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I'm kind of a sucker for unique PC cases. Whether it's my open frame case

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that I stole from LTX23, my server chassis that I'm currently in now, or

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that Tower 300 that I built in about a year ago, and these height X50 cases are

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just up my alley. They come in six different colors, including this really

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bright candy red or this more matcha green. But that's not up my alley.

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We're going to build in the pink color. But just because it's cute, does that

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mean it's easy to build in? That's the whole point of today. We're going to

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find out. It's an ATX style case, meaning it's going to be able to fit

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pretty much everything that you could want in here. Whether it's a full size GPU or even up to a 360 mm radiator.

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Oh, I made the right choice. Oh, this

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looks so nice. I say that because some cases that have done fun colors like

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this in the past maybe only paint the front panel or maybe they only paint the

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outside and then the interior is still like black or white or something. So,

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seeing a fully painted chassis like this is why I'm super super excited.

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Got the little feets on there. Actually, speaking of these feet, it's the same as

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the green one, but the red one are different. Um Hm. I don't know if that's

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a style choice or if that's a customization you get to make. Got our

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X50 and X50 Air Manual. That's because you don't actually have to get it with

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the glass front here. You could get a full mesh, but come on. If you're buying

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a pretty case, you want to see the parts inside. So, we got the glass.

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Man, I got a big smile on my face, man. This looks so cool. Oh, that curved

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glass looks awesome. More and more companies have been doing this lately. I

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mean, Lean Lee really popularized the kind of curved aesthetic when it had the

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O1 dynamic, except it wasn't curved. It was a 90° angle. And then, as case

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manufacturers have been adopting that style, they've been modifying it. Height

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actually did one that had kind of a 45 degree angle at one point and now I

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guess they're just embracing the curve and going full curve this way versus

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this way. One thing that might be controversial for you is the power supply is actually up top. Again,

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referencing the O1, for example, the power supply was actually kind of in the

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back here where you plugged in here, but that would make it quite a chunky boy.

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So instead of putting at the bottom, decided to put it up the top and then a color matched power supply shield here.

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I think it looks okay. a lot of meshing

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on the back and even more meshing on the

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front. So hopefully it means you'll get plenty of cooling because on both of

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these sides here you can fit up to three 120 mm fans. So I guess six 120 mm fans

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and this is exciting. Here they are.

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You can get color matched ones to fit in your case. We're definitely going to be

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putting these ones in. As for our front IO, it's actually at the top here. We

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have a 3.5 mm combo jack. We have one USBC port, which is USB 3.2 Gen 2. And

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then we have two USB 3.2 Gen1 TypeA

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ports. It's not a ton, and I find it kind of weird that it's up top here. I

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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

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sticks pointing out the top. But if you're not plugging anything in and you

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just kind of want a nice glam shot at the front, keeps the front nice and

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clean. So, to each their own. And then our power button as well. It's up there.

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Let's see how easy it is to take this bad boy. Oh, it slides up. A, that was

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very nice. No screws. Completely toolless.

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That gives us access to the back here, which we can see all of our accessories

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and our cables for our front IO. For cable management, you got just some

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Velcro straps as well as these little rubber grommets to pass things through.

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This one does not slide up. This one just pops out. Okay. Still toolless

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though. And that's the front IO. Gives us access. And it looks like this whole

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chunk here is removable. So if you had a radiator installed, you could install it

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on here and when you want to do your maintenance and clean it, couple screws, pop it out, give it a quick dusting,

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whatever, pop it right back in. And now how to remove the glass.

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Oh, that scared the hell out of me. Wow. That gives you quite a lot of room to

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build in except for this, which Oh, it looks like it can be removed. Okay,

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that's good. cuz if you're plugging in like your CPU power cables right near

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the top here, that might get in the way. But this can also just be thrown out of

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the way while you're plugging it in. It's good to me. One more thing I'm

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noticing in here is the labeling on all of the motherboard standoffs. That's

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really nice. Depending on which size motherboard you're going with, it'll clearly tell you which standoffs to use.

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The only problem I could notice is if you're going with a small board, like

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the smallest for example, you're going to notice all the labelings just being

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left out here. You can't really cover them. You'll want to use like maybe a vertical GPU to cover the labeling. I

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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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today using our link in the description. We're going to be doing a full-size

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build because, like I said, I want to take full advantage. So, ATX size motherboard, a pretty big size GPU.

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We're also going to go with an air cooler. It's not the biggest air

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cooler that we could probably fit in here, but it matches our theme of white

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and pink. And I know I mentioned we could do an AIO or some sort of radiator

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mounts. I didn't actually clock it until we started building. There's no top

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mounted radiator support or fan support at all. So, it means all of your exhaust

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is going to have to probably come out the back, I assume, and maybe it'll

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catch heat, but also your power supply is up here. It will help exhaust heat as

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well. So, and since it has to exhaust all the heat out the back, there's actually quite a lot of ventilation.

