I'm kind of a sucker for unique PC cases. Whether it's my open frame case
that I stole from LTX23, my server chassis that I'm currently in now, or
that Tower 300 that I built in about a year ago, and these height X50 cases are
just up my alley. They come in six different colors, including this really
bright candy red or this more matcha green. But that's not up my alley.
We're going to build in the pink color. But just because it's cute, does that
mean it's easy to build in? That's the whole point of today. We're going to
find out. It's an ATX style case, meaning it's going to be able to fit
pretty much everything that you could want in here. Whether it's a full size GPU or even up to a 360 mm radiator.
Oh, I made the right choice. Oh, this
looks so nice. I say that because some cases that have done fun colors like
this in the past maybe only paint the front panel or maybe they only paint the
outside and then the interior is still like black or white or something. So,
seeing a fully painted chassis like this is why I'm super super excited.
Got the little feets on there. Actually, speaking of these feet, it's the same as
the green one, but the red one are different. Um Hm. I don't know if that's
a style choice or if that's a customization you get to make. Got our
X50 and X50 Air Manual. That's because you don't actually have to get it with
the glass front here. You could get a full mesh, but come on. If you're buying
a pretty case, you want to see the parts inside. So, we got the glass.
Man, I got a big smile on my face, man. This looks so cool. Oh, that curved
glass looks awesome. More and more companies have been doing this lately. I
mean, Lean Lee really popularized the kind of curved aesthetic when it had the
O1 dynamic, except it wasn't curved. It was a 90° angle. And then, as case
manufacturers have been adopting that style, they've been modifying it. Height
actually did one that had kind of a 45 degree angle at one point and now I
guess they're just embracing the curve and going full curve this way versus
this way. One thing that might be controversial for you is the power supply is actually up top. Again,
referencing the O1, for example, the power supply was actually kind of in the
back here where you plugged in here, but that would make it quite a chunky boy.
So instead of putting at the bottom, decided to put it up the top and then a color matched power supply shield here.
I think it looks okay. a lot of meshing
on the back and even more meshing on the
front. So hopefully it means you'll get plenty of cooling because on both of
these sides here you can fit up to three 120 mm fans. So I guess six 120 mm fans
and this is exciting. Here they are.
You can get color matched ones to fit in your case. We're definitely going to be
putting these ones in. As for our front IO, it's actually at the top here. We
have a 3.5 mm combo jack. We have one USBC port, which is USB 3.2 Gen 2. And
then we have two USB 3.2 Gen1 TypeA
ports. It's not a ton, and I find it kind of weird that it's up top here. I
mean, if you're going for an aesthetic build and you plug anything in, it's now going to be like cables or big USB
sticks pointing out the top. But if you're not plugging anything in and you
just kind of want a nice glam shot at the front, keeps the front nice and
clean. So, to each their own. And then our power button as well. It's up there.
Let's see how easy it is to take this bad boy. Oh, it slides up. A, that was
very nice. No screws. Completely toolless.
That gives us access to the back here, which we can see all of our accessories
and our cables for our front IO. For cable management, you got just some
Velcro straps as well as these little rubber grommets to pass things through.
This one does not slide up. This one just pops out. Okay. Still toolless
though. And that's the front IO. Gives us access. And it looks like this whole
chunk here is removable. So if you had a radiator installed, you could install it
on here and when you want to do your maintenance and clean it, couple screws, pop it out, give it a quick dusting,
whatever, pop it right back in. And now how to remove the glass.
Oh, that scared the hell out of me. Wow. That gives you quite a lot of room to
build in except for this, which Oh, it looks like it can be removed. Okay,
that's good. cuz if you're plugging in like your CPU power cables right near
the top here, that might get in the way. But this can also just be thrown out of
the way while you're plugging it in. It's good to me. One more thing I'm
noticing in here is the labeling on all of the motherboard standoffs. That's
really nice. Depending on which size motherboard you're going with, it'll clearly tell you which standoffs to use.
The only problem I could notice is if you're going with a small board, like
the smallest for example, you're going to notice all the labelings just being
left out here. You can't really cover them. You'll want to use like maybe a vertical GPU to cover the labeling. I
don't know. If you're using a case this big, you should just use the whole case, though. Get a full size ATX board. I
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build because, like I said, I want to take full advantage. So, ATX size motherboard, a pretty big size GPU.
