WEBVTT 00:00:07.439 --> 00:00:16.119 welcome to my unboxing and first look at the cmstorm scout 2 this is the second 00:00:13.799 --> 00:00:20.279 Scout and it brings with it some incremental upgrades and actually looks 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:23.760 pretty freaking cool from the outside of the box anyway but we've yet to get it 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:30.119 open so let's start with what Cooler Master has to say for themselves first 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:31.880 of all there is one 120 mm red LED fan 00:00:30.119 --> 00:00:36.879 okay seven expansion slot so you won't be putting any XL ATX motherboards in 00:00:33.879 --> 00:00:39.719 here but 99% of the boards out there are 00:00:36.879 --> 00:00:43.440 standard ATX or MX anyway slide out dust filter large rubber gmts for improved 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:47.559 Cable Management okay seven hard drive Bays one 2 and 1 12 in bracket included 00:00:45.559 --> 00:00:50.440 removable hard drive cage for o long graphics card installation okay top 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:55.800 exhaust vent release heat steel reinforced carrying oh carrying handles 00:00:53.120 --> 00:01:00.559 excellent tool free Optical drives usb3 ports for fast charging and file 00:00:57.359 --> 00:01:03.399 transfer dual 120 mm fan support and 00:01:00.559 --> 00:01:07.680 mesh design let's open it up and have a look so Cooler Master has a number of 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:11.799 different series of cases that are specifically optimized for cooling and 00:01:09.960 --> 00:01:16.920 gaming and all of that good stuff so the Scout is more along the well more along 00:01:15.119 --> 00:01:22.000 the value lines compared to something like you know a half X or or whatever 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:26.200 else like that which isn't to say that the 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:31.240 Scout just because it doesn't have the half or high air flow monitor is not to 00:01:29.240 --> 00:01:35.520 say that it is not perfectly capable of keeping your system cool so we've got 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:40.560 some okay panel installation guy let's not worry too much about that and let's 00:01:38.360 --> 00:01:44.640 get the case opened up here I like the handle 00:01:41.759 --> 00:01:49.200 already so if you guys do or don't attend land parties honestly it doesn't 00:01:46.759 --> 00:01:54.000 really matter because either way a handle is a really handy thing to have 00:01:51.360 --> 00:01:58.360 for your case because if you're unboxing it you might find that you want to pick 00:01:56.560 --> 00:02:01.719 it up at some point the handle is extremely sturdy actually I'm really 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:07.079 impressed by that and it has a rubberized grip on it that makes it much 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:11.920 more comfortable to use than plastic stra plain PL plastic handle so you can 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:15.879 see the flexibility there but also the fact that there is no give to it 00:02:13.440 --> 00:02:19.920 whatsoever so there's a metal core here with a rubber coating on the outside 00:02:17.440 --> 00:02:23.160 it's actually it's great you can easily carry your system around like this 00:02:21.160 --> 00:02:27.360 especially if you're stronger than me it's not quite like the uh like the 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:32.800 handles on the Cosmos 2 which have those uh those beautiful metal bars running 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:36.640 down both sides of the top of it but I mean this is a more value oriented case 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:41.200 again than the Cosmos 2 so we can't criticize it too much for that so we've 00:02:38.760 --> 00:02:46.080 got fully stealth front IO there's your power and reset switches as well as 00:02:43.200 --> 00:02:50.360 control for the LEDs right there is where you'll find your two USB 3.0 ports 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:54.720 two USB 2.0 ports as well as your front panel 00:02:51.440 --> 00:02:58.159 audio okay on the front of the case full 00:02:54.720 --> 00:03:00.040 mesh so three 5 and 1/4 in bays and then 00:02:58.159 --> 00:03:04.200 a filter see you can see there's a filtered uh there's a filtered layer 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:07.879 here as well as a honeycomb mesh layer so the full front of it is mesh and the 00:03:06.480 --> 00:03:12.480 bottom actually has a little bit of room for intake as well we're going to try 00:03:09.720 --> 00:03:18.599 popping that off and see what we find here just for just for lulls right okay 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:21.000 so here we find another couple of 120 mm 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:25.560 fan mounts so that will give us lots of air flow from that front honeycomb here 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:28.799 we've also got all the cages for our 5 and 1/4 in Baye and not a whole lot else 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:33.720 at the front one of the things I like about this is that it doesn't have any 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:37.799 of the front IO pieces attached to it because a lot of the time you go to pull 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:43.840 this off the case and you end up kind of tugging on those delicate whoopsie 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:43.840 daisies speaking of 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:53.480 delicate