WEBVTT 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:04.280 PC cases are all the same. Boring black boxes, IO out the back? 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:07.760 No, that's where the Thermaltake Tower 300 comes in. 00:00:07.760 --> 00:00:13.880 There's eight different colors, they've cut the corners off, and all the IO actually comes out the top. 00:00:13.880 --> 00:00:17.040 But I don't wanna build in the blue one, this looks like a Fortnite chug jug. 00:00:17.040 --> 00:00:20.240 I wanna build in the pink one, pink's more my color. 00:00:20.240 --> 00:00:26.640 See, I was really interested in the Tower 300, mainly because I've actually owned the Tower 900 twice, 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:30.720 the Tower 100, and I've built in the Tower 500 before. 00:00:30.720 --> 00:00:34.120 But this one, I was really attracted to all the colors they come in. 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:42.000 Oh, look at that. Oh, it's got a little bit of blue, it's got a blue inside. 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:45.400 Oh, that looks so awesome. It looks like cotton candy machine. 00:00:45.400 --> 00:00:49.960 Yeah. Looks like that bell-doping keyboard. So you still got the three glass panels 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:54.200 that the Tower series is kind of known for, but they've again decided to angle it this way, 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:59.000 giving you kind of more of a rounded glass effect to it instead of having big pillars in the way. 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:02.560 And everything is mounted with all of the IO at the top. 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:06.360 So your GPU is gonna be vertical, and this is an MATX case, 00:01:06.360 --> 00:01:09.720 even though it's quite large for a micro case. 00:01:09.720 --> 00:01:12.520 Still very excited to get in here. I think you just, 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:18.280 oh, it's taped. I've actually been a fan of rounded glass style cases 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:23.800 for a while now. Fan tech started rounding their glasses, doing a take on the classic Lee and Lee O11 case. 00:01:23.800 --> 00:01:28.800 There we go. And I think this one does it very subtle, and I actually kind of enjoy this rounded look. 00:01:28.800 --> 00:01:32.080 Wow, there's a lot of room in here for a micro-ITX case. 00:01:32.080 --> 00:01:35.660 Let's get all of our mounts out here. 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:42.960 Beautiful. So these are all the plates and the screws to hold everything on as well as in here. 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:47.520 There's this little plate, which can actually replace the front plate, 00:01:47.520 --> 00:01:51.120 and you can put a screen there. Why? 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:54.360 Because you want to. It also apparently comes with a stand, 00:01:54.360 --> 00:01:59.640 which I'm told we have, that can mount your computer at a weird angle like this, 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:03.480 taking up 90% of your desk. That's fine though. 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:07.040 What's up? Can you cut that at her? 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:12.360 For front IO, you've got your power button, your reset button, your mic, headphone jack, 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:15.400 two USB three ports, and a USB type C. 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:20.000 Enough IO, I would like four USB ports, but that's kind of just a nitpicky thing for me. 