WEBVTT 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:09.000 welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Silverstone tgen series 00:00:06.200 --> 00:00:13.000 tj10 the perfect combination of legendary styling and advanced chassis 00:00:10.920 --> 00:00:18.880 engineering now this isn't the newest case in the world but I needed this for 00:00:15.759 --> 00:00:21.920 a particular build that I wanted to do 00:00:18.880 --> 00:00:24.599 and uh it is still one of my favorite 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:30.160 cases ever although it's not quite my favorite case the Silverstone 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:31.519 tj07 holds that crown and I guess I'm 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:37.360 starting to sound like a bit of a Silverstone Fanboy over here but I do 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:41.120 like metal aluminum cases I do like 00:00:37.360 --> 00:00:43.719 large cases and Silverstone does make 00:00:41.120 --> 00:00:50.559 those things so let's go ahead and flip this over oh man it's I mean okay it's 00:00:47.440 --> 00:00:52.760 light compared to a steel 00:00:50.559 --> 00:00:57.320 chassis but it's heavy compared to some of the more recent 00:00:55.039 --> 00:01:01.320 Silverstone Creations we've checked out like the F3 mini so let's go ahead and 00:00:59.800 --> 00:01:06.080 have have a look at what Silverstone has to say for itself premium all aluminum 00:01:03.519 --> 00:01:11.119 chassis for extended ATX ATX and SSI motherboards 120 mm only so that was 00:01:09.080 --> 00:01:14.560 back when 120 millimeter fans were a big deal unprecedented air duct dedicated ah 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:22.119 that'll show you Advanced Structural Engineering okay you know what let's just put this down and have a look I 00:01:18.720 --> 00:01:25.400 just hit the mic okay let me fix 00:01:22.119 --> 00:01:27.880 that yeah that looks about right okay so 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:33.479 let's go ahead and open up the case so the first thing we find is closed sell 00:01:30.119 --> 00:01:35.560 foam love to see that a good 2 in of 00:01:33.479 --> 00:01:38.960 closed cell foam around the sides of the case and then about an inch and a half 00:01:36.960 --> 00:01:44.040 on either end and then up at the top you can see Silverstone custom builds their 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:47.240 foam so yeah your case will not get 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:49.600 damaged even if it has a fully fledged 00:01:47.240 --> 00:01:52.759 liquid cooling system inside it love to see that attention to detail because 00:01:51.320 --> 00:01:58.320 there are system builders that do integrate in these things so they will 00:01:54.840 --> 00:02:00.360 ship it in the original shipping box all 00:01:58.320 --> 00:02:06.439 right next up we've got all the little accessories and 00:02:03.320 --> 00:02:09.280 whatnot that you may or may not need to 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:13.000 put your system together and we've got a destroyed box trying to get it open 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:18.519 there we go so that's working out pretty well for me so in here we find a piece 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:23.560 that it never used to come with before that looks like I have no idea okay 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:27.239 we'll figure that out later and then we've got all the mounting hardware we 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:31.000 need for drives and motherboard tray and all that good stuff and finally a manual 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:37.280 that probably says something about that other thing but I don't know I've built 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:39.280 in the tj10 a number of times but not 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:44.959 not for a while so I like I said I don't recognize that part and I've actually 00:02:41.319 --> 00:02:46.519 built in its predecessor the tj9 a 00:02:44.959 --> 00:02:51.640 number of times as well the only real difference between the tj9 and the tj10 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:58.440 is this front door that's here on the tj10 and is not here on the tj9 so just 00:02:55.840 --> 00:03:02.959 a beautiful beautiful case and I will be back with white gloves because CU I 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:07.400 don't want to mess it up so I'm back with white gloves so we can thoroughly 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:11.400 investigate this beauty of a chassis so the front has a gorgeous brushed 00:03:09.720 --> 00:03:15.560 aluminum finish that I would not recommend touching with your bare hands 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:19.560 because the uh the oils from your hands could etch of thumb print or fingerprint 00:03:17.440 --> 00:03:24.400 into it and it just a it looks so good we've got a reset switch and power 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:28.720 switch in their sort of customary stylized Metal finish we've got an 00:03:26.799 --> 00:03:33.159 indicator LED for the hard drives as well as a power LED Silverstone logo up 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:37.280 here at the top on the front very very classy looking sort of a black 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:40.200 background with a shiny silver front although you can pop that out and put 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:44.640 something else in there should you so desire the front door opens up to this 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:48.799 side um although I believe it can actually be reversed yes it can so you 00:03:47.040 --> 00:03:53.000 can take out this mechanism and you can have it open the