welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Silverstone tgen series
tj10 the perfect combination of legendary styling and advanced chassis
engineering now this isn't the newest case in the world but I needed this for
a particular build that I wanted to do
and uh it is still one of my favorite
cases ever although it's not quite my favorite case the Silverstone
tj07 holds that crown and I guess I'm
starting to sound like a bit of a Silverstone Fanboy over here but I do
like metal aluminum cases I do like
large cases and Silverstone does make
those things so let's go ahead and flip this over oh man it's I mean okay it's
light compared to a steel
chassis but it's heavy compared to some of the more recent
Silverstone Creations we've checked out like the F3 mini so let's go ahead and
have have a look at what Silverstone has to say for itself premium all aluminum
chassis for extended ATX ATX and SSI motherboards 120 mm only so that was
back when 120 millimeter fans were a big deal unprecedented air duct dedicated ah
that'll show you Advanced Structural Engineering okay you know what let's just put this down and have a look I
just hit the mic okay let me fix
that yeah that looks about right okay so
let's go ahead and open up the case so the first thing we find is closed sell
foam love to see that a good 2 in of
closed cell foam around the sides of the case and then about an inch and a half
on either end and then up at the top you can see Silverstone custom builds their
foam so yeah your case will not get
damaged even if it has a fully fledged
liquid cooling system inside it love to see that attention to detail because
there are system builders that do integrate in these things so they will
ship it in the original shipping box all
right next up we've got all the little accessories and
whatnot that you may or may not need to
put your system together and we've got a destroyed box trying to get it open
there we go so that's working out pretty well for me so in here we find a piece
that it never used to come with before that looks like I have no idea okay
we'll figure that out later and then we've got all the mounting hardware we
need for drives and motherboard tray and all that good stuff and finally a manual
that probably says something about that other thing but I don't know I've built
in the tj10 a number of times but not
not for a while so I like I said I don't recognize that part and I've actually
built in its predecessor the tj9 a
number of times as well the only real difference between the tj9 and the tj10
is this front door that's here on the tj10 and is not here on the tj9 so just
a beautiful beautiful case and I will be back with white gloves because CU I
don't want to mess it up so I'm back with white gloves so we can thoroughly
investigate this beauty of a chassis so the front has a gorgeous brushed
aluminum finish that I would not recommend touching with your bare hands
because the uh the oils from your hands could etch of thumb print or fingerprint
into it and it just a it looks so good we've got a reset switch and power
switch in their sort of customary stylized Metal finish we've got an
indicator LED for the hard drives as well as a power LED Silverstone logo up
here at the top on the front very very classy looking sort of a black
background with a shiny silver front although you can pop that out and put
something else in there should you so desire the front door opens up to this
side um although I believe it can actually be reversed yes it can so you
can take out this mechanism and you can have it open the other way if you want
that reveals four 5 and 1/4 in bays and 1 3 and 1/2 in Bay these covers even are
fully aluminum so you don't have to worry about any ugly plastic being
anywhere on your build uh oh I should show you guys this cuz this is just
awesome check out the grade of the aluminum being used here okay so
hopefully you can see that but look how thick that is it is extremely solid
extremely ruggedly built and you don't get some of that flimsiness that you get
on cheaper aluminum chassis so up at the top here you can see the front bezel
overlaps a little bit and then the rest of the top is taken up by the I/O which
is hidden away in a little there we go compartment there two USB 2.0 ports fire
wire front microphone and front headphones there's a USB 3 version
coming but I specifically said I didn't really care about that so this is the
older USB 2 version of the case also on
the top two 120 mm fan mounts that are tooless fan mounts you just go ahead and
pop the fans in there uh most people use them for exhaust however there's a
radiator adapter that I've also gotten my hands on that you can use to mount a
dual 120 rad there this is the VGA
venting that was talked about on the front of the case so it actually pulls
air through the hard drive cages and
then uh so that's with a separate fan in here so there's a fan in there that can
pull air through this mesh here and then this right here is its own mesh that
actually has a fan on the other side that I can show you if I actually just
take off this side panel the other side panel that um that pulls air directly
from the outside and then vents it over top of the graphics cards now there's
only a couple graphics cards that this cooling setup wouldn't be ideal for
things like a GTX 590 where it needs to exhaust air out the back of the card in
order to keep that second GPU sufficiently cool but most video cards
will definitely ven uh benefit from this kind of an intake so you can actually
