1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,520 We got a new PC build for you in the System 76 Nebula 49. 2 00:00:05,520 --> 00:00:10,800 I know System 76 for their all-in-ones like their Linux laptop desktop stuff. 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:15,120 Specifically the launch keyboard that I think Emily unboxed on this very 4 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:19,200 channel about a year ago now. I did not know but they make cases and 5 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:25,280 as a big case fan we're gonna build a computer in it. 6 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:29,920 One thing that I'm a little interested in is I don't believe this is a glass 7 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:34,240 side panel. So it's nice and vented kind of like what we saw with in the 8 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,920 Fractal North where it had a mesh optional panel. 9 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:41,760 And aside from that though they've got a few cool designs on it. 10 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:49,120 Oh I like this bag look even says look at that beautiful. Got a couple of little 11 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:53,440 cards in here. How to swap your accent so this really cool thing about this case 12 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:57,520 is that this is actually an accent panel that you can take off. I love this 13 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,800 astronaut. It reminds me of the always has been meme and I kind of 14 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:07,680 wish you could just paint your own other guy there. Or one around the corner with a gun in his hand that'd be great. Honestly looks like a nice case. 15 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:13,920 It's aluminum so it's not super heavy. Not the biggest like this is ATX but it's 16 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:17,200 also not ginormous. So we actually went with a slightly 17 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:23,200 kind of more mid-range budget. There's a 4070 that we're going to put in here and so a 4090 because I think the card is just a bit too long for it. 18 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:29,280 Let's see we've got some screws on the back. They do advertise these as tool 19 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:33,280 optional and it's true I was able to get them out for the most part but 20 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:36,880 if they were a little larger so it wasn't as hard on my little fingies 21 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:40,400 that'd be kind of nice. Luckily these screws are compatible with the LTT 22 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:47,200 screwdriver but I mean hey what isn't? Say the line! 23 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:51,280 While there is a ton of side ventilation here there is nothing 24 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:55,120 on the front panel and they do claim that it can cool all of the beefiest 25 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:59,360 components that can fit inside here. I do believe that side panel is a lot 26 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:06,880 of cooling but it's a little unorthodox these days. And if you're going for a radiator or some kind of like a top ventilation 27 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:11,520 system with just some case fans you're not going to find that here. It is 28 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,960 fully sealed. I admittedly really like this look 29 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:18,320 and one thing that's nice about that if you put this under your desk you don't 30 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:25,200 have to worry so much about spilling water or something on it. It's a minor thing but you know accidents happen. 31 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,880 One thing I actually love though is this big power button here. 32 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:32,320 Oh that's a really nice click actually. What would be great is if you could get 33 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:35,920 this in different colors even if it was just like brass 34 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:39,040 and silver that'd be nice. One thing I noticed as well while just 35 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:45,200 handling the case is I don't know what kind of finish is on here but your fingerprints watch this they're going to slowly vanish away. 36 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:49,120 There they go! Where are they? It's like I never touched the case at all 37 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:53,120 so yeah don't worry about touching getting your hands all over this and 38 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:56,720 making it filthy like I probably would. It's going to clean itself. 39 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:02,800 I don't know how it's doing it but it looks great. Pinch and slide oh yeah there it comes. 40 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:06,720 Now how do I? I don't want to break anything. We didn't get an extra 41 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:12,480 accent panel. Oh that was nice. Okay they've got these little sockets in here so you just pop it in and then push it up and it'll stay in 42 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:18,560 place. While I do love the cool graphics that they've got on the accent panel I do kind of wish 43 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:23,280 that it was a more complete artwork. Maybe a larger accent panel in the future 44 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:27,600 would be super cool to see here. As for IO you're not getting a ton. It's 45 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:32,000 admittedly just USB-A USB-C and then an in-out for headset stuff 46 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:37,680 but it's okay it's good enough. Just you know maybe two USB-As would be 47 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:41,360 real nice. At least you've got a USB-C. I'll give them that. 48 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:52,160 Wow look at that beauty. They've got what appears to be a fan hub up here 49 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:56,080 for one two three four fans so your front panel plugs into this 50 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:59,840 through this little guy here. So instead of doing 51 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:03,280 front air intake they're doing bottom air intake which is okay. 52 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:08,000 As long as it's getting enough oxygen it should because these lengthy feet 53 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,360 you should be good to go and then it's got a single exhaust on the back. 54 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:16,240 I love the 76 stamp right here as well to punch out or whatever on the aluminum 55 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:20,160 and then on top of that they've also got system 76 silk screened on all the 56 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:23,680 daughter boards and SATA backplanes. On the bottom here we've got a little 57 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:29,840 what I'm assuming is a hardware box as well as our USB cables and HD audio. 