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welcome to the Corsair showcase at CES 2013 guys I have with me today the man

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you guys are a fan of this man whether you know it or not this is George Maus

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from Corsair he is the the The

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Mastermind behind the 800d and pretty much every case that's followed it so

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he's the guy who's responsible for their cases basically just rocking the house

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and this right here is the house that every other case rocked inside

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tell us about the 900d super Tower pck

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welcome to Linus Tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show this year is

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powered by Corsair maker of quality PC components and peripherals our trusted

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linkis all right well uh when we launched 800d about 3 years ago three

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and a half years ago uh we got a lot of people really interested it was our

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first case and we made a lot of changes that everyone of like so like rubber grommets and cable routing stuff things

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like that people really dug um but then you know if you're any kind of a a

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creative person or perfectionist at all all you see on like forums is the

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criticisms like the the Thousand guys who love it that's fine that's great but

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the like two guys who are like oh it's you know it should have more radiator

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space or or whatever so since we launched that I've been like keep

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keeping a mental checklist of the things that I wanted to fix based on like

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people that said online like oh it should have more radiator space or it should be a little bit bigger or

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whatever and so that's what this is is basically let's it's a hey I've listened

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to it I fixed it these are all the really cool things you guys wanted and

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then some other stuff we thought of that maybe you didn't know you wanted um so

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first off uh the first complaint a lot of people said well you know it's only

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got seven or eight slots we put 10 slots here so you can put a bigger uh

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motherboard in it fits hptx motherboards like the SRX or any dual processor board

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uh still got the standard cable routing stuff with even more space behind it um

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it's got room for a 480 or a 420 up top

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and then down here if you take these cages out you can put another 480 or 420

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on this side um or you can put a dual power supply in here with that power

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supply installed you can actually put a 240 or 280 on that side um as well as

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the 480 or 420 over here okay so hold on a minute I'm going to stop you here for

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a minute because I think we need to clarify this point I can put a 480 in

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the top a 240 here and a 480 here and

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probably one back here yeah and on the front you can do a 240 or 360 also so

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and that is that's all Native you don't have to drill any holes or anything like that so

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it's all taken care of for you um it's a little bit goofy but we kind

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of I don't really expect too many people to load up every spot with radiator

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spacing someone will but well yeah there's going to be someone I know who did because we did it we're doing a

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photo of it but there's going to be guys who wanted maybe to put a 480 but they

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don't necessarily want to put it up top they want to put it on the bottom or maybe two guys want you know I want to

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put 3 240s in my case but I want to choose where I put them so this gives

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them that flexibility so kind of my mindset is let's give people the

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flexibility to do a bunch of different different things and see how they do it

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and like give them that that chance and I don't like mandating how you do stuff

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so that's what this case is really designed to do well that's one of the things that made the 800d so special was

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that there was one way to do it that was really really good yeah whereas what

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we're doing with the 900d then is is taking it to the next level kind of so

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for example we had a hot swap B on the 800d that was front accessible um a lot

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of people liked that some people say they didn't care about it but a lot of

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people did like the of hot swapping drives so we still have one of these

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cages has hot swap connectors on the back of it so you can do three hot Swap

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aays and they're really easy access so you can just pop this open pull this out

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and you take your drive out and put it back in um unlike the the 800d the hot

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swap Drive trays are toolfree now so you don't have to screw the drives in like

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you did on the 800d so that's even better um the other side is that hot

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swap is relocatable so if you don't want it down here and you want to put it up here instead you can remove it and move

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it around um and the water cooling guys a love that because now they have just a

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ton of options yeah exactly and then the other thing we did is on these cages uh

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you have the airf flow in the front from the front 320s that are there by default

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but each cage has fan mounts on the back so you can do push pull on your hard

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drive cage as well so you can keep better airf flow across right there

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guys so we've done that on some of our smaller cases like the C70 or the 400r

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500 R but this takes it kind of let's take those features that people really

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liked about those cases and put them up in our flagship so that was one of the

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things that was kind of funny as you sat down and wrote a feature list out

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sometimes like the 400 R 500 R had better features than like the 800d it

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had eight full slots which the 800d didn't have it had seven and kind of an

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eighth slot that was a dongle slot but this is designed to be kind of okay

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let's take all that cool stuff and add it up to the next level and make it more ridiculous do you want to show us the

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front of the case yeah let's show over here real quick so you get the nice

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aluminum fascia still um this is a cast aluminum surround it's a complete piece

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of cast aluminum it's done for structal rigidity and a little bit of weight

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savings over steel um if we had done this out of plastic it would have been a

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little bit cheaper but it wouldn't have been anywhere near as rigid and I think

