WEBVTT 00:00:06.040 --> 00:00:13.120 by and unlocked Intel fourth gen core i7 or core i5 processor and get a free copy 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:22.279 of Rome 2 Total War click now to learn more welcome to my unboxing and overview 00:00:17.520 --> 00:00:24.680 of the affordable liquid coolers wet 00:00:22.279 --> 00:00:27.640 dream get it it's a wet dream cuz it's they're dreaming about liquid cooling 00:00:26.599 --> 00:00:31.759 not sure what you guys thought I was talking about this my friends is the 00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:37.440 half a stacker there's actually two parts I have here today the half stacker 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:43.719 935 and the half stacker 915f so inside this one we have a 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:46.160 full-blown miniitx case that can also be 00:00:43.719 --> 00:00:51.079 stacked to this one and inside this one we have two components the 925 which is 00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:57.239 the the sort of the main that's where your ATX chassis is piece as well as 00:00:53.960 --> 00:01:01.680 another 915 but in this case it's a 00:00:57.239 --> 00:01:04.239 915r so unboxing the half Stacker 00:01:01.680 --> 00:01:13.680 935 is a bit of a treat holy cow so huge inside we find 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:16.479 fairly thick but hard foam ah static 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:21.360 shock awesome fairly thick hard foam but at least it's on the fairly thick side 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:23.240 and they put another reinforcement piece 00:01:21.360 --> 00:01:27.400 right here mid package so there's actually three pieces of foam on the 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:30.720 thing since we took it out upside down the case is of course upside down and 00:01:29.159 --> 00:01:36.040 this will reveal the first 00:01:32.360 --> 00:01:37.600 look at the half stacker all right now 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:41.840 that we've flipped it over we're going to find a couple of things here so 00:01:39.720 --> 00:01:47.479 number one is that midsection actually goes right in between the two pieces of 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:54.680 the case that are included with the 935 package so here we find the stacker 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:58.479 915r in all of its glory and then under 00:01:54.680 --> 00:02:01.200 that okay here we go here's another nice 00:01:58.479 --> 00:02:08.280 thick piece of foam very hearty looking throw that back in the box is the 00:02:05.479 --> 00:02:13.560 925 so you can clearly see this is not really meant necessarily to be its own 00:02:10.640 --> 00:02:19.440 Standalone chassis the top is is is Holy it's full of holes you know holy holy 00:02:16.440 --> 00:02:21.680 holes Batman as Robin would say if that 00:02:19.440 --> 00:02:26.519 show still existed we also have a nice little instruction booklet on how to 00:02:24.760 --> 00:02:31.720 stack which of course refers to the popular pastime of Cups no actually it 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:35.599 refers to how to stack the half stackers so there's a few different 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:37.720 configurations they show you half 945 is 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:42.519 a half 935 which is what you see here plus another half 915 which is what we 00:02:40.760 --> 00:02:45.800 have so that's a main one and two small ones you can put three half 915 that's 00:02:44.480 --> 00:02:50.560 as high as Cooler Master recommends going without additional support or you can do two half 915s or you can just 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:53.800 have one of these or just one of these and there are lots of different options 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:57.959 so I think the only way to really tackle a an unusual case like this is in a bit 00:02:56.120 --> 00:03:02.560 of an unusual fashion so we'll start at the bottom where we have okay so there's 00:03:00.640 --> 00:03:07.319 actual rubber grommets right in the bottom of your C what is going what 00:03:04.480 --> 00:03:11.360 Madness is this uh this is the way that you are going to be able to pass through 00:03:09.480 --> 00:03:16.360 cables or water cooling tubes or whatever else you might want into 00:03:13.200 --> 00:03:18.680 potentially a second 9915 that is on the 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:23.879 bottom of the 925 here so I'm going to show you how you would remove the 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:31.159 removable feet just like this pull those babies off and then you can turn this 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:32.480 into a stackable module modular rail 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:36.680 here so that can be used to stack onto an additional case we've also got a 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:40.319 removable power supply fan filter right here on the bottom a fairly small one 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:45.480 but uh no no not too many marks off for that and now let's continue with this 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:49.959 unorthodox uh chassis here now we're going to go to the right side panel 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:53.560 where we will find not a whole lot blank side panel all