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well this is about as hungry as it gets these days in it oh well especially that
GPU okay have you noticed anything different about it well what i noticed
is there was a little bit of goop on the p mode q mode switch i was thinking more
so you'd notice like the holes in the back plate but
okay i mean can this cooler even handle it no
it's slower than stock oh god this isn't a video about the test bench
launch just build a pc got my jerry rig everything box cutter yeah now we don't
have a price for this thing but based on the fact that it weighs
25 kilos that is about 55 pounds for our
american friends i can tell you it's probably not going to be minus
Linus there's instructions on the top of how to open it oh
oh fortunately you did find the tool thing it's in a bad location from the
factory in this one it's changing for the production unit oh yeah it's like
hidden you wouldn't
you wouldn't notice it if this got stuck in here there it is
yeah holy crap are these all glass yeah
wow that is a really aggressive looking
design oh my god look how freaking wide this thing is
they were like no it's not wide enough yet let's put the i o on the wide see
it's not really the side it's the wide it's the side of the vibe oh this is
going to be tedious save a couple for later when they're lit
up or i can keep it oh my god no oh no
and these middle ones are split we're at the point now where computer cases are
getting so complicated they're going to have to start having like a pdi
delivery and inspection fee in terms of features at the front we've got our
reset and power switches our microphone and headphone jack four usb 3 type a
ports usb type c and this display can
show system information like temperatures fan rpms kind of whatever
you want to show on it it is so heavy
okay is the paint supposed to be something
special yeah this is a pre-production and they found in shipping them to
people that the paint gets a bit scuffed up oh got it okay you can actually
really tell how engineering sample it is in spots like this one other change in
the production version is they wanted this to be totally tool-less but they're
going to add a screw here because apparently they ran into issues where people would pick it up and it would pop
off which could be really really bad
you could kill a man with this thing tempered glass side panels
vibration dampeners magnetic filters whoa
that's where the weight is oh yeah that is
weighty that is substantial i mean that's what thick freaking tempered
glass will do for you wow uh these are 180 mil
200. 200 mil they don't tell you how
fast they go though so i kind of want to just try that right now two 200 mils in
the front a 120 drawing in air at the bottom and then two 120s at the back and
it looks like holy schnikeys you could load the top up with you can fit six
120s up there oh freaking what oh my god
there's so many front panel connectors on this thing it's like a bundle this
thick between all the fans and usb and
power switch and everything here oh you want to over vote them down yeah i want
to see what they do at 17 volts how did i know that was coming it's almost like
we've been working together for five years oh this is cool they've got a
cable management or rather a don't bother cable management panel on the
back here and you basically just go yep i don't want to see any of that anymore
and you cover it up we need to stick a sticker i guess just like put it here
sure wow it takes a long time to ramp up at
five volts give her some more juice let's see like seven volts yep so we
ended up at around 750 so let's see 12 volt now now we're moving this is over a
thousand RPM now that is a substantial amount of air movement i guess that's
what they call turning it up to 11 maybe they meant 1100 RPM
all things considered it is not loud no not at all is it a current limit again
it doesn't want to go faster really yeah it's going down oh it's smoking
it's dead i think when we started it with 17 volts oh crap
oh it stinks it's a good thing it doesn't turn on it'll blow its smell
towards you here you go alex this is your doing can you start helping me
build this thing because it's pretty clear this is going to take a team effort i do feel kind of bad we don't
have any more cooler master fans and using these liam lee ones instead but
they do club together it's pretty nice yeah those are super cool yeah power
lead just barely reaches the integrated power hub wow this thing has tube
integrated RGB hubs one here one here
damn holy crap it's loaded for bear oh
i'm gonna leave this for now that looks like an absolute fingerprint magnet
we're gonna take that off last oh my goodness it's still heavy now's probably
a good time to take a closer look at our test bench we've got a 12 900 k on a
z690 maximus extreme that hopefully has
the capacitor on the right way you know with how many motherboards still have
5.1 analog outputs we should just do like an aliexpress surround sound
speaker setup get subscribed if you guys want to see that these cable management
grommets don't appear to be compatible with the
back plate on this motherboard
oh my finger holy crap even without the grommets it's still
right up against the motherboard tray look at the cooler compatibility from
the side uh is this supposed to be coming off like this
oh the whole thing's moving now a really cool feature of this case by the way
we've gone with a 1300 watt power supply
from seasonic because our GPU now draws
about 800 watts on its own is that cooler master set out to make the power
supply installation completely tool-less so two of what would normally be screw
holes have been replaced with pins that go into the back of the power supply and
the other two are thumb screws like really hold it in place how the
freak many hard drives can go in here at least one two three another four that's
seven there were two more on that mid plate that's nine apparently the hard
drives are all tool-less too to put those in of course oh really yep they
have rubber instead of screws do you want to go horizontal or vertical in the
GPU i think we should let the people decide let's just have them use the
