{"video_id":"g6UnJ_60fKQ","title":"This case is FREE (so you can't complain) - Teenage Engineering computer-2","channel":"ShortCircuit","show":"ShortCircuit","published_at":"2025-10-06T14:58:16Z","duration_s":705,"segments":[{"start_s":0.16,"end_s":6.56,"text":"Teenage Engineering is a design firm that's behind some of the most iconic","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.76,"end_s":11.28,"text":"pieces of tech. Think the OP1 or the Rabbit R1. To be fair, they didn't make","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.28,"end_s":14.559,"text":"the Rabbit R1. They just designed the chassis and stuff. And it looks pretty","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.2,"end_s":19.68,"text":"nice. And that's not the only chassis design. They've actually designed a computer case. And this one is their","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.92,"end_s":23.68,"text":"second computer case. 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And um taking it out of the box, it looks like it it's all plastic in construction. Do we know what the material is? >> Semi-transparent PP plastic. >> The entire enclosure is made of polyropylene plastic and it's a semi-transparent. The last time Teenage Engineering made a case, it was called the Computer 1 and it was pretty cool, but definitely a form over function type product. It was kind of criticized for its flimsy materials as well as its high price and bad thermals. So, they've solved that by making their next case um maybe a little flimsier, but free. And if it's free, that means you can't criticize it. Okay, people on YouTube, I give you free videos. You cannot complain. Okay, though. This was apparently supposed to be $9. They have given it away for free, which means it's basically impossible to get because when you have a such a hyped brand like Teenage Engineering combined with the price of $0, it's going to be hard to track this down. Oh, cool. It kind of folds out as a net. It's all one piece. I thought I was going to be assembling separate pieces together. We got two header cables, I'm imagining, for your power switch and your reset switch. And this one is um uncovered. I'm imagining that's a manufacturing mistake. I guess we got it for free. We also have a very very basic LED. It is It is kind of different though. It's got a little a doink on it, you know, doink. And then we have some rubber fasteners of sorts. Uh there's no instructions. There was a QR code on here. Online assembly guide. And it says that the first step is to tell you about our sponsor. Thanks to Wolfbox for sponsoring this video. Weighing in at just under a pound, their MF200 portable electric air duster reaches 71 meters per second of wind speed and has a peak pressure of 270 grams. It's great for things like cleaning out your PC, quickly inflating some camping gear, or even drying off your car after a nice wash. It comes with four nozzles for different applications, and a removable battery means you can quickly swap between them for a freshly charged one for double the usage time. Learn more today by using our link in the video description. And don't miss Wolfbox's 6th anniversary sale starting October 15th. All right, step two. Unfold the computer. Done. Ensure your work area is static free. Close enough. Cut and detach the carrying handle from the chassis and set it aside. It'll be attached at a later stage in the assembly process. Sure. Can I get a strong man or scissors that aren't broken? Ow. Sorry. I now need to attach feet to the bottom of the case. All right, it's time to build the computer. So, we have a mini ITX motherboard. That is the only size that this is compatible with. For our CPU, we're kind of going with the gaming champion. It's the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X 3D. The CPU is going to be running a little hot because we're using a L9A CPU cooler, which is really only designed for 65 watt CPUs. And the uh 9800 X3D runs a little warmer than that, but shouldn't be too big of a deal because we're not turning it on. Got our RAM and our CPU cooler installed. And now we're going to take our motherboard and put it into the case. Attach the motherboard to the left panel. Rig it front, left. Okay, so this is kind of different. Instead of screwing our motherboard in, we're just putting these standoffs through the holes and then it's going to use these plastic snap hooks to hold the motherboard in place. Not exactly the most reusable solution, but if they're doing all plastic, then I guess that's kind of how you'd have to do it because if you you can't screw into plastic multiple times, but if you they would have to like insert like a nylon insert or something in there. So, this is how we're going to do it. It says to install the bottom left one first. Okay. Two, three, and four. That's uh that's that's in there. How hard is it to pull out? Okay. It's not too hard to pull out, but I imagine that if you're going to try and do any servicing on this thing, you're going to have to open it all the way up. A fix PSU cable PSW power supply. Insert un Oh, this is intentionally unsleeved. Insert unsleeved connector through the power button. I am lost immediately. Where the hell is this power button on? That is that's the power button. Oh, okay. So, this unsleeved thing is going to go through here and that's going to act as the electrode for the power button. This doesn't go through the power button. And they didn't like punch out this hole. >> See if we can poke a hole. But don't stab yourself. >> I won't. >> Don't stab me either. >> A damn it. My plan has been foiled. Basically, the buttons just taking the ends of two wires and letting them touch. Uh, which is how