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Linus tech tips coverage of computex 2013 is powered by western digital our

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trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair vengeance and our trusted retail partner

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is nci.com guys we're here at the bit

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phenix booth where they have an unbelievable a number of two two more

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than two unbelievable number of cases on display so this right here is the ronin

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it's also got what is possibly one of the most cool things that they're

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showing off this is an updated version of their fan controller so touchreen you

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can change color you can adjust your led

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brightness on the fans you can adjust your led brightness with alc strips you

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can adjust your fan rpms but check this out there's actually an open source

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software utility that lets you also do all that stuff in the Windows os itself

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so you can change the color to whatever you want you can also go ahead and see

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led brightness control main diol only that but che out case

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from the it extremely clean so that's

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because they've added like a stealth sort of cover here so even though it's got a

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large window you don't have to stare at the side of your hard drive cages with

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all the cables hanging out the back and i'm probably doing this wrong but thank

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you i appreciate that so once you move that out you've got what looks like

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otherwise a fairly standard interior full support for a 240 mm radiator in

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the top and then you've got your five plus two looks like six hard drive cages

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these top ones are removable so if you need to put in ridiculously long

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graphics cards or anything like that you won't have any difficulty this guy right

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here doesn't have a name but you can sort of see the prodigy heritage of it

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there you go see this is totally totally preproduction sample so you can see that

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that side i who knows if that even makes it to the final one but it has a really

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classy looking chromed strip all along the top and the bottom it's got a very

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very clean front so single five and quar in b again you see that prodigy heritage

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here and then on the again with chr stp as well as

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the ventilated side for

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graphics card who knows when we're to see this what it's going to cost or what

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the features will be nobody knows which

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brings us up to the phenom m this one's quite a bit more finalized this is going

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to be an itx case that is going to be very very clean looking optimized for

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something like i don't know you know file server or just someone who wants a

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much more much more clean looking computer it's got again soyas so you see

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that same interior with the five drive cages as well as full support for long

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graphics cards if you really wanted to go that route by removing the top drive

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cages which brings us to the colossus m this is going to be an matx case so this

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one right here is going to use well hold on a minute so this looks an awful lot

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like that sort of that prodigy heritage as well matx case that's kind of

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confusing what in the heck you' also got adjustable uh you've got adjustable leds

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so go ahead and see if i can figure it out how to do this

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hold on can't can't they working sort of

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the disadvantage of there we go there's a blue led in the front there some

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different brightness levels there might be different versions of the colors who

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knows but that brings us to this guy right here so people have been saying

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for fair fair while here well prodigy is

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a pretty big for an itx case why don't you guys try and put an matx board in

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there bit phoenix has pulled through and they have done exactly just that0 in the

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top matatx ​​inverted motherboard the back

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of the case as well as what appears to be what is that a 230 mm cooling fan 200

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mm oh yeah no 230 mm down in the btom

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230 works this is a 200 thank you okay

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we've also got a 120 mm cooling fan in the back 140 might end up being in the

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back hard to say guys these cases are not finished yet and then that

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mesh front that we've seen on the black prodigy already so here i'll just give

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you guys another look at that SSD mounts on the back of the motherboard tray

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gives ir op and actually 100 where hard drives

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are go two hard drives on the bot of the case you can actually and i just dropped

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something no idea what it was but thank you if you want to remove that magnetic

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strip right there you can actually mount hard drives with antivrational rber

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mounts down there on the bottom and one

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more in the back of the pc

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this no name arrived give how last

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minute it was computech started on tuesday so it has no name it has no

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price what it does have is a very beautiful id so id for those of you who

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don't know isn't always identification sometimes it means industrial design it

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kind of reminds me of ASUS's uh vento

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chassis from way back in the day but much classier that thing was like it

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kind of bulged out at the bottom and it was like glossy bright fraking colors

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whereas this uses bit phoenix's classic

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s touch on top as front don't know

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frontel even op will be a door but this is very

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very early sample absolutely nothing about it is final but i think it looks

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pretty darn nice which brings us finally to the shadow this one is entry level

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quiet case so you got noise dampening material here in the front

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and

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u cases we were expecting benix but

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headss thre me for a bit of a loop because that is actually not something

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that i was expecting this is the bit phenix flow headset and what theyve done

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what theyve attempted to do here is they wanted to build a headset that is

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optimal for gaming but without blowing out the base without creating that that

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inevitable problem that we seem to have with 99% of gaming headsets out there

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where they are optimized to make explosion sound really rough and really manly but

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they actually don't deliver a very satisfying music listening experience so

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they're trying to move away from that and deliver a more balanced sound with

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an id that you're going to be comfortable wearing outside of your

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house and away from your pc where it doesn't really matter if you look like a

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total dork now if i didn't want to look like a

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total dork there's a good chance that i shouldn't have picked the pink one and

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don't worry the chain is an optional accessory you do not actually have to

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have the no i'm just kidding this is antithft device you don't want people walking away with these so the main

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features here are you've got your inline volume as well as microphone mute and

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you might say oh but lus there is no microphone on that headset well this

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again is in line with the concept of having it be possible to move away from

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the pc so see if i can do this not

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looking at it that'll be the test of how good it is there you go so you can

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attach the microphone like that it has a limited amount of adjustment wouldn't

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mind seeing something that you can like really snake around but honestly for me

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the problem is that a lot of headsets have such long boom mes that they end up

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right in the middle of your mouth which is actually not the optimal placement for them you want them instead by the

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corner of your mouth and that happens to be where this ends up on me the headphones themselves are

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selfadjusting which means where normally i would show you guys the adjustable

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headband um i i can't really because you

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put it on your head and it see i can't even like figure out how this works

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without the without actually putting it on so you put it on your head and it

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adjusts to where it's supposed to sit i like the approach they've taken with the

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headphone strap here because so many times you see lightwe

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of aad g with alexible stp with a little

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bit of padding on the inside and kept the structural integrity parts right here

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which actually made out of what feels like these metal with plastic on the

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outside metal with plastic on the outside so you maintain that lightness

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without actually adding s

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of add bum comes with a two stage cable which

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means you can leave one end plugged into your pc so you can see this has quite a

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short cable on it i'm going to see if i can like steal their uh their ipod here

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so it has a short cable but there's another cable that acts as an extension

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and plugs into the back of your pc so you can just plug it in and go away as

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you see fit personally i love these two stage cables because i don't actually

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plug anything into the back of my computer ever when it comes to headphones there you go guys there's the

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two stage cable so that means you've got your split microphone and headphone

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jacks here and then you've actually got then you've actually got a four p that's

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on the microphone itself that goes into the single adapter on the other end i

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prefer this because i use uh here we go

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sorry i'll get you a good look at that i use a dac as well as a headphone amp at

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my computer so having the option to not have this long cable loop because i'm

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never going to actually run it around to the back of my computer anyway is really

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convenient for me thank you so much for checking out this compex 2013 video

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