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welcome to my unboxing of the antec p280

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and you might be wondering why I had such a big smile on my face to start

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this video and the answer is quite simple because I believe the p280 is a

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true return to form for antec this is

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one of the most Innovative

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and here we go just opening up these seals this is one one of the most

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Innovative case designs that I have seen in a very long time and it is a true

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update to the original p180 we've seen

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incremental updates like the p82 and the p183 but we haven't seen anything that I

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would consider a reimagining up until now so let's go

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ahead and take this bad boy out and you

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know what I'm going to do I'm going to take the box here and I'm just going to put it here and we're going to have a

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look at some of the features before we get started so one is you can install up

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to 13-in graphics cards I'm going to get some more light for you here so you can

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actually read this quiet Computing so it uses a dual layer design with steel and

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polycarbonate side panels ease of use and we'll talk a lot about that but it

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includes grommet line Cable Management holes and tons of space for managing

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cables tooless 5 and 1/4 in Bays quiet 3

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and 1/2 in Bay and these are these are cool okay uh two front panel USB 3 ports

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an advanced cooling system including three fans and four additional fan

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mounts so yes you can have quiet and you can have cooling triple layer aluminum

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plastic and foam front bezel with double hinged door opens up to 270° finally PSU

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intake and front air filters which are very easy to take out and clean compared

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to designs that I've seen from antec and their competition in the past so let's

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go ahead and take off this foam ANC

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always packs their cases very well in closed cell foam which is much less

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susceptible to damage during Transit and much more durable much more reusable

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than other stiffer less durable kinds of

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foam go ahead and take this plastic off

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very excited to see this case because it arrived in the mail a little while ago

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and I haven't actually had a chance to check it out yet even though I've seen

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pictures and I've seen specs and I've seen where'd it go a reviewer's guide I

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haven't actually seen the case in person yet so let's get some lighting on that

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front panel while we oops sorry

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reveal the finish on there so this is

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about what I'd expect from antech in terms of the overall quality of

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materials I mean the p180 had a beautiful uh metal finished front door

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and the p280 continues in that proud tradition we've got two USB 3 ports and

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two USB 2 ports with the front panel we've got our microphone Jack as well as

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headphone jack and let's go ahead and open open this thing up so here we see

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the foam sound dampening material we also see the 3 5 and 1/4 in Bay and you

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guys are going to love this the gamers are going to love this because what kind of gamer is not lazy and doesn't like or

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and likes to work hard to take out the filters hold on okay so this is step one

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to take off the filter that was it step one take off the

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filter now you can access the uh 120 mm

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cooling fan slots that are in the front you can also see your 3 and 1/2 in Bays

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which are double purpose because you can mount 2 and 1/2 in drives in them there

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you go that's the whole thing nice honeycomb Grill design to protect it

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give it some rigidity but that is how easy it is to take out and clean your

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fan filter simply astounding in terms of

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airf flow antec has not forgotten in spite of the fact that this is a silent

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silent concept case they've not forgotten airf flow so look at these

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huge gaps between the side of the door and the closing point which are going to

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give those front fans the air flow that they need in order to not suffocate and

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actually here speaking of the door swinging open there here I want to show

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you guys the 270° hinge so you just snap that out put

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that over there a lot of people complain about front case uh doors personally I

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like them um what I really don't like to see is the power and the reset switch

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hidden behind the front door because as much as I don't need to see my uh 5 and

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a qu inch Baye I very rarely use my optical drive and I don't need to see my

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fan filter I do need to turn my case on and off so antec has repositioned the

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power and reset switches for this case to the top in a very convenient

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userfriendly location compared to what we've seen from their competition as

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well as from antec in the past we've got two 120 mm cooling fans up here which

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are spaced correctly for a dual radiator for those of you who are interested in

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running one of those very very cool good

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foresight and then take off the side panel where we see the polycarbonate

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layer as well as the metal layer on the

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side panel that gives it some stiffness it also gives us some weight this is not

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a light case so you know don't imagine you're going to be easily hauling it

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around to land parties unless you're like you know huge like me right yeah

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that's right okay so moving on uh where

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should we start on the inside you know what let's start with the fan filter since we've talked a little bit about

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that already on the outside this fan filter oh it doesn't come out it doesn't

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come out oh that because it comes locked from the factory

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see now I can easily remove it that's the filter for your power supply intake

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and then when you put it back in you don't have to lock it you can make it

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easy but if you're going to ship your case or something like that you just

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push on it and now it's locked the reason antech designed it this way is

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just because during shipping they don't want these fan filters coming out and

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getting damaged in the box so there you go personally I would always keep that

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unlock so I can easily clean it and there you go all right what else we got

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in here a little bit of accessories there's a little piece of paper here's

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some cable ties which will help you manage your cables here's some hardware

