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Digital hey guys we're here at thermal right now and you know me so the first thing I had to do was stop by their
mechanical keyboards I was introduced to something interesting they're going to
be releasing their own switch in the next coming while and as you can see by
the spec sheet there isn't a ton different that's because Cherry lost their patent a little while back and now
other people are able to make those kind of switches but one thing you will
definitely notice is that big golden badge it says 5year warranty that's
quite bold and really interesting and I'm really excited to see what that's
going to do to the market so what they have here which is what I was actually
first introduced when I came into the suite is their blind taste test of
keyboard so what they've got going on is their own switch versus a cherry switch
completely unmarked so you're unsure which one is which I find that really
cool because I like blind taste test because it takes away all the other
variables that could affect your result so I'm not exactly sure which one I
picked but to be honest I've felt Cherry switches that feel these are Blues I
felt Cherry switches that feel the same as both of these before due to some
manufacturing tolerances that I've noticed where different years of cherry
switches might feel different so it's actually quite interesting that they're doing this test although I'm just happy
that they're doing a 5-year warranty and overall we'll see where that goes from there on the other side of the room we
have their Urban t81 and while this case was described as a hybrid air water case
my favorite way of seeing this is just a crazy water build one see one thing I
see a lot with case guys that want water cooling systems that they want to be
able to strip it down really easily I've seen a ton of mods where people are
drilling out rivets to replace with screws so they can tear stuff down so
they can put in more radiators and in this system I find it just really really
easy and simple to strip everything out that you don't need and don't want and
fit in a ton of Radiators up in the top here they've got a really easily
removable fan filter which is great because that's really easy to take out
like I just said and also clean because that's actually quite important when you
pulling a crazy amount of air in through there and then the top comes off
completely you're probably going to be mounting your radiator under in the
bottom but you can fit huge massive fans up here in the top which is great
because it's really easy to set up a push pull configuration in this case
other than that aesthetically it looks great with their brushed look all across
it and it has a door in the front here
which I can't really show too much because of the pool table but all their
I/O and buttons and stuff are at the top and then the door hides your OD slots
and all that kind of stuff because not that many people are using Drive Bays like that anymore so it's actually kind
of cool because you can still access all your buttons without having the door permanently open which is great on the
other side of the table we have the core v71 and internally these two cases are
actually quite similar but this one has some pretty cool Drive mounting options
so you can take one of the 3 and 1 half in Drive Bas slots and mount it on the
back very quickly and very easily and it's it's actually kind of sleek because
I like mounting drives on the back of motherboard Trace to get them out of the
front of the case and uh open up compatibility with different radiators
and stuff and that's great but a lot of times you can only fit ssds back there
so it's quite nice to see a 3 and 1 half in Drive be able to be mounted back
there and 2 and 1/2 in drives thanks to our sponsors NC WD and Corsair for
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