right now we're going to 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:59.200 go to the top where ah yes see that probably looks familiar now that is that 00:03:55.760 --> 00:04:01.360 same stacking interface nice rugged 00:03:59.200 --> 00:04:06.079 robust plastic considering the price of this case it's actually quite well built 00:04:04.200 --> 00:04:09.840 for my initial Impressions then we can move around to the front of the case 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:15.040 where we find three 5 and 1/4 in Drive Bays as well as the characteristic full 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:19.400 honeycomb mesh that we find on stacker cases or rather half cases excuse me 00:04:17.280 --> 00:04:23.360 because it's all about the high air flow also we've got our I/O so we have two 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:27.639 USB 2.0 ports two USB 3.0 ports headphone microphone ports as well as a 00:04:25.880 --> 00:04:32.560 power switch just like that and then on the left hand side panel we find a nice 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:36.720 tinted window I'm liking that actually it looks quite sharp I'm a bit of a fan 00:04:34.880 --> 00:04:39.840 of the whole tinted window thing I think they look really really good and we're 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:46.160 going to go ahead and slide that off to reveal the internals of the 925 which we 00:04:43.479 --> 00:04:50.080 will actually get back to so now let's carry on to the 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:55.960 915r this is the one that comes with the 935 so you get at least two modules now 00:04:53.039 --> 00:05:01.000 this does not have feet on the bottom of it but what it does have is it has a a 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:05.160 case top piece so you can see the way it's intended to be used out of the box 00:05:03.280 --> 00:05:09.160 is with this one with feet on the bottom on the rails this one with no feet on 00:05:07.080 --> 00:05:13.400 the bottom on the rails and this one stacked on top of this one a little 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:19.120 something like this just like that you put four screws 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:25.319 in one two three four on either side and you have yourself one handy dandy 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:26.639 monstrosity of a massive case here now 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:32.360 that's not to say that that's the only way you can do it you saw me removing screws from the top of the 950 15 R just 00:05:30.960 --> 00:05:36.520 a second ago and I'm going to just finish doing that and show you guys the 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:42.680 other option that's available to you so I'm just going to pull out this last 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:45.919 screw here so feet lids and other cases 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:48.280 all use the same modular interface so 00:05:45.919 --> 00:05:53.800 that they can be swapped around so there right there is a nice included honeycomb 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:58.240 ventilation thing as well as a dust filter I meant the included dust filter 00:05:55.880 --> 00:06:01.919 of course a you know a top panel is included with a top panel that's it's 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:07.680 not really sort of a thing but anyway this gives us our first look inside the 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:11.319 915r where it now is pretty much empty okay this side panel also has a nice 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:15.000 included dust filter so you can go ahead and check that out and integrated 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:20.280 radiator mounting so that leads us to the first real use of these 915 units 00:06:18.080 --> 00:06:26.680 and that is as a dedicated rad box you could actually do two 280 mm radiators 00:06:23.479 --> 00:06:28.840 in push pull or two 360 mm radiators in 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:34.160 push pull throw those on the side panels here and be pretty much ready to rock so 00:06:31.039 --> 00:06:36.560 the r also comes with three uh 3 and 1/2 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:40.800 or 2 and 1/2 in Drive mounting points as well as a 5 and a/4 in Drive mounting 00:06:38.960 --> 00:06:47.680 point which you can see through the top up here because that's about the only way we're going to reach it also you can 00:06:43.840 --> 00:06:49.800 see that it has an mitx motherboard tray 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:55.199 and a power supply Mount at the back and mitx cutout as well as a spot for dual 00:06:53.280 --> 00:07:00.440 slot graphics card so this could be a full mitx system or it could just hold 00:06:57.960 --> 00:07:04.520 radiators or it could just hold drives in fact what you'll notice up here is 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:09.240 that in addition to these Bays right here there are mounting 00:07:06.599 --> 00:07:14.360 points for two more of them so we could pull the drive cages out of the bottom 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:18.360 for improved air flow to our graphics cards here throw those up here and put 00:07:16.520 --> 00:07:21.360 all of our drives up in the top routing power to them isn't as much of a problem 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:24.879 