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Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by nc.com your source for

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great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western

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Digital we're here in the Corsair suite at CES 2014 I have the obsidian 250d

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which has actually been leaked a couple times over the last little bit and

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there's been some mixed reactions with some people saying they love it some people saying they hate it so we're here

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to let you guys make your own call it of course has that traditional obsidian

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look with the brushed aluminum finish that first started with the 800 100 D

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Corsair's very first case you got front USB 3 you have a 5 and a/4 in Bay a

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full-sized 5 and a/4 inch Bay not a Slimline opticle or anything like that

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because the idea behind this case is that in spite of its small stature there

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are no compromises it actually reminds me of myself a little bit so on the

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right hand side you have support for two 120 mm fans you can and the spacing is

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correct for a radiator and even with ASUS's motherboards that have those

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wonky uh raised PCB things for the vrm

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you can still fit a dual red it just kind of cuts off one of the fans a

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little bit but it's definitely still adequate for cooling your CPU so there

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you go you can put a dual Radiator in the one side you can put a 140 mil fan

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or 120 mm fan in the front you can put a full-size power supply even an ax 1200i

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with no difficulty and then Cable Management okay it's not quite the

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Elegance of Corsair's grommet system that they introduced with the 800d but

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cable management is taken care of by a smartly placed fan girl I actually

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noticed when I opened this thing up for the first time I was like oh it has a

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wire Fang girl on it I haven't seen one of those in a long time um because they

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they're actually more expensive than doing punched fan grills but it's in there because the cable management is

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all done in the front of the case and they wanted to make sure that nothing

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gets caught in that fan so they include that nice little touch and then you've

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also got of course support for up to a dual slot graphics card that's as long

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as you could possibly want an ITX motherboard so the idea is as much

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performance as you could want in an ITX form factor in fact you've even got

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support for up to 4 2 and 1/2 in drives or two 2 and 1/2 in and two 3 and 1/2 in

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drives and one of the things that Corsair's not talking about that much for some reason but I think it's crazy

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because in my mind it's one of the smartest things about the case is the

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rear loading Drive Bays so you've got all that cable management room in the

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front so you can actually reach the SATA ports and then you can actually load

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them in and out from the back so you don't have to dig a bunch of crap out of your case which is often the problem

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with these ITX High per performance chassis so there you have it guys that's

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the obsidian 250d and then we've also got behind me something that is sort of

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exciting this is the 730t um unfortunately it has The Misfortune of

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Being unfortunate enough to be pretty

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similar to the 760t with its sexy

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acrylic full acrylic side panel window thing it's basically the same one quite

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a bit less expensive but it doesn't have that same

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striking striking experience appearance

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the experience of the appearance of the clearance of the CPU anyway um I don't

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know where I'm going with this but the point is it's pretty similar internally to a 750d it has a bit of a different

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look it comes in at a lower price and there you go on to peripherals there's a

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couple things on display number one is the Raptor M45 which is an evolutionary

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step forward from the M40 and features actually enough different features I'm

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not even sure why they called it an M45 because this is a very very different

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Mouse it has a pixart pwm 3310 sensor so who the devil is

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pixart you might be asking well a Vago was actually acquired about 6 months ago

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so this is a collaborative sensor project between it was being worked on

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at aago and then now uh pixart has taken over and it has some interesting new

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features so number one is now it is an IR Mouse so that means you can't see

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that glow under it number two is the DPI has been increased from 4,000 Max to

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5,000 Max and number three and this will be very important to a lot of people is

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that DPI in increments are now much more granular you can go all the way from 50

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to 5,000 DPI in 50 DPI increments on

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this mouse and the software and there's other customizability as well so you can

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customize things like lift distance once it's available it's actually coming

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sometime in the next couple of months so I'm pretty excited to check it out the

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last thing is that this sensor has actually been tuned for gaming surfaces

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so while the older mentality might have been okay let's make it work on you know

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pants or mules or whatever surface you might happen to want to put it on

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um most Gamers who are spending you know 60 70 $80 however much on a mouse

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probably have a $20 cloth mouse pad at the very least so we might as well just

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make it optimized for that in the first place it has the same M40 features that

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I personally quite like which is the very lightweight construction but with

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an adjustable weight system the weighted scroll wheel I think they call it the

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high mass scroll wheel but what they're trying to say is it's made of metal and

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it has a nice rubber finish on it as well as a nice soft touch finish and a

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Corsair led the next one Speaking of LEDs is the WRA K40 and my cord for this

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is a little bit on the shorter side so I'm going to go ahead and move and like sit on this table or something this is

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kind of a a hybrid of the uh of the k30

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and the k50 so unlike the k50 it doesn't have as many macro Keys um but unlike

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the k30 it now has full RGB backlighting and that's at an $80 price point so it's

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a membrane keyboard yes it's $80 yes and I understand you can buy a mechanical

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keyboard for $80 but if you want RGB back lighting which personally I don't

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really care about unless it's on a mechanical keyboard more on that

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soon anyway if you want RGB backlighting and you're okay with membrane then this

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looks like it should be a pretty compelling option don't miss any of our

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