other way if you want 00:03:50.439 --> 00:03:58.200 that reveals four 5 and 1/4 in bays and 1 3 and 1/2 in Bay these covers even are 00:03:56.000 --> 00:04:02.040 fully aluminum so you don't have to worry about any ugly plastic being 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:06.560 anywhere on your build uh oh I should show you guys this cuz this is just 00:04:03.640 --> 00:04:10.680 awesome check out the grade of the aluminum being used here okay so 00:04:08.799 --> 00:04:15.879 hopefully you can see that but look how thick that is it is extremely solid 00:04:13.799 --> 00:04:19.959 extremely ruggedly built and you don't get some of that flimsiness that you get 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:23.440 on cheaper aluminum chassis so up at the top here you can see the front bezel 00:04:21.320 --> 00:04:28.520 overlaps a little bit and then the rest of the top is taken up by the I/O which 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:33.039 is hidden away in a little there we go compartment there two USB 2.0 ports fire 00:04:31.440 --> 00:04:36.759 wire front microphone and front headphones there's a USB 3 version 00:04:34.880 --> 00:04:41.800 coming but I specifically said I didn't really care about that so this is the 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:44.360 older USB 2 version of the case also on 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:48.479 the top two 120 mm fan mounts that are tooless fan mounts you just go ahead and 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:52.320 pop the fans in there uh most people use them for exhaust however there's a 00:04:50.039 --> 00:04:58.120 radiator adapter that I've also gotten my hands on that you can use to mount a 00:04:54.000 --> 00:05:00.440 dual 120 rad there this is the VGA 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:06.000 venting that was talked about on the front of the case so it actually pulls 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:08.520 air through the hard drive cages and 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:12.759 then uh so that's with a separate fan in here so there's a fan in there that can 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:16.880 pull air through this mesh here and then this right here is its own mesh that 00:05:15.320 --> 00:05:20.479 actually has a fan on the other side that I can show you if I actually just 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:26.560 take off this side panel the other side panel that um that pulls air directly 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:30.199 from the outside and then vents it over top of the graphics cards now there's 00:05:28.080 --> 00:05:35.560 only a couple graphics cards that this cooling setup wouldn't be ideal for 00:05:32.880 --> 00:05:39.160 things like a GTX 590 where it needs to exhaust air out the back of the card in 00:05:37.400 --> 00:05:44.720 order to keep that second GPU sufficiently cool but most video cards 00:05:41.960 --> 00:05:48.520 will definitely ven uh benefit from this kind of an intake so you can actually 00:05:46.520 --> 00:05:54.440 see the construction here again all aluminum mesh gorgeous uh the panels are 00:05:52.120 --> 00:05:57.759 a little bit are a little bit wobbly but it doesn't really affect it much once 00:05:55.919 --> 00:06:00.520 they're installed on the case so here now you can actually see it a little bit 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:08.039 better there's that vent right there it's probably the one piece of plastic on the case these two thumb screws right 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:10.720 here hold that 120 mm fan all 120 mm 00:06:08.039 --> 00:06:15.880 fans on this case uh that cools the drives you can put up to three hard 00:06:12.880 --> 00:06:18.360 drives three 2 and 1/2 in drives per 00:06:15.880 --> 00:06:23.000 cage in this bottom cage here and the top cage up here and I'm trying to get 00:06:21.080 --> 00:06:26.800 this screw out so I can show you guys this once I get around to the other side 00:06:24.599 --> 00:06:31.039 cable management is pretty rudimentary in this case though so you can see here 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:35.240 that the motherboard has an enormous cutout so even if you have a dual socket 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:40.039 setup and I found out that this is for zons so that's uh that's just a back 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:43.479 plate but even if you have a dual socket setup you're going to be able to access 00:06:41.440 --> 00:06:47.840 both of the CPUs and install aftermarket coolers or whatever you want but there's 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:51.880 not much room down the back for routing something like a 24 pin ATX cable so you 00:06:49.960 --> 00:06:56.199 are going to be a little bit limited that way on the rest of the back of the 00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:58.360 case we don't find a whole lot so we're going to go ahead and turn this back 00:06:57.400 --> 00:07:02.840 around again though just the construction of it these solid pieces of 00:07:00.840 --> 00:07:05.759 aluminum that hold it together this is the kind of thing I appreciate I mean I 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:10.479 have a lot of people ask me lonus why didn't you just use a switch 810 for 00:07:07.319 --> 00:07:12.319 your personal build to which I replied 00:07:10.479 --> 00:07:17.800 well because it's made of plastic that's why um love metal construction so on 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:21.720 this side we find that same vent that we had on the other side right here and 00:07:19.599 --> 00:07:25.000 then we've also got a nice big side panel window which was one of the 00:07:23.039 --> 00:07:30.000 requirements for the build that I have upcoming CU I wanted to do a nice water 00:07:27.039 --> 