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So today we're going to be doing an unboxing of the half

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932 but this is actually a special half

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932 you can't tell from that side of the box but on this side you can see that

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this is the half 932 Black Edition so

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the half 932 is already a very well regarded wellestablished gaming case in

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its own right but the Black Edition adds a few features so you've got better or

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improved GPU cooling okay you have a

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transparent side window remember the half 932 has kind of a h smoked style

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side window you've also got uh support for two ssds and it comes with two 230

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mm fans so let's go ahead get this box

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open and I'm just going to show you guys the packing materials then I'm going to

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unbox it and then I'm going to kind of come back so we've got your standard

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kind of this is a a semi soft kind of foam so it's not super brittle but it's

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also not a closed cell phone that you see on some cases so let me just dump it

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out and I'll be back in a sec since the half 932 Black Edition

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isn't actually that different from the regular half this is going to be more of

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a look at the half 932 and uh with a

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special highlight on the features that are different about the Black Edition so

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we've got the large Clear Window window here so that is one of the key

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differences other than that the case looks pretty much the same from the

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outside so we'll start on this side okay you've got side vents here

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you've got that half branding on the on the side of the case here you've got uh

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on the top actually on the top is interesting because you've got support

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for a 230 mm fan or you have support for

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dual 120 mm fans so that gives you the

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ability to add a liquid cooling radiator for example

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or to use two smaller fans if you want to use your own cuz it's hard to find

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aftermarket 230 mil fans here you've got

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a spot for a fill Port which which is awesome I mean everyone should include

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room for a fill port in their case cuz it costs nothing all you do is drill a

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hole and then the water cooling guys are pretty happy and then you've also got a

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little rubberized thing here for putting you know screws or bounced right off

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screws or lens caps caps so they won't move and you won't get lost we have a

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reset switch power switch on the front of the case we've got front USB 2 four

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ports we have fire wire eat as well as a

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microphone and headphone jack we've got our power light as well as our hard

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drive LED so the 5 and 1/4 in bays are

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removed quite easily from this particular case you just press in the

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things from the side they pop out you're going to have to punch these out in

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order to install drives but that's no big deal so one 65 and 1/4 in Baye so

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let me just go ahead and throw that back in there there we are

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and then let's see if there's any trick to the front can't remember for the life

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of me how this works

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H okay uh on the other

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side not really much of note vents here

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but that's about it actually I'm going to need a screwdriver just a second at

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the back we see one of the features that's great about the half 932 that is

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the option to either install your power supply in the top or in the bottom so

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you can do whichever you prefer all you have to do is take out a plate here and

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then you have can move it down to the other spot install your power supply

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wherever you please we've also got a 140 mm/ 120 mm fan Mount so you can mount

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either kind of fan you desire and 7 PCI

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expansion slots which is standard so the half X actually has more and is

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compatible with XL ATX motherboards whereas the half 932 is intended for

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your standard ATX motherboard

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all right so why don't we start from the front or rather from the side okay so

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the first thing we see here is a GPU duct all right that's fairly obvious it

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does come out if you don't want to use it so there's a couple thumb screws

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holding it in but it's there so I guess you might as well you might as well make

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use of it it looks

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like you could probably put a fan in there yep it's got mounting holes for

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120 mm fan so that's going to give you air flow directly over your graphics

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cards to make sure that they do not overheat in any way I mean you've also

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got a 230 mm fan here at the front of the case but what this does is it just

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uh it it provides a push pull scenario so where if you have a ton of drives

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here and it's a restrictive space you're going to be able to force more air

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through the front of the case directly over the GPU by setting up both of those

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fans So speaking of drives we have support for five three and a half inch

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drives we have one SSD rail here and

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then supposedly support for another SSD somewhere but I'll have to figure out

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where that is a little bit later on in the process here because I don't see it

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yet H interesting okay down here we've

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got our power supply Mount we've got support for up to oh this is cool so

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we've got support for up to two 120 mm

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fans down here in the bottom of the case so that is if you put your power supply

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here you can have that as an intake on the case we have toolless oh yeah I

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should show you guys this toolless mounting for all of

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our uh for all of our drives so it doesn't look very solid but as soon as

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you put a drive in it it actually solids right up and uh holds the drive very

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securely it's actually one of the more one of the more impressive toolless

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Drive holders that I have seen in

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my I guess I can say it years of unboxing products so there you go uh

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tool is 5 and 1/4 in so these are just

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the push button sort all right up here we've got all of those internal cables

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so you got your eSATA your front power your front switches your front USB audio

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fir wire everything is all right there so here's some accessories I'm guessing

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we're going to find another 3 and 1/2 in to 2 and 1/2 in adapter inside here for

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the other SSD and we don't okay here is

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an pin power adapter this is a very very

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uh thoughtful inclusion from Cooler Master because not all power supplies

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reach all the way from the bottom up to the eight pin on the top of your motherboard so they've included this

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just in case your power supply manufacturer has made one with short cables here's an a 5 1/4 in to 3 and 1/2

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in adapter so if you want to turn one of those front 5 and 1/4 inch pays into a

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card reader or floppy drive if you still need a floppy drive then you can go

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ahead and do that here we have all the screws and zip ties you're going to need

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to build your system as well as wheels so this is a steel case it's a heavy

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case especially once you load it up with Hardware Hardware so it does come with

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casters so that you don't have trouble moving it

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around all right other features let's see I guess we're getting pretty close

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so here's our other 230 mm fan this is not an LED one the one in the front

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however is uh we do have a CPU cutout so

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what that means is that you can swap your CPU Cooler even without taking out

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the motherboard even if it uses a back plate you got your standard spot for

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your IO here and you know what I'm going to do I'm actually going to take a break

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I'm going to find out where that other SSD Mount is and I'll let you guys know

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found it it's in one of the 5 and 1/4 in Bays right here so you've got one 3 and

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1/2 to 2.5 in you've got one 5 and 1/4

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in to 2.5 in so you can mount up to two ssds natively in the case and uh then

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four hard drives and 1 two 3 four five

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five 5 and 1/4 in devices all at the same time so thank you for checking out

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