no no before we even crack open the Silverstone
lp01 I have a question here why does my
parts pile have an optical drive in it
no don't answer that don't answer that let's get this case open and find out
exactly what it is we're dealing with
because complete transparency I have done zero prep oh retro fitted htpc
chassis I remember this thing or rather
I remember seeing this thing and going I remember computers that looked like that
you know why we call them desktop PCS
because they used to go like that on top of the desk now I know what you're
thinking why would I spend brand new money on an old case when I could just
fish one of those out of the dumpster but it's not an old case it just has a
vintage aesthetic it's packed with modern features this side can take up to
I think two 120 mm fans this side can
take another 20 mm fan and has a nice
big intake for your power supply and at
the front that that is no optical drive
it's a space station sorry sorry no it's front IO front
USB three and USBC and what appears to
be a headphone microphone combo Jack this one seems to be an actual Optical
Bay which I guess explains this what it doesn't explain is this can
this cas possibly handle the heat output of a 600 watt
GPU well don't look at me I don't know I haven't buil in it yet just one included
fan which blows over what appears to be a nicely vibration dampened hard drive
Mount and a pretty barebones accessory package but what are we looking at for
pricing of this thing I'm going to I'm going to guess
$139.99 $129.99 all right if you're
willing to pay a premium for the aesthetic it's not outlandish but it is
far from the best value that you're going to get for a case odd
configuration of standoffs pre-installed they went with these six which would
only correspond to some of those weirder narrow ATX boards that don't go the full
width so it doesn't really comply with any of the standards doesn't really
matter it's it's not going to cause any damage or anything it's just weird it's
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today now obviously our main focus is the case today but there are some parts
that we need to talk about in particular the cooler because these desktop style
cases tend to be a little bit on the um
skinnier side compared to a tower you can really see that right 80 mil fans
here instead of typically a 120 or even a 140 your cooler selection may be
somewhat limited so we're using an nhl12s x77 but it is worth noting that
if we wanted to we could have gone a little bit higher profile we just
wouldn't be able to put a big giant Tower cooler on this thing so let me
show you guys what our clearance looks like a little something like that you
can see once we put a full thickness fan on there we don't actually have a ton of
extra space left over wasn't planning to talk about this I was just going to wire
everything up off camera but this might be the tightest USB 3 connector that I
have ever seen I thought one of the pins was misaligned and I was mashing it or
something but look at this like that it's just that tight it's a twohand
job okay here's another one why are my front panel connector cables different
lengths like they're going to go to the same place guys what are you doing here
you got to Loop it and cable manage it like that to be clear I know these are
nitpicky details but what you guys got to remember is that's my job I got to
say the cable management in this case functionally non-existent but to
their credit it started as an April Fool's joke so maybe my expectations are
just too high is that true so many
people were amped about it that they just went ahead and made the damn okay
sure why not PC gaming community
stay incredible Andrew the camera guy is like hey you got it leaned up like that
I just noticed the feet are different on the front and the back what the heck was that really a
cost-saving measure that mattered so you can see the pretty feet from the front
right in the product Photography they got the cheap just like rubber stickers
at the
back I cut myself for this build Silverstone not on your case mind you on
the cooler but still if I'm going to blood sacrifice to build a computer I
want it to be a good one a another
cost-saving measure doesn't come with fan screws normally your fans will come
with screws but I've also seen many cases where the case comes with fan
screws and this is not one of them now I got to figure out what we want to do fan
configuration wise we want to bring fresh air to our GPU But the spot where
we have two big intakes is up here which would actually work against the flow
configuration of the 90 so I guess we're stuck with just this one are you going
to throw in an optical drive oh oh I
cannot because we have a higher profile cooler that precludes the use of an
optical drive though we could still Mount some you know shallower 5 and a/4
inch accessory alternatively with this
cooler in the low profile configuration with the stock fan where it's mounted
under the fin stack that could work but
would restrict cooling a little bit good question all right I think I'm going to
take out the fan that was already in here that was configured to bring fresh
air over the CPU area push
what well these are
easy it's a bad
sign usually means I'm getting frustrated
oh whoa that's
tight there's a cable management loop on
there that may be the difference between the sliding in or not oh they've got an
extra little PCI bracket up at the top that I guess you could use to mount like
a you know little fan control module or some random accessory that doesn't
actually need to plug into the motherboard but it um it covers up all the screws
for the PCI brackets now would be a perfect time to leak a new product it
didn't Escape our notice that some cases and coolers have a pass through that is
a little bit too narrow to accommodate an interchangeable bit screwdriver so we
have been beavering away as Canadians
are apt to do on this the long
shank screwdriver set it's not done yet
these bits aren't final etc etc but it will allow you you to do this
ha that out of the way let's see if we can get this GPU in here all right
wow wow that is some borderline
Fage we are not out of the woods yet just because the card fits doesn't mean
the power cable fits thankfully NVIDIA
angled the connector on the 5090 but
that doesn't mean that this is a guarantee
oh dude angled connector for the win
this cable comb might not fit but the cable itself looks like it will which
doesn't mean that we're good to go I also have to get some bulky cables from
the bottom of the case up to the top past this enormous GPU hey there we go
look at that she just barely fits okay
we got two options for the CPU connectors we can either go around like
this uh or hear me
out we go here ah I mean there's no back right
there's no behind the motherboard tray that's the bottom of the case
so we put a hole here we go under the
case no we're not doing that that's not a bad looking little build I mean the
cable management is trash but watch this I can fix
it
taada that's how we used to do do it that might help draw some extra air in
for the GPU that gives
me I was going to say hope but it doesn't let's test it now to see the
ergonomics that's more like it I still can't believe this is a real product
leave your comment now if you think the 90 is going to Thermal throttle 5 4 3 2
2 one and here's the results from Labs I
am either surprised or not surprised
depending on the outcome there's no way this thing didn't
thermal Throttle No shot I'm not surprised if
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