1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,600 10 years ago Silverstone announced a case that was unlike anything we've ever seen before 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:08,720 and is unlike anything we've seen since. 3 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:12,880 Designed in collaboration with Charles Harwood, the creator of Murderbox, 4 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:19,280 the X-forma MBX Mark II was meant to be the ultimate marriage of timeless aesthetics 5 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:25,920 and uncompromising performance. The perfect case. There was only one small problem. 6 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:34,160 At a price of $1,250 plus accessories, it was out of reach for most mere mortals. 7 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:40,560 So even though Silverstone only ever made 250 of these, so many of them remain unsold 8 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:47,200 that Silverstone offered me a deal I couldn't refuse. They would send me all the cases and in 9 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:51,600 exchange they wouldn't have to be the ones to store them anymore. I mean there can't be that 10 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:58,320 many of them can there? Yes there can be. Oh lordy. Let's have a look at what they sent us, 11 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:04,560 shall we? And let's have a look at this message from our sponsor. It's probably worth noting that 12 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:09,360 while I respect Charles's work as an artist and do think the case is incredibly cool, 13 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:16,560 I didn't actually want three pallets of them. You shouldn't have asked for it then. 14 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:21,760 Well it was less that I asked for them and more that if I didn't take them, 15 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:27,920 they were headed to the scrapper, which I felt was not cool. And I know that Tony from Silverstone, 16 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:32,240 who was the one who reached out to try to save these, feels much the same way. 17 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:39,520 See the MBX Mark II is not an entirely ground up design. It's actually based on an older 18 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:46,640 Silverstone case, the TJ07, which was gifted to me by my then-girlfriend-now-wife and I used 19 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:52,240 for my daily driver for many years. It also happened to be a passion project of Tony's 20 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:57,360 when he was a young project designer. Oh man, look at how much dust is on this thing. 21 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:04,160 This has been in the warehouse for a very long time. This one was apparently for Joe. 22 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:10,080 So was this one. So was this one. Dude, do you think that's the worst of it? 23 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:14,240 What color do you think this X is supposed to be? Whoa, probably closer to that red. 24 00:02:15,920 --> 00:02:20,720 And I'm pretty sure some of these are scuffed on the inside too. Replace all screws 25 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:26,320 damaged from flood. How many of these do we have? I mean they only made 250. 26 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:32,720 How much of the total production do we have here? We might actually have like a significant 27 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:36,480 percentage. Like, let's see. There's nine per pallet. No, no, let's count. We'll count. We'll 28 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:44,720 make a pile. Let's make a pile. Okay, so here's the stitch. We've got 27 total boxes for cases, 29 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:50,000 but two of them are labeled side panel only. And then we have five boxes of accessories. 30 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:54,320 These could include any number of things, ranging from the case basically doesn't really function 31 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:58,640 without it, all the way to, wow, that is the most superfluous bullshit that I've ever seen. 32 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:06,160 Most of the case boxes, 23 of them specifically, have similar markings. Something about being for 33 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:12,880 Joe and needing a VV panel with a red tag. Those we piled up here. The ones we're more interested 34 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:20,880 in are these, flood damage, sample case, side panel only, and okay, this one's also for Joe, 35 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:26,640 but it has a smiley face. Two of them actually. What's the deal with that? 36 00:03:26,640 --> 00:03:31,680 First up then, this is for you Joe. My case finally arrived. I've been waiting a decade. 37 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:40,560 It's been 83 years. One tricky thing about the TJ07 and its derivatives is because it uses a 38 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:46,960 unibody design for the top, front, and bottom. It's actually bent rather than being welded or 39 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:53,920 riveted or stamped or anything cheap like that. It's really heavy. Would that have also contributed 40 00:03:54,000 --> 00:04:01,200 to the high cost then? Absolutely. Even without the modifications that Charles made, 41 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:09,040 all of which made it far more expensive, the TJ07 was a $300 to $400 case back in the mid-2000s. 42 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:19,280 Oh, it stinks. Does it? Oh, wow. Yeah, that's, it smells like vinegar. Check this out. Have you 43 00:04:19,280 --> 00:04:24,400 ever seen one of these? Not in person. We had one kicking around the office for a long time. 44 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:30,400 Charles actually did a build in it for us personally, but it got quite outdated for a showcase PC. 45 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:34,640 So to give it a chance at a new life, we gave it away at the Christmas party and Colton won it. 46 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:42,000 This is it. Holy cow. That's cool. It's still beautiful. Wow. The goal was timeless design 47 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:49,600 and Charles and Silverstone nailed it. Wow. The original case was full of five and a quarter 48 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:54,800 inch bays in the front. Charles was extremely forward thinking and saw that five and a quarter 49 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:59,520 inch was going the way of the dodo, replacing all those bays with this incredible looking 50 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:05,120 machined light slit. That's not to say he didn't want you to have the option for an optical drive. 