as you might think because you can just use Splitters once you get up there but 00:07:23.080 --> 00:07:28.080 mounting SATA from your motherboard might be a little bit of a challenge the 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:31.560 good news though is that there are at least four different places where you 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:34.280 can bring them through so that you can get access to all the different drives 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:39.520 with all the different SATA cables all right so that leads me to where I was 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:44.240 heading with my explanation further explanation of the modular interface and 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:47.879 that is here so if we wanted to we could go you know what I just want like you 00:07:46.080 --> 00:07:51.360 know I just want you know two systems I just want two cases so I'm just going to 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:56.199 use a 925 on its own and I'm going to use the 9915 as like a bebone skeleton 00:07:54.560 --> 00:08:00.000 I'm going to put like a you know a secondary little storage server in it or 00:07:57.840 --> 00:08:03.800 something you can totally do that right out of the box you can install two 00:08:01.520 --> 00:08:08.199 systems in the one challenge is that this guy does not include the front IO 00:08:06.440 --> 00:08:13.440 by default you can pick that up as an aftermarket option from Cooler Master so 00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:18.720 there is that all right so let's finish up our tour of the internals of the 925 00:08:16.520 --> 00:08:24.280 before we continue to move along here with this very very complicated case all 00:08:21.520 --> 00:08:28.680 right so inside here we find those two 3 and 1/2 in Bays that I mentioned before 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:32.519 so those can hold either 2 and 1/2 in ssds or 3 and 1 half in drives we also 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:35.200 have another SSD mount on the back of the motherboard tray you can actually 00:08:33.839 --> 00:08:39.440 see how that's going to be installed there but don't worry we'll take off that other side panel and show that to 00:08:37.560 --> 00:08:43.880 you guys these are fully removable unfortunately these cannot be relocated 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:48.800 here which would have been quite nice that would have given us some additional options in terms of cable routing and 00:08:46.800 --> 00:08:55.120 all that we have toolless 5 and 1/4 in Baye up here in the top right corner as 00:08:51.560 --> 00:08:56.920 well as a pretty uh actually pretty good 00:08:55.120 --> 00:09:00.519 number of different sort of rubber grommet options the one challenge here 00:08:58.800 --> 00:09:04.399 again is that there's actually less than an inch of space behind here so make 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:08.279 sure your cable management is tight otherwise you might have a little bit of 00:09:05.839 --> 00:09:12.279 difficulty closing that other side panel all right we've got a bottom mounted 00:09:09.680 --> 00:09:16.320 power supply as well as a 7 plus one configuration for the PCI slot so you 00:09:14.160 --> 00:09:19.680 could install an XL ATX motherboard if you want rather there's an 8+1 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:22.720 configuration so you could go XL ATX here you could put something like a fan 00:09:21.079 --> 00:09:26.959 controller there in terms of included fans for a half series case I'd say the 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:32.680 included fans aren't that impressive but we've got a 140 mm at the back and I 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:37.279 believe there is nothing at the front in this particular one but then there is I 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:41.680 think it's an 80 mm fan or something like that yeah that's an 80 mm fan in 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:45.920 the top one so it has options for fan mounting but not a ton of fans included 00:09:43.839 --> 00:09:49.959 but when you consider the price I'd say that's uh that's actually pretty pretty 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:54.279 reasonable all right so I'll show you guys those fan options that I was trying 00:09:52.760 --> 00:09:57.399 to get at before you just got to pop these tabs out from the inside and you 00:09:55.880 --> 00:10:01.120 can pop the whole front off like that so you can throw a couple more 120 mm fans 00:09:59.800 --> 00:10:04.720 here you'll get better air flow out of these obviously though if you remove 00:10:02.959 --> 00:10:09.839 those Drive caddies and throw them up into the included 915r that is 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:13.800 definitely going to be my recommended configuration for this case so let's go 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:17.079 ahead and check out that back panel which I alluded to before but haven't 00:10:15.920 --> 00:10:21.560 actually shown you yet so there's that SSD mount in the middle as well as a 00:10:19.880 --> 00:10:25.600 little bit of room for cable management but again really not as much as I'd like 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:29.519 uh especially given the way that you're going to want to run cables over here if 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:34.760 you