58 00:04:29,840 --> 00:04:34,320 Oh nice so we've got some more cable ties and then we've got 59 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:39,440 fan screws M3 screws and standoffs. The reason they've included all those 60 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:45,600 standoffs in here is because this is something I haven't had to do in a long time like over a decade. 61 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:49,280 We've got to install our own standoffs because this does not come pre-installed. 62 00:04:49,280 --> 00:04:52,640 This case can support anything from MATX 63 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:58,080 to ATX which is great. I think ITX as well. This is like a weird air intake. 64 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:02,720 This vent here is going to line up with this big intake right here 65 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:06,640 and what they've got is the rear exhaust fan 66 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:09,840 in the back already pre-installed and then there's actually 67 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:14,560 ow I'm just noticing now they've got a space to mount 68 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:18,320 another fan so what you can basically make is like a little wind tunnel. 69 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:22,320 So that's why you're not as worried about not having any front air cooling on 70 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:28,080 this. It's a really interesting idea and I can't guarantee it'll work well but in theory it should. 71 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:31,280 And then one last thing that I just noticed that's super cute. 72 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:35,280 They've stamped these two little rocket ships in here 73 00:05:35,280 --> 00:05:38,800 and I just think that's neat. Now because of the super cool feature 74 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:42,160 it's going to take us a little longer to put together our computer because you 75 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:46,640 got to take out the CPU duct as well as the side fan bracket to 76 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:53,040 throw your motherboard in here. That's pretty cool. I like how it comes out in one big unit and then we've just got our fan and fan cable here. 77 00:05:53,040 --> 00:06:00,000 Because this is all about the case we've done a few little pre-installs. We've got our AMD Ryzen 7800X3D and then a couple sticks of 78 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,280 crucial DDR5 memory here along with our 79 00:06:03,280 --> 00:06:07,280 Noctua standoffs. I just want to make sure my IO shield. 80 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:11,360 Hey I love that good chunk sound you get when the motherboard slips right in 81 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:17,120 there perfectly. One thing I'm already a big fan of is because you take so much of the exterior case off 82 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:21,440 there's all this room here to build in. So as soon as I've got my cooler down I 83 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:28,160 don't have to worry about my power supply and everything getting in the way. Like I can just plug stuff in from this side if I want to. Same with the fans. 84 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:31,280 So I am going to put some thermal paste down. I'm just getting a 85 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:34,880 little size fit check here because we've gone with a 86 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:39,600 slightly beefier cooler than what they recommend. 87 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:44,080 Wow it's gonna work ladies and gentlemen we're in. 88 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:50,000 The system 76 works. One minor complaint I have is that some of these 89 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,680 cables for the top IO are a little short. So for example 90 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:57,440 my HD audio. I don't want to run it down in the case because I want it nice and 91 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:06,400 clean and I want it to come from the back of the case. And if I try to do that it just barely can't reach. Like I 92 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,440 don't know I could maybe pull that a little more but that's a little 93 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:12,960 that's a little too tight. Because most of this is going to be covered 94 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,640 anyway it doesn't really matter. But if I wanted to take it off and show my 95 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:20,640 internal cable management skills I'm going to want it to look nice and clean. 96 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:24,400 Why can't everyone just be NZXT and use their f-panel 97 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:28,480 connector thing that just pops on there. They're almost always the same 98 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:32,480 please. It's it it's not that bad it took me two seconds but like I've done this 99 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:36,640 you know 100 times. We're gonna throw a handy dandy C Sonic 100 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:41,040 Focus gold power supply in here. Cable is already pre-installed thank you to 101 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:47,280 whoever did that. So we're just gonna throw this in. Lots of room. My only other complaint is the power supply 102 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:51,680 is going to be just fine because it'll be screwed in but I really wish there was 103 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,520 something for it to rest on here. Instead you've just got the vent 104 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:59,600 and a filter on the bottom which is fine. One minor issue we just encountered is 105 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:03,440 I don't believe our case came with power supply 106 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:07,200 screws. Now they don't always come with cases I'm 107 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:10,480 pretty sure but they don't always come with power supplies either 108 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:15,040 unless I'm just crazy. And so we had to have some 632 109 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:19,120 screws on hand to make sure we can actually screw this down. 110 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:22,480 Byer beware that could be something you run into maybe ours was just missing it 111 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:25,840 maybe we got an early sample or something. Now we've got a power supply in 112 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:29,760 I'm gonna plug in my GPU a good old RTX 4070 113 