buttons literally work, but usually somebody makes the button for you in a factory. And what we found is that the sheathing for the header pins is too long for where we're supposed to put the unshathed one through the power button. We had to punch a hole through the button. It was very annoying. And uh it just seems like it all barely freaking fits. I get again. I uh guess I got it for free. And now I have to fix the power LED. I'm so worried I'm going to break this. It doesn't stay in the freaking hole. Okay, we mashed it in there and now we can plug it into the power LED. Please be how these plug in. Please, dear God. Attach the supplied silicone fasteners to an 80 mm chassis fan. So, you take these rubber fasteners. You will pull them through the screw holes of your fan. It's very reminiscent of the like antiibration mounts that you can get with these Noctua fans, the little brown rubber guys. And then we slide these on to these pegs right here at the front. Secure the power supply. Um where oh it only takes SFX power supplies. I would be very surprised if it took an SFXL. You just really don't have that much room in here. And it has to be oriented with the fan pulling in air from the outside like so. you can't orient it around. So, if you're somebody who's using custom cables for this case, then uh note that when you're taking your measurements. If your graphics card is part of your build, make the necessary cutouts on the rear cover for the GPU. Oh, okay. I was worried that it was going to be more complex. It is just these uh little guys. The GPUs we pulled out today are kind of odd choices because this supports very short GPUs, 180 mm max. Uh, this is a Radeon 6400. And the reason we chose this today was because it is the only thing in our library that we have that fits in here that's not um being used for another project. We also got the Gigabyte low profile 4060. This is about 3 mm too long, so it might squeeze in, especially if we're willing to let the plastic um bow a little bit, but I think we're going to try and keep a cleaner look. So, we're going to go with the 6400. Really, you're not going to be expecting this to be a killer gaming machine, but it could do really well as like a small media PC or even if you wanted to do some like just simple office work with a stylish free case. We just noticed this at the end, but the case can also hold a 2.5 in SSD right here. This is kind of slick. Right here on the plastic, they do have a little cutout that's specifically for this nut. So, it sits in there nice and fastened and steady for you so that you can just come in with your screwdriver. I like that. I wish there was more of that kind of stuff, you know, with the power button and but you win some, you lose lots, you know. wire up our power supply and then CPU. Okay, plugged our CPU and our motherboard in. And because this is such a low power GPU, we don't need to plug it into a power supply cuz it can draw from the 75 watts provided to it from the PCIe slot. So now we just kind of fold stuff. One thing to think about is cable management because there is no real mounts or anything in here to help you with it. So, you're kind of just gonna be in charge of trying to tie the things up nicely. Um, so you're on your own. Good luck, team. Now that I'm folding it closed, one thing that you might want to consider is a fan extension for whatever fan you put in here because it might struggle to reach some of your fan headers and prevent you from easily opening the case in the future. I don't really care about future me. And the last snaps. And the last piece, the handle. Wow, that is that's that's something. Uh, as a design exercise, it's very interesting. But as a computer case, there's um I don't know, it's made of cheap plastic and it looks flimsy. You can already see pieces are misaligned or bowing. Uh there's lots of gaps which to be fair is I guess could be considered a design choice. Um the power button is just an abomination. I mean you know the more I look at it the more I kind of have come to appreciate what it is in terms of kind of subverting the idea of premium computing and using something that's so cheap and plasticky as a Z product. It's really really intriguing. It's not the great build experience but it is such a unique project. if it set out just to be a conversation piece and kind of a cool experiment, it really succeeds at that. Um, the issue is that you can't get it because it is sold out. Um, which is a shame. So, there's people that are like reselling this for large sums of money. Do not spend that. Do not buy this for large sums of money. There's just a lot of things that like I am worried about the longevity in terms of like if you're trying to game and this thing gets hot, how well will this age? Is the plastic going to yellow over time? It probably will though that might kind of be its own kind of cool aesthetic and you'll even be able to see like heat marks as it unevenly yellows. I don't know. What do you think? This is like ugo as hell. But I think if you're kind of going for this, if you're appreciating it for what it is, you can consider that part of the experience. I don't think I'd want a yellowing plastic computer. But I will say this is by far the most interesting case I've looked at in my entire time here at LMG. And I mean, you know, if you just if you can get your hands on one for $0, like here's $0. Got to hand it to them. And you got to like, comment, and subscribe because ShortCircuit's awesome. We've got so many other PC build videos. If you liked this, why don't you check out um the tearown I did of the Falcon Northwest Tiki. It's a premium case from a premium vendor, but it's very, very cool and also quite compact."}