51 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:11,600 This slit right here actually accommodates a slim optical drive loaded in through the top. 52 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,200 All right. That's kind of cool. Even if it is data tech, it's kind of cool. 53 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:21,680 Another ahead of his time touch is that because Charles's philosophy was that cable management 54 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:27,040 meant making your cables beautiful rather than hiding them, he actually had Windows on multiple 55 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:33,040 sides of the machine, one on the front and one on the back of the motherboard tray. I didn't even 56 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:37,680 see that one at first. This was meant to show off individually sleeved cables, something that Charles 57 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:43,120 was one of the key drivers of back when that first hit the scene. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. 58 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:48,880 Got a lot of history behind this little guy. It's a very cool case. I mean, even just this like 59 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:55,440 one continuous like cut with a little bit of slits in it, it just looks so stylish. Yeah, 60 00:05:55,440 --> 00:06:00,160 too bad it was a nightmare to manufacture. But these were Charles touches. The original case 61 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:04,960 had a couple of small exhaust fans here and actually accommodated dual power supplies, 62 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:10,400 which is a cool feature, but not really a necessary feature. Yeah. Charles's impossible 63 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:15,040 standards are both the reason that the case is so incredible and also the reason that it was 64 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:20,720 probably always destined to fail. That's so sad. You can't build a super high end boutique product 65 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:26,480 in a commodity industry. Sure. Or rather you can, but it's really hard to find commercial success 66 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:31,760 with it. Why do you think every case is stamped sheet steel? Because it's cheap and then people 67 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:37,520 will buy it because it's cheaper. Even just this piece is like got weight to it. Is this what goes 68 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:45,920 at the front there? Oh, it totally does. That was a very satisfying click. Okay. So that's what 69 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:50,000 for Joe looks like. Why don't we put Joe aside and have a look at a couple of the other interesting 70 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:55,120 ones? Yeah. What are you feeling next? The sample one, because if that was the production unit, 71 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:59,760 I want to know what a sample looks like. Sure. This one has both side panels. So that's something. 72 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:02,480 Oh, interesting. Oh, and it's got stuff in it. Yeah. 73 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:05,120 There we go. Oh! 74 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:13,520 Comes off like that. There we go. Okay. Dude, these are in great shape so far. Yeah, they look 75 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:19,040 fantastic. My understanding is that some of them are here because they didn't meet Charles's standards 76 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:24,640 and he determined they couldn't be sold. So maybe that's what for Joe meant. Like Joe had to like 77 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:29,440 inspect them or look at them or something. We need to find out who Joe is. The great Joe mystery. 78 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:35,600 This is a diffusion layer with a gradient on one side. The idea was that I think it goes 79 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:42,080 behind these guys right here to give the lighting kind of like a diffuse look. Oh, that's kind of 80 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:47,760 cool. Kinda cool. That's really cool. One thing I'm noticing as well is you mentioned the stamp 81 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:52,800 sheet metal before. It looks like this whole case can just like come apart because of all the screws 82 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:58,720 and everything was like each its own sheet. Everywhere screws, no rivets. Oh, that's so cool. 83 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:06,480 The model number is SST-CPF04. Give me three guesses what it is. It is 84 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:12,240 a bracket to hold your GPU. It's a repurposed box full of a whole bunch of other random stuff. 85 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:22,720 We have number 169. We have a label for 169. Let's go. I'm confused. 