do Mount your hard drives here but of course you do have the option of 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:36.120 running up through the top of the case 00:10:34.760 --> 00:10:41.519 and through the bottom of the case depending on where you keep your stuff in fact I think probably my recommended 00:10:39.560 --> 00:10:46.000 configuration out of the box if you're not liquid cooling would be take all 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:49.880 your hard drives Chuck them down below run everything down here and then down 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:53.720 here from your power supply and then have nice open air flow for your for 00:10:51.880 --> 00:10:57.959 your gaming system component all right so this is the 915f this is the one 00:10:55.920 --> 00:11:03.279 that's available as an aftermarket option you can see that it comes 00:10:59.800 --> 00:11:04.560 with both a top piece and with feet so 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:08.639 that means it can be used as a standalone case unlike the other two 00:11:07.040 --> 00:11:12.160 which do not come with all the pieces that you'd actually need to use them 00:11:10.079 --> 00:11:17.120 each individually and it also has a bit of a a bit of a smarter layout in terms 00:11:15.079 --> 00:11:23.120 of if you were to use it as a standalone case so rather than you know having a 00:11:19.680 --> 00:11:24.800 bunch of mounts for 3 and 1/2 in drives 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:28.560 for example where it's it's really just meant to be overflow space for radiators 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:33.040 and drives or whatever else for a different case it has its Drive mounts 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:38.880 kind of spread around and then it has a configuration that allows for a bit of a 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:41.279 a bigger CPU Cooler for example U the 00:11:38.880 --> 00:11:45.279 915r that's included oh it has the same radiator mounts though so you could 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:49.880 still just use it as a rad box throw radiators on the side so you can see 00:11:47.560 --> 00:11:53.079 here in the included one the r your power supply goes at the back that's 00:11:51.399 --> 00:11:58.040 what the r is for rearm mounted power supply and there's really not much clearance for a CPU Cooler here so you 00:11:56.360 --> 00:12:03.399 could install a full system in there but it's really not intended for you to to do that whereas this one the power 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:07.519 supply actually goes way over here in the front so they have a removable dust 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:11.279 filter right here below it and then you've got your exhaust out the front of 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:15.360 the case right up here and then you've got an extension cable that runs to your 00:12:13.199 --> 00:12:18.079 power supply from the back of the case so that you don't have to plug your 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:22.240 power your power directly into the front of your case you've also got a 5 and a/4 00:12:20.079 --> 00:12:25.519 inch Bay up here that includes on the bottom here hopefully I can get you guys 00:12:23.399 --> 00:12:29.480 a good angle of that 3 and 1/2 in and 2 and 1/2 in mounting holes you have 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:33.120 another set of 3 and 1/2 in and 2 half inch mounting holes down here on the 00:12:30.959 --> 00:12:38.000 bottom and then you have a third set here on this cross brace so you can put 00:12:35.079 --> 00:12:41.199 a total of 3 3 and 1/2 in or three 2 and 1 12 in drives or of course if you 00:12:39.560 --> 00:12:46.040 install an optical drive then you will you'll be missing that option what we also find here is that optional 00:12:44.680 --> 00:12:51.880 accessory that's available for the other one with front IO so USB 3 Audio as well 00:12:48.760 --> 00:12:53.839 as a power switch now airflow inside 00:12:51.880 --> 00:12:56.880 this guy isn't really that optimal it was more of an afterthought you know hey 00:12:55.720 --> 00:13:01.680 why don't we make this available as a standalone case as well as as an upgrade 00:12:59.839 --> 00:13:05.920 module to the half stacker because it's really not necessarily the best ITX case 00:13:03.880 --> 00:13:10.040 in the world it just happens to be a part of what is the biggest most 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:14.360 versatile liquid cooling Andor storage case for gamers that's pretty much out 00:13:12.839 --> 00:13:17.639 there so you've got more rubber grommets for I just knocked that one out oops 00:13:16.079 --> 00:13:23.920 more rubber grommets for pass through as well as some other things for pass through and then ah yes those same 00:13:20.839 --> 00:13:26.120 mounting holes so we could put three 3 00:13:23.920 --> 00:13:30.199 and 1/2 in cages in here and run an additional nine drives out of this one 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:35.360 as well as in the other one so there it is guys that is what Cooler Master 00:13:32.320 --> 00:13:37.199 internally refers to as the half stacker 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:41.000 945 a 915r a 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:45.480 915f and a 925 many of these parts modular these 00:13:43.680 --> 00:13:50.120 side panels can be moved around you can see we actually