see the construction here again all aluminum mesh gorgeous uh the panels are
a little bit are a little bit wobbly but it doesn't really affect it much once
they're installed on the case so here now you can actually see it a little bit
better there's that vent right there it's probably the one piece of plastic on the case these two thumb screws right
here hold that 120 mm fan all 120 mm
fans on this case uh that cools the drives you can put up to three hard
drives three 2 and 1/2 in drives per
cage in this bottom cage here and the top cage up here and I'm trying to get
this screw out so I can show you guys this once I get around to the other side
cable management is pretty rudimentary in this case though so you can see here
that the motherboard has an enormous cutout so even if you have a dual socket
setup and I found out that this is for zons so that's uh that's just a back
plate but even if you have a dual socket setup you're going to be able to access
both of the CPUs and install aftermarket coolers or whatever you want but there's
not much room down the back for routing something like a 24 pin ATX cable so you
are going to be a little bit limited that way on the rest of the back of the
case we don't find a whole lot so we're going to go ahead and turn this back
around again though just the construction of it these solid pieces of
aluminum that hold it together this is the kind of thing I appreciate I mean I
have a lot of people ask me lonus why didn't you just use a switch 810 for
your personal build to which I replied
well because it's made of plastic that's why um love metal construction so on
this side we find that same vent that we had on the other side right here and
then we've also got a nice big side panel window which was one of the
requirements for the build that I have upcoming CU I wanted to do a nice water
cool build that you can see all the gorgeous components inside for so we're
going to go ahead and remove the other side of the plastic cover here so you
guys can see more clearly what will be visible inside so the entire motherboard
tray area is pretty much visible in a
tj10 build and I'm trying to figure out how to get yeah that's right that's how
it goes in there you go so the entire motherboard will be visible power supply
um two radiators so 120 mil in the back
dual 120 mil on the top and then maybe another 120 mil in the front here if I
can remember how to mount one there there is a way though all right let's go
ahead and pull this off
okay and that leaves us with hard drive
cages so again a couple more pieces of plastic here but sort of a non a
non-factor there's anti vibration mounting here here and here for the
three drives that you can pop into this cage and put that in the wrong way and
it yelled at me there you have it okay this fan can
be replaced in here so it's a 120 mm fan
but it is a bit of a chore it has a nice big guard on it that will actually
prevent any sort of three four five six
is that a what is that lined up with it no I don't think so has a nice big guard
on it so that'll prevent any problems from getting into the fan blades and
then there's the fan connector itself this is one of the reasons why I would
want to replace the fan that's in there because it does not use sleeved cables
um we'll be back in a moment all right we're almost done here guys but I wanted
to show you the rad support bracket so it's uh part number rad support 09 very
creatively um because it was originally brought out for the tj9 so basically it
just takes this top fan mounting mechanism here which is meant to be
tooless so you just actually clip the fans in and you replace the whole thing
with two metal brackets that are designed to hold a radiator because
unlike its earlier generation cousin the tj07 the tj9 has a ton of room in the
top above the motherboard which will be here to put a dual 120 mil rad and some
fans although I don't know if you'd get away with push pull I guess we'll find out once we get it opened up the feet on
the bottom are in Silverstone tradition very very nice so there you go there's a
look at that and I think we've pretty much wrapped up what there is to say
about this case it does include silverstone's Arrow slots so those are
ventilated PCI covers and that's pretty
much it I mean yeah it's an older chassis but especially for an air cooled
build or for I mean even for a water cooled build it's held up against the
test of time extremely well thank you for checking out this unboxing and first
look at the Silverstone tj10 don't forget to subscribe to lus techtips for
unboxings reviews and other computer videos I forgot the most important
feature of this case which happens to be the removable motherboard tray so I'm
going to go ahead and remove these thumb screws and show you guys just how a
removable motherboard tray might make your life significantly easier now you
can see here in the bottom of the case where the power supply is actually
securely anchored to the chassis itself so when you do your cable management and
you route everything and you tie it all down what's going to be really easy to
do is to pull the motherboard itself out
and uh have all those cables be still attached to it so that's going to be a
big problem for you if you do any sort of cable management whatsoever so the
removable motherboard trade goes a little something like that but I would
definitely recommend using it if you do not do any cable management thank you
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