welcome to my unboxing and first look at the cmstorm scout 2 this is the second
Scout and it brings with it some incremental upgrades and actually looks
pretty freaking cool from the outside of the box anyway but we've yet to get it
open so let's start with what Cooler Master has to say for themselves first
of all there is one 120 mm red LED fan
okay seven expansion slot so you won't be putting any XL ATX motherboards in
here but 99% of the boards out there are
standard ATX or MX anyway slide out dust filter large rubber gmts for improved
Cable Management okay seven hard drive Bays one 2 and 1 12 in bracket included
removable hard drive cage for o long graphics card installation okay top
exhaust vent release heat steel reinforced carrying oh carrying handles
excellent tool free Optical drives usb3 ports for fast charging and file
transfer dual 120 mm fan support and
mesh design let's open it up and have a look so Cooler Master has a number of
different series of cases that are specifically optimized for cooling and
gaming and all of that good stuff so the Scout is more along the well more along
the value lines compared to something like you know a half X or or whatever
else like that which isn't to say that the
Scout just because it doesn't have the half or high air flow monitor is not to
say that it is not perfectly capable of keeping your system cool so we've got
some okay panel installation guy let's not worry too much about that and let's
get the case opened up here I like the handle
already so if you guys do or don't attend land parties honestly it doesn't
really matter because either way a handle is a really handy thing to have
for your case because if you're unboxing it you might find that you want to pick
it up at some point the handle is extremely sturdy actually I'm really
impressed by that and it has a rubberized grip on it that makes it much
more comfortable to use than plastic stra plain PL plastic handle so you can
see the flexibility there but also the fact that there is no give to it
whatsoever so there's a metal core here with a rubber coating on the outside
it's actually it's great you can easily carry your system around like this
especially if you're stronger than me it's not quite like the uh like the
handles on the Cosmos 2 which have those uh those beautiful metal bars running
down both sides of the top of it but I mean this is a more value oriented case
again than the Cosmos 2 so we can't criticize it too much for that so we've
got fully stealth front IO there's your power and reset switches as well as
control for the LEDs right there is where you'll find your two USB 3.0 ports
two USB 2.0 ports as well as your front panel
audio okay on the front of the case full
mesh so three 5 and 1/4 in bays and then
a filter see you can see there's a filtered uh there's a filtered layer
here as well as a honeycomb mesh layer so the full front of it is mesh and the
bottom actually has a little bit of room for intake as well we're going to try
popping that off and see what we find here just for just for lulls right okay
so here we find another couple of 120 mm
fan mounts so that will give us lots of air flow from that front honeycomb here
we've also got all the cages for our 5 and 1/4 in Baye and not a whole lot else
at the front one of the things I like about this is that it doesn't have any
of the front IO pieces attached to it because a lot of the time you go to pull
this off the case and you end up kind of tugging on those delicate whoopsie
daisies speaking of
delicate there we go back on uh you end
up tugging on those delicate wires and potentially damaging them so I do I do
worry about that this side panel is pretty straightforward you can see
Cooler Master has out the uh the right
side panel a little bit in order to give you extra room for cable management this
is something a lot of cases have started doing I didn't really like it at first
but I've kind of gotten over it so uh won't complain about it too much it
looks like we lost a rubber grommet in shipping but it's probably on the inside
of the case uh not a big deal that there
side panel window shows you the good parts so I'm
not a big fan of sort of weird shaped side panel Windows I've seen like l
shaped ones and sort of bizarre stuff like that I don't mind this because it
cuts off things like your Optical drives which you don't want to see your hard
drives which you don't want to see just shows you the CPU socket area your
memory you can also see you know from this kind of an angle where you'd normally be looking at it your graphics
card but instead of taking their window
and like drilling holes through it like this like antec did with the 1100
they've opted to give you a smaller window and then just regular metal fan
girls which I think is better actually
because the great thing about these grills is if you do want to see through them you don't have to put a fan on it
it's fairly you know fairly transparent see I'm going to stick my ARM in there
is awkward um whereas on those Plexi
ones you can't see through it at all because of how thick the Plexi is so
when they do the laser cutting on it it just makes it so no almost no matter
unless you're looking at it like dead on you just can't see through it at all
taking out the side panel oh look at that not much Flex to that at all
actually nice build quality on this that's one of the easiest ways to tell
if a case has uh has gone sort of
Premium on the materials or if they've you know tried to save a couple bucks on