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:37,120 MSI Ventus X3 maybe. Um I hope I have enough power cables 114 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:44,160 because I didn't prep the power supply. How much is this? Well it's one eight pin 115 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:47,840 oh my god the system works the system 76 works that's not the first time I've 116 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:52,560 made that joke and it won't be the last. Oh oh this is nice okay 117 00:08:52,560 --> 00:08:56,480 one thing that I didn't notice until just now on these PCIe slot covers 118 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:59,840 they've got these little nubbins to rest on for your graphics card 119 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:04,160 that's great I can't stand it almost every case I've ever built in does not 120 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:07,840 have little rests for these guys here and so what you end up having to do is 121 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:13,760 like wrestle the GPU in a place and screw it down now it's just resting there nice and snug that's 122 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:17,760 oh man that's actually a really great feature uh one thing I realized while 123 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:21,520 wiring everything up that I kind of didn't notice before or think about 124 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:27,200 um you're never going to see the bottom so it doesn't matter that there's no power supply shroud it doesn't matter that the cables are running through the 125 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:32,320 front and then out the bottom if anything it's going to look kind of clean it's just a little you know cably but 126 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:36,160 ah that's fine it's just that old school thinking you know of like oh it's 127 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:39,280 got to be so clean on the front because I'm going to show it off with my fancy 128 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:43,040 glass panel. One thing I'm noticing on the reinstall 129 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:46,640 for the side bracket for the fans is that they've actually got four different 130 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:49,840 mounting points so you can get it closer to the side panel or further away 131 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:56,080 depending on how like thick of a fan or maybe a radiator you want to throw in here is that's pretty nice. Now for the 132 00:09:56,080 --> 00:10:01,840 piece de resistance so when you put in the CPU cooler the wind tunnel 133 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:06,400 I really like this thing I think it's super neat and it absolutely fits 134 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:12,480 like a glove wow look at that oh it doesn't fit 135 00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:16,720 oh no okay so minor problem because we're using a pretty 136 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:21,600 thick fan what we're gonna have to do is we're gonna have to take out the 137 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:25,040 inside fan bracket and then it'll fit then it'll pull back and we should be 138 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:27,280 fine 139 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:34,480 hey look at that now it fits like a glove 140 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:38,800 okay this is a little annoying I highly recommend that you figure out this cable 141 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:44,400 before you screw this down do not screw this down and then try to plug the fan cable in because you might have a bit of a rough 142 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:49,360 time like I just kind of did right there one kind of minor complaint that I should have seen coming based on how I 143 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,640 had to take so much stuff apart is when you're getting everything back 144 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:56,080 together there's going to be a lot of screws and a lot of small screws that 145 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:59,680 so prepare yourself for the final reassembly 146 00:10:59,680 --> 00:11:03,760 and make sure they're all nice and close by so you don't lose any screws 147 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:07,760 all right now we're going to throw our wrap around 148 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:14,480 side panel back on there we go yeah 149 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:18,480 there we go it wasn't too bad it feels a little flimsy when it's just the shell 150 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:23,920 and it's not screwed down but that's probably by design so that it's really easy to actually get it over everything 151 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:27,680 especially if you've got a lot of cable bulge on the outside there 152 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:34,320 get our accent panel back on there we go nice and plug in our power cable 153 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:39,920 turn it on the system 76 works easy as pie oh and that's 154 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:47,120 that's really cool it's actually really exhausting I mean our fans kind of ramped up but I love the idea of having that CPU 155 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:50,400 wind tunnel I think it's super nifty and then okay 156 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:56,640 you know what I agree with them um you don't necessarily need to put a shroud 157 00:11:56,640 --> 00:12:02,400 here and you don't necessarily need to make your cables long enough if you're gonna just kind of make 158 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:05,600 everything a little bit invisible to the naked eye by hiding it 159 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,600 behind a side panel instead of a glass panel overall the nebula 49 from system 160 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,040 76 is pretty cool I especially like this 161 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:17,440 anti fingerprint coating whatever's on here um but it is a little pricey not 162 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:21,040 gonna lie the littlest version starts around 200 bucks 163 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:26,400 and then this guy the big boy is like 329 so I really hope that you like whatever 164 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:31,120 accent panel you're gonna get with it I really hope you like the idea of this 165 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:34,800 kind of enclosed CPU cooler and the wind tunnel I don't know if it's for me 166 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:39,040 just because I really like a glass side panel and show off a ton of RGB 167 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:42,560 but for those of you who don't like RGB maybe this is the one 168 00:12:42,560 --> 00:12:50,560 thanks for watching this ShortCircuit if you want to check out some other case videos maybe check out the meshify it's a great case