 inch Bay and this is
kind of a neat thing it's intended to be stood up right like this or you can
actually turn the little uh the little Cooler Master badge and you can use it
as a desktop case as well once we open up the other side panel we'll find the
power supply all the loose cables that were plugged into all the stuff on the
other side as well as room for four 2 and 1/2 in ssds at the top of the back
and then closer to the front I actually kind of forget so I'm going to have to I
was hoping to cheat and do b-roll for all this but I'm going to have to open up the case and have a look yes right we
have two 5 and 1/4 inch cages to go along with the 5 and a/ qu inch base and
then under each of those is another two 3 and 1/2 in Drive cages all right the
last products that Cooler Master needs feedback on are the silent flow series
fan so this is a 1200 RPM fan that is optimized for a low RPM operation it
only comes in a three pin configuration because DC control can be better for
very very low RPM operation when you're under volting compared to pwm which can
have some weird electrical noises that go along with it and they are claiming
that they've had this running as low as 8 DB in a lab so I'm extremely excited
to check that out especially if they can get it running optimally on something
like a radiator next up we've got the hybrid flow fan this one again is very
experimental one more time and this uses axial fan technology much like you would
find on your graphics card cooler and it exhausts there in a couple different
ways so the intake is on the side that you guys are looking at right now and
then normally you'd go okay so the exhaust is here and that much is true
there's what looks like about a 70 mm or 80 millim fan worth of fan blades that's
going to exhaust in that direction but wait what's this one of the sides is
actually open for sideways exhaust so
say for example you had an intake on the side of your case actually the 800 D
case from Corsair is one that's kind of like this where you have a side intake
and then it's like it's blowing air in One Direction and it's mostly blocked
well this will allow you to maybe get some hard dry air flow for your cages
and then some additional air flow to your gpus at the same time so I'd like to hear from you guys where you could
imagine installing a fan that intakes from the one side exhausts out the other
side and then like also exhausts out one of the edges so guys thank you for
checking out this experimental ideas video from The Cooler Master Suite here
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