86 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:33,120 Mm-hmm. Neat. Like what is it? Not sure. Okay. Oh, I'm even more. Oh wait, no, this is like a fan. 87 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:37,920 So you can power your GPU off your fan headers. No, I think it's, it's gotta be for one of the 88 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:45,840 accessories. Okay, okay. I'm so confused. And the last baggie here, which has two standoffs 89 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:55,440 and this. Oh, yes, this. Do you know what it's for? No. Okay. But I know what this is for. 90 00:08:55,440 --> 00:09:00,960 This is for slimline optical drives. Oh, okay. So you could use the front one here. Yes. Cool. 91 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:06,560 Oh, we missed something. Oh, did we? This has a quad radiator mount in the bottom 92 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:12,160 and a giant fan filter. Oh, so you could put a quad radiator down here. I actually modded 93 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:17,200 my TJ07 to fit a quad radiator in the bottom. But seeing all those accessories honestly raises 94 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:22,640 more questions than we had before. Dude, I don't even know if we have enough of the accessories to 95 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:28,640 build systems in them yet. Yeah, that's actually very true. What were all those cables and why did 96 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:36,080 we need them? If we need them for all of, okay, let's just, okay, take a step back. Yeah. You 97 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:43,120 know what I'm feeling next Elijah? Side panel only. That looks heavier than the other boxes. 98 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:46,960 No, you, I'm just hamming it up. Go for it. Okay. 99 00:09:50,400 --> 00:10:01,040 My bag. Oh, Lord. Whoa, I see some color. Okay. Well, that's not a side panel. 100 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:05,040 Holy crap. We have a lot of radiator mounts. What a weird way for it to ship. 101 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:09,760 With just the one side panel and then the other side panel, which you definitely totally need 102 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,920 be like this. Maybe that's just how Silverstone shipped it to us. 103 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:20,800 But this wouldn't exist if that hadn't been part of the idea behind it. But like this is so 104 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:25,680 jankily made. There's no way it's shipped to you like this. Well, no, it actually does kind of make 105 00:10:25,680 --> 00:10:31,760 sense because the way that you bought this case was through a configurator. There was no just the 106 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:37,760 case. I see. Okay. Yeah. You had to go through a whole almost PC builder level process to determine 107 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:42,320 what all the options you had were. So there might be other side panels that I forget about 108 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:46,880 that were not this. So that's why they're not in there. I see. That makes more sense then. 109 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:50,800 And for a low volume thing, you'd be surprised how janky stuff can be. Is that all that's left in 110 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:55,040 there? The only one I noticed is this one's white, but I think the rest of them are just 111 00:10:55,040 --> 00:11:04,560 the exact same. Nope. What's that say? Loose grill. Okay. Maybe it means it didn't pass QC. 112 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:16,320 Oh my God. This failed over this gap. That's insane. Dude, Tesla? Tesla'd be like send it. 113 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:28,080 Logo plates. Ten pieces. Let's go. This is the flood damaged one. That's right. It was there 114 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:36,240 when the master chief was defeated. It looks totally fine. 115 00:11:38,560 --> 00:11:43,520 Huh. Little watermark there. Oh, and it's off. What else is, is anything wrong with this? 116 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:50,320 Okay. You know what? There is some corrosion. This one just flooded. I think this thing got hit 117 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:55,760 with like salt water. Check out some of this corrosion. It's good enough for our customers. 118 00:11:55,760 --> 00:12:03,120 Tell you that much. What customers? I don't know. Maybe we'll build systems. Oh, that'd be pretty cool. 119 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:09,280 Maybe we can like auction them or something and make some premium systems for some people. 120 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:12,640 See what happens. I don't know. I don't know. I'm thinking. I'm cooking. 121 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:17,520 Let's each pick an accessory box and we'll let the audience vote for who picked the coolest one. 122 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:22,080 I want the small one. Well, someone was bound to want the small one. I want the heavy one. 123 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:28,720 Oh yeah. What are these? Is this just a bag? Oh no. No, it's literally just a box of these. 124 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:34,400 There's hundreds of them. I, on the other hand, have what appears to be the entire shipment supply 125 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:40,320 of those random brackets that we found earlier. I have one. You got one. I got some cable management 126 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:50,160 clips. Okay. All right. That's something. Oh, front grills. Oh god. This is an accessory box. 127 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:56,880 Oh sure. This is what would go with each case then? Good. Good. Now things get even more 128 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:02,960 interesting because I have sub boxes. Look at all of these O-rings. What would they be for? Like 129 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:10,720 reservoirs. Yeah, buddy. They did a custom res for this case. Okay. What else we got? Is this more? 130 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:16,240 These are bottoms. Oh. Yeah. You'd be able to really beat me to it. Damn it. Whoa. 131 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:22,480 SATA backplane. Would this go in like the five and a quarter inch bay area? Yes. 132 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:30,160 Are these not in the cases? Do the hard drive bays of any of those even work? Hey, 133 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:36,080 I answered your question. This is what those random fan headers and four pins are for. Cool. 134 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:42,320 So they're doing, what the crap is all this? Look at all these three pin fan headers. 