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Teenage Engineering is a design firm that's behind some of the most iconic

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pieces of tech. Think the OP1 or the Rabbit R1. To be fair, they didn't make

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the Rabbit R1. They just designed the chassis and stuff. And it looks pretty

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nice. And that's not the only chassis design. They've actually designed a computer case. And this one is their

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second computer case. And they refer to it as the $9 computer case or the

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computer 2. But this is actually wrong because they're selling it for the price

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of free, which is kind of crazy. And um

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taking it out of the box, it looks like it it's all plastic in construction. Do

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we know what the material is? >> Semi-transparent PP plastic.

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>> The entire enclosure is made of polyropylene plastic and it's a

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semi-transparent. The last time Teenage Engineering made a case, it was called

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the Computer 1 and it was pretty cool, but definitely a form over function type

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product. It was kind of criticized for its flimsy materials as well as its high

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price and bad thermals. So, they've solved that by making their next case um

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maybe a little flimsier, but free. And if it's free, that means you can't

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criticize it. Okay, people on YouTube, I give you free videos. You cannot

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complain. Okay, though. This was apparently supposed to be $9. They have

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given it away for free, which means it's basically impossible to get because when

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you have a such a hyped brand like Teenage Engineering combined with the

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price of $0, it's going to be hard to track this down. Oh, cool. It kind of

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folds out as a net. It's all one piece. I thought I was going to be assembling

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separate pieces together. We got two header cables, I'm imagining, for your

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power switch and your reset switch. And this one is um uncovered. I'm imagining

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that's a manufacturing mistake. I guess we got it for free. We also have a very

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very basic LED. It is It is kind of

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different though. It's got a little a doink on it, you know, doink. And then

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we have some rubber fasteners of sorts.

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Uh there's no instructions. There was a QR code on here. Online assembly guide.

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sale starting October 15th. All right, step two. Unfold the computer. Done.

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Ensure your work area is static free. Close enough. Cut and detach the

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carrying handle from the chassis and set it aside. It'll be attached at a later

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stage in the assembly process. Sure. Can I get a strong man or scissors

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that aren't broken?

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Ow. Sorry. I now need to attach feet to

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the bottom of the case. All right, it's time to build the computer. So, we have

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a mini ITX motherboard. That is the only size that this is compatible with. For

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our CPU, we're kind of going with the gaming champion. It's the AMD Ryzen 7

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9800X 3D. The CPU is going to be running

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a little hot because we're using a L9A

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CPU cooler, which is really only designed for 65 watt CPUs. And the uh

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9800 X3D runs a little warmer than that,

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but shouldn't be too big of a deal because we're not turning it on.

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Got our RAM and our CPU cooler installed. And now we're going to take our motherboard and put it into the

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case. Attach the motherboard to the left panel. Rig it front, left. Okay, so this

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is kind of different. Instead of screwing our motherboard in, we're just

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putting these standoffs through the holes and then it's going to use these

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plastic snap hooks to hold the motherboard in place. Not exactly the

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most reusable solution, but if they're

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doing all plastic, then I guess that's kind of how you'd have to do it because

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if you you can't screw into plastic multiple times, but if you they would have to like insert like a nylon insert

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or something in there. So, this is how we're going to do it. It says to install

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the bottom left one first.

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Okay. Two,

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three,

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and four. That's uh that's that's in there. How hard is it to pull out? Okay.

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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

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going to have to open it all the way up. A fix PSU cable PSW power supply. Insert

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un Oh, this is intentionally unsleeved. Insert unsleeved connector through the

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power button. I am lost immediately. Where the hell is this power button

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on? That is that's the power button. Oh,

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okay. So, this unsleeved thing is going to go through here and that's going to

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act as the electrode for the power button. This doesn't go through the

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power button. And they didn't like punch out this hole. >> See if we can poke a hole. But don't

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stab yourself. >> I won't. >> Don't stab me either.

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>> A damn it. My plan has been foiled. Basically, the buttons just taking the

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ends of two wires and letting them touch. Uh, which is how buttons

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literally work, but usually somebody makes the button for you in a factory.

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And what we found is that the sheathing for the header pins is too long for

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where we're supposed to put the unshathed one through the power button.

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We had to punch a hole through the button. It was very annoying.

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And uh it just seems like it all barely freaking fits. I get again. I uh guess I

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got it for free. And now I have to

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fix the power LED. I'm so worried I'm going to break this. It doesn't stay in

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the freaking hole. Okay,

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we mashed it in there

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and now we can plug it into the power LED. Please be how these plug in.