We're also going to go with an air cooler. It's not the biggest air
cooler that we could probably fit in here, but it matches our theme of white
and pink. And I know I mentioned we could do an AIO or some sort of radiator
mounts. I didn't actually clock it until we started building. There's no top
mounted radiator support or fan support at all. So, it means all of your exhaust
is going to have to probably come out the back, I assume, and maybe it'll
catch heat, but also your power supply is up here. It will help exhaust heat as
well. So, and since it has to exhaust all the heat out the back, there's actually quite a lot of ventilation.
Even the PCIe slots are quite open. So, even though we're only putting one fan
here, it should hopefully get all of the heat out with ease. But, we need to
build the PC first. So, let's get building.
I was just pulling out the screws here to figure out how to mount the motherboard. Each little baggie is
labeled. You got your power supply. You got your motherboard and 3.5 hard drive
and a 2.5 SSD. That is a very nice touch. Thank you, Height.
Motherboard's in. Actually, my concern earlier about plugging in these CPU
powers might not be valid. It seems like there's actually a decent amount of room
to get in there. I think I'm going to install my fans next. We have six of the
pink ones. Should we just do no exhaust
and these front six? What do you think, audience? I'll take that as a yes. Oh,
it's a fourpack. Oh, okay. Never mind. We can put one in the back. So, we'll
still put three. Three, one in the back. And then we'll have one more.
Uh, we're not going to do one more cuz it's going to look really asymmetrical
at the bottom. And I don't like that. I've run into this a couple times with
some aesthetic cases. I think this is supposed to be an intake, right? Maybe
you can tell me I'm wrong. Which means I would need to put the fan this way.
That's the ugly side in, right? I want the aesthetic side on the inside cuz
that's where I'm looking. But then that means it's an exhaust. So if I make this
one an intake or both, they're both exhaust now. So where's my in just
make them both look the same on either side or make them reversible. It's
really frustrating. Or hear me out.
Intake on the bottom. That's still the wrong way.
All of my fans are in now. It doesn't look as bad as I thought. I
think the white cables I'm going to call aesthetic. I think I would prefer it the
other way still. Now it's time for H.
What should we pick? Power supply or GPU next? >> Power supply.
>> We'll do the power supply. We'll do
Cut that. I know this is a white and pink power supply. How close of a pink
is it? The cables are not that close.
That is close enough for today. Plus, you don't
end up really seeing it anyways. It's all tucked away in the back. So, that's
fine. Let's get it all wired up.
Once it's in there, it looks like a lot closer than I thought.
All right, these cables actually add a lot. I think it looks really good. Time
for our GPU. Of course, we had to go with a pink GPU. Well, white GPU with
pink aesthetics, I guess.
This is going to look so good. This is definitely the strangest PCIe covers,
but again, I guess it's lots of ventilation. Still pretty strong even
though it's basically nothing there. Oh
no, I scratched it a tiny bit. The knurling on the screwdriver. You know
what? We need to get rid of these now. Go to ltstore.com. Buy them all so I
don't use it anymore. There we go.
I just did some basic cable management in the back using some of the Velcro
ties as well as just some of the tie down points. It's not the best, but
there is still a ton of room behind the motherboard tray. So, if you wanted to
be lazy, you could just throw it all back there and then just slide this bad
boy over top.
And because the mesh is pretty dense, you can't actually Well, don't look too
close. You can't really see through it. All right, let's turn this bad boy on.
>> Nope. I just realized I didn't hook up any of the front panel. >> You
>> time to turn it on. Well, it boots. That's kind of cool. The
power button is okay.
It's kind of just like a lighter pink.
Look at that. You're probably hearing the fans. They're not tuned, so they're
just going full burr right now as the computer's kind of booting. But
wow, this is a very pretty PC case. It
was very easy to build in. I think my biggest gripe is by far the fans. And I
don't know if that's a mark against the case or the fans then because you can't
flip them around. But I think the parts we chose really complemented this case.
And I think you could probably pick even better parts if you spent more time
looking for complimentary whites together and complimentary pinks. I
don't know. I really like this case. Now, the question is, is it worth the
$160 price tag? That's going to be up to
you if you really want this aesthetic or I guess any of the other colors that
they offer. You could get the full mesh version if you want, which is $30
cheaper. And then a pack of those fans, which is four fans, is $50. You know,
I've seen four fans be more expensive from someone like Corsair, but those
ones are RGB. These ones are kind of just plain matching of the color of
whatever case you get. I don't know which color would you guys get. Let me
know down below. And maybe what theme you'd build in it. I almost want to do
an Iron Man theme in that red. I think it would look really cool. If you guys
enjoyed this video, go check out the first case I built in, which was the Tower 300 by Thermaltake. I think that
one might still be my favorite PC case, even though this is a nicer