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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the cubc mini Cube this right here is a

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little mini ITX enclosure that is just

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over 19 l in volume inside so their

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claim to fame with this guy is that it can accommodate VGA cards that are up to

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280 m mm and it has Cable Management in

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the back of the motherboard tray so they

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are saying that this is the first mini ITX enclosure with cable management now

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I wouldn't say that this is quite you know um factual because something like

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an F3 mini from Silverstone does have

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cable management but it doesn't necessarily have the same kind of a form

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factor as a more traditional PC case so let's go ahead and find out what's

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inside so cubitac uses all aluminum construction so I'm expecting it to be a

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fairly basic case in terms of the sort of like you know no plastic pieces you

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know injection molded this or that but what we will find inside is quality

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manufacturing so they use like brushed aluminum finishes and nice lightweight

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design and here is the manual fairly basic fairly straightforward nothing

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really out of the ordinary there uh in fact what I should be doing is showing

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you the manual here so that we can use our b-roll camer camera for that we

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don't have a second camera operator today unfortunately so we're just going

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to have to make do without also here I have all of the included

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accessories so they come in just a plain Ziploc baggie so that'll be all your

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mounting screws motherboard standoffs a bunch of rubber grommets that appear to

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be for presumably mounting yep hard

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there's your hard drive rubbers um what

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else we got your buzzer I think they mean speaker' also oh I got to go

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through all of them now your M3 L6 screw

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that one wasn't fun your number 6 32 screw no fun oh M5 okay sure well that

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was that was all the fun ones anyway we got to the fun ones right at the

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beginning there's your standoffs and then we get to the case itself so it

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comes packed in a soft foam as you guys know soft Foams are my favorite Foams

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it's fairly thin but guys this is an ITX

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case so the expectation from the manufacturer and from me for that matter

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is that you actually wouldn't be um you wouldn't be putting you know like a

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triple radiator liquid cooled triple SLI

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machine in here because it simply won't fit so you don't have that much weight

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to worry about now I am going to go retrieve myself some gloves which I will

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use to handle this case and I would recommend that you do the same because

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brush aluminum finishes look beautiful but the problem you run into is that

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they're very easy to stain and once you stain them then they are not as

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beautiful so I'm just going to show the uh the b-roll camera what the side panel

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looks like here again there's that brushed aluminum on the front we just

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find a cubc logo as well as a power and

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reset button here's your indicator LEDs

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and then on the other side hopefully the

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uh that camera can see the indicator LEDs and the power and reset switches on

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the other side we find just plain black

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aluminum and on the back there is room for the io

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Shield two PCI expansion slots so you

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could install a single graphics card remember ITX only has one expansion slot

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so you could install a single dual slot graphics card for example and then

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there's your standard ATX power supply an 80 or a 92 mm fan Mount and finally

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we've got the io on the top of the case here we find two USB 2.0 ports two USB

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3.0 ports a headphone jack a microphone Jack and that is pretty much all she

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wrote now there's no toolless uh opening

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for this guy so we're going to have to grab a screwdriver and we'll be right back now once we open it up we find out

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what they meant by mini Cube they meant a mini case that is in fact in the shape

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of a cube so here on the back we find all of those hard drive mounts so you

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can do either four 2 and 1/2 in or two 3

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and 1/2 in with all these different hard drive mounting options here now I let

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the uh there we go nope there we go I

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let the instructions get away from me here but they actually show you on the

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back how you can use the various holes actually okay well I guess I should do

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this how you can use the various holes to mount either 2 and 1 half inch or 3

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and 1 half inch drives they also give you the sort of recommended order in

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which you install things which I think is actually quite important because this

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is going to be a very small case once you've got a motherboard that goes to

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here a CPU Cooler that goes here and

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then a graphics card that potentially goes all the way across here now you can

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install sort of the first question I asked when I saw the initial the layout

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of this guy is where do I put my intake

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fan where does the intake fan go because the front of the case is completely

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clean the top of the case is completely clean as are the side panels so you

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could potentially intake from the top and then set your power supply up as an

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exhaust so there's a filtered intake on the bottom of that but you could flip it

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over instead and then have it draw air from the inside of the case and exhaust

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it the other option here is to install a 120 mm fan in the front of the case so

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you can see from the bottom there's either room to mount a 2 and 1/2 in SSD

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there or a 120 mm cooling fan so I would probably go the cooling fan option

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especially if you're putting in a high performance graphics card now you hear

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that other side panel rattling that's not because the side panel rattles due

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to some kind of a manufacturing defect it is because I have pre- loosened all

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the screws so that I can show you um how

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it comes off so there's four screws one in each corner and I almost dropped that

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one so you just take all of those off and last

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one there we go and now we get access to

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the back of the motherboard tray that's actually not bad oh yeah you can see the

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side panels here are quite quite thick aluminum actually very nice so the back

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of the motherboard tray has a good inch of space back there that's outstanding

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so you can see there's lots of room for cable management as well as holes cut

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here and up near the motherboard and at the front of the cave that are also for

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cable management so if I'm going to try and Eyeball this that's pretty tough but

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it looks like one here one here and one

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here and one here for 3 and 1/2 in drives and then the 2 and 1/2 in spacing

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must be there somewhere but it's uh pretty pretty tough to eyeball so here's

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here's what a 2 and 1 half inch Drive oh no those are two and a half inches there

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so that's one two

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three four

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somewhere well I'll take their I'll take their word for it I suppose we'll be

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back in a moment slick and I figured it out all

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right so it goes like this one two three

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four 2 and 1/2 inch drives or three 3

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and 1/2 inch drives so those ones will go uh here here and here so you have the

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option for what you want to put on the back you could even do 2 3 and 1/2 in 2

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2 and 1/2 in and then if you didn't install that cooling fan then you could

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could do an additional 2 and 1/2 inch here so there's actually a lot of expansion room so we're really excited

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to do a build in this particular little Chassy and I think that pretty much

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you guys were were wondering about that oh yeah front connectors I didn't even

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show these so front connector wise you've got your front USB 3 your front

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HD audio your front um power reset all

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that good stuff and and front USB 3 so those are all just done by one big panel

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up here that then leads sort of through

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the back and goes wherever you need it to go probably out mostly here