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Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by nc.com your source for

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great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western

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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

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mechanical keyboards I was introduced to something interesting they're going to

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be releasing their own switch in the next coming while and as you can see by

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the spec sheet there isn't a ton different that's because Cherry lost their patent a little while back and now

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other people are able to make those kind of switches but one thing you will

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definitely notice is that big golden badge it says 5year warranty that's

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quite bold and really interesting and I'm really excited to see what that's

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going to do to the market so what they have here which is what I was actually

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first introduced when I came into the suite is their blind taste test of

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keyboard so what they've got going on is their own switch versus a cherry switch

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completely unmarked so you're unsure which one is which I find that really

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cool because I like blind taste test because it takes away all the other

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variables that could affect your result so I'm not exactly sure which one I

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picked but to be honest I've felt Cherry switches that feel these are Blues I

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felt Cherry switches that feel the same as both of these before due to some

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manufacturing tolerances that I've noticed where different years of cherry

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switches might feel different so it's actually quite interesting that they're doing this test although I'm just happy

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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

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have their Urban t81 and while this case was described as a hybrid air water case

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my favorite way of seeing this is just a crazy water build one see one thing I

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see a lot with case guys that want water cooling systems that they want to be

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able to strip it down really easily I've seen a ton of mods where people are

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drilling out rivets to replace with screws so they can tear stuff down so

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they can put in more radiators and in this system I find it just really really

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easy and simple to strip everything out that you don't need and don't want and

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fit in a ton of Radiators up in the top here they've got a really easily

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removable fan filter which is great because that's really easy to take out

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like I just said and also clean because that's actually quite important when you

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pulling a crazy amount of air in through there and then the top comes off

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completely you're probably going to be mounting your radiator under in the

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bottom but you can fit huge massive fans up here in the top which is great

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because it's really easy to set up a push pull configuration in this case

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other than that aesthetically it looks great with their brushed look all across

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it and it has a door in the front here

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which I can't really show too much because of the pool table but all their

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I/O and buttons and stuff are at the top and then the door hides your OD slots

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and all that kind of stuff because not that many people are using Drive Bays like that anymore so it's actually kind

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of cool because you can still access all your buttons without having the door permanently open which is great on the

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other side of the table we have the core v71 and internally these two cases are

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actually quite similar but this one has some pretty cool Drive mounting options

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so you can take one of the 3 and 1 half in Drive Bas slots and mount it on the

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back very quickly and very easily and it's it's actually kind of sleek because

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I like mounting drives on the back of motherboard Trace to get them out of the

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front of the case and uh open up compatibility with different radiators

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and stuff and that's great but a lot of times you can only fit ssds back there

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so it's quite nice to see a 3 and 1 half in Drive be able to be mounted back

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there and 2 and 1/2 in drives thanks to our sponsors NC WD and Corsair for

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