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:25.460 Underneath this, it actually comes with thermal takes two 140 millimeter fans. 00:02:25.460 --> 00:02:29.340 The airflow design of this case is it takes everything in from the bottom and the sides, 00:02:29.340 --> 00:02:32.820 and the idea is hot air rises, so they want to shoot it all out the top. 00:02:32.820 --> 00:02:39.460 It's got these thumbscrews on the top that they claim are tool-less, but I'll use a tool. 00:02:40.580 --> 00:02:43.980 Just to get it started. Nope, okay. 00:02:43.980 --> 00:02:48.740 We're going all the way. There we go. There's that one on the other side here. 00:02:49.740 --> 00:02:53.580 Oh, seems like they're captive. That's great. And this whole thing just tilts up. 00:02:53.580 --> 00:02:57.380 And this is where you're going to be able to access, you know, plugging in a USB drive 00:02:57.380 --> 00:03:01.820 or plugging in your cables, bit inconvenient, but it gives a really clean look 00:03:01.820 --> 00:03:05.940 when all the cables just come out the back like this. And this whole case is very easy to build in 00:03:05.940 --> 00:03:10.500 because every single side can just all come apart like this 00:03:11.780 --> 00:03:16.180 until you're all the way in. And oh my goodness, you have like 720 degrees worth 00:03:16.180 --> 00:03:20.220 of working room to really be able to get in there and plug in your cables. 00:03:20.220 --> 00:03:23.220 Wait, what? 720 degrees? 00:03:23.220 --> 00:03:27.060 Yeah, because you don't have 360. Yes, you would go less. 00:03:28.020 --> 00:03:30.660 Which is 720. 720 is two full circles. 00:03:31.940 --> 00:03:33.100 Oh, I meant 270. 00:03:35.300 --> 00:03:38.940 Can you cut that out of it? And like I mentioned, all the air is meant to come in the bottom here, 00:03:38.940 --> 00:03:43.580 so every little one of these sides has a tiny little dust filter on all of them. 00:03:43.580 --> 00:03:48.180 Here, here, here, some at the bottom, which you can flip that and get at. 00:03:48.180 --> 00:03:52.020 Oh, perfect. I'm gonna take this out once a year, two years. 00:03:52.020 --> 00:03:55.540 Give it a little bit of a wave. Slot it back in, perfect. 00:03:55.540 --> 00:03:59.100 And the back one is even magnetic as well. Makes it nice and easy to clean. 00:03:59.100 --> 00:04:02.380 These bottom ones a little bit harder to reach at, but. 00:04:02.380 --> 00:04:06.140 That's okay. Let's tuck it back in there. 00:04:06.140 --> 00:04:10.580 What the heck? It was bad design. Totally wasn't user error. 00:04:10.580 --> 00:04:13.860 You have to slide in one side first, then it magnets down. I was doing it the opposite way. 00:04:13.860 --> 00:04:17.940 It was user error. Oh, wow, never mind. The whole back panel comes off too. 00:04:17.940 --> 00:04:22.700 Dang, it's just a shell of itself now. It weighs like nothing. 00:04:22.700 --> 00:04:26.860 All your cables for your front IO. One rubber grommet for all the cable management. 00:04:26.860 --> 00:04:31.300 Your fans came down the side here. Power supply mounts at the bottom of this case, 00:04:31.300 --> 00:04:34.740 and then everything can tuck up behind the motherboard, just like a traditional PC. 00:04:34.740 --> 00:04:38.940 There's room for two drives back here, either 2.5 or 3.5. 00:04:38.940 --> 00:04:42.620 But if that's not enough storage for you, there's actually one more little mount right here 00:04:42.620 --> 00:04:45.860 for a 3.5 or a 2.5. I've heard online, though, 00:04:45.860 --> 00:04:49.820 that apparently if you have a full 420 millimeter radiator, 00:04:49.820 --> 00:04:53.300 here, fitting a 3.5 drive might be a little tough, 00:04:53.300 --> 00:04:58.380 but the fact that you can fit a 420 millimeter radiator in an MATX case is kind of wild already. 00:04:58.380 --> 00:05:02.960 Now that I've torn it all apart, it's time to build a PC in it. Before I even start, not super happy. 00:05:02.960 --> 00:05:06.840 All the screws are just in one baggy that I just have to sift through. 