00:07:33.680 cool build that you can see all the gorgeous components inside for so we're 00:07:32.080 --> 00:07:38.879 going to go ahead and remove the other side of the plastic cover here so you 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:44.120 guys can see more clearly what will be visible inside so the entire motherboard 00:07:40.840 --> 00:07:46.759 tray area is pretty much visible in a 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:49.720 tj10 build and I'm trying to figure out how to get yeah that's right that's how 00:07:48.199 --> 00:07:55.520 it goes in there you go so the entire motherboard will be visible power supply 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:58.199 um two radiators so 120 mil in the back 00:07:55.520 --> 00:08:01.440 dual 120 mil on the top and then maybe another 120 mil in the front here if I 00:07:59.960 --> 00:08:05.639 can remember how to mount one there there is a way though all right let's go 00:08:03.400 --> 00:08:10.599 ahead and pull this off 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:13.120 okay and that leaves us with hard drive 00:08:10.599 --> 00:08:17.199 cages so again a couple more pieces of plastic here but sort of a non a 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:21.199 non-factor there's anti vibration mounting here here and here for the 00:08:18.960 --> 00:08:25.319 three drives that you can pop into this cage and put that in the wrong way and 00:08:24.039 --> 00:08:32.279 it yelled at me there you have it okay this fan can 00:08:29.199 --> 00:08:34.399 be replaced in here so it's a 120 mm fan 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:39.279 but it is a bit of a chore it has a nice big guard on it that will actually 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:41.719 prevent any sort of three four five six 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:44.839 is that a what is that lined up with it no I don't think so has a nice big guard 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:48.880 on it so that'll prevent any problems from getting into the fan blades and 00:08:46.760 --> 00:08:52.279 then there's the fan connector itself this is one of the reasons why I would 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:57.839 want to replace the fan that's in there because it does not use sleeved cables 00:08:54.880 --> 00:09:01.720 um we'll be back in a moment all right we're almost done here guys but I wanted 00:08:59.560 --> 00:09:07.760 to show you the rad support bracket so it's uh part number rad support 09 very 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:12.519 creatively um because it was originally brought out for the tj9 so basically it 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:16.079 just takes this top fan mounting mechanism here which is meant to be 00:09:14.440 --> 00:09:19.360 tooless so you just actually clip the fans in and you replace the whole thing 00:09:18.040 --> 00:09:24.079 with two metal brackets that are designed to hold a radiator because 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:29.120 unlike its earlier generation cousin the tj07 the tj9 has a ton of room in the 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:34.240 top above the motherboard which will be here to put a dual 120 mil rad and some 00:09:32.800 --> 00:09:40.040 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 00:09:37.760 --> 00:09:44.200 the bottom are in Silverstone tradition very very nice so there you go there's a 00:09:41.920 --> 00:09:48.880 look at that and I think we've pretty much wrapped up what there is to say 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:54.959 about this case it does include silverstone's Arrow slots so those are 00:09:51.079 --> 00:09:56.240 ventilated PCI covers and that's pretty 00:09:54.959 --> 00:10:00.560 much it I mean yeah it's an older chassis but especially for an air cooled 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:04.959 build or for I mean even for a water cooled build it's held up against the 00:10:03.079 --> 00:10:08.839 test of time extremely well thank you for checking out this unboxing and first 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:12.839 look at the Silverstone tj10 don't forget to subscribe to lus techtips for 00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:18.160 unboxings reviews and other computer videos I forgot the most important 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:23.120 feature of this case which happens to be the removable motherboard tray so I'm 00:10:21.160 --> 00:10:27.560 going to go ahead and remove these thumb screws and show you guys just how a 00:10:25.640 --> 00:10:31.560 removable motherboard tray might make your life significantly easier now you 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:35.680 can see here in the bottom of the case where the power supply is actually 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:39.440 securely anchored to the chassis itself so when you do your cable management and 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:44.279 you route everything and you tie it all down what's going to be really easy to 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:46.680 do is to pull the motherboard itself out 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:49.839 and uh have all those cables be still attached to it so that's going to be a 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:53.200 big problem for you if you do any sort of cable management whatsoever so the 00:10:51.839 --> 00:10:57.680 removable motherboard trade goes a little something like that but I would 00:10:55.399 --> 00:11:00.920 definitely recommend using it if you do not do any cable management thank you 00:10:59.560 --> 00:11:04.360 this has been another video review of the Silverstone tj9 don't forget to 00:11:02.800 --> 00:11:08.560 subscribe to L Tech tips for unboxings reviews and other computer videos