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if you see a lot of cases that are plastic and steel they have a lot of

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flex to them because especially full Tow and bigger because you really need that

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rigidity of of heavy metal at that time so on the front you have a floating

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bezel that just pops right off like a speaker Grill would so you have these

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four mounts here and then just like the the 600t or 650d you just have the

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removable dust filter on the front so you can really easily access that so

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it's a pretty easy setup um by default this case will come with 31 120s in the

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front and a 140 in the back uh for cooling and it's got really good air

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cooling performance as well which is the other thing people with the 800d said

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you know it's great for water cooling but I want to air cool my system for a while and you know if I put two or three

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gpus in there it's kind of hard to get good cooling on that this Pro this case

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doesn't have that problem now those don't appear to be standard 5 and a/4

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inch uh Bays up there so these are these are bigger than 5 and

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a/4 inch bays and we did it because not many people are using optical drives

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anymore um so we figured okay you know for the width of the case and the look

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of the case we had to get something that was able to hold those dries if you

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wanted them but not necessarily kind of the same thing so this pops out and you

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get a bezel let's see if I can get this to work here a sec again like I said

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it's a prototype so so this pops out and

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it gives you we've textured this and made this look pretty nice and when you

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put a drive here or a drive here or a drive here they look pretty good but

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yeah you will notice it's not the same width as the rest of the case so you

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know this is one of those things that I think that people immediately the

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modders and stuff are going to find ways to stealth this piece so they get a

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stealth optical drive or a stealth fan controller and like I said this is

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toolfree but that's optional you can just put screws in it and and go to town

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on it however you like this is going to be one of those things people are going to mod yeah that's uh that's actually

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that's fantastic I mean to ify I don't think George believes that few people

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use Optical drives but few people buying a case of this caliber need an optical

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drive anymore I don't have I haven't had an optical drive in quite a while in my

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case and uh to be honest I don't really miss it so everything I you know install

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a game it's off steam or whatever so I haven't I haven't actually purchased

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software on CD for probably two or three years so lots of front IO yeah there's

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uh two USB 3 and four USB 2s on there um

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we didn't want to add stuff like a lot of cases have fan controllers or like a

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card read or something like that that adds cost to the case and to be honest

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whatever we put in there wouldn't be the best in the world if you want if you're

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going to buy a $350 case my guess is you probably also did a lot of research on

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your fan controller and care very deeply about what fan controller you buy and

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whatever fan controller I put in there you guys wouldn't find is good enough

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and if I did put the best fan controller in the world in there it would cost me an extra $ 20 or $30 to do a really nice

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DC fan control method thing and I don't know that you would want to pay 380 or

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390 or 400 bucks for that cuz it has fan control over it so my guess is I'll give

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you guys the freedom to put whatever card reader or fan control you guys want

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and keep the cost out of it so this case is only $50 more than 800d it's 350

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instead of 300 and the reason we were able to get to that so reasonably with

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adding all the size and all the features is because we took out like fan control

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and some of the other stuff and the hot swap a is a lot less expensive version

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so the old 800d had kind of a server hot swap a we just stuck in there this is a

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much more userfriendly and actually more compatible version than you guys will

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see so Cable Management wise do you have just as much room behind the motherboard

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tray or is it even more than the 800d it's a lot more than 800d so this is

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about an inch and a quar depending on what area you're in so you actually have

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room to fit more like I mean I don't have the world I don't have the world's

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smallest fingers and I can get my hand back there pretty easily so okay here

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let's let's get a good let's get a good shot of that there we

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go very very nice so it's it's a it's a lot of space back there and we took the

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if if you've ever seen the back of our C70 we have these plastic latches for

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cable tie down we have three of those back here too but we made them a little

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bit bigger a little bit more robust and A Little Bit Stronger for the more cables that the guys who have a case

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like this would have so almost everybody who buys a $350 case would have SLI or

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something like that and this we know that you're going to have more cables

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and as you can see with the power spay here the cables go up underneath that motherboard tray through a a cable ring

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cutout that's down there so you can just kind of stealth it and go straight up so

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it's a pretty nice way to restrict that all right well I think that covers it

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pretty much as well as anyone could thank you very much George guys uh don't

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appreciation for his hard work and the way he has ACT no I'm I'm serious man no

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I'll be reading those comments and like looking for you guys to say mean things about me and it's always nice it's I

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love the internet like 90% of you guys are totally cool and like the other 10%

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are like you know you know click this if you liked Corsair and there's a thousand

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thumbs up under the inen video and the next one makes a bad comment about my

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hairy so I love you guys thanks

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