thumbs up and thumbs down on the video thumbs up if you want vertical thumbs
down if you want a conventional mount
they're all thumbs up wow wow let's go vertical so this also has tool-less GPU
mounting how are those tool-less
they're just posts include with the case is this fairly
nice gen 4 PCIe riser it smells kind of
weird though oh that's super weird can i smell it
sure andy we got some weird kinks around here Thunderbolt 4. what the hell what
would you connect via Thunderbolt that you would want inside your computer oh i
thought i had a fart but i feel like if i let that one go i'd get some solid so
i love that the theme of this build is abused hardware we've got the shunt
modded GPU the motherboard that was prepped for sub-zero we've got the fan
that's not abused that's dead this is ridiculously easy to cable manage
basically just cram all the stuff in the thing and then
close up the latches and then cover the thing
do you think that six fans is enough no
we can add two more in the bottom let's do it the hell am i looking at here triple
reservoir pump combos using these
brackets just in case you're into it i really really appreciate
these radiator mounts that just come out and you're able to
attach the fans and stuff all of our sleepers and a lot of the custom work
that i've done i've just stolen these from master cases and this one's even
better alex i have some concerns about negative static pressure here i think we
need more fans yeah i'm already working on that all right okay i don't actually know how
to wire this thing up i just put this on the middle pin of the bottom one and it
just completely snapped off i got pricing from cooler master how much do
you think it is i'm guessing 349 us the
global price is 500 us and in the us
because tariffs it's 650
yeah that's more than i thought it would be and i thought it would be really expensive so this is like a 10 000 d
competitor in the way that they're looking at it well now i feel stupid that this is our first kind of case
review in 100 years and that's one that nobody's
gonna actually buy don't put that in the video but look at the space here yeah i almost
feel like we should have water cooled up just to fill up that void
we ready to fire it up are we having a little bit of cable management yeah a
lot of cable management
it's good looking i got to give it that i'm going to do this the dirty way like
you did my Intel upgrade where instead of like doing it properly you just put
it straight through and tie it yeah it's terrible i think you mean
tight and perfect you know they say that beggars can't be choosers what i'm not a
beggar i could buy my own pc i'm an influencer now Linus i'll cover it
no one will ever know oh nice right oh
that's my favorite kind of cable map crap this isn't going to work oh there's
a little arrow indicating where it goes
if these were data cables we would not do this oh shoot there's an RGB lead
here rap it's heavy now you're saying that like it wasn't in the first place
well it's more now
i forget how this worked pull oh there there we go there was
another step back okay yeah cool cool cool cool oh we never put this hard
drive cage back in um
bye-bye moment of truth i didn't even show the cool little block
that it had for all of the front panel connectors yeah you also didn't turn the
power supply on oh well that looks really cool but why are none of our fans
working like actually none of them this one is
working that's the one that we plugged into the motherboard okay so maybe we
didn't plug in the fan hub ah and all
the panels are coming off let there be light
is it okay to plug in usb headers when the system's on i mean no but yes
awesome okay ow screen's on yeah yay what's the
screen showing make it yours about the 500 isn't enough to make it
mine if you look here you can see they probably wanted to do curved glass here
but like Corsair probably discovered that it was cost prohibitive remember
that early prototype of the 10000d yes oh yeah
what's the resolution of this display i don't know it looks pretty good it looks
great this is why you should never give your friends your computer's password
should we get the smoke machine while we wait for the smoke machine to fire up why don't you talk me through what we're
doing here so we got prime95 firmware running concurrently i see what you mean
about the GPU how high did the thermals go on this so it's power limited then no
it's thermals limited probably the memory is at 112
that's probably what limiting is right now or 110. at the temperatures of the
CPU or the GPU we're going to be looking at core clocks yeah this top exhaust
doesn't even feel like it's heated up rear exhaust yes coming right off the
CPU cooler here is it overclocked nope this is stock it's doing 4.9 gigahertz
let's get fogged up
hello we have fluid yeah
bang oh i told them order the good one and they came back to me with this i
have an idea we still have ln2 here
sorry how are we looking
well i'm not able to see like anything you can't see anything immediately
disappears there's so much airflow uh okay
it looks like it's going in and then probably up and out
damn i wish our smoke machine was working
how do our results look marginally worse i would say turns out fans work but
there's no substitute for just drawing completely fresh ambient air in i'm
actually surprised oh i'm not i mean it's like damn as for the GPU it's
identical the clock speeds temperatures are both effectively the same and you
should know it's about a half a degree cooler in here now in the case than it
was before so for an air-cooled build is it as good as literally putting your
motherboard on a cardboard box no meaning it's not the best bang for
the buck case on the market but i don't think that's what cooler master
was going for with the half 700 evo as for the looks
maybe polarizing personally i think it looks really cool and i think especially
for a water cooled build man could you ever do a cool loop in here hey two
radiators up top use this to feed them with fresh air another radiator in the
bottom man loads of pump spots dead silent
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