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Even the PCIe slots are quite open. So, even though we're only putting one fan

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here, it should hopefully get all of the heat out with ease. But, we need to

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build the PC first. So, let's get building.

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I was just pulling out the screws here to figure out how to mount the motherboard. Each little baggie is

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labeled. You got your power supply. You got your motherboard and 3.5 hard drive

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and a 2.5 SSD. That is a very nice touch. Thank you, Height.

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Motherboard's in. Actually, my concern earlier about plugging in these CPU

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powers might not be valid. It seems like there's actually a decent amount of room

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to get in there. I think I'm going to install my fans next. We have six of the

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pink ones. Should we just do no exhaust

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and these front six? What do you think, audience? I'll take that as a yes. Oh,

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it's a fourpack. Oh, okay. Never mind. We can put one in the back. So, we'll

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still put three. Three, one in the back. And then we'll have one more.

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Uh, we're not going to do one more cuz it's going to look really asymmetrical

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at the bottom. And I don't like that. I've run into this a couple times with

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some aesthetic cases. I think this is supposed to be an intake, right? Maybe

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you can tell me I'm wrong. Which means I would need to put the fan this way.

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That's the ugly side in, right? I want the aesthetic side on the inside cuz

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that's where I'm looking. But then that means it's an exhaust. So if I make this

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one an intake or both, they're both exhaust now. So where's my in just

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make them both look the same on either side or make them reversible. It's

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really frustrating. Or hear me out.

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Intake on the bottom. That's still the wrong way.

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All of my fans are in now. It doesn't look as bad as I thought. I

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think the white cables I'm going to call aesthetic. I think I would prefer it the

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other way still. Now it's time for H.

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What should we pick? Power supply or GPU next? >> Power supply.

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>> We'll do the power supply. We'll do

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Cut that. I know this is a white and pink power supply. How close of a pink

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is it? The cables are not that close.

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That is close enough for today. Plus, you don't

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end up really seeing it anyways. It's all tucked away in the back. So, that's

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fine. Let's get it all wired up.

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Once it's in there, it looks like a lot closer than I thought.

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All right, these cables actually add a lot. I think it looks really good. Time

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for our GPU. Of course, we had to go with a pink GPU. Well, white GPU with

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pink aesthetics, I guess.

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This is going to look so good. This is definitely the strangest PCIe covers,

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but again, I guess it's lots of ventilation. Still pretty strong even

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though it's basically nothing there. Oh

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no, I scratched it a tiny bit. The knurling on the screwdriver. You know

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what? We need to get rid of these now. Go to ltstore.com. Buy them all so I

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don't use it anymore. There we go.

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I just did some basic cable management in the back using some of the Velcro

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ties as well as just some of the tie down points. It's not the best, but

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there is still a ton of room behind the motherboard tray. So, if you wanted to

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be lazy, you could just throw it all back there and then just slide this bad

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boy over top.

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And because the mesh is pretty dense, you can't actually Well, don't look too

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close. You can't really see through it. All right, let's turn this bad boy on.

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>> Nope. I just realized I didn't hook up any of the front panel. >> You

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>> time to turn it on. Well, it boots. That's kind of cool. The

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power button is okay.

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It's kind of just like a lighter pink.

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Look at that. You're probably hearing the fans. They're not tuned, so they're

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just going full burr right now as the computer's kind of booting. But

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wow, this is a very pretty PC case. It

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was very easy to build in. I think my biggest gripe is by far the fans. And I

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don't know if that's a mark against the case or the fans then because you can't

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flip them around. But I think the parts we chose really complemented this case.

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And I think you could probably pick even better parts if you spent more time

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looking for complimentary whites together and complimentary pinks. I

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don't know. I really like this case. Now, the question is, is it worth the

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$160 price tag? That's going to be up to

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you if you really want this aesthetic or I guess any of the other colors that

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they offer. You could get the full mesh version if you want, which is $30

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cheaper. And then a pack of those fans, which is four fans, is $50. You know,

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I've seen four fans be more expensive from someone like Corsair, but those

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ones are RGB. These ones are kind of just plain matching of the color of

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whatever case you get. I don't know which color would you guys get. Let me

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know down below. And maybe what theme you'd build in it. I almost want to do

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an Iron Man theme in that red. I think it would look really cool. If you guys

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enjoyed this video, go check out the first case I built in, which was the Tower 300 by Thermaltake. I think that

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one might still be my favorite PC case, even though this is a nicer