ended up with some extr 00:13:47.320 --> 00:13:54.800 modular Parts when we assembled the case we've got two extra sets of feed and an 00:13:51.839 --> 00:13:58.839 extra top so if we bought another 925 we could get a full additional ITX case and 00:13:57.160 --> 00:14:03.519 a full additional ATX case out of the deal so that's that's actually something 00:14:00.959 --> 00:14:09.440 to consider that's one large case and then one medium and one small case for 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:12.880 what would effectively be um I guess 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:15.120 just around $450 or $500 or something 00:14:12.880 --> 00:14:18.240 like that that's not bad so I'm going to spend probably the rest of this video 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:22.560 I'm going to take these apart again and talk about the possibilities of of 00:14:20.880 --> 00:14:25.440 building in here some of what Cooler Master thinks people might do with it 00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:30.839 and some then some of what I realistically think people actually might do with it because frankly some of 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:35.800 their ideas are not very good um one of the ideas they had was oh you could use 00:14:32.800 --> 00:14:38.639 it for um cryptocoin Mining and I'm like 00:14:35.800 --> 00:14:43.160 well no because you wouldn't use a miniitx system for cryptocoin mining 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:46.399 because you could only have one GPU in it and particularly if you're mining 00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:50.320 litecoins then you're going to need lots of gpus and then even if you're mining 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:55.560 bitcoins you're going to need uh dedicated folding cards anyway and so 00:14:53.440 --> 00:15:00.360 you'll need PCI expansion slots and it doesn't really have that but where I see 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:04.759 this being useful is more like um I thought one interesting scenario was 00:15:02.160 --> 00:15:08.839 render farm so if you wanted to have your your render your rendering offload 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:13.000 machine actually like strapped to your main video editing PC um another 00:15:10.920 --> 00:15:17.120 interesting use case scenario that I see is lots of storage if you really want a 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:22.639 ton of storage in your PC you could actually run three cages here three 00:15:21.040 --> 00:15:26.800 cages here so that would be a total of 18 drives between these two you could 00:15:24.800 --> 00:15:31.800 run another six here which would be a total of 24 drives and all of that would 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:35.959 fit in a chassis that all these pieces combined is less than $250 so you know 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:40.880 you could look at it and you go oh well you could get like a Norco 24 Bay you 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:45.000 know 4 U case for that money it would take up less space but you would be 00:15:43.800 --> 00:15:48.720 paying a lot more for it that's about $500 also the 3 and 1 half in Drive 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:52.319 sleds are quite excellent so you just release the clip on the back Pull It 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:56.800 Wide and then without doing any bending like we've seen in a lot of recent Drive 00:15:54.680 --> 00:16:00.319 sleds it's also quite solid you can go ahead attach your drive and then slide 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:04.920 that in and it feels good even without a drive installed in it and I think Cooler 00:16:02.079 --> 00:16:08.880 Master was actually the first one to uh to implement the whole super flimsy 00:16:06.959 --> 00:16:13.079 Drive cages but that are really firm once you get a drive in them but now 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:17.319 they've gone away from that anyway um another scenario that I see people using 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:23.160 this for is very extreme liquid cooling so being able to put dual 360s up here 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:27.199 dual 360s down here in the bottom run all your tubing in between using all 00:16:25.199 --> 00:16:31.079 these convenient holes where you can actually it's like it feels like a magic 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:38.240 trick right it's like oh I put my hand in this computer it comes out in this computer holy crap um being able to put 00:16:35.800 --> 00:16:42.920 that much liquid cooling horsepower into something that costs again about $250 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:45.600 where comparably if you wanted something that fits you know four radiators you'd 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:49.800 be looking at something from Mountain mods where it's a a cube case and some 00:16:47.839 --> 00:16:53.759 people will like the height here where instead of having to compromise that 00:16:51.839 --> 00:16:57.600 much of your floor space or that much of your Des desk space you can have it be 00:16:56.079 --> 00:17:01.800 vertically stacked get it stacked stacker um and have it take up at least 00:16:59.759 --> 00:17:04.720 as much square footage of the actual space that it sits on so being able to 00:17:03.240 --> 00:17:08.039 fit a