there we go back on uh you end 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:57.599 up tugging on those delicate wires and potentially damaging them so I do I do 00:03:55.560 --> 00:04:02.959 worry about that this side panel is pretty straightforward you can see 00:03:58.799 --> 00:04:04.400 Cooler Master has out the uh the right 00:04:02.959 --> 00:04:08.000 side panel a little bit in order to give you extra room for cable management this 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:12.519 is something a lot of cases have started doing I didn't really like it at first 00:04:09.799 --> 00:04:15.480 but I've kind of gotten over it so uh won't complain about it too much it 00:04:14.040 --> 00:04:21.079 looks like we lost a rubber grommet in shipping but it's probably on the inside 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:22.479 of the case uh not a big deal that there 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:27.840 side panel window shows you the good parts so I'm 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:31.560 not a big fan of sort of weird shaped side panel Windows I've seen like l 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:35.520 shaped ones and sort of bizarre stuff like that I don't mind this because it 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:38.759 cuts off things like your Optical drives which you don't want to see your hard 00:04:37.280 --> 00:04:42.479 drives which you don't want to see just shows you the CPU socket area your 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:48.840 memory you can also see you know from this kind of an angle where you'd normally be looking at it your graphics 00:04:45.039 --> 00:04:51.120 card but instead of taking their window 00:04:48.840 --> 00:04:54.080 and like drilling holes through it like this like antec did with the 1100 00:04:52.919 --> 00:05:01.080 they've opted to give you a smaller window and then just regular metal fan 00:04:57.720 --> 00:05:02.360 girls which I think is better actually 00:05:01.080 --> 00:05:08.639 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 00:05:05.880 --> 00:05:13.360 it's fairly you know fairly transparent see I'm going to stick my ARM in there 00:05:09.919 --> 00:05:15.280 is awkward um whereas on those Plexi 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:19.199 ones you can't see through it at all because of how thick the Plexi is so 00:05:17.080 --> 00:05:22.759 when they do the laser cutting on it it just makes it so no almost no matter 00:05:21.039 --> 00:05:26.759 unless you're looking at it like dead on you just can't see through it at all 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:31.000 taking out the side panel oh look at that not much Flex to that at all 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:36.080 actually nice build quality on this that's one of the easiest ways to tell 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:38.680 if a case has uh has gone sort of 00:05:36.080 --> 00:05:41.560 Premium on the materials or if they've you know tried to save a couple bucks on 00:05:40.319 --> 00:05:46.039 the thickness of the metal is whether there's a lot of flex even with that Plexi window in there and all these 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:50.600 holes cut out there's still not a whole lot of flex in there it feels really 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:54.440 good all right let's have a look at the inside of this bad boy we've got some 00:05:53.240 --> 00:06:00.919 included accessories whoopsy daisies let me just 00:05:57.520 --> 00:06:04.039 grab that thank you all right so Cable 00:06:00.919 --> 00:06:07.080 Management holes here they're using that 00:06:04.039 --> 00:06:09.560 very very very soft uh soft rubber here 00:06:07.080 --> 00:06:14.199 so almost no matter what you do in terms of bending it and sort of trying to ruin 00:06:12.479 --> 00:06:17.720 it it's going to pop right back into place and make it so that you won't see 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:22.759 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 00:06:21.080 --> 00:06:27.400 with all these black cables which is going to make it extremely stealthy um 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:31.000 unless you like really go out of your way to wreck it like rip off one of 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:34.280 these uh one of these pieces or something like that which I really can't 00:06:32.400 --> 00:06:39.280 imagine happening you've got access to all of your usual places so up here okay 00:06:37.280 --> 00:06:43.240 up here is going to be your eight pin up here is going to be where I would run 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:46.280 these down from so I wouldn't run these through here I'd run them over here and 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:50.319 then bring them down up here will'll get you up to your Optical drives um here 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:56.120 will'll get you to your video cards as well as your 24 pin and one of the 00:06:53.240 --> 00:07:00.080 things again hey this is smart so so often you see next to the power supply 00:06:58.280 --> 00:07:03.560 you see something this size and then you see like three Cable Management holes up 00:07:02.039 --> 00:07:08.520 to the top of the case that are also the same size which would logically be a bit 00:07:06.280 --> 00:07:12.759 of a problem because if there's enough cables to run through three of these 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:16.120 then you probably need more space at the bottom because there's there's a lot of 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:19.240 cables coming up so I've run into issues with