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and screws hard drive screws all that good stuff so silent concept case does

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that mean we can't put an extreme gaming machine in here I would postulate no it

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does not mean that because check this out antech has included in the p280 nine

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expansion slots so yes that means you can install crazy Enthusiast

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motherboards with up to nine expansion slots this is an XL ATX case so you can

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put pretty much anything in it because it supports long motherboards slightly

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wider than normal motherboards but not full eatx server board so stuff like the

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Rampage series from ASUS which tends to be a little bit wider that'll be no

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problem and it also supports long graphics cards up to 13 in which is

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longer than anything else on the market now we've got rubber grommets here for

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cable management and they've also sensibly positioned the rubber grommets

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a lot of the time you see one down here and then you see one up here and kind of

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one up here but obviously you can't pull out twice as many cables as you put in

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in the first place so an's giving you room to put them in here and here pull

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them out here here here here and here we've also got aha our 3 and 1/2 in or 2

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and 1/2 in drive adapter so here's the caddies there's your 2 and 1/2 in holes

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there's your 3 and 1/2 in holes with rubber silicone silicone

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mounts very solid compared to competing

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Solutions these have a lot of uh durability to them and they're not

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flimsy at all so there's six of those uh

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what else we got here oh let's go ahead and undo

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this front panel

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connectors I like that these are black for the most part wouldn't have minded

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seeing all black but I guess it's not the end of the world because you can

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hide them very easily down the rubber grommets in there so I wouldn't worry

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too much about it there's your front panel connector so that's your hard drive LED your power led oh no hard

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drive LED oh yeah there's the hard drive LED and then we've also got uh what else

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here USB 2 front audio and USB 3 with um

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uh with a header so rather than with using the cheesy you know go around the

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back and plug into the io Shield we have a nice molded plastic header piece there

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so what else do we have oh yeah tool is

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5 and a quar these are actually oh these are smart so what

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happens is when you slide in your drive it's going to push out this and then

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it's going to drive that pin right into the side of your drive no big deal and

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then you've also got two holes left over here as well as here if you want to

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secure it with screws like say for example for shipping so that's awesome

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all right what else we got 120 mm

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cooling fan is over here we've got those

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120 mm cooling fans that are in the top up here we've also got uh cooling fan

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controls over here so that's on a little PCB there going to want to power that up

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and then you can use the switches at the back of the case which I have haven't shown you yet to control the speeds of

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your fans you got your water cooling grommets these are pretty standard these

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days and oh check this out that is a huge CPU Cooler Mount or CPU Cooler

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cutout so that's going to allow you pretty much no matter where your CPU

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socket is located to easily you replace

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a back plate and uh not have to take the

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motherboard out of the case in order to do it so I'm just taking off a couple of

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thumb screws here and the camera's apparently fall following me so I'm

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going to have to turn it around and show you guys all right thumb screws

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off case opened so same thing we got the

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polycarbonate on the side panel there just going to go ahead and put that

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aside for now now check this out tons of

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cable management room look how much space there is I'm going to like jam my

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hand in there for emphasis lots of room to manage cables by the motherboard tray

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ante has also included little Clips so you can EAS manage your cables where

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exactly they're going you use zip ties you can secure the cables down nice and

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flat so that you don't interfere with trying to close a side panel it's become

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with a lot of cases they're like yes we have cable management holes but then

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when you actually go to close a side panel it's like sitting on a suitcase so

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uh very very challenging in that regard on the back here we've also got a large

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hole for putting up to two EPS 8 Pin connectors through here and then we've

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also got a hole up here so this is the one I mentioned before where you can run

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your your front panel connectors and whatnot through here without interfering

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with any of your 5 and 1/4 in Bay and without having to look at any of these

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cables in order to run them down to the bottom of your

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motherboard I think that pretty much covers it but give me a moment here

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guys so two more things guys one is the actual dimensions back here is 3 cm so

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even fat 24 pin cables will fit and the other thing is here are the controls for

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the two cool fans that are included two cool for school that is uh so you can go

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ahead and turn those to low or high in order to get either low cooling and low

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noise or high Cooling and higher noise

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so thank you for checking out my unboxing and overview and first look at

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the antech p280 don't forget to subscribe to lineus Tech tips for more

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unboxings reviews and other computer videos one feature that I actually

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missed on this case and it's been so long since I realized I missed it that

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I've actually already installed a system in it cuz I went to mount the SSD and I

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went oh yeah it's got that handy SSD Mount that's just a pressure mount so

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you go ahead and you slide your SSD in here and it's secure enough see you can

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okay here you can see I can pull in it a little bit doesn't go anywhere if I pull

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in it a lot then it comes so that is how you mount an SSD in the p280 in addition

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to being able to mount an SSD on any one of the drive sleds anytime you want so

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sorry about that and now I'm