00:05:09.260 --> 00:05:13.420 In goes our motherboard. We got an MATX. We're gonna try to fit as... 00:05:13.420 --> 00:05:16.540 Wait, I went to put the motherboard and I was putting it like this way 00:05:16.540 --> 00:05:20.020 because I'm figuring this is the back. No, the IO's gotta go at the top. 00:05:20.020 --> 00:05:23.260 We got our MATX ASUS board here, 00:05:23.260 --> 00:05:26.580 with a Ryzen 7900X. Line it all up. 00:05:28.500 --> 00:05:32.220 Oh. You might have to be careful about that. 00:05:32.220 --> 00:05:36.220 This standoff is actually not on this motherboard. There's no hole right there, 00:05:36.220 --> 00:05:40.780 which means if I had screwed that down, I could have shorted the board. So I'm gonna have to remove my center standoff here. 00:05:40.780 --> 00:05:44.560 Your motherboard may vary on that, but you might wanna double check before you start building. 00:05:46.660 --> 00:05:49.820 There we go, oh, I dropped it. I'll get it later. 00:05:49.820 --> 00:05:53.700 There we go, now it's resting on all the standoffs. Oh, I forgot to put the SSD in. 00:05:56.780 --> 00:05:59.900 Oh, actually, nevermind, it's right there. 00:05:59.900 --> 00:06:03.340 Boop. Man, having this case so open like this 00:06:03.340 --> 00:06:06.420 makes it just so easy to work in. Oh, it's great. 00:06:06.420 --> 00:06:11.060 Man, it's got the radiator support, but it's got all the room for a big cooler. 00:06:11.060 --> 00:06:12.500 Which one do you guys wanna do? 00:06:15.300 --> 00:06:16.900 Yeah, okay, we'll go with Noctua. 00:06:18.980 --> 00:06:22.260 Make sure you install your cooler backplate before you put the motherboard in. 00:06:22.260 --> 00:06:25.540 Otherwise, you gotta do a little bit of finagling, but through those thumb screws, 00:06:25.540 --> 00:06:28.580 you can actually remove the hard drive mount. So that's kinda good. 00:06:28.580 --> 00:06:31.620 Then we get all the access to the back panel there. 00:06:31.620 --> 00:06:35.260 Oh, there we go. This is a chonker of a cooler. 00:06:35.260 --> 00:06:39.180 I need to put thermal paste on. One moment, please. 00:06:39.180 --> 00:06:43.700 Thanks, Belle. All righty. 00:06:43.700 --> 00:06:48.260 Apparently, this case supports up to 210 millimeter tall coolers, which is very large, 00:06:48.260 --> 00:06:52.100 again, for a small form factor case. And the airflow goes from bottom up, 00:06:52.100 --> 00:06:55.620 so we're still gonna wanna position our fan this way. 00:06:55.620 --> 00:06:58.740 It blocks the GPU. Well, that was a fun experiment to see 00:06:58.740 --> 00:07:03.940 that it will fit the air cooler, but we're removing it because if you look closely, 00:07:03.940 --> 00:07:07.140 you can actually kind of see that the cooler here 00:07:07.140 --> 00:07:10.940 is cutting off the GPU riser, so we won't be able to slot our GPU in. 00:07:14.020 --> 00:07:17.460 You know what? I feel like I should just go with liquid cooling. 00:07:17.460 --> 00:07:22.020 Let's open this up. All right, now let's take out the removable bracket 00:07:22.020 --> 00:07:26.580 and slide our radiator bracket out. Dang, it fit a lot of radiator in this bad boy. 00:07:26.580 --> 00:07:30.140 There's also another radiator slot. You could take out the fans here and put it up top. 00:07:30.140 --> 00:07:33.340 We're gonna pounce it on the side. It's gonna look a little nicer that way. 00:07:33.340 --> 00:07:38.300 I think the best part about this radiator install, boom, once you got it in there, 00:07:38.300 --> 00:07:41.620 it's just those two screws again. If I wanted to cable manage it behind, 00:07:41.620 --> 00:07:47.780 it's a little tough there. Well, thankfully, take off this radiator. 00:07:47.780 --> 00:07:50.940 Just like that. This is gonna be such a small nitpick. 00:07:50.940 --> 00:07:54.340 But if you're gonna go through the trouble of coloring the inside of your case, 00:07:54.340 --> 00:07:58.260 why can't you color the PCIe brackets? Oh, there we go. 00:07:59.220 --> 00:08:04.220 Woo, that might be one of these snugest fits 00:08:04.220 --> 00:08:06.060 I have ever had to do for a GPU. 00:08:08.580 --> 00:08:12.500 I actually kind of like the look of that. 00:08:12.500 --> 00:08:17.580 Time to start closing up some panels here. Boom, hide my lack of cable management. 00:08:17.580 --> 00:08:20.700 All right, well, that went on super easy. 00:08:20.700 --> 00:08:24.220 Oh, there's magnets. It's kind of nice, actually. 