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so a question i find myself asking is do we really need more quiet pc case

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options and coolermaster's answer to that was uh yes we have the silencio

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652s and we will send it to you please do a review please and all i could

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really say to that is uh okay i guess so and while i'm randomly guessing at

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things i guess my review of the lgg watch r is going to be coming soon so

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stay tuned for that but first this video

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cooler master's case mod world series is your opportunity to show off your

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modding skills and win great prizes entries close february 7th 2015. click

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now to learn more we'll start with a look at the outside i

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quite like the aesthetic of this case the front door is hard to even see that

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it's a door it blends in with the front of the case really well and cooler

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master just overall hasn't attempted to reinvent the already fairly functional

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wheel of quiet cases with simple elegant looks but has managed their own unique

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spin that makes this more than a me too product the front door is lined with

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noise dampening materials and reveals three five and a quarter inch bays

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underneath and a removable cover for the two included 120 millimeter selencio

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series quiet fans and some rather curious design choices first i noticed

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that the bay covers and fan cover have a plastic patterned layer and another

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plastic mesh layer that gives them a very pleasing appearance but they both

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lack dust filters a bit of a given on mid-range to high-end cases these days

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next i noticed that they might not need to be filtered anyway since the front

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door includes no gaps to allow air to be drawn in through the front of the case

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which means that for any filtration scheme to work it would actually have to

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cover the side vents on the front bezel

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so the third oddity i noticed then was that these also don't include any

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filters so the overall impression of the front is that it looks really good but

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leaves the primary air intake for the case completely open to infiltration by

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dust a design oversight that is particularly confusing when cooler

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master went to the trouble to filter the bottom of the case where only the power

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supply takes in air by default let's move on though i o is well laid out with

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anything vulnerable to being stepped on by a cat like power and reset buttons on

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the front and everything else that is dual usb 2 dual usb 3.0 headphone and

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microphone and this is a really nice touch an sd card reader on the top also

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on the top is a vent exposure mechanism that feels a lot less like a bolted-on

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afterthought than most silent cases looking at you define r5 and from

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everywhere but the back appears to be just a stylized top panel very nice

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from the back though we can see that there are two sliding pieces that lock

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into place well yet are easy to remove if you know what to do the first one is

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a solid plastic layer that leaves the top looking stylishly well vented just

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like the front when you open the door and there's a second one that reveals

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easy mounting for top fan so that's up to two 140 millimeter fans or a dual 120

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millimeter radiator with fans the side panels use standard non-captive thumb

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screws so be careful with them when you remove them and other than that their

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only interesting features are the noise dampening lining on the insides and the

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removable panel on the left that you'll need to remove two screws from then pop

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off if you want to expose the vent that sits next to your GPU area moving to the

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inside we find very solid construction overall but i expect this from cooler

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master so they don't get massive bonus points for it or anything sucks to be

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good at stuff hey guys so we'll continue the inside tour at the front the five

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and a quarter inch cage can accept a two and a half or three and a half inch

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drive in the bottom bay and is tool-less which is good but riveted in which means

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no front triple rad mounting like the define r5 with that said i suspect most

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people won't do that anyway so radiator support for the dual 120 millimeter

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front fans would have been enough for me and it has that but the implementation

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is really really bizarre kind of like they couldn't decide if and how they

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were gonna do it so like i saw that with the front drive cages removed the red

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could go on the inside here with the barbed side down only by the way which

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means that most aios won't reach the CPU socket or even a graphics card in the

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top slot at least that would have worked if cooler master didn't have the front

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fan screwed into these threaded stamped mounts that would require custom screws

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and very careful installation in order to do that then i noticed that it looked

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kind of like there'd be room to put the red inside the front bezel only what no

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wait not quite enough room so at this point i finally consulted the manual and

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realized they expect you to buy an optional adapter to put a rat in the

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front not a good solution but

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given that the top and rear dual and single rad mounts are fine and how few

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people need three radiators i'd have actually given this a pass still if the

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air cooling fan installation method was really good and that's why water cooling

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was difficult but it's not these front screws are partially threaded presumably

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to prevent over-tightening of the fans but unfortunately due to tolerances in

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manufacturing we end up with the opposite problem where my fans actually

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had some wiggle in them even when they were fully screwed in a big no-no for a

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silent case although in practice once we fired it up it didn't end up causing a

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lot of vibration really any that i noticed moving on towards the back we've got the

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drive bays that most normal people will leave in that i was initially going to

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call over engineered for no apparent reason until i figured out that they're

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actually surprisingly clever at the bottom there are three three and

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a half inch bays that are screwed in and non-adjustable although you can install

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two and a half inch drives in them if you want then the top four can actually

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be adjusted by relocating this piece right here which allows the plastic

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sleds to then also be resized these little wings to be lowered and ssds to

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be screwed in from the sides in such a way that the SATA power connector

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doesn't experience any unnecessary strain like most other solutions very

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nice cooler master next to the drive cage there's a spot for a filtered 120

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millimeter intake fan or another two and a half inch or three and a half inch

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drive to be screwed in from the bottom of the case then moving further toward

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the rear we've got anti-vibration rubber feet for the power supply an extra

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auxiliary pci slot to go with the standard atx-7 three water cooling

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grommets which i used to poke fun at but now use every day in one of their other

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cases in our whole room water cooling setup and finally the third included

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cilencio 120 millimeter fan at the top

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we've got an aio dual 120 millimeter liquid cooler that we were able to

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install facing either way thanks to the mounting slots rather than holes and

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without losing access to any of our three five and a quarter inch bays very

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nice the motherboard tray features a cutout for easy CPU cooler installation

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yet another two and a half inch drive sliding grommet mount ample cable

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management loops unexceptional but functional cable management holes with

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equally unexceptional and actually

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barely good enough spacing in the back of the tray to run

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cables between it and the side panel if it weren't for the noise dampening

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material on that panel they'd have been fine but as it was i had to do the push

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down and slide in order to get the case closed up

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so it's conclusion time the case accepts a ton of drives up to nine three and a

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half inch and a two and a half inch or ten two and a half inch or any

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combination thereof it looks great and is really well built but it loses some

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marks for its open mesh that's masquerading as a filtration system and

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poorly thought out front fan mounts so is that a recommendation for this

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case not directly but the 652s is also

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not a bad choice it just could have been a little bit better one change in

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particular that i'd like to see on a v2 of this would be the ability to

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completely remove the front door and stealth the hinge mounting points that

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combined with the already excellent silence to high airflow transformation

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that's possible on the top would turn this into possibly the best implemented

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versatile case on the market maybe at

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some point cooler master will start letting me look at this stuff before

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sending me a finished product and asking me to review it so i can send them helpful suggestions like that but for

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now we'll have to settle for just reviews and i hope you guys enjoyed this

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