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phenix booth where they have an unbelievable a number of two two more
than two unbelievable number of cases on display so this right here is the ronin
it's also got what is possibly one of the most cool things that they're
showing off this is an updated version of their fan controller so touchreen you
can change color you can adjust your led
brightness on the fans you can adjust your led brightness with alc strips you
can adjust your fan rpms but check this out there's actually an open source
software utility that lets you also do all that stuff in the Windows os itself
so you can change the color to whatever you want you can also go ahead and see
led brightness control main diol only that but che out case
from the it extremely clean so that's
because they've added like a stealth sort of cover here so even though it's got a
large window you don't have to stare at the side of your hard drive cages with
all the cables hanging out the back and i'm probably doing this wrong but thank
you i appreciate that so once you move that out you've got what looks like
otherwise a fairly standard interior full support for a 240 mm radiator in
the top and then you've got your five plus two looks like six hard drive cages
these top ones are removable so if you need to put in ridiculously long
graphics cards or anything like that you won't have any difficulty this guy right
here doesn't have a name but you can sort of see the prodigy heritage of it
there you go see this is totally totally preproduction sample so you can see that
that side i who knows if that even makes it to the final one but it has a really
classy looking chromed strip all along the top and the bottom it's got a very
very clean front so single five and quar in b again you see that prodigy heritage
here and then on the again with chr stp as well as
the ventilated side for
graphics card who knows when we're to see this what it's going to cost or what
the features will be nobody knows which
brings us up to the phenom m this one's quite a bit more finalized this is going
to be an itx case that is going to be very very clean looking optimized for
something like i don't know you know file server or just someone who wants a
much more much more clean looking computer it's got again soyas so you see
that same interior with the five drive cages as well as full support for long
graphics cards if you really wanted to go that route by removing the top drive
cages which brings us to the colossus m this is going to be an matx case so this
one right here is going to use well hold on a minute so this looks an awful lot
like that sort of that prodigy heritage as well matx case that's kind of
confusing what in the heck you' also got adjustable uh you've got adjustable leds
so go ahead and see if i can figure it out how to do this
hold on can't can't they working sort of
the disadvantage of there we go there's a blue led in the front there some
different brightness levels there might be different versions of the colors who
knows but that brings us to this guy right here so people have been saying
for fair fair while here well prodigy is
a pretty big for an itx case why don't you guys try and put an matx board in
there bit phoenix has pulled through and they have done exactly just that0 in the
top matatx ​​inverted motherboard the back
of the case as well as what appears to be what is that a 230 mm cooling fan 200
mm oh yeah no 230 mm down in the btom
230 works this is a 200 thank you okay
we've also got a 120 mm cooling fan in the back 140 might end up being in the
back hard to say guys these cases are not finished yet and then that
mesh front that we've seen on the black prodigy already so here i'll just give
you guys another look at that SSD mounts on the back of the motherboard tray
gives ir op and actually 100 where hard drives
are go two hard drives on the bot of the case you can actually and i just dropped
something no idea what it was but thank you if you want to remove that magnetic
strip right there you can actually mount hard drives with antivrational rber
mounts down there on the bottom and one
more in the back of the pc
this no name arrived give how last
minute it was computech started on tuesday so it has no name it has no
price what it does have is a very beautiful id so id for those of you who
don't know isn't always identification sometimes it means industrial design it
kind of reminds me of ASUS's uh vento
chassis from way back in the day but much classier that thing was like it
kind of bulged out at the bottom and it was like glossy bright fraking colors
whereas this uses bit phoenix's classic
s touch on top as front don't know
frontel even op will be a door but this is very
very early sample absolutely nothing about it is final but i think it looks
pretty darn nice which brings us finally to the shadow this one is entry level
quiet case so you got noise dampening material here in the front
and
u cases we were expecting benix but
headss thre me for a bit of a loop because that is actually not something
that i was expecting this is the bit phenix flow headset and what theyve done
what theyve attempted to do here is they wanted to build a headset that is
optimal for gaming but without blowing out the base without creating that that
inevitable problem that we seem to have with 99% of gaming headsets out there
where they are optimized to make explosion sound really rough and really manly but
they actually don't deliver a very satisfying music listening experience so
they're trying to move away from that and deliver a more balanced sound with
an id that you're going to be comfortable wearing outside of your
house and away from your pc where it doesn't really matter if you look like a
total dork now if i didn't want to look like a
total dork there's a good chance that i shouldn't have picked the pink one and
don't worry the chain is an optional accessory you do not actually have to
have the no i'm just kidding this is antithft device you don't want people walking away with these so the main
features here are you've got your inline volume as well as microphone mute and
you might say oh but lus there is no microphone on that headset well this
again is in line with the concept of having it be possible to move away from
the pc so see if i can do this not
looking at it that'll be the test of how good it is there you go so you can
attach the microphone like that it has a limited amount of adjustment wouldn't
mind seeing something that you can like really snake around but honestly for me
the problem is that a lot of headsets have such long boom mes that they end up
right in the middle of your mouth which is actually not the optimal placement for them you want them instead by the
corner of your mouth and that happens to be where this ends up on me the headphones themselves are
selfadjusting which means where normally i would show you guys the adjustable
headband um i i can't really because you
put it on your head and it see i can't even like figure out how this works
without the without actually putting it on so you put it on your head and it
adjusts to where it's supposed to sit i like the approach they've taken with the
headphone strap here because so many times you see lightwe
of aad g with alexible stp with a little
bit of padding on the inside and kept the structural integrity parts right here
which actually made out of what feels like these metal with plastic on the
outside metal with plastic on the outside so you maintain that lightness
without actually adding s
of add bum comes with a two stage cable which
means you can leave one end plugged into your pc so you can see this has quite a
short cable on it i'm going to see if i can like steal their uh their ipod here
so it has a short cable but there's another cable that acts as an extension
and plugs into the back of your pc so you can just plug it in and go away as
you see fit personally i love these two stage cables because i don't actually
plug anything into the back of my computer ever when it comes to headphones there you go guys there's the
two stage cable so that means you've got your split microphone and headphone
jacks here and then you've actually got then you've actually got a four p that's
on the microphone itself that goes into the single adapter on the other end i
prefer this because i use uh here we go
sorry i'll get you a good look at that i use a dac as well as a headphone amp at
my computer so having the option to not have this long cable loop because i'm
never going to actually run it around to the back of my computer anyway is really
convenient for me thank you so much for checking out this compex 2013 video
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