builds before in the past where 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:24.879 there's not really enough room to run all the cables I need through this bottom hole so they've gone with a much 00:07:22.039 --> 00:07:30.360 larger one compared to the ones up here now the removable cage is from here to 00:07:27.960 --> 00:07:34.400 here so that'll leave three three and 1/2 in Bays even if you do remove it in 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:38.400 order to install an extremely long graphics card and I can't think of any 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:43.160 graphics card where you'd need anything longer than about this even something 00:07:40.080 --> 00:07:45.599 like a Radeon uh 6990 which was which 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:48.680 very very long the 2 and 1/2 in adapter can actually be moved around and then 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:54.000 this is actually compatible with up to two ssds so you can mount one SSD in the 00:07:51.280 --> 00:07:57.520 top and then you can flip it over and mount another SSD on the other side 00:07:55.599 --> 00:08:01.720 using the bottom mounting holes side mounting holes bottom mounting holes 00:07:59.039 --> 00:08:06.319 actually very clever very clever little thing they did and then you're just 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:09.599 using your standard 3 and 1/2 in Drive 00:08:06.319 --> 00:08:13.039 rails pop in there and throw that back 00:08:09.599 --> 00:08:15.120 in wherever you want tooless mechanism 00:08:13.039 --> 00:08:19.599 for the 5 and 1/4 in base is pretty bog standard we've seen this before from 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:22.720 Cooler Master and in terms of cooling on the top let's have a look at what 00:08:21.080 --> 00:08:27.280 they've got up here so hold on we never really we never really checked this out 00:08:24.479 --> 00:08:33.599 so it looks like there's a uh oh I might need to se figur this out 00:08:30.520 --> 00:08:36.080 guys so I got it off just by taking out 00:08:33.599 --> 00:08:39.959 the plastic tabs and you can remove it for whatever reason but I don't I can't 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:43.560 think of any reason you'd want to so we're just going to put that back in 00:08:41.640 --> 00:08:48.360 there it looks like this case doesn't quite have the clearance that we'd need 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:50.640 for a dual 120 mm Radiator in the top you can see the top of your motherboard 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:55.839 is going to be right about here with your vrm and all that so this is predominantly an air cooled case and 00:08:53.760 --> 00:08:59.480 it's very suitable for that so let's do a quick summary of where all the cooling 00:08:57.880 --> 00:09:03.959 is coming from here so we've got dual 120s in the front with full mesh intake 00:09:02.160 --> 00:09:07.000 we've got another 120 in the bottom which should get some access to air 00:09:05.680 --> 00:09:11.279 these aren't the tallest feet I've seen in the past but got nice rubberized grip 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:15.519 uh most people don't use this anyway cuz your power supply cables are generally 00:09:12.920 --> 00:09:21.440 there you've got two 120 mm exhausts in the top and finally you've got a 120 mm 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:26.839 exhaust fan in the rear and this one is Led lit and is wired into the casing so 00:09:24.560 --> 00:09:31.200 that you can actually turn the LED on and off right and last but not least 00:09:29.760 --> 00:09:35.279 your power supply which has that filtered intake which was mentioned on 00:09:33.680 --> 00:09:41.000 the outside of the box so you can easily remove that put it back in no issues 00:09:38.600 --> 00:09:44.600 there oh yeah hey check this out they got one of those auxiliary uh auxiliary 00:09:43.079 --> 00:09:49.480 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 00:09:46.920 --> 00:09:54.200 waste one of your valuable PCI brackets in the back then you don't have to do 00:09:51.800 --> 00:09:58.920 that now I wonder what happened to that uh wonder what happened to that rubber 00:09:55.920 --> 00:09:58.920 grommet 00:09:59.880 --> 00:10:05.560 cameraman's pointing at it there it is all right so the rubber grommet was 00:10:03.959 --> 00:10:09.240 included with our case it just came out in shipping no harm no foul let's have a 00:10:07.800 --> 00:10:12.240 look at the accessories included and I think we're going to wrap this 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:21.560 up more 3 and 1/2 in hard drive 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:25.040 rails aha we've got some zip ties we've 00:10:21.560 --> 00:10:26.880 got a speaker we've got some screws and 00:10:25.040 --> 00:10:32.959 whatnot it's basically what you'd expect so what do you get with the out too you 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:37.920 get a very capable air cooling case with a very very awesome built-in steel 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:42.120 handle making it extremely portable very comfortable to move around and you also 00:10:39.880 --> 00:10:46.160 get a pretty darn good looking case with side panel window that shows off the 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:49.800 best parts without showing you you know hard drives and I think that pretty much 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:53.560 wraps it up thank you for checking out this video on the Scout 2 from Cooler 00:10:51.880 --> 00:10:59.959 Master don't forget to subscribe to lineus Tech tips for more unboxings 00:10:55.480 --> 00:10:59.959 reviews and other computer videos