135 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:50,640 So this is like a janky old school fan hub. And then even more SATA ports? Is that that? Yeah. 136 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:55,120 No, these are the input. And then there's your optical and your three hard drives. 137 00:13:55,680 --> 00:14:03,920 That's, wow. I kind of speechless because I didn't expect it to look like that. I see one in here. 138 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:12,800 Wait, no, this is a different one. It's like a mini version. Oh, that's PCB one. You compensating? 139 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:17,680 This is one man something and one man something else, but 140 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:23,600 am I the guy who got the trash or the treasure? Well, it's cool. The value of these, it might be 141 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:31,280 treasure. Is it though? The last one apparently sold in April of this year for 2200 US dollars on eBay. 142 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:36,560 What? So like, if we actually have as complete of a system as that one was, 143 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:39,920 we have like 40 grand of cases. 144 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:50,960 Extra hard drive cage. Something. Oh, that's the fan grill for the top. There was an alternate one. 145 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:54,640 Oh, I see. So these weren't installed in all of them. There was a way cooler one. 146 00:14:54,640 --> 00:15:00,000 I don't know if we're going to have any here though. Here's a new cable. Just little tiny 147 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:06,720 three pin fan extension, mail to mail. Sure. What have you got? This. Ah, yes. Of that. Okay, 148 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:14,720 here comes another accessories box. Ah, yes. More SATA cables. Ah, ah, ah. 149 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:23,040 You ain't seen nothing yet. These are all the slim line ones for optical chips. Oh my 150 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:29,680 dude, you can tell these weren't a hot seller. No, they had to make so many cause they sold so many. 151 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:36,080 What do you got? What do you got? Oh, this is what was like a checklist of what was included 152 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:42,240 in the accessory box. Oh, excellent. We are not going to have a lot of this stuff. Like this 153 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:47,040 acrylic light block that's supposed to be in the included accessories. We got one of those. 154 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:52,960 The Duratrans media strip, we got two. At least it'll help us maybe complete some of the other 155 00:15:52,960 --> 00:16:00,240 boxes or shift it around. Wow, it came with a lot of cables. Well, yeah. Oh, these are like LEDs. 156 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:06,800 Yeah. No, no, they're not like LEDs. Those are LEDs. Oh, and then here's your all of your like shrink 157 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:17,360 wrap, I think. Yeah. 382. Someone counted these. Not good use of time. Should we get someone to 158 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:25,040 count that to verify? No. Okay. Grommets. Cheese grommet. Oh, okay. Cable management magigs. 159 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:30,720 Even more. Whoa. Oh, we got more. Oh, buddy. We got different colors. We got different colors. 160 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:37,680 Okay. Okay, that's cool. Okay, we're back in business. We can sell these now. I don't know what 161 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:41,360 to do with them, to be honest with you. Oh, there's the acrylic pieces. Here's all our acrylic pieces. 162 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:47,200 We're back in business. The only question that remains then is what do we do with them? 163 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:51,280 Pitch one. We start a boutique system builder that sells only to people named Joe. 164 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,400 We might be able to sell one. I mean, there's a Joe who works here. He needs a PC. 165 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:00,720 Is there? It's a little plain support, Joe. Oh, I was going to ask Joe who. 166 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:10,080 What about option two? Maybe we make some of these the whale PCs for our whale land event. 167 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:13,200 Assuming whale land is able to go forward, still pending some details. 168 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:18,000 That's not bad. We could save at least a couple specimens for our next charity stream. 169 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:24,000 Just an idea? Yeah. They might take forever to build in, though. That's kind of my concern. 170 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:28,480 Oh, we can do it. Our last stream was like eight hours. We've got nothing but all day. 171 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:32,720 Or maybe we just need help from you guys. Yeah, let us know if you have any brilliant ideas. 172 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:36,720 And let us know if you ever heard of our sponsor. If you guys enjoyed this video, 173 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:41,360 you might also like the vibe of the time that we got these cooling towers and unboxed them. 174 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,720 Found them in an alley. True story.