ton of liquid cooling into something this inexpensive and that 00:17:06.520 --> 00:17:11.959 takes up this much this little floor space is quite impressive as well one of 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:16.640 the other things they talk about is having your uh having a dedicated game 00:17:13.959 --> 00:17:19.959 server so if you land a lot for example you could have a dedicated game server 00:17:18.360 --> 00:17:24.360 machine sitting up here on a little mini ITX board also throw some extra 3 and a 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:27.520 half inch expansion out there you know take one of these out get some extra air 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:31.679 flow to your graphics card that's a very realistic one um having you know an 00:17:30.080 --> 00:17:35.400 alternate gaming rig well your main one is editing I didn't think was that 00:17:33.120 --> 00:17:38.080 realistic because I thought my way the other way around would be better because 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:43.200 then you don't necessarily have a full-blown gaming GPU up here that just 00:17:40.320 --> 00:17:48.240 sits there doing nothing most of the time so in conclusion this really isn't 00:17:46.520 --> 00:17:51.799 my cup of tea if you guys have been following me for any period of time I 00:17:50.200 --> 00:17:57.039 mean I kind of looked at this when Cooler Master unveiled it at packs and I 00:17:53.840 --> 00:17:59.000 kind of went okay for the six people who 00:17:57.039 --> 00:18:01.600 are interested in that fine but I didn't really get a chance to look at it that 00:18:00.360 --> 00:18:06.039 closely and I didn't really get to examine the overall build quality of it 00:18:03.679 --> 00:18:10.400 that much at the time um and now I think I understand it a little bit better it's 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:12.919 still not for me I prefer more like um 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:16.760 clean lines and and plain a plain aesthetic whereas half has never really 00:18:15.080 --> 00:18:21.559 been about that it's been about an edgy outward appearance and air flow Above 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:25.200 All Else Cooling and and flexibility and then the the stacker of DNA comes in 00:18:23.280 --> 00:18:29.880 here with well stacking and lots and lots of hardware and it's just it's not 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:31.280 for me I prefer having an off loed raid 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:36.600 box that sits in another room and I don't have to look at or listen to but I 00:18:34.320 --> 00:18:40.520 definitely see the value so for people looking for that value oriented water 00:18:38.679 --> 00:18:45.799 cooling case or that value oriented storage optimized case this really is 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:49.760 pretty much as good as it gets for either of those things it's also built 00:18:48.159 --> 00:18:53.679 better than I thought the one that I saw was pre-production and it really wasn't 00:18:51.640 --> 00:18:58.120 that impressive this one is quite solid I would feel confident even once it's 00:18:55.880 --> 00:19:02.240 full of Hardware having three full systems in here which you could actually 00:19:00.080 --> 00:19:06.760 do and while i' probably want it against a desk or something on one side it's 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:13.880 really not that bad and I'm extremely impressed um I think that's pretty much 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:16.720 it oh yeah real user reviews I have the benefit now of reading reviews from 00:19:15.360 --> 00:19:20.840 people who actually own the thing and paid their own money for it and they're 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:25.720 all extremely positive so I think the people who know they want this guys just 00:19:24.080 --> 00:19:29.559 buy it you're going to be happy with it for the people who know that this is not 00:19:27.520 --> 00:19:32.880 for them like me well guys you're probably not going to be happy with it 00:19:30.679 --> 00:19:36.960 so don't force yourself one last thing that I thought I'd include since this is 00:19:34.679 --> 00:19:41.360 hilarious is in this configuration has support for three full power supplies so 00:19:39.320 --> 00:19:44.200 you could put one down here at the front you could put one here in the middle on 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:49.880 the bottom of the middle one and you could put one up here in the top so if you did want to use the middle tower for 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:52.559 example for Litecoin mining then at least you'd have all the power that you 00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:57.280 needed you could split it across three different power supplies thank you for 00:19:54.799 --> 00:20:00.720 checking out my unboxing and overview of The Cooler Master Half Stack 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:05.240 don't forget to subscribe to L Tech chps more unboxings reviews and other computer videos like this video if you 00:20:03.039 --> 00:20:10.960 liked it dislike it if you disliked it and let me know in the comments are you 00:20:08.520 --> 00:20:14.240 a stacker person or are you not a stacker person because I think there's 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:28.919 only two kinds of people in this world stacker people and not stacker people 00:20:28.919 --> 00:20:31.919 a