WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.600 10 years ago Silverstone announced a case that was unlike anything we've ever seen before 00:00:05.600 --> 00:00:08.720 and is unlike anything we've seen since. 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:12.880 Designed in collaboration with Charles Harwood, the creator of Murderbox, 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:19.280 the X-forma MBX Mark II was meant to be the ultimate marriage of timeless aesthetics 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:25.920 and uncompromising performance. The perfect case. There was only one small problem. 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. 00:00:34.160 --> 00:00:40.560 So even though Silverstone only ever made 250 of these, so many of them remain unsold 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 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 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, 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 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, 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. 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, 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, 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. 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 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 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 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. 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. 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? 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. 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 00:02:20.720 --> 00:02:26.320 damaged from flood. How many of these do we have? I mean they only made 250. 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 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 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, 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. 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:54.320 These could include any number of things, ranging from the case basically doesn't really function 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. 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:06.160 Most of the case boxes, 23 of them specifically, have similar markings. Something about being for 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 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, 00:03:20.880 --> 00:03:26.640 but it has a smiley face. Two of them actually. What's the deal with that? 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. 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 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 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 00:03:54.000 --> 00:04:01.200 to the high cost then? Absolutely. Even without the modifications that Charles made, 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 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 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 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 00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:59.520 inch was going the way of the dodo, replacing all those bays with this incredible looking 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. 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:11.600 This slit right here actually accommodates a slim optical drive loaded in through the top. 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. 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:21.680 Another ahead of his time touch is that because Charles's philosophy was that cable management 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:27.040 meant making your cables beautiful rather than hiding them, he actually had Windows on multiple 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 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 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. 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 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, 00:05:55.440 --> 00:06:00.160 too bad it was a nightmare to manufacture. But these were Charles touches. The original case 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:04.960 had a couple of small exhaust fans here and actually accommodated dual power supplies, 00:06:04.960 --> 00:06:10.400 which is a cool feature, but not really a necessary feature. Yeah. Charles's impossible 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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. 00:06:59.760 --> 00:07:02.480 Oh, interesting. Oh, and it's got stuff in it. Yeah. 00:07:04.080 --> 00:07:05.120 There we go. Oh! 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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. 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:06.480 The model number is SST-CPF04. Give me three guesses what it is. It is 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. 00:08:14.960 --> 00:08:22.720 We have number 169. We have a label for 169. Let's go. I'm confused. 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. 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 00:08:37.920 --> 00:08:45.840 accessories. Okay, okay. I'm so confused. And the last baggie here, which has two standoffs 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. 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. 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:06.560 Oh, we missed something. Oh, did we? This has a quad radiator mount in the bottom 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 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 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 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 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 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. 00:09:44.400 --> 00:09:46.960 No, you, I'm just hamming it up. Go for it. Okay. 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. 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. 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 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:13.920 be like this. Maybe that's just how Silverstone shipped it to us. 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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. 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. 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 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:36.240 when the master chief was defeated. It looks totally fine. 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? 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 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. 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. 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:09.280 Maybe we can like auction them or something and make some premium systems for some people. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 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 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. 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 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 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? 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. 00:13:17.760 --> 00:13:22.480 SATA backplane. Would this go in like the five and a quarter inch bay area? Yes. 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, 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. 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. 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. 00:13:50.640 --> 00:13:55.120 No, these are the input. And then there's your optical and your three hard drives. 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. 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? 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:17.680 This is one man something and one man something else, but 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 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. 00:14:32.160 --> 00:14:36.560 What? So like, if we actually have as complete of a system as that one was, 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:39.920 we have like 40 grand of cases. 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. 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. 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 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, 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:14.720 here comes another accessories box. Ah, yes. More SATA cables. Ah, ah, ah. 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 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. 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 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 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. 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 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. 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 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 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:25.040 count that to verify? No. Okay. Grommets. Cheese grommet. Oh, okay. Cable management magigs. 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. 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 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. 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? 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:51.280 Pitch one. We start a boutique system builder that sells only to people named Joe. 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. 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. 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. 00:17:10.080 --> 00:17:13.200 Assuming whale land is able to go forward, still pending some details. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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, 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. 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:44.720 Found them in an alley. True story.