00:08:24.220 --> 00:08:27.900 I didn't even realize that when I took them off. Man, I love this GPU orientation. 00:08:27.900 --> 00:08:30.940 I think it's the reason I love these tower series so much. 00:08:30.940 --> 00:08:34.780 As GPUs have gotten heavier and heavier, they've all started to sag, right, 00:08:34.780 --> 00:08:39.420 when they're on your motherboard. There's no sag with this. It takes all the stress off of it. 00:08:39.420 --> 00:08:42.940 One more thing, just before we finish up, we gotta swap out our front panel. 00:08:42.940 --> 00:08:45.980 You get the screen, it goes on there. Two little screw holes. 00:08:45.980 --> 00:08:53.900 That should be nice and easy. How does this screen come off? Oh, man, all tool is, oh, oh, that looks cute. 00:08:54.540 --> 00:08:58.980 $90 for the screen, though. Maybe not worth it, but I think it looks cool. 00:08:58.980 --> 00:09:03.540 One thing I was just gonna ask, you know how it's bad heebies to like close the side panel before you boot? 00:09:03.540 --> 00:09:05.860 Which side panel? There's eight of them. 00:09:08.220 --> 00:09:09.300 There we go. 00:09:11.340 --> 00:09:15.020 Oh, yeah. Dang. 00:09:15.020 --> 00:09:18.540 Oh, man, I love this so much. We'll see how it looks when it turns on. Moment of truth. 00:09:22.740 --> 00:09:23.660 One moment, please. 00:09:25.820 --> 00:09:28.740 Moment of deuce. There we go. 00:09:29.580 --> 00:09:32.980 Whoa, the screen. Oh, yeah, no thermotec logo. 00:09:32.980 --> 00:09:35.980 One thing to point out, we actually have these radiator fans pushing out the side here. 00:09:35.980 --> 00:09:41.620 Normally, on their website, they describe it as pulling in the sides, pulling in the bottom, and then out the top and back. 00:09:41.620 --> 00:09:45.380 But that's how they came installed on this rad, so. Man, I think this is in the end 00:09:45.380 --> 00:09:50.380 why I just love the thermotec tower designs. It takes your traditional PC and flips it on its side. 00:09:52.100 --> 00:09:55.620 Speaking of which, for $30, oh, it's kind of a chunker. 00:09:55.620 --> 00:09:58.940 You can actually lay it. 00:10:00.300 --> 00:10:01.620 Oh, yeah. 00:10:03.580 --> 00:10:07.980 That looks awesome. The $30 kit does come with a color match bottom, 00:10:07.980 --> 00:10:12.660 but we ordered the hydrangea blue one, so it doesn't quite match our build. 00:10:12.660 --> 00:10:16.580 I mean, we could take the top off that one and put it here if we wanted to, and then we got two blue caps. 00:10:16.580 --> 00:10:19.620 But I think the sideways look is honestly 00:10:19.620 --> 00:10:23.900 maybe the way to go for this if you have the desk base. That's a big ask. 00:10:23.900 --> 00:10:26.420 Big desk is what you need to get this working. 00:10:27.340 --> 00:10:31.540 I think it looks really cool on the side, though. Overall, I actually really enjoyed building this, 00:10:31.540 --> 00:10:34.900 but again, I might have a little bias building in the tower systems before. 00:10:34.900 --> 00:10:38.540 And being this kind of unique case, you're either gonna love it or hate it. 00:10:38.540 --> 00:10:42.580 Thankfully, it does out that customization if you want to go vertical or horizontal. 00:10:42.580 --> 00:10:47.540 For $150 US dollars, I think the price is actually totally reasonable personally 00:10:47.540 --> 00:10:50.980 for a case that definitely had to go under a lot of R&D 00:10:50.980 --> 00:10:54.460 to make it all work like this. Having eight different color options 00:10:54.460 --> 00:10:57.900 is really cool as well. You can do so many different kind of themed builds. 00:10:57.900 --> 00:11:02.820 You can maybe make this one like Diva from Overwatch or Bumblebee from Transformers. 00:11:02.820 --> 00:11:05.860 I love the different colors instead of just a typical white and black 00:11:05.860 --> 00:11:10.020 that we're used to. Make sure you guys like, comment, subscribe. If you're looking for another weird case to look at, 00:11:10.020 --> 00:11:14.260 maybe look at the one Ploof built. It was called the POC. It's like origami. 00:11:14.260 --> 00:11:15.100 Kind of weird.