hey luke what do you know about the night blade uh it's a basic card in hearthstone it
costs five mana i think it's a four four with a battle cry that deals three
damage to an enemy hero it's a pretty decent card uh i actually i meant that
case that's on the table there oh
i guess i can review that
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packaging wise i know Linus would be proud the packaging material in this
case is a fantastic soft foam but
that's boring so let's move on most of the front of the case is a brushed metal
with diamond cut edges finish which is only interrupted by a gaming series case
badge a small MSI logo on the bottom and a slot loading optical drive on the left
hand side just above that we see the front i o which includes two each of usb
2.0 and 3.0 ports along with audio jacks an oc switch a power button a wireless
signal led and a storage led down on the bottom of the front panel we see some
ventilation holes accented by an abuse ready carrying handle seriously that
thing is pretty beast it's thick metal construction makes me pretty confident
that it won't give way no matter how much i resemble an ogre and if you're a
hand model who's scared of picking up something that is possibly made of metal
they also include a soft handle cover
while the handle cover may be a nice addition i'm not sure i would use it
personally as i think it looks much better without and the standard metal
handle actually does come with a nice slip resistant rubber pad on the bottom
by default the top bottom and side panels all feature ventilation holes
with the bottom panel including an externally removable filter which due to
the upwards angle provided by the carrying handle is able to be removed
cleaned and replaced without picking up the case which in my opinion is pretty
damn cool the left side panel also includes a silhouette of the MSI gaming
series dragon just to the right of the ventilation holes which fits the
aggressive styling of this case once we get to the back you'll notice there's a
power plug at the top which has been extended there from the 600 watt 80 plus
gold power supply which is mounted vertically in the front of the case for
motherboard i o we have a standard setup of audio jacks for each usb 2.0 and 3.0
ports two HDMI ports a DisplayPort a
spdif digital audio out two a set of ports a ps2 port an Ethernet jack and
dual wireless antennas then we get to the screws on the back which left me a
little bit confused to be honest for the back backside panel they've opted to go
with standard run-of-the-mill screws i would have liked to see at least thumb
screws here and then for the top and bottom panels they went with thumb
screws but they don't have anywhere to undo it with an actual screwdriver which
is kind of odd luckily they don't come pre-installed too brutally and can be
easily taken off by hand these screws also have a double function by acting as
a stand for when you want to put the case down after carrying it if you want
to put it down vertically because that's how it hangs off your hand but you have
to make sure that nothing's plugged in especially not the included antennas as
they aren't exactly designed to carry the weight of a computer and you can
easily forget them back there last but not least you have the sliding locks on
the left side panel which are extremely easy to use but unfortunately leave the
panel with a fair amount of wiggle room i would have liked to see even an
optional thumb screw hole on just the side panel just in case i didn't want my
side panel to jiggle around despite the odd arrangement of screws and locking
mechanisms on the back of the case it is pretty awesome that you can take off the
top bottom front and both side panels very easily this makes the expectedly
cramped building area actually feel larger than it is resulting in a much
easier build in a more open space one last thing before we go inside the case
is the aesthetically pleasing little fan that they have on the back to explain
what i mean by aesthetically pleasing usually if you were to mount a fan in
this orientation and look at it from the outside you would see the company logo
structure supporting bars and power cabling for the fan in this case they
have designed the fan specifically to be the other way around so that it can
maintain its good looks from the outside very nice touch upon taking off the side
panels you'll notice the side fan bracket which has a funny note and a
pretty intense warning message on it first off and i quote note installing
the side fan may increase the acoustic level so essentially installing a thing that
creates a byproduct of noise may increase your noise level
thanks secondly and i quote warning
hazardous moving parts keep fingers and other body parts away
i just really i don't know in all seriousness
though this bracket is well implemented and will help you cool some of your more
thermally demanding graphics cards and cpus
but i would have liked to see MSI actually include a stock fan here i
can't imagine that a second fan would have really increased the bom cost by
all that much and while i realized they only actually suggest it for an r9
series kind of graphics card i know more than a few people out there that would
install one just to keep their system that much cooler in general on the right
hand side you'll see a mounting bracket that holds the slimline optical drive
bay and three and a half inch bay this mounting bracket will have to be
unscrewed and removed in order to install something into that three and a
half inch bay and another note is that on this side if you for some reason want
to replace your psu you can take it out by removing all of the screws and
lowering its whole mounting bracket and
for some of you out there that want to be rather adventurous it is possible then to swap in a modular psu but you'll
have a fair amount of metal cutting in your future and you'll be boarding your
warranty up in the top we have our dual two and a half inch bay which comes
pre-installed with a nifty little msata device
now i don't honestly see a ton of people using this dual m-stated device but some
people might use it and regardless it's a cool little additional feature anyways
and once you're done with this case it is removable so you can take it out and
take it with you a nice little additional value the drive rails are
pretty secure and when you push them in they click in really nicely they're not
just going to randomly slide out on you so pretty solid overall jumping behind
the motherboard tray for a second we can see that there's a fan filter for the
psu on the left hand side which is quite nice and an utter lack of any cable
management options whatsoever so what exactly do you do for cable
management not much but because you don't have to which is
not that bad almost every cable you'll need is pre-ran for you with plastic
clips holding them in place and the cables aren't exactly out of sight but
they're also quite well taken care of and easy to access if you need to
routing themselves tightly around various devices within the case so
they're not in your way while you're working thanks to the very large size
girl on the bottom of the case and the elevation from the handle the graphics
card is able to breathe quite easily also if you're worried about your GPU
when carrying the case around with the handle you can rest a wee bit easier
because MSI has included a GPU supporter which is essentially an adjustable
plastic bracket that will keep your GPU from sagging down too much
back inside the case we can see the nh-l-12 knock to a cooler that i
installed it fits perfectly in this case and i would highly suggest it if you do
decide to go with the nightblade in the future this cooler is quite large and
includes two fans and still allows you to access things like SATA ports just in
case you want to make changes to the computer at some later date speaking of
the nh-l-12 i have two questions for you guys would you like me to review the
nh-l-12 comparing it versus a stock cooler in the night blade and against
other performance coolers in my standard standard cooling bench and also are you
interested in bare bone systems at all or are you kind of the person that wants
to build everything from scratch let me know in the comments down below and on
the forum i'll see you guys in either of those locations if you're on the forum
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