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Please, dear God. Attach the supplied silicone fasteners to an 80 mm chassis

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fan. So, you take these rubber fasteners. You will pull them through

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the screw holes of your fan. It's very reminiscent of the like antiibration

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mounts that you can get with these Noctua fans, the little brown rubber

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guys. And then we slide these on to

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these pegs right here at the front. Secure the power supply.

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Um where

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oh it only takes SFX power supplies. I

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would be very surprised if it took an SFXL. You just really don't have that

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much room in here. And it has to be oriented with the fan pulling in air

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from the outside like so. you can't

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orient it around. So, if you're somebody who's using custom cables for this case,

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then uh note that when you're taking your measurements.

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If your graphics card is part of your build, make the necessary cutouts

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on the rear cover for the GPU. Oh, okay.

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I was worried that it was going to be more complex. It is just these uh little

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guys.

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The GPUs we pulled out today are kind of odd choices because this supports very

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short GPUs, 180 mm max. Uh, this is a

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Radeon 6400. And the reason we chose this today was because it is the only

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thing in our library that we have that fits in here that's not um being used

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for another project. We also got the Gigabyte low profile 4060. This is about

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3 mm too long, so it might squeeze in,

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especially if we're willing to let the plastic um bow a little bit, but I think

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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

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expecting this to be a killer gaming machine, but it could do really well as

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like a small media PC or even if you

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wanted to do some like just simple office work with a stylish free case. We

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just noticed this at the end, but the case can also hold a 2.5 in SSD right

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here.

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This is kind of slick. Right here on the plastic, they do have a little cutout that's specifically for this nut. So, it

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sits in there nice and fastened and steady for you so that you can just come

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in with your screwdriver. I like that. I wish there was more of that kind of

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stuff, you know, with the power button and but you win some, you lose lots, you

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know. wire up our power supply and then CPU.

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Okay, plugged our CPU and our motherboard in. And because this is such

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a low power GPU, we don't need to plug it into a power supply cuz it can draw

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from the 75 watts provided to it from the PCIe slot. So now we just kind of

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fold stuff. One thing to think about is cable management because there is no

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real mounts or anything in here to help you with it. So, you're kind of just

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gonna be in charge of trying to tie the things up nicely. Um, so you're on your

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own. Good luck, team. Now that I'm

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folding it closed, one thing that you might want to consider is a fan extension for whatever fan you put in

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here because it might struggle to reach some of your fan headers and prevent you

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from easily opening the case in the future. I don't really care about future

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me. And the last snaps.

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And the last piece, the handle. Wow,

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that is

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that's that's something. Uh, as a design

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exercise, it's very interesting. But as a computer case, there's um I don't

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know, it's made of cheap plastic and it

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looks flimsy. You can already see pieces are misaligned or bowing. Uh there's

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lots of gaps which to be fair is I guess

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could be considered a design choice. Um the power button is just an abomination.

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I mean you know the more I look at it the more I kind of have come to

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appreciate what it is in terms of kind of subverting the idea of premium

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computing and using something that's so cheap and plasticky as a Z product. It's

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really really intriguing. It's not the great build experience but it is such a

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unique project. if it set out just to be

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a conversation piece and kind of a cool

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experiment, it really succeeds at that.

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Um, the issue is that you can't get it

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because it is sold out. Um, which is a

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shame. So, there's people that are like reselling this for large sums of money.

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Do not spend that. Do not buy this for large sums of money. There's just a lot

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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,

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how well will this age? Is the plastic going to yellow over time? It probably

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will though that might kind of be its own kind of cool aesthetic and you'll

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even be able to see like heat marks as it unevenly yellows. I don't know. What

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do you think? This is like ugo as hell. But I think if you're kind of going for

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this, if you're appreciating it for what it is, you can consider that part of the

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experience. I don't think I'd want a yellowing plastic computer. But I will

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say this is by far the most interesting case I've looked at in my entire time

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here at LMG. And I mean, you know, if

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you just if you can get your hands on one for $0, like here's $0. Got to hand

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it to them. And you got to like, comment, and subscribe because Short

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Circuit's awesome. We've got so many other PC build videos. If you liked this, why don't you check out um the

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tearown I did of the Falcon Northwest Tiki. It's a premium case from a premium

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vendor, but it's very, very cool and also quite compact.