the thickness of the metal is whether there's a lot of flex even with that Plexi window in there and all these
holes cut out there's still not a whole lot of flex in there it feels really
good all right let's have a look at the inside of this bad boy we've got some
included accessories whoopsy daisies let me just
grab that thank you all right so Cable
Management holes here they're using that
very very very soft uh soft rubber here
so almost no matter what you do in terms of bending it and sort of trying to ruin
it it's going to pop right back into place and make it so that you won't see
too much of what's on the other side remember guys there's going to be a black side panel on the other side along
with all these black cables which is going to make it extremely stealthy um
unless you like really go out of your way to wreck it like rip off one of
these uh one of these pieces or something like that which I really can't
imagine happening you've got access to all of your usual places so up here okay
up here is going to be your eight pin up here is going to be where I would run
these down from so I wouldn't run these through here I'd run them over here and
then bring them down up here will'll get you up to your Optical drives um here
will'll get you to your video cards as well as your 24 pin and one of the
things again hey this is smart so so often you see next to the power supply
you see something this size and then you see like three Cable Management holes up
to the top of the case that are also the same size which would logically be a bit
of a problem because if there's enough cables to run through three of these
then you probably need more space at the bottom because there's there's a lot of
cables coming up so I've run into issues with builds before in the past where
there's not really enough room to run all the cables I need through this bottom hole so they've gone with a much
larger one compared to the ones up here now the removable cage is from here to
here so that'll leave three three and 1/2 in Bays even if you do remove it in
order to install an extremely long graphics card and I can't think of any
graphics card where you'd need anything longer than about this even something
like a Radeon uh 6990 which was which
very very long the 2 and 1/2 in adapter can actually be moved around and then
this is actually compatible with up to two ssds so you can mount one SSD in the
top and then you can flip it over and mount another SSD on the other side
using the bottom mounting holes side mounting holes bottom mounting holes
actually very clever very clever little thing they did and then you're just
using your standard 3 and 1/2 in Drive
rails pop in there and throw that back
in wherever you want tooless mechanism
for the 5 and 1/4 in base is pretty bog standard we've seen this before from
Cooler Master and in terms of cooling on the top let's have a look at what
they've got up here so hold on we never really we never really checked this out
so it looks like there's a uh oh I might need to se figur this out
guys so I got it off just by taking out
the plastic tabs and you can remove it for whatever reason but I don't I can't
think of any reason you'd want to so we're just going to put that back in
there it looks like this case doesn't quite have the clearance that we'd need
for a dual 120 mm Radiator in the top you can see the top of your motherboard
is going to be right about here with your vrm and all that so this is predominantly an air cooled case and
it's very suitable for that so let's do a quick summary of where all the cooling
is coming from here so we've got dual 120s in the front with full mesh intake
we've got another 120 in the bottom which should get some access to air
these aren't the tallest feet I've seen in the past but got nice rubberized grip
uh most people don't use this anyway cuz your power supply cables are generally
there you've got two 120 mm exhausts in the top and finally you've got a 120 mm
exhaust fan in the rear and this one is Led lit and is wired into the casing so
that you can actually turn the LED on and off right and last but not least
your power supply which has that filtered intake which was mentioned on
the outside of the box so you can easily remove that put it back in no issues
there oh yeah hey check this out they got one of those auxiliary uh auxiliary
PCI bracket things so if you have a fan controller or whatever else that hooks up to one of these you don't want to
waste one of your valuable PCI brackets in the back then you don't have to do
that now I wonder what happened to that uh wonder what happened to that rubber
grommet
cameraman's pointing at it there it is all right so the rubber grommet was
included with our case it just came out in shipping no harm no foul let's have a
look at the accessories included and I think we're going to wrap this
up more 3 and 1/2 in hard drive
rails aha we've got some zip ties we've
got a speaker we've got some screws and
whatnot it's basically what you'd expect so what do you get with the out too you
get a very capable air cooling case with a very very awesome built-in steel
handle making it extremely portable very comfortable to move around and you also
get a pretty darn good looking case with side panel window that shows off the
best parts without showing you you know hard drives and I think that pretty much
wraps it up thank you for checking out this video on the Scout 2 from Cooler
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